Song Yang's emotional attention to Lao Yu only lasted less than seven days.
On the last day of July, it rained heavily.
The water in the river is rising rapidly, and in some areas the water has dropped close to the warning level.
The so-called warning water level is the water level at which floods may occur in previous years, established by Song Yang based on the stories of several old fishermen.
Then marks were made on the riverbank, and pillars with graduations were also inserted near the riverside.
The red mark on the shore mark is highly consistent with the red mark on the post.
This is all for the convenience of observing the water level.
The red color represents the warning water level in Jiangzhou.
The river is currently only about one foot away from the warning level.
The key point is that it is still raining, and it is likely that the water level will exceed the warning level in the next day or two.
"Your Majesty! It's raining too much! Please go back quickly."
On the river embankment, Song Yang personally went to inspect the scene.
In order to prevent floods and detect danger as soon as possible, Jiangzhou has launched an emergency plan.
All current government officials in Jiangzhou, the Fuxing Army and Minzhuang are on standby.
There are three shifts every day, constantly patrolling the river embankment.
Water leakage points found must be filled immediately and reported.
A large number of sacks and sandbags have been prepared on the river embankment. They have been piled high on the river embankment, and there are still many more prepared below.
"My king is fine! Please check the water conditions carefully and don't take it lightly!"
Song Yang was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, but the effect of this thing can only be said to be average for the current heavy rain.
In other words, it's better than nothing.
"The water is rising too fast! In the morning, it was still a foot and a half short of the warning level, but now it's only more than a palm!" Song Yang was worried.
The dark and fast river water slapped against the river embankment, and the black and red water levels on the river embankment were getting closer and closer.
Yu Ming is carrying a shovel, followed by more than a dozen Renaissance Army soldiers. He is on duty tonight.
Song Yang has always emphasized that the leading cadres of the yamen should be on the front line. Fang Zhe, Yu Ming and other cronies who had followed Song Yang from the beginning were relatively thorough in their execution.
Today is the first day when the flood peak passes through the border, and Yu Ming volunteered to watch the first night.
"Your Majesty, it's only the beginning of the twilight hour, and the river will definitely exceed the warning level tonight! It's dangerous here, please get off the embankment quickly!" Yu Ming ran over to persuade.
Song Yang looked at the group of people surrounding him and knew that he was affecting their inspection.
I had no choice but to give a few instructions and retreat down the embankment.
Although he got off the embankment, Song Yang did not go home.
He moved directly to the Water Transport Yamen and took charge of the front line to direct flood control.
The Water Transport Yamen is only fifty meters away from the embankment.
Everyone also advised Song Yang to stay away, but he refused to leave despite any words.
"I will live and die with the embankment!" Song Yang shouted loudly.
Not to mention, when he shouted like this, the morale of the people was extremely high.
The young and middle-aged people in the city, even if they were not members of the people, organized themselves spontaneously. They took shovels and hoes and sandbags and hemp ropes to guard the embankment in the rain.
At two o'clock in the morning, the river reached the warning level.
The rain has eased, but the water level is still rising!
At the end of Haishi, the water level exceeded the warning level by one hand and continued to rise.
As midnight approached, the water level was less than one meter from the top of the river embankment.
This section of the Jiangzhou embankment is close to Fucheng and is the highest and best built.
Walking towards Jinghu Lake in the west, the water level there is less than twenty centimeters from the top of the dam!
Three miles west of Fucheng, a group of civilians are patrolling the embankment.
The river embankment is more than a hundred miles long and needs to be looked after by different people.
Officials at each yamen gate are responsible for dykes ranging from 200 to 500 meters.
The dikes here are not the lowest, but they are not much better either.
In front of you is the mighty river, and behind you is Jinghu Lake less than 500 meters away.
There is water on both sides. Once the embankment breaks, there will be no place to run.
"Sir, the water level is getting higher and higher!"
"Everyone, keep an eye out. If there is any water, please call someone immediately!"
The flood control captain of this section of the dam is Wang Hai.
He is a scribe in the government office and can be regarded as Fang Zhe's secretary, assisting Fang Zhe in handling some daily government affairs.
Wang Hai's face was covered with rainwater. He had fallen down just now and his bamboo hat was in tatters.
His subordinates wanted to give him the bamboo hat, but he didn't ask for it. He just threw it away, took off his raincoat, and continued patrolling in the rain.
Fortunately, the rain has lightened up a lot now, otherwise the view would have been affected by the rain.
"My lord! My lord! Come and take a look here, there seems to be a leak!" Suddenly a voice from afar came from not far away.
Wang Hai divided his subordinates into ten groups, and each group was in charge of twenty meters.
The voice just now came from the seventh group.
I ran over following the sound and took a look. There seemed to be a small whirlpool in the dark river water.
"Quick! Fill the sandbags! Take the sandbags filled with gravel and throw them in! Hurry!"
Wang Hai grew up by the river and is familiar with various water conditions.
Although he had a reputation as a scholar before the natural disaster, his family was extremely poor.
He is a scholar from a humble family who came from the lowest level.
My family is engaged in fishing, so I am very familiar with water patterns.
"Here! Quick!"
Wang Hai took the sandbag from Min Zhuang, and the two of them lifted one, stepped forward, and threw it directly into the river.
"Plop!"
"Plop!"
"Plop!"
The villagers kept throwing sacks of gravel into the water, and it took a long time for them to emerge from the water.
"Get out of the way, hit it with the torch, and let me see what's going on!"
Wang Hai waved his hand and shouted.
The people hurriedly lit up torches and came over to illuminate the scene.
The rain has basically stopped now, and the drizzle will not affect the burning of the torches.
