Chapter 62 Natural Floods Caused the People to Suffer for a Time

Birds and animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects, each with its own way of life,

Thunder and rain, mountains and rivers, there is a way of heaven to find,

The Milky Way stars, the vast universe, also have the laws of time and space,

Reverence for life, reverence for nature, and reverence for oneself,

Mutual restraint is the law of nature.

The sun sets over the land of Kyushu, and the midsummer evening sky is starry,

Listen to the leaves under the tree to know the autumn, and the plum blossoms in the vast land are fragrant and cold.

At the end of the summer of the 26th year of Suncheon, thunder and lightning, strong winds, and torrential rain poured down, and the land of Kyushu was not spared. For a time, the river was high, the mountains were loosened, the roads were flooded, and the crops were damaged.

The floods in Taizhou are the most serious in the three counties under its jurisdiction, with landslides, houses washed away, and ominous deaths and injuries of the people. In an instant, the thatched hut is gone, the relatives are gone, the home is gone, the vast land is gone, the fireworks in the world are gone, the neighbors are crying and shouting, but what is lost is indifference.

The officials of the state capitals and county offices brushed some pen and ink, wrote the folds, and rushed for 800 miles, and the horses galloped on the land of Kyushu, all going in the same direction, and the horses at the post station kept rotating to deliver the disaster as quickly as possible.

The ruins outside the capital are broken, the people are displaced, the singing and dancing in the palace is leveled, and the country and the people are safe. The rain slid down the eaves, and the little eunuchs wore hats and lamps in their hands, busy before and after, serving the food and daily life of the masters.

When night came, I saw the little eunuchs and palace maids in the Xiangfei Garden looking left and right, like thieves. When listening carefully, there were bursts of heavy breath and a woman's sexy voice in the Xiangfei room from time to time, and a couple of men and women on the bed were excited.

"Concubine Xiang, no, I want to win the world and let you be my beloved concubine," the man who spoke was the eldest prince of Shun Tianye, and "Fulong", the prince who did not abide by the usual ethics, was in this harem of fornication. Hey, it's no wonder, don't look at the concubines who are glamorous on the surface, but they have lived in the deep palace for a long time, who can endure loneliness, it's good to go around for thirty or fifty days, how can it be enough to feed so many women. According to historical records, in the past dynasties, there were too many chaotic stories of princes, concubines, eunuchs, and palace maids.

Okay, let's get down to business, needless to say, this Xiangfei is young and beautiful, there is no Shun Tianye who is fortunate to love him, and there are others to replace him. The two glanced at each other and tested each other, this dry material met the fire, and the eldest prince Fulong and Concubine Xiang got together.

Concubine Xiang lay in Fulong's arms and said, "You have the guts, you have to come and let the slave family take a look!"

Fu Long pinched Concubine Xiang's chin with his hand and said, "Don't underestimate me, wait, there will be a day, if you want to be the queen, give me good will,"

Concubine Xiang said: "Okay, it's not too early, you should go back, if someone finds out, the slave family will even affect you!"

Fulong said: "Let me stay for a while, who told you to hook my soul!" Fulong said, turning over, and the two were entangled again.

Let's say that Shun Tianye, after dinner, Sun Yanren brought a case of gold bars, Sun Yanren said: "Long live Lord, it's time to turn over the brand!"

Shun Tianye took it casually, and it was also a coincidence, only to see two big characters written on the sign "Xiangfei".

Sun Yanren ordered: "Move the Xiangfei Garden," the little eunuchs were busy and carried Shun Tianye to eat supper.

Upon hearing the news, Xiangfeiyuan instantly became a mess, disturbing the delicious food of the two. Fulong was frightened into a cold sweat, and hurriedly escaped from the window with his clothes and shirtless, Concubine Xiang was frightened, but she scolded in her heart, and quickly cleaned up.

The maids prepared the bath buckets, brought hot water, put in the sachets and rose dew, and more than a dozen maids waited for the concubine to bathe.

After the concubine bathed, she lay naked on a blanket, and the maids rolled the blanket, only leaking out a head, and several eunuchs came in and carried it away, and after a while, it was sent to Lord Shuntian.

