Tang's dining table

After the baby girl drank the milk, she struggled to leave the wet nurse's arms. Yin Erhu took the baby over and gave the wet nurse a bunch of money. He then held the baby in his arms and patted the baby until the baby was pumped. After burping, he sniffed the child's crotch and found no bad smell, so he put her back into his woolen cloak.

The comments from the diners continued to reach his ears. After listening for a while, Yin Erhu felt that the people in Bianzhou were actually quite heartless. Before he came to Bianzhou, he had read the evaluation documents about Zhang Xiangxiang collected by his people. Generally speaking, Zhang Xiangxiang is still a relatively shameless person. During his tenure in Bianzhou, although his political achievements were mediocre, he did not do anything outrageous.

Bianzhou is different from other places. The main reason is that it is surrounded by the famous Yellow River. After entering the boundary of Bianzhou, the river suddenly changed from a raging to a quiet and deep flow.

It is not a good thing for the Yellow River to become quiet.

This means that the sediment carried in the river will slowly fall to the bottom of the river. Over time, the river bed will become higher and the river water will overflow. People will have to continue to build river embankments in the distance, and the river bed will become shallower and become Wider, the water flow becomes slower, and more and more sediment is deposited. Finally, it becomes an endless loop.

Zhang Xiangdao has not done much else in recent years, but he is very concerned about this river. Before he took office, the river's course was always changed in Bianzhou, and the river course was changed every one or two times in Bianzhou. Every ten years, there will be a major flood. After Zhang Elephant led the people to raise the embankment, the river, which should have been changed long ago, continued to be peaceful for six years.

Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, this is what we are talking about.

After Yin Erhu had eaten a full meal, he took his daughter, who was also full of milk, and rode up the river embankment.

The Yellow River does not freeze in winter, and the water in the river is clear. Every winter is the quietest day of the year for the Yellow River. However, starting from April 9th, the river here will freeze. Tomorrow is the first day of April 9th.

The ice on the river was already very thick, and it was slowly spreading to the river. Yin Erhu came to the river and grabbed a handful of water. There were already some tiny ice spikes in the water. He used a spoon to scoop out a spoonful of water. With a little stirring, the water in the spoon immediately freezes.

It looks like all it takes is another cold snap for the river to freeze over.

Xue Changfeng came to save Zhang Xiangxiang, but not Yin Erhu. He came specifically to see this river according to Yunchu's instructions. Judging from the news from Youzhou, some people are very concerned about the river next to Bianzhou. .

Now, the river is about to freeze, and Yin Erhu feels that he should spread the news to Junhou.

Yun Chu also placed a Yellow River in his Chinese army tent, but this Yellow River was much smaller than the real Yellow River. Although it looked the same as the Yellow River, one was a natural scene, and the other was It's more like a toy that the handsome man placed for himself when he was bored.

Gentle and Di Renjie had been watching Yun Chu let people pour water on the model one basin after another.

This is a new model, placed just outside the big tent. It looks more lifelike than the one inside the military tent. Even Mianchi, Mengjin, Mengzhou, Gongyi, Wuzhi, Zhengzhou, Zhongmu, and Bianzhou on the riverside, Jiyang, Changyuan, Puyang and other cities are also clearly marked.

The water begins to pour from places like Mianchi where the rivers are narrow and the water flows quickly. Therefore, after flowing all the way to Bianzhou and Jiyang, where the rivers are wide, you can basically not see the river flowing.

Although the wind was freezing outside the military tent, the sergeants continued to pour water into the river here in Mianchi. Gradually, a thin layer of ice appeared first on the river in Jiyang, and then on the river in Bianzhou. By the evening, the thin ice had reached Mengjindukou.

Seeing that the river was no longer flowing so smoothly, Yunchu decisively broke open the ice in Mengjin. The broken ice flowed slowly along the river, breaking open some frozen river surfaces. So, this The river became a glacier full of broken ice.

The broken ice carried the broken ice and continued downward. When it arrived in Bianzhou, because the river here was the first to freeze and the ice layer was relatively thick, the broken ice got under the ice layer and continued to move forward. When the broken ice was frozen, the ice surface became thicker. After the thick Jiyang, there was an obvious blockage. Finally, the broken ice squeezed through the ice surface and formed an ice dam on the river.

The soldiers responsible for pouring water into this big river still poured water into this big river slowly. In the severe cold weather, there was more ice in this river. The ice dam formed in Jiyang. It becomes more majestic.

The most terrible thing is that the water level of the Yellow River above Jiyang is rising sharply.

When it got dark, the Yellow River water, wrapped in ice, finally overflowed the river embankment. Seeing the river water and the ice rushing towards Bianzhou City and Jiyang City, Yunchu dropped the hand warmer that had no temperature in his hand and said to Wen Wen, who had also stood in the cold weather for a whole day, said to Di Renjie: "Let me just say, how could those people watch His Majesty act wantonly and not make any form of counterattack?"

