Valley Emperor

On May 13th, on the embankment of Hongze Lake in Huaian House, Jiangbei Road!

The water level is already approaching the top of the original height of the levee, and even on some relatively low levees, the water level has already exceeded the original height of the levee.

However, the flood is still firmly bound to the inside of the levee. This is because, on the original levee, more than 100,000 people worked together. After fighting for more than ten days, the height of the levee was temporarily increased.

Although these temporary heightened dykes are not as thick as the original dykes, the pressure on these temporary dykes is not as great as that on the bottom dykes, so they can withstand it for a while.

However, even if the levee has not yet burst, the local military and political officials are taking it lightly. On the one hand, they continue to raise the temporary levee, and on the other hand, they thicken the original levee to improve the ability of the levee to resist floods. .

More than 100,000 people are still working non-stop!

And after more than ten consecutive days of high-intensity work, many people are tired and lying down. At any time and anywhere, you can see soldiers and civilians resting after changing shifts. In the rear, you can see many women and children cooking water and cooking for the construction of the embankment. The young adults and soldiers provided hot water and hot meals.

Although the pressure is huge now, the good news is that the sky is no longer gloomy. It has been raining continuously for half a month, and it finally stopped.

Although it is still raining in the upstream area, it is not raining locally in Jiangbei Province, and it does not continue to rain, which means that the flooding will be greatly reduced.

At this time, even if there is still a huge amount of water pouring from the upstream, as long as it does not continue to increase, there is still great hope to survive this catastrophe.

On May 18, Kuaima informed that the area in the North Anhui Province was gradually clearing up and it stopped raining. This also meant that there would be no more water in the middle and upper reaches of the vast Huaihe River.

After learning this news, many officials in charge of flood control work were greatly relieved!

As long as you don't keep adding more water, that's great news!

On May 25th, there was an express report from Henan, saying that the local area was also starting to clear up, and it did not continue to rain!

At this time, everyone is really at ease!

As long as there are no large-scale floods in the upstream areas, especially the Yellow River, then the downstream Jiangbei Road is not in great danger.

Sure enough, at the end of May, the water level of the Huai River gradually dropped, and the water level of Hongze Lake, which also served as a huge reservoir, also gradually dropped.

There is not a lot of water gushing down upstream, and the Huai River's outlet is constantly draining into the sea, so the water level will naturally drop.

By May 30th, the water level of Hongze Lake had dropped from a dangerous height to a safe height. Although the water level was still relatively high, it had already dropped to the height of the original levee and no longer threatened those temporarily built levees.

At this time, the government also began to disperse the recruited people, leaving only the garrison to continue to be vigilant!

On May 6, the water level officially dropped to a relatively safe level, roughly where it normally rains.

At this point, it is truly safe.

At this time, even the garrison began to withdraw gradually!

The flood that lasted for a full month has finally passed, but although the flood has passed, it has not caused a large-scale breach of the embankment, but the damage caused by this flood is still quite large.

In a month, almost half of Henan, most of North Anhui, and the entire Jiangbei Road were severely tested by floods. Even if there were no large-scale dykes burst, the floods could not be discharged, and a considerable waterlogging was still formed.

Large areas were submerged by floods, not to mention villages, even towns were submerged a lot, especially the cities near rivers, most of which were hit by floods.

All in all, the number of people affected by the flood exceeds 10 million, and at least one million of them will not be able to return to their hometowns for a short time. , their land has also been flooded, and subsequent recovery is not so easy.

In addition, more than 200,000 people had their hometowns completely submerged and were forced to move to other places, and a considerable part of them were people in the surrounding areas of Hongze Lake.

And the number of casualties is not too small. Collected from many places, the number of dead and missing people has reached more than 5,000 people.

In the face of such huge losses, the follow-up disaster relief work is very difficult, so that the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan and even the high-level executives of the entire empire have focused their work on follow-up disaster relief in the last month or two.

The prepared food, clothes and other materials have been pouring into the disaster-stricken areas from all over the country. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal once again played a huge role. Many ships passed through this canal to transport a large amount of materials from the southern part of the empire. To Jiangbei Road and Huaihe Middle and Upper You and the Yellow River area.

"So far, we have allocated 8 million taels of silver for post-disaster relief, mainly to buy food, clothes, farm tools, etc. to help the affected people get through the difficulties. In addition to the 3 million taels spent during the flood fight , now the empire has invested 11 million taels of silver for flood fighting and disaster relief!" Liu Bagou couldn't help frowning when he said this.

This is 1,100,000 taels of silver, and this figure does not include the military's expenses!

