Chapter 57 Drought in Hebei

Although Zhu Qizhen has great hopes for the Water Conservancy School.

But time waits for no one.

Although it was almost June, there was still a great drought. The land has cracked open and most of the rivers have been cut off.

But everyone knows the basic fact that with the arrival of summer, heavy rains are coming. No matter how severe the drought is, it will not be rainless all year round.

With the passage of time, drought prevention is important, but the issue of flood prevention is also on the agenda.

Yu Qian has no time to be idle in Beijing. And Ruan An, Mu Jing, and Chen Yu followed Yu Qian to leave Beijing and go to the capital of Zhili Province, which was the newly established Tianjin Mansion.

As for the first batch of colleges of the Water Conservancy College, it was too late to do any recruitment, so Zhu Qizhen waved his pen and gave all the eunuchs who were going to school in the inner study to the Water Conservancy College.

After all, no matter what, these teachers in the inner study room are all from the Hanlin Academy, and even if they still have cultural quality, at least they don't need to be taught from literacy.

As soon as Yu Qian returned to Tianjin, he immediately dispatched manpower to inspect the rivers in various places, emphasizing three things: First, the work for relief must be to distribute grain to the people. Second, we should try our best to ensure that some fields near the river will not be harvested, and third, we should send people to inspect the riverbanks in various places and find that there are river embankments that are not repaired and that there are hidden dangers of flooding. Just dispose of it immediately.

You can't wait for the heavy rain to come. Rebirth.

Yu Qian decided to be responsible for himself, and the place with the most floods was the inspection of the Daqing River, and he not only inspected the Daqing River, but also looked at the areas of Baiyangdian and Triangle Lake.

The rest of the people went to various places to inspect the river defenses in various places.

Yu Qian took Zhang Jing with him, and Zhang Jing was also a subordinate of Yu Qian who was single-handedly promoted by Yu Qian in the Shuntian prefect, and he was very powerful.

Only this time Yu Qian asked Zhang Jing to inspect the Hutuo River.

Because Zhang Jing's route to the Hutuo River overlaps with Yu Qian in many parts.

Yu Qian took dozens of people and rode across the triangle.

You read that right, it is across the triangular lake, because the sparkling lake of the past has now been divided into many small lakes. The depth of all the lakes in Hebei is not too deep.

Yu Qian rode a horse and walked among the reeds, as if he was walking in an endless field of sorghum, and the large patches of withered yellow reeds still told them that this was once a lake.

The land that was originally silt, under the exposure of nearly 100 days, it was like a broken seal, and the black earth opened its mouth hideously.

All were silent.

On the one hand, I have watched too many such scenes and have become numb.

In addition, the sun is like a blazing fire, and it has already drained the water in the human body

The part is dry.

No one wants to talk.

"Father, I'll go get some water to drink." Yu Mian shook the bamboo tube in his hand, listened to the sound of water inside, and said.

Yu Qian calculated the distance. said, "Let's go together." ”

In the first year of orthodoxy, Yu Qian was transferred to the Beijing Division, and Zhu Qizhen's favor for Qian continued, so he was especially given in the capital, and specially sent the wife of Jinyi Wei Yu Qian to invite the Beijing Division.

This ended the tragedy of thousands of miles between their husband and wife.

Yu Qian has only one son in his life, which actually has a lot to do with this. The wife and children are all around, and Yu Qian also took his eldest son Yu Mian with him to teach.

The group walked through the withered yellow earth. Yu Qian looked at it, and his heart sank suddenly.

For so many days, Yu Qian has been patrolling everywhere, and he has also passed through this area several times, and when he crossed the triangle for the first time, the people below also persuaded him, saying that this road was very muddy and difficult to walk.

It's just that if you don't pass through the triangle lake, you will have to detour north or south from Tianjin to the west.

Yu Qian went his own way, it was only the beginning of February at that time, and sure enough, as people said, although a road had already emerged, but this road seemed to be a land beam, and there were still people in many places, but it didn't hurt to pass by on horseback.

It's just that after him, he passed by several times, but none of them were shocking.

The road used to be intertwined with water and reeds, but then the water receded, and the ground came with mud, and then the ground dried up, and even the reeds were degraded by locusts.