About an hour later, the eunuch in charge shouted outside the door: "Master, the hour has come, it's time to go back,"

After a while, I didn't see Lord Shun Tian come out, and the eunuch in charge shouted again: "Long live Lord move to the south study," and it was really disturbing to hear Lord Shuntian.

Although Shun Tianye is the emperor, although Shun Tianye has more than enough heart and strength, although he is reluctant to give up this delicious supper, he has no choice, he obediently got up and obeyed the arrangement of the eunuch in charge.

The south study is in charge of the lamp, and Shun Tianye is still unsatisfied, so he has to review the folds, flip through more than a dozen books, and the things that are played are disasters all over the country, which causes Shun Tianye a headache for a while.

Shun Tianye said: "Sun Yanren, how long is it?"

Sun Yanren said: "Master, it's the third watch,"

Shun Tianye said: "Spread Fulong and Fu'an,"

After a while, the two princes came in the rain, and Shun Tianye frowned, pointed to the folds on the table and said, "Let's take a look!"

The two princes didn't dare to slack off, and flipped through the folds on the table one by one, and said to the heavenly lord: "Let's talk about it, what do you think!"

Fu'an said: "Father, it is not difficult to imagine that the actual situation is more difficult than what is described in the compromise,"

Then he continued: "Erchen thinks that the top priority must be to help and comfort the victims as soon as possible, and also to appease the people, and the disaster situation can be divided into three levels according to the performance of various places, so that the food can be distributed according to the level."

Shun Tianye said, "Oh, Fulong, what do you think?"

Fulong said: "Father, disaster relief must be a top priority, but in recent years, there have been disasters of varying degrees in various places, and officials often lie, falsely report the truth, and put all the surplus money and grain into their own pockets. In some places, even their own food stocks are enough for disaster relief, but they still have to ask the imperial court for food,"

Fu'an argued: "Then according to what the imperial brother sees, is it necessary to investigate the disaster situation in various places first, and then go to allocate food?" If that's the case, how many people will have to die, how much chaos will have to happen,"

Fulong said: "Fu'an's words are raising the bar, you can't do what they say!"

Then he continued: "Father, the son is willing to detain Qian Liang and go to the state capitals to investigate the truth so that he can provide disaster relief,"

Fu'an hurriedly said: "Father, the son is also willing to go,"

Shun Tianye said: "Okay, don't argue between the two of you, no matter what, you are all sharing the sorrows of government affairs for me, and it is rare for you to have filial piety." I've just seen that Taizhou and Youzhou are the most severely affected, so you two can go to one place for me to comfort the victims,"

Fu'an said: "Erchen thanked his father, father, Erchen wants someone to accompany him,"

Shun Tianye said: "Oh! Who! ”

Fu'an said: "Li Fanyi!"

Shun Tianye said: "Quasi-play!"

Then he continued: "Okay, you all prepare to go, I will arrange for all the departments to cooperate with you, and set off as soon as possible, and delay for a long time, so as not to cause trouble,"

The two princes invited on an errand and went home separately. To say that the two brothers of Fu'an Fulong are also fighting openly and secretly, on the surface, they look at Fu'an's flowers, birds and fish markets all day long, and they are idle, as long as there are major affairs in the court, Fu'an will definitely not miss it. Fulong has his own self-confidence and ambition, and has long coveted the throne for many years, forming a party behind his back to grow his power.

said that Fu'an returned to the mansion, and immediately sent someone to the military department to summon Li Fanyi to the mansion. Li Fan looked at the post and rode a fast horse straight to the "Shouwang Mansion".

As soon as Li Fan bowed to the prince, Fu'an hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said, "Oh, it's time to call you General Li now!"

Li Fan said: "King Shou's words, the last general will not dare to be ashamed!"

The two laughed, and Fu'an said, "Let's get down to business," and then, Fu'an told Li Fanyi about the disaster situation in various places.

Then he continued: "Regarding the detention of money and food, this king wants you to go with you, but is it difficult?"

