The people who came were the ghost Fang clan in the southeast of the Lu Fang country, they were few in number, divided into three tribes on the left, the middle and the right, there was no unity, each tribe had an adult, that is, the leader, and the vassal state that followed Helian Bobo to fight in front was the left ghost side, which was subject to the Changrong country, while the central and right ghost sides were ostensibly subordinated to the Buyeo country. The Onifang people are naturally brave and powerful, live in the mountains and forests, are good at archery, and like to shoot people's eyes. The bows they use are about four feet long, so they can shoot far. The arrow is one foot eight inches long, and the bluestone is used as the arrow cluster, and the arrow is poisoned on it. There are often people on the right ghost side who go out to rob, which gives Lu Fang and other neighbors a headache, but they are afraid of their poison and have no way to take them.

The Onifang clan took Prince Zhao and them to the shore of a river, tied them hand and foot, threw them on the shore, and then got on the boat again, and did not start the boat immediately, but stood on the boat and waited patiently for something to appear.

At this time, a man dressed in satin came to the shore with five or six men, and after observing the eight of them, he put down a few bags of things on the ground, and then immediately walked away, not far, but hid in the bushes not far from the river.

The robbers of the Ghost Fang clan jumped out of the boat, opened their pockets and looked at the contents of the kelp, which was the kelp produced by the sea, and felt quite satisfied, so they carried their bags and got on the boat and drove away.

Then, the man in the silk clothes and his subordinates came back to Wang Zizhao and the eight of them, and untied their shackles, but kept the shackles. At this time, I don't know who suddenly took the lead and kicked the leader with his foot, at this time eight against seven, Wang Zizhao and they all reacted immediately, and immediately scuffled with the other seven people, banged their heads, pushed with their arms and bodies, kicked with their feet, knocked the seven people to the ground, and everyone ran into the depths of the woods on the shore together.

Yunmengguo Yinghe County embankment.

"Twelfth Prince, why did you come up? It's dangerous here, so please take care of yourself. Cui Youzhen, the captain of the river embankment, was just about to kneel down to ask the twelve princes for peace, but he was supported by the prince. Cui Youzhen is Cui Yu's distant cousin, because he is too upright and not good at meeting horses, so he is not liked by Cui Yu, although he is over 50 years old, he is still just a small river embankment messenger in Yinghe County, and is responsible for supervising the construction of waterways and bridges on a daily basis.

Yinghe County is a place of abundant water and grass in the upper reaches of the Shenchuan River, the geographical environment is complex and diverse, and the two sides of the valley of the lower river basin through which the Shenchuan River flows in the county are important grain production areas and agricultural operations in Yunmeng Country, so the river embankment here is particularly important. Willow trees were planted on both sides of the embankment to conserve soil and water and strengthen the embankment. Outside the embankment is a post road, and there are usually slender men pulling boats to and fro. There are post stations every few miles on the post road, which is the habitat of Choi Youzhen and other river veterans.

"Lord Cui, please get up!" Wang Ziqian helped Cui Youzhen up, only to see that he was wearing a hat, wearing a messenger's official uniform that had been sewn countless times, with a pair of home-made clogs on his feet, and only one rope on the left still had traces of breakage, which was re-spliced, and his early white hair, wrinkles on his temples, and his deeply sunken eyes and face were dyed into the color of fireworks due to years of watching the guardhouse, wind, sun and rain...... Wang Ziqian couldn't help but look wet, and said, "Lord Cui has worked hard! The water and fire are ruthless, but the back of the embankment is related to the lives of thousands of Li people, and it must not be taken lightly. ”

It was midnight at this time, and the heavy rain was still pouring, so after Wang Ziqian had taken care of the day's disaster relief, he and several of his retinue went up to the embankment of the Yinghe River to inspect the situation. In the past few days, he and his brother have been in charge of their own duties, Wang Zizhan is in charge of handling various fortifications, and he is in charge of the relatively easy distribution of relief food and the supervision of soup kitchens in various disaster victims' gathering places. Because the heavy rain has been falling for three days in a row, Wang Ziqian is worried that something will happen to the river embankment, although this matter is under the control of Wang Zizhan, but Wang Zizhan sees that the rain is too strong, and is generally stationed in the temporary office office on the higher altitude of the mountain, and only travels once a day, and sometimes even only sends his personal entourage out to monitor it and deal with it.

