Although Zhou Yi moved the capital to the newly built Loulan City, it did not affect his overall control at all.
With an order from Zhou Yi, officials in Liangzhou, Qingzhou, Yongzhou and most of Youzhou, which were annexed by the theory of earth expansion, all mobilized.
Loads of relief materials such as potatoes grown by ordinary people from various places, cotton-padded clothes made by state-owned enterprises, and charcoal were brought out in droves. The speed of mobilization was jaw-dropping.
Zhouyi sent tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers to work as corvees to escort these carts of supplies to the front line.
Yang Xiu also followed the large force transporting supplies to various places in the south of the Yangtze River, including Liang Shanbo's hometown of Hangzhou.
Yang Xiu felt that his great master now had hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command, and the people of the three states all felt grateful for his kindness.
Now there is a sudden flood in the south of the Yangtze River in this winter, and the people are displaced and have to exchange their children for food. My father was a kind-hearted person and could not bear to see the people suffering during this winter, so he mobilized the four states to produce so many supplies and sent them to the disaster-stricken places in the south of the Yangtze River.
Not to mention anything else, the merit accumulated this time alone is enough for him to become emperor.
If others don't think more about their master, how can Yang Xiu, as Zhou Yi's closest servant, not think more about it!
Therefore, every time he passed a city, Yang Xiu would secretly ask people to write down the detailed topography of the surrounding area and draw it into a map for future reference.
At the same time, Liang Shanbo, who is in Hangzhou, has been helping his father to provide disaster relief and rescue people recently, and he is completely exhausted.
At night, he was still helping his father, Hangzhou Fuyin, with a lot of trivial matters.
These matters are not even brought to the table in Yongzhou. They can only be handled by county magistrates or even petty officials at the master level.
Now, no matter how big or small the incident is, the county magistrates all report the incident online. Even when giving out porridge during disaster relief, how much rice and water should be put into a pot of porridge requires extremely detailed information before you can start the operation.
If this were placed in Yongzhou, officials who dared to do this would have been removed from their posts and even beheaded in public.
But this is Jiangnan, where the warm wind makes tourists drunk, where Jiangnan claims to be the hometown of talented people!
Liang Shanbo saw another report from the Xiaoshan County magistrate. It was also a trivial matter. Liang Shanbo was so angry that he threw the report to the ground with a bang.
At this time, a voice came from outside the house.
"Husband, I'm coming in!"
When Liang Shanbo heard this, he hurriedly walked to the door and prepared to open the door for his wife.
As soon as Liang Shanbo opened the door, he saw his wife, Zhu Yingtai, carrying a food box in front of Liang Shanbo.
"Madam, come in quickly. It's cold and windy outside."
After welcoming his wife into the house, Liang Shanbo hurriedly threw a few more pieces of charcoal into the brazier in the house to make the brazier burn more vigorously.
Liang Shanbo brought the brazier to Zhu Yingtai to keep her warm, and said distressedly: "Madam, you have just given birth to a child and your body is still very weak. How can you walk around!"
Zhu Yingtai took out a cup of warm chicken soup from the food box and said affectionately: "Husband, you and your father have been helping the victims recently, and you are so exhausted that you are so exhausted. You can drink this bowl of chicken soup and rest for a while."
The thin Liang Shanbo shook his head and said, "Madam, my mother stewed this chicken soup to replenish your health. Madam, you should drink it!"
As Liang Shanbo spoke, he picked up the chicken soup Zhu Yingtai brought and spooned it for her to drink.
When Liang Shanbo's spoon first arrived in front of Zhu Yingtai, Zhu Yingtai couldn't help but shed two lines of tears.
Now Liang Shanbo became anxious and asked in a panic: "What's wrong, madam? Did your husband do something wrong again?"
Zhu Yingtai couldn't stop her tears from flowing down, and said complainingly: "Father, he really doesn't know how to feel sorry for you, my husband, and he actually leaves so many things to you alone to handle!"
After knowing that his wife was not sad because of anything he had done wrong, Liang Shanbo put down the chicken soup in his hand and gently wiped the dirt off Zhu Yingtai's face with his rough palm.
But when Zhu Yingtai felt that her husband's originally delicate palms had become so rough due to the disaster relief during this period, her eyes seemed to have opened the faucet valve of the tap water, and they could not stop the gurgling water.
"Madam, it's okay for your husband. Father, his official documents are piled up like a mountain!"
Zhu Yingtai took the opportunity and said: "Husband, please drink this chicken soup, then I won't cry!"
Only then did Liang Shanbo realize that all this was his wife's premeditation.
Liang Shanbo shook his head helplessly and said, "Then let's drink together!"
Zhu Yingtai couldn't resist her husband, so she could only nod.
You two have a spoonful, and I have a mouthful, so loving!
However, Liang Shanbo stopped drinking after a few sips, and instead fed his wife Zhu Yingtai dotingly.
Zhu Yingtai did not let his little temper force Liang Shanbo to drink the chicken soup, because Zhu Yingtai saw the look of exhaustion on Liang Shanbo's face.
Zhu Yingtai held Liang Shanbo's hand with one hand and asked: "Husband, if you have any difficulties, you can tell me about it to your wife. Don't bear everything by yourself!"
Liang Shanbo sighed: "Hey!"
"It's useless to talk to my wife, it will only increase your troubles!"
Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo looked at each other affectionately and said, "Is it because the government and the family are short of food?"
Liang Shanbo nodded lightly.
Although the Liang family was not a wealthy and aristocratic family, they still had considerable wealth. In addition, the Liang family was loyal and kind-hearted, so they worked with the government to open warehouses to store grain and cook porridge to provide relief.
In the first few days, they could cook some thick rice porridge, but there were too many victims. If they cooked the porridge so thickly every day, the food would not be able to last for a few days.
Now that Liang Shanbo thought about it, other counties in Yongzhou really spent a lot of money by giving porridge like that.
Moreover, Prefect Zhou Yi never let them worry about food.
Now that I think about it, it must have been Prefect Zhou Yi who carried all the pressure on his shoulders.
Liang Shanbo thought that he couldn't take care of the city of Hangzhou, but Zhou Yi took on the responsibility of the entire Yongzhou. One can imagine how much pressure Zhou Yi was at the beginning.
Liang Shanbo's eyes filled with tears when he thought of this.
Zhu Yingtai thought that her husband was feeling sad for the people who were affected by the disaster, so she gently put her head on his chest and comforted him silently.
With the company and comfort of his beloved wife, Liang Shanbo shed his last strength and sighed: "Hey! I originally thought that disaster relief was a very easy thing, but now I try it myself, and it is really difficult!"
"When I was in Yongzhou, I didn't have to worry about food at all. We and other officials only needed to maintain order. But now that I'm here to provide disaster relief, it's really a headache to deal with all the problems involved. Raising food alone is extremely difficult. It's really difficult. I don’t know how Lord Zhou withstood the pressure and raised so much food!”
