Young and strong?
Luo Gengshen's Adam's apple twitched, and he quickly said: "Gu Zhifu, I have left the young and strong to the common people and asked them to help the old, weak, women and children evacuate. Such a heavy rain, without the help of young and strong, the old, weak, women and children can't walk at all. ah."
Gu Zhengchen took a step forward, grabbed Luo Geng's clothes, and shouted hoarsely: "Then have you ever considered that if no one fixes the embankment, once the embankment breaks and no one blocks it, everyone will die! Young Zhuang Lives No, the old, weak, women and children are all dead!"
Pushing Luo Geng away suddenly, Gu Zhengchen looked at the county magistrate Wang Han and said sternly: "From now on, you are the acting magistrate of Nan'an, and the Nan'an County government officials are at your disposal! Anyone who refuses to obey will be sent to me." The officials will deal with it! You immediately send Nan'an Qingzhuang to rush to the dam with shovels, sacks and other supplies, and at least two people will be watching every ten steps!"
Wang Han solemnly said: "I understand!"
After saying this, Wang Han took a group of government officials and ran away to inform the people in other places.
Luo Gengshen turned pale and shouted in disbelief: "Prefect Gu, I am the magistrate of Nan'an, the magistrate appointed by the Ministry of Officials! You, the prefect, have no right to take off my black gauze hat!"
Boom!
Thunder rolls.
One after another figures came running towards them, Huang Senping and Yu Siye came with their sergeants.
Huang Senping shouted loudly: "Commander Gu, all the officers and soldiers of the Quanzhou Guard have arrived. Follow your orders!"
Gu Zhengchen stared at Luo Geng and said in a cold tone: "Appointment and dismissal of officials? Oh, you are here to participate in politics, and I should pick off your hair! If you dare to yell and mess up again, I will still dare to pick your head!" Back off!”
Luo Gengshen looked at Gu Zhengchen in fear. This guy was a murderer without blinking an eye. If he really wanted to kill himself, no one would even say a word of injustice to him!
Not daring to offend, I had to retreat.
Gu Zhengchen turned to look at Huang Senping and ordered: "Five hundred sergeants will patrol the embankment, two thousand sergeants will go down the embankment to dig soil and bag it, and the remaining sergeants will cut down trees and tie up cages! Tell all the sergeants that this is a battle to protect the elders of Quanzhou. The battle, no matter how tired you are, just keep going until I win this battle!"
"yes!"
Huang Senping shouted at the top of his lungs to assign tasks.
Xiao Cheng walked to Gu Zhengchen and looked at the river. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Gu Zhengchen's majestic gaze.
"If you dare to persuade me to leave, I will drive you back to Jinling!"
Gu Zhengchen continued to move forward and arrived near Xinluo where the east and west rivers met. Looking at the surging river, he felt very heavy.
Li Sha, the head of Silla, was leading people to inspect the embankment. Seeing that Magistrate Gu was coming, he hurriedly stepped forward.
"Have you sent someone to see the upper reaches?"
Gu Zhengchen asked.
Li Sha nodded repeatedly: "I'm going. It rained heavily in the west, and the river surged. The two streams merged into the Jinjiang River. Now the Jinjiang River can't hold it anymore. If the water level doesn't go down, the dam will break or burst! Unless... …”
"Unless what?"
Gu Zhengchen asked.
Li Sha hesitated, then gritted his teeth and said, "There are only two ways, either the rain will stop within two hours, or - artificially break the dike! Otherwise, a catastrophe is coming!"
"Man-made dike break?"
Gu Zhengchen's expression changed.
Li Sha quickly said: "Prefect Gu, this boy is not heartless and harms other people. Instead, he artificially breaks the embankment and releases the water. There is still a good idea of where the water will go. But if he waits for the embankment to burst and cannot hold it back, he will break the embankment himself." No one knows where the dike will break. If the dike breaks in Silla, all four thousand households in the southeast will suffer disaster!"
Gu Zhengchen knew that Li Sha was right, and later generations did adopt this method.
