Let's not talk about malaria, just say that Qiao Jizhong visited and surveyed the affected areas in Pinan and Tang County, and when he met with Yu Feng, his expression was very solemn.

"The prince once said that there is a staff member in the palace who is very familiar with water conservancy, and he said that there is no river embankment that cannot be washed away, which is also true." Qiao Jizhong was solemn, but also with a hint of ridicule: "Pinan, Tang County, in the Dinghe River, once the water in the upper reaches of the Dinghe River rises sharply, it will bear the brunt, such an obvious fact, the Ministry of Industry officials actually said that the state is fine?" ”

"Since the founding of Dalong, although North China has not been hit by heavy rain, the flood in the Eastern Ming Dynasty even affected Shuozhou and Zhili, but it is a fact that there is no trouble in the state." Yu Feng was puzzled by this.

Qiao Jizhong unfolded the map of the state, and first pointed out the source of the Dinghe River: "Please see, the Yanjiang River and the Nanjiang River converge between the Yanling Mountains to form the Dinghe River Basin, once the water of the two rivers rises, the source of the Dinghe River will inevitably be turbulent, therefore, if it is just a merger of the state, Shuozhou and Yannan rain are urgent, of course, you can't be in danger of Pinan and other counties, only the Yanjiang River and Nanjiang River can be critical." He also pointed out the counties under the jurisdiction of the state, Qiao Jizhong said in a deep voice: "The prince looks again, Pinan and other counties are located in low-lying, especially Pinan, once the water on the Dinghe River is rapid, it is turbulent, even if the river embankment is firm, it is inevitable to flood, this time only two counties suffered, it is really because of the confluence of the two rivers, the water potential is not too urgent." ”

"In other words, if the torrential rains come again and the water of the two rivers rises sharply, it will definitely cause even greater disasters." Yu Feng frowned, and his heart became more and more suspicious.

"If the water is turbulent, and the two counties are flooded, if the rainstorm has not been seen for a hundred years, for more than 50 consecutive days, maybe the coast within the jurisdiction of Shuozhou will also become an ocean."

"But there was no disaster in the two states that year." Yu Feng's fingertips swept across the map, staying in the low-lying area of Pinan, still without a clue.

"Anyone who has rough access to water conservancy can understand the danger of this place, and they will not fail to take precautions and dredge." Qiao Jizhong then said of Guan Jian: "I checked the water conservancy map of the Dongming Dynasty and found that it was ...... here" and his fingers tapped on both sides of the high places in the upper reaches of Pinan: "At these two ends, it was originally a tidal flat, and in the Dongming Dynasty, it was used for flooding and flooding. ”

Therefore, although Pinan was in a dangerous section that year, it was also hit by heavy rain in the previous dynasty, which caused the state to be in trouble.

"But right now, this place is built with a high embankment, which is solid and thick, even more dangerous than Pinan, Tangxian and other dangerous sections." Qiao Jizhong bent his fingers and tapped the picture fiercely, and his tone suddenly became sad and indignant: "And after the high embankment, there is a good land Wantian, the son, who these good fields belong to, you can know at a glance, you don't need to say it in the next place!" ”

Yu Feng stared at the place where Qiao Jizhong's knuckles were hit, and gradually tightened the corners of his lips, and for a moment before he sneered: "The nobles of the family all live in the state city, there is no worry about flooding, and the land of flooding is occupied, and the threat is only the homes and safety of the people along the coast...... Well, well, it's really like an initiation, why did the two ministers hide the disaster, why did the officials of the Ministry of Industry keep silent, and why those who specialize in water conservancy can't see through the cause of the flood, shirk the sophistry, and attribute the blame to the negligence of the county order! ”

The beneficiaries are not just the nobles of the state, but I am afraid that there is no shortage of Kyoto courtiers!

In this way, Qin Xiang will keep silent about the matter of Jin Xiang's hidden disaster and be secretly accommodating.

If you want to come to the owners of these fertile fields, you are indispensable to famous families.

"What does the prince want?" Qiao Jizhong asked coldly.

"It's raining today, and the threat is imminent." Yu Feng turned around and wandered for a few steps: "I can't wait for the Holy Edict, dig the embankment and discharge the flood, and do it today!" ”

When Qiao Jizhong heard this, his expression suddenly became solemn, and his cold color disappeared, and he actually appeared worried: "The prince of the world is decisive, for the blessing of the people, only in this way, these powerful people will regard the son of the world as an enemy." ”

"I am not afraid to be the target of these people, nor am I afraid to bear this sin of not being done first, since I have undertaken this mission, I am ready to stand against them!" Yu Feng brushed his sleeves and left, and resolutely ordered Jia Wenshen to lead Yu Linwen to the high section of Pinan to destroy the embankment and drain the flood.

And Gray Du to the county to go around, visited more than a dozen doctors, as expected, did not get any definite words, especially the doctor who was demagogic because of misdiagnosis, but also like a frightened bird, heard people ask about the spread of wind and cold, I can't wait to avoid three feet immediately: "In the medical skills are shallow, I really don't know the cause of this disease, if you have any doubts, please go to the epidemic to ask the truth." ”

That night, he rolled up the lid and avoided it, and he didn't know where to go.

