Valley Emperor

The leader of the Henan Flood Control and Flood Control Supervision Team is Du Shurong, the chief censor of the third-rank Zuoyu capital of the inspectorate. Although his rank is not as good as that of the second-rank governor, he is a member of the inspectorate, born to be a supervisory official, not to mention, They are the leaders of the supervision team, or they come with imperial edicts in hand. In the traditional sense, they are imperial envoys with considerable authority.

Therefore, even Xiao Baoguan did not dare to neglect Du Shurong, the leader of the supervision team. As soon as the supervision team arrived, he informed the relevant disaster situation and asked for follow-up work.

However, Du Shurong did not interfere indiscriminately as an imperial envoy. Before he came, he was very clear about his responsibilities. He came to supervise and did not interfere in specific affairs.

As long as Xiao Baoguan doesn't make any big mistakes and cause big problems, he will treat himself as non-existent. Otherwise, although he can be regarded as an imperial envoy and holds great power, but if something goes wrong, his net worth and life will not matter. Hope to keep it.

After all, Xiao Baoguan is a senior official in the frontier. After this luck, he will enter the cabinet and become a minister or even a minister in the future. It is better not to offend him or not.

Du Shurong did not intervene, but the other members of the supervision team under him actually quickly entered the working state and began to guide the local military and civilians to fight the flood.

Xiao Baoguan was relieved to have the help of these experienced professionals.

The members of the supervision team, except for a few censors who were sent to supervise by the Inspectorate, are all professionals. The cabinet is recruited from various departments, and they all have rich experience in flood fighting and disaster relief, both practical experience and theoretical level. .

These professionals are much more reliable than ordinary local officials.

It took only two days to sort out perfect flood control measures. During this period, the water level of the Yellow River was getting higher and higher, and there was still a small gap, but there happened to be a second-class inland warship of the Navy nearby. When the officials at the rear notified him, the captain made a decisive decision, ordered the ship to enter the gap, and then directly sank.

The 80-ton B-class warship, although it is not too big, but the gap was small at first, and at least half of it was blocked, and then two cargo ships full of sand and gravel were urgently dispatched to sit in the gap to block the gap, so It's just that the gap has not been further widened.

Then the government quickly dispatched people to plug the gap, and then a whole regiment of reserve division officers and soldiers came in to reinforce the gap, but it was difficult to completely plug the gap again, so they quickly shifted their target and began to use the terrain to build dams in the rear to avoid further disasters. expand.

At this time, the backup dams they prepared in advance also played a major role. Although the dams were not high at the beginning, the gaps in the Yellow River's dykes were not too big, especially after passing a second-class navy ship. The inland warships and two civilian ships sank, blocking most of the gaps.

So the early floods weren't much!

After nearly 10,000 people fought hard, a day later, the backup dam was initially formed. Then, more than 30,000 young soldiers and 15,000 soldiers who came from emergency reinforcements also invested in the construction of the dam.

A total of 50,000 people worked around the clock to reinforce and build the backup dam, and finally succeeded in completing the construction of the backup dam before the water level rose.

Prevent the flood from spreading further inland!

However, although the gap was re-blocked, in the past few days, a large amount of river water still flowed to the rear through this gap, and large areas of land were submerged.

The large tracts of land and villages within the backup dam were completely turned into a lake, the fields disappeared, and the villages also completely disappeared.

This time alone has resulted in hundreds of deaths and disappearances. Among them, more than 20 soldiers and soldiers of the army and navy who participated in the flood fighting were killed or missing, and the others were mostly young men who participated in the flood fighting.

As for the ordinary people in the rear, they have been transferred in advance, but they have not suffered any casualties.

However, the loss of property is very huge, not only after the loss of existing property, but the more than 5,000 people who were urgently transferred have already lost their homes. It's a hassle to settle these 5,000 people.

However, for good or bad, there was no large-scale flood, which made Xiao Baoguan feel at ease.

When Xiao Baoguan was initially at ease, in the Huaihe River Basin in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the officials of Jiangbei Road were even more worried!

In the rain day by day, although it was only a heavy rain at the beginning, followed by light and medium rain, but it still caused the river to swell!

What's more important is that the local rainfall in Jiangbei Road does not matter, but there are also heavy rains in Henan and North Anhui. These are all upstream areas. These upstream floods will cause disasters to North Anhui and Henan. , but in the end it must still flow downstream.

And Jiangbei Road is the unfortunate downstream!

This means that the Huaihe River not only has to bear a lot of local rainfall, but also needs to bear the floods in the middle reaches of the Yellow River!

Therefore, although the situation in the Huaihe River Basin is generally stable at present, and the local rainfall has not caused any large-scale floods, they know that the real test has not yet come.

When the middle and upper reaches of the tributaries of the Huai River and a large number of floods in the middle reaches of the Yellow River flow down the river, it will be time to truly test the lower reaches of the Huai River!

