The official road of the farmer

The clear wine flows out from the mouth of the altar and poured into the cup accurately, the mellow wine smell is looming.

The handsome waiter poured wine from the main seat along the table.

"This is the 20-year-old Huaichuan Luofu, please try it."

The one who spoke earnestly was Wei Kang Tongzhan of Huaichuan County, who assisted the county guard in managing the administration and prison work of the county.

When the county guard Deng Hongyuan and his husband, His Royal Highness Xia Houjue, left in a hurry, Captain Kang did not leave together. Of course, it was not that he was not afraid of death, but that his husband's relatives and friends were all here, and he was not very capable. In the background, being able to become a county lieutenant is purely based on luck.

Although Huaichuan County has not been completely submerged, due to the chaos for a period of time, there is not much wine preserved. These are still the treasures of the county lieutenant, and they have been reluctant to take them out until now.

After the wine glasses in front of everyone are full, basically you toast and I toast, and thank each other humbly for their hard work.

"Thanks to Mr. Xi's thunderous means, taking care of the common people so well... I would like to offer my lord a toast."

"The eldest prince is the one, come here in person without fear of hardships and dangers, I will toast the eldest prince."

Xi Maochang still felt that he was not doing well enough, "The flood in Huaihe River has not been resolved so far. I really failed His Majesty's trust. I am ashamed to face the people of Huaichuan..."

"My lord is humble. The matter of flooding is a long way to go. My lord can do this to such a degree. This prince admires me very much."

"The eldest prince praises..."

"I would like to offer you a toast, everyone has worked hard!"

"It's not hard, it's not hard..."

"Adults work harder..."

After drinking for three rounds, the atmosphere is much more relaxed.

Then Xiahou Xuandai smiled and said: "Take this opportunity, we also want to thank Mr. Ye, if it weren't for his clever plan, the imperial court would not have prepared the supplies so quickly."

Xi Mao often glanced at Ye Junshu, his eyes full of admiration, "It should be like this, haha..."

Although the specific reasons are not humane, all the officials in the officialdom knew that it was Ye Junshu who proposed the idea of ​​donating money in the first place.

In fact, if the capital hadn't united as one and actively contributed to the disaster relief, they wouldn't have restored order so quickly here.

It was because of Shang Jing's behavior that the news reached Xi Maochang, and he used the news to stir up people's hearts. In fact, it was indeed very effective.

The people of Huaichuan, who were originally mourned, heard that so many people helped them. They were not abandoned, so they had hope.

"What a formidable young man!" The others picked up their wine glasses and toasted Ye Junshu.

Ye Junshu quickly stood up, and humbly replied, "It all depends on the support of seniors."

After a glass of wine, Xiahou Xuandai once again wrote to Jun Ye: "We had some misunderstandings before, and taking this opportunity, my prince will apologize to you, and I hope Mr. Ye will make a lot of money."

Ye Jun was flattered in his writing, "Where is the eldest prince? It's because the officials are ignorant. They have offended the eldest prince in the past. I hope the eldest prince will not care about it."

The two apologized to each other, and finally drank three cups each, which was regarded as a confession at this time.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Ye Junshu continued to sit quietly.

Xiahou Xuandai was concerned about the country and the people, and asked Xi Maochang with concern: "Master Xi, how is Huaihe doing?"

Although their task was only to transport supplies, it would be inconvenient for them not to intervene in the matter of Huaichuan without bluntly speaking, but since they have come, they must find out a little bit, so that they can explain to Emperor Tai'an when they go back.

Bu Dayong said boldly: "If you need help, just speak up!" They will definitely help.

Xiahou Xuandai smiled and said: "Yes, the flood problem will be resolved as soon as possible, and the people will return to their homes as soon as possible."

"The Huai River flood has not completely receded. According to the statistics so far, 86 villagers have been swept away by the flood. The property lost has not yet been fully calculated."

Xi Mao often thought of the desolation under the flood when he first came, and felt extremely sad.

Xi Maochang was dissatisfied that Deng Hongyuan, the governor of the county, fled before the battle and ignored the people. If he organized the evacuation in time, maybe so many people would not have been sacrificed.

But Deng Hongyuan is the eldest prince's younger brother and the husband of His Highness the Fourth Highness, right and wrong can be judged by Emperor Tai'an himself, Xi Mao is very difficult to say.

Xiahou Xuandai did not refrain from talking about this matter, instead he looked ashamed, "The fourth child has been spoiled since he was a child, and he is more self-willed, and Hongyuan is also eager to love Fulang, so he indulged him so far, and the emperor was very angry when he learned that they had acted like this ...Father will definitely give the people of Huaichuan an explanation!"

