Chapter 45 Jiangnan Water Conservancy
Zhou Yubai personally formulated a very detailed project. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Thirty years later, this project has played a big role in the area around Taihu Lake.
He built strong embankments around the polders near Tangpu. The height of the embankment depends on the size, topography and surrounding water conditions, and is generally five feet to two zhang high and several zhang wide. There is a road on the embankment to facilitate passage, and willows are planted outside the embankment to protect the foot of the embankment.
There is a gate around the polder, so that the gate can be opened in dry times, and the water of Tangpu outside the embankment is diverted to irrigate the fields, and the gate is closed when it is flooded to prevent the internal invasion of external water. The vertical and horizontal drainage channels are drilled in the polder, which is shaped like a chessboard; if it is waterlogged, the water from the fields will be drained into the canals, and if it is dry, the water from the canals will be irrigated with the fields.
The lowest part of the polder is converted into a pond to collect water. A square varies from a few miles to tens of miles.
In this way, the polder has a strong self-defense ability against general floods and droughts, and its economic benefits are much higher than that of ordinary farmland.
There are too many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, crisscrossing and criss-crossing, from ancient times to the present, the imperial court has also built a very pond, desolate, Jing and Pu, just to drain the flood, but Rao is so, the south of the Yangtze River is still in the summer frequent floods.
"Five miles and one longitudinal pool, seven miles and one horizontal pond", the farmland here is fragmented, unable to be connected into patches, and is often attacked by natural disasters, and the annual grain output is very unstable.
Fu Nianjun also knew that it was impossible to continue digging ponds to discharge floods in terms of flood drainage, and this was not what the official asked him to do, Zhou Yubai put his idea on farmland construction, and there was nothing wrong with it.
Fu Nianjun dipped his fingers in the tea, compared and gestured on the table, and simply and intuitively said everything about the construction of the polder in Zhou Yubai's heart.
Zhou Yubai's gaze moved from her fingers to her lowered eyelashes, and she lowered her eyebrows and said unhurriedly, very focused.
His eyebrows jumped suddenly.
He always felt a very strange feeling about her.
For no reason.
He closed his eyes, "Who is your husband, who taught you this?"
Ordinary little lady, where would she learn this kind of thing, farmland and water conservancy, she is more proficient than those students who dance and write.
Fu Nianjun glanced at him, and was surprised to see only a calm in his eyes.
He didn't care if his plans were punctured, or did he actually have a plan?
Fu Nianjun thought of the ending of this matter.
Of course, Zhou Yubai did nothing wrong, but sometimes it is often difficult for people to overcome the sky.
No one could have imagined that the floods in the Jiangnan region next year would be the worst in decades, and that the construction of his polders would be a hollow talk, and that the entire Taihu Lake basin would be the worst hit area.
The silver grain of the imperial court was sent down in waves, and several incumbent officials were dismissed, because the people's hearts need to be stable, and someone must come out to take the blame.
And Zhou Yubai, as a prince, cannot be punished for too serious crimes, so he has undoubtedly become the best target for Yushitai's attack.
Can a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy be free to disregard human life just because he is a prince?
They always have a reason.
Fu Nianjun didn't know how many people really knew about water conservancy, many literati had never stepped out of the study since they were young, and their splendid scenery was just on paper. Of course, there are people who understand and know that Zhou Yubai is not wrong, but there is no way, at this time, even if it is an official family, he can't protect his own son.
The spittle of the imperial historians can be sprayed on the faces of the officials, but because Taizu ordered "not to kill the officials", the reason is in their hands, and they only need one result.
Therefore, Zhou Yubai was reprimanded by his father, and was dismissed for a year of silver rice, and even postponed the time of being crowned king.
It wasn't until a few years later that the Jiangnan area gradually came to its senses and the polders continued to be used, and slowly people saw the beauty of this, but Zhou Yubai had been scolding for several years.
So when Fu Nianjun opened the door and saw that it was Zhou Yubai, she quickly left without turning around, and she also told herself in her heart that maybe many lives in Jiangnan could escape because of this.
Before, she wanted to choose Zhou Yuchen, and he also had problems with his errand, but the Haizhou salt farm was better than the Jiangnan flood, and it lasted for two or three years, and to be honest, she may not really be sure to convince Zhou Yuchen.
"What are you?" Zhou Yubai said, "Do you say that there will be a big flood next year?
Fu Nianjun's finger tapped the table, "By heaven." ā
She looked very confident, with a faint pride, which made Zhou Yubai suddenly speechless.
One moment ago, I was still talking to him about Jiangnan water conservancy, and the next moment I was like a child and said such things without any basis.
Zhou Yubai said: "Then according to you, how should the water conservancy of Taihu Lake be raised?"
Fu Nianjun said: "It's very simple. The most important thing in the south of the Yangtze River is the river, but in recent years, it is obviously impossible to dig the flood pond again, but many ancient river channels before the Tang Dynasty have been silted up and abandoned, so ......"
She dipped her white fingers in the tea and gestured on the table.
āā¦ā¦ The ancient river channel will be dug and connected, and the dredging will be carried out for several months from this time to the next summer, and the lake water in the south of the Yangtze River will not freeze......"
Her expression was serious.
Zhou Yubai didn't expect her to really say the solution, but gradually found out that she was really not a fake.
"Just that will withstand your decades-old floods?"
Fu Nianjun ignored the ridicule in his words, and only said patiently: "It's not enough. I've looked through some books and county chronicles, and there was a man named Yao Qiao in the Tang Dynasty, who once drew up a plan for the Taihu Lake to drain southeast from Laixi River into Hangzhou Bay. This plan was put into practice, but it was not completed due to the decline of the Tang Dynasty at that time and the project was too large. If you keep digging......"
Thirty years later, this plan has been implemented, and Fu Nianjun feels that it is okay to advance it thirty years earlier, which can save the lives of some more people.
In fact, she is not a compassionate person, if it weren't for the fact that she needed a shield to face the eldest princess, she probably wouldn't have taken the initiative to do such a thing.
Zhou Yubai poured himself another glass of wine.
Fu Nianjun knew that the hour was not early, "If Qilang doesn't believe it, whatever you want." ā
Now if he wants to solve the flood disaster in Jiangnan next year, he must first consider the ability of the river to discharge floodwater, and the polder can be used as a follow-up measure to control the Taihu Lake basin.
He could not believe in himself, but if he didn't even have the guts, it would not be surprising that this man would lose the struggle for the throne.
Then she doesn't need such a shield.
Fu Nianjun hooked his lips and got up to leave.
"I said I didn't agree?" Zhou Yubai stopped her, looked at her as if she was smiling, and said slowly: "Sit down and have a drink." ā