Because of the fact that with a few carts and Jia Xu's family, Liu Ze and his entourage were not fast, and they did not walk to Gong County until dark, Liu Ze was about to order the soldiers to set up camp at this time, when he heard a sharp sound of horses' hooves behind him, and someone shouted: "Is it Runde Gong in front?" ”

Liu Ze dialed the horse to stand in the driver's seat, and responded: "It's Liu, Your Excellency?" ”

The people and horses were very anxious, and in a blink of an eye, they rushed to Liu Zema, hurriedly grabbed the reins, rolled the saddle and fell off the horse, turned over and bowed. Liu Ze jumped off the horse and helped the person up, but at a glance, it was an acquaintance, isn't this the captain Chen Dao who he met when he was in the porridge of Yuyuan Pass? Liu Ze was a little surprised and said: "It turned out to be Chen Duwei, but I don't know what business Chen Duwei chased here?" ”

Chen Zhi said: "Runde Gong Mo wants to call me a lieutenant again, when the Yuyuan Pass was broken by refugees, he was naturally responsible for being a lieutenant, and he was already demoted to a military commander." ”

Liu Ze was a little ashamed, of course, he was a little ashamed, of course, he lost his official position and demoted him because he didn't want to end up burdening Chen Dao. "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I didn't expect to affect Captain Chen, I'm really sorry."

Chen Zhi said: "Runde Gong should not blame himself, ask for his life for the people, save the people, such a righteous act, even if he loses his official position and abandons his post, he is willing." It's just that Runde fairly decided to rebel, cut off the thief head, and made great achievements, but he was deposed by the court, and only got a county official, which is enough to chill the hearts of people of insight in the world, and compared with it, the personal honor and disgrace gains and losses are even more insignificant. The darkness of Luoyang officialdom has long been deeply understood, and he only hates ignorance. Therefore, he has been succumbing to this, and now he has resigned from the post of military Sima under the pretense of illness, and is willing to follow the command of Runde Gong, saddle before and after the horse, and never give up. ”

Liu Ze couldn't help but be overjoyed, Chen Zhi was a famous general on a par with Zhao Yun, who had been following Liu Bei in history and served as the commander of Liu Bei's personal guard army, because Lao Luo did not mention him in the book, so he was unknown. But this did not hinder his status as an important general of Shu Han. When he was in Yuyuan Pass, Liu Ze had the heart to win over. But at that time, the status of others was much higher than him, so Liu Ze just thought about it, and he didn't expect that after a few years, Chen Zhi would go alone. How not to overjoyed him. said: "Uncle is here today." It's the great luck of my life, but I'm just a county commander now, and I can't even compare to the official position of the military commander. For the time being, I can't give my uncle the corresponding seat. ”

Chen Zhi arched his hand and said: "Chen Zhi is willing to follow the lord and be willing to be a pawn, as for the official position, he is not what he wants, he is only willing to fight in the Quartet under the command of the lord, although he will not give up." ”

Although Chen Zhi is a martial artist, but he is extraordinary, since he met Liu Ze, he believes that Liu Ze is by no means a thing in the pool, which is also the reason why he gave up his official position in Luoyang, he knows that in the dark Luoyang officialdom, he has no money and no power, even if he mixes for decades, he will decide not to mix a reason, the chaos in the world has sprouted, join a famous master, there will be a gallop in the world, the day of success. The benevolence and righteousness of the porridge and the bravery of breaking the yellow scarf made Chen Zhi realize that Liu Ze was undoubtedly his best choice.

Liu Ze unexpectedly received a famous general outside Luoyang City, overjoyed, and temporarily arranged for Chen Zhi to be in the archery camp to introduce him to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jia Xu, and they knew each other.

Crossing the Yellow River in Mengjin, throwing himself all the way to the east, only looking at Pingyuan County. Yu Lu is not calm, after Zhang Jiao's death, although the Yellow Turban soldiers wandering around the country have no leader, it is difficult to become a climate, but it is also one after another, constantly harassing the counties, burning and killing and plundering, on both sides of the Yellow River, there are still yellow troubles. After two years of turmoil, the originally rich Yellow River area has long been ten rooms and nine empty, dilapidated, many villages and towns are even empty, only the white bones of Sen Sen are telling the people of the catastrophe that they have experienced here. Liu Ze's team has long been famous in the battle against the Yellow Turbans, many of the scattered Yellow Turban soldiers have participated in previous battles, and they have long been frightened by the nightmarish archers, and they dare to provoke there, as soon as they saw the banner of Liu Ze's team, they fled from the wind, so Liu Ze did not encounter any battles at all along the way.

On this day, I traveled to Ling County, not far from Pingyuan County, Pan Feng sent Jin Yingwei to explore the road came back to report, the front was flooded, the road was washed down, it was impassable, if you want to go to the plain, you can only detour to Qinghe.

