Chapter 419: Chen Ming's 'Fiasco'!

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Miaodao archipelago at the southern end of the Bohai Strait, Changshan Island.

As the main island of the Miaodao archipelago, it is located between Jiaodong and Liaodong Peninsula, at the confluence of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, bordering Penglai, the capital of Dengzhou in the south, Lushunkou in Liaodong in the north, Beijing and Tianjin in the west, and North Korea in the east, facing Japan across the Yellow Sea.

The geographical location of Cheung Son Island is extremely important. If there can be a port like Jiaozhou, Yantai and Lushun here, it will be a natural barrier in the Bohai Sea. It's just a pity that Changshan Island doesn't have any natural good harbor here.

The naval divisions and marine units of the Fu Han Army harassing Shandong and Bohai Bay are now based on the Miaodao Islands, and the person sitting here is none other than Ye Xiangde.

At this moment, the entire Miaodao archipelago of the Fu Han Army and sailors from all walks of life gathered on Changshan Island.

In the lobby, below Ye Xiangde, who is in the highest position, Dai Tingdong is on the left, and Zhang Qiu's brother Zhang Wei on the right. Zhang Wei is Tian Qing and Shi Shenglin, among the nine leaders under Zhang Qiu, Tian Qing and Shi Shenglin belong to the new brand, and there is also a person named Baiyu, but Baiyu has now gone to the logistics department, and Tian Qing and Shi Shenglin are closer.

Dai Tingdong's subordinates are the two generals of the Fujian Navy Division, and the two groups of people are now one family, but the differences and rifts are still very serious.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has an order, and I ordered my department to beat Shandong in the near future."

Ye Xiangde shook the paper order in his hand, this is the clipper ship has just been sent to Changshan Island, and at the same time, a batch of fire dragon bullets will also arrive on Changshan Island in the next two days. The spirits of the people in the hall immediately lifted. The order issued by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself must be performed very well.

On weekdays, meritorious service and awards are ordinary, but now is a critical moment. Chen Ming gave an order, so he would naturally stare at this battle. For the people here, if you fight well, it will be the eyes of the prince; If you can't beat it well, that's also the eye of the prince. Think about the difference in the inside, which one of you dares to be sloppy?

"In this battle, Ye and Dai Tong led a team to sit on Changshan Island and suppress the Shandong Navy Division in Dengzhou Water City."

"And you, the soldiers are divided into two routes, respectively to Laizhou and Ninghai as a breakthrough. Within half a month, I want to make the whole Jiaodong a mess. ”

Ye Xiangde doesn't need to personally go down to compete with the commanders below, as long as he looks at the Shandong Sailors in Dengzhou Shuicheng to the death, will the meritorious deeds of the people below be missing him, the chief general who led the troops?

Tian Qing and Shi Shenglin glanced at each other, and the eyes of the two of them touched Zhang Wei at the top of the head, and they all flashed with a surprise light.

In the second half of July, the flood relief in the south is still in progress, and the rain in the south this year is a little, but the intensity is very strong. The king of Sulu was on his way north, traveling from Guangzhou to Wusong along the coast, and then via the Yangtze River to Wuhan, where the Wuhan Prefecture had been formally established, and Liu Dezhao had become the first governor of Hubei.

Because of the flood, Abbeqa traveled to Nanjing by land. It just so happens that Abbekkah also wants to take a look at the livelihood of the people in China.

When Chen Ming was faced with the second wave of North Korean envoys crying and begging, he had to make a show and ordered the sailors of Changshan Island in the north to increase the attack on Shandong and Bohai Bay, and asked for a very rare word 'ruthless' in the order. The same order was also sent to the Qingshui Sect and the Mixed Yuan Sect, and as for whether the latter listened to the order or not, it depended on what they thought.

"Lord Kim, you saw it too. This year, the rain in the south is flooding, and many places have reported emergencies. I'm in a hurry to deal with it, and I really don't have enough strength to send troops. Chen Quan couldn't help but laugh and looked at Jin Jichong, who was holding his robe. Floods in the south are frequent, and whether it is disaster relief or reinforcing river embankments, the logistics troops are all on the front line. So Chen Quan is very busy at the moment.

