Chapter 076: Imperial Envoy

"Thank you... County Magistrate Zhang, if the weather gets better, you must take people to check the people's houses."

  Shen Zhiqing was still a little worried. After all, he was going back to the capital, but The snowstorm has just begun.

  Although he has done a good job in preventing snowstorms, he is always worried about missing something.

  "Don't worry! At this point, I will not give up." Magistrate Zhang is confident, even though these ten days have been very hard. But as long as he persists for the last half month, I believe that this disaster will soon be over.

  Seeing Magistrate Zhang's confident look, Shen Zhiqing gradually felt relieved and was helped by Wangyou to get into the carriage. After all, he had given him so much food and cotton clothes. Quilt.

  If this snowstorm still causes many casualties, it's God's will. No matter

  how much he and the Shen family interfere, it's useless.

  You can't change everyone's fate

  in the rented house . There was not a grain of food left, and all the two million kilograms of grain and cotton quilts were donated.

  Shen Zhiqing's two carriages only had some dry food such as steamed buns and pancakes prepared in advance, as well as enough charcoal and water for more than ten days. Clothes and quilts.

  In the running carriage, Shen Zhiqing raised a corner of the carriage curtain and looked at the snow-covered county town getting further and further away, and the surrounding villages and towns gradually turned into white dots, before he lowered the carriage

  curtain

  ...

  Beijing, General Mansion.

  Ruan Ruan, who is almost ten months old, can already stand up with support on the railing. Although she can't walk yet, she can still move on the ground with her butt, or simply

  learn this skill . Walking around the General's Mansion.

  This frightened the Shen family. They were worried that she would go outside to play, so they ordered hundreds of servants in the house to keep an eye on her.

  During this schedule, Yu Rong received a letter from Shen Zhiqing, saying that he would leave on the 15th. , I will return to the capital around the 28th.

  The whole family is very happy, especially Shen Zhiyu and Shen Zhiji. When the second brother comes back, they will not have to help him manage the cake shop.

  This is really not their strong point, and they are not very good at doing business.

  Ruan Ruan was sitting on the Luohan bed and playing with various toys. The mall system reported the amount of merit gold from time to time. She raised her lips and smiled evilly. It seemed that her second brother   had accumulated a fortune at the end of last month

  .

One million merit gold, but only half a month after the beginning of December, there were five million more merit gold.

  So far, a total of more than seven million merit gold has been saved, but it is still 100,000 short of the 50 million at level seven . Eight thousand miles.

  The snowstorm has just begun. The worst period will be from the end of December to the beginning of January next year. It is estimated that 10 million to 20 million merit gold will be generated at this time,

  but it is still short of 50 million . Lots and lots.

  Ruan Ruan racked her brains to think of ways.

  Although her parents and five brothers used her name to do good deeds, it was not her, even though she had given tens of thousands of supplies.

  So, she would wait until next year. I have to go do good deeds in person.

  The capital is not affected by the snowstorm in the south, and the weather this year is a little lower than last year. It does not affect the lives of the people in the city.

  Shen Hong had arranged for dozens of cities in two prefectures and seven counties in the south. The snow disaster situation in the towns and villages was reported to the emperor in a memorial.

  The next day, the emperor sent an imperial envoy with an imperial edict and 50,000 taels of silver to the south to guard Dahe County, where the snow disaster was the worst.

  By the time the imperial envoy arrived in Dahe County, Shen Zhiqing had already left Dahe County for two days.

  At this time, the roads in Dahe County were frozen, the ponds and rivers were also frozen, and even the waterfalls in the mountains were frozen.

  The prefects of the two prefectures and the magistrates of several counties wrote memorials one after another, and at this time, they gradually reached the hands of the emperor.     They truthfully reported the snow disaster situation one by one, as well as the family conditions of the poor people affected by the disaster, and what supplies they needed.

  "Master Cheng, thank you for traveling all the way to come here. Thank you very much."

  Magistrate Zhang was very happy that the imperial court sent the imperial envoy down so quickly for disaster relief. With so many supplies, I believe that not a single citizen will be injured in this snow disaster.

  This Master Cheng is Cheng Jinting.

  He held an empty position in the imperial court, so he took this opportunity to come over and experience it.

  It was his uncle Cheng Yi who originally took over the imperial edict, but he was worried that his uncle was always weak and could not withstand the damage caused by the freezing snowstorm, so he took the initiative to take over for his uncle.

  "Tell me the specific situation during this period..."

  "Okay."

  Magistrate Zhang didn't know yet that Master Cheng and Shen Zhiqing were cousins, but Shen Zhiqing had previously told him not to tell anyone his identity and name. Keep a low profile.

  Therefore, he did not mention Shen Zhiqing's name to Cheng Jinting once, nor did he conceal the true source of the people's supplies.

  But before Cheng Jinting took over, he already knew that Shen Zhiqing had rushed to several southern counties to donate food and materials, so he didn't feel anything strange.

  Magistrate Zhang did not take any credit, but only reported it to the people who were really short of supplies, especially in remote mountainous areas.

  Cheng Jinting personally took supplies and dozens of men to remote mountainous areas.

  The journey that originally took half a day took two days to reach due to icy roads and snow.

  It snowed and rained continuously for seven days. No one walked on the street at night. For a hundred days, there were only a few people here and there. They were either looking for doctors for treatment or looking for shops to buy food and charcoal.

  If you stay outside for a while, you will freeze into popsicles, or you will get typhoid fever.

  Cheng Jinting traveled to every village every day, distributing all the supplies purchased with 50,000 taels of silver.

  The yamen in each county store a sum of supplies, and the yamen officials will beat gongs and drums to notify each village to collect the supplies.

  Yamen, backyard.

  "Master Cheng, please take a rest. You have been busy for so many days and it is almost New Year's Eve." Magistrate Zhang was worried about Cheng Jinting's physical condition. The more he looked at him recently, the weaker he became.

  "It's okay, I can still hold on for a few days. This is also my mission, and it is of great significance to let the people have a good New Year.

  But I see that many old people and children have contracted the cold. Is the medicine enough? "

  Cheng Jinting showed a gentle smile, even though his face was pale.

  When he came here, he thought it would be good to just keep the people alive, but after helping many people in the past ten days, he just wanted to let them have a good New Year and reunite with their families.

  So far, there have been no casualties in the areas affected by the snowstorm.

  In the early stage, Shen Zhiqing took measures to ensure the safety of the houses. Later, when he came, he asked people to reinforce the people's houses.

  Although there have been seven or eight cases where houses were crushed by snow, they were not serious, with only minor injuries, and no one was killed.

  "There are still several hundred medicine packs left, which should be enough! This snowstorm is almost over, and it is estimated that the snow will melt in about ten days."

  Based on his own weather observations in Dahe County over the years, County Magistrate Zhang found that it used to snow every year, but the number of times Not much, and the temperature won't be that low.

  "Well, that's good." Cheng Jinting turned to look out the window at the falling snow. He didn't know when it would stop snowing and raining.

  This is the first time that he can't spend the Spring Festival with his family this year.

  Fortunately, he helped the uncle take over this task, otherwise the uncle would not be able to survive it due to his physical condition.

  Unable to withstand the freezing weather this month, hundreds of elderly people have died.