Usually in meetings, Li Xuan would give these courtiers enough time to argue, and even many times he didn't say anything, waiting until the courtiers' arguments were over and a conclusion was made before saying a few words.

However, in the case of major events, he will skip these and enter a great contrast, that is, he himself says, and the courtiers just listen.

Although Li Xuan also said a few words this time, asked the courtiers how to deal with it, and gave the courtiers a few minutes to speak, but in the face of the courtiers' arguments, Li Xuan directly stopped it.

When is this all this, it's still noisy, it's a fart!

Time is pressing, now the heavy rain has gradually shifted to the north, wait a few more days, it is estimated that the Huai River basin will begin to rain heavily, and then Henan and Shandong, so the next ten days and half a month, the flood will come.

Li Xuan had time to listen to their quarrel.

On the spot, he raised his hand directly!

When Li Xuan raised his hand, many courtiers were sitting upright one by one, and at the same time they consciously closed their mouths.

These ministers are all old fritters who have been mixed in the court for many years, and when they see Li Xuan's action, they know that the Son of Heaven is going to speak, hurry up and do a good job, and take good notes at the same time, if you miss one or two sentences, and thus do something wrong, then the matter will be big.

Li Xuan looked around and saw that more than 20 senior officials of the second rank and seven or eight generals and lieutenant generals of the army and navy were already looking up at him in unison, and then he put down his hand.

Then he said slowly: "This weather forecast, it may be a false alarm, but it may also really happen, and once it happens, it will affect several provinces and regions, tens of millions of people, so it is better to believe it than not!" ”

"All yamen in Gyeonggi and all localities should attach great importance to this matter and earnestly take various measures for flood prevention and flood control!"

Li Xuan continued to say slowly: "The cabinet needs to immediately organize disaster relief materials, especially food and medicine!" ”

"The Ministry of Officials and the Inspectorate, as well as the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry and other institutions jointly sent personnel to the provincial highways to send flood control supervision teams to supervise the active flood prevention and flood control and follow-up disaster relief matters of local yamen!"

"Prepare another disaster relief fund, not less than five million taels, for subsequent disaster relief expenditures!"

"At the same time, it is necessary to evacuate the people in dangerous areas in advance to avoid large-scale casualties!"

Li Xuan's speed of speech is not fast, and what he says is very simple, but the ministers below will write it down directly if they don't hear a word, because at this time, Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, has already directly issued the task, and if he can't do it, he will wait to throw away the black yarn hat.

Even more serious, if something goes wrong at work, it is possible to lose your life.

After Li Xuan finished saying these words, he turned his attention to the generals of the military again, and said: "Whether it is an enemy invasion or a natural disaster, in the face of danger, the imperial soldiers should stand up bravely and play their role, this time the military should actively participate in flood control and flood control, and defend the country!" ”

Li Xuan didn't say it very carefully, because he didn't need to say it too carefully, flood control and flood control is a systematic project, even if he Li Xuan has the insight of later generations, but he can only say a rough idea, and the specific measures still need to be combined with the times and regions, and adapted to local conditions.

Therefore, Li Xuan's words are actually just a general outline, and Li Xuan doesn't care how to do it, but he wants to see the results.

After saying this, Li Xuan did not stay in the conference room, but quickly went out, leaving those ministers to discuss on their own.

After leaving the conference room, Li Xuan summoned the officials of the Survey and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy, and asked them to pay attention to the situation in various regions in the north, especially the situation in the four provincial highways of Henan, Shandong, North Anhui Province, and Jiangbei Province, and report it immediately if there were signs of turmoil.

Natural disasters will have terrible consequences, not only on people's livelihoods and economies, but also on the potential for unrest.

In such chaotic times, there will always be some careerists who try to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble.

And Li Xuan naturally didn't allow this to happen!

In the afternoon, a group of ministers also walked out of the conference room one after another, and as the head of the courtiers, the minister on duty in the imperial study, Liu Bagou, a university scholar, also submitted to Li Xuan the emergency measures for flood control and flood control.

On the whole, most of the measures were formulated according to Li Xuan's requirements, and what was perfected was only the details.

After Li Xuan looked at it slightly, he just nodded and said, "That's it!" ”

After getting Li Xuan's official approval, the Tang Empire also acted quickly!

