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Chapter 333 Unexpected Encounter
King Xing's Mansion made flood control arrangements, but the prefecture and county yamen didn't care about it at all.

Even King Xing's mansion has criticisms, thinking that there is less rain this year, and that drought before the autumn harvest should be prevented, resulting in a large-scale reduction in grain production, instead of focusing on preventing flood disasters.

"...Little Master, I have asked the merchants from Xiangyang Prefecture, and I have not heard of any floods in the upper reaches of the Han River. It is true that the water level of the southern river is relatively high this year, but it has not affected the Han River... "

Even shopkeeper Ma, who always obeyed Zhu Hao's orders, felt that this matter was unreliable.

Naturally, Zhu Hao would not explain to him that the possibility of Hanshui flooding in July and August is not small.

At the turn of summer and autumn, as the cold air in the north continues to strengthen, the Qinling Mountains in the upper reaches of the Han River are easily blocked by the mountains due to the blocking effect of the mountains. The cold air will easily stagnate here and meet the warm and humid air going north, resulting in continuous rainfall. Strong warm and humid air flow can easily form continuous heavy rainfall, leading to downstream flooding.

"Even if it doesn't rain, shouldn't we be prepared for sudden floods? Besides, the impact on our business is limited to the fact that the goods unloaded at the dock need to be stored in the warehouse in the city. The transportation cost of this journey is not important to us." It is high, but if there is a flood and our warehouse in the ferry market is completely submerged... the loss will be unbearable, right?"

"Yes, Xiaodong is right. This is a necessary precautionary measure to avoid a catastrophe, but the problem is that merchants from other places find it troublesome to enter the city for transactions... The water level of the Han River has dropped by two in the past few days. With a height of three meters, even the people patrolling the embankment have relaxed their vigilance..."

Shopkeeper Ma is embarrassed to say, but people think we are crazy.

When it rained continuously before, the water level of the Han River continued to rise, which was indeed a bit scary. All parties actively prevented floods, but after a few days passed, the water level of the Han River continued to drop. If you tell people that wolves are coming, they will not believe it.

Zhu Hao shook his head: "It's up to him, I take care of my own affairs. In short, all the goods in the ferry warehouse are emptied, and we will make changes after autumn."

Shopkeeper Ma nodded yes, but he was muttering in his heart that his little boss had a stubborn temper and refused to admit his mistakes. In the past, boss Su's father would occasionally be like this when he was in charge of the shop...

"By the way, my little boss, now all our warehouses outside the city have been robbed by the Zhu family, and we rely on a few temporarily rented small warehouses for temporary storage and withdrawal, and the turnover of goods cannot be kept... You said that Xingwang's mansion needs to repair the river embankment , and also allocated land for us to build a warehouse, I wonder if it will be available?"

Shopkeeper Ma said this at this time, purely for the sake of argument.

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Now everyone thinks that this great flood will never come. Even if there is a plan for the Xingwang Mansion, it will run aground. Maybe we will wait until next year to build the embankment before making plans?"

Shopkeeper Ma said: "It's not a small one. If the new warehouse has not been settled after summer, our business will be difficult. Who will sublet the warehouse to us? If we buy land and build a new warehouse , maybe how much money will be taken away by others, the cost...is too high."

"Okay, old horse, you can tell me what's in your heart, I respect you as a man, but now that summer is over, it's too early to say these things, just wait!"

After Zhu Hao finished speaking, he was going back to the palace.

Shopkeeper Ma asked, "What are you waiting for?"

Zhu Haodao: "Wait for the weather to be good... If the flood doesn't come, I'll be happier. We won't be afraid when it comes, at least we have prepared in advance, right?"

"Hehe, yes."

Shopkeeper Ma was speechless for a while, if it wasn't for being an obstacle, he would have rolled his eyes.

……

……

Seeing the middle of July.

It was another few sunny days in a row, the sun was hot, the sky was dry, and it didn't look like a flood.

