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Chapter 175

In recent days, Emperor Hongsheng has been thinking about how to prevent floods in the south of the Yangtze River.

In previous years, the imperial court would station the dam, but the dam was repaired every year, and floods occurred every year. It was of no use at all. On the contrary, the imperial court spent a lot of money on it every year.

Thinking of the article Ye Ximing wrote during the previous palace examination, Emperor Hongsheng suddenly wanted to have a chat with Ye Ximing.

After Ye Ximing finished preaching to Emperor Hongsheng, he was originally going to wait for Emperor Hongsheng to speak before retreating, but Emperor Hongsheng suddenly said: "I remember Ye Xiuzan, you are from Yongxing Prefecture, right?"

Ye Ximing didn't understand why the emperor suddenly asked him this, but he still answered honestly: "Back to the emperor, I am indeed from Nanxing County, Yongxing Prefecture."

"Last year when there was a flood in Jiangnan, many victims seemed to have fled to Yongxing Prefecture. Have you seen those victims?"

Emperor Hongsheng became the emperor at a young age. Even though he was just an emperor without real power, he was still an emperor. He could hardly even leave the palace on weekdays.

Although he is the lord of the world and the world belongs to him, he has never really seen the true appearance of these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. What he knows is from the memorials of courtiers and the mouths of people around him.

Just like the victims of the Jiangnan flood last year, he could tell from the memorials and the mouths of people around him that they were miserable. As their king, he wanted to help them, but in fact he had never seen the miserable conditions of those victims.

"I have seen it." Ye Ximing was in a trance for a moment, and after thinking calmly, he said: "I happened to go to Fucheng to take the exam at that time. There were many disaster victims in Fucheng at that time. They were all skinny and their eyes were numb. Many of them fled from their hometowns to Fucheng and their relatives were already dead. Death, loss, some people want to sell themselves into slavery, but no one wants them.”

"My wife was kind-hearted, so she brought back a brother and sister from the street who sold their bodies to bury their mother. I learned a lot from them, and I also practiced writing many articles on flood control at that time."

When Emperor Hongsheng heard this, his interest became even more intense, "Tell me about your articles."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Ye Ximing responded. Fortunately, he had actually written these articles before and was not just talking casually to deal with the emperor, so he did not panic at all and calmly talked to the emperor about the articles he had written before.

His articles were written by reading many books and summarizing what he thought. The main purpose is to "clean the beach deeply, build weirs low, divert water to irrigate the fields, divert floods and reduce disasters."

After hearing what Ye Ximing said, the emperor felt that he was right in choosing Ye Ximing as the number one scholar.

"When you go back, write another article on flood control and give it to me tomorrow."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After returning home from his job, Ye Ximing began to sit down at his desk and write articles that Emperor Hongsheng wanted.

He must seize this opportunity that comes to him. If his speculation is correct, the emperor will send people to Jiangnan to control floods in the future, and he wants to join in.

If he succeeds in controlling the flood this time, his official position may be promoted.

And it will also let the emperor see his ability, and he will have more opportunities in the future.

Ye Ximing was right. Emperor Hongsheng did have plans to send someone to Jiangnan.

After reading Ye Ximing's article the next day, Emperor Hongsheng called in several adults from the cabinet, as well as people from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs to discuss the matter.