Chapter 358: I can't come back if I want to come back
"" Chapter 358 I can't come back even if I want to.
Master Li, Wang Zhizhou, and Eunuch Hai were all on one mission, one was a local official, and the other was a eunuch guarding the mausoleum. This combination actually had the characteristics of Ming Dynasty officialdom, that is, there were checks and balances everywhere from the imperial court to local governments.
When Li You discovered that his fierce offensive seemed to be ferocious and achieved corresponding results, but it was still not enough to dismantle this check and balance, and there was even a bad sign that it would be weak in the follow-up before it was fully effective, so he immediately changed the method.
Make yourself one-on-two into two-on-one.
Only in this way can he prevent himself from being disintegrated. If the road goes dark, he will be really dark.
The reason why Li You was willing to choose to join forces with Eunuch Hai was because in a short period of time, he determined that Eunuch Hai was a person with a strong sense of self-protection and a high safety factor. Unlike Wang Zhizhou, who left many flaws and caused future troubles
Very big. If you have a choice, no one would want to choose a teammate who looks like a pig and be implicated.
Time is tight and we can no longer waste time with Wang Zhizhou and the five members of the Ma family.
After taking care of Eunuch Hai and asking him to write down some documents, Li You ordered five of his own soldiers to lead the Xuyi archers and escort Wang Zhizhou and five members of the Ma family to Xuyi prison for resettlement. Since he had made up his mind to destroy the embankment, Sizhou
It will soon be submerged in water, and criminals can easily escape in chaotic situations, so they must be moved to a relatively stable area as soon as possible.
Mr. Li had previously sent another person to search the Ma family's house, and they actually got some results and found some road signs.
The features marked on the road guides are all those of the Ma family father and son, but the names have all changed, and the household registration has become a business registration, and the road guides were signed by Wang Zhizhou. Comparing with the state government records, it was found that these road guides were
Sent the day before yesterday.
Preparing the road guide with a false name and identity in advance is indirect evidence. Most people would wonder why they prepared the road guide in advance and even left under the false name. Could it be that they knew the embankment would burst?
With this, Li You was more confident, but he had no time to examine it carefully for the time being. He would focus on evacuating the people. He first sent people to Xuyi Shangzhi County to spread the message, and according to the plan, he sent people to Shangzhi County in Xuyi to spread the word.
A pontoon bridge was built on the river to facilitate people to cross the river.
It was already the afternoon of the eighth day of September, and it had only taken one morning and one noon to return to Sizhou quietly, but Mr. Li seemed to have passed more than ten days.
All the other chores that needed to be done were done, and finally it was time to test his determination and will. Li You took a deep breath, handed the document in his hand to the river worker, and ordered: "Copy a few copies and post them in various places in Sizhou immediately.
I will open the door and send another copy to the state government office, and order the state government office servants to sound the gong to announce it."
The river worker responded with a serious look on his face.
Half an hour later, this short notice appeared at the gate of Sizhou City. "It is now found that Wang, the main hall of Sizhou, ordered a traitor named Ma to dig the ancestral mausoleum embankment in the dark of night, causing the embankment to collapse early this morning.
The floods have reached the inner dike under the wall of the ancestral mausoleum, and the ancestral mausoleum is in danger. In order to ensure that the dragon's veins are safe, the west embankment of Sizhou city will be breached at noon on the 10th day of the lunar month to release the flood. People inside and outside can temporarily evacuate to Xuyi and return to their hometowns after the flood subsides.
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Originally there was no last sentence, but after reading it, Eunuch Hai added the sentence "return to his hometown after the flood subsides".
The imperial envoy Mr. Li ordered to break the embankment and release the flood! The whole Sizhou City suddenly became lively. Yes, it was just lively, not panic.
This was completely beyond Li You's expectation. He thought it would cause a huge chaos, just like the escape scenes he saw in disaster movies in his previous life.
Moreover, he also prepared a eloquent speech with thousands of words, bribed dozens of strong men from Yujia Village to protect him, and thought about how to resolve it if local people gathered to protest. He also planned an escape route. If he was besieged, he would run to
Go to the ancestral mausoleum on the other side of the river.
Unexpectedly, the people of Sizhou were so busy facing the flood that they had no time to come to Mr. Li, the culprit, to protest, and all his preparations were in vain.
These people just lowered their heads and took the time to pack up their belongings. They carried pots, bowls, rice bags, and soft boxes to cage their children. Those with cars got on and those with boats got on boats. Those without cars or boats walked. Groups of families headed east in groups.
Fortunately, Xuyi Highland is only ten miles away from Sizhou City, so you don't have to be too tired to escape. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to evacuate the people in two days.
Regarding Li Langjun's doubts, Mrs. Yu, who was also carrying a parcel and ready to run away at any time, explained: "We in Sizhou have been living like this for more than a hundred years, and we are used to fleeing to avoid floods."
No wonder Eunuch Hai added that sentence at the end of the notice just to appease the people according to their sentiments.
After counting, it was hard for Li You, who had been living in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, to imagine that there was only a few thousand households in the city and its surrounding areas, with a population of less than 30,000. This is how the Huaihe River and Hongze Lake have grown over the past century.
Trauma to Sizhou.
However, it’s okay, if the number of people is small, there will be less trouble. Counties around 20,000 to 30,000 people can still provide relief. If the number of soldiers and civilians really reaches hundreds of thousands, and relief cannot be provided, the trouble will be big. At this time, rising up is a kind of
A very common method.
"Our Yujia Village is leaving too, you have to be careful." Mrs. Yu patted the package and said.
"Yeah." Li You nodded.
