Martial Cultivator

Among the things that happened in the eleventh year of Tianjian, Weizhou Dashui was closely related to Chen Chao.

It can be said that without that flood, the future of Chen Dynasty may not develop like this.

"Although Daliang has focused on the defense of the northern border in recent years, and more than half of the national treasury revenue is spent in the north every year, this does not mean that Daliang does not care about other places in Daliang."

Zhou Gouqi said calmly: "Daliang was founded more than 200 years ago, and the Wei River flooded a total of thirteen times. In the early years of Taizu, a county on the downstream bank was flooded. Then during the Taizong period, there were several floods, but none of them were of such a large scale. By the time of Emperor Lingzong’s reign, the imperial court built five dykes including Xin’an, which completely solved the problem of the Wei River. In the following decades, the Wei River never flooded both sides of the river again.”

Chen Chao waited for the answer.

Zhou Gouqi said: "Those levees were built by the Ministry of Industry, and there will be no problem. They will not be a problem if they are maintained for at least another hundred years. However, they were destroyed in the heavy rain in the eleventh year of Tianjian."

Chen Chao figured out the smell and frowned: "In other words, someone deliberately destroyed the embankment?"

Zhou Gouqi nodded. After years of investigation, he had found out the truth.

"But why?"

Chen Chao looked at Zhou Gouqi and couldn't figure it out. Such a thing must have been done by that ghost, but why would that ghost do such a thing? Since ancient times, the lowest common people are not worth the attention of big shots. , in their eyes, such people are no different from ants, let alone doing anything specially.

"After a flood, the court cannot come up with money for disaster relief. People's corpses are scattered everywhere, and naturally they lose their support. If a dynasty's hearts are scattered, it is not far from overthrowing... These are all incidental to the flood. But at that time, the most important thing was that after the flood, many people would die.”

Zhou Gouqi looked at Chen Chao and said, "Weren't you also in that flood and had to leave Weizhou? During your escape, I think you saw many scenes that you will never forget in your life."

Chen Chao was silent. Indeed, during the escape that year, he had seen many scenes that could only be seen in the annals of history. Changing children and eating them was no longer a simple four-character story, but a story that actually happened before his eyes.

\u003e  “How many people died in the Weizhou flood?”

Zhou Gouqi suddenly asked.

Chen Chao thought for a while and said softly: "That was probably the biggest flood in history. Almost no one on both sides of the Weishui River was spared, and many, many people died."

In a flood, some people were killed immediately, and those who survived lost their homes and had to leave their homes.

"Even the imperial court cannot calculate the specific number of casualties. Does this mean that no one knows how many people were killed in the flood?"

Zhou Gouqi smiled and said, "What if someone had kidnapped those people before the flood?"

Chen Chao was startled, then raised his head.

If this is the case, then the previous conjecture will have the answer.

A flood was just to cover up the truth about the people being kidnapped, so that no one in the world knew about it. Everyone would think that the people were swept away by the flood, rather than being kidnapped by some people.

Chen Chao said: "Why do we need so many people?"

Zhou Gouqi looked at Chen Chao and said calmly: "The demon clan has the habit of using the human race as blood food. Not only did the former Qi cede 30,000 miles of Mobei, but they also signed a humiliating peace treaty. Every year, they sent countless of their own clan to the demon clan to exchange for peace for the human clan. , which of the various cultivation resources needed by monks outside the country are not collected by ordinary people? There is a kind of shark beads overseas, and countless fishermen die in the sea every year for these shark beads. In this world, ordinary people live in the most difficult times. At the bottom, but in many places, we cannot do without them.”

"But after doing so much, the big shots still look down on them, treating them as ants and ignoring their life and death."

Chen Chao asked: "I think it was the person behind the ghost who gave the order, but I don't know whether it is going north or somewhere."

The north is the Yao clan, and the rest is naturally Fangwai.

