The heavy rain in the first year of Jiayou's reign lasted from early May to early June, with no intention of stopping. Seven days after the drainage facilities of the church were paralyzed, the magnificent Bianjing City turned into a vast ocean.
In order to dredge the drainage rivers, Bao Zheng, the prefect of Kaifeng, requested an imperial edict and led the army to demolish all the private gardens built on the lower reaches of the Bianhe River, Caihe River and Wuzhang River outside the city. This prevented the people in the city from being destroyed.
disaster.
But the poor terrain of Kaifeng Prefecture determines that until the heavy rain stops and the flood recedes, the city will continue to suffer from waterlogging. The streets have turned into river beds, the houses have turned into isolated islands, the carriages and horses have been replaced by boats, and there are countless floating boats everywhere in the city.
Garbage, animal carcasses, and even drowned human corpses can be seen...
Millions of residents in this super city are caught in a serious survival crisis. If not properly resolved, it will directly affect the stability of the country's political power. This requires the court to perform its administrative functions and formulate effective disaster relief policies.
, only by working together as one and the same boat can we tide over the difficulties.
Fortunately, the civilian government of the Song Dynasty had unparalleled advantages in domestic affairs... The scholar-bureaucrats were concerned about the country and the people, took the world as their own responsibility, had a sufficient number of officials, extremely high official quality, strong administrative capabilities, and two people with great
A prime minister with extraordinary abilities, not to mention a benevolent king for the ages.
The combination of all these factors made the Song Dynasty's flood control and disaster relief efforts put to shame any dynasty in the past two thousand years.
The first was Zhao Zhen, an official. After the flood, he issued an order to sin against himself. He ate vegetarian food and held Jiao feasts. He prayed to God all day and night, "Everyone is guilty, and I am the one to blame." He prayed to God to bring the disaster to him.
It was ordered to stop all entertainment activities in the palace and government, and ordered everyone to focus on disaster relief.
At the same time, he successively issued edicts on relief and disaster relief, assuring the people that the imperial court would be responsible for their lives during the floods and post-disaster reconstruction, which greatly calmed the mood of the citizens. ("") and enabled them to obey the imperial court's orders.
command.
The officials made good promises, but for the civil service group led by the two prime ministers, it was an arduous task. The disaster relief and reconstruction of 1.5 million people made people's scalp numb just thinking about it.
Fortunately, Zhao Zhen had been insisting on retaining Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi as prime ministers despite the criticism from the whole court, and now he finally got his reward. Both of them are rare ministers with rich experience in disaster relief, and Fu Bi once worked in Qingzhou.
They had rescued half a million disaster victims. Although the task at this moment was arduous, the two of them were able to remain calm and coordinate the entire disaster relief work in an orderly manner.
It is advisable to prepare for a rainy day. In fact, the same is true for disaster relief. If you are well prepared in advance, you will naturally not panic when things happen. Since the founding of the country, various disasters have occurred frequently in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the court has always attached great importance to warehousing prevention measures and set up various regular
Pingcang, Yicang, Huimincang, Guanghuicang... Among them, Changpingcang is mainly responsible for relief, Guanghuicang makes up for its shortcomings, Yicang is responsible for loan relief and relief, and Huimincang is mainly responsible for helping the poor. The four warehouses interact with each other.
Cooperate to form a complete disaster relief warehousing system nationwide.
As the capital city, it is naturally densely populated with various disaster preparedness granaries, with as many as 130. After Wen Yanbo took office, he personally inspected all the disaster relief granaries, investigated and punished a group of silverfish who had embezzled the charity granaries, and appointed
Supervise the censor and form a system for daily supervision.
Under his strict requirements, one hundred and thirty granaries were always full, enough to feed the people of the capital for two months. This was the biggest source of confidence for him and Fu Bi. With food in hand, there was no panic, Wen Yanbo said
Thousands of active and idle officials in Kaifeng City were assigned to each neighborhood. Each official was responsible for the relief and resettlement of ten families throughout the process.
He requires all officials to be familiar with the families they are responsible for and register their age, gender, and name so that the distribution of supplies and resettlement of people can be targeted, and it is also easier to evaluate the officials' work results after the disaster. ("")
At the same time, all palace buildings, military camp facilities, and even private residences built on high places were requisitioned by the court to accommodate the people who had been moved from low-lying areas... Even the residences of princes and ministers were required to accommodate a certain number of disaster victims.
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The princes and nobles of the Song Dynasty also showed extremely high demeanor at this time. They not only allowed the victims to live in their own houses, but also afforded their food and clothing. The "benevolent" social atmosphere of the Song Dynasty was such that if they refused, they would be
Others regard it as cold-blooded selfishness, which cannot be tolerated at all. Of course, this is more due to the self-consciousness of people in this era who have been influenced by Confucianism...
