The sun is scorching in July, and Vietnam is getting hotter and hotter. In addition, there is no rain for a long time. Yeshen’s road to disaster relief is difficult, and sometimes it is even difficult to find clean water to quench thirst.

There are more and more people fleeing to the north, and more and more people die on the roadside due to hunger and lack of water.

Although a large number of soldiers were escorted to the disaster relief food, there were still hungry people who rushed forward and knelt down and begged for food to survive. Of course, some people secretly held wooden sticks and poked them into the sacks that contained the food. They knew that as long as they could pierce the sacks, they could rob the leaked food.

However, the soldiers who were escorted were borne by the emperor's orders. Even if they had great sympathy in their hearts, they still needed to protect the disaster relief food. Whenever they encountered someone who openly robbed the food, they had to draw a knife and roar and force the people to retreat.

Occasionally there are sacks that are pierced. If they can be blocked, they cannot be blocked. They will turn a blind eye and let the food in the sacks spill all over the floor.

In the eyes of these soldiers, these sprinkled food may be able to survive the lives of the people who fled.

Ye Shen, who was mixed among the soldiers, watched as the people almost didn't even have their lives to grab the food that fell on the ground, and rushed to the rolling wheels. He really wanted to call a parking convoy and divide some food to help the victims.

But these foods are the disaster relief grains sent by His Majesty to the Five Prefectures of Jiangnan. Tens of millions of people in the Five Prefectures of Jiangnan are waiting for these foods to survive!

Of course, Ye Shen also thought about throwing the dry food he carried with him to the victims who were kneeling on the roadside begging, but he endured it.

When he saw a woman on the roadside holding a child who was tortured by hunger and thirst, he finally couldn't help it. Seeing that the woman was left alone, he quietly got off the horse and stuffed the water bag and dry food on his waist into the child's arms.

The woman was quite alert, looked at Ye Shen with tears in her eyes and then quietly stuffed some dry food into the child's mouth and fed her saliva. The rest were stuffed into her arms and hid directly into the woods beside the road.

Ye Shen sighed deeply. He knew that the little bit of dry food and water he gave could not make the mother and son live, but with the highlights, dry food and water, the mother and son always increase the possibility of survival.

He held the horse and stared at the disappearing back of the mother and son for a moment. Ye Shen got on the horse again, suppressing the unbearableness that surged into his heart again and again, drove the horse to Lin Hongyun, and discussed with him to speed up the advanced speed again.

The disaster relief food was delivered to the victims the day earlier, and fewer people fleeing abroad would not only allow more people to survive, but also stabilize the people's hearts for the court and reduce the unrest caused by disasters to Jiangnan.

After rushing for another half a month, the disaster relief team finally arrived at Yingtian Prefecture at the end of July after repelling several robbers and blocking the road.

This is the first stop for disaster relief scheduled by the imperial court.

Looking at the withered crops under the scorching sun, the people who were pale and thin, kneeling on the ground and howling at the sky, or dragging their families to escape, and then looking at the fat officials who were big heads, big ears and fat intestines when they came out of the city, Ye Shen's face became heavy and heavy.

That night, the prefect Yingtian held a banquet to entertain the imperial envoy. Ye Shen did not intend to attend such a banquet, but finally decided to see what kind of banquet the officials of Yingtian Mansion would have formed under such a disaster.

When Ye Shen saw the delicious food on the table, he was really angry!

He immediately sacrificed the Sword of Emperor and detained all the officials attending the banquet, and conducted an investigation on Tianfu overnight. The result was that he really found a group of large borers.

No wonder Jiangnan, the first granary in Dayu, encountered a drought, which destroyed thousands of people's homes, and even hungered people everywhere in Yingtian Prefecture!

It is said that the drought in Yingtian Prefecture is not the most serious. Going southward, the drought in Jizhou is even more severe. In some places, there is not even water to drink, and countless people are dying of thirst. Ye Shen is in a very heavy mood.

In the drought, what is lacking is not only food, but also water!

There were several civilian officials who followed Ye Shen out of Beijing this time, who were entourages decided by Ye Shen and His Majesty the Emperor after consultation.

After all the corrupt officials in Yingtian Mansion were caught, these accompanying civil officials had a place to use their skills.

Although Ye Shen had the sword of the emperor, he could directly kill corrupt officials, but Ye Shen did not do so. Instead, he escorted the corruption evidence and gold and silver wealth that the officials found back to Beijing and handed over to the court for trial.

Ye Shen himself continued to go south with disaster relief grain.

With a series of operations from Yingtian Prefecture, the court's disaster relief was supported by the people, and the situation of robbing grain still occasionally occurred, but more people joined the grain protection team.

The disaster relief team arrived at Yuezhou, the second stop of the disaster relief. The disaster situation in Yuezhou was indeed more serious than Yingtianfu.