The eldest prince spoke impartially, but it might just be a scene. Although Xi Maochang felt that Deng Hongyuan acted like this, it would not be too much to punish him even if he was punished by officials, but he still said on the face: "The fourth highness grew up in the deep palace since childhood, and the first time he encountered danger Unavoidably flustered, I subconsciously returned to my relatives."

"That's right, His Highness Fourth is a noble person, so it's not appropriate to take risks."

"..."

Others also said kind words.

Xiahou Xuandai just revealed it and didn't mention it.

Ye Junshu kept being extremely energetic, and really couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in the eldest prince's gourd.

Such a style of acting and painting made Ye Junshu's whole body vigilant, but until the reception feast was over, Ye Junshu returned to the assigned room, and it was still calm.

Ye Junshu asked the guards to burn a bucket of water and bring it into the room. After washing off the dust, he lay on an unfamiliar bed, still thinking about the problems he might face.

Li Jia and Li Yi are next door, not to mention Uncle Bu is not far away from him, Ye Junshu is not worried that the First Prince will choose to attack at this time and sneak attack in the middle of the night.

But he couldn't see what the eldest prince would do.

Forget it, the soldiers will block the water and cover it with soil, it will not help to entangle now, we can only adapt to the situation.

Ye Junshu put this question aside and stopped thinking about it, and instead thought about his lover and children who were far away in Shangjing.

After more than half a month apart, he missed him very much.

I don't know if Ah Yu is doing well in Shangjing, if he is also thinking about him, and if the children are good or not...

Ye Junshu slowly fell asleep with thoughts of his family.

Second day

Ye Junshu and the eldest prince walked around Huaichuan beside Xi Maochang.

They did not leave immediately, but stayed here under the banner of sharing the worries of the people.

The First Prince showed no signs of leaving and returning to Beijing, he looked close to the people and sincerely wanted to solve the difficulties for the common people.

Xi Mao often couldn't find a reason to persuade him. After all, he didn't show any signs of meddling in Huai Chuan's affairs. He just wanted to see if there was anything he needed to help, so he personally took Huai Chuan around.

Ye Junshu also wanted to know about the situation, so he followed suit.

Xi Maochang and Kang Junwei served as the commentators, and first took Ye Junshu and his party to the resettlement site for the victims.

For the convenience of management, they are basically placed together, which is located on the west side of the county.

There is an open space with a lot of land and few people, and the terrain is slightly higher. It is not close to the water source nearby, and it can accommodate tens of thousands of victims. The sheds are densely packed, and it can barely accommodate them.

If a large group of them wanted to go in, it would be difficult for them to get down and easily scattered, so they didn't go in, but just walked around the periphery.

Tens of thousands of disaster victims gather together, even if they try to keep clean, they can't get anywhere. After all, there is no change of clothes and it is not convenient to take a shower.

They can smell a strange smell when they stand outside, and the people inside are used to it.

Ye Junshu and others also showed no abnormality.

But this is helpless.

The court has tried to do its best.

When the common people saw Ye Junshu and his party, they were all respectful.

They have already recognized that this group of unfamiliar officials are those who delivered supplies to them yesterday, and some elderly people knelt down on the spot in excitement.

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord..." As soon as someone started to kneel, the others followed suit, uttering words of thanks incessantly.

Xiahou Xuandai seemed very touched, and immediately stepped forward to support an old man with gray hair, "Please hurry up, old man."

"Everyone please get up quickly."

"Good man! Lord Guanyin Bodhisattva is reborn!" The old man was very grateful.

The fields and crops in Huaichuan were all destroyed, and there was no harvest. The treasury of the county and the city would be exhausted. If the imperial court did not bring supplies in time, they would starve. How many people might starve to death.

The excited people in Weichao of Kang County introduced: "This is the First Prince. Our Majesty loves the people like a son. When we learned of the flood in Huaichuan, we specially asked the First Prince to come and tide over the difficulties with us. I believe that in the relationship between His Majesty and the First Prince With love, we can rebuild our home soon!"

When the people heard this, they knelt down again and shouted, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, and the eldest prince, thousand years old."

"Everyone, please, this is what this prince should do, you don't have to do this..." Xiahou Xuandai felt sorry for the world and sympathized with others, and he helped the very excited people to their feet by saying whatever they wanted.

Xiahou Xuandai's smile deepened. I believe that after this incident, his prestige among the people will be even deeper. At that time, among all the brothers, who can compete with him?

Xiahou Xuandai had a lot of thoughts, and then kindly asked the people what needs they had, and their court would meet them as appropriate.

Most of the people are pure and kind, so they dare not make any demands. The grandson of the emperor is so approachable in front of them, which really flatters them.

Even some cautious people would not dare to act presumptuously in front of the prince.

