Jinyi champion

Chapter 335

This night is destined to be uneven.

Just after Maoshi, Zhu Hao was escorted by the guards of the palace to the Han River. At this time, the people sent by the palace had been busy up and down the river embankment for half the night.

Under the organization of the gentry, a large number of folks drove towards the river embankment continuously, and sandbags were carried onto the river embankment one by one, and gradually piled up into hills.

At this time, the surface of the Hanshui River was almost level with the top of the embankment, and a small area flooded the embankment, but it was blocked by sandbags in time.

What's more terrible is that it started to rain at dawn, and the rain became more and more heavy, and the sky and the earth were gray, which increased the difficulty of flood fighting and emergency rescue.

"Zhu Hao, are you here?"

When they saw Tang Yin again, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was wearing a coir raincoat and cape, standing on the embankment like a pine tree.Standing up all night made him look extraordinarily haggard.

Zhu Haodao: "Through the relationship between merchants and gentry, all the forces that can be mobilized in the surrounding villages and towns have been mobilized. The local gentry are divided into divisions to ensure that the dam is not lost. Especially for a few weak points, we will send additional manpower..."

Afterwards, Zhu Hao handed over a new map of the river to Tang Yin, but Tang Yin didn't reach out to take it, but motioned to the guard next to him to take it for him.

Then the two entered the temporary rain shelter.

Tang Yin sat down, put the cloak aside, wiped the rainwater from his face with a cloth, and then looked at Zhu Hao: "I heard that after I left, you went to meet King Xing and mentioned the government affairs to him. If you don’t come forward to organize flood fighting, I can understand why you asked me to rescue the emergency first... It seems that the government can’t count on it.”

Zhu Hao nodded.

"In this way, you can not only predict the secrets of the sky, but also see through the hearts of the people... The local Xinzhizhou has no understanding of the hearts of the people. Such a mediocre official probably won't last long."

Tang Yin sighed.

But Zhu Hao shook his head: "On the contrary, it is precisely because he is such an official that he can be like a fish in water in the officialdom... If everyone is as clear as water and as bright as a mirror, the Ming Dynasty's officialdom may be in chaos."

Tang Yin said: "Why?"

Zhu Hao smiled without saying a word.

Feudal officialdom is a very mysterious society of human relations. Many things can’t be explained. The same party and the fight against differences are only on the surface. The deeper level is a set of Confucianism’s theory of the mean to maintain. I don’t tell you about integrity and integrity.

Zhang Yezheng is good at flattering, making friends everywhere in the officialdom. After he arrived in Anlu, he first went to visit Zhishi's teacher, which is a proof. In addition, the big tree he was leaning on is now gaining power, even if he is utterly devoid of conscience It is impossible for everything to be taken down directly, let alone just a sudden natural disaster?

Perhaps after the disaster, Zhang Yezheng will still be the first to be rewarded for his meritorious deeds... Even if the local government does not perform such meritorious deeds, his backers will take the initiative to ask him for meritorious deeds.

"Do you want to say that if I was in the officialdom in the imperial examination high school, I would become like them, disregarding the life and death of the common people for the sake of the future?"

Tang Yin was somewhat depressed.

Especially when he saw that the local government knew that there was a disaster but did not prevent it, and only waited for the aftermath to provide disaster relief and gain political achievements, he was a little discouraged.

Zhu Hao really wanted to say, I'm not assuming what would happen if you entered the officialdom without any accidents before, but what would happen if you were in the officialdom in the future.

I just hope that by then you will not be polluted by the filth of officialdom.

Tang Yin was somewhat pessimistic at this time, seeing Zhu Hao kept silent, he still asked for proof: "How did you guess that the local government would turn a deaf ear to the flood?"

Zhu Hao said: "Mr. Tang, let me tell you a story. Maybe this story doesn't exist in reality...There was once a disaster in two adjacent places. The officials of one place took precautions in advance and made all the preparations that should be done. , to minimize the losses caused by the disaster; the other place is completely ignored, and the disaster relief is not started until after the disaster... Guess who the court rewarded when the disaster passed?"

