Chapter 078 Lin Jue and his entourage flew to Shaanxi

June and July are the seasons when the water of the Yellow River swells, and every year the Ministry of Industry has to send a director to inspect it, and this year is no exception.

It's just that today's Yellow River fortifications are the embankments built during the period of Emperor Taishang, and now the people below come to report that there are signs of a breach, so Emperor Hongzheng sent Yan Ziyu, the director of the Ministry of Water, and Lin Jue, the director of the Ministry of Works, to go together, and the king of Yonghe County went to supervise the work.

This is a 100,000-strong event, after all, once the Yellow River breaks, it will be a matter of life and death for the people downstream. The group rode lightly and arrived in Shaanxi in just over a month.

Shaanxi has been sparsely populated since ancient times, and it is a place where disasters occur frequently, although the land is large, but there are many taxes, especially in the year of disasters, the people are even more miserable.

The late emperor of the previous dynasty was so happy that he built a dam here, relocated a million people, and mobilized more than 500,000 laborers. The original intention was to irrigate the farmland and increase grain and taxes on this vast land, but it also led to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to be cut off, and there was no harvest for two consecutive years. Later, Emperor □□ Gao rose up, which made this dynasty a reality.

Because of the establishment of this embankment, Shaanxi has really reaped a bumper harvest for several years, but the disaster of the previous dynasty is still in sight, so this embankment stores water to irrigate Shaanxi, but also has to discharge water from time to time, so as not to cut off the production of the people downstream due to the interruption of the flow.

However, once the dam is completed, it cannot be destroyed without cause, especially since its existence has slowed down the occurrence of floods. Moreover, the dam needs to be repaired every year, and if it is damaged and flooded for thousands of miles, I am afraid that the people downstream will not be able to evacuate in time, and there will be countless deaths and injuries.

When they arrived at the border of Shaanxi, their own competent officials came early to greet them. The mouth said, "The lower officials have lost their welcome, and I hope that the prince will forgive his sins." He fell to the ground.

Li Yibai personally stepped forward to help the person up, "Cui Zhizhou, please get up." ”

After Cui Zhizhou got up and a group of officials and officials behind him saluted, Fang also followed. Cui Youwang and Li Yibai have known each other for a long time, and they are very familiar with each other, "Your Highness has prepared a little thin wine to wash the dust for His Highness, and asked His Highness to appreciate his face." ”

Li Yibai glanced at Lin Jue's face and said with a smile: "Cui Zhizhou's kindness shouldn't be shirked, it's just that this road is full of dust, it's better to go to the post house to rest for a day, and then drink with adults tomorrow." ”

Cui Youwang hurriedly said: "It's that the lower officials are not thoughtful, the post house should be ready, please ask Your Highness and a few adults to move to the post house first, so that you can rest and recuperate, and then be entertained by the lower officials tomorrow, what does Your Highness think?" ”

Li Yibai smiled: "It's up to the adults to decide." ”

Cui Youwang hurriedly said that he didn't dare, and called his officials to go to the post house first to say hello, "Your Highness and a few adults are tired of traveling and driving, and I don't have much appetite to come, so I asked Yicheng to prepare porridge and side dishes." Tomorrow, I will wash the dust for His Highness and a few adults. ”

Li Yibai said: "Master Cui has arranged it very properly. ”

After sending a few people to the post house, Master Cui didn't bother much, and after a few more greetings, he got up and said goodbye. After a while, a few clever servants were sent, saying that it was not from serving the post officials in the post house. Li Yibai happily took the people down, and asked the people to reply to Cui Youwang and express their gratitude for him.

Lin Jue has been tired for a long time, although he likes to ride horses, but he has been riding horses non-stop for the past few days, and his body is really unbearable. Li Yibai also saw that Lin Jue's face was not very good-looking, so he sent Cui Youwang away, and the group went to the post house to rest first.

Although Cui Youwang sent a small servant, Li Yibai didn't want to fake others, so he went to Lin Jue's room and wanted to take a hot mandarin duck bath with him. However, the bath bucket is too small and can only accommodate one adult, Li Yibai's goal was not achieved, but he still worked hard to wipe Lin Jue's back.

Lin Jue was also really tired, and he was fiddled with by Li Yibai like this, and he actually fell asleep. Although Li Yibai didn't eat it, he took a lot of advantage, and when he saw that Lin Jue was really tired, he didn't bother him. After taking the person out of the bathtub and wiping it clean, he gently put it on the bed, covered it with a quilt, and then went out of the house.

In the end, he still scruples that he was outside, and he didn't stay in Lin Jue's house directly.

Lin Jue took a comfortable hot bath, rested for the night, and woke up the next day, feeling refreshed. Along the way, although there are post houses along the way to rest, it is better to get to the place, knowing that there is no need to rush the next day, so you can sleep without pressure.

There are more than a dozen officials in this line alone, plus Li Yibai's ten guards, and the others more or less have one or two guards, which together is really a big team.

Only one post house can't accommodate so many people, but fortunately, it's August, and the weather is still very hot during the day, but it is slightly cool at night, but it does not affect the rest. Officials, large and small, were assigned rooms, and their guards had to lay on the floor.

Fortunately, there were not many guards brought by everyone, but Li Yibai, who was the king of the county, with ten guards, couldn't arrange anything.

