I am Da Song

Chapter 232
According to available historical records, in the 1946 years before 540, the Yellow River was threatened with flooding nearly 1593 times, and the river course was changed 26 times due to flooding.

The difficulty of managing the Yellow River can be seen from an old saying: the Yellow River breaches twice in three years and diverts its course once in a century.

And because of the Sanyi Huihe in the Song Dynasty, this process was extremely frequent in the Song Dynasty, and both breaches and diversions were very intensive.

Su Chi said to Yue Fei: "Looking at the current situation, if we want to completely solve the problem of the flooding of the Yellow River, without the financial investment of hundreds of millions of yuan from the imperial court, it is difficult to see results if we persist for a long time of more than ten years. But the management of the Yellow River is complicated, but it is actually difficult Simple, nothing more than comparing with the water potential. The first solution is to block, and the second is to comb."

"Now that it is raining heavily and the water is increasing, we must strictly seal the gap to prevent the embankment from breaking again in other places. At the same time, we will open up waterways to divert the Yellow River to other places, so as to kill the anger of the water."

Yue Fei asked: "What does Shi Lang Su plan to do?"

Su Chi immediately said: "Now the imperial court has used more than [-] troops and millions of civilians in Hebei. I think it can be combined with prevention and control. In addition to repairing the broken embankment with all our strength, there will be one civilian for each zhang on the embankment. Anywhere there is a broken embankment. Risk, report it immediately, and do our best to repair it as soon as possible."

Yue Fei frowned. This method is undoubtedly very beneficial to fight against the flood. The peak mobilization ability that human beings can achieve is just like this (soldiers fight against the flood with two meters and one post), but it poses a very severe test to the organizational strength of the army. .

How to ensure the supply of this stretching front?

The Song army has never experienced the drill of providing food to soldiers under such circumstances.

But Yue Fei only hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Yes, I will do my best to arrange soldiers and do everything possible to ensure the flood."

There are so many things that Da Song has not experienced before. Isn't it because everyone worked together to carry it down?

Su Chi didn't dare to delay, and said: "The Prime Minister will take care of the overall situation and prevent the overall river defense. I will go to Mingzhou to dredge the water channel and divert the flood."

When a country removes the buff of corruption, the mobilization ability it can form is amazing and majestic.

Literati and inkmen always like to speak boldly, and they are often three thousand feet, tens of thousands of feet.

But all of this was vividly interpreted in reality in the Song Dynasty. The soldiers of the Shenwu Youjun were nailed to the side of the embankment like nails in the torrential rain, and the row stretched tens of thousands of feet.

Countless soldiers used their bodies to guard before the torrent and stood at the forefront of flood fighting.

At the same time, on the entire land, tens of millions of peasants are busy like ants, trying their best to repair the broken embankment.The dikes and dams were quickly formed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and they continued to converge, quickly making up for and reducing the situation of the Yellow River's embankment breach.

At the end of April, the heavy rain was still torrential, and the sky and the earth were in a haze.

But the good news has reached Tokyo, like a ray of sunshine piercing the clouds, dispelling all the haze in people's hearts.

Right Prime Minister Mei Zhili excitedly reported to Zhao Huan: "Officials, the treatment of floods in Hebei has achieved initial results. Su Chi is worthy of being the most proficient in water conservancy officials. His prevention and control measures are advancing in an orderly manner. Executions are shrinking in scale."

Zhao Huan smiled, finally living up to his determination.A lot of wealth has been poured in, and the corrupt situation is slowly improving.

"Flood control is only a preliminary improvement, and there is still a long way to go before the embankment is blocked. We must not take it lightly. The frontline soldiers and people resisted the flood with their lives, and the rear must not hold them back. All kinds of logistical materials are provided in time. Tools, The equipment is all ready, I don't want to see the soldiers holding the sand with their hands full of blood, and I don't want to see the soldiers exhausted in the wind and rain while hungry."

Mei Zhili spoke excitedly, and said, "Please rest assured, the officials, ensuring the supply to the front line is the top priority of the imperial court today. Even if the officials agree to such a matter of starving the soldiers on the front line, the common people will not agree!"

"Oh?" Zhao Huan was quite interested and asked, "What happened?"

Mei Zhili said with a smile: "The soldiers fought the flood at all costs, and the common people were deeply moved. People from all over the country ate pots of milk, carried wine and food to the embankment, and expressed condolences to every soldier, lest one person would not have enough to eat and drink. warm."

"Good! Very good!" Zhao Huan was excited after hearing this, and said, "Natural disasters are merciless, but human beings are merciful!"

"I believe that as long as the soldiers and people of the four directions and the people of the world can work together, they will be able to quickly relieve the country's disasters and resist natural disasters."

Speaking of this, Zhao Huan looked solemn, and ordered: "Let the Inspectorate send a censor to inspect the disaster relief matters. Any official who dares to use his hands to corrupt and corrupt the money and food for the flood relief at the time of the country's crisis, I will never give up." If you don't tolerate it, you will be killed without forgiveness, and you will implicate the three clans!"

Mei Zhili saluted respectfully, and said: "I take orders. Hebei is close to the capital, and I will work with the Inspectorate to supervise and supervise the officials, to serve the people with integrity, and to relieve the national crisis."

The entire country of the Song Dynasty went all out to fight against the flood, gathering the power of a country, and the fight against the flood was progressing rapidly every day.

Especially in May, after the southern navy sailed into Hebei and Shandong, more than a dozen broken dams were repaired on both sides at the same time, and the area of ​​the broken dykes was rapidly reduced.

The first successful restoration was Guanshi County where Han Shizhong was located. Han Shizhong took off his military uniform as a prime minister and fought fiercely with the soldiers in the front line. Tens of thousands of people worked day and night to repair the breach in the northwest direction of Guanshi.

The east and west sides of the Yellow River in Guanshi County burst their embankments, and the west side was first blocked to prevent the floodwater from converging with the floodwater in Guantao, and then diverted to the Gaotang and Plain areas.

It was the ancient road of the Yellow River in the Han Dynasty, and the ancient Yellow River passed through Gaotang, Plain and other places to divide Jizhou and Qingzhou.

It's just that the vicissitudes of life have changed, and the ancient road of the Yellow River has long since dried up, turning into a prosperous city and vast farmland.

After the flood, here and the Yellow River River converged into a Zeguo.

Su Chi planned to use the eastward dam to reorganize the river course, allowing the Yellow River to have a few more estuaries downstream, so as to prevent the river water from converging in a main road and bursting the embankment again during the rainy season.

His plan to divide and kill water anger was a great success in the direction of Hulu River. Qianning Town, Qingzhou in the direction of Jianfu rejoins Beiliu and flows into the Bohai Sea at Baigou River.

But this move completely made Jin Guo jump.

The direction of Guantao successfully blocked the breach of the embankment, and a large amount of floodwater traveled northward along the North Flow Taotao, all the way to the border of Song and Jin Dynasties and entered the Baigou River, causing the downstream water potential to surge.

The Baigou River is a river in the east and west direction, almost completely dividing the border between Song and Jin.

Jin Guo jumped and cursed, Song Dynasty is beggar-thy-neighbor!
(End of this chapter)