Chapter 206 Book Business
Under the heavy rain, the river water in the Wufeng Mountain river was like a rolling dragon. With a bunch of rolling waves rushing out of the river embankment, the embankment that bound the river water finally couldn't support it.
There was a loud crash and the embankment burst!
But all this was based on Su Ze's calculations. He had already dug out several low-lying paddy fields a few days ago. He just waited for the river water to rush out of the dam and immediately rushed to these low-lying places.
The people had already been evacuated to higher ground. They looked at the terrifying power of nature with expressions of fear on their faces.
If it weren't for Su Ze, the heavy rain caused by the typhoon burst the banks at night, and all of them would have been buried in this terrible flood.
The floods inundated the paddy fields, submerged the villages, and destroyed the houses built by the Huang family. The entire Wufeng Mountain was like a sponge, absorbing the river water.
Standing next to Su Ze, Bai Zhixian breathed a long sigh of relief as he watched the water level downstream drop rapidly.
The downstream is saved!
Now the Huang family is the only family on Wufeng Mountain that has not redeemed its land, and the other families have basically withdrawn.
In the face of the flood, everyone from the government office to the county government had reached an agreement to sacrifice the Huang family and save thousands of families downstream. At this time, the Huang family's attitude no longer mattered.
The people on the mountain have already been evacuated, so it is a perfect place to release floods.
The heavy rain did not cause downstream flooding, and his political achievements before leaving office were preserved.
The typhoon lasted for three days, and on the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rain finally stopped and the sky cleared.
Su Ze and Eunuch Tao climbed to the shortest peak of Wufeng Mountain and saw a crystal lake appearing in the field of vision. Eunuch Tao said with emotion: "The power of man is too
small compared to the power of heaven and earth."
Su Ze Ze nodded. The waterway that originally took several months to dig was quickly completed under the erosion of the flood.
The low terrain on Wufeng Mountain is connected together, and the reservoir project is half completed before it even starts.
The land occupied by the Huang family is the most fertile and the closest to the river. Now all their land has been submerged by the Minjiang River.
By relying on the flood discharge at Wufeng Mountain, it turned out that the heavy rains brought by the hurricane did not cause the Minjiang River to overflow. The lower reaches survived the flood without any danger, and not a single village was submerged.
But other places did not have such good luck. Four of the eight prefectures in Fujian were hit by floods. Dozens of villages were submerged by floods. The entire Fujian Province was struggling in the muddy floods.
Su Ze looked at Eunuch Tao and said, "Eunuch, it's time for you to make a name for yourself!"
Eunuch Tao straightened his clothes and said, "The miscellaneous family is ready. The newly minted Three Immortals coins have been purchased in various prefectures and are ready to start. Pull them to provide disaster relief in disaster areas."
"Not only give away food, but also pay them wages to rebuild their homes." "
This miscellaneous family understands!"
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Ze followed Eunuch Tao to provide disaster relief in various places in Fujian, and all the victims were suddenly Everyone praised the name of Eunuch Tao.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, when Eunuch Tao scattered a circle of coins in Fujian, the people in Fujian already called him "Tao Gong".
In some places, shrines were even built for Eunuch Tao to pray for his health and longevity.
Eunuch Tao naturally did not dare to let anyone build a living temple, but several Taogong embankments were left in Fujian, which made Eunuch Tao extremely satisfied.
Disaster relief made one eunuch famous, and the entire Fujian officialdom was very depressed.
But what can be done if he is depressed? Who wants Eunuch Tao to have a lot of money in his hands?
Fujian's official warehouses have long been exhausted by years of Japanese rebellion, and the government cannot come up with disaster relief funds at all.
If Eunuch Tao and Su Ze hadn't been working together to provide disaster relief, many officials would have lost their hats.
In addition to leading the people to build flood control facilities, Su Ze also led the Shao brothers to diagnose and treat diseases for the victims.
The medicines he prescribed were all herbs that could be found nearby, and he used the cheapest prescriptions. Xie Yuangong's reputation spread throughout Fujian.
By the end of September, Su Ze saw that his water conservancy skills had risen to level 8, 200/4000, and his medical skills had reached level 6, 56/2000, and he dragged his tired body back to Changning Guard.
Thinking of the time last year when he and Lin Mojun were admiring the moon at Baihu Temple, and this year when they were out doing disaster relief and they didn't even have time to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Ze temporarily took off his burden and spent a few days cultivating in his family temple.
The old man told everyone not to disturb Su Ze. After resting like this for a few days, Su Ze couldn't help but take Lin Liangjun up the mountain to check on the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the mountain.
"Brother Aze, don't worry. Drainage has been done on the mountain a long time ago, and the sweet potato fields are not flooded."
Su Ze had already sent a warning to Changning Wei about heavy rains and floods. The dredged Jianxi River withstood the flood. The river channel tightly locked the river water, and no piece of farmland was washed away.
