The Huanghuai River flowed back into the canal, and the canal overflowed. The water in Yangzhou City rose by two feet in an instant. It is said that the water level is still rising!

Since Peking was upgraded to Beijing and then became a capital city, the Ming Dynasty has been dredging and transforming the canals for more than a hundred years. Even though many of them were famous officials who presided over dredging and opened rivers, it was a complete joke that people conquered nature in this era. ￥f, since most of the water in the canal in the Huaiyang section is supplemented by the Huanghuai water system, as long as the Huanghuai floods, the canal will definitely be affected. Therefore, the only difference is that it suffers from the small ones every ten years.

However, Huaiyang has not encountered heavy floods for many years, so although there have been many rumors about heavy rains in the upstream, most people are lucky.

The same is true for Wang Daomin, because the news was spread by Mr. Cheng, he believed even more that it was just the other party's strategy. Therefore, when his family reported that the canal was overflowing, his first reaction was absurd. However, when he stood under the eaves, he saw the panicked family members who were urgently blocking the water with various methods, he felt a loud bang in his mind and his thinking almost paused.

Yangzhou City is no better than other places. A canal passes through the city. Once the canal overflows, the city will naturally flood Jinshan. Although in the 35th year of Jiajing, because the old city was too small to live in, salt merchants donated money, and the government paid some money to build a new city. Most salt merchants moved into it, which is similar to the prefectures and counties in Huizhou. However, for the convenience of canal water conservancy, the new city also allows the canal to pass through the city. So once the canal is overflowing, the old city of the new city will naturally be unlucky. And there is another more serious problem with this!

That is the salt goods that I have accumulated in the stack on the east side of the money Guan that are waiting for the government to test!

Despite the obstacles of his family and servants, Wang Daomin immediately went out like a madman and hurried to Tianning Gate to prepare to leave the city. Along the way, the carriage was struggling in the waist-deep water. It was getting slower and slower, and even though the coachman frequently advised him, he was not willing to listen. Until he saw the city gate that was coming and going from afar, he saw that there were already many soldiers guarding it, and huge sandbags were piled up with a very high wall, and some people were shouting loudly.

"It is said that Gaoyoubao should have a water depth of three feet there!"

"Who told the Duke to dictate them but they didn't listen? We have prepared some things here, and it's still too late. What's the situation outside the city?"

"The places close to the canal have been flooded, and the villages and towns are afraid that they will not be able to count them for a while."

Amid these sounds, Wang Daomin learned that the carriage could not move forward. Huo Yi got off the carriage and walked up quickly. Before he could speak, someone saw him standing in the rain, and immediately came forward with anger: "The Lord of the Mansion has an order, the city gate has been closed, and there is no hand-in-hand warranty! Moreover, many places outside the city have been flooded, and the water outside the city is at least four feet, and you can't leave even if you leave the city, unless you can row a boat!"

Wang Daomin didn't care about the heavy rain that he couldn't even open his eyes. He said anxiously: "Mr. Jun, I have something urgent to go out of the city to go to Chaoguan..."

"Chaoguan?" The officer wearing oil-coated clothes and a hat looked at Wang Daomin, who was wet and soaked. After a moment, he understood what was going on and said with a smile, "The officials on and off the Chaoguan were all evacuated into the city urgently. Who can you find when you run over? Oh, I know, you are for the goods in the stack in the east of the Chaoguan? Tell you, don't be foolish, there is just by the canal, and it is also a place where it was flooded from the beginning. It would be okay if it was other goods, if it was salt...haha."

Although there was only a meaningful sneer at the end, Wang Daomin was not a fool, so how could he not hear the sarcasm? He felt his body shaking suddenly. Then he collapsed on the ground. Although two servants rushed to the carriage behind him and helped him up from the accumulated water. But he was still covered in mud. He almost didn't know how he was taken into the carriage and how he got home.

He was poured out by the heavy rain and the bad news. He had a high fever that night, and his wives, concubines and children in his family were in a mess, and even those servants who knew something was wrong ran away quietly.

Fortunately, Wang Daomin was only forty after all, and his physical foundation was barely good. After two or three days of drowsy fever, he finally recovered his consciousness. However, the first thing he did when he opened his eyes was to call the butler and asked word by word: "What about the other side of the cash gate stack?"

Although he knew that the master had just woken up and could not hear bad news, under Wang Daomin's sharp gaze, the housekeeper hesitated for a while and finally whispered: "The rain was only slightly smaller today. Most of the Yangzhou city was soaked in water. The city gates everywhere were closed most of the time, and there was not much news there. I heard..."

"What did you hear? Tell me quickly, what are you trying to keep selling!"

"I heard that all the food stored in the stacks there was soaked in the water. Moreover, it was said that the Huanghuai River flooded this time, the canals were overflowing, and countless fertile land roads were flooded in the entire Huaiyang area, and the major salt fields also suffered heavy losses."

The grain is soaked in water, let alone salt? Moreover, the salt farm is flooded, which means that all the remaining salt from the stove households has been affected, and even if you have money, you can't buy it... It's over, it's all over!

