When the Yue Emperor fell ill, everyone in the Yue court was extremely worried. In addition, many smart people had already doubted the identity of the Yue Emperor and began to seek ways to escape.
The Yue court was in chaos in an instant.
This news reached Zhao and Xue. The two countries had been eyeing Yue from the beginning, and now the timing was perfect. They were ready to seize the opportunity to strike when the civil strife in Dai Viet began.
Qu Lingxian from Zhaoguo has already calculated that the next month or so will be a good time to take action. By next year, something big will happen in Daliang, and this incident will leave Daliang with no time to take care of other things.
Therefore, Zhao State did not have to worry about being attacked from both sides and only needed to focus on attacking Dai Viet.
The Snow Country was somewhat interested in Daliang, and wanted to take over both Liang and Yue when civil strife broke out in the two countries. However, the two countries were located in the south and the north, and their troops were divided into two routes, which delayed the good opportunity to swallow Dai Viet. Zhao Country had no way to explain, so it had to hold back and let Daliang linger on.
The beginning of spring the following year.
As everyone expected, Snow Kingdom and Zhao Kingdom sent troops to attack Dai Viet. At this time, Dai Viet still hadn't found out who the Emperor Star was. The Emperor of Dai Viet did not survive and would pass away soon with only a breath left.
The crown prince and the other princes fought to the death but there was no winner. Coincidentally, Zhao Kingdom and Xue Kingdom sent troops, and Dai Viet hastily joined forces to resist the two countries. This also meant that Dai Viet could not be as solid as a rock.
All this happened too quickly. The witch had not been offering sacrifices to the gods in the palace for long when she heard the bad news.
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The witch was told clearly that time was running out and the temple would be torn down before their eyes. When the Emperor of Yue fell ill and was unable to get up, the witch knew that something bad was going to happen.
The fact that Emperor Yue is a fake Emperor Star will definitely be exposed, and the abilities of these fortune-tellers will inevitably be doubted.
The witch wanted to save, or at least try her best to save Emperor Yue. Unfortunately, things did not go as she wished. Once Emperor Yue got into trouble, except for those who firmly stood on his side, the rest of the people wished that he would die soon so that someone else could take his place.
This also resulted in the fact that Emperor Yue's condition could not be stabilized for a long time and had to be delayed again and again, which also resulted in the witch having no chance to contact Emperor Yue. Under such circumstances, the witch silently communicated with the God, hoping to get an answer.
Will Emperor Yue die?
The final result did not surprise her and verified her guess. She also knew that no matter whether the Emperor Star appeared or not, what the Taoist priest had predicted and the person who was plotting treason had been verified. She just didn't know whether the person in power was the Emperor Star.
As news came that Zhaoguo Xueguo was going to attack Dai Viet, the palace gate that had been closed for a long time opened, and she was finally invited out to tell fortunes for Dai Viet.
This time, it is the destiny of the country.
The witch looked at the prince and the prince standing in front of her, and her heart sank. It seemed that another divination was about to come true for her. The thing she feared was about to happen, but she had no room for refusal.
First, the Emperor of Yue was enraged by the affair between the prince and the empress, and then Zhao and Xue countries jointly sent troops to attack Yue.
Everything was included in the hexagram he calculated.
It was not until this moment that Li Lezhi realized clearly that his ability was quite strong. He just sighed in his heart and did not take it to heart. He was still fortune-telling for the prince and the flood in Yizhou.
In another three months, floods will come to Yizhou, and before that, how to arrange the people in Yizhou is a problem.
Even if everyone is relocated to the mountains, it may not be safe when it rains heavily. Think about the mudslides and the jackals and wild boars on the mountains, which will pose a considerable threat to those who move to the mountains.
Even if ditches are built, it may not be possible to drain away large amounts of water.
Although a river channel was dug in Yizhou this year and connected to the nearby river, the terrible thing is that in the end the river channel could not hold all the water and instead became one of the disasters that brought disaster to Yizhou.
However, his words were of little importance and no one might believe these things. Fortunately, he also knew the official who was going to Yizhou to handle the affairs, and that official was Jiang Ruming.
