Li Mu'er had Ma Chun as a companion all the way, but it was quite easy. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info but the rainy season is long, and it almost never stops.

The two stayed in the cabin and chatted and drank tea when they had nothing to do. Li Mu'er asked the most about Ma Cong's private affairs.

"You go on and on, Brother Cong, you send Miss Feng home, and then what?"

"Then, there is no then......"

"What? Have you not seen each other since? ”

Ma Cong faced Li Mu'er's questioning, and his eyes wandered for a long time before he nodded and said, "Hmm." I have no intention of her, she is a boudoir lady, naturally she always comes to me. Besides, Sister Qingyan and her brother left one after another, so there was no reason to get together. ”

Speaking of these two people, Li Muer naturally had regrets in her heart, and the scene suddenly quieted down.

Ma Cong realized that he had deviated from the topic, and hurriedly relieved: "Actually, it's a good thing that my brother went to find Sister Qingyan." In case ......"

Just as they were about to say what to expect, the boat suddenly stopped, causing the two of them to lose their balance and fall forward in unison.

Ma had good muscles and bones, reacted and immediately stabilized, and reached out to support Li Muer. The two looked at each other suspiciously, and both felt bad, and walked out of the cabin door with each other.

It turned out that the rain for several days avoided what should have been a hot weather, but the excessive rain eventually brought disaster.

The rain overflowed, the river water swelled, the Yellow River burst the embankment on the east bank of the Zhangqiu Canal, the sky was misty up and down in Zhangqiu, and the rivers in the Dongchang and Linqing areas were almost cut off, which affected the canal traffic, and the north-south transportation channel was interrupted in its entirety.

Fortunately, for Li Mu'er and them, it was just that the road ahead was broken, so they were close to the shore, and it was good to take a detour to the south by land. But they didn't know what kind of natural and man-made disaster was in Shandong, which they were going to pass through at this time. The water of the Yellow River rushing down, like a wild horse freeing from stiffness, rolled up a monstrous wave. The residents of the Yellow Flood Area were caught off guard because they had not heard about it in advance, and the embankment burst suddenly, and the torrent followed; Wealth and fields, all paid for the flow. Countless villages and farmhouses were wiped out overnight, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and turned into refugees.

After almost scattering all the change and broken silver along the way, Li Mu'er suddenly felt that something was wrong.

At this time, they were on the border of Dongchang Mansion in Shandong, only a dozen miles away from Zhangqiu Town, where the embankment had burst.

"There are refugees from Zhang Qiu everywhere, and if we continue like this, we will all become refugees." Ma Cong secretly stopped Li Mu'er's hand that reached into the money bag and pulled her away from the few beggars in front of her.

Li Mu'er looked back at the old and the young, and finally couldn't bear it, so she ran back and gave a few copper plates. This move provoked a group of beggars nearby to quickly surround him, and Li Mu'er had no choice but to shake her head and dodge forward, which caused a few people who didn't get the money to roll their eyes.

The people do not suffer from widowhood, but only from inequality. Li Mu'er came back to her senses and thought about it, Ma Cong was right, how many people can she help with her own strength? How long can it help?

She turned to Ma Cong and said: "Zhang Qiu is in trouble, and the neighboring towns should open warehouses to release grain and accommodate refugees, why have we never heard such news all the way?"

"Perhaps, the court hasn't issued a message yet."

"No way, he is most concerned about the well-being of the people, and with this natural disaster, he must have issued an emergency order a long time ago, putting how to properly deal with the affected people in the first place."

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Li Mu'er guessed correctly, at the same time, in the Forbidden City, Zhu Youzhang did not know how many times he convened cabinet officials to discuss the bursting of the Yellow River.

For those who don't know, this levee burst is just a natural disaster, but for Zhu Youzhu and even the entire imperial court, this flood was foreseen and could have been avoided.

This has to start from the flood in the second year of Hongzhi, and it is also the same Yellow River bursting its embankment, but the location is in Kaifeng Huanghuagang, and all of a sudden the whole territory of Henan and even the southern part of Shandong has become the Yellow Flood Area, and the Central Plains is a Ze country.

At that time, Zhu Youzhi sent Bai Ang, a household servant, to control the water, Bai Ang was a strict self-disciplined Qing official, and he had long adhered to a belief: the hunger and cold of the common people were more important than the emperor's grave. Under the overall planning of such an official, the entire river control project is progressing smoothly. But Bai Ang was not relaxed, he vaguely felt that there seemed to be a huge loophole hidden in his seemingly flawless plan for river control.

Finally, when he came to a place and carefully observed the local water conditions, he found the loophole.

This loophole is Shandong Zhang Qiuhe.

Connected to the Yellow River in the west and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the east, the Zhangqiu River is the hub of waterway transportation in northern China. However, once the flood into the Huai River exceeds the bearing capacity of the Huai River, then the banks of the Huai River will inevitably suffer a catastrophe, and the Zhang Qiu River will be the first to burst the embankment, becoming the fuse of the entire Huai River flood.

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Bai Ang hurriedly wrote a memo to the imperial court, suggesting that twelve Yue Rivers should be dug from Dongping to Qingxian in Shandong, and that part of the water of the Yellow River should be diverted into the Daqing River and Xiaoqing River in Shandong to relieve the pressure of the diversion of the Huai River. This is a strategy to get twice the result with half the effort, which not only avoids the flooding of the Huai River, but also solves the water problem in the arid areas of northern Shandong. But I never expected that the courtiers would blow up the pot when they saw it, saying that this method would cost the people and money, and resolutely oppose it. Zhu Youzhu also had a thought, and waved his hand and didn't agree.

Although it was the pressure of the courtiers that forced this idea of "prevention before it happens" to be stifled in the cradle, it now seems that this has undoubtedly become a repentance in Zhu Youzhi's heart, and it has also become a big stain on his political affairs. At this moment, his eyes were dark, and his tone sounded a little hoarse, "Zhang Qiu's disaster victims, can you settle down?" ”

"If you go back to the emperor, you have ordered the township next door to support. It's just that Zhang Qiuben has a large granary, and this flood directly flooded the granary, and it may take some time to collect grain nearby for disaster relief. ”

"Your Majesty, the top priority now is to select talented ministers to control the water! The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal connects the entire north-south transportation, and the financial taxes of our dynasty all point to the canal transportation, which is paralyzed by the canal, which is equivalent to the aorta being stuck, and the trouble is big. ”

Yes, this is troublesome, you must know that the supply of materials in Beijing is maintained by Caoyun, once Caoyun is paralyzed, the national economy and people's livelihood not to mention, what do the old and young masters in the capital eat?

It has to be solved as soon as possible!

Zhu Youzhu was almost anxious, and finally after some discussion, Wang Shu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and others recommended the virtuous minister Liu Daxia. The matter came to an end for the time being, and the ministers retired one after another, but Zhu Youzhu was not easy, and asked Xiao Jingdao beside him again: "The female bachelor, is there any news coming back?" ”

Xiao Jing sighed secretly, shook his head and said, "Back to Long Live Lord, not yet." The female bachelor and Ma Tongzhi are deeply blessed, and they will be fine. ”

Zhu Youzhu hummed, but his brows tightened, the canal was interrupted, and the life and death of the two were uncertain, I don't know if they happened to pass by Zhang Qiu and were involved in the catastrophe? (To be continued.) )