After passing through the Black Wind Canyon, there was an open plain ahead. Muchen led the team to gallop all the way without encountering any danger. In addition to taking necessary rest, everyone rushed all night, and finally arrived at Luoye Village at noon the next day.

It is the nearest disaster point to Nanshan City and the most severely affected area. Before entering Luoye Village, Muchen saw countless dry and cracked farmland, dead crops, and skinny civilians. No matter where they were, the lives of the lower class civilians

, are all in dire straits.

Luoye Village is located in a plain, and the terrain is slightly higher than the surrounding areas. Without the protection of mountains and forests, the sun here is hotter than other places.

Looking at the dry land, Muchen asked curiously: "Uncle, where is the main water source of Luoye Village? Why is the disaster situation so serious?"

Xiao Jun sighed and said: "Hey, Luoye Village used to be a wealthy village among several surrounding villages, because one of the branches of Nanjiang River, the largest river in Nanshan County, once flowed through this place, providing the water source here.

It is plentiful and has many merchants and travellers, and its annual harvest is several times that of the surrounding villages."

"Then why is this happening now?"

Xiao Jun continued: "That's because the upstream of the main water source in the village happens to flow through a large town in Qingshan City, and the nobles guarding that large town are distant relatives of the Zhang family in Qingshan City. A few years ago,

They used some tricks to change the direction of the river and divert most of the river water to them, which reduced the water source of Luoye Village by more than half. Once there is a drought, Luoye Village will become without water, and the result is like this today...

"This is obviously a man-made disaster.

"Grandpa doesn't care about this matter?"

"No matter what, according to the legal system of the Celestial Empire, the city lord has the right to change the direction of the water source in the city. Even if my father reports this matter to the imperial capital, the result will not change. Besides, the Zhang family in Qingshan City and the imperial capital Murong

We are in-laws with a lot of energy. You, the boy, also know the relationship between the Murong family and your Mu family. What do you think my father can do besides starting a war? The only remaining water source in Luoye Village is that my father has to go to it personally.

The Zhang family fought for it for a long time. It's pitiful, it's these civilians who are suffering."

"The Murong family! Unexpectedly, the Murong family's hands are so long that they even have power in Nanshan County."

"Xiao Chen, the Murong family has been the founding aristocracy since the founding of the Celestial Empire. In these hundreds of years, their strength has not diminished. In the Celestial Empire, their influence can be said to be all over the world. You should be more careful in the future."

"In the face of real strength, these things are nothing but clouds. However, the Murong family today is indeed beyond our ability to deal with!" Muchen is not stupid, and will not fight the Murong family with real swords and guns now. Muchen

What is needed now is time. As long as there is time and the support of many spiritual foods, Muchen believes that Zhenshan Palace will soon be able to restore its former glory.

Seeing Muchen despise the Murong family so much, Xiao Jun was a little helpless, but he couldn't say much.

Approaching Luoye Village, Muchen could see skinny passers-by everywhere. Their eyes were dull and confused, and they had long lost hope for the future. They were like walking zombies, which was chilling to watch.

As an aspiring young man in the new century, Muchen had never seen such a scene before. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was a hell of despair. He felt disgusted with Qingshan City for no reason. Seeing that ordinary people were about to starve to death on the streets, Muchen had a feeling in his heart.

Muchen is determined to feed the common people of the entire world in the near future.

Muchen looked at the refugees along the way and said angrily: "What's going on with these refugees? Why are they outside the village, and don't the little nobles in the village care about them?"

Xiao Jun: "I guess the nobles in the village saw too many refugees and were afraid that they would all enter the village and cause trouble."

At this moment, Muchen discovered that some villagers, after seeing the troops from the City Lord's Mansion, not only did not come out to greet them, but even showed a look of hatred, their eyes full of resentment, and then left without looking back.

Muchen wondered why these refugees had so much hatred for the City Lord's Mansion or the Zhenshan Prince's Mansion.

If there were only one or two people in this situation, Muchen wouldn't care, but along the way, Muchen saw 70% of the refugees looking at him with anger, although they only occasionally looked at him with their eyes.

One glance, but with his keen soul perception, Muchen could still feel the hatred in his eyes.

Before Muchen had time to think carefully, dozens of middle-aged people in rough clothes were already waiting at the entrance of the village, kneeling down to greet him.

"Ye Gong, the head of Luoye Village, has met the lord." A middle-aged man wearing rough clothes with a slightly round face knelt down to greet him.

Dozens of people behind him also knelt down at the same time to greet Muchen.

"You are the mayor of this village."

"Exactly, I have prepared the hotel. Lord, you have had a hard journey, please go and rest first."

Muchen's eyes flashed and he didn't say much. He just nodded in agreement and said, "I'm very tired. Let's take this lord to my residence first. By the way, tomorrow's disaster relief location has been selected and relevant facilities have been prepared."

"My lord, everything is ready. Disaster relief can begin tomorrow."

Muchen was a little angry in his heart. He said that the disaster relief would start tomorrow, but this guy really promised to start it tomorrow without thinking about the victims at all. At this time, the victims were in dire straits and didn't even know how valuable time was. This kind of

The village chief is not a good person.

"No need, let's go to the disaster relief site today. Village Chief, could you please hand over the list of all disaster victims in the entire village to my subordinates, and ask people to count the affected area, store the amount of food, build temporary shelters, and start work immediately

, we will start disaster relief today and distribute coarse grains to the victims, starting with orphans, widows, old, weak, sick and disabled villagers. Anyone who is sick will be sent doctors for free by the palace to rescue them. This news will be spread throughout the streets and alleys immediately, without any mistakes!"

"this…………"

Muchen got angry and said, "Do you have any opinions?"

"I don't dare, I don't dare... I will go down immediately to make arrangements. Please take a rest, Lord." With that, he quickly summoned his men and began to give instructions.

"Then why don't you lead the way! I want to go to the disaster relief site and take charge personally!"

"Yes, yes, yes..." Village Chief Ye led the way with a look of horror on his face.

Muchen followed up with food and troops, and took the time to ask: "Uncle, who is this village chief? Is he an official selected by the city lord's palace?"

"No, the city lord's palace is in charge of the nobles at all levels in the big town, as well as the officers and soldiers appointed by all the city guards in the city. If all the small villages are under the control of the city lord's palace, how can they manage it? Some of these village chiefs are

Small family groups hold offices in the village, and some are elected by villagers. In short, there are many situations and they are very complicated."

"A small village actually has its own divisions of power." Muchen felt a little surprised.

"Xiao Chen, although Luoye Village is not big, it still has tens of thousands of people. Some of the residences around the village are actually under the jurisdiction of Luoye Village. Wherever there are people, there will be competition. It is not surprising that there are some small forces. According to the past

Regulations, as long as each village can pay taxes on time, my city lord's palace won't have too much control."

Perhaps it is because of the martial arts in this world that it does not seem to care about some management systems. In many small places, whoever has the biggest fist has the final say. The village chiefs of some small villages are almost all the most powerful groups nearby.

The city lords don't care about this either. As long as they can pay taxes regularly, it doesn't seem to matter to them who becomes the village chief. Anyway, this world is a world of the jungle. If you don't have strength, even if you are killed, there will be no one to avenge you.

If some weak people want to change their destiny, they must either become strong themselves or cultivate a descendant with strong talents. There are only two ways to go. This is also the reason why Nanshan County is overcrowded. The resources are limited but the population is too large.
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