The gathering of refugees often makes it difficult to walk, and many people are like disabilities, walking and limping.

Occasionally, the children will cry.

Around the ragged child, there seemed to be flies that could never be driven away.

Of course... in the depths of the alley, I didn't respond after knocking the gong. The refugees who were still lying were obviously dead. It would take a few days before someone would come to collect their bodies.

Their appearance actually caused inconvenience to many military and civilians in the capital.

So in order to maintain it, the officers of the county government and Shuntian Prefecture had to take care of it here.

The refugees were very awe of the servants and would probably take a detour even if they were walking.

The fragrance of porridge came from the porridge shed in the distance. These numb refugees seemed to follow the fragrance of porridge.

Emperor Tianqi subconsciously got out of the sedan chair.

In other sedan chairs, several cabinet ministers and monks also came down.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh when they saw this scene.

After a while, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture and the county magistrate of Daxing County came in a hurry.

They were already scared to death when they heard His Majesty's private patrol, but the eunuchs who came to report the news told them not to wear black hats and official uniforms.

So the two of them dressed up as funny merchants. Both of them had big belly and their stomachs were thrusting out, but they were running, and the fat mass on their stomachs was like a woman who was pregnant for ten months, constantly shaking.

"I, the prefect of Shuntian, Zhang Yang, met Your Majesty."

"My magistrate Liu An of Daxing County has met Your Majesty."

The two saluted panting.

Emperor Tianqi stopped and looked around, not willing to look at them more, but said lightly: "Speak softly, I will only come and see, not willing to make a big fuss, so as not to disturb the people."

"Yes, yes..." Zhang Yang smiled awkwardly.

After all, Liu An is just a county magistrate. Although in Shuntian Prefecture, the county magistrate's level is higher than that of other county magistrates, he has almost no chance of meeting a saint, so he seems particularly cautious.

Emperor Tianqi said: "How are the refugees in Daxing County... resettled?"

Liu An didn't dare to speak.

But the prefect of Shuntian Zhang Yang said, "It's all right. After the refugees entered the city, they started to serve porridge, three meals a day. My ministers and County Magistrate Liu are now only focusing on the grain in the warehouse, for fear of being attacked by those greedy workers. As long as there is no problem with the grain, Daxing County can last for at least two months, and there is no urgent need yet. In addition... In case, both Shuntian Prefecture and Daxing County have transferred three shifts of service to replace the garrison streets, which is also to prevent it."

He handled it well.

County Magistrate Liu An laughed apologized and kept saying yes, then looked at Zhang Yang with a very grateful look, thinking for a while, "This is mainly due to the Supreme Court Zhang. In order to resettle the victims, Zhang's official was worried. Seeing that he was like this, how dare he not do his best?"

Emperor Apocalypse nodded: “Is that true?”

He put his hands behind his back: "I'll go and see."

Behind Emperor Tianqi, Huang Liji and Sun Chengzong were accompanied.

Huang Liji is most afraid of following His Majesty for private visits. He has a shadow in his heart and always feels that he may be slapped in the face.

However, Sun Chengzong was very enthusiastic about this and said softly to Huang Liji: "Mr. Huang, let's go with Your Majesty to take a look."

When Huang Liji saw the place where the people were piled up, he shivered and waved his hand and said, "I followed, then..."

Emperor Tianqi did not wait for them and took the lead in going to the porridge shed. Zhang Yang and Liu An accompanied him. However, there were many refugees here, and many refugees did not have bowls and chopsticks. They all came with lotus leaves as big as palm-fried fans. However, because there were servants, the order could still be maintained. No one fought for it. They just dragged their broken bodies and slowly wriggled.

Anyone who gets the porridge water will wrap it with lotus leaves and then hurry to the side, either in the corner of the wall or in the alley.

Liu An whispered: "Daxing County has set up twenty-three such porridge sheds... These are all things I have to watch every day."

Emperor Tianqi nodded and actually felt that the disaster relief effect here was quite good, at least much better than he had imagined.

He looked at Liu An expectantly and continued walking in, and saw several sheds with large buckets.

Seven or eight servants guarded here with swords. When they saw Emperor Tianqi coming, they certainly did not recognize him. Even the prefect of Shuntian was not recognized, but how could the county magistrate Wang An not recognize him?

So they immediately cheered up and wanted to come and greet.

Liu An waved his hand with a pleasant look: "Give your porridge, give your porridge."

Emperor Tianqi arrived at the edge of the porridge bucket and grabbed the servant's big spoon.

This porridge water is not clear or visible, but it is not thick.

Emperor Tianqi took a big spoon and scooped a spoon into the bucket, and saw the yellow rice porridge water exposed in front of him. However... there seemed to be a lot of mud and sand in the porridge water.

Seeing this, Emperor Tianqi suddenly turned dark and said sternly: "What's going on? Is this the case in the food allocated by the court?"

