Chapter 64 Eleven county magistrates gather together, don't give face?
Su Cheng was confident about inviting ten county magistrates and did not explain it to Shen Youwei.
In the next few days, Su Cheng went down during the day to inspect the rice seedlings, comfort the victims, and try his best to coordinate with large households to provide more grain.
The situation was finally stabilized for the time being.
However, as the number of disaster victims increases in recent days, the big households in Liuhe County have begun to complain incessantly, and some even do not want to support more victims.
After all, a large family only has so much land, and the original victims can work as long as they are enough, so there is no need to give out food to invite the victims to work.
In this regard, Su Cheng didn't say much, he just placed those victims who had no one to support them with large households who were willing to provide food.
Even the Shen family, under his suggestion, took in more than a thousand disaster victims!
For this matter, Shen Youwei personally pestered Shen Zhennan for several days to facilitate this matter.
No, Shen Youwei is still dealing with the victims of the disaster in Shen Mansion.
Fortunately, three days later, the news finally came.
"Sir, Mr. Liu Guoan, the magistrate of Xincheng County, is here!" He Captou came to report with excitement on his face.
In the county government office, Su Cheng put down the complaint in his hand, raised his head and looked outside.
Liu Guoan, who looked carefree and had a pair of triangular eyes, entered the county government office.
"This must be Mr. Liu, right?" Su Cheng stood up with a smile and stepped forward to greet him.
Liu Guoan glanced at Su Cheng: "I heard that Mr. Su is a member of the royal family and has the hereditary title of Marquis?"
Before discussing the matter, Liu Guoan wanted to confirm the matter first.
If Su Cheng's letter had not stated this identity, Liu Guoan would not have come today anyway.
But if Su Cheng really has the identity of the Marquis, he must get it.
If you don’t come when the royal family members are summoned, it would be disrespectful to the royal family!
Su Cheng was not surprised by this and smiled calmly: "I will naturally give Mr. Liu an answer to this matter!"
"But the other adults haven't come yet. How about waiting for the other adults to arrive and then I can reveal my identity to you all together?"
"That's great!" Liu Guoan didn't give Su Cheng any face before confirming Su Cheng's identity.
"Then please Mr. Liu, please come and take a seat. Come and serve tea!" Su Cheng ordered.
Soon, a yamen servant served fragrant tea.
Liu Guoan was not polite, picked up the tea cup and tasted it slowly.
Anyway, the reason I came here today is to explain my identity as a member of the royal clan. I will wait for everyone to arrive, drink this cup of tea and leave.
Su Cheng still wants to discuss the disaster victims with him?
Haha, what a fool’s dream!
This county hopes that all the victims will come to Liuhe County.
Just as Liu Guoan secretly laughed at Su Cheng for overestimating his capabilities, other county magistrates also came one after another.
Some of these county magistrates had sad faces, some were expressionless, and some were flattering to Su Cheng as soon as they arrived, as if they wanted to curry favor with Su Cheng.
It can be seen that Su Cheng's status as a marquis and a member of the royal family is somewhat intimidating to these county magistrates.
Almost everyone comes here because of this level of status.
Seeing that the hall in front of him was filled with ten county magistrates, Su Cheng bowed his hands to everyone and saluted: "Everyone, I have only taken office not long ago, so I should be the first to pay a visit to you."
"However, during this period of time, all the victims under your control have flocked to my Liuhe County. During this period of time, I have been dealing with this matter, so I did not go to visit you."
This is a polite remark.
But it sounds very harsh to some people’s ears!
Liu Guoan sneered: "So Mr. Su is blaming us for being lax in our governance?"
As soon as these words came out, an old county magistrate immediately snorted coldly: "If Mr. Su came to us here today to reprimand us, then there is no need."
"Now that there is a drought, where do the victims want to go? How can we stop them?"
"Yes, Mr. Su, please don't worry about this matter. Anyway, you have plenty of food in Liuhe County."
"That's right, since ancient times, those who are capable have worked harder. If you have food in Liuhe County, then provide more food to help them."
Some people are sarcastic, some people have nothing to do with it, and some people hope that all the victims will go to Liuhe County.
Everyone in Jiangzhou knew that Liuhe County had a good harvest this year, but they all had no harvest due to drought. This comparison showed that they, the county magistrates, were very incompetent.
In this case, fine, Liuhe County will bear all these victims!
Don't you, Liuhe County, have the ability to settle all the victims?
Seeing all the county magistrates looking like this, Su Cheng's face instantly darkened.
He understands that any tree that is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind.
But these county magistrates were so indifferent to human life and seemed to have nothing to do with matters, which still made him feel chilled.
"Everyone, I don't mean to blame you!"
Su Cheng said with a serious face: "I called you here just to discuss with you how to deal with these victims."
"I can let the victims go to Liuhe County now, but I don't want any more victims to come out in the future."
"Speaking of which, most of the victims in your county have come here now. I believe that you, sir, can settle down the remaining victims."
Su Cheng didn't want to get into trouble with this group of people. He just asked them to take care of the victims and stop flooding into Liuhe County.
After all, Liuhe County has reached its limit now, and it is only supported by a few large households who are willing to provide more food.
If there are many more disaster victims, it will really be unbearable.
However, even so, the county magistrates still sneered and shook their heads.
"Mr. Su, your words are wrong. Our county has harvested nothing this year. How can we accommodate those victims?"
"That's right, I heard that the food supply in Liuhe County this year is ten times that of last year. Isn't this just enough to feed the people of our ten counties?"
"Since Liuhe County has food, let Liuhe County deal with these victims."
"Hahahaha, what Mr. Liu said makes sense, and it should be like this!"
They could only dream of bringing all the victims to Liuhe County if they had the chance.
In that case, they don't have to bear any responsibility.
In short, they just don't want to restrain the victims of the disaster in their own county.
They even thought that after returning, they would have to find a way to drive all the victims to Liuhe County!
The drought has left them with no harvest, which has made them feel even more stressed.
If the victims continue to fail to handle the situation well, the black gauze hats on their heads will be removed.
Now that all the victims have arrived in Liuhe County, even if they die, it is none of their business.
Su Cheng looked at the group of sanctimonious officials in front of him, who only wanted to protect themselves. A cold look appeared in his eyes.
As expected, he still looked down upon these officials!
Fortunately, he was prepared.
If you don’t listen to your own words, you don’t dare to disobey the prefect, right?
"My lords, since you think this way of speaking is not good, let's change it to another one!"
Su Cheng's eyes turned cold, his whole body became full of energy, and he took out a letter from his sleeve.
This letter is a reply from the prefect of Jiangzhou!