Chapter 51. The second saint arrived
Everything was as King Jin expected. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info went very smoothly.
All the people in the state listened to the Cui family give up a corner of the back garden and let the King of Jin dig a ditch to divert water. The King of Jin named that section of the river Cuijia River. He also sent a plaque with an autograph inscription to the Cui family. The Cui family felt very honored for this and showed off everywhere.
Since then, many people in Binzhou have hoped that the water diversion channel can pass through their back garden. In this way, you get a section of the river named after your home. Someone even often invited He Mason to eat at home, asking him to help dig the channel into his back garden when planning.
He stonemason often cried and laughed because of this, and King Jin and Wang Shao laughed even more after hearing this.
The water diversion project is proceeding smoothly. Princess Jin's belly is also getting bigger and bigger.
On this day, the queen and the emperor heard that Princess Jin was about to give birth. It's too late to let her go to Chang'an to give birth.
So the two discussed that they would bring the imperial doctor to Bingzhou to see their son and daughter-in-law, who they hadn't seen for a long time, and their unborn grandson by the way.
At this time, it was already around the Chinese New Year. King Jin was very happy when he heard that the emperor and queen were coming to Bingzhou to see their affairs. At the same time, I was also a little worried about this desolate place in Dingzhou. There is no lantern in Chang'an during the festival. The food in the palace is not as rich as that in the Chang'an Palace.
"I wonder how my father and mother will feel when they come later? Is there a way for them not to come? ”
He told his master Wang Shao about these anxieties. Wang Shao was also more difficult
"This is a problem, the old minister has to go home and think about it."
It was not until the next day that Wang Shao came to see King Jin until almost noon. He said to King Jin: "The emperor and the queen did not come to Bingzhou to see any lanterns, but to see you and Princess Jing, as well as their unborn grandson." King Jin still shouldn't worry about these things. As for preventing them from coming to the state, I've already thought of an effective way. And I don't think there's any need for that. ”
"Actually, I'm worried that if they come to see the second child is cute, it won't be good to take him away. Also, I don't want my father and mother to see the ruined state when they come later, and I hope that when we make the construction of the state more prosperous, I will invite them to come and inspect it. ”
Wang Shao said, "All this is urgent. Haste makes waste. The prosperity of the state is a product that is bound to arrive. We must not speed up this process for the sake of the visit of the Empress and the Emperor. In the end, not only is it not prosperity, but it may be the real appearance of gold and jade. ”
"I'm not talking about speeding up the construction of the state, I'm talking about postponing the arrival of my father and queen mother."
"This is impossible, since the two of you have decided, it is basically impossible to postpone it."
There is no committal on that tonight.
Wang Shao said, "I don't know tonight, it is already a great merit to build a canal to drink water so that the people of Binzhou can drink clean water, so that the grain harvest in Binzhou has increased, and the people of Dingzhou have a job to do." King Jin doesn't have to do anything else, and the emperor and queen will definitely praise it. ”
King Jin is still young, and he doesn't know what a great thing he has done, and when he heard Wang Shao say this, he felt a little relieved, but he always felt that this place was still far worse than Chang'an.
Wang Shao smiled and said, "If we want to do something better, maybe we can plan to complete the canal before the emperor and queen come." Then, on the day the emperor and queen came, he led the people of the whole state to celebrate the completion of the project.
Seeing the jubilation of the whole state, the emperor and queen will definitely be very happy and satisfied.
King Jin agreed to the offer.
However, the construction was completed about ten days later than the arrival of the emperor and queen. Wang Shao had to order everyone to hurry up and finish the project ten days ahead of schedule.
While everyone was desperately working overtime to catch up with the schedule, many people fell ill as a result, so not only was the project not completed ahead of schedule, but there were also signs that it was going to be delayed.
Wang Shao was in a hurry. I can't think of a way to explain to King Jin.
Here, the palace is also in full swing preparing everything to welcome the second saint, and although Princess Jin has a big belly, she is not idle for a moment. King Jin couldn't bear to see her so hard, he wanted to help but didn't understand these housework. I can only do it in a hurry.
Le Yi smiled and said, It's all trivial things here, you go and see the progress of the project on Lord Wang Shao's side. Recently, I've been in a hurry, and I'm probably tired.
King Jin then remembered that in the past few days, he has been busy arranging various things in the palace, and has not paid attention to the water diversion project. Wang Shao also didn't come to report on the progress of the matter for a long time. I thought I might as well go to the construction site and take a look at it myself.
So he walked slowly from the palace to the final end of the water diversion project.
"Everyone working on the construction site looked exhausted, and one by one they seemed to be clearly sleep-deprived. Why is that? King Jin asked He stonemason beside him.
He Stonemason is equivalent to the chief engineer of this project, and he completes the process planning of the channel. Now he is standing by the side of King Jin. Hearing King Jin ask like this, he didn't know how to answer for a while.
It turned out that when Wang Shaolai told him a few days ago that he wanted to speed up the completion of the project in ten days, he strongly objected. Wang Shao said that this was what the King of Jin meant, and he gave up resisting. Now the king of Jin came to ask him why the people were so tired. How can he answer because he is the king of Jin is eager for quick success.
King Jin saw that he was slow to answer, and turned to look at him: "Tell me the reason!" Why are many people still sick on the construction site? Why doesn't everyone look like they're waking up? ”
He stonemason immediately took two steps back and knelt on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic, "Your Highness forgives the sin, it is because the progress of the project is too fast, so Weichen ordered them to go home after midnight every day, and come to the construction site after the third watch in the morning." ”
"Why rush?"
"Your Highness, Lord Wang said that the progress needs to be completed ten days in advance."
"How unreasonable! Tell the king to come to see the king! ”
Soon, He stonemason called the sleeping Wang. He had just returned from the construction site and slept in the carriage next to the construction site.
"Why does the project have to be 10 days in advance?"
"Back to Your Highness, didn't we plan to celebrate the completion of the water diversion project when the Second Sage arrived?"
"Is the arrival of the Father and Queen Mother the day before the completion of the project?"
"Back to Your Highness, yes, the old minister didn't know at that time. Later, I felt that ten days was not much, so I stepped up the project so that I could celebrate it in advance. “
"Didn't you say that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it? You know this truth better than anyone else, why are you doing such a thing now? King Jin roared angrily.