"Master Hou, if the people retreat, won't the scope of the fire become bigger and bigger, and I'm afraid this piece of house won't be able to be saved?" Lu Yan shook his head anxiously.

"Lieutenant Lu, there is a shortage of water at the moment, even if these tens of thousands of people are extinguishing the fire right now, you can't reduce the fire, but it is getting bigger and bigger, continue for an hour or two, you still can't keep this house, let the retreating people set up a fire barrier nearby, and after this piece is burned, the fire will naturally attenuate, otherwise, when this piece is all ignited, the huge flames will sweep with the wind, and the entire south of the city may be affected......"

"Yes...... But if you don't actively put out the fire, your majesty will ask tomorrow that you can't afford it! Lu Huan's face turned pale.

"You're not the only one here, isn't it just you, Doctor Feng Xiangmeng and I and so many colleagues are standing and watching the excitement?" Chen Xu pouted angrily.

Feng Quji and Meng Yi couldn't help twitching on their faces and didn't speak, and the household department next to them Ling Gao Teng couldn't help but speak: "Lieutenant Lu, what Zuo Xiang said is reasonable, don't look ahead and look backwards now that the situation is urgent, quickly let the civilians and forbidden troops who are fighting the fire retreat, remove the surrounding debris and trees and other flammable things, and isolate this area, otherwise it will only get worse and worse until dawn, if the fire has not been extinguished before dawn, at that time Your Majesty will really have to bear a lot of responsibility when you ask you!" ”

"Lord Lu, what Gao Hubu said is reasonable, there is a give-and-take, don't be a woman, listen to the words of the Zuo Xiang, and quickly let the civilians and the forbidden army retreat~"

"Yes, yes, sooner rather than later, this fire must be extinguished before dawn, otherwise Your Majesty will definitely be furious tomorrow!"

Under the persuasion of a group of officials, Lu Yan finally gritted his teeth and asked the officials of the lieutenant's mansion to notify him, so that the forbidden army and the civilians involved in the firefighting would retreat and start cleaning up the flammable trees and debris around him, and at the same time ordered the surrounding residents to prepare a large number of water containers to collect water for storage, so as to prevent the fire from continuing to spread after the fire burned down the house.

Seeing that tens of thousands of people began to retreat in an orderly manner to set up a fire barrier amid the sound of sirens and gongs, all the officials couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, only Qi Tang and a few other people with real estate had ugly faces, but according to the current situation, they seemed helpless.

After the people who put out the fire and the forbidden army retreated, the fire that had lost its suppression burned more violently, with the help of the night wind, the flames rose nearly a hundred feet high, and the fourth and fifth houses were soon set on fire by huhulala, and in the sound of crackling and collapsing, the rubble flew all over the sky, and the raging flames rose even higher, and the red fire could be seen hundreds of miles away, which frightened the people in the nearby towns and villages, and thought that the whole Xianyang was burning.

An hour later, the last two houses on the street were also swept into the flames, but by this time, the fire in Zhao Gao's mansion, which had burned first, had begun to be extinguished.

After another hour, the sky in the east had begun to whiten, and the fire, which had been crackling and burning all night, finally began to slowly subside, and after a night of busy work of tens of thousands of people, all the trees and debris in the vicinity of this area were emptied, and the fire did not expand again.

When the sky was bright and the eastern sky slowly turned red, the fire finally completely subsided, under the command of the forbidden army of the Zhongwei Mansion, the people carried water into the disaster area to extinguish all the remaining fires, with the bell of the last dynasty at the end of the Yin Dynasty, the bearded and haggard Lu Hu finally got the news, the fire was all extinguished, and there was no trace of spark in sight.

"Whew~~" Lu Huan finally took a long breath, wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and hurriedly rode to the court before he had time to wash and eat.

The whole Xianyang was noisy all night, and the emperor must ask about the details of the situation this morning.

All the civil and military officials are almost the same as Lu Huan, almost all night without sleeping, one by one yawning and sleepy-eyed to ride the carriage to the court, and when Chen Xu finished eating buns and drinking soy milk with two dark circles under his eyes, he got off the carriage and walked into the palace hall, he found that all the officials had arrived, and Lu Huan sat on the chair and looked at him expectantly, his eyes were full of pity and affection.

"Your Majesty is in court!"

With a long shout from the confessor, all the civil and military officials stood up to greet him, and the emperor walked out with the bell as usual, his face was slightly pale, his steps were a little vain, and he didn't seem to be in good spirits.

Qin Shi Huang walked to his dragon chair, his eyes swept over the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty and then waved his sleeves, "Everyone, please sit down!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After a loud bang, the sound of the jade pendant wooden chair colliding and moving, the civil and military officials sat down.

"I heard that there was a fire in Zhao Gao's mansion late yesterday night, what is the current situation?" Sure enough, the first thing the emperor did when he went to court was to ask about the fire.

Lu Huan hurriedly stood up and handed over: "Your Majesty, the fire has been extinguished, and a total of seven mansions, including Zhao Gao's mansion, have been burned, but no one has been injured or injured......"

"Seven mansions were burned down, Lu Huan, your lieutenant's mansion is difficult to sleep? Also, what caused the fire, and can you find out the cause of the fire? The Emperor was furious.

"Your Majesty atoned for his sins, and the ministers had already arrived at the scene at the beginning of the fire, but the Zhao Mansion had been abandoned for a long time and the weather was dry and dry, and there were flammable things such as thorns and dead grass, and there was no water available in the pond in autumn, so that the fire could not be extinguished in time...... This is already the minister's greatest effort, the minister is derelict in fighting the fire, and please ask Your Majesty to surrender! Lu Huan explained, sweat rolled down his forehead.

