At the end of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

The rain is falling loudly, and it can't be stopped, it's been a month!

Liu Xian looked at the bare flowers in the courtyard that were beaten by the rain, and felt depressed in his heart. I can fight lightly and look for teeth, and Zuo Jinliang doesn't dare to look south, but how can I live with this God?

This rain is going to fall in North China, you said it would be good to go down to Shanxi and Henan! Guangdong and Fujian are not experiencing drought, but are about to become floods.

Liu Xian walked by the window, and the current Qin Palace's mansion resembled an ink painting by a master of Chinese painting. The entire palace was hidden in the slightest crystal rain line, like smoke and fog.

Red lotus and green leaves, leisurely, there is no Liu Xian, the heart of Guangdong and Fujian.

A strong wind blew, and dark clouds rushed across the sky to the south, and the sky quickly darkened almost with a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Boom—"

The thunder and the black clouds that crushed the city were like a group of galloping and roaring wild horses, layer by layer overflowing overhead, gathering thicker and thicker, and pressing lower and lower. It makes people feel like they can tear off a piece when they stand on the top of the building and stretch out their hands.

Time passed, as if it was night in an instant, and the world was pitch black.

The wind was blowing, and the raindrops of soybeans were falling from the sky, and the sound was non-stop. A bolt of lightning pierced the sky, like a lightsaber cutting through the darkness, and the deafening thunder was recounted, and the raindrops became a curtain of rain, and the uproar was poured down like a heavenly river.

The wind whipped up the torrential rain like countless whips, whipping the glass window fiercely. The raindrops caught in the wind also seemed to be looking for something, and they were bumping everywhere in the east and west.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier. It was pouring rain and pouring down.

The storm came a little quickly, but this weather has been a common occurrence in the past month. And it obviously doesn't match the rainy season in previous years.

It's just that the maids in King Qin's mansion are really very capable, and if they get the next generation, they will all be the highest-level waiters at the level of the state guesthouse. He was not caught off guard by the sudden change at all, and in just half an hour, the entire Qin Wangfu was lit up and down again. Hundreds of marquee lamps and palace lamps illuminated the entire Qin Palace, and it was as if it was dawning again.

"Click......" A piece of glass in front of Liu Xian cracked into a lot of fragments. The flying glass shards slashed through Liu Xian's face, but the painful look in his eyes was not for this small injury. Last year, major floods occurred in the middle and upper reaches of the Ganjiang River, the Fuhe River and the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, and the Xiangjiang River and the upper reaches of the Zishui River were flooded at the same time. More than 20 prefectures and counties in Jiangxi, Hunan and Fujian provinces were affected, and the southeast of Zhejiang, Shandong and northern Jiangsu coasts were swept by typhoons, and there were also certain losses, and some prefectures and counties along the river in Hubei were flooded.

This year, Huguang and Liangjiang have all stopped, and Fujian and Guangdong are hanging with a sword!

Did you follow some kind of sin and want God to repay you like this?

Fire and water are merciless. The Minjiang River and the Pearl River are flooded, and the people who have been displaced for thousands of miles have starved for thousands of lives, which is not a joke. Even if you have enough food in your hands to help the victims, it will take time. Besides, the people of this era are the most lacking in order, and the evil things done by those who take advantage of the fire to rob will cause more serious consequences than floods!

The wound on his face rolled down with Liu Xian's excitement.

"Yikes. Rest your wrath, your wrath, your wrath, your wrath......"

"Quickly pass on the imperial doctor, quickly pass on the imperial doctor. The king is wounded......"

……

Dongguan is a stone's throw away from Guangzhou, Shilong Town.

This name is not well-known in China at all, and even the locals of Guangzhou have more people who don't know Shilong Town.

As the place where the Dongjiang River flows, half a month ago, the magistrate of Dongguan County told the mayor of Shilong Town and the director of the Dongguan Water Conservancy Bureau to be careful, Dongguan is close to Guangzhou, and if the gap bursts, no one can bear this responsibility!

And the local people of Shilong Town are extremely sensitive to this matter, God is crazy and rains for a month, which is asking for human lives.

Almost without the mobilization of the local government, Shilong Town and the downstream Xintang, Lubu and other townships have taken the initiative to organize the young and strong to guard the river embankment, and there are also military and police figures from time to time.

Up to now, there has been no movement on the Pearl River, and the Dongjiang River, as a tributary, has already sprung up. The murky river roared, roared, roared, rushed, swept away, rolled with mud and sand, and crashed against the embankment in waves, and from time to time a terrifying whirlpool would appear on the water.

The magistrate of Dongguan County is surnamed Li, with two names Pingjiang, a native of Zhejiang, and two out of forty this year. He is not a jinshi, nor is he a lifter, he is just a talent. But as the master of money and grain, he served three magistrates before and after the Dongguan County Ya, and he knows Dongguan County well.

When the Qin army took Guangzhou and advanced eastward, Dongguan bore the brunt. Li Pingjiang's third proprietor committed suicide by swallowing opium, but Li Pingjiang happily joined the Qin army.

Because of his understanding of Dongguan, there are not many evils on weekdays, and he has a good reputation in Dongguan County. Therefore, the firing line was promoted to Dongguan County Order, and he did not even study in the political training school.

