Article 184: Disaster
(Today, I was sprayed with a long bag by a book friend, and I wanted to return a few words, but I suddenly found that I had nothing to say. This book friend probably read all the books of the gunman, and criticized the gunman for not growing, and he was a little wronged, but in fact, he still made some progress, but it just couldn't meet everyone's expectations. There is a limit to personal talent, and the ability is so little, you can't expect me to reach the sky in one step. The gunman can't write the heroine well.,Since the horse stepped on the world.,The heroine has been sprayed.,Sprayed so that I can't feel ashamed.,This book,It's started again.,This book friend is probably upset with Xia He! I'm also very distressed, but I can't help it. Without further ado, let's end with a passage from this book friend: two ignorant teenagers, happy to youth, noisy to adulthood, mutual understanding to middle age, companionship and respect to old age, and mutual foam to the end. Looking back on the plain but reassuring precious, friendship, love, family affection tight conversion is enough to go through a lifetime, acquaintance, acquaintance, love, stay, accompany, suddenly look back on a life of pure heart, love is long, pure heart and dust, so real love can only have once, not everyone can have. Ahh I suddenly feel that this book friend is more suitable for writing than me, and I am ashamed, and I will work hard to recharge myself in the future, and strive to improve myself, so as to write better for everyone. Clench your fists as a salute.)
Hou Zhen, the patriarch of the big family in Texas, who was once second only to the Zhu family, has now become the county magistrate of Wuyi County.
The Hou clan is the fastest changing of the big families that were forcibly relocated from Texas. During the migration, their performance had already impressed Li Ze, and after arriving in Wuyi, they played a huge role in helping to resettle the migrants.
If you pay, you will be rewarded.
The Wuyi County Order was Li Ze's reward to the Hou clan, and Hou Zhen's eldest son, Hou Fangyu, became a tun chief of Li Ze's pro-Wei Yi Cong after the expansion.
Of course, Li Ze did not simply give away such an important position for the reward, firstly, Hou Zhen himself had a long history in Texas and had rich experience in governance, and secondly, as a trap of Texas immigrants, using this Texan as the commander of Wuyi County can better stabilize people's hearts, and at the same time, it can also balance the distribution of power under his command.
Now the number of Texas immigrants in Xindu Wuyi has surpassed the locals, but the government, the army and other violent organs in these two places are all locals, and there will be no problems in a short time, but after a long time, there will naturally be confrontation.
Therefore, the county order seat of Wuyi, Li Ze gave Hou Zhen.
For such a means of balancing the forces under his command, Li Ze has always been familiar with it.
Yang happily wanted to make things come true, and devoted all his body and mind to the construction of Yixing Society. For him, the power is not small, but expanded several times. The Yixing Society now has a separate budget and a separate organization, and its influence is rapidly spreading to Sindu and Shiyi.
Yang Kai clearly saw that with the development of Li Ze's power in the future, the Yixing Society would inevitably spread outward, and even the strength of the Yixing Society would be ahead of the army.
Yang Kai was already planning in his mind the next expansion plan to Yizhou and Henghai and other places.
He once made an oral report to Li Ze on this plan, and was also highly praised by Li Ze, which strengthened Yang Kai's desire to strive to make Yixing Society bigger and stronger.
"Childe, the subordinates of Lizihe have already walked all the river sections in Wuyi County!" Hou Zhen took off his coat and handed it to the guards on the side, the bucket on his head broke a big hole, causing his hair to become wet, his face was covered with some water stains, and his long hair, which was originally trimmed beautifully, looked a little embarrassed at this time. He walked along the river in the rain for two whole days, and just returned to the county office today.
"How's it going?" Li Ze asked.
"Wuyi County is ten miles up and down, because of the repair in the spring, there will be no problems, but the upstream is close to the direction of Xindu, it is very problematic, and a large number of people have been organized to strengthen the embankment." Hou Zhen glanced at Yang Kai on the side and said, "The Yixing Society has made a great contribution here, and with their organization, everything is in order. It's just that there aren't enough straw bags. ”
"Organize the manpower, intensify the weaving, and if the time is too late, the supply above the embankment must also be maintained with cloth bags." Li Zedao.
"Yes." Hou Zhen continued: "Outside Wuyi County, it is better, but the situation in the city is actually more serious, there has been waterlogging, many adobe houses that have just been built have collapsed due to soaking, and so far, a total of 23 people have been killed or injured. In addition, a large number of diseases have begun to appear in the city. ”
Li Ze couldn't help but be surprised, the flood could still be carried, and if there was a plague, it would be fatal. "Is there an epidemic now?" Generally speaking, the time period when the epidemic appears will be after the flood, as soon as the flood passes and the temperature rises, the epidemic will come into being, and now the rain is still falling, why did it break out?
"Childe, it's not the epidemic, it's because of drinking raw water." Yan Jiu stood up and said: "The heavy rain continued, there was not enough firewood to boil water, and some of the original water sources were also destroyed, so the people in the city could only drink raw water, so there were a series of symptoms such as diarrhea, and the problem was not serious." ”
"Let Yixingtang immediately prepare enough alum and other materials to clean the water. At the same time, the Yixing Society should vigorously promote not to drink raw water directly, not only now, but also after the rain. Yan Jiu, from now on, you have to prepare for the outbreak of the epidemic, so as not to be in a hurry. Looking at the heavy rain outside, Li Ze knew that he wanted to have enough dry wood to boil water, but he was afraid that it was delusional.
"Yes." Yan Jiu replied crisply.
"I've decided I'm going to pay the letter." Li Ze frowned and said, "Compared to Wuyi, Xindu is more worrying. Wuyi has been preparing since the beginning of spring, but Xindu is still messy and not on the right track, waiting for the county order, Wuyi's side, it will be handed over to you. ”
"Lord Yang?" Hou Zhen looked at Yang Kai.
