Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 724

A big fire spread from a corner of the West District. Fortunately, Li You was forward-looking. He set up a firefighting team in Dengzhou City early on, especially in the West District, basically every three hundred paces. You can I saw a shop, which is called "military patrol shop". Each military patrol shop has five shop soldiers. Their duty is to "night patrol", that is, to patrol the streets and alleys to check for thieves and fireworks.

These patrolmen are members of the fire brigade.

On the high places inside and outside Dengzhou City, there is also a "brick watchtower, and there are Zhuo Wang upstairs".

According to the building standard proposed by Li You, the watchtower is composed of three components: a masonry platform base, four giant wooden columns and a pavilion at the top. The platform base is ten feet high, the wooden columns are thirty feet high, and the pavilion is about Eight feet, the entire watchtower is about 48 feet high, close to 16 meters.

1000 years ago, this was a very tall building.Standing on the watchtower, the field of vision should be very wide, and if there are fireworks from houses near and far, you can see clearly.

Downstairs watching the fire, "there are several official houses, more than a hundred soldiers stationed, and household affairs for firefighting, such as large and small buckets, sprinklers, hemp pads, axes and saws, ladders, fire forks, big ropes, and iron cats. kind".

What Dengzhou people call "fire-fighting housework" means fire-fighting equipment.Big and small barrels are water storage barrels; sprinklers are vessels for drawing water; hemp pads are fire extinguishing tools, "Tie two catties of loose hemp with an eight-foot rod, dip it in mud, and use it to burn fire"; ladders, big ropes, and iron cats, probably They are all tools for climbing; the ax saw is a tool for demolition in an emergency, which is equivalent to today's fire axe.

In addition, Li You also let Dengzhou's firefighters use some advanced equipment at that time, including water bags: "Use horses, cows, and livestock skins as bags, and store water for three or four stones. Take a big bamboo for one foot, and remove the knots." , tied to the pocket.

If the fire burns the buildings and sheds, use three or five strong men to hold the bag and pour water into the fire"; the water bag: "fill the water with the cells of pigs and cows", when fighting the fire, "throw the bag into the fire", it is a kind of Throwable fire extinguisher.

Pump: "Use long bamboo, open the bottom, wrap the water pole with wadding, and pump water from the orifice", probably the earliest fire pump.

Cloud ladder: "Using big wood as a bed, with a big wheel on the bottom, and two ladders on the top, each more than two feet long, with a rotating shaft in the middle", it can be used for fire fighting in high-rise buildings.

Of course, these fire-fighting equipment cannot be compared with modern machines, but considering that they appeared 800 years ago, they cannot but be admired for their advancement.

The "hundreds of soldiers" stationed in the official house below the Watchfire Tower are professional firefighting officers and soldiers, and they are also called "submerged fire soldiers".They are professional soldiers and need to receive professional training on weekdays, so they are agile.

Once the firefighters on the watchtower find a fire, they will immediately issue an alarm, and "there is a horse army rushing to report" to the leader in charge of the city's firefighting.Because of the professional fire brigade, the fires in Kaifeng Prefecture are usually put out "without laboring the people".

"Throw!"

The west area was on fire, and it took less than 3 minutes for a team of ten submerged fire soldiers to arrive. Under the command of the captain, everyone threw the water bag in their hands into the fire.

'boom! ''boom! ''boom! ''boom! '

The water bag exploded when it was heated, and a large amount of clear water was sprayed out, and then the fire was brought under control, followed by ten pumps, and just when the fire was about to be controlled, a few more pairs of submersible soldiers came, so that the fire was extinguished , everyone in the West District had a false alarm, and then started to play again.

Only at this time, Wen Yanbo came here. At this time, Wen Yanbo was already an official in Dengzhou City. He was in charge of these emergencies. Quickly, Shuangfa started to analyze the scene of the crime together, and brought back many witnesses around.

In less than two days, Wen Yanbo found out that the person who set the fire was the noble son of the island country. Following Li You, he issued an order to directly arrest the noble son of the island country. The first time he was arrested, he encountered trouble. The son of a nobleman escaped from Dengzhou City under the cover of his servant.

Li You then issued a hunting order to kill all those who helped the son of the nobleman escape, and then the first division of the Kunpeng Army went after the son of the nobleman who fled to the island country with all his strength.

Soon, the ship of Kunpeng's first division chased the ship of the son of the nobleman of the island country. To be honest, the son of the nobleman of the island country was still stubborn, and directly fought with the first division of Kunpeng, but unfortunately, the gap between the two sides It was too big, and the son of the nobleman of the island country was directly arrested.

Li You announced to everyone in Dengzhou City that the son of the nobleman of the island country will be imprisoned for 50 years for instigating arson. Later, the nobleman came to Li You's mansion and donated 2 yuan to the education cause of Dengzhou Two silver and 5000 two gold.

In the end, the noble son of the island country was reduced from 50 years in prison to three years. Interestingly, this move by Li You actually affected the development history of the entire island country.

The son of a nobleman learned a lot during his three years in prison, and after three years of serving his sentence and returned to the island country, it was he who devoted himself to ending the suffering of slavery in the island country, successfully allowing the island country to enter the next stage.

Seriously, this does have some meaning.

After this time, no one in the West District dared to make trouble again, because they all saw Li You's determination, and the family fled to the sea, but Dengzhou was still relentless. This battle made the people of Dengzhou extremely proud. It also made many foreign nobles restrain their edge.

Since then, Dengzhou City has started a thriving development history.

During this period, Li You still sent 100 million guan nieces to Chang'an's palace every year. The money was spent on Li Zhi, 100 million every year, and when Datang encountered natural disasters, Li You returned Will donate money and goods.

For example, in the second year of Yonghui, an earthquake occurred in the south of the Yangtze River, causing countless deaths and injuries. Li You not only donated money and materials, but also organized a rescue team of 2000 people to reach the earthquake center to rescue the disaster and the people, and publicized that it was the work of Tang Emperor Li Zhi grace.

This scene really touched Li Zhi, his fifth elder brother was really thinking of himself everywhere, but on the other hand, Changsun Wuji, in the event of such a natural disaster, as the auxiliary minister, Changsun Wuji had to show something Yes, at least you have to write a letter to show that you are wrong. This is common sense, and even the emperor has to punish himself.

Now that there is an earthquake in the Tang Dynasty under your rule, you have to make a plea, and Li Zhi is also planning to remove some of the eldest grandson Wuji's posts directly in this pleading of the elder grandson Wuji.

But what Li Zhi didn't expect was that Changsun Wuji didn't plead guilty at all, as if nothing happened. At this moment, Li Zhi saw Changsun Wuji clearly. He knew that Changsun Wuji would not let go easily The rights in his own hands are also the beginning of Li Zhi's preparation for his own actions.

(End of this chapter)