The Red Mansions

Chapter 631 Emperor Chongping: The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty are not as good

Chapter 631 Emperor Chongping: The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty are not as good as Jia Ziyu!

Sizhou, Hong County

Zhao Mo, a scholar of the cabinet, Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment, and Du Ji, the governor of water transportation, rushed to Sizhou to help with [-] soldiers of the grain guard. At this moment, the two stood on a weedy and muddy mound, staring at what had already been done. A piece of Zeguo's prefecture, Hongxian County, looks gloomy like a dark cloud shrouded in the sky.

And Zhao Mo frowned, his heart gradually sank to the bottom of his heart, he felt cold all over his body, and his eyes were condensed into a line.

At this time, Du Jitong, the Governor of Water Transportation, came closer with an umbrella to block the rain from the sky, and sighed: "Old Ge, the Yellow River seized the Huai River and flooded Sizhou, and the Huang Huai River almost flooded together. If the canal is submerged, I'm afraid it will interfere with water transportation, and I hope that the flood will recede and return to the river, otherwise it will take a lot of work to transport grain from the south to the north this year."

At this moment, the whole Sizhou has become a vast country, and the flood from the Yellow River comes from the east, and it is poured into the Huai River at once, and the entire canal and the Yellow River can no longer be distinguished.

Looking at the county town in the distance, Zhao Mo said anxiously: "Governor Du, hurry up and send a boat to save people, we will talk about water transportation later."

Human life is at stake, where is the leisure to pay attention to water transportation?

Du Jitong looked at the Sizhou City where the city wall was only exposed, and said with relief: "Don't worry, Mr. Ge, the lower officials have sent grain guards to collect boats and boats to save people. It's just that the flood flooded into the city. We have limited manpower. I'm afraid The people in the city are in bad luck and bad luck."

The city of Zhou was flooded. When he heard the news, he was shocked for a long time. He didn't know how many people were going to be buried in the water. No wonder the elder Zhao Ge immediately asked Hedu.

Not to mention the governor of the river, if one is not good, if the court asks about the crime, I am afraid that the elder will suffer some influence.

Gein, once tens of thousands of casualties, such a big mistake, the emperor in Beijing is bound to be furious.

Just as the soldiers of Caoliangwei were preparing their boats to rescue the people of Sizhou, the prefectural city of Kaifeng, hundreds of miles away——

On the embankment along the river at the mouth of Liuyuan, there are wooden frame and thatch sheds that can be seen on the edge of the embankment. The red and black brocade flags of the Beijing camp and regiment camp are soaked in the heavy rain, and occasionally whine in the wind. Sound, and such flags have been stretching downstream in Xiaoxian County, Xuzhou and other places.

The [-] pacers of the Beijing camp who came to the Central Plains to quell the chaos before were mostly patrolling the river embankment, and together with tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians stood guard along the river, guarding against the coming of the river flood.

Jia Heng's camp has been stationed on the embankment for three days. Officials from the feudal and local departments in the whole province have been stationed along the river, and the people in Kaifeng Fucheng are anxiously waiting for the news on the embankment.

In just three days, Jia Heng called on the people to cross five waves of flood peaks at the Kaifeng mansion. In one dangerous work, he even moved earth and rocks with soldiers, and raised the dike and dam to block the Only in the water seepage area can we survive a dangerous situation.

At this moment, Jia Heng looked up at the still gray sky, feeling a sense of worry in his heart, and turned to ask Guan He Tongzhi, the gatekeeper at the side, and said loudly: "This wave of rain is calculated according to the rain period in the Longzhi period, how long will it last?" to stop?"

"Master Taiwan, it may take another half a month." The gatekeeper looked equally dignified and said with a sigh.

Jia Heng frowned, and said in a deep voice: "It's still half a month? This flood should be over quickly, otherwise, it won't be a problem if it goes on like this."

Song Xuan, magistrate of Xiangfu County in Kaifeng Prefecture, Jiao Jingxing, magistrate of Weishi County, Feng Lian, counselor of Henan Chief Secretary, and Xu Kai, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, all listened to the conversation between the two. Time, if the embankment breaks, the city of Kaifeng will be in danger of being submerged.

Xu Kai raised his head to look at the mud on the young man's face, the python robe was covered with mud, it was clearly caused by carrying earth and rocks by himself during a dangerous work yesterday, and inexplicable emotions surged in his heart.

Such a young man, without avoiding hardships and dangers, came to the front line of floods in person, and was sincerely the backbone of the country.

With his temperament, he will not hide his words against his will.

Jia Heng said: "The embankment may be under flood water?"

The gatekeeper sighed: "My lord, no one can say this, but judging from the previous few times, the river embankment is still strong, and the subsequent rain will not be too heavy, maybe it will be better."

After thinking about it, he finally spoke with relief.

