After a while, Chen Zhizhong, Pang Ji and Wen Yanbo arrived one after another. Pang Ji's family was poor. Although the officials had high salaries, it was difficult to live in the capital and the prices were expensive. He was not the arrogant Chen Zhizhong. He had a lot of social interactions and had to spend some money. He did not live in the temple as a fake, so he bought a simple house far away from the palace. Therefore, he came the latest, but in order to grab the time, he braved the heavy rain and rode a horse to the Secretariat.

Zheng Lang glanced at him.

This person has a deep mind, but sometimes Zheng Lang has to admire him very much.

He turned his head and said to a stern official: "Go and get a piece of dry clothes to replace the syrup."

The clerk went down to prepare his clothes.

Everyone sat down and Zheng Lang said straight to the point: "When the river breaks in Chanzhou, Wang Deji immediately reported to the Secretariat. The river flows northeast, and he can urgently order all prefectures and counties to be on guard and prepare to evacuate the people."

This time the Yellow River dam breaking had a profound impact and even flowed into the territory of Khitan. It happened to be low-lying northeast of Hebei Road, and it flowed happily. Soon, Daming Prefecture, Enzhou, Jizhou, Shenzhou, Yingzhou, Yongjingjun and other places became a vast ocean.

The most tragic thing is Enzhou, who has not yet woken up from the pain caused by the rebellion of Wang Ze, and has suffered this huge disaster again.

But not all places are flat plains. There are a few hills along the way. Some rivers divide some floods, which cannot be stopped. However, after passing through Daming Mansion, it is possible to grab them quickly and win a little pitiful buffer preparation time. Without the edict from the Secretariat, some officials began to prepare for the transfer of the people, but not all officials were conscientious. This edict was aimed at those mediocre officials who were not in charge of affairs and urged them to prepare for the flood seriously.

There is not much time, and Daming Prefecture will definitely notify you, but if Enzhou, Jizhou, Shenzhou and other places are in time, they can take a short rush for half a day or one or two days, but for such a major disaster, even in one hour, countless lives can be rescued.

Chen Zhizhong and the other two had no objection.

Zheng Lang said: "Write."

The minor official began to write, stamped a large seal, and asked the injunction to ride horses to send these dozens of orders to the prefectures in Hebei as fast as possible.

It rained harder outside.

Thunder and lightning are intertwined, just as if the end of the world is coming.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Lang was shocked in the inner palace, and came to the Secretariat with sleepy eyes in his clothes.

Zheng Lang gave a hurried gift. Now time is life. There is no time to slowly give him a gift. He continued: "It is said that the officials of the states and counties in the victim area have the right to recruit any merchant ships and fishing boats to rescue the people in the disaster area. The emperor ordered the officers and soldiers of the battalions in the disaster area to immediately arrange camps and cooperate with the officials of the state to rescue them."

This is the benefit of him being a Privy Councilor.

The three of them looked at each other and again. The reason was also very simple. It was impossible to kill people when they broke the dam. I don’t know how many people had drowned. However, some people live a little higher place, and when they see the flood, they are a little smarter. They also gain a chance of life. However, the river flows more and more, even if they get out of a high place, if they are not rescued in time, they will be drowned by the flood. There is no way, the entire Yellow River has become a river on the ground, and the surface of the river is much higher than that of the land. If the dam is not broken, it will be abolished. If the dam is broken, many people will inevitably drown.

"The three yamen urgently summoned ten thousand soldiers who were good at water must gather at dawn, recruited the fast boats on the Bian River, sailed to Chanzhou, and cooperated with the prefectures and counties to help the people trapped in the flood. If there is any resistance, behead them."

The descendants of Kaifeng's can not imagine that the world's best passengers, goods, canals, and ferries were concentrated on the Bian River, especially the most moving scene. The capital did not produce food. If you want to eat, you have to make money. You either serve as a soldier, an official, a business, or a variety of businesses, hawkers, craftsmen, and some do not have craftsmanship or official positions and cannot operate. You can only sell coolies. Then you came to the Bian River early in the morning. In fact, it was not only coolies, wood and bamboo craftsmen, many porters, bricks and tiles, and Taoists.

