It was raining in the sky, and Bianjing City below Xuandemen was already a vast ocean.
Official Zhao Shu's lips were trembling a little. This was all caused by the order to open the Xihua Gate to allow the water in the palace to drain elsewhere, which resulted in such a scene.
At this moment, he regretted it too much, seeing someone organizing to rescue people. The officials wondered who it was that was so capable and made up for my fault. I must promote this person heavily afterwards.
But when he heard Zhang Yue's name, his face suddenly turned pale.
"Why is it Zhang Yue again?" the official thought.
At this moment, he thought about Zhang Yue's previous advice to him to open up the South Embankment. If he had removed the South Embankment earlier, the flood in Bianjing would not have caused such damage.
The official was filled with shame when he thought about this and couldn't help but think, this person must be laughing at me now!
At this moment, various emotions of shame, anger and shame surged into the officials' hearts.
Although he clearly knew that there were so many yamen in the capital, as well as Kaifeng Prefecture and the Water Supervisory Department, why were they not prepared for such a heavy rain disaster? Instead, the Jiao Yin Supervisor who was not responsible for the matter came to rescue him.
But he still couldn't help but be furious in his heart.
At this moment, under Xuande's door, many people were seen grabbing pennies from the roofs and trees and jumping into the boats. Some were elderly people with inconveniences. The officers and soldiers personally carried the people down from the houses.
The boat kept speeding and brought the rescued people to a safe place.
The surviving people kowtowed to the officers and soldiers who saved them.
Zhang Yue, now wearing a raincoat, was also in the boat, directing the officers and soldiers on the boat to rescue people.
Although many people were saved, the ground was still in a mess, and many people drowned in the water.
Zhang Yue saw a woman supporting herself on a piece of driftwood. She was completely submerged in the water, but she was holding her infant baby high in her hands.
When Zhang Yue rescued the baby from her hands, the woman said to Zhang Yue: "My benefactor, his father's name is Chen Asheng, leave a piece of incense for my benefactor and the Chen family..."
Before she finished speaking, the woman fell into the flood. She tried her best but could not save her.
Zhang Yue felt extremely sad when he saw this scene, holding the crying baby in his arms. The other person had just lost his mother. After Zhang Yue became a father, this was the most unseen scene.
"What a sin!"
Zhang Yue's eyes turned red when he looked at the floating objects in the water and the drowned people and animals, and said to the people around him: "I ordered the sergeant to continue searching. If you can save one life, it's a life. Enough people have died today. "
"Jail sentence! Jail sentence!"
But Cai Jing also arrived by boat.
Cai Jing said on the boat: "The Kaifeng Mansion has started to rescue people. The prisoner should take a rest first!"
Zhang Yue held the baby to the person next to Cai Jing and said, "This man's father is Chen Asheng. Let's see if there are any relatives in Kaifeng Mansion. If not, we can find a good family to adopt him."
Cai Jing said yes, then jumped to Zhang Yue's boat and whispered: "Prisoner, I heard that the flood just now was caused by the palace suddenly opening the Xihua Gate. The officials didn't listen to you before and opened up the South Embankment, and now it's happening again Big mistake, we are here to save people, this move really brings shame on the officials, not only does it have no merit, but it has a fault..."
Zhang Yueyan said: "You said the palace opened the Xihua Gate to release floods, that's what the officials meant..."
Zhang Yue glanced in the direction of Xuandemen and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Cai Jing continued: "I don't know if it's the official's intention, but now, it's better for us to withdraw first and let Kaifeng Mansion take over..."
Zhang Yue glanced at Cai Jing, only to see him take a step back and say, "Jing is doing everything for the purpose of being sentenced to prison."
Zhang Yue said: "I know you have good intentions, Yuan Zhang, but...you don't need to persuade me anymore on this matter."
After saying this, Zhang Yue ordered his people to row the boat away and continue to rescue people near the Bian River. When the boat passed by his home, Zhang Yue saw that his house had also been washed away by today's flood.
Zhang Yue knew that his wife and her family had gone to the Wu Mansion for temporary refuge yesterday, but after all, this house was the property that he had worked hard to buy, and now it has become like this, but now there is no need to miss it anymore.
Zhang Yue continued to drive his boat deep into the cottage to rescue people... and did not return home for a whole day.
On this day, more than a thousand people were rescued by being handed over to prison.
The flood comes and recedes just as quickly...
The Kaifeng Prefecture was cleaned up the next day, and there were only fifteen or six hundred unclaimed corpses. As for those who were claimed but not counted, the officials below suppressed the results. In fact, no one knows how many people died in this flood.
As for the number of destroyed houses, there were tens of thousands of them, and more than half of them were destroyed on the third day of August, the day when the rain was heaviest, because the officials personally issued an edict to open the Xihua Gate to prevent the palace from being flooded...
Bianjing has never suffered such a flood.
During this flood, the dignitaries in Bianjing all lived in the northwest and southwest. The terrain here is high, so the floods were not very serious. The suffering was only for the poor people who lived in low-lying areas and in the southeast of Bianjing.
The official family ordered officials to appease the dead and injured guards, and used money to collect the corpses, compensate the dead and build houses.
However, all officials knew that opening Xihua Gate to release floods that day was the official's order, and this move could not make up for his fault.
Under the accusations of hundreds of officials, the officials had no choice but to issue an edict to blame themselves, saying that they were immoral and had caused God to bring this disaster.
At the same time, officials also issued an edict allowing Chinese and foreign officials who were not included in the two systems to speak out frankly about their political mistakes after taking office without being shy.
The officials first issued an edict to offend themselves, and then issued an edict to seek redress. The officials felt that the emperor really felt that he was wrong this time, so many officials complained one after another.
Sima Guang first went to the Shu, and then Lu Dafang, Lu Jie, Jia An, Zheng Xie, and Cai Kang all went to the Shu to criticize the emperor's mistakes in governance. By the way, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu, and other prime ministers criticized all.
Zhang Yue also followed him, but what he said was not something that Pu had discussed, but that there were often serious epidemics after floods, and the bodies must be buried immediately, and lime should be sprinkled where the water was taken to prevent the spread of diseases.
Seventeenth Mother and Cai Jingdu advised Zhang Yue not to go to court at this time, but Zhang Yue didn't listen.
As a result, after all the officials complained, Cai Kang was dismissed from his post and Jia An was sent out of the capital...
The officials laughed angrily when they heard this. If you were afraid of being criticized, you should not issue an edict to ask for words. Since you issued an edict to ask for words, you would also punish the officials who dared to speak.
However, some people say that you are short-sighted. Just as you printed that sentence, the officials issued an edict to ask for advice, but you really dare to criticize the emperor. Little do you know that this may be the official's way of luring snakes out of their holes.
The government's move to suppress provocative officials has made all officials who had high hopes for him feel discouraged and disappointed.
However, the officials asked Kaifeng Mansion to handle what Zhang Yue Shangshu said immediately, and the officials in Kaifeng Mansion became busy.
By the end of August it was still raining, and officials were often unable to go to court.
The official side sent officials to famous mountains and rivers to pray for the rain to stop, but here they held a banquet in the palace as usual.
It rained heavily one day, and the officials had no choice but to stop the banquet because of the rain.
Zhang Yue walked to the palace gate, but happened to see Han Zhi, the Water Supervisor of the capital, walking out drunk.
Zhang Yue sneered when he saw this, took off the silver fish bag from his waist, took off his black gauze hat, and walked out towards Han Zhi!
