Mo Dao Shiren has one eye, inciting the Yellow River to rebel in the world!

The stone man who provoked the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was dug up by the Yellow River river workers when they were digging the Huanglinggang River. And this time the Yellow River burst its embankment, and it was precisely in Huanglinggang!

Since Emperor Zhengde succeeded to the throne, in just eight years, Huanglinggang alone has broken three times.

Huanglinggang is east of Kaifeng, Henan, where the mouth breaks, why did Wang Yuan take people straight to Shandong?

First, it is much faster to take a boat down the Grand Canal to the south; Second, inspect the situation of the Cao River in Linqing, Shandong.

As for the Huanglinggang break, Liu Kai, the governor of the river who worships the river god, is repairing the embankment to atone for his sins. Although Zhu Houzhao said that he wanted to remove him from his post, he was familiar with the situation and had to be recalled after the flood situation was alleviated.

Wang Yuan led the crowd from Beijing and arrived at Linqing Prefecture in a blink of an eye.

Li Xing, a retired old eunuch in his sixties, was also brought over by Wang Yuan.

Li Xing stood on the deck, pointed to the river in the distance, and said: "From the Mengyuan Dynasty to the present, the Yellow River mainly flows through Kaifeng, turns southeast through Huanglinggang, flows through Xuzhou into Surabaya, and enters the sea through the Huai River. But every time it breached, it would lead to the diversion of the Yellow River, and the breach in the 24th year of Hongwu was particularly alarming. At that time, the Yellow River was divided into three: one went through Shouzhou into Huai, called the 'Great Yellow River', one went through Xuzhou into Huai, called 'Little Yellow River', and one went to Shandong to flow into the Huitong River, bringing a large amount of sediment, causing the Huitong River to be silted up, and the Grand Canal was cut off for 20 years! ”

This corrupt old eunuch was actually worried about the country and the people: "What are you afraid of now that the Yellow River is broken?" I am afraid that the flood will pour into Shandong, which will lead to the interruption of Cao Yun, which is related to the safety of the community. ”

Wang Yuan looked at the boats coming and going from south to north on the river, and said with a sigh of relief: "It seems that the flood has receded, and the Cao River is navigable again." ”

Li Xing said with a smile: "God forbid, this year's break is not very strong, otherwise it can only be retreated during the dry season in winter." ”

Wang Yuan said: "Please also ask Li Gong to tell me where the Cao River in Shandong is easy to be affected." ”

Li Xing pointed ahead and said: "One is Linqing here, where the Wei River and the Zhahe River meet, and there are many tributaries of the Yellow River in the upper reaches. Once the Yellow River bursts in Henan, it is easy to stretch for hundreds of miles and flood over! One is further south in Jining, which has been flooded more often than Linqing. However, Linqing is more likely to cut off navigation, that is, afraid of floods and droughts. ”

"Why?" Wang Yuan asked.

Li Xing explained: "The Zhahe River and the Weihe River are low, so they are naturally not afraid of the abundant water. However, when the rainfall decreases in March and April, or during the dry winter season, the only way to store water is through the sluice. When enough water is stored, the gate is opened for navigation, and once the gate is opened, the water will be exhausted, and all the boats behind will be stranded. ”

Wang Yuan ordered the boatmen to continue to move forward, observing back and forth for nearly half a day, and basically understood what the situation was.

Li Xing said: "This year, the Yellow River burst, causing Linqing to cut off navigation for nearly two months. Seeing that the flood waters have receded, but it is about to be a dry season, and the transportation will have to be intermittent at that time, and the price of rice in the capital will inevitably soar this year. If Bachelor Wang can solve the problem of Linqing's transportation, it will be a great miracle to ignore the Yellow River breach! ”

In this year, the Yellow River breached, and the Cao Yun officials were the first to suffer, and a total of more than 20 people were fined, only because the grain was delayed for three months.

Wang Yuan smiled, did not comment, and only let the boatman dock at the wharf outside Linqing City.

At the gate of the city, Wang Yuan took out his waist card and said: "Wang Yuan, who is a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy and patrols the imperial history of the river, is here, let me go up to the city tower to have a look!" ”

What the hell is the history of patrolling the river?

I only talked about the imperial history of the governor's river, and I really haven't seen enough to patrol the river.

