When Li Xi went on the road, the rain was unabated, and when he looked up, he saw that the sky was densely covered with thick rain lines draped down, and the raindrops smashed on the back of his hand, which even made people feel a little painful.

Therefore, although he wore a thick coat when he went out, he had just left the county seat, and his whole body was already drenched in heavy rain.

Li Xi had only ridden a horse a few times in his previous life when he was traveling, but his skills were really poor, and it was raining so heavily that he didn't even want to move the horse and kept shaking his hooves, so he just borrowed some feet and didn't dare to run. Rao is like this, this way passed, but he still let the horse go down two or three times.

By the time Li Xi took a slave named Zhao Laoan from his family to Xingyi Village, where the county commander Zheng Shuang was located, not only had he been drenched by the rain, but even his green official uniform was covered with mud, and half of his coat had fallen off.

Because the rain was too heavy, the county commander Zheng Shuang only went out to inspect the embankment by the river in the morning and then quickly hid back, at this time he was staying in Xingyi Village's Lizheng Pang Xing's house worried, except for discussing a few words of views on the disaster with the county lieutenant Jiang An who was sitting on the side from time to time, he was just a person in a stunned daze.

Hearing that the officials came in and reported that a young man in a green official uniform had come over on horseback, and had arrived at the door at this time, the two exchanged glances, and they both knew that it must be Li Xi coming.

Li Xi's imminent appointment as the chief secretary of Jinyuan County has already spread to everyone in the streets and alleys, and as important officials in the county, they naturally have no reason not to know, and even when Li Xi was promoted, Zhou Qiong also deliberately asked Zheng Shuang for his opinion on the past symbolic surname, and he also countersigned the sponsorship.

According to the calculations of the day, the song has been gone for a month or so, and it is really almost time to come back, the two of them came down together yesterday, and the official document has not yet arrived when they came out, so it is naturally a matter of yesterday and today, but neither of them thought that this Li Xi had just taken office, and he was so enthusiastic about finding the countryside.

At this time, when they heard that Li Xi was coming, neither of them dared to slack off, but the county lieutenant Jiang An quickly stood up and took an umbrella from the door to welcome him out, it was the county commander Zheng Shuang, although he was Li Xi's superior, it was said that he didn't need to go out to greet him, but he only hesitated a little at the moment, and then he stood up happily and waited at the door of the hall.

Li Xi's background made him not dare to underestimate his eighteen-year-old subordinate, and the most important thing was that he seemed to smell a little different from the fact that Li Xi couldn't wait to rush to the countryside to find himself as soon as he took office.

The heavy rain poured down, and after the county lieutenant Jiang An picked up Li Xi at the door, he instructed the officials below to take the horse away, and the two people said hello to each other and then went to the courtyard hand in hand, followed by two officials with umbrellas.

As soon as he walked into the courtyard, Li Xi first smelled the aroma of chicken coming from the east wing room, and he had been in a hurry just now, but at this time, he was cold from the rain, and he suddenly found that he was already hungry.

When I walked into the courtyard, I saw Zheng Shuang, the county magistrate, who was standing at the door of the hall to greet him.

He looks like he is about forty years old, a typical southerner look, a green official uniform, a thin figure, three strands of sparse long hair under the chin, looks very civil, it is said that he was born in a Jiangdong family, and at the age of thirty-five, he became a jinshi, and he also had three years of seniority in Chang'an, so he was sent to Jinyuan County to serve as a county commander in the winter of the previous year.

Far away, Li Xi yelled at him and said, "Li Xi, the new chief secretary of Jinyuan County, has seen the county lord. ”

Zheng Shuang wanted to reach out to help him, but he didn't want to go into the rain, so he just smiled and stopped him, which was regarded as accepting his gift, and then hurriedly went to the house.

This is the local yard, although it is not a big landowner, but the yard is still better than the ordinary people's grass house I don't know how many times, at this time the rain is so heavy, even the road has been everywhere large and small puddles, on the way to see a lot of people have been soaked in the water, and even a few houses have fallen down the wall, but his house is still very stable.

After Li Xi entered the room, the three of them saluted again, and when Li Xi took off the half of his coat, he sat down separately, and soon, the owner of the courtyard, Zheng Pang Xing, brought his daughter-in-law three cups of wild tea, and the little daughter-in-law was a little delicate, but now Li Xi had traveled so long and was drenched in the rain, and he was really cold and hungry, so he couldn't care about appreciating it.

