Lord Li, Wang Zhizhou, and Gonggong Hai are a messenger, a magistrate, and a eunuch guarding the tomb, this combination actually has the characteristics of Ming officialdom, that is, from the imperial court to local checks and balances are everywhere.

When Li You found that his fierce offensive seemed to be fierce and achieved corresponding results, but it was still not enough to break this check and balance, and even showed a bad sign of weakness after not doing his best, so he immediately changed his way to make himself one against two into two against one.

Only in this way can he avoid becoming one of the disintegrated ones, and if he goes to the black, he will be really black.

The reason why Li You is willing to choose to unite with Gonggong Hai is because in a short period of time, he believes that Gonggong Hai is a very self-protective person with a high safety factor. It is not like Wang Zhizhou who has left many flaws, and the future is very troublesome. If you have a choice, probably no one wants to choose a teammate like a pig and be implicated.

Time is pressing, and I can't continue to grind here with Wang Zhizhou and the five members of the Ma family.

After getting Gonggong Hai and letting him write down some documents, Li You instructed five of his own soldiers to lead the Xuyi archers and escort Wang Zhizhou and the five members of the Ma family to Xuyi Prison for placement. Since the decision has been made to destroy the embankment, Sizhou will soon be flooded, and it is easy for people to escape in the chaos situation, so it is necessary to move to a relatively safe area as soon as possible.

Previously, Master Li had also sent someone to search the Ma family's house, and he actually reported that he had gained something, and he found a number of road guides.

The characteristics marked on the road guide are all the characteristics of the Ma family's father and son, but the names have all changed, and the household registration has also become a business registration, and the road guide is signed by Wang Zhizhou. Comparing with the state government, it was found that these road guides were issued in the previous period.

The pseudonymous and false identity guide was prepared in advance, which is an indirect evidence. Most people have to wonder why they prepared the road guide in advance, and they still went away under a false name, could it be that they knew that the embankment would burst?

With this, Li You is more confident, but there is no time to examine it in detail for the time being, and the next energy will be focused on evacuating the people. He first sent people to Xuyi Shangzhi County to spread the word, and according to the plan, a pontoon bridge was built on the river between Xuyi and Sizhou to facilitate the people to cross the river.

At this time, it was already the afternoon of the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, and it was only a morning and a noon time from quietly returning to Sizhou from hiding from the sky and the sea, but Master Li seemed to have passed more than ten days.

All the other chores that should be done have been done, and finally it is time to test the most determination and will. Li You took a deep breath, handed over the document in his hand to the river worker with him, and instructed: "Copy a few copies, post them on the gates of various places in Sizhou on a fast horse, and send another copy to the state government, and order the state government officials to strike the gong and declare." ”

The river worker responded with a solemn expression.

Half an hour later, this short notice appeared at the gate of Sizhou. "Now it is found that Wang Mou of Sizhou Zhengtang instructed the soldiers surnamed Ma to dig the ancestral tomb embankment in the dark of the night, causing the embankment to burst in the early morning, and the flood flooded to the inner embankment under the ancestral tomb wall, and the ancestral tomb was in danger. In order to protect the dragon vein, the west embankment of Sizhou will be flooded at noon on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and the people inside and outside can temporarily take refuge in Xuyi, and then return to their hometown when the flood subsides. ”

Originally, there was no last sentence, but after reading it, Hai Gonggong added the sentence "return to the hometown after the flood subsides".

The Imperial Court sent Lord Li to order the embankment to be burst and the flood was discharged! The whole city of Sizhou suddenly became lively, yes, just lively, not panic.

This was completely unexpected by Li You, who thought it was going to cause a big mess, just like the escape scenes he saw in disaster movies in his previous life.

Moreover, he also prepared a speech of thousands of words, bribed dozens of strong men in Yujia Village to protect themselves, and thought about how to resolve it if the locals gathered to protest. In addition, he planned an escape route, and if he was besieged, he would run to the ancestral tomb on the other side of the river.

Unexpectedly, the people of Sizhou were busy in the face of the floods, and they did not have time to come to Lord Li, the culprit, to protest, and his preparations were all in vain.

These people just bowed their heads and hurried to pack up their belongings, carrying pots and bowls and rice bags and soft boxes to cage children, those with cars and boats on the boats, and those without cars and boats walking, and the families went east in groups.

Fortunately, Xuyi Heights is only ten miles away from Sizhou City, and you don't have to be too tired to escape, otherwise it will be very difficult to evacuate the people in two days.

Regarding Li Langjun's doubts, Yu Niangzi, who was also carrying a package and ready to run away at any time, explained: "For more than 100 years, we have lived like this in Sizhou, and we are used to fleeing from floods. ”

It is no wonder that Gonggong Hai wanted to add that sentence at the end of the notice, just to appease the people along with the people's feelings.

After counting, in fact, it is difficult for Li You, who has been in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, to imagine that there are only thousands of households in the city and less than 30,000 people in the city. This is the trauma of the Huai River and Hongze Lake to Sizhou over the past century.

But it's okay, the number of people is small, and there is less trouble, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 people in nearby counties. If it really reaches the scale of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, it will be a big trouble when there is no relief. At this time, it is a very common means to rise up.

"Our Yujia Village is also leaving, you have to be careful." Yu Niangzi patted the package and said.

"Hmm." Li You nodded.

