Chapter Fifty-Nine: How Much Do You Know About the Hutuo River?

Zhang Jing soon despaired.

There are many, many old roads of the Yellow River, but Zhang Jing feels that no matter how many old roads of the Yellow River are, they are not the old roads of the Hutuo River.

The upper reaches of the Hutuo River are among the mountains, and the river course is basically stable, but after passing through Artemisia County, Hebei, it begins to be free and unrestrained.

With Artemisia County as the fixed point, north to Baiyangdian, south to the mainland, east to the Fuyang River, this vast area, there is no place that will not visit the Hutuo River.

Even the Hutuo River is not a one-time tour, or even two or three tours.

The water of the Hutuo River can be divided into several strands, side by side, mighty.

understood the fickleness of the Hutuo River, and immediately understood that the title deed in the mouth of Mr. Yang did not mean that there was no use for birds.

After a flood, everything on the ground was wiped to zero. What kind of boundary, it has become a mess, who can tell clearly.

So, when you can't say clearly, you have to use your fists to speak.

Even the southerners of the Ming Dynasty had some feelings about the northerners, and felt that the northerners were very strange, not engaged in production, did not manage industry, and did not think about savings. In such an environment, how to produce, how to only industry, how to accumulate?

After Zhang Jing comprehensively surveyed the situation of the Hutuo River, he was stunned at that time.

After sitting outside all night, I didn't know where to start. Look at the Milky Way in the sky, pacing back and forth. Finally, it was decided to choose a river with the shortest construction period and the largest flood storage capacity, regardless of the new and old roads of the Hutuo River.

Take advantage of this time to build it first. When the Hutuo River comes, it will not overflow.

Zhang Jing thought about it and finally decided to build a river channel from Artemisia County to the south to Ningjin County into the mainland.

There are two reasons, the first is the short construction period, because this one originally had an old road, of course, the old road was a long time ago, no one made farmland, only a ravine. It would be nice to use this old road as a foundation and expand it.

And the section of the river is about 120 miles.

Recruit the people, and the people of the two counties will work together, and they will be dug up in a few months.

The second is the continent.

The large amount of water stored in the mainland will not cause any major problems if the water of the Hutuo River flows in.

In fact, there is another shorter one, that is, directly let the Hutuo River go north, connect into the Ci River, and merge into Baiyangdian Lake together.

It's just that Baiyangdian, Daqing River, and Triangle Lake are the places where the water flows from all directions converge, what is easy water, Juma River, Shahe River, etc., before there is no diversion, Lugou River is also one of them.

Zhang Jing was worried that it would increase the burden on Yu Qian.

Once Zhang Jing made up his mind, he immediately summoned Artemisia County and Ningjin County to precinct the county. And informed the prefect of Zhending. and reported to Yu Qian.

Finally, the Zhending Mansion was asked to advance the money and grain, and then the province accounted for it, and the people of Artemisia County and Ningjin County were all requisitioned and requisitioned at the price of one liter of grain a day.

great drought

There was no surplus food for the people, especially when the locusts had just passed.

One liter of food a day for each strong man is enough for a family of three to eat.

So the people of the two places quickly gathered, and even many people from other counties also arrived.

Under the command of Zhang Jing, this river was quickly started, and the Cao family in Ningjin County contributed very much. That is, the home of Cao Nai, a university scholar.

Cao Nai was born poor, but no matter how poor he was at the beginning, he naturally has status as a university scholar now. However, Cao Nai has just entered the cabinet. It's time to be cautious.

Naturally, they won't do anything out of the ordinary, and the Cao family is generally very low-key in Ningjin. But in this matter, the Cao family's high-profile was Cao Nai's special letter to the family.

Because Cao Nai also expressed his position to the Hebei gentry.

After all, Hebei is Cao Nai, a person who mixes well in the officialdom, Cao Nai is still very prestigious, and he made this statement. It also gave Yu Qian a lot of support when he did things.

For more than a month from May to June, Zhang Jing lived almost entirely on the construction site, and at the 120-mile construction site, he allocated people to start construction, taking soil directly from both sides of the old river and ramming it out to become a dike.

And this project is just a microcosm of Yu Qian's remediation of Hebei water conservancy.

It is bounded by Chaobai River in the north and Zhanghe Weihe River in the south. Large and small projects started almost at the same time, but on the whole, it was all tinkering.

The old river channel has not been improved much.

After all, time is running out.

