Three hundred and forty-ninth chapters where life does not meet
Chapter 349: Where in life do we not meet each other?
Although Fengyang is known as the imperial hometown of this dynasty, the ancestral home of Emperor Gao is not in Fengyang... His distant ancestors lived in Jurong, and later moved to Sizhou. In the generation of Emperor Gao's father, they moved to Haozhou, which is where Fengyang is today.
Yang, and Emperor Gao was born here.
As for Sizhou, it is considered to be the place where the Zhu family's fortune arose, and the location of the ancestral mausoleum is the auspicious land for the foundation of the emperor's fortune. In common parlance, this place is the dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty. When the ancestral mausoleum was built, Emperor Taizu even
I didn't dare to touch my grandfather's grave for fear of leaking my luck, so I only symbolically buried my grandfather's clothes and clothes in the underground palace together with the clothes and clothes of my great-grandfather and great-grandfather.
In fact, some Feng Shui experts think that the terrain of the Zuling Mausoleum has nine hills and eighteen depressions, so what kind of Feng Shui treasure is it? But they just think about it in their hearts.
Pan Jixun, a famous official in water control more than a hundred years ago and the father of Hongze Lake, probably underestimated the power of Hongze Lake when he built the Gaojia Weir to contain the Huaihe River. He could not have imagined that one day the ancestral mausoleum would be sunk to the bottom of the lake.
But Mr. Li suddenly remembered what happened to Zu Ling, and his mind was a little confused for a while. He suddenly felt tired from standing, so he found a stone on the embankment to sit down, and tried desperately to think about all the information he could still remember.
In another time and space, the Zuling Mausoleum and Sizhou City on the east bank were submerged by floods decades ago. In this time and space, it can still be sustained to this day. The reason is probably because of the flood control measures taken by the "Pseudo-Qing Dynasty" in the Ming Zuling Mausoleum.
However, the Ming Dynasty did not dare to relax, so the ancestral mausoleum is still standing on the ground until now.
However, Li You knew very well that as long as the Yellow River did not return to its original course and continued to seize the Huai River and flow into the sea, Hongze Lake would be in a period of expansion and the water level would definitely continue to rise.
The place in front of him is not only low-lying, but also located at the intersection of the Huaihe River and Hongze Lake. The water surface is narrow. If the drainage channel is slightly blocked, it will easily continue to surge on the already quite high water level. There will always be a critical point that cannot be stopped by the levee.
Human power can block the way of heaven for a while, but it cannot block it for a lifetime.
If the general trend remains unchanged, then the Zuling Mausoleum can escape the first day of the lunar month, but not the fifteenth day. Sooner or later, it will sink to the bottom of Hongze Lake. Maybe a heavy rain will turn the Zuling Mausoleum into a Dragon Palace.
This is a bit like passing flowers by drumming, it just depends on whose hands the bad luck will fall in the end. What Li You is worried about is that according to the river workers, the water will be very strong this year. Will the critical point of flooding the ancestral mausoleum appear now?
Don't be afraid of 10,000, just be afraid of the worst. This is a major event where the sky falls and the earth collapses. No matter how small the probability is, it still makes one's heart tremble when thinking about it. Mr. Li, who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, can't help but pray silently. It doesn't matter when the ancestral mausoleum will be submerged.
But don’t do it this year. The gods from all walks of life will protect you from such bad luck!
Being sent from the prosperous and affluent Yangzhou City to the Hongze Hunan Line to take charge of flood control, Mr. Li really had to look at the weather...
It's okay if you don't think about the danger. Ignorance is also a blessing. However, Mr. Li still carries the bad memory of his ancestral tomb being sunk at the bottom of the lake for 300 years in his previous life. He can scare himself...
No! You can't scare yourself to death! Li You jumped up from the stone resolutely. Don't say that things haven't happened yet, even if it is about to happen, there is no chance of turning the tide!
