Li You stood on the edge of the Gaojiayan embankment and looked westward, the water of Hongze Lake was endless, the waves were surging, and the oncoming west wind was quite violent, setting off waves of raging lake waves slapping the masonry wall at the bottom of his feet.

If he has nothing to do to enjoy the scenery, he can sing a song "The waves crash on the shore and roll up a thousand piles of snow", how can he come to flood control now, how can there be this leisure and elegance. He grew up by Taihu Lake since he was a child, and he has not seen a big lake, but it is the first time he has seen such a turbulent lake as in front of him.

Master Li looked at the lake and the soil in the embankment, and after a little comparison, his heart and liver tightened, why did he think that the lake level was higher than the ground here?

This is not Li You's delusion, first, after the Huai River flows into Hongze Lake, the water flow slows down and the sediment sinks, and second, the Yellow River often floods and backflows, and the water level of Hongze Lake basically continues to rise year after year. Compared with a few decades ago, the water surface of the Huai River and Hongze in this area is more than a few feet higher.

Gaojiayan has a weir ambassador, 500 weirs, but this ambassador went to a more important place at the north end of Hongze Lake. Fortunately, Li You left a few old river workers and one hundred and fifty weirs.

A river worker said to Master Li: "Don't worry too much, although this year's flood situation is urgent, and the water potential is rare in recent years, but the weir embankment has just been raised by three feet the year before last, and the masonry wall has been reinforced with bluestone, and if it is not for the flash flood that is rare in a hundred years, it can still cope with it within ten years." ”

After listening to the expert's words, Li You was a little relieved.

In these years, the water surface of Hongze Lake was not as bizarre as Li You's previous life, the shape was similar to that of a rugby ball, with Gaojiayan on the eastern edge and Sizhou at the southern tip. The southern line of Hongze Lake, which Li Daren is responsible for, includes more than 40 miles to the southern half of Gaojiayan, as well as the banks of Hongze Lake and Huai River in Sizhou.

Gaojiayan is not only a levee, but also the road from Huai'an to Sizhou, Li You went south from the middle of the east bank of Hongze Lake, and inspected the embankments along the road along Gaojiayan.

The avenue on the weir is straight, the green willows are shady, the lake is bright and the water is colored, and the idyllic scenery is on the other, but from time to time there are speeding flood riders to break the quiet scenery. Li You sighed again, how good it would have been if he hadn't come to flood control.

It took two days of effort, from north to south, Master Li worked tirelessly to walk through the more than 40 miles of Gaojiayan section he was responsible for, and several key nodes were surveyed, and there was no problem.

At this point, Li You breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that he could survive the flood season safely, although the water potential was indeed very large, but the embankment was tight, which was reassuring. Aren't you so unlucky to encounter a once-in-a-century flood?

Even if it really encounters a once-in-a-century flood, the boss will definitely try his best to protect the Qingjiang estuary area in the lower reaches of the north, and his southern line is a little far away from the canal. So the governor really arranged a relatively light lot for himself.

There were one hundred and fifty people in the weirs, and he divided them into fifty groups by three people. Each mile of the embankment is arranged with a group responsible for patrol inspection, and if there is an emergency, a group will pass a group of relay messages. In this way, if there is news, it can spread throughout the whole section in half an hour.

This said, Li Daren walked to the southeasternmost dam of Hongze Lake, and Gaojiayan had reached the end. A river worker pointed to the west and said: "To the west, after the Turtle Mountain, it is Sizhou City located at the confluence of Huaihu Lake." ”

Li You thought, after the inspection of this Gaojiayan section is over, he should also go to Sizhou City in the other direction of the southwest to have a look, and he also has to find Nazhizhou to discuss the matter of recruiting civil servants.

This Sizhou is still under the jurisdiction of Fengyang Mansion, although it is considered the land of Emperor Gao's ancestor on the dragon flying, but its heyday was in the Tang and Song dynasties. All because of the control of Bianshui in Sizhou Linhuai, it was the key point of transportation from Jiangnan to the capital at that time.

