Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 12

"Should. Should." Shen Yishi also smiled and echoed Yang Jinshui's words, and hurriedly turned around to fetch ginseng.

Ma Ningyuan walked into the governor's yamen signing room with two ginseng, and Hu Zongxian was reviewing the case file before the case.

"Did you send someone to open the weir to release the water?" Hu Zongxian still didn't look up when he asked this sentence.But after a while, there was no answer, Hu Zongxian raised his head.

Ma Ningyuan stood in front of the case with his hands behind his back. Seeing Hu Zongxian looking at him, he recovered from his trance: "It's gone, it's all done."

Hu Zongxian: "What are you holding behind your back?"

Only then did Ma Ningyuan hesitantly bring the mahogany box containing wild ginseng to his chest: "Two sticks of wild ginseng...Master Butang, I know you never allow us to send you things...No other meaning, It's just that you've lost too much weight all this time..." At this point, Ma Ningyuan's voice was a little choked.

Hu Zongxian also looked at him silently for a while, sighed, and still lowered his head to approve the paper: "Being good on the errand is better than sending me anything."

Ma Ningyuan was still standing there with the box in his hand.

Hu Zongxian still didn't look up: "Put it there, let's go to various weirs to have a look."

"Yes." When Ma Ningyuan put down the box, he took another long look at Hu Zongxian, then turned around and walked out.

The annual Dragon Boat Festival is here. In the 40th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, a natural disaster caused by man-made disasters is coming to the people along the Xin'an River in Zhejiang...

It was already dark, and the heavy rain was still falling. From the light of the lanterns under the eaves of the governor's office and the light of the wind lanterns in the Daping, you can vaguely see that the here is full of guards, and everyone is holding a horse by their side. !
The door was open, and Hu Zongxian walked out quickly in oil coat.As soon as he walked outside the gate, a bolt of lightning shot down from the sky towards the center of the gate of the governor's office.

——Hu Zongxian's figure was split in half by the lightning bolt from the middle of his head and face to between his feet under the robe.After the lightning disappeared, there was a loud thunder, and then a series of flashes of lightning, which illuminated the soldiers, horses and the big sedan chair in the heavy rain of the Governor's Yamen in pale white!

The captain of the personal army walked behind Hu Zongxian holding a large oilcloth umbrella, and covered his head.

Hu Zongxian asked loudly: "What about river supervision?"

"I went to the governor's yamen, the inspector's yamen, and the weaving bureau to report the danger!" The captain of the guard also replied loudly.

Hu Zongxian: "What is the danger? What did he say?"

The captain of the guards replied loudly again: "It seems that the weir gates in each of the nine counties are cracked, and the sandbags are thrown away and washed away. They can't be blocked at all!"

Hu Zongxian was shocked violently, and another flash of lightning made him pale!
"The world is not benevolent..." Hu Zongxian's words were quickly swallowed up by the ensuing thunder.

The captain of the guard said loudly: "My lord, what did you say?"

Hu Zongxian: "Go to Chun'an!"

The captain of the personal army shouted loudly to the soldiers in Daping: "Quick, bring the sedan chair over!"

"Lead the horse!" Hu Zongxian yelled to cut him off, then strode down the steps and walked into the rain.

The captain of the personal army panicked, held up his umbrella and hurriedly followed, while shouting loudly: "Horse! Quickly bring out Lord Butang's horse!"

A slender black horse was pulled out from the gate, and then a soldier ran to the back of Hu Zongxian under the umbrella holding an oil coat, opened the oil coat, Hu Zongxian stretched his arms downward, and the guard took the oil coat Aim at Hu Zongxian's hands at the armpit and lift it up, then put the hat of the oil coat on his head, and turned to him to fasten the belt on his chest.

Lightning came one after another, and the rain seemed to intensify amidst the thunder, and the big black horse stood motionless amidst the thunder and rain.

The captain of the personal army threw away the umbrella and sent Hu Zongxian up with one arm, and Hu Zongxian stepped onto the big black horse.

Only then did the captain of the guards lead all the guards on their horses.

In the torrential rain, Hu Zongxian sat on his horse and still did not move. The captain of the guard leaned towards him with his horse between his legs.

Hu Zongxian: "You take two people to the camp immediately, and ask Zongbing Qi and Tan Canjun to lead [-] soldiers to the embankment immediately, and send troops to each weir for emergency rescue, and then tell them to go to Chun'an to meet me."

