The imperial court sent someone to deliver a letter to Xizhou.
It is said that the empress rushed to Xizhou with food and money for disaster relief.
Local officials in Xizhou worked non-stop to send replies.
In the letter, I expressed my gratitude to the Empress, thanked her a thousand times... and said a lot of kind words.
But the meaning of rejection is also very clear - no money, no one, no energy to receive!
There was a severe flood in Xizhou. The river mouth burst its embankments, flooding fertile farmland, houses were washed away, and people were displaced.
Local officials were extremely busy with disaster relief, flood control, and resettlement of victims.
They really couldn't spare any manpower to receive the Queen.
Therefore, it is appropriate to ask the empress to send money and food. After a major disaster, plague often occurs, and the empress is so valuable that there is no need to come in person.
When Wen Jin saw the reply from the local official in Xizhou, he raised his hand and threw it into the spittoon.
"Bullshit. I wrote back and said that I don't need them to receive you, let them do their own thing. I am not only sending money and food for disaster relief, but I also want to check how well they are doing their work. Could it be that the central government comes down to inspect and still Do you need their consent?"
After Wen Jin finished his instructions, he called another secretary, "Write a letter to Kyoto and ask the court not to send anyone to notify the local officials. I don't need anyone to receive me. I have brought so many entourages myself. I can pass on the road and we are here." If no one is there to welcome you, then you can’t survive?”
Wen Jin devoted herself to her work. She regarded herself as a "central inspection team" and came down to inspect and help local officials to do their job as parents.
With all his thoughts focused on this, Wen Jin had no time to think about whether there was something weird about Xiao Yuchen.
But that's strange.
Xizhou officials were extremely worried when they heard that the Queen was determined to come.
Their main officials have not gone home to sleep for many days in a row. They all slept in the yamen.
First, if the disaster is serious, they will be on standby at the Yamen at any time. Secondly, they held a meeting all night long to discuss how to deal with the Queen.
Before they could discuss it, they could figure it out.
Wen Jin has already arrived.
It was three days earlier than they expected.
With Han Xian following, it won't be difficult.
The real evil was not that Wen Jin came early.
Instead, it has been raining continuously for days, and the pressure of waterlogging is increasing in Xizhou.
On the day Wen Jin arrived... it suddenly cleared up!
Early in the morning, people can see the rising sun in the east, and by noon, the sun is shining brightly.
With such strong sunshine, if it were on a normal day, you might even complain about "the sun is dazzling", "it's too hot" and "it's really hot"!
But in the case of continuous rain and serious waterlogging.
Everyone saw such bright sunshine and no one complained.
Like a stone hanging in mid-air, it finally fell to the ground.
"The weather has cleared up, and the pressure has suddenly become much less stressful!"
"While the weather is fine, quickly arrange search and rescue operations, set up porridge sheds, and set up disaster shelters so that the victims can have food to eat and a place to sleep!"
"As long as people live, homes can still be rebuilt!"
Suddenly a soldier ran back outside. Before he could get off his horse, he shouted, "Go back to the prefect, your Majesty, your Majesty..."
"What's wrong with the empress? She can't arrive now, right?" At this moment, the prefect didn't know that Wen Jin had arrived in Xizhou.
The soldier turned over and dismounted, saluted and said, "We're here! At the city gate!"
The prefect and several officials in the yamen looked at each other, "It's such a coincidence, isn't it? It's sunny today, so she came today!"
"Come on, sir, hurry up and greet me."
"I won't welcome her! I said it in the letter at the beginning, but no one has the energy to welcome her or entertain her! She still insists on coming!"
"Sir, that's all just talk! When someone comes, let's leave him alone... He's the emperor's bedfellow!"
"Humph, doesn't this come too soon?" The prefect said, "Counting the time for correspondence, if she leaves quickly, it will take another three or four days. She has the little princess with her, both women and children, so why..."
The soldier took a breath and then continued, "No... the empress has been here a long time ago, and she has already distributed relief food and relief funds at the city gate!"
The prefect's eyes widened in shock, "You didn't tell me earlier!"
They no longer had time to study in the yamen whether they should go to greet her or not, and why she came so quickly.
The local officials rushed to the city gate without stopping.
Among the cities, the North Gate had the highest terrain and was the least affected. But the flood victims are also the most numerous.
Wen Jin took her accompanying elite soldiers and set up eight porridge sheds and two medical sheds here.
The thick rice porridge is cooked in the porridge shed, which is not difficult to pour with chopsticks, but it is definitely much thicker than the rice porridge cooked at home.
and……
The local officials twitched their noses while the empress was cooking porridge. Could it be the corn used by the royal family? Why does it smell so good?
Even their stomachs were growling.
"Don't grab it! Don't crowd it! You can all eat it!"
The female officer next to the empress shouted.
Just shouting is definitely not enough, then there are elites of the Forbidden Army, holding unsheathed swords and staring at them with bright eyes!
Dare not to line up, dare to disrupt order, dare to steal other people's food... You have to ask the sword in the hand of the elite of the Forbidden Army, whether you agree.
There was a long line of people waiting in line for the eight porridge stalls, and it was endless as far as the eye could see.
The other two medical sheds also had long queues.
"What are they distributing in those two sheds?" the prefect asked.
The official who arrived early said, "I heard that it is a soap produced by the Kyoto Pharmaceutical Factory that can 'disinfect and sterilize'. There is also a notice posted there telling the people how to use this soap. It says that it must be used before meals and after using the toilet." Washing your hands can greatly prevent you from contracting diseases after flooding."
"So powerful?" The prefect looked at the officials around him in shock, "Sure enough, the empress...is here to cure disasters?"
The subtext he didn't say was that she wasn't here to show off or show off?
"Where is the empress?" the prefect asked the other officials.
They stood here for a long time, but they didn't see the empress.
"Oh, I heard that the empress changed into ordinary clothes and went to the private sector for inspection." Someone said.
Prefect: "..."
If saying that they "have no time to receive" is still being polite, the Queen's "no need to receive" is the real truth!
"Then... what should we do now?" the officials asked the prefect in a low voice.
The prefect frowned, "What can we do? We don't know the empress...what should we do?"
"With so many victims, how can these eight porridge shacks be enough? Find a suitable place quickly and set up another porridge shack. Have the temporary shelters been erected? Have the search teams sent down set off?"
The official asked, "Then we...don't look for the empress?"
"Oh, are you looking for the empress? I want to ask you if you want the black gauze hat? Do you want the head on your neck?" the prefect asked coldly.
The official touched his neck and said, "Yes, that's why I'm looking for the empress! If you neglect the empress, let alone the black hat, your head will be moved?"
"Stupid! Haven't you seen it yet? This is a master who does practical things and doesn't care about appearances!" The prefect was about to be pissed to death by his stupid subordinate.
He waved his hand, raised his eyes to look at the bright sunshine, and muttered inexplicably, "Why do I feel that this sunshine comes with the Queen?"
