A severe flood disaster has just passed ten months, a new round of large-scale rainfall hit the area where Xia is located, one heavy rain after another, anyone can see that this heavy rain will produce flood disasters again, but I don't know what extent this flood disaster can reach, I don't know how much this year's crops will be reduced because of the flood disaster.

"This year's flooding is likely to be worse than last year's." The report from the Ministry of Ceremonies made Su Yan extremely vigilant, Xia Guo was not afraid of drought or the Xiaoice River period, but worried about floods.

The flood warning letter stamped with the king's seal was distributed from Zhongjing City to all parts of Xia Kingdom, and this warning letter was more severe than last year's warning book, and it also made all the county magistrates and town mayors understand the seriousness of the matter and step up various preparations for flood disasters.

There was even a C-type ship with the royal order to the expeditionary corps that was fighting on the new route, ordering the expeditionary corps to return immediately and suspend the expedition in the new route area this year.

Due to the impact of last year's flood, the expeditionary corps did not complete the tasks set last year, and did not hit the snake tribe, and this year it still needs to be captured before it can be the turn of the snake tribe.

Fortunately, there was no direct attack on the snake tribe, the snake tribe has a larger population and stronger strength than the day tribe camp and the fishing tribe, but it is only a weak opponent for the Xia country, and it is just a simple matter for the Xia country to capture the snake tribe, the key is how to transport the population of the snake tribe and some loot back to the Xia country under the condition of limited transportation capacity.

Now that the expeditionary legion has not attacked the snake tribe, there is no need to worry about those problems.

Heavy rain pours down, the water in the fields increases, the rainwater flows into the river through the dense ditches in the fields, from the small river to the big river, and finally converges into the Yellow River, the width of the Yellow River continues to increase, the river is turbulent, many ships have been unable to navigate, forcibly let the ships sail in the Yellow River, the risk of destruction and sinking is greatly increased.

Fortunately, Xia has a large number of horses, which can be connected to various cities by land, and only crossing the Yellow River is a bit risky.

Xia Guo frantically built cities in the second five-year plan, and built a total of 29 cities in five years, including the expansion plan of many cities, which finally made Xia Guo and the original Chu County far away from the mainland into one piece, but the distance between some cities was a bit large, but this did not affect the communication on the land route.

Fengcheng, the easternmost Cangxian county in the Xia Kingdom

In the face of this flood disaster, which does not know what kind of damage it will eventually cause, Fengcheng, which was built in the sixteenth year of the Xia calendar with a population of just over 6,000, is the most difficult city facing the Xia Kingdom among the seventy cities at present.

Like other cities in the Xia Kingdom, Fengcheng is also built in a higher area, but this is only relatively speaking, the area where Fengcheng is located belongs to the depression as a whole, and Fengcheng is a small drum in the depression.

At that time, the construction personnel who surveyed the terrain did not find this problem, and even because Fengcheng was surrounded by dense jungle on three sides, it was not until the severe flood disaster last year that the problem was discovered.

Once it rains heavily, the depression will continue to accumulate water, and it is more laborious to drain the stagnant water, and the farmland of Fengcheng is one of the cities with the most serious reduction in farmland production in Xia Kingdom, and this problem cannot be solved in a short time.

There is only one way to save Fengcheng's problem, which is to move, and even Su Yan has made a plan to cancel Fengcheng and resettle Fengcheng residents in other cities, which will be carried out in the middle of next year, who would have thought that there was already a severe flood disaster last year, and there will be a flood disaster that is likely to be not weaker than last year.

"You take people to inspect all parts of the city, and if there is a leak in the roof of someone's house or a crack in the wall, it must be solved quickly, so that no one can get hurt."

"You take people to inspect the riverbank, there is too much rain, the Yellow River has been widening, and it is very likely that the Yellow River will backflow, and then our Fengcheng will be in danger."

"You take people to inspect the farmland and drain as much water as possible from the farmland."

Fengcheng Mayor Yingzi arranged one thing after another, and the field/battle army, city defense army, reserve army, and youth army in Fengcheng all took action, and only pregnant women, the old and young, and the sick and disabled did not need to participate.

