While Britain and France were bogged down in the quagmire of the Crimean War, the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Feng Yunshan, was busy preparing for the upcoming diversion of the Yellow River. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As early as when he decided to prepare for the diversion of the Yellow River in advance, he issued a series of orders. In addition to ordering Wei Yuan to be the governor of the Huanghuai Waterway and the minister of the Qincha, he also ordered Liu Changyou, vice minister of agriculture of the empire, Chong'en, governor of Shandong, Peng Yulin, commander of the 7th Division, He Zhigou, commander of the 6th Division, and Shi Zhenji and Shizhen Gao of the 1st Yiyi Division, to hurry to the Daqing River Valley, which was about to be diverted, and arrange the evacuation of the people along the route.

And he himself also led the 7th, 8th, and 9th Divisions of the B7th, 8th, and 9th Divisions, as well as the newly formed 30,000 local garrisons in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Ningbo Tenant Naval Division, and the original Taiping Army Naval Division, a total of nearly 80,000 soldiers and soldiers of the captured army, to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and rushed north to Lanyang County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan, the site where the Yellow River was about to break in history.

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On the morning of this day, on a large river beach in Xiangzikouji, Dongming County, Zhili Daimyo's Prefecture, two miles to the west, Li Qian, as usual, dug a small pit in the field of the river beach and prepared to plant Baogu.

The locust plague of the previous year and the drought of last year caused serious damage to the people in Dongming County. Li Qian had already pulled more than 100 people from three or five villages around Xiangzikouji, ready to learn the twist of the Huaibei area in the south, turned against the government, robbed the government of the grain, and fell into the grass. Unexpectedly, at the end of last year, the world of the Qing Dynasty suddenly changed!

The government claimed to have submitted to the Chinese Empire in the south, and this so-called Chinese Empire sent soldiers in uniform to patrol back and forth in this Dongming County from time to time, as if they knew that they were going to prepare for a rebellion.

If you don't rebel, you still have to eat, and the old mother of the family still has to feed. As a result, Li Qian, like the rest of the villagers, went to a large tidal flat in the second mile west of Xiangzikouji, and prepared to plant some high-yield and drought-tolerant buns on the wasteland that had been reclaimed last year.

As soon as he arrived in the field, Li Qian saw that his neighbors, Second Uncle Li and Li Dazhuang, had already taken their own women to work in the fields.

If it hadn't been for the reclamation of this wasteland last year, they don't know how many people in their village would have starved to death without food. Li Qian also felt that the river beach that the old people in the village said was the old road of the Yellow River before the Song Dynasty, and it was a life-saving treasure given to them by God. However, sometimes, Li Qian couldn't help but be a little lucky, fortunately the Yellow River no longer flows here, otherwise, his hometown is only afraid of the Yellow River in the south, I heard that there are big floods every year, and it is unspeakably miserable.

"Qian'er, you kid is so lazy, why did you come?" The neighbor Second Uncle Li saw Li Qian coming over with a hoe and shouted, "Uncle, I have already reclaimed half an acre of land." To say, the iron hoe of this 'Nanji hardware shop' is really good, and the local hoe has been used a lot in the past few years! ”

"Not really! Second uncle, this 'Nanji Hardware Shop' is not only easy to use iron hoes, but also the iron tools there are easy to use, and they are also cheap. As a result, the blacksmiths in our Dongming County and Xiangzikou have changed their careers. Li Qian responded with a smile.

"Hey, second uncle, Brother Qian, don't you know? This 'Nanji hardware shop', I heard that it is an ironware shop opened by the emperor of the Chinese Empire himself, can it be bad? That's something the Emperor made himself! Li Dazhuang, who was working next to him, came over, drank the water with a grunt, and chatted casually after taking a breath.

