The leader of the Henan Flood Control and Flood Control Supervision Group is the Inspectorate of the Third Rank Zuo Du Yu Shi Du Shurong, although his grade is not as good as the governor of the second grade, but he is a person from the Inspectorate, and he is born to supervise the officials, not to mention, people are the leader of the supervision group, or come with a holy decree in hand, in the traditional sense, it is Qincha, and the authority is quite large.

So even if it is Xiao Baoguan, Du Shurong, the leader of the supervision group, does not dare to have any neglect, as soon as the supervision team arrived, he informed the relevant disaster situation and asked for follow-up work.

However, Du Shurong did not interfere indiscriminately with the identity of the Qin Mission, he was already very clear about his responsibilities before he came, he was here to supervise, and he did not interfere in specific affairs.

As long as Xiao Baoguan doesn't make any big mistakes and cause big problems, he will treat him as if he doesn't exist, otherwise, although he can be regarded as a cha cha and hold great power, but if there is a problem, don't expect to be able to save his life.

Xiao Baoguan is a feudal official, after this luck, he will enter the cabinet in the future to become a squire or even a scholar, this can not offend or don't offend.

Du Shurong did not interfere, but the other members of the supervision team under him actually quickly entered the working state and began to guide the local military and civilians to fight the flood.

Xiao Baoguan was relieved to get the help of these experienced professionals.

The members of the supervision group, except for the imperial history sent by several inspectors to supervise the inspection, the others are professionals, and the cabinet is drawn from various departments, all of whom have rich experience in flood fighting and disaster relief, and have practical experience and theoretical level.

These professionals are much more reliable than ordinary local officials.

In just two days, the perfect flood control measures were sorted out, during which the water level of the Yellow River was getting higher and higher, and there was still a small gap, but there happened to be a second-class inland river warship of the navy nearby, and after the danger occurred, without waiting for the officials in the rear to report it, its captain was immediately decided, directly ordered the boat to enter the gap, and then directly sat down.

Although the second-class battleship of more than 80 tons is not big, the gap was small at the beginning, and it was blocked by more than half, and then two cargo ships loaded with sand and gravel were urgently dispatched to sink and plug the gap, so that the gap could be regarded as not further expanded.

Then the government quickly dispatched people to plug the gap, and then a whole regiment of reserve division officers and soldiers came to reinforce, but it was difficult to completely close the gap again, so they quickly shifted their target and began to use the terrain to build a dam in the rear to avoid further expansion of the disaster.

At this time, the spare dikes they prepared in advance also played a major role, although the dikes were not high at first, but the gap in the Yellow River was not too big, especially after the sinking of a second-class inland river warship and two civilian ships of the navy, blocking most of the gap.

So there weren't many floods in the early days!

Under the hard work of nearly 10,000 people, a day later, the reserve embankment was initially formed, and then more than 30,000 young men and 15,000 soldiers who came in for emergency reinforcements also invested in the construction of the embankment.

A total of 50,000 people worked around the clock to reinforce and build the backup dike, and finally succeeded in completing the construction of the backup dike, before the water level rose.

Prevent the flood from spreading further inland!

However, although the gap was re-plugged, a large amount of river water still flowed through the gap to the rear for several days, and large areas of land were submerged.

The vast tracts of land and villages within the reserve levees have been completely reduced to lakes, the fields have disappeared, and the villages have disappeared completely.

This incident alone has led to the death and disappearance of hundreds of people. Among them, more than 20 officers and men of the army and navy who participated in the flood fight were killed or missing, and most of the others were young and strong people who participated in the flood fight.

As for the ordinary people in the rear, they had already moved ahead of time, but there were no casualties.

However, the loss of property is very huge, not only after the loss of existing property, but also the more than 5,000 people who have been evacuated in an emergency have lost their homes, even if the flood waters recede in the future, I am afraid that this place will not be able to live in a short period of time, and it will be a trouble for these more than 5,000 people to be resettled.

However, it is good to say that it did not cause large-scale floods, which made Xiao Baoguan feel a lot more relieved.

When Xiao Baoguan was initially relieved, in the Huai River valley in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the officials of Jiangbei Province were even more worried!

As the rain rained day by day, although it was only said that it was a torrential rain at the beginning, and the rest was a light and light rain, it still caused the river to skyrocket!

And more importantly, even if the local rainfall in Jiangbei Province is counted, there is also heavy rain in Henan and North Anhui Province, these are all upstream areas, and these upstream floods, regardless of whether they will cause disasters to North Anhui Province and Henan, but in the end they will definitely flow downstream.

And Gangbuk Province is the downstream of the unlucky urging!

This means that the Huai River not only bears the heavy local rainfall, but also the flooding of the middle reaches of the Yellow River!

Therefore, although the situation in the Huai River basin is generally stable at present, and the local rainfall has not caused any large-scale flooding, they know that the real test has not yet come.

