I am the king of the dead

Yin Shi was a little hesitant to take it, she stretched out her hand full of chilblains, and then retracted it.

Shi Heng took a deep breath, looked at the fist-sized snowflakes in the sky, and said in a low voice, "Take it and use it."

Li Yongchang didn't stop him but watched all this calmly, Yin finally reached out and took the cloak and put it on his body.

She was really too cold, He Lin was a bit colder than Hetao, she was so cold that she thought she was going to die.

Putting on a cloak made it a little warmer.

"Thank you Marquis Wuqing." The Yin family came from a famous family, well educated and reasonable, so she hurriedly thanked her.

"Go to the post station to rest first, take some water and food, and then go to the smoky land." Shi Heng continued to instruct the Yin family that the three of them will be sent to Tianzhou Mansion, Guangxi, which is a smoky land.

"Xie Wu Qinghou." Yin said gratefully, and walked into the station with the two children.

After the three of them entered the room, Shi Heng looked at Li Yongchang and explained: "Shi and Yang Hanying are old, and they used to be called brothers. They are younger brothers and sisters. Don't dare to admit it, if you encounter it in battle, you will kill it."

"However, His Majesty has forgiven his wife and children. If someone turns a deaf ear to them, it is unrighteous. Since he is unrighteous, he is disloyal. That's why he came here."

Shi Heng, as Marquis Wuqing of the Ming Dynasty, had no ambiguity with Sai Yinhua, who defected to the enemy.

As he said, how can there be loyalty without righteousness?

If His Majesty had not forgiven the three members of the Yin family, he would naturally not have come to this inn.But since His Majesty has forgiven the three of them, he will naturally come to send them off.

Li Yongchang said with a smile: "Marquis Wuqing has worried too much. Since His Majesty has sent the will to Marquis Wuqing, it is natural for Marquis Wuqing to come, so that loyalty and righteousness can always be achieved."

In fact, the great emperor also issued a secret decree to Li Yongchang, which is to let Li Yongchang keep an eye on Dian Shiheng. Shi Heng has a bad problem in history, that is, being a good wife.

Nangong seized the gate, and after Ming Yingzong was restored, Boyan Timur's daughter, who took the child from the grassland to Datong, was forcibly taken by Shi Heng. Ming Yingzong was furious, and finally beheaded Shi Heng.

Cao Cao is a good wife and raped Zhang Xiu's aunt, Madam Zou.

At that time, Cao Cao had just welcomed Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty back to Xuchang, and took the emperor with him to command the princes. Zhang Xiu was stationed in Wancheng, and Liu Biao, which was connected to Jingzhou to the south, was Cao Cao's elbow and armpit.

In the end, Cao Cao paid a high price for his occupation of Mrs. Zou.

Zhang Xiu rebelled, Cao Cao's nephew Cao Anmin died in battle, Cao Cao's mighty general Dian Wei died in battle, Cao Cao's son Cao Ang died in battle, Cao Cao's wife, Mrs. Ding, returned to her natal family, and finally divorced Cao Cao.

His Majesty asked Li Yongchang to look at Dian Shiheng. After all, Shi Heng was the biggest official in the Hetao area. Yu Qian returned to the capital, and Shi Heng had no checks and balances.

But fortunately, Shi Heng did not.

Shi Heng walked into the station and sat very far away, watching the two children wolfing down, showing a smile.

"Thank you, Marquis Wuqing." Yin's tasted it and stopped two children who were gluttonous.

Shi Heng said very calmly: "It's His Majesty's grace, what has it to do with Shi?"

"If you go to the smoky place in Jiangxi, you should be careful. If you finish your food and water, you can go to Guangxi."

The Yin family hesitated for a while, but still said: "My husband has something to entrust to Marquis Wuqing, which is to protect my mother and son. I will keep it and thank Marquis Wuqing."