Wen Wen frowned and said: "Yin Erhu sent news that the river in Bianzhou is already showing signs of freezing. He also said that the water there is so cold that it can freeze if stirred."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "That's not surprising. This is another perversion of the ice-water mixture. Wait until you see Wen Huan and let him explain it to you. Don't bother me now."

Di Renjie asked: "Has Guang Si learned these secrets?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "I didn't learn it at first, but after being slapped by me, I started to understand."

Di Renjie clapped his hands suddenly and said, "Pump it, you must pump it, hard."

The three of them returned to the warm military tent, cooked pots of tea, and each drank three rounds of tea to warm themselves up. Yun Chu put down his tea cup and said, "Now, let's talk about how we can survive this incident. Maximize our interests without harming the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait."

Wen Wen thought for a moment and said, "What was the situation like in the past? If it is like this every year, I don't believe that the Bianzhou government will not have a strategy to deal with it."

Yun Chu said: "In previous years, no one smashed the well-formed ice upstream. In addition, the Yellow River is in the dry season in winter, and the water surface does not change much. The river water still flows under the ice surface, so it will not be damaged in the cold winter. Sometimes something like this happens.

It will only occur after the ice melts in spring. Bianzhou people generally call this situation the "Peach Blossom Flood".

Gentle said: "How to break the ice is not an easy task."

Yun Chu smiled bitterly and said: "Of course it was not easy in the past. Since the advent of gunpowder, it is not very convenient to use gunpowder to blow up ice."

Di Renjie said: "Once the ice water enters Bianzhou City, the city will be sealed with ice immediately. The emperor may not be in trouble by then, but the people will really be doomed."

Wen Wen asked again: "Guard the upper reaches of the river..."

Halfway through his words, he changed his words and said, "Do we have to blow up the ice at Mengjindu?"

Yun Chu said: "It is actually possible to go from Gongyi to Mianchi. The problem lies in Jiyang (Lankao). The river narrows here and it is easy to form ice dams and block the downstream flow of the river."

Di Renjie said: "That means there are two hundred and fifty miles of rivers that need manpower to guard day and night, right? Not to mention whether it can be guarded, even if there are enough manpower, people want to put them in among so many people. It should be easy for some dead soldiers.”

Wen Wen said: "No wonder Wang Ben would pour water into the beams when he couldn't attack the city. It seems that the most convenient way to attack the city of Bianzhou is water attack."

Di Renjie suddenly said: "Which is more serious, man-made disaster or natural disaster?"

Yun Chu looked at Di Renjie and said, "Both are man-made disasters. You can't pretend that this flood is a natural disaster."

Wen Wen said: "I'd better go to Bianzhou to meet His Majesty and demonstrate this model to him to see if I can rescue Zhang Xiangxiang."

Di Renjie sneered and said: "If Zhang Xiang is not rescued by then, you will be finished first. Otherwise, the emperor will think that you want to blow up the ice and harm him.

Only Yunchu is suitable for this kind of thing. Neither you nor I are that important in the emperor's heart. "

Wen Wen said: "Yun Chu is the commander-in-chief of the rear army. Leaving the military camp without authorization is a capital offense."

Yun Chu said: "How about letting Duke Ying go?"

Di Renjie shook his head and said: "Since he has lost power, don't give him another chance to make a comeback."

Gentle said: "Yunchu will give a secret memorial to His Majesty, and then invite Prince Li Hong to come to Zhengzhou, and Li Si will secretly write a secret memorial to the queen. In this way, everything should be done."

Di Renjie said: "Everything is really stable. No one can be offended. Remember to write the secret note to the emperor in larger words and don't let the eunuchs help you read it. Otherwise, within a day, everyone will know about it." To arouse the enemy's suspicion."

Yunchu followed his good example and wrote a thick secret memorandum to the emperor in large characters. Li Si copied a copy and planned to show the stolen memo to the queen after the emperor received the news.

As for Li Hong, Yunchu just wrote a letter telling him that he had made some new discoveries in knowledge and asked him to come over so that he could teach him the new knowledge.

After reading the secret memorial, Wen Wen frowned and said, "You didn't mention in the secret memorial that someone had planned to do this. You only told the emperor that Bianzhou is not a safe place. If the emperor feels safe, you are worrying too much. ?”

Yunchu said: "Isn't there a queen and a prince? If they really plan to have a winter "plum blossom news" in Bianzhou, we can't prevent it. In this case, we can only urge the emperor to hurry up. Please leave Bianzhou and don't let him bring disaster to the people of Bianzhou.

With him gone, I think those people in Hebei and Shandong will not be so crazy and care about human life. "