The heavy rain in the first year of Jiayou, from the beginning of May to the beginning of June, did not mean to stop in the slightest. Seven days after the drainage facilities were paralyzed, the magnificent Bianjing City turned into an ocean.

In order to dredge the drainage river, Yin Baozheng of Kaifeng Prefecture invited the holy decree and led the army to demolish all the private gardens built on the lower reaches of the Bianhe, Cai and Wuzhang rivers outside the city, so as to avoid the people in the city from suffering from the catastrophe.

But Kaifeng's poor topography meant that the city's waterlogging would continue until the heavy rains stopped and the floodwaters receded. Streets have been turned into riverbeds, houses have become islands, cars and horses have been replaced by boats, and countless rubbish and debris, animal carcasses, and even the bodies of drowned people can be seen floating everywhere in the city......

The millions of residents of this megacity are in a serious existential crisis. If it is not properly resolved, it will directly affect the stability of the state power, which requires the imperial court to perform its administrative functions, formulate effective disaster relief policies, and work together to tide over the difficulties.

Fortunately, the civil government of the Song Dynasty had an incomparable advantage in internal affairs...... The scholars are worried about the country and the people, the sentiment of taking the world as their own responsibility, the sufficient number of officials, the extremely high quality of officials, the strong administrative ability, and the two prime ministers with extraordinary abilities, not to mention, there is also a benevolent monarch through the ages.

All these factors combined to make the Song Dynasty's flood relief efforts enough to make any dynasty in the last two thousand years be ashamed.

First of all, the official Zhao Zhen, after the flood, he issued an edict to sin himself, and ate vegetarian food and Jiao, and prayed to God all night, 'all sides are guilty, and sin is bowing', praying that God will move the disaster to himself. He also ordered to stop all entertainment activities in the palace and the government, and ordered everyone to focus on disaster relief.

At the same time, he issued a series of edicts on relief and relief, assuring the people that the imperial court would take care of their lives during the flood and rebuilding after the disaster, which greatly calmed the emotions of the citizens. so that they could obey the dictates of the imperial court.

The government made a kind promise, but for the civilian clique led by the two prime ministers, it was a difficult task, and the disaster relief and reconstruction of 1.5 million people can make people's scalps tingle just thinking about it.

Fortunately, Zhao Zhen has been in the midst of criticism from the Manchu Dynasty, insisting on retaining Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi as ministers, and finally got a return at this moment. Both of them are rare ministers who can govern the world and have rich experience in disaster relief, and Fu Bi has been in Qingzhou and rescued 500,000 victims.

There is a way to take precautions, in fact, the same is true for disaster relief, you are well prepared in advance, and you will not panic when you encounter things. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Song Dynasty has frequently experienced various disasters, so the imperial court has always attached great importance to warehousing preventive measures, and has set up a variety of standing positions, righteous warehouses, Huimin warehouses, and Guanghui warehouses...... Among them, Chang Ping is mainly responsible for relief, Guanghui warehouse makes up for its shortcomings, Yicang is responsible for loan and relief, Huimin warehouse is mainly responsible for poverty alleviation, and the four warehouses cooperate with each other to form a complete disaster relief storage system nationwide.

As the land of the capital, it is naturally densely packed with various disaster preparedness granaries, with as many as 130 of them. After Wen Yanbo took office, he personally inspected all the disaster relief granaries, investigated and dealt with a number of silverfish who embezzled the righteous warehouses, and appointed the supervision of the imperial history to form a system of daily supervision.

Under his strict requirements, one hundred and thirty granaries were always in a full state, enough for the people of the capital to eat for two months, which was the greatest source of confidence for him and Fu Bi. With food in his hands and no panic in his heart, Wen Yanbo assigned thousands of incumbent and idle officials in Kaifeng City to each neighborhood, and each official was responsible for the relief and resettlement of ten families throughout the process.

He demanded that all officials must be familiar with the families they are responsible for, and register their age, gender, and names, so that the distribution of materials and the resettlement of the people can be targeted, and it is also convenient to evaluate the work results of officials after the disaster.

At the same time, all palace buildings, military barracks, and even private residences built on high places were requisitioned by the imperial court to accommodate the people who had been transferred from the low-lying areas...... Even the residences of princes and ministers were required to accept a certain number of victims.

The princes and nobles of the Song Dynasty also showed a very high demeanor at this time, they not only allowed the victims to live in their own houses, but also paid for their food and clothing. The social ethos of 'benevolence' in the Song Dynasty was such that if it refused, it would be regarded as cold-blooded and selfish, and it would be completely impossible to gain a foothold. Of course, it is more out of the consciousness of people who have been influenced by Confucianism in this era......

