It’s mid-to-late May, and it’s still raining in Jinyang.
The farmers, wearing raincoats, swarmed into the farmland under the command of the Wubao commander and the manor owners, and opened the field ridges to release the accumulated water.
This behavior occurs almost every once in a while.
Some irrigation canals were full of water and could not flow out at all. People simply sat in the mud and cried bitterly.
There was a war the year before last, and we had a good harvest the year before that. Last year there was heavy rain and there was a war, and this year it rains again. Can we still live like this?
When Yu Liang came to Jinyang, he saw such a scene.
"Is there going to be a famine in Bingzhou this year?" He was a little surprised.
"Yuangui, it's actually not that serious." Zhongshan Shihui, the governor of Bingzhou, who came to greet him, said: "The high fields are okay, and the low fields are seriously flooded, but the harvest is not completely lost. To be honest, Jizhou and Youzhou are the worst.
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Shan Shihui was born in the Shan family in Hanoi.
Grandfather Shantao was a famous scholar and one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest". He once served as a lieutenant in the Sima division. He was later ordered to suppress Yecheng and monitor the Cao Wei clan. During the Taikang period, he became an official as a Situ.
Father Shangai, who was the governor of Bingzhou, has passed away.
Shan Shihui also had an elder brother, Shan Wei (named Yanzu), who had defected to his uncle Shan Jian (former general of the Southern Expedition and governor of Jingzhou) a few years ago, and this society was already in Jianye.
Shan Shihui worked as a minister of Sanqi and had no power, so he followed the emperor all day long and gave out ideas. Later, he felt it was too dangerous, so he resigned and returned home. This made the emperor very resentful. This kind of relationship with the Hanoi Shan clan
People in the Sima family whose interests were deeply entangled all abandoned him, so what could I say?
But it’s not okay if you don’t become an official.
The Shan family's hometown was in Huai County. It was completely destroyed during the years of war, and the family members fled to Luoyang. The whole family was sitting on nothing, and they couldn't bear it no matter what!
Shan Shihui once had the idea of ​​going south to build Ye, but his brother Shan Wei wrote back and asked him to serve in the north for the sake of the family.
After all kinds of efforts, he established a relationship with the Prime Minister through an old person from when Yu Chen was the prefect of Ji County.
Pei Chun was promoted to Bingzhou Governor, Biejia, and the second officer in charge of governance was Senior Assistant. According to regulations, Cao from the Ministry of Personnel should be selected and dispatched, and the subordinate Cao officials should be assigned by the Governor Pei Chun himself.
It was against this background that Shan Shihui took up the post of Bingzhou Zhongzhong and was in charge of all Cao Cao documents. This position was somewhat similar to that of an aide and had no hierarchy. This was actually a flaw in the official system of the Jin Dynasty.
Sun Xun was born in the Sun family of Taiyuan. He served in the court in his early years, and later tried to serve as the prefect of Yingchuan, but failed. When Sima Yue was cleaning up the court, he was implicated and lost his official position. He lived in Luoyang for many years, and finally became the governor of Yingchuan.
Because of Wang Yan's relationship, I was appointed Bingzhou Biejia.
At this time, he had been ordered to move the governor's office to Lishi - Bingzhou could only manage Zhengjun No. 1 (Xihe) and Jisujun No. 1 (Kelan). In theory, he could also manage Yanmen County, but in fact he could not.
It can be seen that both the Yu and Wang families are trying hard to win over scholars. Luo Zhi's party members may be heavy, but it is inevitable to install their own people.
Yu Liang knew that Shan Shihui was one of his own, so his attitude was more cordial. He only heard him say: "Yanjie, why are you still staying in Jinyang?"
"How can I leave without your permission?" Shan Shi replied with a sigh: "Pei Shijun, Shao Fujun followed the king to visit Qi County, Jingling, Zhongdu and other places in the south, so I can only stay. Then.