The captain of the guards replied loudly: "Yes!" Then he swung his horse's head and led the two guards to gallop into the rain.

Immediately afterwards, Hu Zongxian clamped his legs and took the lead to gallop into the rain.

"Godfather!" With a woman's call, a man pushed open the bedroom door of Yang Jinshui from the Weaving Bureau and broke in, staggered to the big bed, and fell on his knees at Yang Jinshui's feet.

At this time, Yang Jinshui was wearing a set of white cicada-wing pajamas and a black silk robe with dark patterns on the outside. He was sitting coldly by the bed, looking at the man kneeling at his feet—Xin Anjiang river supervisor Li Xuan.

With great difficulty, Li Xuan calmed down, and his tone was full of panic: "Nine counties, nine large weirs, all, all cracked... Someone... Someone destroyed the embankment, this is to harm the son, harm the godfather..."

"Who destroyed the embankment? Who is going to harm you?" Yang Jinshui's tone was unexpectedly calm for Li Xuan.

Li Xuan was stunned, and then said: "The whole embankment, the nine big weirs were built under the supervision of my son last year. They are as solid as gold, impossible, impossible to burst, but now every weir has burst..."

Yang Jinshui: "Where in the world is there a dike like a golden soup? Where is a weir like a golden soup?"

Li Xuan was even more stunned, standing there in a daze, staring at Yang Jinshui in a daze.

Yang Jinshui's voice suddenly softened: "Yunniang, get up and get my clothes for him to change."

Hearing these words, Li Xuan, who was still full of panic just now, straightened his eyes, and looked into the big bed through Yang Jinshui's side.

A slender figure of a woman lazily got up from the big bed behind Yang Jinshui.

——It turned out to be the beauty in silk in the hall of the Weaving Bureau!
At this time, Yun Niang was wearing a cicada-winged silk shirt that was actually thinner than the pajamas that Yang Jinshui was wearing, and fluttered off the bed without looking at them. She went straight to the big cabinet beside her, opened the cabinet door, and took He took out a set of Yang Jinshui's clothes, put them on a chair beside him, walked to the bed, and crawled in lazily.

Li Xuan didn't dare to look at Yunniang any more, so he could only lower his eyes and kneel there.

Yang Jinshui: "Don't get up yet, peel off your wet skin."

Then Li Xuan still knelt there: "Godfather, what are the nine counties! If it is flooded, my son's head..."

"I can't kill you." Yang Jinshui was a little annoyed, "Get up, change clothes and stay at the weaving bureau, don't go anywhere."

Li Xuan stood up in a daze, and suddenly seemed to save himself: "Godfather knows about this?"

"Know what?" Yang Jinshui's eyes turned cold.

Li Xuan trembled: "I, I don't know what I know..."

Yang Jinshui: "It's your blessing not to know! Let me tell you, there are some things that don't go on the scale, there is no four or two, and you can't hold a thousand catties on the scale. We are people in the palace, and we only care about what our ancestors told us , Local affairs, if you break the sky, let the people in their local yamen kick the bed with themselves. You don’t want to go to the river yamen these days, you will stay here if you drown the fields and die.”

Li Xuan still didn't understand something at this time, so he immediately answered: "Then the godfather must quickly move a seat for his son."

Yang Jinshui: "I have already reported to my ancestors, let's wait for the arrangement of my ancestors."

"Son understands." Li Xuan finally answered a little resoundingly, and then got up, went to the chair and picked up the suit like a treasure, took a deep breath secretly, and then swallowed dryly, but still Lai there, and then went to untie the belt on the skirt.

"Is this the place where you change your clothes?" Yang Jinshui said coldly.

"Son, damn it." Li Xuan didn't dare to untie his clothes anymore, and walked towards the door with the suit in his hands, stopped at the door, turned his head and glanced at Yang Jinshui, then at Yang Jinshui's back, Said: "Thank you godfather, thank you godmother..."

Yang Jinshui: "Go."

Only then did Li Xuan step over the threshold, and gently closed the door.

