The Ming Dynasty was the era that pushed Caoyun to the peak of all feudal dynasties.

In other words, the highlight of Caoyun was in the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when supplies were transported to the north, most of them were transported by sea, but the sea has its own unpredictability, and sea transportation has a certain degree of danger, and there are those who sink by the reef every year, and some are robbed by pirates.

However, I don't go much every year, after all, the country at that time was in Yingtianfu.

But when the Yongle Emperor came to power, and to move the capital to Shuntianfu, the danger of the sea route was revealed, so he began to dig and dredge the canal, after decades of work, to point into a line, the entire Ming water and land transportation network in all directions, but also gradually abolished the sea transport.

The canal can be said to be the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court attaches great importance to it, the person who serves as the governor of Caoyun, there is a fifty percent probability that he can enter the cabinet, and there are more than 100,000 soldiers who are specifically responsible for maintaining Caoyun every year.

According to Xia Yuan's idea, it should be to go to the Tonghui River first, follow Baicao to Jinmen, and then go to Weicao from Jinmen, and enter Huitong River through Weicao.

And when you arrive at the Huitong River, you can reach Puzhou by walking hundreds of miles of waterway.

Of course, the idea was so, quite beautiful, but after two days of sailing, day and night, the boat stopped when it arrived at the canal in the territory of Linqing.

There was no way to go, and thousands of ships were stuck here, all small merchant ships, some only a few meters wide, and these five ships simply stood out among these ships.

Taking advantage of the convenience of the large height of the boat, you can see the river in front of you to intercept the embankment, along the way, in fact, there are many damaged parts of the river, but they are not serious, and you can still sail.

And no one takes it seriously, the route of this transport is too long, connecting all the rivers in the world, and some improperly maintained places are inevitable.

But looking at the entire section of the river in front of them, which was completely damaged, and there were countless people and sergeants in charge of Cao Yun repairing the river and building embankments, everyone was already panicking.

Good end, this river will never be ruined like this.

The person in charge remembered the collapse of the ground again, and asked with a pale face: "My lord, the collapse of the ground you said before"

"You think I'm joking with you?"

Xia Yuan's heart also sank to the bottom, he thought that the collapse of the earth would lead to the destruction of Caoyun, but he didn't expect that the Linqing River would be damaged like this.

You must know that Linqing is three or four hundred miles away from Puzhou, if the river of Linqing is destroyed like this, what will Puzhou be.

Taking a deep breath, he spoke, "Dock all the boats to the shore, board the boats, and let everyone disembark, I have something to say." ”

In this world, there is a kind of fearlessness, knowing that it cannot be done.

Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, he prefers to go to the tiger mountains.

Xia Yuan felt that he was a person with such a fearless spirit, even if he knew that Puzhou in front of him was a hell on earth, but he had already decided to fight the earthquake and provide disaster relief, then he would not give up anything.

But he can't force everyone to be as fearless as he is.

His eyes roughly swept over the faces of these thousands of people, many of whom he couldn't see clearly, or even see, more than 100 people, driving on crutches, more than 1,000 people, covering the sky

But Xia Yuan knew that everyone's hearts were uneasy, he didn't tell these people what they were going to do, nor did he tell the news of the collapse, these people just obeyed their own orders, bought food, purchased herbs, and purchased all the supplies.

Then I sailed here.

It can even be said that he fooled all these thousands of people to this place, to Linqing, if it weren't for the damage of the river and the inability to sail, he would have fooled these people to Puzhou.

"Presumably many of you have learned the reason why the ship is parked here, and the Cao Canal in front of it has been completely destroyed."

Xia Yuan's voice was very loud, mobilizing the strength of his whole body, he wanted everyone to hear, speaking of this, he swallowed his saliva, he had a hunch, the following words were spoken, and the thousands of people would definitely be in an uproar.

But I have already arrived here, as long as I go further, sooner or later I will know about the collapse of Puzhou, and it is better to make it clear now than at that time.

"The reason why this river will be damaged is because there has been a large-scale landslide, and the landslide is not in Linqing, but in Puzhou.

Puzhou is where the sky is shattered, there are countless deaths and injuries of people and animals, roads everywhere are cut off, and the whole Puzhou has become a hell on earth, and we are going to Puzhou to transport supplies, disaster relief, and at the same time to save people."

Xia Yuan's voice was still very loud, and after these words were spoken, the air seemed to be quiet for a moment, followed by an uproar from everyone present.

