Chapter 123: Bursting the Levee
After several people finished discussing, Shen Jingcheng immediately asked the county officials to inform the villages of the news, especially those villages along the river that were close to the embankment.
But when the notice was sent, the effect was not as good as he expected.
The villages near the county seat were okay to say, and almost after the notice was given, the villagers dragged large bags and small bags to the county seat. Those villages far away from the county seat are not so happy.
As soon as someone heard that it was dangerous, they immediately began to pack up their belongings and leave with the old and the young. Some people are reluctant to give up their family business, afraid that the water will not come, and the property they have accumulated at home will be stolen.
What's more, they have been here for many years, and almost all of them are flooded during the rainy season. On such a cold day, the river has not yet thawed, how can there be a big flood?
Because of years of experience, these people didn't take this notice too seriously, and even felt that the government was alarmist, and refused to leave no matter how Li Jia persuaded them.
When Shen Jingcheng received the news, he almost laughed, and after thinking for a while, he asked the village leaders to go back and tell those people that if they really didn't want to leave, they could find a higher place to take refuge temporarily.
If you still don't want to leave, then let them be, what they can do has been done, and they are benevolent to these people, they don't take their lives seriously, and God can't help it.
And Gu Jin's side, at the same time as Shen Jingcheng sent a notice, he and Jiang Zhengshu also led people to start cleaning up the resting places for those who were about to come.
But in fact, although the general matter was discussed, the implementation was still a bit disorganized
Fortunately, Gu Jin is not a brainless person, as soon as he saw that things were a little messy, he immediately drew the streets of the city into patches like managing the hired workers who worked in the village. Which area belongs to which village is a fixed number. No one should take anyone's place, and no one should rob anyone's place.
If any village occupies the location of other villages, or if there is a disturbance of people and shops in the city, they will be driven out of the county seat immediately, and if there is a flood or something like that in the future, the people of this village will never be accommodated by the county seat.
In addition, she also handed over the affairs of each village to each Lijia, and there was anything in the village that could be reported to Lijia. Then Lijia reported to her, Jiang Zhengshu, and the county chief bookkeeper and others, and then they decided how to solve this matter.
As for why she let those people live directly on the street, instead of letting them live in the county's households, it is because even if she asked everyone in the county to open the door, it would not be able to accommodate so many people in the village. What's more, no one wants to let so many strangers live in the house, and no one can guarantee that those people will stay honest and not make trouble when they live in other people's homes, so in order to prevent any conflicts, it is better for these people to be arranged on the streets.
Although it may be cold to start sleeping on the streets, it is better than soaking in water or enduring those dangers at home.
As soon as this plan continues, things become much more orderly. When the villagers leave home and bring the villagers, they only need to take them to their respective positions and settle down, and then let the villagers take care of their own people.
But even so, Gu Jin felt his head buzz when he saw the villagers who came one after another, listening to the loud chatters and shouts on the street.
Jiang Zhengshu saw that these people were arranged in an orderly manner, and immediately ran to the gates of each city, supervising the craftsmen to build temporary walls to hold back water.
At this time, Shen Jingcheng had already come to the dam again, and in the cold wind, he looked at the ice cubes in the river that kept spreading to the side of the embankment, and his expression was extremely solemn.
It seems that the Ling Xun in his previous life is estimated to be this time, but he knows how terrible this Ling Xun is, but there is nothing he can do but stick to it.
Standing on the embankment, Shen Jingcheng was not only cold on his body, but even his whole heart was cold.
This is a natural disaster, and people are going to die.
And since he submitted the documents to the prefect, there has been no reply, so let it be fate!
As if God didn't know people's fears, the cold wind was still howling, blowing people's cheeks with pain, and the temperature didn't mean to rise at all.
For two days and one night, the ice cubes had already surged to the side of the embankment, and even kept piling up, and some people were anxious to see it, afraid that the sharp ice cubes would break the embankment they had built with great difficulty, so they poked the ice into the river with sticks and dragged the ice out with their hands.
But how can the strength of an individual fight the power of the river? The ice cubes were still accumulating higher and higher.
Shen Jingcheng looked at this scene, wishing that he had great strength to push these ice blocks back into the river, and even smash the ice that filled the river, so that the river would be unimpeded and these ice cubes could flow away quickly.
It's a pity that he's just a mortal, a mortal with just a little effort, and he doesn't have that much ability.
Just when the hearts of Shen Jingcheng and the people on the shore were in their throats, they saw that the ice cubes that kept churning out on the surface of the river suddenly stopped, and then they no longer turned up, but slowly surged down in one direction.
That direction was downstream of them, and Shen Jingcheng looked in that direction without a trace of joy on his face.
He knew there must be somewhere the levee bursting, but he didn't know where.
Shen Jingcheng glanced at the cold ice that was full of white water, jumped off the embankment, turned over and ran downstream along the embankment.
It wasn't until he walked dozens of miles and reached the area of the next county that he saw a long gap in the embankment on the opposite bank, and the ice in the river was rushing along the gap to the plain there. There was also a hole in the embankment on this side, but it was smaller than the other side of the river, but it was still swarming with ice cubes carrying the river and rushing out of the embankment and heading towards the plain.
Shen Jingcheng's pupils shrank when he saw this scene, he turned his horse's head sharply and ran back, shouting at the people who were still on the embankment in Yuhe County as he ran: "Evacuate, the villagers of each village should immediately retreat to a high place or the county, and the embankment in Ningkang County has burst." ”
When the people on the embankment heard his shouting, they immediately called the people in their villages to run down the embankment, and quickly went to the high place that had been selected a long time ago, or went straight to the county seat.
Shen Jingcheng rode his horse along the embankment, shouting all the way, and with his high drinking, the people on the embankment also quickly evacuated.
These people have lived here for many years, and they know too well that if the river breaks the dam, the breach will only get bigger and bigger, and it is not something that can be blocked by man-made people, but can only wait for the river to return to the river and then repair the dam. Although it was the next county that broke the embankment, no one knew where the plain was low, and the water always flowed to the lower places, so they could only retreat to the higher places with everyone.
There's another chapter that will be later.,Before about two o'clock.,You little fairies can wait.,If you can't wait, you'll see it tomorrow.
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