Now, Yu Qian even found that the pond where he had taken water several times before had now become a muddy field, and he could even see some black corpses wrapped in mud in the mud.

Yu Qian knew that this was the corpse of some dead small animals.

Yu Mian was also a little disappointed, and said, "Dad, let's go somewhere else, the water here can't be drunk." ”

Yu Qian nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Yu Mian couldn't understand his father's mood, so he threw himself into the air twice, and finally found a place, where the water seemed to be the same as usual. Still with a cool meaning, he pounced, Yu Qian washed his face with water, filled it with bamboo tubes, and then took people on the road again.

In the evening, we crossed the triangle.

In the triangle lake, I didn't feel it yet, I just felt that the sun was a little poisonous, just a simple heat, but the triangle lake was a lake before all, and there were still some traces of moisture in the air.

But as soon as he left the triangle, everything in front of him immediately turned dusty.

Even the air smells hot.

Yu Qian settled down at the post station in Baoding County, and did not see Baoding Zhixian much, but took Zhang Jing and his son Yu Mian to the embankment of the Daqing River.

This embankment of the Daqing River,

It's still new.

Yu Qian looked at the Daqing River, sighed, and said: "Zhang Jing, you see, when I went to Henan from Beijing during the Xuande period, I passed by here, and the Daqing River was several miles wide at that time, and now there is only a bunch of flowing water left, and this bunch of flowing water is still fought by me and the upstream, and the people are short-sighted, and I don't know how many people want to cut off the Daqing River." But the upstream is the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the downstream is not the people of the Ming Dynasty, the upstream people want to live, and the downstream people don't want to live. ”

"If the people in the upper reaches of the river are discharged when they encounter floods, and if they are stopped by drought, they will not be left behind, then the people of the river will be afraid of being an enemy country."

"The Daqing River is between Baiyangdian and Triangle Lake, many parties receive water, I have been here many times, many mediation, I am afraid that there will be a little harvest here in the future, but if this autumn between July and August. If the rain is heavy, this is also a critical place, so I will guard it here, and then I will not go there. ”

Yu Qian sighed lightly, the most serious situation of the flood in the past was that Baiyangdian Lake and Triangle Lake were connected into one gas, and from Beijing to the south, hundreds of miles, they all became Zeguo.

It's just close to the line of Taihang Mountain, which is passable.

This is the embodiment of the strategy of using water as a soldier in the Northern Song Dynasty, which will be like this after a few hundred years, but once it rains heavily, it will become like this.

Yu Qian said that the water situation here is the most dangerous, but it is not false at all.

Zhang Jing said: "Please rest assured, the lower officials will definitely inspect the Hutuo River well here, and will definitely not let the Hutuo River have problems." ”

Yu Qian said: "It's good if you have this heart, today's saint likes to practice the most, I am in a certain subject name outside the hundred, the top three, the name is unknown, relying on His Majesty's trust, in charge of the power of Zhili to control the water, the government and the opposition dare not ignore me Yu, Brother Zhang, although he is young, the name of the department is not obvious, but as long as he does things honestly, he will be able to be seen by His Majesty, and in the future, my position, Brother Zhang may not be able to sit down." ”

Although Yu Qian seems to be an honest person, his skills in painting cakes are not bad at all.

Of course, calling a brother has a lot of polite meaning, which is the politeness of the superior to the inferior. It's not that Zhang Jing is older than Yu Qian.

Zhang Jing listened to it and was also very excited. It is true that the name of Tiko is not obvious. In history, he has also sat in Shuntianfu. Then it was drowned in history, and it was not one person who fought against the Japanese in the southeast during the Jiajing period.

Zhang Jing felt a wave of emotion in his heart, and said that he was a confidant, and said: "Please rest assured, if the lower officials go here, the Hutuo River will be stable and fine." ”

"If anything, just take my head."

Yu Qian said: "Where to say this, why should I bother with the rivers, the Hutuo River is the most difficult to govern. As long as you go here, you can go with your heart, Hebei Water Conservancy Chen Chen Xiang, not today, this disaster is not today, don't worry, take your time. ”

Zhang Jing was very moved, and secretly made up his mind in his heart, determined not to cure the Hutuo River. We will not give up.

It's just that he doesn't know, he is a proverb.