Time is passing by like a fleeting moment, passing by moment by moment.
In the months of July and August, the fifty-third year of the Great Qin calendar and the third year of the Second Emperor's reign, the entire Great Qin Dynasty rushed by in an atmosphere of sadness and busyness.
Linghu Fan was escorted to Xianyang at the end of July. During the joint trial between the Supervision Department of Zongzheng Mansion, the Ministry of Punishment and the Yushi Mansion, it only took three days for Linghu Fan and Linghu Chong, father and son, to go from trial to conviction.
Linghu Chong, intending to rebel, beheaded him in public. The fifth prince, Linghu Fan, failed to teach his son well, allowed his son to commit crimes, and ignored the laws of the country. He should have beheaded his son Linghu Chong and kill the nine tribes. However, the second emperor thought of his contribution to the Qin Dynasty and decided to kill him.
He was removed from the marquis and fiefdom, and demoted to common people. No one from the Linghu and Fan clan could leave Xianyang even half a step without the emperor's permission. Violators would be regarded as conspiring to commit rebellion and would be punished by the Nine Clans.
Strictly speaking, the words Linghu Chong said at the beginning were actually because he was so complacent that he did not go through his mind at all. Therefore, the charge of treason was really an extravagant crime.
However, this is not important.
What's important is that Hu Hai's severe punishment of Linghu Fan told all the aristocratic families in Da Qin that it's okay to make small mistakes in normal times, but once the red line is crossed, a huge family can be instantly transformed from one sentence or one person.
Heaven fell into hell.
Linghu Fan's treatment made the people all over the world rejoice; the wealthy families in Xianyang and even the counties were all awe-inspiring; and the more than ten surrendered ministers who were awarded the title of marquis for their good deeds in Qin were all worried.
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In August, as the disaster relief gradually came to an end, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development’s statistical results for the disaster-stricken counties were also released.
There are more than 600,000 victims in Shangdang, Taiyuan, and Julu counties due to the diversion of the Yellow River and the flooding of Daluze. This is because the floods occurred in Shangdang, Taiyuan, and Julu counties, which have a small population.
If it happened in Linzi and other densely populated counties in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, more than a million people would be affected.
The two counties of Neishi County, Yueyang and Xiagui, also suffered tens of thousands of disasters due to the bursting of the Wei River. Other counties in Guanzhong, including Hanoi, Yingchuan and other areas covered by heavy rain, have experienced varying degrees of disasters.
Waterlogging.
Nearly two-thirds of the prime farmland in Taiyuan and Julu counties were destroyed in this flood, and a large number of houses collapsed due to being soaked by rain. As for Shangdang County, which directly faced the diversion of the Yellow River, it was basically destroyed.
Not only did all the reclaimed land turn into swamps, but more than 90% of the houses in the county collapsed due to flooding.
Shangdang County has three counties in total, the eldest son, Huguan, and Tongdan. The eldest son of the county (later southwest of Changzhi City) is the hometown of Jingwei who was reclaimed from the sea in mythology.
Tongdi County, the first city affected by the diversion of the Yellow River, was completely destroyed, including the county seat. The damage was immeasurable. Nine out of ten people in the county died in the flood. The remaining Huguan and the eldest son of the county governor were also seriously damaged by the flood, and the city walls were still there.
Numerous houses collapsed due to flooding.
The number of civilian casualties in the three counties exceeded 200,000. This was the first natural disaster suffered by Daqin since Hu Hai came to power. It was also a rare flood in Daqin for hundreds of years.
Of course, the court's timely and effective rescue greatly alleviated the disaster, prevented the plague that is most likely to occur after a major disaster, and allowed many people to escape.
Otherwise, I am afraid that the damage caused by this flood to Daqin will not be measurable in numbers at all.
In the pre-Qin Dynasty, when the art of ghosts and gods had a huge market, any kind of natural disaster would inevitably be related to ghosts and gods.
