Chapter 260: The Yellow River

Following the official road, the three of them went all the way south and finally arrived at the north bank of the Yellow River. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This was originally a canal wharf, and the remaining size of the town at the foot of the mountain indicates that it was the original thriving of the canal wharf.

Hu Qin took off the black cloth, he had been here before, pointed to the Yellow River, and told the seafarer Wai Sasu about the past.

In the year of the Empress Jing'an and the Empress Jingning, the Yellow River flooded several times, and the people of southern Jiangsu, northern Henan, and northern Anhui were not able to make a living. In the end, the Yellow River was diverted and went north to capture the Daqing River into the sea.

In the south, between the Huanghuai and the Huanghuai, the exile cult broke out several times, and each time the holy prince and his sons did not hesitate to lead the army to quell the rebellion.

The Grand Canal has been out of traffic for more than ten years.

The imperial court used the method of shipping to ensure the transportation of grain from the south to the north. Maritime merchants are prosperous, benefiting from this, among which the fleet of Songjiang Jujiasha is the most.

In order to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle and eliminate the popular uprising, the imperial court vigorously encouraged immigrants from northern Shandong to Liaodong, and the displaced people in the Zhili area were arrested and sent at will. The Henan region vigorously encouraged going to the western regions.

In order to stabilize the frontier, the Holy Prince divided the princes into Zhuye, and the clan also moved out at the same time.

By the time Emperor Jinghe ascended the throne, the world had been peaceful.

Therefore, the East Mansion set up the Governor of Caoyun in Jining Mansion to preside over Caoyun and dredge the canal.

At the same time, Gu Yungui led the Eastern Battalion to collectively change careers, changed to engineers, and built tracks with Jingzhao as the center. Xifu thought that the army was transporting troops, south to Jinan, north to Jinzhou, west to the south of the Zhangjiakou mountains, east to the sea, half of the world's elite soldiers, assembled and transferred, but a few days.

The two major projects cost a lot of money, and the eastern and western governments often met shirtless at the imperial meetings in order to compete for the budget.

Gu Yungui's three assistants, the first is the master craftsman Li Chun, the second is the former deputy chief Shi Huxu, and the third is Ma Qianhu who is in charge of communicating with the ministry.

These three people are best known as Ma Qianhu. Ma Qianhu is deeply favored, long-sleeved and good at dancing, very good at communication, of course, he often makes mistakes, and scolds people when he is good! Fortunately, when you scold back, he does not hold grudges.

At that time, Huang Changting was still the deputy envoy of the privy council, and he saw the demeanor of Ma Qianhu with his own eyes. Later, Lao Huang praised Ma Qianhu: Even in the mouth of a monkey, he can also pick out dates!

Lao Peng was the Minister of Finance at the time, and in order to keep the dates, he turned his face with Ma Qianhu several times, and even fought.

Moreover, Ma Qianhu is very generous, as long as he doesn't care about his dog temper, all kinds of common rules, he will abide by them.

The people from Xifu and the Secret Security Bureau took his money and wiped off the foam on Ma Qianhu's face: Ma Qianhu is a talent!

In front of Shangguan's subordinates, he twisted the silver ticket in his pocket, and he was righteous and awe-inspiring, showing that he was very generous.

Ma Qianhu is not only familiar with the official, but also has a great reputation among the merchants. Shanxi Qianzhuang, Songjiang Quanzhou maritime merchants are familiar with him, sometimes the imperial court really can't allocate money, Ma Qianhu can still borrow a huge amount of money, no need to pay a little interest, never because of the track has never suffered because of money.

Gu Yungui led his subordinates to build tracks with a rhythm of heart, and the track engineering soldiers were famous for their ability and popularity. The limelight is extremely strong, and in Xifu, even the engineer regiment of the Nanda Battalion secretly went to help with the work according to the meaning of Shangfeng, and came back to settle the account with Ma Qianhu, most of which were not in the public account. The various engineering teams of the Ministry of Industry of Dongfu also went to work, and Ma Qianhu was able to find money to pay the bills.

Finance Minister Peng Zhongyong made several fuss and demanded an audit of the accounts. Not to mention the people from the Secret Protection Bureau, even the people from the Dongfu Supervision Bureau are unwilling, who has no relatives, let alone the Xifu who protects the calves.

In contrast, the water transportation project has encountered great difficulties and setbacks, that is, the problem of the canal crossing the Yellow River. To this end, Caoyun Yamen set up the Weishan Yellow River Engineering Bureau on the north bank of the Yellow River, and later moved from the north bank to Liangshan County to solve the problem of stuck necks.

It took several years, millions of silver dollars, and even the damming of the Yellow River for a time, but it did not solve the problem.

I had to transport the Yellow River temporarily, and transported it in sections, at this time, the Hebei area, the rainfall was insufficient, and the canal was very shallow.

Empty money beams, the Imperial History Supervision Bureau concentrated artillery fire on the Yamen.

Huang Changting, who had just been promoted to Fuzheng, fell into the ground at the pre-imperial meeting: He must be severely punished! If Dongdaying presides over the construction, half the time and half the money and grain will be enough.

Prime Minister Wu Zai had a plan for a long time, so he got off the donkey, grabbed food from the tiger's mouth, dug up the Dongda Battalion, which was half army and half civilian, and set up a general bureau of railways, and told them to repair the branch line of Jinan to the mountains in order to form a pattern of rail transportation in the north and Cao transportation in the south.

The Xifu gang was immediately dumbfounded!

Huang Changting hurriedly convened a meeting of a group of people in Dongdaying and asked them to take the initiative to write a letter to refuse!

What he didn't expect was that Gu Yungui and the others actually agreed with the opinion of the imperial court very much.

Gu Yun returned to Lao Huang and settled the account: military transportation actually occupies very little capacity in peacetime, and the establishment of special platforms for transfer in non-war times can fully meet the needs. Although the track is extremely important to the military, it is actually more advantageous to transfer to civilian use, and the daily freight income, plus a little subsidy from the imperial court, without military spending.

After all, Lao Huang is in the center, and when he heard it, he knew that it was the trend of the times, so he didn't stop it.

However, according to the rules of officialdom, the departure of the Railway Bureau from Xifu means that the rights of Xifu have been greatly eroded, and the benefits brought by it have also gone to Dongfu.

Not to mention the loss of officials of the Xifu headquarters, even the grassroots level was also quite affected, and many people in the Nanda Battalion Engineer Regiment immediately retired and went to work as contract foremen.

The final elected regiment commander was actually a little fat man with no military demeanor, short legs and short feet. Of course, his business is okay, and there are people up there. His uncle is Prime Minister Wu Zaicong, and he also served as an attendant to Xiang Yingfa's deputy privy envoy.