Tang Yin shook his head and smiled wryly: "I understand that disaster relief is not as good as disaster prevention. Disaster relief can gain merit. Besides, the cost of disaster prevention is too high, and disaster relief... Sigh!"

He was already very disappointed with the officialdom, but Tang Yin became even more depressed when he heard Zhu Hao's story.

"Mr. Tang, I've read it. As long as the defense is done properly, Anlu shouldn't have any serious problems after this wave of flood peak passes. Now we have to guard against piping in the embankment."

Zhu Hao didn't want to talk about officialdom with Tang Yin anymore, it was more practical to talk about disaster relief.

Tang Yin was puzzled: "What is plumbing?"

As the "front-line commander" of flood fighting and disaster relief, Tang Yin is a layman who knows nothing about flood control.

He was purely trying to drive ducks to the shelves, and he didn't know what else he could do besides assigning people to carry sandbags to seal up the overflowing river.

Zhu Haodao: "It's just turning sand and blowing water. This is a sign of a dike collapse... Once you find a pipe gushing, you must immediately send additional people to throw sandbags at the place to fill it up. In the next few days... it may be on the river embankment Every ten steps, there must be one person on duty to observe the water regime, work shifts day and night, and increase the patrol manpower until the flood passes."

"Ah."

Tang Yin nodded.

It's useless to talk, Zhu Hao got up: "Mr. Tang, you are the one who is in charge of disaster relief now, and I have told you all the ways I can think of, so... I will go back first! Persistence is victory, you have to believe in your own ability, I will definitely be able to lead the army and the people of Anjun to win this battle against floods and disaster relief!"

Tang Yin's face was full of bitterness: "I never thought that I, Mr. Tang, wasted half my life and was approaching old age... Hehe, Zhu Hao, no matter what, I still want to thank you, just treat it as me thanking you for the local people."

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A mighty disaster relief effort was carried out in an orderly manner.

Local merchants and gentry, as long as they have local property, did their best to fight the flood and rescue the disaster. Even the Zhu family sent people to the river embankment...but their focus was not on the weak points of the river embankment, because only the people on the other side of the ferry The water regime is enough to give them a headache.

It was past two o'clock when Liu Butler arrived, and the ferry was covered with ocean, he almost waded into the market at the ferry with waist-high water, and many people rowed directly on the road.

"Master Liu, something is wrong. Our goods are basically flooded... Two of our warehouses collapsed, and all the goods inside were washed away by the flood. The other few rooms were basically flooded, and the loss was extremely heavy!"

When the shopkeeper stationed at the ferry told the situation, Butler Liu felt his head buzzing.

There was only one thought in his mind, how should he explain this to the old lady?
"Hurry up, hurry up, there is a dangerous situation in the south embankment again, and everyone who can move should go south and block it in time!" At this time, someone called people to go to the embankment for emergency rescue, and soon a boat rowed south, but Steward Liu didn't have that thought. He wants to go back and report to the old lady as soon as possible.

"By the way, the Third Madam also sent people over today. I heard that it was her shopkeeper who mobilized local merchants to fight floods and prevent disasters. It seems...it was led by Prince Xing's Mansion."

The shopkeeper under him continued to report.

Butler Liu was startled: "Third Madam?"

He was a little puzzled, the fight against Hong should be something the government should do, but why Zhu Niang jumped out on her own initiative, shouldn't it be the government that took the lead?

"It's the third lady, but she didn't show up... Do you want to ask her for help, and see if you can organize a group of people to go to our warehouse for rescue?"

The shopkeeper under him was completely helpless, and his face was full of despair.

Butler Liu glanced at the warehouse with only a steeple left, shook his head and said, "It's hopeless, we should quickly move the people to a safe place, this loss...is nothing, the Zhu family can fully afford it."

