Chapter 241 I’m not afraid of death?

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 241 I’m not afraid of death?

The Ming Dynasty was the era that pushed water transportation to the pinnacle of all feudal dynasties.

In other words, the highlight moment of water transportation was in the Ming Dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, when supplies were transported to the north, most of them were transported by sea. However, the sea has its own unpredictability, and sea transportation has a certain degree of danger. Every year, some ships hit the rocks and sank, and some were robbed by pirates.

But I didn’t go much every year, after all, the capital of the country at that time was Yingtianfu.

But after Emperor Yongle came to power and moved the capital to Shuntianfu, the dangers of sea routes became apparent, so he began to dig and dredge canals. After decades of work, dots became lines, and the entire Ming Dynasty's water and land transportation network extended in all directions.

Sea transportation was also gradually abolished.

The canal can be said to be the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and the court attached great importance to it. Those who served as governors of water transportation had a 50% chance of being appointed to the cabinet. There were hundreds of thousands of sergeants responsible for maintaining water transportation every year.

According to Xia Yuan's idea, he should first take the Tonghui River, follow the Bai Cao to Jinmen, then take the Wei Cao from Jinmen, and pass through the Wei Cao to Huitong River.

When you reach Huitonghe, you can reach Puzhou by walking several hundred miles on the waterway.

Of course that was the idea, and it was quite beautiful, but after two days of sailing, day and night, the boat stopped when it reached the canal in Linqing.

There is no way to leave. Thousands of ships are blocked here. They are all small merchant ships, some are only a few meters wide. These five ships are simply outstanding among these ships.

Taking advantage of the height of the boat, if you look up, you can see that the river ahead has been dammed and embanked. There are actually many damaged sections of the river along the way, but they are not serious and the boat can still be driven.

And no one takes it seriously. The water transport route is too long and connects all the major rivers in the world. Some improper maintenance is inevitable.

But looking at the entire section of the river in front that was completely damaged, and with countless civilians and sergeants in charge of water transportation repairing the river and building dams, everyone was already panicking.

Fortunately, there is no way this waterway can be destroyed like this.

The person in charge thought of the Earth Collapse again, and asked with a pale face: "Sir, that Earth Collapse you mentioned before?"

"You think I'm joking with you?"

Xia Yuan's heart sank to the bottom of the valley. He thought that the collapse of the ground would cause the water transport to be destroyed, but he did not expect that the rivers in Linqing would be damaged like this.

You must know that Linqing is three to four hundred miles away from Puzhou. If the rivers in Linqing were destroyed like this, what would Puzhou look like?

Taking a deep breath, he said: "Dock all the boats towards the shore, put on the planks, and let everyone get off the boat. I have something to say."

In this world, there is a kind of fearlessness, knowing that you cannot do something but doing it.

Go ahead to dangers.

Xia Yuan felt that he was a person with such a fearless spirit. Even though he knew that Puzhou ahead was a hell on earth, he had already decided to fight the earthquake and provide disaster relief, so he would not give up no matter what.

But he can't force everyone to be as fearless as him.

His eyes roughly scanned the faces of these thousands of people. He couldn't see many of them clearly, or even couldn't see them. If there were more than a hundred people, they would drive and use crutches. If there were more than a thousand people, the sky would be covered by clouds.

But Xia Yuan knew that everyone was uneasy. He didn't tell these people what to do, nor did he tell them about the collapse of the land. These people just followed his instructions and bought food, herbs, and everything else.

Materials.

Then we sailed here.

It can even be said that he deceived all these thousands of people to this place and to Linqing. If the river had not been damaged and made it impossible to sail, he would have deceived these people to Puzhou.

"I believe many of you have learned the reason why the ship is parked here. The Cao Canal in front has been completely destroyed."

Xia Yuan's voice was loud and he mobilized all his strength. He wanted everyone to hear it. When he said this, he swallowed. He had a hunch that when the following words were spoken, all the thousands of people would be in an uproar.

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But we have already arrived here. As long as we go further, we will know about the collapse of Puzhou sooner or later. Rather than arriving then, it is better to explain it clearly now.

"This river will be damaged because of a large-scale landslide, and the landslide is not here in Linqing, but in Puzhou.

In Puzhou, the earth collapsed, countless people and animals were killed and injured, and roads everywhere were cut off. The entire Puzhou has become a hell on earth, and we are going to Puzhou to transport supplies and provide disaster relief, and at the same time we are also going to save people."

Xia Yuan's voice was still loud. After saying these words, the air seemed to be quiet for a moment, and then everyone present was in an uproar.

At one time, the voices of thousands of people sounded, noisy and chaotic, but the voices revealed endless panic and fear.

This is earth collapse, earth collapse

Linqing's Cao Canal Road has been destroyed like that, so what should Puzhou look like?

Those imperial doctors were standing nearby, right under Xia Yuan's eyes. When they heard these deafening words, they were already on the verge of collapse and just wanted to pass away.