Except for the polite words when he just received Li Xi at the gate of the courtyard, the county lieutenant Jiang An smiled and said some polite words, and he didn't speak anymore when he sat down separately, but looked at Li Xi who was wet with a sneer on his face.

At this time, it was the county commander Zheng Shuang who saw that Li Xi's clothes were already soaked, so he said: "Don't be busy talking, Master Li should change his clothes first, so as not to get sick from eating rain." ”

Li Xi thought about it and was not polite, and ordered Zhao Laoan to bring the replacement clothes that Wu Lan had prepared for himself before leaving, and asked the host to borrow a place to change them, and the replacement clothes were wrapped in three layers of oilcloth, and Zhao Laoan was carefully protected in his arms along the way.

Seeing that Li Xi was relieved, the county magistrate Zheng Shuang said with a smile: "Master Li came in the rain as soon as he took office, he is really enthusiastic about official affairs, and he can be an example for my generation as an official!" After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at the county lieutenant Jiang An.

Jiang An was reluctant to follow down and suffer this crime, but the county magistrate had to go out on patrol, and the county lord had to sit in the county office, so in the case of the vacancy of the main book, he, the county lieutenant, had to accompany him out, and after listening to Zheng Shuang's words at this time, he knew that he was stabbing himself with words.

Speaking of the three officials, although he is the oldest, but he is the youngest, and even Li Xi, the eighteen-year-old chief bookkeeper, is half a level higher than him, no matter what, in front of the two of them here, there is really no part for him to show face. Besides, if they want to fight, Pei Jun will fight with them, but he is unwilling to mix.

Therefore, when he heard the words, he didn't say anything, but he also smiled and nodded, echoing and praising them.

Li Xi smiled, turned his head to look at the pouring rain outside, and smiled at Zheng Shuang: "It's idle to stay in the yamen left and right, and the people under this heavy rain are worried, so they simply come down to find the two adults, and follow to find out how the disaster is." Speaking of the late generation, the first time to serve as an official, what you know is really limited, and I hope that the two adults will give advice. ”

Zheng Shuang nodded knowingly when he heard this, although the county had not received Li Xi's letter of appointment when he came down, but he had been fighting with Pei Junming for more than a year, and he could know what moves Pei Jun would sacrifice almost with his eyes closed.

What's more, it is said that Li Xi, who is praised by many people as the first merry and talented man in Shuzhou, also has a rather unclean relationship with a widowed woman of the Pei family, and because of this, he has a bad relationship with the Pei family.

Hearing the meaning of Li Xi's words, Zheng Shuang's heart was very relieved, but now in front of Jiang An, there is no need to hold up this topic, so he also turned his head to look out at the moment, and sighed: "In the morning, I went to see the embankment of Dujiang with Jiang County Lieutenant, if it continues like this, the situation is not optimistic!" ”

Li Xi nodded in a deep groan. The last time he participated in the poetry meeting was opened in the Jijiang Pavilion on the bank of the Dujiang River, so he also paid attention to it at that time, although the Dujiang River was quite rapid, but it was still a blue wave flowing scales, and he was very peaceful, but he never thought about it at the time, but just a month later, Shuzhou suddenly rained so much, and it was endless, so that the Dujiang River, which had always been too safe and stable, began to flood.

Shuzhou is located at the intersection of the Sichuan Basin and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, although most of the territory is plains, which have long been developed into mature fields, but there are also occasional undulating mountains that have not been fully developed as in later generations.

And to the west of Qingcheng County, there is a famous Qingcheng Mountain, so the vegetation in the territory is good, and there is Dujiangyan interception and regulation in the upstream, so the river level is also urgent, but it is calm and clear very, it is not dug for hundreds of years and will not be silted, plus the whole Sichuan Basin has the reputation of the country of abundance since ancient times, it is precisely because of the convenience of drainage and irrigation, so there has hardly been any disaster since ancient times, even if there are some dikes on both sides, but it is only a few miles away to symbolize the surname of the repair of a section, Once there is a flood, it will not make much of a difference.

The key point is that no one expected that there would be such a heavy rain suddenly this year, and it was a continuous heavy rainstorm, although the river is wide, although the river is smooth, but the speed of the flow can not catch up with the speed of the rise, but it can only make people cry out in vain.

