[Qing Chuan] Five elder brothers intermittent salted fish

The sunny day in Huizhou Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River finally ended in a clear noon. The good weather for half a month turned cloudy without any warning, and then there was endless torrential rain. There was no day and no night, as if the sky had leaked sieve.This alone is already overwhelming, not to mention the strong wind that comes with the rain.

The crops have already been flooded by the rain, and there is absolutely no hope for this year's harvest. The drainage system is not enough to support the excessive rainfall, which causes the rainwater to gradually accumulate until it floods paths, official roads, streets, and houses.

It is also fortunate that the residents of the low-lying areas have already moved away, so that the current situation remains stable, and there will be no heavy casualties and no permanent homes.These are naturally attributed to the diligence of Yinqi and the officials of Huizhou government. The prefect Wu Yunxiang had previously invited and persuaded the residents to move from house to house and even went from house to house.

Previously, ordinary people who stuck to their jobs did not know how much prejudice they had against the prefect of Wu because of these things, but now the heavy rain and even the flood almost knocked down their thatched hut in an instant, so that even the wooden beams were washed away. After disappearing, these simple and ignorant people knew that they were afraid, and Wu Zhifu became the only Bodhisattva who saved the world in their hearts.

However, Wu Yunxiang has no intention of being proud and complacent now. Even though the small number of victims have been transferred to save their names, the amount of water in the Yangtze River has been increasing with the heavy rainfall. up.

At this time, Wu Yunbo was restless in the wartime headquarters set by Yinqi's site selection. He couldn't sit down for a moment and waited, but he couldn't do anything. He just kept walking back and forth in the dilapidated and leaky house.

Yin Qi listened to the whistling wind outside the window, even though he was sitting on the chair, he didn't know the bottom line in his heart, after all, it was a battle with the sky, who could really be sure of everything in his heart?

"Huh..." Suddenly the wooden door was pushed open by an external force, and Yin Qi stood up almost instantly. He looked at Cao Luan outside the door who was wearing a coir raincoat and covered in rain, and asked anxiously, "How?"

Cao Luan lifted the bamboo hat on his head, his face was very gloomy, his whole body was trembling and trembling because of the rain in the south of the Yangtze River in summer, he just said: "The situation is not good, Sanyaowei, Yangcunwei and Linjiang Several small dams seem to be dying, and they cannot be defended!"

"Can't keep it? How can it not be kept? If these dams can't be kept, once they break...it will be unimaginable! Not to mention the people in Huizhou Prefecture, the downstream of Huizhou Prefecture is also... this... hey Oh my goodness! How good is this!"

Wu Yunxiang, a majestic magistrate, was so anxious that he squatted down on the spot, and the seven-foot man didn't care about his face, stretched out his hand and wiped his face directly, not knowing whether it was rain or tears.

Yin Qi even hurried to the map, he stared at the map without saying a word, even though the people around him were anxious, they all pointed to Yin Qi as the backbone, waiting for him to speak.

Now whether to keep it or not, in fact, it is time to pay attention.

But only Yinqi knew in his heart that from the very beginning he had no choice but to defend. Once the flood broke the dam, he went straight to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Not to mention the small towns and counties in the south!

"It's called Sanyaoxu, and the people from the three fairs, Fujixu and Guyuxu, have all withdrawn!" Yin Qi calmly looked at the map and said word by word, but the rest of the people who heard his words were waiting for a while. My heart suddenly became half cold. Although they were silent and didn't speak, Wu Yunxiang, the parent officer, couldn't help it.

He walked quickly to Yinqi, pleading almost hoarsely:

"My lord! You must guard! You must guard! People will die after this dam! It is the people of our Huizhou Prefecture, the people of Liangjiang, and the people of the Qing Dynasty. If we can't keep this way, the number of people who will die Tens of thousands, my lord!"

In the small wooden house, apart from the sound of heavy rain hitting the eaves and the squeaking sound of the wind hitting the doors and windows, only Wu Yunxiang's bloody and tearful trembling sound hit everyone's hearts hard. On the screen, the silence clearly accuses the cruelty of the facts.

After a long time, Yinqi looked back at him and repeated again: "Get down!"

Cao Luan: "My lord..."

Wu Yunxiang: "My lord..."

Liang Shan: "Fifth Young Master..."

"Everyone, if we want to save the lives of the people behind us, we need to give up these fairs. Most of the people around these fairs have been evacuated. The dam at Jiayan." Yin Qi turned around and bowed solemnly, "Today's decision is my own, and I am responsible for any consequences."

"What does your lord say, I, Wu Yunxiang, am not a person who is afraid of things, but Wu is impatient and thinks that your lord is going to give up guarding us..." Wu Yunxiang was halfway through speaking, feeling ashamed in his heart. Adults get along day and night and fight side by side.He had to be attentive to the common people and the flood, but in the end he still doubted the heart of the young man.

Yinqi didn't care about these things, he just looked at Cao Luan and said, "How is the water level in Gaojiayan?"

Cao Luan squeezed the cloth to wipe his face dry, and panted back: "Today and tomorrow, there may be a danger of the embankment breaking. Besides, the sand and rocks we prepared before are not much. If we want to stop this disaster, we need to think about it." Some other way!"

