In the summer of the 20th year of Hongwu, there was drought and no rain, and the heat was unstoppable. Take the land of Qilu as an example, for more than a month, let alone rain, it is difficult to see even a cloud in the sky. The scorching sun is like a big steamer!

Before noon, people were so hot that they couldn't breathe.

Yidu is good in the city, and there is a lot of urban greenery. Under the big trees, in the doorways, in the parks, by the ponds and streams, there are people enjoying the cool air everywhere. It can be said that they are enjoying the cold, but they are still sweating endlessly.

According to the statistics of the State Administration of Taxation, in the summer of this year, the number of peasants in Qilu, Hebei, and the Central Plains who went out to work for short-term jobs was more than 30 percent less than last year. Taking the Qilu Branch of the Transportation and Construction Bureau as an example, the daily salary of its subordinate labor force has increased by 10% compared with the same period last year, but the number is still relatively short.

The hot weather is a big reason, and the farmers are busy fighting the drought, but more importantly, the number of local workshops, workshops and even large-scale factories is increasing, which greatly crowds out the market for transportation construction.

Even though the latter offered a higher salary, the work was tiring enough, and he had to leave his hometown.

Compared with working part-time in my hometown, it is much more comfortable, not tired, and closer to home, which is better.

In more than ten years, Yidu City has become more and more towards the role of 'academic and cultural center', compared with the capital of the Great Qi Empire, the current Yidu is more like a gentle woman who has washed away the lead and precipitated impetuousness.

After all, it has gone through the tide and waves.

It is also because of the change of urban positioning, Yidu's urban construction has also retreated from luxury and turned to be fresh and elegant.

It is obviously a northern city, but it is forced to pass through the water in the east and Zishui in the west. The two rivers pass through the city, called the canal water in the city of Yidu, and the large and small bridges run through, living like a pair of merchant ships gathered in the city of Tokyo in the past, and the weather of the Hongqiao flying frame comes.

And when Lu Qian moved the capital to Jinling, Yidu City turned from an administrative center to a cultural center, and the city construction came to a big turn. It is no longer a flat avenue after another, but large and small parks are built inside and outside the city of Yidu City. There were fewer merchant ships at the water's edge, more stone tables and chairs, and more flowers and plants planted, and the style of the whole city was forcibly turned to literature and art by political forces. But after more than ten years, on Yidu's body, you can no longer see the traces left by the blunt turn.

In the hot summer weather this year, there are cool treasures in Yidu City.

The people in the city had their backs to the stream, stayed under the big willow trees by the water, shook their fans, drank tea, and set up the dragon gate, which tasted excellent. If you can put two large, round, crisp and sweet watermelons on the stone table, eat them in your mouth to cool off the heat and quench your thirst, then the taste will be even better.

As the saying goes, there is no gentleman in the middle of summer. The people by the water, regardless of whether they are big gentry and gentry, peddlers and pawns, or scholars and scholars, have many shirts and shirtless shirts, and they don't care about any etiquette, rules, gentleness, and decency under the hot sun. Even if it is the most comprehensive university in the world, the place with the highest concentration of junior colleges. In other words, Yidu City is the place with the highest cultural popularity in this era.

In Yidu City, there is a waterway in the city known as the South River, and two young students are sitting in a row under a big tree. They were obviously all strangers, and they didn't participate in the gossip of gourds and gourds. One is eating melons, and the other is looking around. After a while, the young man who ate the claws suddenly spoke to the man beside him:

"Xiao Jiu, why don't you eat melons, and you are not hot when you get sunburned?"

Lu Yue called his own Xiaojiu loudly, he was the son of Da Lixiao, Lu Qian's eighth son. Emperor Lu originally named him Lu Ji, but this is too unpleasant, is it homophonic braised chicken. If it was Lu Qian, he would change his name again and go to the homophone Yue of the Cantonese character.

"......" Lu E glanced at his starling, this sun is very hot, can it be hot enough for them? Yidu's palace is sealed, but it doesn't mean that they have no place to live, there are criss-crossing cold water pipes in the room from the bottom, the cold is comfortable, they sleep and have to cover the quilt.

I really don't know if it's the Khitan blood in the bones of Concubine Xian Niangniang, which makes the eighth child so afraid of heat.

The year before last, they followed Emperor Lu to the prairie to escape the summer, and Lu E really realized the 'fear' of the grassland people for the hot climate!

