Chapter 520: The River

The purchasing power of copper coins in the Han Dynasty is not the same thing as that of the Great Song Dynasty today, and the tens of billions at that time are equivalent to tens of billions today.

I only heard Su Song say again: "But since then, the Yellow River has entered a period of peace for thousands of years. Although the Yellow River breach is still unavoidable and disasters are still frequent, there has been no large-scale diversion. Until...... Right now. ”

He handed over his summary notes to Su You: "In the first year of Jingyou of the Great Song Dynasty, the Yellow River broke at Henglongsi, Shanzhou, and the river left the ancient road of the Wang Jingzhi River period and re-opened a new river channel. This is the Henglong River. ”

Fourteen years later, in June of the eighth year of Qingli, the Yellow River broke at Shanghu Si in Shanzhou, and since then it has left the Henglong River again, passing through the Daimyofu, En, Hebei, Shen, Ying, Yongjing Army and other prefectures, states and armies, until the Qianning Army seized the Yuhe River into the sea. This is today's North Stream. ”

Chen Zhaoming's expression began to become heavy: "In the eighth year of Qingli, Jia Chang, who was out of Hebei as the prime minister at that time, asked the center to order, Jingdong Prefecture Army to build the old embankment of the Yellow River, plug Henglong, Shanghu Erkou, cut off the north flow, divert water to the east, and restore the old course of the Yellow River. Since then, the dispute over the governance of the river has been divided into two factions - the Northern School and the Eastern School, that is, the Huihe School. ”

"There are three reasons why Jia Gong hopes to return to the river: First, the Yellow River flows north to Qingli for eight years, and its river channel has been seriously silted up again, especially in the areas above the mouth of the sea, so that it cannot be dredged. Rather than investing huge amounts of manpower and financial resources to make a fuss about the hopeless northward stream, it is better to restore the eastward flow of the Yellow River. ”

Su Song said: "Second, from the perspective of guarding against the Khitan Liao State, it is obvious that the North Stream has greatly damaged Hebei's defense. ”

Chen Zhaoming nodded: "The Imperial River runs through Hebei Junzhou and goes directly to Tokyo, and this waterway is the top priority to control Hebei Zhulu." ”

"The large-scale transportation of grain, grass, troops, money, salt, leather goods, cloth and other materials to and from Hebei mainly relied on the imperial river. The Yellow River's seizure of the river into the sea has led to the waste of water transportation, the fatigue of transportation has increased, and the front-line materials have become more and more scarce. ”

Su Song said: "Not only that, but the Great Song Dynasty set up a large number of pond canals from the east of Baozhou to the sea. These ponds could be used to grow rice, and they could also block the road for the Liao cavalry to go south. In this way, west of Baozhou, there is no military worry, and the Great Song Dynasty only needs to hold Taihang. ”

"However, the northward stream brought a large amount of sediment and filled most of the pond, causing the swamp to turn into land, and since then the defense hole in the north of Bianjing has been opened and nothing has been in existence."

Su Xiaomei said: "The third reason is that because the Yellow River is no longer in its old ways, Cangzhou, Dizhou, Binzhou, and Qizhou, which used to be developed for agriculture, will inevitably suffer from drought, land production will be reduced, and tax revenues will be lost. ”

Su You's brows furrowed, and Chen Zhaoming continued: "At that time, there was a lot of discussion between the DPRK and China. The result was not conclusive, in July of the second year of the Emperor's reign, the Yellow River once again broke at the Guogu Junction in Guantao County, the Daimyo Mansion, and in the first month of the fourth year, the Guogu Junction was finally blocked, but the water potential of the Yellow River was bound to rise and rise, so it must be decided again in the short term, so it caused a great discussion between the DPRK and China about the northward flow and the return flow. ”

"In the group discussion, there is another strategy for the peak to protrude - Li Zhongchang of the River Canal Department proposed: first open the Liuta River, divert the water of the Yellow River, and then lead the Yellow River back to the old road of Shandong."

This matter is very clear in Suyou, this is the famous Liuta River backflow project in the Jiayou period.

At that time, Li Zhongchang's plan to control the river was strongly opposed by Zhou Xin, the Hebei transit envoy, and Ouyang Xiu, a famous minister.

Ouyang Xiu repeatedly argued that Li Zhongchang was talking nonsense, and there were two main reasons.

