The real hard battle is in the area of Zhangshu Town.

Zhangshu Town was the most tax-rich town under Zhao Han's rule. The financial revenue contributed by Zhangshu Town alone is equivalent to the sum of the two counties of Longquan and Yongning!

After the Gan River flows through Ji'an Province, it joins a large river and several small rivers. When they arrived at Zhangshu Town, the Yuan River came with a flood again, and the confluence of the two rivers washed out a sharp bend, and even brought a large amount of sediment to accumulate into a sandbar.

At the beginning, Wang Siren's officers and soldiers had an absolute advantage, but they did not dare to read the estuary. In fact, they did not dare to cross the sandbar, the river was narrow and the water was complicated, even if they were not attacked by fire, they would be surrounded and ambushed.

In this way, Zhao Han was able to calmly confront the officials and soldiers, but now because of this terrain, it has brought huge flood pressure to Zhangshu Town.

"Phew!"

The bamboo whistle sounded, and more than 2,000 peasant soldiers rushed to arrive.

Thousands of young people were organized by the peasant association to the lower reaches of Zhangshu Town.

The mayor of the town, with his officials, knocked on doors from house to house and recruited the people of the town to build embankments to fight the flood.

In fact, along the entire Ganjiang River, flood control embankments began to be built in the Tang Dynasty.

In particular, the east embankment of the Ganjiang River in the upper and lower reaches of Fengcheng has been repaired from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, and has been able to protect 600,000 acres of farmland. The Ming Dynasty has been continuing to build, but it was not until the Republic of China that the embankment on this side of Zhangshu Town could be connected.

After the Wanli Dynasty, the local water conservancy was corrupted, and it was all up to the responsible magistrates who called on the gentry to donate money to repair it.

As long as there are official organizations, the gentry are also willing to donate money, which is to protect their net worth and property. For example, the embankment in Zhangshu Town may flood 100,000 acres of fertile land if it floods or bursts, because the shore is a low-lying area.

The prefect of Linjiang and the prefect of Qingjiang are both responsible for the line of the prefecture, and they will not be able to pass during the flood.

The safety of Zhangshu Town is pinned on the mayor Liu Tongyu.

Liu Tongyu was born in a big family, both civil and military, and served as a clerk in the army at the beginning. He also worked with Zhang Tieniu to capture Xingan County, and his weight as the mayor of the town was not lost to the magistrate, after all, this is Zhangshu Town, which is full of money.

At this moment, Liu Tongyu is running on the embankment along the river, braving the rain to direct the flood fight.

The townspeople, organized by the government, joined in one after another, and the peasant soldiers and peasant associations also took action.

No one dares to slack off, they have lived by the river for generations, and they know that this year's situation is not right. It rained for too long, and it was sunny for two days in between, and suddenly it was a heavy rainstorm.

Not only did the town take people to observe the water level every day, but the people also ran to observe it every day, after all, a flood is more than 100,000 acres of land, and there is no identity in the face of the flood.

The medicinal herb merchants in Zhangshu Town all joined forces and sent their men to build the embankment. If the levees burst or flooded, they would suffer the most, and many of them would have piled up several warehouses of medicinal herbs.

From Zhangshu Town to the north, there were peasant soldiers and peasant associations on both sides of the river, organizing the masses to come to fight the flood.

If you look down from the sky, it looks like countless ants, carrying sandbags and mud baskets to and fro by the river, staging the most magnificent epic in the world.

Fei Chun is actually the one with the most headache, not only to allocate funds for disaster relief, but also to reduce the people's land taxes as appropriate after the flood recedes. Although the mountainous areas are not affected by floods, the drought is extremely severe, which means that this year there will be a general tax exemption.

The money and food in the official warehouse are not enough!

Originally, the Zhao'an armistice, the salt road was unblocked, and the financial problems had eased. As long as the harvest continues this year, or a normal year, warehouses in each county can be piled up.

What the hell is a cataclysmic year all of a sudden?

