Pan Jitao glanced at Zhu Heng when he heard this, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in this old man's gourd?

"Don't be careful, if you don't see and hear about such a big thing, how can you make a judgment?" Zhu Heng put his hands behind his back and walked towards the break.

Pan Jitao followed behind, and listened to Zhu Butang continue: "When the old man came, he was just in time for the crossing of the flood peak, and the water was the most vigorous. As the flood waters gushed out of the weir mouth, a spectacle was witnessed. I saw the turbulent water of the Yellow River, the flow rate increased sharply, the water potential soared several times, and the powerful hydraulic force quickly dissolved and took away the sediment on both sides of the breach, and soon rushed out of a deep trench, straight to the canal in the distance. ”

While talking, the two came to the breach and went down to the edge of the yellow water.

"Now that the water is slowing down, the scene is no longer visible." Zhu Heng said and waved his hand, and Wailang, the secretary of the Dushui Qing Officials on the side, hurriedly commanded the soldiers and inserted a long probe into the water.

When the bottom of the rod touched the ground, the three-zhang long probe rod was almost topless.

"Look, this place was originally flat land, but it was actually attacked for three feet." Zhu Heng sighed and said: "The power of heaven and earth is terrifying!" ”

Zhu Heng, an old man who wants to save face, it is impossible to apologize for an apology. Pan Jitao knew that this was already a sign of his mistake.

Pan Zhongcheng snorted quite smoothly and explained: "I also saw such a scene before, and only then did I realize that there is such an ingenious constraint between the water flow and the sediment. After repeated experiments, the idea of 'attacking sand with water and water' was proposed. ”

"Hmm." Zhu Heng nodded and sighed: "The old man is old, Weng Rushen is also embarrassed by the heavy responsibility, and the heavy responsibility of governing the Yellow River in the future will inevitably fall on your shoulders." ”

"The ministry is only nine years older than the lower officials, and it is far from old." Pan Jitao is like this, I am soft when people are soft, and I am hard when people are hard. He said politely: "Hegong still needs to be supervised by the department, otherwise it will not be possible." ”

"Well, speaking of which, you are not yet fifty, but you look like a little old man in his sixties." Zhu Heng was very satisfied with Pan Jitao's statement, looked at him deeply, and sighed again: "Why isn't the old man like this?" In the previous life, we didn't cultivate talents and do river workers, we were three lives of evil, and we only followed the Yellow River for the rest of our lives. ”

"No way, someone has to do it." Pan Jitao smiled and said, "Let those two knives take care of the river workers, we don't feel at ease." ”

"yes." Zhu Heng nodded, lowered his voice and said, "It was the old man's mistake to replace you with Weng Rushen at the beginning. In fact, he has been quite conscientious in the past few years, and it is said that the old man should pull him along, but this time the matter is too big, he has no shirk responsibility, and the old man can help him fight for a dismissal and return to his hometown, which is the best result. ”

"Hmm." Pan Jitao nodded, although he knew that Weng Dali deserved it, but his heart inevitably swelled up, and there was a sense of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

"But the riverworkers can't stop." Zhu Heng said, took a deep look at Pan Jitao and said, "The next prime minister of the river is none other than you." The old man will take the opportunity to fight for you again to see if he can hang up the title of the right capital, so that he will at least be equal to Cao Du and will not be restrained again. ”

Pan Jitao knew that this kind of thing was not something that the Ministry of Industry could decide, so he should all draw cakes and respond vaguely.

"In short, let your ideas come, and the old man will fully support you." Zhu Heng patted Pan Jitao's shoulder, which can be regarded as completing the change of attitude.

~~

Around the same day, the news of the second burst of the Yellow River also reached Beijing.

Hearing the bad news, Emperor Longqing was so angry that he impulsively smashed his beloved porcelain of disgust.

"What a fool! Even if they don't do anything, they can still flood a few states and counties and lose 100,000 stone grains! ”

The emperor sent the biggest fire since Yuyu, and when he saw the broken porcelain pieces all over the ground, he was even more furious. "I'm sorry if I don't cut off their heads...... I'm sorry for me, my people! ”

He immediately sent a decree to Jinyiwei, and immediately locked Weng Dali and Zhao Kongzhao into Beijing, and Longqing wanted to pry open their brains to see if they were covered with yellow mud soup.

In addition, they have to pay for their beloved porcelain.

If you break one, you won't be able to do it, you know?

Buzz distressed tight.

~~

The news of the Yellow River breach soon spread throughout Beijing, and there was an uproar up and down!

Now even the little people know that the transportation is over, and don't expect the Grand Canal in a few years.

As a result, the price of rice in the capital, which was easy to press, began to rise again. If it weren't for the arrival of the second batch of 100 ships of grain going north in time, I am afraid that grain prices would have reached a new high.

But the scale of shipping is too small, as the town Yuanhou said, 30,000 stone is just a drop in the bucket, and it can't solve the urgent need of the Ming Dynasty.

For a time, the call for the private sector to expand the scale of shipping became higher and higher, and public opinion was completely one-sided.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhao Hao, who had been standing still, finally began to exert his strength.

In the next few days, officials from the north and south of Beijing successively wrote to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to immediately consider shipping grain to replace the paralyzed transportation.

Among these officials, Lin Run, the former governor of Yingtian, is the most eye-catching. The news of Lin Zhongcheng's resurrection from the dead is shocking enough. This makes his recital particularly eye-catching.

