Chapter 228 Disasters can be avoided and man-made disasters can be prevented

So the fifth year of Yuanqing, in this gray and gloomy March, Master Tongji experienced a dialogue that made him laughable and uncertain.

At present, the scenery is looking for the "match" of the master of Tongji in the Buddhist Temple. There is really no need to find any more excuses. He just speaks to the eldest princess and brings all the "full men" and horses, which can be done at any time.

No one cares whether she really plays chess with the master or has other plans.

To put it bluntly, let Tongji open his mouth--

"Do you remember the flood this summer?"

Tongji:......

"It's just that I didn't pay much attention to it in those years. I only remember that it was in Bingzhou, but I don't remember the specific county name." The scenery sighed.

Tongji:????

"What, the master..."

Tongji smiled bitterly in his heart - the words of the little donor are too difficult for people to continue. What does this mean? Prince of Chu, what kind of machine are you and this little donor playing? He had to say plausally, "The poor monk didn't pay much attention."

Then he saw another long sigh, and his eyebrows almost squeezed together: "In this way, it can't save the natural disaster."

Tongji almost couldn't help asking - natural disaster! What kind of natural disaster? There will be floods this summer. How does the donor know?

"Master, I have another request."

Tong Jiqiang held his own curiosity and saluted: "The poor monk listened attentively."

"I want to use the master's reputation for the skill of yin and yang. In case someone asks, please turn around."

Tongji really wanted to get to the bottom of it. He recited the meditation mantra before he couldn't help it. He sincerely accepted this "discord invitation" and had a game with a good view. Of course, he almost broke the defeat of a monk who had been practicing for many years as if he had been hit by a hurricane in his mind.

Bingjing said goodbye with satisfaction.

Waiting for her car and the sight that had just disappeared from Tongji, the monk couldn't help it any more. He called a little Shami to go to the palace of the King of Chu and ask the prince to come immediately, saying that the poor monk had 100,000 urgent matters.

A Buddhist monk who "stops like water" and "six empty" actually used the word "100,000 urgent". Yu Yu Yu would not ignore it and rushed to the Buddhist Temple. When he heard Master Tongji's heart surging and careful confession, Yu Yu couldn't help laughing - he knew that when Huidu "Confessed" about Jiang Wei, he It will cause a lot of trouble, and the scenery can be dealt with, but she opened her words so clearly that why didn't Tongji feel burned?

Buddha monks are also flesh and blood. Curiosity is inevitable when encountering such a strange thing.

What's more... Yu Yu thought that Tongji's "Buddha monk" was just a name.

"What Buddhism calls the six reincarnations, all sentient beings can't escape. I don't know if the master believes that there will be a possibility of rebirth after the end of this life?" Yu Yu was stunned by Tongji's eyes and sighed gently: "Master, I'm the same, and so is Su Wuniang."

"No wonder... the donor's letter would be so told." Tongji recalled what Yu Yu wrote that day, and then it was like an enlightenment: "The wonders in the world are really mysterious and profound, beyond human imagination."

"Because of some reasons, I don't want her to know that I have also experienced this matter, and please continue to turn around." Yu Yu said again.

"The son knows the identity of the poor monk, it seems that in that in that reincarnation, the poor monk should be..." Tongji swallowed the four words of disaster. Thinking of the plan that persuaded him to give up many years ago, he praised the Buddha: "It's just now that the female donor said that the summer flood..."

"It will indeed happen, but I have made arrangements, but I hope to keep the disaster to a minimum." Yu Yu didn't say much.

At this time in his previous life, although he was still lingering in his illness, he naturally knew more about what happened than the scenery. He knew where the five counties were, and he also hesitated whether he should give advice and ask the people of the five counties to avoid danger, but finally gave up.

This matter is not simple. First of all, if you ask Tongji to use "yin and yang hexagrams" as an excuse, not to mention whether you can persuade the courtiers to believe it, even if you believe it, there will be endless troubles - once this matter spreads, it will push Tongji to the forefront of the storm. Ordinary people will not talk about it. Once the nobles think that Tongji can cut off people's misfortunes and blessings. "The wind surges" will bring endless trouble. According to past experience, all the masters in the world who have "in insight into the sky" are often the most feared by the royal family, and most of them will not end well.

There is another point - to say that the flood in Bingzhou, which lasted for five years, the disaster itself was not serious. Compared with the drought in Longxi during the early emperor, the scope of the disaster was much smaller, and the number of people who died from the flood itself was not too large, but some people concealed the disaster until the outbreak of the plague, resulting in Bingzhou There were people infected with malaria in the county, and the saint received a report.

Although the emperor paid great attention to it after knowing it, he not only allocated huge funds in the household department, but also ordered the imperial envoy to go to the disaster area to supervise the relief, but the envoy in those years was a member of the Jinxiang Party.

The court spent millions of silver and only allowed the pharmaceutical merchants to get rich overnight, but caused 100,000 people to die from the epidemic! It has quadrupled the total population of the five affected counties!

