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In normal meetings, Li Xuan would give these courtiers sufficient time to argue, and even many times he would not make a sound.

However, in the case of important matters, he would skip these and enter a state of great contrast, that is, he said it himself, and the courtiers just listened.

This time, although Li Xuan also said a few words and asked the courtiers how to deal with it, he also gave them a few minutes to speak, but in the face of the courtiers' argument, Li Xuan stopped it directly.

When is this still noisy, noisy!

Time is pressing. Now the heavy rain has gradually shifted to the north. After a few days, it is estimated that heavy rain will start in the Huaihe River Basin, and then Henan and Shandong regions. In the next ten days and a half months, the flood will come.

Li Xuan has time to listen to their quarrel.

He immediately raised his hand on the spot!

When Li Xuan raised his hand, many of the courtiers sat upright and closed their mouths consciously.

These ministers are all old fritters who have been in the court for many years. As soon as Li Xuan’s action is seen, he knows that the Holy Son of Heaven is about to speak, so hurry up and take notes. If you miss a sentence or two, then If something is wrong, then things will be big.

Li Xuan looked around and saw that more than 20 high-ranking officials, as well as seven or eight generals and lieutenants from the army and navy, all raised their heads and looked at him.

Then slowly said: "This time the weather forecast may be a false alarm, but it may also happen, and once it happens, it will affect several provinces and regions and tens of millions of people, so I would rather believe it. It's not credible, it's not!"

"All yamen and local yamen in Gyeonggi must attach great importance to this matter, and effectively take various measures to prevent and fight floods!"

Li Xuan continued to speak slowly: "The cabinet needs to immediately organize relief supplies, especially food and medicine!"

"The Ministry of Personnel, the Inspectorate, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry and other institutions jointly dispatched personnel to dispatch flood control supervision teams to various provinces and highways to supervise the active flood control and flood control and follow-up disaster relief of local government offices!"

"Prepare another disaster relief fund, no less than five million taels, for subsequent disaster relief expenditures that may arise!"

"At the same time, people in dangerous areas must be moved in advance to avoid large-scale casualties!"

Li Xuan's speech speed is not fast, and his words are also very simple, but the ministers below will directly write down a word if they haven't heard a word, because at this time, the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan has already issued the task directly, so he can't do it. Well, just wait for the black gauze hat to be thrown away.

Even more serious, if there is a mistake at work, it is possible to lose one's life.

After Li Xuan said these few words, he turned his attention to the military general and said, "Whether it is an enemy invasion or a natural disaster, in the face of a crisis, imperial soldiers should bravely stand up and play their role. This time, the military should actively participate in flood control and flood control, and defend the country!"

Li Xuan didn't say it very carefully, because he didn't have to say it too carefully. Flood control is a systematic project. Even if Li Xuan has the knowledge of later generations, he can only give a general idea, and the specific measures are still It is necessary to combine the times and regions, and adapt measures to local conditions.

So Li Xuan's words are actually just a general outline. Li Xuan doesn't care how to do it, but he wants to see the results.

After saying this, Li Xuan did not stay in the conference room, but went out soon, leaving those ministers to discuss on their own.

After leaving the conference room, Li Xuan summoned officials from the Investigation and Statistics Section of the Hanlin Academy again, and asked them to focus on the situation in the northern regions, especially the four provincial highways of Henan, Shandong, North Anhui and Jiangbei. Report signs of unrest immediately.

Natural disasters will bring dire consequences, which not only affect people's livelihood and economy, but also may cause unrest.

During these chaotic times, there will always be some careerists who try to take advantage of the opportunity.

And Li Xuan naturally does not allow this to happen!

In the afternoon, a group of ministers also walked out of the conference room one after another, and Liu Bagou, the minister on duty in the imperial study as the head of the ministers, also submitted emergency measures to Li Xuan about the flood control.

On the whole, most of the measures were formulated according to Li Xuan's requirements, and only the details were perfected.

After Li Xuan flipped through it a little, he nodded and said, "That's it!"

After receiving the official approval from Li Xuan, the Datang Empire also acted quickly!

First of all, in the form of 300-mile expedited, and some road sections even 500-mile expedited way, messengers were dispatched to the provincial highways and prefectures in the north, especially the key areas of Kaifeng, Xuzhou and Huai'an. The weather report and cabinet documents will be carried, requiring all local yamen to immediately start flood control and flood control work without any neglect.