For a while, the voices of thousands of people rang out, noisy and chaotic, but the voices were full of endless panic and fear.

It's a landslide, a landslide

The Cao Canal in Linqing has been ruined like that, so what should Puzhou look like?

Those imperial doctors were standing in front of them, standing under Xia Yuan's nose, and when they heard these deafening words, they were already shaky at this time, and they just wanted to faint

They had been on the ship for more than two days, and they had guessed where they were going, but they never expected to go to the disaster area of the landslide.

The collapse was followed by aftershocks, and they continued for days

Who knows if there will be aftershocks there, and there will be floods, and there will be plagues.

Thinking of this, a few old ones have already smoked over.

At this time, no one cared about them, maybe among the people present, except for Xia Yuan, only Wang Shouren was left, Wang Shouren just had a solemn face, he saw the truncated and destroyed river, and when he heard these words, he already knew that the collapse of the earth should be true.

There seems to be some fear.

But he suddenly had a feeling of excitement and conscience. To the conscience.

He looked at the teacher he could only see once in a while, and his mind flashed over and over again to his conscience, the theory of the unity of knowledge and action, and suddenly he had an understanding, and his whole face became firm.

"What are you panicking, be quiet! If you are afraid of death, the official is not afraid of death? ”

Since he became an official, Xia Yuan has never used such a self-proclaimed position as an official, but today he roared loudly, and he grabbed the unicorn suit on his body with his hand,

"Do you see this unicorn suit on this official? This is the emperor's gift, this official is the champion of this department, this official is Hanlin, it is the promising Hanlin in your mouth, this official is still the master of His Royal Highness the Prince, this official is not yet 20 this year, young and promising, and the future is immeasurable! ”

Hearing this, the riot of the crowd gradually subsided, this is the official, they are the people, there is a visible gap between the two, in the face of this huge class gap, their choice is to be obedient and remain quiet.

"I don't want to say whose life is more precious than whom, but ask yourself, if you have an heir like me in your family, you are willing to let him die!"

“.”

The crowd was silent, who was willing to do it, this is the champion, this is Hanlin, and there is one to be offered.

"This official is not reluctant! So this official is not to send people to death, this official is to save people, this official is not to let you go to death, this official is also to let you save people, to save people with you, in addition to this official, there is also him! ”

As he spoke, Xia Yuan stretched out his arm and pointed at Wang Shouren, "He is also an official of the imperial court, and there are more than a dozen old men, they are the imperial doctors in the palace, they are for the emperor, the prince, and the queen!" ”

"The emperor sent these imperial doctors out, just to let these imperial doctors go with us."

Except for the old vegetable gangs who were old and weak, the remaining dozen or so crumbling imperial doctors, hearing this, their brains buzzed for a while, it turned out to be Your Majesty

Xia Yuan's voice continued, "Now that the river is blocked, it is impossible to sail, and you can only rely on people to transport disaster relief things to the disaster area, and the official will not force you."

Now we, the court officials, are going to disaster relief and save people, and those who don't want to go will go back to the cabin and stay, and those who are willing to go will be ten taels of silver per person, and whoever dies in it will receive a pension of one hundred taels! ”

"If you want to earn this money, go now to the fourth ship, where there is a wheelbarrow, one for each person, and it is loaded with grain, or herbs, or cloth. Whatever you want, but you can pack as much as you can, and bring as many hoes, shovels, ropes, and everything you can. ”

“.”

After a long silence, the first man stood up and turned in the direction of the ship, all staring at him, not knowing which choice he had made, whether to go or to stay.

until I saw him get on the fourth boat, and soon he got off the boat with a wheelbarrow.

With this first person, the rest of the people also moved, maybe they were herd mentality, maybe they were thinking that the officials and masters would go, what was it to go by themselves, or maybe they were to earn the ten taels or even a hundred taels of silver.

Everyone silently boarded the fourth boat and pushed the wheelbarrows down.

Then the wheelbarrows were stacked in one place, and some were boarded on the ship that loaded herbs and tools, some on the one that loaded cloth, and many more on the merchant ship that loaded grain.

Zhu Houzhao was in the grain pile with the two eunuch cats at this time, and Liu Jin trembled and said, "Your Highness, there are many people coming up."

"Shut up, Hongu can see it!"

Zhu Houzhao glared at him, and immediately beckoned: "Let's go, let's find a place to hide first, but we can't let them find out." ”

"Hidden? Or let's."

"Shut up."

