In addition, Li Hui also posted notices to encourage people to pair up and help each other. He encouraged various ways to strengthen mutual help among people. He even personally hosted more than a dozen pairs of local widowers and newly settled widowers. A marriage between widows to form a family. This kind of thing is beneficial to both parties, and it is also beneficial to the stability of people in Juchao County.
Li Hui is also very worried about the development of other industries in Juchao County.
For example, at his suggestion, Jiaohu fishermen formed a guild to sell Jiaohu specialties such as whitebait and white shrimps to the capital city.
The high-quality fish that the local people cannot afford to eat or buy are marketable in the prosperous prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River. With the official quota issued by Li Hui, the magistrate of Juchao County, he went to Jiankang, Guangling and other places to sell whitebait. Shrimp is very convenient. And it can be sold at a high price or exchanged for food supplies.
The attitude of the local wealthy people also changed drastically after Li Hui returned from protecting food. Some of the industrial shops that had been promised before were opened one after another, and they no longer hesitated to wait and see. Because they found that Magistrate Li was really willing to go all out to protect the people. of food, they will naturally try their best to protect the county's industry. This is obviously something that makes them feel at ease.
In addition, their manors have been re-cultivated, and Juchao County is a local hometown. Juchao County has become better, and they will benefit more from it. So they no longer hesitate and take action.
The situation in Juchao County is getting better day by day, and the mental state and living conditions of the people are gradually improving. Although Li Hui is busy and tiring, he is in a good mood. However, Li Hui has always had a hidden worry in his heart, which makes his heart Always hanging and unable to fall.
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After entering May, Li Hui always paid attention to the weather changes. The Jianghuai area where Juchao County is located and even the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have unique weather phenomena, which is the so-called plum rainy season.
A large area along both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River will experience a long period of rainy weather in mid-May every year. It lasts for nearly more than a month. During this period, because of the rain, humidity and warm temperature, items are prone to mold. Therefore, early During the plum rainy season, the plum blossoms become moldy.
Later, some literati called the rain at this time plum rain, or yellow plum rain, because the plums in the south of the Yangtze River turned yellow and mature during this season.
Although the name has become nicer and more elegant, for areas in the rainy season, the troubles, troubles and even disasters caused by the rainy season have not changed at all.
Huang Tingbai, the previous county magistrate of Juchao County, speculated in his notes that the reason why Juchao County experienced frequent summer floods was closely related to the month-long rainy weather during the plum rainy season.
In particular, the plum rainy season occurs along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Large areas of the river basin experience the rainy season, causing the river water to surge and the rivers to overflow, thus causing floods.
Li Hui agreed with this view. Therefore, after entering May, Li Hui paid close attention to the changes in the weather and when the rainy season would arrive. This was the biggest worry in his mind now.
The people of Juchao County have made great efforts, and they have also spent a lot of effort. The biggest thing in the past few months has been the reclamation and restoration of land.
Now the seedlings in the large paddy fields are green and full of vitality. These are the hopes and lives of the people of Juchao County. Whether they can truly settle down and settle down depends on this autumn's rice harvest.
The common people worked from dawn to dusk to open up wasteland and break up the soil, release water to irrigate the fields, and plant seedlings. In such a hot weather, they did not dare to rest. They always paid attention to the growth of the seedlings, hoarding water, releasing water, weeding and pest control, and were busy endlessly. This is just for planting.
Hope of going down.
For Li Hui, flood disasters must not be allowed to ruin everything. That's why Li Hui took so many measures to prevent floods and tried every means to prepare. He even did not hesitate to open a flood discharge area despite being infamy.
, relocate the people.
Although he had made preparations, Li Hui had no confidence in his heart, and neither did the people. The disasters of water and fire were ruthless, harmful, and difficult to prevent, which is no joke.
Local people in Juchao County are actually discussing privately that Magistrate Li's method may not be effective. Some old people who have experienced the incident describe the situation of the flood and agree that the moments when the dam collapsed were unstoppable.
Regarding Li Hui's approach, it can be said that he basically lacks confidence and thinks it is of no use.
The vast majority of people do not place their hopes on Magistrate Li's flood control measures, but on God's mercy. They believe that God is merciful and the rains are lighter this year and there are fewer affected areas. That is the greatest gift and blessing.
You are merciful. God will reward you, and the livelihood of the people will be guaranteed this year.
Therefore, although everyone is paying attention to the weather and rain, the mentality of the people and Li Hui are actually different.
Of course Li Hui understood what the people were thinking, but he didn't try to convince them or explain to them that flood control was useful. After all, he didn't know what he was thinking.
Because of this sense of urgency, Li Hui took action early.
