Wolf Dysprosium

That night, Jin Yan took Chen Shuang, Xia Houxin took two followers, and the five left Xianmen City on horseback, headed north, and rushed to Youli City.

You Junshan and Yue Lianlou did not accompany them.Yue Lianlou lost his temper because of this, Zhang Mo was trapped in Youli City, so he must go.Jin Yan spent a lot of effort to convince Yue Lianlou that he and You Junshan stayed at Xianmen in case of emergency.What a rainy day?That is, if dissuasion fails and Cen Rong insists on opening the gate to release the flood, the two can cooperate with the people of Mingye Hall to transfer the people in the city together.

Both Jin Yan and Ming Yetang were not familiar with the details of Dingshanyan, after Xia Houxin's explanation, everyone knew that this matter was not trivial.

Youli City is also along the Shenshui River, and it is the only place where Liang Jing goes to Xianmen City.Dingshan Weir was built more than 300 years ago. It is a dam across the sinking water and the Mu River, a tributary of the sinking water. Legend has it that the dam was guarded by thirteen town water beasts.Since the spring of this year, there have been frequent heavy rains, and the water level of Liexing River and Shenshui has soared. Now it has overflowed the embankment, and the low-lying places in Youli City have been flooded.Due to the age of Dingshan Weir, several thin cracks have appeared, and it is inevitable to open the gate to release the flood.

And Dingshan Weir designed two flood outlets, one in Shenshui and one in Muhe.

If the flood outlet of the sunken water is opened, the downstream of the sunken water, which is also suffering from floods, will be devastated.There were such natural disasters in the early years of the Great Yu Dynasty.At that time, the Dingshan Weir was opened to release the flood, and the yellow water was flooded and corpses were floating for hundreds of miles. More than 30 refugees were forced to leave their homes.In the summer of that year, a plague broke out in the submerged river basin, killing and injuring tens of thousands of people.

Yue Lianlou, who was listening impatiently, couldn't help asking: "Since this is the case, I can't do anything. Even if the entire Immortal Sect is withdrawn, what about the cities outside the Immortal Sect?"

In order to show his sincerity, Xia Houxin invited all the guardians of Wentianzong, Tianshi of the Northern Territory, and people from the seven sects and nine religions in the city to Jin Yan.As the city guard of Xianmen, he asked everyone to use the influence of the Seven Sects and Nine Sects in the vicinity of Xianmen, especially in the Shenshui River Basin, to persuade the believers to leave their hometown for the time being and take refuge in high places.In Xianmen City, if Ming Yetang and officials start to transfer people, everyone should not stand by and help each other is the best policy.

Yue Lianlou was very displeased, but had no choice but to stay. Although she was noisy, she turned around and arranged to notify the various branch halls.For a time, countless feathered birds took off in the rain and scattered into the sky in all directions.

When the five of them left, it was only raining lightly at the fairy gate, and they hurried on slowly. The night passed, and the sky was as black as ink in the early morning, and the mountain road was torrentially rained, making it impossible to move forward.

After barely advancing for a while, another rock collapsed.Chen Shuang let Jin Yan and Xia Houxin rest aside, and he took the two sturdy followers to clear away the debris on the road.

Jin Yan and Xia Houxin waited under the tree. The ground was covered with leaves washed down by the rain, a layer of green and downy.The rain poured down crazily, and the coir raincoat and hat made a rumbling sound.Jin Yan frowned tightly, without saying a word, seeing Xia Houxin turn to face him.

"Little general, why don't you ask if we have found out the details of the killers on the birthday?"

Jin Yan didn't expect Xia Houxin to ask this question, his face remained unchanged, and he smiled slightly: "If you find it, you will find it, if you can't find it, you won't find it. I don't pay attention to this matter."

"Why don't you pay attention?"

"Master Xiahou, what do you think?" Jin Yan asked back.

Xia Houxin was silent for a moment, then asked again: "I never figured it out. You belong to the third prince. You should know that my mentor is Grand Master Liang. Why did I invite you to the backyard of Xiuxintang? You didn't have the slightest doubt that it was true. Come with me?"

