Chapter 147: Another Year of Storms

The heavy rain was like a pour, wetting everyone's clothes, although in the daytime, but dim as night, on the Daqing River in Baoding Prefecture, countless stars and dots of light shone.

It's a dead wind lamp.

Underneath these dead wind lamps, there are a large number of soldiers wearing hats and robes. Keep the group in the middle.

The person in the middle is none other than Yu Qian.

Although Yu Qian was wearing the best Jiangnan clothes, he still couldn't stop the heavy rain that was almost like a collapse.

The water situation in Hebei is like this, if it is not down, it is enough, and it seems to be a leak. It should rain all the year in a month or two.

At the feet of Yu Qian is a bluestone slab, and the hundreds of miles of embankment of the Daqing River are Yu Qian's key projects.

All replaced with stone embankments.

Because Yu Qian deeply felt that this section of the water situation was the most likely to burst the embankment. Moreover, this river connects the triangle lake and Baiyangdian, once the Daqing River bursts, it is easy to cause a large area of water accumulation from Baoding Mansion to Tianjin City and even Cangzhou, which is the reproduction of the strategy of taking the pond as the city in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, you must not dare to leave without permission here.

Yu Qian stood on the bank of the Daqing River, but within two or three days, the water of the Daqing River roared with the naked eye.

Yu Qian looked at a stone sculpture by the river, as if it was a spear, inserted into the river. Little by little, the river climbed up the stone spear.

Such stone carvings can be found along various river channels.

It's just that Yu Qian didn't want to spend time carving. For example, the original intention of the Leshan Giant Buddha is also to town the water, and the river overflows to different positions of the Buddha statue. Indicate different water conditions.

The water is full of Buddha's knees, and I don't know if I can burn Lingyun Cave. But whoever decides is a great flood.

And that's the case today.

In the torrential rain, Yu Qian looked at this stone pillar deadly. Yu Qian said: "Are the soldiers and civilians in the next class ready?" ”

Yu Mian was also soaked, and said, "Father, I have already ordered it to go down." Yu Mian watched the river roaring, and the river surged upwards wave after wave, and he was still apprehensive in his heart. said: "Father, do you want the people below to go up to the embankment now?" ”

Yu Qian said: "Kung fu is outside the poem, and now everything that should be done has been done." Now it's just a matter of waiting. ”

Yu Qian said so. But he wasn't without worries. It's just that he also understands that he has made almost all preparations before this, but before fire and water, can he really be foolproof?

However, one thing is certain.

With the speed of communication and material and personnel transfer in this era, even if there is really any problem, Yu Qian is powerless.

If the camera lifts from above Yu Qian and passes along the stone embankment of hundreds of miles in the Qing Dynasty, a large number of them will be found

The people and the people are resting under the embankment and ready to go up the embankment at any time.

On the top of the embankment, one of the more than 100 steps is patrolling and monitoring the water level, and if the water level is too high, it will immediately ring the gong to let the people below come up to release the flood or strengthen the embankment.

This is not the scene of Daqing River this time, but a microcosm of the whole Hebei.

Under Yu Qian's auspices, almost all the strong men in the entire Hebei Province were mobilized at this moment. Yu Qian divided the entire Hebei boundary into three classes, the first class is that the impact is significant, and it must be defended, otherwise the loss will be too great, and the first line of the Daqing River is like this.

The second is that the work is rough and can guard the embankment. But if you can't make it, you can give up a paragraph. In the end, it is the place where it doesn't matter, it is simply the flood discharge area.

There is no way to do it.

It is a huge project to renovate all the water conservancy in Hebei, and there are not many people in Hebei, which is far from being compared with later generations.

There are not many people and few laborers, even if many displaced people are recruited from Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong, this number is still not much.

There is not much labor, and if you want to repair it all, it is impossible to do it, and secondly, it is a bit greedy to seek perfection. After all, Hebei is full of more than 10 million people, and it is only necessary to ensure the arable land of so many people, and the rest of the places can be put away.

The places that must be defended are all places with relatively good water conservancy conditions and relatively high grain production. These places are the places where Yu Qian first started, and it can be said that they are the area at the foot of Taihang Mountain.