Fei Chun felt a deep malice, feeling that God was deliberately going against him.

Han Chengxuan, as the magistrate of Nanchang appointed by the imperial court, also left Nanchang County at this moment and came to the edge of the Ganjiang River to direct the increase in height and the construction of embankments.

He has already been hollowed out and has no real power to speak of.

But his disaster relief performance was positive, and he also gained some command at this moment, as if he had become an official under Zhao Han.

After two days and nights of fatigue, seeing the water level drop little by little, Han Chengxuan was so tired that he lay directly on the embankment.

"Master Han eats." A woman brought the meal with a smile.

Han Chengxuan struggled to get up and smiled, "Thank you." ”

While eating, I observed that the embankment was full of officials and civilians lying horizontally.

Hu Dinggui came over with a rice bowl in his hand, and said with a smile: "The county is better than a thief, you are a good official, it is a pity to give the dog emperor his life." ”

The title of Dog Emperor made Han Chengxuan cry and laugh, he had heard it countless times in Jiangxi. At first, I was angry, but gradually I became numb, and I can say whatever others like.

Han Chengxuan changed the topic and asked, "This flood won't come again, right?" ”

Liu Zirong, the chief bookkeeper, looked at the sky and came over and said: "If the sky continues to rain heavily, no matter how much you build an embankment, it will be useless." ”

"Why?" Han Seungxuan asked.

Liu Zirong said: "You are from the north, and you don't understand the severity of the floods in the south. We have carried the flood peak twice, and it is estimated that there is no rain on the side of Poyang Lake, and the flood discharge is very fast. Now that Poyang Lake is estimated to be full, if there is another flood peak, I will directly take the people to move to a higher place. ”

Another old official came over with a rice bowl: "Thanks to Mr. Zhao, if you change it to the imperial court, even if there are good officials in charge, this time it will definitely be flooded with tens of thousands of acres of fertile land." ”

Liu Zirong sighed with emotion: "That's true, the second flood peak came too fast and too fierce. ”

Han Chengxuan understood that he was able to withstand the second flood peak this time, all thanks to the super organizational strength of the peasant association and the peasant soldiers. If there are no thieves here, let him, the magistrate of the county, mobilize the people to fight the flood, I don't know how long it will take, and he will definitely miss the best opportunity to fight the flood.

To be honest, Han Seungxuan likes it here, even though it is an anti-thief territory.

Any official who wants to be a factualist likes this kind of atmosphere and popular support. At the end of the two days and two nights of flood fighting, Han Chengxuan was completely infected, and at the same time remembered the bunch of bad things in his hometown in Shanxi.

Compare the two, one in the sky and the other in the earth.

The flood gradually passed, and the people under Zhao Han's rule reached a peak in spirit.

The news reported one after another from various places made Li Banghua feel incredible. In so many coastal counties and towns, only two towns have burst their embankments, and the other flooded places are not particularly critical, and at most a lot of grain income has been lost.

This is not possible at any time.

After careful analysis, the high-ranking officials of the General Military Office all believed that there were three keys to the victory of the flood fight: first, the officials were competent; second, the peasant association guides, and the peasants are active; Third, with the addition of the army, both the regular soldiers and the peasant soldiers have made great contributions.

All officials are capable of doing things, and nepotism is definitely inevitable, but even if you go to the top of the relationship, you have to come up with a resume that can be passed.

The early days of a regime are so dynamic.

In terms of military affairs alone, the comparison between the beginning of the Ming Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty is simply two worlds.

In the previous wars in Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the battlefield was like a sieve, and the Tartar army could be interspersed at will.

In the key battle of Liaodong in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote the script directly in Nanjing, and Ma Yun and Ye Wang, two front-line generals, served as directors and supplemented details.

First, the walls cleared the wilderness, lured the enemy deep, and stuck to the lonely city to consume the Yuan army. At that time, the walls had not yet been repaired, and many gaps were blocked with wood, and the battle was extremely fierce. The Ming reinforcements rushed to the enemy's rear, fully confident that the friendly forces would not lose the city.

