How to make a famous minister

Chapter 64

Fan Xuanchao took Liang Er with him, and asked Lin Xiancheng to call a few old people who could watch the weather, and they left the county town and went straight to Gushan.

Fan Xuanchao doesn't know how to look at clouds at all. Lin Xiancheng has dealt with typhoons for many years, and he is more or less familiar with it, but compared with veterans like Liang Er and the old fisherman, there are still many shortcomings.

So the two stood aside silently, watching Liang Er, the old farmer, the fisherman and the Taoist priest observe the clouds and debate the sky together.

Fan Xuanchao didn't know why Lin Xiancheng wanted to bring a Taoist priest here. He probably thought that Taoist priests could read Fengshui and the weather.

Fan Xuanchao, who grew up in an era of advanced technology, now has to rely on Fengshui masters for weather forecasting, and he can't help but feel a little ridiculous in his heart.

If only there was a radar to forecast the weather, Fan Xuanchao sighed in his heart.

Lin Xiancheng had been observing the movements of the few people in front, and said at this moment: "It seems that they have a result." Fan Xuanchao came back to his senses, and saw that Liang Er, some fishermen, and a Taoist priest had returned, but seeing their solemn expressions, Oh is it a whisper.

Fan Xuanchao's heart beat slightly, could it really be a super typhoon?

Lin Xiancheng's expression was even worse than Fan Xuanchao's. After all, he had always sworn before that it was definitely just a typhoon like every year.

When Liang Er and the others came to him, Liang Er clasped his hands and said, "Magistrate Fan, we are optimistic."

"How? Is it a severe typhoon?" Fan Xuanchao asked quickly.

"Several of you have seen the weather and feel that you have never seen it before. I am afraid it is a natural disaster." Liang Er said, "Wang Taoist said... the time may be in the next few days."

Fan Xuanchao and Lin Xiancheng looked at each other in shock, and quickly asked: "Are you sure? The life and death of our entire county depends on your words."

When Liang Er heard this, he couldn't help hesitating. After all, even if he looked at the weather again, if he got it wrong, it would only mean that he missed a day of fishing, but if he really asked him to use the whole county as a guarantee, Liang Er really didn't have the guts.

At this time, Taoist Wang stood up and said: "I can assure you that this is a rare wind disaster in a century, and I am afraid it will bring floods. The time is only a few days. If you don't start to prepare, it will be too late."

Fan Xuanchao had just arrived, and he didn't know local snakes. He didn't know that this Taoist priest Wang was a very famous Taoist priest nearby. Since he dared to vouch for it, the county magistrate Lin believed it. The preventive measures taken in previous years were not enough, and manpower must be stepped up."

"Not only must we hurry up to build shelters and store food in our county, but we must also report it to the Governor. It is impossible for the wind disaster to only affect our Jingjiang County, and the surrounding counties will also be affected."

Now that it has been decided to set the hazard level of the typhoon disaster as "one-in-a-hundred-year", Fan Xuanchao has also started to arrange prevention work.

He tried hard to think about what the government had done in modern times before, and chose to appear where it could be done.

The wind disaster is connected with the flood disaster, which can almost be said to be close to death.In addition to the collapse of houses and bridges, there are also problems of rising prices and shortage of food, not to mention that windstorms and floods can directly threaten the lives of the people.In addition, Jingjiang County is on the edge of the Jingjiang River, which is likely to cause flooding, and the problem is even more serious.

Fan Xuanchao took the lead in inspecting the embankment, ordered the fishing boats to return to the port, and organized the farmers to rush to harvest the crops, but now it is the time when the two seasons intersect, and the grain seedlings have just grown, and even if they are harvested, there is nothing to be harvested.Moreover, if the land is really flooded, even if the water recedes, it will affect the grain harvest of the next season. In the best case, the grain production will not resume until the next season.

