National Division

On February [-], the dragon raised its head.From high-ranking officials and dignitaries to ordinary people in the capital, they all go out for outings.On such a sunny and sunny day, King Ping left the capital and went to the feudal land to join the feudal domain.

The long motorcade meandered away until the dust was gone, and the prince who saw him off turned around and bowed to the officials: "My lords, please go back."

The officials who came to see him off hurriedly saluted: "Please, Your Highness."

Qi Jun glanced condescendingly at the horse.Qizhang left Beijing today, Emperor Jing'an ordered the officials to see him off, but many people who were usually afraid of Ye's party's influence, but stood far behind, so that the scene of Qizhang's farewell just now was really a bit deserted.Although it has the title of "Ping", the vassal king is a vassal king after all, and he is getting farther and farther away from the nine dragon chair in the main hall.

The officials gradually dispersed, and an inconspicuous carriage next to it raised the curtain with a bang, and Zhibai poked his head out from inside, with a look of joy on his face: "Have you all left?"

Qi Jun quickly pushed his head back, looked around to make sure no one was paying attention, then got off the horse and got into the carriage: "What's the rush, just stick your head out without looking at people walking away!"

"Is it rare to come out once—" Zhibai was very dissatisfied, "It took so long to send a trip." Since he entered the palace, he had almost no chance to step out of the imperial city, let alone follow him on tour. Youchun went on an outing.

Qi Jun smiled: "It's okay, let's play a little longer today, and it's okay to go back after dark."

Zhibai cheered, and stretched out his head to urge the coachman: "Go quickly!" He retracted his head and asked Qi Jun enthusiastically, "What fun places are there in the capital?"

Qi Jun was changing into the clothes of ordinary people. Hearing this, he smiled slightly: "There are many interesting places. First go to Daming Temple to eat vegetarian food, and then go to the back of the mountain to see apricot blossoms; at night, you can go to the west of the city, although it is not the Lantern Festival. But there are also some lanterns to see."

Zhibai's eyes sparkled when he heard it: "Then hurry up!"

Qi Jun felt a little funny: "It is said that it is a famous vegetarian restaurant, but it may not be made by the royal chef in the palace. Lanterns—there was no Daqing in the palace this year, but last year—" He just wanted to say that there were a lot of lanterns last year, Suddenly thinking of the assassination of him on the Shangyuan Festival last year, he swallowed the second half of the sentence.

Zhibai looked at his face, put away his joyful expression: "Now that King Ping is a vassal, Your Highness should be relieved."

"Don't worry?" Qi Jun leaned back and sneered, "It's still far away. Mrs. Ye still has soldiers in his hands, and there are still people in the court. Those who are hungry and full of food are not a problem, but Mrs. Ye is in For more than ten years in the middle of the court, the foundation is not shallow, but they are just vassals, and they cannot be uprooted, and they have to be gradually plotted."

When Zhibai heard Xu Xutuzhi's four words, he immediately looked frustrated: "When is the head?"

Qi Jun couldn't help laughing: "Forget it, what are you talking about today, go for a walk, go to Daming Temple!"

The vegetarian food in Daming Temple is extremely popular, and you can’t eat it unless you make a reservation. People are a bit cheap, and the more so, the more they want to grab it. After grabbing it, it seems that it is also very delicious.Zhibai even ate the bottom of the plate before he burped and put down his chopsticks: "It really lives up to its reputation."

Qi Jun was particular about not eating too much, he had already put down his chopsticks, and couldn't help but smile seeing his unsatisfied expression: "It's not necessarily better than in the palace. If you like it, let the small kitchen of the East Palace do the same in the future." In the past, Zhen Mingzi was not tired of eating, eating, eating, and eating, but knew that he was frugal. Even if he was a vegetarian, he only had two dishes and one soup every day, so he felt that the fast food in Daming Temple was particularly delicious.

Zhibai patted his stomach, very satisfied: "It's not necessary, just eat a delicate meal once in a while. If it's like this every day, it will be boring."

Qi Jun laughed softly, and suddenly remembered something: "Father wants to make you a national teacher."

"National teacher?" Zhibai felt a little drowsy while rubbing his stomach.

"Yes." Qi Jun felt that his mouth was a little dry, he hesitated before whispering, "I—— persuaded me."

"Oh." Zhibai's eyes were almost closed, looking like a dozing kitten.

"Why don't you ask me to dissuade you?" He was so casual that Qi Jun became a little impatient.

"Ah?" Zhibai forcefully opened one eye, "Why?"

"Qi Zhang left the capital to become a feudal clan, but the emperor was actually not very willing in his heart."

Zhibai opened both eyes: "Your Majesty is still unwilling?"

Qi Jun sneered slightly: "After all, he is a son who has been doted on for many years, and he will always feel a little uncomfortable when he is sent away like this. Moreover, the Ye Party in the court publicizes the fact that the phoenix is ​​surrounded by everyone—"

"Why Ye Dang?" Zhibai was baffled, "Wouldn't it be good for His Highness if the Luanniao didn't go around?"

