The Yellow River was still unwilling to fight back, and the huge waves hit their heads and faces, and hundreds of brothers such as Liu Ze and Zhang Fei stood proudly in the wind and waves, holding hands and fighting with high spirits, and no one took a step back in the biting cold water.

The people on the shore were even more crazy and worked desperately, Liu Ze and hundreds of other people won the best opportunity for them to block the breach, and if they wanted to get ashore, they had to work hard to repair the embankment and plug the breach. Guan Hai instructed the river workers to continue piling, while Pan Feng instructed the people to build an embankment with sandbags, stones, and earth.

Time is passing bit by bit, the break is also shrinking foot by foot, twilight is coming, the cold wind is blowing, Liu Ze feels that he is almost numb, but a belief lingers in his mind, insist! Hang on! Persistence is victory! Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and now is the most critical moment, even if it is hard and difficult, we must persevere. Liu Ze stood there straight, infecting all the people, no one had half a complaint, no one gave up quitting, all the people were insisting......

Finally, when it was dark, I closed my breath and closed my breath. The surging waters of the Yellow River finally lowered their proud heads and rushed east along the old road. Guan Hai shouted at the top of his voice: "Helong!" ”

At that moment, the embankment was boiling all the time, all the people were cheering, and the people in the river also ran to the shore, one by one, covered in mud, shivering from the cold, but the excitement was not less at all. Several large fires had already been lit on the embankment for them to warm themselves.

Liu Ze went up the embankment with the support of two personal soldiers, Guan Hai rushed up excitedly and said, "Lord." It's time to merge! The breach is blocked. Liu Ze barely raised his eyelids, and with difficulty said a word from his mouth: "Good ......" and fainted.

When he woke up again, he was already lying in the warm tent, changed into clean clothes, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jia Xu, and Guan Hai eagerly surrounded him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he woke up. Guan Yu handed over a bowl of ginger soup and said, "Big brother, you finally woke up, come." Drink a bowl of ginger soup first to keep warm. ”

Liu Ze said: "Are all the brothers okay? Are there any injuries? Boil them more ginger soup to ward off the cold. ”

Guan Yu said: "Don't worry. None of the people were hurt, and now they have all changed their dry clothes, and the ginger soup has already been boiled, and they are drinking it. ”

Liu Ze put his mind at ease. Sipping on ginger soup. The spicy ginger soup flowed into his belly with a hint of warmth. The tired body gradually recovered.

Jia Yi looked unkind, and snorted heavily.

Liu Ze chuckled and said, "It seems that Wen He has a bad temper today. ”

Jia Xu said angrily: "The lord is the body of ten thousand gold, how can he personally danger the land." Do what the untouchables should do, and if I had been there, I would have prevented the lord from going down to the river. ”

Liu Ze smiled indifferently and said, "If I don't go into the water myself, how can I boost morale?" If you can't stop the breach, how can you explain it to the people of the plains? ”

"The lord loves the people very much, although it is the right way, but he gambles with his own life, and the price is too great?"

"With the heart of a benevolent, fulfill the responsibility of a gentleman, that's all."

At this time, Pan Feng came in from outside and said, "The villager is hearing that the lord has woken up and is asking to see him outside the tent. ”

Liu Ze sat up and said, "Please." "As soon as the three elders of Hongxiang, the chief of the Yiyang Pavilion and Zhuli Li entered the tent, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again. Liu Ze hurriedly said: "Why do you need to make this big gift? ”

Hongxiang Sifu said respectfully: "For the sake of the people of the plains, Liu County Commander personally ventured into dangerous places, disregarded his life, and blocked the Yellow River breach. ”

Liu Zehan said with a smile: "Everyone, please get up, this official is the commander of Pingyuan County, he should ask for the people's lives, save the people from fire and water, and it is his duty to fight floods and rescue people, how dare you speak out?" ”

"Liu County is not arrogant, loves the people like a son, such a high style and bright festival, should be a model for my generation. The conditions here are simple, and it is better for Liu County to move to the county office. "Sifu saw that the conditions here were too difficult, and it was indeed not a place for the county magistrate to stay.

"You might as well do it, although the breach is blocked, but the aftermath is not over, it is better to wait for the official to deal with the matter of the embankment tomorrow before going to the county office to take office." Liu Ze made an oath, how could he give up halfway.

Seeing Liu Ze's resolute attitude, the villagers had no choice but to give a salute and leave.

Early the next morning, Liu Ze got up and inspected the entire Yellow River embankment. The embankments of the river in Pingyuan County, which are several tens of miles in dilapidation, have long been in danger due to the erosion and erosion of the Yellow River in many places, so it is no wonder that a single large-scale flood this spring caused the embankment to burst.

Liu Ze immediately asked the chief of the Yiyang Pavilion to reinforce and maintain the dangerous section of the Yellow River embankment, and as for the funds needed, he promised to allocate funds immediately after taking up his post in the county seat, a flood would bring such a great disaster to Pingyuan County and even Pingyuan country, if floods occur frequently, will not make the common people have no way to live at all.