Yu Niangzi said again: "You must be careful when you stay in Sizhou, when the water recedes, the slave family will come back to look for you." ”

The water receded... It is likely that the flood will not recede this time. Li You waved his hand and said, "Don't come back to me, you take your clansmen directly to Gaoyou, and I will write a letter to Bao Zhizhou and ask him to settle you." ”

"But Uncle must come back to take a look first."

"He can't come back if he wants to!" Li You said meaningfully.

Yu Niangzi was very dissatisfied and said: "Uncle Nu has never offended you, why did you curse him to be gone?" ”

"Let's go!" Li You urged: "Don't talk about your uncle, you can't even come back if you want to." ”

The reason why the people of Sizhou are numb now is that they think that this time is the same as in the past, the water comes and escapes, and the water recedes and they go home. I don't know what the people of Sizhou will feel when they find that the lake is still rippling, their homes have completely disappeared at the bottom of the lake, and only the city wall that has not yet collapsed can emerge from the water... Thinking of this, Li You had a headache, and when the flood season was about to end, he hurriedly withdrew and left in advance, and whoever loves the aftermath will come, anyway, he won't come to death.

I'm afraid that when he arrives in Sizhou, he will pull hatred, and he will have his life to go but not to return. As long as the princes of the imperial court have a little brain, they will not send him Li You to Sizhou again.

At that time, Pan Jitao, the governor of Hecao, a famous minister of the Wanli Dynasty, built Gaojiayan to store water when he governed Huanghuai, artificially created the expanding Hongze Lake, and turned the ground of Sizhou into a flood town, which was scolded by the people of Sizhou for more than 100 years.

But after the flood season this year, Governor Pan's spirit in heaven is estimated to be freed, and a junior named Li You will replace his old man's status in the hearts of the people of Sizhou. The next 100 years will be an era of young people taking over and being scolded.

It's hard to be a man, it's even more difficult to be an official, and it's the hardest to do things, Li You sighed in the middle of the night when no one was around. In fact, he is also saving people, how can the meaning of the unsung hero be unknown to anyone.

The tenth day of the ninth month is the scheduled breaking of the embankment. But Li You found that he couldn't find anyone to do it in Sizhou... The people have fled, even if they have not fled, and they are not willing to go to the Sizhou embankment.

But it doesn't matter, there is no manpower in Sizhou City, you can go to the opposite side to find it. Li You, who had already had a belly case, crossed the water and went to the west bank where the ancestral tomb was located.

Although this side is also in Sizhou, the people are a little different from the people of Sizhou, and they are the so-called mausoleum households. After Taizu built the ancestral tomb here, he gave all the surrounding people the surname Zhu, and classified them as mausoleum households to guard the mausoleum for generations.

The people of Sizhou City are reluctant to take the initiative to decide on the Sizhou embankment to discharge the flood, but when the mausoleum households on the west bank are facing a major flood, they are very active in taking the flood discharge in the direction of Sizhou City on the east bank... The surname is always so cute.

With the assistance of Gonggong Hai, Lord Li selected hundreds of enthusiastic laborers and sent them to the east coast. The basic structure of the embankment is to build stone on the outside and fill in rammed earth on the inside. All that has to be done is to pry up a stone and pound the rammed earth.

Because a certain section of the ancestral embankment bursts, all the surrounding areas of the ancestral tomb are full of water, but it is blocked outside the ancestral tomb by the inner embankment, and it is only deep and shallow according to the terrain.

The ancestral mausoleum, which is surrounded by heavy walls, seems to have become an isolated island on the water. Li You and Gonggong Hai stood on the inner embankment of the ancestral tomb, watching the flood water continue to surge, almost a foot away from overflowing to the top of the embankment.

Hai Gonggong pointed to the waterway: "The water is too big this year, at least not as much as five years ago, and if you don't break the Sizhou embankment today, it will be dangerous tomorrow." ”

Li You also said with palpitations: "After the Sizhou embankment is broken, the area between the ancestral tomb and Xuyi will become a waterway. With these ten miles of waterway, the flood water will be much smoother, and the water level will inevitably drop, so you can sleep peacefully for the time being. ”

At least at this time, the common enemy of the two is the flood, and Hai Gonggong worried: "Now as long as the flood is discharged, it can still be supported, but the current flood season is just the beginning, and it has the momentum of five years ago." I am afraid that there will be more autumn rain in the upper reaches of the Huaishui River and the Yellow River in the lower reaches, and by that time..."

Li You was very surprised, this eunuch actually looked very expert, "Does Gonggong Hai also understand river affairs?" ”

"Since I took office eight years ago, I have read the hydrological chronicles of recent decades." Gong Hai said proudly.

Just as he was about to continue talking, suddenly the roar of a flash flood was heard from a distance, and it continued. Li You immediately realized that the other side of the strait was broken, and Sizhou City was about to end.

He climbed the outer embankment of the west bank, which had not been flooded, and looked at the other bank, which was already a vast ocean, and could no longer distinguish between fields and villages.

Gonggong Hai found the clairvoyant mirror from nowhere, and saw from it that in just a few moments, half of the Sizhou city wall had been flooded.

Master Li shook his head again and sighed, it seems that in this flood season, the city of Sizhou, a thousand-year-old city, really can't be saved. I heard that in previous years, when the flood levee burst, the water level would flood to this height at most, but this year it has only started to do so.

However, what made Li You feel a little relieved was that with the discharge of the flood from the east bank, the water level of the inner embankment of the ancestral tomb gradually dropped by a large margin, a few feet lower than when the flood had not yet been discharged. As long as the ancestral tomb is safe, everything is easy to say, and the black gauze hat and the head in the hat are stable.

(To be continued)