Chapter 439 The last thing you want to see happened
As soon as the gate of the county lord's mansion opened, someone fell in outside immediately. Feng Yuheng caught the person and saw Bai Furong, who was soaked in her body, grabbed her arms with both hands, her body was cold and her teeth were trembling.
"Furong!" Feng Yuheng called her, helped the person up from the ground, and looked back, and found that the carriage she was in had been damaged by the rain. The coachman stood in the heavy rain, looking like he was about to be unable to hold on. "Come and pick up the coachman in and take it to the mansion to rest." She ordered the doorman, and then said to Wangchuan: "I think it's not going to be the one in Wenxuan Palace. You two can go there to find out the situation in Xiaozhou."
Wangchuan nodded, and saw that Huangquan had arrived outside, so he rushed into the rain.
Feng Yuheng took Bai Furong back to her yard. She couldn't wait for the servants to get her clothes for her to change, so she grabbed Feng Yuheng and said anxiously: "Aheng, it's so scary, it's so scary outside!" She shivered while talking. Feng Yuheng then realized that Bai Furong was trembling not because of the coldness, but because she was afraid.
"What did you see?" She asked Bai Furong: "Where did you come from? Are you in the mansion? Your carriage is very strong. If you just walk in the capital, you won't miss it like that. Furong, have you left the city?"
Bai Furong nodded, "Yes, I'm out of the city. My father went out to see an old jade before the heavy rain. Today, he sent someone to send a letter and said he would go back to Beijing, so I took the secret guard out of the city to pick him up. But Ah Heng, do you know what I saw?" She became more and more afraid as she spoke, and finally she shrank into the chair, her face pale.
Feng Yuheng's heart moved, as if he had thought of something, and then his face became darker, "It seems... the thing I least hoped for happened." She murmured, looked at Bai Furong again, and asked her: "Did there be many people dead outside the city?"
Bai Furong nodded, took a few breaths and said anxiously: "Many people died, every puddle is full of dead people, and every tree is full of dead people. Those people have completely changed shape by the rain. Some of the corpses' heads are soaked bigger than washbasins, and some cannot tell they are humans at all. My father said that the weather will still be hot now, and there will be an epidemic when the sun is exposed to the sun after natural disasters. Let me ask you to think of a solution." Bai Furong looked at Feng Yuheng, her eyes full of expectations.
Feng Yuheng was not sure. She didn't expect that the situation outside the city was so bad. She asked Bai Furong: "How come there are so many people?"
Bai Furong told her: "They are all refugees who fled to the capital. Some died on the road, while others died at the gate because they could not enter the city."
She heard the door and said, "Can't you enter the city?"
Bai Furong nodded: "That's right, the refugees just regard the capital as a spiritual pillar, and only think that the capital will not be flooded, but they don't want to have no relatives to join in the capital. Those who tell their relatives are, the city guard immediately sent someone to check and let them go if they find out. However, those who don't have relatives are there will definitely not be in. In fact..." She paused and said again: "My father said that in fact, many people starved to death."
"I understand." Feng Yuheng waved his hand and signaled Bai Furong not to say anything more. She was a little confused. Although this situation was not unthinkable, it really happened, which made her, a person with later generations, unable to accept it.
"Ah Heng!" Bai Furong called her again: "Father said, if you want to control the epidemic, only you can do it. Can you think of a way? I'm afraid...I'm afraid..." Her words didn't go smoothly again, and her face turned paler. It seemed that she had thought of something terrible, and she couldn't sit still. She jumped up from the chair, grabbed Feng Yuheng and panted, "I'm afraid that those refugees would be too hungry, and would...I'll..."
"You can eat people." She blurted out the words Bai Furong didn't say, and then she couldn't help but shivered.
Famine is difficult and people eat each other, which is the result she least wants to see.
"Furong, calm down first, listen to me." She calmed down, pressed Bai Furong's shoulders, and used some strength on her hands, as if she wanted to pass on her own strength to the other party.
Bai Furong was really calmed down under her gaze, and then she heard Feng Yuheng say again: "Control the epidemic is important, but after all, it is something that needs to be done when the rain stops. Now the most urgent task is to appease the refugees. You must not have any veterinary situations, do you know?"
Bai Furong nodded subconsciously, but was still a little confused: "What should we do?"
Feng Yuheng told her: "I will prepare a new carriage for you. You go to Tiange and ask her to come out as a princess to buy rice from the rice shop. If there is no vegetables, use pickles. At least you have to ensure that the living refugees can drink two bowls of porridge every day. Only by letting people survive can there be trouble."
Bai Furong was just in an emergency, so she calmed down her mood and immediately stood up and nodded, "Okay, I'll go now."
Feng Yuheng walked to the cabinet and took a raincoat for her, and then sent her out in person. As soon as Bai Furong left, a group of officers and soldiers hurried over from the mansion, hugging and carrying many things, and some wooden racks. One of them ran to her. Feng Yuheng saw that he was still an old acquaintance.
"Wang Zhuo, where are you going?" she asked on his own initiative.
The person who came was Wang Zhuo, wearing a straw raincoat and a straw hat, his face covered in rain. He ran forward and said at the top of his voice: "County Lord, Your Highness Ninth ordered us to go outside the city to collect tents to shelter the refugees from the rain!"
Only then did she understand what the wooden racks carried by the officers and soldiers were used for, but... "The rain is so heavy, is it effective to set up a tent? Can they come into the city?"