In the morning, I came to the streets and alleys of the Bianhe River, waiting for merchants and powerful people to hire them. The powerful people would not come, but there were female friends and yashi who were intermediaries and selected servants for the owner's family. These female friends and yashi were economic workers in later generations. Zheng Lang also hired short-term workers with yashi. These short-term workers were long and short, and the treatment was high and low. The economic man charged both parties for intermediary fees according to the situation. Those who were picked left, but those who were not picked were automatically dispersed at the end of the day. Therefore, when Kaifeng City was quiet, there was only a short period of four o'clock.

The most interesting thing is that Zhao Zhen heard the sound of silk and bamboo outside and laughed, and couldn't help but ask the palace servants where to have fun. Zhao Zhen imagined the excitement outside, and compared it, sighed at the desertedness in the palace, and envied the night life outside the palace. As an emperor, he actually envied the night markets in cities outside the palace, which had never been there before the Song Dynasty, and rarely had them since the Song Dynasty.

This prosperity has caused countless ships to berth on the Bian River every day. Various ships have various uses, some ships seeking large cargo capacity, and some ships seeking speed. Zheng Lang made the latter idea.

Zhao Zhen habitually said: "Accurate."

Zheng Lang said again: "There is another transmission to Kaifeng Prefecture, and immediately prepare various cargo ships, ship each warehouse of grain to Hebei, and prepare various porridge sheds to set up the victims, and then send the three departments to prepare money, purchase clothes, bamboo mats, mosquito nets, and build disaster sheds, some simple daily necessities, as well as epidemic prevention drugs, and send them to the disaster area urgently."

Although the troops were gradually laid off and Enzhou comforted him, it cost a lot of money, but before the summer harvest, the national weather was good, and the summer harvest was successfully staked. The sale of Ping An Supervision and Contract shares raised nearly 10 million yuan of funds, and the national treasury was relatively abundant. Whether it was money or food, there was not much heavy burden for the court.

Just when all ships are summoned, the ship owner will complain. But life is at stake, and no one thinks that Zheng Lang is doing something wrong.

Zheng Lang also said: "There is another message to officials of all prefectures and counties. Be sure to send the first information of the flood to the capital quickly so that it can be handled in time."

Very decisive.

He has been in the East Mansion for more than two months, but Zheng Lang is very careful in his work. Even if he handles government affairs, he often discusses with the other three people. Chen Xianggong, what do you think? Pang Chunzhi, what do you think? Wen Kuanfu, what do you think? He is very low-key, just like when he was like Wen Yanbo asked for calligraphy.

However, this time it was abnormal and ordered one by one was issued quickly, without even asking for advice from Zhao Zhen.

The goal is to grab time.

With the orders issued, countless officials and soldiers in the capital were woken up.

The rain was slightly smaller.

Zheng Lang then breathed.

Pang Ji suddenly sighed: "Wang Deji has committed dereliction of duty."

Some time ago, when I saw the huge waters of the Yellow River, the Secretary of the Central Committee issued several orders to ask the prefectures and counties along the river to check the river embankment to prevent something from happening. Unexpectedly, something happened in Chanzhou and something big happened. The dike was broken at almost 600 steps, but the fatal thing was that there were no hills behind it. Most of them were endless plains, which was even more harmful.

Perhaps Wang Deji felt that he was guilty of dereliction of duty, so when something happened before, he would submit it to the capital.

Zheng Lang shook his head and said, "It's not mellow. The day before yesterday, I deliberately went to the Yellow River embankment to watch. The water was several feet above the surface. The turbid waves hit the bank, and the waves were like thunder. One hectares of water went east, swaying. The roots were flooding, which was beyond the reach of manpower. Not only this time, if it was not managed, the Yellow River dike would break from time to time."

