A few more days passed.

As the more than a foot thick freeze on the river began to thaw, Zhu Di sent four sea boats again and began to go to the Bohai Sea to catch marine fish.

However, this time, Xu Xiang took out the fleet and set off less than a day before returning to Beiping Mansion.

Then, Guo An and Zhu Fu were hurriedly called over by Zhu Di.

"Wechen see His Highness!"

"Get up."

Zhu Di waved his hand solemnly, and without waiting for Guo An and Zhu Fu to take the initiative to ask, he said directly: "Now, after a winter of recuperation, the Bohai Sea fish should have recovered.

We want Xu Xiang to lead the big ship in the house, and take advantage of the fact that the fleet of the imperial court sailors has not yet reached the Bohai Sea, and go to the Bohai Sea to fish more.

It's just that we have calculated everything, but we didn't expect that at the beginning of spring and winter, the hydrology of the Tonghui River declined, and big ships were not allowed to pass.

I don't know what good strategies Guo Qing and Zhu Qing have? ”

Zhu Fu frowned slightly, he sensitively noticed that his status in Zhu Di's heart was somewhat lower than that of Guo Thief.

A monk left, and another Guo thief came!

No, the monk didn't leave, but was suppressed by the light of the Guo thief.

Thinking about it, Zhu Fu's mood was inexplicably better again.

As for Guo Anke, he didn't have so much thought about Zhu Fu, and after listening to Zhu Di's words, he became anxious directly.

Fishing for marine fish, but there is also a part of Guo An, one day less fishing, he will lose dozens of taels of silver.

Thinking about it, Guo An hurriedly asked: "Dare to ask Your Highness, is there a big ship outside Beiping Mansion?" ”

Zhu Di glanced at Guo An helplessly, and said, "There are only a few big ships in my Yanwang Mansion, where are there other ships outside?"

What's more, if any big ship wants to go to sea to fish, it needs to undergo a huge engineering transformation. Otherwise, let's just look for someone to buy a few. ”

Guo An was stunned, he was a little too anxious to forget about this.

Seeing this, Zhu Di looked directly at Zhu Fu on the side, "What is Zhu Qing's best plan for this matter?" ”

Seeing that Zhu Di finally remembered him, Zhu Fu was moved in his heart.

However, he had no clue about solving the problem of the flow of the Tonghui River, so he could only shake his head helplessly.

"Your Highness, Wechen doesn't have access to water conservancy, but Wechen thinks that this matter is the responsibility of the prefect of Beiping Prefecture, and it should be resolved by His Highness urging the prefect of Beiping Prefecture."

Hearing this, Zhu Di's eyes lit up, "Zhu Qing is reasonable." ”

Because in the city of Beiping Mansion, there are Yan Wangfu, the political envoys, the inspection envoys, and the command envoys, all of whom are the superiors of the Beiping Prefecture Governor's Yamen, and the Beiping Prefecture Governor's Mansion is like a small transparent, and sometimes even the Wanping County Ya and Daxing County Ya are not as good as the sense of existence.

Therefore, Zhu Di forgot that there was still the Beiping Mansion.

Zhu Di instructed Zhu Liang below: "Go quickly, go and summon the prefect of Beiping to us." ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

Zhu Liang answered, and walked down quickly.

Soon, Yu Rentian, the prefect of Beiping, hurriedly walked in.

"Yu Rentian, the prefect of Beiping, see His Royal Highness King Yan, I don't know what His Royal Highness King Yan is looking for to come to?"

"Governor Yu, please take a seat."

Zhu Di's face was full of gentleness, and after Yu Rentian sat down, he said: "Governor Yu, there is less spring rain this year, and the water level of the Tonghui River has dropped, it is difficult for big ships to go together, and the transportation is blocked. ”

"This ......"

Yu Rentian glanced at Zhu Di in some surprise, and then quickly got up, his face full of panic.

"Please also ask Your Highness for forgiveness, the official has never heard of this matter. However, please rest assured that Your Highness will definitely send someone to investigate in detail and try his best to solve the problem when he goes back. ”

Guo An stared directly at this Governor Yu with wide eyes.

