Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 428 Chapter 439: Great Flood

"Hush—" Li Hao made a silence gesture, and said, "Don't yell, don't let outsiders know."

"Why?" Situ Feng asked puzzled.

"Because I have a sacred order, I must not leave Qiongnan, otherwise it will be disrespectful."

"I understand." Situ Feng nodded, and walked into the cabin with Li Hao while speaking.

The big ship pulled anchor and set sail. Two days later, it arrived at Liuqiu. During these two days, Pei Miao observed the sky every day, and his expression became more serious. The closer he was to the wind and rain, the more accurate he could measure. Based on his experience, this time The wind and rain are not small.

After Li Hao arrived in Liuqiu, he asked Lu Yun to take precautions against the wind. In order to prevent a typhoon, Li Hao ordered all the cargo on the ship to be unloaded and drove back to the lake next to the shipyard, which is in a low-lying place surrounded by mountains. Shelter, not afraid of typhoon.

Three days later, the typhoon arrived as expected, coming from the southeast. Fortunately, although the wind near Liuqiu was very strong, it was not that terrible. The damage to the harbor was not too big. With the typhoon, it was naturally Heavy rainfall, it has been raining heavily for seven days in Liuqiu. Fortunately, Li Hao has the foresight. When he planned Liuqiu, he predicted that there might be more precipitation in Liuqiu. The water conservancy project of the rice field is very important. To open the fields, build the canals first. Although the rain was so strong that the rice fields were submerged, after the rain stopped for a day, it was obvious that the water level in the rice fields had dropped by half a foot. All the rainwater was discharged into the river through the canals, and then the Entering the sea, because Li Hao and the others were fully prepared, Liuqiu's side suffered little.

As soon as the rain stopped, Li Hao sailed to Quanzhou to check the disaster situation on Lingnan Road. As soon as he arrived at Quanzhou Port, Li Hao found that the sea outside Quanzhou Port was full of ships that had been overturned by the typhoon, and some ships directly hit the shore , was thrown to pieces, the harbor was obviously submerged by sea water, and there were still many shells, fish and shrimp corpses, and the Quanzhou Port was empty right now.

Li Hao managed to get the boat to land, went ashore to check, the people had left the harbor and hid in Changle City, but Changle City was not much better, the city was full of water, the deepest place could submerge knees, I don't know if the water is rainwater or sea water. Such a big typhoon is very likely to cause sea water backflow.

Li Hao was shocked. He didn't expect the disaster to be so severe in the south of the Five Ridges, even in the city, wouldn't all the farmland suffer.

Sure enough, as he expected, the land to the north was covered with vast ocean, and the original fields turned into lakes. If he wanted to go to Quanzhou City, he would have to row a boat there.

After coming to this world, it was the first time for Li Hao to experience such a large flood. He was also stunned by the flood in ancient times. It is no exaggeration to drift in the city.

There was water everywhere, and there seemed to be nothing to see. Li Hao sailed back to Liuqiu, packed some water and food, and went directly back to Qiongnan. Seeing how severe the disaster was in Quanzhou, he was very worried about the situation in Qiongnan, after all, it was his place there. fief.

When approaching Qiongnan, the waves are frequent and the wind is strong. The wind and rain here have not stopped. Li Hao's heart sank suddenly. It has been more than ten days and it is still falling. There is no way for people to survive. But the most densely populated place in Lingnan Road, he couldn't even imagine that the suffering was so serious.

Li Hao braved the wind and rain and returned to Qiongnan without any risk. He first went to see Cui Peng to learn about the disaster situation in Qiongnan. Cui Peng reported that the rice on their side had just been harvested before the storm came. There is no need to worry about food, but the houses of the people have been severely affected.

As soon as Li Hao heard that the food was not damaged, Li Hao felt relieved, and immediately asked Cui Peng to prepare for disaster relief immediately after the rain stopped.