"Your Majesty, Lieutenant Lu has done his best, after the fire last night, the minister, the right minister and the imperial envoy, as well as dozens of colleagues from the six departments of the three provinces were all present, the fire was too big to stop, so I could only retreat to the second, at the cost of seven mansions, summon enough time and preparation, and finally let the fire not expand to other houses, please also ask Your Majesty to investigate!" Chen Xu stood up to help Lu Huan.

After all, this incident was completely caused by his flickering, in fact, according to the crowd methods started by Lu Huan, as long as it is properly disposed of, three houses will be burned at most, and the one left by the old man can be saved, but Chen Xu directly came up with a shameless idea in order to vacate this piece of land, and set up a huge circular isolation zone in exchange for space and time, and finally watched the fire burn seven houses to the ground.

"Your Majesty, the fire ministers and others were all present last night, the weather was dry and the night was dark and the wind was high, and there was a lack of emergency water, it was indeed difficult to control, it was not that Lieutenant Lu was ineffective in fighting the fire, not to mention that it was an old house, and it was all vacant and uninhabited at the moment, and it did not cause a major disaster, Your Majesty must not be angry and hurt your body!" Feng Qujian saw that he couldn't stay out of the matter, so he also stood up to help explain.

"Your Majesty, the ministers and others can testify that the fire is indeed fierce and difficult to control, and the proper handling strategy of Zuo Xiang and Lieutenant Lu did not cause a greater disaster!" Huhula, a large group of officials who witnessed the fire last night stood up and put up their heads.

"It turns out that all of you Aiqing are involved in fighting the fire, it seems that I am too worried, in this case, the Lieutenant's Mansion still has to step up the investigation of the cause of the fire, and in the autumn and winter, it is necessary to strictly prevent the use of fire by the people, and strive not to have such a big disaster in the future!" Qin Shi Huang saw that almost all the officials in the three provinces, six ministries and four grades stood up, and he knew that there was no way to blame Lu Huan for this matter.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your leniency, the minister passed the Lieutenant Fourth Battalion last night to closely inspect and catch many hidden in the ghost street...... The beggars around the Zhao Mansion caught a suspicious person covered in blood in a nearby stable in the early morning, maybe this person was the arson bandit, and he would report it to His Majesty after the interrogation was clear! ”

"That's good, if you catch the bandits, you have to interrogate them strictly, and see who is trying to mess with my Jingshi's land, if there is really a plot against it, I will raze the three clans!" Qin Shi Huang's majestic face flashed with anger.

Chen Xu's whole body tightened, and his heart beat a few times involuntarily.

After the fire was brought under control last night, he went back to his house to rest at the end of the morning, and he had asked Lu Huan if he had found the cause and clues of the fire, but it was a mess, Lu Huan was busy looking at the tail, saying that he had not found any clues, and Chen Xu didn't ask much, but Lu Huan said at this time who was the suspicious person he caught, could it be Chen Yong and them......

The next government affairs Chen Xu was a little uneasy, and answered some government affairs proposed by the emperor and the six ministries of the three provinces, because the Mid-Autumn Festival market is still going on, so the recent court meetings are relatively short, and half an hour later, Chen Xu rubbed his temples and walked out of the court, catching up with Lu Huan, who was in a hurry to leave.

"Thank you Zuo Xiang for helping explain, I don't know what Zuo Xiang commanded?" Lu Huan bowed gratefully.

"Lieutenant Lu just said that he caught a suspicious person, what is the identity of this person? Who? Are there any interrogation leads? Chen Xu asked with a calm face.

"Zuo Xiang's forgiveness, last night was too chaotic and busy, and the four battalions of the forbidden army have captured at least hundreds of suspicious people, and Gu has not had time to interrogate, but I have already seen this one that Zuo Xiang said, he is thin and long, more than eight feet tall, with a crooked nose and a strange face, looking like a beggar, but this person didn't say a word, so he hasn't gotten any useful clues......"

Thinking that Chen Xu was going to help investigate the cause of the fire, Lu Huan was grateful and told the situation he got very carefully.

Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, this person was definitely not Chen Yong.

"Lieutenant Lu, arson in Beijing is a capital crime, although this fire caused a catastrophe, but after all, it is a matter of human life, please interrogate clearly before making a conclusion, don't let innocent people be wronged, not to mention that in this autumn and winter, Zhao Gao's mansion is surrounded by vacant abandoned land, many beggars make fires to warm or cook food during hiding, and they may also inadvertently cause fires, so we need to be cautious in investigating this matter, and don't implicate innocent ...... too widely."

"Zuo Xiang is benevolent and righteous, and he must order these suspicious people to be carefully interrogated, and never let innocent people be wronged!" Lu Huan nodded hurriedly.

"Well, there are both fires and festivals, as well as the market outside the city, the Lieutenant's Mansion must have been busy recently and has not had the slightest leisure, and Ben Hou will not delay Lieutenant Lu's precious time, you go first, come to me in time if you have any difficulties!" Chen Xu nodded with satisfaction.

"Thank you for your understanding, Lu Huan farewell!" Lu Huan once again bowed his hand vigorously, looking quite moved.

Hundreds of princes and princes in the entire court, only Zuo Xiang came to ask about the situation of the fire and the investigation, although his busy feet did not touch the ground, but Lu Huan was still moved with tears in his eyes, and he was still rubbing his eyes while walking on the horse.