Ye Junshu had some thoughts when he saw these environments. He took a look and suggested to Xi Maochang: "Generally, places where large-scale disasters have ravaged are prone to breed diseases. So many people gather together and the air is not circulated. Once someone gets sick, it will be even worse. It is easy to infect, adults might as well find some wormwood and smoke the area thoroughly, it can effectively prevent disease infection and get rid of the peculiar smell.”

Wormwood is a kind of medicine used to kill bacteria and anti-virus. In addition to being used as a traditional Chinese medicine in medicine, wormwood is also commonly used to smoke the room in daily life.

A large amount of smoke will appear after wormwood is ignited, and therefore, it can play a role in sterilization and disinfection.

The ancients seldom had this kind of awareness, but Ye Junshu felt that he should not be negligent.

Before he moved to a new house, he would deliberately smoke the whole house first.Even the hometown, also confessed that Aunt Ming would help smoke the old house every once in a while.

Thinking of his hometown, Ye Junshu remembered that he was going to help the academy find wood. He confessed this matter, but he hurried away on business before receiving the news.

But Ye Junshu thought, Ah Yu was in the capital, if there was any news, the people below would report it to Ah Yu, and he would deal with it at that time, thinking about it this way, he felt relieved.

When Xi Maochang heard it, he suddenly realized, "Zizhou is right." He was only worried about food, resettlement of victims, and how to deal with floods, but he didn't think about this problem.

Although he doesn't know whether there must be disease transmission when a catastrophe occurs, he has lived for decades, and has seen several disasters, large and small, as well as in books. After each disaster, there are indeed many People get sick, and even if there is no widespread infection, many people die of illness.

They haven't thought about it that much, but now that they think about it, does it have anything to do with the environment?

To explain it in a way beyond this era, they may not understand it. Ye Junshu explained it in the language here. The people present are not fools, so they can naturally hear that what Ye Junshu said is very reasonable.

Maybe every time so many people got sick in the past, it was caused by the environment!

But this is only an incentive.

The common people suffered a catastrophe, and they were already relatively fragile psychologically. Coupled with the fact that they could not eat enough for a long time and did not sleep well, their body resistance would deteriorate. Under the double blow, the surrounding environment deteriorated again, and they were prone to illness. infect.

Speaking of which, among these victims, several old and weak are already sick, but considering that if people are isolated, it will easily cause uneasiness among the people.

Xi Maochang immediately ordered people to pay more attention to this group of victims. If the condition worsened and more and more people became sick, they would go to quarantine and then ask people to find a large amount of wormwood. The area must be cleaned up before tomorrow. .

Delay in the disaster area, it will soon be noon, at this time, it is time to eat.

In order to show that the monarch and the people share joys and sorrows, they did not cook extra meals, but ate a big pot of porridge together.

Today was the first meal after the supplies arrived. It was rare and rich. The porridge in the large pot was very sticky, and pots of fist-sized black-faced steamed buns were also made.

The common people looked at the sumptuous lunch in front of them, and all of them had bright eyes.

After lunch, Ye Junshu and his party continued their journey. The place they went this time was the Huaihe River outside the county town where the flood water had not subsided.

This is the special project of Mr. Nie of the Ministry of Water under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

The Ministry of Industry is one of the six ministries. It is in charge of various projects, craftsmen, farmland, water conservancy, transportation and other government orders. Generally, there is one minister and one minister, who are in charge of Shanze, farmland, craftsmen, and various companies. There are four genus: the first is the Ministry of Industry, the second is the Tuntian Ministry, the third is the Yu Ministry, and the fourth is the Water Ministry.

There is one doctor in each department, who has the same job title as Ye Junshu, and belongs to the fifth rank.

The work of each department is clearly defined. The Ministry of Water is in charge of the decrees of Chuandu and Pochi in the world to guide ditches, weirs and canals. Nie Langzhong is the leader of this area and is responsible for repairing water conservancy projects.

Speaking of which, Ye Junshu had also dealt with Langzhong Nie, and the relationship was acceptable.

Ye Junshu's branch is also in charge of water transportation taxes, which is inextricably related to the area that Nie Langzhong is in charge of.

This time the dam on the upper reaches of the Huaihe River burst, and Nie Langzhong was ordered to deal with it in the face of danger. He brought several of his subordinates and followed the imperial envoy Xi Maochang to deal with it.

The land outside Huaichuan County has not been cleared, there are broken wood and branches everywhere, as well as agricultural supplies, there are still puddles left, and the loess is muddy. Although try to avoid it as much as possible, everyone's boots are already wet and dirty when they arrive at the destination.

The stockings on my feet feel wet and sticky, which feels very uncomfortable.