Well, the Governor's Mansion has not been vacated yet, so someone must guard the door."
"That's it." Yu Liang looked at the rain outside the shed and suddenly wondered what would happen in Hebei?
"Why did Yuan Gui go north this time?" Shan Shihui asked after considering his words.
"Hanoi is transporting grain and grass to the north, and it is stationed in the mansions of Shangdang. When transporting grain, the servants and servants complained that the roads were in disrepair for a long time, and the carriages, horses and even people were damaged." Yu Liang said: "I have been traveling all the way, and it is true that
So, I am thinking about how to repair the post road."
"Yuan's rules are unacceptable!" Shan Shi heard this and quickly advised him: "We just fought a big battle last year, and now the people's strength has been exhausted. It's time to recuperate."
"Don't I know this?" Yu Liang said angrily.
The civil uprising in Runan had left him in disgrace. When he saw his brother-in-law's gloomy face, Yu Liang was really a little scared, and he still remembers it vividly.
"Of course we have to provide food for road construction." He continued: "This spring has been raining heavily and it has continued till summer. It seems that the harvest is about to fail. Maybe we can work for relief. I will report this matter to your Majesty, Shangdang, Jinyang.
The new post roads should also be reorganized, otherwise how will the supplies be transferred to the country during the Northern Expedition in the future?"
Shanshi looked embarrassed.
Yu Yuangui seems to be more "sensible". That's fine. If he is still not effective, what will happen in the future? He has been branded as the Yu family, and it is too late to jump ship.
"I'm not going into the city anymore. I'm going to the north to have a look." Yu Liang looked up at Jinyang, with a trace of ferocity on his dark face. He found a raincoat and put it on, called for his followers, and headed north.
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Thirty miles north of Jinyang there is Sanjiaoyi, named after the intersection of three roads.
A small earthen city was built next to Sanjiao Post. I heard that it was the headquarters of a certain Longxiang Mansion, and it seemed that the soldiers of the Mansion were to be placed there.
I just don’t know if there will be any money and food provided after the flood.
When we arrived at Shiling, a small earthen city was also built on the mountain, called "Shiling Pass", which was also the residence of Longxiang Mansion.
There are a few soldiers guarding Shiling Pass, and the accent is from Qingzhou. At the beginning of the year, the first batch of Qingzhou soldiers brought by Liu Ling, a foreign soldier, had returned to their hometown to work in farming (10,000 people when they went on the expedition, but more than 6,000 were left when they returned home)
, the second batch of 5,000 people came to rotate.
Shiling Pass was so full of grain, probably more than 400,000 hu of dendrobium, that the soldiers had no place to live.
Yu Liang felt relieved after seeing it.
The grain stored in the sheep intestine warehouse in the northwest of Jinyang is slowly increasing, and it is said that it has exceeded 700,000 dendrobium.
These two areas are on relatively high ground and are not likely to be flooded. They will certainly play a huge role in the future.
On the first day of June, Yu Liang and dozens of his followers passed through Jiuyuan (now Xinzhou) and Jinchang (now Yuanpingnan, northwest of Dingxiang) and arrived at the junction of Xinxing and Yanmen counties.
When he boarded the long embankment of the river, he suddenly saw the mighty water rushing in, even mixed with many fallen trees and the corpses of people and animals swept away.
In the river, there were more living people floating and sinking, arms outstretched and shouting, but after a while there was no sound.
If no one dares to rescue him, he will be killed.
Yu Liang frowned and looked at the mountains and hills to the left and right.
The herding people yelled and hid in a place they thought was safe with a large group of cattle and sheep. But as he hid, he discovered that something was wrong. It turned out that the creek in the mountains that had been dry for many years suddenly flooded, carrying a large amount of water.
The livestock rushed straight down.
The creek was full of bluestones, which quickly sank after collisions between humans and animals.
The rain is still falling and the water level is still rising.
