Shi Dakai still didn't believe in Chong'en, and he insisted on going to the banks of the Yellow River to see for himself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info So, leaving Wei Yuan to lead some people to stick to the most critical breach to the river section in Dongming County, Shi Dakai led more than 1,000 soldiers to ride horses, under the guidance of Chong'en, along the predetermined route of the flood, all the way east.

After passing through the territory of Puzhou in Caozhou Prefecture, Shi Dakai found that the rolling flood was divided into two streams, of which six or seven percent of the water was still along the Yellow River old road that was slightly excavated, from the old city, through the Black Tiger Temple, and finally entered Taocheng, and the other stream of water, about three or four percent of the water, was diverted into a somewhat wide but very shallow Wei River not far from the city of Puzhou, all the way to the east, through Fan County, Shouzhang, arrived at the Yushan Town of Dong'e, and the Yellow River old road to become one.

Starting from Yushan Town, Shi Dakai saw that the flood on the riverside was surging, although it was wanton, because countless wooden piles were buried on the banks of the river on both sides, and the embankment of more than one meter high was formed with stones mixed with yellow mud and wheat stalks, which firmly guarded the surging flood in the river. Occasionally, there were a few weak breaches, and immediately hundreds of thousands of people stepped forward to block them, and there were always people patrolling back and forth, as if they were facing a great enemy, so that Shi Dakai nodded secretly, and his face looked a little better: This Chong'en, although he is a man of the full flag, is still an official who does practical things, and organizes the local laborers and people to be impressive, and has a very good set of flood control and embankment control.

A day later, further east, they arrived in the territory of Jinan Mansion, and Chong'en, who had not spoken much, reported to Shi Dakai: "His Royal Highness King Yi, after entering Jinan Mansion, the old road of the Yellow River before the Song Dynasty completely overlapped with the current Daqing River. As a result, it can accommodate more flood water passing through. The humble position also allowed the local officials of the Shandong prefectures to lead the people and the people to dredge the Daqing River, but the time was urgent, and there was no time to dredge it thoroughly, and because the Daqing River itself had a large water flow, it was difficult to clean it thoroughly, so the embankment along the Daqing River had to be slightly heightened and reinforced. I don't know if it will work. ”

Shi Dakai nodded and said, "Lord Chong'en has a heart!" For the sake of the courtiers, do their best, and be worthy of the people and their own conscience. ”

Continuing to move forward, he came to the territory of the Qi River, and the scene in front of him stunned everyone. I saw that in Qihe County, there was a vast ocean, and all the roads in front were washed away by the flood, and groups of people fled to the west crying.

Chong'en was taken aback! He confidently arranged it carefully, and mobilized countless people to go up to the river bank to strengthen the embankment, how could it still be like this? Moreover, it is also Jinan Mansion in Shandong, the seat of provincial governance.

He hurriedly found the local official Qihe County Order to supervise the reinforcement of the river bank, only to learn that the Daqing River in the territory of the Qi River was low, and there was some siltation, plus there were three tributaries of the Shahe River and the Yufu River in the north and south, although the embankment along the Daqing River was strengthened and heightened, but the three tributaries were ignored.

After hearing the situation, Shi Dakai frowned, he was worried that the Yellow River would be diverted from Jinan Mansion again, and if he did not pass through the old Yellow River and directly opened another channel, it would suffer a big loss.

Fortunately, Chong'en still had some action, he was reminded by Wei Yuan, and arranged for the people to build a drainage canal about 20 miles long in the densely populated counties of Zouping, Changshan, Xincheng and other counties in the southeast of Jinan Prefecture, which was the worst situation, once the entire Jinan Mansion was flooded, through the drainage canal, the flood water was introduced into the Xiaoqing River and directly into the sea.

To the north of Jinan Province, parallel to the Daqing River, that is, the old course of the Yellow River, there is a medium river: the Tuxiao River. All the floodwaters of Jinan Province were collected, and they also flowed directly east into the sea.

However, Rao is like this, half of Jinan Prefecture and half of Wuding Prefecture are still flooded. Fortunately, the people along the Yellow River were forcibly relocated by the local government and the soldiers of the captive army, and only some people who were far away from the Yellow River were not moved away and were affected.

Shi Dakai also knew that this was indeed no wonder Chong'en. He's already doing a great job.

Chong'en also knew that he had to show himself in front of this righteous king, so he hurriedly summoned some magistrates to open a porridge shop to take in and guide the victims to a high place to settle down.

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More than ten days later, the copper tile box at the Yellow River break in Lanyang County, Kaifeng Prefecture.

