Chapter 196 The first rain(1/2)
The Wanghuai Tower incident has come to an end. It is difficult for Hu Ye to continue to cause trouble for them without evidence. Wanghuai Tower is afraid of the forces behind Hu Ye, so he did not retaliate against Hu Ye, but they are just waiting for the opportunity.
However, everything that happened in Nanjing did not affect the lives of Peking people, so they should do what they should do.
It is already the end of the September lunar month. It is late autumn, so the weather should be cooler, but the weather is still so hot.
A large group of people in the Yan Prince's Mansion were busy. Today is Zhu Gaoxi's sixth birthday. Zhu Di and his family are preparing to hold a banquet and invite all their confidants to come over.
Needless to say, Zhang Yu, Zhang Fu is indispensable, and Monk Daoyan is the one who has been staying in the Yan Prince's Mansion all year round.
Qiu Fu is a newcomer. Since Hu Ye rescued him from Zhu Di last time, Qiu Fu has truly followed Zhu Di. Gradually, Zhu Di also understood Qiu Fu and had a momentum in everything he did. Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken his subordinates to work with other garrison troops at that time. It was not easy to fight so hard at such an old age.
I knew that Zhu Di only realized why Hu Ye said he had sent him a general.
Just ten days ago, the remnants of the Beiyuan who were driven back to their hometown by Zhu Di began to move again. It was probably because the wind and sand in the north of the desert were not delicious, so I wanted to come to the Ming Dynasty to grab something.
As a result, Qiu Fu found out, without saying a word, he took more than 20 personal guards and rode on a fast horse and started fucking about a hundred Mongolians.
Twenty to one hundred, although not as good as Zhang Fu's momentum as one hundred, as a veteran, Zhu Di had to accept such courage. So this time, Zhu Gaoxi invited Qiu Fu on his sixth birthday. Maybe he would have to rely on this veteran in the future.
Originally, it would be fine if the little baby had a meal together on his birthday, but Zhu Gaoxi was different. Half a year ago, Zhu Gaoxi was told that he would not live for half a year, but Hu Ye and two old men, Lou Ying and Xiao Jiuxian, rescued Zhu Gaoxi back.
Therefore, Zhu Di believes that Zhu Gaoxi's sixth birthday is not his birthday, but his newborn full moon wine, and he should have a big banquet.
"Xi'er, you have to remember that your life was saved by your brother Hu Ye." Zhu Di sat in the middle of the lobby and said to Zhu Gaoxi standing next to him.
"Yes, boy remember." Zhu Gaoxi said in a daze. His concept of Hu Ye is now a little blurred. After all, he hasn't met for several months. The little baby's memory cannot keep up with the adults.
Zhu Di said as he pulled Zhu Gaoxi into his arms. He opened Zhu Gaoxi's chest and looked at the mark on Zhu Gaoxi's chest that had grown. Recently, the pain in Zhu Gaoxi's chest has also been relieved a lot. Zhu Di knew that the danger period of Hu Ye had passed, otherwise he would not dare to hold a banquet like this.
"Go, go find your mother and play with your brothers and sisters. These days have made you suffer. Let's play with you from now on." Zhu Di closed Zhu Gaoxi's clothes, then patted his shoulder, and said with a smile.
In the past few months, Zhu Gaoxi cannot do any intense exercise, and it is even more difficult to see than Hu Ye before his surgery, because now Hu Ye is no longer in Peking, and Zhu Di is worried that if something happens, they don’t know who to look for.
Now that Zhu Gaoxi has basically recovered, he can finally be like a normal child.
"Congratulations to Your Highness." After Zhu Gaoxi left, Zhang Yu and Zhang Fu walked up to say.
"Sit down." Zhu Di waved his hand and asked the two to sit down.
"Your Highness, I think the Mongolians are a little excited recently. It seems that they didn't beat them up half a year ago." Zhang Fu shouted in a loud voice.
"It's just a small fight, the border guards can handle it. I'm not asking you to come today for the Mongolians." Zhu Di said in a deep voice.
"See Your Highness."
At this moment, Liu Sheng, Jin Zhong, Daoyan and others also came to the lobby and saluted Zhu Di.
"Okay, everyone can sit down." Zhu Di directed everyone to sit down, and then said, "Since everyone has arrived, I will go straight to the point."
"I'm asking everyone to come today, on the one hand, to celebrate Xi'er's birthday, and on the other hand, there is something to discuss with you."
"If there is anything you want to make a decision, you should do it yourself." Zhang Yu said loudly.
"This is not a simple matter, we must discuss it with everyone." Zhu Di said loudly, "I believe everyone knows that the two dams in Guanting and Miyun are about to dry up. If we can't find the water source, we in Peking may not be able to hold on."
