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Chapter 331 The Big Water Is Coming
Business as usual.

Zhu Hao lost a group of people, but it didn't affect the overall situation.

Right now, the most important thing for Prince Xing's Mansion is to compete with Prince Xiang's Mansion for the land bestowed by the court, and to accept the guards bestowed by the emperor, as well as the flood control work before the summer flood.

"...Last year, because of Yuan Changshi's absence, the Wangfu did not do a good job in flood control. Even if the river embankment did not break, it was because of flooding in some sections of the river, which destroyed the harvest of hundreds of acres of fields in the Wangfu. This year, it is reasonable to say that it will not There will be another flood, but flood control must also be done. This is the most urgent matter for Chang Shisi at present.

"In addition, Zhang Changshi wrote in a letter, saying that he will leave from his hometown of Shanyin in the middle of this month, and it is estimated that he will arrive in Anlu in the first ten days of next month to resume his duties."

In front of King Xing, an emergency meeting is being held.

There were quite a lot of people participating in this meeting, and they were basically high-ranking officials of the palace. On the contrary, Zhang Zuo and Tang Yin, who were in the limelight in the past, seemed unusually low-key on this occasion.

All the officials of the palace regard Yuan Zonggao as the backbone, and basically all the suggestions put forward by Yuan Zonggao will be unanimously supported.

As a eunuch, Zhang Zuo was not his forte in participating in government affairs decision-making. He looked at Tang Yin from time to time, fearing that the repairing of the embankment would be monopolized by the Chief History Department, and that the Cheng Feng Department would lose the lead in this matter.

"Then how much money and food should be paid for the repair of the embankment this year?" After listening to an official's story, Zhu Youzhu asked a real question.

The official couldn't help turning his eyes to Yuan Zonggao.

Yuan Zonggao said respectfully: "King Huixing, it is estimated that more manpower will be deployed, most of them will be responsible for the transportation of sandbags. If there is a flood season, people will be stationed on the embankment to monitor the flood situation at all times. , Let them send more civilians to the embankment, but there is no response yet."

Zhu Youzhu frowned: "Didn't it mean that the new local magistrate is very concerned about the flood control of the river embankment, and asked the gentry for the cost of building the embankment early? Could it be that they want to do it alone and not cooperate with my palace?"

Zhang Zuowei said: "My lord, there is nothing to hide from my family. In fact, this Zhang Zhizhou is not for local flood control at all, but just to find a way to make money... After the money and food were collected, he didn't send civilians to repair the river at all. Dike, the temples and Taoist temples in the city have started construction."

The officials of the royal palace present were filled with righteous indignation.

In the name of repairing the river embankment, the local officials and gentry were asked to pay for it. The state government did not repair the river embankment after receiving the money. It was thinking of building temples and Taoist temples first. The temples in Anluzhou were full of incense, and the emperor was very happy when he heard it, so he didn't give him an official title?

Zhu Youzhao said: "The repair of the embankment can't be undertaken by Xing Wangfu alone? How many people can the Wangfu send out?"

Prince Xing's Mansion has its own tenants. After finishing the farm work, these people are also responsible for repairs and other errands in the mansion. How can there be extra manpower to repair the river embankment?
Zhang Zuo looked at Tang Yin: "I wonder if Mr. Tang has any suggestions?"

At such a time, Zhang Zuo very much hoped that Tang Yin would take the initiative to stand up and provoke the leader, so that the whole palace would not have to watch Yuan Zonggao perform alone.

Tang Yin didn't want to be used by Zhang Zuo as a spearman. Even if he joined forces with Zhang Zuo to fight Yuan Zonggao before, it was only a stopgap measure, and he was more inclined to be an outsider in his heart.

"There is no good strategy for me."

Tang Yin answered very directly.

Many officials present were laughing.

At present, the Chief Secretary of the Palace is being suppressed by the Department of Chengfeng. How can the civil servants like the Chief Secretary consider issues from the standpoint of the enemy?They only thought about watching Zhang Zuo and Tang Yin suffer.

Zhang Zuo said: "If you want to repair the embankment with the strength of the Wangfu, you can only stop some of the current work of the Wangfu. Now that the flood season is approaching, I'm afraid it will be too late. Why not... first raise and strengthen the river embankment near the Wangfu's field for more than ten miles For a moment, the rest of the place... I can't take care of it."

It seems appropriate to build the embankment close to your own Wangzhuang first.

Yuan Zonggao was puzzled: "What's the use of raising or reinforcing one side of the river embankment? Once the embankment overflows or breaks on the other side or other places, the flood will still spread, so it's better to reinforce it..."

Zhang Zuo interrupted Yuan Zonggao's words: "Yuan Changshi, the fields of our palace are located in the wind and water, and the terrain should be higher. Even if the embankment breaks in other places and some flood water recharges, the loss will be much smaller after all.

"Our family understands your heartfelt heart for the common people, but now the local government is not cooperating, it's not that the palace has no intention of doing things, so we can't take care of others first and ignore our own family, right? There are so many people in the palace waiting to feed, if our fields are destroyed Flooded... What will the royal family eat next year? It's understandable to want to do things for the people, but if you have nothing to eat, how can you take care of others?"

Zhu Youzhu agreed with Zhang Zuo's statement very much, nodded and said: "Zhang Fengzheng's worry is not unreasonable. If the fields of the palace are flooded, we can't expect the local people to give us their surplus food. But if only the people are affected, the palace will open as much as possible. The porridge shop gives porridge to help the people survive the disaster year."

Yuan Zonggao originally wanted to argue with reason, but seeing King Xing's attitude, he immediately chose to remain silent.