Qi Jun sneered and shook his head: "People's hearts are ups and downs, whether it is beneficial or not is only a thought. Why did the father hunt and kill the palace people before? It's just because there is a man in the palace that he can't control. Now Ye Dang is publicizing How could the royal father have no scruples about the matter of the phoenix bird? If there is any doubt, I will replace him right now—the royal father has decreed to make General Zhao the Marquis of the Zhu Kingdom. Concubine Ye Gui is really good at sending Qi Zhang away, showing weakness to the emperor, and now she wants to put me on the fire."

Zhibai looked at him bewilderedly, his face full of bewilderment.Qi Jun couldn't help laughing: "It's hard for you, I'm afraid you will be confused after hearing it." Zhibai is a little Taoist priest practicing in the mountains, and he is not an old fox in the court. These tricks of guessing people's hearts are inevitably unfamiliar, "Forget it, let's not talk about it. It's just Your title—"

"Don't you already have the title of Immortal Master?" Zhibai waved his hand indifferently, "Whether it is a national teacher or an immortal master, it is just a title. A practitioner can even give up this skin. What."

"No——" Qi Jun subconsciously stretched out his hand and took his hand, "I discouraged my father from appointing you as a national teacher, of course it is because the Ye Party is now fueling the flames and wants to make my father jealous of me, if you are sealed at this time As the teacher of the state, I am afraid that my father will suspect that I am the one who covers the sky in this palace—"

Zhibai finally understood one thing: "This imperial palace belongs to His Majesty." Whether it is the crown prince or the national teacher, they should bow their heads to Emperor Jing'an, instead of forming a party and trying to control the harem.

"Yes. It's just that I have other ideas—" Qi Jun looked into Zhibai's eyes seriously, "I want to seal you personally. When I inherit the great rule, I will personally seal you as a national teacher." It is my country. Teacher, not father emperor.

Zhibai didn't think about the doorway here at all, and nodded with a smile: "Okay, I'll wait for His Highness to appoint me as a national teacher." After speaking, he laughed, with a heartless expression on his face.

Qi Jun felt that his teeth were itchy, and retracted his fingers hard, and he saw Zhibai grinning and pulling his hand out: "Your Highness!"

Qi Jun snorted, and squeezed hard again before letting go.Zhibai's hands are fleshy, unlike Wen Liangdi and others' slender fingers, which are so thin that they are only bones, and they feel dry when pinched.Qi Jun let go of his hand and felt a little regretful, he should squeeze a few more times.

Zhibai rubbed his hands with a bitter face, with a look of daring to speak out.Seeing him like this, Qi Jun felt a little guilty again: "Does it hurt?" In fact, he didn't use much strength.

Zhibai said flatly: "His Royal Highness's hands are like iron bars! Why don't you find an iron bar to clamp your own hands."

Qi Jun laughed, stretched out his hand and pulled his hand over to rub it. Just as he was about to speak, a guard in plain clothes rushed into the meditation room: "Your Highness, there is an urgent report from the northwest. It has been raining for several days, and there is going to be a flood!"

Qi Jun frowned: "Floods?" The Northwest has always been considered arid land, no more than the Jiangnan area with continuous rain and waterlogging. Although there is more rain in spring now, it never rains for several days in a row.In addition, the land in the northwest is so dry that even a few days of heavy rain may not be enough to cause disasters. Why does the northwest regard it as a major event and report it to Beijing urgently?

The guard's face was very ugly, and after seeing it, he said in a low voice: "According to the news from the people in the northwest - General Zhao sealed the bottle in the small building in the general's mansion when he left. Jie Nu colluded, the previous big victories were all fake, and they colluded with Jie Nu to deceive His Majesty. Therefore, His Majesty became suspicious, and if he wanted to keep General Zhao in the capital, someone from the northwest would secretly copy General Zhao's The General's Mansion wanted to find out the documents that collaborated with the enemy, but the documents were not copied, but the bottle was smashed..."

"What!" Zhibai stood up, "broken the bottle?"

"Yes." The guard's face was extremely ugly. "It's a letter from the confidant of General Jia Bi, General Zhao's confidant. It is said that when the bottle was broken, it began to rain heavily. General Jia Bi did not think of this at first. It wasn't until it rained non-stop for a day and two nights that he suddenly thought of the bottle and hurriedly sent someone to deliver a message. The local Jiedu envoy still didn't believe there would be a flood, until someone came to report that the rivers inside and outside the border were flooded together, and the mud and rocks on the mountain collapsed , so I was a little afraid that I would be held accountable if I didn't report it, so I wrote a memorial overnight and handed it over to Beijing. Counting the time spent on the road, today is the seventh day."

"Can this rain last for seven days?" Qi Jun said, turning his head to look at Zhibai.

Zhibai's face calmed down at this time, and he sighed softly: "It's not just seven days, this kind of heavy rain may not stop even in the next seventeen days."

"It's just a swamp of water..." Although Qi Jun heard Bai said the importance of it, but he also witnessed that the water in the small bottle was only a sip, and he never thought that it would be so serious.

