The Yellow River carries rolling sediment from the Loess Plateau down, from Sanmenxia to the east, the water potential is gentle, to Kaifeng after entering the North China Plain, because the terrain is more flat, sediment deposits, the riverbed is silted higher and higher, if it is a natural situation, the river water will naturally overflow the riverbed, and scatter to the low place in all directions.

However, in order to defend their homes, people continued to build dikes on both sides of the river, confined the river water to its inherent channel, but the siltation of sediment was aggravated, and the river level was constantly raised, and the dikes had to be raised with it. From a distance, it looks like an earth dragon that does not care about the heavens and the earth, so it is called 'Hanging River'

This situation, starting from Shanghu in the northeast of Kaifeng 200 miles, the more east it goes, the more serious it is, after passing the copper city, the height of the river almost offset the difference between the east and the west, and the water flow is almost stagnant. Further east, the silt mat of the river is getting higher and higher, and the water flow is no longer to the east, but is divided into several strands in Taizhou, each looking for a low place, harming the people of the five states.

Zhao Zongji and Chen Ke, led two thousand forbidden troops, and in a month, they measured the 200-mile river drop from Shanghu to Liuta Town to Yunzhou Tongcheng Town, and sure enough, the downstream was one zhang higher than the upstream! At the same time, Chen Ke also used the vertical rod method to measure the height of each section of the riverbed, and used the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the relative height of each section of the embankment, and returned to Bianjing on the first day of April.

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Since a few days ago, Bianjing City began to rain continuously, several rows of willows on the bank of the Hulong River, swaying in the rain, dozens of flying bridges on the Bianhe, Cai River, Wuzhang River, and Jinshui River, looming in the rain; The towering towers of the palace are more and more divine in the rain,...

The official family summoned Zhao Zongji as soon as possible, and Chen Ke waited outside the imperial gate. He sat under the eaves to shelter from the rain, and after a while, he was snoring tiredly.

Until he was pushed, Chen Ke suddenly opened his eyes, and saw Zhao Zongji, who was excited, standing in the rain without an umbrella.

"It's finished?"

"It's done!" Zhao Zongji nodded vigorously and said: "The official family has issued an order to the political affairs hall, and Shanghukou will stop closing the dragon!" He held out his hand.

"Huh" Chen Ke held his hand, stood up from the ground, and said with a long sigh ......of relief: "The merit is complete, go home and sleep!" ”

"Okay, please go to Fan Tower."

"Another day, I'm sleepy to death." Chen Ke waved his hand, held an oil-paper umbrella, and walked home.

He was so tired that he went home and fell asleep, and at noon the next day, he was awakened by the noise.

"What's the noise!" He exclaimed impatiently.

"San Lang, you're up." Song Duanping pushed open the door and said angrily: "Last night, Shanghukou burst the embankment!" ”

"What?" Chen Ke suddenly fell asleep: "Nonsense, the will has come down!" ”

"Will, it's still a step too late......" Zhao Zongji, whose eyes were red, appeared at the door.

"Fart!" Chen Ke Huoran sat up and said, "This kind of earth-shattering event, can you join the dragon without waiting for the will?" ”

"The official family is furious, and they have already sent my father and Wen Xianggong to Puyang to deal with it!"

"Let Wen Yanbo go!" Chen Ke said angrily: "I think this time he forcibly merged the dragon, and Bacheng has him behind to make trouble!" ”

"No, it is impossible for Wen Xianggong to know the consequences and insist on doing it." Zhao Zongji shook his head and said.

"Not necessarily!" Chen Ke angrily squirted out a few words, threw his head upside down on the bed, pulled the quilt to cover his head and said: "No matter what, you old Zhao family can't manage the affairs, sleep and sleep!" ”

"Alas......" Zhao Zongji was also full of frustration, and thought about discussing a countermeasure with Chen Ke, but looking at this posture, he was completely out of line.

Song Duanping pulled his sleeve and said, "You can go back and rest, things have come to this point, it's not for you to get involved, wait and see what happens." ”

"Yes." Zhao Zongji nodded, there is nothing wrong with this, from now on, it is best for them to close their mouths and stand aside......

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Niutou Mountain, fifteen miles west of Shanghu Di in Lanzhou, has become a peninsula, and the entire east is already a vast ocean, completely submerging the Shanghu Di River...

Yesterday afternoon, under the command of the officials who controlled the river, Shanghu broke the mouth and forcibly closed the dragon. At first, everything was normal, and the excess water was taken away by the Liuta River, and the Yellow River flowed eastward according to the restrictions of the people.

However, only a few hours later, the sky had just darkened, and suddenly the river swelled uncontrollably, and the rolling flood rolled back, and when Shang Hu had just closed the dragon, even the migrant workers and soldiers had not had time, and all of them were withdrawn from the embankment, they collapsed again, and thousands of lives and countless supplies were swallowed up by the flood in the blink of an eye.

When Zhao Yunbi and Wen Yanbo arrived, they could only overlook from Niutou Mountain.

Zhao Yunbi looked at Wen Yanbo, who was pale, and then looked at the general silent Shuichen, stretched his waist and said, "I'm old, I can't stand it overnight." Xiao Wang went to squint for a while, and handed it over to Xianggong here. ”

Wen Yanbo hugged his fists and saluted, this is the king of Beihai County, giving himself a chance to clean up the aftermath.

