Tomin in The Alien World

Xiao Xiang had imitated Tang Yin and personally went to the Linqiao County to help out the victims. Although Tang Yin had gone ahead first, Xiao Xiang had brought a cavalry team with him, their speed was much faster than Tang Yin's team.    

    

By the time Tang Yin rushed to Heping County, it was already more than half a month later.    

    

The monsoon water was the largest river in the entire Zhen Country, flowing from west to east, not only across the Zhen Country, but also across the land. It also flowed through the entire land of the river, and eventually flowed into the sea from the east of the land of the river.    

    

In Zhen Country, it was called Ji Shui, but in Chuan, it was called Tianjiang. The Tianshan Grand Canal that Chuan Country had built was connecting it and Shang Jiang, trying to introduce the overflowing Tianjiang River into the drying up Shangjiang River.    

    

This time, there was a flood of monsoon water and many places where their Zhen Country s were affected. Amongst them, the most serious of the two counties were the wind attribute Heping County and the Linqiao County of the imperial government.    

    

Before Tang Yin had even entered the Heping County, he could already feel the seriousness of the disaster.    

    

After entering the borders of the Heping County, more and more commoners fled. They were in large groups, dragging their families along with them, but what made everyone feel at ease was that although such a disaster had occurred, there were no corpses scattered all over the ground. Although the commoners were thin and yellow, they did not see anyone dying from starvation, or even starvation.    

    

The Provincial Capital of the people of Heping County was Soo Cheng, and it was already impossible to pass through now. Soo Cheng had long been flooded into a city of water, so currently, the only town of the people of Heping County that had not been affected was the True Sun.    

    

Zhengyang was located in the northern part of Heping County and his position was relatively high so he could be considered to have escaped this calamity. Nearly all the officials of the County Head s and even the entire county had gathered in True Sun City.    

    

When Tang Yin followed the food team to Zhengyang, County Head Yao Li and his subordinates left the city together to welcome them.    

    

Yao Li was the People of Zhen Country, and the following officials were all People of Zhen Country s. After Feng Army was occupied, they only annihilated the Chastity Army here. As for the local officials, they did not change their positions immediately, or should we say that the Feng Country did not have the time to replace the local officials here.    

    

He clearly knew that his position as County Head was just temporarily in name, but Yao Li's attitude towards him was still very respectful. After all, Heping County already belonged to Feng Country and Feng King Tang Yin was his king.    

    

After seeing Tang Yin, the officials who were led by Yao Li kneeled down and kowtowed one after another. Tang Yin came out of the carriage, and looked outside. He jumped down the carriage, walked to Yao Li's side, and carefully sized him up.    

    

He had heard of Yao Li before, so he knew that this person was powerful. Back then, when the Zhen Country was still around, he was Heping County's County Head, and then, the Zhen Country was annexed, causing him to be removed from his duties. However, it had only been three months, and Chuan Country had once again recruited him. At that time, many of the County Head s and counties were beheaded, but Yao Li was not affected at all, and was even promoted back to become a County Head s who had regained his Heping County. And now, with the destruction of Li Shu, he was still a County Head who belonged to the Heping County. Speaking of which, Yao Li had already experienced several changes in the dynasty, and he had always been calmly sitting in the position of the County Head, so it was natural that one could tell how extraordinary he was.    

    

After looking at the who had such a legendary experience for a while, Tang Yin slowly said: "Master Yao, please stand up and speak!"    

    

"Thank you, King!" Yao Li replied as she stood up.    

    

King? Her cries came out rather smoothly! In Yao Li's body, Tang Yin did not see any hint of the indomitable and unyielding spirit that the People of Zhen Country had. Merely by this point, Tang Yin's impression of him was extremely bad.    

    

He became Chastity, then Chastity, then now Wind, and after so many dynasties Yao Li was not affected at all. This meant that he was also a typical fence-sitter.    

    

After Yao Li stood up, Tang Yin casually asked: "I wonder how many years Lord Yao has been a County Head in the Heping County?"    

    

Yao Li stared blankly for a moment, then carefully replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, this humble subject has already been a County Head at the Heping County for thirteen years!"    

    

"Thirteen years?!" Yao Li was only around forty years old, so it could be said that when he was twenty years old, he was already considered to be the strongest in the county. But after more than ten years, he had not received any opportunity to be promoted.    

    

He asked again, "Then in these thirteen years, how many times have Heping County suffered from floods?"    

    

Yao Li sighed secretly, and said: "Every two or three years, it will happen again."    

    

"Every two to three years, he would suffer a calamity. And since Lord Yao is a County Head for thirteen years, has he never been treated at all?" Tang Yin raised his eyebrows and said, "Thirteen years of time, is that not enough time for Master Yao to build a strong dam along the monsoon waters?"    

    

"Your Majesty doesn't know!" Without waiting for Yao Li to speak, an official walked over, cupped his hands and bowed, then said: "There are no mountains within the Heping County, and the soil is loose, so there is no place to mine rocks, so there is no way to build a dam."    

    

Tang Yin glanced at the official who spoke up for Yao Li, then sneered: "There is no mountain on the Heping County, no place to gather stones. Could it be that there is no mountain on the entire Zhen Country, nor is there any place to gather stones?"    

    

That official frowned and lowered his head, whispering, "Even if we go to other counties to collect stones, we still need manpower and money!"    

