Chapter 469 New Action Plan (Two chapters in one, please vote and subscribe)
After listening to this person's description, Dashu looked at other people again, hoping to get more confirmation.
"It rained heavily there for several days, but there was no flood. It was only more than ten days after the heavy rain that the water in the river became more and more, and finally overflowed from the river channel, flooding our living place, so we had to migrate upstream.
The situation is very similar to our current situation. The river water is getting higher and higher, and finally flooding the land. I think, I think we should continue to flee north." Another small tribe leader also said, but his voice became smaller and smaller at the end, so small that only two or three people around him could hear it.
In fact, most people present had this idea of escaping, mainly those small tribes who joined in the end of autumn. They did not live in the Han tribe for a long time, so they did not have much sense of identity, but this did not mean that they were willing to give up the good life in the Han tribe.
So although they wanted to escape, their biggest wish was to escape with the entire Han tribe. As long as they could be with these tens of thousands of people, they could live a good life anywhere. Moreover, even if they led their old tribe to leave alone, they could guarantee a better life than before, because in the past few months in the Han tribe, they had learned a lot of simple and practical survival skills and tool making from the Han tribe.
However, it was not easy for them to leave alone. With Dashu here, how could he let these people who had eaten food for a whole winter leave the Han tribe? Not to mention Luo Chong's disagreement, even the tribe leaders who had joined for more than a year would not agree.
Therefore, after the meeting, Dashu first let the young tribe leaders of the new tribe leave, and then kept the old tribe leaders, and sternly warned them to keep an eye on the newcomers and beware of the escape. The tribe leaders also agreed happily. They saved food from their own tribes to feed these newcomers. Seeing that there were countless projects to be done in the future, how could they agree to let these newcomers escape.
After arranging all this, Dashu immediately wrote a letter detailing the hydrological changes of the Liuyang River and what he had learned from the small clan leaders about the flood in the lower reaches last year, which caused the river water to surge and submerge the land. Then he immediately asked the giant eagle to send it back.
Then, Luo Chong also received the reply letter from Dashu on the same day. After reading the contents, Luo Chong couldn't help but relax his brows. His prediction was right.
As he had guessed, last summer, there was a heavy rainstorm in the lower reaches of the Liuyang River and the Rushui River. The rainstorm caused mountain torrents, mudslides or landslides. These fallen boulders, trees, and a large amount of silt blocked the river downstream, causing the water to flow poorly. A large amount of river water began to accumulate locally, causing the water level of the river to rise higher and higher, and finally submerged a large amount of land downstream, gradually forming a barrier lake.
Now, after half a year of silting up the river and the continuous increase in water volume, the barrier lake downstream is getting bigger and bigger, and finally filling up all the places that can hold water, which has caused the water level upstream to continue to rise. If this continues, it won't take long before the entire Liuyang County, Ruyang County, and Hanyang County will be submerged by the rising river water and become an ocean.
This situation will continue until one day the downstream water flow finds a breakthrough again, and the silted river water will flow down from the new gap. Finally, with the law that water flows to lower places, the downstream will gradually be washed into a new river channel.
But this is not what Luo Chong wants to see. He doesn't want to let his family fortune accumulated in three years go down the drain, and then return to the pre-liberation era overnight, and become a pauper again when he just crossed over.
So he can't wait, and the Han tribe can't sit and wait for death. Move? That's impossible. Now that we know the cause of the incident, we just need to find the right medicine for the problem. The solution is to find the place where the landslide occurred, that is, the place where the river was blocked, and then find a way to open a gap there, so that the water accumulated in the barrier lake can return to the downstream river channel and restore the original state.
Just like what Dayu concluded when he was controlling the flood, it is better to dredge than to block. In this situation, it is impossible to build a dam to prevent the river from flooding. We can only find a way to open a hole from the siltation of the downstream river channel to let the water flow again.
