In Cao County, Shandong, Lin Fang, the governor of the river, braved the rain to inspect the river embankment, and the roar of the rushing waves in front of him was like a thunderstorm, and the people accompanying him were all discolored, and even the lanterns in his hands were unstable.

Lin Fang stared at the river for a long time, and then looked at the stone boat at the head of the embankment, and then returned to the shed, where many river officials were discussing the shipwreck.

"The ship will sink tomorrow," Lin Fang took off his boots without hesitation, only to see that the white socks were full of black and yellow soil, he sighed and said: "If it doesn't sink again, it will rain heavily, and the shipwreck will not be able to stop it by then!"

The water level of the river has not risen in the past few days, but has remained at the original level, but this is not a good thing, because the river workers have built two embankments on the north bank of the west side to weaken the flow. Originally, in this place, the river washed the embankment and rushed to the north, whirling and turbulent, Lin Fang came to strengthen and extend the embankment built by the Yuan Dynasty, from the original 19 li to 25 li, and the height also increased.

"Today, 30,000 quintals of silt will be cleared," said the river control official, "Tomorrow the breach will be blocked, so the road will not be silted." ”

Cao County Xinji to the small pontoon bridge 250 miles of a section of the old road silted up, now is sending levy 60,000 from the Yi to the east to dredge the old river, and a breach here is the largest, see the blockage after Lin Fang can rest assured.

"Show me the accounts," Lin Fang took the account book from the official's hand and read them one by one: "22,000 wooden stakes used, 666,000 miscellaneous elm and willow shoots, 7,126,000 bunches of pampas weeds, 625,000 bamboo poles, 2,000 gravel boats, 57,000 ropes, and 127 sunken ships...... There are also reed mats, bamboo stalks, iron wires, iron anchors, and large needles...... A total of 620,000 banknotes were used. ”

It has already cost so much to block a breach, and Lin Fang hopes that the money is worth it.

When Zhang Zhaohua arrived, it coincided with Lin Fang presiding over the river sacrifice ceremony, it was extremely difficult to plug the mouth, no one could guarantee success, and the possibility of failure was very great.

Zhang Zhaohua suddenly saw some recruits coming in the distance, carrying a big sylbe on her back, she stopped by the way, picked up a big si, stabbed it in with a dagger, and found that the reeds inside pressed the broken stones, arranged tightly, and couldn't help nodding.

Si is a river engineering building made of pins, reeds, straw and earth and stone bundles, which can be used for bank protection, plugging and damming. Its rolling method is: to the tip of the layer evenly spread, pressed with soil and gravel, and then push the roll into a bundle, with bamboo rope, straw rope and other bundles to maintain, that is, into a bundle, each bundle diameter several zhang, the length doubled. A number of silicons are bundled down to the designated position on the riverbank, and fixed with piles and ropes, that is, they become silicons.

Zhang Zhaohua had already seen the rows of piles of workers piled up at the bottom, and they were about to be pushed into the river in a while, and she couldn't help but be worried when she looked at the white waves of the torrential flood.

At this time, Lin Fang showed that he read out the sacrifice and voted to the gods in the river, and then led 50,000 river workers to worship the river god, and even Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but worship sincerely, hoping that the Yellow River would calm down the floods and stop harming the people. At this time, it is also a little strange, after the sacrifice was thrown, the sky that was still clear just now suddenly covered with dark clouds, bluffing everyone to think that the gods were obviously spiritual, and they kowtowed.

All the officials who govern the river gasped, if it rained at this time, the river would not be blocked at all, and Lin Fang also had a calm face, and with a wave of his hand, he brought up more than a dozen people who were tied up with flowers, and the king of the Yellow River agreed to withdraw the water, but he also said that the shrimp soldiers and crabs under his hands would not obey, and he would select six people from the world to help him rule the Yellow River.

At the sound of an order, the heads of these dozen people fell into the Yellow River. Zhang Zhaohua's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "What is Lin Fang doing! Isn't it the sacrifice of three animals to the river? He dares to sacrifice with a human head!"

