Lord Prime Minister washes and sleeps

【Chapter 1】

The turbulent water carried a large amount of sand and sand rushing down from the upper reaches. When listening to the rumble of the water rolling past them, many people were still shocked.

"Your Majesty, the Chu River is most prone to flooding in the Lingkou area of ​​Penglai, so this time the main embankment area is also here. About 10 migrant workers were employed to build the embankment before the flood. A dam has also been built upstream in the past few years, and in the next ten or even a hundred years, there will be no major floods in the Chu River." A fat official with a mustache spoke eloquently while still I couldn't help wiping my sweat.

But what if sweat drenched his official uniform?It is a rare opportunity to show his face in front of the emperor, even if he is allowed to jump into the Chu River now, he is willing!

Feng Xiyuan, who was wearing a scarlet casual robe, listened without saying a word, then turned to look at the man beside him who had been silent all this time, "Cheng Qi, what do you think?"

As the prime minister of a country, Gong Chengqi has been the emperor's confidant since he was a child, so he naturally doesn't think that the emperor simply asks him if he is okay, but wants to know if he sees a problem.It's just that he doesn't know much about water conservancy and river construction. Although it seems that there are some problems in some places, he doesn't know if he is right.

Feng Xiyuan took a glance and knew what Gong Chengxi was thinking in his heart, and said angrily: "Okay, I don't expect you to talk about river control, just talk about how the river embankment is built. , and..." He lightly rubbed his fingers, and the hint was obvious.

Don't say that the emperor is not short of money!The emperor is short of money!Especially how much money has been spent on water control. If it wasn't for the sake of the common people in the world, he wouldn't be so poor that he would have to use his own treasury money, so he still gritted his teeth and built the embankment.

Gong Chengqi naturally understands the emperor's little flaws - he is particularly fussy about silver taels, not to mention that the embankment cost him a lot of private money in the end, so he naturally hopes that one tael of silver can be worth three taels of silver.

But... If you want him to say that these river workers are as black as crows, you should be lucky if you don't get too greedy and cause big problems. Ten catties of meat were cut off at once!Gong Chengxi frowned slightly, looked at the fat and white official beside him and said in disbelief.

"I don't want to talk nonsense. I'm a layman when it comes to embankment building. It's just that I know that it's better to unblock the river, but we walked all the way from the bottom to the top. It seems that we didn't see the water being dredged, but in places that are prone to flooding. Keep building high embankments. Besides, the flood season has just begun, but the amount of water is already much lower than that of the embankment. If there are a few more heavy rains, will this embankment be able to hold?" Gong Chengxi raised all the problems he felt.

indeed!Over the past few days, it seems that the section of the river that has been flooded in the past has been rectified, and the embankment has been built beautifully, but... What they are looking at these days is not a continuous section of the river, and there is nothing for them to look at. The question is, what about other places?

As the Prime Minister of a country, even if he says he is not specialized in this, it does not mean that he really does not understand anything. The few words he just asked will not make people think he is an outsider.

Zhu Feng, a fat official, was wiping his sweat, while explaining falteringly: "This... this year's flood season is early, so the water seems to be a little more, and it won't be like this in previous years. The embankment is very strong... and this The embankment...was built because it was afraid of flooding, and other places..."

At this time, even Feng Xiyuan felt that something was wrong. Being an emperor is not such a simple matter. He also knows a thing or two about simple river control techniques. If the language is too specialized, it will naturally be incomprehensible, but now this fat man What he was saying didn't seem to be a problem he couldn't understand.

Feng Xiyuan's eyes were swept away, and her peach blossom eyes almost burst out with anger, "So after I return to Beijing, I should worship the heavens with the national teacher a few more times, and pray to God that the water in the Chu River will rise in the next few days." This place, if I accidentally change the location one year, all the money I spent would be in vain.”

Rather than teaching the fat man in front of him who might have been corrupted too much, Gong Chengqi felt that as a prime minister, what he should do more was to save the image of the miser-emperor first.

An emperor, a man who supposedly took all the wealth in the world, would be angry like a firecracker after hearing that someone had stolen "his money". Isn't it ugly?

He coughed lightly twice, and winked at the emperor twice, telling him to control his emotions a little bit, then turned his head to look at Zhu Feng who was so frightened that he almost knelt down and smiled slightly.

Those who are familiar with Gong Chengqi will understand that it is definitely not a good thing for a smiling fox to smile at you, but Zhu Feng is not so clear, so he smiled gratefully, thinking that the prime minister is really a gentle nice guy.