"It's really weird, but when it comes to the cold and fever, the doctors are afraid of it." Gray Du was full of doubts.

Yu Feng sneered and remained silent.

And the secret investigation of Meng Gao's crime has a clear point-

The woman who was "raped and killed" by Meng Gao turned out to be the wife of a doctor in Fengcheng, a neighboring county.

It turned out that this Lang Zhong was Meng Gao's old friend, one day, Meng Gao went to Fengcheng to visit, after returning, he clashed with the medical officer of the epidemic institute, as for the details of the conflict, no one knew, after that, Meng Gao visited Fengcheng again, and Lang Zhong "put the lamp", I don't know what the plot was, the two drank a big crime, according to the witness - Fengcheng a night patrol to beat the husband claimed that on the day of the crime, he passed by Lang Zhong's door, and suddenly saw a person covered in blood broke out of the door, immediately stepped forward and twisted, entered to take a look, found that the woman was naked, her eyes were round, and she was strangled on the bed, And the woman's husband, lying on the ground, still smelling of alcohol all over his body, was cut by a sharp blade, and stabbed in the abdomen more than ten times, and even the intestines flowed out of the body, which was unbearable.

There was a boning knife left at the scene, and there were Meng Gao's fingerprints on it.

Meng Gao's clothes were covered with blood, but there were no scars on his body.

There is also evidence from a neighbor, saying that he had heard the wife of Langzhong say that this friend surnamed Meng really had bad intentions, and the woman hated it deeply, but her husband had no choice but to make friends with Meng Gao, and he also scolded the woman for being too careful and misunderstanding the old friend.

The woman's naked/naked skin had several blood marks, which were checked one by one and matched Meng Gao's fingerprints.

Because Meng Gao is the incumbent master of the nine products, according to the law of Dalong, all the officials involved in the case are tried by the county state government, therefore, this case is personally tried by Shi De, and there is a judgment very quickly, Meng Gao is drunk and disorderly, taking advantage of his friend's drunkenness, unconscious, he actually tried to rape a woman, and later, Lang Zhong woke up drunk, and saw Meng Gao kill his wife, so he stepped forward to stop it, but his physical strength and height were not as good as Meng Gao, and he was drunk and woke up, and his heart was more than enough and his strength was insufficient, but he was killed by Meng Gao, who had already prepared!

The boning knife was originally a regular possession of the victim's home, and Meng Gao should have hidden it privately while his friend was drunk.

Under the conclusive evidence of the crime, Meng Gao couldn't argue, pressed his fingerprint on the confession and confessed his guilt, and was taken to death in prison, only to be executed after review by the Criminal Department.

Yiying's confession and court record are all in Shi De's hands, and Tianchawei can't witness it.

And this trial has not been made public.

Yu Feng can imagine that in the future, the criminal department will review it, and there will be no open trial.

It is only nine grades, and it does not involve the felony of rebellion or rebellion, and there is no qualification and necessity to be reviewed by the Son of Heaven.

Those people in the Criminal Department, at least those with slightly higher grades, would not go against Jin Xiang's "instructions" for such a trivial matter at this time.

Coincidentally, the deceased was a famous man, but he was a famous man.

There is no doubt why Meng Gao "did this" evil thing.

But this is not the time to investigate, if Shi De finds out that Meng Gao is recommended by him at this time, it will inevitably lead to Meng Gao's extermination.

And he, the messenger, only has the right to provide disaster relief and concealment, and has no right to interfere in criminal matters.

It seems that there is no need to stay in Pinan, and the main battlefield should still be in Bingzhou City.

And when the embankment is destroyed and the flood is discharged, the fertile land is poured into the momentum of Wang Ze, and the water potential of the river finally slows down, and the counties along the river are no longer in danger of flooding, and the prince finally returns.

And in the city of Bingzhou, it has also been fried!

The most anxious person, when Shi De, he didn't expect that the son of the world in just a few days, he found out the cause of the flood, and so iron-faced and selfless, even "greet" did not say half a sentence, just do thunderous things, the noble family was burned by the anger of the prince instantly, and they stepped on the state government one after another, and asked him to ask for an explanation - the land deed in their hands is all there, and now the good land has been destroyed, how many interests have been soaked into a mess by the water of the Dinghe River, how can I endure it, I insist on pushing Shi De, the Zhizhou, in front of him, and forcing him to question Qincha, Whose order did he have to dare to act so recklessly, if there is no holy order, he can be involved in his arbitrary and arbitrary disregard of the law.

There were even people shouting that they were going to the palace to avenge their grievances, and there was no shortage of those who were domineering, forcing Jin Xiang to come forward.

Although Shi De also has a cloud of anger in his heart - his thousands of acres of fertile land have also been destroyed, but at the moment, the most important thing is not the loss of interests.

