Northern Ryukyus, Chaoyang Town.

The sky was overcast, the rain was pouring down, and the sky and the earth were completely ruled by the rain line, and the gray was boundless, and the eyes could only reach dozens of zhang.

Lin Yaohua was wet, walking in the field, looking at the rice under his feet that had been soaked to the tip of the seedlings worriedly, and blamed himself: "It's too careless, it's too careless, the river really overflows the embankment and floods so many paddy fields!"

Sun Gongcheng persuaded beside him: "Yaohua, you can't be blamed for this, who would have thought that the rain would be so heavy this year." ”

Lin Yaohua shook his head, looked at the three or four thousand acres of soaked paddy fields under his feet, and said bitterly: "If I hadn't been lucky and put the construction of the river embankment on the agenda earlier, I wouldn't have suffered from this waterlogging this year." ”

Sun Gongcheng comforted: "There are unforeseen circumstances, you have done a good job, now the water level is no longer rising, at most the 4,000 acres will be damaged, and the yield will be reduced by two percent, so don't blame yourself too much." ”

Lin Yaohua said: "Success, you are from a rich background, I don't know what these 4,000 acres mean, that is hundreds of families have no harvest!"

Sun Gongcheng said with a smile: "Although I used to have no grains, but now I am a good crop, don't look down on people." ”

"Besides, what you are talking about is that in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, in our Chaoyang, who does not have two or three years of rations, you see, who will cry bitterly?"

Although the peasants shook their heads and sighed, lamenting that this season's rice might not be guaranteed, they did not look heartbroken, cursed a few words to God, and soon went back.

Lin Yaohua also knows that Chaoyang farmers are wealthy, but he was born in a farmer's family, and his cherishing of food is almost engraved into his bone marrow, and he still feels extremely sad.

Sun Gongcheng couldn't persuade him, and frowned: "Yaohua, you are not a farmer now, and the safety of tens of thousands of people depends on you, so you can't mess up because of a small loss." ”

Lin Yaohua was stunned, suddenly woke up, and said gratefully to Sun Gongcheng: "Thank you, Gongcheng, I almost forgot my identity and missed a big event." ”

Senior Brother Tong left Chaoyang to go to Zhoushan to discuss matters, and appointed himself to temporarily take charge of managing all parts of Chaoyang.

In the past three days, it has rained heavily in a row, and he has devoted himself to preventing flooding in his farmland, and he has not paid any attention to the port, shipyard, coal yard, coking coal plant, and iron-making plant, which is really dereliction of duty.

As Sun Gongcheng said, grain is not the first place for the current Chaoyang, but shipyards, coal yards, coking coal plants, and ironworks are really important.

"Let's go to the shipyard and have a look. Lin Yaohua beckoned several juniors behind him to go to the shipyard together.

It took a day to walk through several important factory areas, and found that the rain-proof measures were implemented very well, and despite such heavy rain, there was no loss, just a temporary shutdown.

Back to Chaoyang Town, the drainage design of the town is excellent, although the ditch is full, but the discharge is very fast, the road surface is basically not waterlogged, although the pedestrians on the road are in a hurry, but still peaceful, there is no panic.

Back in Nanhai Hall, it was already dark, Lin Yaohua changed into dry clothes, and his own handyman disciples served hot rice and soup, Lin Yaohua beckoned his brothers to eat, just sat down, looked around, and asked, "Where is Qingchi?"

Guo Sanshui, who has been on duty in Nanhaitang, said: "Qingchi went to inspect the granary of the warehouse, and he is about to come back." ”

Lin Yaohua nodded and said, "Let's eat first, I'll ask the kitchen to prepare another one for Qingchi." ”

Everyone was not polite, buried their heads in eating, and before they finished eating, they saw Xie Qingchi soaked into the courtyard, beckoned from afar, went to the backyard to change clothes, and when they came to the restaurant, everyone had finished eating, Lin Yaohua and others were drinking tea next to them, waiting for Xie Qingchi.

After the meal, Xie Qingchi reported to Lin Yaohua: "All the warehouses are fine, but the grain in the granary is a little damp, and it will be dried again after the rain stops, but I don't know how many days this rain will fall and when it will be clear." ”

"What do you say from the Climatology Institute?" asked Lin Yaohua.

When he first came to Ryukyu, the head of the sect asked for a detailed record of the local climate, so he established a climatological institute and sent two disciples to record it.

Xie Qingchi said: "They can't say for sure, it's the first time in the past four years that they have encountered such heavy rain, and it will take at least two days to see the color of the clouds, but I'm not sure." ”

Lin Yaohua thought for a while and said, "Now that there is enough coal, you should make a plan to build a roasting house and let the millet go to the tide." ”

Xie Qingchi's mind turned, and he nodded: "After the rain, I will arrange for someone to try, but there is still a problem with the design of our granary, and we use the northern one, which is rainy in the south, and the situation is very different, please send someone to Panyu and ask some masters to come over and help us rebuild the granary." ”

Lin Yaohua nodded and said: "Okay, I will arrange it after the rain, and I need to add some more rice milling houses, and try to grind the millet into rice in the future and transport it back to the mainland, and try to store as little grain as possible here in Ryukyu." ”

Xie Qingchi reminded: "It's no problem to build a rice milling house, but the question of how much grain to store still needs you and Senior Brother Tong to report to the head to decide." ”

Lin Yaohua nodded and said, "After Senior Brother Tong comes back, I will discuss with him and submit a report to the master." ”

Xie Qingchi said: "In the past few days, I have gathered the junior disciples to the education center, Senior Brother Guo, you will send someone to give them some guidance." ”

There are about 10 new disciples assigned to Ryukyu every year, and after half a year of sailing and learning in Zhoushan, they have to go to Ryukyu for half a year to cut down trees, and in addition to practicing swordsmanship and swordsmanship, they also help Ryukyu reclamation.

Guo Sanshui smiled: "No problem, I'm idle and have nothing to do." ”

Guo Sanshui is now in charge of the Ryukyu Education Center, on the one hand, he has the responsibility of guiding and assigning new Ryukyu disciples to practice the exercises, and on the other hand, he teaches the children of immigrants simple literacy and arithmetic, and basic martial arts.

Lin Yaohua smiled and asked Guo Sanshui: "I haven't seen Yang Jian and them all day, what are they doing?"

Yang Jian Shenyang co-authored more than a dozen junior disciples, did not like general affairs, and was incorporated into the defense station, practicing martial arts competitions every day, at ease, as soon as there was a war, he was very excited, and charged forward.

Guo Sanshui said with a smile: "These crazy people are lighter in the martial arts arena, saying that whoever can cross the martial arts arena and can't wring out the water on their clothes will win." ”

Lin Yaohua said with a smile: "With such a heavy rain, can you not get your clothes wet?"

Guo Sanshui said: "No, I found out later that they were all soaked, and they were changed to clothes, and whoever has the heaviest clothes will lose." ”

Lin Yaohua shook his head, he is twenty-one or twelve years old, and he is still like a boy in the second class of children, with such a wide range of thinking, he is really good at playing!

In the early morning of the second day, the rain gradually subsided, and by noon, it had completely stopped, and the Ryukyu people and others were relieved.

Lin Yaohua took three inner disciples, crossed the bow and carried the sword, along the winding Chaoyang River in the north of Chaoyang, to the north, to the east, over the mountains and mountains, inspected the gunpowder factory and artillery factory built in the mountain, and found that the heavy rain did not affect the operation of the two factories, and there were no casualties, and they were all relieved.