Three hundred and forty-eight chapters life is full of thunder
Chapter 348: There are thunders everywhere in life
Li You stood on the edge of the Gaojiayan Embankment and looked to the west. Hongze Lake stretched as far as the eye could see, with surging waves. The oncoming west wind was quite fierce, setting off waves of powerful lake waves that beat against the masonry wall at his feet.
The sight of the lake made Mr. Li feel guilty. If he had nothing to do to enjoy the scenery, he could sing a song "The stormy waves crashed on the shore and rolled up thousands of piles of snow." But now that he was here to prevent floods, there was no such leisurely elegance.
He had grown up by Taihu Lake since he was a child. It was not that he had never seen a big lake, but this was the first time he had seen such a turbulent lake.
Mr. Li looked at the lake, then looked at the fields inside the embankment. After a little gesture, his heart tightened again. Why did he feel that the lake surface was higher than the ground here?
This is not Li You's illusion. First, after the Huaihe River flows into Hongze Lake, the water flow slows down and the sediment sinks. Secondly, the Yellow River often overflows and inflows, and the water level of Hongze Lake basically continues to rise due to siltation year after year. Compare now with several years ago.
Compared with ten years ago, the water level of the Huai River and Hongze in this area is probably more than a few feet higher.
Gaojiayan has one weir ambassador and 500 weir cadres, but the ambassador went to the more important place at the northern end of Hongze Lake. Fortunately, Li You was left with several old river workers and 150 weir cadres.
A river worker comforted Master Li and said, "Sir, don't worry too much. Although this year's flood situation is severe and the water intensity is rare in recent years, the weir and embankment were just raised three feet last year and the masonry wall was reinforced with bluestone. If we don't encounter this problem within ten years,
We can still cope with flash floods that are rare in a century."
After listening to the experts' words, Li You felt a little relieved.
The water surface of Hongze Lake these days is not as weird as Li You's previous life. It is shaped like a rugby ball. The eastern edge is Gaojiayan and the southern tip is Sizhou. The southern line of Hongze Lake that Mr. Li is responsible for includes
The southern half of Gaojiayan is more than 40 miles away, as well as Hongze Lake in Sizhou and along the Huaihe River.
Gaojiayan is both a large embankment and a highway from Huai'an to Sizhou. Li You went south from the middle of the east bank of Hongze Lake and inspected various embankments along the Gaojiayan.
The road above the weir is straight, shaded by willows, with lakes and water on one side and pastoral scenery on the other. However, the quiet scenery is broken by flood warning knights flying by from time to time. Li You once again sighed, how wonderful it would be if it were not for flood prevention.
After spending two days, Mr. Li painstakingly walked the more than 40-mile Gaojiayan section he was responsible for from north to south. Several key nodes were surveyed and there were no problems.
At this point, Li You breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he could survive the flood season safely. Although the water was indeed strong, the dams were tight, which was reassuring. He was not so unlucky to encounter a once-in-a-century flood, right?
Even if we encounter a once-in-a-hundred-year flood, our boss will definitely try to protect the Qingjiang Estuary area downstream in the north. His southern route is a little far from the canal, and most likely he will open floodgates to release floods to reduce the pressure on the northern downstream. He doesn't have to worry about flood control. So.
The governor has really arranged a relatively easy location for himself.
There are one hundred and fifty people in the weir dike, and he divides them into fifty groups of three. For each mile of the weir dike, one group is assigned to patrol and inspect. If there is an emergency, one group will pass the message to the other group in a relay style. If there is any
The news can be spread throughout the entire area within half an hour.
On this day, Mr. Li walked to the dam at the southeastern end of Hongze Lake. Gaojiayan had reached the end. A river worker pointed to the west and said: "Going west past Guishan, we will reach Sizhou City, which is located at the intersection of Huaihu Lake.
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Li You thought, after finishing the inspection of the Gaojiayan section, it was time to go to Sizhou City in the other direction to the southwest to have a look, and also to find the magistrate to discuss the recruitment of civil servants.
This Sizhou is still under the jurisdiction of Fengyang Prefecture. Although it is regarded as the land of Longfei, the ancestor of Emperor Gao, its heyday was during the Tang and Song dynasties. This is all because Sizhou Linhuai River controls Bianshui River. At that time, it was from Jiangnan to
The capital's water transportation hub.
