Thousands of miles with the wind

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After a long winter, there is a bright spring.For some reason, the rain in Chu State this year is exceptionally abundant.Since the Awakening of Insects, the torrential rain has continued for more than a month without stopping.

Thunderclouds filled the sky above the palace, making the day as dark as the night.The thunder flashed, the pouring rain came suddenly, and the ground kept crashing.Gu Siyuan lit a lamp and sat by the window, holding a book and looking out the window.I saw a delicate flower blooming outside the dark corridor, but it was beaten to pieces under the cruel rain, leaving a field of broken flowers.

The surroundings are gloomy, only the pink and white flowers in the courtyard are so bright, but they still fell in the wet rain, leaving only a mess on the ground.

Gu Siyuan originally liked such a rainy day.But the summer flood has not yet arrived, there is such a large amount of rainfall all over the country, the cold water and the Canglang River that run through most of the Chu country cannot hold so much rainwater, resulting in faint seawater intrusion into the sea, and the city dams in certain terrains Slightly loose condition.

Although Liangshui and other places have taken many flood control measures every year to meet the summer floods, Wanzhou and other places are somewhat helpless in the face of such a strong rainfall.Just two days ago, seeing that the Liangshui dam in Wanzhou's state capital was about to fail and was destroyed by the rapids, Wan Wang Zhongliyue passed the governor and issued a flood discharge order.

The opening of the embankment is in a remote town upstream of the state capital, where the population is less than [-]. Compared with the state capital where millions of people gather, it is like a dim star beside a bright moon, which is not worth mentioning at all.

During the summer flood season in previous years, Wanzhou will also issue flood discharge orders at this time, but the residents in the area will be notified beforehand.Since Zhong Liyue went to the fiefdom, he has always contradicted the governor's orders.The flood discharge has not yet reached the critical point of the state capital dam.King Kewan released the flood ahead of time, causing the people who had no time to evacuate to be submerged in the flood and suffered heavy losses.

The governor couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly sued King Wan.

The emperor has been worried about the news of floods coming from various places recently, and his mouth is foaming in anxiety.As a result, Wan Wang made such a move without seriousness, but Zhong Liran was not mad at all.With such a commotion in Wanzhou, the imperial court wanted to allocate funds for disaster relief. The emperor was so angry that he posted a message to King Wan, asking him to use his own private treasury to subsidize the people.

So these days, the emperor is busy with this matter and has no time to talk to Gu Siyuan.She went to Zhaohui Hall early every day, and had lunch with the ministers in the Council Hall, and came back at night.

Gu Siyuan felt sorry for her tiredness, but he couldn't help her much, so he had to pick up the books he had read before and write a policy theory.

The rain outside the window stopped and stopped, and after a long time, the sky finally darkened.Gu Siyuan took a bath early, and sat in front of the window reading in his middle coat and an outer shirt with his long hair loose.She felt as if she had been waiting for a long time, and finally she heard Zhong Liran's footsteps.

As soon as the emperor entered the palace, Gu Siyuan put down his book and hurried to pick her up outside the screen.She walked around the screen and saw the emperor taking off his boots at a glance, so she called her, "Is Your Majesty hungry?"

"Hungry." Zhong Liran changed a pair of shoes, quickly took off his rain-stained coat, and then walked up to Gu Siyuan with a sigh of relief, and hugged her with open arms.

"Hey" the emperor let out a long sigh, his whole slender body hung on Gu Siyuan's body, hugged her tightly, then gritted his teeth and said, "Prince Wan is a pig."

Zhong Liran started scolding about this yesterday, and the scolding still hasn't calmed down, which shows how much she hates Wang Wan.

Gu Siyuan supported her body, raised his hand and patted her on the shoulder, and softly comforted him, "Okay, your Majesty, the matter has come to an end, let's wait until the matter is resolved before how to punish King Wan."

"Didn't you say you're hungry? Let's eat first." She said, holding Zhong Liran's body and carefully stepping back.

Zhong Liran followed her into the inner hall, and ordered the servants to serve dinner, and the two ate together.

After dinner, Zhong Liran went to take a bath alone.After coming out of the bathroom, Zhong Liran sat on the small couch with her wet long hair on her head, and let the servants wait for her to dry her hair.

When Gu Siyuan saw him, he took over the work from the waiter and dried Zhong Liran's hair himself.No matter how young your body is, working hard for several days is not enough.After Gu Siyuan straightened Zhong Liran's black hair, the emperor was already sleeping beside the small couch.

Her long hair was not too dry yet, so Gu Siyuan asked the emperor to rest on her lap, took a cattail fan to fan her, and tried to dry her hair.

The emperor's black hair was long and slender, and it had already spread out on his back.While fanning her, Gu Siyuan measured the length of her hair, and said softly, "Your Majesty's hair has grown a lot. After this period of time, let Xu Daizhao enter the palace and take care of his sideburns."

Zhong Liran nodded, turned over on the small couch, suddenly opened his eyes and looked up at Gu Siyuan, and said rather sadly, "Sisi"

Gu Siyuan looked down at her with extremely gentle eyes, "What's the matter, Your Majesty?"

Zhong Liran let out a long sigh, and continued, "The situation on both sides of the Liangshui River, especially in the central part of Wanzhou and the lower reaches of Zhongzhou, is not optimistic."