Wen Yanbo also ordered people to set up tents in Yishan, solving the accommodation problem of tens of thousands of people. He also recruited men in the city and went to raise and strengthen the embankment of the Yellow River...... Because the embankment of the Yellow River is several zhang higher than Kaifeng, it has become a rare land in the big water. But if the Yellow River bursts its banks, Bianliang City will completely become a crystal palace, and I don't know if the official family can be a dragon prince. Moreover, Wen Yanbo's move also solved the accommodation problem of the people in the city, and also prevented hundreds of thousands of strong men from doing nothing and harming the capital.

In fact, the Great Song Dynasty talked about the rich experience of disaster relief, Fu Xianggong said that he was second, and no one dared to call him first, but he knew better that when this kind of leadership was required to make strong decisions, two voices speaking at the same time would only cause chaos in the work. Therefore, Wen Yanbo focuses on the big aspects, and he pays attention to the details and fills in the gaps.

Don't think it's easy. On the contrary, these inconspicuous tasks are trivial and meticulous, extremely heavy, but Fu Bi undertakes them without complaint, working silently for ten hours a day, only when he can't hold on, he will squint for a while. In order not to sleep too hard, he replaced the pillow with a log, so that as soon as he turned over, he would wake up.

Moreover, Fu Bi also pays more attention to the psychological massage of the affected people than Wen Yanbo...... Those were the victims of the disaster, the most proud and picky subjects of the Great Song Dynasty in the whole world, and if they were not given a place to sleep and dry food to eat, they could no longer be ignored. In order to prevent the people gathered together from vicious public order cases due to irritability, so as to cause commotion. Fu Xianggong ordered all the official prostitutes in Kaifeng City to perform for the people every day, and the students and prisoners of the Guozijian were also mobilized by him to visit the people every day, understand their grievances, and report the shortcomings of the officials' work, as a kind of supervision.

It is precisely with the perfect cooperation of these two top civil officials that Kaifeng City can still be in order under such a catastrophe, the people's mood is stable, and there are no vicious cases...... Of course, the harsh punishment under the warm vein has played an important role.

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Because of the floods, Taixue has long been suspended, and the house where the Chen family lives has also poured into hundreds of victims. Although he also agrees with this decision of the imperial court, it does not mean that he can endure it, and he is crowded in a courtyard with hundreds of people.

So he bought a boat for a lot of money...... At this time when the water flooded Bianliang, the price of the ship was ten times that of usual, and there was no market. But Chen Ke still got it through Zhao Zongji, a flat-bottomed boat with a cabin. At night, he lived on the boat, and during the day, he rowed with a few brothers and played on the streets of Bianjing.

Their actions are not abrupt, but just one of thousands of like-minded people. How can Tokyo citizens, who are accustomed to freedom, be confined to every square inch all day long? So they looked for boats to launch and go to visit relatives and friends as they usually do. But the number of boats is limited, and the price is too high, and even if the vast majority of citizens can afford it, they will not spend this money for a few months of heavy water.

Fortunately, the cities of the Song Dynasty were commercialized, and the city of Bianliang was even more so, what is commercialization? It's demand-oriented production. Immediately, there were merchants who used wooden planks and bamboo poles to make all kinds of simple rafts, and they did not sell them, but rented them to citizens who wanted to play on a daily basis. As soon as the business was launched, it was an instant hit. Every day, thousands of citizens hire boats, and many rafts are robbed.

As a result, Bianliang City, which had been silent for several days, became lively again, but the cars, horses and pedestrians on the streets were replaced by dense boats. After a brief period of discomfort, people began to enjoy this extraordinary experience. In addition to traveling by boat, people with good water nature directly pick up the strips, plop and jump down, play in the water and chase the waves, and show off their posture.

But if you want to attract attention, swimming is not really a good way, and those who play on the water swing are the center of attention. They were swinging on a painted boat with a tall swing frame. I saw that they swung faster and faster, higher and higher, until the swing was level with the swing frame, and then suddenly untied the swing rope with both hands and flew into the air. In an instant, he turned a somersault between the blue sky and white clouds, like a light swallow drilling into the water, rippling with waves......

This kind of difficult performance, which requires skill and courage, has always been regarded as a game for the brave, and the young people of Beijing compete to show their courage.

Another popular sport is water polo...... It's actually a bow kicked by land, but it's just a hand hit in the water.

In addition to these spontaneous sports, there are also entertainers who perform puppet shows, hookahs, and harlequin shows in the water to ask people for money, which is more ornamental and adds a lot of joy to the water life of the citizens.

Naturally, there are also boating boats selling wine, food, tea and soup, although affected by the flood, the variety of goods provided is far from being compared with the previous ones, but it can also be called a dazzling array of choices.

Chen Ke has never seen such a city, such a group of people, not only did they not be killed by a flood that has not been encountered in a century, but they had to play the flood to death.

How strong is the confidence and love for life to have such a state of mind and interest?

I am afraid that only this gentle dynasty without tyranny will have such a wonder. From this point of view, the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty are the best ......

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The good news is that I should be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, Amen......