Chapter 17: Trouble

Zhu Qizhen first asked Li Shimian to go down to rest.

Immediately called Wang Zhen, Jin Ying, and Ma Shun over.

Even if Li Shimian rushes to Guangdong, it will take a lot of things. Zhu Qizhen happened to be escorted by the elite of Jinyi Weidong Factory, and ordered Ma Shun to personally escort Li Shimian to Guangdong.

even gave Ma Shun the holy decree, although it was a middle decree, but it also gave Ma Shun the power to kill.

Officials at the first level of the prefect can do not need to ask for a decree and cut it first and then play. All you need is Li Shimian to nod.

Everything can make way for the sake of food.

If Li Shimian doesn't use this power, it's naturally the best. But Li Shimian is by no means ineffective, especially a person like Li Shimian, who has a lofty moral concept in his heart, but can go down ruthlessly.

Zhu Qizhen can only ask for more blessings for Guangdong officials.

It was busy in the middle of the night before Zhu Qizhen arranged everything properly.

As soon as the palace gate opened the next day, Li Shimian took more than a dozen horsemen to the south under the escort of Ma Shun.

Zhu Qizhen fell asleep hastily, and the next day he focused on the paperwork of the household department. He sorted out the household documents for a long time, and even sent someone to the household department to control all the grain quantities in Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Beijing, and Jiubian.

In the afternoon, Cao Nai was officially summoned.

Zhu Qizhen didn't know much about Cao Nai, and asked some about the situation of Biansai, but Cao Nai just told him about the situation in Dai County. Zhu Qizhen nodded secretly in his heart, not much different from the situation he mastered.

Zhu Qizhen asked Cao Nai: "Now I want to build water conservancy in Zhili, Qing is a person from Zhili, but I don't know, what was the water situation in Zhili in previous years, I made up my mind to build water conservancy in Zhili, what do you think should be done?" ”

Cao Nai got up and saluted: "The ministers are directly subordinate to the people, thank Your Majesty Longen." Last year, the north of the minister's hometown burst dozens of embankments, the river was barbaric, and the imperial court was determined to rectify the water conservancy in Hebei, which was to make the people of the township in dire straits. It's just that it is not easy to rectify the water conservancy in Hebei. ”

Zhu Qizhen had a little impression of Cao Nai's hometown, and it seemed that he was in Ningjin. Last year's flood, the Hutuo River also burst.

Zhu Qizhen also knows this.

But I don't know if it's more detailed.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Oh, how is it not easy? You can elaborate. ”

Cao Nai said: "The rivers of good migration in the world are not only the Lugou River, but also the Hutuo River, the hometown of the minister, is also one of them. The Hutuo River has been decided in the Hongwu years, Yongle four years, Yongle ten years, Yongle thirteen years, Yongle sixteen years, Hongxi first year, Xuande four years, Xuande eight years, orthodox first year, and even last year orthodox four years, Hutuo River or break or overflow. The frequent diversion can already be called the parallel flow of three roads, and each time it is decided, the river channel is changed. ”

"Even if these three streams are just a rough word, almost open

Scrap one, reopen and scrap, scrap and reopen. Between the north of Hutuo River and Baiyangdian Lake, and the south of the mainland, there is no fixed flow. Even in the early years of this dynasty, in order to avoid flooding, many prefectures and counties moved their cities. ”

Zhu Qizhen was taken aback when he heard this.

He knew about the Orthodox four-year Hutuo River breach, but he never looked at the historical data of the Hutuo River. When I listened to it at the moment, I only felt that my scalp was numb.

He personally experienced the waterlogging in Beijing.

In his opinion, Beijing's waterlogging is already a remarkable thing. In modern times, a thing that swallows more than a thousand lives in one breath may be able to overwhelm the hot search list.

But at this moment, I heard the water situation of the Hutuo River. Compared with it, the Lugou River is simply a drop in the bucket.

That's right.

Even in history, the Hutuo River is far more difficult to control than the Lugou River.

Because the Lugou River was successfully governed in the early Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Yongding River. However, the Hutuo River went directly to the founding of the country, and after the founding of the country, the call of the first to control the Haihe River must be eradicated, so that it can be regarded as truly governed.

Before this river, even Zeng Guofan, a minister like Li Hongzhang, who was known as a famous minister, was helpless. It was even so negative that it was said that the plan for water control in the Hutuo River was based on not controlling the water.

