At the same time that Li Weiguo paid a visit to Liu Jianzhang, in Chongming County, the Xiao, Lu, and Huang families, under the planning and instruction of Xiao Yang, the head of the Xiao family, sent people to quietly dig the Yangtze River embankment in the middle of the night.

Wu Yong, a household warden who was in the county government governor's work-for-work relief operation, learned that the Yangtze River had burst its embankment, and hurriedly mobilized all the manpower of the county government to rush to the scene of the accident to rescue people, but as soon as he left the county government on the front foot, Xiao Yang sent the dead soldiers into the county Yatun grain warehouse and burned the 200,000 stone of grain used for disaster relief.

"Wu Yong mistook me!"

After Li Weiguo learned the news, he immediately scolded Wu Yong for being a waste, and before leaving, he repeatedly explained that Wu Yong Chongming County had just stabilized, and he must be cautious to prevent people from sabotaging it.

Li Weiguo trusted Wu Yong, and originally planned to reuse Wu Yong more after the fact, and take him with him when he was transferred to Shanghai in the future, but unexpectedly, Wu Yong still fell into the enemy's way, and ruined the good situation that Li Weiguo had just stabilized.

Zhang Xiaoliu persuaded at this time: "Young master, Wu Yong can't be blamed for this matter, after all, he also tried his best, I heard that he was attacked by someone arrested, and he is still seriously injured and unconscious." ”

"What? Wu Yong was attacked? ”

Li Weiguo was shocked, although he blamed Wu Yong for making mistakes and scolding him for being a waste, it was also because he cherished his talents.

Zhang Xiaoliu explained: "Wu Yong learned that the Yangtze River burst its embankment, and immediately led people to rescue people, but he was attacked by a group of unknown enemies halfway and was seriously injured. ”

Li Weiguo's face sank like water, the Yangtze River burst its embankment, tens of thousands of migrant workers suffered, the county granary was burned, 200,000 stone relief grain was gone, and more than 100,000 disaster victims would face the threat of starvation.

"Xiao Yang old horseman, you are so crazy to deal with me!"

Li Weiguo sneered, he had already guessed that the mastermind behind the scenes must be Xiao Yang.

He was furious, and for the first time after being reborn, he felt the urge to kill.

"Prepare the fast boat, and we will return to Chongming County immediately."

"But now that tens of thousands of migrant workers have suffered heavy casualties due to the bursting of the Yangtze River, coupled with the burning of 200,000 stone relief grain, I am afraid that the hundreds of thousands of victims in Chongming County are going to make a fuss, and the young master is afraid that it will not be safe to go back at this time, so why not wait for two days to avoid the limelight?"

Zhang Xiaoliu looked worried, but Li Weiguo waved his hand and shook his head and said: "It's just that I am afraid that the victims will make a fuss, so I must rush back immediately, otherwise it will cause a civil uprising, wouldn't it just be the intention of Xiao Yang's old thief?" ”

Seeing that his master insisted, Zhang Xiaoliu stopped persuading, and hurriedly went to find a fast boat and accompanied Li Weiguo to cross the river as much as possible.

On the other side, Li Weiguo sent someone to say hello to Liu Jianzhang of Su Song Taidao and truthfully reported what happened last night in Chongming County.

Liu Jianzhang has been in the officialdom for many years, and without Li Weiguoming saying it, he knows that it must be Xiao Yang's ghost behind this, Xiao Yang is so desperate and careless about the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, Liu Jianzhang is also quite angry about this, and immediately ordered someone to call Li Weiguo, so that he can rest assured to go back and stabilize the situation, and Liu Jianzhang will be prepared if necessary.

An hour later, Li Weiguo took Zhang Xiaoliu and a group of guards to cross the river by fast boat and arrived at the South Gate Wharf in Chongming County.

Some officials had already received a notice and came to the dock in advance to wait.

After Li Weiguo got off the ship, he immediately called the officials to inquire in detail about the incident, and learned that the area where the Yangtze River burst was near the Fuhu District, and that the Su, Zhou, Zan, and Yan families suffered heavy losses, but the Xiao, Lu, and Huang families seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and the losses were slight.

The official continued: "My lord, the county government has been surrounded by tens of thousands of victims, and I ask my lord to give them an explanation. Wu Hufang had just woken up before the villain came, but the injury was too serious to get out of bed to see the adult, so he asked the villain to bring a message to the adult, and asked the adult not to go back to the county office, Xiao Yang learned the lesson of the last time, and gathered Xiao, Lu, and Huang three families of nearly a thousand Ding slaves mixed in the refugees to spread rumors, many relatives among the refugees died in the flood last night because of participating in the adult's cash-for-work program, they were instigated by someone to lose their minds, and blamed the adult's fault, and the granary was destroyed, The 200,000 stone relief food is gone, and these refugees are facing hunger and mass commotion. Wu Hufang said that he failed to take care of his family, he was sorry for his family, and he would bear the consequences of this time, apologize for his crimes, and only ask adults to forgive him for his mistakes and take care of his family. ”

Li Weiguo sighed, Wu Yong was the first talent he had gathered, although he made a big mistake this time, he was willing to bear the consequences and apologize for his crimes, this kind of courage is worthy of respect, which made Li Weiguo a lot of anger.

