Since this incident, the relationship between Jin Fu and Yu Jackie Chan has eased greatly. When the autumn was ripe, the performance appraisal of the ministry, because of Jackie Chan's outstanding political achievements, the ministry transferred the holy oracle, and Jackie Chan was promoted to Nanjing as the political envoy, and concurrently served as Qingjiang Dao, because he was quite familiar with water conservancy, and let him participate in river affairs, and had the right to perform. Yu Chenglong was bent on ruling Qingjiang without leaving it behind and not closing his door at night, so he simply did not go to Nanjing for the time being, and stayed in Qingjiang to supervise the people's livelihood. The first major repair project of river control has been gradually completed this year. The dredging from Qingjiangpu to Haikou via Yuntiguan, the dredging from Gaojiayan to Qingkou, the embankment from the west of the canal to Gaojiayan, and the project of releasing water and collecting sand from Qingshuitan were all carried out very smoothly. Yu Jackie Chan was highly imposed, and he only gave one order, and tens of millions of river workers were recruited. Because the flood had not yet arrived, the river defense was fine, and there was no great dispute between several people for a while. But the situation lasted only more than half a year before the rift between them suddenly erupted into a terrible dispute that wiped out the love of the spring disaster relief.

In September of the twenty-first year of Kangxi, the autumn flood peak came ahead of schedule. Along Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui to Jiangsu all the way to the Yellow River Basin dark clouds cover the sky, the autumn rain continues, like the Tianhe River was stabbed by whom, constantly the head is just splashing down, and specifically pouring into the Yellow River! The sheep newspaper floated down, and the messenger died nine times out of ten, only from the bamboo sticks, I learned that the water level of the Gaolan iron pillar in the upper reaches rose three inches a day, and it has reached more than four feet: that is to say, the water level of the river in Jiangsu will rise four zhang away! All new dams, embankments, sluices and aqueducts are under great threat.

Seven days ago, when Jin Fu received the first flood season, he brought Chen Huang, Feng Zhiren, Peng Xueren and other staff members to move all the atlases, sand tables and measuring instruments of the Governor's Palace to the top of the embankment where the Huang, Yun, and Qing rivers crossed, and set up felt sheds to guard them day and night in the pouring rain.

It is surrounded by water on three sides, and on one side is the land that has dried up in autumn, and the endless autumn rice is shaking restlessly in the rain and mist, rolling one by one yellow swirls. The turbid yellow water and fishy waves in the half channel outside the embankment rushed to the sky, and the white foam rolled, throwing up and sinking a few thick trees that rolled down upstream, sinking down, standing up and pulling down again, as light as a child playing at home.

"Wind and rain!" Jin Fu stood on the trembling embankment in an oil coat and muttered. He didn't close his eyes for a few nights, and his eye circles were all red. "What did you say?" Because of the loud waves of the river, Feng Zhiren, who was squatting on the embankment, didn't hear his words clearly, so he turned around and shouted and asked. Chen Huang stood next to him with his trousers pulled up, because both the clothes and oil clothes were in vain, so he had already thrown them off, and his clothes were so wet that they clinged to his body. Hearing the two talking, Chen Huang looked back and saw that Peng Xueren looked indifferent, he hadn't shaved his head for more than a month, and his inch-long hair was attached to his forehead, which looked funny, Chen Huang couldn't help grinning, and shouted loudly at Jin Fu: "Gong Jin!" This rain will still fall. I think we should release water at the west break of the canal to reduce flooding! ”

"Chen Tianyi, is this your advice?"

A louder voice suddenly came from behind him, and when everyone looked back, it was Yu Chengchan who came, his face was like frost, standing majestically on the embankment. Although Yu Chengchan is in a cloth robe and shoes, he is very particular about not showing his arms in summer and not wearing heavy clothes in winter. For more than ten days, Yu Chenglong has been directing migrant workers to fix the embankment on the embankment, but the clothes and hats are still clean and mud-free. As soon as he came from the west embankment, he stopped and sneered when he heard Chen Huang say that he wanted to release water: "You boast every day that this new construction project can withstand a hundred years of floods, why?" It's only been a few days and you suddenly have to pick it up by yourself? What is the rationale for this? ”

"Zhenjia," Jin Fu said as he waded through the water at the top of the embankment, "It doesn't matter here. Tianyi wants to lower the water level here and bring the flood from Xiaojiadu upstream, where the dam has not yet been completed, and he is afraid that he will not be able to withstand it. Let's discuss whether it's okay or not, don't be rash. ”

