The son crosses every night

The early rice in Zhanghuahuangzhuang has already jointed and will soon bloom.

He stayed in the mansion for two nights and had two meals with his father and brother. After finding out everything he wanted to know, he couldn't sit still anymore and hurried back to the manor.

Now is the time to worry about water and fertilizer. If it blooms, it may have to be artificially pollinated. At that time, it depends on whether there is wind or not.

In this case, it would definitely not work for him as the person in charge to live outside for a long time. He has to sit in the village, so that the people under him know what to do.

As soon as he left, Gu Tangyu also went out on business, and the palace became much deserted in an instant.

Tang Hua was busy with things in Huangzhuang, so he couldn't take care of this side for a while.

This year has been a good year. The weather has been very good since the beginning of the year. It can be said that the weather is smooth. In addition, they built a reservoir to adjust the water volume. The things planted in the fields have basically not encountered floods and droughts.

This is also a basis for their bumper harvest this year.

Unexpectedly, seeing that the rice is growing well and vigorously, and it will be able to bear ears in more than a month, the weather suddenly turns bad.

I don’t know if it’s because of the typhoon, but it’s been raining since mid-June, not only raining but also heavy raining, every gloomy day, there will be heavy rain from time to time.

Their little reservoirs are completely non-functional, each one already filled to the brim.

Looking at the non-stop rain outside this day, Tang Hua was afraid that the reservoir would burst, so he quickly called people to come, holding oil-paper umbrellas, wearing coir raincoats, and oil boots, and led people to inspect the reservoir with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The rain was too heavy, and the big raindrops hit the umbrella, making a small rattling sound.

Jiang Pingyuan was not around, and no one could persuade him. Li Changli and others were afraid of accidents, so they hurriedly followed behind him, holding an umbrella while persuading him in the wind, "Don't go, my lord, it's raining and the road is slippery. Just go, you stay here."

Tang Hua turned to face his face wrinkled like dried orange peel, and the wind blew tiny raindrops over their faces.

Li Changli opened his mouth unconsciously, with anxious eyes in his eyes, and shouted again, "My lord?"

"Don't worry, I know what's going on in my heart, and I won't rush into dangerous places." After comforting him, Tang Hua said in a deep voice: "It's raining too much, and I don't know what's going on at the reservoir. As an officer, I have to go Look, lest there be any mistakes that endanger the people."

"Hey, my lord, there are not many houses around, what can happen?"

"One family counts. You reminded me of this. How about letting people go and see those peasant households later? If there are houses that are in disrepair and leaking or have a tendency to collapse, let them temporarily avoid the imperial palace. Come to the village."

Li Changli quickly responded, and Tang Hua stretched out his hand to touch his face, and continued to walk forward.

The reservoir was already full, almost to the edge of the embankment.

The water that was originally dark green is now mixed with yellow, with broken branches and other things floating on it.

When Tang Hua saw the situation of the reservoir, he felt that it was not good.

The dams of these reservoirs are all made of stone and mud, without cement, and the dams are not very reliable. If the water continues to rise like this, the dykes will burst sooner or later, and it will be a trivial matter if the downstream crops are flooded. If it becomes a mudslide, that is a serious problem.

Tang Hua ordered: "You go back and call people, four groups for each reservoir, and dig a flood discharge channel."

"My lord, how to dig the flood discharge channel? The river channel we are digging is already full of water, and I am afraid that we will not be able to discharge the flood again."

"Dig a ditch where there are no houses and the least farmland, and first drain the water from the reservoir."

Li Changli narrowed his eyes and said with a sad face: "These floods cannot be drained out, I am afraid they will all be silted up in our fields."

Tang Hua licked his lips, his eyes were tired, "It's okay, it's good that people are fine."

Li Changli and others also knew this truth, and they didn't dare to persuade them too much, so they quickly sent people to call people to work.

The field servants came with hoes, and carefully dug ditches to help discharge the flood according to Tanghua's request.

The water had nowhere to go, so it was silted up in their fields. Half of the rice fields were flooded, and the water had reached the height of their calves. If it was any higher, even the tips of the leaves would be soaked in the water.

