The Emperor Shun Zhishi

Chapter 45 Investigating the Water System
After the incident of Shuijing being framed last time, Shun had to reconsider his relationship with Gun.

Gun was the deputy sent by Emperor Yao to help him control the floods, but Shun found that not only could Gun not help, but he wanted to put himself to death at every turn.Such a person obviously cannot work together for a long time.At the same time, Little Xingxing also knows that in history, Gun failed to control the water because of the method of annihilation, and was finally executed by Emperor Yao.Although the history is somewhat vague and general, but after personally contacting Gun, Xiao Xingxing felt that the history did not lie.There should be a reason why Gun was killed, not just because of the failure of flood control.

Under Little Xingxing's warning, Shun decided to investigate Huaxia's water system in person, so as to formulate a reasonable water control plan.Shun did what he said, and after reporting to Emperor Yao and getting permission, he took Ehuang and Nvying, selected twenty strong men from Guirui City as followers, and set off to investigate the water patterns around the Yellow River.

Gun heard that Shun took Ehuang and Nvying to inspect the water system, but he was not there as Shun's adjutant. He was very annoyed.Of course, Shun didn't think so, all of this was imagined by Gun himself.But Gun thought about it, and slowly became happy again, because he originally wanted to kill Shun, and now he was not with Shun, once he killed Shun, he would be able to get rid of his ties.He immediately flew a pigeon to send a message to Yushan, and selected [-] loyal dead men from the Youchong tribe to act as killers, and asked them to dispatch overnight to follow Shun's team along the Yellow River, and must wait for the opportunity to kill Shun.

Just one day after the Chong clan killer set off, Xiuji told Gun that Yu had disappeared.Gun sent people to search all night, but they couldn't find Yu. Gun speculated that Yu must have followed Shun to investigate the water system.He even suspected that Shun took Yu to investigate, deliberately taking Yu as a hostage to blackmail him at a critical moment.Thinking that Shun was so scheming, Gun felt a little troublesome. He realized that he had underestimated Shun, and at the same time, he also thought that this assassination should be more careful.He hurriedly sent a letter with a flying pigeon, telling Chong's killer to be careful, don't let others know that he gave the order, and at the same time, don't accidentally hurt Yu.

Regarding Yu's sudden disappearance, Gun was right, but only half right.It turned out that since Yu and Shun met last time, Yu liked Shun very much, and Shun also felt that he and Yu were very close, and the two became good friends over the age of 20.

Yu heard that Shun was going to investigate the hydrology of the Yellow River, and wanted to go with Shun.At this time, Yu was 12 years old, and Shun also liked Yu more and more, knowing that he was very smart and sensible, but considering that he was still too young, and there were many miasma and ferocious beasts around the Yellow River system, it was still very troublesome to take care of a 12-year-old child. So he didn't take Yu with him.

However, as a 12-year-old child, Yu was not only mischievous, but also determined. He decided to do one thing, and no one could stop him.

"Don't take me there, don't tell me not to follow."

In this way, Shun took Ehuang, Nvying and twenty entourages to the Yellow River to inspect the hydrology, while Yu followed them secretly.

Yu wanted to go there by himself. Shun didn't know that Yu was following him secretly, and it was even more impossible for him to take Yu as a hostage to blackmail Gun.

However, Shun's team had just left for a day, and the clever little Xing Xing found that Yu was secretly following him, and Shun was not angry, but acted like a big brother and scolded him.

"Why are you so naughty? This trip to the Yellow River is not for fun."

"I know." Yu rolled his eyes, thinking about how to answer Shun's question, "You said yourself that I am an expert in water control, and now you are going to the Yellow River to investigate the water system, but you don't bring me with you. How can this be acceptable?"

"But you're still a child?"

"I'm already 12 years old, and I can marry a wife in four years. Why am I still a child?"

Hearing Yu say that he would be able to marry a wife in four years, Ehuang and Nvying couldn't help laughing. They touched Yu's forehead and felt that the child was smart.

"In another four years, do you want my sister-in-law to tell you a matchmaker? Tell me what kind of woman you want, and my sister-in-law will look for you. Do you want a Chinese one or a Dongyi one?"

Ehuang looked at Yu's cuteness, and kept teasing Yu, and Yu was not afraid of life, so he just made a joke with Ehuang.

"A man with aspirations in all directions should put the world first. Why would he marry a wife before he has aspirations?"

Yu's tone of voice was sonorous and forceful, showing a majestic spirit. In the eyes of Ehuang and Nvying, this child's big words were full of childishness, and they couldn't help laughing.Only Shun and Xingxing didn't laugh, because Shun understood Yu and knew that he had great ambitions, while Xingxing had read history and knew that Yu would never enter the house when he was controlling the flood.

In this way, Yu joined Shun's team of inspecting the water system.Both Ehuang and Nvying liked Yu very much. Ehuang taught Yu riding and archery, and Nvying taught Yu how to read and write. The two became Yu's teachers.Yu's comprehension is very high, and he can learn it immediately. Although he is only 12 years old, he has learned the lessons for nearly a month in just a few days.Even Little Xingxing was very surprised by this kind of learning ability. It is true that a great man in history was pushed onto the stage by history, but being on the stage of history itself shows that he has extraordinary abilities.Shun was like this, and so was Yu.

