Inside Aries City.
Qi Xingyun jumped across the Tongtian River from Qianzhou and returned to Aries City. He took a short rest and returned to the capital another day.
At this time, in the military camp of Aries City, the soldiers were training like rain, not afraid of hardship or tiredness.
"In the past, Da Qi went further and further down the road of emphasizing civility over military affairs. Is it overkill for me to do this now? Will future generations say that I am militaristic?" Qi Xingyun frowned and looked at Da Qi's military camp. The soldiers' desire for the battle formation was written on their faces.
The collapse of the previous unified dynasty, the Southern Dynasty, was a huge dynasty. Although there were suspicions of a cowardly king and treacherous ministers disrupting the government, it was not without the frequent use of force, which led to the acceleration of various social conflicts.
Qi Xingyun looked at the belligerent Qi soldiers and felt a little worried in his heart.
"I think the emperor did the right thing." Wang Yun picked up a lot of zhazi and looked at the emperor who sighed.
Qi Xingyun snorted through his nose, sat up from the rocking chair and said, "Glutton."
Wang Yun said with a smile: "I am not slanderous, I have a reason. When making decisions, no one knows what the consequences will be, but in the face of the current situation, these decisions made by the emperor are correct. , that’s fine.”
"That's what you can say." Qi Xingyun sat up, picked up a notebook, rolled his eyes twice, and threw it into the garbage classification. This notebook was a greeting from the Yangzhou prefect.
"These guys know how to say hello all day long, and they don't even say a word of truth. They only say it when they can't help it! If something happens, it's a big deal!" Qi Xingyun picked up another notebook, this time it was a notebook from a court official in the capital, and it was also a notebook. Say hello.
"I'm fine, do you need them to ask?" Qi Xingyun was furious.
He discovered the courtiers' style of doing things, which was to hide everything from the emperor and keep it to themselves, and they turned the matter into a big deal and got out of hand.
It's fake and empty, with no real content.
Didn't the millions of rebels of the Qin and Han dynasties and Han armies come out like this? The notes of these courtiers are not as useful as the anecdotal records written by county captains from various places.
At least the anecdotal records of Suzhou county captains also mentioned that heavy rains have been pouring recently, and there may be danger.
"This is how the ministers are sharing the emperor's worries. Everything requires the emperor's personal attention. What's the use of them?" Wang Yun was also helpless. The sorting rack he made was the largest garbage basket, and he still had to do it every day. To be filled.
"A letter from Mr. Zhang Ge, Your Majesty." Wang Yun handed a letter written by Zong Ze to Qi Xingyun. Qi Xingyun glanced at it for a few times, and his expression finally became more solemn.
"Why does the emperor look like this?" Wang Yun asked puzzledly.
Qi Xingyun did not answer. He turned over the thick papers and said, "Take out Mr. Zhang Ge's papers."
After Qi Xingyun finished reading Zhang Tingyu's notes, his face finally relaxed a little, but he still said solemnly: "Have a rest in Aries City for a day and then return to the capital."
"Your Majesty, what happened?" Wang Yun was also surprised when he heard that. Fortunately, the war in Fang Yang had come to an end for the time being. Otherwise, wouldn't the Emperor be in a dilemma?
Qi Xingyun handed two notebooks to Wang Yun and said: "The Sujiang River is flooded. All the fences have collapsed. In the Xiangyin area, the water is as deep as the roof ridges. The rain has not stopped, and the merchants and people's property and livestock have been washed away. It is insurmountable. Even the Suzhou government office has more than three feet of water, and Jinghu Road and Jinghu Road are the hardest-hit areas, and the danger is urgent."
"More than 20 million acres of farmland in the two Sichuan, Jing, Jiang, and Zhejiang provinces have been affected. Statistics have shown that dozens of prefectures and counties have been besieged by floods, and 140,000 people have died!"
"Such a dangerous situation, that Suzhou prefect! Zha Zi who is still paying my respects to me! He is a piece of trash! Investigate this person for dereliction of duty! I gave him the prefect and asked him to guard the people. What did he guard?! He only focused on plundering all day long. Land?!”
Qi Xingyun had just read the letter from the Suzhou magistrate. It was a beautiful article full of nonsense, and not a single sentence mentioned the flood disaster.
Qi Xingyun's scalp felt numb for a while. For more than a hundred years, Da Qi has raised a bunch of trash among trash!
Qi Xingyun was sighing just now about whether he had gone too far, but this group of people immediately lost their control.
Just as Qi Xingyun said, the danger is urgent and Qi Xingyun has almost finished his affairs in Fangyang, so it is only right to rush back to the capital.
The handling of disasters and the remediation of the aftermath require policy support. These major events must also be approved by the Emperor of Qi, so they naturally need to be taken seriously.
If Qin Lanjiu had not raided Qianzhou Xingyuan, Qi Xingyun would have been on his way back to the capital at this time.
"Bring the Suzhou magistrate to me and escort him to the capital! If he can't tell a good story, I will chop him up to thank the hundreds of thousands of dead souls!" Qi Xingyun said with lingering anger.
"Han Youqing will arrive soon. Your Majesty, can't we wait for him?" Wang Yun suddenly remembered that Han Youqing had written a letter before, saying that he would come to Qianzhou to continue the peace talks on behalf of Qin and Hanqing, and Han Youqing was also ready to return, and the Lian family All the slaves were dismissed.
Without waiting for Han Youqing, something might change.
Qi Xingyun hesitated for a moment and said, "Let Han Youqing come to the capital, and Jiang Wulang will arrange the protection. I can't wait for him any longer."
Qi Xingyun really wanted to stand up for Han Youqing's return to Qi, and Han Youqing also needed the support of the Emperor of Qi in order to be justified.
But now that the disaster was so urgent, he couldn't care about Han Youqing alone.
Qi Xingyun's first priority now is to rush back to the capital as quickly as possible, and presiding over the rescue is the key.
At this time, the Suzhou magistrate had no idea that disaster was coming from the sky. He squatted on the table and looked at the water under the table with a look of helplessness and confusion.
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Queen Zhao is waiting in Aries City to welcome Qi Xingyun back to the capital.
"Why is the emperor so tired?" Queen Zhao looked at the sleeping Qi Xingyun and looked at Zhao Qi with a puzzled look on her face.
Zhao Qi looked at his sister with an innocent face. In order to rush from Qianzhou to the capital, the emperor didn't rest for a whole day on the road. He spent the whole time on the jade boat. He was thinking about the floods in the Sujiang Basin and the people all over the world.
It has been a long time since we arrived at Aries City.
It's normal to be a little tired.
"I told you a long time ago that the emperor is weak. He also suffered from a simple cold and was unconscious for three days. I asked you to take it easy. Why are you still like this? Look at how tired the emperor is." Empress Zhao looked worried. He blamed his sister.
Zhao Qi looked at Qi Xingyun, then looked at his sister and asked, "Sister, you said the emperor is weak? Hey."
How can you tell that the emperor is weak in his body?
But she soon understood why her sister had such a misunderstanding. Not only was the emperor tired from work, she was also haggard and looked haggard.
She didn't wash herself properly on the fifth or sixth day, and she was tired from traveling. If her sister hadn't called her, she would have fallen asleep long ago.
"Sister, you have wronged me. Your Majesty is thinking about the floods in the south." Zhao Qi shook his head repeatedly and said, "Your Majesty seems so busy that he doesn't see anyone. It's not like my sister doesn't know. I occasionally see you in the car these days. Take a nap, the emperor will not take a nap until he can't bear it any longer."
