Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 483

In ancient times, there were roughly eight types of natural disasters: drought, flood, insects, hunger, hail, wind, plague, and earthquake, among which floods ranked second.

As for floods in ancient China, the Yellow River ranked first, and the Yangtze River ranked second. This does not mean that the flooding of the Yellow River is more serious than the flooding of the Yangtze River, but that the ancient flood control level cannot prevent the Yellow River.

In modern times, the severity of floods in the Yangtze River far exceeds that of the Yellow River. After all, the water volume of the Yangtze River is twenty times that of the Yellow River, and there are many tributaries.

The Loess Plateau in the upper reaches of the Yellow River brought a lot of silt, and the silt gradually settled down, causing the river bed to rise continuously. Over time, people in ancient times had to raise the embankment to consolidate the river channel. The embankment was raised correspondingly, so that the lower reaches of the Yellow River became surface water, which was higher than the ground and became a hanging river.

Later generations returned farmland to forests in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, controlled soil erosion, and built flood reservoirs and river embankments, which greatly reduced the flooding of the Yellow River.

But in the Sui Dynasty, once the Yellow River swelled, it was right to run.

This running refers to the emperor and the nobles, not the common people. The common people have to stay and build embankments.

After a heavy rainstorm, the Luoshui River in Luoyang City rose sharply, and it was about to overflow the embankment. Yang Guang had already taken the lead in running, but he would not run far. Just run to Beiman Mountain to hide for a while. Even if it floods, it won't be able to drown there.

What's more, thunderstorms come in bursts, and it can't last for a long time. As long as the rain stops, the water level will drop.

Luoshui is a tributary of the Yellow River. Just looking at the current turbulence of Luoshui, you can tell that the Yellow River must also be flooded.

Luoyang, the eastern capital, has a drainage system that surpasses that of Daxing, the capital, but no matter how good the drainage system is, it cannot withstand the big river in your city.

At present, countless soldiers and civilians have rushed to both sides of Luoshui River in the city to build dams with stones and raise embankments to prevent flooding.

The most critical ones are Hanjiacang located in the northeast corner of the imperial city, Huiluocang located ten miles northeast of the city, and Xingluocang located in the southeast of Gong County at the confluence of the Luo River and the Yellow River.

Among them, the Xingluo warehouse is the most important, because this granary is next to the Yellow River and Luoshui River, and grain is transported from this warehouse to the north. If it is flooded, at least 20 people will go hungry in the future expedition to Goguryeo.

Even though the flood problem was considered when the warehouse was built, the rain this time was too heavy and urgent, and dozens of warehouses have been flooded.

The rain stopped at the third quarter of the night, but it would take a day to wait until the water level went down.

In Luoyang, the loss was not serious, except that hundreds of people who built embankments died, and the roofs of half of the people’s homes collapsed. But when Yang Guang learned that Xingluo warehouse was flooded by one third, he was completely angry.

When you get angry, you have to vent. Who do you turn to?Whoever repairs the granary can find whoever, Yu Wenkai.

In the early morning, in a mountain villa in Beiman Mountain, Yang Guang scolded Yu Wenkai fiercely. If it wasn't because he was the emperor and had to pay attention to his manners, he really wanted to give Yu Wenkai a few big ears.

"Impregnable gold soup? Is this what you said is impenetrable gold soup?" Yang Guang pointed at Yu Wenshu and scolded: "The warehouse was built by you. Now the food is flooded. Go and solve it for me. The soldiers are hungry, so you go find food for them .”

Yu Wenkai's face was full of black lines, Nima, even if you copied my home, I wouldn't be able to get you a few million stones of grain?
There is no food, but one life, so kill me.

Yu Wenkai knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me."

"No crime!" Yang Guangda waved his sleeves: "You want to lose the pick? Don't even think about it, go find food for me, how much you drown, how much do you make up for me."

Yu Wenkai raised his head, his old face was astonished, it was the first time in my life that I saw such a heavy rain, you can't let me take the responsibility alone?It's true that I built the granary, but your son is still the overseer?

"Don't go soon?" Yang Guang scolded again.

Yu Wenkai's old face twitched, and he looked at the other ministers. Su Wei and Niu Hong hurriedly gave him winks: You go away first, don't stay here.

"Your Majesty, leave," Yu Wenkai left with a sad face.

After the people left, Niu Hong said: "The waterproofing of the three granaries in Luoyang is still very good, but no one expected that the rain last night would be so heavy, and Xingluo granaries are only flooded by one-third at present. Fortunately, the Ministry of Water has reported that the thunderstorm last night mainly fell in Yiyang, Luoyang and Yanshi, and the rain clouds have weakened in Yanshi, which shows that the scope of the disaster is not large."

"Not that big?" Yu Shiji frowned and said, "Nearly 300 million shi of grain was flooded, and crops in a county were damaged. With such a huge loss, the imperial court had to allocate grain to relieve the disaster, and also had to make up for the 300 million military ration deficit. The loss has never happened since His Majesty took the throne."

Fuck your fart!Does Luoyang have little loss?Or will the canal be built without much loss?Chidao, the civil uprising in Hebei, which one is not a bigger loss than this time?
Niu Hong sneered, just because these are man-made disasters, but last night was a natural disaster?