Sweet potatoes cannot be soaked in water. If soaked for a long time, the roots will rot. The drainage in the mountain fields is very good. Seeing the lush sweet potato fields, Su Ze finally felt relieved.
"Mr. Su!" Su Ze saw a familiar figure, and Lin Liangjun trembled instinctively when he saw it. This was the suppressive power of blood.
"Baihu, why are you here?"
Lin Mojun had just been training at the school ground. He was wearing a suit of cloth armor and looked like he had run over from the school ground in a hurry.
After Lin Mojun calmed down his breathing, he said: "Great victory! Great victory in Zhejiang!"
Su Ze hurried over. Lin Mojun handed a letter to Su Ze and said, "This is a letter from Uncle Yu Shi! Wang Jiangting won a great victory and killed more than two thousand enemies. , Zhejiang Japanese pirates will be defeated!"
Su Ze opened the letter. This letter was written in June. It must be due to the recent war and chaos, so it was only sent to Fujian at the end of September.
Yu Dayou excitedly explained in detail the process of Wang Jiangting's victory.
On the first day of May, the Japanese pirates entrenched in Zhelin gathered with more than 4,000 new Japanese pirates and suddenly invaded Jiaxing Prefecture.
Governor Zhang Jing sent General Lu Bor to lead wolves and native soldiers to attack by land and water.
Peng Xinchen, the envoy of Baojing and Xuanwei, fought for the first time in Shitangwan. The Japanese pirates were defeated and fled to Pingwang.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yu Dayou and Yongshun Xuanwei Division Chief Peng Yinan joined forces to attack, and the Japanese pirates were defeated and fled to Wangjiangjing (in the north of Jiaxing).
Baojing's local soldiers attacked the Japanese invaders again, and the Japanese pirates were defeated. More than 1,980 people were killed, countless people were burned and drowned, and the rest fled back to Zhelin.
The Ming army set fire to their nest, and the Japanese pirates took a boat out to sea to escape.
It was indeed a great victory!
Su Ze received the victory report. In this battle, Yu Dayou was proud and elated, finally washing away the shame of previous defeats. The Japanese pirate leader Xu Feng also fled back to the sea from Zhejiang.
But Su Ze was not excited about this victory.
Just some warriors and pirates who could not survive in the Japanese country colluded with some local pirates in the Ming Dynasty, which caused unrest along the coast of the Ming Dynasty for decades.
This already shows the combat effectiveness of the Japanese country in East Asia. Su Ze looked into the distance. It is now the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, 1555 AD, and just five years later, Oda Nobunaga, the sixth demon king in the history of the Japanese country, passed through the narrow barrel. The rise of war between the two countries began the process of "distributing war to the world".
Su Ze once again felt the urgency of time.
At this time, the Japanese Kingdom was on the eve of the Warring States Period, and it was still at a time when all forces were actively expanding.
Later generations often talk about the Japanese Warring States Period as "Village War", which refers to the current stage. In fact, by the middle and late period of the Japanese Warring States Period, the scale of the war was already quite large, and the entire Japanese population numbered tens of millions.
When the Warring States Period of Japan came to an end, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi became the "General of the Conquering Barbarians", Japan, which was close to unification, turned its attention to North Korea.
The Japanese invaded Korea, and as Korea was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wanli sent Ming troops to Korea to support them.
The allied forces of the Ming Dynasty and Korea fought in Korea and the Japanese army for several years. The two sides came and went, and the fighting was also very fierce.
Su Ze did not underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Japanese state. War was the best place for practice. After training in the Japanese Warring States period, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was naturally good.
If you use "village warfare" to belittle and ridicule, and just think that my Ming Dynasty is invincible in combat, then your vision is too narrow.
It must be faced squarely that this group of Japanese pirates who invaded Zhejiang were mainly real Japanese, mainly the remnants of Ouchi Yoshitaka, Tao Qingxian, and the Akizuki family, and some samurai from the Hizen daimyo Matsuura family. The total number was only two to three thousand people.
In the Battle of Haobama, the elite of the formation led by Oda Nobunaga numbered 2,000 people.
Oda Nobunaga's opponent, Imagawa Yoshimoto, had 40,000 soldiers. Although this scale showed bluffing that is common in history books, historians generally believe that it was more than 10,000 professional soldiers.
Su Ze was full of vigilance and preparedness for this dangerous neighbor, and the years before the Battle of the Barrel were also the best opportunities to intervene in the Japanese war.
However, Changningwei's strength is still too weak.
After putting down Yu Dayou's letter, Su Ze's student Lin Chun rushed up the mountain again.
"Brother Aze, a letter from the county town!"
Su Ze took the letter and found that it was delivered from the government office. Su Ze opened it and saw that it was from his future father-in-law, Fang Wanghai.
Fang Wanghai's letter was sent after the victory of Yu Dayou and Wang Jiangting. The content of the letter was that Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong, who had just made great contributions in the Anti-Japanese War, were escorted back to Beijing by the Jinyi Guards!