If it weren’t for the fact that the Qintian Prison was under the control of Taishi Ling Zou Hong, and Hu Hai rarely asked the officials of the Qintianjian about state affairs, so that the Qintianjian in Da Qin today was simply a decoration, I am afraid that the Qintianjian, large and small, would
The "celestial masters" will gather in Xianyang Palace to say that there is a great disaster coming from heaven.
Even so, various rumors that God would send down thunderous wrath as punishment for the emperor's unwarranted warfare began to spread rapidly after the flood.
There is no doubt how lethal these rumors are in this era.
After Hu Hai returned to Xianyang and the floods gradually subsided, officials of all sizes in the court began to continuously submit memorials to the cabinet, imploring the Emperor to hold another ceremony to worship the heaven and cease the war.
As a materialist, although he knew that his ability to travel back to the Qin Dynasty two thousand years ago could not be explained clearly using materialism, Hu Hai still believed that there were no gods in this world.
There are so many natural disasters that it is unavoidable. Therefore, when these petitions were often sent to the cabinet, Hu Hai basically did not even look at them and directly ordered Long Bing to burn them.
After the disaster relief, there was intense reconstruction, and Hu Hai had no time to care about these boring things in his opinion.
The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th in the fifty-third year of the Qin Dynasty was also the first Mid-Autumn Festival in the history of the Qin Dynasty. It just passed by indifferently. However, compared to the dullness in Xianyang and Guanzhong, Shangdang and other places were very lively.
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The royal family Zongzheng and the Assistant Minister of the Cabinet Ying Teng defended the people of the disaster-stricken counties on behalf of the emperor, and brought a large amount of royal wine and food rewarded by the emperor to have fun with the people, allowing the people affected by the disaster in Shangdang and other places to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with peace of mind.
Festival.
Ying Teng, who traveled north lightly, was not accompanied by many people, only the two hundred dead soldiers of Longwei Mansion. In today's Great Qin, unless they are attacked by an army that is dozens of times more than theirs, these two hundred
The dead men of Longwei Mansion can protect Ying Teng safely.
In compliance with Hu Hai's edict, the Ministry of Works and Shangfang dispatched more than a hundred craftsmen to Shangdang.
The silt in the Yellow River covered both sides of the new river channel. Although it destroyed the original farmland, Hu Hai knew that the silt accumulated after countless years of erosion was much more fertile than the original land.
After the flood, it can be expected that Shangdang will inevitably become an important grain-producing area in Daqin within three years at most.
More importantly, the engineering corps consisting of 150,000 soldiers from Jiangdong is still in Shangdang, and they are taking advantage of this opportunity to strengthen and dredge the newly formed Yellow River channel. Now that the river channel has been formed, at least the river channel in Shangdang area is not
can change again.
Otherwise, if there is another heavy rain and the newly formed river channel becomes unstable, it may change its course again.
The Mohist craftsmen of Heshangfang in the Ministry of Industry happened to be able to take this opportunity to learn and practice how to strengthen and channel the river embankments on this section of the river in Shangdang, laying the foundation for large-scale management of the Yellow River and Yangtze River rivers in the future.
In the fifty-third year of the Qin Dynasty, in September of the third year of the Second Emperor's reign, Queen Li Ji gave birth to another son for Hu Hai ahead of Concubine Li and Concubine Yu. A month later, Concubine Li and Concubine Yu gave birth to another son and daughter for Hu Hai respectively.
So far, the five concubines in Hu Hai's harem have given birth to three sons and two daughters for Hu Hai!
The Qin Dynasty, which had just experienced a great disaster, was celebrating with the birth of two princes and a princess in succession.
At the same time, on the vast eastern sea, a huge, nascent fleet stumbled all the way eastward. After passing many dangers and obstacles, they were finally approaching their destination.
ps: Thanks to the two brothers "Love in the Water" and "Arbitrage Man" for their rewards! (To be continued...)