Zhuang Hua looked at the surging river and had the feeling of seeing the Yellow River for the first time in his previous life.

The kind of majesty created by nature, everything feels insignificant in front of it, this is not something that mortals can reverse, and what power to turn the tide is just an adjective.

"What do you think?" Bai Ti, who was standing beside her, told her, "Once the river rises above the embankment, not only Yanze will not be protected, but most of Zhangliang will become a Ze country." There is no other way but to release the flood. ”

Bai Ti's regret and powerlessness Zhuang Hua also felt the same way, "The prince has already decided to open the embankment to discharge the flood, right?" ”

Bai Ti nodded, "On the day Yu Shaoguang received the letter, this king had ordered the villages and cities within a radius of a hundred miles on both sides of the river bank to harvest crops and transfer the population. At the end of the words, as if sighing, Zhuang Hua looked at Bai Ti's eyes and was gloomy, and wanted to comfort him but found that he couldn't say anything.

The two of them stood on the embankment like this for a long time before leaving.

Zhaoguo's rice is expensive, which seems to be a joke, but it really expresses the dilemma of Zhaoguo, which is unable to be self-sufficient in food guns, which completely restricts the pace of Zhaoguo's development.

And Zhangliang, located in the northwest, is a place of food shortage, there is not much fertile land, this time the flood is rushing, I don't know what the next year will be.

When I went back to the palace, it was already night, and it was not necessarily evening, Zhuang Hua stood in front of the window and looked at the night when he couldn't see his fingers outside the window, his expression was solemn, and Yi, who was still awkward, was no longer entangled in his own emotions, and returned to his usual state, silently guarding Zhuang Hua's side.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning pierced the darkness, and in the distance, a muffled thunderclap reached my ears.

A small raindrop drifted into the window and hit the bridge of Zhuang Hua's nose.

"It's raining." Zhuang Hua said.

As soon as the words fell, the pouring rain poured in, crackling and slamming on the roof, the ground, lightning lit up the night sky and the earth, and the flowers and trees in the yard were crumbling in the shower.

After a while, the low-lying areas of the yard became small puddles, and the flat places were splashed with rain, so it was not lively.

Yi stepped forward and closed the window, "Sir, the window is windy, you are just recovering from your illness, so you should rest early." ”

"I want to read a little more, so you can step back first." Zhuang Hua just wants to be alone at this time, Zhang Ziyi.

Yi felt Zhuang Hua's mood fluctuations, didn't say more, and didn't forget to remind him before leaving: "If you have something to do, sir, you can call me loudly." ”

Zhuang Hua nodded, waved his hand, and Yi retreated.

I don't know how many people were hit by the rumbling thunder, and how many people were sleepless tonight.

It rained overnight and day at once, and it was not until noon on the third day that the sky slowly cleared, and on the morning of the fourth day, I finally saw the long-lost sunshine.

After the rain stopped, Zhuang Hua had already asked Bei Ying to help her find a local who was familiar with the terrain around Yanze and went around for a whole day, this move not only aroused the suspicion of people on Zhangliang's side, but even the guards and Yi were full of questions.

Bai Ti listened to Pei Ying report Zhuang Hua's whereabouts yesterday, and frowned, what is this weird boy doing?

The epidemic prevention method proposed by Zhuang Hua before was very effective, and the plague did not spread on a large scale, although the drugs for treating the plague still made no progress, but the flaws were not concealed, and this was not something that Zhuang Hua, who did not know how to do medicine, could control. Now, "he" has a new move, and Bai Ti feels that it may bring him new surprises.

Sure enough, three days later, Zhuang Hua asked to see Bai Ti and brought her advice on farmland reform.

There are many hills in the country, but most of the hills are not high in elevation, and some are simply mountain slopes and the like. Because of the slope, it may be rained and the crops will be wasted, but there is a magical thing on the earth called terraces!

"Terraces?" When Bai Ti saw this new word on the bamboo slip, he couldn't help but ask, "What is this?" ”

"Lord Wang, please look down." Zhuang Hua said.

Bai Ti's eyes never took his eyes off the bamboo slips, and soon, he understood what the terraced fields were on Zhuang Hua's illustrated book.

Bai Ti nodded after reading it, with a surprise in his tone that couldn't be hidden, "You can give it a try!" ”

Zhuang Hua said: "The opinion below is that it is better to develop a smaller hill as an experiment first, and then promote it when the results are achieved." She wasn't sure if the terraced method would work here. In the past few days, I followed the guide around Hikozawa and found that the grains planted were all millet and wheat. The terraces she had seen were all medium rice ...... But she wondered why she couldn't try growing wheat if the terraced fields could still be planted with tea trees.

Moreover, the climate in the Zhangliang area is not very dry, and for irrigation, a reservoir is needed, and next to the Jun River, you can use a waterwheel to divert water to a high place, and she also drew the general composition of the waterwheel.

However, she is still very weak-hearted, she knows everything half-understood, and it is best to describe her on paper, and the specific implementation still needs the craftsmen here and the farmers themselves to study, and the feasibility is to be discussed, so she proposed to experiment first and determine that it is feasible before promoting.

Naturally, Bai Ti understands this, "This is nature. Then immediately convened Si Nong and Si Kong to study the operation of this terrace.