Compared with inspecting the drainage of the city and the farmland, inspecting the riverbank is the most worrying thing for Yingzi, not worrying about this matter, the first two things are at most a few people and a dozen people are injured or the farmland is reduced or even the harvest is lost, these two results are acceptable to Fengcheng, with Xia Guo as the backing, the farmland of Fengcheng will not be harvested, and the residents of Fengcheng will not starve.

The most important thing is the Yellow River, once the Yellow River water backs up, then Fengcheng will be directly trapped by the water.

It is acceptable to be trapped by the flood, after all, there is enough food in Fengcheng, and it is completely able to hold on until the water recedes, and the most feared thing is the ferocity of the flood, which will directly flood Fengcheng, and the 6,000 residents of Fengcheng will be in danger at that time.

For this reason, the middle-aged eagle, wearing a hat, personally led people to inspect the riverbank, and when he found a possible gap, he would bring a sack full of dirt to block the place.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Yingzi glanced at the sky where it was still raining, and silently prayed to the dragon god in his heart: "God, please let this rain stop quickly." ”

In the palace of Zhongjing City, Su Yan also glanced at the sky, the rainy weather destroyed Su Yan's good mood because of the successful conclusion of the second five-year plan of the Xia Kingdom, and the desk was full of urgent reports from all over the country, a flood disaster affected all the cities of the Xia Kingdom, and even the cities far away from the river could not get rid of the impact of the flood disaster.

Cities on both sides of the Yellow River need to worry about backing up the Yellow River, while cities far from the Yellow River need to worry about where the stagnant water will go, and even though many ponds have been dug to store water, the continuous rainfall has filled those ponds, and crop yields have become inevitable.

In any case, the danger of a city far from the Yellow River is much less dangerous than that of a city on both sides of the Yellow River, and the cities on both sides of the Yellow River have been washed away by the Yellow River, causing tragedy, especially the Fengcheng city located in a depression.

Although Zhongjing City is also located in the area on both sides of the Yellow River, there is no need to worry too much about Zhongjing City, Zhongjing City is relatively high, the city wall is tall and wide, even if the flood hits, it will not threaten Zhongjing City, and the material reserves in the city are enough for Zhongjing City to hold on until the flood recedes.

The continuous rain made Su Yan's mood more and more gloomy, and not long after, a royal decree came out of Zhongjing City and spread to all parts of the Xia Kingdom.

"When the situation is dangerous, the county mayor and the town mayor can make a decision to lead the residents to abandon the city and gather in the surrounding cities."

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Xia's second five-year plan seemed to be passing quickly, and there were only two major issues, one was internal development and construction, and the other was foreign war.

Foreign wars are divided into three theaters, namely the Eastern Front, the Western Front, and other theaters.

The Eastern Front battlefield is the war against the farming tribes in the new route area, and the Xia State needs to send an expeditionary corps to the new route area to attack those tribes by ship, because of the lack of capacity, the war is relatively slow, and because of the severe flood disaster last year, the plan was delayed.

The battlefield on the Western Front is the war against the nomadic tribes of the steppe, and the scale of the war is very large, and there is even a war in which 32,000 cavalry of the country of the grassland attack the city, which can be called the largest war that the Xia country has ever experienced, and it is also the most powerful enemy that the Xia country has encountered.

Fortunately, the enemy blindly attacked the city and was defeated by the accumulation of the city with the advantage of weapons and equipment, so far there is no such huge human force as the grassland country, and every time the cavalry troops go deep into the grassland, it is a weakening of the grassland power, and at the same time make more contributions to the development of the Xia country.

Other battlefields are the wars of the tribes found when the cities of the Xia Kingdom sweep the wilderness, the scale of the war is large and small, and the number of times is relatively large, in a few years, there are hundreds of tribes ranging from dozens to thousands of people were destroyed by the Xia State, and there is even a camp with a population of more than 10,000 to attack the new city of the Xia State, but it was destroyed by the Xia State backhand.

On the battlefield of the Western Front, the capture of cattle, horses and sheep is the main captive population, and the Eastern Front battlefield and other battlefields are dominated by the captive population, cattle, horses and sheep can increase the development speed of the Xia Kingdom, and the population can also increase the development speed of the Xia Kingdom, but the captives are more difficult to manage than cattle, horses and sheep, and if you want to tame the captives, you need to use a lot of means to consume a lot of time.

