Xu Zongwen, the commander-in-chief of the Forbidden Army, was appointed as the governor of Yangzhou. Sima Daozi, the former governor of Yangzhou and King of Kuaiji, was promoted to Situ, one of the eight princes. The six items recorded in the Shangshu remained unchanged.
Undoubtedly, this personnel transfer caused quite a stir in both the government and the opposition.
After the mutiny in the leading army camp, all the officials did not have any good impression of Xu Zongwen, the butcher.
However, not everyone can come up with a disaster relief strategy that involves both reform and relief.
But now, it came from the hands of a warrior they despised. Reality really gave them a slap in the face!
There are corpses of all the princes in the court, but they are not as good as a brave warrior.
The specific method proposed by Xu Zongwen to use reform and relief at the same time to solve the dilemma is to recruit the disbanded Forbidden Army officers and soldiers, give them the same military salary as those in the Forbidden Army system, participate in the emergency repair of the dams destroyed by Qiantang, and distribute money on a monthly basis.
This not only solves the chaos of the dismissal of soldiers who like to cause trouble, but also plays a fundamental role in controlling the Qiantang flood and benefits the people.
The so-called reform and relief, the solution to the dilemma is actually to use work for relief, but these workers have become the eliminated Forbidden Army. Fortunately, the Jin court's annual income was quite abundant last year, and with the Northern Expedition's consecutive victories, a lot of seizures were made, which enriched the national treasury, and money and food were not a problem.
After two days and two nights of sailing, Xu Zongwen finally arrived in Qiantang with fifty ships of food. When he got off the ship, Xu Zongwen led fifty wolf guards straight to Qiantang Embankment.
"Where is the promise? Where has Mr. Keeper gone?" Xu Zongwen, who was about to ride his horse and whip his whip, looked around and saw no trace of Xi Jian, so he hurriedly asked brothers Zhang, Zhang, and Zhang to send someone to look for him.
Guo Shang came from behind, panting from running. When he saw Xu Zongwen, he pointed in the direction of the grain ship and explained: "Brother Keeping the Agreement can't stand the bumps of the ship and has already vomited!"
"General, why don't we take a step first and let Brother Keeper take a break?"
"Okay, mount up!"
Xu Zongwen and Guo Shang bypassed the Qiantang County Office and went straight to Qiantang to destroy the embankment to investigate the people's sentiments. They asked Xiaohuangmen Huafuzi to watch the fifty ships of disaster relief food on the waterway.
Outside the gate of the north city of Qiantang, Qiantang ordered Ding Tai to lead dozens of county officials to greet Xu Zongwen at the gate of the city early in the morning. However, two or three hours passed and not even a hair of Xu Zongwen was seen.
"Master Fu, Master Xu has not been here for so long. Did he change the schedule and change the channel?" Fan Yin, the county magistrate, looked at the official road and the channel and there was no movement, and he suspected that the news from the inn was wrong.
County Lieutenant Zhu Zhen also echoed from the side: "Yes! Mr. Fu. Your subordinates also thought that Mr. Xu might come tomorrow? How about we go back to the government office to handle urgent matters first?"
"The people on the south bank are half-clothed, and the county government granary has been half full of grain. If this continues, the court's disaster relief grain has not been delivered, and we will have to drink from the northwest wind in a few days..." County Prime Minister Fan Yin was miserable. It tells the true situation of Qiantang County, which is quite a bit of a misfortune.
County Lieutenant Zhu Zhen: "The breached weir could not be blocked, and many government officials died. There were too few soldiers from the county and they could not control the water flow. If this continues, only half of the county will be left in Qiantang!"
"I am also aware of the issues you are talking about. Qiantang burst the embankment and flooded the fields, killing thousands of people. We all cannot escape the blame, and we have no intention of living!" Qiantang ordered Ding Tai to think too deeply these days. I have lost a lot of hair, and my long, already thin hair is about to lose its hairline!
The county magistrate Shen Yin curled his lips and said: "The entrance of the weir collapsed and the dam was destroyed. This is God's will. Why should people's lives be buried with them?"