The key now is to determine the probability of things happening and to be prepared. But for this question, the two old river workers around Li You couldn't answer this question. They are both from Gaojiayan in the east and are not familiar with Sizhou's water conditions.
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"Looks like I'm going to the state government office."
With many worries on his mind, Mr. Li entered the city, and a leading figure went to the state government office with a ticket to report the news.
Wang Zhizhou from Sizhou is young, only in his thirties. If he hadn't met Li You, he would be considered young and promising.
Although they were both in the sixth rank, Li You was ordered by the imperial edict to be regarded as a semi-imperial envoy, and was dispatched by the governor's yamen, so he was a serious envoy. Therefore, Wang Zhizhou lowered his etiquette by half, and after receiving the letter, he welcomed him out of the ceremonial gate and arrived at the hall.
He sat down inside and invited Li You to sit down.
After a few words of greeting, Li You got straight to the point: "I was ordered to inspect the Hongze River affairs. I came to your place today. Firstly, I have business with the people. Secondly, I want to invite some veteran workers who are familiar with the local water conditions. I want to interview them."
Wang Zhizhou nodded and said: "Since the beginning of the flood season, there are often skilled river workers on duty in the state government office. It's very convenient to call them here."
After saying that, Wang Zhizhou sent his followers to call for people. After a while, four people came into the room.
Li You put down the tea bowl and took a few glances. The four people who came in were all over fifty years old and should be the most experienced old river workers in the local area.
After the four river workers saluted, they all waited for Master Li to ask questions. Li You thought for a while and was worried that Zu Ling was too sensitive and he was not familiar with them, which would cause them to have some concerns.
So it’s better not to ask the Zuling Mausoleum directly. Just ask sideways and ask about the water conditions in Sizhou City. Anyway, the east and west sides guard the same water surface. If anything, the situation is the same. After all, how high is the probability of the Zuling Mausoleum being submerged?
, which makes people worry a bit about being punished with ulterior motives.
"The flood situation is not good this year. The soldiers and civilians along the Gaojiayan are on guard, but what about the water situation below Sizhou City?" Mr. Li inquired.
The four people looked at each other for a few times, and the eldest one answered: "This year's flood is severe. Because of the heavy rain in the Yellow River, the river water is strong, and there may be a risk of bursting. Also, because the Yellow River is strong, the Huaihe River and the floodwaters have no outlet."
Smooth, so the water accumulates and the water level rises. In Sizhou, there is not much rain in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. The water level outside the city only rises slowly, not suddenly, and the embankments everywhere have been heightened and reinforced in the past year, which is enough to protect against floods and can be protected.
Nothing goes wrong, please forgive me for your worries."
Li You was speechless for a long time, and finally nodded and said: "I understand. From now on, the water conditions in Sizhou will be informed to me once a day."
The two river workers Mr. Li brought from Gaojiayan were watching. When the Sizhou people dispersed, they both said happily: "Listen to what they said, Sizhou will be safe this year."
Li You snorted coldly, "You two are so wrong! I'm afraid there are some untruths in what they said!"
The two people looked at each other. From what they saw along the way, Mr. Li only had a superficial understanding of water affairs and was not an expert. How could he hear the many untruths in the Sizhou River construction talk?
Although Li You may not know much about water affairs, he understands people's hearts very well. "The truth is very simple. If it were you and me, facing a serious flood, would you dare to pat your chests and guarantee that everything will be safe before going to work? The water is ruthless.
, who dares to tell the truth? This is strange, why do they dare? Therefore, I conclude that there must be something untrue in it, but I just don’t have a clue."
It's a pity that this is not Jiangdu County, so Li You couldn't make a mistake, otherwise he would have arrested several river workers and beaten them down with dozens of big boards to force them to confess.
After repeated deliberation, Mr. Li decided to temporarily station in Sizhou and sent a river worker and soldier captain Dai Ju to inspect Gaojiayan on the east bank of Hongze Lake. Although Sizhou is far away from the key defense line of Gaojiayan, there is the ancestor mausoleum.