Two days later, the rain gradually decreased. After three days of repeated light rain, it finally stopped.

Cui Peng went to the indigenous chieftain Saika for help, because Saika took all the indigenous people to hide in the mountains to avoid the flood, after all, the indigenous people are powerful, not afraid of the poisonous insects and beasts in the deep mountains, Cui Peng just wanted to ask Saika for help , Temporarily take in the people of Datang.

Even though Saika agreed, one ship after another transported the people to the deep mountains, and Saika sent people to pick them up, and they all took them into the deep mountains to live with the aborigines temporarily.

Although the disaster in Qiongnan has caused troubles to the lives of the people, it has not caused any substantial harm. Now Li Hao is worried about the people in Lingnan Road.

He set off by boat and came to Gaozhou. There was still drizzle in Gaozhou. A small seaport in Gaozhou was completely destroyed by the typhoon. Although there is water in Gaozhou City, it is not as exaggerated as Changle City. The main reason is that the drainage system of Gaozhou City is well built. The moat flows into the city and bears the burden of the drainage center. And, the feeling will overflow at any time.

Many people are rushing to Gaozhou City, and the farmland around Gaozhou City is already full of ocean.

Li Hao didn't want to watch it anymore, he would be sad if he watched too much, anyway, he already knew that this was a major flood, next, it would depend on how Li Zhi would deal with the disaster, without him by his side, he was a little worried and didn't know Can he cure the flood, so he immediately sent a letter to Shi Najie, trying his best to help Li Zhi.

Chang'an Taiji Palace, numerous memorials were presented to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi was very busy. They were all about the floods in Lingnan Road and Jiangnan Road. Yes, the flood this time was not only in Lingnan Road, but also in Jiangnan Road, Jiangnan Road, etc. Although the precipitation in Dao is not as high as that in Lingnan Road, there are many rivers in Jiangnan Dao. When there is too much precipitation, the rivers will flood, and the farmland will naturally suffer.

The most troublesome thing for Li Zhi is that Lingnan Road and Jiangnan Road are the two largest rice experiment bases in Zhenguan. Originally, they were expecting a bumper harvest in these two places this year, and the national treasury would be full. This flood destroyed all the dreams. , Not only that, Li Shimin’s imperial conquest took away most of the grain from the national treasury. Now Li Zhi wanted to relieve the disaster, but found that there was not enough food in the treasury. Fortunately, there was money in the treasury. , Hedong, Henan, and Hebei provinces had all the grain bought up, and Li Zhi was shocked.

After experiencing a disaster conspiracy, he couldn't help but wondered if someone was going to take advantage of the disaster to plot rebellion again.

In fact, more than half of the food was purchased by people sent by Shi Najie, and some of it was handwritten by those powerful and noble families. Shi Najie acted under Li Hao's order. To make money for the country, drive up the price of rice, and take the opportunity to make a fortune.

Li Zhi began to look for candidates for disaster control, and finally decided to send Shi Qian, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to go to Lingnan Road to deal with floods, and send Wu Song, a young minister from the scientific research temple, to go to Jiangnan Road to deal with disasters. He has heard from Li Hao that these two people are proficient in water conservancy projects. Talents.

At the same time, Li Zhi sent Ma Zhou to Jiangnan Road for disaster relief with the only [-] shi of grain and money left in the treasury. As for Lingnan Road, he really had no choice.

When Li Zhi was most helpless, a pigeon landed in Lantian Hou's mansion, and then a special soldier left the Hou's mansion and quietly came to Cheng Yaojin's mansion.

In the afternoon, Cheng Yaojin went to see Li Zhi at the Tai Chi Palace. He told Li Zhi that Li Hao ordered people to prepare 50 shi of grain, which could be sold to the imperial court at the original price for disaster relief. Hao suggested that Li Zhi move the disaster-stricken people from nearby states and counties to Qiongnan, because Qiongnan now has fewer people in the fields and has a lot of food reserves. The most important thing is that Qiongnan is less affected this time. After the disaster victims move over, they can quickly settle down.

