The people in the low-lying areas in the east and south of the city were the first to suffer, and they had to move out of the streets where they used to live and retreat to Wolong Mountain in the north of the city.

As for the Tingjiang River and the banks of the tributaries that flow through the city, it will completely become Zeguo after a few days.

The west side of the city, adjacent to the West Mountain, is relatively high, but it is basically immersed in water, and most people retreat out of the city to the West Mountain.

The Lu family and the Shen family stayed on the second floor of the pharmacy, and later Xie Yun'er's family had to move over, and suddenly the second floor of the pharmacy became very crowded, and there were twenty people together, and eating, drinking, and Lazar became a problem.

The pharmacy was full of women and children, and it was inconvenient for Shen Mingjun to come back, so he simply stayed in the printing workshop to take care of it. The printing workshop is located on a raised slope, a few meters away from flooding, but the neighborhood is home to a large number of homeless people in the city.

If you want to travel, you must use a boat, and Hui Niang insists on going to the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce that is not flooded every day to deal with things. In this way, the boat company added a new canopy boat to shuttle between the main hall of the chamber of commerce and the pharmacy.

In the past few days in Dashui City, Hui Niang has been busier than usual, and she is no longer dealing with business-related matters, but helping the government to relieve disasters.

Before the flood fighting, Gao Mingcheng has been staying in the government, never went to the river embankment to see, after the flood flooded the city, he finally panicked, and the silver that was deducted before no longer dared to hide privately...... After the catastrophe, there will be officials in the imperial court to inspect and search, if the matter is revealed, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, he will be skinned and cramped, and his family will also be beaten into the lowly ranks.

Shen Xi has nothing to do every day, he doesn't have to go to school, he can only write and draw in his room, and the small building is noisy, especially his younger siblings are only a few months old, and they cry loudly.

Shen Xi's twin siblings are named by the old lady Li, and the elder sister is called Shen Yier. The younger brother Shilang is called Shen Yun.

Zhou had just given birth to a child, his temper was not very good, and the upstairs was noisy, so he couldn't help but scold when he was upset. Now I pity a few maids, and I am scolded by her all day long.

There were only a few rooms on the entire second floor, and although most of the medicinal materials were transferred to the printing workshop and the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce in time, some of the medicinal materials were still stored in case of emergency, and the three families were crowded together and even the floor was crowded.

When Shen Xi taught two little Loli to read and read. There are a few more students around, all of whom are Xie Yun'er's younger brothers and sisters.

Xie Yun'er's father has four wives and concubines, even if Xie Yun'er doesn't like the younger brothers and sisters born to several aunts, but in the end, it is a family, before she sent her two younger brothers to school, but her sister couldn't teach, and now she has the opportunity to learn something from Shen Xi, she raised her hands in favor.

After all, Lin Dai and Lu Xi'er have been learning from Shen Xi for a long time, and they already know most of the words. But Xie Yun'er's two younger sisters couldn't read a word, and Shen Xi could only teach them from scratch, which made Lu Xi'er a little dissatisfied.

On weekdays, Lu Xi'er has a good relationship with Lin Dai because Lin Dai has always been Shen Xi's "fiancée", and she knows that she can't offend Lin Dai at a young age, but now there are two more little girls who rob her of "Brother Shen Xi".

Two days after the flood flooded the city, news of deaths began to break out in the city.

Basically, it was the people who were in the low-lying areas, and the dead appeared. The risk of a plague outbreak in the city has increased exponentially.

There is a great plague after the catastrophe, in fact, the real terrible thing is not the natural disaster, but the "**" after the natural disaster, and there are no antibiotic drugs in these years. In addition, the necessary epidemic prevention measures are lacking, and after the flood waters recedes, the water source is polluted, and the people are easily infected with the disease, and the epidemic can easily spread due to the large number of people gathering.

The Chamber of Commerce is now responsible for helping the government deal with the floods. Hui Niang has people under him, and he also has appeal, Shen Xi can only use his experience and insight to prevent the epidemic through Hui Niang.