Han Dong said: "Niangniang, our hometown also has a saying, usually the Yellow River is calm, with three sacrifices, if the king of the Yellow River is angry, it is to be sacrificed by human heads!

Zhang Zhaohua stopped talking, she didn't believe Han Dong's statement, but saw that after Lin Fang ordered the killing, many of the people and river workers who seemed to have been retreating didn't dare to retreat anymore - it turned out that Lin Fang was killing chickens to show monkeys, and he made up his mind to block today, even if the wind and waves were urgent, he would definitely succeed.

Seeing that everyone did not dare to retreat, Lin Fang ordered the big boat to be pushed into the river - this boat embankment water barrier method is not Lin Fang's originality, it is the method adopted by the Jialuzhi River in the Yuan Dynasty, 30 large boats are lined up against the current, and the front and back are connected with masts or long piles, tied together with hemp rope and bamboo silk, connected into an ark, and the hull is tied up and down with ropes, and the iron anchor is put into the water upstream. And tie seven or eight hundred feet of bamboo silk to the wooden stakes on both banks, hang two or three boats on each bamboo silk, so that the boat will not go downstream, slightly spread some loose grass in the hull, fill it with small stones, cover it with a platform board nail, and then cover it with a dense zygote with silicon, or cover it with two or three layers, tie it with hemp rope, and then tie three horizontal logs to the head mast, all of which are maintained with ropes, use bamboo to weave into a fence cage, load grass and stones, and put it in front of the mast, about one zhang long, called the water curtain mast.

There are two migrant workers with good water quality on each boat, holding axes and chisels, standing at the bow and stern of the boat, Lin Fang saw that the position of the boat drifting was about the same, and beat the drum on the shore, and when the drum was heard, the migrant workers dug at the same time, and the shipwreck blocked the mouth of the river.

"Alas!" Zhang Zhaohua saw clearly and sighed: "The location is out of order!"

There were four or five big ships that did not sink into the position, and directly broke off the bamboo silk of seven or eight hundred feet at once, and they were swept away in an instant, and the migrant workers on the ship died because of this, and although the water potential of the breach was greatly reduced, the current was still turbulent, and looking at the top of the ship, it had been shaking violently back and forth, and the situation was even more critical.

"Sink again!" Lin Fang also noticed the danger, and immediately ordered the second fleet to go up: "Sink quickly!"

Dozens of wooden piles on both sides of the bank have been uprooted and dragged away by the four or five sunken ships before, which shows that the water is so strong, this group of ships has sunk in the right position, but one ship has not moved, the boatman has not dug it, but has been rowing to the shore, several Zhengfu eyes are sharp, and immediately pointed to the upper stream: "The iron anchor has been dragged away!"

The iron anchor of this ship didn't know what was going on, it actually flowed down the water, and this ship was tied to other ships, and the other ships sank, and the ship could only keep sinking and floating, Lin Fang knew that if it continued like this, the other ships might not be able to sink, he had red eyes and gritted his teeth, so he could only cut off the bamboo on the stake with his own hands.

Zhang Zhaohua also shouted, the ship finally broke away from the other ships, and in the blink of an eye, it was swept into the waves.

The tide finally slowed down after the second group of boats sank. However, at this time, it can not be stopped, to continue to close the blockage, Lin Fang waved the flag, and suddenly tens of thousands of people carried the big silica into the water, and more than 10,000 people on the case to help, transport, stack the silicon, Lin Fang saw that the first Si Gong was not washed by the water, so he breathed a long sigh of relief, and then the second and third Dao, all the five Si Gong were superimposed, and the breach was finally blocked, and the river was no longer flooded.

At this time, the cloudy sky suddenly cleared again, Lin Fang put down the flag, and tens of thousands of people shouted, even Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help shouting a few words, only to find that the clothes in front of and behind him were soaked, after all, this closing process was extremely thrilling, not to see it with your own eyes, it was unimaginable.