Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised when he heard this, in fact, Zhu Youxiao already knew about many people giving gifts to Wei Bao.

This kind of thing, Wei Zhongxian will naturally tell the emperor that this is a matter within Wei Zhongxian's responsibility.

Although Wei Zhongxian gave Wei Bao 100,000 taels of silver, and he was also a person who gave a lot of gifts, Wei Zhongxian would not talk about it, but only said things that were unfavorable to Wei Bao.

In addition to Dongchang and Jinyiwei, in Jingshi, the emperor also has his own ears and eyes, so it is impossible for the emperor not to know what happened to the Fuguo Mansion.

"This matter, Aiqing didn't have to tell me, you were promoted to a duke, and it is understandable that others want to slap you, besides, there is no rule in the Ming Dynasty that prohibits receiving congratulatory gifts." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, the power that Wechen got was given by His Majesty, without Your Majesty's favor, who would give Weichen a gift? Weichen can't be ignorant in his heart. Wei Bao said: "Therefore, when Your Majesty is in urgent need of silver, just say to Wechen, as long as Wechen has, how much Your Majesty wants, Wechen will try his best to raise it, and everything in Wechen is Your Majesty's." ”

Zhu Youxiao was moved when he heard Wei Bao say this, sat up straight, and took Wei Bao's hand: "Aiqing, if the officials of the Ming Dynasty were like Aiqing, we would have been safe and secure a long time ago!" The silver is your He Yi, the Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and there is no reason for the court to confiscate the minister's He Yi, you can keep it yourself, if I am in urgent need, I must not open my mouth to you. ”

Wei Bao is just to show off his mouth, and really give all the silver he collected to the emperor, how is it possible.

"Your Majesty just opens his mouth if he has something, and Weichen has to do it even if he goes bankrupt." Wei Bao laughed.

Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction, and praised Wei Bao for his loyalty and bravery.

Zhu Youxiao and Wei Bao were together, and there seemed to be endless words, and the two of them played carpentry all the way, which added to the fun.

Wei Bao tried his best to lead Zhu Youxiao to the construction of ports, river embankments, and seawalls, and to the river control project.

In ancient and modern times, as long as the regime is relatively stable, the central government will invest huge financial resources to improve water conservancy, because this is a major event related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

It's a hard bone to gnaw on.

Abroad, the elevated aqueduct in ancient Rome, the Hoover Dam in the United States, and the Tennessee water conservancy project.

Domestic, Zhengguo Canal and Dujiangyan in the pre-Qin period, Caoyun in the later dynasties, the Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty, the shipping in the Yuan Dynasty, the Three Gorges in the later generations, and the South-to-North Water Diversion, regardless of their purpose, whether they are correct or not, are all national forces and projects that have lasted a long time, so they must be cautious.

In ancient times, the Yellow River ran everywhere.

The Yangtze River stays in the basin honestly, and even if there is a big flood, it will not run too outrageous.

If the Yangtze River floods, no matter how big it is, it will not be able to flood Henan, while the Yellow River will flood Jiangsu.

It's not that the Yellow River has a lot of water, but that as long as I run fast enough, the embankment built by the Yellow River can't catch up with me.

The changes in the course of the Yellow River are very exaggerated.

There was no good way to deal with this kind of diversion under the engineering conditions of ancient times.

The northernmost part of the estuary of the Yellow River is through the Haihe River, which passes through Tianjin and enters the sea from the mouth of Dagu; The southernmost side is through the Huai River, into the Yangtze River, at this time the flood of the Yellow River into the sea in Songjiang Province.

Historically, the Yellow River has been diverted 26 times, with an average of one in more than 100 years.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Huayuankou embankment burst had a huge impact, and the Huayuankou embankment burst was more than 300 meters away from the bank of the Yellow River in later generations.

For the ancients, once the Yellow River was diverted, all the embankments of the Yellow River that had been in operation for decades would be abandoned, and no new ones could be built in a short time.

Before the Yellow River enters the sea, the Jiangsu region will not care about the Yellow River.

The Yellow River was diverted to Jiangsu, which is naturally a country.

Similarly, when the Yellow River seized the Huai into the sea, Shandong would not continue to build the Yellow River embankment, and then the Yellow River ran back to Shandong.

It's not that the downstream doesn't build the embankment, but the downstream builds the Yellow River embankment for decades, and then the Yellow River is gone, and the embankment that has been repaired can be hundreds of kilometers away from the Yellow River.

The problem of the Yellow River is mainly in the middle and lower reaches.