Wen Yanbo also ordered people to set up tents in Yishan, solving the accommodation problem for tens of thousands of people. He also recruited men in the city to heighten and strengthen the Yellow River embankment... because the embankment of the Yellow River was several feet higher than Kaifeng, so instead
It has become a rare piece of land in the flood. But if the Yellow River bursts its banks, Bianliang City will completely turn into a Crystal Palace. I wonder if the officials can regard it as the Dragon King. Moreover, Wen Yanbo's move also solved the accommodation problem of the people in the city.
, and also prevent hundreds of thousands of strong men from doing nothing and harming the capital.
In fact, during the Song Dynasty, Mr. Fu, who had rich experience in disaster relief, said that he was second and no one dared to claim to be first. However, he knew better that when leaders needed to make strong decisions, two voices speaking at the same time would only cause trouble.
Chaos. So Wen Yanbo focused on the big aspects, while he paid attention to the details, checking for omissions and filling in the gaps.
Don't think that this is easy. On the contrary, these inconspicuous tasks are trivial, meticulous, and extremely arduous, but Fu Bi takes them on without any complaints. He works silently for ten hours every day, and only narrows his eyes when he really can't stand it anymore.
He stared for a while. In order not to sleep too hard, he changed his pillow to a log, so that he would wake up whenever he turned over.
Moreover, Fu Bi pays more attention to the psychological massage of the disaster-stricken people than Wen Yanbo... Those are the victims of the disaster, the most proud and picky subjects of the Song Dynasty in the world. If you don't give them a place to sleep and give them dry food, they will never be able to live again.
Indifferent. In order to prevent the people who gathered together from being irritable and causing vicious security cases and causing commotion, the rich prime minister ordered all the official prostitutes in the city to perform for the people every day, and the imperial students and
He also mobilized the supervisors of the Imperial College to visit the people every day, understand their dissatisfaction, and report on the shortcomings of the officials' work as a kind of supervision.
It is precisely with the perfect cooperation of these two top civil servants that Kaifeng City can still be in order under such a catastrophic disaster, the people's mood is stable, and no vicious cases have occurred... Of course, the harsh punishments under the tenderness and tenderness have caused
played an important role.
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Because of the flood, classes at Taixue had been suspended long ago, and hundreds of victims flooded into the house where the Chen family lived. Although he agreed with the court's decision, it did not mean that he could endure being crowded with hundreds of people.
In a yard.
He spent a lot of money to buy a boat... At this time when the water flooded Bianliang, the price of the boat was ten times the usual price, and there was no market for it. But Chen Ke still got it through Zhao Zongji, a flat-bottomed boat with a cabin.
.I lived on the boat at night, and during the day, I rowed the boat with a few brothers and played in the streets of Bianjing City.
Their behavior was by no means out of the ordinary, but they were just one of millions of comrades. How could Tokyo citizens who were accustomed to freedom be restricted to a small place all day long? So they found boats to launch, visit relatives and friends, and have fun as usual.
For fun. However, the number of boats is limited and the price is too high. Even if most citizens can afford it, they will not spend this money just for a few months of floods.
Fortunately, cities in the Song Dynasty were commercialized, especially Bianliang City. What is commercialization? It is demand-oriented production. Immediately there were businessmen using wooden boards and bamboo poles to build various simple rafts. They were not sold, but were sold on a daily basis.
Rented to citizens who want to have fun. Once this business was launched, it became very popular. Thousands of citizens hired boats every day, and many rows of rafts were robbed.
As a result, Bianliang City, which had been dormant for several days, became lively again, but the cars, horses and pedestrians on the streets were replaced by densely packed boats. After a brief period of discomfort, people began to enjoy this extraordinary experience.
In addition to going out on boats, people who are good at water strip themselves naked, jump down, play in the water, and show off their figures.
But if you want to attract attention, swimming is actually not a good way. Those who play on the water swings are the focus of everyone's attention. They swing on the painting boat with a high swing frame. I saw them swinging faster and faster,
The swing went higher and higher until it was level with the swing frame. Then he suddenly took off the swing rope with both hands and flew into the air. In an instant, he did a somersault among the blue sky and white clouds, like a nimble swallow burrowing in.
The water surface is filled with waves...
This difficult performance requires skill and courage. It has always been regarded as a game for the brave. Young people in Beijing competed to perform it to show their courage.
Another popular sport is playing water polo...it's essentially a game played on land, but played with hands in the water.
In addition to these spontaneous sports, there are also artists who perform puppet shows, water fireworks, and clown shows in the water to ask for rewards from people. These people are more enjoyable to watch and add a lot of joy to the citizens' water life.
Naturally, there are also those selling wine, food, tea and soup on boats. Although affected by the flood, the variety of goods provided is far from what it was before, but it is still a dazzling array for you to choose from.
Chen Ke has never seen such a city and such a group of people. Not only did they not be fooled to death by a flood that had never happened in a century, but they were actually tricked to death by the flood.
How much confidence and love do you have to have for life to have such a state of mind and interest?
I am afraid that only this gentle dynasty without tyranny could have such wonders. From this perspective, the civil servants of the Song Dynasty were the best...