Feng Yunshan, accompanied by Liu Shengbang, came to this break. He finally couldn't help but come.

All kinds of news about the Yellow River and the victims in the east kept coming, and Feng Yunshan's originally tightly knit brows were slowly eased.

Originally, there was only more than ten zhang wide of the breach, although after continuous reinforcement, but under the impact of the violent flood peak, it still expanded, and finally became more than a hundred zhang of the mouth, the water of the whole river of the Yellow River, rushing endlessly, mighty to the north, rushing to the Yellow River seven or eight hundred years ago. The Yellow River, which originally went to the southeast, slowly balanced after reducing the amount of water and backflowing. After Feng Yunshan asked people to inspect the Yifeng Hall in the southeast, they found that the original Yellow River had basically stagnated in its territory, and the Yellow River channel had become a pool of stagnant water, like a canal that did not flow.

Feng Yunshan knew that this marked the official completion of the diversion of the Yellow River.

This is much faster than the historical diversion of the Yellow River. Feng Yunshan knew that this was because he had people dig up the old channel of the Yellow River in advance, and the water would be diverted away at once, saving the time for the Yellow River to divert itself and scouring the river, and directly diverting the water of the Yellow River into the Daqing River into the sea, so the diversion could be completed in just one month.

According to the information that has been continuously reported, Feng Yunshan knows that this time he has been lucky enough to complete a big test since he ascended the throne. In the face of this catastrophe of the Yellow River's breach and diversion, his own country basically survived safely without danger. Although hundreds of thousands of people were still affected by the disaster, and thousands of people were drowned and swallowed up by the flood, it was still within the scope of control, and it was already a victory against the disaster that nearly 10 million people in the history I knew, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed by the flood.

Although the data is not fully counted, according to Wei Yuan and his own estimates, Feng Yunshan concluded that the Yellow River breach, the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Henan, Zhili and Shandong, mainly Shandong, can be said to have done their best!

A total of 670,000 people were requisitioned, and the empire dispatched 100,000 soldiers to dig rivers and drainage canals, dredge the Daqing River, and strengthen the embankments along the Yellow River.

And because of Feng Yunshan's attention to the emperor, and under the supervision of Wei Yuan, Chong'en and others, local officials at all levels did their best, especially because they dispatched the soldiers to capture the army, and forcibly relocated all the people who might have floods in advance and concentrated on them, and a total of nearly two million people were relocated before and after, although the cost was huge, Feng Yunshan still felt that it was worth it.

Even if many states and counties did not flood these states and counties because of the excavation of the Yellow River, and the relocation of the people made these people complain, but in the end, Feng Yunshan felt very relieved. As long as these people can be saved, they will not be swallowed up by the flood, and the lives of the people in the world will not be destroyed as in history, everything will be the best result.

You must know that the Yellow River burst in history was when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was busy suppressing the Taiping uprising, and the soldiers were still not paid enough, so they were unable to provide disaster relief and treatment. However, at that time, no one paid attention to the disaster, and there was no money for disaster relief, resulting in hundreds of people being drowned in floods, countless houses being washed away, farmland being submerged, and millions of people being displaced, plunging the whole of Shandong into a huge disaster, and the population has not recovered for more than ten years.

But this best result was obtained by Feng Yunshan at a huge price. The wages and food expenses of the requisitioned people alone cost more than 2 million taels of silver. The relocation of millions of people, the dispatch of more than 100,000 soldiers to the army for disaster relief, and the settlement and relief of the victims cost nearly 3 million taels of silver and 7 million stone of grain.

Although Feng Yunshan felt distressed, he felt that everything was worth it when he saw the smiling people who helped strengthen the river embankment.

In fact, it is true, Feng Yunshan didn't realize that his Yellow River relief for the victims had made him gain huge prestige!

The people in Henan and Shandong have put him on their lips and are grateful to them. And the squires and gentry among these people, because they were protected by the new government, avoided floods, and got rid of the doom of ruined families, as grateful, they originally distrusted the government, but now they have become staunch supporters of the Chinese Empire. In addition, under the praise of the Confucian disciples who have perished, Feng Yunshan is like a saint like the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and Emperor Yu, and in Shandong and other places, he is like a god, and is admired by scholars and people!

Not only that, but as time slowly passed, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Feng Yunshan, visited the breach of the Yellow River in person, and the news of relief for the victims soon spread. Not only in Henan Shandong, but also in the entire Central Plains, and even in the entire north and throughout China, among the gentry and the common people, the emperor's benevolence and love for the people were all rumored.