Chapter 145: The Catastrophe of Shandong

"If the amount of water is not large, it may gather south of Zhangqiu to form a lake, just like Liangshanbo in the old days." Ruan An said.

Zhu Qizhen's eyes swept over the ground, and he suddenly saw the word Liangshan.

To the south of Zhangqiu is the old land of Liangshanbo.

Liangshanbo itself is the siltation of the Yellow River, but now the vicissitudes of the sea, because the Yellow River seized Huai, far away from this area, so Liangshanbo no longer exists.

However, Liangshanbo no longer exists, but it has not changed the topography of this area of Liangshanbo. This area is still relatively low-lying in the vicinity.

"If the flood is larger, I am afraid that we will have to go east and seize the Daqing River into the sea."

Zhu Qizhen saw the mark of the Daqing River on the map again, and he suddenly felt that this section of the river was very familiar, but he couldn't remember anything for a while, when he had seen it. Suddenly, his heart lit up, and he said secretly: "Isn't this the Yellow River in the future?" ”

Yes, he remembered that the lower reaches of the Yellow River in later generations had a diversion at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it changed from seizing Huai into the sea to entering the sea from Shandong.

If he is not mistaken, this so-called Daqing River is the course of the Yellow River in later generations.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen may have some discrepancies in the specific details, but the general trend is absolutely not wrong. The Daqing River flows north of Jinan and flows into the Bohai Sea.

Zhu Qizhen's heart jumped suddenly.

A concept flashed through Zhu Qizhen's heart.

That's the opportunity.

The so-called blessings and misfortunes lurk, and misfortunes and blessings lurk.

Although this incident of the Yellow River is a great tragedy, and the number of people who died in the Yellow River must be tens of thousands, it also brings Zhu Qizhen a justifiable opportunity to integrate the Yellow River.

After all, this river has been used by future generations.

Of course, I can't say how good it is. After all, the technology of later generations is too big than it is now, and even if there is anything bad about this river, it can be overcome with the power of science and technology.

But it is better than the Yellow River, which has now seized the Huai River, making the Yellow River, the Huai River, and even the Yangtze River water system a mess.

Zhu Qizhen has never wanted to control the Yellow River because he feels that the current direction of water control is wrong, no matter how much effort is expended, maintaining such a chaotic system as the Yellow River, the Huai River, and Hongze Lake is simply to use manpower to resist the power of heaven and earth, and as time goes by, the sediment accumulates, and this problem will only become more and more difficult to sort out.

However, if Zhu Qizhen pursues a plan to divert the Yellow River, it will certainly be difficult for the DPRK and China to pass it. The bureaucracy itself does not want to get out of its control.

The artificial diversion of the Yellow River is a major event, which costs too much, and even once it is not done well, it is just a flood of the two Huai, which is easy to reach

Shandong.

If you think about it, you will know that the people of Shandong will definitely oppose it desperately.

But now it is different, and the Yellow River breach is already an established fact. In this established fact, Zhu Qizhen then implemented the plan to divert the Yellow River.

I don't know how much of the resistance will be reduced.

Even the local people in Shandong will not think much about these things at this moment. All they want is to immediately take control of the Yellow River. I can't rush and decide. Tumbling up and down.

"There's also a river." Ruan An said: "It is the flood water that pours into the canal, takes the Wei River, and enters Tianjin. That's not going to be easy. Ruan An looked worried. Said: "The minister was ordered to repair the water conservancy in Hebei, and the section of the Wei River into the sea, although it was greatly widened, it could no longer accommodate such a big flood. ”

"The minister is worried about ------"

Zhu Qizhen said: "What are you worried about? Let's just say it. ”

Ruan An said: "Lord Yu has opened up a lot of fields on both sides of the Wei River in Tianjin, and I am afraid that these lands will be wasted. ”

Zhu Qizhen hadn't spoken yet, but Cao Nai had already spoken, and said: "Ruan Zhizhao, the people of Tianjin are the people, aren't the people of Shandong the people?" Rushing through Tianjin, but the disaster on both sides of the river, but breaking through Shandong, is to reopen a river, the water of the Yellow River, the new river channel must be more than ten miles wide. But I don't know how many people sank in the flood. It is important to think about which is more important. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened to Cao Nai's meaning, he would rather take the Yellow River to defend than the Yellow River to enter Shandong.