It can be said that from the Dragon Tribe period to the Xia Kingdom period, war has been a key project of the Xia Kingdom, almost never lacking, becoming a warrior is a goal that many people set when they are young, and it is expected that the war will not be able to stop until the entire planet is occupied by the Xia Kingdom.

Foreign wars are very important, and internal development and construction are even more important, if there is no stable interior, then the Xia State is simply unable to launch a foreign war, and it is very likely to lead to the collapse of the Xia State in the end.

In the second five years, the population of Xia made a major breakthrough, from 310,000 to 548,000 to nearly 550,000, and there were more than 81,600 adult males alone, that is, more than 81,600 households.

In five years, the population has increased by nearly 240,000, with an average annual increase of 48,000 people, this figure is definitely an unimaginable number if it is placed when the Xia Kingdom was just established, but now it is used to it, you must know that the population is increasing more and more, the annual increase in population in the first few years must be less than 48,000, and the population in the next few years will definitely be greater than 48,000.

Of course, there are still a large number of slaves in the population of 550,000 in the Xia Kingdom, but the number of citizens in the Xia Kingdom is also more than 500,000, and the proportion of slaves in the total population of the Xia Kingdom is less than one-tenth.

In the next five years, Su Yan no longer sets any population goals, just let Xia Guo play by himself, and even Su Yan also set a standard for adult female nationals in Xia Guo, just give birth to a child in three years, and give birth to children in a row will damage their bodies, and they need to give a certain amount of time to recuperate during two consecutive births.

Increasing the population by more than 50,000 every year is also a relatively large burden for the Xia Kingdom, so the Xia Kingdom needs to build a number of new cities to accommodate more population, originally the Xia Kingdom was built according to the plan of a city with a population of 5,000 people, but last year the Xia Kingdom only built seven cities.

Seven cities can accommodate a maximum of 70,000 people, but for a new city, it is normal to accommodate a population of 5,000 to 6,000 in the first few years, and then slowly increase in the future, and perhaps soon the Xia Kingdom will build ten cities at the same time in a year.

The so-called city is actually not a real city, just a town, the low city wall is not so much a courtyard wall, in the Xia Kingdom, only Zhongjing City and other counties are considered real cities, they have tall city walls, even if the flood comes, it can be resisted to a certain extent.

At present, there are a total of 70 cities in the Xia Kingdom, and there are still seven cities under construction this year, because of the severe flood disaster last year, the seven cities will not be completely completed until the end of autumn, I don't know if the seven cities this year can be built before the winter, and the natural disasters seriously affect the development of the Xia Kingdom.

In the second five years, the Xia Kingdom was constantly changing, all in a good direction.

For example, the county and town system, at present, the Xia State has eight counties, governing seventy cities, eight counties under the central management, and various towns under the jurisdiction of the county, which is orderly and orderly, and will not cause chaos because of the increase in the number of cities, even if the number of cities increases to two hundred li, it can be managed well, but when the number of cities increases to more than two hundred, Su Yan will also set up the county.

Another example is the reward and punishment system for ordinary citizens, simply put, it is to reward the hard-working and punish the lazy, under the reward and punishment system, the ordinary people are more energetic in their work, and even the number of lazy people has been greatly reduced, but there are also lazy people who have been unable to change their habits and are despised and rejected by others.

The reward and punishment system was welcomed by the people, and similarly, the monetary system was also welcomed by the people, with the emergence of metal coins in the Xia Kingdom, it was more convenient for the people to trade with each other, and the shops of the Ministry of Commerce, or those who had coins in their hands could enter the shops to buy what they needed.

For the time being, Su Yan does not want to establish a market for the people to trade freely, and the transactions between the people are often passed on by word of mouth, and everyone passes on one by one, and then understands what the person needs and what the person wants to sell, and then two or more people trade with each other.

It may seem a bit more troublesome, but it saves time compared to setting up a market, after all, everyone needs to work during the day, and there is no time to go to the market to buy and sell things, and there is not much to do at night without lights.

The reform of one system after another or the addition of a new system has made the Xia State internally stable, and the internal stability can make the Xia State accelerate its development, and it can also supply the Xia State's army to fight on multiple fronts.

Compared with the first five years, the Xia Kingdom at the end of the second five years has become stronger, but these are not enough, the current Xia Kingdom has to resist the whole country in the face of a flood disaster, and the Xia State is still too weak.