In the Divine Dragon Hall not far away, His Majesty Li Er's face was gloomy, and he seemed to be soaked by the heavy rain outside the window to the point that he could drip water......

Li Junxian stood in front of the emperor with his hands tied, presented a few secret folds, and described the situation in Jingyang in detail.

At first, I heard that Lin Ruofu, the director of the former Ministry of Engineering, broke his family and stayed on the embankment, and His Majesty Li Er was very pleased.

Throughout the ages, the structure of the imperial court was that the central government controlled the state capital, and the state capital led the county towns and towns, and the most basic grassroots rule of the imperial court was in the hands of the gentry.

Family gate valves, Zhishi officials, landlords and gentry, and clan elders...... These are among the squires. They are similar to officials and different from officials, similar to the people and above the people, and it is through these squires that the imperial court achieves the goal of controlling the whole country.

When the flood hit, it was the squire who led the people to fight and the embankment, which perfectly showed the role of the squire, if this is the case everywhere, why worry about the instability of the empire?

However, when he learned that the reason why Lin Ruofu led the people to guard the embankment alone was because the Jingyang County Order ignored it and stayed out of the matter, His Majesty the Emperor could not hide his anger.

The dignity of a county is a parent who protects the people, and at this time when natural disasters are falling sharply, can he sit in Yazhai and stand by, can he still be expected to love the people like a son, just and honest?

By the time the secret fold was read and Li Junxian finished speaking, His Majesty Li Er was already angry!

"Bastard! Is this Wei Yifang difficult to know how to write dead words? When a natural disaster came, he refused to go to the danger with the people of this county and work together to fight the flood. It just doesn't make sense. ”

His Majesty Li Er was very angry, and the power of the Son of Heaven's anger frightened Li Junxian, and he stood aside honestly, not daring to say a word more.

After losing his temper, His Majesty Li Er noticed that there was something strange in it: "Do you know why Wei Yifang refused to open a warehouse and release grain?" ”

Li Junxian said: "The last general doesn't know, it's just the reason in Wei Yifang's mouth, but in the eyes of the last general, it is unreasonable, and it is quite suspected of prevarication and cover-up." ”

His Majesty Li Er's eyes narrowed slightly: "Oh? Prevarication and disguise? ”

Li Junxian said: "The last general has never been to Jingyang in person, and it is difficult to guess the details...... However, since Liu Xun and Liu Yushi have already released words to impeach Wei Yifang, and led people to Jingyang City to investigate the situation in Yicang, presumably there will be conclusive news coming back soon. ”

His Majesty Li Er nodded, pondered slightly, and asked, "Wei Yifang...... How does this name sound familiar? Mo is not from the Wei family? ”

The Son of Heaven has the world in mind, but it is impossible to remember every child of Webster.

"Your Majesty, Wei Yifang is indeed a member of the Wei clan, not only that, but he is also a branch of the Wei family, and his father is Wei Yuanzhao, the uncle of Wei Guifei."

Li Junxian replied.

His Majesty Li Er was slightly surprised: "Wei Yuanzhao's son? ”

Speaking of this Wei Yuanzhao, he actually has a lot of relationship with His Majesty Li Er. This person is a former Sui concubine, and he can be regarded as a "brother-in-law" with His Majesty Li Er, but he is a lot older than His Majesty Li Er, and he died when Wude was six years old.

And he is the younger brother of Wei Guifei, and he is his brother-in-law......

His Majesty Li Er's face became more and more unkind, and in the past two years, it seems that all the relatives who have a relationship with the family have few worries, except for relying on the name of the emperor's relatives to swagger through the market and do whatever they want, they have not done a few serious things.

This is also one of the reasons why His Majesty Li Er is more and more unkind to the family gate valves, he was forced to be desperate by Li Jiancheng and had to use the power of these family door valves, and now that the overall situation has been settled, these insatiable guys are impatient to jump out and ask for interest......

In the long run, the family gate valve will become stronger and stronger, and the emperor will almost become a plaything in the hands of these family door valves.

His Majesty Li Er had a gloomy face and ordered: "Quickly send someone to keep an eye on Liu Xun to see what is going on in this Jingyang Yicang, and if there is any news, enter the palace immediately to tell me." ”

"Whoa!"

Li Junxian responded, and when he saw that the emperor had no more orders, he bowed down and said goodbye.

When the general walked to the door, he saw a graceful beautiful woman surrounded by a group of maids, carrying two wide oil-paper umbrellas to the door of the main hall, holding a skirt in one hand, and walking up the white marble steps with lotus steps.