Sure enough, it still happened.
Su Ze sighed.
After Fang Wanghai took office as the envoy of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Chaoguan, he naturally had to visit Zhang Jing, the governor of eight provinces who was in charge of the anti-Japanese war.
Li Tianchong was the governor of Zhejiang, a subordinate of Zhang Jing, and the official in charge of Zhejiang's anti-Japanese war.
After Fang Wanghai visited the two men in Hangzhou, he prepared to go south to the south of the Yangtze River and started building Chaoguan in the south of the Yangtze River.
But before Fang Wanghai even left Zhejiang, he heard the news. The Military Affairs Bureau of the capital sent a letter to Zhao Wenhua, impeaching Zhang Jing for "raising bandits and squandering wealth, and false thieves entering the country." At this time, Hu Zongxian, who was serving as the patrol censor in Zhejiang,
also They submitted a letter at the same time, saying that the impeachment of Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong was a deliberate delay in the success of the war, and they waited until "the situation was extremely bad" before attacking the Japanese pirates. This was to encourage the Japanese pirates to respect themselves.
It was clear that they had just won a great victory, but Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong were captured by the Jin Yiwei and taken to Beijing.
In Fang Wanghai's letters, Su Ze also got a glimpse of the details.
Zhang Jing is a veteran minister who has presided over military affairs and put down rebellions many times. He has made great contributions and has a high status, so he is unwilling to rely on the two main mountains of the imperial court.
Li Tianchong also has a straightforward personality and likes to talk about state affairs after drinking, because his big mouth offends many people.
Yan Song, the first assistant in the cabinet, and Xu Jie, the second assistant in the cabinet, both sent people to recruit them, but neither of them was willing to follow.
Zhao Wenhua, who wrote the impeachment letter this time, was Yan Song's adopted son, and Hu Zongxian was Yan Song's student. Many Yan Party officials also wrote letters of impeachment.
The hometown of Xu Jie, the second assistant to the cabinet, was Songjiang, which was also the area where the Japanese rebellion was most serious this time. Xu Jie also secretly resented Zhang Jing for not rescuing his hometown in time, and the Qingliu party surprisingly remained quiet on this important matter.
Among the entire science and education, only Li Yongjing, Yan Wangyun and others were the ones who defended Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong and said that they contributed to Wang Jiangting's victory.
But the emperor was furious about this, saying that Zhang and Li only went to suppress the Japanese pirates after hearing about Zhao Wenhua's impeachment. Then Li Yongjing and Yan Wangyun were also imprisoned.
No one in the entire court spoke to Zhang and Li anymore. Fang Wanghai said in his letter that the two of them were in danger.
Su Ze sighed. The inertia of history was so great that his actions in Fujian failed to change the development of these major events.
In his time and space, Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong were sentenced to abandon the market and died tragically in the capital.
Presiding over the anti-Japanese war seemed to be a curse. Zhu Wan, who had previously achieved great victory in the anti-Japanese war in Fujian, and Hu Zongxian, who later succeeded Zhang Jing in presiding over the anti-Japanese war, did not die well in the end.
All in all, it all stems from the emperor's distrust of ministers with heavy troops.
Jiajing also knew very well that in order to quell the Japanese rebellion, power must be delegated to his subordinates, and a governor must be appointed to take charge of the overall situation.
However, the suspicious emperor was naturally uneasy about handing over these rights to his subordinates.
Therefore, once someone in the court was impeached, the emperor would become suspicious. The tragic end of the anti-Japanese officials in the past was caused by the emperor's distrust of the ministers who held heavy troops. This emperor who was extremely insecure even after he succeeded to the throne At that time, Xia Yan, the chief minister who had made great contributions to help him suppress the officials, was killed, not to mention other ministers.
This old bastard emperor is really difficult to serve.
Su Ze told Lin Mojun the content of the letter, and Lin Mojun said in surprise:
"Yu Shibo said that Governor Zhang was planning to fight against the Japanese day and night. Even though he was already in his sixties, he personally went to the battle to encourage the soldiers. How could such a good official be framed?"
Su Ze sighed and said: "Zhejiang's anti-Japanese war has just achieved some results. People in the court jumped out to pick fruits. The people are so divided. It's no wonder that the Japanese pirates have been unable to be pacified." Lin Mojun also felt heavy when he thought of his father's experience
. Sighed.
The two of them looked at each other in silence, as the important matters in the court were still too far away from Chang Ningwei.
On October 2, the new county magistrate took office. Bai Zhixian finally completed the handover and went south to Guangfu.
Hai Rui also officially received the imperial appointment and went north to Chun'an, Zhejiang.
Su Zennan said goodbye to him outside the city and composed a poem called Banque to bid farewell to his mentor and recall his years of studying under Hai Rui.
Qia's classmate is a young boy who is in his prime; he is a scholarly student and scolds Fang Qiu.
Pointing out the country and inspiring words, the excrement of thousands of households.
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