At this time, Zheng Shuang said again: "I just received the news from the county Ya over there, after the official's book was sent to the Shuzhou Assassin Shi Yamen, Lord Zhou has already approved it, and at this moment it has been sent to the Jiannan Road Yamen, and Lord Zhou has also drafted another line to send someone to Pengzhou, I hope that the side can react as soon as possible, even if Dujiangyan can be closed for one more day, it can also reduce a lot of danger on our side!" ”

Li Xi nodded when he heard this, if Dujiangyan, which is located upstream, can temporarily close the floodgates, even if it is only to help block the water coming upstream for a day, it is also of great significance to the safety of the embankments in Shuzhou and Jinyuan County, but according to Liu Rong, although the rain in Pengzhou is not so heavy, it is not small, I don't know if the two copies of the teacher Zhou Qiong's book can have some effect, after all, everyone is their own parent official, and everyone will definitely take care of their own interests.

Even, if Shuzhou, which is located in the downstream, has never broken the embankment, and Pengzhou, which is located in the upstream, has an accident, and even Dujiangyan is not guaranteed, it is the responsibility of Pengzhou Assassin History, even if Jiannandao agrees with the teacher Zhou Qiong's line, if Pengzhou has to carry it, it is inconvenient for Jiannandao to force him.

After thinking about it, Li Xi said: "According to what Xia Guan saw all the way over, there is water everywhere in the field, and even the rice has been gone. When I entered the village just now, I saw that many people's houses had been soaked by the rain, and this disaster was really serious. ”

Zheng Shuang nodded silently when he heard this, this season's rice harvest is still a trivial matter, the problem is that many people's grain storage has been soaked in the flood, even if the embankment is preserved and the rain recedes, disaster relief and disaster relief will follow.

The local Jin Yuan is a county, with more than 18,000 households and more than 123,000 mouths.

But now once there is a disaster, the grain is gone, the harvest is out in the field, it is only April, and there is no shadow of late rice, so many people open their mouths to eat, these dingkou simply become a life-threatening charm, it can be said that the more people, the greater the disaster - that is the real fatal thing.

It's just that this year, it has rained heavily in the entire Jiannan Road, and everyone is staring and looking up, and they all want to feed a few more mouthfuls. The imperial court can't count on it, there is a shortage of food in Guanzhong, that is, even His Majesty the Emperor has to lead hundreds of officials to Luoyang, the eastern capital, every year to eat, where is the food for this side?

Even though there is some inventory at the state and county levels, the warehouses in the county have been basically cleared in the past two days, but that little amount is not enough to last until the next rice harvest.

As long as there is food to eat, the ruined field foundation can be rebuilt, and the fallen house can be rebuilt, the common people will not do anything, but they will praise you for a sentence of the blue sky, but if there is no food to eat, the people will not know who you are, once you are hungry, there may be chaos at any time, although it is caused by natural disasters, but as long as something happens, it must be the bad luck of the local magistrate to do it yourself.

When the time comes, I am afraid that no one will need to impeach and ask for the guilt, and I will take the blame and resign.

As long as he thought of this, he couldn't help but beat the drum in his heart.

At that moment, he sighed and didn't speak, that is, the county lieutenant Jiang An was attached to the county Cheng Pei Jun, and the relationship with Zheng Shuang only maintained a superficial relationship between superiors and subordinates, but after all, he was also an official, and when he thought of the current disaster, he couldn't afford to gloat at all, and he also sighed at the moment, and for a while, in addition to sighing, the room suddenly quieted down.

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Pang Xing's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have good skills, when they put a table of dishes that they barely cleaned up on the table, they only smell the aroma, although the Zhuang family is not so particular about cooking, and there are no dishes, but it is really very, each plate is full, so that people feel honest when they see it.

Several people had been busy all morning, they were already hungry, and now it was a catastrophe, and everyone was not interested in drinking, so they just said a few polite words at the moment, and sat down separately in front of the low table to eat.

Just half of the meal was eaten, and a servant came in to tell him that a house in the village had suddenly collapsed, and that the family was sitting around eating, unprepared, and as soon as the house fell, they couldn't run in a hurry, and they stoned one to death, but the others were fine.

As soon as they heard this, several people couldn't eat anymore, so they hurried over in the rain.

The heavy rain poured down like money, when Li Xi and the three of them rushed over, several people fell in the mud and cried very sadly, the dead was a young man, at this time the body was pulled out from under the ruins for the family, the blood stains on the head and face had already been washed away by the rain, the person looked like he was only in his early twenties, and his body was strong, but he couldn't put up a house beam and smashed it on his head, and looking at the combination of this family, it must have died the most useful one in the family. A few people just hugged his body and cried there, and they didn't have the heart to deal with any Shangguan at all.

