In a word, those who are willing to listen take the money and leave, and those who do not listen to persuasion will immediately abandon it.

Good words can't persuade damned ghosts.

After all, Cai Dao's people are still very limited.

This time, after driving all the cottages in the three mountain ranges, there were only more than 20,000 people, and so many people gathered together to watch the spectacle. However, as soon as they were scattered in the countryside, the individual squad immediately showed its weakness.

Third, this operation to dig up the embankment of the Yellow River is not as simple as Cai Dao said to those village owners on the surface.

Among them, there are also three purposes implicit.

1. Train the small bosses and minions under him, after all, Cai Dao will not let them be bandits and bandits for a lifetime.

2. If the Yellow River bursts its banks on the north bank, especially in Hebei, it is not without benefits, on the one hand, it can improve the local soil, and after the catastrophe, the silt in the Yellow River will definitely be left on the nearby land, which will make the local land more fertile. On the other hand, it can also improve the situation that the Great Song Dynasty is unfavorable to the defense of the two countries.

The reason why the Great Song Dynasty often chose the Hebei region as the flood outlet is not without reason.

After Shi Jingjiao sold the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to the Liao State, the Great Song State lacked a solid line of defense in Hebei and Shanxi.

Shanxi has a unique topography surrounded by three mountain ranges. Although Yunzhou is missing, other places are also large and small basins in the mountains, and almost every basin has a strong point that can be defended.

Moreover, at this time, the city of Taiyuan Mansion was not as strong as the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, but today's Taiyuan City is still a rare strong city in the world.

On the contrary, Hebei is the most worrying.

After the lack of the Yanshan Mountains and Yuguan, which later became the Shanhaiguan, in the eyes of the nomads, there was an endless plain in front of them, and they could gallop freely in Happy Valley. Any nomad who arrives here, as long as they ride a horse, will be able to drink the Yellow River in a short time. Moreover, this era is not like later generations, and it is a little difficult to meet the snow in the warm winter.

In winter, the Yellow River would be covered with a thick ice cap, and at that time, it would no longer be able to act as a natural barrier against the nomadic cavalry.

If the Yellow River bursts its banks on the north bank of Hebei, it will not only leave a large amount of sediment in the local area, but also leave many lakes of various sizes in Hebei. If these were connected to the trees planted in Hebei by the Song Dynasty, they would not be the Great Wall, and they could also be used as a green lag on the border, slowing down the advance of nomads.

3, it is naturally used to deal with the Han family.

This operation will definitely hurt a lot of lives, so Cai Dao will personally go into battle. He also kept all the people in Taihang Village by his side, treating them as inspectors, letting them roam around on horseback, and carefully supervising each team sent down.

However, Cai Dao was still worried in vain, and he himself thought that this time the operation was going very smoothly.

Except for a very few die-hard and home-loving old people, the tenants of the entire Xiangzhou countryside and the Han family all evacuated before Cai Dao sent people to dig the Yellow River embankment. After the Yellow River embankment burst in Xiangzhou, after investigation, less than ten ordinary people died, and most of them were relatively old people.

After the flood passed, those ordinary people who had not understood the actions of these bandits finally understood the purpose of these bandits on Hedong Road, and they saved the lives of these little people's families.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the grace of heaven and earth.

Even the families of those who have died are very understanding.

They knew very well in their hearts that if it weren't for the stubbornness of their elders, how could they have died in this flood? These hard-nosed old men and old ladies just believe in the Han family too much, and they have been cattle and horses for the Han family for several lifetimes, and they have always believed that the Yellow River will definitely not break the embankment in the land of Xiangzhou.

Of course, the thoughts of these deceased old men are not wrong, if it weren't for Cai Dao's inconvenience, this section of the Yellow River in Xiangzhou did not break the embankment after Han Qi became prime minister.

Afterwards, Cai Dao made people find out. The Han family occupied almost all the fields in Xiangzhou, including the mountains and forests. However, this family was not a good family, and the main family was very serious about the tenants who cultivated their land. In other places, some landlords collect rent per mu from tenants, and at most they collect only 5 or 6 percent of the rent. But the Han family's rent per mu of land was fully seventy percent.

Regardless of whether the harvest is good or bad, even if the harvest is lost, not a penny of rent will be reduced. You must know that the land of the Han family does not have to pay taxes from the imperial court.

What's even more alarming is that the Han family also operates usury and sells smuggled salt, sells children and daughters, and forces the whole family to death is a trivial matter. Because of the successive support of the two emperors to ascend the throne, Han Qi's family received great favor from the two emperors Song Yingzong and Song Shenzong. Over the years, the Han family has been taking advantage of the famine to secretly annex the fields near Xiangzhou.

It turned out that the Han family had almost occupied most of the land in Xiangzhou, and his name as Han Xiangzhou was worthy of its name.

Therefore, Cai Dao's subordinates used a small amount of money to move most of the Han family's tenants away in advance.

As a result, at the beginning of August of the eighth year of Yuanyou, the Xiang army, which had been guarding the embankment of the Yellow River in Xiangzhou, suddenly encountered a sneak attack by a group of cavalry of unknown origin at dusk on August 1, and for a time 'suffered heavy casualties'.

In fact, this so-called 'heavy casualties' is naturally not a fact, on the one hand, the combat effectiveness of these Xiang troops is extremely low, and the cavalry sent by Cai Dao to sneak attack them showed up, and as soon as they appeared, all of them, including the small colonel who was in charge of the Han family, immediately scattered and fled. On the other hand, Cai Dao did not let his cavalry chase them. Just drive them away.

Not long after, those Xiang soldiers who originally wanted to return to the barracks after the incident heard and even saw a major event that made everyone tremble - the Yellow River was in Xiangzhou, and more precisely, the embankment was broken at the conservative embankment of these Xiang troops.

Needless to say, the rest will be said.

In this case, unless they are fools, these individual armies have all taken advantage of this period of panic to escape.

The Han family suffered heavy losses this time, and they will definitely be held responsible.

Will the Han family believe the sneak attack of the 'cavalry of the Western Xia Kingdom' in the mouth of these Xiang troops?

Even if this matter is true, what can the Han family dare to go to the Western Xia Kingdom to ask for the loss of their family this time?

Or dare to lead troops to attack the Western Xia Kingdom?

Even Han Qi himself's record against the Western Xia Kingdom is shameful. Not to mention, there are no outstanding characters in the second generation of the Han family at all.

Therefore, in the end, the responsibility for the Yellow River embankment will definitely fall on the heads of the guards of the Yellow River embankment.