This is to send an alert to the local yamen in various northern regions. After all, these days, only the Royal Institute of Technology can make a complete weather report. In other places, the weather forecast can only be based on the experience of the elderly. Judging, even if they are experienced, it is difficult for them to judge that this rain may last for more than a month.

On this afternoon, the postal service dispatched more than 100 horses to the provincial highways on the north bank of the Yangtze River. They passed the post roads and galloped their horses. These knights did not spare the physical strength of their horses, and used the highest speed to move towards their respective destinations. And go.

These knights, wearing special and conspicuous red uniforms, also carry a small yellow flag with a **** 'emergency' in the middle of the flag. At the same time, each knight wears a saber and a pistol. If you block it, the knights have the right to shoot and kill directly.

Although it is said that the Postal Service is an independent organization, and it will undertake private commercial business, at the same time, there are no active military personnel serving as military newspaper messengers.

However, this independent agency is still managed jointly by the cabinet and the military. Among the large number of staff in the postal department, the vast majority are still military veterans.

Especially these knights are basically all retired cavalry in the army!

And the personnel stationed in each station are basically retired officers and retired soldiers!

The messenger of the Postal Service is allowed to have weapons and has the power to fire directly on those who block the military newspaper. Its power is even greater than that of the major bodyguard companies that are also controlled by the military.

After all, before the telegraph communication came out, the post station system of the Datang Empire would be the most important means of communication, with 300-mile rush, or even 500-mile rush, to quickly deliver news and documents to various places.

At the beginning, if it weren't for the fact that the scale of the post station system was getting bigger and bigger, the management became more and more difficult, and at the same time, in order to balance the cost, the business volume of carrying private letters and goods was constantly increasing, which made it difficult for the military to directly manage this institution.

There will not be a situation where the cabinet and the military are jointly managed, but will always be managed by the military.

These postal knights from the postal service filed out of Jinling City and ran to various places. Of course, they did not say that they ran directly to Shandong or Henan in one breath.

They often go directly to the next inn, and then hand over the letters that need to be delivered to the knights who are relaying, and continue to pass them forward by relay.

While transmitting information to all parts of the north through the post station system, the ministers on duty in the Yushufang also selected relevant officials from various departments, and then formed four flood control and flood resistance supervision teams, which went to the four provincial highways of Henan, North Anhui, Jiangbei and Shandong respectively. .

Although it is impossible for them to run hundreds of miles a day, they are all fast and fast, and they will change to carriages along the way, and the speed will not be too slow.

This is also due to the fact that the Datang Empire has always invested heavily in transportation construction. It is difficult to say in some small and remote places, but in important areas, such as large cities, there are relatively complete official roads. connected.

The official roads of the Datang Empire are naturally based on the official roads of the former Ming Dynasty. The official road system of the Datang Empire was expanded and built on the basis of the official roads and post roads of the former Ming Dynasty.

The standard of official roads in the Tang Empire is actually not high. First of all, there is not much requirement for the width of official roads. The ordinary width is two meters, and the width of some important official roads can reach four meters.

The width of this road is not random, but has a basis. First of all, ordinary official roads must be able to pass carriages, and some important official roads must be able to pass two carriages at the same time.

The specifications of the carriages of the Datang Empire~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are basically unified. The Datang Empire did not formulate any specifications for carriages in the early years, but during the Unification War, in order to make the military's logistics carriages better maintained , developed a unified standard, that is, a carriage pulled by two horses side by side, its wheel base is 1.4 meters.

Subsequently, this wheelbase standard was also applied to all official carriages.

The official leading role is very obvious, and then the folk carriages are gradually changed to this standard.

So today, except for special vehicles, most of the common two-horse horse-drawn carriages, whether they are two-wheeled or four-wheeled, have a standard wheel base of 1.4 meters. Of course, this is only limited to new construction. Vehicle, if it is a previous vehicle, the wheelbase is uncertain.

At the same time, the Datang Empire did not forcefully stipulate that the wheelbase of all carriages must be 1.4 meters. This 1.4 meters is only the standard for the wheelbase of the government and the military’s own single and double horses pulled side by side. It's just that, in fact, the government and the military also have heavy transport vehicles and gun carts with three or even four horses side by side. Woolen cloth. Valley Emperor