On the third day of April of the 9th year of Pingguang in Yanli, the morning light was still thick fog, which was quite cold. In the strange weather, the Ministry of Revenue's grain trucks were ready, with a total of 420 large carriages transported by one thousand groom workers, and 2,000 Royal Guards of the Leopard Camp were responsible for escorting military rations. When the Imperial Guards went to Yichun County, in addition to being responsible for protecting grain, there was another task to assist the local city defenders to control the chaotic situation in Yichun County, and make sure to stabilize the current situation.

The convoy spreads like a long dragon.

Usually, ox carts are used to transport grain on not too long roads, because the load capacity of ox carts is far from comparable to horse carts. However, ox carts are too slow. Once the transportation road is too far away or the food is too fast, ox carts cannot be used, and they can only transport it by horse carts. There is no way for Yan State to lack horses and transport grain with horses. The officials of Taipu Temple are very unhappy to see that the good horses in the horse farm are not used to charge, but to do strength work, but at this time, disaster relief is the first priority, and there is no way to say anything.

In addition to disaster relief grain, a small part of this batch of grain is food on the way. After all, there are more than 3,000 coachman and imperial guards. It takes four or five days to arrive in Yichun County as soon as possible. A lot of food is consumed along the way, and you also have to eat enough. Otherwise, you will not be able to do this long journey without strength.

As soon as the sky was dazzled, the snake-like convoy came down to the west gate under the guard of the Imperial Army and was about to start transporting to the northwest.

In this convoy, five hundred infantrymen were leading the way, six hundred infantry were adjourned, and six hundred cavalry were separated on both sides, with archers mixed in the middle, and scouts were exploring the way forward, headed by Han Mo, Xue Shao, Xiao Mu and Miao Wu as deputy. Among them, Miao Wu's official position was higher than that of the other two, so Miao Wu was actually Han Mo's real deputy.

As soon as he left the city, the supervisor Ling Lei, who had been waiting at the city gate, came up with a smile. Han Mo knew that the eunuch was going to Yichun County with the escort of the convoy. Now he has transformed from a liaison housekeeper to a powerful supervisor. He turned over and got off the horse, clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Ling is anxious!"

Ling Lei felt relieved when he heard Han Mo calling him "Mr. Ling", and smiled and said, "Mr. Han, our family... Well, we have to go to Yichun County with Lord Han's convoy along the way, and we need to take care of it on the way."

Ling Lei was not dizzy. Although he was an inspector, he knew that this position was not climbed up by his own strength, but the result of the struggles and disbelief of the aristocratic families, which was considered a coincidence. The young grain protection officer in front of him was a real power figure with two thousand people at hand. Even if he fell to the ground of Yichun County, he was still an official with goods, which was much different than himself. Moreover, although he did not see the situation there in person for a while, he could think of it. It should be extremely bad. He took the name of the inspector. Who knew if the people there really bought it and got into this muddy water. It would be a bit dangerous. If he could stick closely with Han Mo, he would have a great guarantee for his safety.

Ling Lei still has a good impression of Han Mo. The biggest "black money" he received in his life was the 100 taels of silver that Han Mo secretly gave him. He remembered it in his heart and felt that this young official was enthusiastic and sensible, and he was a good person.

Han Mo could naturally feel Ling Lei's closeness and said with a smile: "Mr. Ling said this, but he was just a secret commander. You are the Superintendent of the Supreme Emperor's Destiny. I must have done my best to protect Lord Ling's safety and go through fire and water, which is also unavoidable."

Ling Lei smiled even more like an orange flower, and smiled in a sharp voice: "Work and work!"

Since Ling Lei was the supervisor, there was naturally a separate carriage. When he got on the carriage, Han Mo was about to wave his arms to order the convoy to get on, but he heard a sound of a carriage behind him. He couldn't help but frown and turned around. He saw a very spacious carriage coming quickly. The horse pulling the carriage was a fat, long-legged, tall and strong. Although the carriage carriage didn't look very luxurious, it was exquisite in style. The key was that the beams and wood were solid, which were made of high-quality wood, and the carriage was also extremely wide.

The driver who pulled the cart was a stout man. Although the weather was in April, the morning light was still a little cold, but the man was just wearing a short jacket, with his furry chest open, and his two thick and dark arms exposed. Who could he be if he weren't Qin Shan?

When Han Mo saw Qin Shan, he naturally knew who was in the car. He frowned and urged him to go forward. He reached the window and gently tapped the lattice of the car. The curtains opened the gap. Xiaojun's face showed up, and he said with a smile: "Young Master Han!"

Han Mo frowned and looked inside. Sure enough, he saw Xiao Lingzhi sitting lazily in the car, with elegant posture and very coldness. She closed her eyes and seemed to be asleep, or was resting, and she did not turn to see her. So she asked Xiaojun: "Why, are you going to leave the city too?"

Xiaojun smiled and said, "Yes!"

"Where are you going?" Han Mo had a bad premonition.

Xiaojun smiled and said, "Where are you going, we will go wherever Mr. Han goes...!"

