Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 1456 Jingyang people protect their own Jingyang

Chapter 1456 Jingyang people protect their own Jingyang

Frowning, Wei Yifang was about to call the clerk outside the door into the study for questioning, when he saw the door was knocked open with a "bang", and a scribe barged in with his body soaked, shouting: "The county My lord, something is wrong!"

Wei Yifang was also a little calm, and looked at this ignorant clerk with disgust, his eyebrows twitched. The usually cleanliness young master Wei was quite disgusted by his muddy clothes...

Suppressing the displeasure in his heart, he asked in a deep voice: "Talk about something slowly, and there's a lot of buzzing outside, what happened?"

The clerk wiped the rain off his face, ignoring the county lord's embarrassment, and hurriedly said: "Report to the county lord, the army sent by the imperial court has arrived outside the city..."

Wei Yifang was startled, stood up hastily, and said in amazement: "So fast? Let me know quickly and order the kitchen to fix the banquet immediately. After Lu Guogong, Fang Jun and other officials enter the city, I will hold a banquet for you. Let him take the wind and wash away the dust. I am a son of a noble family, how can I lose such courtesy? Otherwise, it will be spread, and some people will laugh at my Jingzhao Wei for ignoring the way of hospitality."

The clerk was interrupted halfway through his speech. At this time, his expression was tangled, and he didn't dare to grab the words. After Wei Yifang finished speaking, he murmured: "This... If you go back to the county lord, Fang Jun and others Together with [-] troops, we could not enter the city, so we went straight to the embankment of the Jinghe River.”

Wei Yifang froze for a moment, his handsome face flushed instantly, and he said in embarrassment: "Even so, why did you half-talk? Do you want to embarrass me?"

That clerk was so wronged, he said in his heart that it was you who stole the words, how dare I not let you speak?

Wei Yifang was not in the mood to worry about such a trivial matter, he waved his hands, and said with a displeased face: "This Fangjun is really too much, but he can't enter the city when he arrives in Jingyang, doesn't he take me seriously? The disciples of the Zhaowei family are treated so lightly and disrespectfully by him..."

At this point, I suddenly remembered that the relationship between the house servant and Jingzhao Weishi has always been tense, and the two sides have not fought once or twice, so there is really no need to give him face...

I had no choice but to say: "Forget it, wait for me to take a bath and change clothes, and go to the embankment to see him. After all, he is an angel who came here by the emperor's order, so don't be too rude."

The clerk swallowed, thinking that you still need to take a bath and change clothes?You're really a son of a family, no matter how you wash it, won't you still be drenched in the rain when you go out?What's more, the whole Jingyang city is about to be turned upside down...

He had no choice but to say bravely: "Well... didn't the county lord just ask why the noise outside the humble official?"

"Ah, yes, what's going on?"

Wei Yifang almost forgot about this, only remembered it after being reminded, and looked at the clerk curiously.

The clerk said: "Your Majesty ordered the army to come to Jingyang for disaster relief. Fang Shilang yelled the slogan "Where the dike is and people are there, people will die if the dike breaks" outside the city. Even the old and weak women and children who stayed in the city went out of the city to the embankment, vowing to live and die with the embankment!"

Wei Yifang's whole body seemed to have been immobilized, and he stood there in a daze, unable to believe: "What did you say?"

"Master County, except for the old, weak, sick and disabled who are unable to move, all the rest of the city have left the city and rushed to the embankment to fight the flood with the officers and soldiers! Now the city... is almost empty."

Wei Yifang gasped!

All the people in the whole city went to the embankment to rescue the disaster, and even chanted the slogan "If the embankment is alive, people will die when the embankment breaks down", and until now, he, the county lord, is still discussing in the government office to hold a banquet in honor of Chang'an. Disaster relief officials even had to bathe and change clothes when they went to the embankment...

Is this fear of danger?

Or dereliction of duty?

No matter what, Wei Yifang, who came from an aristocratic family, knew that once he was targeted by the censor and delivered a memorial to his Majesty for impeachment, his official position would almost be lost...not even just dismissed from office, if Take advantage of the situation to check yourself thoroughly...

Wei Yifang's robe was soaked in cold sweat in an instant, and the cool wind from the door blew in, shivering tremblingly, his handsome face turned pale instantly, and he yelled: "How dare you fool me?"

He didn't care about changing his official robes, so he just pushed away the scribe in front of him with a palm, and strode into the heavy rain outside the door.

The courtyard suddenly remembered the hoarse shout of the county official: "Is everyone dead? Get out of me if you are still panting, and follow me to the embankment quickly!"

The scribe didn't expect Wei Yifang's reaction to be so strong, and he said that even if you are a county official, it would be a big mistake not to be on the front line in person, but you are a descendant of an aristocratic family, Jingzhao Wei's direct branch, how can you be afraid of such a small matter? ?

