Chapter 179: Boundary River Floods(2/2)
Finally, Ji Qian, the water transport envoy, roared: "What's the matter? You still think you can't die quickly enough, don't you?"
"Hurry up and think of a way to get all the accounting books in order. There must be no tail left behind."
"There are also Cao Yin and those dishonest river workers. You know what to do, right?"
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In the dark night.
The heavy rain hit the river surface, sending out countless ripples.
A dragon-like boat came against the wind and rain and cut through the water.
There are two grand canyons along the way, the Houguan Gorge and the Huangcheng Gorge. The terrain is winding and winding, and there are many castles and towns and villages along the way. They prospered relying on this boundary river waterway.
Kong Chenzi looked into the distance.
The embankment is made of bluestones, layer after layer, like stairs.
It has the shape of a shark's fin with uneven layers, and the direction of the river embankment and the boundary river are at an angle. This can better cope with the power of the torrent, and also reflects the skills and wonderful ideas of ancient river engineering.
However, this dam looks like it has not been reinforced or repaired for countless years. Many places are like paper, and there are even signs of collapse.
The real flood season has not yet arrived, and it is already on the verge of collapse.
What Sichuan Lord said is not false.
Its ability to protect this important section of the Cao Canal is truly a meritorious deed.
At the bend of the canyon, a city could be faintly seen in the darkness.
"That's Jiexia County." Lord Sichuan pointed to the city and told Lord Kongchen.
"This is where the water is the most turbulent and where the boundary river water level is the highest."
"A hundred years ago, every time there was a flood in the boundary river, it poured out from this boundary gorge. Every time, it was a tragic scene in the world."
As the ship got closer, we could see that there were many people on the shore in the dark night and heavy rain.
One by one, shirtless in the rain, they carried burdens in the dark.
The roaring and shouting sounds kept coming.
"Quick, block it, block it." Someone stood on the embankment and was beaten by the waves.
"No, this definitely won't work." A group of people became more and more scared as they watched the wind and waves. They couldn't see anything at night. If they accidentally fell into the river, they would die.
"What's going on? The river is completely different this year. Why is it so high?" In previous years, every small section of the river was guarded by monsters. Water monsters were born with the ability to control water flow. Many people have never seen water at all.
It has risen so high.
"This is just a flood, the real flood season has not yet arrived." said an old river worker who is familiar with this boundary river.
Looking at other places on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, although the water level was high, it only showed danger.
The water level here is almost as high as the river embankment, making it extremely dangerous.
As long as there is a gap in one place, the entire river embankment will collapse together, and the water of this boundary river will thunder down like a mountain falling apart.
By then, there will be scenes of corpses floating in the water and countless farmlands destroyed.
Each of these people carried stones and sacks filled with sand, and worked hard to strengthen and block the river embankment.
Of course the people on the boat also saw what was going on here.
The owner of the river immediately stepped forward and explained: "Those are river workers who live on both sides of the river. There are tens of thousands of them in the Baili River Basin. They have been dredging and caring for this river for generations."
"However, these river workers have not really done any river work for decades, and the Caoyun Yamen does not allow them to leave their river workers' household registration."
"Because as long as these river workers are there, the Wei Dynasty court will have to allocate this money to protect the canals every year."
"It's just that the water protection silver will definitely not fall into the hands of the river worker. It will all fall into the hands of the officials of the water transport yamen."
"So these river workers make a living secretly by fishing and doing some small businesses on weekdays, and their lives are relatively poor."
As if he was afraid of being blamed by Lord Kongchen, Master Sichuan said one more thing.
"The Yin God of the Riyou Shen Mansion doesn't care about these things. These corrupt officials are under the jurisdiction of the Wei Dynasty. We, the little gods, don't dare to interfere."
Mr. Kongchendao didn't say anything, he just nodded.
Looking at the figure on the river bank, his eyes became a little deeper.
The owner of the river gradually approached the boat, and even though it was dark and raining heavily, someone immediately noticed the movement in the river.
"Is there a boat?" someone shouted loudly.
"How is it possible that there is a boat? With such heavy rain and such big waves, who dares to get out of the boat." Others couldn't believe it.
"There really is a boat!" More people discovered.
Everyone walked up to the heights of the river embankment to take a look, and sure enough they saw a large boat sailing on the river.
No matter how strong the wind and waves are, it remains firm and still, and the weak light is faintly visible in the river.
"This? This is Grandpa Water God's boat!" Someone immediately remembered a certain legend.
"Ah! Isn't Grandpa Water God gone?" someone exclaimed.
At this time, Lord Sichuan jumped off the boat, and layers of silver light appeared on his body.
The body continued to expand in the air, and a huge catfish emitting silver light swam out and rushed into the river.
Swim towards the other shore.
After approaching the river embankment, the huge silver catfish opened its mouth, and mud sprayed out from its mouth and sprinkled on the river embankment.
The mud solidified instantly and turned into stone, blocking the crumbling river banks everywhere.
As the river master went up the river, the mud sprayed from his mouth became thinner and thinner.
But in the end, we finally helped them to completely stabilize the embankment.
This time, the waves kept hitting the river embankment, and there was no problem with the river embankment again.
Everyone looked at this scene in shock, looking at the silver dragon-like Sichuan Master in the river one by one. The huge figure and the scene of just blocking the river embankment gave them a huge shock in their hearts.
"It's really Grandpa Water God!"
"It's Grandpa Water God who has appeared!"
"Grandpa Water God bless us to spend this year safely and safely!"
Everyone on the shore knelt down and shouted in unison, kowtowing to the sacred ship on the river.
But the divine ship gradually deviated from the shore, its shadow disappeared into the darkness, and the faint lights could no longer be seen.
And the huge catfish finally came back, transformed into a human again and landed on the boat.
Kong Chenzi looked at what Lord Sichuan did just now and thought thoughtfully: "Your magic method is quite interesting."
The Lord of Sichuan waved his hands cautiously, not ashamed to say: "It's a small trick, but it's embarrassing in front of the Tao Lord."
"But the little demon can only do this. In the Baili River Basin, I alone cannot see such a long river."
Kong Chenzi nodded, until it was really impossible for the Sichuan Master to suppress the Baili River Basin alone. Even if it was to build a river embankment, it would be useless for such a long river to have twice as much demonic power.
So he talked about the next step of preparation.
"Build the river bank first."
The Lord of Sichuan held up his hands and waited for Taoist Master Kongchen's order: "Master Taoist! Who can we find to build the river embankment?"
The Taoist laughed and said, "Whoever steals the money to build the river embankment will be repaired by him."
"Since they have become this greedy devil trying to make money."
"For the next hundred years, I will let you be the ghosts of this river worker."
"Let you dredge the river canals and build river embankments day and night."
Chapter completed!