Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 422
Generally speaking, a huge mountain will have a sunny side and a sunny side.

In Shi Congyun's memory, when he was a child, adults called the side facing the sun the front mountain and the side facing the sun the back mountain.

The back mountain is rich in water sources, the soil is soft and fertile, mostly black soil, and the trees are tall and lush, mostly broad-leaved forests.

However, the back mountain is generally not chosen for camping. Even if the water source is very important, the short light time is very fatal, especially during the peak period of torrents and mudslides in May and June, camping in the back mountain is very dangerous.

The front mountain is mostly as it is in front of you, with low and sparse trees, dry land, scarce river water, and is not prone to landslides, mudslides and other disasters, so it is a suitable place to camp.

However, when camping in the front mountain, the water source must be paid attention to.

Days of torrential rain turned the hard soil slope into mud, which became more slushy and sticky after being stirred by soldiers, officials, and victims of the disaster. After being exposed to the sun, the surface of the red soil suddenly became sticky and slippery, as if smeared with lard. If you don't pay attention, you will slip and fall, and it will be fatal if you are on a steep mountain road.

These have all become huge obstacles to disaster relief.

The mountain on the opposite side is even more devastated, yellow and green, with mud and rocks rolling down from time to time, making horrible crackling noises, like a watermelon with rotten skin, large-scale landslides, mudslides exposed soil and rocks, and large areas of red Huang Dadi was turned upside down.

Most of the villages on the mountain have been destroyed. In the face of nature, human creations are so fragile that they can be easily destroyed.

The sound of the rumbling river can still be heard in the valley below, and the huge sound echoes on both sides, and it can be heard clearly on the mountain.

The heavy rain has ended for two days and the sky has cleared up, but the flood has no sign of abating in the slightest. The original stone bridge on the river has been completely washed away, and many people along the coast have been washed away, and there is a high probability that the bodies will not be found.

After the army arrived, they built two temporary bridges by the river to ensure that the supplies could be transported. Most of the people in the front mountain were not affected by the heavy rain, but the disaster in the back mountain was very serious. Two villages were even completely destroyed by landslides and mudslides. Almost all the people's bones are gone.

The surviving people were concentrated in the highlands of Qianshan, where Shi Congyun’s camp was also located. The corpses were piled up on the top of the mountain to prevent the water from washing them away, but it is not a long-term solution for the people to live with the corpses.

In order to prevent the plague from causing more chain disasters, Shi Congyun ordered all the corpses to be burned on the spot under the pressure and the people's cries and pleadings.

Seeing the corpses of relatives being burned, many people burst into tears and wept bitterly. Shi Congyun sent officials to spread the news that dead bodies would cause plague, but he still couldn't completely suppress the grief and hatred of the people.

This is only the outlying disaster area. There are more than 400 people in several villages in Liangshan, which is a small place.

There were only [-] people in the camp in Qianshan, and the rest were either missing or dead.

It was the first time that Shi Congyun came to the front line of the disaster, and Shi Congyun felt powerless, too powerless.
This is completely different from the disaster relief of later generations. It is difficult for the country to dispatch the army uniformly. Most soldiers have no experience in disaster relief at all, and it is impossible to do their best to save the people. It is normal to deal with things.

More importantly, in this era, there are no airplanes, satellites, cars, trains, and various heavy-duty road-opening machinery. Many roads in disaster-stricken areas are destroyed and cannot be entered. And more places don't even have news, and people can't get in. Whether people can live or not depends on whether the old man gives face or not.

It is the court's best effort to settle the people who can escape, and it is not uncommon for hundreds of thousands of people to die in random disasters.

If in later generations, a disaster that killed hundreds of people would have shocked the whole country, but here, even if a disaster killed thousands of people, the government and the people would not be surprised, and everyone is used to it.

At this time, Shi Congyun also found that he, the emperor, was far from being as arbitrary as he thought, and he was unable to change many things. Before thinking about holding a national draft, the expansion of years of victories had been thrown into the sky, and he was soaked by this flood. , Sober up a lot, only full of haggard and powerless.

Shi Congyun stood on the top of the mountain, stepping on the muddy ground, watching the raging flood below roaring at the bottom of the mountain. Soldiers carefully transported supplies through the temporary bridge. Very small portion.

After the sky cleared, the summer wind was still blowing, but it was heavy, making it hard to breathe.

Officials only came to report to him yesterday that the number of missing and dead people has exceeded [-], and in the worst-hit counties along the Yellow River, some places are still inaccessible, so it is not clear what the situation is.

However, they all expressed their concerns tactfully.

Shi Congyun understood what they meant, and directly asked them what they guessed.

Officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs predicted that the death toll may exceed 50, and the number of people affected by the disaster is estimated to be around [-].It will cost an astronomical amount of money to completely relieve the disaster.

Hearing this number, Shi Congyun's heart skipped a beat.

Nodding calmly on the surface, his heart was extremely heavy. The terrifying roar of the river below also made him restless, and the humidity and heat in the air also made him a little restless. Another thing that made him restless was that Xiao Huanghua was sick and had a fever in bed.

He regrets a little now, he shouldn't have brought Xiao Huanghua here at the beginning, it's all because he was too coquettish, the battle ahead went smoothly, the Liao Kingdom surrendered, and the kingdom was destroyed one after another, he was in the midst of a happy spring, so he thought that there was nothing wrong with him in the world, it was nothing Emperor Shi couldn't handle the matter, so he let Xiao Huanghua come.

As a result, I felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

After all, Xiao Huanghua is not like him. She is strong and strong. She followed him and took care of her all the time, but the conditions were difficult and the environment was harsh. She developed a fever within a few days, and now she is still in a daze on the bed, which made him worry a lot. .

At this time, the Battle of Lianhua Mountain that Pan Mei mentioned should have started, I don't know how the battle is going.

According to Pan Mei's description, this battle is likely to determine the fate of the entire Eastern Route Army, and it has a lot to do with it. He can only sleep for two or three hours a day these days, and he has something on his mind.

And this catastrophe does not know what kind of impact it will have on the country.

A few days ago, several prime ministers wrote a letter saying that they would come to the north to replace him. Shi Congyun hesitated. It was indeed too hard and tiring to stay here, which made him want to go back to the capital and wait for the result comfortably. I have fought for most of my life, suffered so much hardship, enjoyed it, and it is reasonable to be lazy.

However, after a night of ideological struggle, these ideas were finally rejected by him.

The more it is at such a critical time, the more we cannot relax. The front line is still fighting, and such a big incident happened later, and we cannot make any mistakes.

By the beginning of June, the situation gradually began to stabilize. After the heavy rain, there was no news of the battle in the south, but there was movement in the north.

Xiao Siwen wrote a letter saying that his daughter Xiao Chuo was sick and could not come to Daliang. Please forgive me, but he can send another clan girl instead.

Shi Congyun was a little angry and felt that something was wrong, so Li Hanchao also sent a letter.

Li Hanchao, commander of Guanbeidu, said that his secret interview found that Xiao Siwen's daughter was not sick, but that Xiao Siwen seemed to want to break his oath with Qin and let his daughter marry the Liao royal family, but he didn't dare to act, as if he was testing.

Based on Xiao Siwen's refusal, Li Hanchao asked to send troops to teach Liao a lesson, and also made Xiao Siwen think about his own mistakes, and quickly sent his daughter to Daliang to serve the emperor.

Li Hanchao was very excited in his words. It could be seen that he wanted to make military achievements, and he also felt that it was a great achievement to do this well. Everyone in the world knew that the emperor was good at this, and he was professional in robbing other people's Emperor Shi.

After Shi Congyun saw it, he immediately understood, and he thought it was true.

In the past, he would have been furious and told Li Hanchao to fight quickly, but now he is strangely calm.

It may be that he has seen the devastation in the disaster area, it may be that he has realized his own powerlessness, or he is really immune. After so much, women are more for him to pursue a kind of psychological satisfaction. As for physical stimulation, Emperor Shi has seen a lot, so it doesn't matter anymore.

After going through this extraordinary spring and summer, he suddenly felt that the so-called Xiao Chuo and the so-called clan of the Liao Kingdom were not important. Compared with the millions of people in front of him who were looking forward to him, they were nothing.

The most important thing now is to stabilize the current situation. At this time, the middle school is already very difficult. The victory in the south is still undecided, and disasters continue in the Central Plains. It will be difficult if there are still problems in the north.

What's more, Xiao Siwen thought he was smart and kept testing his bottom line, but he didn't know that for the current Emperor Shi, it didn't matter whether Xiao Chuo was not Xiao Chuo, he was more willing to have an excuse to start war against the Liao Kingdom at any time.

If Xiao Siwen really broke the contract, if he didn't send Xiao Chuo here, it would mean that the Liao Kingdom would go back on its word and violate the covenant first, then it would be justifiable for them to tear up the peace agreement and send troops first.

So Shi Congyun replied to Li Hanchao immediately, telling him to guard the border and not send troops.

But he treated Xiao Siwen's letter coldly, pretending not to see it, not posting it, not replying, but devoting himself to disaster relief work.

(End of this chapter)