"Master Jin, it's useless for you to talk to me now. It's better to stay in Lushan for the time being and accompany that Lord Quan to relax. "Before the second wave of North Korean deputy envoys arrived at Lushan, the people were crying and mourning, and they were buried outside Nanjing. And the envoy, after climbing down the hall and crying, the person couldn't afford to get sick.

This second wave of envoys was the fleet that Nanhai No. 1 hit in Bohai Bay, which included not only North Korean envoys, but also many North Korean dignitaries. Now the latter remain in Shanghai and Nanjing.

Chen Quan was angry and funny when he said it, and of course, he also had some pity in his heart.

But Chen Han really doesn't have the time or energy to engage in North Korea now.

From the end of May. Lingnan, to be precise, the rain in Fujian and Guangdong is falling in a hurry, and it can't be stopped, and it's been two months now!

In June, there was also a lot of rain in the Yangtze River, and since mid-to-late June, the rain has been heavier and more intense. However, the Yellow River has been very quiet this summer, and there is neither more rain nor less.

In the palace of the former Qing Governor of Wuchang, Chen Ming looked at the bare flowers in the courtyard that were beaten by the rain, and his heart was depressed. I can easily fight the Manchu Qing Dynasty to find teeth, and I can make the Manchu Qing Dynasty thousands of miles of sea and border war everywhere in the north of the Qing Dynasty, but I can't help this God!

This rain is going to fall to North China, how good do you say it will fall to Shanxi and Hebei? ――Don't say that Chen Ming is psychologically dark.

In the first two years of chaos in Guangdong and Fujian, the chaos was a military disaster, and the climate was still very good, but this year the military disaster was gone, but the flood came up again.

Chen Ming kept pacing in the room with his hands behind his back, standing by the window from time to time, looking coldly at the rain outside, the current Governor's Mansion is like an ink painting by a master of Chinese painting. The entire mansion was hidden in the slightest crystal rain line, like smoke and fog.

The lotus flowers in the backyard pool have been completely destroyed by the rain, and this time should have been the last good day for the red lotus and green leaves. But now there is no trace of red in the rain curtains.

Chen Ming's eyes were a little dark, he had been sleeping less than two hours for many days in a row, and this was the first time he had experienced the struggle against floods and rescue for the first time since he started his family. Seriously, this worries him more than fighting, and makes him more worried.

A strong wind blew, and dark clouds rushed across the southern sky, and the sky darkened at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.

"Boom-" Accompanied by Chen Ming's national scolding in later generations--damn it, the thunder had already sounded.

"It's rainstorm again!" The black clouds that crushed the city were like a group of galloping and roaring wild horses, layer by layer overflowing overhead, gathering thicker and thicker, and pressing lower and lower. It makes people feel like they can tear off a piece when they climb to the top of the building and stretch out their hands.

Time passed, as if it was night in an instant, and the world was pitch black.

The wind was blowing, and the raindrops of soybeans were falling from the sky, and the sound was non-stop. A bolt of lightning pierced the sky, like a lightsaber cutting through the darkness, and the deafening thunder was recounted, and the raindrops became a curtain of rain, and the uproar was poured down like a heavenly river.

The wind whipped up the torrential rain like countless whips, whipping the glass window fiercely. The raindrops caught in the wind also seemed to be looking for something, and they were bumping everywhere in the east and west.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier. It was pouring rain and pouring down.

The storm came a little quickly, but this weather has been a common occurrence in the past month. And it obviously doesn't match the rainy season of previous years.

It's just that the maids in the Governor's Mansion have all lit up their 'service' talents, and if they get it to the next generation, they will all be able to mix with excellent waiters in the state guesthouse-level places. Unprepared by this sudden turn of events, in just five or six minutes, the entire Governor's Mansion was lit up again. Hundreds of marquee lamps and wind lanterns illuminated the entire governor's palace again.