As soon as Zhao Yunbi left, he didn't look at the dry minister, and went straight back to the old bubble e feather heart river gap: recessed into his tent. Hearts deleted

Several sailors all looked at Li Zhongchang, the chief of the palace, and Li Zhongchang, the head of the river canal department, and the meaning was obvious, you are the initiator and commander-in-chief, so you naturally have to go first to vent your anger to the prime minister.

Li Zhongchang knew that he was at a loss, so he didn't say anything, and got into the tent dejectedly.

I saw Wen Yanbo sitting on a folding stool with his eyes slightly closed.

Li Zhongchang bowed to the end, but Wen Yanbo didn't pay attention to it as if he didn't see it.

"I'm sorry for my husband." Li Zhongchang said in a hoarse voice.

Wen Yanbo's eyes were still slightly closed, and there was no expression on his thin and angular face.

"I was not born as a Jinshi, I became a sesame official by virtue of Enyin, if it wasn't for the appreciation and promotion of the public, I would not be where I am today. For more than a year, Xiang Gong has resisted how much pressure he has supported me, and his subordinates know it well, and they are full of thoughts about repaying Xiang Gong's kindness. Li Zhongchang shed two lines of tears as he spoke: "We rushed to meet the deadline and deliberately avoided receiving the holy decree, we really wanted to speak with facts and block the mouths of those doubters." ”

Wen Yanbo slowly opened his eyes, his eyes mixed with coldness and strangeness, but he still didn't speak.

Li Zhongchang took off the black yarn on his head, put his hands in front of him, and said with a crying voice: "This future was given to me by Xianggong, and I will return it to Xianggong now." I will bear any crime, even if it is a head-killing, I will admit it, and I will never involve a word of justice! ”

This sentence made Wen Yanbo's brows twist slightly, and he stretched out his hand.

Li Zhongchang hurriedly handed the black yarn forward, but who knew that he crossed the mouth of the black yarn, and with a bang, Wen Yanbo slapped him hard in the face!

Li Zhongchang was stunned, covering his hot cheeks, and looked at Wen Yanbo in horror.

"Lawless!" Wen Yanbo's voice was very low, full of resentment and pain: "Such a big thing, you dare to hide it from me, you dare not accept the holy decree, you actually want to cook raw rice!" You know how deep the water of the imperial court is, and it doesn't involve me! Who in the world doesn't know that you are my person! ”

"I don't want to hide it: I don't want to be sorry for it.... Only after the ",..." Li Zhongchang said with a crying voice: "Our group, since we were sent to work as a river worker last year, we have been on the embankment for more than a year, and we haven't even gone home for the New Year. Digging out our minds, working day and night, and finally there is only one last step left, and we are done...... so let us stop, we really can't accept it! ”

"That's it!" Wen Yanbo said bitterly: "In the final analysis, I still think about it, I can't be sorry for myself!" Saying that, he let out a long sigh and said, "Why didn't the old man have luck? If you had stopped working earlier, how could you be so ...... today?"

"Mutual ......." Li Zhongchang raised his head.

"......" Wen Yanbo raised his hand, and said in a calm voice: "Now, it's too late to say anything, and it's not easy for you, go back and rest." ”

"Xianggong......" Li Zhongchangba looked at him and said, "Will we be exiled?" "The officials of the Great Song Dynasty are not worried about their death, but in this world, there is a ...... punishment that is more uncomfortable than death, and exile in a wild place is one of them.

"Didn't you receive the decree?" Wen Yanbo said expressionlessly: "Bite tight, don't let go, leave the rest to the old man." ”

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Back in Kaifeng City, a few ministers were handed over to the legal department to take care of, Wen Yanbo entered the palace to face the saint, who knew that the official family only let Zhao Yunbi in, saying that the prime minister was busy with official business, so he should hurry back to work.

Wen Yanbo's face turned a little pale, and Zhao Yunbi looked at him comfortingly and said, "Go back, I will help you speak." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang." Wen Yanbo bowed deeply, and when Zhao Yunbi entered the palace gate, he dragged his heavy steps and returned to the Dongfu Political Affairs Hall.

In the political hall, another prime minister, Fu Bi, saw that he was back, and asked someone to serve a bowl of hot ginger soup to warm Wen Yanbo's body. Then signal to back off left and right.

Wen Yanbo drank a bowl of hot ginger soup, but he still felt cold. Out of such a basket, without Jia Changchao firing cannons, those officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Zhiyuan will not let them go. It is estimated that tomorrow morning, the recital calling for severe punishment of the personnel concerned will come like snowflakes.

Fu Bi was also extremely depressed, and he spent a lot of effort to overcome public opinion, and even Ouchi, the queen, and his old friend Ouyang Xiu were offended, and he also had a bad reputation for being stubborn and selling his reputation, but he got such a result.

But who can blame?

Just when Fu Bi was full of chagrin, Wen Yanbo raised his head and said, "Brother Yanguo, we have to get through the hardships together!" ”

"Of course." Fu Bi nodded, and said with a complicated expression: "I regret not listening to Uncle Ouyang Yong's words." ”

"You go to Uncle Ouyang Yong now." Wen Yanbo said solemnly: "Don't let him shoot, as long as he can be silent, there is nothing to be afraid of." ”

"This, yes, he is a gentleman, he will not fall into the well."

(To be continued)