Chiyan followed Wang Jiaru to a place far away from Kyoto, where there were two high mountain peaks that blocked the sun's rays. There is a huge shallow puddle between the two mountains, and the mud inside the puddle is noticeably wetter than the mud outside, because of the shelter from the high mountains.

Qian Yan walked in and stood on the periphery of the shallow puddle and took a look, this shallow puddle was extremely huge. It's just too shallow to hold much water, if you want to use it as a place to store water. It would be necessary to turn the shallow puddle into a deep puddle before the rainstorm hits, so as to ensure that enough water can be stored.

When she returned home, Chiyan scribbled on a piece of paper, sketching a schedule for a shallow puddle to become a deep puddle. If you want to turn a shallow puddle of that size into a deep puddle in a matter of days. At the very least, it takes more than 100 people to dig at the same time, and it is possible to dig the pit in a few days.

But where to find so many people? And the people can't be made aware of this, because if the people come to grab water during the drought, it will cause great panic among the people.

When he went to Tai Academy the next day, Qian Yan was thinking about this matter all over his head, and even Wang Bing came to him absent-mindedly. Looking at Wang Bing, Qian Yan suddenly thought of someone.

Qianyan met with Lord Wang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, under the recommendation of Wang Bing, and Qianyan and Lord Wang talked for a long time in the study, and finally Lord Wang agreed to lend some of his personal guards to Qianyan and let him dig a pit to store water.

The person who dug the pit was found, but the pit was dug and only those in Kyoto could use it. When the time comes, the drought in other places will cause many displaced people from other places to flock to Kyoto, and they will not have anything to eat. Sooner or later they will also starve to death, and it is also necessary to stock up on food for what may happen in the future.

Qianyan found Bai Jiayun, Bai Jiayun's number one benevolent person in Kyoto, and he came forward to be the right person.

After listening to Qianyan's words, Bai Jiayun was silent for a while, and said: "Benefactor, what you said is indeed for the sake of the people, but if there is no drought this year, we have stored so much grain, what should we do at that time?" ”

"I will tell the Seventh Prince about this, let the Seventh Prince be the person behind the grain, and Bai Gongzi is the person who needs the grain on the surface."

Seeing Qianyan say this, Bai Jiayun agreed, and Qianyan advised: "You have to buy grain after the heavy rain, and now there are rumors of this year's drought in the market." Now many grain producers will raise the price, and after a few days of heavy rains, the rain will moisten the rice in the fields. People no longer think that there will be a drought this year and that grain traders will lower prices, so that is the best time to buy grain. ”

Bai Jiayun nodded, understood.

After Qianyan came out, in fact, this time he was in danger. He has calculated that there is a high probability of drought this year, but there will also be a partial probability that there will be no drought this year, if this move is successful. Then he has accumulated the support of the people for the Seventh Prince, and if he is not successful, if he is found to have stored too much grain without permission, he will be sentenced.

Qianyan has found a way to deal with all the situations that will occur, and now she is waiting for when the deep puddle can be dug.

When the Seventh Prince heard the news, he felt that this matter was indeed a bit risky, but he thought that Qianyan was also accumulating fame for himself. General Zhenguo knew about this and only said one sentence: "He is not sure enough that he will not take the risk of doing this thing, so you can watch from the sidelines first." ”

It took three days of non-stop digging day and night to dig the deep pit.

The weather is getting drier and drier these days, and many crops have already died due to lack of water. Seeing that more and more people began to panic, the one in the palace invited Qin Tianjian to observe whether there was rain in recent days, and did it on the altar, causing a heavy rain.

The rain brought joy to the people, who celebrated and cheered in the rain.

Qian Yan looked at this heavy rain, and his heart was not easy, if it was really the last rain before the great drought came. In the days to come, there will be no more rain, and here in Kyoto he has prepared to store water, but what about people outside Kyoto? If you move your family to Kyoto, you will starve to death on the way, and there will be very few people who can come here.

After a night of heavy rain, the crops in the fields began to slowly recover their vitality, and people no longer worried about the drought. After the heavy rain, Qianyan went to see the water storage in the deep puddle, and after a night of continuous water flowing in, the deep puddle was now full of water.

The grain Bai Jiayun had also been purchased as soon as the heavy rain had passed, and the Seventh Prince had also participated as the people behind the scenes.

After the heavy rain left, with the arrival of June, the weather gradually began to be muggy, and half a month has passed since the last heavy rain. During this period, the land became arid again, and even the water in the well was gone.

Qianyan looked at the increasingly hot weather, the rice has been drought, and if this continues, the people will have no harvest, no water, no food, and now the people are struggling to make a living.

The complaints are growing, and Qin Tianjian cannot find any signs of rain this year, and the last glimmer of hope of the people has been dashed.

When the time came, Qianyan asked Wang Jiaru to put news on the street to let the people know that there was a water source in a place on the outskirts of the city. Qian Yan went to find the Seven Princes and asked the Seven Princes to send people to watch outside the deep puddle to prevent the people from causing disputes over the water, and then put some water on the side of the road for people who had not drunk water for a long time.

After the news appeared on the streets, no one wanted to believe that there would be a water source on the outskirts of the city. When an old man heard about this, he decided to go and check on the situation first, but his legs and feet were no longer able to move, so he asked his son to lead some people to take a look. When they reached the pit, the men's eyes widened as they looked at the clear water in the pool, and there were soldiers guarding outside. When they saw someone coming, the soldiers gave them a bucket of water to drink, and told them that it was water that the Seven Princes had stored to avoid a possible drought in recent years. It's just that I didn't expect it to come in handy this year, and the people who come here can come here with their own wooden buckets of water to fill water.

When several men heard this, they quickly ran back to the city and told the people in the city the good news, and for a while the voices in the city boiled. Every household hurriedly took out their largest wooden barrel to fill water on the outskirts of the city, and some people even used board carts to push several wooden barrels, and people went out of the city to receive water.

The problem of water has been solved, and the people in Beijing will not be too sad, Bai Jiayun also built a shed in the open space in Beijing, and gave porridge to those who have no food every day, and Bai Jiayun's reputation as the first good person in Kyoto has spread even wider.

As the drought worsened, many displaced people have flocked to Kyoto, frantically grabbing food and water in the city. The government sent people to drive out all these displaced people, and issued an order that no unexpected displaced people from Kyoto should now be allowed to enter the city, and there are no displaced people in the city. There was a lot less snatching of food, but there were more and more displaced people outside Kyoto, and they were crowded around the city walls and begged for food.

Only a day later, several of the homeless people outside had already died. The government's policy of not allowing displaced people to enter Beijing caused more and more people to die outside the city walls, and the panic increased even further.

Bai Jiayun watched many homeless people starve to death outside the city walls, but the city gates were closed, and he could not deliver food, so he could only watch them starve outside.