Now that the water inside and outside Shinno Castle has receded a little, at least the carriage will not float when it walks on the water.

In fact, it can be understood, after all, next to Xinye is the big branch of the Xiangjiang River, which is a big river. The flood discharge capacity is still a little bit.

Outside the Taishou Mansion, Mi Zhu got out of the carriage.

Compared with when Liu Feng was there, Mi Zhu's spirit was not good, and his face shape was also given a little, and the habit of smiling when he met people was gone.

What increases is boredom.

I'm tired of it. Tired of Xinye, tired of Liu Bei.

Mi Zhu has no reason not to get tired of Liu Bei, in Xuzhou he exhausted his family wealth, helped Liu Bei, and even did not hesitate to marry his sister to Liu Bei, just to marry 120,000 domestic slaves.

After Liu Bei's defeat, Mi Zhu followed Zhou Xuan, working hard and complaining.

But now, since the battle of Wancheng, Liu Bei has not been close to him anymore. The past feelings seem to be gone.

How could Mi Zhu not be disheartened.

As for Liu Bei suddenly summoned him, Mi Zhu could also guess a rough idea, not because he wanted to catch up with him, but because he wanted him to send an envoy to Jiangxia.

On the city wall, when Zhuge Liang spoke to Liu Bei, Mi Zhu was also there.

After glancing at the Taishou Mansion, Mi Zhu walked in.

After entering the Taishou Mansion, Mi Zhu soon came to the outside of the study.

"Please report it back." Mi Zhu faced the guard in front of the door and bent over.

In the past, Mi Zhu was also Liu Bei's close minister, and there was no need to report it when he entered the study, but now.

Mi Zhu is very conscious.

"The lord has already ordered, if Lord Mi comes here, there is no need to report." The guard hurriedly returned the salute to Mi Zhu and said in a low voice.

"I don't need to report it." Mi Zhu sneered in his heart.

Nodding to the guard, Mi Zhu walked in. After entering the study, Mi Zhu didn't look up, but lowered his head directly and said to the front: "Mi Zhu greets the lord." ”

Sitting on the main seat, looking at Mi Zhu's obedient appearance, Liu Bei was in a trance.

Ask yourself if you're doing something wrong. But a moment later, Liu Bei was replaced by a piece of perseverance.

Mi Zhu and Liu Feng are too close and unreliable.

This is what Liu Bei thinks.

Now Liu Bei is almost full of Liu Feng, and he is naked. People who are close to Liu Feng, Liu Bei subconsciously looks at people with colored eyes.

"Excuse me, sit." Liu Bei pointed to the seat next to him.

"Thank you, Lord." Mi Zhu said, but still didn't look up, continued to bow his head slightly, and came to the position next to him.

"Today, at the head of the city, Zizhong is also there." Liu Bei didn't think much about it when he saw this, and said directly. After a pause, he added: "The eyes are full of oceans, and the people have been seriously affected. Zizhong is also in charge of money and grain, so he should know that my Xinye's food is no longer enough for disaster relief. ”

As for what Liu Bei wants to say, Mi Zhu has already affirmed.

"Please also ask the lord to command." Mi Zhu raised his fists.

"Although Jiangxia Taishou Liu Feng has a grudge with me, he is close to Zizhong, and often calls Zizhong his uncle. Now that I am in crisis in Xinye, I also asked Zizhong to go to Jiangxia to seek food. Liu Bei's tone, although there was a request, no matter how you look at it, it is not sincere.

The relationship between the two has become superficial.

Uncle? Mi Zhu ignored Liu Bei's attitude, but he was a little dazed by the word uncle.

In fact, it was Liu Bei's idea to call him his uncle. When Liu Feng first became Liu Bei's stepson, Liu Bei valued Liu Feng quite much.

I want to be an heir.

Liu Feng is young and has a shallow foundation. Although Mi Zhu is not capable, he handles interpersonal relationships very well, and he is also in charge of money and food, so he is an important minister.

Liu Bei originally wanted his stepson to be close to Mi Zhu and prepare for the future succession. Let Mi Zhu take the initiative to get close to Liu Feng.

Later, the more they got along, the more Mi Zhu liked Liu Feng. This uncle is also quite tasteful.

But today.

Mi Zhu felt a burst of discouragement in his heart.

"No." Mi Zhu raised his fist in response.

Immediately, Liu Bei personally drafted an official document, equipped Mi Zhu with a hundred guards, and sent Mi Zhu to Jiangxia for help.

With complicated feelings, Mi Zhu hugged the official document and left the Taishou Mansion.

After Mi Zhu left, Liu Bei muttered, "It must be successful." ”

If Xinye, Xiangyang and other places are the upper reaches, and Jiangxia is the middle reaches, then Jiangdong is the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The flood water accumulated from Jingchu and flowed into Jiangxia. However, because of Liu Feng's dredging and rectification, Jiangxia greatly increased the amount of flood discharge, and in a small area of floods, the flood was reluctantly unloaded.

Now that the rainstorm is over, Jiangxia is safe.

However, Jiangxia's flood discharge was strong, and Jiangdong suffered.

Jiangdong was occupied by Sun Ce, and when Sun Ce ruled, only wars and wars were considered, and floods were rarely considered. Repair.

When Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, he was very concerned about the rule of officials.

But when Sun Quan first succeeded to the throne, people's hearts were unstable, and he was not in the mood to do anything about the rule of officials, and then he gradually grew older.

Sun Quan also began to suppress the internal contradictions, fought externally, fought Huang Zu, and diverted attention.