The people sent by the Lianxing Palace to monitor the river embankment initially arranged ten points to monitor the water level, and twenty people took turns working in two shifts day and night. Now there are only three groups of people, that is, six people on duty on the river embankment. .

Perhaps everyone in Prince Xing's Mansion felt that the flood season in the traditional sense was over, and that there would be no more floods.

It was still a sunny day, and after nightfall, the city of Anlu Prefecture had already quieted down.

In the middle of the night, the lights in Prince Xing's mansion gradually went out, only the dormitories of Zhu Hao and Jing Hong in the west courtyard were still lit, but now only Zhu Hao was writing at his desk, and Jing Hong had already lay down and fell asleep.

At this moment, the three of them hurried back to the city, knocked open the city gate and went straight to Xing Wang's mansion, waking up Tang Yin, Yuan Zonggao, Zhang Zuo and Zhu Youzhao who were sleeping.

"...My lord, something happened."

Zhang Zuo said nervously when he came up.

He had already asked the guards who came to report, and his face was full of panic.

Yuan Zonggao coughed a few times. He has been in poor health for the past few days. Seeing Zhang Zuo's panicked face, he blamed him for not refusing to tell him clearly before, so he forced a smile: "Zhang Fengzheng, speak slowly."

Zhu Youzhao tightened the clothes on his body, maybe he planned to go back to sleep after listening to the report.

"It's like this...Forget it, let Mr. Tang talk about it, he will explain it in more detail." Zhang Zuo first set the tone for a big event, and then handed over the right to speak to Tang Yin.

Tang Yin was stared at, a little unnatural, coughed and said: "Three guards on duty on the river embankment came to report that the water level of the Han River has risen by more than three meters tonight. Especially after nightfall, the water level has risen rapidly. It is less than two meters away from the top of the embankment."

"This……"

Zhu Youzhao was stunned.

For a period of time before, the Xingwang Mansion regarded flood control as a top priority, but it turned out that nothing happened later, and now the people who repaired the embankment by the river have withdrawn.

Obviously the flood season has passed, now you tell me that the flood is coming?
Yuan Zonggao frowned and said: "I haven't seen rain recently, and the upstream has not reported any situation. How could it suddenly happen? Is there any possibility of false alarm?"

Tang Yindao: "The three groups of people staying on the embankment measured the water level from different places, all of them are like this... If this situation develops, perhaps before dawn, the river will overflow the embankment, and under the continuous impact of the flood, some areas may even There may be a breach..."

Yuan Zonggao smiled: "Bohu may not know, this breach has always been caused by the long-term high water level scouring the river embankment, if it is just a torrent, it will not break the embankment, only the long-term flood will not go away, and the pressure will accumulate. Only then will there be a breach of the embankment.”

Zhu Youzhang raised his hand to interrupt Yuan Zonggao: "That is to say, the water level of the Han River is rising rapidly, and there may be floods before dawn, is that so?"

Zhang Zuo said: "That's it, my lord, let's quickly transfer people from outside the city into the city, especially Nanzhuang, where the terrain is relatively low, and it was all submerged when the water came out last year..."

At such times, what Zhang Zuo wanted was to quickly withdraw the people and animals to the city to prevent large-scale losses.

Tang Yinze insisted: "Zhang Fengzheng, at this moment, you should immediately notify the government, organize people to rush to repair the dike, and strictly guard against it."

"It's the same, it's all the same." Zhang Zuo smiled wryly, "Even if we need to rush to repair and strengthen the embankment, shouldn't we bring the old, weak, women and children into the city first?"

That being said, Zhang Zuo was beating drums in his heart, what happened to you Tang Yin?

I support you, but you argue with me?I'm only using you now, so I'm humbled to you... At this time, the property of Prince Xing's Mansion is more important than anything else, how can I care about other things?

Zhu Youzhao said, "Yuan Changshi, what do you think?"