Fei Xiang held a torch in one hand and an umbrella for Wang Ziqian in the other (Fei Yunfu's entourage to Wang Ziqian, five years older than Wang Ziqian, and Fei Fu have some distant cousin relations, and Wang Ziqian grew up together, is his personal guard and his best playmate, confidant and right-hand man), and several other relatives also held torches to accompany Wang Ziqian to the river embankment, and the torches they used were wrapped around the torch head with a thick layer of cloth invaded by substances such as kerosene, so it was not easy to extinguish in rainy days.

Although it was late at night, Cui Youzhen still showed no signs of resting, and he and other veterans of the berm continued to reinforce the fence on the inside of the embankment, filling the embankment with sacks filled with sand and gravel and discarded straw poured with glutinous rice soup. So Wang Ziqian walked to the middle of a section of the embankment, squatted down and poked the soil on the ground with his fingers, and carefully observed the damage to the embankment, and found that the embankment was exceptionally strong due to the perennial warranty and did not seem to have anything wrong, which showed Cui Youzhen's intentions.

Wang Ziqian came to the edge of the river embankment again, "Twelve princes be careful! All the attendants shouted worriedly. Seeing the flood rushing from the upstream, and rushing down all the way, Wang Ziqian watched the flood on the embankment for more than half an hour, and suddenly asked an attendant beside him: "May I ask Mr. Shang, if the river rises by one foot, then how much does the flood on the riverbank rise?"

"Returning to the Twelve Princes, for every foot that the river rises, the flood on the riverbank also rises by one foot." Shang Liang replied (Shang Liang was a well-known senior actuary in the imperial court who worked in the Ministry of Works) replied.

"In my opinion, with the momentum of the rising flood just now, if the embankment is not broken, how many square meters of land will be submerged on both banks downstream by tomorrow daytime?" Wang Ziqian continued to ask.

"If the heavy rain does not stop, or if the upstream continues to rain from the sky, then the downstream will at least flood more than 200 acres of fertile land by dawn." Shang Liang replied respectfully.

"Not good! Is there not danger to the people in the lower places? The prince exclaimed.

"Come on, spread the word about the elders of the nearby villages." The prince commanded.

Yunmeng Kingdom is based on farming, so it attaches great importance to water conservancy, and stipulates that whenever the water rises, the villagers in the nearby area must go to the river embankment to keep vigil.

A villager surnamed Jia was soon brought over.

Elder Jia Xiang bowed down to the prince, and after the prince asked him to calm down, he said with concern: "Have all the people downstream here been resettled properly?"

"The twelve princes have all been settled, but it's just ......," Jia Xianglao replied.

"Just what?" The prince asked.

"It's just that there are some people on the south bank, who have never been included in our good people's household registration, and are used to being idle on weekdays, only begging and causing trouble, and engaging in some menial work. This transfer was in a hurry, and there was no extra place to place them, so ......" Jia Xianglao continued to reply.

"Ridiculous! Heaven has the virtue of a good life, and since the untouchables live and live in your country, they should be cherished as their own wings, so how can they be despised because of the work they do. The prince rebuked angrily, "Prepare the horses! I'll take a look. ”

Under the guidance of the villagers, Wang Ziqian rode a horse downstream with his relatives, only to see a broken temple on the bank of the river, a group of men, women and children were sleeping soundly, each of them just spread out on the ground with a straw mat to lie down, there was a family of three, there was also a single person, some people only put a flower stick and a broken bowl next to them, and some people put a dilapidated and greasy stain burden next to them, which may be all his belongings. Shang Liang counted it, and there were about two hundred people.

The prince summoned the villagers and his retinue to wake everyone up, and told them to follow him and move immediately. But after going to two places in succession, Wang Ziqian found that there was indeed no extra temporary storage house on the hill that could accommodate more than 200 people, and it was now night, and it was raining heavily, and some children were wet by the rain, and they cried. Despite the heavy rain, the prince immediately ordered his entourage to cut down the bamboo himself and build a makeshift shack on a desolate hillside flat ground.