Huanghuai water poured into the canal, the canal overflowed, and the water in Yangzhou City rose two feet in an instant, and it is said that the water level is still rising!

Since Beiping was upgraded to Beijing, and then became the capital, the Ming Dynasty has been carrying out various dredging and transformation of the canal for more than 100 years, even if many of them presided over the dredging and opening of another river, are famous and able ministers, but people are determined to win the day in this era is completely a joke. Since most of the water in the Huaiyang section of the canal is supplemented by the Huanghuai water system, as long as the Huanghuai floods, it will inevitably affect the canal. Therefore, there is a small disaster in three years and a major disaster in ten years, and the difference is only in what place it suffers.

However, Huaiyang has not been hit by major floods for several years, so although there have been many rumors of heavy rains upstream, most people are lucky.

Wang Daomin was the same, because the news came from Master Cheng, and he was even more convinced that this was just the other party's strategy. So, when his family reported that the canal was overflowing, his first reaction was ridiculous. However, when he stood under the eaves and saw his panicked family members urgently using various methods to stop the water, he only felt a loud bang in his head, and his thinking almost stopped.

Yangzhou City is no better than other places, a canal passes through the city, once the canal is overflowing, the city will naturally be flooded with Jinshan. Although in the 35th year of Jiajing, because the old city was too small to live, the salt merchants donated money one after another, plus the government contributed some money, and built a new city, most of the salt merchants moved into it, and the two cities of Huizhou and the county have the same thing, but for the convenience of the canal water conservancy, the new city is the same as the canal through the city, so once the canal is overflowing, the old city of the new city is naturally unlucky. And along with this, there is another, more serious problem!

That is the salt goods that are waiting for the government to check in the stack on the east side of the banknote!

Ignoring the obstruction of the servants of the family. Wang Daomin immediately went out like crazy and hurried to Tianning Gate to prepare to leave the city. Along the way, the carriage struggled to move through waist-deep water, and the slower and slower it went, even though the coachman frequently advised, he would not listen. Until I saw the gate of the city that was bustling with people on weekdays. He saw that there were already many soldiers guarding the place, huge sandbags were piled up to build a high wall, and there were people shouting something.

"Gaoyou Baoying is said to be three feet deep!"

"Who asked Fuzun to pass on the order but they didn't listen, our side has already made some preparations, so it's still too late. What's going on outside the city? ”

"Everywhere near the canal is flooded, and the villages and towns are afraid that they will not be able to count for a while and a half."

In these voices, knowing that the carriage could not move forward, Wang Daomin hurriedly got out of the carriage, and Gao Yi hurriedly stepped forward with a low foot. Before he could speak, someone saw him standing in the rain in despair. Immediately stepped forward angrily: "The palace has an order, the city gate has been closed, and you can't enter or leave without a warrant!" And many places outside the city are flooded, and the water outside the city is four feet long, and you can't walk out of the city unless you can row! ”

Wang Daomin couldn't even open his eyes despite the pouring rain, and said in an eager voice: "Master Jun, I have something urgent to go out of the city to go to the bank......

"Money?" The officer in the oil coat and hat looked at Wang Daomin, who was wet and chicken. Xu Yi understood what was going on, and suddenly said with a smile. "All the officials above and below the banknote pass have been evacuated into the city urgently, who can you find when you run over at this time? Oh, I know, you're here for those goods in the stacks on the east side of the Kankan, right? Tell you, don't be delusional, it's right on the canal. It is also a place that was flooded in the first place. It's better to say if it's something else, but if it's salt...... Hehe. ”

Although it was just a meaningful sneer in the end, Wang Daomin was not a fool, how could he not hear the ridicule? He felt his body shake violently, and then he collapsed on the ground. Although two servants rushed up from the car behind him to help him up from the stagnant water, he was still covered in muddy water. He had little idea how he had been put in the carriage and how he had returned home.

And being poured by this heavy rain and this bad news, he started a high fever that night, and his wife, concubines, and children were suddenly confused, and even those servants who knew that something was wrong quietly ran away.

Fortunately, Wang Daomin is only forty after all, and his body is barely good, but after two or three days of groggy fever, he finally barely regained his senses. However, the first thing he did when he opened his eyes was to call the butler and ask word by word, "How is the banknote stack?" ”

Although he knew that the master had just woken up at this time and couldn't hear the bad news, under Wang Daomin's fierce gaze, the housekeeper hesitated again and again, and finally said in a low voice: "The rain is only a little lighter today, most of the city in Yangzhou is soaked in water, and the city gates everywhere are closed most of the time, and there is not much news over there." I heard ......"

"Heard of what? Say it quickly, what a sale! ”

"I heard that all the food in the stack over there has been soaked in water. Moreover, it is said that this time the Huanghuai flooded, the canal was overflowing, and the entire Huaiyang area flooded countless fertile land roads, and several major salt farms also suffered heavy losses. ”

The grain is soaked in water, not to mention salt? Moreover, the salt works were flooded, which meant that all the surplus salt of the stove households was affected, and even if they had money, they could not buy it...... It's over, it's all over!

Wang Daomin only felt that his eyes were dark, but fortunately, a concubine next to him was quick and put a soft towel wrapped in ice on his forehead, so he didn't faint again. He sat up with his support and took a deep breath, and just as he was about to speak, there was a sudden noise outside the door. He was already on fire, and suddenly scolded in a hoarse voice: "I'm not dead yet, what are you arguing about!" ”

There was silence outside the door for a moment, but soon someone entered the house, and it was Wang Daomin's two sons. On weekdays, they fight openly and secretly over who can inherit their father's position, but now they are anxious and full of resentment. At this time, the eldest son preemptively shouted: "Dad, it's not that my brother and I don't know how to disturb your rest, it's really that they are too much!" You're sick in bed here, and the other heads of the room are coming together to force the palace! He also said......"

The second son also hurriedly picked up the conversation and said: "I also said that there was a warning of this flood very early, and everyone was busy transferring the hoarded salt to the place, only my father put it in the stack, and I didn't know how to find the salt patrol Yushi to check and clear the customs as soon as possible, which is simply a dizziness!" They even clamored that they would re-nominate one person to manage the salt industry, and this time the deficit should be borne by the four of us alone! ”

If the news he got just after waking up was already very bad, at this moment, Wang Daomin almost turned his back on his anger. In the past, when he was arbitrary, where did anyone in the other rooms dare to put his beak on his proposal, but now he has seized such an opportunity, and a large group of people have joined together to make trouble, which is simply too deceitful!

"What about people? Where are the people? Help me up, I want to see where they get the confidence! ”

Seeing their father's determination, the brothers breathed a sigh of relief. Although they sneered at the other rooms in the past, but now that the family has suffered a great change, and the family members from all the rooms have come together, they can't bear it at all. It's just that seeing Wang Daomin's trembling appearance, they were a little uneasy, and finally the eldest son thought of a way, and immediately commanded loudly: "Come on, come over, and prepare a few more oil coats...... Even if there is a verandah, the wind and rain are so strong, it will always float in, what if it freezes my father......"

Wang Daomin had no intention of paying attention to the eldest son's little diligence at this moment. When he was moved to the shoulder, all the way to the hall, I saw that there were already five people sitting there, four of them were in Yangzhou Wang's fourth room, Xie Lao'an, a female streamer was particularly eye-catching, and the other teenager Although he had only seen it twice, the memory was extremely unforgettable, because it was clearly the nephew of Master Cheng, what is it called Shuangmu! For a while, all the new and old hatreds came to his heart, so much so that he glared at the other party viciously and shouted: "When will it be the turn of the Cheng family to intervene in the affairs of my Wang family?" ”

Knowing that Wang Daomin was talking about himself, Wang Fulin put down the teacup in his hand, stood up and arched his hand casually: "The fourth master of the good religion learned that the younger generation Wang Fulin of Songming Mountain, She County, Huizhou, and his father were secretive about Daoyun, and he happened to come to Yangzhou this time, and he didn't have time to say hello to the fourth master, so he didn't come to visit until today, which was really neglectful." ”

This nephew who is like a follower next to Master Cheng turned out to be Wang Fulin? Is it Wang Daoyun's son? How is this possible!

Wang Daomin came back to his senses all of a sudden, savoring the smell of conspiracy. He raised his hand almost in a rage, and trembled and pointed at the boy in front of him, who was younger than his own young son, but he trembled and could not say a word. Or Wang Daomin's eldest son on the side reacted quickly, and while supporting his father, he shouted inwardly: "Since you are a member of the Wang family, do you still dare to eat inside and outside and help the Cheng family calculate the elders of this sect?" Aren't you afraid of the patriarchal law! ”

"Oh, it turns out that at this time, Sifang remembers the patriarchal and clan laws." Wang Fulin sneered, but flicked the corner of his coat again, and sat down with a comfortable demeanor, "I think I saw that my father was honest and easy to bully, so he set a trap for him when he was collecting salt, and then let him lose a lot of money, and even forced him to promise to give up dividends and owe a lot of debts, why didn't anyone talk about clan law and patriarchy at that time?" ”

"This Songmingshan Wang's salt business was not originally a family, but a seven-room joint stock, each accounting for a share, but over the years, the fourth master has held the power alone, and the other family has either been reduced to a spectator who can only hold a bonus of one thousand eight hundred taels a year, or is called by you as a shopkeeper, where is there still a little friendship of the same clan and the same clan, why did no one say the patriarchal clan law at that time?"

"Think that when my great-uncle and grandfather Shouyi Gong were alive, he was recommended by the public as two Huai salt? Sacrificial wine, not only Hui merchants served, but also other merchants of all nationalities were served, Songmingshan Wang is faintly the leader of the two Huai salt industry, but now? Who among the Hui merchants doesn't know, eat these four words, the four masters can't be cleaned if you want to deny it, and your son is embarrassed to say the patriarchal law! ”

PS: In the last five hours, the small monthly pass is cleared ^_^ (to be continued......)