Li Fan said: "The prince is carrying the last general, the last general feels honored, and he is willing to obey the prince's dispatch, why talk about difficulties,"

Then he continued: "Dare to ask the prince, when will you leave?"

Fu'an said: "The emperor has ordered all ministries to mobilize resources, and when everything is ready, we will set off, you go back to pack your bags, and when the disaster relief comes back, the king invites you to eat and drink!"

Li Fan said: "The last general will obey the order,"

As soon as Li Fan came out of Fu'an Mansion and went back to the barracks, he thought to himself, this is good, he will be missing for a few more days, and when he comes back, Lan Yu will blame himself again. But when I think about it, I am different from before, now I have the king's life in my body, and the victims are still waiting for the food to be settled, such a great thing, how can Lan Yu blame me!

As soon as Li Fan returned to the barracks to clean up, he wrote a note and left it to Lei Feiyun, asking him to find a way to transfer it to Lan Yu so that she would not worry. He quickly met with Fu'an and was ready to set off at any time.

Waiting for the household department to dispatch, open the warehouse and release the grain, the soldiers loaded bags of life-saving grain on the carriage, everything was in order, it was past noon, Fu'an and Fulong each led a team of men and horses to set off. Fu'an was sent to Taizhou, and Fulong was sent to Youzhou.

But as soon as I set off, I encountered a problem, due to the rain for several days, the road was muddy, the horse's hooves were slipping everywhere, and I couldn't stand on my feet, how to exert my strength.

However, the disaster is serious, and there is no time to delay, and if it is delayed, there is a possibility that someone will starve to death.

Fu'an ordered, all the soldiers pulled the cart together, and he didn't have a prince's shelf, so he was the first to take the lead, and Li Fanyi also followed, and the difficulty of walking was unimaginable.

After walking for less than half a day, they were already exhausted, so they had to come to the nearest post station to rest.

The next morning was fine, the rain was clear, the sun was shining for a long time, and the road was much better.

When it was almost dark, the spy came to report: "Lord Wang, there is a post station ahead, are you resting there tonight?"

Fu'an said: "Yesterday has been delayed, let's continue to hurry, to the next post station!"

The spy said: "Lord Wang, if you rush to the next post station, it is estimated that it will be the second half of the night, and the horses will not be able to bear it!"

Fu'an said: "Oh! In this way, you can see if there is a village nearby, and we can rest around the village! ”

The spy took out the map and looked at it and said, "Lord Wang, there is only one village in front of you,"

Fu'an said: "Okay, then let's continue to go to the village in front of us to rest,"

After another hour of walking, it was already completely dark, and when the group came to the village, there were no fireworks or people coming and going.

Fu'an said: "Why don't you see anyone?" He then ordered to ask if anyone knew about it.

After a while, a soldier came over and said: "Lord Wang, this place is called Gufengling, this village is Liujiazhuang, a few years ago, my subordinates passed by here a few times, I heard that there are often ghosts and monsters in the village, and later, the people on the village did not dare to live anymore, so they all moved away from here, so this village is empty,"

Fu'an said: "I talk about demons and monsters again, this king has never believed in such words,"

The soldier hurriedly knelt down and said, "My subordinates have also heard about it, and I ask the prince to forgive me,"

Fu'an said: "Oh! Get up! This king didn't say anything about you,"

Then he continued: "The order goes down, and I will rest here tonight, just so as not to disturb the villagers, and this king really wants to see how this ghost haunts,"

The soldiers began to get busy, boiling oil, setting up camp, and taking care of the horses.

After dinner, tired of the day, each ready to sleep.

Not to mention whether the soldier's words are true or false, everyone feels that this place is extremely eerie. I couldn't see my five fingers when I reached out, and my back was cold. The mountains not far away were covered with blood-colored clouds, and strange noises and laughter were heard from time to time among the ruins. The earth, which had been calm just now, suddenly set off a whirlwind, and the wind carried grievances and shouts.

Fu'an's scalp began to tingle, he noticed something unusual, and regretted his arrogance for a while, but where can he go in this big night!

Fu'an sat in the tent, feeling that people were looking at him everywhere, scared.