Tang Yin watched for a while, frowned, not in the mood to speak.

……

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That's it.

The river embankment will be repaired, but priority will be given to heightening and strengthening the river embankment involving the Wangfu's own fields.

The river embankment involves both banks, and only one side is reinforced and raised. When the flood comes, it will rush to the other side of the river embankment. Originally, the water volume is less than half a meter, and it will be raised to one meter...It is equivalent to doubling the disaster, not to mention what happens A section of the river embankment burst, it would definitely be a flood.

Tang Yin was speechless.

He didn't understand why Zhu Youzhu agreed to such a destructive tactic, to increase the height on both sides of you, or not to increase the height and instead to reinforce it to prevent the embankment from collapsing.

Isn't doing what you're doing now cheating the local people?
When he came back from the meeting, he used Jiu Jin to talk to Zhu Hao, and his words were a bit shameless for the palace's disregard of the lives of the people.

Zhu Hao said seriously: "Xing Wang's Mansion is just the feudal lord of Daming. It is nominally responsible for protecting the stability of the place, but it is more of a parasite attached to the people... You know this reason from the first day?"

Tang Yin frowned: "So, do you think it's right to do so?"

"Mr. Tang, let me put it this way, if there is a flood and the local people suffer from disasters, the people will lose their crops, and the palace will suffer little or no damage... As the head of the family, shouldn't you choose this option first? ?”

Zhu Hao analyzed Zhu Youzhao's psychology.

"Ha ha."

Tang Yin scoffed at this statement.

Zhu Hao said: "If you want King Xing's Mansion to assume the responsibility of protecting the local people, you have to give him certain authority, instead of restricting him everywhere. Previously, King Xing's Mansion was fighting alone in resisting bandits. But building the river embankment now involves a lot of manpower and material resources, and the government will stand by and watch, and the Xingwang Mansion may not be able to support it alone."

When mentioning the problems existing in the local government, Tang Yin's face turned cold.

To blame the Xing Wangfu for being cold-blooded and ruthless, it might be better to say that Xinzhizhou didn't act.

"These days, it's all for your own family. It's rare for the country and the people. It's good that Mr. Tang has such a mind, but it must be based on the foundation that can change all the current injustices... As a staff member of the palace, the most important Or to guarantee the interests of the palace, didn't even Yuan Changshi raise any objections?"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Hao continued to immerse himself in writing his stuff.

Tang Yin nodded.

Yuan Zonggao has always flaunted benevolence and righteousness, but once the interests of the royal family conflict with the interests of the local people, he decisively chooses to side with the royal family, which shows that everyone has selfish motives.

"Zhu Hao, what are you doing?"

Tang Yin asked Zhu Hao immediately when he saw that Zhu Hao was writing and drawing without any hesitation.

Zhu Haodao: "I had someone inspect the situation of the river embankment tens of miles away in Anlu, and drew a blueprint to indicate where there is a problem. I can ask someone to reinforce it."

"what?"

Tang Yin was very surprised.

While Zhu Hao was telling him about "recognizing the reality" and "sweeping the snow", he thought that Zhu Hao's words of serving the country and the people were just fooling people, but when he turned his face, he realized that Zhu Hao was painting a river. embankment.

"You... what does this have to do with you?"

Tang Yin shook his head and smiled wryly.

Even Prince Xing's Mansion can't take care of things, you kid is so caring?Even if you have the heart, who will provide you with manpower and material support?
Zhu Hao said: "Mr. Tang, how do you say it has nothing to do with me? I just live here... The local people suffer from disasters, and the people suffer losses. If they have no money to buy my products, don't I lose money? Besides , I also have fields in two villages, if they are flooded, how can I have the nerve to come to collect rent?"

Tang Yin: "..."

He thought to himself, this theory is quite fresh, and solving problems for the common people is just to prevent himself from suffering losses?

Then you kid is right and wrong?

Loyalty or treachery?

Zhu Hao sighed: "I also know that I am a soft-spoken person, and I have no ability to change the status quo. What I want to do is to offer advice decisively when the flood is approaching, when the local government, King Xing's Mansion, and even the common people are in danger, and let them know where they should strengthen. More people should be sent to defend there, after a catastrophe, it is estimated that Anlu will work together to build river embankments to prevent flooding in the coming year."

"Oh."

Tang Yin was stunned, shook his head and said, "Zhu Hao, you know that you can't change anything with your own strength, so you plan for the worst. If the flood comes, you have a plan in advance. Where is the point of prevention, right?"

"That's probably what it means." Zhu Hao didn't deny it.

He can deduce that there will be floods in the local area.

Belonging to the Prophet.

But in any era, the prophet will not end well.

Even if Prince Xing’s Mansion trusted him again, he ran to tell people, I calculated that there will be floods this year, how should the embankment be reinforced, and so on, the Palace will listen to him?
The people in Prince Xing's mansion might think that you are such a ridiculous kid, why don't you call yourself a god?
Even if the palace is really serious, if the local government and the people don't support it, who will cooperate with the embankment?

The most important resource for building embankments is not money and food, but "servants". These days, in addition to paying land rent and taxes, common people also have to serve the country.

If he hired someone to repair the embankment...let alone Zhu Hao, Prince Xing's Mansion could go bankrupt, and no one wanted to do the hard work on the embankment.

At present, all the servants that Anlu can mobilize are going to build temples and Taoist temples, or do odd jobs for the prefecture and county government offices for personal gain. Who cares about the river embankment?

We can only wait for the catastrophe to come and Zhu Hao to come forward to formulate a strategy. It is estimated that at that time, people will really get together to prevent and relieve disasters.

(End of this chapter)