The main hall of the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City is magnificent.

The ground is paved with gold bricks, and the bricks are ground on the joints and coated with tung oil, which is smooth and delicate like black jade.

The caisson on the ceiling is intricately styled, depicting the majestic dragon pattern, and under the well is a plaque hanging high, with four strong characters on the book, 'Chongxian Shangde'.

Under the plaque, in front of the screen of the gold lacquer carved dragon, Emperor Longqing wore a black gauze folded upward scarf, wore a red round-necked narrow-sleeved robe, and a jade belt around his waist, sitting on the dragon chair with a compassionate expression, looking at the palace gate with lost eyes.

Under the seven-layer golden throne, the ministers quarreled into a pot of porridge again. Every now he felt deeply bored, why did he quarrel no matter what was discussed?

These high-ranking officials in the ministry who are dressed in pythons and jade, all of them usually boast of first-class qi cultivation and kung fu, and they are not very personable in front of their subordinates in the yamen? Why do you like to quarrel in front of yourself? Do you use a Qianqing Palace as a decompression room? Do you want me to give my uncle a smile?

Well, if you give money, it's not non-negotiable.

Hum feels so annoyed that Hum wants to go back to reading......

Fortunately, the emperor's distraction did not affect the quarrel of the ministers, oh no, the enthusiasm with which they spoke. Anyway, they were also used to Emperor Longqing's distraction and sluggish appearance at the court meeting. There were even rumors at one time that His Majesty was suspected of having a problem with his IQ......

But it doesn't matter, anyway, my Ming ministers have long been accustomed to not relying on the emperor to make decisions. If you change to an emperor who loves to interject, everyone will not be comfortable. So it's good that the Son of Heaven sits down and sits down as his mascot, and the affairs of the state will be left to us, capable and loyal ministers.

The parentheses only refer to civil officials who are born on the right path, and military generals and eunuchs are not counted as people.

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Today's Imperial Council is discussing a major issue - how to control the Yellow River and restore its transportation?

To this end, more than 20 court officials, including the three cabinet ministers, Liu Tiqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Zhu Heng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Pan Jitao and Weng Dali, the two river ministers who returned to Beijing in the starry night, Zhao Kongzhao, the governor of Caoyun, and Lang Zhong, who was in charge of Nanhe in the Ministry of Engineering and the Ministry of Industry, gathered in front of the imperial court to discuss countermeasures.

The grain and grass on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty are all supplied by the Grand Canal, but the Grand Canal is north-south, and the Yellow River is east-west, so the two must intersect. Thousands of miles of the Yellow River carry a huge amount of sediment rolling in, which naturally has a huge impact on the weak artificial canal.

This has caused an inevitable evil consequence - the standard for the imperial court to evaluate the effect of river control is not to see whether the river is smooth and safe, but to see whether the water transportation is unimpeded. If the luck is not successful, no matter how good the effect of your river control is, you will be guilty. As long as the water can be saved, the flooding of the Yellow River will be a great achievement.

Therefore, the responsibilities of the two yamen of Hegong and Caoyun are entangled, the division of labor is unclear, they pass the buck to each other, and the contradictions are very acute.

In particular, as long as the Caoyun Yamen is delayed or there is a shipwreck, it will use the excuse of the inconvenience of the river to put all the responsibility on the river Yamen. This time was no exception.

I listened to Zhao Kongzhao, the governor of Caoyun, who complained to the imperial court about how the river yamen paid perfunctory responsibilities, cut corners, had a headache, and lacked planning on weekdays, so that as soon as the Yellow River burst its embankment, the 600-mile river channel was silted up!

Therefore, the severance of our Cao Yun is the fault of the river yamen, and the court wants to cure the sin of the river channel, which has nothing to do with our Cao Yun Yamen.

Weng Dali, the current prime minister of the river, of course, can't let the opponent buckle the basin on his head, and refute it one by one with a red face. He said that he and his colleagues in the river work diligently, strictly follow the plan, and never cut corners. The reason why the embankment burst was because of the rare peach blossom flood, and because the Huai River, which belonged to the Caoyun Yamen, was dredged and the estuary was seriously silted, which led to the poor water outlet in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and finally broke the embankment in Pei County!

So it's not the fault of our river yamen, it's the slackness of your Caoyun yamen!

This is not a strong word, in order to solve the disadvantages of the overlap of the two yamen jurisdictions, I don't know which genius stipulated that the north of the Huai'an Tianfei Gate is responsible for the river Yamen, and the south of the Tianfei Gate is responsible for the Caoyun Yamen. As a result, the Huai River was under the control of the Caoyun Yamen.

Due to the seizure of the Huai into the sea, the mouth of the Yellow River is also under the control of the Caoyun Yamen, not the river Yamen.

For the river yamen, this is simply a good excuse to shirk.

So the two sides went back and forth, and quarreled in front of the emperor into a pot of porridge.

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Zhang Juzheng stood under the golden platform, looking at Zhao Kongzhao and Weng Dali who were like fighting cocks, and they were so noisy that they had a headache.

If this was the military and criminal name meeting he was in charge of, he would have stopped it a long time ago. But the Ministry of Industry is not under his control, and his rash intervention will only make the first assistant and the second assistant unhappy.

But when I saw Li Chunfang, the first assistant on the side, she looked serene like a kind old mother, and there was no boredom on her face. Maybe this is the demeanor of the first assistant in the heart of the champion prince......

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianggong was depressed and wanted to vomit blood. At the risk of being infamous, it was easy to send away a group of amiable Mr. Xu, but who knew that there was another old lady Li who was as immobile as a mountain.