Liu Ze frowned, he already knew the news of the embankment collapse in the Yellow River Plain, and the Yellow Chaos and the flood made the life of the people in the plain conceivable, which was also the reason why Liu Ze was in a hurry to take office. With a wave of his horsewhip, he pointed loudly to the right: "All of them, go to the right!" ”

Pan Feng was stunned for a moment and said: "The lord is wrong, you have to take the road on the left to detour to the Qinghe, and the Yellow River to the right." ”

Liu Ze glared at him and said sharply, "I don't know where Qinghe is going?" Do you need a reminder? ”

Pan Feng was taken aback, the lord rarely gets angry, today's temper is different from usual, and he hurriedly said: "The subordinates know their mistakes, please punish the lord." ”

Liu Ze didn't mean to blame him, waved his hand to signal him to retreat, and looked around at the crowd: "Pingyuan County has suffered from floods, and the people are struggling to make a living, since I, Liu Ze, have been appointed by the emperor as the commander of Pingyuan County, I must not sit idly by and watch the people of Pingyuan fall into dire straits, unable to block the Yellow River break, and vow not to enter Pingyuan City!" ”

Everyone's hearts sank, and they said in unison: "Only the order of the Lord is obeyed!" ”

The team turned to the southeast, and within more than ten miles, they arrived at the embankment of the Yellow River, which was less than a few feet wide, and the horses and vehicles could not pass. The river embankment was bumpy, overgrown with dry grass, and there was no way to do it, but Liu Ze didn't care about it at all, and walked in front with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The roar of the bursting flood was faintly heard ahead, and it was clear that it was not far from the breach.

Sure enough, after another moment, I saw that the embankment of the Yellow River was broken open by the turbulent river, about forty or fifty zhang wide, and the Yellow River water that was originally bound in the river channel was like a wild horse that was unrestrained at this time, rushing to the gap wildly and uninhibitedly. There are a lot of people around the embankment at the breach, cloth and short coats, and the outfit should be river workers, presumably the local government organized river workers to block the breach, but the strange thing is that these river workers stand by one and watch, and there is no intention of starting construction at all.

Liu Ze walked closer and said, "You must be river workers, why don't you go and sit here to block the breach?" ”

All the river workers looked back at Liu Ze together, Liu Ze was not wearing an official uniform at this time, but was wearing ordinary clothes, because the river workers didn't take him in their eyes at all, and someone sneered: "Blocking the pass? You're daydreaming, aren't you? What is the way to block such a rapid river? ”

Someone else: "Who are you?" Do you dare to meddle with such idle things? Standing on this embankment, you will be worried about your life in an instant, so let's retreat quickly. ”

The river workers laughed, obviously treating Liu Ze as a child of a scholar who had never seen the world.

Pan Feng stepped forward and said, "Bold! This is the new Liu Ze Liu County Commander in this county, and you are too presumptuous! ”

As soon as he heard that the county magistrate was here, he was so frightened that all the river workers knelt on the ground together, and the two men who had just spoken wildly were even more frightened, trembling, and begging for mercy. How could Liu Ze bother with them, and asked, "Which of you is the one in charge?" ”

A slightly older middle-aged man hurriedly ran over and kowtowed, "The head of the lowly Yiyang Pavilion has seen Liu County's order. "The Han system of 100 households is a mile, set up a lizheng, ten miles is a pavilion, set up a pavilion chief, ten pavilions are a township, and the township has three elders: rank,, and wandering, these positions are the most basic administrative units in the Han Dynasty.

Liu Ze waved his hand to signal him to get up, and said, "Are you in charge of this embankment?" ”

The head of the Yiyang Pavilion bowed and said, "It's a humble position." ”

Liu Zezhi asked: "Then why don't you start work, but sit here idlely, don't you know how much damage the flood has caused to the people of the plain?" ”

The chief of the Yiyang Pavilion hurriedly said: "It's not that the lowly duty doesn't do his best, it's really that the flood is too big to block the breach, and the lowly duty can only lead the people to protect the broken head on the river embankment and prevent the dam from bursting." ”

Liu Ze frowned secretly and said, "Then what is the disaster situation in Pingyuan County now?" ”

Yiyang Pavilion Chief reported one by one, the disaster in the plain is more severe than Liu Ze imagined, nearly two-thirds of the county's villages and land were flooded, except for the plain city and a few highlands, the entire plain county has been reduced to the water town Zeguo, the affected people are homeless, a large number of people poured into the plain city, not only Pingyuan County, but also Gaotang, Ande, and Qi counties belonging to the plain country and Yu County and Ling County belonging to the adjacent Qinghe country are also affected in a large area, and if the Yellow River breaks and cannot be blocked, The area of the Yellow Flood will further expand, with vast amounts of fertile land washed away, many villages submerged, and the number of refugees set to rise further.

"And when will this breach be blocked?" Liu Ze is most concerned about this matter now.

When the chief of the Yiyang Pavilion heard that Liu Ze was a layman, but Liu Ze was now his top boss, he dared to speak out, and replied honestly: "We must wait for the dry season of the Yellow River to block the breach." ”

Liu Ze was stunned for a moment and said: "Dry period - the Yellow River will enter the flood season in two months, if you really wait for the dry season, you have to wait until winter, is it possible that this plain country will be flooded for a whole year?" ”

"This ......," the Yiyang Pavilion Chief hesitated for a moment, and said, "If God bless that there is not much rain this year, maybe there will be a chance to plug the breach during the dry season this winter, otherwise it will ......."

"How else?" Liu Ze faintly felt that the situation was worse than he expected. (To be continued......)