Jia Heng thought for a while, then asked Liu Jixian who was beside him, and said, "How is the situation in Guide Mansion, is there any dangerous workers to report?"

Liu Jixian said: "Captain, the prefect of Guide came to report yesterday that Guide's mansion was in danger three times, and all passed smoothly, and the river embankment was safe and sound."

Jia Heng nodded, and said: "Send someone to report to the prefect of Guide Prefecture on a fast horse. If there is any danger, report it at any time. Don't be stingy with the relevant materials, earth and rocks. Use them as they need to be used. Later, we will calculate and write them off. "

Of course audits after the event are indispensable, but there is no need to talk about it at this time. It is always easy to breed ugly words before the front, and it is easy to breed lazy and sluggish governance.

While several people were discussing, suddenly, along the direction of the river embankment where the willow trees were lush and smoky, a figure appeared. Wearing a coir raincoat, the young man in a coir raincoat stood in front of the crowd, and the flying fish suit appeared out of the unfurled cloak. He cupped his hands and said, "Commander, the Huai'an Mansion is urgent!"

Jia Heng looked silent, and turned to look at Liu Jixian.

Liu Jixian stepped forward to take a brown paper bag, opened it, took out a volume of official documents, turned around and handed it over with both hands, "Captain."

Jia Heng took the official document and looked at it intently. As time passed, his complexion changed suddenly, and his brows were wrinkled.

Under everyone's puzzled eyes, Jia Heng's face was ashen, and he said in a deep voice: "The Yellow River poured into the Huaihe River, the Huaihe River broke its embankment, Sizhou was flooded, and its prefecture, Hong County, has become Ze Kingdom. I don't know how many people died in the belly of the fish, this Gao Bin! "

Jia Heng said angrily, and passed the yellow paper in his hand to several officials present to circulate.

If a county is flooded, how many people will die?

When the few people heard the words, they were all shocked, they hurriedly received the report and circulated it, their pupils shrank slightly, and the whole place felt cold.

Xu Kai handed the report to the county magistrate of Xiangfu at the side, and Song Xuan, who was in charge of Kaifeng government affairs at the moment, said: "The Huai River embankment is repaired and reinforced every year by the Ministry of Households, and it seems that it was repaired only once last year. , how could it be? Is it more dangerous than our side?"

The north and south embankments of Kaifeng Mansion have also just been strengthened, but these few days they have stood still in the face of the Huanglong, which is about to swallow everything.

"Because the soil and rock materials were shoddy, the officials worked hard. Although the embankment has been repaired, it just looks like a pile of mud." The gatekeeper said angrily, frowning.

Jia Heng said coldly: "I'm afraid this is just the beginning of the collapse. Once the Huaixu River and the Xu River are all breached, Gao Bin will not be able to atone for his crimes with a hundred deaths! I will send an order from the general, and the Beijing camp will immediately mobilize [-] cavalry troops. Cai Quan, the general of the Guoyong Camp, headed to Sizhou to rescue the disaster with fast horses, but the Caoliang Guards were short of manpower, so they needed reinforcements from Henan."

Cai Quan, who had been promoted to a general because of the suppression of the rebellion in the Central Plains, surrendered to Ying Shi, and then called several subordinates to order troops.

After Jia Heng finished his instructions, he said: "I will immediately write a memorial to the imperial court to clarify this matter."

Don't think about it, the whole Shenjing will probably be a mess after knowing that the Huanghuai River is flooding.

Dahan, Shenjing City

Just two days after Sizhou was submerged in the flood, the official documents from various prefectures and counties in Huaiyang reporting the flooding of the Yellow River and Huaihe River have been delivered to the capital one after another by six hundred miles, and delivered to the cabinet through the Secretary of General Administration. Beijing naturally caused an uproar.

In the Daming Palace, Emperor Chongping was sitting on the golden chair in the main hall of Hanyuan Hall. The middle-aged emperor, with two thin and loose eyebrows, glanced coldly at the cabinet, military aircraft, five government departments and six ministries, and Hanlin below. The civil and military officials of Kedao and temple supervisors resounded in the whole hall like the sound of ice and iron, as if a biting cold wind was blowing, which made the civil and military officials standing in the hall holding wats feel awe-inspiring.

"I allocate two or three million taels of silver to Nanhe every year, and all Nanhe requests will be allocated as routine items. I don't want to receive this pile of river newspapers today. The Huaihe River broke its embankment and Sizhou was flooded!" Emperor Chongping's face was frosty, and he said coldly talking.

Suddenly stood up from the golden chair, looked down at the officials, and said in a cold voice: "Who said that the embankment is as solid as gold, but it can be a flood that never happens in 30 years?!"

