At this time, Qinfeng Road, Yongxing Military Road and Jingxi Road in the areas along the Yellow River, rainstorms fell continuously, the tributaries of the Yellow River such as Weishui, Luoshui, Fenshui and other rivers increased their water volume greatly, the water level soared, and finally the water level of the Yellow River was surging like ten thousand horses galloping into the Yellow River, and the water level of the Yellow River soon soared, forming a large flood peak in the river section of Xijing, and roaring to the east. At this time, the embankment of the Yellow River in the Tokyo section has not yet received an early warning of the flood situation of the Yellow River.

Gui Chengde has been staying on the embankment all day, and he has been frowning and flustered for the past few days, so he has been fighting his spirit and patrolling the embankment. He was going to let people sink the braided body into the river so as not to expose the flaws and let Liu Zhili grab the handle. These days are cloudy, cooler, and more useful for work, so the efficiency of work has improved a lot. Several river engineers are at the water level survey points to check the water level in order to calculate the depth and location of the silicon. An elderly river worker said: "The water level of the Yellow River has increased a lot, the wind and waves are bigger than usual, the water flow is much more turbulent, and there is a lot more sediment. Everyone laughed when they heard this, because it was not yet the rainy season, and the possibility of flooding was very small.

The old man still didn't feel at ease, and he didn't care about other people's opinions, so he went directly to Liu Zhili and expressed his worries, he said: "Lord Liu, the possibility of flooding in the Yellow River is relatively large, I estimate that in about two days, the flood peak will enter this section of the river, it is better to prevent it, it is best to let people send people to send materials to the places that are prone to collapse embankments in previous years for reinforcement, anyway, these embankments must also be reinforced." When Liu Zhili heard this, he also felt that it made sense. So Gui Chengde and the river patrol envoys were called to a meeting together, and he told everyone the views of the old river workers, Gui Chengde and those river patrol envoys did not think so, feeling that in the past ten years, the Yellow River has never flooded at this time. But Liu Zhili insisted on the plan of prevention in advance, and finally everyone took the order with full opinions. Liu Zhili was afraid that these river patrol envoys would be perfunctory, so he called the leader of a hundred river guard groups to make detailed arrangements.

By the afternoon of the second day, the water level of the Yellow River had risen by two meters, and the current was even more turbulent, and many official boats of the water supervisor along the river were overturned and sunk, and the river became more and more turbid, and large areas of floating debris were covered with the surface of the river, and the upstream must have been flooded. It seems that Hong Feng has not yet arrived, and the fast horse of the imperial court has sent urgent news from Henan Mansion that Hong Feng has reached twenty miles west of the Tokyo section, and will arrive here from time to time. The people on the embankment were busy, and Liu Zhili's advance preparations earlier played a major role, and all the officers and soldiers of the embankment were waiting for the battle.

Hong Feng came, with the momentum of thunder, roaring and surging over. The wind was high and the waves were strong, and everyone felt that the embankment under their feet was a little trembling, and their heartstrings were tense. The flood rushed to the banks of the river, and the waves were so great that they seemed to swallow up everything that stood in their way. Liu Zhili ran around on the embankment, checking the danger, where the embankment had burst in previous years, Liu Zhili ordered to be strictly guarded, and the sandbags had been prepared. Suddenly, someone reported that there was a dangerous situation in a section of the embankment, and Liu Zhili rushed over as soon as he heard it, and there was a crack in this section of the embankment, and water gushed out under the embankment, and the old riverman said: "It's not good that there is a pipe gushing, so deal with it quickly, otherwise the embankment will collapse, which will endanger Tokyo." "Under the command of the old river worker, the soil bags were built around the bubbling hole and a well. The bottom of the well wall is in close contact with the ground. According to the requirements of three-layer reverse filtration, the well is divided into sand and gravel or firewood and grass filter materials. A drainage pipe is installed at the wellhead to divert the seeping clean water to prevent overflow from collapsing the well wall. Suddenly the water gushing momentum is large, the coarse sand can not be suppressed, the river workers fill in the gravel, block stones to sanitize the water potential, and then according to the reverse filtration requirements to lay the filter material, pay attention to observe the defense, the filler sinks, then continue to fill until it is stable. The pipe was finally blocked, and Liu Zhili, covered in muddy water, went to inspect elsewhere.