Later, he beat Liu Feng again, and then Shanyue broke out. Most of the time, the money and grain were also consumed in the campaign, and the matter of repairing the river was delayed.

After accumulation, the river gradually narrowed, and the depth gradually changed.

Unregulated rivers cannot stop major floods.

And this time, it was a great flood that had not been seen in hundreds of years. And because of the large amount of flood discharge in Jiangxia, Changsha and Jiujiang.

As a result, the flood water continued to flow into the eastern part of the river at a rapid speed.

Before Xiangyang was submerged, Jiangdong was already flooded. The heavy rain for five or six consecutive days has turned Jiangdong into an ocean.

Lakemouth Ferry.

Because the rainstorm came so quickly, the warships were not tied up in time, some sank, and most of them floated in Hukou City.

The punt boat has a small draft, and now the water in the ferry is half a person high. It's normal.

Now some of the houses in Ferry City have been washed away. The rest of the people did not dare to live. Can't live. Therefore, most of them squatted on the walls of the half-city pool of the ferry.

Others simply live on warships scattered throughout the city.

The general of the lake mouth drove a small boat through the city. Looking at the disaster, his face turned pale. The reason is not only the inundation of the mouth of the lake, but also the fear of Koto.

Looking at the rainstorm situation, the area should be large.

If Jingzhou and Jiangdong are covered, then the amount of water will be concentrated into the Yangtze River, and then the entire Jiangdong will be flooded.

It's a very scary thing.

Soon, Hong Cheng's worries about Jiangdong were replaced by the tragic situation in front of him. On the city wall, there were people squatting everywhere, and many people were in a hurry, although they brought rations, but there were no pots and bowls.

"Go back and take out all the cauldrons in the army." Hong Cheng ordered.

"No." The soldier who was walking the boat made a promise, and the boat turned around and began to return.

Hong Cheng's fears were right, the storm did cover Jingchu, Wuyue, and parts of the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Rainwater upstream, because the amount of flood discharge in Jiangxia is staggering. And all poured into Jiangdong, an ocean.

Wu Cheng, it's okay.

Because of the high terrain, the water only reached the soles of the feet.

But no one in Wucheng, the upper and lower officials, was happy because of this. Because, all parts of Jiangdong, because of the official documents of the disaster, entered Wucheng like snowflakes.

Almost all of them are about the same, asking for food relief.

A big flood displaced hundreds of people, and the lucky ones could bring out some food, and the unlucky ones only escaped.

Not a single grain of rice was brought out.

What's even more terrifying is the dead and wounded, there is no way to count them yet, but there must be many dead and wounded, and there should be fewer people, but there are countless animal corpses.

That's what is terrible.

Pestilence.

Almost in the space of five or six days, a hunger, flood, and plague against Jiangdong was brewed in heaven. Three major threats.

Among them, floods are the greatest, followed by hunger. If these two threats could be eliminated, the plague could have been avoided.

But the point is that the current drainage system in Koto will take time to drain so much stagnant water. Add to that the water that is still draining downstream.

It will take at least three to five days for the water level to drop naturally.

In terms of grain, the granary of the entire Jiangdong has almost bottomed out, and only two or three hundred thousand stones remain. What is the concept of two or three hundred thousand stones?

It can feed an army of 100,000 for seven or eight months. Save some food to survive for a year.

But compared to the millions of people in Jiangdong, yes, plus hundreds of thousands of Shanyue people, there may be 1.5 million people.

With such a population, two or three hundred thousand stone of grain is only enough to dry one's teeth.

In Wu City, in the study of Wu Hou's Mansion.

At this moment, there are three people sitting, Sun Quan, Lu Su, and Zhang Zhao.

Sun Quan's face was quite ugly, and his description was bleak. Both eyes are blood-red. Sun Quan could hardly believe that just seven days ago, he was still happy that it was raining. The drought has passed, and although this year is hard, the harvest is likely to be around 20%. But after all, it can get through.

But the rain became heavier and heavier, until it flooded his river. From joy to despair, it took seven short days.

Sun Quan almost collapsed in this abrupt change.

Lu Su is almost the same virtue as Sun Quan.

Only Zhang Zhao is relatively calm. Zhang Zhao is over fifty years old, and most people are no strangers to Zhang Zhao, and Sun Ce passed the position to Sun Quan before he died.

instructed Zhou Yu to ask Zhou Yu if he was undecided on foreign affairs. asked Zhang Zhao if he was undecided about internal affairs.

Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu supported Jiangdong when Sun Quan was still young, and they were the real ministers of the humerus. The pillar of Koto.

At this time, it was also Zhang Zhao who stepped forward. After pondering for a moment, he raised his fist and said to Sun Quan: "My lord, now that the flood is raging, the people have suffered a lot of losses. Food is definitely becoming scarce, and the first priority should be to raise food and grass for disaster relief. ”

"What can Zibu do?" Sun Quan is like a person who is in the reverse water, grasping at the life-saving straw. I couldn't wait to hear it.

"You can borrow it from the major clans and Haoqiang for the time being. Wait for the next year to return. "Zhang Zhao came up with an idea, a feasible idea.

Jiangdong is a complex force, the scholar clan, the powerful occupy a lot of resources, and also attach great importance to the storage of grain and grass. The places chosen are also relatively high-lying and should have a lot of stock.

Sun Quan was overjoyed. But Lu Su's words made Sun Quan's heart cool again.

"Relying only on Haoqiang, the food of the Shi clan may not be enough to support next year's autumn harvest. What's more, there are hundreds of thousands of Shanyue people. Lu Su shook his head and said.

yes, and Yamagoe. Sun Quan's heart is very cold, very cold.

(To be continued)