"But after all, those are thousands of lives, and someone has to stand up and take a stab. I'm afraid that many people will be implicated by then..."
Shen Yin was born in the Qiantang Shen family, a powerful family in the Qiantang Dynasty. Although the Jin Dynasty had always been headed by the gentry with the surname Qiao and the gentry with the surname Wu as the supplement, the Qiantang Shen family was listed as the first-class gentry with the surname Wu in Wu County. Offense exists!
Qian Tangling Ding Tai is a direct descendant of the Ding family of Qian Tang. Because the Ding family has occupied the position of Qian Tangling for three generations, the Shen family does not dare to do anything to the Ding family of the inferior noble family. The two families mostly use each other.
As for the county captain Zhu Zhen, he is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He is also a direct descendant of the Shen family of Qiantang, a first-class gentry with the surname Wu. He who relied on the gentry's connections to get a county captain is considered a figure in Qiantang's world, but the word "character" It's a derogatory term.
Zhu Zhen relied on the strong background of the Shen family in Qiantang and his official status as a county lieutenant in Qiantang. He bullied men and dominated women in Qiantang and did all kinds of evil.
Zhu Zhen often colluded with tax collectors to secretly increase the court's taxes and plunder countless people's wealth, which caused complaints everywhere in Qiantang and made the public excited. If Ding Tai hadn't helped him suppress it, he would have been agitated long ago. There's a civil uprising!
After hearing that the report of the flood was sent to Jiankang, the emperor appointed Xu Xiao, the commander-in-chief of the Forbidden Army, who was in great power, as the governor of Yangzhou to deal with the flood in Qiantang. Ding Tai's back was already freezing!
Who is Xu Xiao and Xu Zongwen?
During the Northern Expedition, he defeated the Qin and Yan armies, causing the Di and Xianbei people to flee. He was an ever-victorious general and the undefeated God of War.
Within one year, he rose from a rank-9 Army Sima to the position of General of the Northern Expedition, and was granted the title of Marquis of Wuxuan County. After the victory of the Northern Expedition and his return to the court, he was granted the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Eighteenth Battalion of the Forbidden Army, responsible for rectifying the Forbidden Army. I heard that he was killed in Jiankang. A lot of people!
The emperor sent such a murderous god to Qiantang, it was obvious that he had murderous intentions!
Shen Yin and Zhu Zhen don't think so. The Donghai Xu family is just a second-class noble family among the overseas Chinese surnames. There are many gaps between them and the first-class noble families with the Wu surname such as the Wujun Shen family and the Wujun Zhu family. They consider Xu Zongwen Don’t dare to touch them at will!
"If you can't wait any longer, then go back first. I'll wait here by myself. I won't leave until I see Lord Xu!" Ding Tai's attitude was very tough. There was nothing he could do. Shen Yin and Zhu Zhen looked at each other, gave each other a knowing look and left.
On a cold day, who wants to be a doorkeeper at a ferry where the cold wind blows?
"Your Majesty is so elegant, please forgive me for being rude, but I will not accompany you!" A group of officials from Qiantang County said goodbye and left the ferry, left Qiantang North City, and went back to the Yamen to seize their leisure time. But those tens of thousands of people suffered All the troubled people were left behind by them!
The holiday system for officials in the Jin Dynasty was much looser than that of the Han Dynasty. During the Han Dynasty, officials could only go home on holidays and stay in government offices the rest of the time.
The officials of the Jin Dynasty implemented a rotating duty system. Except for the officials who were on rotation and had to stay long-term, the other officials did not sit in court, because there were subordinate officials above the fifth rank, and official duties were done by subordinate officials, and senior officials only had to make decisions.
Later, local officials below the fifth rank and even the seventh rank also followed suit. They were unwilling to go to work to check in. They just wanted to show up from time to time to refresh their sense of presence.
In the city, a fast horse galloped towards the city. The officer on the horse raised his hands and saluted and reminded loudly: "Master Fu, Commander Xu has arrived at the Qiantang Embankment. Don't wait here..."