And Zhu Di's expression cooled directly, "Yu Rentian, do you think this king is deceiving you?" ”

Yu Rentian's face turned pale, and he hurriedly got up and saluted and begged for mercy: "Your Highness forgives your sins, and the lower officials have no such intentions."

It's just that river engineering and water conservancy matters have always been the responsibility of the government and the general judge, and the lower officials don't know much about the water conservancy of the Tonghui River. ”

Zhu Di's face was solemn, and he turned his head to Zhu Liang and shouted to the side: "Quickly go and summon the Tongzhi and Tongzhi of Beiping Mansion to this king." ”

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Zhu Liang replied and walked out quickly.

Zhu Di snorted coldly, sat on the chair by himself, slowly tasted the tea, and ignored Yu Rentian.

In this regard, Yu Rentian could only lower his head and did not dare to act rashly.

It's just that in my heart, I have guessed more than a dozen possibilities for the purpose of Yan Wang Zhu Di's actions.

Yu Rentian, who had been waiting for his legs to stand a little numb, and his forehead had begun to sweat outward, and Zhao Jie, the Tongzhi of Beiping Mansion, and the Tongju Dang Fuzhong finally arrived.

"Xiaguan Beiping Mansion Tongzhi Zhao Jie see His Royal Highness King Yan!"

"Xiaguan Beiping Mansion has sentenced the party to reinstate His Royal Highness King Yan!"

As the two saluted, Zhu Di raised his head slightly.

"Today, we summoned you and the others because of the decline in the hydrology of the Tonghui River, which affects the transportation of Cao, I don't know what good plan you and the others can have?"

Zhao Jie and Dang Fu couldn't help but be stunned, and subconsciously glanced at the prefect Yu Rentian beside him.

It's a pity that I just saw Shangguan with a pale face, sweating all the time on his forehead, and a stiff expression.

This made the two of them even more panicked, could it be that King Yan wanted to use this to ask them for guilt?

However, since they took office, they have not been greedy for ink except for the arrival rules, charcoal respect, year respect, door respect, and some makeup respect and literary respect from a few lower officials.

Could it be that there is someone in his own yamen who has offended His Royal Highness King Yan?

However, thinking about it, the two hurriedly replied: "Back to His Royal Highness King Yan, since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, some powerful people and monks in the upper reaches of the Gaoliang River, Lugou River, and Jinshui River have privately diverted canals to irrigate farmland and vegetable fields, resulting in a decrease in the flow of water into the Tonghui River.

Now, every winter and spring every year, the Cao transport cargo ships from the south are docked in Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou, and no longer enter Beiping Mansion. ”

Zhu Di asked in a cold voice: "This king asked you and others to solve the problem, why did you tell this king?" ”

Zhao Jie and Dang Fu's faces were anxious, "Back to Your Highness, Tonghui River Caoyun has had this kind of inconvenience since ancient times, and there is no way for the lower officials!" ”

"There is no way? What a way! ”

Zhu Di snorted coldly, "Father Emperor Ren Er and others are the prefects of Beiping Mansion, Tongzhi, and Tongju, all of whom are parents and officials of Beiping Mansion, but as a result, Er and others are so vegetarian?" ”

"Your Highness is angry."

Tongju Dang shuddered, remembering that he had chatted with some officials about the Tonghui River before, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, the water of the Tonghui River was originally drawn by Guo Taishi of the previous dynasty.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, only a Gaoliang River was not enough to support the water of the Tonghui River, so the former Yuan Dynasty led the Lugou River and the Jinshui River from the south of Dadu to the Tonghui River to help the water.

Nowadays, the Tonghui River has begun to be in short supply again, and the only way to do this is to send officials to strictly investigate the irrigation of the upper reaches of the Gaoliang River, Lugou River, and Jinshui River, so that it may bring some water to the Tonghui River. ”

"Your Highness, what the party general judgment said is extremely true, it is necessary to strictly investigate the irrigation of farmland by the people in the upper reaches of the Gaoliang River, Lugou River, and Jinshui River."