Because he knew about malaria early, he wanted to report to the imperial court at first, and he didn't want the Huo Qi brothers to support him - saying that this year could happen to suffer from a spring drought, so that the southwest, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places of Artemisia annua died in a large area, but it happened that malaria occurred, it was better to hide it for a while, report the golden phase, persuade Shuo and his cronies, invest in the principal, first go to various places to buy Artemisia annua at a low price, and then speculate on the high price, so that the malaria matter was reported, forcing the imperial court to spend a lot of money to buy Artemisia annua, and there was no inventory in the market in North China, and the price of Artemisia annua soared in the rest of the places. Even if the local pharmacists hoard and buy, they have to spend a lot of money, and the profits are not much, and then they are far away from here, and they can't save the fire, and the imperial court can only buy it in the hands of the pharmacists in Bingzhou to control the epidemic.

And the so-called pharmacists are a few noble cronies headed by Huo Sheng.

When Jin Xiang heard this, he greatly agreed, and quickly contacted Shuo and the cronies of the two places to jointly operate the matter.

And Shi De also acted according to the plan, strictly blocking the news of malaria, and making the doctors of the epidemic institute silent, but to treat the sick first with the prescription of the time, in order not to let the epidemic break out too quickly, and to control the number of people who died of the disease, so as not to arouse suspicion.

But this matter was somehow noticed by the master Bo, went to Fengcheng, please ask Langzhong, there are indeed malaria patients in the local area, here, that Langzhong told Meng Gao the truth, fortunately Meng Gao is a stupid person, he did not report after knowing it, and actually went to the epidemic station to question.

To no avail, Meng Gaocai wanted to ask Na Langzhong as a witness, stabbed the matter to the Shuozhou Mansion, and Bu Zheng, according to the two envoys, the prefect is Qin Xiang's henchmen, Bu Zheng, according to the inspection is not a person close to Jin Xiang, Shi De did not allow Meng Gao to succeed, so he arranged the next trap, bought off the neighbors, and changed the husband, and secretly sent his cronies to wait for the opportunity to drug in Langzhong's wine and food, and waited for Langzhong and Meng Gao to faint, and faked the scene of Meng Gao's rape and murder.

When Meng Gao was sober, he was already trapped in the Fengcheng County Ya, and he was completely unaware of the reason, so he was transferred to the state and state ya.

A wave is not settled, a wave of rising, but this year's heavy rain continues, causing Pinan, Tang County to burst the embankment, if there is no malaria, there is no need to hide the disaster, but if you report the disaster at this time, you are afraid of leaking malaria, fortunately, Jin Xiang is decisive, when listening to Tong Weiyi mention the two counties of the chapter, immediately destroy it - many families also have to occupy the land for profit, and even Qin Xiang himself, Jin Xiang is sure that Qin Xiang will not make a noise.

Sure enough, the metallographic was expected again.

Who would have thought that the disaster in the two counties would be known to the saint so quickly, and he would be held accountable and let the prince be the messenger.

At present, the destruction of fertile land is small, and the prince has already suspected the local "typhoid fever"!

Moreover, I am afraid that the son of the world will get to the bottom of it and find out about the hidden chapter of the golden phase.

Shi De was so anxious that he couldn't sit still, and in one day, there was a circle of sores at the corners of his mouth.

Fortunately, Huo Qi got the quasi-letter, and hurriedly comforted: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, Huo Sheng already has a quasi-letter, and the yellow artemisia near North China has been bought out by him, and moreover, it has released a rumor and purchased it at a high price, causing the price of yellow artemisia to soar in the drug market around the country, and now it has risen to more than fifty taels of silver a dose, and once malaria breeds, it will be menacing, although we have to cure the patient in order to hide the epidemic, but we can't stop the spread, just drag it out for another half a month, maybe tens of thousands of people will suffer from the disease, the prince of the world has stabbed such a big leak this time, As long as we are harassed by the powerful, and there is a suspicion that we have not played first, we have to go to the excerpt and wait for the Holy Lord's instructions, so we should not have the heart to investigate the 'wind and cold' for the time being, and we can think of a way to let the son of the world get infected first...... As long as he is sick and delayed for half a month, let's report it to the imperial court, when there is a judgment, between the communication and exchanges, the demand for Artemisia annua has to be increased, and it is conservatively estimated that it can also earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. ”

Shi Defang was relieved, only worried that if he attacked Yu Feng, things would worsen.

"My lord, be relieved, the son of the world has flooded so many people's fields, and there are not a few people who hate him to the bone, even if it is found out that someone is plotting, he will not suspect us for a while, so act cautiously."

Thinking of Chongli, Shi De gritted his teeth fiercely and went back to persuade Lan Xin to suspend her friendship with the prince.

Lan Xin disagreed: "Malaria is not a serious illness that will kill at the moment, even if the son of the world suffers from illness, there is no need to worry about his life, why should I give up the plan?" The father does his own thing, and the daughter has her own plans. ”

Shi De has always indulged his beloved daughter, and when he saw that he couldn't be convinced, his heart was better than countless men with his daughter's mind, and he wouldn't be bad at scheming, and it was up to her.

All the emergency arrangements, the prince of the car has finally arrived outside the city of Bingzhou, Shi De "got the reward", and those powerful people flocked to the city gate.