In the more than half a year since Li Pingjiang was appointed governor of Dongguan, he has made outstanding political achievements, and in this regard, Dongguan County has exceeded the average of the whole province of Guangdong by five times.

Even because of this, it has entered Liu Xian's eyes, and it can be said that at a major turning point in his life last year, Li Pingjiang made the right bet. When the Qin army was in its infancy, there was a shortage of officials, and only those officials, teachers and the like that the Qin army cultivated themselves could not fill so many vacancies. This is also because there are too many officials in Xinqin. Li Pingjiang got the official position he coveted.

But this year's wind and rain are not right, and Li Pingjiang is like an ant on a hot pot, he can't sit still at all. Every once in a while, I went to the embankment to take a look.

But his inspection, no use for fart, God should rain as much as it wants. Evil will still come.

Liu Xian was scratched by the broken glass in the Qin Palace, and in the Dongguan County Yazhong, a man covered in mud and water also brought a bad news to Li Pingjiang and Li Zhixian.

Shilong Town, broken

One word shattered. Li Pingjiang's face was pale, and he still couldn't stop what he should have come!

After coming to his senses, he immediately ordered someone to notify the water conservancy bureau, as well as the two deputy county magistrates and the police chief of the county. As for informing the garrison, there is no need to do so. The garrison of Dongguan is on the river embankment these days. Finally, he sent a telegram to the city of Guangzhou. Then he rang the bell of the bell tower and summoned the people of the whole county to rush to the rescue.

Will the Dongjiang River break? These days, this question is like a knife hanging over his head, making him nervous. Now that the knife has fallen, although Li Pingjiang's face is pale, he has a big breath in his heart.

That's it, bad luck is bad luck, and then just do your duty.

He has been worrying all day and all night these days, and this torment is really more uncomfortable than the pain of hanging the knife on the ground now.

The worst has happened, and Li Pingjiang can let go of the burden in his heart and face it with all his might.

"Is the gap blocked?"

"My lord, the breach is almost blocked. It's the help of the troops! But the flood flooded five villages, and eleven strong men were missing from the embankment. What's more, the rain doesn't stop............"

……

There was a breach on the Dongjiang River in Dongguan, and after the news was reported to Guangzhou, the entire city of Guangzhou seemed to be even more gloomy.

Liu Xian knew in his heart that this would not be the last, but just the beginning.

The next fact is that Huizhou, Fogang, Longmen, and Zhaoqing are like dominoes, first the Dongjiang River, then the Beijiang River and the Xijiang River, and the three major tributaries of the Pearl River are bursting and bursting their banks one after another.

Ding Zhuang and the soldiers on the embankment of the river alone were swept away by the flood, and hundreds of people were swept away. Hundreds of villages were flooded, and the victims were flying like rockets. By the time Fujian sent a telegram saying that the Minjiang River had also breached, there were already 200,000 refugees affected in Guangdong.

"Guangdong and Fujian are going to suffer disasters this year. But this king does not want to see the two provinces in a vast ocean. ”

Fan Debang, Zhang Shouyan, Ding Zhenduo and others all bowed their heads, and the lobby was quiet, and no one dared to speak out.

"I'd rather the country spend more gold and silver than let Lu Yan lose his place."

Liu Xian threw a pinch of the telegram on the case, calmed the anger in his heart and cursed God, and he read out a sentence that Qianlong had said. looked at his important ministers and said, "This is what Qianlong said." Although the king looked down on him, he also thought that this sentence was well said. That's right, it's worth advocating. Today, the king has sent you this sentence as well, so that you must take it to heart. ”

"Ministers are taught."

"There is money and food in the treasury. It is better for the country to spend more gold and silver than to let Lu Yan lose his place. ”

"The local government warehouses, righteous warehouses, flat granaries and cangji warehouses were all opened to provide relief to the victims. The army was expanded by 50,000 troops to recruit refugees from the disaster area. Next year, the prefectures and counties in Guangdong and Fujian provinces that have been hit by disasters will be exempted from agricultural taxes and their commercial taxes will be halved. ”

"The ministers obey."

"Tax reduction, tax exemption, bereavement pension, relief, loans, and resettlement of displaced people, what the Manchu Qing can do, I can do in Daqin, and I can do it better than them. You have made it clear to the following, and the Supervision Yuan has also widened its eyes at this king. The money and food for the victims in the disaster area must dare to reach out and be unforgiving. ”

"The ministers obey."

After the ministers retreated, Liu Xian sat on the big chair for a long time and did not move.

The troubles of the French have not yet been resolved, and there are big floods in Guangdong and Fujian, which will inevitably affect the military progress of Xinqin. Fortunately, the floods in these two places are nothing compared to the drought in northern China. It doesn't take much effort to go to Xinqin.

Or wait for the war report from Vietnam. It's been more than half a month since the siege of Fuhai, and it's almost time for Liu Zhuo to close the net.

Liu Xian ordered, and soon, the government agencies in Guangdong and Fujian were turning as quickly as an accelerated machine. When a party is on the rise, there will be a vigor from top to bottom, that is, a vigorous upward momentum. This represents the government's ability to act and execute. This point is absolutely incomparable to that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Grain depots were opened one after another, and soon the people's hearts were stabilized. The following will of 'agricultural tax will be exempted and commercial tax halved' has made countless people cheer.

There is also next year, which is enough for them to breathe a sigh of relief. R1152