To be honest, governing Huanghuai and preventing this disaster is beyond the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

But Zhu Fugui felt that as a Chinese, even an ordinary Chinese, he could never forgive himself if he knew that the disaster had occurred and did not do anything in advance.

Therefore, as early as March, when he arrived in Tianjin to deal with the teaching case, Zhu Fugui ordered the Household Immigration Bureau to do a good job of tilting the proportion of immigrants and guiding shipping resources.

Specifically, the Ming side suspended the priority transfer support for the Hakka people in the Tuke Weapons Fighting Area, and instead strengthened the support for immigrants in the hard-hit areas such as northern Jiangsu and Anhui.

This work has received strong support from Li Hongzhang.

He personally led a slave hunting team into the fields to catch mud legs alive, and then coaxed or tricked, or simply tied a rope and threw them into a snakeskin bag, and forced them to arrest people in the way of catching strong men.

Especially the red circles drawn by Long Live Lord on the map, as long as they are in these circles, regardless of men, women, children, chickens and dogs, they will all be packed and taken away.

Of course, Li Hongzhang himself is a native of Anhui, and there are many Jianghuai people in the Huai Army under his command.

Therefore, some well-informed villages have long dressed up, singing and dancing, waiting for the Huai army to sell them to Minglijian.

But there are also many people in many places who are very resistant to the relocation of their families, and even think that this is the Huairen version of "shoveling villages and destroying households".

This accusation is not unreasonable, because in a hurry, simple and crude work abounds.

It is even more difficult to avoid the history of blood and tears that has become the blood and tears of many families because of the discipline problems of the Huai Army.

Li Hongzhang felt that he had done this for the Son of Heaven, and his life was worry-free.

Because in Li Hongzhang's view, the so-called flood in July is purely alarmist.

These Ming people are just shocked and want to make a big news.

In these years, when has the Huai River not been flooded?

Sending a lot of water is a routine operation, so what's all the fuss about.

These mud legs have long been used to it, and they will take care of themselves.

In Li Hongzhang's view, Emperor Zhu Fugui did not have the ability to deal with the floods of the Huai River, but he still had the courage to catch strong men in the name of the floods of the Huai River, and it was very great.

And he is Zhu Fugui's thug and backstabbing for the strong man.

Now the three words "Li Hongzhang" have become a notoriety that can stop children crying at night in the windy and smelly three miles in northern Jiangsu, Anhui.

"Li Papi is coming to catch children again" has become a classic phrase for countless Huaihe people to scare children.

Under such self-defilement, Li Hongzhang felt that His Majesty Zhu Fugui would no longer be afraid of himself, and thought about getting rid of it as soon as possible.

was reworked by an old eunuch of more than 300 catties, and Li Hongzhang and Lord Li have been put out of the psychological shadow.

By mid-July, however, the situation had taken a turn for the worse.

On July 15, 16, 17, and 18, heavy rain poured in Anhui, southern Henan, and northern Jiangsu.

The water of the Zhengyangguan River was reported in half a day, and the embankment was broken in two days.

In Surabaya, the Yinghe River, and the Whirlpool River, documents and telegrams with water levels in various places flew like snowflakes.

Li Hongzhang was dumbfounded.

He hurriedly rushed to the most exquisite room in the Guogong Mansion, the Hall of Hadith.

Needless to say, the lavish furnishings in the Hadith Hall are at the heart of a longwave radio station enshrined on the desk.

Since the Southern Uprising, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang successively electrified the whole country, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty cut off the cable connecting the north and the south.

So now Li Hongzhang wants to listen to the hadith, relying on this precious radio station (pictured).

After the high-paid dispatcher contacted the Tianjin Emperor, Li Hongzhang hurriedly reported the situation in the Huaihai Sea.

At the other end of the telegram, the temporary leader on duty was Sha Jingfang.

After learning that the embankment reinforcement task arranged by the Long Live Lord Huai Jun was just perfunctory, Sha Jingfang couldn't help but scold: "Niang Xipi, you are going to go to the history books!" Fortunately, Lao Tzu changed his surname! (Simulated scene, actually Dididi's Morse code wireless telegraphy)

"Xiaguan...... I really don't know that such a big water will come! ”

Li Hongzhang wept bitterly and said: "But to tell the truth, if the Huai River is so easy to govern, it will be governed during the pseudo-Xianfeng period, how can the lower officials be able to repair those earthen dams that are as many as cow hairs!" ”

Sha Jingfang knew that Li Hongzhang was talking about things.