However, according to the weather forecast and the news from the 500-mile expedited horses in Henan and North Anhui, it is obvious that the rainfall in these two places is very heavy, which means that the floods are very large.

After calculation, officials from the Water Resources Department sent by the Ministry of Industry in the supervision team came to a very pessimistic conclusion, that is, the current dykes in the Huaihe River Basin simply cannot resist such a large-scale flood!

How to do?

The flood discharge volume of the Huaihe River is limited, and even reinforcement and heightening of dams will not have much effect.

If there is too much water that cannot be quickly discharged into the sea, it will remain in the Huai River Basin, causing the water level of the entire Huai River Basin to skyrocket.

At that time, I am afraid that the entire Jiangbei will be turned into a lake!

After many discussions, they began to formulate the main flood control measures, that is, urgently increase the area of ​​Hongze Lake and the height and thickness of the embankment, and expand the Hongze Lake area to accommodate more floods.

Avoid excessive floods from hitting the Huaihe dykes instantaneously, causing them to burst and flooding large areas.

Hongze Lake, this lake is not a natural product. In the beginning, there were only a few small lakes. After the Yellow River seized the Huaihuai and entered the sea, the water level soared and often caused floods. Lake levee, and finally formed a large-scale dam with a length of tens of kilometers.

In the more than 100 years of the previous Ming dynasties, the dam was strengthened and heightened successively, thus forming a large freshwater lake such as Hongze Lake.

After the Tang Dynasty unified the whole country, it also regarded the construction of the Hongze Lake **** as a key project, and tried to spend a lot of money to replace the earth **** with a stone dyke.

But the time is relatively short, so the effect is limited.

Now, seeing that the flood has exceeded the capacity of the Huai River, and is even expected to exceed the flood resistance capacity of the Hongze Lake embankment, emergency heightening and reinforcement of the Hongze Lake embankment has become the most urgent task.

Now on the embankment of Hongze Lake, more than 150,000 young soldiers and soldiers are under construction!

There is no way, without the large construction machinery like the later generations, if you want to reinforce and raise the dam in a short time, it can only be a pile of people.

In fact, the flood control work on Jiangbei Road started at the end of April, because Jinling City dispatched 500 miles to report urgently. After the officials in Jiangbei Road received the news, they dared to neglect them and immediately That is to start organizing people to carry out flood control work.

In order to prevent floods, the most important project is to reinforce and heighten the embankment of Hongze Lake.

In order to fight the flood, the government directly adopted the recruitment model, directly recruiting young people from the prefectures of Jiangbei Road and parts of North Anhui Road.

In addition to the young and strong, the military is also strongly assisting. The troops in the nearby areas, whether it is the main force or the reserve division, are basically mobilized urgently. In addition, a large number of emergency reinforcements of troops in other areas are organized.

Relative to the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the Empire paid more attention to the safety of the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River.

Because the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River are even more dangerous!

If it is said that the flood fighting and disaster relief in Henan is only one place, then the flood fighting and disaster relief in Jiangbei Road is a gathering of a lot of power from the empire!

In just a few days, 150,000 people arrived one after another and started construction!

At the same time, the military also provided a special material, that is cement!

These years, the military is the biggest user of cement. Cement is used for all kinds of fortifications. They directly transport a large amount of cement from the strategic material warehouse as flood-fighting materials.

But what is interesting is that these cements are not directly transported to Jiangbei, because it is still raining in Jiangbei, and the cement cannot dry and solidify quickly.

These cements are actually made directly in areas such as Zhenjiang, where the weather is good and the sun is shining brightly, and then these large cement bricks are shipped to the construction site through the canal.

These cement bricks are used to replace stones.

Because in a short period of time, they could not obtain a large number of flat stone strips to build the embankment, and cement bricks do not have this problem, and they can be poured directly.

However, time is tight, and it is difficult for cement to dry completely in a short time, so it is not very useful.

More importantly, we still need to rely on the original method~www.wuxiaspot.com~ directly use sand and gravel to strengthen the embankment!

Seeing 150,000 people working day and night on the lake embankment, even the military generals who have seen the big scene can't help but marvel. This kind of big project is no less than a strategic battle!

As for those local officials, they were even more amazed!

This kind of big project is usually impossible to do. Not only is it easy to cause trouble by urgently forcibly recruiting young people, but even if there are young people, the cost is not ordinary.

This time, Jiangbei's local finance need not worry, because this time, all the funds needed for flood relief and disaster relief will be jointly advanced by the Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank. It is the central finance who pays the bill!

Rich people, this Hongze Lake embankment is getting thicker and higher every day, and the speed is quite fast!

However, the government of the Tang Dynasty built the embankment quickly, but the flood of the Yellow River was not slow! Valley Emperor