Takeda Nobu was on duty outside the palace gate, and his attention was quickly attracted by the sound of engines coming one after another.
Prime Minister Tong Hegui of Guangxi and Governor Bayi arrived one after another.
Under the guidance of the palace guards, the two got out of the car and prepared to meet King Gui.
The two of them looked at each other, and the moment they saw each other, they knew something big was going on.
King Gui Qutian urgently summoned the prime minister and the governor, and the matters discussed were definitely extraordinary.
When they saw Nobu Takeda standing guard outside the door, they realized that something was unusual.
The leader of the Divine Eagle Guard would not normally be summoned by King Gui Qutian together with the officials.
The Eagle Guard is the eagle dog in the hands of King Gui. It must maintain its independence and mystery in order to play its greatest role.
Both officials ignored Takeda Nobu, and directly led by the eunuch, they entered the palace to receive the summons from King Gui Qutian.
King Qutian of Gui saw Prime Minister Tong Hegui and Governor Bayi entering the palace together to prepare to salute.
"I will be fine without any ceremony." King Qutian of Gui ordered with a wave of his hand.
"I have summoned my two beloved ministers to come here. A major event has happened that affects our country.
The Divine Eagle Guard received news that a flood peak occurred in the upper reaches of the Danube River. Not only did Wu State fail to control the flood, they also opened the gates of the reservoirs along the way to release water.
They are preparing to flood our country, and there is no time to delay now.
The Danube River embankments in our country may burst at any time.
We must handle this matter properly and discuss our country's attitude."
After hearing the news, Governor Bayi immediately stood up excitedly and said angrily: "Your Majesty, we absolutely cannot tolerate this matter.
Wu State is in the upper reaches of the Danube River, and we are in the lower reaches of the Danube River.
Wu State built a reservoir to seize the flow of the Danube River. This matter is still under discussion.
But the State of Wu was preparing to open the floodgates and release water when the flood was about to break out. They deliberately released the water in order to flood our country.
The Danube River may not release water every year, but Wu State can release water every year.
Once we tolerate this incident, we will not only be unable to unite our allies with this incident.
The State of Wu will also push its limits and use floods to contain our country.
In response to Wu Guo's actions, we must retaliate severely.
There have been a lot of frictions between our country and the State of Wu, and now we are avenging old and new grudges together.
What Wu Guo did will not be tolerated by the world.
Our country went to war with Wu State because of this matter, and the empire did not have enough reasons to intervene in this war."
Prime Minister Tong Hegui heard that Governor Bayi was clamoring for war, but he did not refute.
He knew that after Wu had done this, the war between the two countries had already entered a countdown.
King Qutian of Gui will not tolerate Wu doing this, and the people of Gui will not tolerate it either.
Prime Minister Tong Hegui listened to Governor Bayi's angry vent.
He said in a solemn tone: "The most important thing for us now is to reduce the harm of floods.
This matter must be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late."
Governor Bayi spread his hands and said, "It's too late now. I can immediately send a telegram to inform the troops downstream to break camp and head to higher ground immediately.
They even carried sandbags and other supplies and stood guard on the river embankment.
The imperial army has always been the main force fighting floods.
Our Gui army has inherited this excellent quality.
The military can enforce orders and prohibitions, and they also carry radios so they can receive orders in a timely manner.
The government was simply unable to mobilize the people along the coast to take action immediately.
Officials received the telegram and organized the evacuation of the people.
This will take at least three to five days. Do not have confidence in our officials.
The empire's mobilization ability is very strong, and even they were unable to mobilize the people to move on the same day."
Prime Minister Tong Hegui partially agreed with what Governor Bayi said.
He still insisted: "No matter how difficult it is, we must let officials mobilize the people to relocate.
To what extent it can be achieved is a matter of ability.
Whether to do it or not is a matter of attitude.
The people have a high tolerance for the limited capabilities of the government.
The people saw that the government treated them like cattle and horses, causing them to directly suffer disasters.
This will make them realize that the government is useless and help each other on their own, which will cause big problems in the future."
King Gui Qutian heard the two arguing about this matter.
He tapped the table lightly with his hand and reminded: "Things have priorities, and these things can be dealt with in the future.
Tong Aiqing should know that the imperial court's investment in the Danube embankment is very limited.
They simply cannot withstand the arrival of the flood peak.
The Danube River embankments are about to burst, and major floods are likely to occur across the country.
It is urgent to solve this problem now.”
When Governor Bayi heard the question from King Gui Qutian, he immediately became silent.
He can give several insights on how to mobilize troops to fight a war, or even to fight a flood.
But when asked how to fight floods, he couldn't give any effective method.
Pretending to understand and making random ideas will lead to extremely serious consequences, and he will never do this.
