Chapter 81 The Yellow River Floods

Zhu Qizhen thought about it carefully.

First of all, after all, Zhu Qizhen has not experienced it on the embankment of the Yellow River, and he still underestimates the power of the Yellow River.

He saw that the Yellow River did not break its banks in the end.

In other words, the embankment of the Yellow River built during the Hongwu period is still in play.

Secondly, the connection between the Yellow River and the canal and the Huai River is too close.

It can be said that it is impossible to control the Yellow River without considering the canal issue, and it is also impossible to manage the canal without considering the Huai River issue. It is also impossible to involve the canal without considering the problem of water transportation.

In addition, the ancestral tomb of Sizhou is under the threat of Hongze Lake.

In Zhu Qizhen's view, these problems need to be solved, but many civil officials don't think so. The issue of the canal, in particular, is also a very important one.

It is even said that the change of the water transport policy is directly related to the general principle of harnessing the Yellow River.

If the general principle is wrong, it will only become more problematic.

It can be said that Zhu Qizhen does not necessarily have to abolish Caoyun, many things do not matter whether they are right or wrong, and the price they can only pay is not big enough.

If anything, the canal has always remained open. It doesn't matter if the court pays a little more money for this. After all, it can't be estimated from a financial point of view alone.

The most prosperous north of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty was the urban belt along the canal.

These are all benefits of the canal.

But if the canal is maintained, it will cause ecological disaster. But Zhu Qizhen never allowed it.

Therefore, in Zhu Qizhen's heart, the importance of the Yellow River governance lies in the canal, the canal can be cut off, and the imperial court has other methods, such as galloping, such as shipping.

If the Yellow River bursts, the people will have no choice.

If the Yellow River is controlled, it is impossible to dredge the Huai River and maintain the canal. Zhu Qizhen naturally chose to control the Yellow River first.

The reason is simple.

Although agriculture in the south has too many advantages over agriculture in the north, and there are even places where there are three crops in two years, or three crops in a year, Hebei is sometimes reluctant to grow two crops a year. Although the rice yield in the south is much higher than that of wheat in the north, it produces almost one stone more grain per mu on average.

The average grain yield per mu in the north is 2 to 3 stones, while the average grain yield per mu in the south is more than 3 stones. There are even places where there is an output of seven or eight stones.

But if you read the map of China, you will find one thing, the Ming Dynasty controlled all the plains, the largest is the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, which can also be called the North China Plain.

The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, plus the Chengdu Plain and the Pearl River Delta, have been scattered with plains. It is about the same size as the entire Huang-Huai-Hai Plain.

In other words, as long as this large area of land can do a good job of farmland water conservancy. Eliminate all agricultural production disasters, such as locust plagues and floods

, drought, etc.

Then the agricultural production capacity that broke out in the whole north may not be as good as the whole south combined, but it can definitely be compared with the south of the Yangtze River.

But it's a big project.

The core point of this major project is the management of the Yellow River.

How to control the Yellow River, and can we manage the Yellow River once and for all? It's about what to do next.

Zhu Qizhen actually has a great temperament in his bones, perhaps from the later industrial era, accustomed to modern China's infrastructure capacity, and his appetite has long been high.

There are a lot of problems here, and Zhu Qizhen hasn't figured it out yet. Because of this alone, he didn't want to do it lightly, let alone be aggressive.

He knew very well that even if Yang Pu started a great project on the Yellow River, it would only be from the lower reaches of the Beibi Mountains to the mouth of the Yellow River, rebuild the river embankment, and transform it into an inner embankment and an outer embankment. The embankment of the Yellow River was repaired again by the method of restraining water and attacking sand.

It's still a big project, and it has to be millions of taels of silver.

However, this still cannot change the fact that the Yellow River has seized the Huai River, resulting in a poor water potential. Even if the Yellow River can guarantee that its embankments will not be broken in the future, the water situation problem in the Huaihe River basin will not be solved.

Zhu Qizhen has an idea in his heart, that is, the Yellow River is already a hanging river on the ground, and no matter how it is pruned, no matter how it is pruned, it cannot change the trend of the hanging river on the ground.

If the Yellow River is diverted, and then the method of controlling water and attacking sand is adopted, will the Yellow River not be flooded for more than 100 years?

I'm sorry for things farther away, Zhu Qizhen doesn't want to.

But Zhu Qizhen didn't dare to tell anyone about this matter.