Jiang Ruming was in Jiangzhou before. Jiangzhou has many waterways. Jiang Ruming is familiar with these things and often deals with people from Dujiangjian. The most important point is that they know each other. If he says something, the other party will take it to heart.
Li Le only wrote a letter to Jiang Ruming. After receiving the letter, Jiang Ruming really took it to heart. He reinforced the already very high river embankment a little bit higher, and also dredged the rivers, canals and ditches in that area to ensure that they would not be blocked and the water would not flow out.
If such a big move had been carried out in the past, it would have been a waste of time and money. Many people with ulterior motives would have used this matter to make an issue of it, saying that they actually believed in the fortune-telling of the witch and that they had put the reputation of the Taoists in such a low position.
Now that Taoist Priest Li had taken care of this matter, no one dared to make any noise. Even those Taoist temples in Yizhou, which did not know what had happened before, frowned when they heard that it was the Great Yue witch who built the river and dredged the canal. They did not have any big rivers in Yizhou, so how could there be any floods? Instead, it was the rivers built by these people that frightened them.
If something happens that they cannot solve, the amount of water stored in the river will be enough to turn the entire county of Yizhou into an ocean. This is not to help them, but to place an ancestor next to them.
They were just about to go find the consul to ask for an explanation, but then they heard that Taoist Li also knew about the matter. If Taoist Li agreed, that meant that the Three Pure Ones agreed, and they all lost their tempers in an instant.
They immediately realized that even Taoist Li knew about this, so Yizhou was really going to have a flood, and a big one at that. Otherwise, why would these people be so nervous? This caused the Taoists in Yizhou to take this matter to heart and often gave divinations to the officials coming from the capital.
The people of Yizhou also knew about this big commotion. After knowing that there would be a flood in Yizhou, ordinary people were starting to worry about whether the prices of food and other things would continue to rise, and whether they would still be able to afford food and daily necessities.
When I really went to the grain store and looked at the prices, they were still the same prices as before. I was about to buy some more grain to stockpile at home, but I didn't expect that everyone would be subject to purchase limits and would never buy more.
The shopkeeper weighed the grain and said to the other party, "Don't buy more. Your Majesty has known about this for a long time. He also knew that some people would speculate and make a fortune, so he made preparations early on. Not only my family, but also other families' grain prices are the same. It won't go up, don't worry."
The buyer was relieved and took his purchase home and told his family about it. His family was also happy, because now they wouldn't have to worry about not having enough in the future. They lived frugally with the purchase, so if a disaster really came, they would have enough food to deal with it.
Because they had been prepared, everyone was ready for the impending disaster and were counting the days until one day three months later.
There were rumbling thunders in the sky, resounding through the heavens and earth, as if God was angry. Jiang Ruming also heard the thunder. He was standing on the river bank. The height of the river bank this time was the highest in history, and even the width of the dug river was extremely wide and deep. The purpose was not simply to store water, but to completely turn this river channel into a part of the canal, connecting the two places, so that cargo ships would be able to come and go in Yizhou in the future.
This would have been a waste of money and labor in the past, but given the flood situation, groundbreaking in Yizhou was inevitable. He just dug a little wider and a little more. It was possible that Yizhou could take advantage of this opportunity to soar to new heights.
Just as Jiang Ruming had made up his mind, bean-sized raindrops began to fall, dripping into the river. Jiang Ruming looked up and saw a vast expanse of white. The rain lines that covered the sky and the sun were falling, setting up obstacles in front of him. This rain came more suddenly and quickly than he had expected, as if it wanted to wipe out all the rain in Yizhou for a hundred years today.
Jiang Ruming stood by the river bank and watched quietly for a long time. Seeing that the rain was heavy but no major disaster occurred due to the existence of the river, he turned back.
Inside the city, due to the dredging of the ditches, the rain as big as beans hit the ground and splashed water. It fell quickly and gathered into small streams that flowed slowly on the streets, and flowed into the river little by little along the ditches. Everything seemed to be fine.
Jiang Ruming walked on the street, looked at the situation on the street and relaxed, but he didn't know that this was just the beginning.
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