So he instructed: "You go back and inform Wu Yong, tell him not to do stupid things, just keep the county government without losing it, and make your own decision." ”

At the same time, Li Weiguo sent someone to invite the heads of the four families, Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan.

Li Weiguo said with a calm face: "Everyone, you don't have to say it in this county, you should also know the mastermind behind this incident!" ”

The heads of the four families, Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan, are also angry at the moment, they have lived in Chongming County for a long time, and they only need to send someone to investigate.

The four of them glanced at each other, at this time they had completely torn their faces with Xiao Yang and the gang, and there was no room for reconciliation, so they could only bind Li Weiguo's little thick leg and go to the end with Li Weiguo, so they said in unison: "Please make the decision for us!" ”

Li Weiguo said categorically: "Xiao Yang old thief is mad, his heart can be punished, his crime should be beheaded, this county will uproot Xiao Yang and his henchmen, I hope that all the heads of the family will help this county, after the matter is completed, Chongming County will no longer have seven families, but only Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan four families!" ”

Li Weiguo immediately promised Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan, and immediately won the support of the four family heads.

"I am willing to listen to the orders of the adults, and I will not hesitate to go to the soup for the adults!"

The heads of the four families ordered to bow down to Li Weiguo and swear allegiance.

Li Weiguo was overjoyed, he was not fighting alone, with the full support of Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan, he was a little more sure of dealing with Xiao Yang.

Li Weiguo instructed: "Wait for the time to gather people, first send some people to blend in with the refugees, keep an eye on the people of the Xiao, Lu, and Huang families, and when the time comes, cooperate with the officers and soldiers to take them down in one fell swoop to prevent the people from mutiny." Gather all the remaining men, bring all the tools and supplies for building the embankment, and go with Lord Ben to block the embankment first. ”

Although the four heads of the Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan families didn't understand why Li Weiguo had to block the embankment first, they had completely defected to Li Weiguo at this moment, so they could only follow him.

Li Weiguo led the team to the south, and within ten miles, he arrived at the Yangtze River embankment.

The embankment is only three meters wide and is made of rammed earth and stone. Head along the embankment. The embankment is uneven and overgrown with dead grass, making it difficult to walk.

The guards opened the way in front, and Li Weiguo followed behind with one shallow foot, and soon heard the roar of the flood water that burst the embankment, and it was obvious that it was not far from the breach.

The next moment, Li Weiguo saw that the Yangtze River embankment was swept open by the surging river water a huge opening, about a few hundred meters wide, the collapsing Yangtze River water like a wild horse, uninhibited rush to the gap, from here to the north, the original fertile land is already a piece of Zeguo.

The water of the Yangtze River continues to wash the gap, making the gap bigger and bigger.

At this time, there were still many ordinary people near the embankment, and the Yangtze River burst last night, washing away their homes.

At this time, although these ordinary people had sad faces, they were all standing by, and no one had the intention of taking the lead to save the break.

Li Weiguo came to them and shouted: "Everyone, the Yangtze River burst and destroyed your homeland, can you just keep watching it?" Why don't we go down together and block the breach? ”

Everyone looked at Li Weiguo one after another, and saw that he was wearing an official uniform, and he was not very old, so they thought that the young master of a certain big official family was passing by here. At this moment, these ordinary people have become refugees, their homes have been destroyed, their relatives are missing, and they all look numb, and they would not have thought that the teenager in front of them would be their parents, the official county commander, so they didn't take him seriously, and some people even sneered directly: "Blocking the mouth? What do you know about a stinky brat? What can you use to block such a rapid river? ”

Another humane: "The noble young masters of these big families are all virtuous, and they can daydream in the daytime!"

Everyone laughed, obviously thinking that the pampered young master would play tricks and be useless.

Zhang Xiaoliu was suddenly furious, stepped forward and shouted: "Dare to be rude to my young master!" Sue sù you, put your ears up for me and listen, this person in front of you is the new Chongming County Commander Li Weiguo Li, you don't want to be presumptuous! ”

As soon as he heard that the county magistrate was here, he was immediately frightened and the surrounding people knelt on the ground together, and those who spoke wildly before were even more frightened, trembling, and begging for mercy.

"Everyone, please get up, those who don't know are not guilty!" Li Weiguo could not be as concerned with them, so he asked, "Are there any river workers among you?" Who is the person in charge? ”

At this time, a slightly older middle-aged man hurriedly ran over and said, "Huang Liang, the warden of the lowly worker's house, has seen Master Li."

The workshop is one of the six rooms of the Chongming County Ya, as the warden, Huang Liang succumbed to the obscenity of Xiao Yang, the chief bookkeeper, and followed the other five rooms to 'call the sick strike'.

"The warden? Aren't you sick at home? Why did you come here, do you want to see the jokes of this prefecture? Li Weiguo looked at Huang Liang with sharp eyes and said coldly.