Rain in Jingnan, rain in Taizhou, rain everywhere in Jiangnan.
This continuous rain that stretched over half of Jiangnan had been raining for twelve days before it stopped raining, and the dark clouds that shrouded the sky over Jiangnan slowly dissipated, and the sky gradually showed signs of clearing, with the hazy sun looming.
“Heh, the rain has stopped. Where’s the flooding? Where did the flooding go?!”The new governor of Tai Ping County stood in the courtyard of the county office, spun around with his arms outstretched, looked up at the sun that was trying to cover his eyes, and snickered as he said to the staff around him.
“What Dongweng said is very true. But only a dozen days of light rain, how can it cause flooding. That one in the neighbouring county is worrying over nothing.”
The curator followed and laughed in agreement, very good at guessing the upper meaning of the smooth foot stepped on the neighbouring county Zhu Pingan.
This bureaucrat is the governor of Taiping brought when he took office, in fact, is commonly known as the master, but the Ming Dynasty has not yet the title of master, the usual bureaucrat to call. Although the governor of Taiping said without a clue, but the shogun, as his beloved, knew that he was talking about the neighbouring county governor Zhu Ping’an sent to send that letter reminding of flood prevention and flood control.
“I have long said that Zhu Pingan’s person is actually hard to live up to his reputation. He is a person who is very much praised for his ‘achievements’, but it is just the right time to do so, only the foolish people are deceived by him. The former governor is incompetent, many troops and food, but learn from the treacherous Qiu Luan, trying to bribe the Japanese, the trouble east, and the result is to move a stone and stone their own feet, for the Japanese to take advantage of, in vain, the vertical son of fame. Jiangnan since the rain, the vertical son of a small see more strange, how ridiculous.”
Taiping governor snorted.
“The reason why the one from the neighbouring county did so is perhaps because he wanted to add to the icing on the cake, and get one more credit for flood prevention and flood control before he leaves office.”The staffer speculated without malice.
“Hm? Not bad. This official has long since seen through this person who is selling his name and reputation. I will not be able to do as he wishes!”
The Taiping Magistrate was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and after making up his own mind, he felt that it was very likely that he had an even bigger opinion of Zhu Pingan, and felt that he had been wise to discard Zhu Pingan’s letter in the rubbish bin in the first place.
If it is not in view of Zhu Pingan will soon be appointed to the fifth grade of the Imperial Commander of the Criminal Investigation Department, is their own quasi-superior, Taiping magistrate even want to come but not to be polite, to Zhu Pingan to go to a letter to taunt Zhu Pingan a little bit.
At this time, the object of Taiping County’s contempt and spurning – Zhu Pingan, is leading Liu Dazhou and others to inspect the situation of flood control and flood prevention. The continuous rain that lasted for twelve days has stopped, but the flood control cannot stop.
When it first started raining, people were still cooperative and more active about flood control. But now the rain has stopped, and then let them flood control, people’s enthusiasm is not so high, there are some discordant words also circulated.
Roughly speaking, the governor said every day that flood prevention and flood control, but now the rain has stopped, hit the face not?
When Zhu Pingan was inspecting and guiding the flood prevention and control, he also heard these discordant remarks without any surprise.
The Rizheng and Ri Lao at the scene could not help but tense up, glaring hard at the village scions, trying to find out which one of them was the trouble maker who was only concerned about the chaos in the world, wasn’t that causing trouble for the village.
“Hehe, as long as everyone can be at peace, I would even like to have this kind of face slapping a few more times.”
Zhu Pingan was not the least bit bothered by these discordant remarks, smiled slightly, looked at the crowd and said in a self-deprecating manner, waving his hand to stop Liu Dazhou’s move to try and uncover the vocaliser along with the Rizheng and Ri Lao.
At once, everyone laughed, and the nervous and apprehensive Rizheng and Ri Lao were obviously relieved, and the tense atmosphere at the scene dissipated. Zhu Pingan’s figure became even more magnificent in the eyes of the common people.
“Our governor will definitely be able to become a prime minister in the future.”Someone at the bottom whispered to the person next to him and said with conviction.
“Why?”The next person did not understand.
“Because the prime minister can hold the boat in his belly ah, our governor can tolerate a big belly, and will definitely be able to be the prime minister in the future.”
The person at the bottom said with incomparable certainty.
The person next to him heard, could not help but laugh, but after a laugh, carefully thought about it, and nodded again. How old is the governor now, he is already a Commander of the 5th rank of the Tidings and Pressure Enforcement Division, and it is too likely that he will join the cabinet as a prime minister in the future.
Zhu Pingan saw the crowd because the rain stopped, flood control awareness has slackened, then said to the crowd, “life is only once, life is heavier than Mount Tai. Flood control is the most important thing about the lives of all the people in the county, so please pay more attention to it. Today the rain is stopped, but what about tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next year? Floods can not be predicted, can only be prepared in advance. Flood control and flood prevention project is a hundred-year project that concerns the country’s livelihood, flood control and flood prevention is done well, no matter when the flood disaster occurs, we can be prepared.”
“Grand Master Zhixian don’t worry. This is all for the sake of all of us, we know in our hearts, we know the importance. Now that the rain has stopped, it’s time to get to work, and I will definitely urge the young and old to work harder to fix this dike.”
The Ri Lao and Ri Zhengs said one after another.
Zhu Pingan arched his long hand at them, and all of them returned the salute, loudly stating that they would definitely work harder to repair the dike.
Zhu Pingan made his rounds from the morning until the evening, reminding and encouraging the crowd at each place. Under the guidance of Zhu Pingan’s inspection, the flood control project in Jingnan County was constructed quickly and well.
There was no rain overnight.
On the second day, the weather was better than yesterday, and in the morning, the sunrise that hadn’t been seen for more than ten days rose from the east.
When the governor of Taiping woke up in the morning and saw this scene, he was even more scornful of Zhu Pingan, the neighbouring county, and was even sharper when he spat about him with his staff.
On this day, the sky cleared up, sweeping away the haze of more than ten days, the sky was blue, and the long-lost bright sunshine returned over Jiangnan.
In the latter part of the afternoon, when the sun was about to set in the west, a piece of thin, white, fish scale shaped clouds slowly appeared in the blue sky, and gradually half of the sky seemed to be covered by these fish scale clouds.
“Wow, auntie look, look, the clouds in the sky are so beautiful.”After the little bun maid, Painting Er, noticed the fish scale clouds in the sky, her maiden heart couldn’t help but leap, and she couldn’t help but tug on the sleeve of Zhu Pingan who was ambling around writing.
After being reminded by Painter, Zhu Pingan raised his head to look out of the window, and at first did not think so, but after noticing the fish scale clouds in the sky, he suddenly shook, and instantly got up, put down the brush in his hand, and walked outdoors.
“Auntie, wait for me ……”
The bun little maid, Painter, was surprised that her own auntie was so fond of the clouds in the sky that she couldn’t help but go out to see them.
However, after going out, Painter realised that something was wrong, Auntie’s face was serious, as if she didn’t like the clouds in the sky.
“Fish scale clouds in the sky, rain drenching the ground. I’m afraid it’s going to rain heavily.”Zhu Pingan looked up at the sky and couldn’t help but frown as he muttered to himself.
This was not a good omen!
