Xia Ruqing listened and became worried as well.
"Will there really be a flood?"
"Weren't the riverbanks already reinforced?"
Zhao Junyao shook his head lightly.
"It's useless!"
"There's been more rain this year, and Jiangnan is full of rivers and lakes!"
"It's impossible for every place to be sturdy, there will always be one or two places that breach!"
Floods, droughts, locusts, and other such natural disasters are what all emperors find most troubling.
Money can be talked about; if the national treasury is empty, it can still be earned again.
But the people's suffering is a serious matter.
Enduring hunger is already considered fortunate.
If a major river breaches, then it's not just about hunger.
A major flood can take tens of thousands of lives.
Then comes famine, locusts, and plagues.
As they say, misfortunes never come singly!
A series of disasters like that can cripple the local economy for years.
So...
