Chapter 141: The Yellow River, the Yellow River

The time is moved forward by a day or two.

This is not the first wave of flooding in the Yellow River.

The flood season of the Yellow River is divided into the peach blossom flood between March and April, the flood season between July and August, and the autumn flood between September and October.

In terms of time, the peach blossom flood has passed, and the flood has arrived. The biggest flood peaks of the Yellow River are the flood and autumn floods.

In the post of governor of Henan, Zhao Xin almost overdrew half his life.

Since the end of Xuande, the Daming flood has been impermanent. The Yellow River embankment fell into disrepair for a long time, even though Zhao Xin wrote to the imperial court many times, explaining in detail to Yang Pu and Cao Nai, the two first assistants, the reasons why the Yellow River embankment needed to be overhauled.

It's just that the imperial court only added money for river repair. It does not mean to completely trim the Yellow River.

But the problem with the Yellow River embankment is not something that can be built by repairing the old embankment. Tinkering is not enough to make a complete solution to this problem.

So, in the face of the catastrophic floods of this year. This year has been particularly sad.

Since the peach blossom flood in March, Zhao Xin has been on the embankment, guarding the embankment day and night, so that the Yellow River embankment has turned into safety several times.

However, after the flood came, the scale of the flood was much larger than that of the previous peach blossom flood.

Layers of Yellow River water soaked almost the entire Yellow River embankment in yellow muddy water.

Zhao Xin put a lot of effort into repairing the embankment of the Yellow River, but in the face of the hanging river on the ground, this kind of effort was simply not enough.

Throughout the month of June.

Although the Yellow River does not break, large and small pipe surges, waterlogging, and other things emerge in an endless stream. Zhao Xin couldn't sleep at all.

And on this day, it was a flood that came all over the sky.

On the embankment, the Yellow River channel more than ten miles wide is almost overflowing, and at a glance, the water of the Yellow River is almost from the sky, and the waves are rushing to the sky, as if there is a dragon that wants to take the water of the Yellow River with hundreds of millions of dollars.

In the face of the Yellow River rushing up layer by layer, the Yellow River embankment is like a biscuit soaked in water, falling layer by layer, from small to large, from a little bit of debris to a large area of rammed earth.

Everyone knows that this is not because of anything else, but because since March, there has been almost no interruption in the flood season, and even how much Zhao Xin has prepared, the Yellow River embankment has been soaked in floodwater.

This was a precursor to the collapse of the levee.

Faced with such a situation, Zhao Xin turned a blind eye. Just urging the people below to raise the levee and maintain the levee one by one, he didn't know it, but first, the sage books he read since he was a child made him unable to escape.

It is true that Confucianism has many extremes, and it has also taught many people who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and who are male thieves and prostitutes, but no matter what era it is, there are some times when they are sincere and willing to sacrifice their lives for righteousness.

The atmosphere of the Ming court in this era is still quite good.

Zhao Xin had already made a decision on the embankment, but now he naturally doesn't need to think about it, but he is doing his best to obey the fate of heaven.

Secondly, it is the emperor's importance to the embankment, the people of Jinyiwei are on the embankment at the moment, and they don't seem to do anything, but just record the daily situation and report it to the Beijing division every day.

But this move itself brought considerable political pressure to Zhao Xin.

is even more determined, Zhao Xin's will to defend the Yellow River embankment, and he dares to guarantee that at this moment, any official who gives up any section of the Yellow River embankment in the face of danger will not be able to escape, and the emperor will be punished.

Zhao Xin was unswerving, and the people and soldiers below did not dare to waver, and they all adhered to it.

Suddenly, I don't know who said: "Retreat, retreat, retreat, retreat, the Yellow River has receded." ”

For a while, I don't know how many people turned their heads to look at a piece of water, but saw a wet stone pillar exposed to the water. For a while, the sound was quiet at first, and then countless chantings shook the sky.

This pillar is used to measure the water level.

It's just that the flood has risen so much that it has completely submerged it underneath at this moment.

Now it is re-revealed.

It is a sign that the flood is receding.

The flood was so big that even if the flood receded a little, many people could see the difference. Seeing this stone pillar made everyone confirm this.

Zhao Xin let out a sigh of relief.

