The eighth day of the seventh month of the first year of Great Qin II! The entire Guanzhong Land is like a huge furnace, and the fiery red flame releases the endless heat to the fullest! It seems to be venting the anger it has been suppressing for almost a year! The heat of the summer in the first year of the Great Qin II seems to be far more than all the summer days in the past hundred years in the land of Guanzhong! At the same time, all parts of Xianyang, Neishi County, Longxi County, Beidi County and other places suffered a drought far more serious than the drought in the first year of the First Emperor (246 BC)! There has been no decent rain in Guanzhong for two whole months from May to July, and most of the tributaries in Guanzhong, with Weishui, Jingshui, and Luoshui as the main streams, have dried up! Even the three major rivers in Guanzhong, Weishui, Jingshui, and Luoshui, have also seen a sharp decrease in water volume. Zheng Guo, who was responsible for supervising the construction of Jingshui and Luoshui for ten years, and the Zhengguo Canal, which irrigated countless fertile fields for Guanzhong, also had a rare outage! Every day, dozens of people from all over Guanzhong die of heat stroke every day because of this extremely hot weather! The entire Guanzhong region has once again been put into vigorous drought fighting! Nearly 800,000 people who originally built the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Lishan and galloped everywhere finally chose to stay in Guanzhong! Among the more than 800,000 people, 30,000 men who are more than eight feet tall and capable of lifting a thousand pounds and more than 50,000 strong men who are more than seven feet and eight feet tall have been selected by Wei Yu, and they have been enriched into the Bashang camp! And these more than 80,000 strong men who were ready to enrich the Xuanwu army also gathered from Longxi, Beidi, and Shangjun from all over Longxi, Beidi, and Shangjun to receive training in the Bashang camp not long after Hu Hai left Xianyang! As soon as Li Si and Feng Quji discussed, according to Hu Hai's wishes, hundreds of thousands of acres of land were either abandoned or uncultivated for a long time to settle these people who did not want to return to their hometowns! These hundreds of thousands of civilians, who had been forced to do labor, suddenly became employees of the official state-owned farms of Daqin. Except for a small part of the output that should be handed over, all the surplus grain belongs to these people themselves! Originally, this was supposed to be a good policy! Everyone thinks so! Including the hundreds of thousands of people who are willing to stay! It's just that now, this great drought that Great Qin has never encountered in hundreds of years has made these hundreds of thousands of people the biggest burden on Great Qin today! Hundreds of thousands of people who were waiting to be fed could not last so long with the few stones of grain they originally received, and in addition to the great drought, hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land could not be planted at all, and a series of troubles such as eating, drinking, dressing, and being sick followed! How to deal with these hundreds of thousands of people has suddenly become the most urgent issue in the Great Qin Dynasty now! If one is not handled well, these nearly 700,000 people who were originally grateful to Great Qin will become the biggest disaster in the Guanzhong Land that is still peaceful now! The drought and scorching heat, coupled with the fact that more than 700,000 people will break out at any time, make the Great Qin Dynasty without the emperor busy! Li Si and Feng Qujian and the other officials haven't closed their eyes for three whole nights! In today's grim situation and Li Si's deliberate overtures, Li Si and Feng Quji, who had already broken up in front of Hu Hai, began to work together to deal with this major matter that was related to everyone's life and death! All kinds of rumors began to circulate all over Guanzhong! However, most of the rumors are attributed to one point, that is, His Majesty the Second Emperor of Great Qin has not sacrificed to the heavens this year until now, and has also not sacrificed to the Taimiao, so the heavens are angry and resentful! Since the beginning of the first emperor's unification of the world and the emperor, the first edict was the Ming Zheng Daqin Code, the country name, the national fortune, the national calendar, the national Shuo, the national color, the national discipline, the national water and so on and a series of clear regulations! Great Qin Guoshuo, October is the first year of Zhengshuo, the period of congratulations. Meng Chun (January) worships the sky, Meng Qiu (July) worships the ancestors! In addition to the enthronement of Emperor Daqin, these are the two most important and grand festivals in Daqin!! At the time of Meng Chun, Hu Hai had just listened to Zhao Gao's instigation to follow the footsteps of the First Emperor's eastern tour, and he didn't remember this major event at all! Today's Hu Hai didn't know that there were these two important festivals, and since Hu Hai returned from his eastern tour, too many things have happened, Li Si and others don't know whether they were intentional or unintentional, and they haven't reminded Hu Hai of Meng Chun's sacrifice to the sky and Meng Qiu's sacrifice to the ancestors! The surging people in Guanzhong did not mean to blame the emperor, but strongly asked the emperor to immediately hold a ceremony to worship the heavens and ancestors, so as to calm the anger of the heavens and the ancestors, and pray for rain in parallel, so as to calm the hearts of all the people in the world! This kind of remarks does occupy the majority of the market in today's Guanzhong! The people all over Guanzhong didn't know that the current Emperor of Great Qin was no longer in Xianyang, and in the face of the surging mouths of the people, Li Si and Feng Quji, who