Han Mo said lightly, "Don't joke, our military affairs are important, I can't talk to you anymore." He was about to turn his horse's head and leave, but he saw Xiaojun stretching out his hand and showing a piece of paper, saying, "This is the emperor's hand order, and you will be ordered to escort our lady to Yichun County. Master Han, you will never want to resist the order, right?"

Han Mo glanced at it, but saw that it was indeed the emperor's handwriting. He became confused, but he didn't know why the emperor valued the woman from the Xiao family so much.

The last time when Bozhou County quelled the rebellion, the emperor appointed Xiao Lingzhi as his military advisor. This time, it was a hand-in-hand that asked the Imperial Army to escort Xiao Lingzhi to Yichun County. What was the matter?

While Han Mo was hesitating, he heard Xiao Lingzhi's somewhat cold voice saying lightly: "Mr. Han, it's time to set off. There are still many victims waiting for your food!"

Han Mo sighed lightly and whispered: "Military advisor, that's not a good place to travel around, why should you go there?"

Xiao Lingzhi finally opened her eyes, turned her head to look at Han Mo, and just glanced at her, then turned her head away and ignored her. She seemed to be angry with Han Mo, with a childish expression.

Han Mo shook his head helplessly, urged the horse to leave, shouting: "Get off!"

This long-distance convoy began to start from the west gate of Yanjing, heading northwest to Yichun County, which was hit by floods.

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Yichun County has an extremely special geographical location and a huge area, second only to Kuaiji County where Yanjing is located. It borders the four counties of Yan State, Kuaiji County to the east, Bozhou County to the south, Wu County to the northeast, and Linyang County to the northwest. The entire Yan State only has no boundary with Donghai County, and there is also a section of land to border with Feng State to the southwest.

There are seven counties in Yichun County. The actual control of the four western counties is in the hands of the Fan family, while the three eastern counties are in the hands of the He family. The Dachang River spans Yichun County, passes Lanhe and Huangmei counties of the He family, and westwards Susong County of the Fan family. Because of this, after the continuous heavy rainstorm in the Dachang River in a century caused the collapse of the river embankment, these three counties were the first to be greatly harmed, and the number of people affected was as many as hundreds of thousands.

The two major cities in Yichun, the Fan family's Yicheng is not in Susong County, so it is exempted from floods. However, the He family's Xinyicheng is located in Lanhe County. Although the four gates of Xinyicheng are closed and they are urgently resisting water to avoid being washed away by water, the entire city is flooded with water for several feet, and Xinyicheng has become an isolated city soaked in the water. If you want to transfer materials, you can only rely on ships. Unfortunately, Yichun County is inland, with few ships and has no ability to carry out large-scale transfers. Therefore, only some important figures of the He family have transferred to Xichun County, which has not been affected by the flood, and are temporarily resettled in Xichun County.

Xinyi City is the root of the He family. Although surrounded by floods, the He family cannot give up easily. Moreover, most of the He family's industries are in Xinyi City. Therefore, for their own interests, the He family also strives to protect Xinyi City and maintain order within Xinyi City, and only waits until the flood recedes before making plans.

In the floods, 60% of the three counties in Yichun were swept by floods. In the low terrain, the buildings and buildings have been completely submerged by floods. The vast area is full of floods. In the high terrain, the flood also spreads to the waist. The surviving people have moved to 40% of the waterless areas and other counties that have not yet been affected.

This time the flood caused the He family to suffer much more damage than the Fan family.

Moreover, although the rain weakened a lot after the Yangtze River broke, it did not stop completely. It has been drizzling continuously for several days. This annoying God has been cursed by countless people. As for those officials of Yichun County, especially the water conservancy officials deployed by the workers, did not report the danger in time and even did not organize effective flood control operations as soon as possible, countless creatures were buried in the flood, and they were even cursed from head to toe by the grieving and suffering people.

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Han Mo's team advanced with all his might in the hazy weather all day long. At night, he arrived at Gushui Town, less than 100 miles away from Yichun County.

Gushui Town is not big, but it is near a major transportation road, so there are many inns in the town. The grain protection team is fast all the way. Although the Imperial Guards are well-trained and can still hold on, the grooms and laborers are exhausted, while the food transport needs to rely on their strength. As the saying goes, haste is not achieved, and the horses also have to eat and rest. Therefore, Han Mo ordered the convoy to rest in the town.

Although there were many inns in the town, thousands of people suddenly came, all of which were more than those in the town. This inn was far from enough. However, the town was coming out and knew that this was a disaster relief team, and it was not bad. Many people in the town made room for free. The team was divided into two shifts to rest at night, and the food transporters were arranged properly.

These hundreds of grain trucks were extremely large in scale. Han Mo did not dare to neglect them at the entrance of the town and ordered nearly a thousand imperial guards to temporarily set up camp beside the grain trucks to protect the grain.

While settled, Xiaojun came to Han Mo and whispered: "Master Han, my lady said that someone might come to do something bad at night. Be careful of someone setting fire to burn food, and be careful to kill horses!"
Chapter completed!