"Click......" Chen Ming hung down on the window steps with a fist, and the wooden window sash frame was interrupted by Chen Ming.

In the middle and upper reaches of the Ganjiang River, the upper reaches of the Fuhe River and the Minjiang River experienced floods, and the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River and the Dongshui River had major floods at the same time. More than 20 prefectures and counties in Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces were seriously affected, the southeastern coast of Zhejiang and Taiwan were swept away by typhoons, and there were also certain losses, and some prefectures and counties along the Yangtze River in Hubei were also affected.

"What the hell." Chen Ming scolded hatefully. He is really unprepared for the floods in the south, he has always regarded the Yellow River as a big disaster, and he also has a certain psychological preparation for the flood of the Yangtze River, but subconsciously ignores the Xiangjiang River, the Ganjiang River, and the Minjiang River. As for Guangdong, in the imprint of Chen Ming's previous life, Guangdong has never heard of a flood there except for the typhoon disaster! [Don't spray more seriously, general cognition]

The year before last and last year, the Yangtze River and even the entire southern summer were very quiet, where did I think that as soon as God changed his face this year, all of them were swords hanging over their heads!

Fire and water are merciless. There is a big flood in the south, thousands of miles of displaced people, and thousands of lives are starving, but it is not a joke. Even if the Fu Han army had enough food in their hands to provide relief to the victims, it would take time. People's livelihoods are ruined, homes are gone, and we don't know how much time it will take to rebuild. Besides, the people of this era are the most lacking in order, and the evil deeds done by those who take advantage of the fire to rob will cause more serious consequences than floods! What's more, there is a poisonous snake at the sticky rod in the middle!

……

Located between Xiangtan and Liling, Lukou Town will later be the core area of Zhuzhou City, an important "cross-shaped" railway hub in China.

The current Lukou Town is just a relatively large town along the Xiangjiang River in Hunan. It is the confluence of the Xiangjiang River and the Lujiang River.

When a flood strikes, the confluence of rivers is always the one that attracts the most attention. A month ago, the Provincial Water Conservancy Department's flood control document was sent to the mayor of Lukou Town, as well as the officials sent by the Changsha Water Conservancy Bureau, asking them to be vigilant. Otherwise, if the embankment is breached, the local officials and the prefectural and county officials will have to eat and nag.

And the local people in Lukou are extremely sensitive to this matter, and God is going crazy and raining continuously, which is life-threatening.

Almost without the mobilization of the local government, the villagers of Lukou and the surrounding villages took the initiative to organize and protect the embankment. In addition to the young and strong people of the villages, there are also military and police figures from time to time on the embankment. The embankment burst in Shilong Town, Dongguan, in early June, is a standard man-made sabotage.

The traces left at the scene can't fool the eyes of the big guys. Although the thieves were not caught, and no solid evidence was found, a well-known organization was in front of the eyes of hundreds of millions of people-sticky poles!

Up to now, there is no fatal movement in Lukou Town, although the muddy water of the Lujiang River as a tributary roars terrifyingly, whistling and rushing, rolling with sediment, surging and rolling, there are frightening whirlpools on the water surface from time to time. But overall it's okay.

The mayor of Lukou Town is a local talent in Xiangtan, he failed to make up his mind at the beginning, and then he could only watch Chen Hao and others, who are also talents, ascend to the sky in one step, and he worked hard to drill the camp but could only be a tired and tired petty official from the seventh grade in Lukou.

Of course, being able to become an official as a showman is something I couldn't believe in the Qing Dynasty in previous years. Therefore, the mayor of the town is still very concerned about his official hat.

But this year, the wind and rain are not right, and it rains heavily, and the road outside can sink to the ankle when stepped on, and the road is finished, even if he is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, there is no way at all. The mayor of the town ran to the embankment three times a day, and he stayed on the embankment every once in a while.

But his intentions, his caution, fart is useless, how God should rain, how to rain. As long as the rain doesn't stop for a day, the knife on the neck can't be removed!