During the two days or so on the ship, they had guessed where they were going, but they never expected that they were going to the disaster area.

There are still aftershocks after the earthquake, and they will last for several days.

Who knows if there will be any aftershocks there, and there will also be floods and plagues.

Thinking of this, a few elderly people had already smoked.

At this time, no one was paying attention to them. Perhaps among everyone present, the only one who could remain calm except Xia Yuan was Wang Shouren. Wang Shouren only had a solemn expression on his face. He saw the cut off and destroyed river and heard these words.

, already knew that the collapse of the earth should be true.

There seems to be some fear.

But he suddenly felt a surge in his heart, leading to conscience. To conscience.

He looked at his mentor, whom he only met occasionally now, and the theory of conscience and the unity of knowledge and action ran through his mind over and over again. Suddenly, he had a clear understanding, and his whole face became firm.

"Why are you panicking? Be quiet! You are afraid of death, but I am not afraid of death?"

Since becoming an official, Xia Yuan has never called himself an official, but today he shouted loudly. He grabbed the unicorn uniform on his body with his hands and said,

"Have you seen this unicorn uniform on my body? This is a gift from the emperor. I am the number one scholar in Jinke. I am a Hanlin. I am a Hanlin with a bright future in your words. I am also the master of His Highness the Crown Prince. This year, I

Under twenty, young and promising, with a bright future!"

After hearing these words, the commotion in the crowd gradually subsided. These are officials and they are people. There is a gap visible to the naked eye. In the face of this huge class gap, their choice is to be obedient and remain silent.

"I don't want to say whose life is more precious than whose life, but you should ask yourselves, if you have an heir like me in your family, you are willing to let him die!"

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The crowd was all silent. Who would be willing to give up? This is the number one scholar, this is the Imperial Academy, and if you have one, you have to pay for it.

"I am not willing to give up! So I am not going to die, I am going to save people, and I am not asking you to die. I am also asking you to save people, and I am going to save people with you, except for me.

Officer, and him!"

As he said that, Xia Yuan stretched out his arm and pointed at Wang Shouren, "He is also an official of the imperial court, and there are those dozen old men. They are the imperial doctors in the palace. They treat the emperor, the prince, and the queen!"

"The emperor sent these imperial doctors out just to ask these imperial doctors to follow us."

Except for the old and weak old men who had just passed away, the remaining ten or so shaky imperial doctors were all buzzing when they heard this. It turned out that it was His Majesty.

Xia Yuan's voice continued, "Now that the river is blocked, it's impossible to sail boats. We can only rely on people to transport disaster relief items to the disaster area, and I won't force you to do so.

Now we, the imperial officials, are going to rescue people. Those who don’t want to go can go back to the cabin. Those who are willing to go will receive ten taels of silver each. If anyone dies in it, the pension will be one hundred taels!"

"If you want to earn this money, go to the fourth ship now. There are wheelbarrows on it, one for each person, either to load grain, or to load herbs, or to load cloth. You can load whatever you want, but only as much as you can load.

Pack as much as you can, bring as many hoes, shovels, ropes, and whatever else you can carry."

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After some long silence, the first person stood up, turned around and walked in the direction of the ship. Everyone was staring at him, but they didn't know what choice he made, whether to go or stay.

Until I saw him getting on the fourth boat, and soon, he got off the boat pushing a wheelbarrow.

With this first person in mind, the others also started to move, perhaps because of a herd mentality, perhaps because they thought it would be a big deal if the officials were gone, or perhaps because they wanted to earn the ten taels or even a hundred taels of silver.

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Everyone got on the fourth boat silently, and then pushed the wheelbarrows down one by one.

Then the wheelbarrows were piled up in one place, and some boarded the ship carrying herbs and tools, some boarded the ship carrying cloth, and more people boarded the merchant ship carrying grain.

Zhu Houzhao was currently in the grain pile with two eunuch cats. Liu Jin said tremblingly: "Your Highness, many people are coming up."

"Shut up, I can see it!"

Zhu Houzhao glared at him, then waved and said: "Let's find a place to hide first, but we can't let them discover it."

"Still hiding? How about we."

"Shut up."

"oh"

Immediately, Zhu Houzhao and two eunuchs hunched back and forth among the grain piles and began to look for a suitable hiding place.

He had been here like this for the past two days. In order to be able to follow him to the disaster area, Zhu Houzhao was very careful and stayed on the boat for two days, but he was not discovered by anyone.

Fortunately, the boat was fully stocked with food, so there was no shortage of places to hide people.

At dusk, a long snake-like procession, everyone pushing a wheelbarrow, headed southwest.

Except for the rowers and the sailors at the helm who were still on the boat, almost all the other young men followed to provide relief.

After traveling for more than three hundred miles, the end may very well be hell on earth.
To be continued...