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In the fifty-third year of the Great Qin calendar and the third year of the second year, the entire Great Qin hurried through in a sad and busy atmosphere.

Ling Hu Fan was escorted to Xianyang at the end of July, and in the interrogation of the Supervision Department of the Zongzheng Mansion, the Criminal Department, and the Imperial History Mansion, it took only three days for Ling Hu Fan and Ling Hu Chong, father and son, to go from the trial to the conviction.

Linghu Chong, intending to rebel, beheaded the public. Wuma Marquis ordered Hu Fan to teach his son no way, Zongzi committed murder, ignoring the law of the country, should have been with his son Ling Hu Chong to confer the head and punish the nine clans, but the second emperor read his good Qin merits, and cut off the marquis and fief, and was demoted to a concubine. The Linghu Fan clan, without the permission of the emperor, no one is allowed to leave Xianyang for half a step. Violators will be regarded as complicit in rebellion and punished by the nine clans.

Strictly speaking, the words that Ling Hu Chong said at the beginning were actually so carried away that they didn't go through his brain at all. Therefore, the crime of rebellion is really a crime to be added.

However, it doesn't matter.

The important thing is that from the severe punishment of Ling Hu Fan, Hu Hai told all the nobles of the family in Daqin today that it is okay to make small mistakes in ordinary times, but once the red line is crossed, the huge family can also fall from heaven to hell in an instant because of a word and a person.

Linghu Fan's disposal made the people of the world rejoice; Let the wealthy families in Xianyang and even the counties all feel awe-inspiring; Let the more than ten ministers who were awarded the title of marquis because of the merits of the good Qin all feel worried in their hearts.

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In August, as the relief efforts came to an end, the household department's statistics on the affected counties were also released.

According to the statistics of more than 600,000 people affected by the diversion of the Yellow River and the flooding of the mainland, Shangdang, Taiyuan, and Julu counties were still flooded in the three counties of Shangdang, Taiyuan, and Julu, where the population was already small, and if it occurred in Linzi and other counties with dense populations in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, I am afraid that more than one million people would have been affected.

The two counties of Liyang and Xiatai in Neishi County have also been affected by the Weishui embankment. Other counties in Guanzhong, including Hanoi and Yingchuan, which were covered by heavy rain, have experienced varying degrees of waterlogging.

Nearly two-thirds of the high-quality fertile land in Taiyuan and Julu counties was destroyed in the floods, and a large number of houses collapsed due to rainwater. As for Shangdang County, which directly faces the diversion of the Yellow River. Not only was all the land reclaimed into swamps, but more than ninety percent of the county's houses collapsed under the floodwaters.

There are three counties in Shangdang County, the eldest son, Huguan and Tongluo. The eldest son of the county (later Changzhi southwest of the city), the homeland of Jingwei reclaimed in mythological stories.

The county town of Tongba, which was the first to be hit by the diversion of the Yellow River, all disappeared, including the county seat, and the damage was incalculable. Nine out of ten of the county's population died in the flood, and the remaining Huguan and the eldest son of the county also suffered greatly from the flood. The walls collapsed in the floodwaters, and countless houses collapsed.

The casualties of the people in the three counties exceeded 200,000, which was the first natural disaster suffered by Daqin since Hu Haili took office, and it was also a rare flood in Daqin for hundreds of years.

Of course, the timely and effective rescue of the imperial court alleviated the disaster to a great extent. It prevented the emergence of the plague that was most likely to occur after the catastrophe, and allowed many people to escape.

Otherwise, I am afraid that the damage caused by the flood to Daqin this time will not be measured by numbers at all.

In the pre-Qin period, where there was a great market for the way of ghosts and gods, any kind of natural disaster would inevitably be related to ghosts and gods.

If it weren't for the fact that Qin Tianjian was in charge of Taishi Ling Zou Hong, and Hu Hai rarely asked Qin Tianjian about state affairs, so that now the Qin Tianjian of Great Qin is simply an ornament, I am afraid that the "heavenly masters" of Qin Tianjian will gather in Xianyang Palace and say that it is a catastrophe from heaven.

Even so. Rumors of the Emperor's thunderous wrath as punishment for the Emperor's unarmed use of troops continued to spread rapidly after the flood.

There is no doubt about how lethal these rumors are in this era.

After Huhai returned to Xianyang and the flood gradually subsided, officials of all sizes in the court began to send letters to the cabinet, imploring His Majesty the Emperor to hold another ceremony to worship the heavens and extinguish the army.

As a materialist. Although he knew that he could travel back to two thousand years ago, Great Qin itself could not be explained clearly by materialism, but Hu Hai still believed that there was no god in this world.

Natural disasters are so numerous that they cannot be avoided. Therefore, Hu Hai basically didn't even look at these letters sent to the cabinet. Directly ordered Long Bing to take it and burn it.

After the disaster, it was an intense reconstruction. Hu Hai didn't have the heart to care about these things that seemed boring to him.

The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, the 53rd year of the Great Qin calendar, is also the first Mid-Autumn Festival in the history of Great Qin. However, compared with the blandness of Xianyang and Guanzhong, Shangdang and other places are very lively.

On behalf of the emperor, the emperor of the imperial family Zongzheng and the auxiliary minister of the cabinet Yingteng patrolled the people of the affected counties, and brought a large amount of imperial wine and food rewarded by the emperor, and enjoyed with the people, so that the people affected by the disaster in Shangdang and other places spent the Mid-Autumn Festival with peace of mind.

There were not many people accompanying Ying Teng who went north lightly, that is, the two hundred dead soldiers and guards of the Longwei Mansion. In today's Great Qin, unless they are attacked by an army that is far more than dozens of times their own, these two hundred dead soldiers of the Dragon Guard Mansion are enough to protect Yingteng safe and sound.

In accordance with Hu Hai's edict, the monk workshop of the Ministry of Industry dispatched more than 100 craftsmen to Shangdang.

The silt in the Yellow River covered both sides of the new channel, and although it destroyed the original farmland, Hu Hai knew that the silt that had been washed and accumulated over an unknown number of years was much more fertile than the original land.

After the flood, it can be expected that in a maximum of three years, Shangdang will inevitably become an important grain-producing area in Daqin.

More importantly, the engineering corps composed of 150,000 Jiangdong soldiers is still in Shangdang, and it is just taking advantage of this opportunity to strengthen and dredge the newly formed Yellow River.

Otherwise, if there is another heavy rain, the newly formed river channel will be unstable, and I am afraid that it will have to be diverted again.

The Mojia craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry and Shangfang also took this opportunity to learn and practice how to strengthen and channel the river embankment in this section of the river in Shangdang, so as to lay the foundation for large-scale control of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in the future.

In the fifty-third year of the Great Qin calendar and the third year of the second year, Empress Li Yan led Concubine Li and Yu Ji to give birth to a son for Hu Hai again. A month later, Concubine Li and Yu Ji added another son and a daughter to Hu Hai respectively.

So far, the five concubines of Huhai's harem have all given birth to three sons and two daughters for Huhai!

Daqin, who had just gone through the catastrophe, celebrated with the birth of two princes and a princess in a row.

At the same moment, on the vast eastern sea, a large, nascent fleet stumbled eastward, and after many dangers, it was finally approaching the destination of their trip.

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