Feeling that today had finally passed, he glanced at the stone pillar again, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Because the flood waters are receding so fast.

The rise and fall of the flood peak is regular, the flood peak may come quickly, but when it retreats, it is very slow. In many cases, if the water rises for a day or two, it will take more than ten days, or more, for the flood water to recede.

But what did Zhao Xin see?

Almost a few breaths, the flood water receded more than an inch.

You must know how much water the Yellow River, which is more than ten miles wide, retreats more than an inch at a time. Even if the flood peak passed, it would not be possible to retreat so quickly.

Zhao Xin's face turned white, the whole person couldn't hold on, shook a few times, and almost fainted, and immediately a few attendants supported him.

Zhao Xin's face was particularly ugly, and his speech became difficult, and he said: "North Shore, North Shore." ”

Zhao Xin knew very well that because Kaifeng Mansion was on the south bank of the Yellow River, Zhao Xin was stationed on the south bank, and each section of the south bank was assigned to each county order.

The message delivery is relatively fast, so once the break is made, Zhao Xin's side will be able to get the news quickly.

Now he didn't get any news, so it was only the North Shore that was decided. As soon as he thought of the North Shore break, Zhao Xin was a little unbearable.

It's not that he's having a nervous breakdown, it's that he knows the consequences of this too well.

The south bank of the Yellow River is broken, and it is generally returned

It is a matter of Henan Province, but the rupture on the north bank of the Yellow River is no longer a problem of Henan Province, but a problem of the whole world.

Zhao Xin wanted to make a mistake.

But as it turned out, he guessed right.

Daming Weihui Mansion Baliu Village.

Now Baliu Village has become a geographical term, and the original village is no longer there. Just north of modern Zhengzhou City, that is, not far from the Yellow River out of the mountain, the Yellow River broke from the north bank.

The former Wu County Order, who was stationed on the Yellow River, also held on for two months. The problems that Zhao Xin is facing, he is also facing, and even his problems are more serious than the problems faced by Zhao Xin.

The reason is very simple, that is, Zhao Xinai is the governor, and he is just a magistrate.

Although Zhao Xin has always given up the reinforcement of the north bank of the river embankment more than the south bank of the river embankment, although he will not give up the south bank, in principle, he still retains the principle of preferring to decide the south bank rather than the north bank.

But implementation is very problematic.

Under Zhao Xin's nose, many people don't dare to do any tricks, Zhao Xin is also a long-lived place, and he understands the following small means, and he understands it tightly, who dares to play tricks with him, Zhao Xin dares to throw people directly into the Yellow River, and report a mistake to the outside world.

But the north bank is separated by one layer from the south bank.

In all kinds of materials, it is more difficult to replenish than the south bank, one is because most of the materials are concentrated in Kaifeng, the Yellow River water, even if Kaifeng is only more than 100 miles away from Yuanwu, but there is a Yellow River in the middle, it is much more difficult to transship.

Not to mention, most of Henan is on the south bank of the Yellow River, recruiting people, there are a lot of people, and in the north of the Yellow River, there are only Weihui, Zhangde, and Huaiqing.

Henan Province summoned the people, and it was impossible to summon all the people from Shandong and Hebei. There is no way to do this.

For these reasons, even if Zhao Xin leans towards the north shore in many things, the situation on the north bank is still more difficult than that on the south bank.

At the beginning of the Yellow River rush, there was actually room for redemption, but the original Wu County Order, in the face of the mighty Yellow River, was stupid at that time.

Didn't do anything at all, turned around and ran.

It doesn't matter if he runs away, the people and people who have been recruited are scattered as birds and beasts.

The roaring of the Yellow River is only at the beginning, there is a little possibility of redemption, and the golden time is missed, and the embankments on both sides of the Yellow River are like building blocks, which are pushed down and washed down by the Yellow River with big hands.

However, within half a day, this small gap became a river channel about ten miles wide, where the Yellow River was divided into two streams, one rushed here to flow northward, and the water level in the old Yellow River channel dropped rapidly, and most of it dried up, leaving only a trickle. It's as if the seasons have shifted from summer to winter. The floodwaters of the Yellow River disappeared all at once.

But the suffering of the people of Shandong has only just begun.