At that time, the canal passed from here, and Sizhou at that time was like Yangzhou today, and Sizhou at that time was known as "the official ship and passenger bream were full of Huaibian, and the cars and horses were sudden", and its prosperity can be imagined.

It's a pity that since the Yellow River went south, it is now all tears, and after the water control strategy of storing and clearing the Yellow River was launched, Sizhou, which was frequently threatened by the artificial lake Hongze Lake, became a sad city.

The city of Sizhou, where Master Li visited in Jinghe for eight years, has been surrounded by Huaishui and Hongze Lake for decades. In order to prevent floods, thousands of embankments were built around the city, and even the city walls were built twice for flood control, and this pattern is estimated to be unique in the whole world.

When humane, Sizhou City is like a basin floating on the water, when there is no flood, it is an empty basin, and when there is a flood, it is a basin full of water. After seeing it with his own eyes from a high place, Li Youli admitted that he was right.

Under the disasters of the past few years, Sizhou is no longer the boundless Sizhou of Huaibian.

Li You did not rush into the city, nor did he spread his banner. First circled around the surrounding embankment around the nine-mile city wall, and finally stood on the embankment as high as two zhang in the northeast direction outside the city.

Is it the water surface of the Huai River or the water surface of Hongze Lake at your feet? No one can say clearly, the Huai River flows into Hongze Lake from here, and Hongze Lake welcomes the Huai River water here. However, the shape of this water surface is relatively narrow and long, and Li You would rather understand him as a river.

In fact, it's casual to think no matter what, what really caught Lord Li's attention was not the surface of the water, but the other side of the water.

There is also a large embankment on the opposite side, which is comparable to this one. This made Li You feel very strange, the embankment was built here to protect Sizhou City, and the other side wasted financial resources to build the embankment for?

Calling the river crosser, Master Li pointed to the northwest distance and asked, "What is the opposite place?" ”

The river worker replied without hesitation: "It is where the ancestral tomb is located." ”

Ancestral Tomb? Li You's memory seemed to have moved something, frowning and thinking hard.

"It turns out that it is the ancestral tomb of the royal family." Lord Li's pro-soldiers talked about it.

In the flash of light, Li You finally excavated what he wanted to find from the memories of his two lives. In his previous life, he seemed to have seen a piece of news, the water level of Hongze Lake fell due to a drought, and it resurfaced after three hundred years of the Ming Ancestral Mausoleum in Gusi Prefecture, which was submerged during the Kangxi period... Ancestral Mausoleum, Emperor Gao ordered the crown prince Zhu Biao to preside over the construction during the Hongwu period, and it was finally completed during the Yongle period. It is the mausoleum of the grandfather, great-grandfather and great-grandfather of the three generations of ancestors of Emperor Taizu Gao Zhu Chongba. Together with the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum and the Nanjing Filial Piety Mausoleum, it is called the three major mausoleums in the early years of the National Dynasty.

It turned out that Li You didn't think that these would have anything to do with him, so he buried it in the depths of his memory without care, and now he recalls it, standing on the embankment in the cold wind, but his head is sweating.

Submerged? The ancestral tomb was submerged? The water level of Hongze Lake has risen to the point that the embankment can no longer be held? Sizhou City and Zuling sank to the bottom of the lake together?

This is known as the origin of Yaoling, the traces of the Zhaoji Emperor, and the treasure land related to the luck of the Ming Dynasty!

The "pseudo-Qing" Kangxi Dynasty submerged the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty is naturally nothing, but now it is still the Ming Dynasty, and the ancestral tomb was flooded and sank to the bottom of the lake in whose hands, and whoever has eighteen heads can't afford to lose!

There are obviously many people talking and laughing around, but Li You is standing by the water very lonely, this is the loneliness of the prophet.

It is inevitable that personnel will not be affected by the operation of nature and heaven after the crossing, and the water of Hongze Lake will still rise when it should rise.

Master Li, who spared his life, couldn't help but think nonsense. How many years are there between the Kangxi period and the present? This year, the water is very strong, won't it be unbearable again? I won't be so unlucky...

(To be continued)