After Xie Anran, the magistrate of Danyang County, and Dong Xianliang, the magistrate of Moling County, negotiated with Li Gannian about purchasing a large number of water trucks, they did not have the intention to stay in Danyang County for too long.

The drought in the entire Danyang County is severe, so they have to rush back to arrange drought relief and disaster relief.

They left Danyang County.

Xie Anran immediately reported to the Prime Minister's Office urgently, saying that drought occurred in all counties in Danyang County, and asked the court to allocate a large sum of silver to build a large number of water trucks and pump river water to support drought relief and disaster relief.

He did not mention the drought-free situation in Danyang County.

The Prime Minister's Office and the Censorate neither like Xiao Hunhou. The more he says, the more problems he may have.

The Prime Minister's Office is busy with all kinds of emergency affairs in hundreds of counties of the entire Great Chu Dynasty. As long as he does not report it, it will be difficult to grasp the subtle information in the county.

Dong Xianliang's report was also very simple, and he did not say much details. He just said that Moling County urgently needed silver purchasing water trucks, and he did not even say that this batch of water trucks were made in Danyang County.

Dong Xianliang knew very well that his mentor started this national county test in advance, and he was deliberately plotting against Xiao Hunhou and trying to suppress Xiao Hunhou's political achievements.

He felt a little guilty towards Xiaohunhou.

I am not very happy to use this shameful means to suppress political enemies.

Dong Xianliang was even more worried that if he mentioned this, he might not have allocated the silver to purchase water trucks - this is equivalent to "investoring the enemy" and giving money to Xiaohunhou.

My mentor Kong Hanyou would rather think of other solutions than agree to purchase a water truck and give Xiaohunhou this large sum of money.

This will certainly delay the drought... After half a month, the rice fields cannot be watered, the grains are shriveled and not full, and the yield is greatly reduced, and everything is cold.

Dong Xianliang could only remain silent, which was considered to make up for his guilt, and secondly, he also purchased water trucks as soon as possible to relieve the drought in Moling County.

These two reports of drought from the county magistrate Xie Anran and the county magistrate Dong Xianliang were sent to the Prime Minister's Mansion almost at the same time.

Prime Minister's Mansion.

After reading the two reports, Kong Hanyou couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

He wanted to take advantage of the national county test to achieve outstanding political achievements for Dong Xianliang and Chao Fangzheng, and defeat Xiaohunhou in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, there will be drought in Danyang County and a major crisis will occur.

However, the so-called crisis.

Leading opportunities in danger.

The entire county has a severe drought, and Danyang County, which is Xiaohunhou, must have suffered severe disasters.

This is even more a good opportunity to step on Xiao Hunhou.

The worse the political achievements of Xiaohunhou in this national county and county examination, the harder it is to make a comeback.

It is difficult to get promoted.

"Immediately allocate 100,000 taels of silver from the national treasury to the Danyang County Government, and the county government will distribute it to the Danyang County Government to fight against the disaster at its discretion."

Kong Hanyou ordered the minor officials to tell him.

"Prime Minister, why is this money allocated to Danyang County Government and not directly to Moling County?

Danyang is in charge of Xie Anran, and he has a deep relationship with Xiao Hunhou... Can this money be distributed to Moling County and Wuhu County? Will the prefect Xie take it to Danyang County to provide disaster relief?"

The clerk was surprised.

The Prime Minister's Office directly allocates money to the county for disaster relief, which is the fastest way.

With the county magistrate in the middle, the county government will definitely take away a sum of silver from it, and in the end it will not be much in Dong Xianliang's hands.

"Xie Anran has been applying to the Prime Minister's Office to allocate silver and repair the armory, but the minister has not approved it.

If the money is transferred, he knows what to do, so he will definitely focus on taking care of Dong Xianliang and Chao Fangzheng.

Send someone to give him some money and ask him to give Dong and Chao each a disaster relief payment of 15,000 taels. At the same time, do not help Danyang County... and give him a maximum of 1,000 taels of silver.

If Xie Anran is ignorant, it will be difficult for him to pay money next time."

Kong Hanyou said lightly.

If he directly allocated money to Moling County, people would inevitably call him fake public service and private support. He favored Dong Xianliang, but excluded Xiao Hunhou.

