The sarcastic ballads sung by the peasants, the yin and yang weird discussions of the scholars, and the people who are afraid of digging lakes like tigers..... The closer to Shanghai County as we went north from Huating County, the more this kind of extreme unfavorable public opinion had a serious impact on the morale of the team.

This oppressive atmosphere almost made the air condense.

"Put up a notice, and after three days, let the people of the whole county go to the city to watch the bombing of the lake."

As soon as he entered Shanghai County, Huang Ziwei and Huang Governor's Mansion, who arrived early, had not had time to introduce the officials of Shanghai County to the national teacher, Jiang Xinghuo immediately issued an order.

The third class of officials went out and posted large and small notices under the notice board of the canopy, which attracted the curiosity of the people of the whole county.

It happened that the rain was a little lighter, and even though the streets were still wet, it still couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the people to watch the excitement.

"Tick Tick Tick~"

The clear rain fell on the bluestone slab floor tiles, making a crisp sound one after another.

The people of Shanghai County crowded around the bulletin boards, craning their necks around the notices to see what was inside.

This place is prosperous, and the literacy rate is in the forefront of the entire Ming Dynasty, so not only the readers help to read, but ordinary people can also roughly understand some words.

"Blow up the lake! It looks scary·····." Some timid people retracted their heads after reading it. There are also those who have the audacity to come over and come over.

"Wow, the national teacher said that he wanted to blow up the big lake in the deepest part of the Great Huangpu..." This ······ That's too ruthless, isn't it?"

"Really!"

When they heard about the bombing of the lake, there was an uproar in the crowd.

No one would have imagined that Jiang Xinghuo, the national teacher of the dignified Ming Dynasty, would do such an appalling thing.

After all, anyone can imagine that if the dammed lake in Dahuangpu is blown up, then the accumulated flood water will definitely leak out, and if the government controls it well, it can leak to the open space with little impact.

However, there are too many people in the county who participated in the reinforcement of the river embankments on both sides of Shanghaipu, and the news naturally spread...... The national teacher wants to blow up the dammed lake in Dahuangpu and the flood water will flow to Shanghai Pulai!

In this way, you can merge from Shanghai Puhui into the Wusong River Ancient Road. But if this happens, what will happen to the locals' fields?

The prefect Huang said that the government will compensate according to the land price, but who knows if it counts?

And, what if one is not careful, and the walls of the county town are washed down by the raging floods? These thoughts inevitably spread in the hearts of the onlookers.

However, Jiang Xinghuo is naturally an expert in public opinion warfare, and he can deal with the monstrous turmoil of Jingqing's blood oath in Nanjing.

Jiang Xinghuo knows very well that for ordinary people in this era, if you talk to them about scientific principles, the righteousness of the family and the country, and the future development of the Ming Dynasty, it will not have much effect, and people will not put it in their minds.

But if you start to engage in the mystical feudal superstitions, it is now a popular activity in the fifteenth century.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo had already arranged it.

On the way, the four broken-mouthed scholars who were captured by Wang Bin began to sing and harmonize. "I heard that the bombing of the lake is what the national teacher wants to do?"

"I don't know! But that's fine, doesn't the national teacher have the ability to pray for rain? I heard that it is still a fertilizer immortal who came into the world, if it is really an immortal method, we can see it closely, otherwise it will be very boring to stay in the city every day and die of grievances.

"Not really! Now I only hope that the national teacher really has the ability to clean up the silt at the bottom of the lake as soon as possible, so that we can have a stable year!"

"Listen to his shit.

"Shhhh Silence, be careful of annoying the national teacher, even you will be arrested as coolies!"

"Anyway, no matter what this time, I will firmly stand on the side of the national teacher, and it is best to really cure the water, otherwise I won't be able to eat!

The gossip and whispers of the people of Shanghai County spread to the surrounding areas, and many people began to be affected.

"The national teacher bombing the lake is to do things."

The wind blew inadvertently.

"Bastard thing! If you chew your tongue again, don't blame me for the whip in my hand!" The officials around the bulletin board shouted in a deep voice.

But the more this happened, the more energetic the people became.

"Sanwa Zinong grew up in diapers by your aunt, what kind of majesty are you shaking here?" "That is, folks, we are not allowed to speak anymore?"

The officials were silent, and the people became more and more convinced of this statement.

A scholar with an empty bookcase on his back stood beside him, his face changed slightly, and asked, "Why did the national teacher suddenly remember to blow up the lake? What can you do by blowing up the lake?"

And the scholar who was leading the stubborn donkey suddenly said at this time, "Naturally, it is because the dammed lake is hindering feng shui, which is really terrible."

Geomancy?

The eyes of the onlookers suddenly lit up.

However, this thing, many people may read books, listen to books, and hear some feng shui metaphysics, but not everyone can become an expert in this area, let alone have any skills that can change the pattern of feng shui.

"Do you mean······ What's really so bad?" The scholar with the bookcase on his back muttered pretendedly. "Huh! You are indeed a wise man."

The stubborn donkey scholar glanced at him appreciatively, and continued, "I understand a little below, and I have carefully deduced it on the way here."

"This place is the place where the cave heaven is blessed, and if there is no accident, the source of blessing will continue and the generations will prosper. It's a pity that now the feng shui of this city is blocked by the dammed lake, is it a good thing to have wind and no water? In addition, the streets are covered in filth due to heavy rains for several days, and the low-lying terrain has completely destroyed the feng shui pattern."

Listening to what he said, the people who had fallen into the blind spot of knowledge were silent.

