Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 407: Natural and man-made disasters, people are in dire straits

Come to Shunde.

It suddenly started raining again. Although it was not as heavy as the typhoon rain, the thick raindrops fell on people's bodies, causing a faint pain.

There are many river networks in Shunde County.

Many rivers are lacking embankments. One of the most serious ones is the tributaries of the Xijiang River. The rising water of the Xijiang River flows into farmland through the gaps in the tributaries, and then converges in low-lying areas, where it merges with the gaps in other rivers. The water flows together to form a vast ocean.

These water flows are basically unable to be discharged and accumulate on farmland in plain areas.

The farmland is like a lake, with no crops visible.

Perhaps these depressions have reached the upper limit of water storage, and the water pouring in from the collapsed river embankments finally stopped and slowly flowed along the river to the outlet.

But the water has risen so much, the accumulated water cannot be released, and there is no one to rescue the people. The situation here will only get worse and worse, and it is impossible to alleviate it.

It's raining again now, and there's still a steady stream of rain coming in.

Zhu Xuan and the others were wearing raincoats and standing on a collapsed river embankment.

"Your Highness, this is a cement block."

Yan Guan climbed up from under the river embankment. He was also wearing a raincoat and was covered in mud. He held a cement block, squeezed it hard, and it fell into pieces. He said, "They really took advantage of our steel and concrete and cut corners. The cement block It breaks into pieces when pinched. The river embankment here is originally a weak point and can easily become missing. It belongs to the scope of key reinforcement, but the reinforcement effect is almost non-existent."

This is a shoddy project.

Zhu Xuan invested so much, but was corrupted like this, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Hua Ying added: "A lot of this is farmland, and some of it is the mulberry fish pond that His Highness once mentioned. It originally had the function of regulating floods, but the river lacks embankments. Once it is flooded, no matter how good the regulating ability is, limited."

Zhu Xuan looked at Wang Yang in front of him, his expression terrifyingly gloomy.

After twelve years of traveling, this was the first time he was so angry.

If you hadn't come to see it in person, you wouldn't believe it. It's true.

"Your Highness!"

"We found the body."

At this time, a guard in Jinyi came back with the body of a child of about three or four years old and carefully placed it on the muddy ground.

Children of such an age should be carefree.

Now, he is dying in a flood because of corrupt officials. Depending on the situation, he has been soaked in the water for who knows how long.

"Where's his family?"

Zhu Xuan suppressed his anger, but his voice was terrifyingly gloomy.

Jin Yiwei pointed to the east and said: "The body was found in the village over there. His family cannot be found. The village has been almost flooded. There is still an old man left there. He must have been hungry for a long time and is about to die." , our brothers are taking care of the old man."

"Go and see."

Zhu Xuan said.

They walked towards the village and soon arrived there.

Just as Jin Yiwei said, it was almost flooded.

Zhu Xuan, a twelve-year-old child, is not very tall, and the water has already reached his thighs.

Zheng He stepped forward to help him walk, but he pushed him away and walked into the flood, deeper into the village. No one could be seen here, as if everyone inside had been moved.

But Zhu Xuan seemed to feel that the people in the village did not look like they had been transferred.

Otherwise, a child and an old man would not be left behind.

Something must have happened.

"Your Highness, this way!"

Jin Yiwei led the way and soon saw the old man.

Perhaps because he had been soaked in the water for a long time, the old man's body was whitened and his skin was wrinkled.

A Jin Yiwei was feeding him porridge, and he finally felt better.

"child……"

"child……"

When the old man saw the child's body, he muttered a few words in a feeble voice.

It wasn't that he didn't want to save the child, but he really didn't have the ability to do so. He had been hungry for several days, and coupled with his old age and poor health, he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

The child either starved to death or was accidentally drowned in the flood. The old man was so hungry that he was helpless.

"Old man."

When Zhu Xuan saw him, he thought of his grandpa Huang. They should be about the same age.

That child is probably the grandson that the old man loves.

Zhu Xuan could understand how painful it was to see his grandson die in front of his eyes. He did not expect that the people of the Ming Dynasty would also experience such a miserable scene. In his understanding, ordinary people should have enough food and clothing even if they were not rich. Even if they were hit by a disaster, The government can also come to the rescue in time.

Only then did Zhu Xuan realize that he was too ideal.

The people at the bottom are far from being as good as they imagined.

It was the first time that Zhu Xuan came into contact with the bottom of Daming. He felt very uncomfortable and said: "I'm sorry, we are late. We are here to save you. Someone please take the old man to a place without standing water to take shelter from the rain and prepare for it." Good food.”

The soldiers carried the old man and soon reached the high slope, where they built a simple tent for the old man to rest.

After eating, I rested for the most part.

The old man gradually regained some strength and said again: "Child!"

"here!"

Yan Guan could only carry the body in.

The old man cried.

It was painful to cry.

Crying while holding the corpse.

Zhu Xuan and the others were touched.

Hou Xian was even more exaggerated, washing his face with tears. It was unclear whether it was tears or rain on his wrinkled face.

When the old man had cried enough and recovered, he carefully put the body down, raised his head and asked, "Who...are you?"

Zhu Xuan said: "I am the grandson of the Fifth Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. You should have heard that Guangzhou Mansion is my fiefdom. I am here to provide disaster relief."

"Your Highness..."

"Greetings to Your Highness, please save us."

The old man cried again and got up to kneel down.

Zhu Xuan helped him sit down and said solemnly: "I'm here to save you. Can you tell me what happened?"

"All the people in our village were taken away by the dog officer Ren Deqiu, the county magistrate, and taken away for flood control."

the old man said angrily.

Hua Ying asked puzzledly: "Wouldn't it be good to go to flood control?"

"What a fart!"

The old man said with emotion: "That dog officer only helps the local gentry's fields to prevent floods. They only help the Zhao family and save the Zhao family's fields. We ordinary people don't care at all. If I hadn't been old and the children were still young, Otherwise, they will definitely take you away by force."

Zhu Xuan asked: "According to what the old man said, could it be that even women were forcibly taken away?"

"That's right!"

The old man said excitedly: "Not only did they take away people, they also took away our food. They completely ignored our life and death and left me and my grandson here. How can we survive, one old and one young? Ugh..."

"damn it!"

Wang Er said angrily: "Please give the order, Your Highness, I will lead the troops to kill all those dog officers first!"

"Your Highness, please order!"

Li Niu echoed.

Yan Guan and the others soon shouted that all corrupt officials must be killed.

Zhu Xuan tried his best to calm down, and then asked: "Where is their flood control place?"

"South, walk about three miles."

said the old man.

Zhu Xuan said loudly: "Leave two people to take care of the elderly and bury the children. The others will follow me to kill!"

No wonder some people would kill officials to rebel. To this extent, if Zhu Xuan was that person, he would also want to kill the dog officials here to rebel!

(End of this chapter)