The ghost hiding in Daliang has these two forms behind him.

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Zhou Gouqi said: "Perhaps both."

Chen Chao exhaled a breath and said calmly: "In this case, he really deserves to be killed."

"This is just the tip of the iceberg. No one knows how many things they have done during the two hundred years since Daliang was founded."

Zhou Gouqi said softly: "But we will know soon."

"Who is that ghost?"

Chen Chao looked at Zhou Wolfberry seriously. Zhou Wolfberry must have known, otherwise there would not have been so many people coming to kill him.

Maybe at this time, even His Majesty knows.

The Emperor of Daliang had long known that there was a ghost in the Daliang Dynasty, hiding in the deepest place. He had been investigating it all these years, and Zhou Gouqi was that person.

Now I'm afraid it's almost time to close the net.

Zhou Gouqi reached out and slowly wrote a word on the ground.

"ghost."

Chen Chao looked at that word and said nothing. That ghost word felt a little awkward no matter how he looked at it.

After being silent for a long time, Chen Chao suddenly understood something, and then he figured out the whole story and said, "So that's it."

Zhou Gouqi didn't speak, just sat quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chen Chao asked: "When are you going to go back?"

Zhou Gouqi said: "Of course it's time to go back."

Chen Chao frowned.

Zhou Gouqi took out a jade slip from his arms and handed it over.

"All the truth is in it."

Chen Chao did not reach out to pick it up, but asked: "Why."

What Zhou Gouqi has done over the years is a great contribution to Daliang. One day when he returns to the capital of God, with this contribution, he will be able to regain a foothold in Daliang Dynasty, and may even become the successor of the dean again.

No matter what, at least with this thing, Zhou Wolfberry's life will be much easier.

Remove the secret that has been hidden in Daliang Dynasty

That ghost who has been around for more than two hundred years, with such meritorious service, it is not an exaggeration to even grant Zhou Gouqi the title of Marquis and Prime Minister.

"It's no use to me, I've been waiting for you."

Zhou Gouqi looked at Chen Chao and said with a smile: "The Zhou family has been destroyed. My heart is neither in the temple nor in the academy. Even if I have such meritorious service, what's the use? It's you instead. What situation are you in now? Don't you know? ?”

Chen Chao didn't say anything. He had killed his own brother. The situation was already very delicate. Although there was no need to worry about the identity of the remnants of the previous dynasty for the time being, there were still many potential troubles.

"While His Majesty is alive, naturally no one can touch you, but His Majesty will always leave, and if you don't become emperor, no one knows what the new emperor will do to you after he ascends the throne."

Zhou Wolfberry looked at Chen Chao with a smile.

Take the second prince who died before as an example. If he is still alive and becomes the new emperor of the Liang Dynasty in the future, then there will be no place for the Chen Dynasty. Although he is dead, the other two sons of His Majesty the Emperor will be in the future. How to do it, who knows?

"Your identity is delicate, and people's hearts will not change forever. The knife is not in your hand. What you have to do is actually very simple, that is, no matter whose hand the knife is in, it can never fall on your head."

It doesn't matter if someone wants to kill you, as long as he can never think about it.

"Your Majesty must have great hopes on you. You will definitely be one of the most important people in the Liang Dynasty in the future. Countless people will want to kill you, some very directly, some not so directly. In the court, Those who are loyal ministers often have no control over their consequences, and those who are powerful ministers will not end well. I hope you will be a famous minister in the future, and your advancement and retreat are in your own hands. "

Chen Chao understood and said with emotion: "You scholars know so much, but ordinary scholars will definitely sneer at this, right?"

Zhou Gouqi smiled and said, "I'm not a corrupt scholar."

Chen Chao stood up, took the jade slip, and said gratefully, "I owe you a favor."

Zhou Gouqi waved his hand and said, "No, who calls me your half-brother-in-law?"

Chen Chao didn't say anything, just rolled his eyes.