In the case of a shortage of medicines, in fact, the most important thing is to achieve drinking water hygiene, and then divide the refugees according to the living area, and then use masks and other items, try to avoid too much contact between people, and the sick should be isolated in time and find a doctor for diagnosis and treatment.

During the smallpox plague a few years ago, Hui Niang had already gained some basic knowledge of epidemic prevention, and with Shen Xi behind her back, she quickly submitted her suggestions to the government.

Gao Mingcheng was at a loss because his future might be ruined by this flood, and suddenly someone offered a solution to the disaster, and after reading it, he immediately agreed.

The first of Shen Xi's measures to level the flood is to set up a disaster resistance committee first.

Led by the prefect of Tingzhou and Changting County, with the chamber of commerce, the gentry in the city, Fangjia and representatives of civil society as the backbone, the manpower of the chamber of commerce and the government, plus the material resources of money and materials collected from the chamber of commerce and the gentry, the people in the city were channeled and placed. The Disaster Relief Committee is responsible for all matters in the city.

At the beginning, Gao Mingcheng was still able to do it himself, he felt the pressure of his personal future, and personally inspected all parts of the city. But as the water level in the city dropped, more floating corpses appeared, and there was a small-scale plague outbreak in the city.

The prefect of the county is timid and afraid, he is a hundred miles in the city, and has been pressed by the prefect, at this time the prefect wants to put the responsibility on him, he is more simply, directly transfer people to Hui Niang, who initiated the establishment of the disaster resistance committee.

Later, those officials who showed off their might on weekdays could only run errands behind Hui Niang and the gentry, and these soap li, who were usually disgusted by the people, were relied on by the people for the first time. Of course, in order to get a job, these servants also have to work hard.

Finally, after more than ten days of flooding the city, the flood waters in the city gradually receded.

People returned from everywhere and began to rebuild their homes, but the devastation left them at a loss. After the flood receded, nearly half of the city walls in the south and east of the city collapsed, and the city was full of ruins, and many houses were in disrepair and collapsed in this flood.

Bereaved families are also busy preparing for funerals, and the city is full of miserable scenes of mourning.

This is true inside the city, and even worse outside the city.

At this time, Gao Mingcheng and He Yingsheng finally came out, covered their mouths and noses with cloths, and went to the city and outside the city to "observe" the disaster and comfort the people.

After the flood, the well water was polluted and could not be drunk, and the people in the city could only go to Wolong Mountain in the north of the city and Xishan in the west of the city to pick up spring water, even if Hui Niang was the president of the Chamber of Commerce. There are no privileges, Xiu'er and Ning'er have to queue up early every day, and they can only come back with two buckets of water in the afternoon, which is basically what the three families need for a day.

As for those who risk drinking well water. It didn't take long for her to fall ill one after another, and Xie Yun'er, as a doctor specially hired by the Chamber of Commerce, was busy non-stop.

After the flood waters receded, the pharmacy began to sort out the herbs.

Fortunately, the rainstorm had been prepared before, and the medicinal materials of Lu's Pharmacy were transferred in advance. The storage was in good condition and there was no loss.

After the disaster, the first thing Hui Niang did was to ask the Chinese medicine shops in the city not to increase the price of any medicinal materials, and the goods operated by other merchants in the chamber of commerce should not increase the price by more than 20%, otherwise the merchants would be expelled from the chamber of commerce and handed over to the government for justice.

This measure of the Chamber of Commerce has played a very good role and has played a vital role in the smooth transition of the people after the disaster.

In these more than ten days, the role played by Hui Niang. It is much more important than the prefect Gaoming City.

But all the people who were desperate when the disaster came, what they saw was not a high-ranking official, but a boat that Hui Niang personally led the rescue.

In the past, the people of Fucheng had some resistance to the Chamber of Commerce, but at this time, they really felt the great benefits brought by the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce.

In the aftermath of the disaster, the people began to rebuild their homes, but they remained in good order.