The shepherds who were hiding on the side watched helplessly as the flood gradually reached the shore, so they tried their best to climb higher.
A cow or sheep accidentally slipped into the water and was swept away in an instant.
Someone fell into the river, hugging the trees washed down from the upper reaches and shouting.
The power of heaven and earth is so great!
Yu Liang saw the two groups fighting, and his followers also looked solemn.
Many of them have been on the battlefield and fought face-to-face with thieves, but they suddenly felt powerless when faced with the power of nature.
"If Bingzhou is like this, what will happen to Hebei? The Hutuo River flows to Jizhou, right?" Yu Liang murmured: "Jizhou, the rain in Youzhou is heavier than that in Bingzhou, how many people will die?"
Even if water conservancy facilities are perfect, there is no way to prevent a disaster of this level, not to mention the fact that many years of war have caused the Pichi to become clogged and abandoned.
"Boom!" A loud noise erupted from the north. Yu Liang looked up and saw many trees being swept down and repeatedly impacting the river bank.
His eyelids twitched.
Among the trees, there seemed to be many civilians and sergeants mixed in. They should be representatives of Yanmen County in the north.
"General, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time." A follower advised: "The power of heaven and earth is beyond the power of human beings. If we stay any longer, there may be unexpected disasters."
Yu Liang turned around and looked around.
Yancun is lonely and has few registered households. Except for a few herdsmen, there are few farmers.
In this case, the bad thing is that there are not enough manpower to be recruited for disaster relief, and the good thing is that there seems to be little need for disaster relief...
"Where is Mr. Liu Fu?" Yu Liang suddenly asked.
"I heard that we are going to Dingxiang County. This county straddles both sides of the Hutuo River. It is likely to be severely affected. Mr. Liu must have summoned people to strengthen the dam." A follower replied: "This is barely the upper reaches of the Hutuo River, and the middle and lower reaches are probably the worst.
It’s terrible.”
Yu Liang was stunned. After a moment, he sighed: "Let's go back to Jinchang County."
Such a catastrophe is rare in the world and cannot be undone by humans.
Besides, this may not be the worst time of the disaster...
At this time, should King Liang be thankful that there were no disasters in Henan? In the end, Bingzhou and Hebei still relied on Yu and Yanzhou to support themselves.
This is not the first time. King Liang should know who is his strongest support, right?
Things were just as Yu Liang and others had guessed.
By mid-June, flash floods occurred all over Taihang, and mudslides occurred frequently.
The giant pines that had grown for many years collapsed to the ground under the power of heaven and earth, and were swept by the floods towards the land of Hebei.
Some valleys were directly filled by mudslides.
Some river valleys have directly turned into natural ponds, and even barrier lakes hang dangerously on top, like time bombs.
Changshan, Zhongshan and other counties have already suffered floods due to heavy rains. After the Hutuo River surged across the board, they are in dire straits.
After the flash floods washed down countless mud, rocks and giant trees, the counties in northern Jizhou were completely paralyzed.
Liu Chou, the governor of Jizhou, reported: "It rained heavily in Zhongshan and Changshan, especially in Hutuo. The Hutuo overflowed, and the valleys were swamped. Giant pines were uprooted and floated in Hutuo, as far as the Bohai Sea in the east, and everything in between was like mountains."
From the eastern foothills of the Taihang Mountains to the Bohai Sea, across the entire Hebei province, downed trees can be seen everywhere in the wilderness.
Some people roughly estimate that millions of trees were washed down.
There may not be many people alive in the Taihang Mountains, and the people in Jizhou and Youzhou also suffered heavy casualties.
Reading through history books, it seems that there has never been such a severe flood.
The drought and locust plague almost ten years ago were also rare in ancient times. The Luo River and the Yellow River were cut off, and the Huai River could be forded directly. The locusts ate up all the vegetation, including cattle, horse hair, and leather...
The Jin Dynasty was really full of disasters!
Chapter completed!