"Of course we know it, and that's what we intended, but when we were discussing the matter of telling His Royal Highness the Crown Prince about this, we were overheard by the officials who were traveling with us."

"The official had dealings with the officials who oversaw the government, so he told them about it, and then they went against us."

The two shook their heads helplessly, and Lord Ye understood when he heard this.

"No wonder."

He said that these two officials were not fools, how could they be detected by the county magistrate.

And while they were talking, those officials were also caught by the people sent by Lord Ye, and they had already realized that Lord Ye knew these two officials of the Ministry of Commerce.

They didn't know the identity of Lord Ye, they looked at each other, and one of them pretended to say.

"Who are you, you don't have the right to arrest us, we are the officials of the nearby Chengchi County Government, and there is a reason why we have arrested these two here."

Lord Ye raised his eyebrows, and he said in response, wanting to see what these officials in front of him could say.

The officials glanced at each other, and one of them spoke.

"These people intend to sell grain privately, and our county commander has detained the grain they are going to smuggle away and stored it in the hands of several people from the merchant family."

What a reversal of black and white.

Lord Ye was stunned, if he didn't know the truth of the matter, he would almost be coaxed by what the person in front of him said.

There is evidence to support this, after all, those people from the merchant family do have food in their hands.

If the prefectural magistrate had already greeted those people, he went to the city to ask the prefectural magistrate without knowing the truth of the matter.

Most of them will really mistakenly think that these two officials of the Ministry of Commerce intended to sell grain and grass privately.

"You guys are teaching you this rhetoric by the county order."

"He's a scheming guy, but it's a pity that we've already found out that he and those people from the merchant family have secretly stored grain, intending to raise the price."

Lord Ye glanced at the officials, and seeing that the faces of the officials had changed drastically, he sneered and did not continue to say more.

The person has been found, Lord Ye did not delay, and let the two merchants go back to the inn, while he first escorted those servants into the dungeon.

Those officials only learned after entering the hall that they had already been arrested for serving the county commander.

They also knew that they had no way back, so they could only be imprisoned in a dungeon in despair.

He also asked people to go to the capital to investigate carefully, and the officials in the capital who came and went with the county order and those merchant families were also thoroughly investigated and imprisoned, and this matter was settled.

Chen Mu asked people to transport the grain out and found a reliable merchant.

The merchant sent people to take care of the grain and sell it in various cities, but the price did not rise, and it was still the normal price of grain.

The people in the city, who were still worried about the rise in food prices, have now seen that the price of food has dropped again, and everyone feels relieved.

Seeing that the people who were affected by the disaster had also stocked up on food for the winter, Chen Mu nodded with satisfaction.

It's autumn now, and the weather is getting colder and colder day by day.

Seeing that the time was approaching the day when the heavy rain fell, Chen Mu did not delay.

After saying hello to the Qingcheng County Commander and asking him to continue to supervise the grain matter.

Chen Mu and his people hurried to several cities where water conservancy facilities were being built.

There is still half a day before the heavy rain falls.

Chen Mu knew that Cao Lao's estimation of the time of the coming of the celestial phenomena was extremely accurate.

After hurrying to one of the cities, Chen Mu immediately found an inn to settle in, and then sent someone to inquire about the situation of the river where the water conservancy facilities were built.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the water conservancy facilities of those rivers are still being built."

"I saw that the foundations of two rivers had been laid and the embankments and bridges above them had been built, and I wondered if they were going to work overnight, but I had already told them that it was going to rain."

Hearing this, Chen Mu nodded with satisfaction.

Arrange things in advance, so that the people who are busy working in front of the river bank can avoid danger as soon as possible, so that the heavy rain does not fall and the water level of the river rises, endangering the lives of those peasants and workers.

It is not a big deal if the river embankment is washed away, and the most important thing is not to let the people suffer.

"This time for the construction of the river water conservancy project, I sent all the people who are very important in Beijing, and they should not be greedy for official silver."

Lord Ye knew what Chen Mu was most concerned about, and when he went to the river to investigate the situation, he also sent people to investigate the camp where the water conservancy project was built.

It is true that none of those officials are greedy for official silver, and the people who work in front of the river are also calm and peaceful.

Lord Ye told Chen Mu what he had discovered, and Chen Mu nodded with satisfaction.

In this way, the officials of the Ministry of Industry did what he asked.

While he was pondering, a dull thunder suddenly sounded outside the window, Chen Mu looked up at the window, and a cold wind blew into the window.

Chen Mu stood up and asked Lord Ye to close the window, and then walked out of the guest room, because the inn had been chartered, and the people staying in the inn were only them except for the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper.

Cao Lao sat in the hall, looking at the wide open door of the inn, he frowned, looking worried.

Hearing footsteps behind him, Cao Lao looked back and saw that it was Chen Mu.

Cao Lao immediately bowed his hand to Chen Mu with a respectful gesture.

"Look at it like this, this rain is about to fall, and the city where we are located is upstream, and the terrain is also high."

"Even if there is a flood, it will not affect us, so you don't have to worry."

Of course, Cao Lao will not be worried, what he is worried about is the safety of the river.

Hearing Chen Mu say that Chen Mu had asked the people stationed in the camp around the river to evacuate, Cao Lao was down-to-earth, and he arched his hand at Chen Mu.

"Sure enough, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is taking precautions, I look at this dark cloud, thunder rolling, this rain must be extremely fast."

"And after a long period of time, the river will inevitably be washed away, and those water conservancy projects that have been half-built, if the foundation is well laid, may be able to withstand the flood."

"But if the foundation is not good, it is difficult to say."

Chen Mu understood what Cao Lao meant, he sighed, nodded and agreed.

As Cao Lao said, the heavy rain fell quickly.

Listening to the sound of the rain outside the door, the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper who were napping in the shop all walked out of the inner hall and looked out of the lobby.

The inn is on high ground, two or three steps from the road.

The inn was not built against the wind, so the rain also poured into the inn, so Cao Lao stood up and walked to the gate.

"The rain is heavy and fast, and the moisture has also flooded into the inn, and the shopkeeper has asked the shopkeeper to close the door of the shop, let's go into the room and rest."

Although I remember the villages around the riverbank and the newly built embankment.

But Chen Mu also knew that it was impossible to send people to explore around the river at this time, so he could only wait for news first.