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For Huang Mingyuan, Yang Jian's matter is a trivial matter after all. Soon Huang Mingyuan no longer had the energy to pay attention to Yang Jian's affairs, because this autumn, there was a flood in Henan, and several dykes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River were flooded, flooding more than 30 counties from the west of Luoyang. The muddy water like yellow soup roared down from the upper reaches, crashing on both sides of the Yellow River, and the surging waves submerged everything like an overturned river.
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On the third day of October, the mainstay of the Yellow River collapsed, blocking the river and causing the river to flow backward for dozens of miles. .
"After a flood there is a great epidemic, and after a great epidemic there is a great disaster. This has been true since ancient times.
Huang Mingyuan responded very quickly. After the flood, he immediately ordered all counties to provide disaster relief and open warehouses to release grain; he also sent officials to various places to supervise the disaster relief. However, local counties have limited stocks, which is a drop in the bucket for such a catastrophic disaster. The main grain of the imperial court was located in the major granaries on both sides of the Yellow River.
In this regard, Huang Mingyuan was in trouble.
Although Yang Guang had left Huang Mingyuan and Yang Jing to stay in Luoyang together before, he also knew that Huang Mingyuan's prestige and ability were not comparable to Yang Jing's. In order to maintain the balance between the two, Yang Guang arranged the granaries, arsenals, workshops, and storage warehouses. When the special committee member Yang Jian takes over as his deputy, and when Henan Yin joins him as his deputy, Huang Mingyuan will not be left out.
Although Yang Xian is now being sidelined, Huang Mingyuan cannot mobilize these supplies.
After the flood came, Huang Mingyuan ordered people to go to Jiangdu to report to Yang Guang, while actively fighting the disaster. But it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Huang Mingyuan has neither a granary nor a warehouse. He has no money and no food, and there is nothing he can do if he wants to provide disaster relief.
Soon Yang Guang¡¯s order was conveyed from Jiangdu. In principle, Huang Mingyuan agreed to provide disaster relief, but no food in the warehouses in the capital was allowed to be used. Yang Guang was also planning to use them to conquer Goguryeo.
Without food, the gods can do nothing.
Yang Jian seemed to know that Huang Mingyuan was worried about food, so he hid on purpose. He was enjoying watching Huang Mingyuan's jokes, so how could he possibly give Huang Mingyuan food.
Huang Mingyuan had no choice but to collect some food from various places for disaster relief, but it was a drop in the bucket and to no avail.
As for the original grain supply from Huainan, it was difficult to transport it because water transportation was cut off due to the floods in the Yellow River. As for Guanzhong, Hedong and other places, although they were not affected by the disaster, they had always been able to get by without the help of the imperial court and could not help the imperial court at all.
On October 5, Huang Mingyuan personally went east to inspect the flood situation in the Yellow River.
All the way to the east is the land submerged by the Yellow River. This autumn¡¯s floods are truly unexpected. Originally, it would be difficult to have such a big flood in this season.
However, in August and September, it rained heavily for more than a month. As a result, the Yellow River was so long that it broke its banks. The Yellow River has not been able to break its banks for many years, and its engineering is old, which is also an important reason for the breach.
When the embankment suddenly collapsed, the torrent came one after another, and the water rolled over the sky. All the property, houses, and land of the people along the coast were flooded.
"And in the flood, there were even more unknown numbers of people who were killed.
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Most of the remaining people died on the way to escape from famine due to hunger, suffering, and disease. The official roads of various prefectures and counties in Henan are littered with corpses. In the ditches on both sides, there were countless corpses.
?? Even those people who are really hard-working, after a life of nine deaths, are lucky enough not to become drowned ghosts, but also become refugees. In order to survive, these people had to sell their sons and daughters.
It has become a common thing to see people crying and being inseparable in markets all over the country. Later, because there were so many people buying and selling people, even people were no longer valuable.
As Huang Mingyuan walked along, he saw such a tragic scene. The places flooded along the way were like ghostly places, no longer alive.
Huang Mingyuan wrote a memorial almost every day asking Yang Guang to provide relief, but nothing came of it. Sometimes Huang Mingyuan couldn't help but be angry. At this time, you have the world.
After passing Hulao Pass and entering Xingyang, it was the place that suffered the most serious damage. The Yellow River breaks through several places here, and then flows southward along the Tongji Canal. Xingyang, Dongjun, Liangjun and other places almost become ghost countries.
"Anle (Yu Wenkai's word), from Xingyang down, there are still many ulcers that have not been blocked."??. "
Yu Wenkai hurriedly said: "Back to Duke Wei, from Xingyang County to Jibei County, there are still seven or eight gaps that have not been closed, and the biggest breach is the Xingze Ferry."
"Why are there so many cracks?"
Yu Wenkai hurriedly said: "Mr. Wei, the heavy rain is not stopping and the river is swollen. It is impossible to plug the breach just by relying on manpower."
Huang Mingyuan didn't ask any more questions, but said, "Go to Xingze Ferry."
"Mr. Wei, the Yingze Ferry is too dangerous."
¡°Others can go but I can¡¯t?¡±
Huang Mingyuan ignored everyone's dissuasion and rode towards Yingze Ferry.
Yu Wenkai wiped the rain and sweat off his face and had no choice but to keep up. It was too difficult for him, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to do it.
Since the flood broke the embankment, Huang Mingyuan has treated him as a contract worker and squeezed him, without any time off. Yu Wenkai followed Huang Ming from far east to west, trying hard to plug the breach.
Along the way, Huang Mingyuan has killed thirteen officials who were derelict in their duties. Yu Wenkai is also trembling with fear, fearing to offend Huang Mingyuan. Who knows when Huang Mingyuan will be angry and kill him.
Yu Wenkai couldn't help but feel aggrieved. It was better to be a general and a master craftsman. He was good at fortifications, but he couldn't control floods.
Arriving at the Xingze Ferry, Huang Mingyuan saw the rolling Yellow River water flowing southward from here. The breach was already tens of feet wide, but looking at the current flow, if it continued to rush forward, it would be possible for the breach to be a hundred feet wide.
"Why isn't the breach blocked here?"
Xingze ordered Dai Zhou to step forward quickly and said: "The prime minister has learned from this that Xingze really cannot organize so much manpower and material resources to seal the breach, so he has to put saving people first."
"What about the Ministry of Industry?"
Yu Wenkai immediately stopped talking. There was nothing he could do about such a huge water force.
Huang Mingyuan roared angrily: "You have no choice but to stop doing it? If becoming an official is so easy, what else do you need to do?"
Everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.
Huang Mingyuan said loudly: "Every breach must be sealed, otherwise you, Yu Wenkai, will come to see me."
Yu Wenkai trembled with fright and quickly said "Nuo".
With insufficient manpower, Huang Mingyuan ordered a total of 30,000 left and right armed guards stationed in Luoyang to come to both sides of the Yellow River for disaster relief. He also ordered county and county officials from all over the country to recruit refugees and provide them with work to prevent them from turning into bandits.
He also ordered Yu Wenkai to commandeer all the large ships in the Luo River and sink them at the ferry to block them.
As for officials at all levels, they will protect the embankment in sections, and those who are on the embankment will be killed if the embankment is blocked. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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