After all, the Yellow River is guarded, and there is still a river to maintain, and a considerable part of the Weihe River is a canal, which can be said to be strengthened every year, and the Ministry of Industry has sent people to be responsible.

It's much more reliable than Daqing River.

How wide the Daqing River could be before this, but now as soon as the Yellow River arrives, it is estimated that the land along the river for several miles will be encroached upon by the Yellow River.

If you really weigh the pros and cons, it is natural that the loss of the defense is a little smaller.

Zhu Qizhen sighed in his heart, as the emperor, all he could think about was to let the people on that side die less, and not let everyone live.

For a while, I felt extremely powerless.

"Your Majesty, Shandong Urgent." Fan Hong rushed from outside and handed over a note.

Zhu Qizhen almost jumped up from the dragon chair, took it and immediately opened it to take a look.

After he looked at it carefully, his expression was extremely complicated for a while, and he didn't know whether to be happy or unhappy, so he immediately folded it down and let the ministers below see it.

Zhang Ji, the governor of Shandong, wrote to the imperial court and impeached Zhao Xin, the governor of Henan, for his unfavorable control of the water and beggar-thy-neighbor.

Because Shandong Province was devastated by the floods in Henan Province.

The diversioned Yellow River follows the second route described by Nguyen An, from Baliu Village in Weihui Province to the northeast, into the Quang Ji Canal, then to Zhang Thu, and then into the Daqing River, directly into the sea.

But along the way, Zhang Ji's writing is blood, especially Zhang Qiuzhen, which was originally a prosperous town, but because of the flood, the night came, and in his sleep, the flood entered the house.

Many people did not have time to escape, they were drowned in the house, when they went to see it in the morning, the house was flush in the water, a vast ocean, and the people of Zhang Qiu were all fish and turtles.

There are officials in small boats, walking on the water, only the floating corpses are connected into pieces, silent, occasionally there is the sound of children's cries, but it is the parents who hide the baby in the barrel, floating on the water, and there are floating corpses below, perhaps the parents of this child.

The misery is indescribable, and the hope hurts the liver and intestines.

This scene, not to mention letting Zhu Qizhen see it in person, just looking at the text, he was sweating through his clothes and couldn't bear to look at it directly.

And Zhang Qiuzhen's situation is just a microcosm.

The Yellow River flows into the sea in the east, and it will not let go of the water, and all the people or things that stand in front of them cannot escape the impact of the mighty Yellow River.

The real situation is ten times more miserable than Zhang Qiu's, and it may not be nothing.

Zhu Qizhen took a deep breath and calmed down the tremors in his heart. Feelings have never been harmful to him, and all he can do at this moment is not to let these people who died from the flood die in vain.

We should take advantage of this opportunity to solve the Yellow River problem once and for all, and even if not solve all of them, we must ensure that there will be no major problems in the Yellow River in the next few decades.

This may be cold and impersonal, but I'm sorry, politics is a kind of extreme benefit distribution, and emotional work has always been a taboo among the taboos.

Zhu Qizhen asked: "Ruan An, in your opinion, in such a situation, when will the Yellow River be repaired?" ”

Ruan An smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, if you want the Yellow River to return to its old path, it is impossible this year. ”

According to the amount of water said by Zhang Ji, the governor of Shandong, the minister can judge that the place where the Yellow River breaks is more than ten miles wide, and such a wide gap is difficult to block, not to mention that it is still in the flood season, the Yellow River is abundant, and the speed of the water flow in this gap must be very turbulent, no matter how big the stone is, if you throw it in, it will be washed away several miles away. Not even a ship-borne masonry shipwreck is plugged. ”

"Because there are no such wide boats in the Yellow River, and even if several boats are chained together, the weight is not enough, if you can't block it all at once, if you block it half, the speed of the remaining water will increase greatly, and the difficulty of blocking it will increase."

"Even the speed of the current can reach the point where even the sunken ship can be washed away."

"So to speak." Zhu Qizhen said: "If you want the Yellow River to return to its old course, do you have to wait for the dry period in winter and spring? ”

Ruan An said: "Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent, but in the opinion of the minister, maybe this is the only way." I beg your Majesty's forgiveness. ”

As he spoke, Ruan An fell to his knees.