Lin Run believes in the recital that in the current situation where the canal is not smooth, the method of developing both the river and the sea should be adopted...... That is, on the one hand, we will make every effort to restore the water transportation, and on the other hand, we will start shipping for the time being. In this way, the transportation of grain can be guaranteed; The second is to buy time for the rebuilding of the canal, so as not to make the mistake of rushing forward again. Third, the cost of shipping is very low, it does not disturb the mainland, and it can also greatly reduce the pressure on the people in the south of the Yangtze River and along the canal.

In addition, he proposed that according to the experience of the Yuan Dynasty, the shipping of grain does not need to be carried by the government, but can be carried by private commercial banks, and as long as it is allowed to transport private goods on the return journey, merchants will inevitably rush to it. In this way, the imperial court does not bear the risks and transportation costs, and the merchants can obtain the benefits of freight transportation from the north and the south, so that the government and the people can facilitate both the government and the people, and solve the difficulties.

Lin Run's recital soon aroused strong repercussions in the government and the opposition. If his plan of 'developing both rivers and seas' is quite stable, then the proposal of 'private maritime transportation' is too bold.

Someone immediately jumped out to object, saying that Lin Run was burned unconscious. Cao grain is related to the safety of the imperial court, how can it be entrusted to merchants? Who will be responsible if something goes wrong?

However, Masen, the head of the household, was very interested in Lin Run's proposal.

I want to ask who is most anxious in the Ming Dynasty after the Cao Yun is cut off. Maybe in addition to the people of Caoyun Yamen, he is counted as Ma Butang.

Because his own family knows his own affairs. Taicang currently has more than 6 million stone of grain, and it has only consumed 700,000 stone in the past two months, and it seems that it can last for a year and a half.

But in fact, if the grain is cut off and goes north, there will be chaos at the end of the year at the latest. The reason is very simple, although the grain storage in Taicang can be reconciled, but if you really want to use it, it will be exposed - because most of the grain in the thirteen warehouses in Tongzhou are old grain.

With a little common sense, you will know that you can't eat old grain for more than three years, but many of those old grains in Taicang have been stored for more than ten years, or even decades, and they are simply used by the officials in charge of the warehouse to fill the warehouse!

Since taking office, Masson has tried his best to replace the old grain. But this is an old accumulation of shortcomings, and there is no way for generations of household books, how can he solve it in two or three years?

If you dare to distribute those old grains that have been released for more than a dozen to the soldiers of the Nine Sides, I am afraid that the army will immediately mutiny. At that time, eighty percent of the imperial court wanted to learn from Cao Cao and borrow his Ma Butang's head to calm the army's heart.

So Masson is dying. But he still has to ignore his conscience all day long, and say something to the people of the capital and the soldiers of the Nine Sides, Taicang has enough grain for two years, everything is under control, there is no need to panic and so on.

If the East Window incident happens in the future, this is all fucking evidence of crime!

For Ma Butang, who was panicked, everything was nonsense, and it was the right thing to do to quickly transport the grain from the south of the Yangtze River into the capital. As long as the new grain is enough, the old grain will always be pressed into the warehouse, and naturally the filling will not be exposed.

So his attitude towards sea freight is the most positive.

But Ma Sen has mixed up with high-ranking officials and state cadres, how can he not know how outrageous the efficiency of the Ming officialdom has been? If this is left to the imperial court to organize the sea transportation, I am afraid that the research and research will be after the autumn, and the preparation will have to be next year, and it will be impossible to start shipping until the mountains and rivers are exhausted and the army mutinies.

Ma Butang can't afford to wait, he doesn't want to show his stuffing, so he has to hurry up and let the sea trip take place. So from the very beginning, he was very concerned about the shipping operations of Jiangnan Group.

Lin Run's recital just gave him an excuse to make an appointment with a merchant who is currently able to ship by sea...... Well, it's Gangnam Group...... of the person in charge. Well, it's Zhao Hao...... I went to the Yamen of the Ministry of Household to meet once and inquire about the feasibility of Jiangnan Group undertaking sea transportation.

In this interview, Zhao Gongzi made it clear that Jiangnan Group has always been loyal and patriotic, and at this time of national crisis, he is willing to do his best to share the worries of the imperial court.

To this end, Jiangnan Group is willing to complete the task of shipping grain in the form of contracted transportation - that is, how much grain the imperial court sends to the group in Liujiagang, Taicang, and how much grain the group will deliver to the imperial court at the mouth of Dagukou in Tianjin, ensuring that there is a lot of grain. Any drifting loss is borne by Jiangnan Group, and has nothing to do with the imperial court!

In order to prove that the group is not empty of evidence, they can even pay 1 million taels of silver as a deposit to the household department in advance. If Jiangnan cannot deliver the grain on time and in full, the household department can directly deduct it from the security deposit.

The imperial court only needed to pay 20% of the total amount of grain transported as freight. And grant Jiangnan Group the right to trade by sea, and allow it to traffic goods from the north and south to make up for the losses incurred in shipping!

Zhao Hao also promised that Jiangnan Group was willing to undertake no less than 2 million stone of grain a year during the period when the transportation was blocked. When the transportation is restored, the transportation volume can be gradually reduced according to the requirements of the imperial court, as long as it is not less than 100,000 stone a year.

For the plan that Zhao Gongzi came up with, Ma Sen was very satisfied. Can he not be satisfied? Zhao Hao's conditions were absolutely generous to the point of surprise, which made him embarrassed!

ps. It's so painful to start over, and the whole day is full of thoughts about who I am and what am I doing? It was only at night that I regained the feeling of writing.