First, at the beginning, it cost 16.45 million yuan in salaries and 5.83 million yuan for the people to block the Shanghu Junction, but now that Li Zhongchang has opened the Liuta River, he guarantees that he only needs to pay 3 million salaries and 10,000 people, how can the financial and material resources required for the same river section be so different?

Second, the Yellow River is more than 200 steps wide, and the Liuta Canal is only more than 40 steps, and if the Liuta River is diverted, the river course will definitely not be able to accommodate the flow of the main road of the Yellow River.

In this way, tens of thousands of people along the Liuta River have lost their homes and land, but it can divert up to three-tenths of the Yellow River's water.

If the flood season arrives, the water of the Yellow River will pour up from the Liuta River, and the people of the five prefectures of Qi, Bo, De, Di and Binzhou along the Liuta River will all become fish and mole food!

However, in the end, due to political, economic, and military considerations, the radical Eastern School advocated that the main culprits were Fu Bi and his predecessors, who were very good to Su You.

In April of the first year of Jiayou, the mouth of the Shanghu Beiliu River was finally blocked, and the water of the Yellow River was diverted into the Liuta River.

As a result, as Ouyang Xiu foresaw, the river was too narrow and incompatible, and the river backflowed, and a breach occurred that night, drowning militia workers and floating supplies, countless others.

Chen Zhaoming said: "In the fifth year of Jiayou, the Yellow River broke at the sixth mouth of Weizhou, and a new road was rushed, and this new river was called Ergu River. ”

"Now there are two factions in the river affairs of the DPRK and China - Li Lizhi, the governor of the capital water, and Wang Ya, who believes that the eastward flow of the Yellow River is simply unrealistic and the northward flow should be maintained."

"Song Changyan, the supervisor of the capital water, and Cheng Fang, the servant of the Tuntian prison, objected and advocated the opening of the Ergu River, and the new river should be used to guide the river to the east."

Su You was angry and stood up: "Both sides are a bunch of nonsense!" Are there data to back up their claims? ”

"Successive river engineers, have you carefully surveyed and calculated the water flow rate, sediment content, sediment deposition rate, river channel height, waterline height during the dry and abundant period, the amount of water that can be accommodated, the daily flow rate of the new river channel, the water capacity after the completion of the project, how many times a year is a flood, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., have you done a careful survey and calculation?"

"Is there a comprehensive survey of the tributaries of the Yellow River? Is there an exact budget for the project? For example, how was the construction volume of the Liuta River calculated before? How many years is it built? Why is the price difference between Ouyang Gong and Hequ Division so huge? ”

"What is the actual situation of the Yellow River? The princes in the hall only saw the benefits of the backflow, and the work of the river and canal division was too rough. But no one has ever seriously studied, surveyed, calculated, and never proved that reflux is feasible or not! ”

"After decades of controversy and repeated failures, no one even thought of making an accurate measurement, which is simply a joke in the world!"

"Since I have the participation of Shu University of Science and Technology, the first thing is to respect the facts."

"I'll write to Your Majesty tonight, this river investigation, everything is based on measured data! Regardless of the eastward and northward flows, any suggestion of the river affairs that cannot be supported by data will be blamed as a fallacy! ”

"All recommendations must be actually measured; You can tell me what data you need. ”

"Any solution, no matter how big or small, has to be determined whether it is feasible before it can be implemented."

"The budget department has been set up by a professional team to calculate the cost, manpower, and materials of major projects, which must be accurate to a maximum of ten yuan!"

"Give me a list of all the expenses, don't be afraid of cumbersome, the new bookkeeping method is to solve the cumbersome use for them!"

"Give me less than two mountain mausoleums to build the kind of 300,000 and 500,000 yuan, just increase the burden on the locality, and the implementation of the project will not see the timeliness and waste seriously!"

Su You is really angry, very angry, the Great Song Dynasty can now be said to be very perfect and strict in administrative management, military and political management, and judicial management, even to the extent that the system hinders efficiency.

But for finance, it is very coarse.

Nowadays, there are basically two books in the local government, one for reporting to the imperial court, and one for local use.

Officials are working hard in it, resulting in a serious disconnect between the central statistics and local realities, and the local authorities cannot get them out when they really need them, just like Hebei now, and that is going to happen to a big incident.

Chidi could not be relieved for thousands of miles, and in the end there would always be someone who led the hungry people to rise up, and the Western Xia problem decades later in real history was finally because of the Fangla Uprising, which became an unfinished project.

However, the Fangla uprising, it was a man-made disaster.