Yuan Zonggao was also a little worried: "If it's true and the water level keeps rising, I'm afraid there won't be enough time for emergency repairs..."

Tang Yin suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly stuffed Zhu Hao's previous copy from his bosom to him, but he threw it aside. Today, when he heard that the flood was coming as expected, he found out the flood control blueprint and presented it to Zhu Youzhu.

"Mr. Tang, is this...?"

Zhu Youzhu was puzzled.

Tang Yindao: "This is the river channel blueprint that Zhu Hao sent people to inspect the Anlu section of the river before. The comprehensive information from all aspects has marked all the key points of flood control. If this is the basis for emergency repairs, it may not appear. Flooding, as long as the flood passes through the Anlu border smoothly..."

"what?"

Not only Zhu Youzhu was surprised, but even Zhang Zuo and Yuan Zonggao didn't expect it.

At this time, the plan Tang Yin came up with was actually made by Zhu Hao alone?
So what kind of role did Zhu Hao play in this matter?
"This... works."

Zhang Zuo naturally stood by Tang Yin's side at this time.

With the help of candlelight, Zhu Youzhao took a rough look at the river map, nodded and said nothing more.

Yuan Zonggao said: "If the power of the palace alone is used to rush to repair the embankment, I'm afraid it will be a drop in the bucket. It's best to inform the government as soon as possible to transfer the people on the lower ground outside the city first. Not all of them may move into the city. They can move to the east. Temporarily evacuate in the mountains, but first ensure that no major damage occurs to the personnel..."

Zhu Youzhu nodded: "In that case, let Mr. Tang go to the state government office."

Tang Yin said: "His Royal Highness King Xing, let Yuan Changshi go... I have no official status, I'm afraid no one will pay attention to me when I go to the state government."

"This... is not completely unreasonable, so please trouble Yuan Changshi."

Zhu Youzhu turned to look at Yuan Zonggao.

Yuan Zonggao didn't want to go into troubled waters at first, but Tang Yin's suggestion was right. The new magistrate Zhang Yezheng is a fool who corrupted the law. Without him going to the state government to negotiate, Zhang Yezheng would give Xingwangfu face?
"Then, what about the people, animals, and goods in our palace?"

Zhang Zuo cared more about protecting the palace's resources.

Zhu Youzhao said: "Hurry up and mobilize people to move those old and weak women and children from Wangzhuang to the city. Zhang Fengzheng, you go and mobilize... As for sending guards and strong men to protect the embankment, leave it to Mr. Tang."

Zhu Youtang sort of divided the work for the three people in front of him.

Yuan Zonggao was in charge of negotiating with the government, while Zhang Zuo took people outside the city to notify the personnel of the material transfer, and Tang Yin took the people from the palace to the embankment.

As the parties were about to split up, Zhu Youzhu reminded again: "Bohu, you might as well take Zhu Hao to the river embankment. Since he has a plan in advance, he must know a lot about flood control and may be able to help you."

"Yes."

Tang Yin responded, thinking at the same time, even if you don't say it, I will still bring that kid Zhu Hao along.

Without him... I wouldn't have the confidence to deal with it myself.

The ghost knows how to deal with the flood. Is this something that a literati with "both poetry and painting" should worry about?I'm afraid that if this kind of thing is put on the ministers of the DPRK and China who are very experienced in flood control, they may not be able to grasp the essentials for a while, right?
Yuan Zonggao said: "Bring the drawings with you."

Tang Yindao: "Yuan Changshi, the blueprint was drawn by Zhu Hao, he must know it well, it's better for you to take this to the state office, if there is no plan, I'm afraid the state office will not know how to help even if they want to How to start."

"exactly."

As if inspired, Zhu Youzhu looked at Yuan Zonggao earnestly, "The most important thing right now is to rely on the help of the government, please trouble Yuan Changshi to lobby, there is no room for loss."

　It's a new month, and the Son of Heaven is asking for a wave of guaranteed monthly tickets for support, thank you!

　　
　
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