When Wei Renpu heard that the imperial edict had arrived, he was excited.
Suddenly he got up.
When the members of the special river management team got the news, they were dumbfounded. w_/a_/p_/\_/.\_/c\_/o\_/m
The army went north to participate in river control???
The sun suddenly separated from the southeast and northwest?
Although the Luo Yu court was strict in running the army, the soldiers from all directions no longer looked like bandits in the past.
But the scar memories of the past are not so easy to erase...
Especially these civil servants, the older ones have personal experience, while the younger ones like Guo He will also learn about the deeds of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the warriors who brought trouble to the world, in books, and everyone will be filled with righteous indignation every time they read about it.
Although later scholars did not experience this era, people of this era recorded all the atrocities committed by warriors in books, pointing out a way for future generations to suppress military commanders and soldiers.
This is also the reason why since the Song Dynasty, the Han Dynasty has been very jealous and hostile towards military generals.
A man of letters who masters the pen can make trouble even for an emperor who is displeased with him, let alone a military man?
The literati of later generations were black for the sake of being black. The literati of the Luo and Yu court had personally experienced the era when warriors brought trouble to the world. They were truly black and distrustful from the bottom of their hearts.
When they heard that 130,000 imperial troops were heading north, most people doubted their own ears.
Only Wei Renpu had tears in his eyes.
The current situation of the Yellow River is very critical. Once the river embankment breaks, hundreds of thousands of fields in Chanzhou and Huazhou, as well as the people in the two states, are at risk of becoming a swamp.
In the face of such a natural disaster, Wei Renpu, as the commander-in-chief of the emergency response, has been in close contact with Luo Youdu of Bianjing.
The distance between Chanzhou and Bianjing is only three hundred miles. It takes less than half a day to reach the imperial court by horse, but it is even faster by pigeon.
Many times, we communicate with each other as many as five or six times a day.
Wei Renpu did not dare to speak openly to the surrounding officials in Chanzhou, but he expressed his position in the secret letter to Luo Youdu: Chanzhou and Huazhou's geographical location and economic environment are not the top priority. Once a disaster occurs, the impact will be too great.
Discharging floods in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River north can minimize losses.
This is a last resort.
In addition, Wei Renpu also thought of a plan.
In order to reduce pressure on the Yellow River, they opened a diversion project and adopted a segmented construction method.
Each member of the river management action team is responsible for a section of the project, and a careful calculation only requires the connectivity of each stage.
If the connection works overtime, there may be a chance to complete the project ahead of schedule before the flood is discharged.
In this way, the Yellow River water can be diverted to the canals they built, thereby reducing the flood control pressure during the flood and slide stages.
But Wei Renpu had no hope for this method.
The reason is that there is not enough manpower.
In the past six months, the imperial court had recruited corvees three times, using nearly one million manpower.
Luo Youdu was not Yang Guang. He caught the people and fucked them to the bottom. The people dug ditches in the water, and their skin under the water was infested with maggots without taking a break.
For the corvee work of the entire project, Luo Youdu made effective and reasonable arrangements with the prime ministers of the Council.
For the first time, 250,000 people were recruited for a period of three months.
The second recruitment of 400,000 people lasted for the same three months.
The third time is 300,000 yuan, preparing to complete the project in the last three months...
In this final stage of retreat, the court did not prepare for the next wave of corvee labor and wanted to give the people time to rest.
Disasters and floods wait for no one. It would take more than ten days to mobilize labor and assemble a certain scale of people at the last moment, and there is simply no time.
Wei Renpu didn't think about the soldiers at all.
Even though Wei Renpu had been working in the Privy Council all year round and had long-term contact with the military, he did not believe that warrior soldiers would go north for reinforcements at this time.
But the fact is that 130,000 imperial troops have arrived.
Wei Renpu saw hope. The discipline, strength, and endurance of the forbidden army were beyond the comparison of ordinary corvee people.
If they follow the arrangements wholeheartedly and connect the canals, the efficiency will be far better than the budget.
Wei Renpu said with a cry: "Quick, don't be stunned. Everyone goes back to their own places and buys time for our soldiers. Before they connect to the canal, we must prevent the embankment breach from happening at all costs."
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The members of the special operations team for river management recovered from the state of disbelief and disbelief. The blood in their bodies was ignited. They all loudly agreed, put on their raincoats, and strode away in the rain.
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The northern foothills of Guangwu Mountain.
Kong Jiade, the commander of Si Hujie's army, watched the three soldiers pry another big rock embedded in the ground. They tried their best but couldn't shake the rock at all. He cursed: "A few useless... idiots, they won't do it."
Do you know how to use your brain? It’s up to you, Uncle Kong!”
He threw the hundred kilograms of rocks in his hand on the ground and circled around the rocks.
The large mountain stone only weighs five to six hundred kilograms. It is not difficult to move a few of them together, but only a small part of the large mountain stone is in the soil, so it cannot be moved by human power alone.
When the three soldiers saw Kong Jiade approaching, they couldn't help showing a bit of fear on their faces, and they all took two steps back.
They were all soldiers of the Hujie Army, and the three of them had heard of Kong Jiade's name.
Kong Jiade, nicknamed Kong Yibiao, was a veteran of the Hujie Army with superb martial arts skills, fierceness and unruliness.
The predecessor of the Hujie Army was Feng Bao of the Later Han Dynasty, and was ruled by Shi Hongzhao, the most powerful general of the Later Han Dynasty.
Shi Hongzhao was a standard martial artist of the Five Dynasties, ferocious and murderous. After he became the assistant minister, as long as the courtiers and officials made the slightest mistake, they would be executed directly regardless of the seriousness of the crime. He was responsible for the security of the capital, and some people spread rumors that he would gather those who spoke.
They were all killed and the rumors stopped immediately.
Kong Jiade was an executioner under Shi Hongzhao, and his hands were stained with the blood of countless innocent people.
Many years after the fall of the Later Han Dynasty, Kong Jiade's evil reputation was still widely spread among the army, and everyone was frightened.
Kong Jiade was accustomed to the attitude of a soldier. Before, he was complacent and felt that he was great. But as he got older, his son died in a vendetta, and his grandson grew up, his mentality changed a little, and he became a little sad.
"Come on, hollow out the left side here!"
He ordered his soldiers to dig a deep pit on the left side of the big mountain rock, then found a stone block on the right side to cushion it, and used a crowbar to press down on the stone. The big mountain stone was pried out of the ground under the principle of leverage.
The surrounding soldiers looked straight at him.
Kong Jiade said smugly: "How about it? This is called the leverage principle, and our grandson taught it."
When he said this, he looked proud.
People around me also praised me a lot.
Kong Jiade waved his hand and said, "Okay, stop flattering me and work for me. Work harder. When you complete the task, you can flatter me as you please."
As he spoke, he lifted up the hundred-jin boulder he had dropped earlier and strode forward with a burning gaze.
There is only one thought in my mind, "Xiao Rui'er, Yeye really embarrassed you before. In the future, Yeye will not let people look down on you. Yeye will become a soldier in His Majesty's mouth, and the knife in his hand will no longer be used against his own people. If only
It would have been better if I had met His Majesty earlier..."
Thinking of the "Letter to All Luo Yu Soldiers" written by Luo Youdu, Kong Jiade felt that his whole body was full of strength.