Chapter 496
Those young things, the time of childhood sweethearts, with the shattering of the jade, she realized that she had forgotten so many things.
The first kiss, with the fresh breath of spring, makes people's hearts pound.
He reciprocated himself, and several times he put his hand on the belt of his clothes, and finally took it back.
He was so gentle, and it became more and more profound in her memory.
That year, she was fourteen years old, and before the flood season of the Liuli River in the south, the embankment was washed away, flooding many people and fertile land.
It's just a dam that was built just the year before last, but it's not forbidden.
Local officials prevaricated, saying that it was necessary to strengthen it every year, and this year's household department did not have enough money, which is why this situation occurred.
After pulling out the bad debts of the embankment repair back then, layer by layer, the silver passed through anyone's hand and there was not much left.
This year, the rebuilding of the embankment, and the matter of water control and flood control fell on the Ministry of Industry.
But no one dares to take this mess, the magistrate is a member of the Cheng family, and now the queen's surname is Cheng, the prince is from the queen, and the Cheng family controls the government and the troops in the northwest.
The magistrate is a student of Cheng Taishi, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu is a clan brother of Cheng Taishi, who dares to take this stall in this situation.
She knew that the lychees had come from the south recently, and the queen mother didn't give her more to eat, saying that she was taking medicine to regulate her body, and that there were not many of them distributed to the queen mother.
She thought that her father had always doted on Concubine Li, and she must still have a lot of them.
I specially brought soup from the imperial dining room to borrow flowers and offer Buddha, just to coax some lychees.
When she arrived at the Qinzheng Palace, she coaxed her father to be overjoyed, gave her a basket of lychees from the south, and told her not to let the queen mother know, otherwise she should nag again.
The emperor asked the eunuch to fetch it, and she sat in the palace of diligence to eat.
After eating, he watched his father deal with official business, only to see his father frowning, holding the fold and sighing continuously.
She leaned over to look at it, only to see that it was written about the flood of the Liuli River, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Playing football with each other, and the inaction of local officials, many ordinary people drowned.
"Who is my father going to send to control the water?"
"Hey, I don't know how many officials in this court, but none of them can take on this heavy responsibility."
"Why?"
"That local official is your grandfather's protégé, and the Ministry of Industry is your grandfather's brother, and if you don't get this errand right, you will offend the Cheng family."
She spit out the lychee kernel in her mouth, and her red lips pursed slightly.
"The surname Zheng in this world is not Cheng."
"Hey, even you understand the truth, but your mother and the prince don't understand."
She looked at her father for a long time, although she was young, she was as smart as she knew that the power of the Cheng family was too great, which made her father jealous.
"Father, I know that there is a person who can cure the flood."
"Who?"
"Me."
The Emperor chuckled and rubbed her head.
"Let's eat lychees in the palace obediently."
She pulled her father and said seriously:
"I'm not joking with my father, I'm serious, Cui Yu has the ability to control water, when he was in the suburbs of Beijing before, he taught him how to drain people from the river in Zhuangzi, and now every household there is water flowing to the door, and it is extremely convenient to use water, unlike before, you have to go to a distant place to fetch water."
"A Zhuangzi, how can it be compared with a basin."
"What I said is true, Cui Yu is very smart, he is very powerful, I believe he can do it well, and I accompany the past, I don't believe that anyone who doesn't open his eyes dares to stumble on me. Even if my grandfather's family blames me, you know that my mother loves me the most, and my grandfather won't say anything. ”
The emperor looked at her for a long time before he smiled and said:
"You should ask Cui Yu first to see if he can take on this big responsibility."
When talking to Cui Yu, Cui Yu only reminded him gently:
"Qiqi, the affairs of your father and the Cheng family, they have their own balance, you don't have to participate in the future."
"But it's not just these power struggles right now."
Cui Yu looked at her and smiled, raising his hand to caress her hair.
"Yes, not only the struggle for power, but also the people of the world, if the Liulijiang River is not well governed, many people will suffer."
"So you're supposed to do it?"
Cui Yu knew that there were many people in the DPRK who could do this errand, but no one stood up, just for fear of accidentally offending the Cheng family.
If you don't do it well, it will displease the Son of Heaven.
Just don't take over this mess.
"Hmm."
She hugged him happily. "I knew you would say yes."
He smiled and looked at her with a bright smile, he always had to do something and leave something in his life to be worthy of such an excellent her.
After Princess Shang became a concubine, she was not allowed to participate in court politics, and before marrying her, she had to make some achievements.
Cui Yu didn't let her follow, it wasn't a happy thing, he couldn't bear her to suffer.
The Cheng family, as well as everyone knows, this Cui Yu will be the concubine of Princess Yinhua in the future, and this Princess Yinhua is the only princess of the queen.
The queen belongs to the Cheng family, so naturally they also regard this horse as a person from the Cheng family.
The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household are not embarrassed, and the manpower and material resources are fully cooperative.
Even the magistrates along the way were making it convenient for Cui Yu, which Cui Yu had expected early on.
Cui Yu is indeed capable, controlling water, building dams, and discharging floodwater.
When everyone thought that this colt was coming to gild, Cui Yu was really amazing.
In previous years, the money for water control was tacitly peeled off layer by layer, and this year it was Cui Yu who was in charge, after all, he was just a teenager, and they flattered him, but he was also greedy for ink.
Cui Yu doesn't care who you are in the court, and he has no intention of shaking the big tree of the Cheng family, he just wants to take this opportunity to do something beneficial to the people.
He built the dam with the best materials, and it was beyond everyone's budget.
The emperor said 300,000 silver, so he built a dam with 300,000 silver.
But where is there so much money, layer by layer, and in the end it is only 30,000.
30,000 yuan of silver to repair the sum of 300,000 yuan, how can it be repaired.
Cui Yuming put on a posture that no matter which of them was swallowed, he now asked them to spit it out.
This incident reached the ears of Cheng Taishi, and it happened that she was there that day, and she heard those people's slander of Cui Yu outside her grandfather's study.
said that he clearly did not allow anyone to get a penny, and this kid wanted to work for the welfare of the country and the people, but it moved their interests.
Moreover, once this levee is built, other places will compare it with this, and everyone will be very embarrassed at that time.
Simply, it's better to find a way to make him sick or injured, but not to death, so that even if he doesn't finish the project on time, or someone else takes over, it's nothing.