In later generations, when the country is rich, it will be very simple to talk about governing the Yellow River.

We all know that the Yellow River has a lot of sand, and the middle and upper reaches flow through the Loess Plateau, and the soil erosion is serious, and it has been said that the average annual loss of sediment is 1.6 billion tons.

Since the implementation of the policy of returning farmland to forest and grassland on the Loess Plateau, the amount of sediment entering the Loess Plateau has dropped to an average of 300 million tons per year in recent years.

Combined with the large-scale urbanization in later generations, the policy guided farmers on the Loess Plateau to settle in the cities, so that the Loess Plateau could reduce the interference of human production, and the sediment into the Loess Plateau may also drop significantly.

In fact, there is no shortage of grain produced on the Loess Plateau and the cattle and sheep raised.

On the issue of the downstream hanging river, Wei Bao probably remembers that in the past, the data was that the Yellow River entered the sea more than 40 billion tons of water every year, and at the same time carried 1.2 billion tons of sediment into the sea.

Later, after treatment, a large amount of water from the Yellow River was used, and the annual amount of sediment entering the sea dropped to about 10 billion tons, the flow was small, and the efficiency of sediment carrying was reduced, and the annual sediment into the sea was only more than 100 million tons.

The efficiency of sediment carrying can be improved through the artificial flood peak water and sediment diversion in Xiaolangdi Reservoir, but it is far from enough to deal with the crisis of the hanging river.

The excess sediment should not be silted in the downstream riverbed and aggravate the overhanging river crisis.

The method of later generations is to silt in Xiaolangdi, Sanmenxia, Liujiaxia and other large reservoirs, and Xiaolangdi, which plays the largest role, has silted up more than one-third in the past 20 years.

During the Ming Dynasty, Jingjiang was a flood-prone area.

Thousands of miles of the Yangtze River, the danger is in the Jingjiang River, the Jingjiang River is the Yangtze River from the present Hubei Zhicheng to Hunan Chenglingji section, the river is bent and narrow, and it is called the nine-curved ileum.

In addition, the Qingjiang River, the Hanjiang River and the Dongting Lake water system all converge into the Yangtze River here, and the main stream of the Yangtze River mostly breaks here, and the Jingjiang section is also the earliest section of the Yangtze River in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River where embankments appear.

The occurrence of flooding in the Jingjiang River is inseparable from the changes in the natural environment and the reclamation of lakes and tidal flats by residents.

The Jingjiang area was the first to be the range of Guyun Mengze, and the ocean was imposed.

In addition to natural factors, there are two man-made aspects of the geographical changes along the Jingjiang River, one is reclamation, and the other is plugging.

Before the Song Dynasty, the main stream of the Yangtze River retains a large number of water outlets connected with large and small lakes, the natural lakes still retain a good role of regulation and storage, the embankments along the Jingjiang River are mainly to protect the enclosed farmland and the city, and are not connected into a line, leaving a large number of "mouths", the Yuan Dynasty has the name of "nine holes and thirteen mouths".

During the Ming Dynasty, from 1465 to 1470, the Huangtan embankment on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the east of Jiangling City was changed to a stone embankment.

In the twenty-first year of Jiaqing, in 1542, the Hao Cave on the north bank of the river embankment was blocked.

Since then, the Jingjiang embankment has been connected to the 124-kilometer-long embankment section of the embankment to Duijintai and down to the towmao port, which is called the Wancheng embankment at that time.

In the Qing Dynasty, the embankments on both sides of the Jingjiang River were continuously extended and heightened, and the embankments in Jiangling, Jianli and Chuyang on the north bank were more than 600 li long, and the river embankments in Jiangling, Gong'an and Shishou on the south bank were more than 300 li long.

In order to strengthen the management of the Jingjiang embankment, in the first year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, in 1567, the embankment was set up to repair and defend it by the people, with more than 7,300 people on the north bank and more than 3,800 people on the south bank.

In the 53rd year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, in 1788, the embankment burst, flooded Jiangling City, Qianlong allocated 2 million taels of silver to block the breach, added the embankment body, set up a stone ruler water chronicle, stipulated the warranty period of the embankment, and changed the embankment to the official embankment.

In the earliest days, there were many lakes in this area, all of which were connected to the Yangtze River system and entered and exited each other freely.

Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, some places have been fenced sporadically.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the embankment slowly advanced from the siege of the city and the encirclement of the field, and finally became the encirclement of the river, and developed into an embankment along the river, and the mouth was blocked one after another, and the water of the Yangtze River could only flow in the river.

