Bianliang Railway Terminal is located outside Bianliang City.
Before Mao hour arrived, the craftsmen soldiers, rail soldiers, and some new troops garrisoned in Bianliang City were all ready to go.
On this expedition, the soldiers did not carry weapons...
Not bad. Although the preparations of the imperial government offices were not yet ready, Gongfangcheng and the army still strictly implemented the order.
Zhao Xi did not expect that the imperial court would be able to strictly implement the order during the first such gathering. After all, the Song Dynasty was used to being comfortable, used to living in a state of drunkenness and dreaming, and used to living life in a leisurely manner.
Even in the face of disaster, they are accustomed to waiting for God instead of saving themselves.
Dam breaks are different from droughts and floods. As long as you don’t go to the disaster site, you will only see ordinary days. Although the heavy rain is still falling, you can see through the car window...
The rain-fed crops are green and eye-catching.
Zhao Xi felt quite worried...
"Guan Jia, why are you here?"
Even Wang Anshi didn't understand the official's trip. It was meaningless. It was the power of God, the dam burst of the Yellow River, not a severe drought. Faced with the hidden disaster, manpower was really limited.
In Wang Anshi's view, the court should focus on post-disaster relief, instead of wasting money and mobilizing troops in order to make the people of Bianliang recognize the benevolence of the officials.
In the southeast of Bianliang, temporary resettlement sites were arranged, relevant food was stored, etc. Once the victims survived the water, the court could carefully resettle them.
What is this? With tens of thousands of soldiers and ministers, we rushed to Huazhou in a mighty manner, and then looked at the long Yellow River... Are we trying to interpret the meaning of sighing at the ocean?
"I want more of my people to survive!"
Zhao Xi understood them. Even ministers like Fu Bi and Wang Anshi, who were concerned about the country and the people, had never experienced such disaster relief.
"But this..."
Forget it, let's not talk anymore. We've already come, and it's useless to talk any more. Just think of it as accompanying the officials to win people's hearts. Anyway, it won't delay the disaster relief.
People can never have so-called empathy until they see a real disaster scene. No matter how specific the text is, no matter how vivid the description, it will never be as powerful as the visual impact.
Zhao Xi thought he was quite knowledgeable, but at the moment when the Huazhou dam broke, he still couldn't control himself from being infected... a tragic word...
The resettlement site that the Capital Water Supervisor and the Imperial City Division were looking for was located to the north of the Huazhou Yellow River Dam. It should be three to five miles away from the dam breach, and it was a raised hill.
Six or seven hours have passed since the dam broke. I watched the water of the Yellow River continue to wash away the gap. The dam collapsed bit by bit. When the water flow passed through the gap, it suddenly narrowed, and then due to the drop of the dam, it rushed out of the gap.
The roar was deafening even three to five miles away.
The water rolled and rushed out of the gap, raging outside Huazhou City, which was already a vast ocean... Standing on this gently sloping hill, it seems that you can hear the shouts of the people who are still holding on in Huazhou City...
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Zhao Xi hopes to see the survivors and the people who have been submerged in the water. They can survive the impact of the dam collapse, save themselves, and wait for the court's rescue alive.
However, no. While the soldiers were setting up a temporary camp, Zhao Xi had already slipped away... He could no longer get closer to Huazhou. All the subordinates who followed him disagreed and dragged him to death.
"If the gap cannot be plugged, the water flow outside Huazhou City cannot slow down, and people will not be able to survive even if they want to. The top priority is to plug the gap!"
Zhao Xi probably understood the situation at this time.
"There is no way for the officials to close the gap! The water flow is so fast that whatever is thrown away will be washed away!"
Everyone knows that only by plugging the gap can Huazhou's crisis be solved. At this time, judging from the situation at the scene, it seems that Huazhou City is still using the city wall to block the water flow and minimize the disaster in the city.
If the gap can be plugged, it means that the urgent need in Huazhou City will be completely relieved and Huazhou City will not be harmed by the dam collapse.
But how could such a rapid flow of water be blocked?
"Officials, even if the gap is blocked, soldiers will not be able to enter Huazhou City in a short period of time, and people will not be able to leave Huazhou City. The terrain of Huazhou is low, and the dikes are high. Going east and north, the terrain is also relatively low.
Huazhou City is higher."
"Blocking the dam will only slow down the water flow outside Huazhou City. In the end, it still depends on God's will!"
The accompanying ministers all understood that Huazhou was almost hopeless. The current Huazhou is just a pond, a very large pond, soaking the entire Huazhou...
“Perhaps boats can work!”
"A boat? Did the Yellow River burst its dam? It was not just water that rushed in, but too much sediment. With such a shallow water level, and the unknown terrain outside Huazhou City, the boat could not move at all!"
The ministers and workers were talking a lot, but Zhao Xi seemed to be a little distracted...
Later generations, past generations, the great flood in Zhao Xi's memory, what did the army do at that time? They really blocked the flood with their flesh and blood. At this time, even the new army had absolute control over him, Zhao Xi
Loyal, Zhao Xi still dare not try to get the New Army soldiers to risk their lives to plug the gap...
Not to mention whether the soldiers of the new army would carry out the order, even the accompanying ministers, including the captain and general who led the new army, would not agree to Zhao Xi's doing so.
Using the new army that the imperial court had painstakingly trained to save those useless people... no one would agree with it, and it would even make the soldiers of the new army have other ideas about Zhao Xi.
With the current values, Zhao Xi did not dare to try and believe in his specious loyalty education.
Boats? I guess that’s really not possible. Huazhou is not Jiangnan. There are no standing materials such as bamboo rafts. Boats are mostly used to carry cargo and guests. The design of draft and load makes it difficult to say that they can survive in this kind of mud and water.
Traveling over terrain.
There were no assault boats or rafts at this time, and there weren’t even many bamboos around Huazhou...
How to go in and rescue? As for blocking the gap, Zhao Xi has never seen it or heard of it. Even if the soldiers don't use flesh and blood to plug the gap, it is still not difficult.
"Su Song, when buying wool in Workshop City, have you ever collected sheepskins? I once had an order for you to collect sheepskins."
"Going back to the official family, there are indeed sheepskins in Gongfang City. They also followed the official family's order to divide the sheepskins. So far, there is not much progress, and they have not been reported to the official family."
Su Song was a little stunned and couldn't understand why the officials would think of talking about sheepskin at this time. The officials had said that sheepskin could be cut into several layers and then made into boots and the like. Although it was not an order from the officials at the time,
It's about casual chat, official chat, Su Song has always been very interested in it. It doesn't seem appropriate to talk about it at this time.
"Are there any craftsmen from the northwest in Workshop City?"
"Go back to the official's house, yes."
"Send a rail car back to the workshop city quickly and bring the whole sheepskin reserve and the craftsmen from the northwest to this place!"