It's obviously the end of summer, and I don't know why it's still raining every day, and this rain makes people feel upset.

Chen Ye roughly counted that this heavy rain had been falling for ten days, and it had not stopped for ten days, Chen Ye was worried about one thing, the drought was too long and prone to flooding.

"Chen Yi, hurry up and take me to the palace" Chen Ye sat in the carriage and hurried to the palace.

Walking to the gate of the palace, Chen Ye showed his identity card, and someone went directly to the palace to make a confession.

"Your Majesty, Lord Chen of the Hanlin Academy is waiting outside the palace, saying that there is something important to start playing" A eunuch ran to the imperial study to announce

"Oh, let him in" Now there are prime ministers in the imperial study, as well as the heads of the household department and the ministry of industry, as well as the governors of the three provinces are discussing national affairs in the imperial study.

"Chen Ye is here, long live my emperor" Chen Ye came in and saluted, but his posture was a little awkward, and the injury on his buttocks was fully recovered.

"What's the matter with Aiqing," the emperor felt that Chen Ye had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace.

"The minister observed that it has been raining heavily for ten days, and there may be floods, so please prevent it as soon as possible," Chen Ye directly stated his purpose.

Prime Minister Lu Jianren spoke: "It's okay, I've already sent someone to inspect, there was a drought a while ago, there shouldn't be a flood disaster."

"Minister, I think it is still necessary to send troops to prepare for flood control at any time, prepare sacks in advance, plug leaks at any time, and send people to inspect the banks of the Yellow River and the Huai River" Chen Ye still felt uneasy.

"I'll send someone to ask immediately, we are now discussing a matter, the barbarians are going to send envoys to the capital, this time the barbarians should open their mouths widely, what do you think?" The emperor wanted to test Chen Ye to see what his foreign policy was.

"No land cession, no compensation, no harmony, only open to trade." Chen Ye answered truthfully.

"What if I call? How can there be so much money," Tobe Shangshu asked Chen Ye.

"If we agree on everything, won't the barbarians come over?" Chen Ye asked directly.

Tobe Shangshu stopped talking directly.

"Barbarians are always wolves that cannot be fed, blind compromise will only make them unscrupulous, since they want weapons, we will give them weapons, but their weapons will only be one level weaker than ours, we transmit their Buddhism to prevent them from killing. We transmit the Central Plains culture, let them love the Central Plains culture, admire the Central Plains from the bottom of their hearts, and fear the Central Plains. It can also attract many barbarians to marry the Central Plains and slowly merge. Five or fifty years later, there will be no barbarians, no Central Plains people, everyone is a family. Chen Ye expressed his opinion.

"I think what Chen Ye said is reasonable, please approve it" Prime Minister Lu Jianren knew as soon as he heard Chen Ye roughly finish speaking, this is a long-term method, in the past, the barbarians always invaded, and they all looted things. If they win the battle, they will run far away, and if they lose, they will cut the land and pay compensation, so that they can believe in Buddhism and learn the culture of the Central Plains, which can be slowly affected after a long time, and the children of the barbarians will be exposed to the Central Plains culture since childhood, and they will think that they are the Central Plains and will not attack the Central Plains. With trade, the barbarians can live temporarily and will not attack for a short time.

"I think what Lord Chen said is too simplistic, the barbarians will definitely hurry up to train men and horses when they receive weapons, and attack us with our weapons" Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry disagreed with Chen Ye's opinion.

"Some families secretly sell weapons to barbarians, right, it's still the best, right, the Ministry of Industry" Chen Ye looked at the Ministry of Industry Shangshu directly.

This kind of thing is no longer a secret, many people know it, but no one has ever dared to say it on the surface, and now Chen Ye directly lifted the fig leaf.

"Shaft, don't point to Sang and scold Huai, the old man has a clear conscience" The Ministry of Industry Shangshu was a little annoyed.

"Your Majesty, if we sell weapons well in private, it is better to say that all weapons manufacturers, factories and mines are nationalized, all weapons are produced in a unified manner, and factories and mines are mined in a unified manner, and the weapons we sell to the barbarians are not good, and we use them well, so that the barbarians' combat effectiveness is not as good as ours. For the businessmen who sell privately, ask the emperor to investigate thoroughly" Chen Ye thought that this country was now in danger, and there were already people selling national interests, making the people at the border suffer and putting the country in danger.