When the fire light came on, Wang Hai carefully looked at the location where the blockage had been filled.
"No! There is still a water outlet! Fill both sides! Quick! Fill it with sandbags!" Wang Hai immediately ordered the people to strengthen the river embankment.
The people are throwing sandbags into the river.
Wang Hai led six or seven people to climb down from the embankment.
There is a small embankment behind the embankment, and there is knee-deep water between the embankment and the embankment.
"Twenty steps each, look carefully! There must be a water seepage here!" Wang Hai shouted.
The leaking spots on the outside were plugged with sack bags, but there must still be some leaks inside.
If not filled, water seepage will cause cracks and holes to grow larger.
Several people held torches and watched carefully.
Wang Hai crouched and looked almost inch by inch, fearing that he would miss the leaking point.
Just as he was about to take a step forward, a reflection came to him.
On the embankment, a thin stream of water as thick as a chopstick flows continuously downward.
Wang Hai hurriedly leaned forward to take a look.
It has just rained, so you need to confirm whether it is rainwater runoff.
"not good!"
As soon as Wang Hai explored it, he saw that the water flow was getting bigger and bigger, and soon it changed from the thickness of chopsticks to the size of a thumb.
The flowing water also turns into a jet!
"The water outlet is here! Quick! Bring the sand quickly!"
The loophole on the other side of the river has been plugged, but the water outlet here is getting bigger and bigger.
And the location is not on the inside facing the water outlet.
So it took me a long time to find it.
The villagers rushed over to reinforce the water-permeable points.
As a result, before it could be reinforced, a small hole was seen in the embankment.
The river rushed forward instantly and knocked Wang Hai backwards.
Wang Hai was horrified and suddenly stood up and looked towards the embankment.
The levee is still there, although there is a breach where water is coming out!
Fortunately, the outside was reinforced just now.
Otherwise, it would not be a crack, but a direct breach of the embankment.
But it is still in danger at this time.
The hole was getting bigger and bigger, and Minzhuang on both sides kept throwing sandbags into it, but the effect was mediocre.
The water flow was so strong that the sandbags were washed away immediately after being thrown in.
"No! You can't block it by throwing it like this! Are there any big rocks?"
"Block it with big rocks!"
Wang Hai wanted to ask someone to carry the big stone over.
"Sir! The big stone is gone. It was thrown outside just now!" The faces of the people were filled with despair.
The boulders were thrown to the outside. Now we need boulders on the inside. Ordinary sandbags cannot block them, and there are no boulders.
If it is moved from the nearby river section, it will take less than two-quarters of an hour to move it.
In two quarters of an hour the embankment would burst.
Do you want to watch the levee break?
Wang Hai rushed up to the embankment and watched the seepage vortex outside getting bigger and bigger. If it was not dealt with immediately, the embankment would inevitably collapse.
"No! The dam cannot break! Jiangzhou City has just been built! The people have just had a few good days, we cannot let the flood destroy it!" Wang Hai frowned.
After getting off the embankment, we came to the crack. At this time, there were more than one person standing in the crack, and the water in the river was getting stronger and stronger.
He took a deep breath, picked up the gravel sandbag beside him and jumped directly to the crack, pressing the sandbag with his body to block the crack.
"Quick! Use sandbags!" Wang Hai shouted.
"Cough cough cough!" Wang Hai drank several mouthfuls of dirty river water and choked and coughed.
The people were shocked by his actions.
I didn't expect Mr. Wang, who is usually polite, to have such a ruthless side.
The villagers were awakened by him and immediately threw sandbags into the cracks.
Several Minzhuang people also jumped down holding sandbags.
The effect of the human wall is still very obvious. The human wall slows down the water flow, and the effect of the sandbags gradually becomes apparent.
With constant sandbag throwing, the crack was finally blocked!
Confucius said: A man with lofty ideals and benevolence will not harm his benevolence by seeking life, but he will kill himself to fulfill his benevolence!
Wang Hai is such a person, he would rather die than let the flood swallow up the people's homes.
This is a serious Confucian scholar, not a selfish and corrupt Confucian like Zhao Wenbin.
"Where! Where is the water leaking!"
Yu Ming's voice came.
Jiangzhou has regulations.
If water seepage is discovered, the official in charge of this section of the dike must deal with it immediately and report it immediately to the chief officer on duty at the dike that night.
As soon as Wang Hai discovered the water leakage point, he sent someone to find Yu **Xin.
Yu Ming is the chief officer tonight.
When I heard about this, I immediately brought people to support me.
What he saw was Wang Hai and several people forming a human wall blocking the crack.
"Quick! Support immediately!" Yu Ming immediately ordered the Renaissance Army to come forward to support.
The gravel sandbags we brought were thrown into the cracks one by one.
…
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Wang Hai and the Minzhuangs leaned on the ground and gasped for air.
The wave of operations just now was so exhausting that I lost all strength.
The embankment was blocked and they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
At this time, the sky in the east showed the color of fish belly.
Unknowingly, I had been guarding the embankment all night!
Yu Ming stood on the ground and looked at Wang Hai who was lying on the ground resting, with respect appearing on his face.
In the past, he didn't think highly of the civil servants who left the yamen.
It wasn't until tonight that Yu Ming discovered that civil servants also have their own stubbornness and strength.
The sky brightened and Song Yang arrived.
Last night, Yu Ming didn't dare to tell Song Yang about the leakage point.
I was afraid that his boss would go into battle himself.
Only when the water leakage point was completely blocked did he dare to report it to Song Yang.
After Song Yang heard this, he ran towards the embankment in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, the water leakage point has been blocked. Wang Hai has contributed a lot to this!" Yu Ming said, cupping his fists.