As the agricultural proverb goes, "the wind never ends, and the rainstorm never ends", and the flood often rises after the rainstorm.The Dragon Boat Festival flood in Xin'anjiang in the 40th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty was like this. The torrential rain lasted for a day and finally stopped in the middle of the night.But in the next few days, the mountain torrents from thousands of mountains and valleys upstream will pour into the Xin'an River, and the water level will continue to rise!
The rain stopped and the waves got louder.The sky was still dark, and countless torches flickered on the Xin'an River Embankment in Chun'an, flickering on and off amidst the roar of the waves, so powerless and weak.Countless soldiers, and many civilians were carrying sandbags, carrying sandbags and running towards the direction of the huge turbulent sound!

Along with the sound of the waves, the roaring turbulent sound came from the gate at the weir mouth.At the entrance of the weir, the two breaches on both sides of the gate are already five feet wide. The flood in the river is roaring and rushing into these two breaches.
Under the light of a few torches, both Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun stood on the edge of the breach.

Sandbags have formed a wall on the embankment beside the breach.

A row of soldiers stood beside the sandbags that formed the wall, and some young and strong civilians also stood beside the sandbags wall, all eyes were on Qi Jiguang.

Qi Jiguang: "Ready to order."

The soldier inserted the handle end of the spear into the bottom sandbag embankment at the same time, and held the gun barrel with his shoulder.

Some young and strong people also inserted the bamboo poles under the sandbags, and supported the upper part of the bamboo poles with their shoulders.

"Under the package!" Qi Jiguang gave an order.

A wall of sandbags poured into the breach at the same time.

Countless eyes looked at the breach.

So many sandbags poured into the crevasse are like a handful of salt sprinkled into a boiling pot, and are immediately washed away by the torrent without a trace!
Countless pairs of eyes dimmed immediately!

"Carry it again!" Qi Jiguang's face was as cold as a piece of iron.

So many soldiers, so many people immediately ran again.

On this side, under the light of a few torches stood the soldiers of the governor's office, and in front of them, facing the embankment of the big river, stood Hu Zongxian alone.

At this time, Tan Lun quietly walked to Hu Zongxian's side.

"Can't it be stopped?" Hu Zongxian obviously felt Tan Lun who had walked behind him, still looking at the dark, rushing and turbulent river, his voice was very low.

"Without any preparation in advance, it is expected that it will not be blocked." Tan Lun was very angry, "Nine counties, nine weirs, we can't block them here, and the eight weirs can't be blocked. What they want This is the result!"

Hu Zongxian: "Ma Ningyuan gave me wild ginseng that day, I should have thought of it. Millions of people, a thousand years of crime..."

"It's so unreasonable and unreasonable. It's unprecedented in history! No one can think of it..." Tan Lun continued, "Looking at this, it's a big hit."

Hu Zongxian froze, but did not answer immediately.

Tan Lun: "Flooding nine counties is worse than flooding one or two counties. It will be easier to prepare food for disaster relief."

Hu Zongxian: "Does Yuan Jing think so too?"

Yuan Jing is Qi Jiguang's character.Tan Lun immediately replied: "I think so too. But this determination is up to you."

Hu Zongxian was silent again, and said after a long time: "It's not easy to explain to the people of Chun'an and Jiande."

Tan Lun: "Do our best first. Yuan Jing is going to let the soldiers jump into the breach to block it once. If it can be blocked, all nine counties will be blocked. It is also an explanation to the people if the people are dead and can't be blocked."

Hu Zongxian turned around slowly, his pale face under the light of the torch became even more haggard: "Then the people must be evacuated as soon as possible."

Tan Lun: "It has been arranged. Fortunately, there are mountains everywhere, and the people evacuate quickly."

Hu Zongxian's gaze slowly turned towards the direction of the breach, and at this moment, Qi Jiguang's order came from there: "Form a human wall! Jump down and push the sandbags!"

Hu Zongxian shuddered, and Tan Lun shuddered too.

Hu Zongxian strode towards the breach.

Tan Lun and those personal soldiers followed closely behind.

Beside the breach, a line of soldiers stood on a wall of sandbags, arm in arm, waiting for Qi Jiguang's order.

Qi Jiguang did not give an order, apparently waiting for Hu Zongxian's final decision.At this time, looking at Hu Zongxian who was striding forward, his eyes were also full of sadness.

Hu Zongxian walked up to Qi Jiguang: "Do you remember the names of these brothers?"

Qi Jiguang nodded heavily.

