Prime Minister

Chapter 490

The sky was drizzling with rain, and the city of Bianjing downstairs of Xuande Gate was already a vast ocean.

The official Zhao Shu's lips trembled a little. It was all because of ordering the opening of the Xihua Gate to let the accumulated water in the palace drain to other places, which caused this scene.

At this moment, he was too late to regret, seeing that someone was organizing to rescue the people.The officials wondered who it was who was so capable and made up for my fault, and I must promote this person heavily afterwards.

But when he heard Zhang Yue's name, his face suddenly turned pale.

"Why is it Zhang Yue again?" The official thought.

At this moment, he thought about Zhang Yue's advice to him to get rid of the South Dike earlier, if he had done so earlier, the flood in Bianjing would not have caused such damage.

The officials felt ashamed at this thought and couldn't help saying, this person must be laughing at me now!
At this moment, the officials felt ashamed, angry and all sorts of emotions poured into their hearts.

Although he knew very well that there are so many yamen in the capital, as well as the Kaifeng Mansion and the Water Prison, why they were not prepared for such a heavy rain, but the Jiaoyin Prison, who was not in charge of the matter, came here to rescue them.

But he still couldn't help being furious in his heart.

But at the moment under the Xuande Gate, many people jumped out of the boats from the roofs and trees holding pennies.

The small boat galloped continuously to send the rescued people to a safe place.

The people who survived were kowtowing to the officers and soldiers who saved them.

And Zhang Yue was wearing a coir raincoat at the moment, and he was also in a small boat, directing the officers and soldiers on the boat to save people.

Although many people were saved, the ground was still a mess, and many people drowned in the water.

Zhang Yue saw a woman leaning on a piece of driftwood. She was submerged in the water, but she was holding a baby in her arms.

When Zhang Yue rescued the baby from her hands, the woman said to Zhang Yue: "Grandfather, his father's name is Chen Asheng, leave an incense for Duke Engagement and the Chen family..."

Before finishing speaking, the woman fell into the flood, and left and right tried their best but failed to save her.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yue felt extremely sad, holding the crying baby in his arms, who had just lost his mother.After Zhang Yue became a father, the worst thing to see was such a scene.

"What a sin!"

Zhang Yue looked at the floating objects in the water, and the eyes of the drowned people and animals were red, and said to the left and right: "Order the soldiers to continue searching, if you can save a life, it is a life, enough people died today. "

"Prisoner! Prisoner!"

But I saw that Cai Jing also arrived by boat.

Cai Jing said on the boat: "The Kaifeng Mansion has already started to save people, the prisoner should take a rest first!"

Zhang Yue carried the baby to the person next to Cai Jing and said, "This man's father is Chen Asheng. Let's see if there are any relatives in Kaifeng Mansion. If not, find a good family to adopt."

Cai Jing said yes, then jumped onto the Zhang Yue boat and said in a low voice: "Prisoner, just now I heard that Dashui was caused by the sudden opening of the Xihua Gate in the palace. Before, the officials didn't listen to your words and opened the South Embankment, but now they are brewing again. Big mistake, we are here to save people, this action really puts down the face of the government, not only is it useless, but it has a demerit..."

Zhang Yueyan said: "You said that the Xihua Gate was opened in the palace to release the flood, that's what the officials mean..."

Zhang Yue glanced in the direction of Xuande Gate, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Cai Jing continued: "I don't know if it's the official's intention or not, but at this point, it's better for us to withdraw first and let the Kaifeng government take over..."

Zhang Yue glanced at Cai Jing, but saw him take a step back and said: "Everything in Beijing is for the purpose of sentencing."

Zhang Yue said: "Yuanchang, I know you have good intentions, but...you don't need to persuade me any more about this matter."

After speaking, Zhang Yue ordered people to row the boat away and continue to rescue people near the Bian River.When the boat passed by his house, Zhang Yue saw that his house was also washed away by today's flood.

Zhang Yue knew that his wife's family had gone to Wu's house to take refuge yesterday, but this house was a property he worked hard to buy, and now it has become like this, but now there is no need to be nostalgic.

Zhang Yue continued to personally drive a small boat into the hut to save people... and never went home for a whole day.

On this day, more than a thousand people were rescued by the prisoner.

The flood comes fast and recedes fast...

The Kaifeng Mansion was cleaned up the next day, and there were [-] to [-] unclaimed corpses. As for the unclaimed corpses, the officials below suppressed the results. In fact, no one knows how many people died in the flood.

As for the thousands of houses that were destroyed, more than half of them collapsed on the heaviest rain on the third day of August, because the officials personally issued an edict to open the Xihua Gate in order to prevent the palace from being flooded...

Bianjing has never been hit by such a flood.

Under this flood, the high-ranking officials and nobles in Bianjing lived in the northwest and southwest. The terrain here is high, so the floods were not very serious, and the poor people who lived in the low-lying and southeast of Bianjing suffered so much.

The officials ordered the officials to appease the dead and injured guards, and took out money to collect the corpses, compensate the dead and build houses.

But all the officials knew that the opening of the Xihua Gate to release the flood that day was the official's will, and this move could not make up for his fault.

Under the criticism of all the officials, the officials had no choice but to issue an edict of guilt, saying that they were immoral, so that the heavens sent this disaster.

At the same time, the government also issued an edict to allow Chinese and foreign officials who are not included in the two systems to speak frankly about their political mistakes after taking office, and there is no need to shy away from it.

After the officials first issued an edict to sin against themselves, and then issued an edict to ask for advice, the officials felt that the emperor really felt that he was wrong this time, so all the officials went to the evacuation one after another.

Sima Guang first went to the Shu, and then Lu Dafang, Lu Huo, Jia An, Zheng Xie, and Cai Kang all went to the Shu to criticize the emperor's misconduct in power, and by the way, even Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu were in charge of all criticism.

Zhang Yue also followed suit, but what he said was not Pu Yi's matter, but that there was often a serious epidemic after a flood, and the dead bodies must be buried immediately, and lime should be sprinkled at the water intake to prevent the spread of the disease.

Seventeen Niangs, Cai Jingdu persuaded Zhang Yue not to go to the school at this time, but Zhang Yue didn't listen.

As a result, after all the officials complained about the incident, Cai Kang was dismissed from his post and Jia An was sent out of Beijing...

Hearing this, the officials laughed angrily. If you are afraid that people will criticize you, don't issue an edict to ask for advice. Since you issue an edict to ask for advice, you will deal with all the officials who dare to speak.

However, some people said that you are short-sighted, just printed that sentence, and the officials issued an edict, how dare you criticize the emperor.

The government's suppression of officials who speak up has disappointed all officials who had expected him.

But what Zhang Yueshangshu said, the officials asked Kaifeng Mansion to do it immediately, and the officials of Kaifeng Mansion were all busy.

At the end of August, it was still raining, and officials were often unable to go to court.

The official side sent officials to famous mountains and rivers to pray for the rain to stop, but here they held banquets in the palace as usual.

It rained heavily one day, and the officials had to stop the banquet because of the rain.

Zhang Yue walked to the gate of the palace, but happened to see Han Zhi, the water inspector of the capital, stepping out drunk.

Seeing this, Zhang Yue sneered, took off the whitebait bag on his waist, took off his black gauze cap, and walked out towards Han Zhi!
(End of this chapter)