Wang Daomin felt his eyes turned dark. Fortunately, a concubine next to him was quick-eyed and quickly applied a soft towel wrapped in ice to his forehead. He did not faint again. He supported himself and sat up, took a deep breath. Just as he was about to speak, a noise suddenly came from outside the door. He was already angry and scolded in a hoarse voice: "I'm not dead yet, why are you quarreling!"

The door was quiet for a moment, but soon someone entered the house, but it was Wang Daomin's two sons. On weekdays, they fought openly and secretly for whom they could inherit their father's status, but now one looked anxious and the other was full of resentment. At this moment, the eldest son shouted first: "Dad, it's not that my brother and I don't know the importance of disturbing you to rest, it's because they're too much! You are ill in the bed, and the other couples gathered together to force the palace! And he said..."

The second son quickly continued the conversation and said, "I also said that there was a warning for the flood this time. Everyone was busy transferring the accumulated salt to the place. Only my father kept putting it into the stack. I didn't know that I would find the salt inspector to check the clearance early. This was simply a pity! They actually shouted that they would recommend one person to manage the salt industry again. This deficit should be borne by our four rooms alone!"

If the news he received just now was very bad, Wang Daomin almost fell out of breath at this moment. When he was arbitrary in the past, no one in the other rooms dared to argue about his proposal, but now he is taking such an opportunity, a large group of people gathered together and suddenly attacked, which is simply too much!

"Where are people? Where are they? Help me up, I want to see where they get the confidence!"

Seeing his father's determination, the two brothers immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Although they scoffed at the other rooms in the past, the family now had a huge change, and the heads of each room came together, and they could not bear it at all. However, seeing Wang Daomin's trembling appearance, they were a little worried. Finally, the eldest son thought of a solution and immediately ordered loudly: "Come on, come up, raise your shoulders and prepare a few more oily clothes... Even if there is a corridor, the wind and rain are so strong, it will always float in. What if my father is frozen..."

At this moment, Wang Daomin had no intention of paying attention to the little attentiveness of his eldest son. When he was moved to the carriage and came to the hall, he saw that there were already five people sitting there, four of whom were in the head of the fourth room of the Wang family in Yangzhou. One of Xie Lao'an, a woman, seemed particularly eye-catching, while he had only seen the other young man twice, but his memory was particularly unforgettable, because he was clearly Mr. Cheng's son and nephew, and his name was Shuangmu! For a moment, all the new and old hatreds surged into his heart, so that he stared at the other party viciously and shouted sternly: "When will the Cheng family turn to intervene in my Wang family?"

Knowing that Wang Daomin was talking about himself, Wang Fulin put down the teacup in his hand, stood up and bowed casually and said, "The Fourth Master is good at teaching the fourth master. I learned that the younger generation of Wang Fulin, Songming Mountain, She County, Huizhou, is named Daoyun. This time I happened to come to Yangzhou. I didn't have time to greet the Fourth Master. I didn't have time to visit him until today. I was really negligent."

This nephew who was next to Mr. Cheng, who was like a follower, turned out to be Wang Fulin? Is Wang Daoyun's son? How is this possible!

Wang Daomin suddenly came to his senses and tasted the conspiracy. He raised his hand almost angrily, pointing at the boy who was younger than his youngest son in front of him, but he was trembling and unable to say a word. Wang Daomin, who was still the eldest son of Wang Daomin, reacted quickly, and while supporting his father, he shouted with a stern voice: "Since it is the Wang family, do you still dare to scatter and help the Cheng family plot against the elders of this sect? Are you not afraid of the clan law?"

"Oh, it turns out that at this time, the Fourth House remembers the patriarchal law and the clan law." Wang Fulin sneered, but then he flipped the corner of his vest and sat down with a ease. "I thought that when I saw my father being honest and bullied, I set a trap for him when I was collecting salt, and then made him lose a lot of money, and even forced him to promise to give up the dividends and owed a large amount of debts. Why didn't anyone talk about clan law and patriarchal law at that time?"

"The salt business of the Wang family in Songmingshan is not a single family, but a seven-bedroom joint stock, each occupying one share. But over the years, the fourth master has been holding the power alone. Other families have either become spectators who can only hold a year-on-year bonus of 1,800 taels, or are called by you as a shopkeeper, and there is no friendship between the same clan and the same clan. Why didn't anyone talk about the law of the clan at that time?"

"I remember when my great-uncle Shouyi was alive, he was recommended as Lianghuai salt? Not only did the Hui merchants accept the wine, but all other merchants from all walks of life were obsessed with it. The Wang family in Songmingshan was faintly the leader of Lianghuai salt industry. But what about now? Who among the Hui merchants do not know that the four words "being traitors" are, if you want to deny it, you can't clean it. It's a pity that your son is so embarrassed to say the clan law!"

ps: The last five hours, the small monthly tickets are cleared ^_^ (To be continued)
Chapter completed!