I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 63
Zhejiang, Zhejiang Governor's Mansion.

"It's raining so hard today, it's been a long time since it rained so hard!"

Holding a teacup, Zheng Michang looked at the heavy rain outside, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Yes, it's a good thing that the autumn harvest is over, otherwise, all the food that the people had not had time to harvest would have suffered." He Maocai immediately commented.

"Hmph, pretentious!" Tan Lun, who was sitting in the corner, snorted coldly and said.

"You!" Zheng Michang heard, and immediately looked at Tan Lun in the corner with angry eyes.

"Okay, okay, don't be as knowledgeable as him, don't you know what he looks like?" He Maocai saw that the two were about to quarrel, so he quickly stood up as a peacemaker and comforted each other.

Immediately, after glancing at each other, the two snorted coldly and looked away.

"After a while, the imperial court will send people to collect the salt tax. Are you ready for the chief envoy's yamen? Are the relevant account books complete?" Hu Zongxian, who was sitting at the top, turned his gaze to Zheng Michang and asked .

"My lord, everything is well prepared, there is no mistake or omission!" Zheng Michang heard, bowed quickly, and reported the report respectfully.

"Well, that's good, don't make any trouble." Hu Zongxian nodded after listening to Zheng Michang's report, and then picked up the teacup beside him.

While everyone was chatting, I saw a figure in a coir raincoat rushing out of the torrential rain, with an anxious look on his face. As soon as he entered the hall, he knelt down on the ground, his lips were blue, his face was pale, and his voice trembled: " Tell me, tell me, my lord, on the other side of the embankment..."

"Tell me, what happened! What happened to the embankment?" Hu Zongxian stood up abruptly, with a look of panic on his face.

"The dam has collapsed!" the pawn who came to report the situation cried.

After Hu Zongxian listened to the soldiers' report, he suddenly fell back to his chair as if he had lost all his strength.

"Lord Hu!"

Seeing this, the other officials in the hall were unavoidably worried and wanted to step forward to help.

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine. Quickly, send someone over to the dam and send the soldiers stationed nearby! If the dam collapses completely, it will harm the people of nine counties, more than [-] lives! Go, Go!" Hu Zongxian waved his hands, refusing the support of everyone.

"Bring me the coir raincoat." After he completely calmed down, Hu Zongxian said in a low voice to the guards beside him.

"My lord, let us go to this kind of thing! It's important for you to take care of your health..." Seeing that Hu Zongxian wanted to go to the collapsed dam in person, all the officials warned.

"You don't need to persuade me, the imperial court entrusted Zhejiang to me to govern, and now the dam is collapsing. As the governor of Zhejiang, I must be present!" After Hu Zongxian finished speaking, he walked towards the collapsed dam under the escort of several personal guards.

"Quick, let's go too! Transfer all the people who can be transferred here." After Hu Zongxian left, the rest of the people gave the order, and followed Hu Zongxian's pace closely in coir raincoats.

……

Chun'an County under Hangzhou is the most severely affected place this time, and it is the closest to the dam.

"Father, mother, hold my hand quickly, don't be swept away!"

On the roof of a house that was washed away by the flood, a young man was struggling to reach out his arms to his parents who were trapped on the other side, but no matter how hard the young man tried, he was always a little short.

"Father, mother, what are you doing! Throw away those things quickly."

Seeing the surrounding water level rising higher and higher, the parents who were trapped aside were still hesitant, and the young man was almost crying with anxiety.

"No, these things are passed down from the ancestors. The money sold in the future will be left for you to marry a wife. How can you just throw them away?" The parents who were trapped on the side shook their heads and refused.

"No, the water level has risen again, hurry up..."

Before the young man could finish his words, he was stuck in his chest, and saw a big wave coming, involving his parents, leaving nothing behind.

The young man stared blankly at the place where his parents were standing, and choked up.

"Woooooh, my child..."

"Father, mother, where are you, ah!"

……

Soon, Hu Zongxian led his people to the place where the dam collapsed, only to see that the dyke built by the imperial court at a cost of 400 million taels was broken from the middle!Coupled with the sudden heavy rain, the flood surged out of the gap and poured down towards Chun'an County below.

"Is the gravel bag ready?" Hu Zongxian looked at the scene in front of him, frowned, and then asked aloud.

"My lord, I have already prepared before coming here." The subordinate behind him quickly responded.

"Send someone to block the gap in the dam with gravel bags. If this continues, the remaining counties will not be spared."

"At the same time, let the people who come here help the victims as much as possible." Hu Zongxian ordered the orders in an orderly manner.

"Teacher, how's the situation here?" Soon, Ma Ningyuan, the magistrate of Hangzhou, also rushed to the scene of the dam collapse with a large team.

"The situation is very bad. If the gap in the dam cannot be blocked, more than [-] people in the nine counties will all suffer! You go and ask your people to prepare more gravel bags." Hu Zongxian didn't look at him, but just calmed down. voice commanded.

"What are you still doing here? Hurry up!" Seeing that Ma Ningyuan was still standing there, Hu Zongxian couldn't help frowning.

"Actually, teacher, I know something about the collapse of the dam. This is the idea of ​​Mr. Yan Ge." Ma Ningyuan hesitated for a long time, and said timidly.

"Hmph, I'll deal with you after this matter is over, now take your people to prepare gravel!"

"Yes." After Ma Ningyuan finished speaking, he took his subordinates to carry the gravel bags.

And soon, the soldiers stationed nearby from the brigade were also recruited to participate in the emergency repair work of the embankment.

"My lord, I took people there just now, but the gap is too big, and the gap cannot be blocked only by sand and gravel!" Zheng Michang came back in a coir raincoat and reported in a panic.

"If it can't be blocked, it must be blocked! If the dam can't bear it completely, the people in the nine counties will suffer. When the court blames it, I'd like to see how you explain it." Hu Zongxian said, with an extremely indifferent His eyes swept over Zheng Bichang.

"My lord, I have a way. Use a rope to tie the brothers, and then go down to the gap in the embankment and block it with your body." Liu Zhongxin, the commander of the guard behind Hu Zongxian, said after pondering for a moment.

"If you act like this, you will be in a very dangerous situation. If you are not careful, you will be swallowed by the flood!" Hu Zongxian turned to look at Liu Zhongxin behind him, and said.

"With the imperial salary, we naturally have to do business, right? That's it. Anyone who is willing to come, come with me!" Liu Zhongxin said to the soldiers behind him.

"Yes!"

"I represent the people of Zhejiang, thank you!" Hu Zongxian said, bowing deeply to the ground.

Soon, the previous soldiers tied the ropes to themselves, and after the fixation was completed, they jumped into the gaps in the embankment one by one, using their bodies to resist the impact of the water flow.

"Please tell your majesty that due to the continuous heavy rain here in Zhejiang, the previously built embankment was washed away, and I asked the imperial court to allocate funds for disaster relief!" Hu Zongxian looked at the soldiers who blocked the gap in the embankment with their bodies not far away, and then turned to the side, He instructed Xu Wei, his staff member.

"Yes."

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