Chapter 439: The Great Flood

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"Why?" Situ Feng asked.

"Because I have a holy order, I must not leave Qiongnan, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the decree."

"I see." Situ Feng bowed his head, and walked into the cabin with Li Hao as he spoke.

The big ship pulled anchor Yang Fan, two days later, arrived at Liuqiu, during these two days, Pei Miao would observe the celestial phenomena every day, his expression became more and more solemn, the closer to the wind and rain time, the more accurate he could measure, with his experience, this wind and rain is not small.

In order to prevent a typhoon, Li Hao ordered all the goods on the ship to be emptied and driven back to the lake next to the shipyard, which was in a low-lying place surrounded by mountains and was not afraid of typhoons.

Three days later, the typhoon came as scheduled, coming from the southeast, fortunately, although the wind was very strong near Liuqiu, but it was not big enough to that terrible extent, and the damage to the harbor was not big, along with the typhoon, it was naturally heavy rainfall, and it rained heavily for seven days here, fortunately, Li Hao was prescient, when he planned Liuqiu, he expected that there might be more precipitation on this side of Liuqiu, the water conservancy project of the rice field is very important, the field was not opened, the canal was repaired first, although the rain was too fierce, the rice fields were flooded, but after the rain stopped for a day, Obviously, the water level of the rice fields has dropped by half a foot, and all the rainwater is discharged into the river through the canal, and then into the sea from the river.

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

Li Hao finally let the boat dock, went ashore to check, the people left the harbor and hid in Changle City, but Changle City is not much better, the city is full of stagnant water, the deepest place can submerge the knees, I don't know whether this water is rain or seawater, such a big typhoon, it is very likely that there will be a phenomenon of seawater backflow.

Li Hao was shocked, he didn't expect that the disaster in Lingnan would be so serious, and if it was still like this in the city, wouldn't all the farmland be destroyed.

Sure enough, as he expected, the land to the north was a vast ocean, and the original fields had turned into lakes, and if he wanted to go to Quanzhou City, he was afraid that he would have to row over.

After coming to this world, it was the first time for Li Hao to experience such a big flood, and he was also stunned by the ancient floods, and the floating oars in the city were by no means exaggerated.

There is water everywhere, and there seems to be nothing to see, Li Hao drove back to Liuqiu, loaded some water and grain, and returned directly to Qiongnan, seeing that Quanzhou was so badly affected, he was very worried about the situation of Qiongnan, after all, it was his fiefdom.

When approaching Qiongnan, the waves were frequent, the wind was strong, the wind and rain here had not stopped, Li Hao's heart suddenly sank, it had been more than ten days, it was still down, it was simply not a way to live, this side was the most densely populated place in Lingnan Road, and the suffering was so serious, he didn't dare to imagine it.

Li Hao braved the wind and rain to return to Qiongnan without danger, first went to see Cui Peng, to learn about the disaster situation in Qiongnan, Cui Peng reported that the rice on their side happened to be harvested before the wind and rain arrived, and the grain depot was also on the high ground, not afraid of rain, and there was no need to worry about food, but the people's houses were not lightly affected.

As soon as he heard that the food had not been damaged, Li Hao was relieved, and immediately asked Cui Peng to prepare, and when the rain stopped, he immediately started disaster relief matters.

Two days later, the rain gradually subsided, and the light rain repeated for three days before finally stopping.

Cui Peng went to the indigenous Tusi Saika for help, because Sayka took all the indigenous people to hide in the mountains in order to avoid the flood, in the end, the indigenous people are still powerful, not afraid of poisonous insects and beasts in the deep mountains, Cui Peng just wanted to ask Sayka to help temporarily take in the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if Saykadang agreed, ships carried the people to the mountains, and the Sayka sent people to pick them up, and all of them were taken into the mountains, where they lived with the natives for a while.

Although the disaster on Qiongnan's side has caused trouble to the lives of the people, it has not caused any substantial harm, and now Li Hao is worried about the people of Lingnan Province.

He set off by boat and came to Gaozhou, there was still a drizzle on the side of Gaozhou, only to see a small harbor in Gaozhou completely destroyed by a typhoon, the sea water poured in, and the harbor was full of water, Li Hao came to Gaozhou City in a robe, only to see that although there was water in Gaozhou City, it was not as exaggerated as Changle City, mainly because the drainage system of Gaozhou City was well built, and the moat led into the city, bearing the burden of the drainage center.

Many people are pouring into Gaozhou City, and the farmland around Gaozhou City has long been a vast 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 big flood, and then, it would be up to Li Zhi to treat the disaster, without himself by his side, he was a little worried, and he didn't know if he could cure this flood, so he immediately flew a pigeon and passed a book to Shi Najie and tried his best to help Li Zhi.

Chang'an Taiji Palace, countless Taoist folds were presented to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi was very busy, all about the floods in Lingnan Road and Jiangnan Province, yes, this flood is not only Lingnan Road, it has affected Jiangnan Province, although Jiangnan Road does not have as much precipitation as Lingnan Road, but there are many rivers in Jiangnan Road, as soon as there is more precipitation, the rivers will flood, and the farmland will naturally suffer.