Prime Minister Tong Hegui pondered for a moment, weighing the pros and cons of the various options in his mind.
"Your Majesty, the occurrence of floods is unavoidable. What we can do now is to minimize the damage caused by floods.
Xuanjing Mansion must be protected. The destruction of the capital by floods will directly collapse the faith of our people, and potential allies will also think that our country will be defeated in one blow.
Xuanjingfu is also the most complete industrial province in my country.
The industrial chains of the steel industry, textile industry, electric power industry, and military industry are relatively complete.
Agricultural areas are destroyed and we can purchase food from the empire.
The empire has always been very open to food exports. As long as you have silver coins, you can obtain a large amount of food.
Agricultural areas were destroyed and it was very easy to rebuild.
With sufficient manpower and agricultural machinery, the affected areas can resume production within a year.
Once industrial areas are destroyed, most of the industrial chains we have worked so hard to build will be scrapped.
The most critical point is that businessmen who invested in our country suffered heavy losses.
Once this reputation spreads, no businessmen will invest in our country.
If we only rely on our own strength to develop industry, we will lag far behind other countries."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Prime Minister Tong Hegui first introduced the different values of industrial areas and agricultural areas, paving the way for the dilemma he is about to talk about.
Governor Bayi muttered in a low voice: "You literati are not straightforward at all in your work."
King Gui Qutian has been waiting for Prime Minister Tong Hegui to tell him the answer he wants.
The flood is bound to break out, and with Gui Guo's ability, there is simply no way to stop this disaster.
The only thing Gui Guo can do is to choose where the floods will mainly break out.
Prime Minister Tong Hegui gritted his teeth and prepared to propose the most suitable plan he thought of.
This plan, not to mention him as the Prime Minister, even ordinary people can come up with it.
But making this choice will inevitably lead to a lot of criticism.
His reputation will definitely not be maintained.
Prime Minister Tong Hegui was heartbroken and said: "Your Majesty, the matter is very clear. We can only try our best to protect Xuanjing Mansion.
In order to save the Xuanjing Mansion, I suggested taking the initiative to blow up the river embankment and divert the flood to Fuping Province.
Fuping Province is located in a low-lying area and is a suitable flood storage land.
After the floods pass through Fuping Province and merge into the Danube River again through tributaries, the water volume becomes controllable and will not affect other provinces."
When Prime Minister Tong Hegui said the name Fuping Province, he sighed.
This is the best choice. Fuping Province is right next to Xuanjing Palace and where the Danube River flows.
The most critical point is that it is a planned agricultural province.
The farmers in your country are mainly natives of the Holy Roman Empire.
These blond and blue-eyed people were affected by the flood. No matter how many people died, they were just a series of numbers.
If Xuanjing Mansion suffers too much damage from the flood, it will inevitably cause domestic turmoil.
Aboriginal people may be dissatisfied with Thongping Province being used as a flood discharge site.
But this is a flood in your country, and the source is the state of Wu.
As long as public opinion is propagated properly, the hatred of these aboriginal people can be completely transferred to the Wu State, which will instead increase the integration of the aboriginal people into the Gui State.
After Gui Wang Qutian listened to Prime Minister Tong Hegui's suggestion, he sighed and said: "The current situation has developed to this point, and that can only be so.
The cabinet and the Metropolitan Government must work closely together to enable our country to survive this crisis at the lowest cost possible.
For Fuping Province, the court must notify the local people of what happened.
The cabinet organized private ships to go to Phu Ping Province to rescue people.
Post-disaster preparations must also be kept up. Plague is usually followed after a flood, and there must be no signs of the plague spreading."
Prime Minister Tong Hegui and Governor Bayi heard the instructions from King Gui Qutian, and they accepted the task with solemn expressions.
The two left the palace with heavy hearts. The telegraph machines and telephones of the Cabinet and the Governor's Office began to ring at high frequency.
The cabinet and the governor's office immediately entered a busy state, and the Gui Kingdom's court was operating at full capacity for the first time.
While dealing with this flood, we are also preparing for war.
King Gui Qutian opened the door and saw Takeda Nobu, the commander of the Eagle Guard, standing guard.
"I hope that the Eagle Guard will receive good results."
Takeda Nobu stood up straight and gave a standard military salute.
"The Eagle Guard will never betray the king's trust."
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On the river embankment at night, the diesel generator roared.
The electricity it emits lights up incandescent lamps, illuminating every inch of land on the river embankment.
Your soldiers are piling up sandbags on the river embankment.
Chief of Staff Zhu Mingming wiped the sweat from his forehead. He looked at the rising river embankment, picked up the microphone and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the river water is rising very fast. We must pile more sandbags on the river embankment.
