The next day, the rain continued to fall, but compared to the previous few days, the rain intensity had dropped a lot. It seemed that the weather would clear up after the rain in these two days.
Many people breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they withstood the heavy rains of the past few days, there should be no more floods this year.
Late that night, many people living near the Baisong River were awakened by a strange muffled sound. However, most of them didn't pay attention. They thought it was the sound of thunder, turned over and went back to sleep.
In the early morning, as soon as a glimmer of morning light shone in the eastern sky, there was a loud knock on the door of Lin Xu's house!
The concierge Xiao He opened the door in the rain and saw Chang San standing at the door, soaked like a drowned rat!
"Mr. Chang, it's not bright yet. Why are you here so early?"
Xiao He asked very puzzled.
"Please report to sir immediately, this is an urgent matter!"
Chang San wiped the rain off his face and said anxiously.
"Okay! Okay! Just wait in the concierge for a moment, and I'll report it right away!"
Seeing Chang San's anxious look, Xiao He didn't dare to delay and went to report it immediately!
Although Lin Xu hasn't gotten up yet, he has already woken up and is enjoying the leisurely morning time with Yue Yao in his arms.
After listening to Xiao He's report, he immediately had an ominous premonition in his heart. He immediately got dressed and got up. At the same time, he asked Xiao He to tell Chang San to come to the flower hall to meet him!
As soon as Chang San entered the flower hall with his front legs, Lin Xu arrived with his back legs!
"gentlemen......"
"Chang San, what happened?"
"I just got news that last night, all five levees of the Baisong River burst overnight! The fields and villages on both sides of the Baisong River have now been submerged by the flood!"
"What?!"
Lin Xu was shocked when he heard the news!
Immediately, he asked in great confusion: "It rained so hard a few days ago that the Baisong River did not burst its banks. The rain has decreased significantly in the past two days. How could it suddenly burst its banks? That's fine! The key is the Baisong River.
The five levees in our country were all reinforced just last spring. It is said that a total of more than one million taels of silver was spent! Even if there is a problem with one of the levees, there can't be problems with all five levees at the same time, right?"
"What you said is absolutely true! There must be a problem here! I think there must be someone who wants these five levees to have problems at the same time!"
Chang Sansan said firmly!
"you mean......"
Lin Xu looked at Chang San with complicated eyes.
"Sir, do you still remember the shipload of black powder bought by the Suzhou prefect's Yamen?"
Chang San lowered his voice and said.
"boom!"
Hearing these words, Lin Xu felt like a thunderstorm exploded in his mind. He stood there blankly, unable to recover for a long time!
In fact, after learning that the Suzhou magistrate's office suddenly bought a shipment of black gunpowder that day, he felt that this was most likely related to the conversion of rice into mulberry!
However, how could black powder be related to the conversion of rice into mulberry? He was puzzled!
At a certain moment, he even vaguely thought that the government wanted to use the black powder to cause some damage and force the people to change rice to mulberry, right?
But he never thought that the government would use black gunpowder to blow up the dams, and they blew up five of them at once, flooding the fields and forcing the people to change rice to mulberry!
Nowadays, someone can actually do something that is so unconscionable?! This chapter has been completed!