Li Zhi thought it was a good idea, and discussed it with the ministers. The ministers didn't know that it was Li Hao's idea, but they thought it was Li Zhi's idea. They all agreed, because too many disaster victims gathered together, It is easy to have an accident, and soon, two official documents from the Ministry of Housing were sent by Kuaima, one to Ma Zhou, asking him to relocate [-] victims of the disaster to Qiongnan to settle down, and the other to Gangqiongnan to Cui Peng, asking him to prepare for the matter , All the money was allocated by the Ministry of Accounts, but because the allocation of money was too slow, he was asked to borrow money from King Qiongnan first. Everyone knew that King Qiongnan was rich.

Soon, Li Hao received a letter from Feige sent by Chang'an. His opinion has been adopted and is being implemented. At present, the rain in Qiongnan has faded. Thanks to the water from Shecheng, the flood can recede so quickly. This river is simply a natural water conservancy project. Li Hao immediately went to find Cui Peng. Cui Peng was in charge of recruiting manpower, and Li Hao was in charge of paying for the expansion of Qiongzhou and the construction of a new county near Qiongzhou. There are only [-] people, a new county With the expansion of Qiongzhou, it can definitely accommodate it.

While Li Hao and the others were busy in Qiongnan, the Datang Lingnan Road was full of mourners. Eighty percent of the huge Lingnan Road was hit by disasters, and half of them were severely affected. Now the flood has receded, leaving a mess. On the ground, many houses have collapsed under the soaking of the flood, and even those relatively strong houses have accumulated mud after a few feet.

This is not the point, the point is food, such a big flood, all the grain stored in the people's homes is gone, and the crops that are about to mature in the field are also gone, nothing is left, the people of Tang Dynasty who were still good before, are now all reduced For the disaster victims.

Countless disaster victims flocked to various prefectures and counties. Now they can only place their hopes on the government. People pay taxes to the court and naturally enjoy the court's pension. At this time, only the court can help the people. This is the relationship between the court and the people. In the interdependent relationship, once one party breaks the balance, the world will be chaotic.

Naturally, the government could not ignore the life and death of these victims, and opened warehouses one after another to release grain and cook porridge for disaster relief. However, it is not long before summer, and there is still half a month before the harvest, and the grain has not been confiscated, so the government's food stock is not much. The relief food has not yet arrived, and hundreds of thousands of people in Lingnan Road are waiting for food. The government has been forced to hold on for nearly ten days, and the grain depots in various counties and counties are empty. Even so, the government still does ideological work for the victims every day, repeating That sentence: "The government's disaster relief food is already on the way..."

In order to survive until the court's disaster relief food arrived, the common people began to dig wild vegetables, pick wild fruits, and eat bark...

And at this moment, some caravans suddenly appeared in various states and counties of Lingnan Road. These caravans sold grain on the street. The price of grain in Datang was very low. Now it costs four to five pennies a bucket of rice, which can be said to be extremely cheap. However, now these merchants are actually selling fifty cents a bucket, which is a tenfold increase. The victims of the disaster are already poor and empty. Even if they have money, it is quite limited. How can they afford such high prices? People were less affected by the disaster, and now there is a food shortage. Even if the price of rice is sky-high, they are rushing to buy it.

Li Hao happened to go to Quanzhou to investigate the situation of the people. In Quanzhou city, he saw the scene of people scrambling to buy rice at sky-high prices, and immediately frowned. Li Hao hated this kind of profiteer who made a fortune for the country.

Seeing that Li Hao's expression was wrong, Long Sihai who was following him immediately guessed Li Hao's thoughts, and whispered in his ear: "I have already sent someone to inquire, these grain merchants are not local, it seems to be They come from places like Guanzhong, Longyou, Hebei, and Henan."

(End of this chapter)