SCT-Novel Chapter 129: Test
Chapter 129: Test
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Sure enough, this kind of task is not so easy to take.
But since the letters for help were already in front of him, what else could he do? Ye Shuo could only help read them one by one.
I opened one of the letters casually. After all, we were all engineers, so there was no nonsense and we got straight to the point.
It turned out that the girl named Zou Wu came to ask him how to close the dragon gate. The so-called dragon gate is the last opening left after blocking the gap, so it is called the dragon mouth.
Whether the breach control can be successful depends entirely on closing the dragon’s mouth. If it is successful, the gap can be blocked smoothly. If it is unsuccessful, the flood will continue to spread.
The girl named Zou Wu was assigned to a large tributary in the lower reaches of the Yuan River. Now the dam of the tributary is about to be destroyed. The river is nearly 50 meters wide and the water is rushing, so the gap has been blocked many times but has not been successfully blocked.
The water flow is fast and the water pressure is high. There is no crane now, so the things that can be lifted by manpower are extremely limited. The wood and stones are not heavy enough, and the objects being suppressed will soon be washed away.
The river channel is nearly fifty meters long and it is impossible to seal it. There was really no other way, so Zou Wu wrote to ask for help.
Ye Shuo quickly
The number of people in the three cities is neither too few nor too many, and if they are divided up, they can still be accommodated.
As for the ideological work of the people, it is not so easy to do.
After all, most people were not happy about being suddenly notified to move from their homes, and they didn’t understand when they were told that the source river was being diverted.
And the grain in the fields is not so easy to harvest.
If this happened in modern times, it would definitely be difficult to do, but you have to know that this is a feudal society, so it is actually easier to do.
Emperor Jingwen directly implemented a high-pressure policy and notified the three prefects that if the people did not obey, the soldiers guarding the city would be allowed to directly collect the grain. The grain would then be taken over by the local government and distributed uniformly when they arrived at the new city.
In this situation, the people will definitely not agree. If they collect the food themselves now, it will be a little less, but it is better than handing it over directly to the government, right?
Seeing that the soldiers defending the city were serious about their attack, after this happened once or twice, the rest of the people had no choice but to rush to harvest, suppressing their heartache and cutting down the crops even before they were fully ripe.
Wherever there is food, there are people.
After five days, Emperor Jingwen had successfully dispatched soldiers from other places temporarily. Then, under the “escort” of these soldiers, the people marched towards the nearby cities in batches.
Of course, there were many who refused to leave even at the cost of their lives, including ordinary people and wealthy families. There was really no way to deal with this small group of people. The secret guards killed several of them on the spot but they still showed no sign of compromise, so the local prefect had no choice but to give up.
Life and death are determined by fate. Personal choices are different and cannot be forced.
The thatched cottages and tiled houses had now become sheds that could barely keep out the wind and rain. Just as the people in the three places were filled with resentment, they suddenly heard a report from afar –
My hometown was flooded.
Overnight yesterday, the source river seemed to carry the power of destruction, and countless streams of water rushed over like an overwhelming force. In just over two hours, one of the three cities was flooded so deeply that even the city tower could not be seen.
The remaining two were not much better, with more than half of the buildings and houses gone.
Standing on a high ground, looking at the floodwaters dozens of miles away, the people in the three places were speechless for a long time. The resentment in their hearts was swept away and turned into gratitude.
They were grateful that the government issued the notice in time, and the people in areas that were not flooded were also grateful, but they were grateful that the flood did not pass through their area.
The other side.
Perhaps it was because several students and Zeng Mohuai communicated with each other too frequently, and Ye Shuo’s reply was not conspicuous among them, so it did not attract the attention of others.
After receiving Ye Shuo’s reply, Zou Wu thought for a moment and felt that this method was feasible.
The fifty-meter river channel is too wide, but it can be divided into several parts. In this way, although there are more breaches, the water flow will be smaller. Then they can be blocked one by one. Although the project is large, it is very likely to solve the current dilemma.
Zou Wu immediately conveyed her meaning as soon as she said it. However, what she did not expect was that her proposal was soon opposed by the local prefect.
The other party even felt that Zou Wu was harming people.
“Do you know that doing this may very well cause the dam to burst?”
Zou Wu was stunned, and naturally knew that the real test was coming.