Han Qian said that the road was worried about being washed away, and Yang Hu would definitely not be led by the nose because of Han Qian's words, so he immediately invited Fu Gengwen and Han Chengmeng to the site of the construction of the Laoyaling River Dam to investigate on the spot to verify the truth of what Han Qian said.

An Jixiang was ordered to send the Queen Mother a gift, so naturally he couldn't join in the excitement, so he had to cross the river with Han Qian to Chenzhong City.

Han Qian also followed the rules and arranged for Feng Yi, who was in charge of Licao and Yichuan, to accompany Yang Hu, Xi Shepeng, Fu Gengwen, and Han Chengmeng to Lao Yaling.

The mountains to the north of the Chenshui River Valley are the branches of the Wuling Mountains that extend eastward into the territory of Chenzhou, and the mountains are layered on top of each other.

Among them, the Songfeng Ridge mountain where the high chair valley is located is the most rugged and precipitous, the north-south direction, the peaks and cliffs are steep, the deep ditch is like an abyss, and the mountain beams in the north of Panlong Ridge are intertwined to the west, and also naturally constitute the boundary between the northeastern region of Sizhou and Chenzhou.

The topography of Songfeng Ridge is similar to that of Longya Mountain on the south bank of Chenshui, which stretches for more than 60 miles from east to west and more than 50 miles from north to south.

And from Songfeng Ridge to the east, there are also hills and hills undulating, but the terrain is relatively gentle, and the highest peak is even only one-third of the main peak of Songfeng Ridge, which is also the key development area of Chenzhong County in the north of Chenshui River Valley.

At present, five township inspection divisions have been temporarily set aside in this area, and the newly built North Shore Post Road is used to connect these five townships, and Lao Yaling is one of them.

Entering the scope of Lao Yaling Township, the post road is mainly built on the low-lying river valley plain, and there are some villages along Chenshui.

There is a shallow valley running north-south from the depths of the mountain range in the north to the post road on the north bank of Tatsusui.

Han Chengmeng and the others stopped at the mouth of the valley and saw that there was a stream in the shallow valley that was nearly ten zhang wide, but the riverbed had almost dried up in early autumn, and it flowed into Chenshui from under a wooden bridge.

Han Qian said that some of the river dams are in the upper reaches of this stream, and if they collapse, the wooden bridge and the post road in front and behind will be impacted by the flood - this section of the post road is also blocked by horses, and there are signs of danger and prohibition on the road.

There is a newly built road that follows the east bank of the river and turns directly into the depths of the shallow valley.

Feng Yi took Yang Hu, Xi Shepeng, Fu Gengwen, and Han Chengmeng, surrounded by Hu Servants, and went to the depths of Lao Yaling.

At this time, Han Chengmeng and the others could see the terrain in the shallow valley more clearly.

Under the confrontation of the mountains on both sides, the shallow valley is about five or six hundred steps wide, but because the stream bed is very shallow, there are traces of flowing water everywhere in the shallow valley, and there is no way to cultivate.

Looking at some construction sites along the road, combined with Feng Yi's introduction, Chenzhong County intends to build an overflow weir upstream to regulate the water level of this river called Qingzhuxi during the peak and dry period.

In this way, the shallow valley of nearly ten miles downstream of the overflow weir has the value of dredging the river and building a dam, and there will be the potential to reclaim three or four thousand acres of fertile land in the future.

Not to mention that after the overflow weir is built, the water flow will be stable, and more workshops using hydraulic work can be built downstream along the river banks.

This is also one of the key areas for Chenzhong County to build on the north bank of Chenshui this year and next year.

Fu Gengwen was still a little interested in these, but under the urging of Yang Hu and Xi Shepeng, everyone quickly rushed to the construction site of the river dam.

It is a valley pass with narrower terrain and an opening less than ten zhang wide, and the overflow dam is also largely built.

The river is cut off here, the downstream is almost cut off, but the dam intercepts the hanging lake that is nearly five or six zhang above the flat ground, and to the pass to the inside, the waves are rippling, and the gourd-shaped lake is almost thousands of acres wide.

Seeing this scene, Fu Gengwen and Han Chengmeng were quite shocked, seeing that there were many submerged trees along the lake, and the treetops were also peeking out from under the water, all of which proved that this was a big lake that had just been intercepted.

