The disaster relief work in Qiongzhou can be said to be very fast, and the journey on the sea was even more difficult day and night.
Those steam engine ships were all running at full power, cutting through the waves, and moving forward proudly with an invincible attitude.
The Qiongzhou army marched very fast, but the emperor's edict was faster than them.
In just a few days, documents requesting blood relief aid from various places reached the hands of officials from all sides.
As a result, the governors became a little unable to sit still.
This matter obviously has nothing to do with me, but now I am forced to be involved in it. Do you think this is unjust?
What bad luck!
At the beginning, these people just watched Qi Yu's solo performance with the mentality of a crowd. Although they felt a little unhappy, they didn't lose anything, so they just regarded it as a show of excitement.
However, when they saw that Qi Yu had made a serious move, their mentality suddenly reversed. At the same time, a strong sense of relief arose spontaneously.
Damn it!
Aren't you putting us old guys on the fire to roast?
The governors originally thought that Qiongzhou Qiyu was just going through the motions, putting on a show, paying a small amount of money in exchange for a good reputation.
The result was that the total value of his first wave of moves directly reached the total value of chickens in their jurisdiction. What do you think should be done with this?
This is like fighting the Landlord. Originally, it would be enough to draw a pair of Kai, but as soon as you come up, you directly hit the king bomb. You can't control it, you can't suppress it, and in the end you can only look at the cards and sigh.
At this time, some petty officials gave advice to the governors: How big or small one's wealth should be according to one's ability. Why don't we cry poor first to express our lack of strength, and then just say whatever we want, and it will be over. Why bother to talk to the rich?
Qiongzhou competition?
When the officials heard this, they glared and scolded: You are talking nonsense. How can I not understand such a superficial truth?
The perfunctory idea may have worked before, but it doesn't work now.
There is no other reason, just because of the sentence in the emperor's edict, which says: "To share your worries for you requires sincerity. If you just do it in a perfunctory way, how can you have the face to see your Majesty again in the future?"
well……
Your Majesty has made your words so clear, how can I still get through like a liar?
If you don’t put in a lot of blood, it will definitely not be possible!
However, bleeding means a fiscal deficit, and all the years of hard work will be wiped out. How can any local government bear this kind of loss?
snort!
It’s all this Qi Yu who likes to show off that makes the fuss!
If you don't give him some colors to see, he won't know why the flowers are so red!
Well, isn't he doing disaster relief in a different place? Then let's secretly trick him into doing whatever we want on our one-third of an acre of land.
Is it possible that you still dare to come from Qiongzhou and bite us?
Under the impetus of the same enemy, all the officials reached an unprecedented agreement in principle: Qi Yu must be given a good slap in the face, otherwise, it will be difficult to relieve the evil spirit in his heart!
As for how to deal with it, everyone knew it tacitly, so there was no need to elaborate.
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The scorching sun was shining in the sky, and a few white clouds were floating in the sky.
Today is the traditional summer solstice.
According to the custom in the north, pasta is eaten on this day, as the saying goes, wontons in the winter solstice and noodles in the summer solstice.
However, today, somewhere in Huguang, this inherent custom has been broken.
There are two reasons for this.
First of all, due to the raging locust plague, there is no production or harvest. In addition, the food stored in the people's homes has been exhausted. How can there be extra food to roll noodles?
Secondly, because bursts of rumbling cannons suddenly came from the Yangtze River, which made their heartbeats surge. How could they have any thoughts about eating noodles?
Oh? There was gunfire?
Yes!
Listen, the deafening sound of bombardment resounded across the sky. There is absolutely no other explanation for such a harsh sound except the legendary cannon.
I have to say that the people guessed correctly this time, someone was indeed firing a cannon.
The person who issued the order was none other than Mr. Wei Qingyang, the current deputy commander-in-chief of disaster relief in Qiongzhou.
See you there!
As the host, the Huguang Prefecture Army lined up small ships patrolling the Yangtze River to block the advance route of the Qiongzhou disaster relief force from afar. The atmosphere was full of discordant provocation.
Seeing this, Wei Qingyang almost without thinking decisively adopted the method of bombarding the demonstrations to intimidate them.
Although he has never joined the army or led troops to fight in a war, he is one of Qi Yu's main subordinates.
Over the years, he has been accustomed to the smell of bloody war smoke. Even if he encounters a real encounter, he still has the courage and courage to compete with it.
What's more, what we are facing now are just some local chickens with shabby equipment.
What's so scary?
"When we came here, Mr. Qi had explained that if we encounter any malicious people who create trouble on the way, we can use special military means to deal with them. All the consequences of this will be borne by Mr. Qi alone! In this case, what's the point?
Are you afraid of him?"
"Since firing cannons as a warning is ineffective, let me use solid bullets to drive them away. If someone is killed by accident, we can only blame them for their own unlucky lives, and it has nothing to do with us!"
After saying that, Wei Qingyang pressed his hand and issued the order for live ammunition bombardment.
This is also done out of necessity.
If you don't make a decisive decision at this time, you will definitely be entangled by them. In that case, it will affect the disaster relief process. Objectively speaking, Wei Qingyang really has no second choice.
Bang bang bang!
Click! Click!
Qiongzhou's artillery fire is so sharp, how can these Yangtze River patrol ships withstand it?
After this wave of attacks, all the ships blocking the road were destroyed, and a few were even smashed into pieces of wood. The scene was extremely tragic.
A few unlucky people who accidentally hit the passenger car were killed on the spot and buried directly in the torrent of the Yangtze River.
This was the result of Wei Qingyang's great concern for his compatriots. If he had been merciless, he would have directly changed the order to attack with shotguns. In that case, no one on the other side would be able to survive.
The government troops in Huguang were also stunned by this sudden attack.
They never expected that the Qiongzhou Army would actually dare to open fire.
If I had known this, I wouldn't have used cold words to tease them.
Alas, it's too late to say anything now. It's better to swim as fast as possible. Only when we get to the shore can we truly escape.
Wei Qingyang looked thoughtfully at the deserters splashing on the river, thinking: His shelling just now will definitely push Mr. Qi to the forefront, and he will be impeached by all the officials.
No matter how fierce the tiger is, it can't stand up to a pack of wolves!
In this case, how should Mr. Qi defend himself?
"Sigh... Let's not think about these things for now. Disaster relief is the most important thing right now!"
After coming back to his senses, Wei Qingyang ordered again: Disaster relief troops, advance at full speed!