"Let's go! Let's go! ”

The rain fell to the ground, and Xia Huan, who was sitting in the wine shop, looked at the splashing water, but frowned, and couldn't help but feel a little worried.

It's been raining like this for almost four or five days.

In the city, many small lakes have overflowed. The same is true in Xia Huan's Monarch's Mansion.

Such a heavy rain, not to mention the county seat of Yingshang, is in the capital of Shou, and the news of flooding also came two days ago.

However, the capital is high, so you don't have to worry too much about it.

However, it is not the same on the chin. Just twenty or thirty miles away from the county seat is the confluence of two important rivers in the territory of Chu.

If so, if the river floods, this Yingshang will become a country.

"It's raining so hard this year!"

In the wine shop, there are naturally no fewer people who take shelter from the rain and chat. Most of them were drinking wine and eating some side dishes, and seemed quite laid-back.

"No, it seems that the commercial price has risen a lot in the past few months." The other person next to him said with the same sigh.

Yingshang, as a first-class product manufacturing base in Chu State, whether it is paper, porcelain, or tea, is rarely exposed to the sun.

The continuous heavy rain naturally has a great impact on these. Rising prices are almost inevitable.

"This brother, this year's rain is so heavy, the river won't burst the embankment!" Xia Huan carried a pot of wine and asked as he poured it for the two of them in turn.

Who knows, the two actually looked at each other and smiled, which made Xia Huan even unpredictable.

"Little boy, you haven't been here for long, have you?" One of the two said with a smile.

Xia Huan nodded, arched his hand and said, "Brother Tai, it's really only been a month. ”

"You don't know yet. Back then, after Taizu regained Yingshang, the first major thing he did was to build a river. I don't know how much manpower and material resources have been invested. At that time, the skilled craftsmen in the Mo family also praised the embankment built by Taizu, which will not fall for a hundred years! How many years have passed now? ”

When the man had finished speaking, he and his companion burst out laughing again.

Xia Huan touched his head and smiled a little awkwardly, as if he was also a little embarrassed.

After chatting a few more words, Xia Huan confessed and left.

However, the words of the two virtuous guests in the wine shop did not make Xia Huan feel at ease.

As a later generation, the reinforced concrete embankment does not dare to say that it has nothing to do for a hundred years, and now it is just a mud dam, which can support a hundred years?

After thinking about it, Xia Huan finally changed into a robe, took four or five guards, rode on a fast horse, and went straight to the embankment on Yingshang.

Out of the north city gate, before he could reach the embankment, the scenery along the way had already surprised Xia Huan.

As an agrarian society, land, or arable land, is always the most important thing, no matter where it is. Even outside of Shoudu, there are also large tracts of fertile land.

In addition to the farmland, there are villages that occasionally gather together.

However, on Yingshang, as soon as you get out of the north city gate, you can see that there are many workshops dotted on the lush green fields.

Papermaking, kiln firing, all there.

Even, after walking ten miles in a row, it was such a scene.

However, after thinking about it a little, Xia Huan also understood the reason.

On the Ying, closer to the Yingshui. Most of the ferries are naturally in the north.

The amount of transactions on the Yingshang is too large to be counted. Those paper tea leaves are fine, but most of the ordinary porcelain are fragile.

Moreover, the price is higher than that of paper, and the volume is also larger, which can be said to be a contemporary luxury.

Such a luxury, if it is placed in other places and detours to the ferry, it will at least take more than ten miles.

One carelessly, breaking several is always inevitable.

Even if it is paper tea and other goods, the sales of merchants close to the ferry port are much better than those in other places.

Over time, the merchants pursued profits, and since the proximity to the ferry port was more popular, the workshops that were originally scattered in other places on Yingshang were also relocated to the north of the city.

Anyway, for them, the land occupied by the workshop is not a problem at all.

These can also be regarded as the instincts of capital. After Xia Huan figured it out, he didn't care too much.

The horse that Xia Huan brought out of the palace can indeed be regarded as a first-class good horse. In a hurry, it didn't take long for them to reach the embankment.

I have to say that the endless river embankment in front of me is indeed spectacular in this era.

According to the views of the ancients, such a river embankment can be described as unprecedented, and it is more than enough to protect it for a hundred years?

However, although water is invisible, it is not sharp. However, there are so many things in the world, and how many can withstand the erosion of water for a hundred years?

Now, decades have passed since Taizu renovated the river.

In addition, in the past ten years, the family has become the real master of Yingshang. Xia Huan almost didn't have to think about it, in the past ten years, the embankment on Yingshang must have been neglected to consolidate and manage.

The hidden danger has been planted for a long time, but it is not yet known when it will erupt.

"Sand! Sand! Sand! ”

The rain fell on Xia Huan's coat and made a loud sound.

Standing on the embankment, Yingshui does not have the momentum of rushing as expected, as if it is just a little faster than the usual flow speed.

"Your Highness, this Yingshui doesn't seem to be as serious as imagined. You don't have to worry too much. Looking at Xia Huan's worried look, a guard beside Xia Huan said with relief.

Xia Huan nodded, but he understood in his heart.

This year's rainy season, at least more than half a month, if the rain in this half month has been like now, then at that time, it is estimated that it is not very easy to say.

"How is Yu Meng's Changxiu Army training?" Xia Huan turned his head and asked.

"This ...... I heard that it seems to be pretty good. The guard bowed his head slightly, and said with some uncertainty.

Chang Xiujun, in the eyes of these palace guard elites, is simply a group of rabble. How could they, with their arrogant hearts, care about a group of rabble?

If it weren't for the fact that Yu Meng was the person Xia Huan valued now, this guard would even be able to help but mock him.

"Go back and tell Yu Meng that no matter how well his soldiers are trained, he will bring people to me in front of the river embankment. If he doesn't have time to practice, Benjun will help him practice! ”

Xia Huan said as he pointed to a clearing next to the river embankment and said, "There, right there, set up camp for me." For the next month, I want them all to live there! ”

"Whoa!" Then the guard replied respectfully.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Huan said: "Tell Zhaoming to bring a batch of grain from the treasury of the county government and borrow some tools from the tenants of the Junfu." Finally, I told him that I would not go back for the next few days. ”

The guard was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Your Highness is not going back?" ”

A pampered prince, clothed and well-fed, actually wants to live in this barren mountain and wilderness. For them, it was unheard of and shocking.

Next to the river embankment, there are a lot of weeds, and it is continuous and rainy, this kind of environment, even they, the palace guards, have not experienced for a long time. may not be able to endure such hardship, let alone the prince.