Zhuang Hua saw that the three of them were talking about the heat, and there was nothing wrong with her at all, so he said goodbye and went back to Dongyuan.

In the past few days, as Zhuang Hua Hua has been running around, there has been less time to meet with the guards, and as soon as Zhuang Hua entered the door, he heard Yi and Qu Liang arguing about something, and there was a tendency to intensify. She took a few quick steps and entered the house.

"What are you two doing here?" Zhuang Hua stood at the door and asked coldly.

Yi walked over, suppressed his anger, and said, "Sir, this person is too rude to inquire about Mr.'s whereabouts. ”

Zhuang Hua softened his tone and said: "Commander Qu also cares about me, easy, don't be rude." ”

"Sir, it's not that Yi is rude first, but that their guards are presumptuous! said that he was Mr. Guard, but since he entered Zhangliang, he has rarely seen them once a day, which is dereliction of duty. It is a crime to ask Mr. about his whereabouts for no reason. All this is simply presumptuous! ”

Yi said it impassionedly, Qu Liang was so angry that the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and he almost wanted to do something to Yi, but he suppressed it.

Qu Liang saluted Zhuang Hua and said, "Sir, I also have the king's will to come here, and it is my fault for neglecting Mr. before, and the lower official will compensate Mr. here." ”

Zhuang Hua couldn't see any expression on her plain face, she walked to the outer hall master and sat down, and said: "Commander Qu, you and I have our own duties, the king's order cannot be violated, I have never asked what Commander Qu did before, and I will not ask in the future." ”

Qu Liang bowed his hand, "Mr. Xie is considerate." ”

"I don't know what Commander Qu is here to do at this time?" Zhuang Hua was also polite, and went straight to the point, he didn't come here just to ask her for sin, right?

At the mention of this, Qu Liang also put aside the dispute between Fang Cai and Yi, and said: "Mr. has been in Yanze for many days, and it seems that he has not carefully visited Yanze City. ”

Zhuang Hua sneered in his heart, "Commander Qu doesn't know, I can walk around Yan Ze inside and outside in the past few days. ”

"Many places ......" Qu Liang looked at Zhuang Hua and said, "The adults haven't seen it." ”

Zhuang Hua, who was upset by the flood, didn't bother to make a false deal with him, and said coldly: "I don't know." ”

"Sir knows what the lower official is talking about." Qu Liang saw that Zhuang Hua was straight to the point, and he no longer hid it.

"You presumptuous!!" Zhuang Hua's negative emotions that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly broke out, and he said angrily: "What is your identity, you actually instructed me." ”

"The lower official is on the order of the king......" "Why don't I know?" Zhuang Hua interrupted Qu Liang's words. She knew that where everything was guarded, there would be no one else within three feet of the neighborhood, and there was no need to suppress her voice, "I only know that the king asked me to help control the water, and I don't know anything else!" ”

"Lord Shanting!" Qu Liang also raised his voice, "The orders we are taking must be different, and Lord Shanting is better to cooperate with us." ”

Zhuang Hua stood up and shouted, "Easy! Go to borrow troops from King Zhangliang and escort this disobedient and disobedient person back to Shaoguang! ”

"Whoa!" Yi turned around and was about to go out, Qu Liang stepped out to block Yi's way, half a sword out of the sheath, glared at Yi and said, "You dare!" ”

"I see who dares to stop you, what are you still standing for, and you don't want to borrow troops!" Zhuang Hua said coldly, the momentum is only high, not low.

Yi pushed Qu Liang away, Qu Liang didn't expect Yi to be pushed with such a huge force, seeing that Yi was about to step out of the door in a few steps, Qu Liang also knew that it was not good.

This is the Zhangliang Palace, there are more than 100 soldiers, and their twenty guards are not opponents at all, to say that they can still walk Yanze in the name of "Shangqing of the Mountain Court" before, and now they have turned their faces with Zhuang Hua, and it is not too much for King Zhangliang to execute them all in the name of committing a rebellion.

"Sir!" This time, Qu Liang's address to Zhuang Hua changed back to Mr., "If you act like this, you will return to Shaoguang when the time comes, and it will be difficult to explain in front of the king." ”

"Confess what?" The corners of Zhuang Hua's mouth slowly provoked a sneer, "I only know that I am here to be ordered to control the water, and you are here to protect me, this is what the king himself said to me." Don't bluff as a janissary, listen well, let me hear a word of disobedience, and immediately roll back to Shaoguang. ”

Qu Liang lowered his head and was silent for a long time, a pair of hands hanging on his sides loosened and tightened, and finally hugged his fists and saluted, and softened Zhuang Hua, "Please forgive me for the crime of lying in vain." ”

Zhuang Huali ignored it, snorted coldly and walked away.

Yi Yi stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation outside the door, "Commander Qu, please." ”

Qu Liang walked out without raising his head.

Zhuang Hua was lying on the couch in the inner hall, his mind was full of mush. She didn't know what was wrong with her, and she suddenly couldn't control her temper.

This time it can be regarded as offending this group of guards, and after returning to Shaoguang, he really doesn't know how to explain to King Zhao as Qu Liang said.

Hearing the footsteps of Yi walking in, Zhuang Hua didn't bother to get up, and only said, "Yi, I want to rest, and no one will come." ”

Yi also saw the irritability in Zhuang Hua's heart, and retreated after answering, and stopped bothering her.