Feng Shui pattern, as the name suggests, is actually to use the earth's leylines and the surrounding environment to arrange the feng shui of things, forming a trend of accumulating wealth and Narui, so as to absorb the blessings and prosperity of all parties, so that the overall situation tends to be stable.

However, listening to this, it seems that the feng shui pattern here is affected by the dammed lake of Dahuangpu?

In this way, the feng shui pattern will not only fail to gather wealth, but will cause damage to the earth's leylines, so that the luck of the place will take a sharp turn.

If you let it go, I am afraid that everyone's future wealth and glory will no longer exist.

"So the national teacher saw that the feng shui pattern here was wrong, so he forcibly blew up the lake and drained the ventilation water?"

"Exactly!" The stubborn donkey scholar became more and more talkative, "It's not just like this, if the feng shui is smooth, everything will go well, the Jiangnan flood, the root cause is that the entire Jiangnan feng shui is not very smooth, the national teacher only needs to adjust the luck of the mountains and rivers, and the flood will naturally subside!"

Fueled by the feng shui theory of well-intentioned people, and the prefect of Songjiang, Lord Huang, personally issued compensation in advance for the doomed farmland on both sides of the strait, the people began to gradually feel at ease.

The statement that the national teacher should do things to change the pattern of feng shui has gradually become the accepted view of the people under the warm attitude of the government that does not explain or admit it.

As a result, the people began to look forward to the day when the national teacher blew up the lake.

After all, they are also Nanzhili, but many people have heard that the people near Nanjing City are fortunate to watch the national teacher pray for rain with their own eyes!

Since the national teacher didn't miss last time, then this time, I don't think I will miss it, right?

Even, some shrewd businessmen began to open up their joints and go to the city wall in advance to occupy a place, so that they could sell the gadgets they were selling well.

There was still a light rain in the sky, but it couldn't stand the embankments on both sides of the big Huangpu to Shanghaipu, and it was in full swing.

The men were shirtless, armed with shovels and pickaxes, and worked hard to strengthen the embankments on both sides. At this time, some projects have to be recruited to work harder.

But fortunately, the treasury of Songjiang Mansion is quite abundant, Lord Huang has been diligent and thrifty for so many years, and has saved some money, and now the money and grain of the imperial court cannot be transported, and Lord Huang temporarily used the treasury, but he can also hold on.

Therefore, there has never been a shortage of wages and food for the people, that is, the amount of earthwork temporarily reinforced in the past two or three days will be harder.

Here, the main project includes the waterway between the Great Huangpu and Shanghaipu embankments.

Although this section of the waterway is not completely guaranteed that it will not leak, thanks to the previous workload, after temporary reinforcement, it can still be eighty or ninety percent sure that it will not cause an unexpected disaster, and the people on both sides of the strait have been evacuated.

After all, this waterway was the key to quelling the White Lotus rebellion, so it was necessary to ensure its integrity and stability as well as its navigation.

Prior to this, although no one took care of Dahuangpu, a dammed lake was naturally formed, with the advent of heavy rain, the water level became more and more terrifying, but this section of Shanghaipu was managed, and every six months in the past, the magistrate of Shanghai County would organize the people to build this canal.

Because this flood is special and involves the safety of their homes, the people on the embankments on both sides of Shanghaipu are working harder.

Of course, in this tense and busy state, it is inevitable that someone will steal women and play tricks. Among them, the cadets who are responsible for maintaining order are patrolling back and forth with the team.

"What are you doing? Did you be lazy by hiring you?"

Zhang Anshi looked at the black and thin young man in front of him, who was looking at the Dahuangpu Dam Lake with a high water level in the distance, and asked unhappily.

This person is not a bystander, it is Ye Zongxing Ye Xiucai, who was in the county government of Huating County before, and walked away in a fit of anger.

Since Ye Xiucai knew that the national teacher did not plan to dig a dangerous dammed lake without manpower regardless of the lives of the people, but directly exploded it with gunpowder, he understood that he had misunderstood the national teacher.

But this person is a good face, and he always refuses to recommend himself again, admits his mistakes, and doesn't want to miss this event...... Yes, in Ye Zongxing's eyes, using a large amount of gunpowder to blow up the dammed lake is an indispensable event in the history of water conservancy.

For the first time in the world, there is nothing more than this.

In the past, it was necessary for people to dig with a shovel, a pickaxe, and a shovel!

If one is not careful, everyone will be drowned by the monstrous flood that has accumulated on the dammed lake. This kind of thing is really not uncommon.

When Ye Zongxing was young, one of his best distant sisters was washed away by the runaway flood, and since then, Ye Zongxing is not only determined to become an official and build water conservancy for the people, but also to study this aspect of knowledge all the time, so that it can come in handy one day.

Moreover, judging from the embankments on both sides of the temporary reinforcement, this national teacher, or the people around the national teacher, must have understood water conservancy, not nothing.

This also made Ye Xiucai's atmosphere at the beginning fade a lot.

At first, Ye Zongxing thought that he was another group of fools who patted their heads to make decisions!

However, Ye Zongxing's stunned made Zhang Anshi mistakenly think that this person looked down on him at all.

This is a very fatal thing for Zhang Anshi..... Because Zhang Anshi is in Xungui, he is not a father, but a sister, because his sister is the wife of the eldest prince Zhu Gaoxu, and he has a flying and domineering status, so he feels that he is a head shorter than Xu Jingchang and Zhu Yong.

Zhang Anshi became more and more impatient, and was about to whip it down, but was stopped by a voice. "Ye Xiucai? How did you become a man?"

Zhang Anshi turned his head and saw that it was the national teacher Jiang Xinghuo, accompanied by Song Li, Zheng He, Sun Kun, Wang Bin, Cao Song and others, who was inspecting the embankment.