"Oh"

Immediately, Zhu Houzhao took the two eunuchs to hunch over and shuttle through the grain pile, and began to look for a suitable place to hide.

In order to follow him to the disaster area, Zhu Houzhao was full of caution, and stayed on this ship for two days, but no one found out.

Thanks to the fact that the ship was full of grain, there was no shortage of places for Tibetans.

At dusk, the long snake-like procession, each pushing a wheelbarrow, headed southwest.

Except for the sailors who rowed and steered the boat, almost all the rest of the young men followed to help the disaster.

After going for more than 300 miles, the end is likely to be hell on earth.

Occasionally, someone would look back, glance at the five large ships behind them, and then turn their heads away again, with determination in their eyes.

For the silver!

After a while, Zhu Houzhao and the others flipped off the boat, Liu Jin and Gu Dayong each carried a bag of grain, and their faces looked like mourning, while Zhu Houzhao looked firm and did not have the slightest intention of retreating.

For the suppression of the rebellion!

The river has been blown down by the river in Linqing, and the water flows backwards, and the road is muddy and the road is very difficult.

When they were far away from the vicinity of Caoyun, they walked along the official road, and some damaged farmhouses could be seen in the distance.

This situation, the further southwest you go, the more serious it becomes, and it is another four days of walking, most people's faces are already blank, these four days, after six aftershocks, at first there will be panic.

But after six times, I got used to it.

If you are in a mountainous area, maybe an aftershock, there will be countless boulders rolling down, but this piece is located in the plain, there are almost no mountains, and when you enter the territory of Puzhou, there is not even a mountain.

In addition to shaking the ground, as long as there are no buildings around, there is no danger, at most a fall and a dog gnawing on the mud.

For example, those old ladies have basically fallen, and they have been dropped while sitting in a wheelbarrow, and they are old one by one, and it is difficult to bear the pain of this long journey, so they have to be pushed.

But no mountain does not mean that there is no danger, at this time it is close to Puzhou, which belongs to the alluvial plain of the Yellow River, there is no highland, and it is even just in the tofu waist of the Yellow River.

Everywhere you look, everything is muddy, walking one foot deep and one foot shallow, everyone's face and body are covered with mud.

When we arrived in Puzhou, the city of Puzhou, which was in the epicenter, was already a vast ocean, with water everywhere, all the houses that had been collapsed, and even the city walls had been collapsed.

The water of the Yellow River poured into the city, and then poured out from the city, and the swollen corpses of countless people and animals rose and fell in the water, which was muddy.

Those imperial physicians sitting in the wheelbarrow had vomited when they saw this scene, they were medical families, and their position as imperial physicians was inherited, and they had never seen such a hideous and terrifying corpse.

Everyone was silent, just trying to walk along the heights, but still dripping with water, Xia Yuan's face had already turned pale, he had participated in several volunteer meetings, and had seen what it looked like after the earthquake a few times, but he had never seen such a scene.

The collapse of the earth is already a great disaster, but this flood is the boulder that fell from the sky, weighing on the weight of life, and this flood does not even give people a chance to save people.

How to save this, this water is afraid that it is more than half a meter deep, and this is still the seventh or eighth day after the collapse.

The water depth is still more than half a meter.

How deep should this water be at the beginning of the landslide?

Even if the houses collapsed after the earthquake, the people who were crushed inside were lucky not to die, and the water of the Yellow River poured in, and the people were already drowned in it.

I'm afraid this Puzhou City has long been a dead city.

The more he thought about it, the paler Xia Yuan's face became, and he hadn't seen a living person yet.

He didn't know what was supporting him to persevere, maybe it was the fluke belief, go to a high place, and there might be a living person in a high place.

After walking for more than ten miles, I finally saw a village, where although all the houses had collapsed and it was muddy, more than a dozen people could be seen sitting there on the ruins.

The eyes of everyone who saw this scene lit up, as if they were full of life, even Wang Shouren, who had always been silent, was excited at this moment, and even tears welled up in his eyes, pointing at those people with his fingers, wanting to say something, but he couldn't speak.

Xia Yuan had already opened his lead-filled legs and ran in that direction.

PS: These two chapters are big chapters of more than 4,000 words, so it seems like two more, but in fact, it is the same as the previous four more, and it can be read more coherently.

If you guys think that this kind of two-thousand-word and eight-thousand-word is more appropriate, I will send all of these four-thousand-word chapters in the future.

And there were also suggestions that I should combine the two chapters into one.

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