That night, the capital blew the biggest typhoon in a decade. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Typhoons are accompanied by torrential rain and lightning. Typhoons swept away the roofs and blew down walls, lightning tore down trees and crushed homes and their occupants, and surging floodwaters inundated homes and drowned countless people.

The rain became heavier and stronger, and the destructive power became stronger and stronger, and for a time the rivers burst their banks and flash floods broke out, and the entire capital soon became a Jedi with no way out, and people could be heard everywhere shouting helplessly and in fear.

This typhoon, which was not even predicted by Qin Tianjian, quickly captured this ancient civilization with a glorious history of hundreds of years.

Heaven and earth are wailing, and the wind and rain are bitter.

In the face of natural disasters, people truly appreciate what apocalyptic fear is.

The Emperor, who had just fallen asleep, was soon woken up. At this time, the water had poured in with an irresistible momentum, quickly overflowing the dragon couch, and had a tendency to rise.

Everything happened so fast that everyone didn't have time to defend themselves.

The emperor immediately sent people to settle the empress dowager, Concubine Meng, and the concubines of the harem, and arranged for people to go outside to help rescue the victims and observe the people's conditions.

Due to the typhoon and rain, the emperor could not summon all the ministers into the palace to discuss the relevant work, so he had to make all the arrangements alone.

When he learned that more than 5,000 people had been drowned and crushed in the city, he trembled and immediately sent 50,000 additional soldiers to assist in the rescue.

He also personally climbed the lookout to observe the situation outside.

Standing on the lookout, but feeling that the wind is high and the rain is urgent, the sand and rocks are flying, and everything is not under human control.

The wind whistled over his head, and the rain beat against his body violently.

He stood there like an iron man, not moving.

The bad news kept coming.

Faced with the growing death toll, the young emperor finally couldn't hold back his tears.

He sent an additional 50,000 men to the scene to assist in the rescue, and immediately summoned the ministers who lived nearby to the palace to discuss how to deal with it.

The ministers risked their lives to wade through the water, and each of them came to the palace like a survivor who had gone through the line of life and death.

The Emperor summoned them in the attic of the Temple of Heaven and Harmony and had a fire be lit in the house.

The situation was serious, and the emperor didn't care about saying anything of concern, so he went straight to the topic.

Throughout the meeting, the emperor always looked serious, and the ministers did not even dare to breathe a sigh of grandeur.

When the discussion was over, the ministers immediately took the order and left.

Although the emperor was so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes, he was worried about the safety of the people in the capital, so he continued to pay attention to sleepiness.

After dawn, the typhoon finally stopped, the rain and lightning also stopped, and the emperor once again climbed the lookout to look around. As far as the eye could see, there were piles of dilapidated houses that had been washed away by the water, and large trees that had been knocked down by lightning.

The flood water has not yet been completely drained, and it is rushing through the streets and alleys of the capital.

The entire capital is already a water city, and it is as if it has been completely captured after being attacked by a strong enemy.

It's a mess, it's miserable.

The young emperor could no longer hold back his tears and knelt straight towards this ancient city, which had been glorious for hundreds of years and was now in ruins.

Seeing this, the others also hurriedly knelt down.

By noon, the flood had finally receded, and the latest figures on the death toll had come out - 10,018 dead, 9,617 seriously injured, 3,905 lightly injured, 3,300 houses collapsed, and more than 670,000 catties of food had been lost.

Looking at this data, the emperor, who had calmed down a little, once again reddened his eyes.

"Immediately remove the chief supervisor and deputy supervisor of the Qin Tian Prison, and the rest of the staff of the Qin Tian Prison, regardless of their official position, will be severely punished. The emperor immediately decreed.

This was already an extremely merciful punishment, so none of the people in the Qin Heavenly Prison dared to say that they were wronged.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor summoned his ministers to discuss post-disaster relief and reconstruction.

At this time, a rumor spread rapidly in the streets and alleys of the capital at a strange speed.

Rumors say that the natural disaster was caused by the emperor's agreement to dissect the body of the former emperor and angered the emperor, and some people say that the former emperor was killed by the emperor and the empress dowager in conspiracy, and in order to cover up his crime, he deliberately staged a big show of dissecting the body to find evidence.

No matter which way it is said, the spearhead is directly aimed at the new emperor, so for a while the voices of dissatisfaction with the new emperor are everywhere.

Some people also made up ballads to curse the new emperor and sang them around.

These rumors and curses pierced the new emperor who loved the people like a son and had a pure heart like a dagger, and he immediately sent people to investigate the origin of these songs and curses.

However, these things that have been passed down by word of mouth are like the wind, and it is difficult to find their origins, so they can only return disappointed in the end.

Popular discontent and anger soon turned into a powerful opposition force that seriously threatened the position of the new emperor, who had only been on the throne for three months.

How terrible it is that the attitude of the people has changed so much overnight.

The Empress Dowager was angry and uneasy, and hurriedly summoned the ministers and ministers to discuss how to deal with it.

Eventually, it was agreed that the new emperor should hold a ceremony to comfort the souls of those who had died innocently in the disaster.

The Queen Mother thought this suggestion was good. The emperor also immediately agreed when he learned about it.

The ceremony will take place two days later, just three days before the '69 Race'.

Due to the great damage caused by this natural disaster, people began to worry about whether this year's '69 Race' could be held as scheduled, but the emperor said with certainty that no matter how great the difficulties and dangers encountered, the '69 Race' will be held as scheduled.

People breathed a sigh of relief.

When he finally quieted down, the emperor couldn't help but wonder if he had inadvertently committed some sin that caused this natural disaster.

But when he thought about it carefully and repeatedly, he found that although he had made some small mistakes, they were far from the level of sin, and he felt a little more at ease.

Now, what he has to do is to use practical actions to refute the rumors and make the people believe and support him again.

After such a round of rumors, which have not yet been completely eradicated, the Emperor knew that it would not be easy for him to establish himself among the people again, but he also knew that he had to do his best to improve.

There was no way back for him.

In the evening of that day, the emperor, who had been busy all night and half a day, received a reply from Liu Yaoying.

When the emperor took this letter from the hand of Gonggong Zhou, he could not help but have mixed feelings after experiencing an invisible war.

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