Heavy rain rained for five days in a row, and with the experience of the old Kaifeng people, everyone knew that the slums in the city would definitely be soaked in the water.

However, with the assistance of more than 100,000 garrisons, several drainage ditches several miles long and about one zhang wide were dug in the north and south respectively, and there was no particularly serious flooding in the city.

After Wang Xiaoyi cleaned up the house, he took the hot tea newly brewed by his wife, and wanted to go to the street to find help, and planned to invite them to drink hot tea, eat a cooking cake, and pad their hunger to express their gratitude.

Who would have thought that as soon as Wang Xiaoyi went out with a teapot, he saw that under the eaves in the corners on both sides of the street, there were tired Taiwei sleeping.

These lieutenants were covered with mud, but they were all tired, some were holding hoes, some were pillowing shovel handles, and one by one they were thundering, and they were sleeping soundly.

Wang Xiaoyi couldn't enter, and he didn't want to retreat, so he hesitated and stood in front of the door in a daze.

I don't know how long it took, Wang Xiaoyi suddenly noticed that someone was watching him. He subconsciously turned his head to look over, and happened to meet the eyes of his neighbor Aunt Liu, and the two of them hurriedly lowered their heads in unison, as if they had done something unseemly.

On weekdays, Aunt Liu relies on doing some needlework for her neighbors and sewing and mending to maintain her family's income.

The lieutenants who helped drain the water on the street found that although the water tank in Aunt Liu's house was full of water, the water in the tank was turbid and yellow, and it was obviously undrinkable.

So, everyone helped Aunt Liu to refill the water tank with water and repair the damaged wooden cylinder head.

This person's heart is full of flesh, and the captains are volunteering to help with the work, but they don't even drink saliva, and Aunt Liu is upset. She thought about it, but she couldn't help much, so she simply took out the sewing basket, planning to help the captains mend their clothes or shoes and socks.

However, Aunt Liu was shocked to find that the captains were leaning against the wall and were all asleep.

Aunt Liu has lived for more than 40 years, and this is the first time she has seen the officials and soldiers who not only do not disturb the people, but also help the people to work voluntarily, and her eyes can't help but moisten.

Wang Xiaoyi, who was opposite, saw Aunt Liu's red eyes, his nose couldn't help but sour, and the gratitude in his heart was difficult to describe in words.

The good performance of the officers and men of the Li Jiajun in fighting waterlogging for five days won unanimous praise from the people in the slums.

After the rain stopped and the water receded, Li Zhongyi, dressed in civilian clothes, led the officials in charge of water control from the Ministry of Industry and the Metropolitan Water Supervision Department, as well as the technicians of the engineer battalion, to conduct a field inspection in the slums.

In the end, it was decided to lay large bluestone slabs on top of the ditch that had been dug. In this way, it does not affect the road traffic, and it is convenient and fast to drain water, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

After the great flood, there will be a great plague!

As one of the most important raw materials for epidemic prevention in this era, lime has an irreplaceable role. However, the lime stock of the three divisions of the yamen is seriously insufficient.

Under the personal leadership of Li Zhongyi, the old kiln workers in the Yamen of the Third Division, with the cooperation of the engineer battalion, built ten lime kilns in one go.

At the same time, Li Zhongyi took advantage of the situation to promote epidemic prevention measures such as drinking boiled water in the slums of the southern and northern cities.

Objectively speaking, the Black Death in the Middle Ages in Europe spread extremely quickly and claimed tens of millions of lives. It is inextricably linked to the bad habit of Europeans of that era who did not drink boiled water.

In medieval Europe, people had no concept of environmental sanitation at all, defecation and defecation were solved anywhere, garbage was piled up outside the house, and there was no good habit of bathing.

What's even more terrifying is that the contaminated drinking water, because it is not boiled, a large number of pathogenic bacteria multiply in the human body.

Li Zhongyi was originally a top famous doctor, and it was naturally impossible for him to allow the plague or other infectious diseases to spread unscrupulously in the area he ruled.

The work of epidemic prevention focuses on prevention!

Taking advantage of the flood to flood the slums, Li Zhongyi simply struck while the iron was hot and ordered the 30,000 soldiers of the engineer battalion to build more than 300 public toilets in the streets and alleys of the northern and southern cities in one go.

In this era of general illiteracy, going to the public toilet to solve the problem of internal emergencies is simply a rare thing that ordinary people have never heard of.

However, Li Zhongyi had long expected this. At his behest, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Guards Ding Battalion were sent to the streets to become health inspectors.

Anyone who defecates in the open will be fined 200 yuan as long as they are caught. If there is no money to be punished, then the money and debts will be repaid, and the five military sticks will be fined!

In modern Lijiapo, no one dares to spit or defecate in the open, because in addition to high fines, the punishment is also a daunting whipping.

Many times, whether the law can be widely revered and strictly adhered to, in addition to the necessary publicity, more importantly, the cost of breaking the law is too high for you to afford to break the law.

In the modern Wa Kingdom, the punishment for drunk driving is so high that you can't afford to pay that cost, and naturally no one dares to take the risk of drinking and driving.

As early as the day of the rainstorm, Li Zhongyi had already sent someone to count the inventory of medicinal materials in the palace pharmacy and the Tai Hospital. Among them, the banlan root, which can prevent and treat colds and inhibit viruses, is as much as 5,000 catties.

However, there are at least 200,000 people in the slums of the northern and southern cities, and the existing banlangen is completely insufficient.

However, Li Zhongyi quickly came up with a good idea, and he simply ordered people to set up a large iron pot in the slums, and concentrate on boiling the medicinal juice of Banlan root, as well as cold medicinal soups such as licorice cinnamon soup.

Whether it is the common people who go out to run errands, or the little ladies who do housework at home, the most important thing is babies and young children, they have to drink a small bowl every day.

After being busy for more than ten days, Li Zhongyi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after finally solving the hidden danger of the epidemic after the flood.

The huge empire has only more than 30 million people on the household register, and counting the hidden population, it is only more than 40 million people at best.

If, because of the untimely prevention of the epidemic, it leads to a large outbreak of plague and reduces the population by hundreds of thousands, Li Zhongyi will definitely die of distress.

It is gratifying that after the actual operation of this large-scale drainage and epidemic prevention work, the emergency management system has taken shape, and it will not be disrupted in the future.

At the same time, Li Zhongyi found a large number of available talents who were worried about the country and the people and were willing to do things seriously and down-to-earth from the Ministry of Industry, the Dushui Prison, the Tai Hospital and the Imperial Pharmacy.

The rainstorm flooded the city was an absolutely bad thing, however, with Li Zhongyi's efforts to rack his brains, the bad thing finally turned into a good thing, and this so-called blessing in disguise is also!

Five days later, it will be a good day for Li Zhongyi, and the enthronement ceremony of the ruling king will be held as scheduled in the square in front of the noon gate.

At the same time, the various forces that strongly oppose Li Zhongyi have also gathered together, waiting for the right time to officially attack Li Zhongyi!

PS: Yesterday, I was temporarily caught by the boss to work overtime, and I delayed the update, so I must make up for it today! Ask for the encouragement of a monthly pass!