"Okay, I know, let's discuss this matter again" The emperor knows that this matter cannot be solved immediately, in fact, the emperor is more blind to these families, and now many families are doing too much.

Chen Ye left the palace, his opinion has been said very clearly, and now if he doesn't listen to Chen Ye, don't be uncontrollable.

There was no way but to save some grain as much as possible, Chen Ye used the Chamber of Commerce and his own channels to start buying grain frantically in a short period of time, causing the price of grain in the capital to rise slightly.

Many grain merchants just wanted to raise prices, but Chen Ye stopped accepting them, and many people were also watching the excitement, thinking that Chen Ye was just rich and tossing.

It has been two days since Chen Ye entered the palace to meet him, the rain has stopped for a day, and the sky has been overcast, but the dark clouds are overwhelming, and he seems to be accumulating strength.

Chen Ye's house should be considered a relatively high place, but Chen Ye was still not at ease, so he prepared a lot of sacks and surrounded the city in a circle, just in case.

On the afternoon of this day, Chen Ye was listening to Chen Yi's return on the development of power, and in an instant, the wind blew fiercely, and the whole house went black, and then the raindrops of beans fell from the sky, making the ground crackle. Thunderbolt after thunderbolt, deafening. Suddenly, the raindrops were connected into a line, and with a bang, the heavy rain sloped down from the sky as if the sky had fallen.

It rained heavily all night, and Chen Ye didn't have a good night's rest.

"Xianggong, this time our grain storage is almost enough, enough for us to live for a while." Zhao Xiao put on his clothes and snuggled up to Chen Ye's shoulder.

"Master, the water suddenly rose," a subordinate hurriedly came over to report.

"Not good" Chen Ye shouted, and hurriedly ordered someone to hurry up and build a circle of walls with sacks. Chen Ye came outside and saw the water rising rapidly, and knew that it must be the embankment on the riverside.

I don't know if the Yellow River and the Huai River are not helped. My father-in-law is almost here, and I don't know if there's anything going on with them.

A soldier on the riverbank hurriedly ran to the camp tent and reported: "My lord, the water has suddenly receded"

"The river embankment has collapsed, quickly send someone to block it" The officer hurriedly sent someone to block the entrance to the cave.

At this moment, the flood water broke down from the upstream, like countless monsters hiding in it, making trouble, surging. Tearing and biting. Tumbling. Running in a hurry, the bridge piers were completely submerged, sweeping through the houses, washing away the farmland, destroying everything, and many people climbed directly onto the trees, and they were washed away directly without water.

For the first time, the officer learned what the real "flood beast" is: standing on the river embankment, looking in the direction of the capital, a vast ocean, the water is like a heavenly soldier and a general, laying a net on the earth, not to mention the crowds, villages, and crops, which are no longer visible, most of the trees are soaked in water, and only the heads of the trees remain, looking so helpless and desolate.

After a period of fighting, the collapsed embankment that had been washed away was finally blocked.

The flood in the capital still did not recede, and the capital got the news that the Yellow River had also burst its banks.

The capital was in chaos, many people were looking for their relatives, and the emperor was busy with disaster relief.

In the previous life, the country was also facing the danger of flooding, and there were many effective methods at that time, the most effective was to build a reservoir, which could generate electricity for flood control, which could not be completed in this world.

Roughly speaking, it is necessary to improve the repair of embankments and dredging. The best way to do this is to protect the vegetation upstream, raise the height of the embankment, dredge the river channel, prevent sediment deposits, and clean it up regularly.

In this era, there is still no better way for the Yellow River to burst, so we can only wait until the Yellow River is smaller, or the Yellow River is diverted. In order to stop it, it is currently a dilemma, the Yellow River bursts, and countless casualties are inflicted, but there is no particularly effective method.

Chen Ye participated in the court meeting normally this time, and all the ministers could not solve the matter of the Yellow River bursting its banks, and there was no better way to deal with the situation that the capital could not get out.

Before Chen Ye came, he heard that the reason why the water in the capital could not get out was because in order to protect the capital during the flooding, all the rivers were blocked and the gate was closed, so that the river water could not come in, and the people inside could not get out.

The flood outside could not flow out because there was no river to guide it. A group of people quarreled in the court, and no one had a good way.