Yu Rentian and Zhao Jie nodded again and again as if they were grasping life-saving grass.

Zhu Di asked coldly: "Strictly investigate the people to irrigate the farmland?" Don't bother with those gentry houses?

The people's farmland depends on that little stream of water to irrigate, and if you seal the ditch, won't it cut off the people's way of life? Where are you leaving the people along these rivers? ”

Dang Fu hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, the Gaoliang River is related to the transportation capacity of the entire Tonghui River, and no matter what, those people cannot be allowed to divert the water of the Gaoliang River, Lugou River, and Jinshui River to irrigate the farmland.

Otherwise, as there are more and more ditches on both sides of these rivers, the flow of water in the Tonghui River will become less and less. ”

Zhu Di's expression eased slightly, but he continued to ask: "In this way, can we solve the problem of spring transportation of the Tonghui River?" ”

"This ......"

A trace of hesitation flashed on Dang Fu's face, "Your Highness forgives your sins, there are tens of thousands of people attached to these three rivers, and it is extremely difficult to completely cut off the irrigation of the canal, there has never been such a precedent since ancient times, so the lower officials are not sure!" ”

Zhu Di was directly furious, "Are you trying to transport the Tonghui River with the livelihood of tens of thousands of people?" ”

"This is the only solution."

Dang Fu said with a pout.

Guo An couldn't stand it, and asked directly: "Dare to ask the party's general judgment, how are you going to prohibit these tens of thousands of people from irrigating farmland by ditches?" ”

Zhu Di also stared coldly at Dang Fu.

Dang Fu's face turned ruthless, and he said: "This is the decree of Beiping Mansion, and those people must implement it if they don't implement it." ”

Guo An asked again: "Then what if those gentry all block it collectively?" ”

The party froze, thought for a moment, and then said slowly: "The gentry have less land, if someone does not obey, they can deal with it as appropriate." ”

"Hmph, let's deal with it as appropriate."

Zhu Di asked coldly: "We just gave the people of Beiping Mansion some hope, and are you going to force the people to a dead end?" ”

Dang Fu's face turned pale, and he hurriedly said: "Your Highness Mingjian, the lower officials have no such intentions. ”

Zhu Di said sharply: "But you are doing it." ”

With a plop, Dang Fu knelt down directly and begged for mercy again and again.

"Your Highness Mingjian, the lower officials are just bent on solving the matter of Caoyun in Beiping Mansion, and they don't think about it so much at all."

"Alright, alright, get up, we didn't say cutting off your head, why are you scared like this?"

Zhu Di waved his hand a little irritably.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Dang Fu slowly got up at this time.

Zhu Di looked at Yu Rentian and Zhao Jie again, "What is the best way for one to be the prefect of Beiping Mansion and the other to be the governor of Beiping Mansion?" ”

Yu Rentian and Zhao Jie hurriedly looked panicked, "The lower officials are ashamed." ”

"Humph!"

Zhu Di's face was even more irritable.

At this time, Guo An remembered something and suggested to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, why don't you build a road?" ”

"Build roads?"

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, full of doubts, what does Caoyun have to do with road repair?

Similarly, Zhu Fu, Yu Rentian and others on the side were also full of doubts.

Guo An explained, "Your Highness, Tongzhou Zhangjiawan Wharf is not inferior to Haizi Wharf, every spring when the Tonghui River is inconvenient, the Cao Yun ship will dock in Zhangjiawan, and then build a smooth and wide road from Zhangjiawan to Wanping County."

Nowadays, these businessmen complain because although the road from Tongzhou to Beiping is not far, the road is rugged and inconvenient.

If a smooth road is built for them, they can walk in rain and snow, and the merchants will not complain. ”

"A road that works in rain or snow?"

As soon as Guo An's words came out, Yu Rentian, Zhao Jie, and Dang Fu were directly surprised.

They had never heard of it, and there was such a way as to exist.

Unless, it is possible to pave these roads with smooth bluestone like the streets of the city.

But how is this possible?

……

(End of chapter)