The reason is that there has been a painful lesson in the history of China's water control, that is, the difficulty of the Liuta River.

It was an event during the Northern Song Dynasty. The Yellow River burst its banks, and the Northern Song Dynasty court wanted to open the Liuta River to divert the water of the Yellow River back to its original course. Zhu Qizhen has been secretly speculating on Ouyang Xiu's articles for a long time, and has also collected the articles of many ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty on river discussions.

He deeply felt one thing, using Confucian ministers to govern the river is indeed not the way to give preferential treatment to Confucian ministers, let alone the way to treat the country preferentially. During the Song Renzong period, it can be said that the famous ministers were in the stars, and Zhu Qizhen thought that the ability of the ministers concerned was not necessarily weaker than Sanyang.

But something happened.

So much so that the precursor is ahead. Even if someone said in front of Zhu Qizhen that the new river would be opened to cause trouble in the river, Zhu Qizhen's first thought was not to believe it.

So, regardless of the timing, there are disagreements over the river, and there are financial problems. Zhu Qizhen didn't want to mention the matter of repairing the Yellow River at this time.

In Zhu Qi Town, it is best to subdue the tile thorns, Mobei is pacified, and the imperial court will spare energy to think about how to build the Yellow River.

Zhu Qizhen's eyes were slightly pruned, and he didn't look directly at Yang Pu, as if there was some beautiful scenery outside the door, and said, "What Mr. said is extremely true." The Yellow River is going to be repaired, so let's do it, I will come from within

The treasury took out 200,000 taels, and the household department squeezed out another 200,000 taels, so that Henan could raise 100,000 taels, and the river embankment should be repaired first. ”

500,000 taels of silver, in fact, is not too little.

But compared to the silver that Zhu Qizhen smashed on the nine sides, it was much less.

Yang Pu was about to speak, but Zhu Qizhen immediately pulled out an excerpt from the side and said, "Sir, please look, this is what Wei Guogong just played, according to Wei Guogong's plan, calculate the time, Guo Deng has already joined the battle with the Ye thief." ”

"But I don't know what Mr. thinks will win?"

Yang Pu naturally couldn't force Zhu Qizhen to ask the difference between monarchs and ministers. Zhu Qizhen didn't want to respond to Yang Pu, so Yang Pu could only hold back. He sighed lightly and said: "Guo Dengnai is Your Majesty's discerning eye, and he is a rare general among the nobles, and he will definitely be able to capture it here, but there is one thing, but the old minister has some worries." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "What's the matter? ”

Yang Pu said: "This summer, Fujian also has a disaster, in Shaxian. The ministers were worried that the imperial court would not be able to provide disaster relief, and the people would be bewitched by thieves and become chaotic. ”

"It's not going to be easy to clean up."

Yang Pu has a deep understanding of the local situation.

He also understood that it was called a military plague, and that the military plague was not only the killing of the people when the two sides were fighting, but also because of the supply of large armies, all kinds of labor, and sending.

In a hurry, they don't care about anything in order to win the war. Disasters caused by overdrafts.

Fujian Jianning Mansion has been ravaged by Ye Liuzong, so the garrison in Jianning Mansion can't count on local supply at all, he can only rely on Yanping Mansion and Fuzhou Mansion to supply.

The burden on the people in the two places must be very heavy, and at this time, Shaxian County broke the river again. After the flood, the people were displaced, and the manpower and material resources of the imperial court were invested in pacifying the Yeliuzong Rebellion.

As for what kind of way to live, there are lessons from Ye Liuzong's past.

Isn't it very clear.

Zhu Qizhen just started to figure it out, but when Yang Pu gave him a little bit, he suddenly understood a little, and he immediately said: "I immediately sent an order to Jiao Hong, as long as the people are the most important, Ye Liuzong and other rats, it is not impossible to leave him alive." ”

Yang Pu said: "Your Majesty's love for the people is greatly admired by the old ministers. Although he said this, Yang Pu felt in his heart that it was too late.

It's a political intuition.

After something happens, it can make the situation worse, and under normal circumstances, it will definitely happen, or it has already happened.

What Yang Pu thought was not wrong at all, at this moment, the people of Shaxian County were already waiting to be fed, and the dark tide was surging. The magistrate is almost out of control of the situation.

It's just that for the Ming court, the turmoil in Shaxian is still far away. The real concern is Ye Liuzong.

And Ye Liuzong suffered the biggest setback since he started the army at this moment.