After a while, Chen Zhizhong, Pang Ji, and Wen Yanbo arrived one after another. Pang's family is poor, although the official salary is high, but the capital is not easy to live in, the price is expensive, he is not arrogant Chen Zhizhong, he has a lot of contacts, and he has to spend a sum of money, and he did not fake to live in the temple, so he bought a simple house far away from the palace. Therefore, he came the latest, but in order to rush for time, he braved a heavy rain and wore a coat and rode to Zhongshu Province.

Zheng Lang glanced at him.

This person is very thoughtful, but he is a doer, and sometimes Zheng Lang has to appreciate him very much.

Turning his head to a small official, he said, "Go get a dry clothes and change them for Melzhi." ”

The servant went down to prepare his clothes.

Everyone sat down, Zheng Lang said straight to the point: "The Lanzhou River is decided, Wang Deji immediately played the report, and the river went all the way to the northeast, but the states and counties were urgently ordered to wait and prepare to evacuate the people. ”

This time, the Yellow River burst its banks had a far-reaching impact, and even flowed into the territory of Khitan, just in the northeast low-lying area of Hebei Road, and it flowed so happily that soon the Daimyofu, Enzhou, Jizhou, Shenzhou, Yingzhou, Yongjingjun and other places became an ocean.

The saddest thing is that Enzhou, who has not yet woken up from the pain caused by Wang Ze's rebellion, has suffered this catastrophe again.

But not all places are a plain, there are a few hills along the way, and some rivers divide part of the flood, which cannot be stopped, but after passing the Daimyo's Mansion, you can grab it quickly and win a little buffer preparation time. There was no edict from Zhongshu Province, and some officials began to prepare for the transfer of the people, but not all officials were conscientious, and this edict was aimed at those mediocre officials who did not do anything, urging them to seriously prepare for floods.

There is not much time, and the Daimyo Mansion will definitely not have time to notify, but Enzhou, Jizhou, Shenzhou and other places, if they are in time, they can grab half a day or a day or two a little, but for such a catastrophe. Even if it is an hour, countless lives can be saved.

Chen Zhizhong and the three of them had no objection.

Zheng Lang said: "Write." ”

The little official began to write, stamped with a large seal, and asked the forbidden soldiers to ride horses and send these dozens of orders to Hebei Prefectures as quickly as possible.

It was raining harder outside.

Thunder and lightning. It's like the end of the world.

Suddenly, Zheng Lang was unexpected, and Zhao Zhen was also shocked in the inner palace, hastily dressed in clothes, and came to Zhongshu sleepily.

Zheng Lang hurriedly gave a salute, now time is life, there is no time to bow slowly, and then said: "It is rumored that the officials of the states and counties in the victim area have the right to recruit any merchant ships and fishing boats. Rescue the people in the disaster area. The officers and men of the battalions in the disaster-stricken areas immediately allocated their battalions and cooperated with the officials of the prefectures to rescue them. ”

That's the benefit of being a privy councillor.

The three of them looked at each other and bowed their heads again. The reason is also very simple, this embankment burst, it is impossible to think of the dead, and I don't know how many people have drowned. However, some people live a little higher up, and when they see the flood coming, they are a little more clever. And to win a piece of life. However, the river is flowing more and more, even if it is trapped at a high place, if it is not rescued in time. They will also be drowned by floods. There is no way, the entire Yellow River has become an above-ground river, and the river level is much higher than the land. If you don't break the embankment, you will inevitably drown many people.

"It is said that Sanya urgently summoned 10,000 soldiers who were good at water and water, and at dawn, they would recruit Zhukuai boats by the Bianhe River and set sail to Lanzhou to cooperate with Zhuzhou County to rescue the people trapped in the flood. If there is a resistant, behead. ”