Thinking of this, Luo Chong has formed a preliminary plan in his mind. Although the Han tribe does not have large ships now, it is not short of small boats. In the past few months, in order to make the transportation between Hanyang County and Ruyang County more convenient next year, the woodworking workshop has been constantly building ships. Now there are 21 flat-bottomed boats, plus the two ships used to transport ore before, there are 23 wooden boats.
These boats are all inland river flat-bottomed barges with square ends and shallow draft. Each boat is eight meters long and three meters wide. It can carry at least 20 people at a time and can also be loaded with a lot of tools. Moreover, it has a very high traffic rate in inland waterways. Although this kind of small boat can only be regarded as a sampan among various types of ships, it is still useful in large numbers. With these more than 20 boats, more than 400 people can be carried at a time. If all of them are young and strong laborers, it should be enough to open the gap downstream.
Thinking of this, Luo Chong no longer hesitated. Now is the time to race against time. As the temperature gets higher and higher, the melting speed of ice and snow is also accelerating. When spring comes next month, perhaps the situation will be irreversible.
What's more, if it really hasn't been resolved by spring, what will happen to the spring plowing next year? If there is no new food to supplement, the entire Han tribe will fall into a food crisis, and then it will cause an uncontrollable chaos, and the Han Empire that Luo Chong has worked so hard to plan will be stillborn.
After stuffing Dashu's reply into the drawer, Luo Chong immediately took out a stack of new paper and began to write again. He first asked him to prepare for flood control, prepare more sandbags to block the city gates, and prepare the granaries and firewood in each city for waterproofing.
Secondly, he asked Dashu to dispatch a group of people. Among them, there must be the chief of the small tribe who had seen the landslide, and the young and strong laborers in his tribe. In addition, there must be young and strong laborers from the Chai clan, that is, the Cha tribe who made a living by fishing. It would be best if a group of young and strong people could be drawn from the Ling tribe in the swamp. Finally, no less than 300 young and strong men should be gathered. If the number is not enough, they can be drawn from the tribes below. They must be healthy and familiar with water.
These people must be gathered within two days of receiving the letter, and then transported by vehicles and horses. From recruiting personnel to transporting people to Hanyang City, it must be completed within four days. No questions are allowed to be asked, and they must be followed immediately after receiving the order.
After writing the letter, Luo Chong waited for the ink to dry, and immediately asked Ying Rui to send it out with a giant eagle.
In this way, Liuyang County can mobilize 300 people, so Luo Chong only needs to transfer 100 people from Hanyang City. The total number of young and strong people on both sides is 400. With Luo Chong's personal command, he is still confident that the problem of downstream siltation can be solved.
There is no other way. Although this operation is dangerous, Luo Chong must go, otherwise others will not know what to do. It is okay to let these hundreds of people work as coolies and cannon fodder, but to let them take full responsibility for this operation and solve this crisis perfectly, don't even think about it. Looking at the entire Han tribe, except Luo Chong himself, no one can take on this task. Luo Chong has no choice but to do this.
After the action plan was finalized, Luo Chong also began to make arrangements. Liuyang County took on the main manpower. Although Hanyang County had fewer people, all the materials needed for the operation had to come from here.
In addition to the most important boats, there must be oars. If there are not enough oars, you can directly use a shovel instead. This thing can be used to shovel soil and row water. One tool can be used for two purposes and can also reduce some load.
In addition, there is a compass to determine the direction, that is, a compass, a steel crowbar, a long-handled axe, a sledgehammer, a steel chisel, a hacksaw, a flint for tinder, tung oil for ignition, and a large number of ropes.
After the tools are ready, some portable weapons and flags for each ship must be prepared. In addition to the long spears with flags, the rest are mainly bows and crossbows. The few bows and crossbows that the Han tribe has are also arranged by Luo Chong.
In addition, some food needs to be prepared. This time it is likely to take ten days and a half months to go out, and food and drink for 400 people must be prepared.