"I doubted it." Jin Yan confessed, "But I thought you were the one who asked Tianzong."

It was Wentianzong's birthday that day, if Xia Houxin was a follower of Wentianzong, or an extremely important person in Wentianzong, there was no need for him to harm Jin Yan on Wentianzong's territory.Jin Yan was brought to Xianmen City by the third prince, and even met Xia Houxin under the introduction of Cen Rong.If he died in Wen Tianzong's territory, how could Wen Tianzong get away with it?There are many rumors in Liang Jing that the third prince is fond of Jin Yan, and that Jin Yan and the third prince have an inexplicable relationship. If Jin Yan is really asking about something wrong in Tianzong's Xiuxin Hall, I'm afraid Cen Rong will tell him Wen Tianzong might be uprooted.

All inferences are based on the fact that Xia Houxin is the person who asked Tianzong, and he will consider Wen Tianzong's safety in his actions.

Jin Yan said: "Ziwang is short-sighted. Ask Tianzong, a folk sect, how can he have such a relationship with the imperial court officials. No matter who is Lord Xiahou's mentor, no matter what conflicts of interest you and I have, Lord Xiahou will never Don't do stupid things."

Xia Houxin bowed his body and bowed: "Little General, I just took you to the backyard. I don't know anything about anything else."

Jin Yan didn't say he believed it, nor did he say he didn't believe it, and after a moment of silence, he started a new topic.

"Lord Xiahou, you came to beg me for help, which was really beyond my expectation." He said, "You know my identity, and you also know the grievances between you and me. Are you not afraid that I will refuse you when you come to beg me? I went to Youli City, but I just wanted to say something bad in front of Cen Rong, and I was pregnant with your big business."

Xia Houxin looked up at Jin Yan.He is old enough for Jin Yan to call him uncle, but he is overworked or worried, but he looks like a 50-year-old man in his [-]s.

"The little general is the child of General Zhongzhao. Before he came to Xianmen, he had a big incident with the third prince in Liangjing. Sheng Keliang was demoted and exiled. Changlu Temple and the Ministry of Punishment changed hands. Most of the money disappeared, so many people who sold their wives and sons were able to get out of trouble. I came to find the little general because I was sure that the little general, who is upright and bright and has the world in mind, can help me and is willing to help me."

Jin Yan had mixed feelings in his heart.His father was upright and upright, but his reputation was ruined and he died tragically on the battlefield; but now the person who indirectly killed Jin Mingzhao came to ask for help because of his uprightness.What irony!

He smiled coldly and said, "Master Xia Hou values ​​me so much, which really makes Ziwang terrified. Ziwang didn't expect that you would be so desperate for the people of Xianmen that you would be willing to beg the third prince."

Of the six ministries of the DPRK and Central Committee, only the Ministry of Industry is still in the hands of Liang Anchong.The Ministry of Industry manages water conservancy. If the Dingshan Dam collapses and sinks into the water, the Ministry of Industry must bear the responsibility.This is the outcome that Cen Rong would like to see, so his goals are inconsistent with Xia Houxin's: Cen Rong hopes that there will be an accident in the sinking water, but Xia Houxin wants to save people.

The rain was pouring down, and the thunder was rolling.Complicated eyes flickered in Xia Houxin's eyes, and it took him a long time to look directly at Jin Yan's eyes.His tentative, cautious demeanor and tone just now disappeared, replaced by a strange generosity.

"Saving Xianmen is saving myself. I have been an official in the court for more than ten years. There are countless peers and disciples. Dogs and sons-in-law are officials in the court. They are all inextricably linked with people in the court. This kind of connection can be maintained in the past. Me, it is very likely to destroy me in the future. If I fall, how many disasters will befall, and the little general is not in the court, it is unimaginable." Xia Houxin said, "This is one of them."

