Everything that followed proceeded smoothly. Zhang Shudao and three officials from the Ministry of Works spent almost entire days in the fields, figuring out how to divert the river.
Fortunately, it was already winter, so the river water was not as massive as during the summer flood season. Coupled with the fact that it had hardly rained since they arrived, the sun-baked soil was easy to work on. However, the villages submerged by the river remained flooded, and the belongings that had been swallowed up could not possibly be retrieved.
During this time, every single event that occurred in Wancheng was reported back to the capital without omission.
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