First of all, in the form of a 300-mile expedited and some sections of the road or even a 500-mile expedited manner, messengers were sent to the highways and prefectures of the northern provinces, especially the key areas of Kaifeng, Xuzhou, and Huai'an, and the couriers would carry meteorological reports and cabinet documents, demanding that the local yamen should immediately start flood prevention and flood control work without any neglect.

This is to send an alert to the local yamen in the northern regions, after all, this year, only the Royal Institute of Technology can make a complete meteorological report, and in other places, the weather forecast can only rely on the experience of the old people to judge, even if they are experienced, it is difficult for them to judge, this rain may last for more than a month.

On the afternoon of that day, the postal department sent more than 100 horsemen to the provincial highways on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and they galloped through the post roads, and these knights did not spare the physical strength of their horses, and went to their respective destinations at the highest speed.

These knights, wearing a special and conspicuous red uniform, will also carry a small yellow flag, in the middle of the small flag there is a big black 'urgent', and each knight is armed with a saber and a pistol, if the road is blocked by a short eye, the knight has the right to shoot and kill people directly.

Although the postal department is already an independent organization, and it will also undertake civilian commercial business, there are no active military personnel in it to serve as military messengers.

But this independent body is still managed by the cabinet and the military, and the vast majority of the staff in the postal department are still retired military personnel.

Especially these knights, basically all of them are retired cavalrymen in the army!

And the personnel stationed in each post station are basically retired officers and retired soldiers!

The emissaries of the Postal Department are allowed to own weapons and have the power to fire directly at those who block the military newspapers, and their power is greater than that of the major bodyguard companies that are also controlled by the military.

After all, before telegraph communication came out, the post station system of the Tang Empire would be the most important means of communication, and the news and documents would be quickly transmitted to various places through the three-hundred-mile expedited or even the five-hundred-mile expedited.

At the beginning, if it were not for the fact that the scale of the post station system was getting bigger and bigger, the management was becoming more and more difficult, and at the same time, in order to balance the cost, the business volume of carrying civilian letters and goods was constantly increased, which made it difficult for the military to directly manage this organization.

There will not be a situation where the cabinet and the military are jointly managed, but it will always be under the management of the military.

The postal knights of these postal divisions rushed out of Jinling City, and then rushed to various places, of course, they did not say that they went directly to Shandong and Henan in one go.

They often go directly to the next station, and then they will hand over the letters that need to be delivered to the relay knights, and they will continue to pass them forward in the form of relays.

While transmitting information to various parts of the north through the post station system, the ministers on duty in the imperial study room also transferred relevant officials from various departments, and then formed four flood control and flood control supervision groups, which went to Henan, northern Anhui, Jiangbei, and Shandong provinces.

Although they can't run hundreds of miles a day, they are all fast, and they will change carriages along the way, and the speed will not be too slow.

This is also due to the fact that the Tang Empire has always invested heavily in transportation construction, and some small places and remote places are difficult to say, but in important areas, such as large cities, there are relatively perfect official roads connected.

The official road system of the Tang Empire was expanded and newly built on the basis of the official road and post road of the former Ming Dynasty.

The official road standard of the Tang Empire is actually not high, first of all, there is not much requirement for the width of the official road, the ordinary width is two meters, and the width of some important official roads can reach four meters.

The width of this road is not random, but there is a basis, first of all, ordinary official roads must be able to pass horse-drawn carriages, and some important official roads must be able to pass two horse-drawn carriages at the same time.

The specifications of the carriage of the Tang Empire are basically unified, and the Tang Empire did not formulate any specifications for carriages in the early years, but during the unification war, in order to make the military's logistics carriages better maintained, a unified standard was formulated, that is, a carriage pulled by two horses side by side, with a wheel base of 1.4 meters.

Subsequently, this wheel base standard was also applied to all official carriages.

The leading role of the official is very obvious, and then the private carriage is gradually changed to this standard.

So today, except for special vehicles, most of the carriages pulled by two horses, whether two-wheeled or four-wheeled, have a standard track of 1.4 meters, of course, this is only limited to newly built vehicles, if it is a previous vehicle, the wheel base is not certain.

At the same time, the Tang Empire did not impose regulations that the wheel base of all carriages must be 1.4 meters, this 1.4 meters, is just the government and the military's own single horse and two horses side by side pull the wheel base standard, in fact, the government and the military have three or even four horses side by side heavy transport vehicles and artillery vehicles, the wheel base is greater than 1.4 meters, and a very small number of vehicles can even reach three or four meters of wheel base.