Joy of Life: I am a Han Dynasty succubus, and I rebel from the beginning

Chapter 261: Floods struck Jiangbei again, and with the help of Lin Ruofu, the family property was confiscated and the clan was exterminated!
Almost no one in the world, including the common people, local wealthy families, merchants, and soldiers, blamed Liu Hong for this incident.

In terms of emotion and reason, Liu Hong has done his best. At the very least, he gave his subordinates the opportunity to pass on the message in the court.

Under pressure from all sides, even the Grand Commander of Andong, who occupied one-third of Qing Kingdom, was powerless.

Emperor Qing, who was in the imperial study of the palace, looked at Liu Hong's envelope and smiled triumphantly.

There was a hint of disdain in his smile as he casually threw the letter into the fire.

"I thought Liu Hong was the same as Ye Qingmei, but I didn't expect him to be such a wimp. Under so much pressure, he still chose to compromise."

After being slapped in the face so many times, Emperor Qing finally stood up.

The letter in the fire burned slowly, illuminating the confidence in Emperor Qing's eyes.

Liu Hong, nothing more than that!
When faced with big events, one cherishes his life; when seeing small profits, one forgets righteousness.

It's just a dragon that stirs up temporary storm.

Emperor Qing saw Liu Hong's weakness and compromise. In that case, he decided to try again to test Liu Hong's bottom line.

His Andong 3rd Road, Dongshan Road, Jiangbei Road and Jiangnan Road cannot be taken away so easily.

"Let Hong Sixiang come over!"

Eunuch Hou's heart trembled inexplicably. It seemed that Emperor Qing, who had been quiet for a year, was finally ready to take action.

Even though Liu Hong chose to compromise during the trial meeting, is Emperor Qing beginning to get impatient?
The Jiaozhou 800-person trial meeting was changed to a public opinion meeting.

Fan Xian finally stopped running around, using Ye Qingmei's reputation as Emperor Qing's son to attack Liu Hong.

Liu Hong also set off towards Jiangbei Road.

According to Lin Ruofu's urgent news, the major rivers south and north of the Yangtze River have begun to flood again, and there is a fear that they will burst their banks again.

The homes that the disaster victims in Jiangbei had rebuilt with great difficulty were destroyed.

Jiangbei Road Civil Affairs Commissioner Chen Hong looked at Liu Hong, who was in a trance, and crawled on the ground, reporting carefully.

"The Yangtze River has been repaired for hundreds of years, why does it still burst its banks so often?"

Liu Hong clenched his fists tightly. He had invested nearly two million taels of silver in manpower, material resources and financial resources in resettling the disaster victims.

If the Yangtze River bursts its banks again, I'm afraid without millions of silver, there will be no way to cover it.

Emperor Qing was so willing to hand over the three routes of Anton to me, probably he had this in mind.

Either Liu Hong would do whatever it took to relocate the Jiangbei victims to the north or south, or worse still, he would have to watch them die.

Otherwise, Liu Hong would have to spend huge amounts of manpower and material resources to rebuild the Yangtze River embankment again, and the cost would be enough to bring down Liu Hong's Grand Marshal's Office.

When Chen Hong heard Liu Hong questioning Qingguo's governance measures over the past century, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Sir, you know that in the early years, Qing State had no money and was unable to govern. Now Qing State has money, but the money has all gone into the pockets of officials."

"I'm afraid it's not just this!"

After Liu Hong heard Chen Hong's words, the anger on his face disappeared, but his grim temperament became even stronger.

"The ignorant officials above are giving orders, and Tong Guangchen is unwilling to take action against the land occupied by the aristocratic families."

"Be greedy for a little more money. Anyway, the levee has been like this for so many years. It doesn't matter. Haha..."

In the end, Liu Hong seemed to be laughing, but it made Chen Hong tremble all over.

"Chen Hong, I appoint you as the chief administrator of the Yangtze River to control the floods in the Yangtze River."

"I will make those corrupt officials and the aristocratic families spit out all the money and land they have taken in over the years!"

Liu Hong spoke in a cold voice, and without hesitation stamped his seal on the letter paper that the official handed over with his handwriting.

Settlement with this group of people can only be delayed.

Liu Hong’s top priority now is to mobilize 100,000 soldiers from the Wuzhou camp to control the flood.

We also cooperated with the thirteen prefectures in Jiangbei Road to manufacture a large number of sandbags to block the breach of the dike.