At this time, he could only smash his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, pretending to be calm to calm people's hearts.

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The heavy rain stopped abruptly at noon.

It is obvious that the flood was not caused by local sudden torrential rains, but indeed came from the upper reaches of the Han River.

Hong Feng came so suddenly that people were caught off guard, but because of the foresight of King Xing's Mansion, they organized people to go to the river embankment in advance to guard against death. This afternoon, there was no major danger on the Anlu section of the river embankment.

At this time, tens of thousands of laborers have gathered on the river embankment, and a steady stream of young adults are transporting sandbags to the river embankment.

At this time, each of the guards of King Xing's Mansion is equivalent to a small team leader in charge of dozens of people. As long as they give an order, all the people around will cooperate to work together.

Tang Yin looked at the endless bank of the river, where there were dense crowds of people moving about, working in full swing, and he couldn't help feeling a bit of pride in his heart.

"Sir, you are already very tired after staying up until now, and now everything is under control, why don't you find a room to rest." Lu Song came over to persuade.

Tang Yin shook his head: "It's okay, I stay on the embankment, it's a kind of silent encouragement to the big guys... Hey, why does it feel like a tough battle here compared to fighting bandits?"

Lu Song thought to himself, isn't it? During the battle, you just need to stand on the top of the city, watch from a distance, and report to you when we finish the battle.

But now in front of you is the river water that is almost at the same level as the embankment. If the embankment under your feet breaks, you will be buried in the torrent with the people around you... Only when you really feel Only when it is dangerous will everything feel so real.

"It's really thanks to Young Master Zhu. If he hadn't insisted on... making preparations after getting the news this morning, I'm afraid it would be too late!"

Lu Songwu was somewhat afraid.

Tang Yin nodded.

At this moment, there was a carriage coming from a distance, but when the carriage approached the embankment, it could no longer move forward, and the overflowing water from the embankment formed a puddle.

The people in the carriage got down, waded through the knee-high water, and went up to the river embankment. It was Shi Yuan Zonggao, the chief of the palace.

"Yuan Changshi."

Tang Yin hurried over to meet him, and gave him a hand by the way.

Yuan Zonggao looked at Tang Yin with a smile: "Bohu, I just received news that there was a continuous day and night of torrential rain in the southeastern part of Shaanxi and the northern part of Huguangxi, causing mountain torrents to erupt. In addition, several tributaries along the upper reaches of the Han River were also raining at the same time. , the river surged this night...

"The upper reaches of Xiangyang Mansion should have been foresighted, but they didn't have time to prevent disasters. An embankment burst, floods obliterated a large number of villages, and destroyed fields...The situation in the lower reaches is not much better."

Lu Song said: "So, only Anlu is safe?"

Yuan Zonggao nodded with a wry smile.

The Han River suddenly surged. Except for the precautions in Anlu, the Xingwang Mansion mobilized tens of thousands of people to defend the river embankment. The upstream and downstream Xiangyang, Jingzhou and other prefectures had no time to respond. When they found out, it was too late and the flood overflowed the embankment. At the head, there is a vast ocean all around, each family wants to protect themselves, who has the heart to guard the embankment?They can only flee for their lives and resign themselves to fate.

Later, the river embankment was washed away, and everything was over.

"King Xing asked the old man to reward you, and Zhu Hao... Where is Zhu Hao?" Yuan Zonggao looked around, but he didn't see Zhu Hao.

Lu Songdao: "Master Zhu came here early in the morning to guide the disaster relief, and then went to other places. The several dangerous places specially marked on the river map he drew really became the focus of disaster prevention today... Fortunately, we sent more people in advance to reinforce them in time. , so far there is no major deviation.”

"Rare, rare."

What else can Yuan Zonggao say at this time?
On the matter of fighting against the flood, even he, Yuan Zonggao, was belatedly aware. Before that, he had ridiculed Zhu Hao and Tang Yin for making a fuss out of a molehill.

(End of this chapter)