The descendants of Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty could not imagine that all the best passenger, cargo, cao and ferry ships in the world were concentrated on the Bianhe River, especially the scene in the morning was the most moving. The capital does not produce grain. If you want to eat, you have to make money. or for soldiers, or for officials, or for business, or as all kinds of trades, hawkers, craftsmen, and some have no crafts or official positions, and they can't operate. You can only sell coolies. Then they came to the Bianhe River in the morning, but in fact, not only coolies, but also wood and bamboo craftsmen, handymans and porters, brick and tile masons, Taoist monks and monks came to the streets and alleys of the Bianhe River in the morning, waiting for merchants and magnates to hire them. The powerful will not come, but there are maids and tooth wedges as intermediaries, choosing servants for the master's family. These women and tooth wives are the economic men of later generations. Zheng Lang also hired a short-term worker with a tooth. These short-term working hours are long or short, and the remuneration is high or low, and the broker charges intermediary fees to both parties according to the situation. Those who are picked will leave, and those who are not picked will automatically disperse when the sun rises at three o'clock. Therefore, at this time, the quiet time of Kaifeng City was only a short time of four watches. …,

The most interesting thing is Zhao Zhen, hearing the sound of silk and bamboo outside, laughter, and can't help but ask the palace people, where is this fun. Zhao Zhen imagined the liveliness outside, and then compared, sighing at the coldness of the palace, and envious of the nightlife outside the palace. As an emperor, he actually envied the night market in the city outside the palace, which had never existed before the Song Dynasty, and rarely had it after the Song Dynasty.

This prosperity makes countless ships moored on the Bianhe River every day. All kinds of ships have various uses, some ships seek large cargo capacity, and some ships seek speed, and Zheng Lang fought the latter idea.

Zhao Zhen habitually said: "Accurate." ”

Zheng Lang said: "If it is spread to Kaifeng Mansion again, we will immediately prepare various cargo ships to ship grain from various warehouses to Hebei, prepare to open various porridge sheds, and settle the victims first." Then the three divisions prepared money and silk, requisitioned clothes, bamboo mats, mosquito nets, and sok grass, set up disaster shelters, some simple daily necessities, and anti-epidemic medicines, and urgently sent them to the disaster area. ”

Although the successive layoffs, Enzhou appeased, and spent a lot of money, but before the summer harvest, the national wind and rain were smooth, the summer harvest was successfully levied, and the sale of Ping'an Supervision Deed shares raised nearly 10 million yuan, and the treasury was relatively full, whether it was money or grain, for the imperial court, there was not too much heavy burden for the time being.

but the ships are requisitioned, and the shipowners will complain. But human life is at stake, and no one thinks that Zheng Lang has done something wrong.

Zheng Lang also said: "If you send the officials of all states and counties again, you must send the first information about the flood disaster to the capital as soon as possible, so that it can be dealt with in time." ”

Very decisive.

He has been in Dongfu for more than two months, but Zheng Lang is very careful, even if he deals with government affairs, he discusses with the other three people, Chen Xianggong, what do you think, Pang Alcohol, what do you think, Wen Kuanfu, what do you think? is very low-key, just like when he asked Wen Yanbo for calligraphy.

However, this time it was unusual, and orders were issued quickly, without even consulting Zhao Zhen.

The goal is to grab time.

As one order after another was issued, the capital did not know how many officials and soldiers were woken up.

The rain was slightly lighter.

Zheng Lang let out a sigh of relief.

Pang Ji suddenly sighed: "Wang Deji has dereliction of duty. ”

Some time ago, seeing the huge water potential of the Yellow River, Zhongshu issued many orders. Have the states and counties along the river inspect the embankment in case something happens. I didn't expect that something would happen in Lanzhou, and something big happened. The embankment reached almost 600 paces, and the worst thing was that there was no hill behind it. And most of them are endless plain areas, which are more harmful.

About Wang Deji also felt guilty of dereliction of duty, so if there was an accident in the front, he would be sent to the capital later.