No matter what, we cannot allow the disaster victims who have just settled down and are looking forward to the future to lose their homes and become displaced again.

Lin Ruofu, who had been staying indoors, was also alarmed by the flood in the Yangtze River and came to the Wuzhou camp.

Liu Hong has mobilized 100,000 troops through Er Gouzi and Ji Xin to fill bags of sand.

Hengzhou is where the levee was built and it is also the place where the largest number of disaster victims from Jiangbei were resettled.

"Grand Commander, what are you going to do?"

Lin Ruofu heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Liu Hong's actions, and bowed and spoke.

Liu Hong pointed at the soldiers who were hastily loading sandbags onto the carriage and spoke in a deep voice, "The Yangtze River embankment is about to burst. I'm going to plug the breach and make a second-hand preparation to evacuate the people."

"Minister Lin, I know you don't want to work in my house so far, but I am already too busy to deal with the flood."

"I can no longer distance myself from the Yangtze River. There are millions of people there. I beg you to help me! In the entire Jiangbei Road, only you, Minister Lin, have this prestige."

Lin Ruofu looked at Liu Hong's sincere face and his heart trembled slightly.

He has always regarded Liu Hong as a person who is fighting for power like other officials in the court and Emperor Qing.

After all, he once was.

However, in the face of this flood, Liu Hong resolutely stood up and took on the responsibility of flood control.

You know, it’s okay for Liu Hong to just ignore it.

After all, this is a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster, and it cannot be reversed by human power.

When floods broke out, Liu Hong provided thin porridge to help the victims.

You can still earn a lot of reputation without having to get involved in this mess.

Lin Ruofu nodded heavily. Having been timid and cautious all his life, blood suddenly boiled in his heart and he burst into laughter.

"Okay! The Grand Commander has such ambitions, so what if I, an old man, go along with you and have some fun?"

Liu Hong's fief was in Qianlong Bay and his hometown was in Danzhou.

He took active action in response to the flood in Jiangbei. How could he, the last prime minister who was born and raised here, fall behind?
Liu Hong held Lin Ruofu's hand tightly and their eyes met.

Lin Ruofu couldn't help but lower his eyes, not daring to look directly into Liu Hong's eyes that seemed to contain magic.

He was afraid that when Liu Hong asked him to become the de facto prime minister of the three routes of Andong, he would not be able to help but agree.

Liu Hong was not in the mood to talk about recruiting Lin Ruofu at this moment.

He hurriedly led an army of 100,000 and urged the civil servants in the rear to continue preparing sandbags.

At this time, heavy rain was already falling in Hengzhou.

The governor of Hengzhou, the main official in charge of flood control in the Ministry of Works, and the generals of Hengzhou looked at the crumbling dam.

He couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, with a look of compassion on his face.

"Alas, the dam was rebuilt only a few years ago, how come it collapsed again? I'm afraid the people will suffer."

Without saying a word, if it weren't for their greed and extortion, they would have refused to give up the fertile land near the river and even reclaimed land along the river on a large scale.

How could things have come to this?

"The Grand Commander has arrived!"

The officials of Hengzhou were shocked as they looked at Liu Hong, who was walking like a dragon and a tiger, wearing armor.

They all bowed and saluted.

"Meet the Grand Commander."

Liu Hong faced the bean-sized raindrops from the sky and looked at the river bank that was as thin as paper.

Even though he was practicing the Tianyi Dao that advocates being close to nature, he felt dizzy for a moment and took several steps back.

There were bloodshot in his eyes and he growled.

"This is the gift you gave to this governor. These are the levees you built?"

No wonder the Yangtze River dikes burst repeatedly. Even if the national treasury spent tens of millions of taels of silver over a hundred years, it would be of no avail.

These officials are probably hoping that the dam will break, and then wait for the money from the court to build the dam and to provide relief to the people.

This way they can make a fortune from the national disaster.

It only takes a few breaches of the dam, and everyone can become an honest governor with a salary of 100,000 silver coins.

Er Gouzi supported Liu Hong, who was a little unstable, and looked a little worried.

"What are you still standing there for! Confiscate the property of these officials and generals, and exterminate their clans!"

Liu Hong roared angrily and issued the order to exterminate the entire clan for the first time.

Although Liu Hong once hated the practice of collective punishment.

　A belated update, but I can only say that it will arrive eventually!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)