"I'll go and have a look!" After Yinqi finished speaking, he was about to open the door and go out. Liang Shan, who had been with him all the time, quickly picked up his umbrella and was about to follow, but Yinqi said, "What kind of umbrella do you use for such a heavy rain? Can you hold it?" ?"

Liang Shan was choked upright, the rain was like pouring, but Yinqi is the prince after all, he may not be able to use his strength in other places as a servant, but this matter must be well maintained.

Unable to make an umbrella, Liang Shan went to get the coir raincoat and bamboo hat again. Seeing that he insisted and did not want to make him worry, Yinqi obediently dressed and walked out.

The pouring rain drenched the yellow mud on the river bank, and the mud and yellow water almost flooded all the places where they could set foot. Brick, how can there be any mud in such soap-toed boots.

Yin Qi, who is also wearing soap-toed boots now, has two-thirds of the fabric soaked in muddy water from the first step out of the door.He walked in a hurry, it was hard to care about his manners, he just let the mud splash on his gown, and the rain wet his skin and made his heart cool.

Yinqi quickly climbed to the shore all the way, the slippery dirt road was obviously not so easy to walk, and he was burdened with a heavy coir raincoat, so it was not as good as the men who carried stone bags on their shoulders and walked barefoot be fast.

"Fifth Lord, be careful!" Seeing him in a hurry, Cao Luan did not forget to tell him while supporting him. Yin Qi held his hand and looked at the embankment repeatedly hit by the flood. .

The embankment of Gaojiayan on the first line is as fragile as the embankment made of concrete piled up in the face of the raging flood.On the left side, a gap of tens of meters has already been formed, and as time goes by, the gap will only become bigger and bigger until the embankment bursts.

Liu Qinghui, who arrived late, shouted out of breath, "What...how is it?"

However, no one answered except for the torrential rain and thunder.

"It's not a holiday, if I die in the south of the Yangtze River, I will return to my roots as a fallen leaf!" Cao Luan said in a low voice, but was soon swallowed up by the noise of the rain, only Yin Qi who was beside him shouted.

"Unlucky words! How dare you talk about life and death without reporting it to the country."

Although Yin Qi said this decisively, if the Gaojiayan dam below the bank bursts, the people need not say that they, the officers and soldiers and the laborers who resisted the stone, will die first.It's just... It's not easy for him to come to the Qing Dynasty, and he doesn't plan to accept his fate so easily, life has nothing to ask for, and death has nothing to do, then this life is so boring!

After finishing speaking, Yinqi turned to look at Liu Qinghui, and shouted: "Qinghui, is there any other way?"

"What did you say?" Liu Qinghui straightened up with difficulty and wanted to get closer to Yinqi, so that he could hear clearly.Yinqi only raised his voice and shouted again: "A way? Is there any other way?"

Liu Qinghui frowned, the wind and rain made him unable to open his eyes, but his mind was still spinning, he couldn't do anything about what he had learned in half his life.After a while, he said: "If the rocks and sand can't stop it, I should replace it with bigger ones!"

"Big? How big should it be? Big rocks? With the current road, no matter how big the rocks can be found, how can they be transported?" Liang Shan asked puzzled.

Before Liu Qinghui could answer, Yinqi's eyes turned to the river in the opposite direction. Not far behind them was the calm river where the flood was blocked by the Gaojiayan dam. Although the rain was heavy, it was far worse than this side. Turbulent and terrible.

The west side of the river is a commercial port. Although Yinqi had already explicitly prohibited any merchant ships from doing business in this generation, the fleet of ships had nowhere to go for a while, so they stayed on the shore and only dropped anchor. Leave someone to watch.

"Which merchant ship is that?" Yin Qi looked back at Cao Luan and asked.

Cao Luan randomly touched the rainwater on his face, and looked at the pier to the west. He narrowed his eyes slightly and only looked at the flag on the merchant ship, which clearly had the word "Yao" embroidered on it.

"Yao? The Yao family! It must be the merchant ship of the Yao family in Yangzhou, except for their salt merchants, there is no other salt merchant that can afford such a fleet!"

Yin Qi quickly patted Cao Luan on the shoulder and shouted: "Go to the Yao family! Drive all these merchant ships outside the Gaojiayan, and sink the ship!"

As soon as Yinqi said this, everyone's eyes widened. No one thought that such an approach was unreasonable in every possible way, but after thinking about it, it seemed that there was no other choice but this method.

Yin Qi looked at the crowd without saying a word, Cao Luan also stood aside, and shouted loudly:

"What are you still doing here? What are you waiting for? If you wait any longer, you and I and the people of Huizhou Prefecture behind us will all die here! Go! If there is any obstruction, say it is my order! Go find Wu Yunxiang! No! Go! Find Wu Yunbo and ask him to take him to find a team with good water skills, whether we can keep our name this time depends entirely on today!"

Cao Luan Kanze Yinqi's firm eyes, only then did he realize that he didn't mean to be joking at all, but was actually going to use the sinking ship to stop the flood.