Chapter 367 Arrangement
The weather is clearing up.
Phoenix Mountain seemed extremely busy. The imperial guards and the reserve soldiers of the imperial camp were cleaning up the collapsed palace. Countless envoys of local officials and members of the cabinet came hurriedly to pay their respects to the emperor, but they stopped at the level of Lu Yihao and Liu Hongdao. Close ministers such as Lu Benzhong and Ren Baozhong were also sorting out documents. Even the monks of Shengguo Temple were taking the opportunity to drain the canals and clear the waterlogging in the mountains.
Not only that, the entire southeast should be very busy at this moment, because from Phoenix Mountain you can see that in the fields, villages and cities here, there are people draining water and clearing silt everywhere to minimize losses.
At this moment, Zhao Jiu himself has come to realize that such continuous rainy weather at this time of year and in this location is most likely caused by a typhoon thousands of miles away at sea.
I just don't know if it was just the flapping of my butterfly wings.
Of course, he also didn't know that historically there was indeed more rain in the southeast region in the summer of that year, which caused a decrease in silk production and autumn harvest, but it did not reach the level of a disaster. This matter was clearly known to later generations through the memorials of Zhang Jun and other relevant ruling ministers.
Then again, assuming Zhao Jiu was a high-end historical talent and he knew about this, he might ask why his butterfly wings failed to stop the typhoon?
Without further ado, let's get back to the present. After experiencing a small storm, Emperor Zhao showed up by going out for a walk, which calmed people's hearts. He took in the scenery after the rain, and after returning to Shengguo Temple at noon, he began to try to revise the poem.
That’s right, just change the poem.
There was a sudden storm last night, and his own house collapsed. There were splashes one after another, just like frogs jumping into a pond after the rain. Perhaps because of this, he couldn't sleep all night, so the official hesitated and was in a daze early in the morning, and made a huge joke... He actually wrote a bad poem with the wrong tone and even repeated words in the rhyme.
This is not just a matter of falling short of standard. Repeating words at the end of a sentence is a mistake that even a ten-year-old child would not make. If you don't believe me, why don't you ask the child prodigy from the Lu family to come and try?
Since the words were repeated, it was not a poem at all. But Emperor Zhao was not a monk, so he could not give himself a topic. What made Lu Benzhong and others speechless was that the embryo of the poem was still there, and the momentum and style were still in line with the emperor's usual attitude. Even if others wanted to take credit for it, they could not... So everyone basically believed that Emperor Zhao had made a mistake.
Therefore, the official spent the whole morning trying to revise the poem in order to make it less embarrassing.
However, Zhao Jiu looked at the poem on the table, thought about it, but didn't know how to start... It's not that it can't be changed, just one word, for example, change "Xia Yaoshan" to "Meeting Jinchuan" or "Crossing Dachuan" and directly refer to the event at the Jinhe League and the destruction of Western Xia, and it would be roughly acceptable.
But the problem is that the Western Xia incident obviously cannot be compared with the Yaoshan incident. The most important and greatest achievement of Emperor Zhao's so-called eight years of achievements was the Yaoshan incident. Yaoshan was the foundation. To some extent, the Western Xia and Jinhe alliance was the deep-seated result of Yaoshan's battle.
Therefore, since he was describing his own achievements and expressing his admiration for the ancient sages, he could not escape the story of Yaoshan.
But then again, if we have to keep the two words "Yaoshan", we cannot give up the famous line "Looking north to the Central Plains, the air is as majestic as the mountains", because that is the momentum of the whole poem.
So, the official thought about it over and over but couldn't come up with a solution, and finally just threw the poem aside... Anyway, he didn't believe that Lu You would be able to go to Dasan Pass to defend Bashu in his lifetime. The most he could do was to guard Yinshan... As far as the current situation is concerned, no one owes anyone anything, right?
Besides, in terms of effect, after listening to this doggerel, Lu Yihao did not delay his determination to go to Hebei to "fill the ditches"? He did not stand up and say, "Official, you used the wrong word."
The effect still worked.
However, although Emperor Zhao was desperate, he made things difficult for Lu Benzhong.
As a true poet, Lu Benzhong saw that the embryo of this poem was excellent enough, so it was natural for him to want to edit the poem and publish it in Phoenix Weekly, which could be regarded as a political announcement for Emperor Zhao.
However, on the one hand, Emperor Zhao was unwilling to make changes, and on the other hand, Lu Benzhong was reluctant to make changes without permission. However, he was reluctant to give up the poem, so he gritted his teeth for most of the day, which made this famous poet very anxious.
But no matter what, Zhao Jiu, who had given up on revising the poem, would not care about Lu Benzhong's thoughts. Since he gave up on this matter, he did not return directly to the north, but still stayed in the southeast... However, everyone could see that this official was indeed a lot more relaxed compared to the hatred and bitterness he had felt here for more than half a year.
Without mentioning anything else, in the next few days, this official led the Red Heart Team to inspect the surrounding counties many times with a light load. His footprints were all over Hangzhou, Huzhou, Yuezhou, and Muzhou, but he often did not enter the city, did not ask officials, and did not reveal his identity. He just walked in the countryside and stopped in front of the market pier.
In fact, if Hangzhou had not been aware of Emperor Zhao's trip, the surrounding prefectures and counties might not have known from the beginning to the end that Emperor Zhao had visited their jurisdiction.
After all, this was not a drama of a secret visit and a cry for justice. Unless it was some typical vicious criminal case, an emperor's handling of some grass-roots affairs overstepping the authority would often cause chaos far beyond the matter itself. And how could such a purely super-vicious incident happen to happen next to him by chance?
Therefore, this official was more concerned about local customs and inspecting the impact of the summer rain on the local waterlogging, and he had no intention of interfering in the local affairs.
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