Because of the height difference, the water conservancy conditions left over from ancient times are relatively good, and there are many droughts, so it can not be protected from floods, and even if there is a flood, it is all at once.

This has formed a result that goes against common sense, that is, the prosperous place in Hebei is not a place near the river and the sea, but at the foot of the Taihang Mountain and the place where the plain is excessive, which is a more important grain producing area.

To keep this place is to keep Hebei's rations for this autumn.

There is also a case like the vicinity of the Daqing River, although the risk is very great, but the state has also made great efforts to rectify, the solidity of this stone embankment is by no means under the walls of Beijing.

These places must be protected.

As for those places that are too close to the lake, where several rivers converge, and where they have not had time to be repaired, they are simply regarded as flood discharge areas.

The secondary zone is a buffer between the flood discharge area and the place that must be protected.

These places have undergone a certain amount of water conservancy repair, and theoretically they can be defended, but after all, the newly built embankments are all rammed earth structures, and it is difficult to pack tickets.

Under Yu Qian's strict orders, all the local magistrates worked on the dam.

Throughout July, Hebei was in between the rain and the rain that was going to fall.

In late July, Yu Qian had to order the Daqing River to be discharged, and the flood water surging out from the south bank of the Daqing River, bringing Baiyang

The wetland area between the lake and the triangular lake is all flooded at the beginning of the flood discharge in various places, and a large amount of river water is piled up in this area, and the triangular lake, the victory lake, the Baiyang lake, the Wuguan lake, and several other large lakes are gathered together. Rapid expansion. For a time, south of the Daqing River, west of the South Canal, that is, west of the Weihe River, a large lake with a radius of hundreds of miles appeared. As for Baoding, Wen'an, and several county seats, even if they were prepared in advance, they have become an isolated island.

Yu Qian has ordered to reinforce a layer of waterproof embankment outside Baoding County and Wen'an County. There were also people who moved into the county town in advance, but there were no casualties.

The irony of this great lake is that the eastern boundary of this great lake is the Grand Canal, and the northern boundary is the Daqing River, for the simple reason that in order to protect the canal, there is a strong embankment between the triangle and the canal, separating the two.

The Daqing River is Yu Qian's newly built embankment, this embankment has become a white line in the middle of the **, the north is the Daqing River, and the south is a ** lake.

However, Yu Qian at least kept the peace of the counties south of the capital.

Moreover, Yu Qian also diverted the triangular lake water into the Wei River into the sea channel.

In addition to the widening project of the Wei River that he had repaired before. The drainage of the Wei River has increased significantly. I think that in more than a month, a considerable part of the water here in the triangle lake can be drained, at least let the counties of Wen'an and Baoding recover from the isolated island situation.

After Yu Qian summarized the news from all parties in Baoding, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Although he knew that there were still many lawsuits to fight, Wu Xing, the chief military officer of Caoyun, would have to come to the door to fight the lawsuit. After all, Yu Qian made up his mind to lead the triangle into the Weihe River, which directly impacted the canal's river transportation and interrupted the canal for more than ten days.

The contradiction between water control and transportation is not the first time, nor is it the last, Yu Qian has long been used to it.

Yu Qian looked at a ** sea-like lake in front of him with blazing eyes, and said secretly in his heart: "The five rivers and rivers are almost tidied up, and next year you can let the people protect the river embankment by themselves." ”

"The problem is this big lake."

If you look at the area, this piece of Dadian is only a few points inferior to Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake, but his problem is that it is too shallow.

The water is only a few meters deep, and it is divided into dozens of small lakes in the dry season, and some people even say that they are called a thousand lakes, but in the rainy season they are all connected.

"We have to find a way to dig the lake deeper, and we can't let this happen again." Yu Qian said secretly.

Only by retaining the water can there be water irrigation in the dry season, but the thought of bringing this water together to form a real large lake, the astronomical amount of earthwork, but also the accumulation of sediment upstream. In addition, the geology of Hebei, shallow one or two meters, must see groundwater, more than three or four meters, such a geological situation. There are simply countless difficulties waiting for him.