Li Chunfang is not a problem of ability, but she understands too well in her heart and cherishes her feathers too much. It is really not good for such a person to be the first assistant, but he joined forces with Chen Yiqin to hinder Gao Suqing from going out of the mountain, but he is a good hand. Zhang Juzheng said in his heart, if he knew this, it would be better to let Xu Ge Lao continue to work......

Chen Yiqin, the second assistant in charge of the household department and the Ministry of Industry, looked impatient at this time. But he didn't know anything about river engineering, and he couldn't get the gist of it several times, which only intensified the quarrel.

Bugu's body floated without wind, and finally couldn't help coughing lightly, and glanced coldly at Weng Dali, who was spitting fragrant in his mouth.

"What kind of place is this? Dare to speak foul language? Zhang Juzheng's majestic voice sounded.

"It's the official who lost his honor in front of him." Premier Weng suddenly lost his arrogance, and hurriedly pleaded guilty, but couldn't help muttering: "Zhao Butang also swears......

'Day! Zhao Kongzhao scolded his mother in his heart, so he had to follow and ask for guilt.

"Don't be noisy anymore, there's nothing new to the noise." Zhang Juzheng said coldly: "The responsibility for this embankment burst is investigated and handled by its own department, so let's put away the prevarication and talk about how to deal with it first?" ”

"Not bad." Chen Yiqin nodded, quickly took over the conversation, and said to Pan Jitao, who had been speechless: "Pan Zhongcheng has already gone to the river embankment in person and investigated on the spot, so you can say a few words."

Hearing that the quarrel was over, Emperor Longqing also calmed down, and finally set his eyes on Pan Jitao.

Pan Jitao summed up the results of the field survey in 1510 and concluded: "After the Yellow River burst its embankment in Pei County, more than 10 prefectures and counties downstream suffered from it. Due to the river's outflow, the canal north of Xuzhou was blocked for 600 miles. The Qin ditch and the turbid estuary are swirling with silt, the flood is cross-flowing, and the water on the flat ground is deep. ”

After a pause, he ignored the shocked eyes of Zhao Kongzhao and Weng Dali, and reported in a deep voice: "After Huai'an, the entire Huanghuai water system has completely collapsed, and there is almost no ability to produce water. Dredging must be thoroughly remediated, otherwise any future flooding will cause serious flooding, and it is almost impossible to transport water. ”

Pan Zhongcheng's flat tone made the emperor and his ministers shudder.

Zhao Kongzhao and Weng Dali were even more angry, and scolded Pan Jitao in their hearts for not paying attention to the rules and dismantling his own platform!

Oh, you have been worried for three years, and you have been ordered in danger, and you have no responsibility at all. We've been in office for a long time! When you lift the lid at this time, do you want us to be taken off on the spot?

Sure enough, when he heard that Caoyun might be completely cut off, Long Qing didn't care about cultivating his closed-mouth meditation, so he sat up straight and asked, "Could it be that Caoyun will be cut off for several years?" ”

"Your Majesty, don't panic, Pan Zhongcheng is a little worried," Weng Dali hurriedly said: "Cao Yun is not working, mainly because after the Yellow River overflowed, the canal lost its water supply, and the water level dropped, so the Cao boat had to go north." It is only necessary to plug the breach, dredge the silt, and restore the water supply of the canal, so as to solve the current urgency first. Then the transport ships can enter the time, and the embankments and dams along the river can be repaired slowly, and the overall situation is not to worry. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhao Kongzhao also hurriedly agreed: "Weichen has already come up with an emergency plan with Marquis An Yuan, on the one hand, he will make every effort to dredge the canal, and on the other hand, he will temporarily change to a slightly smaller boat and transport it north with half a load. It will be back to life soon! ”

The two of them who had just played their brains are now united again.

"When is it, you still have the idea of luck?!" Pan Ji stomped his feet anxiously, he pointed at the two of them and said angrily: "There is a problem at the root, what is the use of the surface of light treatment?" This year, a small peach blossom water has poisoned Huang Huai like this. It has been shown that the situation of river engineering has deteriorated to the extreme, and it will not work if it is not cured! ”

Saying that, he couldn't control his uncontrollable loud assertion: "You just barely recovered your luck, the next wheat water in April, melon water in May, and even more powerful summer floods, can you withstand it?" ”

Weng Dali stopped talking. His wishful thinking is to withstand this scene first, and then throw the burden to Pan Jitao, and in the future, it will have nothing to do with him.

I didn't expect Lao Pan to be so crossy, and he didn't take this pot if he broke the rules.

"How do you know if you don't try?" Zhao Kongzhao is a little less responsible after all, and he is still hard-mouthed.

"Do you dare to make a military warrant?!" Pan Ji's beard was all open, his eyes widened, and he glared angrily at the Caoyun Governor who was the second grade.

Zhao Kongzhao was suppressed by him, and he didn't dare to say anything.

The officials in the hall couldn't help but look sideways and said secretly. Why did this old Pan worry for three years, reload, and become so fierce? Who gave him the courage and confidence?

At this time, Zhu Heng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, can no longer sit firmly in Diaoyutai. Although he didn't deal with Weng Dali, he didn't agree with Pan Jitao's set. If the emperor really came according to Lao Pan's set, Zhu Butang would be able to die alive.

So he went out of class and said in a deep voice: "Pan Zhongcheng loves to be alarmist, and he can't change this problem after many years." ”

When Zhang Juzheng heard this, he sighed in his heart. Okay, it's going to start again......

ps. Today it is the turn of the little monk to blow the air conditioner and catch a cold, and the update is a little late, sorry.