Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 13 Seeking Talents and Meeting Talents
Wu Dan was originally a horse thief in the Kanto region. He has the most brutal nature and hurts people as soon as he speaks.Mu Zixu hastily stepped forward to stop him.He took a look at the man who was testing the wind power, and asked with a smile, "Brother, since you can't stay here, why are you here?"

"I'm Hebo Chen Tianyi!" Chen Huang said coldly, "This guy who hurts others has the guts, let him stay here, you guys go away!" He said, looking at him non-stop, without even looking Kangxi and his party said again, "Taohuaxun will arrive in an hour, and here will be a vast ocean in an instant!"

Hearing this, Kangxi got off his horse instead, and came over and asked, "Your life is not your life? I will give up my life to accompany a gentleman!" Xiong Cilu became anxious immediately, no matter whether this person is crazy or stupid, there must be a peach blossom flood in this season of.He deeply regretted his carelessness today, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Kangxi, saying: "Master Long, there is nothing to see, let's go to the top of the town—brother, thank you for reminding me!" Kangxi followed Go, and said loudly: "Since it is so dangerous, you should go!"

"I want to measure the water level. It's hard to buy at this moment." Chen Huang agreed without turning his head, and then threatened quite complacently, "The underwater that drowns me will only come in a lifetime!" Saying this, he hurried upstream go.

More than a dozen of Kangxi's monarchs and ministers galloped back to Tieniu Town, and sat down under the shed of a passing dry store on the edge of the town.Kangxi asked for a plate of Yellow River carp and a table of small dishes. While eating, he looked up at the riverside anxiously. After picking up a few dishes, they all slipped off the chopsticks.It is seven or eight miles away from the Yellow River.Seeing that the town was bustling with people coming and going, and everything was peaceful, everyone was relieved.Seeing that Kangxi was restless, Mu Zixu smiled and said: "The forest is so big, there are all kinds of birds - I don't know if that man is a lunatic or an idiot, master don't pay attention to him!" Kangxi nodded slightly and sat down. Drink in silence.Xiong Cilu and Jie Shu sat next to each other, not daring to move their chopsticks, but carefully picking water chestnuts and fresh lotus root to accompany them.

After a while, Chen Huang also came over from the river beach, bought two biscuits and a plate of beef jerky from the shopkeeper, and sat honestly opposite Kangxi, tearing his hands and chewing.Kangxi quietly took out his watch, and after nearly an hour, he said with a teasing smile, "I said, Brother He Bo, why did you set off a squib? Didn't you just say that the flood would arrive in an hour?"

Chen Huang didn't answer immediately, he looked at the shadow of the shed pillars in the sun, then looked upstream, stuffed a large piece of beef into his mouth, and said vaguely: "No matter how good a watch is, the sun is not accurate - look at it when you are young." !" Jie Shu and Xiong Cilu couldn't help laughing when they saw him bragging.Wu Dan smiled strangely and said to Mu Zixu: "You and my brother have seen a little bit of the world, but I have never seen such a living treasure who can boast to death."

But their faces changed immediately.Because the rolling sound of the river waves like heavy thunder has been faintly heard, the earth was shaken and trembled.There was an uproar in the peaceful Tieniu Town, and the ground guard was sweating profusely, running and yelling as if sifting through a gong: "God Chao is here! Residents, etc., all went to Donggang to avoid—" Barking, dog barking, old lady chanting Buddha, children crying, pots and pans being cleaned up... It was as if a pot of porridge was being boiled, and groups of people rushed eastward in pieces and rolled into balls. rush.

"Men, why are you so dumb!" The shop owner's face turned pale.He ran over in a panic and saw Kangxi standing under the shed, and several people beside him were also standing stiffly, and said anxiously: "This year is no different from previous years, the river embankment has completely collapsed! Hurry, hurry!"

"It's really bitten by a snake once, and I'm afraid of the well rope for ten years." Chen Huang only stood up and looked, but sat down again, and said with a broken face: "This is Tie Niu Town. There is a god cow to town the water. Why be afraid of it?" Yes? Let’s go, such a good table of wine and food is only cheaper for me, Mr. Chen. When I return to Handan tomorrow, it’s just a farewell trip to the north for me!” Knowing Chen Huang’s ability, Kangxi grabbed Chen Huang and said, “Tomorrow I will prepare a table for you. Wine, it's too dangerous here!"

