The great flood of 1998 was a test for China.

Although Han Dong also tried his best to do some work before, it had little effect.

Even in the provinces inspected by the inspection team of the State Office, there has not been much improvement in flood control measures.

Only Minnan Province and Montenegro Province have made adequate preparations in all respects because their principal leaders attach great importance to it. Even so, no one could have imagined that the flood would be so huge, so the two provinces also suffered a lot of damage.

Compared with these two provinces, the situation in several other provinces is much more serious.

At this time, the attention of the whole country is focused on fighting the floods.

On 29 June, the State Flood Prevention and Drought Control General Headquarters issued an "Urgent Circular on the Work of Flood Prevention and Flood Control in the Yangtze River and the Huai He," which "requires leaders at all levels to immediately take up their posts and take up the heavy task of commanding flood control, meet the flood peak, and defeat the flood."

At the same time, the central government and various provinces have also dealt with the situation that the principal leaders are not in place in some disaster-stricken areas, and some officials have been dismissed from their posts on the spot.

From 3 to 8 July, Yang Minsheng, general manager of the State Council, and Yan Jiayun, deputy general manager of the State Council, inspected flood prevention and flood control work in Jiangbei, Xiangxi, and Hanyang provinces.

Yang Minsheng is very dissatisfied with the flood prevention work in these provinces and cities, especially some flood prevention facilities and projects, and there are even more big problems.

Among them, the flood control work in Hanyang Province is the most problematic, there are big problems in the quality of the embankments along the river, and all kinds of relief materials and anti-disaster materials are not fully prepared.

Standing on the edge of the river embankment, Yang Minsheng mercilessly and severely criticized the leaders accompanying him in Hanyang Province for "pointing out that flood fighting is a matter of human life." The inaction of these people is dereliction of duty and crime. At the same time, it is required that the general office should strengthen supervision and inspection to "supervise the flood control work."

Heavy rain has been continuing, and torrential rain has been occurring in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

The water level of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River is constantly rising, and great pressure is felt along the river.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army was also ordered to go to an important section of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and began to actively prepare for war.

All kinds of flood control materials have also been gathered from all over the country to the provinces under pressure.

Han Dong also organized several inspection teams to "personally lead the team and go to the front line."

Han Dong's main target is in Hanyang Province.

Because in Han Dong's memory, "the section of the Yangtze River in Jiuyang City, Hanyang Province, the gate burst, which caused huge losses.

Although the embankment was built a long time ago, "it can't be replaced for a while, but Han Dong wants that through his own efforts, he can make Jiuyang City more vigilant and make preparations in all aspects, so that once the embankment bursts, at least there will be fewer casualties."

The results of the inspection made people very unoptimistic about the leadership of Jiuyang City, and it seemed that the degree of attention to this flood was still very insufficient. They only set up a simple flood control headquarters, but the main leaders still did not focus on flood control, and in addition to the traffic problems in the city, some flood control materials were not in place in time.

Regarding this situation, Han Dong promptly informed the Hanyang Provincial Government, proposed various measures for immediate rectification, and personally sat in charge of "supervising the execution of the well."

The leaders of Hanyang Province have just been criticized by Yang Minsheng, the general manager, and now that the inspection office of the State Council has discovered a relatively serious problem, "they are also extremely annoyed," and naturally they have severely punished the leadership of Jiuyang City.

At the same time, "Wei Haoming, executive vice governor of Hanyang Province, went to Jiuyang City in person, met with Han Dong, exchanged relevant opinions, and sat in town with Han Dong to supervise the flood prevention preparations of Jiuyang City."

Han Dong and Wei Haoming have been sitting in Jiuyang City for a week, running by the river almost every day, "and the leaders of Jiuyang City naturally have to follow by their side" The secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor followed the two of them in shifts. Wei Haoming is a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee of Hanyang Province" and Han Dong is the director of the Supervision Office of the General Office of the State Council, these two are "big guys for them, and they dare not offend."

If it is usual, Han Dong, as the director of the Supervision Office of the State Office, "goes to Jiuyang City to inspect, and the Municipal Party Committee's "book" may not receive it back. However, this is an extraordinary period, and the "book" of the municipal party committee of Jiuyang City is also in a hurry, and all aspects must be cautious.

Now that the flood has begun, it is impossible for Han Dong to do everything, while requiring the inspection teams to work carefully and meticulously, Han Dong's own main attention is on Jiuyang City.

Because in Han Dong's memory, the section of the Yangtze River in Jiuyang was cut off in the flood of 98.

It's August in the blink of an eye. Han Dong arrived in Minnan Province on 3 August to supervise the flood control work in Yuenan Province. ,

On August 5th, the No. 38 embankment of Jiuyang City burst, and the turbulent river rushed to Jiuyang City like a beast.