These are not pure clear waters, mixed with silt washed down from the mountains, making a mess of the fields.

Tanghua didn't know what to do. The rice was fine, after all, it was a water-loving crop. The vegetables they grew were terrible. Some vegetables, such as watermelons and winter melons, were almost soaked to death.

Their house also began to flood, and the yard where Tanghua lived was on a higher terrain, and it hadn't spread into the house yet.

The Datong shop where the field servants lived was full of water, some things floated in the water, and the sewage flowed sideways. People living in it were miserable.

The only happy thing is that their food is good now.

Tanghua and the others raised a total of about a thousand chickens and ducks. When it rained, so many birds had nowhere to go and were locked in sheds.

Ducks are better. Chickens don't like water and get sick easily. In this environment, they all become wilted chickens, huddled in their nests every day and don't move.

Tanghua was afraid that the chickens and ducks would be plagued by chickens and ducks, so he hurriedly asked the kitchen to come over every day to take a look. If there were any wilted chickens or ducks, they would quickly catch them and bring them to the kitchen to kill them and make meat dishes for everyone. .

The top-quality chicken is fried with peppers from the field, winter melon, eggplant, beans, etc., and the taste is quite good.

With such a huge Huangzhuang, everyone has a smile on their faces when eating.

This kind of life passed two days a day, and three or four days in a row, and Tang Hua couldn't sit still.

He hurriedly sent people back to the imperial capital to inquire about the situation.

The sewers in the imperial capital are not very good, and the streets are full of water, which is worse than that of Zhanghua and the others.

This is a plain, and there are no big rivers nearby. The only river is the water canal they dug. Usually this river is fine, but when it encounters a flood, the river is not very big, and it can't play a role in flood discharge. It has been raining, so it has been five or six days, and the entire imperial capital is still soaking in water.

Gu Tangyu was not at home, maybe he was on some kind of errand, and went outside again to suppress the rebellion.

Tang Hua had no choice but to find his father and king to inquire about the court's movements.

"What else can I do? Your Majesty can't control God." King Jingning was also worried. He frowned as he looked at the weather and said, "I don't know what's going on today. If it rains again, this year's summer crops will be lost." It's broken."

The father and son looked at each other with similar distress on their faces.

Tang Hua asked: "So it seems that there are many disaster-causing places? How to resettle the victims?"

"There are not many places in the government office, and the main thing is to open warehouses for disaster relief." King Jingning said, "Actually, there is no food in the national treasury, and the granaries in various places have been flooded, and food distribution is not very effective. It is summer now. , If you work harder, you won’t starve to death, just survive this period of time.”

King Jingning sighed again.

The atmosphere in the study was a bit heavy.

Tang Hua looked at his father and hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Maybe the father has found out about the situation in the palace?"

"His Majesty has ordered a reduction in expenses, and is trying his best to overcome this difficulty. In response, our mansion has asked people to reduce the food."

Tang Hua was surprised, "Don't ask people to donate money?"

King Jingning waved his hand, "It hasn't reached that point yet, who can ask someone to donate money? It's just a joke."

King Jingning was very tight-lipped, some things were not even told to his son Tang Hua, and Tang Hua asked him for half an hour but did not find any useful information, so he had to go back.

There are also a lot of people on his side, and he has to be the backbone there, otherwise, if something happens, the people under him will hang around and don't know what to do.

This year is also an eventful year, and the flood has not yet subsided, and news suddenly came from the frontier, saying that the enemy is invading.

Tang Hua looked at the incoming news and frowned, "Why did you attack at this time? Logically speaking, life in the grassland is relatively easy now. Although we have suffered disasters, our military strength has not been damaged, so we gritted our teeth and squeezed out food and grass. It is still possible to fight, what are they attacking now?"

Tang Hua was talking to himself, and no one dared to answer his words.

He is also under a lot of pressure to manage so many people, and it is difficult to say anything in Zhuangzi, so he can only talk to Ruan Shijie after returning home.

"Brother Ruan, what do you think we should do in this situation?"

Ruan Shijie rubbed his head, and said helplessly: "Technology is not omnipotent, and we have no good way to deal with this situation now. We all rely on the people's soldiers to suppress the disaster."

