Hearing what Manager Pang said, Murong Qi Murong Hui gestured to Zi Yao, the two said goodbye, Zi Yao followed Manager Pang to the imperial study, and after the transmission, Manager Pang smiled and lifted the curtain, and Zi Yao stepped inside.

The empress was sitting precariously looking at the fold, and Zi Yao walked up to salute, "Erchen knocks to see the empress!"

The emperor glanced up at Zi Yao, "Come and take a look at these excerpts." ”

Zi Yao lowered her hand and walked closer, took the fold handed over by the emperor, and took a closer look, it was about the flood in Balang County in the south, and the flood relief for three years had little effect.

Ziyao knows about this matter, but this book asks for money, and the disaster relief for three years of floods has had little effect on appeasing the people, and the disaster relief silver proposed by this person is more than twice as much as it has been for many years, how much can such a huge amount of disaster relief money really be used on the people?

"What does Yu'er think about the water in Balang County?"

Zi Yao raised her eyes and glanced at the empress, "Does the empress want to treat the symptoms or the root cause?"

The emperor tilted his head and looked at Zi Yao, and his eyes seemed to be extremely interested in Zi Yao's answer, "It depends on what is the symptom and what is the root cause!"

Zi Yao saw a map of Balang County on the empress's bookcase, and reached out to take the map, "Mother Emperor, please see, this Balang County is located at the confluence of three rivers, there are no hills and ravines in a flat river, and the land is fertile but there is no harvest due to floods for many years.

In the current three consecutive years of flooding, it seems that disaster relief and relief for the people is the most important, but in fact, if the symptoms are treated, the affected people can be temporarily moved out and resettled in the neighboring Xijiang County, where they will be resettled and distributed to work in a unified manner.

After all, the handicraft industry is well developed there, and it is still possible to accept the personnel of a county and join the handicraft industry for a while, and half of the food and lodging of these people will be paid by the employer.

And the mother emperor can temporarily exempt Quang Binh County from the tax burden for one year, so that they are naturally willing to act if they have profits.

This is called palliative. ”

At first, the empress just asked a vague question, but she didn't expect the empress dowager, who had always been confused, to have such thoughts, so she sat up straight in an instant, pointed to the map and asked.

"What is the solution to the root cause?"

Zi Yao spread the map on the bookcase, stood side by side with the empress and continued to speak.

"The so-called root cause, as the name suggests, is to cure the root cause of flooding, so that the southern region can reduce the probability of flooding, this is the real cure, but this time is very long. ”

"Tell me about it!"

"Although the land is fertile, once the river rises sharply and the embankment is washed away, a large area of the county will be flooded, and when there is a shortage of water at the end of the dry year, there will be a major drought here, all of which need to be managed from the upper reaches of the three rivers.

Since the amount of water coming is unpredictable, then we can barrage the river to carry out artificial control, such as in a drought year, we can open the sluice gate to release water, ease the downstream irrigation and drinking, in case of a flood year, we must close the sluice to store water to prevent the river water from soaring, so that the excess river water slowly down.

The best location for these projects is not in Balang County, but in Xijiang County to the west, and here and here, which was originally a lake, but it needs to be related to these three

The river can be connected by canals, and the project is much less, but it will take at least two to three years to achieve results. ”

Saying this, Zi Yao paused, how could she just say these thoughts with a smooth mouth, and bit her lip, although such a change is not abrupt, it will make the emperor think more, so Zi Yao didn't say more, and stood on the side with her hands.

The empress was fascinated when she listened, but Zi Yao didn't talk about it, and turned around to look at Zi Yao, who was frowning, if she didn't know anything, she must have felt that she had just said too much.

"You kid, tell me what's wrong with the mother?

Do you still have to hide it with the mother emperor, after all, this is not a court, but it doesn't matter, I just want to know what you really think, for three years, the courtiers have thought of countless methods to no avail, do you want to see the people of Balang County who have been plagued by floods for many years and cannot live in peace?"

Zi Yao thought for a while, clasped her fists and said: "Erchen is narrow-minded, of course, the most effective thing is to treat both the symptoms and the root causes, and the sum of the silver money spent is the amount needed for disaster relief reported by Balang County."

Since everything costs money, why not just take a one-time salary from the bottom of the kettle!"

Such words made the empress nod her head constantly, "My son is really attentive, if I hadn't asked you this time, would you have taken the initiative to talk to me about these methods?"

Zi Yao shook her head, "No, Erchen is just studying now, and I don't know if these ideas are correct, so I still need the mother emperor to refer to them!"

"If I ask you to deal with this flood, will you be up to the task?"

Zi Yao shook her head, "No, at least not for the time being, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry is the sister-in-law of General Tan, just now Erchen offended General Tan, and she has always been revenge, Erchen is afraid that she will make trouble from it, but it will affect the progress of the project."

However, Erchen can organize all the ideas into an implementation plan, as well as how to repair the canals in Hubo in each river valley, and the production standards of the barrage can be provided one by one, but the mother emperor is asked to find someone else to take the lead in the implementation, can you?"

There was no complaint in every word and sentence, but she thought of all the problems in such a delicate way with concern for the country and the people, and the empress grabbed Zi Yao's hand, and instantly seemed to see her own blood and blood back then, so she had her own blood and a big mind to take responsibility.

"Yu'er thought about it thoroughly, you had an idea when you first heard this report, didn't you?"

Zi Yao nodded slightly, "Well, but it's not detailed enough, it's only after re-studying the topography of Balang County and Xijiang County in the past few days that I came to such a conclusion, and I hope that the mother emperor will ask someone from the Ministry of Industry to make an inference." ”

The Empress nodded, "Okay, you send all the plans and related blueprints to the palace as soon as possible, and I will order them to start checking and implementing them as soon as possible." ”

Zi Yao hugged her fists and retreated, "Erchen will retire first, and send all the atlases and plans to the mother emperor later." ”

*****

Back in the East Palace, Zi Yao wrote an implementation plan in less than an hour.

From the migration arrangements of the people of Balang County, to the deepening of the river channel, and the details of the dam construction of the river, all of them are carefully written, and some of the data in it are the data of the Ministry of Industry retrieved by Babao, which is quite true and detailed.

In addition, the key points and methods of the construction of the dam in the upper reaches of the three rivers are described one by one, as well as the size and excavation method of the canal, what is the local soil condition, and what month is suitable for construction.

Anyway, it is extremely detailed, after all, Zi Yao has been a superior, and his subordinates or juniors have come up with such a detailed plan, which shows that this junior is an extremely serious person, and he has done such a small thing so meticulously, and he has really worked hard.

Let Zhou Wuping personally send all the plan atlases to the palace, Ziyao sat on the soft floor and drank tea, listening to Manager Liu's report.