Zhu Qizhen asked, "Isn't there a way to control the water?" ”

Cao Nai, a big man from Hebei, had an extremely bitter face. said: "Why not? It's just that the presence of water is harmful, and the absence of water is also harmful. Even the harm of no water is better than the harm of water, and the people would rather suffer from the flood than the suffering of drought. ”

Zhu Qizhen had never thought of such a thing, leaned forward and said, "How can you say this?" ”

Cao Nai said: "Hebei Tianshi." There will be drought in winter and spring, and flooding in summer and autumn. Generally, there will be a drought in spring, and the so-called spring rain is as expensive as oil. Looking forward to the arrival of rain, like the hope of a great drought. But after the summer, it rained heavily, and within a few days, the rain was all over the place, and the rivers and lakes overflowed. ”

"In the southeast of the minister's hometown, there is the continent, the ancient giant deer Ze also, the spring is extremely dry, the lake falls, the land rises, the mainland is divided into three or four small lakes, there is a road in the middle to pass, but when summer and autumn arrive, the water is overflowing, the mighty and mighty, the city hits the sky, the minister thinks that it is no less than Dongting, Poyang."

"The walls of the city were destroyed, there were no households, and the people were caught in the flood, and I don't know how many of them were lost."

"But the flood came and went as fast as it came, but in a month or two the flood receded. The rest of the lake became a life-saving water for the people, because a great drought was coming. ”

"Just like this winter, if it doesn't rain for several months, if you are close to the Hutuo River, you can still take river water for irrigation, if you are far away from the Hutuo River, you just call the heavens and the earth, and death is coming."

"The rest of the big rivers and small rivers, surging in summer and autumn, but trickling in spring and winter, in case of drought, the flow is cut off, in order to fight for water, the villagers are smeared with liver and brains, and there are those who fight again in the intestines, and they are clearly enemies of neighbors

Enemy. Chickens and dogs smell each other, and there are people who don't marry each other when they are old and dead. ”

"The murder of the flood is also the collapse of the heavens and the earth, and in the blink of an eye, people have no utensils, and then the drought kills people, starving food, cutting off drinking water, hoping that parents cannot be saved, and children cannot be pitied."

"So much so that Yi Zi cannibalism, only the place where the water was damaged at the beginning, can get rid of it."

"The people of my hometown are happy to look forward to the diversion of the Hutuo River to my hometown. I'd rather be a water ghost than a starvation. ”

Cao Nai said that the eight-foot man actually shed tears in front of Zhu Qizhen. His eyes were red, and two tears were streaming down his face.

This also touched Zhu Qizhen. His eyes were rosy, and he also hid his face and said, "This is my fault." ”

These four words.

Zhu Qizhen has always thought that it is just an adjective, but at this moment, he found that where is this adjective, it is a very realistic description.

Zhu Qizhen has inspected the vicinity of Beijing.

But no matter how miserable Beijing is, it is also at the feet of the Son of Heaven. Not to mention anything else, the resources invested by the imperial court in the Lugou River are several times that of the Hutuo River. At least the Lugou River is governed by the imperial court every year, but Zhu Qizhen has never heard of the Hutuo River, how much the Ministry of Industry has allocated funds.

And a question that Zhu Qizhen had never thought about came to Zhu Qizhen's heart.

Previously, Zhu Qizhen felt that the key point of Hebei water conservancy was to guide rivers everywhere into the sea. The passage of these rivers into the sea has been dredged. The flood was solved.

But now, it seems, that doesn't solve the problem.

At least it doesn't solve all the problems.

The management ideas of water conservancy in Hebei need to be reconsidered. It is necessary not only to prevent flooding, but also to build enough farmland and water conservancy so that the people do not have to choose between water ghosts and starvation.

It's just that in this way, the water control project is complicated. A simple strategy of harnessing water and attacking sand is not applicable.

The reason is very simple, the river bed can not be raised, but it cannot be irrigated, the Yellow River can not be irrigated, anyway, the Yellow River has more water damage than water conservancy. But if these rivers in Hebei are not irrigated, what will the people of Hebei eat and drink?

This made Zhu Qizhen not know what to do.

Anyway, with Zhu Qizhen's shallow knowledge of water conservancy, this problem cannot be solved.

Without fixing the river, we cannot rely on the river to establish a perfect farmland water conservancy. And once the river is fixed and used as irrigation water, the diversion is said. With the characteristics of the river water in Hebei with a lot of sediment, within a few years, the riverbed will inevitably be raised, and the river will inevitably burst the embankment.

This is neither before nor after.

Almost every option is quite pros and cons. For a while, Zhu Qizhen didn't know how to start. He didn't know that Hebei water conservancy had not been solved much in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It's not because the emperors of the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty didn't know the importance of Hebei, but they couldn't do it at all. Hardly any of them succeeded.