Seeing this situation, Fan Xuanchao felt cold in his hands and feet. After the disaster, there was no food. This is a matter of life.Fan Xuanchao personally ordered Lin Xiancheng to go to the surrounding counties to collect grain, but Lin Xiancheng said with a bitter face: "My lord, you just reported the possibility of a typhoon, and the counties of Jiangyin and Wujin are organizing grain collection. They Wealth, I am afraid we can't grab it."

"If you can't grab it, you have to grab it. Do we want our people to have nothing to eat?" Fan Xuanchao became angry, "If there is no one around, then go to a farther place to raise funds and spend more money. If there is no money, can't you just give a white note?" ?”

The county magistrate Lin was about to cry, how can the government buy grain and make IOUs? Isn't that robbery?Who dares to ask for it?My lord, even though you have a strong background, you still have to be afraid of being impeached by the officials.

Even though there were complaints of one kind or another in his heart, Lin Xiancheng knew that the matter of collecting grain must not be delayed, so he immediately gathered his troops and set out to collect grain.

Fan Xuanchao also had no hope of how much food Lin Xiancheng could collect, so he hurriedly wrote a letter to the capital, hoping that Zhu Youjian could help raise some food so that the court could distribute more food relief to Jingjiang County.

Zhu Youjian felt a headache when he received this letter. The Shanxi earthquake in early June affected more than 3000 prefectures and counties in four provinces. Nearly [-] people were killed in Shanxi alone, let alone Beijing and Tianjin Weidu. Aftershocks.Now there is another flood in Changzhou, this year is really not peaceful at all.

Zhu Youjian recalled what happened in the past year in his previous life, and there was no good news except for the death of his wife Hachi.At this time in his previous life, he had already left the palace to build a mansion, and he ignored political affairs all the time, but he still heard about the Changzhou flood, because at that time the entire Changzhou mansion was caught off guard, and the follow-up disaster relief measures did not keep up. The tragedy of food shocked the whole country.

The earthquake disaster needs to be relieved, the flood disaster also needs to be relieved, and there are military salaries ahead, and the under-collected taxes. Even if Zhu Youjian has great skills, he can't get so much food and silver.

Not to mention that Zhu Youjian saw Fan Xuanchao's letter, and felt that Hanyuan could find out in advance by chance in this life.As far as Fan Xuanchao, who was lamented by Zhu Youjian for being lucky, really wanted to break himself into six or seven people to use.Refugees need to be resettled, people need to be persuaded, food needs to be harvested, medicinal materials must be prepared, and rivers and ditches need to be repaired one by one to maintain maximum drainage.

Everyday he would go out with a team of officers and soldiers before dawn, and come back at night with stars and moonlight. Even if Xiaoman cooked delicious meals, he would just deal with them in a hurry.

To say which of these tasks is the most difficult, Fan Xuanchao must say: transferring people is the most difficult.There are many rivers and waterways in Jingjiang County, but as long as you organize your people, you can do it: Although food and medicine are in short supply, you can buy them if you have enough money: the only way to transfer people to shelters is really difficult.

As early as the Three Kingdoms period, Jingjiang County was just a large sandbar deposited by silt. When there were many sandbars, they became one piece, and Jingjiang County became Jingjiang County.Not to mention the ups and downs here, it is simply an alluvial plain.There is only one highland in the entire Jingjiang County, named Gushan, and it was at the foot of it that a sandbar first broke out.

Gushan is the highest point in Jingjiang County. Although the overall height is not enough, it can still allow people to escape the flood. In addition, there is Gushan Temple on Gushan, which is the best refuge. Fan Xuanchao has designated a total of four shelters on the list, which will accommodate people during the flood.

However, the populace simply ignored him.Although some families went to the refuge, more people preferred to stay in their homes. Even though Fan Xuanchao mobilized the village chief to persuade them, and even knocked on doors from door to door, they were still unmoved.He also thought about using his three-inch tongue to persuade the people, but unfortunately, the simple people have a simple worldview-I have eaten more salt than you have eaten, and I have never seen any catastrophe , Didn't make it through?If you want me to give up these broken pots and bowls at home, there is no way.