Beijing

In the Qianqing Palace.

At the moment, there are already ice cubes squared, and the feeling of cold does not have to be much worse than the air conditioner. Wang Zhen has already invited Zhu Qizhen to go to Xiyuan to escape the summer, after all, there are three seas in Xiyuan, the smoke and waves are vast, and the wind against the water is much happier than in the Forbidden City.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen is in the mood.

During this period of time, Zhu Qizhen has been asking a question: "When will it rain?" ”

It's just that the person who asks is different.

Asked Qin Tianjian, Qin Tianjian could only say vaguely: "It should be in season." ”

Ask the Taoists of Changchun Temple, these disciples and grandchildren of the Quanzhen Sect can't say a single quasi-letter. Zhu Qizhen has already sent someone to invite Zhang Tianshi of Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi Province, as well as the Taoist chief of Wudang Mountain.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen also knew that it was useless to ask them. 、

But Zhu Qizhen had to ask.

Because, the following officials, led by Ma Yu, have already played one after another, asking Your Majesty to pray for rain.

Praying for rain is simple and very simple, the Ministry of Rites has such a etiquette, Zhu Qizhen did not pray for rain today, but he did not go in person, but asked the British Gong Zhang Fu and other nobles to go instead of him.

This is also a common occurrence. But the people led by Ma Yu still felt that the emperor's sincerity was insufficient. The emperor himself prayed for rain.

But Zhu Qizhen can fool others, but he can't fool himself.

Because he knows that praying for rain does not come, and the sincerity of the emperor has nothing to do with half a dime. Zhu Qizhen has been looking forward to the rain for months. He didn't believe it, and as soon as he went to pray for rain, it fell.

He had to prepare for the worst.

What if I pray for rain and the rain doesn't come yet?

To tell the truth, directly attacking the emperor, Zhu Qizhen believes that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty do not have the guts, but it is okay to find a scapegoat for the emperor.

After all, it is common to dismiss ministers due to disasters.

But Zhu Qizhen didn't want to move any of the ministers now. Then it's Ma Yu.

Because of the catastrophe, everything is based on stability. No matter what, you have to stay behind.

So Zhu Qizhen thought about it, and the way he thought of was to delay time.

He didn't think that Wudang Mountain and Longhu Mountain were much better than Baiyun Temple in the capital, but he calculated that if Zhang Tianshi in Jiangxi Province, even if he came over quickly, it would be better for a while.

If it can be delayed for a while, it is a moment.

As Qin Tianjian said, the time is almost up.

Zhu Qizhen didn't believe that there could be problems with the operation of the earth, and it wouldn't be because of his crossing, so the air flow that should have come would not come.

If it drags on for a few days, it will rain anyway.

It's just getting closer and closer to late June.

Zhu Qizhen's hanging heart was a little more sleepless.

The reason is simple, because if it doesn't rain in June, all the seeds planted in May will die of drought, and it will be too late to replant.

The harvest in the autumn was almost zero.

The food shortfall in the north will only increase.

In such a situation, even if there is some good news, it can't save Zhu Qizhen's mood.

For example, the grain ship escorted by Nanjing Jinyi Wei Qianhu has arrived in Tianjin, bringing more than one million stone of grain to Tianjin. Yu Qian ordered the establishment of a granary in Tianjin.

It is expected that the planned future granary of Tianjin will not be inferior to that of Beijing.

In the future, the north will have a long-term reserve of 20 million stone of grain, and there is no need to be afraid of any disasters in the future

Li Shimian has communicated with Wang Ying and is ready to go south. Transported a batch of grain from Nanjing again, as for how this grain came from, Zhu Qizhen issued a holy decree to Zhou Chen.

Let Zhou Chen gather.

As for how this Zhou Qingtian should be embarrassed, Zhu Qizhen can't care so much. He knew that this was actually another act of adding endowment to the south of the Yangtze River.

Jiangnan's re-endowment may be unreasonable in one way or another, but it has practical needs.

Zhu Qizhen was deeply conscious, he had been sleeping very lightly for a while, and he actually fell asleep in a groggy state.

Wang Zhen really came to report the matter, and the little eunuch behind him brought a stack of songs. Seeing this, Wang Zhen waved his hand, and everyone was silent, as if there was a meat pad under his feet. Divide the folds into categories and place them on the bookshelf next to them, on top of the long case.

Wang Zhen sighed lightly, and felt sad in his heart.