At that time, the canal passed through here. Sizhou at that time was like Yangzhou today. Sizhou at that time was known as "the time when the official boats and passengers were full of breams in Huaibian, and the cars and horses were rushing around without stopping." Its prosperity can be seen
Just imagine.
It is a pity that since the Yellow River moved southward, it is now full of tears to talk about it. After the water control strategy of storing clear water and flushing yellow water was launched, Sizhou, which was frequently threatened by the artificial lake Hongze Lake, became a sad city.
The Sizhou city that Mr. Li visited in the eighth year of Jinghe's reign has been surrounded by the Huai River and Hongze Lake for decades. Thousands of feet of dams were built around the city to prevent floods, and even the city wall was built in two layers for flood prevention.
This pattern is probably unique in the world.
Shi Ren said that Sizhou City is like a basin floating on the water. When there is no flood, it is an empty basin. When there is a flood, it is a basin filled with water. After Li Youli saw it with his own eyes from a high place, he admitted that he said
That's quite right.
After years of disasters, Sizhou is no longer the Sizhou of Huai-Bian with endless wind and moon.
Li You did not enter the city in a hurry, nor did he make his name public. He first walked around the nine-mile city wall and the surrounding embankments, and finally stood on the two-foot-high embankment in the northeast direction outside the city.
Is the water surface of the Huaihe River or the water of Hongze Lake under my feet? No one can tell. The Huaihe River flows into Hongze Lake from here, and Hongze Lake receives the water of the Huaihe River here. However, the shape of this water surface is relatively long and narrow, and Li Youning can regard it as a river.
understand.
In fact, it doesn't matter what you think. What really caught Mr. Li's attention was not the water surface, but the other side of the water.
There is also a levee on the opposite side that is comparable to this one. This makes Li You feel very strange. The levee here is built to protect Sizhou City. Why is the levee on the opposite side wasted on building the levee?
After calling the workers across the river, Mr. Li pointed to the far northwest and asked, "What's the place on the other side?"
The river worker replied without hesitation: "It is where the ancestral mausoleum is."
Ancestor Mausoleum? Something seemed to move deep in Li You's memory, and he frowned and thought hard.
"So that's where the royal ancestral mausoleum is." Lord Li's soldiers talked a lot.
In the blink of an eye, Li You finally dug out what he was looking for from the memories of his two lives. In his previous life, he seemed to have seen some news. A drought in Hongze Lake caused the water level to drop. Gusi was submerged during the Kangxi period.
Zhou Mingzu Mausoleum reappears after 300 years...
Emperor Gao ordered Prince Zhu Biao to preside over the construction of the Zuling Mausoleum during the Hongwu period, and it was finally completed during the Yongle period. It is the tomb of three generations of ancestors, including the grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather of Emperor Taizu Zhu Chongba. It is the same as the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum and the Nanjing Xiao Mausoleum.
The mausoleum is also known as the three major mausoleums in the early years of the Guo Dynasty.
It turns out that Li You didn't think that these things would have something to do with him, so he buried them in the depths of his memory without caring. Now that he is recalling them, he is standing on the embankment in the cold wind, but his forehead is sweating.
Was it submerged? Was the Zuling Mausoleum submerged? The water level in Hongze Lake rose to the point where the dam could no longer be maintained? Sizhou City and the Zuling Mausoleum sank to the bottom of the lake together?
This is known as the birthplace of Yaoling, the founding site of the Emperor, and a treasure land related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty!
The "pseudo-Qing" Kangxi Dynasty submerged the Ming Dynasty's ancestral mausoleums, which is nothing, but it is still the Ming Dynasty. In whose hands the ancestral mausoleums were submerged and sank to the bottom of the lake, no one with eighteen heads can afford the compensation!
There were obviously many people talking and laughing around him, but Li You stood alone by the water. This is the loneliness of a prophet.
It is inevitable that human affairs will change after time travel, but the movement of nature and heaven will not be affected by human affairs. The water in Hongze Lake will still rise when it should rise.
Mr. Li, who cherishes his life and cherishes his life, can't help but think wildly. How many years are there between the Kangxi period and now? The flood is very strong this year, won't it be unbearable again? He will not be so unlucky...