"It's a natural disaster right now." Tang Hua rubbed his brows and leaned on his shoulder, "I'm not afraid of anything else, but I'm afraid that my father and elder brother will go to the battlefield when there is a war."

"If the foreign enemy invades, it's so far away, even if they let them, they won't be able to arrive for a while, so you don't have to worry about it for the time being." Ruan Shijie said: "I feel that since the enemy has no sign of invading before, they should not fight on a large scale now. It should be just taking advantage of the disaster on your side to come and loot."

Tang Hua smiled wryly, sighed and said: "If I usually hear this, I don't know how angry I would be, but now I feel a little glad to hear this. I would rather they come here just to make a fuss, and I don't want the two parties to have a formal relationship." Let’s start a war. I was in the household department before, and I know exactly how much silver there is in the treasury. With our national strength, we will never be able to withstand a big battle.”

Ruan Shijie didn't know how to comfort him. Even in the modern age of advanced technology and democracy, there are still many war-torn areas.

"In this case, do your best to obey the destiny."

Tang Hua nodded indiscriminately, not feeling much comforted in his heart.

Although there was no news of the need for donations from the imperial court, Tang Hua looked at the current situation, thought about it for several days, and finally quietly handed over a booklet to the palace to ask to see his uncle.

The emperor is currently at a loss for spare parts, and he is very busy every day. Even so, he took out lunch time to meet him.

The two are already very familiar, and Tang Hua is not very restrained in front of the emperor.

He raised his head and saw the old face of his uncle Huang, felt sour in his heart, and shouted, "Uncle Huang."

The emperor's expression was not as anxious as his face. When he saw Zonghua, he smiled and greeted him, "Zanghua, you are here. Sit down and have dinner with me."

Ma Huaipan hurriedly brought the little eunuch over to serve him.

Tang Hua didn't bother to eat, first handed over a wooden box with both hands, hesitated for a while, and said: "Uncle Huang, this is for you."

"What is this?" The emperor smiled, "Don't tell me you're sending me money again?"

Tang Hua nodded, "The country is in a precarious situation, and I can't help you. I only have some silver. Here is 10 taels. It could have been more, but this year when I opened a branch, there are more than [-] taels of silver in circulation. If you don’t come out, that’s all I have on me right now.”

Tang Hua hesitated and said: "I also know that this move is not appropriate, and I am afraid that I will be suspected of asking for credit. Uncle Emperor..."

He didn't know what to say in the end.

His imperial uncle has always been kind to him, whether it was calling him into the palace to speak for the sake of his father and brother at the beginning, or he was more protective after getting acquainted with him later.

Tanghua has some feelings for his uncle emperor, and now that there are more than one hundred thousand taels of silver at hand, he wants to help him both public and private.

Do your best, listen to destiny.

That's all he does.

There is also a precedent for him to do this. Whenever the country is hit by a disaster, Ruan Shijie will always donate a batch of property to help the affected people.Tang Hua had been in his study for so long and had seen his report.

Ruan Shijie has no official position, and when the country needs it, he always silently lends a helping hand.

He is the general of the auxiliary country of the Dasheng Dynasty, and he has an official and a title, so he should do something for the people and the world.

Tanghua knows that it is a bit of a show to do this now, but he still wants to do it, if he can help, he can save a family.

People often say that when the sky falls, a tall person will hold it up, but in fact, he is already considered tall among them.

On Ruan Shijie's side, he also wanted to do what ordinary people would do.

The emperor raised his head and saw a pair of black and white eyes of sincerity, his heart softened and he couldn't say anything.

He has been in power for more than 30 years and has seen countless winds and rains. Although it is difficult now, it is nothing compared to other things.

As the tallest one, he didn't expect anyone to stand up and truly share his worries.

And now there is a young man, a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, so he just came here with a box full of banknotes, and now he stretches out his hand and says he wants to help.

The emperor patted Tang Hua on the shoulder with emotion and said, "Good boy."

When Tang Hua raised his eyes, he saw that his uncle's old face was full of relief.

He let out a sigh of relief, and he didn't know whether it was right or not, but at least he had a clear conscience.