The Yin family looked at Shi Heng, who was already the Marquis of Wu Qing of the Ming Dynasty, wearing green and purple, the impetuousness of the original body had completely faded away, but a general's bright and righteous style, just a sigh.

Her husband and the Marquis of Wuqing in front of him had a good time drinking and chatting, but today and now are so different.

The Yin family took the child and left the post station, and got on the car to Guangxi. There would be official post inspections along the way, and the exile was completed when they were sent to Tianzhou Prefecture.

Shi Heng did not walk out of the station, but watched Yin Shi leave.

Shi Heng opened the Yin family's keepsake, and it was not something that Shi Heng and Sai Yin didn't have any old things, but a map, which marked in detail the mountains, rivers, passes and the deployment of some troops near Helin. , and there is also a very detailed letter about the geometry of the Wara generals.

This is something Sai Yin didn't spend to save his wife and children.

Li Yongchang looked at the car hidden in the wind and snow, and asked in a low voice: "How does Marquis Wu Qing think about Sai Yin's not spending?"

Shi Heng settled his expression and said to Li Yongchang: "Saiyin Buhua is your majesty's next move. If it is useful, it is the best. If it is useless, it's okay. If your majesty is mighty, the Ming army will be mighty! If your majesty is invincible, the Ming army will be invincible in the world!" "

"There will be a day when a golden and iron horse will swallow thousands of miles like a tiger!"

"Send this picture and letter to the capital."

Shi Heng didn't think that His Majesty would take Sai Yin's disregard to his heart, he just regarded it as an idle move, if it was useful, the Ming army would be able to reduce losses, if it was useless, what did it matter?

The Ming army is still the invincible and invincible army!

Shi Heng left the post station and headed towards the Siwu regiment camp. The coal in Shengzhou had arrived at Hetao Ferry, and he was responsible for transporting the coal bombs from the ferry to the three prefectures. These coal bombs would be lent to the people for the winter.

Since it is borrowed, it is natural to pay it back.

Daming Anmin's policy is different from the past. It is no longer simply to gather the hungry people, but to mobilize them to work, farm, reclaim wasteland, etc., to support themselves with their hands.

Exploiting the hungry people can be called abuse.

Your Majesty is violent, but is it really cruel?

Shi Heng didn't know, but it was something that officials in the court only wanted to study.

But he knew that Emperor Ming was not a bad person.

Bad people can neither open up territories, nor govern the country and the people.

He also doesn't want His Majesty to be a bad person, if His Majesty is a bad person, he can only waste his time.

Moreover, Shi Heng doesn't think there is any problem with His Majesty's strategy of calming the people. If the people in the Hetao area don't do it themselves, are they waiting for the court to help them?Does the imperial court have surplus food?If you don't do it yourself, do you live by drinking the northwest wind?

Shi Heng wants to go to Fugukou, Shaanxi Province before leaving. The Emperor Ming agreed that the unzuo people in Shaanxi should go to Hetao to seek land to make a living, but Fugukou should be guided in an orderly manner, especially those who are responsible for murder cases. Do not enter the Hetao.

Moreover, to organize the people to enter the set in an orderly manner, the guards and the commanders of the three prefectures need to cooperate to guide them to the resettlement place.

The first batch to leave the Hetao area were the Shubian generals and commanding officers who enrolled in the Jiangwu Hall. They had already embarked on the road back to Beijing before the Yellow River thawed.

And Xu Youzhen found Shi Heng, and said very eagerly: "The ice flood of the Dahe ice row is approaching, and the Marquis of Wuqing will not give gunpowder. How can I blast the ice surface and slow down the ice flood?"

Shi Heng, Jiang Yuan, and Li Yongchang looked at Xu Youzhen with frowning eyes.

This guy is giving the army a problem again.

Jiang Yuan is a civil servant, and he said very clearly: "This gunpowder is for the army, An Neng can give it to you casually? And you just said that it is 50 catties. You know that the 50 catties are given by His Majesty to give you [-] silver coins." Create?"