"Go, pull it! People are the real dragons in the sky, who came to the world to be the emperor, and also struck iron, and made hoes for us, you kid is really good at talking? Second Uncle Li was happy, changed the topic casually, and said with some worry: "Last year's drought, we planted some crops in the old river beach of the Yellow River, but I didn't expect the river beach to be a little humid, and we also got some harvest." But this year it looks like it's a bit hanging! ”

Li Qian didn't understand, and asked, "Second uncle, why is it hanging?" It's the same species. ”

"Qian'er, you don't understand, I, Li Er, have planted crops all my life. This is the old river beach of the Yellow River that has been abandoned since the Song Dynasty, as long as it is not dry, it is a low-lying tidal flat, unable to grow crops, and it is also a big drought like last year, the river beach is barely clumped into soil, and there are barely some harvests. The year before last, the drought caused a locust plague, and last year there was a big drought. Two years of rain have been left until this year. When the time comes, I am afraid that all these grains we have planted will be flooded, and we will not even be able to collect the seeds. ”

Li Qian and Li Erzhuang's faces changed after hearing this, and they were about to ask Second Uncle Li to understand, when they suddenly saw a large group of people coming over.

"It's the new government, and those officers and soldiers, it seems to be called the Capture Army." Li Qian was very familiar with the military uniform, and sighed: "These people are really diligent, they only passed through Xiangzikouji yesterday, and they are here again today." ”

"No, they're not passing by, they're coming at us!" After Li Erzhuang finished speaking, a large group of people on the opposite side had already walked over.

It was closer, Li Qian saw that it was the king shopkeeper who opened a hardware store in Xiangzikouji, and now he heard that he has become the mayor of the new government, which is equivalent to the original township of the Qing Dynasty, followed by more than ten soldiers and two township elders in the town.

"Ah, isn't this the second uncle, and Brother Qian, Brother Da Zhuang, who are you? What about clearing land on the river beach? "Shopkeeper Wang, oh, it should be Mayor Wang, leading an old man with a gray beard to come over, looking at Mayor Wang's cautious appearance, Li Qian guessed that the white-bearded old man should be a big official.

"Yes, Mayor Wang, the grass people and other poor families don't have enough food to eat, so if you open up a little famine, you can collect more food." Li Qian responded.

"Oh, Lord Chincha, look, this!" After listening to Li Qian's answer, Mayor Wang turned his head and smiled at the white-bearded old man, and said in embarrassment: "Most of the people in Xiangzikou Town are like this, cultivating land on the abandoned Yellow River beach, and now the imperial court suddenly said that everyone will not be allowed to farm, not only will they not be allowed to farm, but they will also abandon their ancestors' hometown and move to Dingtao or Kaizhou in Shandong next to it. ”

Li Qian next to him was dumbfounded when he heard this! What kind of government is this, as soon as it came to power, it asked itself, the people who had lived in it for hundreds of years, to move away? Why!

Second Uncle Li and Li Dazhuang on the side hadn't figured it out yet, and looked at the shopkeeper Wang strangely.

The white-bearded old man sighed and said earnestly: "Mayor Wang, fellow villagers, I, Wei Yuan, am a lot older, will I still lie to you?" There's really no way, it's too late to explain too much. Listen to me, old man, don't plant any more crops, and go back to town to read the notices that have been posted! ”

After speaking, he said to the soldiers of the begging army who followed him: "You send three people, send all three of their families back to the town, and then come back to chase me and others." Mayor Wang, this section of the Yellow River Ancient Road, the riverbed has been silted up very deeply, and it is not obvious that the entire riverbed is almost flush with the ground outside, and it is more difficult to excavate it all than I expected. Let's keep walking and look at a few more paragraphs. ”

After speaking, the group continued to walk along the river beach.

And the three soldiers of the capture army came over and said to Li Qian: "Fellow countryman, listen to the advice of Lord Qincha, hurry up and pack your things and go back to the town to read the notice." Now that it's been posted, something big is happening here! It won't be long before these places you reclaim will be an ocean, the flood will be monstrous, the Yellow River will burst, and the overwhelming water will flood everything here, not to mention here, half of Dongming County will be flooded. It's better to move early and run for your life! ”

Li Qian was stunned.

With a bang, the hoe he was holding in his hand fell to the ground, and the handle of the hoe smashed on his instep in pain. However, he couldn't take care of it!

What are you kidding, what crazy things are you talking about?