Chapter 119: Black Gold
Zhang Xiao and his party walked forward for another distance, and a huge hole suddenly cracked in the flat soil surface, dividing the village into two, standing on a high mound, and a lot of middle-aged laborers below were filling the embankment!
In the past, there was a heavy snowfall, but now the weather is warm, and the snow is melting. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAlthough it is a river, it cannot irrigate the land due to drought, and waterlogging cannot regulate the water system! The people of the counties on both sides of the river are deeply affected!
Zhang Xiao looked at the people who were struggling for the river embankment and asked Li Bing: "Can you dredge it here first?" Li Bing looked around at the geography, and after hearing the prince's words, he pondered and said, "It's hard to reach the sky!" ”
The "guide" who led them in the direction had already slipped away when they arrived at the place! Although it was early spring, the weather was extremely cold, and the people under the river embankment showed their arms one after another, which made people feel extremely pitiful......
When Li Bing saw that everyone accompanying him showed unbearable expressions, and they all felt cold for his decision, Li Bing spoke: "Today, I have compassion for this county, but I forgot the joy of the Fulian Ten Thousand Families after the cultivation?" ”
What Li Bing is talking about is a great plan to revise the river, and it will not change course because of the people of one county and one village, and it is even more impossible to guide the revision suddenly!
After Zhang Xiao heard Li Bing's words, he said: "I have heard: the inch is short, and the ruler is long!" Dan just said that he was a little compassion, but he forgot the whole concern! After Li Bing heard Prince Dan's words, he hurriedly replied: "The prince is merciful and compassionate, and the blessing of the people!" Bing is just a rough pondering of water conservancy, so he can't afford to learn this job! ”
The two were about to humble themselves to each other, but they were shocked by the sound of horses in the distance! I only saw a few horses galloping towards me, and when I got closer, I saw that the leader was General Lecheng!
When Le Cheng walked over, several people in the group dismounted and bowed to Zhang Xiao and said, "I've seen His Royal Highness the Prince!" After Zhang Xiao helped Le Cheng, Le Cheng said: "In the morning, when the minister went to ask for breakfast for the prince, he found that the prince had already left the county guard's mansion, and the ministers were ashamed!" ”
After Zhang Xiao heard Lecheng's words, he laughed and said: "I came all the way because I was used to it, and it happened that Li Bing was about to explore the Weishui River, so he happened to come with him!" ”
The day after Lecheng learned that the prince Danlai Daijun began to explore the river, it was really vigorous! However, this is a blessing for the people of Daijun! Le Cheng hurriedly turned his head to look at Li Bing and said, "King Zhao asked Mr. to modify the river, which is really a blessing for the people of the county!" ”
After Li Bing heard Le Cheng's compliments, he didn't say much, just looked at the people below and said, "Bing is only a seven-foot man, you should use this to report King Zhao's kindness!" Li Bing looked directly at Zhang Xiao when he talked about "the grace of knowing the encounter", and the implication was self-evident!
After hearing this, Lecheng nodded his head. Zhang Xiao asked, "How did General Lecheng get here!" ”
Le Cheng thought of this trip at this time, and said to Zhang Xiaoyan: "Not far from the land of Lin County, the local county magistrate reported that black stones suddenly appeared here, so on the way to the coming, I knew that the prince was here, so I came here first!" He didn't dare to explain the truth, he knew that the prince would come here first and then go to Linxian County, he was afraid that after explaining the truth, the prince would suspect that he was spying on the prince!
Zhang Xiao was a little surprised when he heard that black stones were found in Lin County, this must have been excavated in large quantities, otherwise he would not have been guarded by the county! Zhang Xiao asked with a curious mentality: "How far is Lin County from here?" ”
After asking, Zhang Xiao and his entourage rode quickly to Linxian County with Lecheng, which is located in the south of the Daijun Governor's Office! As soon as a few people arrived at the boundary of Linxian County, they saw a continuous stream of locals leaving their hometowns to go elsewhere!
Zhang Xiao and the others just heard that black stones were found in the local area on the banks of the Shushui River just now, and how did they all start to evolve into crowds and flee after they arrived here? Zhang Xiao looked at Lecheng and asked, "How could they escape?" ”
Lecheng also heard about this situation in Lin County today, and looked at the soldier who led the way in front of him with a questioning face, the man turned his head and held his right shoulder, signaling to make a ceremony and said: "Lin County heard that the county wants to control the river, so he began to dig the river between the two high mountains not far away under the leadership of the county order, how could he have thought ......?"
When he heard the man's words and half of his sighs, he asked, "Then how can so many people flee?" Only then did the guide Jia Shi explain the reason: "While people were digging, a large number of black stones were found on one side of the mountain, and the county order said that this was a warning that people were not allowed to dig this place!" Later, more and more onmyologist also came here, but in the end they all left in vain, so the local people were afraid of offending the heavens and fled from this place one after another......"
A few people walked further, and they saw black smoke billowing at the bottom of the mountain not far ahead, but it made people tremble! The man hurriedly turned around and said, "That's where I found it!" ”
After hearing this, a few people rushed over with a whip! In the end, when he was here, Cen Yan, the county commander of Linxian County, was already waiting here. He didn't know that the prince would also arrive here, and after hearing Le Cheng talk about it, he hurriedly made everyone present bow down and said, "The ministers have seen His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”
Seeing this, Zhang Xiao hurriedly asked Cen Yan and the others to get up, and Zhang Xiao asked, "Where is the black stone now?" Cen Yan also didn't know where the black stone came from, and pointed to the place where a large amount of dust was still floating not far away!
Zhang Xiao stepped forward, Cen Yan saw the prince passing, it was too late to stop it, and he hurriedly followed! Zhang Xiao felt that there was a heat wave in front of him, and the stones seemed to contain heat!
Zhang Xiao bent over to take a closer look at what the stone was. After a closer look, Zhang Xiao was already sure that it was the object! When he looked back at the crowd of people who were following him, there was a look of great horror on his face, whether the black stone dug out from the side of the mountain was really as rumored: it was the people of Daijun who offended the heavens, and the heavens were warning them! Dai County has jurisdiction over forty-one counties, located in the area from Yanggao, Shanxi Province to Wei County, Hebei Province in later generations, so Zhang Xiao looked at the black stone with unpleasant joy!
Zhang Xiao was about to reach out and touch the black stone, but the county magistrate Cen Yan immediately stopped him when he saw it: "Don't touch that stone, there will be bad luck!" After hearing this, Zhang Xiao shook her head indifferently, and showed the "black stone" to everyone with her hand!
Needless to say, this is indeed a lump of coal, the earliest use of coal in ancient times also reached the Western Han Dynasty, and now the lump of coal has been excavated here, how can it be buried?
Wei Jia and Yu Xin were also worried about the safety of the prince, and people in this period had an instinctive respect for the heavens, which can also be glimpsed from the suburban sacrifices of Prince Dan following King Zhao outside Handan City...... Prince Dan's move, the people present looked at him with some fear!
However, Zhang Xiao was not afraid of the eyes of the people present, he picked up the coal in his hand and thought that he had talked to King Zhao and Neishi Shen in Handan, and that he should "integrate politics and business" when repairing the river.