Chapter 30 Bunching the Water and Washing the Sand
Pei Min is still very relieved about Li Shangyin's talent in poetry, based on his "Jin Se", it is not a problem for this most important project to get an excellent grade. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
He Zhizhang and Zhang Xu were more worried about today's exam than Pei Min, they got along for many days, and they never saw Pei Min write any poems or what they did, and when they saw him return home, they asked him what the result was.
Pei Min's confident expression made the two feel a lot more at ease. How do they know that although Shifu is not Pei Min's strength, he really has to take the test, and no one in the world today can win him in this subject, not even Li Bai Dufu. This is where he excels as a traverser......
Even if Li Bai has "Will Enter the Wine" and "The Road is Difficult", and Du Fu has "Spring Hope" and "Ascending", what about it?
He also has the poet Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", "Charcoal Seller", and the poet Liu Yuxi's "Burrow Ming" and "Wuyi Lane"; There is a poet Lu You's "Guan Shanyue...... As for the poet prisoner Meng Jiao, the poet Hu Luo Ye, the poet ghost Li He, Su Dongpo, Xin Qiji, these famous poems can be found in memory.
Pei Min is not good at it, it is precisely what he is most sure of, Pei Min himself doesn't know whether to cry or laugh.
The third is the current affairs question, although this era is dominated by poetry and writing, but in Pei Min's view: the strategy question is the essence of the real imperial examination...... Practice is the real foundation of the official, and no matter how high the achievement of poetry is, it is limited to the artistic aspect. If you can compose poetry, you may not be able to be a good official. However, the question of current affairs and policy is different, and the test is about governing the country and policy, and of course, there will also be the phenomenon of talking on paper. But he thinks that it is better to be able to talk on paper than to know nothing.
Pei Min always thought that if Zhao Kuo hadn't met a world-famous general like Bai Qi, it wasn't that King Zhao was too important, so he would have been the commander of the three armies from the beginning. It is to let Zhao Kuo have a down-to-earth step-by-step experience, his achievements may not be as good as his father Zhao Hao, but he will not leave a reputation for eternity. If he can integrate his knowledge and practice, it is unknown whether he will become a generation of famous generals.
Therefore, Pei Min's attention to current affairs and policies is far better than that of scriptures and poetry.
Looking at the exam questions in his hand, Pei Min held his chin in his hand and thought deeply: the examiner gave two exam questions this time, including military and political items: the first question is how to control the water, the flooding of the Yellow River, and how to deal with it. The second question is how to effectively prevent border troubles.
Water control is the most important moral policy in ancient times, and the effectiveness of water control can often benefit a piece of land, benefit hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, and at the same time, enable children and grandchildren to enjoy benefits for generations. The world's most famous water control ministers include Sun Shuao, Ximen Bao, Li Bing, Wang Jing, Fan Zhongyan and others: Sun Shuao presided over the construction of China's earliest large-scale water diversion irrigation project Shaobei, irrigated thousands of hectares of fields, benefited more than 2,000 years, even in the 21st century, still plays an irrigation benefit; Ximen Bao presided over the construction of the 12 canal irrigation project to divert river water to irrigate people's fields, which not only reduced the disaster of river flooding, but also fertilized the soil, and benefited for thousands of years. As for the other Li Bingdu Jiangyan, Wang Jing's control of the Yellow River and Bianhe River, Fan Zhongyan's Hai Hanhai Embankment, etc., which one is not a feat of controlling the water and benefiting the people, and benefiting from it for thousands of years?
However, Pei Min also knows that his heart can't be too big, the above-mentioned people are all prominent for a while regardless of their status and status, and their big projects are piled up by manpower and material resources. In particular, Wang Jing, in order to control the Yellow River, he used more than 500,000 laborers and spent 10,000,000 yuan to make the unruly Yellow River flow smoothly for 800 years. It's not a good thing to be too ambitious.
Biting the tip of the pen, one by one water control allusions appeared in his mind, and finally he denied it...... Different times, different technologies, different facilities, different rivers, and different methods of prevention and control are different.
Suddenly, Pei Min thought of someone...... Pan Jitao.
Slammed the case and smiled: "There is!" ”
Pei Min saw the invigilator staring at him viciously, and hurriedly made a gesture of accusation, seeing that the examiner didn't care about him, he grinded his pen excitedly, and wrote on the answer sheet: "Prevention is the best policy to control water, and it is better to use water to control water." The yellow stream is the most turbid, in terms of buckets, the sand is the sixth, and if it is in the autumn, the water is the second. Carrying eight buckets of sand with two liters of water is not extremely fast, but will stagnate...... The water is slow, the sand stops, the sand stops, the river is full, and the size of the water has a sand surface, and it is high to see it. Hydration is fierce, fierce is sand brush, sand brush is deep, and the water of the zhang has the bottom of the river, and it is humble to see it. Build an embankment to restrain the water, and use the water to attack the sand, and if the water does not overflow on both sides, it will go straight to the bottom of the river. A certain reason, an inevitable trend, the reason why this combination is more and more divided. ”
He wrote about the wonderful method of water control invented by Pan Jitao, a water conservancy expert in the Ming Dynasty and a world water conservancy expert...... Bundle water and wash sand.
The Yellow River is difficult to manage, not because of the water, but because of the sediment. According to scientific records in the 21st century, the Yellow River produces about 1.6 billion tons of sediment every year, most of which washes into the sea, some of which remains in the lower reaches of the Yellow River for many years, forming alluvial plains, and some of which sink to the bottom, causing the water level of the Yellow River to rise. Therefore, every once in a while, there will be a large-scale dredging operation of the Yellow River, which consumes countless manpower, material and financial resources. Especially in ancient times, science and technology were not developed, and the dredging of the Yellow River was even more difficult.
Pan Jitao presided over the management of the Yellow River and the canal four times, which lasted for 27 years. In the long-term practice of river control, he learned from the achievements of his predecessors, comprehensively summarized the rich experience in the practice of river control in Chinese history, and invented the "method of binding water and flushing sand".
The so-called water and sand flushing is to tighten the channel of the Yellow River and use the impulse of water to impact the sediment at the bottom of the riverbed, so as to achieve the purpose of dredging and flood control.
Three hundred years after Pan Ji tamed the river, some Western water conservancy experts with modern scientific knowledge came to China and enthusiastically proposed to the Qing government at that time a plan for harnessing the Yellow River by "adopting a double embankment system, building deceleration embankments along the river embankments, and diverting sediment and silting up the embankments of the Yellow River". However, they then discovered that as early as 300 years ago, their advanced water control methods had already begun to be adopted by Pan Jitao in the Ming Dynasty of China, 300 years ago, and they were even more sophisticated than theirs.
Pei Min retrieved this memory, and wrote like a god, sprinkled with more than 1,000 words, detailing the method of water and sand washing.
"Wonderful!" Pei Min only then noticed that there was a person standing next to him, and when he looked up, he saw that it was the invigilator in front of him.
The invigilator saw that Pei Min was making noise in the examination room, and he was curious to see what he had.
The first impression was that Pei Min's Xiaokai was extremely beautiful, and he actually had the demeanor of the book saint Wang Xizhi.