Yiyang Pavilion Chief Nuo Nuo received the order, it seems that this new county order and the previous county order are very different, just for his courage to sacrifice himself to block the break, Yiyang Pavilion Chief knows that this is definitely a blue sky lord, and he is definitely a good official who does practical things for the people.

Although Liu Ze arranged for the Yiyang Pavilion Chief to renovate the Yellow River embankment, he also knew that this was only a symptom but not a cure, and there was a long way to go to completely cure the flooding of the Yellow River. It seems that the first task after taking office is to renovate the Yellow River embankment on a large scale and improve the flood control capacity of the embankment to at least once in a hundred years.

The news of the new county commander entering the city is spreading, the plain city is completely boiling, people help the old and the young, burn incense and bow down, all want to see with their own eyes whether the county commander who has just arrived and surrendered to the raging flood is not three heads and six arms, and the deeds of the county commander personally going into the water to block the breach are even more publicized by the gods, everyone praises the new county commander is the god of heaven, Dayu is coming.

As a result, Liu Ze's idea of entering the city in a low-key manner was all in vain, and in the bustling crowd, it took him more than half an hour to barely get out of the crowd by the two big men of Guan and Zhang before entering the county office.

The county order of Pingyuan County has long been vacant, and naturally only the county chief and the county lieutenant are left in charge of the county. The county lieutenant's surname is Ding, and the county lieutenant's surname is Wu, and he heard that the county order has arrived today, so he led a group of officials to wait in the lobby of the county office early.

For the sake of convenience, Liu Ze did not care about the five hundred archers and horsemen, and this time he came to the plains to take up his post, Liu Ze didn't want to be too ostentatious, and had already been arranged by Jin Yingwei to find a compound in the plain city, and placed the five hundred horsemen and horses in that compound. At this time, Liu Ze's entourage was only about dozens of Jinyingwei under Zhang Jia and Pan Feng.

Zhang Fei looked at the gate of the county office, shook his head again and again, and said: "So this county office is so broken, it is far worse than those official yamen in the capital." ”

Liu Ze looked at it, this county office is estimated to have not been repaired for many years, the vermilion paint is scattered, dilapidated, and said with a faint smile: "In today's troubled times, it is fortunate that it was not destroyed in the war, not to mention the small counties in other counties, how can they be compared with the Gaomen Mansion in the capital." Let's go. ”

The people got off their horses, stepped through the gate, and entered through the open gate. You must know that the door is generally not open on weekdays, and after entering the gate, you have to bypass the corridors on both sides to enter the lobby.

As soon as they entered the lobby, Ding Xiancheng and Wu Countywei, who had been waiting for a long time, greeted each other and saluted each other, these are all official-like articles, after all, everyone is not familiar with each other this time, Ding Xiancheng and Wu County Lieutenant are also cautiously talking with smiling faces. Liu Ze will be their top boss from today onwards, who knows that sentence is not right, he will not be able to eat and walk around in the future, for Liu Ze's management of the Yellow River flood, of course, they are flattering with beautiful words.

Although Liu Ze was very disgusted by the hypocrisy of these officialdoms, he could not refute the face of his colleagues, and treated him politely and politely, and after completing the delivery procedures, Liu Ze officially took office as the commander of Pingyuan County.

Although the plain county office is relatively dilapidated, it is also spacious, with five entrances inside and outside, the first entrance is the entrance hall, and there are two and three halls after the lobby. The lobby is the place where the county order openly tries the criminals and holds the solemn ceremony activities and the county order promulgates the decree, and the left and right side rooms are the office space of the county clerk and the county lieutenant, who is in charge of civil affairs, taxes, and household registration, and the county lieutenant is in charge of arresting thieves and public security. The second hall is the office of the prefectural ordinance, and it is here that cases that are generally not heard in public are heard here. The wings on the left and right are the residences of the master. Santang is the inner house of the prefectural order. The fifth courtyard at the back is a place to store archival materials and valuables. In addition, the prison is located in the southwest of the lobby and is called the South Prison.

To tell the truth, let Liu Ze do business or march to war, he is not afraid, really let him be an official, and he really has a little numbness, looking at the mountains of files, Liu Ze's head suddenly became bigger, thinking about it, let him be the county magistrate, if he really let him be the governor of Yanzhou, he must be worried to death. Fortunately, there is Jia Xu, the master, otherwise I really don't know what to do.

Liu Ze still remembered that the chief of the Yiyang Pavilion was repairing the river embankment there, but he let out the words to give them money and food to repair the river as soon as he arrived. Let Jia Xu check the account, only to find that the books of the Pingyuan County Office have long been gone, and even the salaries of the officials who catch the fast officials and Shuzuo have been owed for half a year, damn, this really has to be called Qingshui Yamen!

Liu Ze had no choice but to summon Ding County Cheng and Wu County Lieutenant to come over and ask. Wu County Lieutenant went out to handle the case, only Ding Xiancheng came over, and Ding Xiancheng reported Liu Ze's interrogation one by one. (To be continued......)