Little Xingxing knew that Yu was a pioneer in dredging and controlling water in ancient China, and he held him in high esteem.The two often chat together to discuss water control issues.In addition to telling Yu about hydrology, Little Xingxing also told him that China's terrain is high in the west and low in the east, and that almost all the water originates from the Daxue Mountain.

"What's the name of that big snow mountain?"

"Himalayas."

Yu stroked the back of his head, showing confusion.

"Listen to the name, it doesn't seem to be in our Huaxia territory?"

Listening to Yu's words, Little Xingxing admired his understanding very much. Just from the name, he knew that the Himalayas were not in the territory of China, because the name itself was not given by the Chinese.

"Well, this mountain is on a plateau in the southwest of Huaxia, stretching for thousands of miles, blocking the connection between Huaxia and the Southwest."

"Then if you cross the Himalayas, what will it be?"

"There, there is a country called Nepal."

I don't know why, but when Xiao Xingxing and Yu are together, they can talk openly, about China's geography, astronomy, and physics, and they have nothing to hide.

"Brother Chonghua, I'm surprised, how come you understand everything, like a god from the sky!"

Listening to Yu's words, Shun couldn't help laughing. Yu didn't know that there was a soul 300 years later attached to Shun.

"Didn't anyone say that I descended from Ziwei Xing? Of course I came from the sky."

"Then what am I, am I also a star in the sky?"

"I don't know about this. I have to ask Da Si Ming. He really knows astronomy from the top and geography from the bottom."

Along the way, Yu spent two months happily under the care of Shun, Xiaoxingxing, Ehuang, and Nvying.Yu not only increased his relationship with them, but also gained a lot of knowledge, especially when Little Xingxing told him that the earth is a ball, he was very surprised and debated with Little Xingxing.Little Xingxing didn't mean to argue with him, but just told him to understand matter through appearances, and even if he wanted to refute the other party, he had to come up with evidence.This made Yu understand the truth that doing things is the same as doing learning, one must seek truth from facts.

During the two months, the people traveled up the Yellow River, walked nearly 40 miles of mountain roads, and passed more than [-] tribes, large and small.Many tribes were very unfriendly to Shun, and some tribes deliberately made things difficult for them.It's not that Little Xingxing relied on the wit of modern people, and was about to face swords several times.

"Since they don't welcome us, let's try to trouble these tribes as little as possible in the future, so as not to cause more trouble."

Everyone felt that what Shun said was reasonable, but Ehuang was more careful.

"Husband, haven't you noticed anything strange? We have passed through more than 40 tribes, big and small, and have basically no intersection with them. Why don't they welcome us? Some tribes are not even willing to fetch some water. They It's like being instigated by someone."

Shun approved Ehuang's conjecture and pointed the finger at Gun.It turned out that Ehuang's guess was correct, most of these tribes were bought by Gun.Gun told them that when Shun passed through these tribes, he should not give them any supplies, which led to their indifference to Shun and his gang.

"If Emei's guess is correct, then we should stay away from them. Think about it, what if they poisoned our food and water when we went to their tribe for supplies?"

"Well, your husband is right."

According to Shun's instructions, everyone tried not to disturb these tribes when food and water were still plentiful, and only went to the tribes for help when they were extremely tired and in danger.

After walking for another month, Shun and others came to the upper reaches of the Yellow River.Because it is upstream, the water system here has been treated in various ages, and many artificial dams have been built. From the Yellow Emperor's era to the Emperor Yao's era, more than 200 years of water control projects have been accumulated.Among them, in the Emperor Yao's era, no new projects were developed, and most of the old dams were repaired. Most of these works were led by Gun.

But when Shun came to the upper reaches, he found that many dams were either collapsed, or there were only a few small mounds left, let alone blocking the flood, even a light rain could submerge the entire dam.

"I didn't witness it with my own eyes. I really can't believe that these dams that were used to control floods collapsed like this?"

Shun looked at the fertile fields submerged by the river, and some houses that had been washed away by the flood, leaving only ruins, and couldn't help feeling depressed.

"It's all Gun's good deeds. My father asked him to control the water. What did he do?" Ehuang was very annoyed when he saw the collapsed dam, "When I go back to Guirui, I must read a copy of it in front of my father. , even if you don’t want his life, at least you have to dismiss him!”

What Ehuang wanted to do was exactly what Gun was afraid of.At the beginning, when he learned that Shun was going to investigate the water system, he was worried that Shun would find out that he was not good at water control.That's why he wanted to put Shun to death.When Gun learned that Shun had come to the upper reaches of the Yellow River and was inspecting the upstream flood control project, he made up his mind to kill Shun.

Shun and a group of people came to the bank of Huangshui, which is the largest tributary of the upper reaches of the Yellow River.Further up is Jishui, which is the traditional boundary between Huaxia and Xirong.Everyone felt tired and planned to sleep overnight by the Huangshui River.