Just when Chen Ming broke the wooden frame of the window sash with a fierce punch in the governor's mansion, the Lukou Town Office, a man covered in mud and water, also brought bad news to the mayor of Lukou Town.

It's broken!

One word shattered. The entire office was silent in an instant, the mayor's face was pale, and the public servants below were also on the verge of the end one by one. "How so? I, I came down from the embankment half an hour ago. Was it okay at that time? Mayor Mare roared.

"It's someone who is sabotaging. I don't know why, the embankment suddenly exploded, and then it collapsed...... "The people who came to report also burst into tears."

"Is the gap blocked?" The knife finally landed on his head, and the mayor suddenly felt that he didn't feel heavy at all, but felt much more relieved.

He has been worrying all day and all night these days, and this kind of torment is really more uncomfortable than the pain of 'hanging knife to the ground' now.

The worst has happened, and the mayor can let go of the baggage in his heart and face it with all his might.

"My lord, the breach is almost blocked! The rattan frame and sandbags that I prepared earlier were all used. But the flood flooded five villages, and seven strong men were missing from the embankment. "Are the seven missing people dead or alive? Are there any ghosts among them? It's all to be ascertained.

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Xiangtan Lukou Town once again had an incident of the river embankment bursting due to man-made destruction, and the news was reported to Changsha, and the whole Changsha seemed to be even more hazy. Chen Chengzhi, who is currently the leader of the Hunan Police Department, is very Alexander!

No matter how capable he is, he can't look at all the people when he guards the embankment. The devil knows which of them is the one at the Manchu sticky pole.

Chen Chengzhi even dared to affirm in his heart that this would not be the last, but just the beginning.

The next fact is that it is not at all what he expected, Hengshan, Hengyang, and Changde are like dominoes, first the Xiangjiang River, and then the Yuanjiang River, except for the heavily guarded Changsha and Yueyang, the important places along the river in Hunan are bursting and breaking the embankment one after another. At the same time, there are also Jiangxi and Fujian, most of which are 'people-oriented'. So the "Central Plains Daily" pushed all the breaches down the sticky pole.

It was also the Qianlong/Manchu Qing who did not dare to be too mad, and the Manchus also had to take into account the hearts of the Han people in the north, as well as the feelings of those 'Zhongliang' in the south who abandoned their families and businesses to go to the north, and they did not do anything in the Yangtze River.

However, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong ...... reported from one after another, and hundreds of villages were flooded, and the victims of the disaster rose in a straight line like rockets. At the end of July, the rain finally stopped, and the number of refugees affected in Hunan province alone exceeded 300,000.

In this battle of 'flood fighting and disaster relief', Chen Ming was beaten by the sticky pole and was defeated! The disparity between the two sides' investment and battle losses is disproportionate. Chen Ming's prestige on the battlefield was useless in the face of natural and man-made disasters. It's like a piece of tissue paper, and the tiger skin is pierced with a slight stab.

"This year, there have been many disasters in the provinces. The palace does not want to see a vast ocean everywhere and at the same time, the people will be displaced. ”

"Virtue is only good governance, and government is to support the people. There can be no man-made disasters under natural disasters. It is better for the state to spend more gold and silver than for the people to be hungry and displaced. The idea of this palace is also willing to be read by the relatives and nobles. ”

"Today, this palace gives you this sentence, so you must keep it in mind."

"Ministers are taught."

"There is money and food in the treasury. The local government warehouses and granaries were all opened to provide relief to the victims. The prefectures and counties of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei provinces that have been affected by disasters have their own benevolence. "Anyway, I have to get free food.

"The ministers obey."

"Tax cuts, tax exemptions, bereavement pensions, relief, loans, and resettlement of displaced people, what the Manchus can do, and so can we, and we can do better than them. You have made it clear to the following, and the Supervision Yuan has also widened its eyes at this palace. The money and food for the victims in the disaster area must dare to reach out and be unforgiving. ”

"The ministers obey."

After everyone retreated, Chen Ming sat on the big chair for a long time and did not move. (To be continued.) )