Zheng Shuang was not annoyed, he just tightened his face at the moment, obviously in a bad mood, and then he just instructed the local Li Zheng Pang Xing to properly deal with the aftermath, and went back to the county government to withdraw some bereavement to this family, and then several people looked at each other and sighed, knowing that it was useless to stay here, so they went back with a heavy heart.

When he walked to the door, Zheng Shuang suddenly stopped, turned back to Li Xi and Jiang An and said: "I don't have the heart to eat this time, it's better to go to the embankment to take a look, the house collapsed, at most it will kill one or two people, if the embankment collapses, the entire Jinyuan will suffer, this official is really relieved!" ”

Li Xi and Jiang An naturally nodded in agreement when they heard this.

When Zheng Shuang and his party came down with the servants, only Zheng Shuang and Jiang An each rode a horse, and when they went out to inspect the river embankment in the morning, Zheng Shuang's mount twisted the front legs of the muddy road, and this time they just lay in the cowshed of Pang Xing's house and wailed, so everyone simply walked to the riverside.

Walking to the bank of the Dujiang River, I saw that the river was wrapped in a lot of washed out sediment at this time, and when it rushed down, the river water was no longer clear, but it was tinged with a touch of turbid earthy yellow, and there was a fishy smell of river water.

At present, the turbid yellow angry waves are beating the embankment majestically, and from time to time there will be a small wave hitting the shore, which seems to be likely to burst at any time.

In the morning, after looking at the embankment, Zheng Shuang had already ordered the officials to gather the Lizheng in all directions, and what they were preparing was to let them organize Ding Zhuang in the village to patrol the embankment and berm, but at this time, standing on the bank of the Dujiang River and looking at it, I only felt that there were rivers everywhere, and it seemed that none of the embankments were safe, but I was afraid that the flood would collapse if it was a little bigger. How can the berm be protected?

To be honest, in Li Xi's opinion, it is already a miracle that this purely earthy riverbank can persist until now, it has been blistered for so long, and the water has risen so much, and it can still hold on without collapsing.

Zheng Shuang pointed to the embankment and turned back to Li Xi and said: "When I came in the morning, it wasn't so powerful, but now it seems that if the sky still goes down like this, I'm afraid this embankment won't be able to hold up for even a day." Once the embankment breaks, it is only a dozen miles away from the county seat, and I am afraid that it will be rushed to the county seat in the blink of an eye. ”

Hearing this, Jiang An's mind turned a few times, remembering Pei Jun's explanation before leaving, and hurriedly said: "My subordinates immediately rushed back to the county seat to gather people, even if it was digging earth, the city gate must be blocked, and the flood must not be allowed to spread to the city, otherwise, if nothing else, it is that Lord Shi will not be able to explain it." ”

Zheng Shuang's face couldn't help but sink when he heard this, and then he turned his face to look at the embankment, and said coldly: "Master Li has just taken office, and he is not familiar with this area, and many Li Zheng don't recognize him, so it's not easy to do things, so you should stay, summon Ding Zhuang to come over to protect the berm, and then take the people in the villages to mobilize and move first, just in case." ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Li Xi and said, "Master Li, you go back to the county, inform Pei Xiancheng, just say what I said, and order him to gather manpower, block the four gates, and never allow the flood to enter the city an inch!" ”

Then he sighed, pointed to the embankment under his feet, and said, "I'll stay here." ”

Li Xi still wanted to speak when he heard this, but he saw Jiang An's face on the side suddenly gloomy, knowing that if Zheng Shuang took the lead in escaping back to the county seat, Jiang An would definitely not stay here, so some words were not spoken, and after thinking about it for a while, he just said: "You only need to send someone back to inform Pei Xiancheng, and your subordinates will stay." ”

Zheng Shuang looked back at Li Xi with a little surprise when he heard this, he is the chief official of Jinyuan County, and he has the responsibility of guarding the herd, once the Dujiang River bursts the embankment, even if he hides back in the county seat, he will inevitably be held accountable, it is better to stay on the front line all the time, even if the embankment bursts, there is a statement, but Li Xi is just a master book, in order to let Zhou Qiong and Liu Bo save themselves in the event of an accident, so he decided to drive him back to the city, but he didn't expect that he would take the initiative to ask to stay.

At that moment, he groaned slightly, and he couldn't care about Jiang An's increasingly gloomy face on the side, so he nodded and agreed.

"That's it, let's arrange for people to split up immediately."

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