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Chapter 55 Imperial Envoy
"Minister Xia, if I were to give you a chance to control the floods, would you be willing to go?" Emperor Xuanhe asked.

Xia Ye was stunned on the spot.

He immediately knelt down and said firmly, "Your subject is willing!"

"Don't rush, take a look at what I have to give you first."

As he spoke, Emperor Xuanhe instructed Liu De to give Xia Ye the blueprints that his little aunt had given him over the past 10 years, which showed the possibility of major floods and dike breaches in Daqing, as well as the blueprints for construction.

Xia Ye took it and looked at it.

Suddenly stunned.

This, this?

It's supposed to be a map, but it marks these places where floods will occur at certain times, causing casualties.

This looks like prophecy, doesn't it?
Xia Ye was puzzled, but he didn't ask.

He continued to look.

Seeing these places marked with timestamps indicating potential flooding, Xia Ye's heart tightened.

Thinking about it, these places need to be dealt with quickly.

Back then, Xia Ye didn't travel all over Daqing, but he did travel through half of it.

Therefore, Xia Ye had personally visited some of the places mentioned above.

We also know that there are potential safety hazards in those areas, such as the possibility of the dikes bursting.

At the time, Xia Ye had also made suggestions to local officials and even presented them with blueprints for governance and construction.

However, those officials, seeing that he was just a scholar, didn't trust him much and thought he was talking nonsense.

No official took his words seriously at all.

Xia Ye had thought that if the area was not managed, it might flood in a few years, posing a major hidden danger.

Now, looking at the markings on the map, he discovered that many of them coincided with his expectations.

When he flipped to the back and saw the construction blueprints, he was even more amazed.

These blueprints are much better than any of the blueprints he has built over the years.

Moreover, it also uses something called cement, which makes the dam more robust.

Yes, although Xia Ye has been working as a principal officer in the Ministry of Rites all these years, whenever he has free time, he will take out those original blueprints and improve them step by step.

Seeing these map markings and construction drawings now fills Xia Ye with immense excitement.

"Your Majesty, who painted this? He was truly an extraordinary person, a master of water management!" Xia Ye exclaimed.

After hearing this, Emperor Xuanhe burst into laughter.

"Minister Xia, this is a sacred object given to me by Princess Fuqing..."

After hearing Emperor Xuanhe finish speaking, Xia Ye finally understood what had happened.

So it was because of Princess Fuqing.

Xia Ye immediately held Princess Fuqing in even higher esteem.

Just ...

This water management master doesn't exist; otherwise, he would definitely consider him a close friend.

"Minister Xia, you see this: in October of the 43rd year of Xuanhe, a once-in-a-century flood occurred in Cheng'an Prefecture. You see it now?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Now that we can predict when floods will occur, we must take precautions."

"Minister Xia, I know you are a genius in water management. Now, I hereby appoint you as the Imperial Commissioner for Water Management. Take these blueprints, the cement-making formula, and the men I have assigned to you. Go to Cheng'an Prefecture and complete the dike construction there as soon as possible, before October."

"Although two months is a bit tight, Minister Xia, we are now racing against time. If we win, the people of Cheng'an Prefecture will survive."

"Go and repair the dam where it needs repairing, and raise it where it needs raising."

"We'll rebuild it after the floodwaters recede."

"Minister Xia, I believe in you." Emperor Xuanhe stood up, patted Xia Ye on the shoulder, his eyes full of trust.

Xia Ye naturally saw the trust in Emperor Xuanhe's eyes and felt his heart surge with emotion.

"I will definitely live up to your Majesty's trust."

"Alright, don't worry, I will definitely reward you when you return. How about this, I heard that you are currently living in a rented house in the capital with your elderly mother, wife and children? How about this, I will first reward you with a two-courtyard house, and when you return from this flood control operation, I will reward you even more handsomely!"

So, when Xia Ye left the palace...

What he received was an imperial edict from Emperor Xuanhe ordering him to manage the floods, and a land deed for a two-courtyard house in the capital.

No one knew that Xia Ye's eyes instantly reddened as he held those two items.

He looked up and seemed to see his father in heaven, smiling at him with satisfaction.

“Father, I am fortunate to have a wise ruler, and I am finally able to fulfill the grand ambition I had in my youth.”

Because time was tight, Emperor Xuanhe ordered him to set off immediately.

Therefore, after leaving the palace, Xia Ye never returned to the Ministry of Rites.

Instead, he went straight home.

He also wanted to tell his family the good news as soon as possible.

But wait until he gets home.

But he found his mother and wife embracing each other, silently weeping.

"Mother, Shuyi, what's wrong? Has something happened?" Xia Ye asked anxiously.

"It's Ye'er who's back."

"Husband, are you alright?"

"What's wrong with you?"

After Xia Ye asked him a few questions, he finally found out what had happened.

It turned out that after he was summoned to the palace, his colleagues spread rumors.

There were even rumors that he might have committed a crime and his home would be raided.

This caused his mother and wife to worry.

"You guys, don't believe anything you hear outside."

"My visit to the palace this time was due to His Majesty's favor..."

Xia Ye immediately told the Emperor Xuanhe that he knew Xia Ye was a capable person in flood control and had appointed him as the imperial envoy to manage the floods.

Of course, the fact that His Majesty had granted him a second residence was also mentioned.

"...Look, this is the land deed. Even if you don't believe me, this land deed can't be fake, can it?"

Her mother and wife immediately took a look, and sure enough, it was a land deed for a two-courtyard house.

That place is in a very good location in the capital. They had passed through there before and knew that the housing prices there were very high.

Those who could afford it were all powerful, wealthy, and influential families in the capital.

Unexpectedly, their husbands/sons have now gained the Emperor's favor and received this mansion.

"Mother, Madam, I can finally move into our own house with you, and we'll never have to live in a rented house again," Xia Ye said excitedly.

"Okay, okay, that's great."
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Soon, news spread that Xia Ye, a sixth-rank official in the Ministry of Rites, had been appreciated by the Emperor and appointed as the Imperial Commissioner for Water Management.

Xia Ye did not delay and led his men to Cheng'an Prefecture that same day.

A few days later, Xia Ye's wife and mother also moved into the mansion bestowed by His Majesty, where they lived very comfortably.

Meanwhile, in Anhe County, unaware that the imperial envoy for flood control was already there and that Tang's father was about to arrive, they were discreetly stockpiling grain and medicinal herbs.

Thinking that he would make a fortune from these things in two months after the flood, Tang's father would be laughing in his sleep.

(End of this chapter)