Chapter 46 City Defense
Pei Xuanyi frowned when he saw Zhou Fangyu coming in.
Zhou Fangyu has been much more obedient these days without Zhou Fangze's support.
She hasn't been making trouble for a while, why is she doing it again?
Fu Qian was also a little surprised.
They were busy outside every day, even Qin Xixi followed Qin Qixuan for a while, followed Pei Xuanyi for a while, secretly came up with a lot of good ideas for the two of them, and helped Pei Xuanyi get rid of many forces left by Zhang Yongcai.
Zhou Fangyu knew that she was annoying and couldn't help, so she stayed in the room, and no one knew what she was doing.
Zhou Fangyu spoke.
"I wonder if Your Highness and Lord Fu have checked the city's defenses? Liancheng has just suffered a flood and is short of troops and manpower. It is a good time for foreign troops to attack. If there is a problem with the city's defenses, wouldn't it give others an opportunity to take advantage?"
Fu Qian and Pei Xuanyi looked at each other and realized that they did not check the city's defenses.
In recent years, the national situation has been stable, and the exchanges with neighboring countries have been friendly. There have been no major conflicts, so the awareness of preparing for war has faded.
Pei Xuanyi secretly thought that it was not good. The most taboo during a truce is to relax. As the saying goes, forgetting war will lead to danger. They were indeed a little negligent.
But this Zhou Fangyu...
Pei Xuanyi narrowed her eyes. She seemed to have some brains now.
Is she smart by nature, or is there an expert guiding her?
Pei Xuanyi didn't have time to think too much, so he put Zhou Fangyu's matter aside for the time being and began to discuss countermeasures with Fu Qian.
"City defense is of course important, but other repair work must also be carried out. How about this, Your Highness, you take Qixuan, Xixi and Zhou Fangyu to check the city defense, and I'll go see if the people have any concerns."
Dividing the troops into two groups will be more efficient.
Pei Xuanyi also agreed, and several people set off.
City defense is divided into two parts. What is important right now is the construction of flood-fighting facilities and the defense of the city walls to defend against foreign enemies.
The group came to the place where the tide rose before, and they found that the officers and soldiers in charge of the construction were sleeping!
This city, from officers to soldiers, was actually infiltrated bit by bit.
Zhang Yongcai was only the county magistrate for half a year. It is hard to imagine whether the management class of Liancheng would have completely collapsed if he had been in office longer.
"Come on, catch them!"
Pei Xuanyi gave the order with a sullen face.
On the day of the heavy rain, the river water rushed into the city from the south without caring about their lives.
The influx of river water caused water to accumulate on the ground of the entire city. Some low-lying places were even able to submerge the calves.
Because of this, a lot of food in the jars was damp and moldy.
They were in a hurry to rescue the victims at the time and did not go around the city. They just heard the officers and soldiers report that the dam was being built.
Unexpectedly, there has been no progress in the construction of the dam until now!
I'm afraid it wasn't that the dam broke before, but that the dam was not repaired at all!
"Brother Qixuan, you go check other flood prevention measures, I'll go check the city defense."
Qin Qixuan took the order, but thinking about the danger of the river, he didn't take Xiao Xixi with him.
He first found a new group of people to build the dam, and told them that he would come back every day to inspect the results.
He also sent the captured officers and soldiers to the original county magistrate's office, and dealt with them together after the inspection.
He pondered for a while and went to another dam in the south of the city.
Liancheng is not a place surrounded by water on all sides, and there is only a turbulent river in the south.
This dam was damaged because officials embezzled the funds and materials for construction.
I'm afraid the situation of the other dam will not be much better.
While he was thinking, he suddenly heard a sound from behind.
He turned around sharply, but was suddenly pushed by someone and fell into the water.
Qin Xixi was in Pei Xuanyi's arms at this time, and her heart suddenly shook.
She had never felt this way before!
She always believed in her intuition, and thought that Qin Qixuan must have been in trouble.
[Big brother is in trouble! How about telling the little grandson to take me to find big brother! ]
She was about to cry in anxiety, fortunately Pei Xuanyi heard her voice. Pei Xuanyi
was also anxious.
"What's wrong with Xixi, tell me?"
Qin Xixi couldn't speak, so she could only point in a direction, signaling him to go find big brother quickly.
Pei Xuanyi took a few guards and quickly carried Qin Xixi to the place she pointed.
As a result, they ran to the riverside and saw Qin Qixuan who was trying to hold his breath.
Pei Xuanyi's face changed.
"Quick! Someone who can swim, come and rescue Brother Qixuan!"
Fortunately, some of the people who came were good at swimming.
Qin Qixuan's face was pale at this time, and he spit out a lot of saliva.
"Thank you for your help, Your Highness... If it weren't for Your Highness, I'm afraid Qixuan would have died here."
Pei Xuanyi shook his head with an unpleasant expression.
"It was Xixi who dragged us here. She probably has some telepathy with you."
"Go and find out who dares to harm the court officials, and arrest them all for me!"
The soldiers acted quickly and immediately arrested the sneaky person.
After interrogation, it was found that the officers and soldiers who were repairing the dike in the southeast of the city were arrested, and the people in the southwest of the city also knew about it at the same time.
The official was afraid that Qin Qixuan would find out that he had embezzled the construction funds, so he sent someone to push Qin Qixuan into the water, hoping to take the opportunity to transfer the property.
The officials in Liancheng were all corrupt!
Pei Xuanyi's face was extremely ugly at this time, and he ordered his men to arrest all the officers and soldiers who were building the dam in the southwest of the city and bring them back to the county magistrate's office.
Qin Xixi's little face was still pale.
[Has the disaster of elder brother not passed yet? Obviously, the imperial examination has been successfully carried out, and elder brother has become the number one scholar. Why is elder brother still in life and death? 】
Qin Xixi knew the driving force of the original book's plot, and was afraid that her elder brother would also become a victim of the plot!
Qin Qixuan listened to his sister's words, and his heart softened.
"Your Highness, give Xixi to me. The current matter is still waiting for you to deal with."
How could Pei Xuanyi bear to let go of the sweet and soft little Xixi?
But Qin Qixuan was right.
The officer and soldier system of Liancheng is probably already full of termites. Only a comprehensive rectification and killing the chicken to scare the monkey can temporarily prevent Liancheng from worrying about internal and external troubles.
So Qin Qixuan took little Xixi to continue to check the defense.
He felt that little Xixi had been unhappy since the beginning.
"What's wrong with Xixi? Who made Xixi unhappy? Brother will help Xixi solve it!"
Little Xixi felt aggrieved, but she didn't say anything.
[Wuwuwu, brother almost fell into the water. It must be the evil plot of the original book! Zhou Fangyu can now figure out that there is a problem with the city's defense. It is definitely not because of her own smartness, but because of the strong halo of the heroine! Wuwuwu, as long as Zhou Fangyu's halo of the heroine remains, our family will still be in danger! ]
Xixi was unwilling to accept it, but the status of the heroine in the original book was indeed not easy to shake.
Qin Qixuan was already used to Xixi saying that their world was the plot in the book.
He would not think too much about it, but just knew that his sister was very sad now.
Then take the opportunity of the examination to have some fun with your sister.
According to Xixi's words in her previous life, Qin Qixuan was taking her to slack off at work.
Along the way, Qin Qixuan was trying his best to make Qin Xixi happy.
The effect was very obvious. Little Xixi no longer thought about sad things and began to giggle.
Qin Qixuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He picked up Xixi and looked up, but found a huge omission in the deployment!