Wang Zhuo waved his hands repeatedly: "Minister, there are too many people, and it will be messy when you come in. Besides, even if you come in, there is no place to shelter them from the rain!"
Feng Yuheng knew that this was a reality. A country could be in chaos everywhere, but the capital could not. According to Bai Furong's previous statement, the number of refugees outside had reached a very large number, and it would definitely be in chaos when put into the city.
She no longer stopped Wang Zhuo, but only reminded him: "It's not enough to just set up a tent, and I'll also ask people to move the body to a distant place, gather it together, and I'll find a way to burn it back."
Wang Zhuo nodded and said loudly: "Mr. County Master, please go back to the house. I will do the job now!" After that, he rushed into the rain again.
Feng Yuheng watched the soldiers running farther and farther away, and worried again. It was raining so heavily, is it useful to set up a tent? How many refugees are there outside the city? How big a tent should I set up?
She thought for a while, turned around and called Qingyu to the house, spread out the paper and said, "You will send someone to Baicaotang to keep the medicinal materials according to the name of the medicinal materials I wrote. In addition, she told Wang Lin to free up some people to be quick-handed and knowledgeable about pharmacology, so that they can be used later." After she said that, she dropped her pen and stuffed the paper into Qingyu's hand, "Don't go by yourself, just send someone to send it to you, and then come back quickly and let's enter the palace."
The heavy rain outside was still not weak, and even had hail. The county lord's mansion had thickened all the carriages by two more layers to prevent accidents. Feng Yuheng took Qingyu to the palace carriage. When passing the Imperial Palace, he stopped to inquire. When he learned that Xuan Tianming was also in the palace, he urged the coachman to speed up his journey.
All the palace gates of the palace were closed, and the Imperial Guards set up a hood, but they could still be wet by the rain. Seeing that a vehicle was parked at the palace gate, the guards rushed forward. Emperor Tianwu had already given instructions that when there were natural disasters, officials in the court must report to enter the palace at any time. Although the palace gate was closed, they must be released at any time when they encountered officials who reported the disaster.
Because of the heavy rain, the guards did not see clearly what car was coming, so they were about to come forward to ask. Feng Yuheng had already raised the curtain of the car and exposed his head. When they saw that it was the lord of Ji'an, they opened the palace gate without asking. One of the leaders also said, "The county lord doesn't need to get off the car, just take the palace car in! Your Highness Ninth Prince will come, and he has already given instructions to let you go to Qiankun Palace as soon as you enter the palace."
Feng Yuheng nodded, said nothing more, and urged the car to rush towards the direction of Qiankun Palace. The palace car walked to the square of Qiankun Palace before stopping. Qingyu held up an umbrella prepared by Feng Yuheng to block it to avoid being injured by hail. Then, the two walked into the rain wearing raincoats and rain boots, and headed towards Qiankun Palace step by step.
As soon as he reached the gate of the palace, he heard Emperor Tianwu roaring: "If you have to go to another five days? If you go to another five days, the palace will be flooded? The capital is like this, how can the provinces live? No, no, you have to think of a way to do this, and you can't let it do this again."
Immediately afterwards, another voice said helplessly: "Your Majesty, the sky is showing, I really have no choice!"
"I can't think about it!"
"Man cannot fight against the heaven!"
The two of them said a word, and no one gave in. Feng Yuheng took two steps, and then he realized that she had seen the person who spoke to Emperor Tianwu. Although she was not familiar with him, she also had an impression. She walked up, first knelt down to salute Emperor Tianwu, and said, "Daughter-in-law, father."
Emperor Tianwu waved his hand quickly, "Get up quickly, I'll wait for you."
Feng Yuheng got up, looked at Xuan Tianming standing beside him, and then looked at the person who had spoken to the emperor before. He stared at him for a while, smiled faintly, nodded slightly, and took the initiative to say, "Mr. Imperial Heaven Supervision Supervisor, I'm polite."
The surveillance officer shook his body, subconsciously took a step back, then looked shaking, and quickly replied: "Secretary, I have met the county lord."
Emperor Tianwu was a little impatient: "Don't mess with those useless ones, Ah Heng, come here quickly." He waved to Feng Yuheng, until she walked to Xuan Tianming, and the two of them stood beside him at the same time, and then said again: "They said the rain will take another five days. What should you do?"
Xuan Tianming was also a little helpless, "It's useless to ask Hengheng! No matter how capable she is, can she still control the gods?"
Feng Yuheng nodded, "Father, it's raining, no one can stop it. But the refugees piled up outside the capital must be properly resettled, otherwise it is not scary for refugees to cause trouble. What's scary is that if someone with ulterior motives hangs in it, it will be difficult to control it."
Everyone understands this principle. Xuan Tianming said: "Additional personnel have been sent to station outside the city, and five thousand soldiers have been transferred out of our camp. I have ordered people to settle the tent outside the city and then put them down first."
Feng Yuheng also said: "I saw Wang Zhuo. Setting up a tent is one aspect, and I also ordered him to deal with the corpse. Tiange should also contact the rice merchant to provide rice at this time. Refugees must be able to eat. Food is the most important thing for the people. Only when they are not hungry can they not cause trouble."
She turned around and asked the Imperial Supervision Supervisor: "What kind of weather is after the heavy rain? Can it be measured?"
The supervisor sighed and replied in despair: "Lieshen!"
Chapter completed!