In fact, even with the mobilization capacity of New China, it took 5 million laborers and eight years of arduous struggle to dredge 175 large and small rivers, build 4,600 kilometers of embankments, and build 9 large reservoirs with a total storage capacity of 31.6 billion cubic meters, which barely solved the flooding of the Huai River.

Attention, just barely.

In 1991 and 2003, the Huai River flooded twice, and countless people were affected.

Until Zhu Fugui crossed, this long battle of water control was still going on, far from the end.

Although Sha Jingfang does not know these "histories", as an expert in engineering, especially water engineering, Sha Jingfang is presiding over the renovation of the Colorado River.

Of course, he had studied the hydrology of the Huai River and knew what a huge and desperate project it was.

It is useless to harshly criticize old-style bureaucrats like Li Hongzhang in this way.

If Li Hongzhang can cure the Huai River, he might as well have his surname!

Thinking of this, Sha Jingfang could only shake his head and said, "Don't worry too much, Long Live Lord didn't have much hope for you, he had already dispatched tens of thousands of disaster relief troops from the Wadao Metropolitan Protectorate to Huaihai, and the most severely affected area, that is, the residents within the red line, hadn't they also been transferred?" We are Ming, not including you, and we are worthy of it! ”

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Although he was scolded for nothing by Sha Jingfang, a rebel, Li Hongzhang's reputation has undergone a two-level reversal among the people of Huaihai.

The flood almost flooded according to the path of the Huai army to arrest people, which was simply divine.

The names of "Li Qingtian", "Li Banxian", and "Li Tianwang" have all come out.

What's more, Zhou Yushan came to report overnight, saying that in Bengbu, someone dug out a "one-eyed stone man" from the silt of the Huai River......

This made Li Hongzhang scared half to death, and hurriedly sent his henchmen Pan Dingxin and Wu Changqing to chop the waves and travel thousands of miles to kill the old man who thought he was smart and wanted to invest in his favor.

At the same time, Li Hongzhang hurriedly imported more than 760 loudspeakers and more than 500 rubber boats from the Ming Concession in Shanghai, and crossed Zeguo with a passion that was three points harder than catching people, beating gongs and drums all the way, and publicizing that this was His Majesty's old scheming and far-sightedness, and even the Dragon Lord wanted to listen to the orders of the sage Heavenly Father, and he had nothing to do with him.

In contrast, the rescue forces of the Wajima Prefecture and the Praetorian Guard were much more so.

Because the population in the hardest-hit areas has basically been transferred, the remaining ones have been less affected, mainly by famine.

So Daming's disaster relief team brought compressed biscuits at the same time as a loudspeaker.

Compressed biscuits have waterproof packaging and save transportation space, which is the best relief food.

Rich in fat and starch, eating a compressed biscuit and drinking a stomach of water can last a long time.

Flooded aquatic food is naturally very susceptible to disease.

But life is almost gone, who cares about this.

Of course, the disaster relief troops of the Ming Dynasty are still different from the soldiers of later generations.

Specifically, compared with the Lighthouse King Division during Cyclone Colorado, the Daming disaster relief force has more food and less condoms.

Compared with the people's soldiers, the Ming Dynasty has more rifles, and fewer people have the iron will to build a dam with human flesh.

Needless to say, the condoms are all high-pressure red lines for the relationship between men and women in the Ming Dynasty, and it doesn't matter if you go to Seattle, whoever wants to mess around in the garrison can only see you in the military court.

As for talking about rifles......

Nowadays, the people of northern Jiangsu and Anhui are not obedient people.

Bandits, twisters, **, bullies, everything, thinking that the student soldiers are wearing life jackets and rushing to kill themselves.

In short, Daming's rescue is not so good, but it is not so bad either.

Appearing in this era, it is a well-deserved heavenly soldier and a living Bodhisattva.

When the flood receded, on the land on both sides of the Huai River, countless immortal rankings of Zhu Tianzi were erected.

At this point, Zhu Fugui was finally able to board the Shenzhou and embarked on the return journey after a long absence.