In the next battle, just like watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the Yuan army panicked and retreated, encountered hundreds of crossbowmen in the valley, and was so frightened that they immediately changed their escape route. As a result, the Ming army built a mile-long ice wall overnight. The cavalry of the Yuan army could only run along the ice wall, and finally ran to the end, and fell into the pit dug in advance.

Liaodong was fighting, and Zhu Yuanzhang played micro-exercises in Nanjing in advance, and arranged the Yuan army troops clearly.

This battle made Zhu Yuanzhang very happy, and after that, the entire Liaodong Theater was handed over to Ma Yun and Ye Wang to be responsible.

Zhao Han is the same as Zhu Yuanzhang, whether he is an official or a general, he must be able to do things!

The flood fighting and rescue also made Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua and other high-level officials firm up the principle of employing people in the future: the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent to the army!

Zhao Han's territory was victorious in fighting floods, and even the places infiltrated by the peasant unions were not affected by the floods. On the other hand, the territory of the imperial court can be described as a mess.

Let's talk about the drought first, due to the decay of water conservancy facilities, guarding the huge Poyang Lake, and the land a little far from the lake is withered and yellow.

Speaking of flooding, we can see that the water level of Poyang Lake has risen rapidly, and even the water of the Yangtze River has flowed into the lake due to heavy rain upstream. But the local officials did not take it seriously, but the local gentry spontaneously organized themselves to build embankments. However, the gentry's lack of organization led to the collapse of embankments in many places along the shores of Poyang Lake.

A large area around Poyang Lake has been flooded, and at the same time, the mountainous area, which is only a few dozen miles from the shore, is experiencing a very severe drought.

Including Jingdezhen, the water level of the Changjiang River has dropped to a very low point, and water from Poyang Lake is pouring back into the river.

After two consecutive years of severe drought, the government continued to urge taxes, and a large number of hungry people appeared in northeast Jiangxi.

These hungry people fled west and south to beg for food along the way, starving to death countless times along the way.

Longkou Riverside.

Ding Jiasheng, a poor talent who had been hungry all day, found a few friends from the same village and said: "There was a great drought along the way, and the small households had no surplus food, and the big families refused to eat because the doors of their houses were closed. If this continues, sooner or later I will starve to death, so I don't think it's better to rebel. ”

"Can we make a rebellion?" A little friend asked.

Ding Jiasheng took out a copy of "Datong Collection" from his arms and said: "There is a Zhao Tianwang in the south, who is very disciplined, and he has defeated officers and soldiers many times, and sooner or later he will be able to occupy the entire Jiangxi. This book was written by Zhao Tianwang, and I picked it up at the door of Master Zhou's house last year. ”

None of the other friends had read the book and asked, "What is this book about?" ”

"How to rebel," Ding Jiasheng said, "I have been reading every day for the past year, and I can memorize everything written in the book." Let's kill a few landlords first, open a warehouse to release grain, and pull more people into the gang. I'm afraid it's a little difficult to divide the land, let's directly lead people to attack the county seat. After the city is defeated, we will ask Zhao Tianwang to call the shots, and we can also be the heroes of Conglong. Remember, King Zhao is benevolent and does not kill the people, nor does he commit adultery against women. These two rules can't be broken, if anyone is broken, I will turn my face and deny people. ”

On the same day, Ding Jiasheng instigated hundreds of people to break down the landlord's house. While opening the warehouse to release grain, he also killed a few Liwei who had bad rules.

They coerced the hungry along the way, robbing the landlords all the way to raise military rations.

Halfway through the division of troops, the large army made a posture to go to the capital city of Raozhou, Ding Jiasheng personally led a small main force to Duchang County, disguised as civilians to seize the county seat in one fell swoop.

At the same time, the banner of King Zhao was raised, and countless hungry people came to take refuge.

This person also selected talents, and even began to distribute land to the people around the county.