"Secondly, little general, in the eyes of those who wield power in Liang Jing, robbing military supplies and breaking dams are nothing more than means to suppress dissidents. If you do it, you belong to them; if you don't, you are another People on one side. Sometimes you only have two roads, left and right, and you can’t stand in the middle. But what are the people in Changliang City and Xianmen City? Who doesn’t have parents and brothers? Who doesn’t have a career in life? Hope to live in peace? The world is like a frying pan, and the heaven and the earth are in soup. Only the common people have no choice, what comes down from the sky is what it is. I am the official of the court, but I am also the official of the parents of the people, and only I can stand in their way."

Jin Yan was slightly surprised.He didn't expect Xia Houxin to have such an idea.

Once the Dingshan Weir breaks, no one in the submerged downstream will be spared.However, the imperial court has not yet issued any official documents, and the city guards in Zhucheng are afraid to move. Only Xia Houxin, who has disobeyed the holy will and has the support of Grand Master Liang, dares to make the decision to transfer the people in the city.

"Master Xiahou seems to be trying to block him with his body?" Jin Yan asked with a hint of sarcasm and sarcasm.

"I blocked it with my body, and I was prepared to not have both."

Xia Houxin paused for a moment, as if he couldn't help it, he finally spoke out about the fact that the refugees in Changliang City looted the army rations.

"Little general, you may think that Changliang will be able to eat the relief food for a few more days, but do you know that the relief food should have arrived in Changliang a month ago? Who blocked it? Who made it difficult? I I didn't know it at the time, and I didn't have time to speculate on the true meaning. The relief food has been arriving for a long time, there is no grain of rice in Changliang City, and even the richest man's granary in the city is full of wheat husks. Changliang City also has defenders, and the rations for the defenders are not allowed according to the law. Mobilization. Do you know that it was I who held a sword and knelt down and begged for food relief?" Xia Houxin became more and more excited as he spoke, "In the end, there was really nothing to eat in the city. My grandson is young , What does he eat? He eats grass roots and bark. What do I eat? Eat snow water. You think the food is just late, but every day, hundreds of people die in Changhe. The new dead are cut by their families If there are old parents, poor and weak children in the family... Do you really think that changing children to eat is just a legend? Such a tragedy of human relations is being played out in front of my eyes. It snows every day, and there are corpses under the snow. Except, the beginning of spring will be a great epidemic, how many people will die because of it? Little general, if you were me, how would you choose?"

His eyes were red, he was slightly teary, and his chest was heaving due to the rapid speaking.

Jin Yan was really shocked by what Xia Houxin said.

He has never seen a disaster, and his impression of the disaster is that after the flood outside Fenghu City, his father took him to see how people rebuild their hometown.However, all kinds of tragedies in the disaster always only exist on paper, and have never been so directly put in front of his eyes.

He couldn't help but think of the woman who was dressed up and sang and jumped from upstairs on the day the Bishan League was signed.All kinds of death in the world are nothing more than a "death", but the thousands of pains before "death" are all caused by the tragedy of life.

His heart was shaking, and he couldn't help clenching his fists.What he saw was Xia Houxin urging the victims to grab food, but he didn't know that there was such a thing behind it.

"Snatching military rations is absolutely true. If I dare to do it, I will do it." Xia Hou said, "As long as you can save the people under my jurisdiction, why not block them with your body? The little general thinks it is absurd for me to beg you. But it’s really not uncommon for me.”

Jin Yan nodded.The wind was blowing with rain, and he subconsciously held the deer's head at his waist.With the icy deer head lying in his palm, he calmed down.

"The impassionedness is impressive." Jin Yan said, "But Mr. Xiahou, you don't have to take all the rations."

Xia Houxin was stunned for a moment, and then slowly laughed.He laughed louder and louder, and Chen Shuang, who was not far away, looked sideways frequently.

"I made such a statement, but you can still..." He was not angry, but only looked at Jin Yan, "What a powerful and steady heart, little general."

Jin Yan nodded: "Your Excellency is ridiculous."