The construction of the dam was Chen Huang's first project. That is, a large canal is opened in the narrow part of the river to divert water, and the flood water is diverted along the canal to the downstream Zhenghe River, which is used to regulate the flood flow and slow down the impact of the main embankment, and can also be used for irrigation when the canal is horizontal. Yu Chenglong didn't agree with the construction of this whimsical dam, and when he heard this, he turned his face and said: "I have built dozens of dams, but it turned out to be a breach and a field to harm the people?" It's a lot of fun, it's opened here again, and it's a big 'water reduction dam'! What about the people? What about the fields? What about houses? What about cattle and sheep? As long as the top is kept, the rest is gone? ”

"It's too late to be announced!" Chen Huang didn't want to argue with Yu Chengchan at all, so he said hurriedly, "There are many depressions in the head, only more than 20 villages are flooded, and there are many people on the embankment. Yu Gong, you know that the Xiaojiadu Dam costs millions of dollars and has been operating for several years, and it seems that it is about to succeed, but once it is washed away by the water, it is unimaginable. And the 3,000 hectares of crops upstream will also be wasted! Yu Gong, who told the people, the land, the cattle and sheep to evacuate? After that, he looked at Yu Chengchan. Yu Chenglong stood proudly, didn't look at Chen Huang, snorted, and only two words burst out of his mouth:

"No way!"

He had his own ideas, and he believed that the fatal root was that the whole river was too narrow, and that the failure of the embankment here to release water might not have any effect on the upstream, and if it was self-defeating, both places would be broken, and the consequences would be even worse. Jin Fu also thought of this, so he looked at Chen Huang with an inquiring gaze.

I don't know if it's because of the cold, or if I'm anxious and angry, Chen Huang's face is pale and very ugly, and he explained angrily: "Dozens of dams have not had an accident, and they have been effective. If the largest place in Xiaojiadu can be completed, there is no need to discharge the flood here, and now the break is to ensure the safety of Xiaojiadu, which is very clear! My lord, if you can't keep Xiao Jiadu here, please punish Chen Huangming to thank the people! Peng Xueren looked at the river, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it became, so he also said loudly: "Zhenjia Gong, Tianyi's words are right!" I'm willing to accompany you as a guarantor! Feng Zhiren was so anxious that he stomped his feet and said: "I can't fight anymore, hurry up and send people down to inform the people to leave the village!" ”

"Hahahaha......" Yu Chenglong looked up to the sky and laughed, his face was pale, and said, "You Chen Huang, Peng Xueren, and even Lord Jin and my heads, how many catties are cut off?" This is not possible! "But he walked away.

"Flood release!" Jin Fu hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind, "I am the governor of the river, even if there are thousands of crimes, the sin is just mine!" Immediately ordered all the officials of the Yamen of the Supervision Office to go downstream to inform that none of them must leave the village, and the water will be released after three hours! Feng Zhiren shook his head and said: "This is all easy to do, I'm afraid that Jackie Chan will personally protect the berm, this break is not easy to open!" ”

Peng Xueren rolled his eyes and thought about it, then clapped his hands and said, "Commander, didn't the Holy Lord give you a Shang Fang Sword?" It's worth it now! The words reminded Jin Fu, his spirits perked up, and he shouted: "Come!" Please wait for the sword of the Son of Heaven and the yellow coat! ”

Because these imperial gifts were all in the ya, they were busy for half an hour before they were ready to stop. Waiting for Goshha, who went to the countryside, to come back to report that the people downstream had withdrawn, Jin Fu put up a full set of deacons, and did not sit in a sedan chair, but only used a gold-topped umbrella to block the rain, wore a flowered coral top, and walked in a new yellow coat with a nine-python five-clawed official robe. The first four lieutenants carried the Huang Luo umbrella stand, offered the sword of the Son of Heaven, and walked on the muddy dirt road to the west embankment. Chen Huang alone had no merit, and followed step by step.

