At this time, the Ministry of Industry organized a large number of manpower to quickly strengthen the river embankment.
But in Li Min's view, doing so is just doing a human job, but it does not help the overall situation at all.
In desperation, Li Min couldn't help but call up the system and asked in his mind: "System, do you have a way to prevent the river from bursting its banks?"
"No!"
Damn it, is it so straightforward?
Although Li Min also knew that his system was very unreliable, he never expected that it would be so unreliable.
Don’t other people’s systems always get what they want and are omnipotent?
How come the system has become so useless when it comes to me?
well!
Next, Li Min had to find a way on his own.
Li Min rode his horse and continued to walk upstream. He didn't go far when he suddenly saw the channel in front of him.
Chang'an City is known as the Eight Rivers Chang'an City. There are eight rivers around the city and the water resources are rich.
This time, it was also because the water resources were too abundant that the floods occurred.
In Chang'an City, five water canals are drawn from these rivers, namely Qingming Canal, Longshou Canal, Yongan Canal, Huang Canal and Cao Canal.
The introduction of these five water canals has made life in Chang'an City more convenient and transportation more convenient.
This canal has been closed after heavy rains caused the river water to surge.
If it is not closed, Chang'an City may become a puddle at this time.
However, after seeing this canal, Li Min couldn't help but feel moved.
He couldn't help but spur his horse on and continued upstream. After a while, he saw a water channel again.
The terrain here happens to be that a large section of the river in the middle is narrow.
If the two channels are opened and the river water is diverted from Chang'an City, will the danger of the river embankment bursting be eliminated?
Of course, this is very dangerous.
Because if you are not careful, the river embankment may not burst and Chang'an City will be directly flooded.
The crime of flooding the city of Chang'an is far greater than the breach of the river embankment.
But now, apart from this method, Li Min has no choice.
After thinking about it, Li Min couldn't help but call up the system again and asked: "System, help me calculate what would happen if I reopened these two channels and allowed the river water to flow through these two channels."
"What are the chances that this section of the embankment can be preserved? And will Chang'an City be submerged by the river? Calculating this data, there is no problem, right?"
The system couldn't help but say: "Calculating these requires a huge amount of calculation and requires a thousand prodigal points. Does the host want to do the calculation?"
"calculate!"
As long as he can calculate it, what Li Min cares about now is not the value of his wealth at all.
Then, Li Min just listened to the system's calculation: "Now, the flow rate of the river is 23 meters per second, the river depth is 3.6 meters, and the number of cubic meters passing per second is..."
Damn it!
Li Min said with a black line on his head: "I don't need to listen to the process, just tell me the result."
"The result of the system calculation is that this section of the embankment can be saved, but Chang'an City will definitely be flooded, and the water level is about half a meter deep."
Hearing that Chang'an City was bound to be flooded, Li Min couldn't help but take a breath.
However, when he heard that the water level was half a meter deep, Li Min's face became gloomy and uncertain.
By then, most of Chang'an City will be soaked in water.
People's houses, some old houses will definitely be soaked and collapsed.
Now, on one side is the safety of tens of thousands of people.
Once the embankment breaks, the lives of tens of thousands of people will be in danger.
But even if all these tens of thousands of people died, his fault would still be a small one.
On the other hand, for the common people in Chang'an City, there may only be a few hundred casualties, or even less.
However, as long as he makes such a choice, he will inevitably face extremely terrible punishment.
Because this is the capital city and there is a royal palace here!
How to choose?
Where to go from here?
For a moment, Li Min couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
After a long while, Li Min finally made a decision!
"Someone, please open these two canals!"
At this time, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others who came to the front line of the dam, didn't they see this?
They all knew in their hearts that as long as these two canals were opened, it would be possible to save the downstream section of the dam.
However, opening two canals would be a huge disaster.
They have no system and cannot calculate where the water level will submerge.
What they are even more afraid of is that most of Chang'an City will be flooded and the people in Chang'an City will suffer countless casualties.
If this is the case, then they would rather let the downstream dam be washed away.
Therefore, after hearing the order issued by Li Min, Changsun Wuji was the first to say: "Prince Liang, no! I know that you are dedicated to the people. But opening the canal will have extremely serious consequences, and we simply cannot afford it!"
Changsun Wuji actually hates Li Min very much, but at this moment, Changsun Wuji's words really show his kindness to Li Min.
In Changsun Wuji's heart, the first thing he cares about is the country and the country of the Tang Dynasty, and secondly his personal grudges. He understands this very clearly.
After Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui also tried to persuade him.
As for the officials who were direct descendants of the aristocratic families, their eyes shone brightly, expecting Li Min to issue this order.
Once this order is issued, they will have excuses and reasons to impeach Li Min.
When the time comes, they will attack in groups, not believing that they can't defeat the King of Liang.
Li Min, on the other hand, said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I know what I am doing. For the safety of tens of thousands of people, I did this! I will bear the consequences alone!"
After that, he directly ordered the soldiers to open the two channels.
At this time, no one tried to persuade me.
However, the officials present had different expressions and very complicated moods.
Soon, two channels were opened.
The raging river flows inward along two channels.
Because of the diversion of two canals, the river water below suddenly became calmer.
The impact on the river embankment has also been weakened a lot.
This reduces a lot of the burden on the reinforcement work.
However, at this time, the river was raging in the two channels.
A large number of fallen leaves and dead branches fell into the river, although people were sent to continuously salvage them.
But after all, there are still places where there are blockages. In addition, the surging river water continues to pour in, which has already exceeded the maximum capacity of the two canals.
Therefore, the river water soon followed the channel and overflowed to the entire Chang'an City.
Due to continuous heavy rains, there was a lot of water in Chang'an City.
This accumulated water originally flowed into the canals and was carried out by the canals.
But now, water from two canals is overflowing.
This directly resulted in a lot of stagnant water in the city, with no place to drain it.
It also caused the water level in the city to rise higher and higher.