Zhibai shook his head: "The long whale sucks water, the amount of water in one mouthful can be equivalent to hundreds of rivers, not only the water that can be seen in the swamp, but also the water that is a hundred feet deep underground, there will be no grass in that area within three years. Health. I originally planned to spend five years slowly returning the water to the original place, so that every year there will be more rain than in previous years, even if it is a little flooded, it will not cause disasters. disaster."

Five years of rain fell suddenly, and floods were simply inevitable.Moreover, the land in the northwest is relatively flat, and there are not many water conservancy works. If such a sudden flood occurs, there will be nowhere to vent it. I am afraid that it will become a swamp country.

"Can you take it back?" Qi Jun frowned, got up and walked out.The flood is already terrible, if Jie Nu takes this opportunity to sneak attack, wouldn't it be worse!

Zhibai followed him, shaking his head.

"Can I pinch another long whale?"

Zhibai smiled wryly: "Not all soil can borrow spirits. What I use is a small piece of breathing soil left by Master. The breathing soil has spirit and can grow on its own, so it can retain the water it absorbs. Otherwise, ordinary soil The water has already dissipated, and how can a small bottle store water for five years. I am afraid that by this time, the soil will have already—” The bottle was smashed, and the small piece of soil was still there. If it is not stepped into the ordinary soil, where can I find another piece of soil?

"Then issue an order immediately, and use the Northwest Road to rescue the disaster with all its strength!" Qi Jun's face was gloomy. If Emperor Jing'an didn't suspect Zhao Di, how could there be such a disaster? Move in!" He said while looking at Zhibai's face, and then his heart sank, "Why—won't it work?"

Zhibai sighed lightly: "I'm afraid...it's too late..."

Qi Jun knew it himself.It has been seven days since the report was delivered to the capital, and I don't know how many days it will be until the Ministry of Households allocates money, grain, rice and manpower to go there.After the flood, dead bodies were everywhere. I am afraid that there will be a major epidemic. Coupled with the displacement of the victims, I do not know how many people will starve to death.At the beginning it was done to save more than ten thousand soldiers, but today I am afraid that it will cost ten times their lives.

The guard also looked at Zhibai: "Could there be no way for the immortal master? This, this is probably the lives of tens of thousands of people..."

Zhibai felt embarrassed and didn't speak for a while.Qi Jun saw his appearance, and raised a glimmer of hope in his heart: "Is there another way?"

"...I can only do it in Beijing..." Zhibai finally sighed, "It's just that I don't know if I can do it with my cultivation... I can only do my best."

"What should I do?" Qi Jun was immediately refreshed.

"Move the clouds." Zhibai sighed softly again, "Move the rain to the sea, so that there will be no floods, but the fishing boats at sea will be caught off guard, and I'm afraid it will hurt more lives—I can only try my best to move the rain to the sea." The clouds send one to the depths of the sea."

Even if there are fishing boats at sea, there are no more than hundreds of thousands of people in the northwest. If the rain clouds can be moved to the deep sea, the number of casualties will be even fewer.Qi Jun only thought for a while before making a decision: "It's so great! What do you need?"

Zhibai lowered his head and thought for a while: "Your Highness, ask the imperial doctors for some tortoise shells for me."

Qi Jun and his party hurried back to the palace, Zhao Yue was sitting in the East Palace feeling bored, when the palace servants reported that His Highness had returned to the palace and went to the imperial hospital, he couldn't help being startled: "What's wrong, Your Highness, but you were injured outside the palace? "

The palace man was at a loss: "It looks like His Highness doesn't look injured..."

"Go and see!" Zhao Yue patted the table, "It's useless at all! Take the chariot with you, and if His Highness is injured, bring it back quickly! By the way, don't let Wen Shi and the others know." The name of Shiji flashed in front of his eyes again.

The palace man ran away in a hurry, and came back after a while, but there was nothing behind him: "Your Highness found some medicine in the Imperial Hospital, and then went to the observatory."

"Go to the observatory again!" Zhao Yue stood up angrily.

The little palace man shrank his neck in fright: "Perhaps the fairy master is ill..."

"The immortal master should ask the imperial doctor if he is ill, and His Highness is not an imperial doctor—" Zhao Yue bit her lips tightly when she said this.Xiang Yao hurriedly waved her hands to tell the palace people to go down, and then said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the side of the observatory—this is what has fascinated His Highness."

Zhao Yue clenched her hands tightly and walked quickly back and forth in the inner hall for a few times before she made up her mind: "I will also go to the observatory to see what's wrong with the immortal master. I want to trouble Your Highness so much." !"

Xiang Yao was taken aback: "Your Majesty, over there to the observatory—it's always forbidden to enter without permission."

Zhao Yue made up his mind, and no one could persuade him: "I am here to invite Your Highness, and I am the Crown Princess, so what is not allowed to enter without permission!"

Xiang Yao's legs were so frightened that her legs went limp: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please don't do it! What if His Highness and Immortal Master have something to do... What should we do if we make a fuss like this?"

Zhao Yue thought of those men who quietly inquired recently, and felt that the fire was burning from head to toe, and even his eyes were red: "Show me! Whoever blocks it, drag it down first and kill it!"