In the 100th year of the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, except for the beginning of the period when Hitachi was the capital of Xijing, it was soon moved to the capital, and with the rapid growth of the population, the buildings became more and more dense. At the same time www.biquge.info the frequency of fires is also increasing.

In the ten years that Empress Dowager Tian was in power, although a series of measures were taken, there were some results, but the fires in the capital were still as high as hundreds every year.

This is only the data that can be found in the archives of the Kyoto prefectural government, and there are countless small water incidents that cannot be examined. Every two to three years, there will always be one or two fires that are so badly burned that the Son of Heaven has to personally decree relief.

The reason why Tian Chu began to prepare fire prevention measures before he took office was because there was a huge fire in Hangzhou a while ago, because the residents accidentally took the water, a fire broke out in the middle of the night, and it burned for four days and four nights, leveling most of the city of Hangzhou, nearly 60,000 houses were scorched, hundreds of thousands of people were homeless, and the Hangzhou government also burned with it, and Zhizhou could not find a place to work, so he had to requisition several civilian boats on the West Lake.

As soon as the Kyoto Prefecture received the letter, it was too late to take care of the disaster relief matters, and the house of the university scholar Zhu Bing caught fire, not only destroying more than 70 houses, but also delaying the damage of neighbors, and finally damaging two streets, so that the fire could be stopped.

Zhu Bingduo Dynasty veteran, and the emperor, although these days Zhao Xian suspended classes due to illness and stopped attending the court, he has been sick at home, but he still has a lot of prestige in Shilin, this time his house caught fire, and he was seriously injured, causing an uproar in the government and the opposition.

Unable to find the cause of the fire, the political affairs hall had to dismiss the person in charge of the Xiang Army, and it happened that the Empress Dowager Tian wanted to save credit for her nephew, so she put Tian Chu in this position.

Zhou Qin slowly flipped through the plan that Zhou Yanzhi had spent more than ten days making, and was extremely surprised by her brother's talent in summarizing the laws of things, she pondered for a moment and asked: "Has my brother ever thought about setting up a military patrol shop house in the alleys, patrolling at night, and then setting up a lookout tower on a high place?" ”

Fire has always been a big problem for Great Wei, and after Zhou Qin married to Shu in his last life, he heard about a large fire in the capital every year.

The more fires there are in the capital, the more people need to rebuild their houses, and after all, there are more civilians than rich households, and the more fires they see, the more carefully the people will choose construction materials.

Zhou Qin clearly remembered that when she first married in Shudi, someone from the Beijing Ma Xing came to report to her about the Ma Xing's annual rules, and she was surprised to find that the number of mats in the Ma Xing's accounts last year had almost increased by six or seven times. The visitor told her that because of two fires in a row last year, in order to reduce the cost of reconstruction, the original roof tiles were replaced with mat roofs. As if jokingly, the other party said that because of the frequent fires in Kyoto, some people replaced the tile roof with a mat roof, and some people replaced the mat roof with a straw roof.

Of course, this saves a large part of the cost of building a house, but a three-year-old child also knows that fire may not spread so easily when it encounters rubble, and when it encounters hay, it is like adding fuel to the fire.

Until the year when Zhao Xian forced the palace, Junyi Qiaofang went to the water, the red light was all over the sky, and it burned into the forbidden palace, burning down the palace 910 Ying, and the Empress Dowager Tian forced the trial fire prevention and protection law from the inner city: every adjacent five families are one protection, and each adjacent five guarantees are a group, no matter which one or which group has a fire in the future, the person who caused the fire must be handed over, if it cannot be handed over, the people of the same protection and the same group will be responsible together. This reduces the frequency of fires.

But this method is too unreasonable, and it has wronged many people, and a few months later, the little emperor forced the palace, which also became a crime against her.

Naturally, the method of sitting together cannot be used for reference, but there have been many decrees that have been promulgated in those years, Zhou Qin thought about it for a moment in his heart, picked out some that were effective, and planned to help his brother make up for it.

"Wanghuo Tower?" Zhou Yanzhi raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, every two streets set up a fire tower, day and night turns, so that the patrol guards always look out, see smoke, fireworks, then use the whistle as a number, if it is daytime, use the flag to point in its direction, if it is night, point to its direction with a bright lamp, notify the people in the vicinity to put out the fire."

Zhou Qin saw Zhou Yanzhi thoughtful, and said: "I heard that if the fire is too big, you can only use animal skins to sew it into a bag, store three or four stones, and make three or five wrestlers hold the mouth of the bag and put water into the fire to extinguish it." But if the fire is too big, no one can come close but splash water from afar. ”

Zhou Yanzhi nodded yes.

"The Ordnance Division has a huge territory and thousands of craftsmen, isn't there a single machine that can create a device that can spray water from a distance? Even if the Ordnance Department can't, advertise the world, whoever can offer this weapon, then the bounty and reward, it's really not good, you can also give a background. ”

"In addition to the equipment, there is also a latent fire team in Beijing now, but they are all paid monthly, if they are burned by firefighting, they will have to withdraw from the team, so that if they really encounter a fire, if the fire is too big, who is willing to risk death to move forward?"

Zhou Qin spoke, her voice gradually raised, first she knew it with reason, and then moved with emotion, her narration was rhythmic, her emotions were shallow and then deep, her eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and her whole face seemed to be glowing.

"Fire and water are ruthless, not only to let people sacrifice their lives to fight the fire, but to help people to take care of the things before and after, I heard that last year there was a house on fire next to the Baokang Gate, and the submarine fire team rushed to the rescue, but because he did not give way to a certain court official halfway, after fighting the fire, he was fined a month's salary. It is indeed an ordinary etiquette for the people to give way to officials, and for the low to let the high, but in such a critical time, how can they still stick to the rules? ”

"The rules should be reset, when the submarine fire team fights the fire, enjoy the privilege, not be stereotyped, can gallop across the street, if it is in the hands of the firefighting, the government is responsible for the treatment, and give rewards, origin, and the rest of the positions can be arranged according to the situation......"

Zhou Qin gushed endlessly, when it came to the important place, his face was serious, and he was about to continue to go down, but he heard someone outside: "Aunt Xian! ”

She was stunned for a moment, raised her head, it turned out to be Mrs. Zhao calling, and standing beside her was Tian Chu with a smile on his face.

Talking to her brother, she was naturally unscrupulous, she pointed out the country, as if she was a high-ranking and powerful ruler in the middle of the court, and she could decide the whole thing with a word, and when she saw a foreigner at this moment, she was suddenly embarrassed, and whispered hello to Tian Chu with a red face.

Old Madam Zhao turned her head sideways and said to Tian Chu: "Laughing, our family has a small population, and it is inevitable that she will be spoiled, even if she has the current temperament, she dares to say a few words about anything." ”

Tian Chu admitted: "The old lady is too modest, and my sister is very knowledgeable. ”

He spoke to Old Madam Zhao, but his eyes did not leave Zhou Qin, and the determination in his heart became firmer.

Such a good girl, no matter her character, appearance, and temperament, is top-notch, and she is logically rigorous, and her mind and insight are not much better than those courtiers who are well-known for their talents, how can she marry Zheng Zhan's gentleman?!

He has to help her screen carefully, Zhou Yanjiu is not in the capital, Mrs. Zhao is old, and Zhou Yanzhi is young, so they may not be able to stabilize this level.