Zhu Di said, and everyone was frowning when they lay down. God has not rained for nearly ten months. If it weren't for the construction of the official hall and the two dams in Miyun, Peking would have become a disaster area, so how could it be able to supply tens of thousands of foreign victims?
"Yes, in the past few months, there have been more and more disaster victims outside Beijing, and even Tongxian outside has been surrounded by victims. The last time the food transported from the Grand Canal was robbed by refugees as soon as he arrived in Tongxian, and he could not transport it to Peking at all. If the two dams were dried up, there would probably be tens of thousands of additional refugees in Beijing." Zhang Yu sighed. When it comes to war, he was the first to rush up, but in the face of this natural disaster, he was powerless.
"So I'm calling everyone this time to do a big project, which may be bigger than the project of building two dams." Zhu Di said in a deep voice, because he also knew that the following words might be a bit sensational. No one has done it since ancient times, so he also wanted to learn from Hu Ye to innovate.
"It's bigger than that project?" Everyone was surprised when they heard this and raised their ears.
"Yes, this project is so big that I am afraid that I, a vassal king, cannot do it. I have to join forces with King Ning and other brothers to do it." Zhu Di said.
"With a few vassal kings? Is your highness trying to..." Zhang Yu was shocked when he heard this. Naturally, he thought that Zhu Di wanted to rebel now, so how could he not be surprised?
"Your Highness, this matter must not be done!" Qiu Fu stood up at this time. He and Zhu Di had no idea about Zhu Di's plan for the past six months. It was impossible, but if they took action now, they would probably be a place where they would die without a burial.
Zhu Di waved his hand and made everyone quiet, "I want to join forces with several vassal kings to build a canal from the Yellow River to Beiping, not from Tongxian, but from Datong Prefecture. Because the terrain there is high, water sources can be guaranteed to flow to Beiping."
When the few people heard this, they were all shocked by Zhu Di's idea. They built a canal from Datong Prefecture to Beiping? There were hundreds of miles. Although there was a precedent for the construction of the Grand Canal before, Emperor Yang of Sui was overthrown because of the construction of the Grand Canal. Even if the emperor was like this, Zhu Di, a vassal king, dared to waste the people and damage the money?
"Your Highness, this matter is of great importance. The labor required is not comparable to that of two dams. Moreover, it requires more than tens of millions of taels of silver. Just joining forces with several vassal kings will not be able to solve this problem." Jin Zhong stood up and said.
"What else can I do? If there is a severe drought today, except for the Yellow River, there is water. Where can I supply water? If the two dams really dry up, wouldn't the people in my Beiping City have to escape from the famine?" Zhu Di said coldly.
He didn't want to do such a thing, although he now has nearly one million taels of silver in his mansion and could not withstand such squandering. But he had no choice but to find a new source of water, and the people in Peking City would become refugees.
"Your Highness, I don't think this matter is true." Zhang Fu stood up and said.
"Why did you say this?" Zhu Di asked.
"First, now the common people are generally hungry. If they have a bucket of food at home, they can be considered wealthy. It is impossible to build such a large project without hundreds of thousands of labor. In the current situation, so many labor can't be found."
"Secondly, the disasters of the fiefs of the other vassal kings were far more severe than those of Peking. Even if they wanted to build this project, they were powerless."
"Also, does Your Highness remember what Hu Ye said in the inner hall more than half a year ago?" Zhang Fu said in a low voice.
"When did you say half a year ago?" Zhu Di pondered.
"Yes, Ye Zi said half a year ago that this drought only lasts for three seasons in spring, summer and autumn. Now it is the end of September, and the beginning of winter is about to begin. If Ye Zi is right, it will rain soon. Then the drought will naturally pass." Zhang Fu said loudly, and he believed that Hu Ye said that the drought only lasts for three seasons, so he believed that it would rain in winter.
Zhu Di was stunned, as if he remembered that Hu Ye did say that at that time he didn't believe that there would be a severe drought in the world. But what happened next proved that Hu Ye's words were indeed true. Could it be that he said it would rain in winter?
"Mr. Zhang, can you dare to conclude that it will rain when winter begins?" Liu Sheng was not very familiar with Hu Ye, so he didn't believe Hu Ye's words very much.
"Mr. Liu, that kid is not an ordinary person. I believe what he said." Jin Zhong retorted. He admired Hu Ye in anger, otherwise he would not have asked his son to give him three copper coins to Hu Ye.
Qiu Fu looked at everyone with a serious look. He was only grateful to Hu Ye, but he knew nothing about Hu Ye's ability. Now seeing these people arguing about a little baby, he couldn't help but become more interested in Hu Ye. Who is this life-saving benefactor?
"S Dao, what do you think?" Zhu Di still likes to ask Daoyan, this is the person he trusts the most.