But no one is disgusted on the face.

The place where the upstream dam breaks cannot be too close for the time being.

Nie Langzhong took Ye Junshu and his party to a relatively safe place where they could see the dam break, and said to everyone, "The reason why the Huaihe dam broke was that the water volume of the reservoir exceeded the capacity of the dam, which led to the collapse..."

The reason for the excessive water volume was that, apart from the rare heavy rain ahead, which lasted for more than ten days, no one checked the embankment, resulting in the failure to discharge the flood in time.

Generally speaking, dams collapse, in addition to the poor quality of the dam itself, the most common causes are unreasonable dam body design, unknown geographical location exploration, lower bedrock or potential water load exceeding the standard, or there may be landslides after water storage in the reservoir area. Gang and so on.

In addition, due to untimely and irresponsible human inspection and maintenance, the most common earth dams in mountainous areas or relatively remote places, lack of human inspection and meticulous maintenance may easily lead to embankment failure when facing the design maximum limit storage capacity.

Or other dams are randomly built in the downstream basin of the dam body, which affects the fluidity of the upstream basin. Many buildings and dams are usually built on the riverside, resulting in a decrease in the river's water-passing capacity. The body can only not discharge the flood.

Nie Langzhong has led his men to explore during this period. The quality of the Huaichuan Dam has passed the test. When Nie Langzhong was only in charge, he followed his predecessor Langzhong to maintain it, but that was five years ago. They are most satisfied with the safety and quality assurance of the Huaichuan Dam. If there is no external damage, it will still stand for at least several decades.

When he heard that the Huaichuan River had broken its dam, Nie Langzhong's first reaction was that he couldn't believe it. Other dams that were not so good in quality didn't have any problems. Why did the Huaihe River have a problem instead?

But no matter how unbelievable it is, the truth is right in front of us.

Now that I see it with my own eyes, I can find out why.

If it is pursued seriously, the sheriff of Huaichuan County cannot escape the blame.

When the rainstorm came, I didn't take the situation of the Huaihe Dam into my heart. Someone might have reminded me, but they were negligent.

The ancients should not be underestimated. After years of experience summarizing, as early as in ancient times, there was a set of countermeasures before and after floods.

In order to be able to predict the coming of floods, the ancients installed devices in rivers to monitor the water level.And there are many tricks, such as making three stone figures standing in the river, asking "not to be full, not to be shoulderless".

People at that time used this standard to observe the water level, predict that the flood was coming, and start flood discharge and diversion in time to avoid large-scale floods as much as possible.

And when the flood is unavoidable, the information must be transmitted to the imperial court in a timely manner. The government has set up a flood reporting station, which has a high priority.

When there is a flood situation, in addition to reporting to the imperial court, the people in the disaster area must be notified in time. The government will use methods such as hanging flags, hanging lights, and beating gongs to send out emergency signals to remind people to rush to repair river embankments and arrange for people to transfer.

The Huaihe Dam has a device for predicting the water level. Several water level lines are drawn on the right side of the stone wall.

However, Deng Hongyuan did not pay attention to the situation on the dam side for unknown reasons.

In the end, the water level crossed the line, and the dam was unable to carry the excess water, leading to tragedy.

Of course, Langzhong Nie would not say these things that sound like accusations. He just tried to state the facts as objectively as possible, and he would also give an unbiased overview in his notes to Emperor Tai'an.

Everyone who listens knows it.

But no one said it.

They stood on a high slope, with the rushing flood below them, and looking into the distance, there was a dam missing a gap.

The flood was turbid and rushing endlessly. With its turbulent and majestic momentum and the sound of rushing water, many people stared at it for a few times and felt dizzy and dared not look any further.

"Nie Langzhong, is there any countermeasure for flood control now?"

"The lower officials think about it day and night, and feel that it is still necessary to take the risk of repairing the dam. There are also more reservoirs that can be built in the middle and lower reaches."

"Now that there is no more rain, the river will be diverted and the dams on both sides of the Huai River will be raised. I believe that the flood will be reduced in a few days."

But no matter which method, in the end it will require a large number of people.

Fortunately, the mighty army that came this time has not yet left, and the people of Huaichuan, if they help each other, the problem will be solved soon.

Everyone walked down the embankment.

While listening to Nie Langzhong's eloquent speech, he looked carefully at his feet.

Ye Junshu listened intently. As the saying goes, there is a specialization in art. Although he has the memory of two lives and can remember a lot of miscellaneous things, he does not specialize in water conservancy.

What Ye Junshu knows is relatively simple content, such as more greening can effectively store water and reduce soil erosion.

It is very beneficial to listen to professionals speak at the moment, so I listen carefully.

They didn't go back home until near evening.