After the resumption of water and land transportation, the first thing Hui Niang did was to immediately requisition food and materials from Jiangxi and Huguang, give full play to the advantages of direct procurement of goods by the Chamber of Commerce, and not do business with those traveling merchants who took advantage of the opportunity to speculate. The goods are sold in the city at a flat price, and even the freight and labor costs are borne by the Chamber of Commerce.

Those traveling merchants originally wanted to take advantage of the flood to make a lot of money, but when they saw that the Chamber of Commerce came to this set, they immediately coaxed.

You cows. If I don't play with you, I will transport it to other places to make money, anyway, this time it rained heavily in Fujian, and the disaster was not only in Tingzhou Mansion, your Chamber of Commerce can manage Tingzhou Mansion, but not in other places.

This year, it rained heavily in the middle of summer. As a result, the banks of the Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River, Qian River, Min River, Ting River and Xijiang River are basically in the tone of flood control.

Gao Mingcheng is afraid that his career will be ruined due to his ineffective disaster relief, but in fact, the situation of parents and officials everywhere is similar. The provincial capital sent important officials to inspect the localities, and the imperial court also sent Qin envoys to various places to inspect the people's conditions.

Among the many prefectures and counties along the Tingjiang River, Tingzhou Mansion is considered to have suffered a very serious disaster, but under the leadership of the Chamber of Commerce led by Hui Niang, there was no major plague around Tingzhou Mansion, and even the casualties of the people were the least.

After the floods, Tingzhou Mansion reopened the market as soon as possible, bringing people's lives back on track.

But after all, Hui Niang is a representative of the people, and she is a woman, so she can't be on the stage. In the end, in the book of merits to the imperial court, all the credits of Gaomingcheng, the prefect of Tingzhou, were recorded.

Because the officials who inspect the people's customs will not have any contact with the local government, when they write a letter to set up a model for the imperial court and praise Gaomingcheng's political achievements, Gaomingcheng has already packed up all his belongings.

Because after the end of this flood, just when his three-year term of office as prefect expired, the news came from Nanjing that he had no hope for his career, and the group of people he had previously had a relationship with him now had a clear relationship with him, obviously afraid that the flood would affect him.

Gao Mingcheng did not have much power in the court, and all he could rely on was the master who participated in the imperial examination and a few classmates who had a smooth career, most of whom are currently serving in the Sixth Department of Nanjing. After hearing the bad news, Gao Mingcheng could only admit that he was unlucky, and was ready to pack up his bed and roll back to his hometown, and live the rest of his life with the stolen money obtained from more than 20 years of being an official before.

But perhaps because after the flood, the information transmission was not smooth, and the appointment and dismissal of the new prefect of Tingzhou has not yet arrived, and it is not even known who the new prefect of Tingzhou is, let alone the arrival of the new official.

After the catastrophe, as long as there is no new prefect in the imperial court, Gao Mingcheng has to be his own official and be his parents.

Originally, Gaoming City also wanted to make a fortune by replenishing the treasury, but now it happens to be helped by the flood, the treasury is all flooded, and it needs relief after the disaster, and it is good that the place has not asked the court for money and food.

Gao Mingcheng was also tired, and he didn't care much about his last term, so he waited for Zhishi to return to his hometown after the disaster to live a stable life.

On the ninth day of August, less than a month after the flood ended, a "holy decree" suddenly descended from the heavens of Beijing. Gao Mingcheng was personally appointed by Emperor Hongzhi, from the prefect of Tingzhou, moved to the governor of Henan, and was promoted from the fourth rank to the second rank.

Under my rule, everyone sang praises for political clarity, but the Yellow River did not give me face, and there was a big flood every year, which gave me a headache every year.

Don't you know how to heal water? You will use your talents to govern the Yellow River for me!

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PS: The second update!

I was not feeling well today, I went to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment, and I had a fever of 38.2 degrees, and I hung up on salt water for a long time, and now I finally feel better.

This chapter is dizzy, let's make do with it! Tomorrow, after the body recovers, the Son of Heaven will continue to erupt! Thank you for your support! (To be continued.) )