Before the fleet went south, Liu Yu's staff also wrote this year's "Tang Feng Story" to the Japanese shogunate.

The committees of trading companies can decide what to load and what routes to take, but some political matters are still strictly controlled.

It's like a "Tang storyteller" to the shogunate, if you want to trade, you have to hand it over to Nagasaki.

How to write in the book, this has become the direction of key review, and the trading company cannot be the master.

According to Liu Yu's intentions, the staff also wrote about the fleet's southward movement this time.

The reason is also foolish enough: the imperial court has the intention of changing the transportation to sea, and in order to prevent pirate robbery, it dispatched sailors to escort it, which may become the norm in the future.

The shogunate relied on Nagasaki as a window to understand the outside world, and if it was just a Chinese maritime businessman, it would be easy to say, and those shipowners who had obtained trade cards alone dared to talk nonsense and come forward to defend coastal secrets, etc., and they would be arrested, and Liu Yu was not an official in vain.

However, there are also hateful Dutch, and the Netherlands still has to go to Edo every year, talk about the upper hand, and also tell about the situation of Dashun, which cannot be hidden.

If you can't hide it, you might as well write it directly and generously, anyway, Japan can't figure out what's going on, and most of them will think that it's really going to change from shipping to shipping.

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Huai'an, Jiangsu.

Tan Zhen, Jiangsu's Jiedu envoy who proposed a trial trial of shipping between Jiangsu and Songcaomi, was inspecting this year's section of the Yellow River, accompanied by Yin of Huai'an Prefecture and several river control officials.

Since the diversion of the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River has been seized from Jiangsu into the sea in recent years.

For hundreds of years, the once rich land, the former land of fish and rice, has now become a cancer in the waist and abdomen of various dynasties, and the legacy of Zhao and Song dynasties.

It's like a piece of rotten meat on the wounds of a grown empire, which can never be healed and can never be cured.

Tan Zhen proposed to try out the coastal transportation of rice from Songjiang and Suzhou Prefectures, and now is not the time to transport rice, and the flooding of the Yellow River may come first this year.

The technocrats who control the river sighed: "My lord, there is a canal, and controlling the river can only be a headache." Everything is based on the protection of the water, followed by the management of the river. Putting the cart before the horse, putting the cart before the horse, we are not stupid, but on the premise of first ensuring the transportation of the water, many means of river control cannot be used. ”

"Now that the sediment is accumulating, not to mention the Yellow River and the Huai River, Yangzhou may also have floods because of the canal communication."

"The siltation is getting more and more serious, and if we don't increase the control now, in more than ten years or decades, once the Yellow River breaks and changes to the north, the Jianghuai will be in danger."

"Where the Huai River enters the sea, there is a lot of silt, if the Yellow River is diverted in the future, it is difficult for the Huai River to enter the sea, and it is likely that the canal and the big lake will enter the Yangtze River. Once there is a major flood, it will not only be in the Jianghuai River, but also in the lower reaches of the river. ”

"If there is not enough water and not enough washing, the Huai River will not be able to enter the sea, so it will have to go south to the Yangtze River. If the Yangtze River has another Huai River......"

In recent years, new measurement techniques have emerged, and the mathematical level and measurement level of river control and hydraulic engineering have also improved a lot, and the dangers in the future have been seen.

Although some people want to flow for a long time, they wish that the embankment would burst every year and there would be disasters every year, so that the imperial court would have to spend a lot of money to dredge the canal and control the river, and after a little time every year, they could also share tens of thousands of taels of silver.

But in the capital of Yao and the land of Shun, there are always a few people who uphold the idea of establishing a life for the people.

There are always such "fools" in the world, and there has always been no shortage of such "fools" in the land of China.

These people are looking forward to completely curing Huanghuai and curing this rotten sore, which separates the north and the south and is in the heart.

After Tan Zhen took office, some people talked about the Yellow River, the Huai River and the canal with the idea of "giving it a try when the new official takes office".