However, although the Yangtze River is not as exaggerated as the Yellow River, it also carries sediment, and the Jingjiang River has nine bends and eighteen bends, and the flow rate of the Yangtze River suddenly slows down after leaving the Three Gorges, and the river will still be congested after a long time.

Dongting Lake is the hub of water conservancy in the north and south of Hunan, where poverty and private reclamation are carried out, and the powerful compete for occupation. However, the wider the continent is, the narrower the lake will be, and the area containing water will overflow.

The Jingjiang embankment in Hubei was affected, and the county in Binhuzhou in Hunan was affected by it, and the water in the lake gradually changed into fields, and the fields outside the lake turned into water, which was an inevitable trend.

The ancients didn't understand it, and they really couldn't do anything about it.

It is not possible to do such a thing as cutting off one's livelihood and offending Haoqiang to provoke a popular uprising, or to build the embankment as much as possible.

The reclamation of the Yangtze River is a gradual process, because the foundation is too good, so the contradictions only appeared in the Song Dynasty, and the Ming and Qing dynasties became serious.

Zhu Youxiao heard Wei Bao talk about the river control project, and originally thought that Wei Bao was just talking casually.

Unexpectedly, Wei Bao also took out the map and model to show Zhu Youxiao.

"How much silver does this cost? Are you really planning to build a reservoir to store water? Zhu Youxiao asked.

Wei Bao said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is a project for the benefit of the people, and it is a good thing that can immediately help the people produce farmland, and no one will say anything about you." This also involves a high level of technology, and only technology can be passed on for a long time. The Sui and Tang dynasties were a mature period of architecture and achieved brilliant achievements. Yu Wenkai, a famous architect of the Sui Dynasty, presided over the construction of Daxing City, and the Tang Dynasty expanded into Chang'an City on this basis. The political system of Chang'an City is well-designed, and the scale of the building is grand, which reflects the superb technology of urban architecture at that time. Yuwenkai's design method of combining drawings and models is a major breakthrough in China's architectural technology. The Zhaozhou Bridge, designed and built by Li Chun, a craftsman of the Sui Dynasty, is the world's earliest open-shouldered stone arch bridge and occupies an important position in the history of bridges in the world. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Jie's "Building the French Style" was an outstanding work in the history of Chinese architecture. The Dule Temple in Jixian County, Hebei Province and the wooden tower in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province in the Liao Dynasty are famous ancient wooden buildings in China. The Lugou Bridge of the Jin Dynasty was exquisitely made. The Yuan capital is a magnificent building, and there is a complete drainage system in the city. Emperor Chengzu made people build Beijing City on the basis of the capital of Yuan, and among the about 800,000 skilled craftsmen, the most famous is the carpenter Kuaixiang, known as "Kuailuban". There are three cities in the city of Beijing, the imperial city outside the palace city, and the capital outside the imperial city. Miyagi is also known as the Forbidden City. The main buildings of Beijing are arranged on the central axis, the central government office is concentrated in the south of the capital, and the bell tower and drum tower are located in the north of the city. The yellow glazed tiles of Miyagi and the red walls match each other, fully reflecting the majesty of the feudal emperor. Aren't these great projects all passed down for a long time because of their advanced technology and great role? ”

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he was leisurely fascinated, "Yes, if the technology is advanced and can be used by future generations, it will save a lot of silver!" However, we can't eat enough now, where can we have the manpower and material resources to repair reservoirs, build river embankments and seawalls, and those projects. ”

"Your Majesty, everything is difficult at the beginning, you can do it little by little, but you can't help it, Weichen can only use limited strength to do some water conservancy projects in Liaoxi and Liaodong." Wei Bao said: "Weichen believes that in a few years, the disaster here can be greatly alleviated, as long as the local food is abundant and the population is sufficient, the construction of slaves will naturally stop." There is no need to spend the power of the whole country to subsidize the Liaoxi Liaodong and Jiliao border armies all the year round. It's a pity that Weichen's strength alone is limited, and there is no way to extend the project to the entire Beizhili at the same time, if the Beizhili is stable, this is His Majesty's biggest treasure house, His Majesty can reach out and get the silver, and if there is silver, he will be powerful, and where else dare to be disobedient. Wei Bao said.

"Yes, I understand these truths, but it's a pity that Daming doesn't have any money, and he can already burn high incense if he can take care of the people to eat and drink." Zhu Youxiao said helplessly.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, it was rare to see the emperor like this, the emperor was originally in Wei Bao's impression of a simple image who didn't ask about the world, obviously, the emperor is alive again.