Hu Zongxian: "If something unexpected happens, we must sympathize with their families."

Qi Jiguang nodded heavily again.

Hu Zongxian raised his head to face the line of soldiers standing on the sand wall, arched his hands, and said loudly, "Please!"

"Yes!" The row of soldiers still faced the breach, and a unison reply came from their backs.

Qi Jiguang raised his hand and said heavily, "Under the bag!"

The row of soldiers roared and jumped down arm in arm!
Under the light of the torch, many people's eyes widened, and many people's eyes closed.

Hu Zongxian also closed his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who were carrying guns ready to pry the bag all looked at Qi Jiguang.

Qi Jiguang's eyes were fixed on the soldiers in the breach.

In the roaring turbulence, the row of soldiers sank in an instant.

Qi Jiguang's heart sank suddenly, and then his eyes lit up again.

In the turbulence, the heads floated up again, arms tightly connected to each other, but the whole row of people was quickly pushed back by the torrent!
"Unload the bag!" The leader in the turbulence seemed to shout desperately, but the shout was quickly swallowed by the turbulence.

The soldiers who were carrying guns ready to pry the bag were all staring at Qi Jiguang again.

Qi Jiguang slowly lowered his raised hand: "Let go of the rope, save people!"

Immediately, more than a dozen soldiers threw the prepared ropes into the breach.

But the row of heads disappeared again, sinking in the huge turbulence!

The entire embankment was deadly silent, only the sound of waves and turbulence.

Facing the breach, some people knelt down, and then all the people on the embankment knelt down.

Qi Jiguang, who was illuminated by the torch, also closed his eyes at this time, and a few teardrops oozed from the corners of his eyes.

"Let's go!" Suddenly a voice rang out from the crowd, and then that person stood up, it was Qi Dazhu who had been captured by Ma Ningyuan.

Qi Dazhu turned to the young and strong people: "It's our turn! It's the man, follow me!"

Said, Qi Dazhu strode towards the sand wall.

More than a dozen young and strong men followed him to the sand wall.

Hu Zongxian's gaze!

Qi Jiguang's eyes!

Tan Lun's gaze!
Hu Zongxian looked at Qi Jiguang and shook his head at him.

Qi Jiguang immediately walked in front of the sand wall, blocking Qi Dazhu's dozen or so people.

Qi Dazhu knelt down on one leg, and the dozen or so people who followed him also knelt down.

Qi Dazhu: "General Qi, there are our parents, our wives and children over there. If we want to dance, we should dance! That day, you took the officers and soldiers away and didn't step on our young crops, we already recognized you. You just Let us also be brothers in your army!"

Qi Jiguang: "Are you the one who took the lead in making trouble that day?"

Qi Dazhu: "Yes."

Qi Jiguang: "Do you know who released you at the governor's office that day?"

Qi Dazhu: "I know, it's the governor."

Qi Jiguang: "It's good to know. Then we will all listen to the governor. If the governor has something to say, you should get up first and tell the elders to get up."

"Yes." Qi Dazhu responded loudly and stood up, "All the folks, get up, the governor has something to say to us."

The people all stood up.

Surrounded by torchlight, Hu Zongxian approached a pile of sandbags, Qi Jiguang stretched out his hand to help him, and sent him up.

Hu Zongxian looked at the muddy-faced men in front of him, at the extinguished torches, he opened his mouth to say something, but his throat was suddenly choked...

At this time, in Shen Yishi's large living room, there was a big round table with wine and chopsticks, and several dishes had already been served.

Several people were still sitting on the seats on both sides of the hall, obviously waiting for someone.

A long follower walked in quickly, approached behind Zheng Michang and whispered a few words.There was a trace of unhappiness in Zheng Michang's eyes, but it was only for a moment, and then he stood up: "Eunuch Yang is not coming, let's calm Master Ma and the others."

He Maocai's unhappiness was immediately vented: "He is in charge, and at this moment he has to make a decision, but he can't come, what is this?"

These few words of his immediately reacted to Ma Ningyuan, Chang Boxi and Zhang Zhiliang, all three of them stood there sullenly with gloom on their faces.

There was also Shen Yishi, a trace of worry also flashed across his face, but it disappeared quickly, and he was still looking at Zheng Michang and He Maocai peacefully as usual.

(End of this chapter)