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The time has entered August, and in the blink of an eye, the first half of August has passed. The yellow osmanthus on the osmanthus tree has just opened, blooming and exuding an attractive fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and it has been blown away by the continuous rainstorm and wind.

Li Jing looked at the water curtain under the eaves like the Milky Way falling for nine days, and his brows couldn't help frowning a little. Ten days ago, when dark clouds gathered in the sky, all I could see was the joy of the people. The drought that lasted for more than half a year has made people's desire for rain reach an extreme. Although it is still only a dark cloud, it is already a pleasant surprise.

The heavy rain fell in the joy of everyone, and hundreds of people rushed out of the house, raised their arms to welcome the heavy rain, and enjoyed the baptism of the heavy rain. The torrential rain poured down, and in just half a day, the ground was covered with rain that did not reach the instep of the feet.

However, the rain did not stop, and the continuous torrential rain seemed to fall together with the rain accumulated for half a year.

One day, two days, three days

Up to now, this rain has lasted for ten days. Except for the occasional brief pause, it's simply constant. The joy of the people at the beginning had long since vanished, and now all the people began to be sad again. The rain that fell from the heavy rain began to form waterlogging, and many low-lying places began to become a flooded country.

Even large cities such as Dengzhou, Duli Town, and Qingnicheng have complete sewer and ditch systems, but they cannot drain water in time. Some of the lower urban areas of several large cities have been flooded. Several neighborhoods, and even entire first floors, were submerged in water, with the deepest being more than a zhang deep.

The waterlogging caused by the heavy rain makes the city look directly at the sea. The most direct consequence is that a large number of people's houses and shops are flooded.

Li Jing had to urgently dispatch the Zhendong Army to organize disaster relief, and asked the newly established county government to organize the disaster relief and transfer the affected people. In addition to a few cities of urban waterlogging. Many people living along the river were also affected by the disaster, and their houses were flooded.

And those mining areas are more serious, and most of the mining sites are newly built this year. The miners were also recruited by displaced people, and most of the houses they lived in were shacks that had just been dug up in a hurry. With such heavy rain, those shacks didn't have time to drain the water, and the nests almost became puddles.

The entire mines in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning were all suspended, and even most of the large number of workshops were stopped. Merchant ships in several seaports were almost all anchored in the harbor, and there were no ships to go to sea.

"Yuan Hong. How long will it rain? Li Jing turned his head and asked Yuan Hong.

Yuan Hong's face was ruddy, and he even had a slightly bulging belly. At this time, he wore a stiff-horned hat on his head, a green round-necked robe and beard, and a black whip on his feet. His face was red and his jaw was bearded. I can't see the appearance of the little Taoist little onmyoji when he was among the refugees at all. Rather, he seems to be a scribe-poet.

Since following Li Jing. Yuan Hong has been doing well. In the battle for Cat Island, the accurate budget for the heavy rain was made, which made a great contribution to the capture of Cat Island. After that, Li Jing asked him to form a weather forecasting team, which did a good job. Especially the last time he prayed for rain, he predicted that there might be rain that day. As a result, it really rained when Li Jing prayed for rain that day, and it also rained fish, which gave Li Jing the name of the dragon's messenger.

Li Jing later promoted Yuan Hong to counselor. became a subordinate of staff officer Li Liang, who was specifically responsible for observing the weather and providing weather information. Grade, positive eight grades.

The county prince summoned him, and Yuan Hong was also quite nervous. Swallowing his saliva, Yuan Hong said cautiously: "According to the prediction of the officer, this rain should be almost over for the time being. ”

"Be precise! When will it end, today, or tomorrow? Li Jing asked directly.

Although the heavy rain for ten consecutive days has caused the temperature in southern Liaoning to drop significantly, fine beads of sweat still appeared on Yuan Hong's forehead.

"Back to the county prince, the small prediction is that this rain should be able to end tonight, and no later than tomorrow. However, "

"But what, there's something to say."

Yuan Hong strengthened his courage and said: "However, in the next month, it may be rainy and rainy. Although it may not be as heavy as the current rain, it is difficult to have sunny weather. ”

Li Jing was silent, if this is the weather in the next month, it will be troublesome.

"County magistrate, I don't know if I should say anything if I have something to say."

Li Jing nodded and motioned for him to speak directly.

Yuan Hong said: "After such heavy rain, it is very likely that there will be an outbreak of epidemics, and as soon as the heavy rain stops, after the waterlogging subsides, we should also make preparations for epidemic prevention." ”

"This matter, you go back and immediately write a detailed excerpt, and then I will transfer the county government officials, as well as the doctors in the counties and townships and the military doctors in the army, to study how to prevent the epidemic together." It is easy to have an epidemic after the flood, and Li Jing is also very clear about this. At this time, the medical conditions are limited, and once the outbreak of the epidemic is unimaginable, we can only find ways to prevent it in advance. ”

"The county lord, in addition, after the flood and drought, it is easy to break out locust plagues. Especially after the floods, if it is a spring flood, there is a possibility of a summer locust plague. If it is a summer fire, there is a risk of an autumn locust infestation. At the present time, this autumn, there is a high probability of autumn locust plague. Yuan Hong reminded again.