The most headache for Li Zhi is that Lingnan Province and Jiangnan Province are the two largest experimental bases of Zhenguan rice, originally counting on a bumper harvest in these two places this year, the treasury is full, this flood will ruin all the dreams, not only that, Li Shimin drove the expedition in person, took away most of the grain in the treasury, and now Li Zhi wants to provide disaster relief, but found that the grain in the treasury is not enough, fortunately, there is money in the treasury, Li Zhi ordered a large purchase of grain, but was told that Guanzhong, Hedong, Henan, Hebei Four Provinces all the grain was bought out, Li Zhi was shocked.

After experiencing a catastrophe conspiracy, he couldn't help but wonder if someone was going to take advantage of the disaster to rebel.

In fact, more than half of those grains were purchased by Shi Najie, and some were the handiwork of those gate lord clans, Shi Najie acted on Li Hao's orders, as for those gate lord clans, they planned to take advantage of the flood to make a fortune, raise the price of rice, and take the opportunity to make a fortune.

Li Zhi began to look for candidates for disaster treatment, and finally decided to let Shi Qian, a waiter of the Ministry of Works, go to Lingnan Road to deal with the flood, and send Wu Song, the Shaoqing of the Scientific Research Temple, to Jiangnan Province to treat the disaster.

At the same time, Li Zhi sent Ma Zhou to Jiangnan Province with the only remaining 100,000 stone of grain and silver in the treasury to Jiangnan Province for disaster relief, as for Lingnan Province, he really had no choice.

Just when Li Zhi was most helpless, a pigeon landed in the Hou Mansion of Lantian, and then a special soldier left the Hou Mansion and quietly came to Cheng Yanjin's Mansion.

In the afternoon of the same day, Cheng Yanjin went to Taiji Palace to see Li Zhi, and he told Li Zhi that Li Hao ordered people to prepare 500,000 stone of grain, which could be sold to the imperial court at the original price for disaster relief, but Lingnan Road was too badly affected, and Li Hao suggested that Li Zhi should move the affected people from the nearby states and counties of Qiongnan to Qiongnan, because Qiongnan now has few people in the fields, and there are a lot of grain reserves, and the most important thing is that Qiongnan is less affected this time, and the victims can quickly settle down after relocating.

Li Zhi felt that this was a good idea, and discussed it with the ministers, the ministers didn't know that this was Li Hao's idea, and thought that Li Zhi came up with it, and they all agreed, because too many disaster victims were gathered together, and it was easy to have accidents. King Joannam is rich.

Soon, Li Hao received a flying pigeon from Chang'an, his opinion has been adopted, is being implemented, the current rain in Qiongnan has receded, thanks to the Shecheng water, the flood will recede so quickly, this river is simply a natural water conservancy project, Li Hao immediately went to Cui Peng, Cui Peng is responsible for recruiting manpower, Li Hao is responsible for the money, began to expand Qiongzhou, and build a new county near Qiongzhou, 100,000 people, a new county plus the expansion of Qiongzhou, can definitely accommodate it.

Just when Li Hao was busy in Qiongnan, the Tang Lingnan Road was full of mourning, the huge Lingnan Road, eighty percent of the area was affected, half of them were extremely badly affected, and now the water receded, leaving a mess of land, many houses have collapsed under the immersion of the water, even those relatively solid houses, the houses have accumulated a lot of mud.

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

Countless victims poured to various states and counties, and now they can only hope for the government, and the people pay taxes to the court, and naturally enjoy the benefits of the court, at this time, only the court can help the people, this is the interdependent relationship between the court and the people, once one side breaks the balance, the world will be chaotic.

Naturally, the government can't ignore the life and death of these victims, and have opened warehouses to release grain, boil porridge for disaster relief, but now it's only in summer, there is still half a month before the harvest, and the grain has not been confiscated, so the government's grain stock is not much, the imperial court's disaster relief grain has not yet arrived, hundreds of thousands of people in Lingnan Province are waiting to be fed, the government has been holding out for nearly ten days, and the grain depots in various states and counties are empty, even so, the government still does ideological work for the victims every day, repeating the sentence: "The imperial court's disaster relief food is already on the way......

In order to survive until the arrival of the relief food of the imperial court, the people began to dig wild vegetables, pick wild fruits, and eat tree 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 is four to five cents a bucket of rice, it can be said that it is extremely cheap, but now these merchants actually sell fifty wen a bucket, an increase of ten times, the victims have long been poor and white, even if they have money, it is quite limited, where can they afford such a high price of rice grain, but those who originally lived in the city were less affected, and now there is a food shortage, even if it is sky-high rice grain, they are also competing to buy.

Li Hao happened to go to Quanzhou to investigate the people's situation, and saw the picture of the people competing for sky-high rice and grain in Quanzhou City, and immediately frowned.

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 sent someone to investigate, these grain merchants are not local, they seem to be from Guanzhong, Longyou, Hebei, Henan, and other places." ”

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