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- Yaojiayan, Kunshan.
There were lightning and thunder, heavy rain, and it was pitch dark in broad daylight.
The monstrous floods rushed down from Taihu Lake, rolled all the way to Kunshan, and violently impacted the banks of the Wusong River.
Amidst the roar of the huge waves, Zhao Shouzheng was wearing a poncho and leaning on a wooden stick, standing on the crumbling river embankment, staring at the vast and boundless water in front of him.
"The whole Kunnan has turned into a lake." Mr. Zhao finally realized deeply what the power of heaven and earth is. "The water level is at least one person higher than when I took office."
"It's fortunate that Kunnan discharges the flood, otherwise our earth embankment wouldn't be able to withstand it at all." Zheng Ruozeng, wearing a raincoat and leaning on a wooden stick, stood beside Zhao Shouzheng with the support of his son.
"But if you hadn't mobilized the entire county in time to strengthen the embankment, I'm afraid the embankment would have burst today!"
"Unless we can hold on until the summer harvest, there is no point!" Zhao Shouzheng's official robe was stained with mud, he was wearing a pair of large pants, and his bare feet were on wooden clogs. Look as embarrassed as you want.
Zheng Ruozeng was not much better than him. His whole body was covered with mud and he no longer looked like a human being.
On this muddy river embankment, even if you are wearing wooden clogs and someone is supporting you, wrestling is commonplace.
Behind the two men, on the embankment and below, countless Kunshan people carried sandbags and earth baskets, working tirelessly to strengthen the defense line.
The loud shouts and chants are indistinguishable from the sound of the rushing water.
Although it was raining heavily, although there was mud under our feet, and although we were exhausted, everyone gritted their teeth and persisted.
There is still half a month until the summer harvest. If the embankment breaks at this time, all the previous efforts will be wasted!
The results of tens of thousands of people's hard work are also obvious. The original embankment line has long been submerged by floods.
¡°But the river embankment built with hundreds of thousands of sandbags and hundreds of thousands of baskets of sand and soil is nearly a foot taller than before, and is wider and stronger. Most river sections can withstand the test of floods.
But Flood has always tried to break things off, and has never been egalitarian with you. In several important embankment sections, the danger is still very serious!
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The Yaojiayan weir guarded by Master Bai and Gu Dadong is the first big turn after the Wusong River enters Kunshan.
The river course is curved at an acute angle and the water flow is extremely turbulent. It is one of the important dangerous sections of the Wusong River and the first of the four dangerous sections in Kunshan County.
Zhao Shouzheng and Zheng Ruozeng were inspecting the river embankment when they received an emergency call from them, saying that there was a danger in Yaojiayan!
He hurriedly summoned reserve captain Zheng Qian and led two thousand civilians to rush for reinforcements.
Mr. Zhao was still worried and left the defense of Nanshan Temple in the hands of Zheng Ruozeng and Xu Wei. He also brought 500 people over to check.
When he got off the horse and was pulled up to the river embankment by everyone - he saw that at the bend of the river that was hit the hardest, the bamboo guardrail on the outside had long since disappeared.
The flood has dug out a large hole about ten feet wide at the key thickened corner!
The people who were rescuing the disaster tried their best to throw sandbags into the hole, but so many sandbags were washed away by the rapids in the blink of an eye, just like throwing a handful of beans.
Seeing that no matter how he tried to rescue him, Master Bai sat down on the ground.
"The power of heaven and earth cannot be resisted by human beings"
The eyes of Zhao Shouzheng and Gu Dadong also dimmed, and the three of them knew that the embankment was not far away.
Gu Dadong looked back at his son Gu Guishou and whispered to him to go back and see if there was anyone in the town who had not been transferred.
The Gu family¡¯s ancestral property is located in Gujia Town, less than five miles north of Yaojiayan.
Once the embankment breaks, the town will be flooded in less than a meal.
Gu Guishou hurriedly ran down the embankment and almost bumped into someone.
"Is there no other way?" Looking at the gaping hole that had expanded to one and a half feet, Zhao Shouzheng looked at the sky in despair.
¡®Son, help me¡¯
"Stop throwing sandbags!"
Mr. Zhao, who was looking up at the sky, had just finished praying when he heard a confident voice saying from far away:
¡°Fill a basket with stones and carry it up the embankment, then string the baskets together with bamboo poles and throw them down!¡±
Mr. Zhao wiped the rain off his face and saw that the speaker was a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, who was walking on the embankment on flat ground.
Wu Chengen accompanied the man on the embankment and explained to Zhao Shouzheng:
"This is Pan Zhongcheng of Wucheng County where Ding You is registered. Hearing that the flood situation in this county is urgent, he came here to help!"
"Oh, Prime Minister Pan!" When Zhao Shouzheng and Gu Dadong heard this, they felt like they were seeing a savior.?, hurry up to greet him and pay homage.
¡°There¡¯s no time to be polite, hurry up and do what you¡¯re told!¡± Prime Minister Pan shouted without any pretense. ¡°There¡¯s no one in Kunshan County who knows what he¡¯s doing, so we¡¯re just letting you guys mess around?!¡±
Zhao Shouzheng, however, did not feel dissatisfied at all. Instead, as if he had a backbone, he asked Chief Bai to do it quickly.
Because this person is Pan Jixun, the prime minister of the river, Pan Jixun, who can tame the Yellow River that is ten times more violent in his hands!
No one in the world knows how to control water better than him!
"Don't have so many people crowded on the embankment. They are like headless flies, useless and in the way!" Pan Jixun gave the second order:
"Half of the people are assigned to build a moon embankment outside the embankment, just in case!"
¡°Demolish the nearby houses immediately, I want twenty wooden beams!¡± Pan Jixun issued a third order to Gu Dadong. "All the bricks and stones have also been brought!"
¡°Hey, okay!¡± Gu Dadong responded and quickly went to do it himself.
"Then what should I do?" Zhao Shouzheng, who was wearing big pants, asked.
"Stand aside and stay out of the way." Pan Jixun glanced at him and went straight to direct the rescue.
"Pan Zhongcheng, sir, invited? He has done a great job!" Mr. Zhao smacked his lips, then smiled at Wu Chengen and said, "By the way, Pan Zhongcheng's family is in Wucheng, which is a neighboring county to Changxing."
"I didn't invite him here." Wu Chengen shook his head and said, "It's true that the two counties are adjacent to each other, but he returned to his hometown last year and I've been in jail, so I haven't met him."
"Then how did he come here?" Mr. Zhao asked strangely: "There is Jiaxing Prefecture between Huzhou Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture."
"When he comes, he will look for the young master." Wu Chengen whispered: "Seeing that the young master is not here, he asked me to accompany him to the embankment."
"It turns out the monkeysoh no, my son brought in the reinforcements" Mr. Zhao shed tears of happiness.
I¡¯m afraid I¡¯m not the reincarnation of a good person from the tenth life, right?
Otherwise, how can you give birth to such a Hongfu Qitian, and give birth to a baby son who will help with where he encounters difficulties and helps him?
¡°I don¡¯t know how the young master deceived the dignified Pan Zhongcheng.¡± Wu Chengen muttered. He was so busy these days that he wanted to go back to jail.
"Whatever, as long as the person comes, I don't care if he was tricked or kidnapped?" Mr. Zhao laughed loudly and said, "My heart is finally over!"
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