Look at this guy with hair in a messy bun and ragged clothes in the heavy rain, this is not the style of the most dignified Young Master Wei in the past...

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On the embankment of the Jinghe River, there were crowds of people.

Lin Ruofu supported his waist with one hand, and sat on the pergola with the other, looking at the rushing and turbulent river in the upper reaches of the Jing River not far away, his eyes full of worry.

Under the organization of the yamen servants, more than [-] civilians around me worked hard, carrying baskets of soil and rocks from under the embankment to the top of the embankment, and reinforced several embankments that were damaged by the flood. However, the flood became more and more turbulent. , the torrent of water washed away the earth and rocks that had just been dumped, and all efforts were in vain.

Even the low embankment has been overflowed by the swollen river, and it is muddy...

What is even more worrying is that these yamen servants have not closed their eyes since they went up to the embankment at noon yesterday, and even now they only drank two meals of gruel...that was the rice grain he called on the wealthy households in the city to donate , but the righteous warehouse that should have been opened at this time is still locked with iron locks...

Everyone in the city is angry!

Lin Ruofu was only the head of the Ministry of Industry, he had already retired in the early years of Zhenguan, and the Lin family was only a small household in Jingyang, even if he was willing to give up his family business and power to provide food for these peasant husbands, how much would he be able to provide?

Two to three thousand strong men who work continuously and super-intensively, if the appetite is opened up, Lin Ruofu will be able to eat Lin Ruofu like a prodigal...

And the crux of the problem is that there are tens of thousands of stones of new grain in the Yicang, but why let a small bureaucrat who has long since retired to ruin his family and business?

It doesn't make sense!

But even if he was angry in his heart, he couldn't just throw up his sleeves and leave.Wei Yifang, the magistrate of the county, is a direct descendant of Jingzhao Wei's, and being the magistrate of Jingyang County is just a step up. After two years of wasting time, I can still be promoted in a different place if I make political achievements...

But Lin Ruofu can't do it!

He is from Jingyang, he was born and raised in this place, and it is also the place where he will be buried in the future. How can he bear to let the flood ravage his hometown?If he really did that, how would he be worthy of those neighbors, how would he face the ancestors in the ancestral tombs?

The more urgent the disaster, the more angry Lin Ruofu became!

Apart from the usual playfulness and pleasure, what important responsibilities can the children of such aristocratic families take on?

What an inappropriate son of man!

A person walked quickly behind him, panting loudly beside him, wiped the muddy water on his face, and said worriedly: "Why does this heavy rain keep falling? The river level has been rising rapidly, and the water level is constantly rising. Now there are many water levels The overflow situation, if this continues, it will probably be over! Uncle Shi, look...how about letting the servants protect you and evacuate first?"

Lin Ruofu glanced back expressionlessly, and saw that it was Zhang Ting, the county lieutenant.

Like the Lin family, the Zhang family is also the ancestral home of Jingyang. Since the former Sui Dynasty, they have served as county captains for generations.The Zhang family has a strict family style, although they are not from a scholarly family, they are quite honest and kind-hearted, and their prestige in the county is not low.

When Zhang Ting said these words, it was obvious that he had lost confidence in protecting the embankment...

Lin Ruofu's face sank like water, he looked around at the villagers who were still working hard, sighed softly, and said helplessly: "You let me abandon these villagers and neighbors and escape alone? The county government sits in the town and refuses to come to the embankment in person. If I This old bone is not there, so do you think these people will rush to disperse, and finally the embankment will be left unattended, and the flood will collapse, destroying Jingyang City?"

Zhang Ting was silent.

After a long while, he shouted angrily: "Mother! What kind of officials are they sent by the court? They only know how to behave like a well-educated child of a well-educated family all day long for pleasure. When something happens, Mother Chi He doesn't even dare to show his face, it's like a vegetarian meal for a corpse!"

Lin Ruofu's thin and thin body stood up straight in the wind and rain, his haggard face could not hide the stern look in his eyes, and he shouted decisively: "Since you know that being an official is just a step to advance, why bother to wait longer?" Hope? He is afraid that he will be ashamed when he gets on the embankment, so he can drink wine and drink tea in the yamen and be his second generation ancestor. This is Jingyang, the Jingyang of our Jingyang people, let us use our flesh and blood to guard this road Dam, let us Jingyang people guard our Jingyang with our lives!"

In the wind and rain, his shouts spread far and wide, and the people nearby were inexplicably excited when they heard this!

"Guard Jingyang!"

"This is the Jingyang of our Jingyang people!"

"Live and die with the levee!"

The wind and rain are dark and the floods are raging, but the morale is like a rainbow above the embankment. All the civil servants have red eyes, gritted their teeth and burst out with all their strength, and brought baskets of earth and rocks from under the dam. The raging flood was tightly blocked.

With one heart and one mind, man will conquer the sky!

(End of this chapter)