Li Hui established a temporary county government office, called the Flood Control Command Department, and took charge of it himself. He appointed Zhou Che as the head of the command department, responsible for organizing a 100-person dike patrol team to carry out daily dike patrol and embankment protection work.
In addition, Song Yande and Hu Wenli were also entrusted with the important task of raising flood control materials. Li Hui gave them a task. They were asked to prepare 300 tents, 50,000 straw bags for soil, straw curtains for berms, and wooden piles for fixing.
Flood control materials such as piles and bamboo rafts.
Naturally, the county government did not have a penny, so they had to rely on Song Yande and Hu Wenli to go to big households to raise these supplies. Anyway, these two guys usually have nothing to do, drinking and building relationships, and are very familiar with the local rich and famous people. Since
If they are so capable of building interpersonal relationships, they should be allowed to do such things.
Li Hui forced the two of them to sign a military order and must complete these targets. Song Yande and Hu Wenli privately scolded Li Hui's ancestors for eight generations, but they did not dare to violate them. A desperate man who would set fire to himself in order to retreat from the enemy.
Disciple, offending him will definitely not end well.
In addition, Li Hui personally came forward to hold a meeting for the people in each market town and village, and organized everyone to join the joint prevention and control. Joint protection teams were set up in each market town and village, and all young and middle-aged manpower joined the joint protection team and were issued gongs.
Bamboo whistles, etc., and arrange highland locations for evacuation and resettlement. Make complete preparations.
These days, the only way to deliver messages is by two legs. Once a major danger such as a dike collapse occurs, in order to quickly ensure the safety of the people in a short time, these trivial arrangements must be made to ensure the dangerous situation once the dike breaks.
If it happens, people can quickly evacuate to higher ground.
The joint protection teams in various places can complete the transmission of news in a timely manner and ensure the safe evacuation of local people, which is the biggest role. Once an extreme situation occurs, at least lives can be saved.
In the first twenty days of May, apart from the harvesting and distribution of summer grain, Li Hui was mainly busy with these things.
However, the weather seemed to have seen a ghost. Until late May, Juchao County had clear skies and only a few afternoon thunderstorms. The rest of the time there was no sign of plum blossoms at all.
Not only that, because of the lack of rain, drought actually occurred in Juchao County, which had no water shortage at all. The amount of evaporation was huge, ponds and ditches actually dried up, and the water level in Jiao Lake also dropped.
Originally, in order to store more water during the flood season, Li Hui even dug out the dam mouth leading to the Ruxu River in advance, causing the water level of Jiao Lake to drop a few feet. This time it was good, the water level of Jiao Lake continued to drop.
The sluice gates of several dams used for irrigation have begun to be unable to discharge water.
The entire people in Juchao County looked at Li Hui eagerly. They did not say anything, but the meaning expressed in their eyes was very clear. This magistrate Li was afraid that he had caused a big disaster. Flood control, but the flood did not
Come, I'm afraid it's going to be a drought.
Li Hui was also puzzled. He had never expected such a thing to happen. According to Huang Tingbai's statistics, the earliest plum rain season in Juchao County is at the end of April. The flood season usually starts in mid-May. The latest plum rain season is also in May.
It starts in the middle of the month. This year is too abnormal. Could it be that the rainy season will not come?
Of course, Li Hui did not believe that the plum rain season would not come. This is a cyclic climate that must occur every year. There may be a possibility of postponement in advance, and there may be a possibility of a shorter time, but it will definitely not not come.
In fact, Li Hui is not worried about the drought problem at all. There is no shortage of rain in Juchao County. As soon as the rainy season comes, it will rain. There is no problem with water for crops. It is not possible. Although the water level of Jiao Lake has dropped sharply, it is still there.
It won't dry up. Just dig ditches to divert water.
Therefore, Li Hui ignored some people's strange looks and still emphasized the importance of flood control and urged the improvement of flood control preparations. Some people secretly complained about whether County Magistrate Li had been kicked in the head by a mule. Under the bright sun,
Seeing that the ground was almost dry and cracking, he was still talking about the importance of flood control.
But what is supposed to come will always come. At midnight on May 24th, the people of Juchao County, who had finally fallen asleep under the scorching and dry temperature, heard the sound of the swaying wind and the rain hitting the dry ground.
The fishy smell of earth arose. People sleeping outside to enjoy the cool air were awakened by the cold rain hitting their bodies.
Amidst people's surprised noises, the rain started to fall. This time, it quickly started to rain without stopping until the afternoon of the next day. The rain stopped, but the sky was overcast, the clouds were low, and the temperature was very muggy.
, people will be sweating all over when standing in the room. It is so stuffy that one can breathe.
In the evening, the rain started to fall again. It continued all night long. By this time, experienced people knew that the rainy season was coming.