In fact, before this, it was not only the time when the dike broke during the Jingyou period, but in the fourth year of Kaibao, the river broke through the Chanyuan. It spread to several states, and then it broke through Puyang and Yangwu. In the second year of Taiping Xingguo in Taizong, the river broke through Wen County in Mengzhou, Xingze in Zhengzhou, and Dunqiu in Chanzhou, so that the Central Plains became a land of Ze. In the eighth year of Huazhou, it broke through several states, flowed southeast and flowed to Pengcheng and entered Huai, which also implicated the Huai River. In the third year of Xianping in Zhenzong, the river broke through Yunzhou and flooded Juye. It entered Huaisi, and several states were invaded. Later, there was the Henglong Dao in Chanzhou, the deterioration of the Wangba Dao, the river broke through Baifutu Village, the Niejiakou River broke through, and the river broke through Tiantai Mountain. The last time it was also very large, overflowing the city of Huazhou, and the water spread across the four prefectures of Chanpu, Cao and Yun. It was poured into Liangshanpo, and then merged into Qingshui, stormed into Huai River, and ravaged the Huai River again.

During the Tiansheng period, the river broke into Huazhou again, and in the sixth year, the King of Chuxiao in Chanzhou was broken into thirty steps.

These are the large-scale Yellow River dam breakers that can be recorded in history, but they are far less than the dam breakers in the first year of Jingyou. The newly emerged rivers spread across the Long River into the sea, but not as good as this time.

The results have not yet come out, but some approximate results can be analyzed from the map and the width of the break.

Zheng Lang also said: "The sage comes out and the Yellow River is clear. The water level of the Yellow River is not as good as the Yangtze River, but the harm is far better than that of the Yangtze River. It is the turbid river water, which is covered with mud and sand, and settles all the way, raises the riverbed, so that the water surface is far higher than the arable land. To manage the Yellow River, there is only one feasible strategy. Starting from the source of the Yellow River, all tributaries along the way return farmland to forests, return mountains to forests, and return pasture to forests. After a hundred years, the water of the Yellow River will be clear and there will be no harm anymore."

After saying that, he shook his head.

This is impossible. Not to mention that there are many sections of the Yellow River in Tubo and Western Xia, just talk about the Song Dynasty.

The area of ​​the Song Dynasty may not be as large as that of India later. With this pitiful area, one-third of the imperial court cannot control it, but it feeds the largest population in history and fights for land to the sea. Moreover, the land by the river is all excellent arable land and pastures. Once you give up, how many people's jobs will have to be solved?

Not only was it impossible in the Song Dynasty, but it was impossible for those dynasties to achieve this in the future. It can only be said that planting more trees will reduce the amount of silt and sand. For example, when the Sanbai Canal was first managed, more trees were planted. Zheng Lang even planted a batch of forests in many barren mountains upstream of the Jing River. The ecological environment of the Jing River was very harsh and it was impossible to have immediate results. However, the amount of silt and sand has not increased in recent years. Before it increased, it had already achieved an effect. But the effect was too slow, and some people themselves did not consciously. When the trees grew up, they began to cut down randomly. When the firewood was burned, they were banned.

Zhao Zhen suddenly asked: "Why?"

I don't agree.

Zheng Lang talks about science, Zhao Zhen doesn’t talk about science, he talks about God.

Seeing Zheng Lang's repeated orders issued, handling quickly and efficiently, he had never experienced any of them since his founding, he became more and more moved. For example, the Secretary of the Central Committee was delayed and noisy in the disaster last year, which was a good comparison. I am not a virtuous person.

I am also cautious and cannot be said to be a fool.

But God still caused this disaster, why?

The question was inexplicably asked, but all four of them knew what he was asking, but no one could answer.

This must have nothing to do with losing virtue.

But what's the problem?

Zheng Lang was speechless. The dam breaking was not over. Several large-scale dam breakings followed one after another. The water level of the Yellow River was slightly stable, and Nong Zhigao and other barbarians rebelled again. Looking at the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, there was almost no peace.

This can be said to be the best dynasty in history. The emperor was benevolent and had few people. He was full of talents. Not only did many literary masters appear, but many capable ministers in the world appeared. However, the natural disasters left only a dark back in history.

Is this the destiny?

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