Furthermore, in memory, the ancestral mausoleum was in great danger of being flooded, and the prophet Li You really did not dare to take it lightly.
Besides, if Gaojiayan breaks up, he will only receive some punishment at most. It will be easy for someone in the court to make a comeback. But if there is a problem with the Zuling Mausoleum, let alone a comeback, it is more realistic to think about how to commit suicide and die for the country. It is more realistic to die for the country.
To regard death as a sudden death, one does not know whether it is less painful to commit suicide by drowning or to find a rope and hang oneself from a southeastern branch.
Although he has nothing to do for the time being, Li You dare not covet comfort, nor is he in the mood to visit the Ten Scenic Spots of Sizhou and the thousand-year-old Puzhaowang Temple. At this point in his life, nothing is as important as maintaining fame and fortune.
As soon as he settled down in the Zhouli Mansion, Li You hurriedly went out of the city gate to inspect the embankment.
After a rough measurement, he found that the water outside the city was actually one foot higher than the ground inside the city, so he became even more worried.
To be very objective, the water level has reached such a high level that the Zuling Mausoleum and Sizhou City should have been submerged... It is unlikely that they have really reached a critical point.
On this day, Mr. Li and his guards came back to the city from the embankment outside the west gate. When passing by a certain village, they saw a group of young and strong villagers pouring out, each holding iron forks, hoes, sticks and other items. However, this group of people was not
Instead of coming towards Li You and his party, they rushed towards the neighboring village ahead.
Looking at this scene, Li You knew that there must be a fight between the two villages, but he didn't know the cause. He commented to his left and right: "Haosi has been suffering from famine for many years. I have long heard that the people here have no old customs, are accustomed to migration, are martial and aggressive, and
The folk customs are strong and strong.”
Continuing forward, we passed another village, and we saw two armies facing each other at the entrance of the village, with dozens of heroes on each side eyeing each other covetously.
Mr. Li had no interest in seeing this, and he was not a local magistrate, so he had nothing to do with it. Just as he was about to walk over, he heard someone shouting: "If you want to give up, you from Yujiacun hand over Yu Wan'er!"
Yu Wan'er? When Li You heard the name of his new concubine, Li You looked strange. There were so many names in the world with the same name. Could it be such a coincidence? He stopped and stood in the woods to watch the two groups of people from a distance.
"It's unreasonable to cause trouble! You guys from Mazhuang don't go too far!" the leader on the other side shouted.
After a few more rounds of scolding each other, the fighting scene finally started. The villagers were not particular about fighting with weapons and just broke into a melee, leaving the scene in a mess.
Although the Mazhuang side was the one that attacked aggressively, their fighting power seemed to be weak. In less than a quarter of an hour, they were defeated and fled in all directions.
But the young man leading Mazhuang, holding an iron fork, refused to retreat and shouted in a bachelor manner: "How can I, Ma Qianjun, be afraid of you!"
Several people in Yujia Village had already surrounded Ma Qianjun, and when they were about to start a group fight, they heard a loud shout from outside: "Is there no king's law? Stop it!"
Five or six yamen servants appeared out of nowhere, waving cards and saying to the leader of Yujia Village: "Ma Qianjun sued Yu Wan'er from your village for refusing to marry! The master has approved the lawsuit, go and call her out to go to the yamen!"
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Yujiacun negotiated a few words with the yamen servants and wanted to go on behalf of the yamen. Generally, it is inconvenient for women to show up in public, so when there is a lawsuit and need to go to the yamen, if it is not necessary, a relative will often go to the yamen, which is also the need to protect the reputation. But this time Yujiacun hit a snag.
, the tolerance boss just didn’t allow it.
At this time, a graceful and charming woman appeared from the entrance of the village. Li You, who was watching from a distance, immediately opened his eyes. If that wasn't his new wife, Yu Wan'er, who was it? Could this be her hometown? Why was he accused of being a swindler again?