From Propulsion City To Multiverse

The Yangtze River Squadron, which escorted or monitored Li Tang's mission, also dispatched a steam warship and five Mengchong ships to lead the way ahead.

Suddenly a Mongolian boat leading the way stopped.

After a while, the Mengchong ship was side by side with Li Xiuning's flagship, and a naval officer shouted with a large copper horn:

"Please follow the pilot fleet, the fleet will berth temporarily at Liyang Port."

Chai Shao, who was the sounding board, shouted loudly: "Thank you for letting me know, we already know."

The communication between the two sides was concise and to the point, and Li Xiuning was used to it, and the people of the Human Revolutionary League didn't seem to have a good impression of these forces that ruled over them.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand. After all, the land tax of the Human Revolutionary League is ridiculously low, and there is no need to collect corvee. It also sends medical teams to the countryside often, plus the daily publicity of the preacher.

The closer they got to the old area of ​​the Human Revolutionary League, the more rejection and hostility Li Xiuning and others felt.

Li Xiuning sighed helplessly: "Ah! What the people want, I'm afraid it will be difficult for my Tang Dynasty to enter the south of the Yangtze River."

Chai Shao and Shi Feixuan were also silent about this. It was not that they amplified the ambitions of others and destroyed their own prestige, but that the People's Revolutionary League based on the people and the feudal dynasty based on powerful landlords like Li Tang had the essence of existence. difference.

Just one mu catty tax is enough to win over a large group of farmers.

Even after Li Xiaogong took charge of Bashu, he quickly blocked the border and used the terrain of the Bashu Basin to block the flow of information from the Human Revolutionary League, but he still couldn't stop some rumors from spreading secretly.

After all, the black guards have long been densely distributed throughout the Central Plains, and with portable radio stations, intelligence in many areas is unimpeded.

Bashu has not suffered serious wars, but it is actually a mixed situation.

The replacement process of feudal dynasties is actually "bloodletting therapy". Through internal self-mutilation, some farmers and landlords are consumed, so that the remaining people can get a certain share of resources.

However, Bashu, which has not undergone bloodletting, is now very densely populated. In addition, Bashu aristocratic families and tyrants are very xenophobic, and this land of abundance is not easy at this time.

In order to alleviate the conflict, Li Xiaogong had to come forward to "reason" with the aristocratic family and let him release part of the illegally occupied farmland and population.

And part of the landless peasants,

Migrate to Guanzhong and Hexi Corridor.

Don't give these farmers land, and now the ideology of the Human Revolutionary League is spreading all over the place. Once it is incited, Bashu may explode directly.

In fact, Li Tang's internal affairs are not very stable now, there are still small uprisings in the Guanzhong Plain from time to time, and in order to maintain a strong military force, high taxes have to be levied.

If Li Yuan hadn't used the People's Revolutionary League as a coercion, threatening the tyrants in Guanzhong and Bashu, forcing these guys to contribute money, food and supplies, Li Tang would have been really poor.

The purpose of Li Xiuning's envoy this time was to delay the time, showing the bronze cannons in front of the Human Revolutionary Union, and the danger of the Three Gorges, making the Human Revolutionary Union fearful.

As for the Zhuxia Alliance of the mob, Li Tang didn't take them seriously. Unless they could be twisted together, they would be defeated one by one sooner or later.

Just when Li Xiuning was full of thoughts.

The fleet arrived at the port of Liyang City unknowingly.

The port is not on the main stream of the Yangtze River, but next to the moat on the south side. The previous moat was excavated into a large area of ​​water and turned into a small lake.

This is also a reference plan for new ports in various parts of the Yangtze River. Setting up wharves on the main stream of the Yangtze River is not conducive to transportation and loading and unloading, and is also not conducive to flood control.

This project used natural river channels, moats, depressions, plus 20,000 migrant workers, and three tons of blasting explosives.

It was only then that this artificial lake with an area of ​​240,000 square meters and a "C" shape was built, with an average depth of about 3 meters. The excavated earthwork alone reached 520,000 cubic meters.

It seems that the amount of work is huge, but in fact, it is only 26 cubic meters of earthwork per capita, and it only took 73 days to add the embankment, wharf, and lighthouse.

With the organization ability of the Human Revolutionary League, plus three meals a day, including fish and meat, and wages, if only 20,000 people were recruited, the entire Liyang City would be willing to come and work.

This is much more conscientious than Yang Guang's free whoring to build the Grand Canal.

In addition, the construction of such a large project is not a casual thing. The Human Revolutionary Union has a special engineering department, which will not only be equipped with professional engineers, but also a large number of auxiliary tools.

With the arrival of Li Tang's mission, Liyang New Port was put into use for less than three days.

While lamenting the magnificence of this port, Li Xiuning suddenly saw two somewhat familiar figures, which turned out to be Song Shidao and Shang Xiuxun.

However, she didn't casually go up to reminisce about the old days. Now that she is an envoy of the Tang Dynasty, her every move is related to the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the RUF, so she must be cautious in her words and deeds.