Chen Huang looked at Kangxi, shook his head and said: "Thank you so much, I need to stay here to watch the tide. Don't worry, the peach blossom flood can't come to Tieniu Town!" , stopped it with a wave of his hand, and his eyes suddenly became aggressive: "Why? Are you a god?" Chen Hengyizheng laughed and said, "Where are there any gods! Let me tell you, there are [-]% of the sediment in the Yellow River at this time. , the river around Tieniu Town is [-] feet wide and [-] feet deep on average. Including the flood, it only rises [-] feet. The river bank is [-] feet away from the town, and this beach is a natural barrier. It must be silted up, and it will get higher and higher, maybe a long embankment will be silted up. This can save the emperor hundreds of thousands of silver..." He talked endlessly, and Kangxi was stunned.While pointing fingers, Chen Huang picked up the beef and put it in his mouth. He even wanted to talk at length, but Wu Dan spat him in the face: "Shut up! You're probably a lunatic, tired of working! Wait here to be fed." Bastard!" Xiong Cilu yelled: "De Leng Tai, Su Lun, hold the Lord up and go!"

De Lengtai and Su Lun agreed with a "chirp", they couldn't help but help Kangxi to the horse, Wu Dan hit the horse's butt with a whip, and the horse hissed wildly and flew away in the dust.Wu Dan got on the horse with a gloomy face, pointed his whip at Chen Huang's nose and said viciously: "You bastard, come out alive, don't bump into my hands!" .The huge town suddenly became empty, only one Chen Huang was sitting firmly under the shed.At this time, the howling sound of the river waves has come overwhelming like a thousand troops...

But the water of the Yellow River did not enter Tieniu Town after all. After the first flood, a natural sand embankment more than ten feet high really gushed out miraculously.In the early morning of the second day, Kangxi sent Mu Zixu to the town on a flying horse. The escaped people hadn't returned to the town yet, only Kangxi's Xifengzhuan was eaten by Chen Huang, but they didn't know where they went.

On the way back to Beijing, Kangxi was always unhappy about this.The little eunuch Qin Zhe didn't know what was going on in his mind, so he tried to amuse him in different ways to please him, and unexpectedly upset Kangxi, making him strip his pants and beat him to death.Although Wu Dan was rough-hearted, he also knew that he had missed Kangxi's affairs. Seeing that he used others to vent his anger, he was more careful along the way, for fear of running into bad luck, and even the pious Xiong Cilu became a little tiptoe.

Jin Fu, the governor of Anhui, has always done things quickly because he has several extremely capable staff.After receiving the decree, within two months, he cleared up the accumulated cases in his hands, and sent all the unfinished documents to the yamen of the Zifan Department for agency, and ordered two masters to go to Qingjiang to check the intersection of the Huang, Huai and Yun rivers. Prepare to move the River Governor General Administration from Jining to Qingjiang.When everything was ready, he called his most useful aide Feng Zhiren over to play chess.In fact, where is he so carefree? He is worrying about the soon-to-be governor of the river!

Jin Fu loved water conservancy since he was a child.In the tenth year of Kangxi's reign, he was appointed governor of Anhui, just as the Yellow River changed its course and passed through it.He tried the way of water control for the first time, and it was quite effective.But to take over as the governor of Zhihe, Jin Fu felt a little uneasy.The Yellow River runs from Sanmenxia to the east, and the water potential is gentle. Because the terrain is flatter and the sediment deposits in the area around Huining, the river bed is silted up and higher. From a distance, it looks like an earth dragon that does not care about the sky, so it is called "hanging river". river".Local officials have always regarded the post of river governor as daunting.Although the imperial decree has not yet been issued, Mingzhu's letter has already revealed the letter of being the governor of the river. Although Jin Fu has been promoted from the second rank to the first rank, he seems a little distracted.

Feng Zhiren, who was sitting across from him, saw that his mind was distracted, and knew that he had something on his mind, so he knocked on the chess pieces he had eaten with both hands without saying a word, and rolled his eyes to look at Jin Fu from time to time.He knew Jin Fu's temper, but if he didn't ask, this Dong Weng would tell it by himself sooner or later.

"What kind of decent is the current thing?" Sure enough, after a while, Jin Fu stretched his brows and said to himself, "It's getting harder and harder to be a foreign official—they have longer hands, and the common people scold him You are a thief of the people; if you don’t want money, you can’t get rid of your boss, and someone in the court will accuse you of being a thief of the country... Anyway, you are called a thief when you advance or retreat! Alas..."

Feng Zhiren nodded, walked on a "high-hanging horse", and asked: "Dong Weng, how much money do you bring to Beijing this time?"

"Well?"

"I mean, it's no use taking less."

"I brought [-]." Jin Fu smiled and said, "I'm going to be a corrupt official this time too. When the He Gong money comes down, this account has to be spent. He Du is no better than a governor, and I can't afford to fill this hole." "[-] Five!" Feng Zhiren repeated softly, blinked slyly, and couldn't tell what kind of air it was.

Jin Fu glanced at him and asked in surprise, "Why, isn't it enough?"

(End of this chapter)