The people who wrote were all thorns in the eyes of previous officials, but they really had the ability to use it.

Tan Zhen's trial of Cao Mi to go to the sea may not be out of the idea of solving the problem of "first ensuring water transportation, then ensuring floods, so that the river cannot be cured".

But in everything, the deeds are not careful.

Whether you really want to make a life for the people, or whether it is to make a political achievement and promotion, you have always taken such a step.

He and Liu Yu have never met, but he believes that this time to transport rice by sea, Liu Yu will definitely send a ship south to escort the first batch of rice by sea.

This tacit understanding stems from the fact that he knows that Liu Yu supports the abolition of the Cao and the reform of the sea.

The first wave of rice this year is about to be shipped, but the rain in Jianghuai this year is very heavy, and it is likely that there will be floods again. Before the operation of Caomi, he followed the official who controlled the river to the edge of the Yellow River, listened to the introduction of the official who controlled the river, and asked: "If the water is abolished and the sea is changed in the future, you will definitely be able to cure the Yellow River?" ”

Several technocrats who ruled the river laughed.

"Jiedu made the adults laugh, the Yellow River, if it is not the resurrection of Dayu, otherwise who dares to say that the Yellow River can be cured? I don't have the skills to do that. ”

"It's just that if the water can be scrapped and replaced by the sea, then the first consideration for river control is the disaster of floods and droughts, rather than ensuring the smooth flow of the canal. In this way, many of the methods that are not available now can be used. ”

"Not to mention that it can cure the root cause, even if it treats the symptoms, it is much easier to use than the current methods."

These officials who govern the river do not consider the food and clothing of millions of workers, nor do they consider the risks of shipping and shipping, they are not so much officials as officials.

They don't think about politics, they don't have much of a big picture and a macro narrative perspective, they only think about things within their own expertise.

They are not modest, and some people even think that even if Dayu is resurrected, they are afraid that they will not have the ability to cure the Yellow River.

At that time, there were few people, but now there are many people, and as long as the route is changed, hundreds of thousands of victims will be affected.

Who? Abandon whom?

Man is not a tree, drowned and cannot grow again.

It's just that the bursting of the Yellow River is almost inevitable, and there will be a wave of small ones in three years, and a big wave in decades.

If you don't make up your mind to change the course yourself, you can only wait for the natural disaster to come and die more.

In the future, once the Yellow River breaks north and changes back to the Song Dynasty, not only will the new channel of the Yellow River suffer, but also the Huai River will not have the water of the Yellow River in the future, and it will not be able to rush into the sea, and it will be dangerous from Huai'an to Yangzhou.

"Jiedu envoy, this dynasty has a great advantage in governing the Yellow River."

"The imperial mausoleum of Zhu Ming of the previous dynasty is in Fengyang, in addition to protecting Cao, it is also necessary to consider protecting the mausoleum. In this way, it is inevitable that many means cannot be used, and can only be flickered and moved in a small area. ”

"The ancestral tomb of this dynasty is in Tianbao Mansion, so there is no need to think about these things. Protecting the tomb and protecting the Cao, the only thing left of the two is to protect the Cao. ”

"If we can solve the problem of transporting rice to the north, we dare not say that the flooding of the Yellow River will be eradicated, at least there will be no major disaster."

In terms of technical difficulties, with more than 2,000 years of experience in water control, it can be said that it is the most abundant in the world at this time.

However, it is always a technical problem that is easy to solve, and it is a political problem that is difficult to solve, Dashun does not have the pressure to protect the imperial tomb from being flooded, in fact, the ancestral tomb of Dashun is not at all at risk of being flooded, if the ancestral tomb of Dashun is flooded......