Li Yibai, a fake public and private guy, lived directly in Lin Jue's room on the second day. There is still anyone in this group who doesn't know the mind of King Yonghe, but they are all silent, and now like this, it is just not strange to see a lot.

Lin Jue didn't care too much, it's not that he didn't cherish his feathers, and there was nothing ulterior about him, and he deliberately left a handle. The water in this place of Shaanxi is deep.

On the second day, Li Yibai stayed in Lin Jue's room, and sure enough, another Cui Youwang's little servant sneaked out of the post house, flashed, and got into the alley next to the post house.

"Master, someone has been sent to follow."

Li Yibai nodded, "Okay, find out who is on the same side as him, and then report to me." ”

Darkly said "yes", dodged and went out.

Lin Jue couldn't help laughing and said: "You are really, it's lazy to choose a name for the guard, and you can directly take Wang Wu and Zhao Ba." ”

Li Yibai twitched the corners of his mouth, Wang Wu and Zhao Ba might as well sound better than the dark two, right?

"Don't bother with a name, when it comes to this trip to Shaanxi, what task did His Majesty send you, even I didn't even hide it." As soon as Lin Jue mentioned this, he was dissatisfied, this person has never hidden anything from himself, but this time he is the most closed than the mussel shell.

Li Yibai smiled, "You don't care about this matter, check your embankment with peace of mind, and when you are done over there, it is estimated that I will be almost here." ”

Lin Jue rolled his eyes, "You don't come to check Cui Youwang, right?" Hasn't he always been involved in party disputes, why does His Majesty want to check him? ”

Li Yibai pinched Lin Jue's chin and kissed him fiercely, "Ouch my Lin Da Tanhua, can we stop asking about this, I won't hurt you, are you afraid that I will sell you?" ”

Lin Jue glanced at him, "It's hard to say, who doesn't know that the Thirteenth Master has always been the most amorous." Hey, in the Changle Xuan in Maoyan'er Hutong, I remember that there seems to be a little minister named Zhu ...... What is Zhu coming from? ”

Li Yibai smiled bitterly: "Wasn't that a long time ago, didn't I make a mistake?" ”

Lin Jue snorted, "You have too many pigtails, I casually investigated and found a bunch of them, and I was really panicked when I thought about it." ”

"No loss, no loss," Li Yibai grabbed Lin Jue's finger and bit it in his mouth, "A husband like me who can go up to the hall and down to the kitchen, and can enter the bedroom and fight hooligans, where can you find it?" ”

Lin Jue was also amused by him, and pulled out his hand, "What hooligan is not a hooligan, beware of others hearing it, 'abnormality is a demon', do you want to be burned to death by fire?" "I don't want to ask any more questions.

In the evening, Cui Youwang really came to invite a group of officials to the banquet again, and everyone had rested, so they went to the banquet first.

The number of people in the group Li Yibai has the highest status, and the entourage, all of whom are human spirits, will steal the limelight from the king of Yonghe. Li Yibai was given up to the main position, and his status was worthy of it, so he did not shirk and took the seat first.

Cui Youwang and Lin Jue gave in again, and the three of them were of the same grade, but Lin Jue and Lin Jue were Beijing officials, so they were two points heavier than the officials of the same level. However, Cui Youwang is the host of this banquet, and Lin Jue and the others are not good at competing with him. Therefore, Cui Youwang sat second, and Lin Jue and the two again.

At the beginning of the banquet, between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Cui Youwang and Li Yibai began to fight. Lin Jue had already been told by Li Yibai to only stare at the dishes in front of him and not join. Yan Ziyu looked at the king of Yonghe County, and then at Lin Jue, who was always staring at the dishes, as if there were flowers blooming on the dishes, and finally decided to say less and make fewer mistakes, not to say that it was good.

When the banquet is coming to an end, I don't know where Li Yibai and the two talked about it again, and the tension when they got up first is no longer good, hello, hello, everyone.

At the end of the banquet, Cui Youwang personally sent a few people out, but said to Lin Jue: "It is in this Shaanxi, and the lower officials have also heard the wonderful news of the Lin family's double flower exploration. First, I was in Beijing, and I also had a few encounters with Lord Xianlin, and then I heard about Lin Xiaotanhua, so I thought, what a wonderful person, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to see it, but I didn't want to see it like this. Knowing that Lord Kobayashi has official business, I can't bother it, and when Lord Kobayashi is free, I hope to come and sit with me. ”

Lin Jue hurriedly said: "I have also admired Master Cui for a long time, and if I am free, I will definitely come to disturb me." ”

Cui Youwang laughed, "How dare you say that you are disturbing, Lord Xiaolin just has to come." ”

didn't understand how Cui Youwang pointed at him again, Lin Jue said a few words to him and stopped talking. Cui Youwang didn't care, said goodbye to several adults separately, and watched them turn the corner before returning to his house.

The bookstore next to Cui Youwang couldn't help but wonder about his own adult's politeness to a small department, "Then Lin Jue is just a small department, how can you let the adults hand him over, but he is promoted." ”

Cui Youwang sneered, "How did I get acquainted with him, I didn't see that the king of Yonghe County is not easy to deal with, His Majesty sent him this time, I'm afraid I didn't think about it." What is Lin Jue, I'm just going to talk to him and show favor to the king of Yonghe. Just looking at the situation at today's banquet, can this be shown or not? ”

Cui Youwang is just taking one step at a time now.