"It's better than this," Pei Ju said: "The 300 million shi of flooded food has been rescued right now, and it can still be used, so let's use it as disaster relief food, let's allocate it."

Good guy, you are cruel enough, Niu Hong stared and said: "Food soaked in floods will deteriorate and become moldy. If eaten improperly, it is very easy to cause epidemics. Pei Gong, Pei Gong, you don't understand?"

Pei Ju said distressedly: "Then what do you think we should do? Where can we get relief food now? It will be fine to eat within a day or two."

"What about after one or two days?" Niu Hong said, "So we can get food for disaster relief?"

Pei Ju shook his head and said nothing, he had nothing to do, the emperor's attitude towards Yu Wenkai just now had already shown that don't expect the court to deliver food, if the soaked food is cleaned and eaten as soon as possible, it is still no problem.

But the problem is that if it is not cleaned properly, as Niu Hong said, there will be an epidemic. After all, it is not food soaked in good water, but a flood.

Those soaked in good water will also have mildew and cannot be eaten.

Su Wei said directly: "The soaked grain needs to be processed as soon as possible. It is not suitable for cooking, let alone for disaster relief. It is related to His Majesty's sageness. I think that the affected area is not wide, and the food for disaster relief is limited. It is better to open a warehouse to allocate grain." .”

Yang Guang was silent for a moment, then said lightly: "The military rations cannot be moved, they are food for the soldiers to fill their stomachs. Of course, the common people also need to give relief. Since they don't need much, order officials at all levels in Luoyang to raise food to relieve the victims."

All the ministers were stunned, peeling our skin?

Seeing this, Niu Hong immediately echoed, "Your Majesty is wise, and I agree with you. Dugu's family is a foreign relative, so we should set an example."

After all, Niu Hong looked at Zhao Guogong Duguzuan.

example?My relative is outdated, why don't you let the Xiao family set an example?Old cow, old cow, you are such a shit stirrer.

Dugu Zuan stood up and said solemnly: "I would like to raise three thousand shi for food."

"No." Yang Guang raised his hand and said, "Qing is my cousin. When you know my love for the people, I will prepare [-] shi immediately."

Good guy, do you still know that I am your cousin?You usually train me like a servant, you can use me now, so you are your cousin?

"The minister's order is that even if you sell the iron, you have to collect [-] stones to share your majesty's worries," Dugu Zhuan said.

This sentence said, so that the people present rolled their eyes, [-] shi is a waste of money?Your family relies on the canal, so you can earn so much a month, right?
Dugu's family is the richest man in Henan, this is known to all women and children, you really dare to say that.

Now that Dugu Zhuan has already pledged donations, the other big families in Henan are embarrassed to do nothing. After all, it is their hometown that caused the disaster, and it is unrealistic to expect others to help.

So Zheng's family, Yuan's family, and Changsun's family also recognized it.

In the Sui Dynasty, many officials cried for being poor, mainly because they had to cry for being poor, otherwise everyone would know that I was rich.

There is a problem with rich people, that is, they don't want others to know that they are rich, and those who flaunt their wealth are all mentally ill.

These big bosses in the court are all smart people, don't they understand who the emperor is?
Yu Wenkai and Yang Ming are very close, he really has no way to make up for such a big shortfall, so there are only two ways, someone can intercede for him, or he is seriously ill, then this matter can be avoided.

This is also the usual practice of officials. When encountering problems, they don't solve the problem, but settle the person who raised the problem for you.

Dying and someone to help intercede, these are the only two ways to settle the emperor.

So when Yu Wenkai wrote a letter to Yang Ming asking for help, he threw his head on his bed and began to pretend to be sick.

His illness was easy to pretend, because he was already ill. As long as he stopped taking the medicine, he would look like a seriously ill person. After all, it is impossible for an old man to not have any illness.

Luoyang City is already cleaning up the silt after the flood recedes, half of the civilians are urgently repairing the roof, and the whole east is dirty and messy.

Just like the flood situation reported by the Ministry of Water, the area affected was not extensive, and the main loss came from Xingluo warehouse. In other respects, 70 shi of grain could provide disaster relief.

The officials in Luoyang have already figured out this number.

After Yang Guang returned to the Luoyang Palace, he began to think about how to make up for the shortfall of Xingluo warehouse. He certainly wouldn't rely on Yu Wenkai. Didn't Yang Guang know that Yu Wenkai didn't have this ability?
At that time, he was just angry, so he gave the other party such an order. Of course, Yu Wenkai had to get him some grain. If he hadn't repaired the granary, what would be such a big loss?
If the army's food and grass supply cannot keep up, it will be a big problem.

But for a while, Yang Guang really couldn't find a solution. The three big warehouses in Luoyang had drained the entire country, and there was a food shortage in Guanzhong. Where else could he get food now?
Picking skins on the family?It doesn't work, exempting slaves and servants from taxation has already made them very dissatisfied, and if they come back with a strong medicine, they are afraid that there will be trouble.

It was at this time that the news of Yu Wenkai's death reached the palace.

Originally he was pretending to be sick, but he didn't drink medicine for a few days, and his body couldn't resist. It was self-defeating, and a generation of engineering masters passed away.

Yang Guang was also stunned, you are really going to die.

(End of this chapter)