knew that the emperor was not in Xianyang, couldn't say that the emperor was no longer in Xianyang! In this way, in the various places in Guanzhong, which seem to be a little anxious because of the summer heat and drought, a very strange picture has been formed! The people everywhere neither make trouble nor rebel, and pray for the emperor to be the master of all the people as soon as possible to worship the sky, ancestors, and rain! However, the Great Qin Dynasty headed by Li Si did not say a word, constantly mobilized grain, dug ditches, and extensively applied medicine to fight drought and save the people, but kept silent about the emperor's affairs! After half a month, the emperor has never been seen, and no one knows that something is wrong, and gradually the emperor's remarks that the emperor is not in Xianyang because of Hu Hai's edict to destroy the remnants of the six countries who oppose Qin in the world began to prevail again! Many ministers in the court and the central government also gradually began to wonder why the emperor had disappeared so far, and once again focused their eyes on Li Si, the prime minister of Great Qin! In the matter of the whereabouts of the little emperor and the matter of fighting drought and reassuring the people, Feng Quji rarely did not contradict Li Si! After all, if the emperor's whereabouts were confirmed from their mouths, if there was any mistake, no one could afford to bear this responsibility; If the land of Guanzhong is completely chaotic because of the heat and drought, then the two of them, who are also prime ministers, will not be able to escape! In such a major matter related to the foundation of Great Qin, Feng Quji and Li Si both saw it very clearly! In the face of the surging folk rumors in Guanzhong, Feng Quji and Li Si had a huge disagreement on whether to inform the emperor who had not yet returned to the land of Guanzhong about the great drought in various parts of Guanzhong! Feng Quji insisted that Li Si send a letter to the emperor about the situation of the drought in various parts of Guanzhong, but Li Si didn't know what to consider, but he rejected Feng Quji's suggestion, which was obviously not the slightest selfish! And Ying Teng and Wei Yi have ambiguous attitudes, but Zhang Han stays in the Bashang camp every day and doesn't interfere in these things at all! Facing Li Si, who has the support of Yao Jia, Hu Wujing, and Zheng Guo, Feng Quji, who is lonely, has no choice! However, the more Li Si refused to let the message be reported to the emperor, Feng Quji, who originally felt that something was wrong, wanted to report the drought that happened in Guanzhong to the emperor, and today, I don't know how many times the two prime ministers of Great Qin have broken up unhappily in the past two days! Looking at Feng Quji, who was waving his hand away with an angry face, a few inexplicable lights flashed in Li Si's eyes! "Your Excellency, the ministers think that the matter in Guanzhong is indeed to inform Your Majesty!" Yao Jia looked at the two prime ministers who broke up unhappily again, and finally cautiously said the thoughts that had been held in his heart for a long time! Although Yao Jia will firmly stand on Li Si's side when Feng Quji and Li Si are arguing, but when there are only his own people, Yao Jia will continue to say what he thinks in his heart, this has nothing to do with fighting for merit and profit, just to put forward opinions so that Li Si has more consideration! This is also the reason why, no matter when, Li Si always believes in and reuses Yao Jia! Because Yao Jia knows when to firmly stand on the same front with Li Si, and when to express his disagreement to Li Si! "Brother Yao also thinks that the old man is dead hearted so he doesn't send a message to His Majesty?" Li Si was not surprised by Yao Jia's words at all, and asked with a slight smile! "This ......" Yao Jia knows Li Si's surname very well, Li Si's actions are more and more inclined to Lu Buwei, and he has always been unprofitable! Now Li Si does not hesitate to turn his face on this trivial matter and is unwilling to send a letter to the emperor, even Yao Jia, who knows Li Si very well, has always thought that Li Si has a plan to do so! It's just that, now judging from Li Si's words, it seems that there really is no selfishness and no plan? Yao Jia still didn't believe it in his heart! Hearing Yao Jia's words, Li Si's eyes flashed, and he smiled and said, "Brother Yao thinks Your Majesty will not know the situation in Guanzhong Land now?" Not to mention the Dragon Guards and Black Ice Platforms that are densely scattered all over Guanzhong, will Lord Zongzheng and Guowei Wei Yu inform Your Majesty of the chaos in Guanzhong now? "Then why hasn't there been any news from His Majesty the Emperor?" Yao Jia heard Li Si say this, and hurriedly asked! "Your Majesty's actions, we are getting more and more difficult to fathom! The old man doesn't know! Li Si's expression did not move, and he said lightly! Prime Minister, Jia thinks this is inappropriate! The Prime Minister is in charge of the government, and now the chaos in various parts of Guanzhong is reported to His Majesty by Long Wei and Hei Bingtai, or Lao Zongzheng and the Lord Guowei, but it is always the Prime Minister who is in charge of the government! "Perhaps, Your Majesty is watching how the old man acts?" Li Si asked noncommittally! When he said this, Li Si couldn't help but think of a message he received yesterday from Xianyang Palace! Concubine Li actually conceived the emperor's blood before her daughter! Oh, yes! Naturally, Long Wei and Hei Bingtai, Ying Teng and Wei Yu informed the emperor about the affairs in various parts of Guanzhong, but they did not know about this hidden thing that happened in the emperor's harem, and naturally it was impossible to inform the emperor! Thinking of this, Li Si's palm, which was originally placed on the armrest of the big chair and kept rubbing gently, suddenly tightened!

(To be continued)