"A few days ago, Aunt Huang visited both sides of the strait for me, and she said that the flood must be released. Wanzhou drained a place in advance this year. It is not good to torment the people there, so I can only open it in places such as Zhongzhou and Yuanzhou. Dike."

Zhong Liran's tone sounded extremely tired, she snapped her fingers and said softly, "Yonghe Town, Taiping Town, Qi'an Town" She read six or seven place names in a row, and then sighed, "These places have to open dikes."

"A total of more than 40 people"

"As soon as the dike is opened, the harvest of the more than 40 people this year may not be the harvest of the past five years, or even ten years."

The emperor felt very uncomfortable, Gu Siyuan looked down at the corners of her reddish eyes and the rippling water in her eyes, feeling slightly astringent.The emperor raised his hand, took Gu Siyuan's hand to cover his eyes, and said softly, "I feel sad."

"I can tell which is more important, but I'm still very sad."

"This is a natural disaster, no matter how anxious I am, there is nothing I can do. The lesser of two evils, although I did this, but I really feel very uncomfortable. The more than 40 people probably hate me to death."

The palms were slightly wet, Gu Siyuan's palms trembled, and his eyes were red with the other party.She leaned over and took the emperor into her arms, comforting in a low voice, "Your Majesty, you have done your best Your Majesty"

"This is the best way, my lord."

It is inevitable that it will rain.This continuous heavy rain disrupted the years of peace and tranquility in Chu State.In the past 30 years, Chu State had never experienced such a serious flood, and it happened during Zhong Liran's reign. She was so worried that her hair turned gray.

After more than ten consecutive days of torrential rain, the cold water that has always been high on the riverbed could not bear the rain after all, and there was a faint tendency to burst the embankment.Zhong Lihui, who toured both sides of the river for the emperor, finally decided to blow up the embankment to release the flood and keep the imperial capital in the lower reaches of the cold water.

In the afternoon of this day, lead-colored clouds hung over the small town called Ping'an in the north of Yuanzhou.Zhongli turned around and put on his coir raincoat, and stood guard on the bank of the cold, turbulent waves with the guards stationed here.

The remnant wind and drizzle hit her coir raincoat, and the thundering river beside her rang in her ears.She hid her face under the bamboo hat, stared deeply at the pile placed not far away, and silently drew a bow.

The guard beside her handed the lighted arrow feathers to her, Zhong Lihui took the guard's arrow in the noisy and lingering wind, pulled the bowstring, and shot towards the pile in the distance.

With Huo Pofeng, the arrow feather landed on the ground in an instant.After a bang, there was a bang.With a bang, the dike burst, and the turbid flood pushed the white waves rushing from the dike mouth.The mouth of the embankment shattered inch by inch, spreading towards Zhong Lihui's feet.

Zhong Lihui's expression changed, and he shouted "Run!"

As soon as the words fell, the flood rushed towards them like evil spirits, chasing their fleeing figures, and engulfed them like a giant.

Zhong Lihui disappeared together with all the guards on the shore.

Witnesses to the embankment explosion claimed that King Yunzhong had miscalculated the number of embankments, causing the mouth of the embankment to open wide, and even the place where she was standing was blown apart.

Because the embankment was wide open, the flood flooded thousands of miles, engulfing four or five surrounding towns in a row, causing a heavy city in the north of Yuanzhou to suffer from floods.As a result, the entire flood relief plan formulated by the Ministry of Industry was destroyed, and the prestige of the imperial court suffered heavy losses.

The king of Yunzhong suddenly disappeared, and Zhong Liran was so anxious that he quickly sent his men to look for him.The emperor issued an order to see people in life and corpses in death, so the soldiers stationed in Yuanzhou searched for people and rescued the people at the same time.

A series of changes made Zhong Liran unbearable. When the young emperor got the bad news of his aunt from outside, his hair grew gray overnight.

There are millions of disaster victims in the border city of Yuanzhou, and at such a stall, she lost her aunt Huang, whom she had always relied on, and she was really devastated.

Seeing this, Gu Siyuan was no longer lazy. Since the news of Zhonglihui's disappearance was reported back to Yuanzhou, she has been by the emperor's side, waiting with her in Zhaohui Hall without moving an inch.

Fortunately, Gu Siyuan was always by his side, so the emperor managed to survive and deal with the disaster relief matters together with the court officials.

Unfortunately, misfortunes never come singly, seven days after Zhong Lihui disappeared, when the rainstorm gradually subsided, it was suddenly reported from Wanzhou that King Wan and the governor of Wanzhou had rebelled in the name of the Qing emperor.

Zhong Liran, who was located in Yuanzhou City, heard the news, thought about the matter carefully, and suddenly came to his senses, starting from the explosion of the embankment in Wanzhou, this is a series.

No, perhaps as early as the first rain of this year, Wan Wang's ambitions were fostered.

The more Zhong Liran thought about it, the more angry he became, especially when he heard the rumors that King Wan was spreading among the people, he really wanted to be caught in front of him and beat him up severely.

But King Wan raised his troops too fast, taking advantage of Yuanzhou's garrison to rescue the people, he attacked the Yuanzhou city within two days, surrounded the entire imperial city, and made Zhong Liran completely vulnerable.