There are a total of three rivers and one river in the territory of Jinglang.

The northernmost is the Lujiang River, which originates from the Jade Mountain in the Beihao Mountains, winds from the Modi Gobi to the grassland, flows through the northern Xinjiang into the Yanxi, and flows into the Beihai.

A little further south is the Danren River, originating from the southern slope of the Beihazy Mountains, this river is more capricious, backed by the huge glacier and snow-capped mountains of the Beihazy Mountains, from the northwest of Jinglang to the northeast has spread into three rivers, one to the north into the Lujiang River, one to the south into the East China Sea, the middle tributary water is the weakest, was diverted to the stream, became the moat of the imperial capital, turned a bend in the imperial capital and flowed north to the Akatsuki, and finally also merged into the East China Sea.

The southernmost is called Tianshui River, which originates in the Liancui Mountains in the south, flows through the southwest hinterland, bypasses Miaojiang and returns to the boundary of Jingqi, and finally from Yazhou like the sea. Miao Jiang often cut off the Tianshui River during wars, and due to improper treatment, the embankment burst, so that the soldiers who were in Jing's way had to help them fight the flood. This time, Daddy fought with Na Miaojiang, and one of the important goals was to fight so that they no longer had the idea of moving Tianshui River.

These two rivers and one river belong to a relatively well-managed water system, and the most troublesome for the Ministry of Industry is the Mekong River in the middle.

The Mekong River is the only river system that belongs entirely to the Jinglang.

Like the chosen child, the Beihao Mountains and the Liancui Mountains are its birthplace.

Thousands of streams of water merge into a river, so the water flows endlessly from the place where the Mee River emerges, and it is said that there are thousands of zhang in the narrowest place. The Mekong River has abundant water, even in the cold winter, other water systems are dry periods, and the Lujiang River is cut off, but it is still vast and endless.

The place where the Mejiang River flows through is mostly hills and plains, and both sides of the river have been the land of fish and rice since ancient times, and it is the granary of Jinglang, known as "one acre of paddy field and ten thousand quintals of grain, fish and shrimp playing in the water and hibiscus fragrance".

The feelings of the people on both sides of the strait towards the Mekong River are complicated, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as a mixture of love and hate.

The main reason is that there will be a rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the Mejiang River, and the rain is a month, and the ditch is often full of river flats, and the flood season of the Mekong River often breaks the embankment. Every year, there are not a few people who die and go missing due to the bursting of the embankment of the Mekong River, and the people on both sides of the strait call it the cannibalistic river.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, successive emperors have attached great importance to the management of the Mekong River, and a large amount of silver taels will be allocated to the local hydrological departments at the beginning of spring every year, either to consolidate the river embankment, or to make the people evacuate to prevent the summer flooding of the Mekong River.

Therefore, although the bursting of the Mekong River has occurred from time to time in history, it has not caused great deaths.

In May of the seventh year of Yanqing, the rainy season hit, and it rained for a whole month.

Unsurprisingly, the Mekong River burst its banks, destroying countless houses and turning 10,000 acres of fertile land into flood areas.

This is the data reported locally to the imperial court.

But what Mo Qingzhi saw was a different scene.

In May of the seventh year of Yanqing, Mo Xiaoyao and Mo Qingran walked all the way up along the lower reaches of the Meh River, trying to find a place with a slower flow to cross the river south to Yazhou. Experienced fishermen in the area told them that the Mee River was flowing so fast that it would take some time.

The consultation money earned by the two of them from their earlier visits was exhausted, and they didn't even have dry food when they went to Lingshui County.

Mo Xiaoyao took a bowl of rainwater in the broken temple and drank it, and persuaded Mo to dye it better to be like him, shaved his hair, and pretended to be a monk to go to the fate.

Mo lightly dyed that the parents of the body should not be so faceless and skinless.

Mo Xiaoyao expressed his incomprehension of his behavior, he didn't know who his parents were, and what kind of body hair and skin did he care?

