Ling Qingyu stood at the door of the house, with a look of worry on his face. This is a torrential rain. If it rains for a few more days, I don't know how high the water potential of the Yangtze River will rise.
"Master Ling." Cheng Jia rushed in from the outside in a coir raincoat, and said, "It's starting to rain heavily in Sichuan and Sichuan."
"How big is it? Which places?" Ling Qingyu asked.
Cheng Jia rushed into the room, saw that the map was already placed on the table, and swiped the area of Bayu and Yiling with a dripping hand, saying: "Here, here, it's all here."
"Did you go up to the embankment and see?" Ling Qingyu glanced at it and sighed inwardly, really afraid of something.
"Xuanzhi watched from the embankment. This section of embankment has just been repaired a few years ago, and it is still strong." Cheng Jia wiped the water off his face and said.
"Let's sound the alarm and ask the people to get ready," Ling Qingyu said.
"People have been summoned to protect the dike." Cheng Jia said, taking the veil handed over by Sum.
"Two concepts. Well, there are still so many women and children in this city. You don't inform them so that they can get ready?" Ling Qingyu said.
Cheng Jia paused his hands, pondered for a while and said, "It's fine now, if I say something, I'm afraid it will cause panic, and it will be difficult for someone to take the opportunity to make trouble."
"Are you afraid that those whose fields you have taken will take the opportunity to riot?" Ling Qingyu said calmly, looking at the rain outside.
"Those were originally official lands, but they were privately distributed to these people when the King of Chu was here, so they will naturally be taken back." After a moment of silence, Cheng Jia still explained.
"Can you be sure that all the fields are like that? You didn't take the opportunity to take away the civilian fields?" Ling Qingyu walked to the door of the house and looked at the water level that had risen to the second step.
Cheng Jia was silent, most of the people Wang Xuanzhi brought were from the Wang family and the Dong family, and there were actually a lot of things that took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, but these were indeed not something he could stop, even if he listened to Wang Xuanzhi, Wang Xuanzhi also came forward to punish him , but the following is still the same.
The rain continued for another whole day, and it still showed no signs of weakening on the second day, and Ling Qingyu's heart began to feel uneasy.
Seeing her standing at the door watching the rain all day, Yan San put a shawl on her and said, "It's going to rain, you can't help it."
"Yan San, do you know how the catastrophe came about?" Ling Qingyu asked.
"Natural disasters are God's punishment." Yan San said.
Ling Qingyu shook his head and said: "No, the weather is inherently impermanent, but these are not the most terrifying. The most terrifying thing is that people do not take precautions, do not prevent, and do not remedy."
"There's nothing you can do about it." Yan San hugged her and said.
"Yeah, I can't do anything." Ling Qingyu sighed and looked into the wing room, but the capable people did nothing.
"Wang Xuanzhi! We must warn the people!" Cheng Jia's roaring voice came from the gate of the courtyard.
"There is nothing wrong with the embankment right now. Warning at this time will disturb the hearts of the people. If something goes wrong, who will be responsible?" Wang Xuanzhi's voice was not low.
"I'll be in charge! If something happens, I, Cheng Jia, will take the head!" Cheng Jia roared.
The gate of the yard became quiet, only the sound of the harsh rain beating on the eaves.
"Master Zhou, notify the people immediately." Cheng Jia said to an official next to him.
Master Zhou glanced at Wang Xuanzhi, but he hesitated and did not leave.
"If you don't do it now, I will tell my father that you, Jiang Ling, have neglected your duties. You should think about the consequences yourself." Cheng Jia's voice became unusually cold.
"Yes, yes, the next official will go right away!" Mr. Zhou bowed and left in a hurry.
"If something happens, I will cut off your head, Qiao Mu." Wang Xuanzhi said with a tired voice.
"Yan San, let's go to the embankment to have a look."
"Master Ling?" Seeing Ling Qingyu approaching in coir raincoat, Cheng Jia unconsciously called out.
"I'll follow you to the embankment to have a look." Ling Qingyu smiled slightly.
These days, she has never had a good look towards him, but now she has such a warm smile. Cheng Jia was slightly startled, and then smiled: "If Jiazhen was beheaded, Mr. Ling remember to come and give Jia a piece of paper." corpse."
"No, with such heavy rain, they won't be able to riot even if they want to. Let's go." Ling Qingyu walked past him and said with a smile.
Jiangling City is not far from the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River dams are indeed very solid. Many migrant workers have gathered on the dams, and all kinds of shouts can be heard in the rainstorm.
"How?" Cheng Jia asked, squatting on the bank with Ling Qingyu.
"At this flow rate, the upstream water must be quite large. If it rains for another day, it will be dangerous." Ling Qingyu frowned.
"Yeah, I haven't seen such a big water for many years." An old man next to him said.
"Cheng Jia, come here." Ling Qingyu stood up and said.
There is a simple shed built on the river embankment. Although water leaks everywhere, it is better than the torrential rain outside.