The general defending the city was taken aback and asked, "But the king who killed Liu Liu, Liu Qi, and Qi Yanming?" ”

"Exactly!" Wang Yuan said.

The defenders of the city will immediately accompany Wang Yuan to the city tower, and at the same time send someone to inform Zhizhou Ma Lun.

Wang Yuan stood on top of the city tower, took out his binoculars to observe the situation, and walked through the four cities of the southeast, south, and northwest.

Suddenly, an official in his fifties came here with several other officials, and said: "Contemptible Linqing Zhizhou Ma Lun, I have seen Bachelor Wang!" ”

"Matthew, be polite." Wang Yuan was very face-saving and shouted too guarded.

Ma Lun hurriedly said: "Don't dare to be." ”

Ma Lun is from a different background, and he can be a governor, and he is also a Linqing governor, which is already very powerful. And the officials of the Hanlin Academy are released, unless the emperor is offended, the bottom is a Zhizhou.

Judgment from above.

Seeing that Wang Yuan was still observing the waterway, Ma Lun said respectfully: "Master Wang, it's not too early, let's prepare a little wine in the next place, why don't you go to the state government for dinner first?" ”

"Not busy." Wang Yuan said.

"Yes." Ma Lun could only stand next to him, and the Tongzhi, the state judge and other officials also stood there stupidly.

Wang Yuan turned to Wang Wensu, Bao Chaozhen, Bao Chaoxiang, Zhong An and other eight disciples and said, "From tomorrow, the soldiers will be divided into two ways. One route was led by me, and the other route was led by Shang Bin (Wang Wensu) to measure the height and depth of the river in various places. Draw the same way I taught you, and mark the contour lines! ”

Naturally, altitude cannot be measured, and only trigonometric functions can be used to determine the relative elevation of various places.

"Yes!"

All the disciples listened to the order in unison, and their hearts were quite happy, and the knowledge they had learned could finally come in handy.

Wang Yuan asked Ma Lun again: "Ma Taishou, where are the officials of the Linqing Army?" ”

Ma Lun hurriedly said: "Because the anti-thieves are raging in Shandong, in order to defend the palace, the soldiers have moved to Jining. There is a deputy envoy of the Shandong military garrison, named Li Chongsi. ”

Wang Yuan said to Bao Chaozhen: "Repair a letter for me, and give it to Li Chongsi, the deputy envoy of Shandong's military garrison, so that he can immediately mobilize the army and people in Shandong, and wait for the order to build water conservancy at any time!" I want 50,000. ”

"Yes." Bao Chaozhen is particularly motivated.

A letter can summon the deputy envoy of Shandong's military garrison, and it will cost 50,000 people to open his mouth, so authoritative makes Bao Chaozhen's blood boil.

Wang Yuan said: "Ma Taishou, you also have to prepare money and food, and you can't rely on the allocation of funds from the household department. ”

Ma Lun's head was extremely big, and he said with a bitter face: "Master Wang, Linqing suffered a military disaster last year, and this year it encountered a flood, how can you still squeeze out money and food?" ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "There is no other place, Linqing must have." Don't worry, you don't have to come up too much, try to raise some money. ”

Money and food are readily available and do not even need to be transported.

As long as the household department agrees to allocate funds, Wang Yuan can directly receive grain in Linqing, and many boats are blocked here and have not left. Moreover, there is a banknote customs in Linqing, and countless commercial taxes are usually collected, and the tariff silver is used.

Ma Lun asked cautiously, "I don't know where Master Wang plans to build a water conservancy?" ”

Wang Yuan pointed to the river in the distance: "I want to make Linqing navigable in the dry season, and I am not afraid of ordinary floods." Think about it for yourself, if this thing can be done, what a great achievement you should have as a local magistrate! ”

Ma Lun immediately had his spirit, straightened his waist and said: "This is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

Wang Yuan also said to Tongzhi and the state judge and other officials: "You also have merit. ”

All the local officials immediately shouted in unison: "It's all up to Master Wang!" ”

It was necessary to enlist the support of local officials, because Wang Yuan wanted to occupy a lot of land to drain floods and store water during droughts.

(I had something to do during the day today, and I came back and checked a lot of information, and the missing chapter will be filled in tomorrow.) ）