The military also spends a lot of money to fight the flood. Of course, it is very expensive to raise the army on weekdays. In fact, the military does not spend too much extra cost. At most, it only provides a part of the food and materials. Difficulties, the military bosses have already made a promise to the cabinet that the military's expenses during the flood-fighting period will be borne by the military itself, and no additional financial appropriation is required.

But even with the exception of the military, the cost is still too great!

What's more, this is just the beginning, and a lot of funds will definitely be needed for disaster relief in the future!

Li Xuan also saw Liu Bagou's frown, but he still said: "Disaster relief is the most important job of the empire this year, let's put the rest for now!"

There are tens of millions of people affected by the disaster in each provincial highway, and there are millions of people who are temporarily homeless, and 200,000 people who need to be permanently relocated.

But if you don't spend this money, tens of millions of people will have no food after the disaster, and millions of people will lose their homes, what will they do?

No need to guess, it will definitely become a refugee, and then evolve into a rebel!

Even with the strict official control and relief, a large number of people in the disaster area have begun to flee the disaster area with their families and their families. A considerable number of them are trying to escape from areas that have not been affected by the disaster, especially the Jiangnan area.

According to the monitoring of relevant official yamen, in just one month, more than 100,000 people crossed the Yangtze River and crowded into all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, especially those places that are rumored to be able to make a living, such as the industrial cities represented by Shanghai, which have A large number of disaster victims crowded in.

They want to find a job to survive, that's all!

And this is still good, after all, this is just trying to find a job and make a living.

What officials fear most is to evolve into large-scale refugees, and then become like locusts, destroy everything wherever they go, and then bring man-made disasters to those areas that have not been hit by natural disasters.

In ancient feudal dynasties, natural disasters were not terrible, but man-made disasters after natural disasters were even more terrible!

Therefore, the military of the Tang Empire maintained a high level of vigilance and strictly guarded against various large-scale turmoil.

However, it is not enough to rely on high-pressure military deterrence. After all, when people are not hungry, it is impossible to consider the consequences.

So martial law is important, but relief is even more important.

Li Xuan immediately said: "In this way, squeeze again, and collect 4 million taels of silver, and collect 15 million taels of silver!"

"Go on and ask the officials at all levels below to be honest with me. If anyone dares to reach out to the relief fund, I want his head!"

Although Li Xuan said so, but he knew that people's hearts are inherently evil, especially officials are the wicked among the wicked.

This will not make any difference because of the Tang Dynasty or the former Ming Dynasty, so it is almost impossible to rely solely on the self-discipline of officials.

Even monitoring by the Inspectorate is impossible. After all, this is 15 million taels of silver. Anyone who sees such a huge amount of money will be jealous.

Therefore, Li Xuan called the people from the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy and asked them to focus on monitoring the corruption problem after the disaster.

To deal with the corruption of officials, although it is said that this is the work of the Inspectorate, when it is actually done, Hantong will not be worse than them, or even better.

Because Han Tong has been monitoring hundreds of officials, he has a lot of black materials on officials, but usually, these black materials are often directly locked in the archives.

Hantong's archives have been remodeled several times. Now Hantong's archives are basically the same as the vaults ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ silver vaults. Access is very strict, and there is no certain level of people. Inaccessible, and also has strict measures such as fireproof, waterproof and mothproof.

Otherwise, if the archive room is set on fire at random, it means that Han Tong's years of work will be destroyed in one fell swoop.

In Hantong's huge archives, there are almost all the files of middle-level officials. To put it bluntly, it is more complete than the official archives held by the Ministry of Personnel.

Now it is better to let Hantong monitor the disaster relief funds this time than to let the Inspectorate monitor.

Of course, the Inspectorate will not relax. The flood control and anti-flood supervision teams of the provincial highways are still staying on the provincial highways. The leaders are all the Inspectorate Yoshidu Censors, which is enough to deter those local officials.

However, there are always people who are so greedy they are not afraid of death!

It didn't take long for Hantong to submit a report to Li Xuan, saying that there was a problem with the disaster relief funds in Taoyuan County, Huaian Prefecture.

The reason why the problem was found so quickly is because Han Tong has a unique perspective on the problem. They don't look at the specific process, they only look at the result!

Why did they judge that there was a problem with the disaster relief funds in Taoyuan County?

Because Hantong's spies found that some of the victims in the permanent resettlement sites in Taoyuan County had various problems. In some cases, the wages of the food-for-work program are even reduced by a large part or even at all.

Originally, the central government pulled out enough funds for disaster relief, but now there are disaster victims in these resettlement sites who cannot eat?

Don't ask, there must be a problem!

Li Xuan saw the report and said with a gloomy face: "What a courage!"

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