"Yang Kai wants to go to Xindu with me." Li Ze waved his hand and said, "Li Yu took five hundred guards to garrison Wuyi City, if there is anything urgent, you can discuss it with her." Tu Lichun took the rest of the guards and servants and went to Xindu with me. ”
On the Wuyi side, the power of the Yixing Society has been deeply rooted, with them organizing the people, and with the overall command of Hou Zhen, an old bureaucrat, coupled with the construction of Wuyi for more than a year, Li Ze is convinced that they may withstand this wave of waterlogging, but Xindu is very different.
If he didn't go to command in person, Li Ze was really not at ease.
Li Ze, Yang Kai, Tu Lichun and others took a hundred pro-guards and righteous servants, braving the rain and rushing all the way to Xindu. Qin Weiyi has expanded from one hundred people, and now it has reached six hundred people, and the extra hundred people are specially selected from the seven families and the good families of Texas, this time Li Ze traveled, but deliberately brought out about thirty children of the seven families such as Hou Fangyu.
For these people, Li Ze is still very satisfied, because Hou Zhen was the first to sacrifice his eldest son to become Li Ze's righteous servant, and the other families did not dare to disobey the yin and yang, and those who came to Li Ze were all descendants of the lineage.
As a family's key training object, all of them are capable of literature and martial arts, and if they are cultivated properly, they will be good talents in the future. Li Ze is indeed short of talents now. Like Shen Congxing, Chen Bing, Chu Sheng and others, all of them are short generals, if their strength increases sharply in the future, these people may not be able to afford the heavy responsibility of standing alone. And these people are different, they were born in a wealthy family, and they have been systematically cultivated since they were children, and they can all be pointed to in the future.
Dezhou is the state city, Wuyi was too small in the past, there were some good families, strong families, and Li Ze did not deal with it, basically in the process of Li Ze occupying Wuyi, because of the confrontation with Li Ze and disappeared, even if they survived, they all fled from Wuyi.
Although the rain is not as heavy as yesterday, but it has not stopped, along the way through the crop fields, the terrain is a little lower, most of them are soaked in water, Li Ze is distressed, this situation continues for a while, most of the crop roots are about to rot, and naturally there is no harvest.
Occasionally, you can see a group of people in the rain digging ditches to remove the stagnant water in the fields under the leadership of some people wearing black clothes and red scarves around their necks.
These people dressed in black and wearing red scarves around their necks are the low-level members of the Yixing Society. This is also the idea that Yang Kai came up with, according to him, in order to distinguish the difference between the members of the Yixing Society and the ordinary people, and increase the cohesion and sense of belonging of the members of the Yixing Society, as long as you wear black clothes, tie a red scarf, and wear an iron or bamboo card, then your identity will be very different from that of ordinary people.
The official members of the Yixing Society wear bronze medals, the reserve members wear iron medals, and the candidate team members wear bamboo medals, and the iron and bamboo medals have the same pattern as the bronze medals, but there are no numbers, and the places where the numbers should have been engraved are engraved with stars. A star is the most ordinary member, two stars are equivalent to Wu Chang, three stars are equivalent to Tun Chang, four stars are Qu Chang, and the people who are in charge are basically similar to the army's Wu, Tun, and Qu, there are no five stars, because when this person accumulates five stars, he can wear a bronze medal engraved with numbers.
When it was getting dark, everyone crossed the boundary monument of Wuyi, stepped into the land of Xindu, and found a deserted half-dilapidated house as a temporary station, and everyone barely settled down.
The only room that did not leak rain became Li Ze's residence, and other people such as Tu Lichun, Yang Kai and others could only squeeze into other rooms, and more righteous servants could only take turns on the guard, and only came to the house to take shelter from the rain when they were resting.
Hats, clothes don't play a role at all for people who run on horses, Li Ze's body is also soaked, at the moment while roasting clothes by the fire, while listening to the non-stop rain outside, his heart is full of sorrow.
Such heavy rains for several days, even in the highly developed world of the previous life, would still cause famines, let alone in this era.
He Li Ze is not afraid of fighting with people, but fighting with the sky is indeed powerless, and the only thing he can do is to reduce the impact of the disaster as much as possible. It's also annoying to think about it, I just got so many people from Texas, and I haven't completely settled down, and God came here like this, isn't it a punishment for my ruthless methods?
I hope that this time, Yokomi also suffered a natural disaster, so that after I finish taking care of this side of the matter, maybe I can still find something to do on Yokomi's side.
Before leaving, he has asked Xia He to pre-de's 100,000 yuan of silver to prepare for the aftermath, I think that Henghai will not be able to produce this money and will not pay this money, after a catastrophe, the people have lost their crops, maybe they will lose their shelter from the wind and rain, and the escape will happen again, with Henghai's urine, maybe it will be a riot again, in the past, I heard that Henghai where there was a riot, I can only listen to it for fun, but now it is different, there is a lot to do.
In the second half of the night, the rain actually stopped, and Li Ze was overjoyed, lying on the fire and falling asleep. In his dream, he saw the fiery sun hanging high in the sky, but in the early morning, the sound of raindrops hitting the roof woke him up, and the beautiful scenery in the dream did not appear, but the rain fell heavier.
After scolding a dirty word and complaining about God, the group stepped on the horse and moved forward again.
This time he didn't go long before he met a group of soldiers sent by Shi Zhuang to greet him, and they brought an extremely bad idea that the Chestnut River was about to burst, and Shi Zhuang took all the soldiers up to the embankment.
"Let's go to the embankment!" Li Ze took the reins of his horse and galloped towards the Chestnut River.