Although the allocated grain is old, there is no sand mixed inside.

Emperor Tianqi glared at Zhang Yang and Liu An: "You will give them this?"

I am afraid there is a lot of mud and sand here, mixed in yellow rice, which makes Emperor Tianqi feel cold.

"How much money have you greedy for food?"

When the officers saw this person scolding the county magistrate like this, they were already frightened to the point of looking like earth, and hurriedly retreated aside.

Zhang Yang and Liu An were trembling, and Zhang Yang hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... This... is intentional..."

Emperor Tianqi sneered, "Of course I know you did it intentionally, is it still unintentionally?"

Zhang Yang hurriedly said, "Your Majesty... There are only so many people in the county and the prefecture, and the minister and Liu County Magistrate will definitely not be able to take care of them. Therefore, the first thing that comes to deliver food for relief is to mix mud and sand inside. There are two benefits to mixing mud and sand. First, it is to eliminate the possibility of the servants going to work hard, so that they will not secretly go to Chencang. Even if the grain is taken away secretly, the grain will not be sold for a few dollars. Second, using such rice to distribute porridge will eliminate the possibility of bad people coming to collect porridge. If the water of the porridge is too good, those who are not hungry will also come to pick up the porridge. At present, there are many refugees and few servants. If you want to distinguish, there are really no manpower. But for hungry refugees, although the porridge water provided by the government is difficult to swallow, at least... it can still be barely enough to satisfy the hunger and help them overcome the difficulties in the near future."

Zhang Yang's words were very clear.

Later, Huang Liji and Sun Chengzong had already chased after him. They also vaguely listened to Zhang Yang's explanation and nodded secretly.

This is the reason.

Emperor Apocalypse's face then calmed down a little: "It makes sense."

So, I stopped caring about it, but I felt that the Ming Dynasty government was not so bad. At least the prefectural prefect and county magistrate in front of me were good.

He was very interested, so he arrived at a dark alley where several refugees were curled up in the dark alley. He had just eaten the porridge water from lotus leaves and was resting softly at this time.

Obviously, this little porridge can only barely make them starve to death. When they see someone coming, there is a bit of vigilance in their eyes under the unkempt face.

Emperor Apocalypse stepped forward and said, "Where are you from?"

One of them was brave and said in a foreign accent: "My little one, the youngest one is from Lantian County."

“It’s been a lot of hard work all the way.”

The man looked ragged, and seemed to be embarrassed to stand up because he was not covered in his body. He just curled up to cover the exposed parts he was embarrassed to say: "It's too bitter."

"How about you come to Beijing? Are anyone bullying you here?"

“Not there.”

"In this way, the local county magistrate is good to you."

When Liu An heard this, he became nervous.

The man said, "Okay, okay, better than Lantian County, here... I give us porridge and water, and I won't let the servants drive away the villain. This is a good official..."

Liu An breathed a sigh of relief and immediately showed a look of relief.

To be honest, he himself also felt that he was a good official, and such a good parent official could no longer be found even with a lantern.

Emperor Tianqi could not help but look at Liu An expectantly. Obviously, he had a good impression of Liu An.

Emperor Tianqi said to the man again: "Do you like this Daxing County?"

The man said, "I like it, it's OK, it's OK."

Emperor Tianqi nodded and was very happy, so he turned to Liu An and said, "A few days ago, there were many memorials, praising you for your effective relief to the refugees, and also said that your family has achieved outstanding achievements. When you see them today, you have considerable political achievements. You have placed these refugees properly, which relieves me. I am only afraid that the refugees will come to the capital and that the local officials will not provide relief, which will cause some chaos."

Liu An was filled with emotion and said seriously: "It is natural for the officials to make the decision for the people. This is the responsibility. It is really shameful for me to be able to bear such expectations."

He said this, but he was not without complacent. Today, he received such praise from His Majesty. There were so many people in the court saying good things about him in Daxing County. This time, this political achievement was outstanding, I am afraid that he would make a fortune.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted at the alley in the distance: "Xinxian County Government has posted a notice, allowing refugees from Guanzhong to settle in Xinxian. Everyone, Xinxian has finally approved that we will move to Xinxian..."

Emperor Aoki was stunned.

But... something strange happened.

Some refugees who were originally lazy in this alley were curled up, but when they heard this, they were immediately energetic. Someone turned over and hurriedly got up, and he ran to the entrance of the alley as if he was robbing.

Others are not inferior. They are as quiet as virgins and as moving as rabbits.

Even the refugee who was originally asked by Emperor Tianqi, his eyes were shiny. Without hesitation, he rolled up the cloth bag he was carrying close to his body, swung it on his shoulders, bare feet, and ran towards the alley like a rabbit.

There was a faint voice in the distance: "Are you serious? Didn't you lie to us?"
Chapter completed!