"That's it, Wei Aiqing, I fully support you in carrying out the water conservancy project you mentioned in the Jiliao area." Zhu Youxiao said: "I can't give you the silver, you can pay it yourself, it can be regarded as the household borrowing your silver!" ”

Wei Bao was overjoyed when he heard this, Wei Bao did not plan that the emperor would be willing to give out the silver, the emperor said this, which means that Da Ming owes his own silver, which is very good, if there are accounts, he can't run away, at least there are white strips in his hands.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Wechen still has one thing, to engage in water conservancy construction, there must be talents in water conservancy, Wechen thinks, Jiliao is barren, first of all, because education can't keep up, there is no talent, Wechen wants to fund his own school, create a new school, only set up a school in Jiliao, primary school, junior high school, and then a junior college, Wechen wants to run a normal school and a water conservancy school, graduates, or a local official, or teach locally, and engage in local construction." Wei Bao took the opportunity to say.

Wei Bao's brain is very active, although he controls the army in Jiliao, but if he is not there, the administrative power here is still in the hands of others, and he is afraid that after a long time, he will not control it for himself.

But if you get the power of education, it is equivalent to getting the administrative power, getting the power of all aspects, and it is equivalent to dividing Jiliao from the territory of the Ming Dynasty and becoming an independent administrative region.

This is the ancient special zone, and Jiliao is equivalent to its own territory.

Because Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province and Denglai are directly under the jurisdiction of the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong, they belong to the sub-jurisdiction of the Heaven and Earth Society.

North Korea is also a sub-district of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Weijiazhuang and Liaonan belong to the direct jurisdiction of the Tiandihui.

Although Wei Bao has military power in Jiliao, Jiliao is still controlled by a group of big families, and it does not meet the standards of sub-jurisdictions.

But if he gets the administrative power, the situation will be different, and in the future, the education here will be his, and the people who have been educated will receive the new education, which means that they are all educated and obey the orders of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Moreover, these people who have received new education, except for some people who have reached the university level in Weijiazhuang and Liaonan, who are familiar with the imperial examination, others have no chance to become officials in the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, so they can only be loyal to the Heaven and Earth Society.

Zhu Youxiao did not do much research on education, because Zhu Youxiao himself was semi-literate and could not recognize a few words.

Then Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Bao's thoughts in detail.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Okay, this matter will be handed over to the cabinet for discussion, I am in favor, I think it should not be difficult, anyway, there are not many people in Jiliao." ”

"Before Your Majesty submits it to the cabinet for discussion, it is best to explain that Jiliao is a special military zone." Wei Bao first proposed the concept of a special zone.

"Military Special Zone?" Zhu Youxiao said: "What do you mean? ”

"The special zone is a place where this area is very important in Daming, enjoys a special status, and can enjoy a special way of life because of the situation. The establishment of the special zone is conducive to the development of Jiliao's backward situation and to the prosperity and stability of Jiliao. Wei Bao said.

Zhu Youxiao understood now, nodded and said: "Okay, this is a good proposal, originally the governor of Jiliao is the most important governor of the Ming Dynasty, and after having the term military special zone, the affairs of Jiliao will be better done." As long as Ji Liao is stable, the entire Ming Dynasty will be stable, and if something happens within the Ming Dynasty, it is only a matter within the Ming Dynasty, and it will not shake the Beijing Division. ”

When Wei Bao heard this, he was secretly funny, it seems that Da Ming attaches great importance to Jiannu from top to bottom, but do you know? The last collapse of the Ming Dynasty was from the inside, and it was Li Zicheng who supported the Ming Dynasty, not Jiannu.

However, Wei Bao will not say all this, the more Ji Liao is valued, the more conducive it is for him to make wind and rain, he has achieved such great results in a short period of time, and it is not all thanks to the court's attention to Ji Liao.

"These things are all quick things to cut through the mess, if Your Majesty has confidence in me and Ji Liao, it can be settled in Liaoxi. When he arrived in Liaoxi and Liaodong, Weichen took His Majesty to see the real big project, and His Majesty no longer had to build buildings on the sand table. Wei Bao said.