At this point, the materials for the operation are complete, but the purpose of this operation is mainly to open the siltation of the downstream barrier lake, so the task of their fleet is actually to clear obstacles, but now these tools are prepared. It is really unknown whether they are useful.
So Luo Chong has been hesitating whether to bring some powerful weapons to clear obstacles, such as nitric acid, glycerin, and the like.
At the beginning, a batch of sulfuric acid prepared by Luo Chong himself had not been used up, and had been sealed in a large jar. Later, nitrate mines were discovered around the floating island salt lake, so Luo Chong used sulfuric acid to dry distill a batch of nitric acid for backup. Now it has been sealed with sulfuric acid, but it is currently lacking glycerin. However, glycerin is not difficult to make. As long as you want to make it, you can make enough in a few days, because the Han tribe is not short of oil at all.
After thinking for a while, considering that it is a barrier lake caused by mudslides and landslides, there will inevitably be some collapsed rocks in the places where the river is blocked. Smaller ones are okay, but it is really difficult to deal with huge mountain rocks without explosives.
In order to increase the success rate of this operation, Luo Chong thought for a long time and decided to prepare a batch of glycerin, so he immediately sent people to start making glycerin.
The production process of glycerin is not dangerous. You only need to add soda ash to the oil to separate the stearic acid and glycerin, and finally distill and concentrate the glycerin. In addition, a large amount of soap can be produced while making these glycerins for daily needs.
After arranging these preparations, Luo Chong also began to recruit young and strong laborers in Hanyang City. The first one to be recruited was the shipping team that was responsible for operating ships and transporting ore in recent years. There were a total of more than a dozen people. They were usually organized in the mining team, and now they were all recruited by Luo Chong.
The rest of the candidates were selected from various urban areas, and those with children at home were given priority. In this way, even if they died outside during the operation, they would have a child to carry on the family line, so that the family would not be broken up.
After four days of preparation, when the candidates and supplies of Hanyang County were fully prepared, the three hundred people transferred from Liuyang County in the east also arrived in Hanyang City by car.
Many of them were visiting Hanyang City for the first time, especially those who had only joined the Han tribe for a few months. Seeing the more prosperous and taller buildings than those in Liuyang County, they could not help but secretly marvel at them. In particular, the five-story wooden building and the four blue brick teaching buildings on both sides made them marvel. These were things they had never seen in Liuyang County.
However, since so many people were summoned here, they were certainly not here for sightseeing, but for serious things to do.
Most of them were taken to the empty military camp to rest. Only those small leaders who claimed to have seen mountain torrents, landslides, and mudslides last summer were taken into the office building of the county government.
In the large office on the top floor, Luo Chong sat behind a large desk. In the open space in the middle of the room was a brazier, which was burning charcoal used to smelt metals. There was no other way. There was no heating or kang in the building, so they could only rely on burning charcoal to keep warm.
Seeing several small leaders being brought into the room, Luo Chong also sat up straight immediately, tightened his bearskin coat, and sat behind his desk with a serious face.
When they came in, they first looked at the legendary leader of the Han tribe. After all, this was the first time they had the opportunity to observe the leader at such a close distance. They did not expect that the leader with tens of thousands of subordinates, who was in charge of several cities and whose territory was hundreds of miles, was so young.
Ahem .
At this moment, a low cough suddenly came from the side of several people, and then as if they suddenly remembered something, they fell to the ground in an instant and knelt down to Luo Chong in unison. Luo Chong, the emperor of the Han tribe, was naturally qualified to receive such a kneeling ceremony.
After everyone stood up after the ceremony, Luo Chong got straight to the point and asked the thing he wanted to know the most.
"You guys have all seen mountain torrents and landslides. If I can take you back, can you still recognize the river channel and the landslide? I need someone among you to be a guide and take us to the landslide beside the river channel."
Now the little leaders understood. It turned out that the leader called them over so anxiously because he wanted them to lead the way to their hometown. However, it was flooded now. There was water everywhere. How could they get through?
(End of this chapter)
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