But the gravity of the situation was unexpected. Thousands of people on the west embankment are densely packed everywhere! Some of the common people sat along the embankment to gnaw dry food, some knelt on the embankment and muttered Buddha, some families hugged together to keep warm, and many people helped the old and the young to climb up the embankment. Yu Chenglong with more than a dozen servants was persuading something. Jin Fu looked at it, and couldn't help but feel a cloud of anger in his heart: You Yu Jackie Chan dared to use the people to disobey the emperor's order! was hesitating, Yu Chengchan greeted him early. Therefore, Jin Fu at that time had the identity of acting on behalf of the heavens, Yu Chengchan knelt down as soon as he shook his hand, and signed up loudly: "Born in Jinshi, he ordered the political envoy of Nanjing, and Yu Chengchan, who is also a member of the Qinghe River, congratulations to my lord!" After saying this, he bowed three heads and knelt down to obey the order.

"Yu Jackie Chan!" Jin Fu's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he asked sharply, "Do you want to gather a crowd to resist this governor?" ”

"My lord......" Yu Jackie Chan burst into tears, choked and screamed, and couldn't say the words under his head. An old man in the crowd stumbled over and knelt on the ground, covered in mud and water, kowtowing and crying: "Don't wronged your lord, we heard from Goshha of the River Governor's Mansion that the lord wants to break the embankment and release water." Lord Yu is urging everyone to avoid water on the east side......"

When Chen Huang saw it, it was an old man with a yellow bitter gourd. Looking further up the embankment, Zhang Chunming, Liu Deliang, and Liu Yinqing were all on the embankment, looking at Jin Fu with strange and indifferent eyes, and Chen Huang couldn't help but feel sour in his heart.

Hearing that Yu Chengchan was also persuading everyone to leave here, Jin Fu was a little surprised, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Jackie Chan, please get up." So it was very good, and together we persuaded the people to leave, so that we could break the levees and release the water. ”

Yu Chenglong seemed to be cold, tired and tired, and stood up with difficulty, he suddenly seemed to be ten years old, both legs were trembling, arched his hands, and shouted: "Fathers and fellow villagers, Yu Chengchan begs you, retreat to the east......" shouted, his face was already full of tears. When thousands of people saw him like this, they cried loudly and slowly moved to the stone embankment to the east.

"Bursting the levee!" Jin Fu saw that things were going so well. I secretly thought in my heart, in the end, it is difficult to commit Tianwei - I knew that this was the case, how many tongues I saved! Gritting his teeth, he briefly ordered: "Dig up the soil immediately!" - Lord Yu, Zhenjia! Please come over here! ”

Yu Chenglong didn't move, just looked at the crowd in the distance with a dull gaze, sat down on the embankment, and said, "Decide!" ”

Suddenly it seemed that the wind had stopped, the rain had stopped, and the river had ceased to howl. More than 100 pro-soldier Goshha held shovels in their hands, and more than a dozen official staff members were stunned motionless like stone men.

But this was only a matter of a moment, Yu Chenglong, who was sitting on the edge of the embankment, suddenly cried loudly, jumped up like crazy, threw himself on the embankment, knelt down facing the Yellow River, and shouted with his hands open: "God!" God! You don't want the people anymore? Who will worship you? Go down, go down...... Yellow River, you go up, go up...... Drown me in Jackie Chan, drown me! ”

"Drag him down!" Jin Fu forcibly suppressed the heat wave in his heart and said viciously.

"Wow!"

"Who dare?" Yu Chenglong took out a shiny paper cutter from his sleeve, stood up and pointed it to his throat, "A soldier can be killed but not humiliated, and he can't be punished by a doctor!" If you break the embankment, you will decide yourself, and whoever dares to touch me, I will immediately cut myself! ”

Seeing that he couldn't delay any longer, Chen Huang jumped up, suddenly stood on his feet again, looked at the iron-clad Yu Chenglong with a distracted gaze, and looked back at Jin Fu, Peng Xueren and Feng Zhiren who were stunned, his throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he spit out a mouthful of red blood. He knelt down and cried bitterly: "It's late, it's late...... Xiao Jiadu, my Xiao Jiadu! ”

Peng Xueren is the second time to encounter this scene, the prefect of Zhengzhou committed suicide because of the river breach, Nanjing political envoy iron heart and embankment coexistence, although the matter is different, the heart is one, touching the heart, not feeling tears like rain, Feng Zhiren saw Jin Fu closed his eyes and wept, standing motionless like iron casting, remembering his own half of the ups and downs, still the future is dangerous and has no bottom, but also hides his face and cries. For a while, the soldiers on and off the embankment were sobbing.

In the evening of the same day, the water level of the Yellow River at the mouth of the Qingjiang River dropped suddenly, and an urgent report was received in the middle of the night: Xiaojiadu had burst, and the dam reduction project had lost seven out of ten. The water broke the embankment from the north bank, spread over more than 70 townships of the river, and poured out of the west embankment of the canal.