Li Jing's brows furrowed a little more, although the locust plague is not as terrible as the epidemic, but if the locust plague is serious, it is even more serious than the flood and drought. There was a big locust plague just last autumn, and another small locust plague broke out this summer, and if there is another locust plague this autumn, then even southern Liaoning may not be harvested.

At present, Li Jing is in Tuntian, southern Liaoning, mobilizing immigrants, and the people of Youzhou who have plundered him to reclaim the famine.

The reclaimed land was divided into 50 hectares of land, that is, 5,000 acres of land, and 50 husbands and wives were arranged for each tun to rent 100 acres of land to each household. These tun households are all hungry people sent from the Central Plains, with farm tools and rented cattle provided by the Liaonan Governor's Office, and one hundred acres per household, which is just right to work hard according to the current extensive cultivation method. Thirty percent of the grain grown will go to the tun households, and seventy percent will go to the Zhendong Army. The average yield per mu is eight buckets to one stone, and each household can get 24 to 30 stone of grain, and after the husk is shed, there can be about 20 stones, and there are 2,400 catties of grain.

At present, Liaonan already has 100 tuns, and it is also planned to develop another 100 tuns before next spring. In this way, the Zhendong Army will be able to own 200 military hoards, 1 million mu of land, 700,000 stone of military grain a year, and 500,000 stone of corn even after being shelled.

This 500,000 stone grain is quite a lot, a cavalry ration is three to five stone millet a year, a war horse is three stone millet a month, a Chinese New Year's Eve six stone millet, a cavalry company with men and horses, a year needs 40 stone millet and 500,000 stone grain, which can support 12,000 cavalry.

If it is only for the infantry, it can feed 100,000 people for a year.

"You should also think of a way to see if there is any way to prevent the locust plague. If you come up with a useful and good way, I will reward you with 100 taels of gold and promote you to the third level! ”

When Yuan Hong heard this, blood suddenly surged to his head, and he was excited as if he had been promoted to the third level of the official and saluted Li Jing, and when he left, he was still a little dreaming.

"The princess, the grandson asks to see!" As soon as Yuan Hong left, Liu Xun came in to report.

"Gongsun is back? Invite her in! As soon as Li Jing heard that Gongsun Lan was back, he hurriedly asked Liu Xun to invite him in. Gongsun Lan entered Beijing this time with his mission, the purpose of which was to find out some information about the imperial court and the north.

After a long time of not seeing, Gongsun Lan is still so charming. As soon as he came in, he threw himself into Li Jing's arms with a smile on his face, and he couldn't see that she was a amorous young woman, but like a young girl with a spring pregnancy. "Do you miss me these days?"

Li Jing said with a smile: "I don't see you for a day, like every three autumns, I think about it day and night." Tell me, what's the news? ”

"You're a wrongdoer, you don't have me in your heart at all." Gongsun Lan glanced at Li Jing with some dissatisfaction, "I'm still thinking about you all day long, I can't eat well, and I can't sleep well." I was in a hurry to come back all the way, wanting to see you as soon as possible, but I almost lost my life. ”

"What's going on? Met bandits on the road? Li Jing asked with concern, although it was a dew marriage, but after a long time, there were still feelings.

Seeing Li Jing's concerned look, Gongsun Lan immediately turned her anger into joy, and said with a smile: "I met a few unknown thieves on the road, but there are guards you sent, these people are just killing themselves." When I came back, it rained heavily on the road, and as a result, I stopped in Huazhou, who knew that the Yellow River suddenly burst its embankment that night. rushed into the territory of Huazhou, and the city of Huazhou was flooded at that time. Luckily, we ran fast and escaped on horseback. You don't know the danger of Ludao at that time, and when you look at Huazhou the next day, it has been flooded two feet deep. The water of the Yellow River rushed all the way to the east and rushed into Bianzhou, Yanzhou, Puzhou, Caozhou, Yunzhou, Songzhou and other places. ”

Speaking of this, Gongsun Lan was a little afraid.

"The water rushed into Yunzhou and poured into Juyeze, and that Juyeze has now become a sea, and even Liangshan on the edge of Juyeze has now become an island in the lake."

Li Jing couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, could it be that the water in the Song Dynasty was actually because the Yellow River burst its banks this time, and the water of the Yellow River poured into Juyeze, and it became the last time? Come to think of it, it should be true.

He did not expect that the heavy rain would cause the Yellow River to burst. In the past, there were successive droughts, locust plagues, and local water conservancy failures, and flood control was even more unmanageable. Now that the Yellow River has swelled and burst its banks after a series of torrential rains, it is conceivable that the damage caused by this will be greater than the previous drought and locust plagues.

Drought and locust plagues have led to the failure of crops, but after all, there are still some rich families and landlords who can still survive. But this flood is different, as soon as the Yellow River bursts its embankment, the six prefectures of Slippery, Bianzhou, Yanzhou, Puzhou, Caozhou, Yunzhou, and Songzhou have been greatly affected.

Sure enough, Gongsun Lan immediately said: "You'd better prepare early, when I come back, I will be followed by countless people affected by the disaster." A large number of refugees from the six states, some of them are going to Huaibei, and most of them are coming to Ziqing. (To be continued......)