Master Li sat quietly for a while and pondered, and gradually realized that with the existing technical conditions, he was really going to encounter a critical scene, and there was no way to do it except to discharge the flood.

Not to mention the Daming Jinghe period, even in the era of the previous life, when there was a big flood, there was often no choice but to discharge the flood. He is not a fairy saint, just a small bureaucrat in the Ming officialdom, he can only see the opportunity and try his best to have a clear conscience.

After having an idea in his head, Master Li began to make preliminary preparations, even if the ancestral tomb was flooded, it must be prevented even if it was just in case, and he was really not afraid of 10,000. In particular, according to Old Man Dai's analysis, this year's water potential is greater than the flood that once soaked the ancestral tomb Shinto five years ago.

I have to say that Li You has been honed in the prefecture and county, and he is very disciplined when he encounters problems. He first wrote three official documents, which should be reported to the governor's yamen, and posted to be posted.

The first is the inscription, which asks the state of Sizhou to be governed elsewhere. Because the terrain of Sizhou City is too low, the water potential on the four sides is large, resulting in frequent floods year after year. Therefore, it is recommended that the imperial court choose another address, move Sizhou City, and move the households inside and outside the city, and the province will be tossed every year, and the people will lose money.

Of course, the governor of such a major event cannot call the shots, and he has to continue to play the imperial court. Lord Li did not expect that within the month or two of his flood control, he would be able to get the imperial court to approve this matter, and it didn't matter if the imperial court agreed or not, these were not his goals. To put it bluntly, this is a letter that is more meaningful than practical.

His main purpose was to convey to all parties that "ugly words are ahead" -- the official had already suggested that another site should be chosen to build the city of Jianzhou, and in case there was a flood in the tomb of the ancestors, the princes of the imperial court should remember that the official had not been unpredictable.

At the same time, there are also many incidental purposes such as hinting at dangerous surnames, showing that they are very sober, testing the court and governors, and vaccinating the atmosphere of public opinion.

The second petition was a request to the governor to transfer the military households of the guards in the neighboring prefectures and counties to stand by on the embankment. This is because after Li You saw the attitude of the local river workers, he was worried that if the local civil servants resisted the order at a critical moment, he needed to find some reliable labor.

The third is the notice of the people, which is posted at the five gates of Sizhou City. Li You wrote a few sentences such as "The embankment is strong, the water situation is stable, there will be no floods this year, and the people inside and outside the city should not panic, but live and work in peace and contentment", although this is not the case, and even some of the opposite.

Throwing down the quill, Li You walked out of the ancestral hall of the Yu family and walked around casually. The whole village is covered with thatched huts and mud walls, which is full of a strong impoverished rural atmosphere......

Yu Wan'er came out of nowhere, "What did Uncle Dai tell you?" Look at the look on your face. ”

Seeing Yu Niangzi and hearing her ask again, Li You thought of another question, if he wanted to pick up the Sizhou embankment, would Yujia Village, which was only one mile away from the embankment, fight with him first?

"What will happen to you if the Sizhou embankment breaks?"

Yu Niangzi replied indifferently: "Then don't break the gap nearby, it's better to be far away, the village has a chance to run." ”

"You don't seem to care?" Li Youqi said.

"The slave family wants to pull the people to Gaoyou, but my uncle can't give up the old land and hesitates, if there is a big flood to flood the village, he will have to go if he doesn't go."

Could it be that you overheard the conversation and deliberately encouraged the official to dig the embankment? Li You said casually: "You really don't have nostalgia. ”

Yu Wan'er raised her slender finger and pointed at the village and said: "There are floods every year, and there is no half an acre of fertile land, do you stay here and wait for the poor to die?" Lord Tuo Langjun's blessing, he has a place to settle in Gaoyou, and when will he stay if he doesn't take the opportunity to move away? ”

Well, a person who has been forced to go out by life since he was a teenager has a weak sense of vernacularity.

A child ran over and shouted: "Then Ma Zhuang has come to the door again to ask for an explanation for Ma Qianjun!" Tell Aunt Wan to avoid it! ”

It seems that this is the consequence of Li You's command to beat Ma Qianjun... Yu Wan'er looked at Li You and said, "Lord Li, can you borrow your own soldiers?" ”

Li You has already figured out her thoughts, this is because I am afraid that the matter is not big, and she was overjoyed when she heard that she was going to come to the village to station, which is also the reason. But it doesn't matter, Li You waved his hand.

The more than 20 temporary soldiers around Li You were carefully selected from one or two thousand battalion soldiers, and they were all sturdy and holding steel knives, and they were put into the double-digit level villagers' arms fight, which was really overkill.

Dozens of enemy troops from Mazhuang were defeated, and the old patriarch of Yujia Village was not happy but sad. Now that Lord Li is in charge of the village, he is naturally not afraid of the horse village, but what will he do after Lord Li is gone? After all, the favored concubine of the Zhizhou family came from Mazhuang.

Only Mrs. Yu, who succeeded in her plan, laughed and groaned, and chatted with her uncle about the migration.

So far, Master Li is still not sure that he is not determined enough to sacrifice Sizhou in the face of danger, and it is really difficult to say if it is not the end of the matter.

In fact, the decision-making topic of "what to do if you need to give up the flood discharge of Sizhou City to protect the ancestral tomb" is not so complicated, and it can even be said to be very simple. If it were replaced by other officials in the Ming Dynasty, he would definitely choose to give up Sizhou City without hesitation and righteousness, and he would not be under such pressure as Li You.

Because the ancestral tomb is related to the dragon vein and national fortune of the Ming Dynasty, it has the highest political significance, which is the great righteousness. If you want to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, can you hesitate on this issue?

Not to mention that it is also related to personal black yarn hat and net worth, it is rare to have a high degree of unity between righteousness and self-interest, no matter what kind of official, there will be no second choice in the end. What the Ming officials are afraid of is that the flood will not be able to protect the ancestral tomb.

Even throughout history, breaking the levee for a special purpose is really not an extremely shocking and unique measure, and I don't know how many ancestors have done this.

Li You, a traverser, always felt that the ancestral dragon vein was very false, and it was not worth it to drown a city for the sake of something empty, and at the same time, he was also surprised that the local river workers were so worried about the artificial embankment.

If Lord Li had seen the twists and turns of Pan Jitao, a famous minister of water control and the governor of Hecao, he would not have made a fuss. Master Pan, who has single-handedly created the situation of the Huanghuai water potential for more than 100 years, wrote clearly in the fold - "The first consideration is the ancestral tomb, the second is the luck, and then the people's livelihood." Huaiyu is heavier, and the ancestral tomb is heavier. ”

The order of priority is clear, ancestral tombs, canals, people's livelihood. But there is no need to take the concept of the twenty-first generation to criticize the sixteenth century Pan Daren, the era is a different era, the family and the country are different from the world, and the later generations criticize the ancestors for the unity of heaven and man, the ancestors and other values such as the dragon vein are purely full of food and support.

(To be continued)