Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Great Water
"Zhigu Fa Da Shui," Zhang Zhaohua was very familiar with this place name, and suddenly asked the location, "It's Tianjin!"
Wang An didn't hear the second half of the sentence too clearly, and said, "It's Haijin Town!"
"It has been raining heavily for five or six days in a row," Wang said: "Yesterday, the tide poured in, the river embankment broke, and the fields were flooded, and the area south of the Haihe River was basically invisible to the ground, and the depression was a vast ocean. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½foβ
"How many residents are there in Zhigu?" Zhang Zhaohua was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.
"There are about five or six thousand people in Zhigu," Wang An said, "but there are no less than 10,000 soldiers and civilians who built the canal in Zhigu, as well as people in the salt works in Zhigu, adding up to more than 20,000 people." The refugees who escaped now are clustered in the northwest corner of the town, the only place that has not yet been flooded, and the rest of the road is very difficult to navigate, almost all of which are flooded, about two feet deep. β
Zhang Zhaohua listened to the words "Haijin Town" and knew that Tianjin at this time was not even a big city, it could only be a market town, there may be a city wall, but it could never stop the rainstorm overflow, Tianjin located at the lower end of the Jiuhe River in her memory of the previous life, it was easy to have torrential rain and flood disasters, and now there is no such fast and efficient rescue as in the previous life, just sending the message on the road took half a day, this is only the first urgent letter, what is the follow-up situation in Tianjin, how many victims, I don't know yet.
"Father," Zhang Zhaohua said, "I saw a boat sent out just now, is my father on the boat?"
"It is His Royal Highness and the prince," Wang An said: "The letter first passed into the envoy's yamen, and the political envoy knew a little earlier than us, and now he has come to the palace, and when I came, His Royal Highness ordered to sail back to the palace." β
"In previous years, if you encountered such a situation," Zhang Zhaohua muttered, "how is it generally handled?"
"In the land under its jurisdiction, there are droughts and floods in all directions, and His Highness is all in person. Wang An said in a very calm tone: "This time is no exception. β
Zhang Zhaohua frowned and said: "It's still a bit risky, after all, the waterlogging has not faded yet, and Zhigu is a dangerous city." Although she thought so, she still admired King Yan's behavior of loving the people like a son, and said, "You came from your father, does your father have any instructions?"
"Your Highness doesn't have any orders," Wang An said, "But His Royal Highness has something for me to do." β
What Gao Chi ordered Wang An to do was to take out the gold seal and the seal box in the study, and Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but lower his eyes when he saw him holding this thing.
Before, because of the fact that she tampered with the golden seal, Gao Chi got angry with her, and did not come to the main hall at night, but went to the side hall to rest, but it was not obvious during the day, and the others did not know the clues, so it has been three or five days. Zhang Zhaohua actually knew that she was wrong, but she couldn't find a chance to reconcile, and she felt that Gao Chi might still be angry, just like last night she asked Hanshuang to go to the side hall to deliver soup, but she was blocked at the door of the hall and didn't enter.
The matter of the cold war between husband and wife, other people may not know about it, but Wang An, who is serving by Gao Chi's side, knows it best, it should be no big deal, he also knows the temper of the prince, and he doesn't see the prince ever angry in the real sense, so he will not persuade him lightly, just wait for when the prince thinks that this lesson is enough, and naturally there will be a good day.
"Don't be too careful," Wang An saw that Zhang Zhaohua's dark color was dark and unclear, so he explained: "His Royal Highness's Wang Seal is brought with him to control the military power, and this seal of the prince should be handed over to the princess Niangniang and sit in the palace - this is also a common practice." β
Zhang Zhaohua said: "I know, you can go by yourself." β
Wang An left in a hurry, and Ah Wei beside Princess Xu came over, bringing the princess's words, except for the people who stayed on the island, everyone else had to go back to the palace before tonight.
"Mama Qian, quickly pack up your things," Zhang Zhaohua got up and arranged the matter: "Our boat is big, and we can still carry things from Xianning and Changning, go and ask the county lord if you want to take a boat with us?"
The speed of the princess was the fastest, and when Zhang Zhaohua and several county lords returned to the palace, the princess had already summoned three or five groups of people in the palace of cunxin, and when she stepped into the palace, she happened to hear the princess ordering: "Not only the palace gate, but also the gate of Beiping City, all of them are closed from the time of unitary time to the time of non-compliance, and everything else remains the same, and there is no curfew." β
"In the city of Beiping, there is already Sun Yu, who is a member of the left politics, and Zhang Bang is an people," the princess said: "Then the surrounding areas of Beiping, including Tongzhou, gather the village elders and know the situation, and hand it over to Jin Jishan." β
Jin Zhong arched his hand and said: "Without further ado, the minister will go." β
After this group of people left, Zhang Zhaohua stepped forward and said: "Mother, there is a big flood over there in Zhigu, although it will not flood to Beiping, but there is no curfew, there are refugees all the way into Beiping City, and the hearts of the people in Beiping are uncertain after all, and there may be a spread of the epidemicββ"
"Two hours ago, His Royal Highness had already mobilized the government guard battalion and the right guard of Yanshan to leave Beiping City and garrison Zhigu," Princess Xu leaned back on her chair, and the worry in her eyes only flashed: "Nearly two thousand people have gone out of the city, and everyone who has eyes in Beiping has seen it, but now they are still guessing what happened." If you hide it, you are afraid that you will guess that the Mongolian prisoners are on the side, then it will be really unstable, but it is better to make it clear that it is a direct sale of water, and there will be less of those groundless speculations. β
Zhang Zhaohua was convinced: "It's still my mother who thinks about it thoroughly." β
"Last year, it rained heavily in Beiping, and Zhigu, the place that should be most worried, was sunny for a month," Princess Xu said: "This year, on the other hand, there is no cloud in Beiping, but Zhigu is a torrential rain and overflow." The messenger said that when the river rose this summer, they were also so frightened that they were worried every day, and they sent men to stand guard by the river, saying that they had not yet crossed the embankment, but when they said that the opening was opened, there was no sign at all. β
"In previous years, there was a big flood, and the first to flood here in Zhigu should be the farmland, and people should still have to avoid," A Rui next to the princess has a distant relative in Zhigu, she also went to Zhigu a few times when she was a child, and she remembers it clearly: "It is the place where the canal should be most worried, and it is the time to start construction, and I don't know how the casualties are." β
"If the Haihe River is flooded, it may affect the canal," Zhang Zhaohua mused, "but the impact should be limited, and it should be heavy rain that affects the water level of the canal." The north-south canal is connected, to know how much the water level of the canal has risen, just look at whether the water level of the Tonghui River has risen, the canal is an artificial river, it is not affected by nature, it is afraid of backfilling, the only thing better than the overflow is that the backflow speed should not be fast, people are prepared. β
"You are right, it is similar to what the earth master said," the princess said with a little surprise: "He also said that the people who built the canal should be fine, but the Zhigu salt site is in a depression, and he should be most worried." β
The geographer is also a geographer at this time, and their job is really not a formal job, because they also have a part-time job, which is to show people the yang house, see the yin tomb or something, but their cognition of geography is indeed very insightful, for example, the judgment of the flood in Zhigu is not much different from the geographical knowledge that Zhang Zhaohua learned in his previous life.