    

"What do you mean?" Although the official's voice was soft, Tang Yin could still hear him clearly. His eyes shone brightly as he stared at the official coldly.    

    

Yao Li secretly waved his hand, signalling him not to say anything. However, the official pretended not to see, steeled his heart, and said to Tang Yin sternly: "All this while, no matter which country's imperial court this county belongs to, the imperial government has only known how to request for food and money from this county, but has never replenished any food or resources from this county. However, how much manpower and food does it take to build a dam along the monsoon water? Moreover, our county has many disasters and is extremely weak. All these years, if not for the bitter support of Senior Yao, the citizens of Heping County would have all died, and Heping County would have long been turned into a barren land! "Since the King boasts of herself as the King, I hope that the King can save Heping County and the hundreds of thousands of commoners in the entire county ?"    

    

"How dare you!" Before he could finish, Ah San, who was standing on the left and right of Tang Yin, shouted in unison. Then, Ah San shouted to the guards behind him: "This man dares to be disrespectful to the King, take him down immediately!"    

    

Just the words' bragging about yourself as the king 'was enough to make that official lose his mind.    

    

Following Ah San's order, the guards behind him immediately rushed forward and pressed the official down onto the ground without a word.    

    

Seeing that, Yao Li's face changed, and immediately explained to Tang Yin: My King, Lord Hu was just angry for a moment, and was rude to me, please forgive me!    

    

Although the official was being held down by the guards, he had no fear on his face. He continued to shout, "Ming Jun will not kill the loyal officials, Ming Jun will not kill the loyal officials!"    

    

Tang Yin looked at Yao Li, then looked at the official and smiled indifferently. He waved his hand a little, and without saying anything, he turned around and returned to the carriage.    

    

Seeing Tang Yin's hand gesture, the guards finally let go of the official and retreated back to the side of the carriage.    

    

Yao Li wiped off his cold sweat, at the same time, he secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He was just about to retreat to the side and let Tang Yin's carriage move forward, when Tang Yin who was already seated on the carriage suddenly said: "Master Yao, please get on the carriage."    

    

He didn't expect that Tang Yin would invite him to ride on the same train with his. Surprised and overwhelmed by the unexpected favor, Yao Li stared blankly for a good while before regaining his senses.    

    

Tang Yin was the king, so his ride on the carriage was naturally incomparable to that of ordinary carriages. There was a lot of room inside, enough for even seven or eight people.    

    

On the way to the city, Tang Yin specifically asked about the current situation of the Heping County. Yao Li answered each and every one of them, explaining in detail to Tang Yin about the situation of the Heping County.    

    

Only the northern part of the Heping County was temporarily unaffected by the flood, but this still depended on the situation upstream. If the torrential rain continued, not even Zhengyang City would be spared, not only would the entire Heping County suffer, even the neighboring counties would be affected.    

    

After listening to Yao Li's introduction, Tang Yin frowned. After pondering for a while, he said: "Along the way, this king did not see any commoners who had starved to death. It looks like Heping County has a sufficient stock of food!?"    

    

Yao Li laughed bitterly: "King, all these years, this humble subject has been unable to control the flood of the season's water, and can only work hard at storing the food. But this time, it's all thanks to the King's time, if not, I'm afraid a large number of commoners would really have starved to death."    

    

Tang Yin nodded and asked: "How much food do you have left?"    

    

"There are no more grains left." Yao Li bowed his head and replied, "When I heard that the King was approaching the Heping County, I've already distributed the last of the grains in the granary."    

    

When Tang Yin heard this, he could not help but burst out laughing, and asked in reply: "If an accident were to happen to this duke on the way here, delaying you for a few days, wouldn't you, Lord Yao, be starving?"    

    

"This humble subject is the County Head, the father and mother officials of the commoners in the entire county. Yao Li replied seriously.    

    

Tang Yin looked at him deeply, then changed the subject and asked: "How is the situation on the other side?"    

    

Yao Li was startled for a moment before understanding that Tang Yin was talking about Linqiao County. He shook his head and said: "The disaster at Linqiao County is similar to the one in this county, it's just that the food for the disaster has not yet been delivered. Rumor has it that many people within the Linqiao County have already starved to death."    

    

Tang Yin rubbed his chin and muttered: "King Chuan should have already ordered the delivery of food from the land of the river ?"    

    

Yao Li sighed, and said: "The King is right, King Chuan did indeed order for food to be transferred from Sichuan to be used for relief, but what the King and King Chuan did not know, was that from Sichuan it was extremely difficult to get the food out!"    

    

Tang Yin was stunned, he looked at Yao Li with a puzzled expression. If the Zhen Country was poor, and there wasn't much grain in every place, then it was still understandable. But if the land was fertile, and the grain reserves were even more abundant than the Feng Country, how could there not be enough food?    

    

Seeing his doubt, Yao Li explained: "Last time, the chaste troops invaded the Sichuan area, burning and looting to attack the Zhaoyang, killing countless innocent people of the People of Chuan Country along the way. The People of Zhen Country hated the People of Chuan Country to the bones, but now, the People of Chuan Country also hates the People of Zhen Country to the bones. Even if we can get enough of them, they might not even be able to leave Sichuan before they were snatched away and burnt up by the hatred filled People of Chuan Country along the way! "