Madam Yu said again: "Be careful when you stay in Sizhou. When the water recedes, the slave family will come back to look for you."
The water has receded... This time the flood will probably not recede again. Li You waved his hand and said: "Don't come back to me. You can take your people directly to Gaoyou. I will write to Bao Zhizhou and ask him to accommodate you."
"But uncle must come back for a few visits first."
"He can't come back even if he wants to!" Li You said meaningfully.
Mrs. Yu was very dissatisfied and said: "My uncle has never offended you, so why did you curse him to die?"
"Let's go!" Li You urged: "Don't talk about your uncle, he can't come back even if you want to."
The reason why the people in Sizhou are numb now is that they think this time is like the past, they run away when the water comes and go home when the water recedes. I don’t know that after this year’s flood season, the people in Sizhou found that the lake water was still rippling, and their homes completely disappeared at the bottom of the lake.
How will you feel when the collapsed city wall can be seen emerging from the water...
Thinking of this, Li You got a headache. When the flood season was about to end, he hurriedly left early and left to deal with the aftermath as long as he wanted. He wouldn't have come anyway if he was killed.
I'm afraid that he would go to Sizhou at that time just to stir up hatred, and he would have to leave but not come back. As long as the princes in the imperial court had any brains, they would not send him Li You to Sizhou again.
At that time, Pan Jixun, the famous water control minister of the Wanli Dynasty, built Gaojia Weir to store water when managing the Yellow and Huaihe Rivers. He artificially created the ever-expanding Hongze Lake and turned the Sizhou area into a land of floods, which was fully scolded by the people of Sizhou.
for more than a hundred years.
But after this year's flood season, Governor Pan's spirit in heaven is expected to be freed, and a younger generation named Li You will replace his old man's status in the hearts of the people of Sizhou. The next hundred years will be an era of young people taking over and being scolded.
It's hard to be a human being, even harder to be an official, and even harder to do things, Li You lamented in the middle of the night when no one was around. In fact, he also saves people, but the meaning of an unknown hero is that no one knows.
The tenth day of September was the scheduled day to break the dike. But Li You found that he could not find anyone in Sizhou to do this... all the people had fled, and even those who had not escaped were not willing to go to Sizhou.
State Levee.
But it doesn’t matter, there is no manpower in Sizhou City, so you can go to the opposite side to find him. Li You, who had already suspected the case, crossed the water and went to the west bank where the ancestral mausoleum is located.
Although this place is also within the territory of Sizhou, the people are a little different from the people in Sizhou. They are the so-called mausoleum households. After Taizu built the ancestral mausoleum here, he gave all the surrounding people the surname Zhu and designated them as mausoleum households to guard the mausoleum for generations.
The people of Sizhou City were unwilling to take the initiative to release the floodwaters from the Sizhou Levee, but when the Linghu residents on the west bank faced a major flood, they were very active in releasing the water in the direction of Sizhou City on the east bank...Human nature is always so cute.
Mr. Li, with the help of Eunuch Hai, selected hundreds of enthusiastic laborers and sent them to the east coast. The basic structure of the embankment is to build strips of stone on the outside and fill them with rammed earth inside. All that needs to be done is to lift the strips of stone and pound them.
Rammed earth.
Because a certain section of the Zuling Embankment broke, the area around the Zuling Tomb was completely covered with water, but it was blocked outside the Zuling Tomb by the inner embankment. The water was shallow or deep depending on the terrain.
The ancestral mausoleum surrounded by heavy city walls seemed to have turned into an isolated island on the water. Li You and Eunuch Hai stood on the inner embankment of the ancestral mausoleum, watching the floodwaters keep rising, almost a foot away from reaching the top of the embankment.
Eunuch Hai pointed to the waterway: "The water is too big this year, at least no less than five years ago. If we don't build the Sizhou Levee today, it will be in danger tomorrow."
Li You also said with lingering fear: "After the Sizhou levee is built, the area from Zuling to Xuyi has become a waterway. With these ten miles of waterway, the flood will be much smoother, and the water level will inevitably drop, so we can rest easy for the time being.
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At least at this time, the common enemy between the two is floods. Eunuch Hai worriedly said: "Now as long as the floods are discharged, we can still support it, but the current flood season is just the beginning, and it already has the same momentum as five years ago. I am afraid that there will be more floods in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River in the future."
Autumn rains will cause backflow from the Yellow River downstream. By that time..."
Li You was very surprised. This eunuch actually looked very knowledgeable, "Does Eunuch Hai also know about river affairs?"
"Since I took office eight years ago, I have read through the hydrological records of the past few decades." Eunuch Hai said proudly.
Just as he was about to continue talking, the roar of a flash flood suddenly came from a distance, and it continued continuously. Li You immediately realized that the breach on the other side of the bank was over, and Sizhou City was about to be destroyed.
He climbed onto the outer embankment of the west bank that was not flooded by water. Looking towards the other bank, it turned out to be a vast expanse of ocean. It was no longer possible to tell which was the field and which was the village.
Eunuch Hai found a telescope from nowhere, and saw from it that in just a short period of time, half of the Sizhou city wall had been submerged in water.
Mr. Li shook his head again and sighed. It seems that in this flood season, the thousand-year-old ancient city of Sizhou cannot be saved. I heard that when floods broke out in the levees in previous years, the water level would only reach this height at most. This has only happened this year.
However, what makes Li You feel a little relieved is that with the flood discharge from the east bank, the water level in the inner embankment of the Zuling Mausoleum has gradually dropped, to a large extent, and is several feet lower than before the flood discharge. As long as the Zuling Mausoleum is safe, everything is easy to say, Wu Sha Mao and the people in the hat