Although it was all expected, Jin Fu, who was lucky with a single thought, still felt like he had been whipped violently, his whole body trembled, and his face turned snow-white. He wiped the cold sweat from his head, looked at the dark embankment blankly, and only muttered to Chen Huang and others who were guarding him: "There is nothing to do, let's go back to the ya, remove the tent here......"

Peng Xueren is a person who has come over, but he looks free and easy, seeing Feng Zhiren looking at Jin Fu's back without tears, Chen Huangwu looked at the ebbing tide of the river and was stunned, because he smiled: "Governing the river and breaking the river has been like this since ancient times." Don't be discouraged. Let's go, go back and have a good meal, get a good night's sleep, and listen to the news. Feng Zhiren nodded, but Chen Huang said: "The two of you, please go first, Jin Shuai is not in a good mood, you accompany me to talk, I'll take a look." ”

It wasn't until the second day that Chen Huangfang rushed back to the governor's yamen exhausted. Because he saw Lao Qi, who often came to deliver letters from the Nanjing General Administration Department, sitting in the concierge and chatting with a few Goshha, he knew that there must be urgent news, and rushed in three steps and two steps, and saw that Jin Fu was reading something in the signing room, and hurriedly asked: "Jin Shuai, is there a letter?" ”

"Six hundred miles from Nanjing, the urgent ministry of the Ministry of Literature, Di Bao." Jin Fu didn't raise his head, and sneered, "This Cui Yawu is left and right, stepping on two boats, the officialdom is so capable, but the ability to govern the river is so poor - he seems to be a person in the period of Emperor Xi, his words must be called the ancient way, and everything must follow the ancient precepts, I don't know if he eats grain, or Shennong Baicao?" Then read in a low voice:

…… The systems of surveying and subjugating water and dams are actually a paradox of measuring the sea. Fulong Xingyu Pei, which has a quantitative; The river rises and falls, how can it be a rule? In this way, the unprecedented perverse academic practice is blatant. …… Spend half of the country's treasury of gold, and create a great disaster in the southeast for the ages......

Thinking of this, he "snapped" and threw the ministry aside, and said gloomily: "In this way, isn't my Jin Fu a thief?" Kill it, kill it, why do you do such an official article, disgusting people! As he spoke, he picked up another copy, but it was Zhihe Tiao Chen. When you open it, the first sentence is:

The way of Yu is dredged along the water, so there is a river of Kyushu across China, and it is not harmful......

When Jin Fu hurriedly looked at the back, the signature was still the inexplicable Cui Yawu, so he closed the fold with a "bang" and pushed it under the table. Qia Peng Xueren and Feng Zhiren came in with the curtain, Peng Xueren picked it up and looked at it, and said in surprise: "Zihuan Gong, there is a royal approval on this!" ”

This time, not only Jin Fu and Feng Zhiren, but even Chen Huang, who was contemplative, also came over. When I looked, I saw that there was a small character on the lower part of the sixth page:

The clerk is very old-fashioned. According to Jin Fu's feelings of river management, he annotated them one by one.

- The master of the body

I can't tell whether it is gratitude, regret, regret, or sadness, Jin Fu's knees weakened, he fell to his knees, and howled bitterly: "Lord, your son came a day early, minister...... The minister will be spared this catastrophe! ”

Yes, if this Zhu criticism decree came one day earlier, Jin Fu would be able to refute Yu Chenglong, who was on the same page as Cui Yawu, why would it cause Xiao Jiadu to collapse? But this excerpt was actually delayed for three days in Nanjing due to rain! How can people not feel sorry for this?

After being melancholy for a long time, Jin Fufang said: "I don't want to do this anymore - Shangshu Isang'a, Shilang Song Wenyun, and this Imperial Shi Cui Yawu and Yiraka have been ordered to arrive in Jinling to inspect Caoyun and Shi Lang's four hundred warships to go south from the canal." Shi Lang has gone to Beijing to listen to the emperor's instructions. The Xiaojiadu crossing is just a civil misconduct, and if there is another accident at Caodi, the crime of delaying the military plane will be great...... We have to be prepared for these things. Feng Zhiren asked, "When will Qin come to Qingjiang?" Jin Fu said: "About tomorrow." As soon as I saw this name, I knew that they were all people with the name "Suo", but I was afraid that they would fall into the old Ming, so they would attack us first, and we had to deal with it carefully! ”