That night, Shun ordered to camp on the bank of the river.In the middle of the night, Shun seemed to hear the sound of swords and soldiers. He was about to go out to find out what happened when he saw a follower flee back to the camp and was stabbed four times.

"City Lord, let's go..."

Before he finished speaking, he died of exhaustion.He vaguely saw a dark figure on a high ground. They covered their faces, lit torches, and were rushing towards the bank of Huangshui.

"That's Yao Chonghua, life and death!"

In the confusion, Shun heard someone shouting for his life from the high ground.Obviously, this group of people were not robbers who attacked the camp, but came prepared.

Then, dozens of rockets were fired at them.Shun realized that the enemy was too numerous to fight, so he hurried into the tent and woke up Ehuang, Nvying and Yu.

Not long after, everyone woke up, and those followers also gathered around Shun. He counted the number of people, there were 21 people in total, and three of them died.There were few casualties, but the enemy was numerous and was coming towards them and trying to surround the camp.

"It's fine if you come, my husband, let's fight them!"

"Don't worry, there are so many enemies that you can't fight with strength."

He signaled to Ehuang to keep calm, after all the enemies are at least ten times as many as them, and they are coming prepared.He used the moonlight to look at the surrounding terrain.The camp was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the east side was low-lying. The enemy attacked from the east. Breaking through to the east did not intend to hit the enemy's knife edge. There were high mountains to the west and south.Although there are also mountains in the north, there is a small forest. Once you hide in the forest, it is easy to hide, and you can hide in the dark to attack the enemy.

After some arrangements by Shun, 21 people left most of their belongings and entered the forest from the high ground in the north.The more than 200 masked men were still chasing after them, but the difference was that they lit torches so that Shun could see their trajectory.

After chasing for half an hour, Shun and others entered the woods, but the two hundred masked killers quickly caught up with Shun's team because most of them were riding horses.On the hillside of the woods, an encounter broke out.

Shun's followers were all carefully selected from the soldiers of Guirui City, and they were all loyal to Shun.When encountering enemies at this time, one counts as ten.After killing nearly 50 masked killers, nearly half of Shun's followers died.Both Ehuang and Shun were injured, and only Nvying supported herself with her own true energy.It's just that every time she wants to unleash the potential of her true energy, she always smells a bad smell, which makes her feel inexplicable fear, so that she can't exert her spiritual power.

"Strange, they have a strange smell on them, which caused my spiritual power to be restricted."

Hearing what Nvying said, Ehuang realized that these killers were not simple.

"It seems that these killers know that my sister has the spiritual power of the monster race. They must have used some kind of witchcraft to suppress your spiritual power."

Ehuang's guess is correct, it turns out that these killers are not just ordinary soldiers, there are wizards among them.Gun knew that Nvying possessed the thousand-year-old true essence of the demon race. Once the potential of the true essence was unleashed, let alone two hundred killers, even ten times as many troops would be no match for her.He found a wizard from the Chongshi tribe and told him about Nvying. The wizard used some witchcraft, painted tiger urine on his body, and used some spells to make the tiger urine smell stronger.It turns out that Nvying is the daughter of White Fox Chitose, and the spiritual power in her body naturally inherits the temperament of White Fox Chitose, and the white fox is afraid of tigers. The spiritual power is very effective.

Without spiritual power, Nvying has no strength to restrain a chicken, and there are many dangers on the battlefield. If Shun hadn't fought hard to protect her, Nvying would have been killed a long time ago.

At the critical moment, Shun's entourage distracted the masked enemies, leaving precious life for Shun, Ehuang and others.In the end, all twenty of Shun's personal soldiers were killed, and the water system records made in the past six months were also lost.After Shun fled into the woods with Ehuang, Nvying, and Yu, he couldn't help crying.

"They were loyal to me, but I abandoned them!"

Shun blamed himself very much, but everyone also understood that this was a helpless move, and they didn't know how to comfort Shun, they could only make him cry.After crying for a while, Shun regained his senses and analyzed the current situation. He thought that he had to continue walking deep into the forest, otherwise they would be killed by masked killers once they left the cover of the forest.

In this way, without any luggage, Shun, Ehuang, Nvying, and Yu drove all night and walked out of the forest.

Shun saw a big river in the distance, made a big bay, and flowed eastward.Shun came to this place for the first time, but Little Xingxing knew that this river was located in Qinghai and Gansu, and it was called Jishui.

"Jishui! We actually came to the Jishui River."

Ehuang was surprised when she heard Little Xingxing's words, because she heard Emperor Yao say that Jishui River is the boundary river between Xirong and Huaxia, and if you go west, you will enter the territory of Xirong.Ehuang and Nvying looked at Shun, waiting for his decision.

"Continue to go west. I heard that the Gonggong clan is grazing in the northwestern border of China. Maybe we can hide in the tribe of the Gonggong clan and replenish some supplies."

Under Shun's suggestion, although Ehuang, Nvying, and Yu were extremely tired, they still followed Shun to the west, trying to get the protection of Gonggong.

(End of this chapter)