When a large number of floods in the middle and upper reaches of the tributaries of the Huai River and the middle reaches of the Yellow River flow down the river, it is the time to really test the lower reaches of the Huai River!

However, judging from the weather forecast, as well as the news reported by the 500-mile express horse in Henan and North Anhui Province, it is obvious that the rainfall in these two places is very large, which means that the flood is very large.

After calculations, the officials of the Water Conservancy Department sent by the Ministry of Industry in the supervision group came to a very pessimistic conclusion, that is, with the current dikes in the Huai River basin, they simply cannot resist such a large-scale flood!

What to do?

The amount of flood discharge from the Huai River is limited, and even if it is strengthened and the embankment is raised, it will not have much effect.

If there is too much water to be quickly discharged into the sea, it will remain in the Huai River basin, causing the water level of the entire Huai River basin to skyrocket.

At that time, I'm afraid that the entire Jiangbei will be turned into a lake!

After many discussions, they began to formulate the main flood control measures, that is, to urgently increase the area of Hongze Lake, the height and thickness of the embankment, and expand the Hongze Lake area to accommodate more floodwater.

Avoid excessive floods that instantly impact the Huai River embankment, causing the levee to burst and then inundate a large area.

Hongze Lake, this lake is not a natural product, at the beginning there are actually only a few small lakes, and after the Yellow River seizes the Huai into the sea, the water level soars, often causing floods, in order to control floods, the former Ming Yongle began to recast the Hongze Lake embankment, and finally formed a section of tens of kilometers long large-scale embankment.

In the more than 100 years of the previous Ming dynasties, the embankment was also strengthened and heightened, thus forming a large freshwater lake such as Hongze Lake.

After the Tang Dynasty unified the whole country, it also regarded the construction of the Hongze Lake embankment as a key project, and tried to spend a huge amount of money to replace the earth embankment with a stone embankment.

However, the time is relatively short, so the results are limited.

Now, seeing that the flood water exceeds the capacity of the Huai River, and is even expected to exceed the flood resistance capacity of the Hongze Lake embankment, it has become the most urgent task to urgently raise and strengthen the Hongze Lake embankment.

Today, on the embankment of Hongze Lake, more than 150,000 young men and soldiers are under construction!

There is no way, if there is no large-scale construction machinery like later generations, if you want to strengthen and raise the embankment in a short time, you can only pile people.

As a matter of fact, the flood control work on the part of Jiangbei Province had already begun at the end of April, because Jinling City sent 500 li to expedite the report, and after the officials of Jiangbei Province received the news, they dared to slack off and immediately began to organize manpower to carry out flood control work.

In order to prevent floods, the most important project is to strengthen and raise the embankment of Hongze Lake.

In order to fight the flood, the government directly adopted the recruitment model, directly recruiting young people from the state capitals of Jiangbei Province and some areas of North Anhui Province.

In addition to the young and strong, the military is also vigorously assisting, and the troops in the nearby areas, whether they are the main forces or reserve divisions, are basically urgently mobilized, and a large number of troops from other areas are also organized to urgently reinforce them.

Compared with the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the empire paid more attention to the security of the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River.

Because the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River are even more dangerous!

If the flood relief in Henan is only a flood relief in one place, then the flood relief in Jiangbei Province is a collection of a lot of imperial forces!

In just a few days, 150,000 people arrived one after another and started construction!

At the same time, the military also provided a special material, that is, cement!

In those years, the military was the largest user of cement, and cement was used for all kinds of fortifications, and they directly transported a large amount of cement from the strategic material warehouse as flood control materials.

However, the interesting thing is that these cements are not directly transported to Jiangbei, because it is still raining in Jiangbei, and the cement cannot be dried and solidified quickly.

In fact, these cement bricks are directly made in Zhenjiang and other areas where the weather is good and the sun is already shining, and then these large cement bricks are loaded onto ships and transported to the construction site through the canal.

These bricks are used instead of stones.

Because in a short period of time, they could not obtain a large number of flat stone strips to build the embankment, while cement bricks did not have this problem, and they could just pour them.

However, time is pressing, and it is difficult for cement to dry thoroughly in a short period of time, so it is still not very useful.

What's more, it is necessary to rely on the original method and directly use sand and gravel to heighten and reinforce the embankment!

Watching 150,000 people working day and night on the lake embankment, even the military generals who have seen the big scene can't help but marvel, this kind of big project is no less than a strategic decisive battle!

As for those local officials, they were even more amazed!

This kind of big project can't be done in normal times, not only is it easy to cause trouble by urgently forcibly recruiting young people, but even if there are young people, the cost is not ordinarily large.

And this time, Jiangbei local finance does not have to worry, because this time flood relief, all the funds required will be jointly advanced by the Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank, and afterwards the local finance only needs to pay a small part at most, and the bulk is paid by the central government!

There are rich people, and the embankment of Hongze Lake is getting thicker and taller day by day, and the speed is quite fast!

However, the government of the Tang Empire built the river embankment quickly, but the flood of the Yellow River was not slow!

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