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "Mellow, yes, the day before yesterday, I deliberately went to the embankment of the Yellow River to watch." The water is several feet above the surface. The turbid waves hit the shore, the waves are like thunder, and they go eastward, and they sway. The root is in the flood, and it is beyond the reach of manpower. Not only this time, if it is not treated, the Yellow River will burst its banks in the future, and it will happen from time to time. ”

Actually, before that. Not only the embankment burst during the Jingyou years, but also the four years of Kaibao, the river broke the abyss. Pan number of states, and then decided Puyang, and then decided Yangwu. In the second year of Taizong's Taiping rejuvenation of the country, the river broke Wenxian in Mengzhou, Xingze in Zhengzhou, and Dunqiu in Lanzhou, so that the Central Plains became a Ze country. In eight years, the state was decided, and the southeast flow reached Pengcheng and entered the Huai, so that the Huai River was also implicated. Zhenzong Xianping three years, the river broke Yunzhou, flooded the wilderness. Entering Huaisi, several states invaded. Later, there are the decision of the Hengyuan of Lanzhou, the bad of Wang Basi, the river decision of Baifutu Village, the river decision of Niejiakou, the river decision next to Tiantai Mountain, the last scale is also very large, overflowing the city of Huazhou, and the water potential has been in the four states of Pu and Caoyun. Injected into Liangshanbo, and then combined with clear water, stirred into the Huai, once again raging the Huai River. …,

In the year of the Heavenly Sage, the river decided to slip the state again, and in the sixth year, the king of Chuxi decided to break the state, and the mouth was thirty steps.

These are the large-scale bursting of the Yellow River that can be recorded in the annals of history, but it is far less than the bursting of the embankment in the first year of Jingyou, and the new river Henglong River directly enters the sea, but it is not as good as this time.

The results are not yet available, but some approximate results can be analyzed on the map as well as the width of the breach.

Zheng Lang said again: "The saint is out, and the Yellow River is clear." The water potential of the Yellow River is not as good as that of the Yangtze River, but the harm is far greater than that of the Yangtze River, because the river water is turbid, contains more sediment, and precipitates all the way, raising the riverbed, so that the water surface is much higher than that of cultivated land. Since the source of the Yellow River, all tributaries along the way and the main stream have returned farmland to forests, mountains to forests, and grazing to forests. ”

After saying that, he shook his head.

This is impossible, not to say that there are many sections of the Yellow River in the territory of Tubo and Western Xia, just say the Song Dynasty.

The area of the Song Dynasty may not be as good as that of later India, just this pitiful area, there is still a third of the imperial court can not control, but it feeds the largest population in history, fighting for land to the sea, and the land by the river, it is all excellent arable land and pasture, once it is abandoned, how many people's jobs have to be solved?

Not only was it impossible in the Song Dynasty, but it was impossible for the subsequent dynasties and generations to do this. It can only be said that planting more trees will reduce the amount of sediment, for example, when the Sanbai Canal was first governed, more trees were planted, and Zheng Lang even planted a number of forests in many barren mountains in the upper reaches of Jingshui. The ecological environment of Jingshui is very poor, and it is impossible to get immediate results, but the amount of sediment has not increased in recent years. If it doesn't increase, it already has an effect. But the effect is too slow, and some people themselves are unconscious, seeing the trees grow, they begin to cut down indiscriminately, and when firewood is burned, it is forbidden endlessly.

Zhao Zhen suddenly asked, "Why?" ”

I'm not convinced.

Zheng Lang talks about science, Zhao Zhen doesn't talk about science, he talks about God.

Seeing Zheng Lang's repeated orders, the processing was swift and efficient, which had not been done since the founding of the country, and he became more and more emotional. For example, last year's catastrophe, the book dragged on, noisy, this is a good contrast. The minister is not unvirtuous.

He can be regarded as cautious, and he can't be said to be a faint king.

But God still sent this disaster, why?

The question was inexplicable, but all four knew what he was asking, but none of them could answer.

This certainly has nothing to do with immorality.

But what's the problem?

Zheng Lang was also speechless, this levee burst did not end, and there were several large-scale levee bursts one after another. The water of the Yellow River stabilized slightly, and Nong Zhigao and other barbarians rebelled again. Throughout the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, there was almost no peace.

This can be said to be the best dynasty in history, the emperor is benevolent, few people and the king, there are many talents, not only there are many literary masters, but also many capable ministers of the world, but natural disasters, so that Zhao Zhen Dynasty in the history of the end only left a gloomy back.

Is this destiny? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )