[Red Mansions] Lord Hou's daily routine

When Lin Jian arrived at the Crown Prince's Mansion, Xiao Yu was still in the East Palace Office in the palace and hadn't returned yet. It was Crown Princess Min Junyao who came out to accompany him.

The servants served warm tea, and Min Junyao asked Lin Jian to drink tea first: "The prince said that he will be back later, please wait for Commander Lin for a while."

Lin Jian then asked Prince Min Junyao what important matter he wanted to discuss with him.

Min Junyao smiled gently: "I don't know about this. The crown prince has never mentioned it to me. However, the crown prince may be going out for a while. I think he has something to tell Commander Lin."

"The prince knows that Commander Lin has been busy in Xishui Camp these days, and today he only has one day off, so he wants to go back to visit his wife, but the crown prince has something important to discuss with Commander Lin, so he invited Commander Lin over as a last resort. "

Lin Jian frowned when he heard that Xiao Yu was going out recently, and was about to ask Xiao Yu where he was going when Xiao Yu came back.

Min Junyao and Lin Jian got up together, and Min Junyao greeted them. The servant wanted to change Xiao Yu's clothes, but Xiao Yu waved his hand and refused. He said to Min Junyao, "I'll leave tomorrow morning, and you pack my luggage yourself. I'm afraid this time Go for a month or two, prepare some clothes, don’t need to be too luxurious, the environment over there is not good, and you can’t wear that kind of clothes, just something durable.”

Min Junyao didn't ask Xiao Yu where he was going, but she nodded her head in response after hearing this, and then took people out, letting Lin Jian and Xiao Yu talk quietly in the study.

If he didn't ask just now, now that he saw the Lord, Lin Jian asked directly: "Where is Your Highness going?"

After the two sat down again, Xiao Yu said, "Qingjiayan."

"Qingjiayan in Huaiyin?"

Seeing Xiao Yu nodding his head slightly, Lin Jian said, "I've heard that Huaiyin has been raining for days, and Qingjiayan was being repaired earlier, and the floods there are serious, and I'm afraid it has become a disaster."

"But even if there is a flood, the local officials will deal with it on their own. If it doesn't work, they can send officials to deal with it. Why does His Highness go there in person?"

Xiao Yu said: "Ordinary floods, the local officials can deal with them. However, Huaiyin still has torrential rains until today. The previous repairs of Qingjiayan have been completely washed away by the rain. The local organization and personnel have tried their best to repair it, but it is still a drop in the bucket. The disaster is serious and there are many casualties. The place is already tough.”

"Father thought about sending officials from the court to supervise the repair of Qingjiayan and local disaster relief, but the important thing is that if people from the sect get involved, this matter is not as simple as it seems on the surface."

Huaiyin often has heavy rains after summer, and there are frequent floods there, not only Qingjiayan, but also other dams.Among these dikes and dams, Qingjiayan is the only place where the disaster will be very serious once the flood occurs.

The people along the way are often miserable, but many renovations over the years have failed to change this situation.

After Lin Jian went to Xishuiying to take up his post, he was very busy. These few days are not the days of the Great Court Meeting, and meeting the Chengsheng Emperor to discuss government affairs is not a routine for him, the commander of the Gyeonggi Camp, so he has left many local government affairs to him. Pay attention to Qian Ying, Qian Ying told him, he heard it, and that's all.

He knew about the Qingjiayan incident, but he didn't expect that the situation would develop to such an extent in just a few days, that Rushijiao would be involved in it.

Xiao Yu said that this time, the people of the Rushi Sect were not the same as those in other places, but spread demagogic words among the victims, inducing the people to hate the government, making them lose confidence in the government, and luring them into the Rushi Sect. , claiming that if you join the religion, you can get food and assistance, and then bewitch the victims to gather together to make trouble, causing great turmoil in Huaiyin, and the local government is almost unable to suppress it.

"Father said that the imperial envoys can't handle this matter well. Only I can go there personally, and I can control it. In recent days, Father has spent a lot of time teaching things like this, and I feel very distressed when I see this. I brought people back to the past, and what the Rushijiao did in Huaiyin should be restrained. After the flood is dealt with and the victims are settled, I will clean up the Rushijiao. I will come back when the Huaiyin incident is over and the Qingjiayan is completed."

Lin Jian kept frowning as he listened, and when Xiao Yu finished speaking, he seriously counted the days for Xiao Yu: "As far as the things His Highness said, I'm afraid it can't be done in just two months. Huaiyin is rainy, and the rainy season always has to It lasted until the end of June and the beginning of July, and then came the flood season, and it was even more necessary to strictly control the flood. The repair of Qingjiayan can only wait until after the flood. If you want to completely repair the Qingjiayan, it may take a year or so. In addition Your Highness wants to eliminate the Rushi sect, Huaiyin is close to the border of the Central Plains, and the north is surrounded by high mountains, where it is easiest to hide, and it will take a year or so to completely eliminate it."

On the wall of Xiao Yu's study is a map of the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This map is drawn very carefully. The distribution of rivers, mountains and rivers in each place is also clearly marked in each prefecture, county and township. It's all on display.

Naturally, such a detailed territory map cannot be seen by outsiders, and the study used by the prince of the prince's mansion is not accessible to just anyone.

This territory map is also unique in the entire Great Zhou.This was drawn by Lin Jian and Xiao Yu for more than a year before going to Wannan.Emperor Chengsheng has an identical pair, but it is engraved, not the original.

The original version is here with Xiao Yu.

Lin Jian and Xiao Yu stood in front of the territory map together, and the two of them looked at the map hanging on the wall together, and their eyes fell on the Huaiyin area.

"At the beginning, His Highness was in charge of drawing this area, and His Highness carefully read through the information files. I only took a rough look at it later. Presumably, His Highness knows better than me about the distribution of rivers in Huaiyin, the trend of mountains and rivers, and even the customs. In recent years Many ministers went to Huaiyin to control the river, just for this Qingjia Weir, and the results of several renovations were not very good. His Highness personally governed the river. With His Highness's intellect, he must be able to find a solution once and for all, but there is no room for slack in this river governance. You can’t do two things at once. You can’t suppress the bandits when you’re controlling the river, and you can’t take care of guarding the dam every day when you’re suppressing the bandits. Your Highness will probably stay in Huaiyin for two or three years.”

Xiao Yu had always been calm, but after listening to Lin Jian's words, he smiled faintly: "Yunxi, I know all of this."

"Since your Highness knows, why did you tell the princess to return in January or February?"

Xiao Yu laughed again: "The Crown Princess also knows."

"I just have to say that verbally. This is the meaning of the father. The external and internal caliber must be the same. We only talk about returning in one or two months. The specifics will be determined in the future depending on the situation."

Lin Jian was silent for a moment, and then said: "There are only me and Your Highness here, no outsiders are present, so I will speak out if I have something to say."

"My father knows about my father, and His Highness also knows about it. My father went to Lingnan to suppress Rushijiao. No matter how much purpose Rushijiao caused such a big commotion there, the plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain must be true. This was originally It's still my father's guess, and now even His Highness is going to be led out of Beijing, it's even more unmistakable."

"My father is gone, and His Highness is not in the capital, so what will they do next?"

"However, they caught my father's sore spot, and made His Highness have to leave the capital. Waiting for my father and His Highness in Lingnan and Huaiyin, it must not be a peaceful day of singing and dancing, right?"

Xiao Yu stretched out his hand and patted Lin Jian's shoulder lightly: "Your concerns are reasonable. I have said these things to my father. But I still have to go. I came here to tell you You, you are the commander of the Gyeonggi Camp, and you are responsible for guarding the Gyeonggi and the capital. You don’t have to worry about what’s going on outside. No matter how tricky they try to divert the tiger away from the mountain, you won’t be able to get away. If you stay in the capital, you should be For the sake of Lord Zhennan and me, we must protect the people here."

"I will definitely not be able to participate in the concubine's conferment ceremony next month. Then you should take care, and don't ask the people behind the scenes to ruin this grand ceremony."

"At first I was afraid that you were too busy with camp affairs to take care of other things. I called you here to remind you what to do if someone cheated you. Since you are prepared, I won't say much. "

Lin Jian said softly, "My father said, this time we are in someone else's game."

Xiao Yu smiled slightly: "That's right. And it's very likely that it's a game that has been in place for ten years. Or, longer."

"ten years……"

Lin Jian suddenly hooked the corners of his lips, and said with a smile, "Ten years ago, His Highness and I were only ten years old."

As he spoke, his tone became regrettable, "I entered the palace at the age of seven to be your highness/accompanying student. At that time, the queen mother was still in the palace, and during those three years, I played wild everywhere in the palace. I have never gone wild in the Empress Dowager's palace. It's not that I'm afraid of anything, but I just think it's unnecessary. But I never thought that some people have ambitions early on, and they get involved in the struggle early."

Xiao Yu smiled lightly: "It's not too late for this round to break out now."

"It's not too late, of course it's not too late." Lin Jian pointed to Xiao Yu's hair crown, then pointed to his own hair crown, and said with a big laugh, "It's not too late for a good man with black hair in his prime." reason."

Xiao Yu was going to leave tomorrow morning, and he didn't have more time to talk to Lin Jian, so he told Lin Jian what he wanted to say, and sent Lin Jian off, but Lin Jian said there was no need.

He held Xiao Yu's hands tightly, took a step back, and bowed deeply to Xiao Yu: "My lord, I hope your Highness will have a smooth and safe trip!"

Xiao Yu helped him up, and said softly, "I know. Yunxi, go back."

Lin Jian saluted Min Junyao again, then left the Prince's Mansion, rode his horse back to the General's Mansion.

Emperor Chengsheng loves Concubine Yu very much, and Emperor Chengsheng naturally attaches great importance to Concubine Yu's conferment ceremony. Even though the Ministry of Rites has drawn up the regulations, Emperor Chengsheng still has to look at everything and never allow any omissions place.

If someone wanted to cause trouble at the post-sealing ceremony, the possibility is still very low.

In fact, on the day of the Queen's Closure Ceremony, except for the very hot weather, there was no accident. Everything went very smoothly, and Concubine Yu sat in the back seat smoothly.

But on the second day, someone came to the palace, who was around the Empress Dowager Shen.Under the order of the Queen Mother, the visitor went to the general's mansion to take Lin Daiyu into the palace.