The powerful princess arrives with a space warehouse

"Pa!" Chu Chenyan slapped the armrest of the chair and said, "This prince is asking about the flood situation!"

Zhu Caixiang was about 45 or 46 years old, with a big belly, white and fat, and looked like a kind and amiable person. If you underestimate him because of this, you are wrong. He is smooth and has a keen eye. The fourth prince was really angry when he met him. Facing such a powerful prince, he naturally had to be alert to deal with him.

"Fourth Prince, calm down! Fourth Prince, our Nanjun Province has been experiencing heavy rain for almost a month, and the Cangqiong Mountain flash flood broke out, destroying the dam and causing the river water to pour down. This has caused countless farmers' fields along the way to be flooded and destroyed."

Nanjun Prefecture has fertile land and abundant products, and is one of the main grain-producing areas of Western Chu. The Cang River runs through Nanjun Prefecture, but this section of the water is narrow and fast, and there are many rocks on the bottom of the water, which is not conducive to the navigation of large ships, so the prefecture does not have a formal dock.

Chu Chenyan looked at Zhu Caixiang and said sternly, "As the governor of Nanjun Prefecture, you should have a sense of crisis! You are near the Cang River and have abundant rainfall. The court allocates money to build river embankments every year. Every year, the court also sends officials from the Ministry of Works to inspect dams and river embankments and assist you in building river embankments. Now, it has only been more than 20 days of heavy rain, and so many dams here have burst! You said that the flash flood in Cangqiong Mountain caused the dam to burst, but how are you going to explain to this prince the bursting of the dams behind?"

Zhu Caixiang had never seen Chu Chenyan so imposing since he came to Nanjun Prefecture. He immediately argued, "Your Highness, I personally accompanied Minister Hu of the Ministry of Works to inspect the dams before the heavy rain. Minister Hu did not find any problems with the dams. You can ask Minister Hu. No one expected and no one wanted to see the floods break the dams."

After hearing what Zhu Caixiang said, Chu Chenyan's eyes flashed with coldness. "The imperial court allocates a lot of money to your state every year to clean up the river and build dams. So tell me, how come this dam and river embankment are so vulnerable?"

Although Chu Chenyan didn't care about worldly affairs, he was well aware that of the money allocated by the court, not much could actually be used to clear rivers and build dams. Official corruption and exploitation at all levels were the root causes of the frequent floods in Jiangnan.

"Reporting to the Fourth Prince, the construction of the dam below us is arranged by the Ministry of Works," Dong Luo, the governor of Nanjun Prefecture and Mrs. Xue's nephew, said to the Fourth Prince.

When the Vice Minister of Works, Hu Chenghu, who was sitting below, heard this, his face changed and turned the color of liver. He was so shocked by Dong Luo's reply that he trembled all over. These cunning people took the money and didn't want to admit it. They even pushed it onto the Ministry of Works. He quickly stood up from his seat and said, "Mr. County Magistrate, Mr. Governor, you can't say that. Every year before the flood season, our Ministry of Works will issue official documents, asking all localities to conduct self-inspections of dams and riverbanks for safety hazards. The official documents you submitted this year all stated that they had been inspected and there were no hidden dangers. It's also very unfortunate that I just came here for a review, and it rained heavily a few days later." His words were very clear, that is, you can't just pass the buck to me.

Chu Chenyan watched coldly and thought: Good, they finally started biting each other.

Han Fengli, who was crossing his legs, curled up his lips slightly, thinking to himself: Is this the beginning of a dog-eat-dog situation?

Zhu Caixiang thought to himself: Hu Chenghu, when I said the Ministry of Industry, I didn't mean you. You took the money and you can't take responsibility. Can't you say less?

He also hurriedly said, "Fourth Prince, Fourth Prince, when we checked the dam ourselves, there was indeed no problem at all. I sent County Magistrate Zhang to check it personally!"

Chu Chenyan didn't want to let them go, but in order not to alert the enemy, and now he had more important things to do, he said, "Okay, don't say any more. You all know that the relief food arrived last night and has been distributed. This prince invited you here today to discuss with you how you, Nanjun Prefecture, are going to help the victims rebuild their homes? How to make up for the missed grain planting season?"

Seeing that no one said anything, he continued, "County Magistrate Zhu Caixiang, please first tell us the details of the disaster in each county, and then continue our discussion yesterday and tell us what you think of each county..."

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During the day, before we could come to a conclusion on how to rebuild our homes and how to make up for the shortage of grain, something went wrong again in the evening.

That night, the grain warehouse in the prefecture was on fire. Despite all efforts to rescue, not much grain could be rescued. A porridge shed in the city was also burned. Fortunately, Chu Chenyan acted quickly and delivered the grain to the victims early.

By the time the fire was completely extinguished, it was almost midnight.

As if things weren’t bad enough, Chu Chenyan checked the damage to the grain overnight and found that nearly 20,000 stones were lost!

Fortunately, the convoy of the fifth prince Chu Chenye arrived early that morning.

At that time, all the officials of Nanjun Prefecture were gathered in the prefecture government. Everyone was surprised to see the Fifth Prince's motorcade arriving.

Zhu Caixiang and Dong Luo were particularly puzzled. Didn't they say that Chu Chenye's grain carts were burned? Later, because Prince Han delivered grain, no one paid attention to the burned grain carts. Just now, they were planning to incite the victims to come and ask for grain in the next two days after the grain depot was burned.

Where did this grain truck come from? When the grain trucks were all in the backyard of the state government, Chu Chenye took out the so-called "grain", which turned out to be something they didn't recognize.

The officials were talking about it. “Is this food? How come we have never seen it before?”

Chu Chenyan was also a little confused.

The officials came forward one by one and asked, "Fifth Prince," "Fifth Prince, what is this?" "Fifth Prince, is this food?"

These are the sweet potatoes that Prince Jing asked Chu Chen to transport at night. The fire on the arrow head that day might be able to burn the food, but it couldn't burn these big sweet potatoes, not to mention that they were sprinkled with water and covered with oilcloth.

Chu Chenye kept the secret and didn't say anything. He just asked the escorting soldiers to take some sweet potatoes and go to the kitchen. After washing them, they were put into the pot and boiled for about a quarter of an hour. Then he ordered people to pick up all the sweet potatoes. This time the sweet potatoes were very big, each weighing at least half a pound.

The kitchen staff cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces, put them in a small bowl, and brought them up. Chu Chenye took one piece for himself and ordered his men to give one piece to each official.

Those people were holding sweet potatoes, looking at this golden and soft thing, all of them were confused, what is this...? Chu Chenye held the sweet potato in his hand and ate it while saying, "This is called sweet potato, it can be used as food, it can make people full."

Chu Chenyan and Han Fengli had heard about it from Prince Jing, but they had never seen it, let alone eaten it. Seeing Chu Chenye eating it, they also took a bite and said, "It's delicious, so sweet!"

Other local officials present also started eating. "Wow, it's delicious." "Yes, it's delicious."

Chu Chenye began to introduce the method of growing sweet potatoes to everyone again...