The naval officer in charge of the navigation came over with his subordinates: "Emissary Tang, after parking the ship, follow me to the guest house. You will rest in Liyang for a few days and wait for Yangzhou's instructions."

"Please trouble General Fang." Chai Shao said with a smile.

"Just call me Colonel Fang." Fang Lixin replied coldly.

The guest house is in Liyang City, and they quickly entered Liyang City along the newly paved concrete road.

The Liyang guest house is not newly built, but a big mansion of Du Fuwei's subordinates. After a little renovation, it was set up as a guest house.

The same is true in other cities. Those confiscated mansions have been transformed into public facilities, including supply and marketing cooperatives, guest houses, libraries, schools, hospitals, public toilets and the like.

From the carriage, Li Xiuning saw passers-by smiling all over their faces, or coming and going in a hurry. There was not a single beggar or refugee along the way.

This is not to show her as a show, but it is the way it is. The Human Revolutionary Federation, which needs a huge labor force, needs people everywhere.

Those who are really incapable of working will be taken in and arranged to live in almshouses.

Those who are able to work but are unwilling to work will be paraded in the streets to show the public, and then they will be spanked with wooden sticks in public, and they will not correct themselves after repeated admonitions. They will either be sent to a labor camp or exiled to a new territory in the south.

In fact, real lazy people are very rare.

After all, this is not a modern developed country, where you can eat your old age without working, or receive relief money.

In ancient times, if you didn't work, you would have starved to death.

Arriving at the guest house, Li Xiuning and his party had just packed their luggage when they noticed a large dark cloud in the southeast direction, rapidly approaching Liyang.

Not just dark clouds, but a growing wind.

"The storm is coming, it's strange..." Chai Shao wondered to himself.

Li Xiuning turned her head and asked, "What's so strange?"

"I'm wondering... the army seems to be a prophet, knowing that a storm is coming." Chai Shao said with some uncertainty.

"Foretellers? Can they predict the weather?" Li Xiuning was skeptical. After all, there are too many strange things in the Human Revolutionary League, and it is not impossible to predict the weather.

Shi Feixuan was also thinking about this matter.

half an hour later.

On the surface of the Yangtze River near Liyang, violent storms began to appear, and the wind force even reached level 8.

And the torrential rain caused many low-lying farmlands to start to accumulate water.

The weather station in Liyang City is continuously monitoring the heavy rain with rain barrels, anemometers, wind direction indicators, barometers, thermometers, and high-powered telescopes.

As Chai Shao guessed, the alliance does have the ability to forecast the weather.

Although there is no satellite cloud image, the alliance has set up a large number of weather stations in various states, and can collect meteorological data from various places through these weather stations.

Then, through the radio station, it was collected to the headquarters of the weather department in Yuhang Prefecture, where there were more than 100 weather analysts who specialized in analyzing these data.

For example, the storm forecast in Liyang this time is a speculation based on the data feedback from Liuqiu and Luzon states.

A week ago, the formation of a tropical cyclone was monitored in the southeastern waters of Luzon State, and it moved rapidly northward.

It passed in Keelung Mansion in the northern part of Liuqiu Prefecture last night.

According to the air pressure and temperature in various places, the Ministry of Weather speculates that this typhoon, code-named "Coral", will land on the coast of Jiangdong Prefecture and Xuzhou, bringing gusts of magnitude 9 to 11 and heavy rain to the local area.

This year, the cold air in Xianbeilia in the north is obviously weaker, and the high pressure in Xianbeilia in Zhongzhou is very likely not enough to force the typhoon back to land in the Jianghuai area.

These predictions are the result of the efforts of hundreds of weather institutes through careful calculation and analysis.

For agricultural production and transportation, part of the weather can be predicted, but a lot of losses can be avoided.

Now sailing along the southeast coast has become very safe.

This is also one of the goals of Zheng Sen's southward strategy. Only when the territory is expanded to Luzon can real-time monitoring of this tropical cyclone in the western Pacific be possible.

Otherwise, it would be too late to make preparations when the typhoon reached Liuqiu and Lingnan.

The southeast sea area of ​​Luzon State is the home of tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean. As long as this area is well monitored, the southern states will have an extra buffer time.

Agricultural production and navigation are really necessary for accurate weather forecasting.

Menggu's Armada suffered a blood loss in this regard.

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The torrential rain in Liyang lasted for three consecutive days and three nights, and the coastal areas of the Jianghuai River have turned into a swamp country.

Many soybeans and broad beans planted in winter are soaked in water, and the harvest of winter beans in low-lying areas is basically a foregone conclusion.

Inside the guest house, Li Xiuning, Chai Shao and others were relieved to see such a terrible rainstorm.

Chai Shao had a happy expression on his face: "With this heavy rain, the winter beans in the Jianghuai and Jiangnan regions may not be harvested. The grain production in their territory will be reduced, and they will definitely not be able to go north to the Central Plains next year."

"If we can delay for a little longer, we will be sure to keep Bashu and Guanzhong, and then plot the Central Plains." The depression in Li Xiuning's heart dissipated a lot immediately.