Wu State showed no mercy and chose to release floodwater downstream during the rainy season. They just wanted to flood our country.
Our country must never surrender. We must believe that man can conquer nature and rely on our efforts to stop the ravages of the river."
I wish the chief of staff continued to encourage the soldiers.
He knew that the soldiers were very tired, but now they were just fighting for time, and they must not let the river embankment break now.
Behind the levee, there are millions of acres of wheat that are about to mature.
The wheat will basically be lost, but there are still millions of people surviving in Fuping Province.
Zhu Mingming, Chief of Staff, must grab more time and let local officials try to inform as many people as possible.
The local people were unable to evacuate to higher ground. Even if they stood on the roof, they would have a better chance of survival than if they were washed away by floods in their sleep.
Chief of Staff Zhu Mingming kept shouting at various places on the river embankment, and he found that the ground under his feet suddenly became muddy.
The river water was rising very fast, and they had already overflowed the river embankment and were constantly impacting the sandbag wall on the river embankment.
While Chief of Staff Zhu Mingming was frowning, a correspondent quickly ran towards him.
"Chief of Staff, the governor's phone number."
When Chief of Staff Zhu Mingming heard the news, he immediately walked to the phone and picked up the microphone that was placed aside.
He heard a very familiar voice coming from the other side of the phone.
"The river embankment in Xuanjing Mansion can no longer bear it. I wish you, Chief of Staff, to blow up the embankment marked by water conservancy experts immediately."
Chief of Staff Zhu Mingming immediately replied: "Understood, blow up the river embankment immediately."
After he put down the phone, he picked up another phone, answered the call a moment later, and immediately ordered: "I order the engineering corps to blow up the river embankment immediately."
Chief of Staff Zhu Mingming held the phone in his hand and looked into the distance.
A moment later, there was a loud boom, and a huge fireball appeared on the river bank one kilometer away from him.
The explosives directly blasted the river embankment, creating a gap more than 100 meters long.
The raging river water poured directly from the gap and headed straight to Fuping Province, a major agricultural province in Guizhou.
Chief of Staff Zhu Mingming knows that fire and water are ruthless. After this flood, no one knows how many people will be affected.
The Wu State that caused all these evil consequences will definitely return with his army to take revenge.
Prime Minister Tong Hegui had been guarding the river embankment. He saw that the flood water that was about to overflow the river embankment suddenly dropped sharply.
He knew that the river embankments had been blown upstream, and all the surging floods would be borne by Fuping Province.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is a helpless choice. Only by making this choice can Gui Guo's losses be minimized.
But making this choice is indeed very uncomfortable.
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Mao Dashan, the captain of the Condor Guard team, is a senior agent hiding in the Kingdom of Wu.
He never thought that he would be assigned such a difficult task.
His identity is just an ordinary fireworks craftsman in Wu State.
This is probably why the Eagle Guard chose it.
Wu State has relatively strict control over explosives, and people with lower status can only obtain black powder.
As a fireworks maker, he stocked a large amount of black powder in his workshop.
The power of black powder can destroy river embankments without any problem.
Mao Dashan prepared everything. He took the members of the Eagle Guard who came from nearby and used a tractor to pull black powder and rushed to the river embankment.
It's still raining in the sky, and not many people go out on heavy rainy days.
Many of them carried fishing nets and pretended to be fishermen and went to the river to catch fish.
Mao Dashan was very familiar with this area. When he came to the river embankment, he looked for someone who was walking away.
Several people responsible for the cover pretended to be fishing on the river embankment.
Others dug holes in the river embankment and stuffed the packed black powder into the dug holes.
Mao Dashan looked at the river embankment that was about to be blown up. This was a bend in the river.
As long as this place is torn open, the raging river will continue to expand the gap.
If they were even discovered, they would not be able to close the gap in time.
"Captain, we have finished setting off the gunpowder."
The corner of Mao Dashan's mouth was slightly raised. The gunpowder was wrapped in oil paper and detonated by fire. There was no need to worry about the humid environment and the fuze failure.
He looked at everyone and whispered: "Let's go up the river embankment and prepare to evacuate."
While Mao Dashan was talking, he began to evacuate downstream of the river embankment, lowering the lead wire as he walked.
They voluntarily evacuated to a safe area, dug a pit underground, and hid in the pit filled with mud and water.
Mao Dashan pulled the fuse in his hand hard, and the fire in the black powder was directly pulled to ignite.
He heard a dull sound, and smoke continued to rise from the river embankment in front of him. It was like a loose mound that was immediately washed away by the river water.
Mao Dashan clapped his hands excitedly, his mission had been successful, and immediately led the team members to evacuate.