"Your Highness, Master Juehui said that he couldn't see through Hu Ye." Daoyan replied with a word that seemed to be unwilling to care, but Zhu Di knew what Daoyan meant, that was that he believed Hu Ye's words.
But Zhu Di still dared not make up his mind. If he didn't start building it first, it would be too late to wait until it really dried up.
At this moment, a thunder suddenly sounded thunder!
hack!
Everyone was shocked because they hadn't heard the thunder for nearly a year.
"Your Highness, you believe it now." Zhang Fu said in a low voice.
"Let's go out with me to see!" Zhu Di's heart moved. He knew what the thunder meant, and he was already very excited.
Not only Zhu Di, but several people in the lobby were very excited, the entire Yan Prince's Mansion was very excited, the entire Peking people were very excited, and even all the refugees were very excited.
When Zhu Di brought everyone to the big yard, the vast clouds in the sky had now become dark. The thunder just now came from a pile of dark clouds not far away.
"This...is...is it...is it going to rain!" Qiu Fu said with a trembling feeling. Last time, he was almost cut off his head by Zhu Di for the sake of water. He had a special persistence in the rain.
"It seems that it is going to rain." Jin Zhong murmured, holding three more copper coins. He no longer uses fortune telling, but just for touching and playing, just like Daoyan likes to fiddle with Buddhist beads.
As they were talking, raindrops had already floated in the sky, first with goose drizzles, then getting heavier, and then the size of soybeans. You could feel a burst of pain when you hit people.
"It's really raining. Hu Yecheng won't deceive me." Zhu Di looked up at the sky, letting the raindrops as big as soybeans hit his face. He had never been so happy, even more so happy than driving away the Mongolians.
"Your Highness!" At this time, a maid came out and held an umbrella for Zhu Di, for fear that Zhu Di would catch a cold.
Zhu Di threw the umbrella on the ground. He now wants to enjoy this long-lost feeling.
"Go down, your highness is fine." Zhang Fu ordered.
The maid then retreated with some grievance.
"Come, send me the order. All the royal guards and guards, except those guarding the border, will go to the fields and plant them for me." Zhu Di said loudly.
"Your Highness, you are happy. The fourth young master is healed and God has brought sweet rain. It's really God bless Your Highness." Liu Sheng took the opportunity to flatter him.
"Good thing, good thing." Zhu Di sighed, and the group stood in the yard like this, endured the baptism of heavy rain.
Not only Zhu Di and the others were wet in the rain, but people in all of Peiping were wet in the rain. Many refugees even started rolling in the small ditch that had just gathered together, and they didn't care about the mud and wanted to take off their clothes and take a good bath.
It was not only Peking that rained, but also Nanjing, thousands of miles away. After the Wanghuai Tower incident, Hu Ye is now lying in the yard of Wuming Mansion, allowing heavy rain to hit him. Although Nanjing is not as severe as Peking, the joy of long-term drought and rain still appears on everyone's faces.
Xiaoqiang imitated his elder brother, with his legs facing the sky and showing his weapon upwards.
"Xiaoqiang, this may be the rain we long for the most in our lives, right?" Hu Ye turned his head, looked at Xiaoqiang who was sticking out his tongue, and asked in a deep voice.
Xiaoqiang whined twice, which was the best response to Hu Ye, and then continued to enjoy the long-lost shower.
"It's heavy rain, it's going to be more violent." Hu Ye shouted loudly into the sky.
"Sa Ren, your young master isn't crazy?" Yin Changlong stood under the eaves from afar and asked Sa Ren curiously.
"He won't be crazy if you are crazy!" Sa Ren gave Yin Changlong a blank look.
"I think the young master and Xiaoqiang are born to be brothers. The young master is even more intimate with it than the Hongchen. He sleeps together every night, and now he even lies together in the rain, and even his posture is so similar." Lai Fu murmured. Over the past month, he has experienced the biggest ups and downs of his life.
From an unattended waiter to a wealthy housekeeper, he is now confused and thinks he is dreaming.
"Hehe, since my young master appeared, Xiaoqiang has been by his side. It is no surprise that the young master has been hiding with it." Lao Qian added.
The one who has no say in this is Zou Kai. He has only been to Wuming Mansion for a few days, and he followed Hu Ye after the Wanghuai Tower incident. However, the experiences and experiences these days have far exceeded his cognition, so he can only describe Hu Ye as a weird person.
"No, if you continue to wet like this, you will definitely get sick." Qingyi felt sorry for her young master, so she came to Hu Ye with an umbrella.
"Young master, let's go back to the house. It's not good if you get a problem." Qingyi said softly to Hu Ye.
"Haha, I haven't seen it rain for hundreds of years. I finally found it next time, how can I not enjoy it?" Hu Ye said with a smile.
"Hundreds of years?" Qingyi was puzzled. His young master was only thirteen years old, so there were hundreds of years there.
To be continued...