One stone grain and one tael of silver in Datong Prefecture is equal to half a silver coin.

One tael of silver is about two hundred catties of salt, about half a silver coin.

But one silver coin can only make five catties of gunpowder, so how expensive is it?

Xu Youzhen's breath is so loud, one mouthful is 50 catties of gunpowder!

Xu Youzhen sighed and said: "Ice platoons are the most harmful. If the ice surface is not blown up at this time, the ice will silt downstream and cause local flood control to be exhausted. Once the breach occurs, it will not be a problem that 50 silver coins can solve! "

"In the past, when we didn't control the Loop in the Ming Dynasty, we naturally couldn't blow up the ice surface. Now, since we control the Loop, isn't it a way to calm the people by blowing up the ice surface and reducing ice floods?"

"The army has prepared the squadron, but there is still gunpowder left, alas."

Xu Youzhen traveled all over the water conservancy in the Hetao area step by step. He first proposed the idea of ​​blasting the ice and breaking the platoon, and wanted the gunpowder that the army had not used up to help him break the ice platoon of the Yellow River.

Jiang Yuan hesitated and said, "What kind of disaster is this ice? If you don't explain clearly, how can we give you gunpowder?"

Xu Youzhen was very helpless, looked left and right for a long time, grabbed a piece of paper and drew a rough picture of the Yellow River and said: "The upper reaches of the Yellow River are in the south, thawing early, and the water flow increases after thawing, but the Yellow River section in the Hetao area is in the north. Without thawing, it will allow the ice sheets to accumulate and cause ice floods."

"If the ice platoon is resolved by the Jinglu Mansion and Shuofang Mansion, it can effectively alleviate the ice flood from the Huayuankou to the estuary."

Jiang Yuan looked at it for a long time, although he didn't understand, but hesitantly said: "Isn't there a lot of summer and autumn for flood prevention? Why do we need to prevent floods in spring and winter?"

"How about this, you wrote the memorial to Beijing, and if His Majesty approves, the engineer battalion of the [-]th Regiment Battalion can help you blow up the ice."

"Your Majesty is not allowed, we have nothing to do."

Xu Youzhen was anxious again, he sighed and said: "From here to the capital, and wait for His Majesty's return, the flood has arrived, and everything will be over!"

Jiang Yuan was very dissatisfied and said: "Then you said it earlier and only mentioned it now. Is this forcing us?"

Xu Youzhen said helplessly: "I'm also worried about Ling Xun, and I just thought of a solution recently! Daming gunpowder is powerful, otherwise I wouldn't embarrass the three of you."

Seeing the stalemate, Li Yongchang sat up straight, hesitated a little and said, "Let's say a few words."

"I still need to ask for an order. Since Xu Yushi said that this is a big matter, it is better to do this. Our army will blow up the ice first, and it will not be easy to beat the Hetao."

"Soldiers are always dying, commanders are working hard, censors are running in the valley, everyone is doing their best, and each of us wants to defend it."

"It's okay to try, isn't it?"

Li Yongchang understands His Majesty's nature, the people are the foundation of the country, since it is a policy to calm the people, it is natural to do it if it is effective.

Even try it.

Although they, the Beijing camp officers guarding the eunuchs, don't know what Ling Xun is, but the people in the Hetao area know it, and they are well aware of its harm.

There is a folk song that says: October is Fuchong, February is Culing, light snow is flowing, heavy snow is blocked, frost and ice arrive on the sixth day, ice flood breaks, and the river official is innocent.

Even when Ling Xun came, if the embankment broke, the river officials could not be blamed, it was God embarrassing the people.

This is a yearly disaster, once a year.

Shi Heng sat up straight and said: "Go ahead, if His Majesty blames the crime, then Shi will be responsible."

Three days later, Shi Heng led the engineering battalion of the [-]th Regiment to the Yellow River and began to dig through the ice layer. A big hole would be dug in the ice layer every ten steps. On the ground, brandishing the pickaxe in his hand, he chiseled vigorously.

