146. Be a gentleman
At the third hour, Kangxi was awakened in his sleep and learned a frustrating and unfortunate news. Last night, a fire broke out in Min Lane in the east suburbs of Kyoto. Due to dry autumn and dry autumn, wooden structure houses, the fire burned a whole block, and dozens of casualties were killed. (eng.com)
When the fire broke out in midnight, there were spontaneous firefighting such as buckets and tubs by the people. At first, even the prefect and the admiral thought it was just a small fire in some private houses and did not take it seriously.
After the wind helped the fire to continue, it involved several households. After half an hour of burning, it became more and more intense. Even the governor of Zhili of Jifu Yu Chenglong and Shuntian Prefecture Xiong Yixiao rushed to the fire scene in carriages. The yamen and the policemen of the outer city all went out and rushed to the scene to put out the fire. At that time, the fire was vigorous, and artificial splashing water was like a drop in the bucket. It was useless to watch the flames violently swallowing the wooden old house next to each household.
Yu Chenglong has been in power for many years and has great experience. After discussing with Xiong Yixiao, he ordered the yamen runners to demolish all the houses that had not yet been affected by the fire at the lower end. Unexpectedly, the people strongly refused the film. Because the people were watching the fire but not yet affected their own homes, many people still had the intention of watching the excitement. Many people even thought that the fire in the distance had nothing to do with them, and they held their children and wives and continued to sleep.
The infantry police also gathered a battalion of soldiers. However, under the leadership of the guards on night shift, they did not act without taking action except to watch the situation and maintain some order. Anyway, it is necessary to investigate. Regardless of natural disasters, it is indeed better to rescue the fire. On the ground of caution, a lieutenant under his command was sent to the Jiumen Admiral's residence to report the fire to the Shangfeng.
At that time, Fei Yanggu was hugging the seventh concubine in his arms. When he was woken up in the middle of the night, he was very angry and cursed and swearing. He was confused and asked a little more important question: "How many people died?"
The captain who reported the letter replied with a guess: "Sir, there are about ten people..." Fei Yanggu woke up immediately and hurriedly wore clothes and boots while muttering in his heart. This matter might not be good, and three or five people would be gone. More than a dozen casualties were too much. He would have to take the emperor's rank again tomorrow morning.
After a while, the nine-sect admiral Fei Yanggu rode a tall horse and rushed over at night. Fei Yanggu was just like Jackie Chan. Xiong Yixiao met, clasped his fists and bowed, "Good two lords," and never expressed his opinion. He went to the custodian's gangster, Maka, and immediately came to Fei Yanggu's side and quietly reported the situation of the fire to his boss.
However, the situation was urgent, Yu Chenglong stepped forward to discuss with Fei Yanggu: "Admiral, can you order the infantry patrol soldiers to persuade the people to leave their residences, demolish several houses as soon as possible, and leave a piece of open space to prevent the fire from spreading?"
Fei Yanggu hesitated and said, "Raising water to put out the fire, what's the use of demolishing houses? What's more, demolishing people's houses without authorization is an act of disturbing people. I'm afraid... it's not appropriate..."
Fei Yanggu had a conspiracy in his mind that the local government offices could do this, but the infantry and police officers under his command should not do this absurdly, avoid taking responsibility, and helping to carry water and water the fire to maintain order on the scene.
Xiong Yixiao said anxiously, "Mr. Fei, I am in a hurry to follow the power of the matter. I can't wait for this matter for a moment. I hope the Lord will agree to send the police battalion to cooperate with the service." Xiong Yixiao, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, was like those old houses burned by fire. At this moment, everyone was burned to death. Today's life was handed over, but if it was handled improperly, his job was in danger.
Fei Yanggu silently refused to express his opinion. After delaying this time, the fire had spread rapidly.
Yu Chenglong said loudly: "I can't wait for Fei Yanggu, all the consequences will be borne by me, Yu Chenglong. Please give orders as soon as possible."
At this moment, since Yu Chenglong said this, Fei Yanggu could no longer pretend to be timid, so he had to instruct his subordinates: "Maca, you can listen to Lord Yu's full power to dispatch it."
Yu Chenglong immediately ordered Maka: "God of the leader, send all the soldiers to bring out all the people in the two rows of houses... Lord Xiong, please remove all the workers from this courtyard wall as soon as possible, and immediately soak them if they cannot be removed..."
Everyone quickly started to act. The soldiers of the infantry patrol battalion started knocking on the door door with weapons. When they saw someone open the door, they called them out directly. Occasionally, they refused to open the door, so they picked up swords, guns, sticks and smashed the door hard, forcibly dragging people out. For a moment, the sound of crying at my parents was endless.
Although Yu Chenglong couldn't bear it, he could not avoid it. The officials rushed to dump more than a dozen houses. After working for more than half an hour, the fire gradually burned here. Sure enough, there was a tendency to slow down. Many dusty servants and ordinary people gathered on the street, holding buckets or foot basins in their hands, and finally wiped out several sporadic fire points.
Yu Chenglong was tired for the middle of the night and felt a little relieved. Suddenly, the wind direction changed. He blew from the northeast wind to the north, and to the north, there was another old street.
Yu Chenglong was shocked and hurried to the north alley of the eastern suburbs with Fei Yanggu and others.
The orange flames danced freely in the dark light. Suddenly, a few light-colored water dragons as thick as arms seemed to turn into rain and fall from the sky...
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Chapter completed!