To put it nicely, it is to find some places to act as flood discharge channels to divert river water and lower the water level to preserve the embankment while avoiding losses in non-discharge channels. To put it bluntly, it means sacrificing places with a small population to protect places with a larger population.
This kind of partial sacrifice for the overall situation is not ethical, but it is in the collective interest.
However, Gu Zhengchen did not intend to take this approach unless he had to. He looked up at the night sky and shouted: "Reinforce the dam, protect the dam!"
Li Sha became anxious: "But Magistrate Gu, once the embankment overflows..."
"Then wait until the embankment is overflowing!"
Gu Zhengchen said sharply.
The population bursting of the embankment does not mean that there will be no casualties. To the south of Jinjiang is the boundary between Tongan and Jinjiang. It is mainly plain and has a relatively large population. It is obviously unlikely that the embankment will burst in this direction. The only way to break the embankment is on the other side, and this is also This means that the river will rush towards Hui'an, and may even rush into the Luoyang River, causing the Luoyang River to be unable to bear it, and eventually swallowing up the people there!
The people of Hui'an are also the people!
It may be too late to send people to evacuate at this time! After all, the journey was there and it was a rainy night.
The only way to have both ends is to hold on to the embankment and wait for the rain to subside.
However, whether there will be problems with the dam is not a subjective question of will, but an objective question.
Gu Zhengchen led people to inspect the embankment and found that there were no problems so far, so he headed towards the temporary tent. Along the way, he could see sergeants carrying bags of soil and piling them onto the embankment.
Outside the embankment, not far away, the sergeants had taken off their obstructive raincoats and thrown their hats on the ground. They continued to shovel the soil despite the beating of the rain. The rain was so heavy that as soon as the shovel was shoveled down, water began to accumulate in the newly dug hole.
Looking at the busy sergeant, Gu Zhengchen felt heartbroken.
After a day of training, these people were already exhausted. But who would have imagined that before they could sleep for long, they were called up and ran for more than thirty miles to get here without stopping. They began to dig dirt and install equipment desperately. Bag, carry dirt!
Jinjiang Magistrate Yang Xiu, Nan'an County Prime Minister Wang Han, Quanzhou Guard Commander Huang Senping and others arrived at the tent near Houpu, which served as the temporary government office and command center.
Yang Xiu brought two old men and persuaded Gu Zhengchen: "The rain tonight is unprecedentedly heavy. The water level is increasing and it is less than three feet away from overflowing the embankment! If it continues, the entire embankment will be destroyed. You should choose a In this place, dig the dam to release the flood!”
Wang Han also knew that the situation was urgent. He saw Gu Zhengchen looking at a map and pointed to the temple downstream of Houpu: "Discharging floods from the north bank here can relieve the pressure on the entire Jinjiang River and protect the dam. If it is delayed any longer, a flood is likely to occur on the south bank. embankment!"
Huang Fei, Wei Jingzhi and others hurried in.
Wei Jingzhi was out of breath and shouted in a panic: "Prefect Gu, the people are evacuating very slowly. Many people are unwilling to give up their property and insist on leaving with all the food. Some people want to move away the rice vats. Some villages One hundred households have been here for almost an hour, and they haven’t walked even half a mile, and many people are even unwilling to leave.”
Yang Xiu stamped his feet and shouted: "Don't tell them anymore, drop all the supplies and lead the people to higher ground!"
Huang Fei was bitter: "But they didn't listen. There were people pushing carts to transport grain. In this damn weather, the carts can't move at all. The road is muddy. If you get stuck in it and there's no one to pull it, you can't push it!"
Gu Zhengchen's face was gloomy and he shouted sternly: "Go tell the people to leave all the supplies. The government will replenish the lost food for them, buy the lost rice jars for them, and build the lost homes for them." ! You must retreat to higher ground as quickly as possible now!"
A flash of lightning illuminated the water of Jinjiang River, and on the water bank, two whirlpools moved slowly...