Tan Zhen thought that this was indeed the case, so he said: "If you want to solve this matter, it is not in you and me, but in the East China Sea." ”

"This year's trial operation of Songjiang, Suzhou's rice, if this year goes smoothly, there is a possibility of controlling Huanghuai in the future. If it doesn't go well this year, I'm afraid it's going to be difficult. ”

"I haven't touched the ship much, and I was either in the capital before, or in the southwest to quell the rebellion and return to the river. If you talk about the sea, you have to ask the eagle. ”

"He has always wanted to abolish the sea and change the sea, whether he can take this first step depends on his ability."

Although he has not met, Tan Zhen still believes in Liu Yu's ability and is full of confidence.

In the past two years, Songjiang has added a lot of strange yamen and some strange taxes, but Songjiang has become more and more prosperous, and no one is shouting to compete with the people for profit, which can be regarded as a strange thing.

These strange methods that he could not think of but were effective were the source of his confidence in Liu Yu.

"It is the duty of the governor of the river to control the waters. It is also not appropriate to overstep the boundaries of this section. However, even the governor of the river, as long as the matter of Cao Yun is not resolved, it is equivalent to doing things in shackles, and it is difficult to think about it. ”

"This thing of abolishing the water and changing the sea may not be able to be done, but everything is foreseen and it is wasted if it is not prepared. You're going to write some charters first. ”

"If the rice transportation goes smoothly this year, I will also submit it to Your Majesty when the envoy enters Beijing in time for the winter festival."

There are many unspoken rules in officialdom.

Although he is in charge of the Yellow River and the Huai River, he is also at risk of flooding at any time, but it is always not good to bypass the governor of the river.

The two are not subordinate, which makes it seem like a slap in the face of the governor of the river.

The most difficult thing about controlling the water is the interpersonal relationship in the officialdom.

Tan Zhen's ability to serve as the envoy of Jiangsu Jiedu shows the emperor's trust, but the official rank is still under the governor of the river.

Today's river governor supports the canal faction, whether it is because of real support, or interest relations, or considering the interest groups in it, Tan Zhen, who supports shipping, is not to deal with.

The yamen of the governor of the river is in Huai'an, and the envoy of Jiangsu Jiedu came to Huai'an to inspect the flood, which is already a taboo in itself.

Thinking of these troubles, Tan Zhen could only sigh.

"Difficult! Difficult! It's hard! ”

Facing the turbulent Yellow River, Tan Zhen thought to himself, after all, he had to do this by himself, and he didn't want to leave a name for future generations, but he wanted to be worthy of his conscience.

Thinking about the current situation in Dashun, he was born in the southwest and returned to the country, and he has his own understanding of the current situation.

Now that the Western Regions have been pacified, the Mongols have surrendered, and the northwest has immigrated to reclaim the Hetao and the Western Regions, and the troubles in the northwest have temporarily stabilized.

The economy of the south is developed, the southwest has been reformed and returned to the stream, and the northeast has been swept away by the predecessors, and the population of Shandong and Henan has immigrated frantically...... In Tan Zhen's view, the internal troubles of Dashun in the future can only come out of Huaidi.

This is the passage between the north and the south, and if there is a flood, it will inevitably fester. It is not a stable place in itself, and going south can directly threaten the economic center of gravity of Dashun, and it is more likely to roll several provinces in a row.

If we do not consider the influence of external Western countries, if Dashun has the situation in the last years of the previous dynasty, Huaidi is only afraid that it will become the Shaanxi Henan of the former Ming Dynasty.

It seems that this is a reason for the emperor to make up his mind: take advantage of the emperor's real prime, prestige, and peace in all directions, and try his best to heal the scars that are most likely to fester.

Thinking about the experience of changing the land and returning to the river in the southwest, Tan Zhen was ruthless, if it was really because of the waste and the transformation of the sea, there were many homeless people who could not make a living, then it would ...... Repression.

Military reform, military reform, after spending so much money on military reform, the surrounding external troubles have subsided, and they cannot be raised in vain. He was ruthless and made the worst plan, but he didn't know if the emperor would dare to make this decision.