In those years, Jin Xiang's party feathers only shifted their responsibility to those county magistrates, saying that there had been no floods in Bingzhou in the past 100 years. It should be because the county magistrates' supervision was unfavorable, so that the dike was in disrepair for a long time, which led to this disaster. If it hadn't been for the county magistrate that the court had been worried about the crime and concealing the disaster, it would not have caused the plague to run rampant.

Yu's intuition must be that there must be great strangeness in it, but he checked the state chronicles of Bingzhou over the years and found that Jin Xiang had a word, but it was not bad. In the past hundred years, there had indeed been such a major flood in Bingzhou. Even in the last year of Emperor Ai, there were rainstorms for more than a month after another, resulting in flooding the river, but the affected places were concentrated in Shuozhou and Zhili. In this area, the state is safe and sound.

Why?

If we don't find out the hidden situation and eradicate the hidden dangers, even if we can avoid this flood, we still can't avoid the future.

He can't understand the sky. He doesn't know anything about what will happen ten years later.

Therefore, Yu Yu intends to take this opportunity to find out the flood in Bingzhou.

A few years ago, Yu Yu was concerned about this matter. At that time, there was a staff member in the Chu Wang's mansion who was quite good at water conservancy. Yu Yu sent him to Bingzhou to see if there were hidden dangers in the construction of the embankments in the five counties along the river. Unexpectedly, the man was very obscure. He only said that there was no dam that could not be destroyed by flooding, and any embankment was not a tenth. Insurance.

This answer seems to have a deep meaning.

But no matter how Yu Yu asked, the staff closed his mouth and refused to say anything. In the end, he left without saying goodbye and didn't know where he was going.

After returning to Beijing the year before last, Yu Yu also asked the water department under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, but the official in charge said that the embankments along the river in Bingzhou were repaired on time every year, which was no different from other places.

And Huidu sent people to investigate that the county magistrates of the five counties did attach great importance to the prevention of waterlogging.

Then why does it cause floods after more than ten consecutive days of rain for five years?

Yu Yu also felt at a loss, so he carefully found out that Qiao Jizhong knew a lot about water conservancy among the few students of the hermit Youtan, and entrusted Wei Yuan to invite him to become an official and temporarily join the Tianchawei.

The man was quite stubborn. Yu Yu visited him several times in person, but he refused. He only hoped that Wei Yuan could finally convince Qiao Jizhong.

However, Wei Yuan was also rejected and had no choice but to complete another task arranged by Yu Yu first.

I don't know if this person can play a role in the flood, but obviously, the competent officials of the Ministry of Industry are not very credible at present.

So, we should try our best to fight for it again.

In front of him, when the son learned that Yijing was also paying attention to this matter, he asked Huidu to investigate secretly and learned that she pointed to "yellow wormwormworm" very specifically. He was a little surprised. He guessed that she should have had insufficient principal and hit the abacus on the eldest princess. Then he colluded with Tongji to "cheat" and thought about this, right Whether it is his planning, or the scenery itself, or even the government of the country is beneficial and harmless, so he does not want to interfere, and it is played by the scenery.

Yijing had already returned to the Duke's Mansion and was "startered" in Yuanying Hall for a long time. The eldest princess was talking to Linglong and asked the prince's wife Dong Yin if it had been going well recently - it turned out that since the first month, during the Lantern Festival banquet, Huang had let Dong Yin familiarize herself with the common affairs, and recently made the sewing room and kitchen The two affairs of house purchase were handed over to Dong Yin's supervision. The eldest princess was satisfied with Huang's behavior, but she was worried that Dong Yin was still young and a bride. She was afraid of lack of prestige. She was secretly made difficult by the servants below and often asked questions.

While talking, the eldest princess also noticed that beautiful scenery was absent-minded, and it was inevitable that she was a little suspicious. When she asked that everything was still in order, she waved her hand and let Linglong pass on a few points of porridge. Then she smiled and said, "What's wrong with Jing? She was still excited when she went out. When she came back, she was like a frost eggplant. What's wrong with you alone? Is it unwilling to lose the battle again?

Ying got up from the brocade beside her and sat next to the edge of the kang. First, she smiled: "Grandma was wrong this time. I finally won once."

"What else are you worried about? Tell me and I'll make an idea."

Yijing waited for this sentence and asked mysteriously, "Grandmother always doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but can you believe that there are really strange people in the world who can communicate with yin and yang gossip?"

The eldest princess smiled and said, "What are you selling? You still don't follow the truth."

"I originally heard Brother Yu talk about Master Tongji's strange skills. At first, he was skeptical. Today, he made a bet with the master by playing chess skills. If he was lucky enough to win him, he would let him predict what would happen this year... As a result, the master said that there would be rainstorms in North China this summer. Continuously, it seems that it will also cause floods and plagues in states and other places. The scenery is based on the plan.