He believed that Xia Houxin had to grab military rations in order to save the people of Changliang.But keeping all the military rations in Changliang City was in line with Grand Master Liang's wish.The same thing, after he accomplished it, firstly, he saved the whole city, which is a great merit, and secondly, he helped Grand Master Liang seize the military power of the Northwest Army, which was his own benefit.

Jin Yan thought to himself, Xia Houxin's deeds are so beautiful, and his words are so generous, it's really cunning and rare.

After laughing, Xia Houxin said, "The little general knows that I am complicated, so why did you go with me?"

Jin Yan chuckled: "Master Xiahou wants to save the people of Xianmen, and I also want to save the people in the lower reaches of the sinking water. You and I have the same goal, so naturally we go the same way."

After Chen Shuang and others cleaned up the sundries on the road, everyone rode on the road again. After running for two nights, the horse was too tired to move, so they had to stop to rest.Chen Shuang and Xia Houxin sat together by the fire, chatting for some reason.

He asked Xia Houxin, since he knew that Dingshanyan had been flooded due to the opening of the weir to release floods before, why is it that the water level has skyrocketed due to the heavy rain for days, and the people are not simply transferred to flee?Isn't it better to plan ahead?

Xia Houxin put down the jerky in his hand, and said seriously: "You are a knight-errant, and you may not know much about the things in this land. There is a saying that people rely on mountains to eat mountains, and rely on water to eat water. Wherever the people live, they will rely on Where is it? Do you think fleeing is such a simple thing as packing up your bedding? Dragging your children, taking care of the old and the young, in a hurry. How do you live when you leave your hometown and go to other places? It is not easy for shopkeepers to live without their goods. If they cannot survive, looting, burning and killing will happen, and public grievances will arise everywhere. Therefore, the city guard will not let the people evacuate unless it is absolutely necessary. Similarly, no city is willing to Accept foreign refugees."

He sighed: "Mourn how difficult the people's livelihood is."

Chen Shuang nodded repeatedly when she heard this, and turned her head to see Jin Yan, she was very sincere: "Xia Houxin is a good official, not a bad person."

Jin Yan was surprised: "You know?"

Chen Shuang: "How well he said it."

Jin Yan laughed and said, "Although you often follow Yue Lianlou, you are still so innocent, interesting, and interesting."

Chen Shuang: "...It makes me feel really uncomfortable to be said that by someone younger than me."

Jin Yan: "I compliment you."

Chen Shuang was dubious.

After another day, everyone finally arrived at Youli City.The terrain of Youli City is relatively high, and before reaching the city gate, a magnificent dam spans the submerged water, and the whole picture can't even be seen clearly in the rain and fog.The spillway on the embankment opened a crack, and turbid yellow water gushed out.When he got close to Youli City, Jin Yan realized that what Xia Houxin said was true, and that Youli City was seriously affected by the disaster.

At the city gate, the stagnant water has covered the horseshoe.

The author has something to say:

Yesterday, a reader asked whether it was true that in ancient times the gates would be opened without notifying the downstream.

The transmission of information in ancient times was very, very backward. In addition to the big city, there were many towns and villages on the outer edge of the big city. It was basically impossible to notify all places before the flood was released.And flood discharge is often to keep certain places.In the thinking of many managers in ancient times, the people were not the primary consideration.

Interested readers can search for the keyword "Fushan Weir". The sinking and flooding event in this article is designed with reference to some features of Fushan Weir, such as two spillways.After the completion of Fushan Weir, the water level in the upper reaches skyrocketed, and the downstream suffered disasters after the embankment broke, and the death toll was very high. It is a water conservancy project that should not have been built. Interestingly, it is now a cultural relic.

Speaking of recent events, I don’t know if you still have any impression of the flood disaster in Shouguang, Shandong Province in 18. Thousands of pigs were washed away, farmland was severely damaged, and economic losses were very, very large.I remember that after the flood was released in Shouguang, the water volume greatly exceeded expectations, which made it impossible to deal with it well.During the epidemic this year, fellow villagers in Shouguang donated a lot of materials and vegetables to Hubei, which is really not easy.