"Don't worry, the boss doesn't have to worry, Cao Di will definitely not have an accident!" Chen Huang listened quietly for a long time, and then said: "I think the most important thing is to quickly tear up the matter of Xiao Jiadu." Qin almost didn't ask, if he wanted to ask, he had to have a reply. Jin Fu saw that what he said was reasonable, but he was so confused that he couldn't think of a clue for a while, and said in a daze: "What is there to tear up?" Secretiveness is like a thief, and you can't deceive the king - listen to the tone of the Qincha. But there is one thing you can rest assured, Jin Fu is not a traitor, and I will take care of the matter, and it has nothing to do with you. Don't try to excuse me about this. Chen Huang thought carefully all night, and he already had a bamboo in his chest, so he smiled and said, "Of course we don't bully the king." I'm talking about taking advantage of the situation and trying to remedy it. Jin Gong just had to bow and impeach himself, and we discussed a comprehensive plan and made up for it in the evening. The emperor is so holy, he will be able to do it. ”

At noon on the second day, Isan A, the minister of the Qin Mission, took Song Wenyun, Cui Yawu, and Yiraka to the Hedu's Mansion in a sedan chair of eight people. Jin Fu pressed the pomp of the Qin Cha, fired three cannons, and opened the middle goalkeeper Isan A and his party to welcome in. Because it was still drizzling, the incense case was set under the dripping eaves. After kneeling three times and bowing nine times, Jin Fu glanced at a few expressionless opponents, and said loudly: "Slave Jin Fu respectfully invites St. Ann, long live, long live!" ”

"St. Ann!"

After saying this, Ethan Ah suddenly became unpretentious, with a smile on his face, he grabbed Jin Fu with both hands, and introduced the entourage one by one. Everyone came in with a pleasant greeting, and Isan Ah asked while talking and laughing, "What about Zhenjia?" ”

"Back to the adult's words," Jin Fu asked Yu Chengchan and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Zhenjia is now on the river berm, and someone has already called him." ”

"Sanpin went to the embankment in person, he is a solid person!" Ethan boasted at Jackie Chan, looked at Jin Fu with a smile, and said, "Brother Zihuan, my brother was ordered to check Caoyun this time, but he didn't bring good letters to my brother!" ”

Jin Fu had just sat down, and when he heard this, he hurriedly left the table and said, "Jin Fu has no duty and should be severely punished." I have bowed to the emperor, please discuss it strictly. Adults have words, despite the teachings. ”

"Sit, sit, sit!" Isana "snapped" and smoked, stilted Erlang's legs and smiled, "Where is there any 'teaching'?" This is a few ministerial discussions, as well as a copy of Wei Xiangshu's imperial history, the emperor has the imperial approval on the top, and there is no punishment if there is some supervision. However, the elder brother Xiao Jia's crossing of the river is not yet known, and it is good to have a number in his heart. Advancing and retreating honor and disgrace is the common feeling of scholars, and the public does not have to be too concerned. As he spoke, he handed over a thick stack of papers.

Jin Fu took it with a trembling calloused hand.

There are many recitals, and it is not convenient to peruse them on this occasion. In addition to what I read yesterday, there are also the remarks of Liang Qingbiao, the Hanshang Book of the Ministry of Households, and the Samuha of the Ministry of Industry on the excessive use of silver in river workers. These two are both heroes who pacified the "Three Feudatories", and they are also the most difficult ministers to provoke in the current dynasty, known as the "Demon King". If nothing else, these two things alone are enough to chill people's hearts. The next ministerial discussion was the Ministry of Officials' Examination of Merit according to Jin Fu's vote to punish several small ruins in the Yellow River last year, and the Ministry of Officials took the office. Jin Fu's original text in the compromise: "Please overhaul the Yellow River before the minister, and return to the old road for three years." Today's limit is full, and the water has not returned to its original path, please punish it" There was a deep nail mark on his head, which was obviously a mark made by Kangxi when he read it. The following Zhu Pi is:

It's easy to remove Jin Fu, who can replace it? The river affairs are very difficult, but Jin Fu dares to undertake it, and the rest of the ministers may not have this courage! If it is disagreed, it will be difficult for the successor to do anything. ordered him to wear the guilt and supervise the repair.

After reading this, Jin Fu felt a little more steady. Looking at the original below, it is the famous Wei Xiangshu's impeachment chapter.