Chapter 71 The Homeland is hard to leave

The continuous heavy rain lasted until the eighth day of July, and there was no sign of stopping.

Xia is located in the east, with a warm climate surrounded by three rivers. Due to its low terrain, it will make preparations before entering the summer rain period every year.

From early July to mid-August, it is a period of rainstorm. In the history of Xia, there were 16 consecutive days of torrential rains, in which tens of millions of people were displaced, followed by hunger, plague and riots. To make matters worse, the State of Jin and Shu joined hands to raise troops against the State of Xia, which was in civil strife and almost disintegrated.

Of course, the last to resolve the crisis was the president of the Supervision Institute. However, the dean resolved the crisis of the war and said lightly about the continuous rainstorm to worship God.

Then, the whole country began to worship God, but because Xia did not have the rain god and snow god and so on, the image of the president of the Supervision Institute was pinched into a clay sculpture and worshipped as a rain god. What's funny is that no one knows whether the dean is male or female, tall, short and fat, so that the image of Rain God is actually a four-like in the end. To be precise, it is a long disabled elk.

This time, the torrential rain in Xia has lasted for ten days. The low-lying areas have been flooded, and a large number of disaster victims have begun to migrate. Almost every hour, the court receives urgent reports of 800 miles sent to the palace from all over the country, all of which are about floods.

But these are all the affairs of the imperial court, all of which are men's affairs.

Ling Yue holds hot tea and stands in the corridor. There is no drainage system in the world, and the ten-day rainstorm must have flooded many villages and towns. From the conversation of the palace people and the atmosphere of the whole court, the seriousness of the situation can also be vaguely felt. But all this has nothing to do with her.

So she can hold the teacup so leisurely and watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the courtyard.

"If it goes on like this, Xia will be flooded." Liu Ye didn't know when he stood beside Ling Yue, "Li Jinglue is now very busy with the flood."

Ling Yue turned around and sat on the corridor bench: "A lot of people should die."

"100,000 victims have died, and they all starved to death."

"Starving to death?"

"The terrain of Xia is low, so it will be ready for the rainstorm period in July every year." Liu Ye said, "However, because the number of disaster victims this time is too large, most of the people who fled starved to death along the way. Although a small part of the rest were lucky enough to escape to villages and towns that had not been flooded, they could only starve to death in the streets due to poverty. Although the court dialed the money, there was really little left in the hands of the people.

Ling Yue sighed: "Three years of Qing magistrate, 100,000 snowflake silver, by the way, isn't there that omnipotent dean? Why did even the dean stand by?

In the past few days, Ling Yue has learned about the almost divine dean from the narrative of Xing'er and Yun'er. And I also went to the Fulu Temple, which specially prays for the royal blessing, to see the statue known as the rain god, but in fact it was an elk.

"Dean... I heard from the people of the Supervision Institute that the dean is playing in the mountains and rivers in the State of Chu."

"Traveling in the mountains and playing with water?"

"Ye" Liu Ye said, "In fact, it's useless even if the dean comes back. This rain is a matter of God, and it's not a dean can solve it."

Ling Yue smiled and said, "What is the court doing now?"

"Change the people."

"Change the people? How to change it?"

"The court has begun to let the people in the lower local area gradually migrate to Cang, and let the people of Cang move to the lower land of Xia."

"I'm afraid it's not easy to leave the land. Although the country has perished, I think those people will never want to leave even if they die. Maybe there is a riot in Cangguo now. Ling Yue poured the still warm tea into the yard, took a deep breath and said, "There are heroes in troubled times. I don't know if there can be a hero this time."

"I'm afraid this hero is your sister."

"Me?" Ling Yue wondered, "Why me?"

"The emperor seems to want you to go to Cang. He wants you to persuade the people of Cang to migrate to Xia."

As soon as the night voice fell, I saw Liu Xi walking towards them in a hurry with a paper umbrella.

shaking off the rain on the paper and oil umbrella, Liu Xi looked distressed: "I just saw the princess."

