There are no embankments in many areas of the Yangtze River, so there is no talk of the embankments breaking.
Still in Dongting Lake, northeast of the lake area.
Here is the Yuezhou City of the Tang Dynasty. The city is located at a high place, and the impact of the lake on the city is not great. But at the foot of a hillside outside the city, an old man with white hair stood stubbornly in the wind and rain, no matter how anyone tried to persuade him.
, and don’t want to leave even half a step.
"Old Changtou, what can't you let go of? Let's go!"
The old man named Chang still didn't move, staring at his kiln.
A group of sergeants also came over at this time, and the captain of the group shouted: "Leave quickly, this place will be flooded soon."
"If you don't leave, you won't leave even if you die!" Old Changtou screamed.
"Fight him away!" Two sergeants came over and started fighting him.
"If you put me down, I will be beheaded. The Supreme Emperor praised our tea cups at last year's tea party. It took me three months to prepare the clay and another full month to complete it.
Two hours away, just two hours away. This is a tribute, a tribute!"
Two hours, this is for the Supreme Emperor.
Several sergeants hesitated.
But the captain looked around, picked up a bucket, filled it with water, and poured it directly into the kiln: "Take it away."
"You bastard, bastard! My kiln, my cup!" After Lao Changtou shouted a few times, he fainted. But the captain said loudly: "His Royal Highness King Qin has an order, and there is no one."
Jin Gui. As long as this old guy lives, he can continue to burn ten furnaces and a hundred furnaces. If he dies, there will be nothing."
Yes, you can continue to burn while you are alive.
The apprentices, senior workers, and junior workers in this kiln quickly packed up important things, piled those that couldn't be moved into a room, and then piled wood at the door. Several apprentices carried Lao Chang's heads on their backs and ran quickly.
There are basically not many embankments in Dongting Lake, but there are some in several big cities.
Yuezhou is also a famous city in the Tang Dynasty.
As for this kiln, it is also very famous. From the Han Dynasty to the present, the celadon fired can be ranked among the top five in the entire Tang Dynasty. Some of its fine products have ranked third in the celadon category, and they are also famous in the records of the state and county.
kiln.
Many people felt sorry for this furnace, because the kiln would open in two hours. It was a pity, but no one knew about it at this time. In later generations, there was a method of adding water to fire porcelain, especially copper-red glaze. Old potter
The glaze uses feldspar, kaolin, and some copper powder mixed in.
The sudden appearance of water produced some mutations in the unquenched fire.
Most of the porcelain in the entire kiln was damaged, but one or two were preserved. However, they have become exquisite products that are almost impossible to produce anymore. This is naturally a story for a later time. Right now, it is said that the old potter was forcibly taken away.
, all the villages in this area were cleared.
"Report, all villages have been cleared."
A general who was commanding on the long embankment nodded when he heard this. At this time, the embankment had been raised to fifteen feet. I don't know how many grass roots were used and how many stones were thrown in, whether it could be blocked.
No one knows.
The women and children came over carrying dinner. The embankment was safe for the moment at least, unless there was another heavy rainstorm for several days.
As long as this embankment does not collapse, nothing will happen to Yuezhou City.
An ordinary captain took the hot porridge and took a sip. He looked back at the solid embankment and let out a long sigh of relief.
Fortunately, preparations had been made, otherwise it would not have been possible to build a one-foot-five-foot-high dike in such a short period of time to protect Yuezhou and, if possible, the surrounding villages 200 miles away.
At this time, an ordinary sergeant suddenly rushed to the embankment and sang loudly at the top of his voice.
After a hundred years of coma, China has gradually woken up; after letting the world go, who will accept it as a captive?...
A song accidentally sung by Li Yuanxing, Li Lanshan changed the lyrics, and invited more than a dozen famous songwriters and lyricists from Chang'an to refine it. With the background of Wuhuanhua, a Tang Dynasty version of the original song "The Great Wall Will Never Fall" appeared.
The only two sentences that remained untouched were: The Great Wall will never fall, and the Yellow River is surging!
It was not Li Yuanxing's request, nor Li Lanshan's suggestion. This is the words and phrases that no one is willing to change in many lyrics and music in Chang'an. Chinese civilization originated from the Yellow River, and the Great Wall was to resist foreign enemies. The five chaos of China destroyed much Chinese civilization, and the Great Wall is just a stone.
wall.
No matter how much this wall is built, it is still just a wall.
Emperor Li Er of the Tang Dynasty once said that the Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty had no walls. No matter how high or thick the defensive wall was, it was just a stone wall. However, the people of Chang'an were the strongest guards, so the palace did not need walls.
Li Yuanxing, King of Qin in the Tang Dynasty, also said.
The Great Wall is only a wall, but the Great Wall is a kind of belief. The Great Wall of flesh and blood built by the Iron Army of the Tang Dynasty will never fall.
Along the Yangtze River, 200,000 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, together with nearly a million young and strong local laborers, carried their hands and shoulders, and men and women went into battle. Sandbags 15 feet high and 50 feet wide were piled up at all key positions.
embankment.
Yuezhou City.
"Prefect, we must use military rations."