There is a large lake with an area of ​​nearly 100 inches in Yuezhou City. Ye Shen thought that Yuezhou would not be so nervous about using water, but when he came to the lake, his heart couldn't help but sink.

The water of the nearly 100-sky lake is almost overwhelming. The people in and outside the city gather at the lake for just a bucket of water.

Back at the inn, Qi Dabao had prepared bath water for Ye Shen.

Looking at the steaming bucket of water, Ye Shen glanced at Qi Dabao lightly: "Why are you going to ask for?"

Qi Dabao shook his head quickly: "I heard that the lord had not had a bath for many days, so he brought someone to bring water to him."

Today, Jiangnan water is more expensive than oil, so how can it be wasted?

"You go and tell the official, forget it this time. If you dare to grab water with the people in the future, you will definitely be willing to do it!" Ye Shen stared at the water for a long time, turned to Qi Dabao and said, "By the way, you also went to change clothes and wipe your body, and let Lin Qi and the others come together to wipe your body."

Qi Dabao looked at the water in the bathtub and didn't say much. He went out to convey Ye Shen's words to the post minister, and then found Lin Qi and the others who conveyed Ye Shen's meaning in this way.

In the end, the ten people used this big bucket of water to scrub each, and they didn't want to pour out the remaining water directly, and used it to scrub the changed clothes.

Although I could only get a little sweat from my body, I still felt much more comfortable. After all, I could find a source of water to take a bath along the way. The more I went south, I couldn’t even keep drinking water. Where could I take a bath?

Compared with Yingtian Prefecture, the disaster relief in Yuezhou is much smoother.

In order to speed up the disaster relief, the officials with Ye Shen discussed and decided to divide the troops into three groups. He led the way to Jizhou, the farthest middle. Lin Hongyun and another official named Chen Qinian from the Ministry of Revenue each led the way.

Lin Hongyun expressed his objection. Before leaving Beijing, he promised Lin Wan that he would take Ye Shen back to Beijing without any harm, and of course he could not let Ye Shen leave his sight.

"Brother, don't worry, I'm not going to Jizhou alone, there are General Chen and Lin Qi and the others." Ye Shen was very persistent.

The reason why Ye Shen did this was mainly to deliver disaster relief food to the people as soon as possible so that the situation in Jiangnan could be completely stable.

Of course, it was also because he wanted to rush back to the capital before Lin Wan gave birth to a production.

Lin Hongyun also knew Ye Shen’s thoughts, but Jizhou was the most serious and chaotic place this time, no doubt about it!

"If you really want to provide disaster relief separately, then let me go to Jizhou." Seeing that he couldn't convince Ye Shen, Lin Hongyun settled down and planned to lead his team to Jizhou by himself. He had skills, and even if he really encountered something, he would be able to protect himself better than Ye Shen.

"Brother, don't argue with me anymore. I still have some private matters to handle when I go to Jizhou. You know, my family has a big orchard in Jizhou and has a winery. I always have to go and see it myself." Seeing that there was no one around, Ye Shen no longer hid Lin Hongyun, and told him directly why he had to go to Jizhou.

The reason why Ye Shen insisted on going to Jizhou in person was to find Qi Junlinda and others.

Qi Jun and Lin Da came to Jizhou to inspect the orchards and wineries in Jizhou since the drought occurred in Jiangnan.

When he learned that chaos occurred in Jiangnan, Ye Shen sent them an urgent message asking them to return to Beijing as soon as possible. Qi Jun and others agreed to leave Jizhou after handling the affairs of the orchard and winery.

Before Ye Shen left Beijing to provide disaster relief, Qi Jun and Lin Da were still in Jizhou. However, at that time Ye Shen was still in contact with Qi Jun and Lin Da, but soon after he left Beijing, he lost contact with Qi Jun and Lin Da and others who were in Jizhou.

Although the loss of contact with Qi Jun and the others may be because Ye Shenren's location has been changing on the way, Ye Shen is now in Jiangnan but still has not received any news from Lin Da and others, and the situation is a bit unfamiliar.

This time, I followed Qi Jun to the four forests in Jiangnan. In addition to the steady Lin Da, there are also Lin San, Lin Shi and Lin Shisan.

Lin San was once an excellent scout, good at scouting and hiding.

The five such people couldn't send out any news, which shows that the situation in Jizhou is indeed very serious.

Ye Shen always had a bad feeling in his heart, but because the emperor's fate was in his body, he could only suppress such bad feeling in his heart.

After completing the disaster relief work in Yuezhou, Ye Shen still did not receive any news from Qi Jun, Lin Da and others, and the anxiety in his heart was a little uncontrollable.

Two days ago, Lin Shiliu, Lin Shier and Lin Shiwu were all sent out, and asked them to hide their identities to Jizhou City to find Qi Jun, Lin Da and others.