This job lasted more than ten days. Xu Youzhen was not in Jinglu Mansion, but went to Ningxia Zhongwei. When the river began to thaw, Xu Youzhen notified Shi Heng to fill the big pit with gunpowder.

Daming's engineering battalion used bamboo tubes to connect fire twisters to prevent them from being soaked and unable to detonate.

Xu Youzhen has been observing the changes in the river surface in Zhongwei, Ningxia, and saw that the water of the Yellow River began to grow, and the water flow increased. .

The commanding officer's fast horse galloped along the banks of the Yellow River, with the sound of horseshoes, conveying the order of Marquis Wu Qing to light the fire. Countless commanders ignited the fire in front of them.

The fire spread through the bamboo tube to all the gunpowder pestles buried in the big pit, and the roar began to explode above the river!

There was a muffled thunderous bang, a rumbling sound, moving in the northeast direction, and gunpowder smoke rose in bursts.

For a time, the earth shook.

The rumbling sound was transmitted from Jinglu Mansion to Shuofang Mansion. After the gunpowder exploded, jets of water exploded into the sky. The water jets rose and fell one after another, rolling over the Yellow River like a long dragon.

The ice surface above the Yellow River was not completely blasted, but after the water rose, all these ice layers made creaking noises, and finally cracked like a turtle shell, and went downstream.

After hearing the explosion, the people in the Hetao area crouched down with their heads covered. The houses were shaking and the children were crying.

They stared blankly at this scene. They never imagined that the ice slug that rampages every year would be exploded like this, and then rushed downstream.

Shi Heng patted the railing and watched this rather spectacular scene, feeling very distressed.

This is 50 catties of gunpowder!Just throw it on the river.

But when he looked at the cheering Hetao people, he felt that it was worth it.

Shi Heng looked at the common people, and said with emotion: "There is no calamity at the age, I thought it was something you literati preached, but now it seems that maybe it is true that there is no calamity at the age."

Is it really possible that natural disasters will not harm the people?

Shi Heng seems to have seen the answer from the cheering people.

"If His Majesty blames it, it's worth it for Shi to bear the responsibility." Shi Heng looked at the common people, his eyes kept rolling.

Will His Majesty blame it?

Chapter 3 and Seven are also joyous first!

"It's cold and freezing, when the water blows and the ice breaks, the icy water pours down, and the ice breaks and the waves surge; the embankment bursts and the dam breaks, it's unstoppable."

"Finally he was blown up."

"Preparing for the unexpected is the good governance of the ancients."

Xu Youzhen said very confidently: "If you want to control the ice flood, you must build dikes, renovate rivers, build diversion canals, investigate ice conditions, prevent floods in prefectures, counties and townships, and especially organize the masses to prevent them.

"It's not enough just to blow up the ice. Marquis Wuqing is busy. I'll go and see if there will be a breach of the river embankment."

The first thing Xu Youzhen learned was to ride a horse when she was controlling the water in Zhangqiu. No matter whether she was driving a car or a sedan chair, it was still too slow.

Shi Heng fell into deep thought.

The vigorous explosion and opening of the river in the Hetao area has made the Hetao area suffer from the ice flood for thousands of years, and it is possible to contain it.

The officer in charge moved, organized the people, and if there was Ling Xun, immediately evacuated to a higher place;

The soldiers also moved. If there is still a section of the river that needs to be opened, they will use the method of throwing gunpowder to blow up the larger ice surface;

The officials also got into action, actively preaching the cause of the ice flood, and explaining that this is a gunpowder pestle, not the magic of Emperor Zhenwu.

Of course the common people know about firecrackers, but is gunpowder so powerful?

It is still the spell of Emperor Zhenwu.

The flood control of the Yellow River is in full swing, and the planning of the entire diversion canal has been finalized. After the spring plowing, the payment from the capital will arrive. In three years, the 360-mile Jingtai Anmin Canal will be completed.