Only Concubine Shixuan remained silent, her heart was complicated at this time.

After all, Shamen pays attention to compassion, but the Human Revolutionary League is a sworn enemy.

Perhaps there is no compassion in this world, and the standpoint is the principle of good and evil for most people, Shi Feixuan couldn't help but have this thought in her mind.

And in Liyang's military management office.

Song Que sent his son Song Shidao away, and took soldiers and horses to inspect the situation in all parts of Huainan Prefecture.

The regular army stationed in Huainan Prefecture has a total of three corps, with a total of 15,000 people, and hundreds of thousands of militiamen.

Song Que, as the military leader of Huainan Prefecture, now that Huainan is hit by floods, he must not sit still. This is also the difference between the Human Revolutionary League and the feudal dynasty.

The Human Revolutionary Union believes that man will conquer nature, while the feudal dynasty pays attention to the relationship between man and nature.

If the Central Plains Dynasty encountered such a natural disaster, the rotten scholars should jump out, point to the emperor's nose and make irresponsible remarks, and then the emperor will issue an imperial edict.

After being exposed to a series of new theories of the Human Revolutionary Union, Song Que now sneered at the so-called interaction between heaven and man.

Zhao Keji, the governor of Huainan Prefecture, also led people to check the dams of the Yangtze River and the affected areas.

He and Song Que met at Wangbei Fort near the Wagang Army.

"Comrade Song Que, are you here to inspect the border?"

Song Que shook his head: "Li Mi doesn't have the guts, I'm just worried that the large-scale influx of refugees from the opposite side will bring security problems."

"That's true. Comrade Song Que will be troubled by the border issue. If refugees come over, they will all be resettled. We may not have many other things, but we have enough food." Zhao Keji said proudly.

Song Que wasn't worried about the food either, the NRU was indeed not sure about the food.

In southeast prefectures, Liuqiu prefectures, Lingnan prefectures, and Guangnan prefectures that were not affected by the disaster, the harvest of autumn and winter rice in the third season has already begun.

Currently, there are 2.06 million tons of grain in stock, in addition to the 1.87 million tons imported into the newly controlled states.

The tropical states in the south will be able to buy back at least 800,000 tons of grain by the end of the year. With so much grain in hand, even if all the northern states fail to harvest, the Human Revolutionary Federation can still handle it.

Moreover, in the plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, there is no problem with the early rice and late rice in the territory. The food in many farmers' homes is enough for the whole family to feed for a whole year.

After all, many farmers are frightened by hunger, and hoarding food has become a genetic instinct. When encountering an official like the Human Revolutionary Federation that only collects tax per mu, they will naturally hoard food desperately.

Even if they sell grain to the grain strategy company, they will keep rations and seeds for at least a whole year.

However, in the winter of Jiangdong Prefecture and Xuzhou, soybeans and broad beans are mainly grown. Soybeans and broad beans are now only miscellaneous grains. When the grain companies buy them back, they will not be used as reserves, but as raw materials for oil extraction, and soybean meal as feed.

Therefore, it will affect the supply of soybean oil and soybean meal for feed next year.

Song Que didn't think about it. After all, he was in charge of military work. He reminded:

"I'm not worried about food, but medical supplies may need to be dispatched urgently by the Governor's Office. After all, there are often major epidemics after major disasters."

Zhao Keji nodded: "I already reported to the Governor's Mansion yesterday that as soon as the weather clears up, I will send 200 tons of lime and a batch of anti-epidemic supplies."

"I can rest assured that."

The Human Revolutionary Alliance has a complete set of epidemic prevention and disaster prevention systems, and has plans for all aspects. As long as the people below are in place, there will be no major problems under normal circumstances.

If there is still a big problem in the case of adequate preparation, it is dereliction of duty.

Compared with the Human Revolutionary Union's response.

The Wagang army entrenched in the middle reaches of the Huaihe River seemed at a loss at this time, or sat numbly watching the flood.

Fortunately, Zheng Sen didn't have any expectations for these Caotou kings. He didn't resume production in the lower Huaihe area, but moved out a lot of people from the beginning.

The plains on both banks of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River and the plains on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yellow River have been abandoned for a large area.

How to divide the abandoned area is based on the distance from the river and whether the area is below the level of the river.

Generally, the safe distance starts from 50 kilometers to extend the life of the river, and even reaches about 100 kilometers in some areas.

And these areas have not been wasted, but have been converted into pastures for easy transfer.

This is a special regulation for the lower reaches of the Huaihe River and the Yellow River.

The reason for doing this is not entirely because of fear of natural disasters, but also to guard against man-made disasters.

After all, Huayuankou God of War is not an isolated case. Never underestimate the cruelty and darkness in the human heart. Many heroes do things unscrupulously.

Taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people to bet on whether Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande and others will break the river embankment against their conscience, Zheng Sen is not that big-hearted.

He would rather give up farming to become a shepherd than believe in the character of these grass-headed kings.