It's no wonder that the sturdy Yelu Yujian will take his life because of a summer heat, so that Lao Ba broke an arm out of thin air. However, the Yelu clan has a rich heritage, even though Yelu Dashi established the Song Kingdom, and with the name of his Yelu clan, he ruthlessly cut off a large piece of Lu Yue's meat, but with the support of a group of people led by Yelu Chun, Lu Yue's strength is still very strong.

Yelu has to pay attention to the father and son, as well as Xiao Heda [Li Heda], and even the faint help of Yelu Mawu, which is really not a joke.

Lu E didn't reply, but pricked up his ears and continued to listen to the nonsense of the people on the side.

"The Marquis of Kaesong is the former king of Goryeo, how can he be stingy when he marries a girl? The dowry was dried on the first day, and from morning to evening, the dowry was not finished. From the handmaid to the shop, from the furniture to the BMW, that handwriting is called an atmospheric ......"

Lu E is hearing this now, ordinary people are not very sensitive to power, and they value money more in their eyes. But Lu E knows a lot about the Tao inside, after all, over the years, many of their brothers and sisters have married.

The dowry is really a lot, but it is not enough to move in less than a day. His eldest sister can't do this, can a girl who is just a city marquis break so much?

Isn't that a dazzling makeup? Carrying the dowry around the road is to let the world see how carefully prepared the dowry is.

Whichever road has more people will go around, and whichever road is lively. The first dowry was the Hou Mansion that left early in the morning, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to enter the door of the Kong family until noon.

Yes. This Kaicheng Marquis Wang Kai is married to the Kong family.

Lu Qian went to Jinling, but obviously he didn't mean to take the Kong family to play. The latter has also accumulated a lot of connections through a few years of white glove career, and his own strength has also increased, but he is obviously not qualified to be a Jiang Raptor.

The cake in Jinling City is not the share of the Kong family. Even Yidu's Jockey Club was spied on, don't think that Lu Qi's political center has shifted, and Yidu has plummeted. More than ten years later, this prosperity is still the first in the land of Qilu!

Look at how many universities have fallen here over the years, and what kind of people are college students in this era? But don't bring in the hard college students of later generations. In today's era when you can get married at the age of eighteen, there are almost no singles for college students! The consumption power of college students with bright prospects is not small, not to mention the children of high-ranking officials and nobles who enter the school.

The unique development orientation allows Yidu to remain prosperous, perhaps not as luxurious as Jinling, nor as flashy and gorgeous as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, but the fragrance of books that has been bred for more than ten years is also called Yidu's Middle Earth at this moment is particularly different!

So, how could a Jockey Club in such a city have no peepers? You must know that in the whole Qilu, there is only one horse farm so far. Although it is similar to the Jockey Club, there are many 'this will and that will'.

As the highest title left in Yidu after Lu Qi moved the capital, Wang Kai showed full coveting for it.

But the result of several years of fighting is that the two families have become Qin and Jin, hey, this is the world of adults.

"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road!"

Lu Yue's sarcastic voice came from Lu E's ears. Obviously, although he was eating melons, his ears were not blocked.

"Starling, that's too much. Wang Kai and the Kong family both donated a lot of money. "Why did their brother come to Qilu? It is to understand exactly the impact of the drought on Qilu.

Although the imperial court has many channels to understand the disaster situation in Qilu, openly and secretly, it does not dare to guarantee that all of them are true, right?

There are corrupt and bribe-taking magistrates, and there are also corrupt and bribe-taking officials in the Security Division. It was the first time in these years that the north had suffered such a severe drought, and Lu Qian couldn't pay too much attention to it.

Of course, this is also a test for them by their father. It's a rhythm that you've been accustomed to since the age of twelve.

"It's either flooding in the south or drought in the north. I haven't seen a smooth weather in the past few years! Lu Yue spat at it, the Wang and Kong families should donate money, and how many rich families in the world don't donate money and materials?

If you don't donate money, how can a wealthy businessman get the hat of a 'national soldier'? And the value of the title of Guoshi has been depreciated again and again over the years, and now it has been officially kicked out of the 'title' sequence.

Through the gap between the willow branches, looking at the scorching sun overhead, Lu Yue remembered the coolness on the prairie, and of course he also thought of his brothers in the south, and the boredom in his heart dissipated.

It is hard to bask in the sun with Lao Jiu. But it was not easy for those individuals to roll in the rain slurry. The floods in the south were worse than those in the north.

“…… I heard that it was raining in the south, and God was out of proportion. Wouldn't it be better to let the rain from the south fall on us from the north? ”

"The levees have collapsed, and many people are soaking in the water. This time, the imperial court lost the sea......"