Zhu Youxiao's eyes rolled, "Then, Wei Aiqing, you have to choose a place in Beizhili, it is best to be close to Jingshi, build a big reservoir, I will be responsible for the design, and you will pay the money and people." ”

Wei Bao smiled, "Your Majesty, do you know how much silver it costs to build a reservoir?" A large reservoir costs at least a million taels of silver! Beizhili can't build half of the reservoir with a year's taxes, and Beizhili is not only a reservoir problem, but also has to repair the river embankment and seawall, otherwise it will be useless. ”

"Then it's all repaired, anyway, you Wei Aiqing has silver. I didn't ask for it all to be repaired all at once, step by step, starting with the reservoir. Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

Wei Bao was amused by the salivating emperor, and secretly thought that you are quite good at trading, "Your Majesty, don't act as if I have taken advantage, running schools, building roads, river embankments, sea walls, and reservoirs, these are all things that I voluntarily do for the people of Jiliao, and I pay for my own money, and there is no benefit at all." ”

Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Bao's bitter face and said with a smile: "I understand, you are a good official who does practical things for the people, so let's do it, didn't Daming revoke the governor of Jizhou and Liaodong?" I will give you the position of governor of Jiliao. ”

Wei Bao was overjoyed when he heard this, but immediately understood that he couldn't ask for it, firstly, I don't know if the emperor was testing his ambitions, and secondly, even if the emperor was sincere, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty would never tolerate this kind of thing, which was equivalent to that he was not the Jiliao Governor but had more real power than the Jiliao Governor.

In fact, as long as the emperor recognized the concept of Jiliao Special Military Zone, and agreed to Jiliao to run a new school and build so many new projects, the northeast would be equivalent to his actual control, and he did not need these false names to arouse people's jealousy.

"Your Majesty, this must not be, Weichen knows that His Majesty loves Weichen, but in this way, it will only make Weichen jealous of the officials of the whole Ming Dynasty, and Weichen is not comfortable. Weichen was joking just now, not to mention donating a few million taels to His Majesty, even if he donated all of Wechen's net worth, it was nothing. Wei Bao said solemnly.

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "Aiqing, don't be so afraid, keep your account and let the household department write a note for you." In this way, I will give you the title of secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the project you handle, you will quote your own price and let the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household check it, this is okay, right? ”

Hanging the title of the Ministry of Labor?

Wei Bao was speechless, to say that Zhu Youxiao's brain is really useful, he has only heard of the title of the secretary of the Ministry of Soldiers, and he has not heard of the title of the Ministry of Labor, but this is convenient for himself to engage in construction, and nodded and said: "Okay, Your Majesty Weichen Xie." ”

"Hey, don't underestimate the Ministry of Industry, although the Ministry of Industry is a cold yamen in the Ming Dynasty, not many people can look at it, but no matter how cold it is, it is also a yamen, and it is also a Shangshu title, you are sixteen years old is the Duke of the Kingdom, and you are also a Shangshu, or the Governor of Haiphong, the Governor of Yamen, which is equivalent to serving as a noble, a civil minister, and a military general, three top honors, so that after five years, I am mentioning you to enter the cabinet, and even serve as the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and no one will say that you are young at that time. Otherwise, five years from now, you will be my current age, and there will still be people who say that you are only in your early twenties and too young. Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

When Wei Bao heard this, he was very moved, no wonder he was able to rise up at the speed of a rocket, it was all Zhu Youxiao's credit, it seems that Zhu Youxiao did regard himself as the first and auxiliary successor of the Ming Dynasty.

There are no myths in the world, Wei Bao's officialdom myth, the rope is pinched in Zhu Youxiao's hands.

Soon arrived at the border of western Liaoning, and there were officials along the way to pick up the driver.

Zhu Youxiao never had the intention of getting off the carriage.

Mainly because of the cold weather.

Zhu Youxiao is weak, and he can come to Liaoxi in this kind of icy and snowy weather, all for Wei Bao.

Along the way, there are also troops who come to pay homage to His Majesty.

The army usually did not take weapons, but lined up on the side of the road, and when the emperor arrived, he knelt down.

Zhu Youxiao looked out from time to time through the gap in the curtain of the car, and that's it.

The Jizhou border army is not as good as the Liaodong border army, and even less than the treasure army, there is nothing to see.

The more Wei Bao thought about it, the more he felt that Zhu Youxiao had given him the title of secretary of the Ministry of Industry, which was really good, so that he could transfer ordinary people as migrant workers at will in the future, and the transfer of personnel would be legalized.

For the current overwhelming food shortage, Wei Bao's first thought of the method was to guide the personnel, and get some of the people who could not be fed in the north to the south to open up the wasteland, so that many people could survive fishing in the south.