The whole Hanyuan Hall was silent, and a needle could be heard, only the crisp sound of rain falling on Dan Bi from outside the hall, "tick", "tick", but it made the officials in the hall feel that the time was extremely long, and everyone was frightened. They all hung their heads on the wat board, not daring to look up at the emperor who was already in a state of rage.

"According to the memorial, nearly ten thousand people may have died in the flood, women, children, old and young, and drowned in the water... The Central Plains is in chaos, bandits and bandits are rampant, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers are not so heavy!" Emperor Chongping said angrily, holding the sword in his hand. A memorial delivered by the cabinet minister Zhao Mo was thrown on the ground, which undoubtedly shocked the hearts of all officials.

"The ministers are terrified." As Emperor Chongping became furious, all the officials in the court knelt down one after another, and the sound of "fear" resounded in the hall.

"Afraid?" Emperor Chongping glanced at the kneeling civil and military officials, and said coldly, "It's me who is terrified!"

When the ministers heard the words, they buried their heads on the ground.

"The civil uprising in the Central Plains, at that time the bandits ascended to the heights, and the common people responded. If Yongningbo had not led the Beijing camp to put down the chaos in time, would this chaos have been delayed until today?" Emperor Chongping said with deep eyes, "Now Huanghuai Flooding, separating the north and the south, and cutting off water transportation, I will be afraid of losing the country and land of my ancestors in this Daming Palace!"

As soon as this remark came out, all the officials in the hall paused, and kowtowed one after another, "Your servants are guilty."

"Old Yang Ge, you are the chief assistant of the cabinet, what should you do about the troubles of the Huaihe River?" Emperor Chongping's face was as cold as iron, and he seemed to suppress his anger in an instant.

Yang Guochang's bright head, which was hanging down to plead guilty, trembled slightly, holding an ivory jade wat, and said in a blue voice: "My lord, the old minister thinks that there are three urgent tasks now, disaster relief, flood prevention, and flood fighting! And investigate corruption, and wait until the river flood is over. Send important officials to investigate. As far as the veterans know, the Nanhehetai yamen is corrupt. The left deputy capital Yushi Peng Ye has participated in the impeachment. The imperial edict reprimanded them, they are still negligent and slack, and caused this difficulty, they should be thoroughly investigated, and the crimes of the relevant people should be negotiated, so as to set the record straight!"

Emperor Chongping calmed down, glanced at Han Huang aside, and said, "Han Qing."

Han Huang raised his head, and also put his head on the ivory jade wat, saying: "Reporting to the Holy Majesty, I also think that the most important thing now is to repair the river and relieve the victims. If you have spare energy, you can send troops from the Beijing camp to assist Huaisi and rescue Nanhe."

"Ministry of Industry!" Emperor Chongping looked at Zhao Yi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

Minister of the Ministry of Industry Zhao Yi cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I believe that the Ministry of Industry should send a group of officials from the Metropolitan Water Supervision to Huainan to inspect the embankments and supervise emergency rescue work."

"Yunzo." Emperor Chongping was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice.

Just as he was about to call the ministers to get up, suddenly, at this moment, the sharp voice of the prisoner outside the hall came to the hall, "Your Majesty, Yongning Bo is playing urgently for six hundred miles!"

All the courtiers in the hall were startled, and turned their heads to look at the person who came. Many civil servants frowned when they saw the middle official holding the memorabilia, and then the inner eunuch wearing a red robe entered the hall and handed the memorandum to Dai right.

Dai Quan opened the brocade box, took out the memorial from it, and handed it over respectfully with both hands.

Seeing this scene, all the ministers were inexplicable, secretly thinking, is this the secret performance of the Military Aircraft Department?

The Military Aircraft Department started from Jia Heng. Because he is also the governor of Jinyi, he often performed secret performances related to military and state secrets. Emperor Chongping planned to extend this method to the governors of various provinces on a trial basis. People know what Chen played in it.

At this moment, Emperor Chongping took over the memorial, looked down at the words on the memorial, his face turned pale, he pondered for a moment, and said: "There are also dangerous works in Henan, but the north and south embankments of Kaifeng Fucheng are temporarily unobstructed. Over the past few days, we have crossed the flood peak five times, and said that we have received emergency reports of floods in Sizhou, and have dispatched nearly [-] cavalry troops from the Beijing camp to help Huaisi. If there is a dangerous place on the embankment, it should be planned as soon as possible, so as to avoid the recurrence of Sizhou tragedy!"

As the middle-aged emperor spoke, the anxiety in his heart gradually dissipated.

The officials below heard this voice, almost as if seeing a ghost, the memorial presented by Uncle Yongning is clearly the same as the one discussed just now.

Is this the military assistant minister?National Warriors?

Below, the crimson-robed official kneeling behind Cheng Xin, the commander-in-chief, had a look of joy on his face, and the beard under his chin trembled slightly. There was Zi Yu sitting in Henan, and Henan was indeed safe.

