That afternoon, the 30,000 soldiers and civilians who participated in the defense of the Huazhou Embankment successfully withdrew to the camp, and no one died.
However, the long and hard battle left them ragged, pale, and exhausted. Some even fell asleep on the embankment and could not wake up no matter how they shouted. They had to be carried down the embankment and went to sleep in the camp.
The Henan Corps dispatched several Huotou Army teams and logistics civilians carrying a large amount of food to offer condolences and support. The commander of the Henan Corps, Zhang Yuejing, rushed to the Huazhou Embankment with the team and saw Su Yonglin who was personally serving porridge and cakes to the soldiers and civilians guarding the embankment.
At that time, Su Yonglin was wearing a coarse cloth shorts, straw sandals, and rolled up his trouser legs. He was dressed no differently from the other peasants who were making porridge. He was also dirty, and he blended in without looking disharmonious at all.
Except that the queue in front of Su Yonglin was extremely long, there was nothing special about the others.
The soldiers and civilians carrying the rice trays thanked the emperor for serving them the food in person, and then ran to the side and squatted down with their rice trays and ate hard, while eating, they had to worry about whether anyone would snatch it from them.
Just kidding, His Majesty the Emperor personally packed the food for me. I will be able to enjoy it for the rest of my life after eating it. I won’t be tired of it until I die!
Don't try to compete with me!
The moment he saw this scene, Zhang Yuejing suddenly thought of a few years ago when a group of them were still in their hometown in Dinghai County.
It was the same at that time. When they were learning military skills from the veterans in the Su family's team, they would be very tired. When the training was over and they could go to eat, Su Yonglin also dressed in ordinary clothes and stood behind the rice bucket to get them food. .
They would line up in a long queue, come to Su Yonglin one after another to get rice and vegetables, and then eat like crazy.
I don’t know what happened at that time. No matter how much I ate, I couldn’t get enough. No matter how much I ate, I felt like I could keep eating. Everyone was the reincarnation of the rice bucket. After eating all the rice, I could still eat one or two pancakes, and then eat again. Wipe the vegetable soup with pancakes, stuff it into your mouth and chew happily until your belly is bulging.
Speaking of which, they were also scared of hunger at that time. Zhang Yuejing almost starved to death as a child and had a deep fear of hunger. If Su Yonglin hadn't reached out to save them, they would have died long ago.
So everyone at that time was the same. They would eat as hard as they could and would not let go until their stomachs rounded into balls. They always felt that what they ate into their stomachs was theirs, even if what they held in their hands was not theirs. , his eyes turn green when he sees food.
Every time that happened, Su Yonglin would laugh and call them "rice-baskets", saying that he had raised a bunch of rice-baskets and they would be poor sooner or later.
But even though they ate so much and ate so hard, without stopping from morning to night, and could eat five or six meals a day, Su Yonglin was not destitute. Instead, he gained a Ming Dynasty and became the emperor.
Hey, interesting.
Several years had passed. Counting on his fingers, it would have taken six or seven years. However, looking at the scene in front of him, Zhang Yuejing suddenly felt that Su Yonglin seemed to be the same as then, and nothing had changed.
Obviously everyone has changed, from a shady private salt dealer to a high-ranking ruler of the Ming Empire. Their status is very different, they hold the power of the world, and their status is respected.
But looking at Su Yonglin's current appearance, Zhang Yuejing felt as if nothing had changed.
Of course, this kind of non-change is the non-change he longs for most.
Maybe this group of people ate a lot, but as they ate, the entire land of China might be eaten by them.
If you give them more food and keep eating, the Ming Dynasty will be able to expand its territory to Jiangnan, Lingnan, North Saibei, and the Western Regions...
Places that even more distant predecessors have never reached.
As long as they continue to eat, as long as Su Yonglin is willing to feed them, as long as there is enough food, and these foodies are full and not hungry, then sooner or later they will be able to come back with an unprecedentedly powerful Ming Dynasty.
Maybe that's what Su Yonglin thought.
After the rain passes, it is not the end of the crisis. Instead, it is the peak of the crisis. After the rain stops, the flood peak comes later. Following Huazhou, Caozhou and Shanzhou also experienced dangers one after another.
In the next seven days, Su Yonglin ran back and forth between Caozhou and Shanzhou, commanding the imperial guards he brought to divide into three groups and nail them to the Yellow River embankments in Shanzhou and Huazhou in Caozhou respectively, fighting on his behalf with the local soldiers and civilians.
The Yellow River embankments in the three states were in various dangers. When the situation was most dangerous, the Fuxinghui headquarters in Caozhou ordered to prepare for flood discharge.
But in the end, manpower still defeated the ruthlessness of God. The brave soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty worked together to stabilize the embankment, successfully withstood the peak of the flood, and won the final victory.
After the Caozhou crisis was successfully overcome, the entire Yellow River coast never experienced such heavy rainfall until early autumn.
After several days of continuous sunny weather and occasionally cloudy weather, the water level of the Yellow River continued to drop, and finally fell back to a relatively safe level, and it never entered a state of emergency again.
The rainy season of this year was passed safely.
From now on until the spring of next year, it will be the prime time for regulating the Yellow River. During this period, the entire project will be carried out overtime, requiring huge material investment from the court.
Regarding this, Su Yonglin did not hesitate at all.
"If you need anything, report it to the General Headquarters and leave it to the General Headquarters for overall arrangements. Don't be afraid that the General Headquarters can't solve it. If they can solve it, let them solve it. If they can't solve it, they will naturally tell me and I will come. solve.
All in all, during the project period, everything will make way for the Yellow River Project. Even I will make way for the project. This is something that will benefit the present generation forever. If it succeeds, we people can leave our names in the history books.
Future generations can know from the names in the history books that the flooding of the Yellow River was solved by us. Future generations will remember us and thank us. If you are worried, when the Yellow River is repaired, I will send people to erect a monument to record the memory of each of you. The names are all engraved on them! Double insurance! "
Su Yonglin delivered a speech to the responsible persons at the Huazhou Flood Control Headquarters.
A bold guy raised his hand and said loudly: "Your Majesty, there are so many of us, what should we do if we can't engrave it on the monument?"
Su Yonglin looked at the bold young man and smiled.
"Then erect a few more monuments until all of your names are engraved on them, so that future generations will know how much effort we have put into repairing the Yellow River, and how many people have been nailed here day and night to endure hardships. Suffer!
Our generation helps future generations bear all the hardships they have to endure so that they can enjoy peace. If they don't know how to cherish our achievements, they are a bunch of assholes! Unworthy descendants! "
When people heard the words, they laughed loudly, and the happy air filled the world.
After that, Su Yonglin inspected the entire Yellow River embankment along the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and personally climbed the embankment to inspect some key areas until he saw Haizhou.
The worry in his heart did not lessen much.
"I think it will be very difficult to complete the diversion project within one or two years, so we may still encounter a crisis like this. It is still unclear whether the Yellow River embankment can withstand it by then, but I hope You can resist."
As Su Yonglin walked, he said to Tian Guizi who was following him: "The Yellow River Project is of great significance to the Ming Dynasty. Even if there will be a lot of troubles in the future, if it can be successfully changed, it will be a model of man's victory over nature, and I, the Human Emperor, can also do it." I feel a little more confident.”
Tian Guizi understood Su Yonglin's worries, so he nodded slowly.
"I know how much effort Alang has put into this matter. Even if I risk my life, I will make the diversion project successfully completed."
