He hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the Liangzhou flood has roughly affected more than 1.36 million people. Currently, more than 87,000 people are dead, more than 175,000 people are missing, and 13 houses have collapsed.
Thousands of people have fled... At present, it is impossible to accurately calculate... The specific losses in Liangzhou are immeasurable..."
The voice fell.
The chief clerk hurriedly knelt on the ground, his body shaking like chaff.
The muscles at the corners of Li Rui's mouth twitched.
His fists were clenched tightly.
The remaining people! Two simple words can represent the life and death of hundreds of people!
"Your Majesty, Liangzhou is different from other state capitals. The land is mountainous and bandits are rampant. It is extremely difficult to collect these data! Your Majesty, please forgive me..."
The chief clerk said in fear.
Li Rui nodded, he still knew what was going on in Liangzhou.
It is not easy to change in a short period of time. Then, Li Rui asked a few more questions about Liangzhou and Hedong County, and the chief clerk was able to answer them fluently.
"Yes, what's your name?"
Li Rui has a good impression of this master book.
Now is the time to employ people, so this chief clerk could use a promotion.
"Go back to your lord, my surname is Zhang and my first name is Shou!" the chief clerk replied in fear.
"Zhang Shou!"
Li Rui nodded, and then continued: "From today on, you will temporarily take over the post of county guard. If you do well, I will be rewarded heavily. If something goes wrong..."
Li Rui didn't say any more!
However, Zhang Shou can naturally understand the meaning of the words.
"Thank you, Your Majesty..."
Zhang Shou hurriedly knelt down and said.
"In the next few days, you have a few things to do. Set up a refugee shelter outside the city! It doesn't need to be too good, as long as there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain. In addition, all the victims who come will be registered uniformly.
Register, issue nameplates, cook porridge every day, and serve porridge based on the nameplate to avoid causing disturbances..."
"Your Majesty!"
Zhang Shou hurriedly said: "There is not much grain left in Liangzhou's grain depot!"
"Don't worry, I will report to the court and release food for disaster relief. Liangzhou only needs ten days of support! Can you do it?" Li Rui asked, staring at Zhang Shou in front of him.
Zhang Shou clenched his teeth and felt an inexplicable pressure.
After a moment, he cupped his fists and said: "I will serve you to the best of my ability, even to the death!"
"Also, I want to issue some decrees..."
"One: From today on, land in Liangzhou is not allowed to be bought or sold privately. If there are tenants who take advantage of the disaster to hoard land, we will kill them immediately!"
"Second: All counties and counties in Liangzhou must maintain price stability. If any merchants take advantage of the disaster to increase prices, we will take action immediately!"
"Third: Set up an isolation area. If you have fever or plague symptoms, you will be temporarily enclosed in the isolation area and are not allowed to go out without permission! Violators will be executed immediately!"
"Fourth: The government troops guard the outside of the city to maintain order. All victims will be registered and given porridge uniformly! Anyone who takes the opportunity to cause chaos will be executed!"
"..."
"yes!"
The more Zhang Shou listened, the more shocked he became. Each of the eight decrees was very detailed. And the punishments were also very harsh. However, in the current situation, this kind of decree was the simplest and most effective. It could be quickly stabilized.
Good situation.
"Xu Tong..." Li Rui frowned, took a deep breath and said, "Get my seal."
Xu Tong nodded and left in a hurry.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Shou told Xu Tong everything about the situation within the county government.
After hearing this, Xu Tong felt quite helpless. There were not many available people in the county government. Although this is a wealthy place in Liangzhou, most of the soldiers are not here, and most of them are distributed in
There are several other counties, among which Yanmen County is particularly important.
The entire Hedong County is now in a state of needing money but no money, asking for food but no food, and asking for people but no one.
You should also always be on guard against bandits coming down the mountain to plunder.
"Like Liangzhou, does the local county governor do nothing?" Li Rui asked doubtfully.
"As?"
Zhang Shou smiled bitterly: "What's the point? Everyone comes here and wants to peel off a layer of skin from the common people. If it's a little better, they start to suppress bandits here, report to the court, and get silver rewards, and even among them
There are many people who use people’s heads to make up the numbers!”
"I don't have the courage to suppress bandits, but I have the courage to make money by suppressing bandits!"
"I'm just a small chief clerk. I don't have any real power in my hands, so I can only comfort myself and concentrate on doing my own thing. If I have the opportunity to be transferred away from here, I won't have to see these bad things!"
Zhang Shou's voice made Li Rui's heart twitch.
At this time, Xu Tong returned with the seal in his hand.
Li Rui spread the paper, thought carefully for a long time, and turned his eyes to Zhang Shou again: "What are you looking at? Take a pen and help me polish it!"
"yes……"
Zhang Shou was stunned and hurriedly picked up the pen on the table and was about to start writing!
"Pause……"
Li Rui hurriedly waved his hand and said: "This is not good, I'll do it..."
When Zhang Shou wanted to hand over the pen, he found that Li Rui directly picked up the paper, and then balled it up twice randomly in his hand until it became wrinkled, and then laid it flat on the table again.
He came down, looked at Zhang Shou and said: "I said, you write..."
"yes!"
The corners of Zhang Shou's mouth twitched. He had never thought that this was what Li Rui said I was here to do? He listened carefully!
"Father, Liangzhou is so poor! The children don't even have enough to eat!"
Li Rui said sadly.
Zhang Shou's eyes were dull and his pen was frozen there. He was in a state of confusion.
"Write? What are you doing in a daze?"
Li Rui patted the back of Zhang Shou's head and said.
Zhang Shou's hand trembled slightly, and then he wrote: Father, Liangzhou is poor and has no food to eat...
"All the way here, there are refugees starving to death everywhere, and the child's heart aches. When we come to Liangzhou, the outside of the city is full of corpses, and bandits often come down from the mountain to plunder. The child is so shocked that he can't sleep well. Every day
Be on tenterhooks!”
"..."
Zhang Shou swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
He never imagined that polishing the prince's pen would be so difficult.
His mind was running wildly, and he finally wrote in tears.
Li Rui brewed his emotions again and even sobbed a few times: "Looking at these refugees, my heart aches. They are all my people in Dazhou. I want to feed them, but the granary of Liangzhou
But we can’t even get a grain of food out of here. If this continues, Liangzhou will really be wiped out!"
"cough……"
Even Xu Tong, who was next to him, couldn't help but cough, and then gently turned his cheek to the side.
Li Rui finally finished narrating, and Zhang Shou stopped writing tremblingly.
"Okay, let's change another piece of paper..." Unexpectedly, Li Rui rolled up a piece of paper again, threw it on the table, and said to Zhang Shou: "You continue to polish your pen!"
"Second brother, Liangzhou is so poor! My younger brother can't even have enough to eat!"