Song Shenzong was still very concerned about this flood and kept thinking about what to do. Every day, he climbed to the roof of the imperial city to personally observe the water situation and listen to the reports of his officials on the situation of flood control and drainage. The officials told him that now the people on the city tower had organized themselves to form a human wall and pour out wooden barrels of water by hand. This method is much faster than a shoulder lift, so the water level also starts to drop significantly.

Song Shenzong was very appreciative after hearing this, and asked who came up with it. Someone replied that it was Cai Jing, and at this time King Wu was by Song Shenzong's side, King Wu added another sentence in order to put gold on his son-in-law, explaining that this Cai Jing was a talent discovered by his son-in-law Yang Xianmao, and after many sponsors, King Wu arranged for him to try his ability in his current position. I didn't expect to show such a strong organizational ability in this flood and organize countless people to participate in the flood drainage, which can be described as a great contribution.

Song Shenzong was very appreciative when he learned about it, and ordered Cai Jing to be appointed as the judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, promoted him to a higher level, and encouraged him to make persistent efforts and strive to make new contributions.

After Cai Jing was promoted and encouraged by the emperor, he was very happy and worked harder, presiding over the people's water transportation on the city tower day and night.

At the same time, he waited for the emperor to transport the food from the palace to the castle tower to help the hungry people.

But Song Shenzong didn't know that there was a serious shortage of food on the city tower, because at this time, almost all the food in the city had been submerged under water, and only the food in the imperial city was there. The gates of the imperial city were strong and tightly sealed, and floods could not enter it, so it was preserved. He also thought that the outside of the city was the same as the imperial city, and the food was also guaranteed.

Because the imperial city is still quite far away from the gate tower of the northern city, it is impossible to see what the people on the city wall are doing.

The riot above the tower took place three days later in the night. Although the water was transported outside the city by means of manpower for three days, the water level dropped somewhat. But it only dropped by one person, and there was no way to return home.

At this time, a riot broke out on the tower. The reason is simple: for three days in a row, millions of people in the city tower drank only rain from heaven every day. Only a small amount of food had been brought up to the city, and the people had dry food to eat. The vast majority of the people were just fleeing for their lives, and most of them brought some gold, silver and jewelry, and few people thought of bringing food, and when they went up to the city tower, they thought of it, and it was too late to go back and get it, and the flood had already drowned everything. Therefore, most of the millions of people in the city tower did not eat a single grain in three days.

Some shrewd merchants brought with them a lot of dry food when they fled to the castle tower. At the moment, it is sold at a sky-high price. People are so hungry that they can only endure to pay for it. And the people who had no money and did not want to be exploited at high prices went to rob them. As a result, there were serious riots.

The people on the city walls did not know where the riots began. Because it was dark, and it was pitch black all around, and it was raining again. Panic spread rapidly, and everyone was at risk. And riots are like sparks, as long as one place is ignited, it will soon sweep everywhere. As a result, there were many incidents of snatching food and killing people that night, and countless people were killed and injured.

By dawn the next day, the situation worsened. Because Tokyo's Bianliang City is so big, there are millions of people on top of the entire tower, and most of them do not carry food. And in order to survive, violence is inevitable. So there are vicious crimes such as murder and robbery everywhere. The 20,000 Imperial Guards who had been sent to the city did not carry weapons, nor did they receive the holy decree of bullet suppression, so they were not suppressed.

And they did not receive such an order either. When the news was reported to the emperor by Cai Jing with an urgent note, Song Shenzong learned that there had been a large-scale riot over food on the castle tower. The number of dead and wounded has already reached thousands.

Song Shenzong immediately ordered the Imperial Forest Army in Shangcheng to maintain order. For robbery and murder, it is possible to shoot and kill. At the same time, he ordered the opening of a warehouse, and the grain in the palace was sent to the outer city and boiled into gruel for the people to eat.

Because food is limited, and the flood does not know how long it will take for the flood to recede, we must try our best to ensure physical strength, and we must be able to maintain physical strength as the principle, and we cannot eat Haisai indiscriminately. Thin porridge is the surest means of sustaining life.

This move greatly stabilized the people's morale, and with the suppression of 20,000 Imperial Forest troops, the riot quickly subsided.

Drainage is going on day and night. After a few days, most of the water in the city was finally dumped. Much of the city's relatively high ground has been exposed to the water. The people of these areas also returned to their homes from the walls.

However, the people who returned home were stunned by the devastation before their eyes. The whole house was filled with sediment brought by the Yellow River. There is still a lot to be done to restore our homeland.

When Yang Xianmao saw that the water level was beginning to drop, he ordered the boat to be driven above the open space in his yard garden, and when the water level was completely lowered, his boat stopped again in the yard where it had been parked. When the flood water was almost drained and the flood water withdrew from the house, Yang Xianmao and the servants of the whole house restored their home.