"Look, this is the Yangtze River." Ling Qingyu drew a map of the Yangtze River on the mud with his fingers, and then said: "Now we don't know what the situation in the upper reaches is, but our area has been raining for three consecutive days. If I didn't The estimate is wrong, I’m afraid the water volume has already reached more than 100 millimeters, don’t understand? It’s okay if I don’t understand, it means that there is too much water, the drainage function of the rivers and lakes can no longer keep up, according to what you said that day it was raining You see, here, here, and here, if there is such a heavy rain, then the water that cannot be drained will form a flood. If the floods in these places meet and add up, the water level will be quite large. High, and because the water flow is too fast, the impact on the embankment will be great, these places, you can see if you can understand the situation, this is the place that is most likely to be impacted."
Cheng Jia glanced at her, and then said, "I'll send someone there right away."
Sighing, Ling Qingyu said: "Master Cheng, send me a letter to Quanzhou, although it will be late, it's better than never."
"Okay, what's the matter?" Cheng Jia looked up at her in confusion.
"I have a boat in Quanzhou, and I want them all to come here and sail from the open sea to the Yangtze River. With this amount of water, low-tonnage boats should be able to come in. If they can help a little," Ling Qingyu said. I'm afraid it's not very useful to transfer here at this time, but materials need to be transported after the disaster.
"Ling..." Cheng Jia choked, and said in a low voice, "Thank you!"
"You don't need to thank me, I don't know if it will be useful." Ling Qingyu stood up and said.
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On the fifth day of the heavy rain, the people in Jiangling City basically went to the high ground. When the government first notified everyone, it was true that some people wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble, but then the torrential rain poured down, and the water level in the city began to rise. One after another, some people began to go to the highlands, but Jiangling is a plain, no matter how high it is, it can't go anywhere. Many people settled on the city wall.
Ling Qingyu stayed with Cheng Jia on the embankment, seeing the water level of the embankment was getting higher and higher, and it was only a little bit over the embankment, so he asked Cheng Jia, "Can you swim?"
"Uh, this..." Cheng Jia said with a smile: "My lord knows too many things, so it's worth not to learn such trivial things."
"Then it won't happen?" Ling Qingyu sighed, and said, "Don't wear so many clothes on your body, or you will fall into the water, and it will be troublesome to save you."
"I don't wear much, do I?" Cheng Jia looked at himself, it was already the middle of June, and there were only inner and outer shirts, so where were they
Ling Qingyu rolled his eyes to Wang Xuanzhi's side, and Cheng Jia also looked at him, seeing that Wang Xuanzhi was still dressed in a decent official uniform, inside and out, there were indeed many insides and outs, so he couldn't help but smile.
In the past few days on the embankment, Wang Xuanzhi and Cheng Jia's performance really surprised her. As the sons of aristocratic families, they can sleep on the ground like the migrant workers in such a place, drink cold water and eat dry food. The voices of both of them were hoarse from shouting, and they didn't get tired from shouting for days and nights without going down the embankment. Ling Qingyu felt that he should give them some respect for their willingness to do this for the people.
There are many talents in water conservancy on the dam, and there are also many experienced old people. Ling Qingyu feels that his role is actually not very big. How to prevent floods and how to strengthen the dam, those people have to be more formal.
"Actually, you don't need to drag me here at all. Don't those old people say what I said?" Ling Qingyu couldn't help but whispered.
"Just assume that Jia owes you a favor." Cheng Jia also laughed softly. Those water conservancy experts did speak in more detail than Ling Qingyu, but without Ling Qingyu's reminder, those people would have been suppressed by the county magistrate without Ling Qingyu's reminder. Many of those water conservancy experts were former King Chu. people.
"Head of the house, go back and rest?" Yan San said softly, not sleeping for three days and two nights, even a man can't stand it, let alone a woman
"Yes, you go back first." Cheng Jia also smiled. After the water conservancy experts were released, there was indeed nothing wrong with Ling Qingyu on the embankment. Seeing that her eyes had become panda eyes, Cheng Jia felt a little distressed in his heart.
"Well, be careful yourself." Ling Qingyu yawned and said.
"Lord Wang! It's not good, the flood peak in front is already higher than the embankment." As soon as he lifted his foot, a panic came from the embankment in front of him.
Ling Qingyu looked up, and saw that the distant river surface seemed to be a high wave surging from the sea, and a wave line about one meter higher than the water surface rushed straight towards it.
There is actually this on the Yangtze River? !
"Hold on tight!" Ling Qingyu yelled at Cheng Jia.
Cheng Jia thought, where should I catch it
The torrent rushed over.
Ling Qingyu, Yansan and Su Mu both came from the strong wind and waves at sea. When they saw the waves rushing towards them, they immediately lowered their bodies and grabbed the stakes on the embankment.
Puff puff puff, the wave was only one round, Ling Qingyu stood up while spitting, seeing that there was not much water rushing over the embankment, he just breathed a sigh of relief, when someone shouted: "Master Wang! Master Cheng!"
The place next to her that was originally Cheng Jia had become empty, Ling Qingyu hurriedly turned his head to look, and saw that many heads on the river were already rushing downstream at an extremely fast speed.
"Yan San, block below!" Ling Qingyu called out, ran a few steps, and jumped into the water.