At this time, two travelers who sheltered from the rain came, gave them some dry food, and a message was revealed during the conversation that the Mehe River had burst its embankment in Yu Village, and many people died.

When Mo Xiaoyao heard this, he stuffed two mouthfuls of dry food, and then took Mo Qingdye and set off for Yu Village in the rain.

Mo Qingran thought that he was going to fight the flood and disaster relief, and was about to worship him, Mo Xiaoyao said: "Someone must be injured in the flood, the government must need a doctor to bandage, and the fly legs are also meat, so it's good to mix and eat." ”

At that moment, Mo Qingzhi felt particularly ashamed.

Mo Qingran didn't expect to go, but he discovered several shocking secrets.

The first one, his master Mo Xiaoyao, is really called Mo Xiaoyao.

When they arrived in Yucun, they happened to meet the provincial government in charge of that generation, which was transferred from Beijing officials, recognized Mo Xiaoyao, and called him one by one, Mo Xiaoyao was quite embarrassed and said: "Don't mention the past, the old man is just a Jianghu now." ”

The provincial government said: "If Lord Mo is in the rivers and lakes, then the people in the hospital are all waste." ”

Mo Xiaoyao stopped talking.

Mo Qingran guessed from the words of the two that this old man who forced himself as an apprentice might be a big man in the Tai Hospital.

Second, the bursting of the embankment in Yucun is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.

This was discovered by chance when Mo Qingran went to Yu Village to treat the wounded.

Every spring, after the silver of the Ministry of Industry is sown, the hydrological departments on both sides of the river will organize the people to repair and consolidate the river embankment, and during the flood season, they will send people to patrol day and night to guard the rise, and the Tangma must be on standby at any time. However, the embankment in Lingshui County looks like it was piled up.

According to the survivors of Yu Village, the Tangma who reported the flood arrived in Lingshui County a few days ago, saying that the upstream water is fierce, so Lingshui County should take precautions as soon as possible, and organize the evacuation of the people if necessary.

Lingshui County Governor Yin was anxious, but he didn't see the official document of the provincial government for a long time, and when the official document came down, Yu Village and the villages below had become a Ze country.

Only then did Mo Qingran understand why the provincial government had been stumbling on the master, and he should have mistaken Mo Xiaoyao for the imperial history sent by the imperial court, for fear that the matter would be revealed.

Third, of the 100 people who died in Yu Village, only 30% were drowned by the flood, and the rest died of the epidemic.

My third brother and I gasped when we heard this.

When my father was stationed in northern Xinjiang, he also encountered an epidemic.

One year, the rats on the grassland went crazy for some reason, and when they saw a living thing, they would bite it, whether it was a cow, a sheep or a person, and their whole bodies were covered with white blisters, and within five days they would foam at the mouth and die, and those who came into contact with the corpses would also be infected.

The northern provincial government was frightened at that time, and immediately sent a letter to the imperial capital, and the holy superintendent ordered the imperial history to bring many imperial doctors to help.

In the end, it was my father who burned the grassland with fire, and took the soldiers to the scorched grassland to exterminate rats, and it took more than a month to control the epidemic at that time.

In the middle of summer, when the pasture grass is vigorous and the cattle and sheep grow fat, many herdsmen have suffered heavy losses, and the governor of the northern border wrote to the saint to ask for appropriation for disaster relief, and some civil officials in the court and China denounced the father for being simple-minded, and the saint punished the father for handing over the profits of the Modi ore vein as compensation to the herdsmen.

The soldiers bluntly said that if it weren't for their father, those herdsmen would have died, and they all advised their fathers not to do such thankless things in the future.

Mo Qingran snorted coldly and said: "If the Meijiang Provincial Government has half of the Hou Ye, there will not be so many people dead in the future." ”

"What do you mean?" The third brother grabbed me and motioned for Mo Qingzhi to continue.

Mo Qingran paused for a moment, as if adjusting his emotions, and as if holding back tears, he began to tell the following story.