In another embankment, a three-meter-wide, two-meter-deep, and nearly 10-meter-long opening was broken in the upper part of the embankment, and the river rushed in and broke out of the embankment, and the scene was very dangerous. The river workers inserted long logs into the river, threw in relatively thick branches, so that the branches would not be easily washed away, and then threw bags of sand and gravel into the breach, and 500 river workers took turns to go into battle, and finally blocked the breach, and then strengthened the embankment below the breach. Eventually, the flood peak passed, and the water level receded by two meters, although it still exceeded the warning level, but it was safe.

At this time, Gui Chengde and Liu Zhengyuan panicked, this sudden flood turned their old bottom upside down, the shortage of stone and silicon materials was more than forty percent, their corruption has been exposed, and these river patrol envoys gathered around these two people to discuss countermeasures. Both of them are concerned about the problem of the account book of material procurement, as long as the account book is destroyed, it can be remedied, at most it is better to lose their official position than to lose their heads. Gui Chengde hurriedly sent someone to find Tan Danian and Yuan Zijing, asking them to bring the account book and destroy it on the spot, and then let the two go out to avoid the limelight, in fact, he wanted to find an opportunity to kill these two people secretly, and the dead will never reveal the secret. As a result, the person sent to report that there was no trace of these two people, but in fact, Liu Zhili had let these two people hide in advance, so as not to ask Gui Chengde to kill people. Gui Chengde knew that things were not good, so he hurriedly asked the others in the warehouse, and finally learned that Liu Zhili had interrogated Tan Danian and Yuan Zijing, and had already discovered their corruption, but they couldn't move it, and the account book was here with Liu Zhili nine times out of ten. Gui Chengde and Liu Zhengyuan suddenly looked hideous, the two of them exchanged glances, and Gui Chengde made a gesture of slashing his hand on his neck. In the end, the two agreed to bite Liu Zhili back, frame him, and finally write it as an excerpt, move around the relationship, and hand it over to the imperial history for impeachment, and then killed Liu Zhili, made the illusion of suicide in fear of crime, and put all the blame on his head. The second is to find the ledger as soon as possible and destroy it as soon as possible.

At this time, Liu Zhili couldn't stand still, he fought all night and morning, his body couldn't bear it, he sat on the embankment, and he didn't care about any official etiquette. In the end, he was supported by the guards and returned to the Yamen of the Water Supervisor in the outer capital, and as soon as he entered the house, he fell asleep and slept until the evening. It was getting dark, and at this time, in the kitchen of the yamen, a masked man came in over the wall, and arrived outside Liu Zhili's room, blowing a puff of smoke inside. After a while, he carefully pushed the door in, and then rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find it, and found two sticks of incense, but found nothing, and then he went out over the wall again. He slipped to Liu Zhili's house again, only to see that the door was locked outside, and there was no one at home, so he climbed over the wall and rummaged through his house, but he found nothing, so he had to return in a huff. He came to Gui Chengde and reported the relevant situation. When Gui Chengde learned that Yoo Zhili's wife and daughter had gone to Tokyo, he thought that the ledger might have been taken to Tokyo. The top priority is to kill Liu Zhili first, and then find his wife and children to do the calculations when the ledger arrives.

The masked man returned to Liu Zhili's accommodation again, walked to the bed, Liu Zhili was still asleep at this time, only to see the masked man take out a long scarf and wrap it around Liu Zhili's neck, and strangled it fiercely, Liu Zhili kicked his legs at this time, grabbed the scarf with both hands and struggled, and finally his hands were soft, his body was straight, and he lost his breath, and the masked man then put a few silver tickets in Liu Zhili's arms. Finally, the masked man hung the scarf on the roof beam, hung Liu Zhili on it, and then placed a kicking square stool at his feet. Finally pulled away.

In the evening, the cook of the official office came to call Liu Zhili to finish eating, and there was no response to a few calls, the cook pushed the door in, and saw Liu Zhili hanging high on the hanging beam, and immediately panicked, and shouted desperately, her terrible scream immediately summoned the guards and messengers, and everyone panicked when they saw this scene. In the end, everyone put Liu Zhili down from the white silk on the roof beam, and the body was already cold and stiff at this time. The next day, the officials of Junyi County came to inspect and found the silver ticket on his body, about 30,000 taels. Finally, after the autopsy, the funeral was collected and reported to Kaifeng Mansion.