Chapter 1185 The Fourth Prince's Plot

The Fourth Prince was being aggressive. Empress Qi and the Third Prince, the late Empress Dowager's niece Concubine Sun Defei and her son, the Second Prince, all of them had their own ulterior motives. It's just that the two of them had not made many big moves so far, but had been making small ones constantly. They were all hoping that the Fourth Prince and the Crown Prince would fight to the death first.

The emperor is still in good health, but it is hard to say how many more years the prince will have to endure in fear from now on.

It’s even harder to say whether we can get through it.

Shao Yunduan originally didn't think too much about it. At most, he could just take his wife and leave. But now, that's no longer possible.

He is really ashamed of his wife.

I can only treat her better and make up for it a little.

Speaking of Shao Yunduan's mission, on the surface he was inspecting several granaries in Hebei for the prince, but in reality he was secretly going to the prince's imperial farm in Miyun County to deal with the reservoir issue.

In the past few years, the reclamation of farmland in Miyun County has been so vigorous that irrigation has been unable to keep up. The prince has a 500-hectare farm there, and the manager of the farm reported to the East Palace a while ago, saying that he wanted to repair the canal before the New Year to avoid affecting farming next year.

This is a very natural thing, and the East Palace will not refuse.

It just so happened that Shao Yunduan was out of the capital on business, and the prince casually mentioned that he should go over and help take a look at the progress of the canal repair.

Five hundred hectares of land is not a small amount, and the prince cannot neglect it.

Unexpectedly, Shao Yunduan saw the problem at first glance.

There is no problem with the imperial farm, and there is no problem with building the canal.

The problem is a dam upstream.

Shao Yunduan had accompanied Qiao Xuan to Miyun before. Qiao Xuan wanted to climb the mountains and look for wild fruits and mushrooms, so he naturally had no objection to accompanying her.

Shao Yunduan remembered clearly that just over two months ago, when he and his wife came to climb the mountain to have fun and see if there were any mountain products or wild goods, the dam did not exist yet.

How long has it been since then? The dam has already blocked the water to such a high and wide area.

Just at this time the prince's imperial estate was repairing a canal, and Shao Yunduan subconsciously connected it to the dam.

For no apparent reason I always felt a little weird and uneasy.

He asked someone to get a local topographic map and looked at it with the old housekeeper of the manor. When they saw it, they were both shocked!

It would be fine if there was no problem with the dam, but if it collapsed, not only the canal they were building would be affected, but also a nearby village located in a low-lying area!

If they fail to escape suddenly, most of the village will be fed to the fish, and I don’t know how many people will be killed or injured.

The old housekeeper frowned: "I didn't notice when someone built such a dam in the mountains. This is not right. What is the purpose of this?"

Shao Yunduan said: "The Crown Prince is in the center of the storm right now, so we have to be careful. We can't keep this dam."

What if? Can you explain what if?

There is a canal being built on the prince's imperial farm. If the dam happened to collapse at this time, causing a flood to hit the village and cause casualties, it would be easy for people to link the two events together.

It is possible that the rumor might have been caused by the Crown Prince repairing the canal.

It's all water anyway, so it makes sense to put it together.

The most important thing is that the appearance of the dam was too strange, and the old housekeeper and others knew nothing about it. Normally, if such a large dam was built only ten miles away from the prince's imperial estate, the imperial estate should have been informed.

But it didn’t!

(End of this chapter)