There were eight Lins who came out with Ye Shen this time, including Lin Jiu, who was good at hiding martial arts, Lin Shiliu, who was good at disguising, and Lin Shier, who was good at disguising.

Ye Shen originally planned to let Lin Jiu, who had the best kung fu, go to Jizhou first, but Lin Jiu did not agree.

Even though they all knew that in addition to the eight soldiers from Lin and Zhennan Marquis' Mansion, there were four secret guards arranged by His Majesty the Emperor, as the guards specially arranged by Lin Wan to Ye Shen, even if they were worried about Lin Da and the others' safety, they had to ensure Ye Shen's safety. After all, they had experienced several assassinations that were obviously directed at Ye Shen along the way.

Lin Hongyun was the prince of Zhennan Hou Mansion. He grew up in the military camp since he was young, so he naturally knew the Lins around Ye Shen.

Although it was a bit strange before, Lin Da didn't come to Jiangnan with Ye Shen, he didn't ask much. After listening to Ye Shen's explanation, he realized that Lin Da and others were trapped in Jizhou City and had lost contact.

Since Ye Shen said this, even if Lin Hongyun was worried, he had to nod and agree that Ye Shen would go to Jizhou in person.

However, for Ye Shen's safety, Lin Hongyun redistributed his troops.

This time, His Majesty the Emperor gave 10,000 troops to the south of the Yangtze River and escorted the officials of Yingtian Prefecture back to Beijing and distributed 500 troops. It would be useless to have such a little force when the Duke went out.

However, this time the troops were divided into three groups to provide disaster relief, and the troops seemed a little short of strength.

Because there was chaos in Jiangnan before they left the capital, His Majesty the Emperor gave Lin Hongyun and Ye Shen the right to use local government troops and local garrison troops.

When Ye Shen decided to divide the disaster relief team into three groups, Lin Hongyun sent his deputy general to mobilize troops.

With the addition of the government soldiers and local garrisons, it seems that the troops have greatly increased, but in fact these government soldiers and garrisons are really vulnerable in front of the Zhennan Army.

Of course, Lin Hongyun was not the main reason for sending these soldiers to fight, but just to gather the number of people to strengthen the momentum.

After some mobilization and deployment, the 5,000 Zhennan Army followed Ye Shen to Jizhou. Because Ye Shen had Lin Jiu and others around him, he only arranged a young general in the Lin family to lead the team.

Lin Hongyun and Chen Qinian only had 3,000 troops.

However, Lin Hongyun's team had only two thousand Zhennan Army, and the other one thousand were temporary troops and local garrison troops drawn from Yuezhou.

Chen Qinian's team was led by Vice General Chen, of which 2,200 were the Southern Army, and the other 500 were the local garrisons.

Ye Shen saw that Chen Qinian's face was a little bad, but he just pretended not to see it. Now that the most important thing is to complete the disaster relief mission and calm the chaos in Jiangnan.

Jizhou is the most severe and chaotic prefecture. There is no mistake in the distribution of troops today.

If Qi Jun, Lin Da and others were trapped in Jizhou and were waiting for him to rescue him, why would Ye Shen have to go to Jizhou to go? Chen Qinian wanted to make achievements and let him go!

However, if you don’t serve the people, Qi Jun, Lin Da and others will be impeached even if you return to Beijing. Ye Shen can’t take care of so much. Jizhou is going to make a decision!

What Ye Shen didn't know was that at this moment, the ruling yamen of Jizhou had been captured by the rioters, and the head of Jizhou's magistrate was cut off and hung on the top of the city.

Qi Jun, Lin Da and others guarded the Ye Family Brewery and repelled the rioters, mainly bandits in Maijishan, attacked again and again. This was the reason why Qi Jun and others lost contact with the outside world.

The Ye family’s orchard winery is at the foot of Dahan Mountain about 30 miles away from Jizhou City. Because it is leaning against the Ye family’s orchard, the people in this area are relatively wealthy in Jizhou.

When I first chose to build a winery here, it was because there was a pretty good spring on the mountain.

At the beginning of the construction of the winery, the spring water was introduced into the winery with pipes.

Although the amount of spring water gradually decreases after the drought, it never stops.

Almost every household in the nearby villager has people working in the Ye family's orchards and wineries. Although the orchards have very little harvest this year due to drought, in order to allow the nearby people to stutter and drink water during the drought, the wineries have not stopped working, and workers can bring back a small bucket of water when they go home every day.

When water was short of water everywhere, the news that there was water in the Ye Family Restaurant spread farther and farther, and soon reached the ears of the bandit leader on Maiji Mountain.

The Ye family's orchards and wineries have always been the targets of robbers of Maijishan. They were afraid of the Zhennan Marquis' Mansion behind the Ye family, so they had to let go of this piece of fat.
Chapter completed!