However, he gave the money to the governor of Danyang County.

Even if the money distributed by the Danyang County Magistrate was unfair, it was the matter of the county government, and there was no way to accuse him of it.

The Prime Minister's Mansion allocated silver to Danyang County Government to rescue disasters. Xie Anran would still rely on the Prime Minister's Mansion to allocate silver in the future, so he would never dare to offend the Prime Minister's Mansion.

In the officialdom, without anyone helping or protecting each other, it would be hard to move forward. If you are cheated, you don’t know who will take action.

He controlled the position of prime minister and was able to greatly mobilize the resources of the entire Great Chu, promote Confucian backbones, eliminate political enemies, and carry out his dream of respecting Confucianism alone.

"Yes, Lord Lord, I will do it immediately!"

The little official said quickly.

...

After Kong Hanyou arranged the disaster relief funds, he went to the palace to meet the saint again and reported the matter, "Emperor, there was a drought in Danyang County. The old minister has already allocated 100,000 taels of silver from the national treasury to fight against drought and disaster relief for Danyang County."

"Danyang County has a severe drought!? I heard that Kuaiji County under the rule of King Wu also has a severe drought. It has been almost two months of drought, and it is getting hot. This time the drought is probably spread all over the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River!"

Emperor Xiang Yanran couldn't help but frown and sighed after hearing the report.

"Your Majesty, it depends on the weather to grow grain. If it doesn't rain, there is nothing we can do about it.

The drought this time is not particularly serious, and it will cause a slight reduction in spring grain production, but it will not lead to a complete harvest.

If it doesn’t rain during summer plowing in another month or two, it will affect the sowing of summer seedlings in the second half of the year, then something really happened.

I can only hope that it will rain sooner."

Kong Hanyou said helplessly.

"It should be raining a little more than two months left. The court has many things to do, and it is a place to use money everywhere. Lord Prime Minister, can I get some money?"

Xiang Yanran asked.

"This...it still needs to be on the morning court and brainstorm."

Kong Hanyou smiled bitterly.

Of course there is a way to get money.

Xiao Hunhou's "Plan forbidden Privately Crushing Coins" won't he get a large sum of silver back, which nearly doubled the income of the Great Chu treasury.

Finding a few more similar methods can add a lot.

But this is offending people!

The kings and nobles of the entire Great Chu Dynasty, especially the princes and kings, hated Xiao Hunhou to the core, so they almost grabbed him and peeled him off and cut him into pieces.

The method must be asked to be brought up by others.

His own position is hard to come by, so he must not take risks and be attacked by the princes and powerful people.

The emperor knew that Kong Hanyou didn't want to do this offensive thing, so he didn't ask, and said, "By the way. Kong Qing, you reported the day before yesterday that you saw that the national county and county exam was in the first half of the year. Why is this?"

"The court is carrying out many new policy reforms, and the second half of the year will definitely be a heavy task. I believe that the national county test will be handled earlier and a group of capable ministers will be selected to promote the new policy."

Kong Hanyou bowed and said.

"Oh~!"

Xiang Yanran's eyes moved slightly.

It's rare!

The Prime Minister actually took the initiative to propose the reform of the new policy.

Selecting a group of capable ministers is also the urgent thing that the court needs to promote the new policy.

Those mediocre and mediocre county magistrates who have no political achievements can also get out earlier, so that the twenty new Jinshis of this imperial examination can be taken to the top.

"Okay, then the Prime Minister's Office will hurry up and handle this matter! I'm waiting to see the political achievements of the national county and county test."

"Yes, I'll take my leave!"

Kong Hanyou left the palace.

...

Pingwang Mansion.

Yu Yuan.

Chu Tianxiu received the letter of praise from Li Gannian and actually made a big business. He negotiated with Xie Anran, the prefect of Danyang County, to a water truck business worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

A water truck sells?

This surprised Chu Tianxiu a little.

He designed this water truck casually before, just to solve the problem of insufficient staff from Danyang County farmers.

By the way, be careful.

After all, in ancient times, farming was always about food and ensuring the water source for irrigation. It was an important thing.

A better way than a water truck is to build some reservoirs and dams and stockpile a large amount of water resources.
To be continued...