These people are on Yang Xianmao's boat these days, eating and drinking without worry. After learning that there was a riot on the castle tower and thousands of people died, they were even more grateful to Yang Xianmao for helping them avoid this disaster. Therefore, when Yang Xianmao asked them to help restore their homes, everyone rushed to do the clean-up work, and they all wanted to repay the kindness of their masters.

They first need to remove the silt from the yard. Because Yang Xianmao has a big boat, he does not have to worry about food and housing, so the whole dredging work is orderly. But others were not so lucky, and after many people found that the food was washed away by the water, they panicked and rioted again in the city.

But this time Cai Jing was prepared. He had already received the authorization of Song Shenzong, and with the assistance of the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, with the assistance of the soldiers defending the city, quickly quelled these unrest. At the same time, his superb organizational skills once again came into play. He immediately recruited the people to transport the silt, and gathered all the silt in the city and piled it up on the inside of the wall of the northern city. Because the mud was so heavy, it was a bit too laborious to carry it up the tower and then outside the city, and there was no need for it. - Silt doesn't hurt people, unlike floods.

Therefore, the silt from all parts of the city was piled up on the inside of the walls of the northern city, which also helped to strengthen the walls and prevent the floods outside the city from breaking the walls.

When the people of the city knew where to send their mud, their hearts settled. The silt from the city was transported to the city walls in a steady stream, piled up on the slopes of the northern city walls. The city gradually returned to its original appearance.

It took more than half a month for the work to basically clean up the mud in the city.

In the past half a month, the flood outside the city has receded slightly, but it still surrounds the entire Kaifeng Mansion. The water level is still half the height of the city walls. The high water level continued to exert strong water pressure on the walls, and many of them began to collapse.

Because the entire city wall of the Song Dynasty was made of rammed earth, not green bricks. It is easy to collapse under prolonged flooding.

The heart-wrenching news that the city wall began to partially collapse was about to reach the palace, and Song Shenzong's slightly relieved heart was once again suspended.

But then he got the news that Cai Jing, the new judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, organized the officials of Kaifeng Mansion and tens of thousands of people to organize Minzhuang to drive wooden stakes at the collapsed city wall, pull up the fence, and then put the silt cleared out of the city wall with straw bags to re-strengthen the collapsed city wall.

The collapsed location has been repaired. And because the foundations of the city wall were supported by the cleared silt pile, the entire city wall did not suffer a fatal collapse. Cai Jing's super organizational ability and extraordinary wisdom in this flood control and drainage were praised many times by Song Shenzong, who appointed him as the commander of the flood control and drainage capital of the capital to directly lead the flood control and drainage.

After Yang Xianmao cleaned up his house and settled down, the first important thing he decided to do was to prevent the plague.

After the catastrophe, there will be a great epidemic, which Yang Xianmao has read in many medical books. Therefore, he was very worried that this terrible situation would occur, if that was the case, the fatal damage to the capital would definitely not be comparable to the flood, and the pervasive plague would turn Tokyo Bianliang City into a hell on earth.

No one took care of the epidemic prevention work after the disaster, Cai Jing was busy fighting floods and draining water, and the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture did not play any role in it. The prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture is a descendant of Zhao Pu, the founder of the Great Song Dynasty, and is from a famous family, but his talent is mediocre. In the face of the great flood, he panicked, only cared about his own life, and did not have any organizational ability.

Song Shenzong has a very big feature that he knows people and makes good use of them, and he appoints Wang Anshi to change the law, that is, he sees people very accurately. And this time, he accurately discovered Cai Jing's excellent organizational skills. As a result, the flood control and drainage work of the entire capital was handed over to the new judge of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Cai Jing lived up to Song Shenzong's benevolence and carried out the entire flood control and drainage work in an orderly and rapid manner. The people in the city praised the flood control and drainage led by the Kaifeng judge. Now his aura even overshadows Yang Xianmao, who drives a boat to save people.

Yang Xianmao was really a little crying and laughing, originally he wanted to get rid of this future traitor and avoid him from bringing disaster to the country and the people in the future. Unexpectedly, the mistake made him get the emperor's appreciation faster.

And now if Yang Xianmao wants to prevent the plague from appearing in the city as soon as possible, he must use Cai Jing, the organizer of flood control and drainage, to achieve his goal.

Yang Xianmao heard that Cai Jing had been leading the flood control on the tower of the northern city to prevent the city wall from collapsing after being soaked in floodwaters for a long time.

It happened to be not raining that day, and Yang Xianmao went out to find Cai Jing alone, without any entourage.

As he walked down the street, he saw that the city had been largely cleared of mud, but there was always a suffocating and terrifying smell of corpses in the air. When you get close to the Beicheng Tower, the smell is even stronger.