However, due to the high water level and the poor quality of the flood control project in that section of the embankment, in the blink of an eye, "the embankment was torn open, like a huge monster spreading its bloody mouth, and the flood rushed towards the city."

The people of Jiuyang City are all méng, and the area around Binjiang Road in Jiuyang City was flooded in an instant, "The urban area will not be flooded much time.

The officers and men pushed the car loaded with stones into the breach, and the car only bubbled up in the water a few times, and then disappeared, and a few seconds later appeared a few hundred meters away and pushed forward like a piece of duckweed, and several more cars filled it up and were washed away as usual.

The whole batch of train wagons was pushed down, but to no avail, so "people could only watch as the breach was washed bigger and bigger, and the urban area of Kyuyang was slowly flooded."

Since the breach is already very large, "cars, trains are useless at all."

In desperation, people drove the barge running on the river, let it sink in the breach, reduce the current, and then make another plan, which is indeed effective.

Because the speed of the water was so fast, the first ship came and was sucked into the breach before it could be positioned.

Three ships sank in a row, but the breach was still getting bigger and bigger.

Jiuyang City was already in danger, at this time, there was a big transport ship on the river, and the people guarding the embankment shouted for them to come over, but the owner of the ship may have seen the situation just now and sailed the boat in another direction.

At that time, the commander of a PLA regiment guarding the berm rushed over in an assault boat, and after boarding the boat, he put a gun to the head of the ship's owner and forced him to drive the boat over and "sank." Due to the large size of the ship" and the fact that several ships had already sunk at the breach in front, the breach was blocked, and the current suddenly decreased.

At this time, "time is very precious, and the People's Liberation Army, militia, and ordinary people guarding the embankment are desperately throwing stones and steel frames into the breach."

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, the No. 38 appendix was finally blocked.

The city of Jiuyang was finally barely saved.

However, because the quality of the construction of that section of the embankment in Jiuyang City was so poor that there were constant bubbles, the troops and the common people who protected the embankment could only constantly check and patrol, and when there was any danger, they pounced on it, filled it with vehicles, blocked it with boats, and even used human bodies to form the embankment, and the officers and men and the common people of the berm were desperately fighting against the flood.

It was also on 5 August that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee sent a telegram of condolences to the military and civilians throughout the country in fighting floods and providing disaster relief. The Jiangbei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China announced that the province has entered an emergency flood prevention period. On 6 August, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held an enlarged meeting to make a decision on the flood fighting and rescue work on the Yangtze River.

On 8 August, Yang Minsheng again went to the front line of the Yangtze River flood control in Jiangbei to inspect the Yangtze River embankment.

Then Yang Minsheng and his entourage arrived in Jiuyang City, Hanyang Province, standing on the embankment that Jiuyang City could hold, Yang Minsheng was furious, scolded the leaders of Hanyang Province and Jiuyang City, and scolded the berm project here as "tofu slag project"!

"It's all a tofu scum project, and it can't withstand the soaking and impact of the flood, have your consciences been eaten by dogs!" , Yang Minsheng can be described as furious.

You must know that not long ago, Yang Minsheng made a special visit to Hanyang Province to inspect the work, and also specifically criticized the flood control work in Hanyang Province and made criticisms.

However, in the end, there was a breach of the embankment in Jiuyang City.

Although the all-out rescue of the military and civilians "finally blocked the gap, the breach of the embankment still brought huge losses.

Thousands of people died in Jiuyang City, causing direct economic losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Han Dong also followed Yang Minsheng to Jiuyang City.

In fact, Han Dong's work has really been done enough, because Jiuyang City has really done a good job in flood control projects, even if many aspects have been rectified, but the overall project "is still not optimistic." So it's almost inevitable that the levee will burst.

This is also the reason why Han Dong left Jiuyang City in early August to go to the inspector of Minnan Province.

The gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, in Han Dong's memory, the incident of the embankment burst in Jiuyang City finally occurred, so from the perspective of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, Han Dong chose to leave.

Because Han Dong has already done what needs to be done, it is naturally impossible to be stupid enough to be there all the time in the face of inevitable problems.

Standing behind Yang Minsheng" Han Dong was very emotional in his heart, because in Han Dong's impression, the word tofu slag project came out of Yang Minsheng's mouth.

Looking at it from Han Dong's point of view, Yang Minsheng looked very angry, and between his words, he was angrily cleaning up, like he was going to eat people.

But in Han Dong's eyes, the current Yang Minsheng is very worthy of respect.

As long as an official keeps his work in mind at any time, even if he loses his temper and "scolds others", it is a manifestation of his sense of responsibility.

And some people have always been gentle and elegant, but their minds are not on work, and Han Dong will not respect such people very much.

Just when Han Dong sighed in his heart, Yang Minsheng suddenly turned his head and said to Han Dong: "The supervision office must strengthen the supervision and inspection work, and for the cadres who do not act, they must be notified and criticized, and even dismissed on the spot ......"!