It's just that this good man immediately showed his fangs, and Zhu Feng's legs almost went limp with just one sentence.

"Actually, everyone knows about the river engineering. The depth of the water! It's just that the emperor's personal money is the big money this time. Those who have been greedy for the emperor's money...are they prepared to trade their lives for it?"

Zhu Feng's back felt cold, only felt that in this scorching hot day, he felt cold from the bottom of his body, his lips were trembling, and it took a long time before he recovered his voice.

"My lord prime minister, what...how do you say this? The officials and colleagues have always been conscientious and dare not slack off!" Zhu Feng was not stupid, even though his legs were weak, he still screamed for grievances.

Maybe God didn't show his face, Zhu Feng had just finished speaking, when a gust of wind blew past, the sky was quite overcast, and a large black cloud seemed to be pressed down, making people feel suffocated.

Gong Chengqi looked up at the sky, and did not question what Zhu Feng just said, but turned his head to suggest to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the weather is calm now, and we won't see any way for a while, look at this It seems to be raining, why not go back to the other courtyard first, and then come out to have a look? At that time, we can also see how Mr. Zhu and a group of river workers are "hardworking" in repairing the embankment."

Feng Xiyuan snorted coldly, looked at Zhu Feng who had been bowing his head and his fat body was shaking non-stop, then looked back meaningfully at Gong Chengqi who was smiling, and nodded.

"Okay! I'll just wait and see what the consequences of this embankment, which cost me a lot of money, and everyone's hard work will come out."

After Feng Xiyuan finished speaking, he turned his head and left, and Gong Chengqi didn't give Zhu Feng a second look.

Seeing the large group of people rushing away, Zhu Feng felt apprehensive, ordered his servants to report to many houses in the city, and hurriedly followed the large group of people in front of them out of breath.

It's just that no one knew that after everyone left, the seemingly solid embankment was collided by waves of violent turbulent water, and the soil clods containing grass were peeling off little by little...

Dark clouds enveloped the entire sky, and the squalling wind whimpered low, as if foretelling that an unknown number of creatures would encounter catastrophe in the future.

"Quick! Let's go! The east gate of Wushui City has been broken by the flood!"

"Escort the emperor first! Hurry up!"

"The road to Dizhou is already blocked? Turn around! Go to Dabai Ma Temple! Hurry up!"

Gong Chengqi only felt that there were many people shouting in his head, scenes of water breaking through the city intertwined in front of his eyes, the people rushed out of the city, cars and horses crowded together on the road, human voices and livestock neighing mixed together, and finally The billowing flood rushed into his sight, and his forehead suddenly ached, followed by a bunch of messy pictures flashed in his mind, and finally he couldn't hold on anymore, and fell into the darkness again.

When he regained consciousness, Gong Chengqi felt his throat was so dry that it was about to emit smoke. He opened his eyes reluctantly, only to see the blackened straw roof still dripping with moisture, and was a little dazed for a moment.

This is where?Was he rescued?

Gong Chengxi had a lot of questions in his mind, and he began to sort out his memory carefully, his face darkened uncontrollably.

He and the emperor inspected the channel of the Chu River, and it turned out that the channel seemed to have serious problems, so he advised the emperor to enter the city and wait a few days to see if the embankment could be used. I realized that the embankment is nothing but a spectacle.

After three consecutive days of heavy rain, the flood broke through Wushui City without warning. There were no places with particularly high terrain in the city. Even if there were, most of them were boudoir embroidery buildings. crumbling.

Naturally, he didn't dare to gamble with the emperor, so he drove away with a few confidants in the carriage used by the palace people.

Hearing the news along the way, more and more people fled. The plan to escape to the south gate was also surrounded by floods at a rapid speed. The people who fled from the south gate knew that if If they can't rush out, their fate will definitely not be too good.

Natural disasters are ruthless, but they will not be spared just because he is the prime minister of a country, or because he has an emperor by his side.

It's just that when he managed to reach the Dabai Ma Temple, the emperor was almost hit by falling stones and fell into the flood. He pushed the emperor away, but he slipped and fell into the water, and then... When he woke up again, he was here.

Gong Chengqi came to an end in recollection, and finally sat up while propping himself up, the quilt on his body slipped off, he stretched out his hand to pull the quilt, but saw a pair of rough and callused hands, he stopped all his thoughts in an instant He moved, staring fixedly at the hands that were obviously not his own in a daze.