"Eunuch Liu, your face is going to be wrinkled into steamed buns."

"Well, it's not all this damn rain. It's raining endlessly. Well, the clothes I just changed got wet again. Liu Xi said helplessly, "Princess, the emperor is waiting for you in the Chengfu Hall. Hurry up and go with me."

"Eunuch Liu, I don't know what the emperor summoned?"

"I don't know this slave. Naturally, the princess will know when you go there."

"It's probably for floods." Ling Yue asked tentatively and saw Liu Xi turn her face to the yard. Sure enough, as Liu Ye said, Emperor Xia was ready to let himself go to Cangguo to convince the people.

Ling Yue originally thought that Emperor Xia would summon him alone, but when he arrived at Chengfu Palace, he found that Xia Wuchen, Ouyang Wan, Li Jinglue, Xia Yan and Xia Kang were all standing in the hall.

"Participate in the emperor."

"Don't be polite, someone will give you a seat."

First salute and then soldiers? Ling Yue drew an imperceptible smile on the corners of her mouth: "Thank you for your grace."

Although in her previous life, Ling Yue only sat on a third of a stool or a chair, at this moment she was careless and even rude to sit on the mahogany chair carved with dragons.

"Ling Yue, now the flood is in trouble, so I hope you can go to Cang to persuade those people to migrate to Xia." When Emperor Xia spoke, everyone secretly looked at Ling Yue's face. They wanted to know how Ling Yue would react after hearing such a cruel order.

"Your Majesty, Ling Yue can go to Cangguo, but I'm afraid there is no way to persuade those people to leave. There is a saying that it is difficult to leave homeland and people are cheap. Who would be willing to leave their own land?

"How do you know if you don't try?" Xia Di's voice was low and slightly unhappy, "No matter how difficult it is, I hope you can complete it."

"Your Majesty, if you just want to solve the flood, then Ling Yue has a better way and doesn't need to bother to migrate people at all." Ling Yue said, "Your Majesty, if you force the people of Cang to leave your hometown, then there will inevitably be riots and heroes in troubled times. You can think more about the weight of the emperor."

Emperor Xia's expression was solemn and majestic. He has already understood the meaning of Ling Yue's string: "You, you just said that there is a way to solve the flood?"

"Yes, but there is no hurry now. We can only wait until the rainstorm is over, and..." Ling Yue smiled and was extremely confident. "This project may take several years, but I believe that once completed, Xia Guo will never have to worry about the annual rainstorm."

"Tpeak and listen."

"Drainage system." Ling Yue said, "The Xia Kingdom is low, surrounded by three rivers, and has a rainy climate. In this case, how can there be no drainage system?"

"Drainage system?"

"It rains. If it rains slowly, it can be absorbed by the soil, or it will dry soon after the sun shines. But if it is a very urgent and long rainstorm, the excess water can only be guided and can only flow into the river, and then the river breaks the embankment to form a flood. Therefore, there must be a drainage system, which is a little complicated. If you believe me, please wait until the rainstorm is over, Ling Yue will definitely give you a satisfactory answer.

"Father, I think what Ling Yue said makes sense. If the people of Cang are forcibly expelled, it will definitely cause riots." Xia Wuchen said, "It's better to take a compromise method to let the ministers and Ling Yue go to Cang to see if they can persuade those people. If they can't convince, they can at least convince them to accept the disaster victims of Xia. It's not too late to figure it out when the rainstorm is over.

"Ye." Xia Di nodded, as if he agreed with Xia Wuchen. After a little meditation, Emperor Xia said slowly, "Then I will go to Cang with Ling Yue. Prince, if you want to inherit the unification of the country in the future, you can also go out to experience it. Let's go with Lao Qi and Ling Yue."

Xia Yan was stunned. He didn't expect that Emperor Xia would let himself go to Cangguo at all: "Father..."

"Why, don't you want to go?"

"No, it's just that the princess is about to give birth, and my son is afraid..."

"Don't worry, can't this huge palace take care of your crown princess?"

"Yes, my son obeys the order."