Li Junxian hurriedly tied his hands to the side and said respectfully: "The last general talked about the concubine Niangniang." ”

Wei Guifei, who changed into a gorgeous palace dress and lightly painted her eyebrows and indifferent lip grease, looked more and more glamorous and graceful, smiled at the corner of her lips, and returned the salute slightly: "It turned out to be General Li...... But I don't know that this heavy rain is raging, but the general has something to tell Your Majesty? ”

The corners of Li Junxian's mouth twitched slightly, and he said respectfully: "Exactly, the last general still has the emperor's order, so he will retire for the time being." ”

After saying that, he bowed and bowed, and hurried away.

This Wei Guifei is really a golden jade, and she is ruined, I have something to do with Your Majesty...... But is that what you can ask?

It is no wonder that he is the head of the "Four Ladies", but he is not favored by His Majesty......

Wei Guifei stared at Li Junxian's back with hatred and disappeared into the rain, her silver teeth were biting, and she almost scolded.

What is it!

It's just the emperor's eagle dog minions, and he really thinks he is a character?

I even dare to shake the face of this palace!

She knew that Li Junxian's mastery of the "Hundred Horses" was His Majesty's eyes and ears, and she couldn't say that the news from Jingyang was still reaching the palace at this moment, so she intended to inquire about the news, so as not to make a mistake when she pleaded in front of the emperor later.

Unexpectedly, Li Junxian didn't give her face at all......

Angry stomped his feet, cursing Li Junxian in his heart, and then put on a bright and charming smile, his waist swayed lightly, and he walked into the Dragon Hall in a graceful manner.

*****

The Jinghe embankment was stormy and windy, but thousands of soldiers braved the wind and rain to brave the wind and rain, and countless earth and rocks were transported up from under the dam to fill the gap that had been washed away by the flood. The water was so strong that the fallen earth and rocks were swept away by the flood in the blink of an eye, but no one felt depressed and continued to work with determination......

"It's not a way to go on like this!"

Fang Jun looked at the gap in front of him that was getting bigger and bigger, and his face was worried.

The turbulent river swallowed up the poured earth and rocks at the breach, and carried them to the deep place in the middle of the river, and the indomitable work of the soldiers did not achieve any results, but the gap became bigger and bigger because of the gradual surging of the water.

Cheng Yanjin stood on Fang Jun's side with his negative hand, looking at the turbid river with concern in his eyes, and said in his throat: "I'm afraid this gap can't be blocked, once this place is washed away, the entire embankment will be cut off, and the flood will be vented from here, which is overwhelming...... Erlang, if you don't give the order to retreat and abandon the embankment now, I'm afraid you won't be able to withdraw if you want to......"

This is not that Cheng Biting Jin is afraid of death, but that he knows that he can't do anything, and he should avoid it.

Once the levee is breached, the entire levee will collapse in an instant, and then the flood will be so raging that everyone on the levee will have to be targeted for fish, turtles, shrimp and crabs......

He didn't want to follow his sons and daughters who didn't die on the battlefield, but instead died in the belly of a fish.

Lin Ruofu on the side was anxious when he heard this, his red eyes were round, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Grandpa Guo, don't do it!" If we give up, the embankment will burst, Jingyang will inevitably suffer from floods, and our homes will be destroyed and lives will be destroyed......"

"Fart!"

Cheng Biting Jin's eyes widened wider than him, and said angrily: "Could it be that such a stupid way to continue to transport rocks and fill soil can prevent the dam from collapsing?" Right Wuwei is not afraid of death, but it is meaningless to die in vain here, you feel sorry for your Jingyang, and you also feel sorry for your Erlang! ”

The two immediately argued, and the loud voice made the people on the embankment look at each other, each in a heavy mood, and did not know what to do.

Lin Ruofu is naturally reluctant to retreat, but he will not retreat if there is a glimmer of hope, because once he retreats, it means that the entire Jingyang will be abandoned, and tens of thousands of Jingyang people will become homeless and homeless.

And in this era of living on the land, there is no land, no homeland, and the final result is nothing more than the slave of the rich, or the lowly slave......

This is what Lin Ruofu and all the people of Jingyang would rather die than face.

Cheng Yanjin is responsible for the soldiers under him, since he can't do anything, why do he want these soldiers to suffer from the flood?

Erlang in the army is not afraid of death, but it is meaningless to not die like this!

The five thousand right guards slowed down, their faces heavy and hesitant.

Not only did they want to evacuate such a dangerous place as soon as possible, but they couldn't bear to let the people of Jingyang who were fighting side by side around them lose their homes in this way, and since then they have been displaced and become homeless, and their ancestors have become slaves for generations......

Since ancient times, the people of Guanzhong have moved the world with their unity and fearlessness of death, how can they see such a tragedy befall the villagers and elders at this moment?

For a moment, it seemed that the enthusiasm just now was extinguished by the heavy rain, and there was silence on the embankment, leaving only the merciless drama of the wind and rain.

Fang Jun glanced left and right, and said strangely: "The official just said that it is not possible to fill the gap like this, when did he say that the gap cannot be filled, and when did he say that the embankment cannot be held?" ”