And Qin Ye, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry who was kneeling behind Zhao Yi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, slowly relaxed his frowning brows, and a strange look appeared in his eyes.

Han Huang's face was expressionless, his eyes dimmed a bit, and his heart was a little shocked. Did this predict the reaction of the court, or did it just mean that the heroes saw the same thing?

"Bo Yongning said in the memorandum that the flooding of the Huaihe River may destroy the water transportation. The Ministry of Industry should make a comprehensive plan for the control of the Yellow River. The river transportation will be integrated, or it will be sparse or diverted. Otherwise, if the disaster of the river is gone, there will still be endless troubles , At the same time, in the case of corruption in the river affairs, officials should be selected to investigate the root and the bottom of the situation." Emperor Chongping expressed nothing, and relayed what the memorial said.

Gradually, I felt a little amazed in my heart, as I saw at the beginning, Ziyu really has the talent of Wang Zuozhi!

After Emperor Chongping finished speaking, he looked down at the stunned civil and military officials, with a painful expression on his face, and said: "At that time, Zi Yu published "Chen He Shishu", I deeply believed it, and reported it to the provinces. Strictly order the governors of all provinces to focus on the construction of water conservancy, if Gao Bin and others have the slightest loyalty to the king's affairs, how can there be the tragedy of Sizhou today?"

"It's been nearly a month since the embankment of Zhujie River, and people are here! Where was Gao Bin at that time?" Seeing that the officials were dumbfounded and speechless, Emperor Chongping let out a deep sigh, and suddenly there was a surge of sadness in his heart. The ministers and workers in the palace are high in the temple, but they are like clay sculptures and wood sculptures, with vegetarian meals in their corpses.

Stupid, mediocre, either only know party struggle, or be wise to protect themselves, are there any people in front of them who are willing to take the risk and garrison on the embankment?

The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty are not as good as Jia Ziyu!

If Jia Ziyu hadn't extinguished the civil unrest in the Central Plains in advance, the civil unrest would have been delayed until today. The civil unrest in the Central Plains plus the flood in Huainan, no, there must be a flood in the Central Plains. Not alarmist!

The officials below were momentarily speechless when questioned.

Han Huang's lips moved, and he clenched the wat board tightly in his hand, his eyes were deep, and deep worry floated in his heart.

This cabinet minister had a shrewd mind, and he had already read the hidden heart of Emperor Chongping, and he didn't express his thoughts clearly.

A minister like Yongning Bo is regarded as a confidant by the emperor, and he has extraordinary talents. He knows everything about military affairs, civil affairs, water conservancy, literature and martial arts. If this continues, will he get it in the future?Where is the cabinet?

It is almost foreseeable that after another 20 years, Yongning Bo, who has gathered military and political power in one body, has party members all over the government and the public, and the Dahan Sheji will be in danger of changing hands!

But after thinking about it, this cabinet minister had bitter smiles in his heart. If he told others about his worries, he would be ridiculed for worrying and mediocrity!

A young man who is not as young as a weak crown, even if he is like Duke Ning, he is only a martial artist, how can he become a reckless person?

Emperor Chongping was silent for a while, as if he was weighing something, and said in a deep voice: "The cabinet drafted an order. Jia Heng, the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Governor of Jinyi, has the power to take charge of the Nanhe River Governor, and has full power to deal with flood protection and river affairs. Zhao Mo, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, coordinated civil affairs materials in Jiangnan, Huaiyang and other places to prepare for disaster relief."

Although he didn't directly say that Zhao Moxiang praised Jia Heng, he basically confirmed the dominance of the river affairs. After all, Zhao Mo was a cabinet minister, and the imperial envoy still had the right to speak, and it was more of an auxiliary job.

"The old minister obeys the order." Yang Guochang was the first to respond to the edict, bowed his head and bowed, a gleam of light appeared in his drooping old eyes.

As expected, the Holy Majesty used Xiao'er to rectify the river affairs, but Xiao'er is bound to not be able to stay in the river for a long time, and at that time... I will not care about it.

It can't be that the Qi Party has been targeted by children, and the Zhejiang Party is alone. Now all scholars know the harm of children's "lucky advancement" and power, so that the Qi and Zhejiang parties can work together to expel the Jia Party.

Emperor Chongping looked at Yang Guochang who seemed to "take his orders gladly", his eyes flickered, and his heart moved slightly.

Now in the imperial court, there is an undercurrent of conflict between the two parties. Whoever is appointed to rectify the river affairs will abolish public affairs for personal reasons and eliminate the worries of dissidents. I can only use Ziyu to take the lead for a while, either slandering or making enemies... Anyway, between their father-in-law and son-in-law, they don't need to pay attention to these things.

Xianning has been promised to him, and it is reasonable to offend some people if he is brave enough to do things.

(End of this chapter)