In each prefecture and county, the grain depots are divided into general warehouses and military warehouses. The military warehouses will never be used easily unless they are urgently needed. If my subordinates report like this, it means that the official warehouses have bottomed out. This is only a short time.
In just ten days, the granary has bottomed out.
"Empty?" The governor of Yuezhou didn't believe it. He had two million stones of grain stored in his granary. How could it be empty in just ten days? Could it be that someone made a false account, or someone
They were doing something secret. Thinking of this, the governor of Yuezhou took out a telegram: "Send the order, there is an imperial edict from the Holy One. Anyone who dares to make a fortune will have his or her house ransacked and his head beheaded."
"Prefect, don't worry. The granary is divided into three categories: upper, middle and lower. There are also rice, flour, corn and other grains. At the moment, only the middle and lower grains have been used up in the official granary, and the top grade grains have been exhausted.
It hasn't been moved yet. But even if it is moved, it will only take five days at most according to the current situation. These high-quality grains can be stored for more than a year."
"Buy grain, there are enough coins in the warehouse." Fu Yin immediately made up his mind.
The upper-grade grain is actually the new grain of that year and is of very good quality. The lower-grade grain is the old grain from last year.
"Carry this guy up the embankment!" Suddenly someone beat a gong and shouted throughout the city. At that moment, many people who had just returned home after working all day rushed out with tools. Fu Yin turned pale when he heard this
.It is not an accident that some of the temporary embankments are not strong enough.
But the rain continued, and the lake was less than three feet from the top of the embankment.
Once there is a hole, Yuezhou City will be in danger.
"Be ready to block the city gate at any time." Yuezhou Prefect Yin shouted. Then he also left the gate and ran out of the city following the flow of people.
After running a few steps, a wave of water came over and knocked hundreds of people to the ground.
"It's over!" Yuezhou Prefect's heart felt cold, and he turned around and ordered: "Block the city gate."
The city gate was closed, and sandbags were immediately piled up one after another. People leaving the city climbed up the city wall, and then ran down from the temporary wooden frame, knowing that the embankment might have burst. But the people in Yuezhou City still rushed one by one.
came out.
The old man Changtou also woke up and shouted to his disciples: "Go to the embankment!"
Using human walls to block floods and then filling them with rocks was not taught by Li Yuanxing, and no one knew that anyone had done this during the floods in Luoyang.
The soldiers of this army only knew that the military order they received was to fight the flood and protect Yuezhou.
"Go up the embankment!" I saw hundreds of Tang soldiers tied with ropes and jumping into the water. Countless voices shouted from all directions. In less than a few breaths, hundreds of stones and hundreds of sandbags were thrown into the water.
Come up. A team of ten people, carrying long wooden stakes, rushes in from a distance.
Can human power defeat God?
The Luoyang Flood has always been a story told by storytellers. But when the story came to reality, some people doubted that the story was true, while others suspected that the story was false.
"The Great Wall will never fall!" A sergeant sang loudly while in the water. Whether it was out of fear or to improve morale, he sang loudly. The seriously off-key voice also attracted many people to sing along.
More people rushed up the embankment, throwing countless stones and sandbags into the water.
Seeing that the breaches were getting smaller and smaller, until they were completely blocked, a shocking cheer suddenly erupted from the embankment.
The hundreds of Tang soldiers were pulled up. They were just lying in the muddy water with smiles on their faces.
"A Great Wall Will Never Fall Down" was sung once again. The super chorus of hundreds of thousands of people could be heard clearly even in Yuezhou City. With such a Tang army and such an iron-blooded Great Wall, I am proud to be a citizen of the Tang Dynasty.
During the singing, someone suddenly shouted: "I, I have food!"
Is there food? What does this mean? The people around the shouting person stopped singing, and many eyes were fixed on the thin man wearing linen clothes. This man is a big landowner, and a very big landowner.
, there are few people in Yuezhou City who don’t know him.
He has three sons, four wives, and seven daughters-in-law, but not a single grandson.
Many people say that he is too stingy and never does good deeds, so God is punishing him.
No matter whether this person is stingy or not, as long as he has food, the boss of Yuezhou Prefecture rushed to him: "How much food has Yuezhou Prefecture bought? There is not much food on the river embankment construction site."
"I won't sell it!" The skinny miser said every word, very firmly.
The eyes around him all changed, and this guy was still the same. But what if he didn't sell? The Tang Dynasty did not allow forced buying and selling, and there were corresponding protection laws for personal property, unless it was for extremely serious reasons that affected the country.
Only then can we take advantage of the opportunity. But right now, the military granary is still full, and the military granary is five times the size of an ordinary granary.
Soon, Fu Yin also came over and said with a cold face: "Two years ago, when we distributed fairy grain seeds, you were so shameless and used all your means to live in 50,000 acres for your family. You sold the grains
Yes, I’ll give you a high price.”
"I won't sell it!" the skinny miser said firmly.
Just when Fu Yin was about to get angry, this man suddenly said: "I donated, I donated!" He donated and shocked hundreds of people. This guy can also donate and do good deeds?
"I will donate ten million stones!" The huge number of ten million stones shocked thousands of people. Yuezhou Governor really doubted whether his ears had heard it wrong. But the man shouted: "I
Donate 10 million dan, all of which will be top-quality corn and potatoes."