Chen Jingzhou went to Guangde Mansion to serve as the prefect, and Fu Gengwen saw that the situation in Guangde Mansion had undergone a subtle change, so he took the opportunity of reporting to the Ministry of Officials and rushed to Jinling, where he learned that the Political Affairs Hall had reopened Hunan Province and set up a special division in the province to govern the affairs of the southwestern prefectures.

The re-opening of Hunan Province, the people used, such as Huanghua, Wu Zun, and Chen Fan, are all representatives of the Jiangdong family's sect lords, and the meaning of Emperor Yanyou and the princes of the political hall is also thinking about the mutual system between the east and the west, since the family, and avoid the family from sitting too big.

Fu Gengwen thought about getting out of Guangde Mansion, so he accepted the new position, and Han Chengmeng, who was originally a subordinate official of Hunan Province and had never been sent by the Central Six Ministries, rushed to Xuzhou as soon as possible.

Whether it was hearsay or hearsay, or from the mouths of An Jixiang and others, Fu Gengwen boasted that he still knew something about the Southwest Zhujian Prefecture, but when he casually saw such a large-scale man-made hanging lake appear in front of him, he was somewhat confused.

"It was the construction of this dam that went wrong," Feng Yi said to Yang Hu, Xi Shepeng, and Fu Gengwen with a very knowledgeable attitude, "At the beginning of last month, there were many leakage points in the middle of the dam, and the overall structure was unstable. If it can last for a month or two, when the rain decreases and the water level drops in winter, it is possible to organize craftsmen to repair it, but it is not sure when the dam will collapse, and once it collapses, thousands of acres of lake water will pour down, and it is not only the wooden bridge downstream that will be washed away. ”

Judging from the withdrawal of the downstream valley and the leakage, the problem of the dam is not a matter of one or two days.

However, in Yang Hu's eyes, the whole thing was by no means as simple as a coincidence, but he couldn't see where the flaws were.

Venturing through this dangerous stagewalk?

Seeing a shallow smile of unknown meaning on the corner of Feng Yi's mouth, Yang Hu felt a slight chill in his heart, worried that when he persuaded Xi Shepeng to venture through this post road, the river dam would collapse "by coincidence".

He dared to take this risk, and Xi Jian Peng dared to take this risk?

Besides, the difference in water level of the hanging lake is nearly five zhang, and the river embankment intercepts thousands of acres of water in the lake, which is not known how deep, which makes people worry when they look at it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to follow me to Chenzhong to meet Han Qian and Lord An first, or what do you say?" Feng Yi asked with a smile when he saw Fu Gengwen, Yang Hu and the others looking worried and scared.

Originally, there was a temporary diversion canal elsewhere that could divert water from the valley to the west side of the canyon, but last month the diversion canal was filled in advance, and the Hanging Lake Reservoir began to store water.

What Han Qian wanted was for the Chenzhou Fanying to cross the border, so that there would be an excuse to deter them.

Don't look at the lake above the dam is extremely open, but the actual pressure on the dam is only related to the height of the water level.

The outside of the dam looks five zhang high, but the inside is located on a section of fault boulder.

Previously, Qingzhu Creek flowed through here, forming a cascading stream more than three zhang high, and the actual depth of the inner water level was only six meters.

On the whole, the dam is not very difficult to build, and even if the water is impounded in advance, there is no danger.

However, not to mention the relationship between water pressure and water depth, the stone pass terrain where the dam is located, Yang Hu, Fu Gengwen, and Wash Shot are completely unaware of the details, and Han Qian really can't believe it.

Yang Hu looked at Fu Gengwen and Xi Xuepeng, he rushed to Jinling to ask for a decree and delayed for two months, if they didn't dare to go west along the post road on the north bank, once it was delayed, who knew how many demon moths Han Qian and the people in Xuzhou would come up with later.

Moreover, I am afraid that the post road on the north shore will be affected by the size of the impact, and it is not realistic to transfer warships from Chenyang to take the waterway to bypass.

After all, the big water will form a huge surge in the Chenshui, and the small and medium-sized rowed oarboats built by Chenzhou are difficult to resist the impact of large waves.

Wait for the transfer from the downstream, first cross the Chenshui to the south bank, bypass the post road on the south bank, cross the river twice, and delay for three or four days?

Feng Yi was silent, and Han Chengmeng also deliberately avoided suspicion and did not come up.

Yang Hu, Xi Shepeng, and Fu Gengwen discussed for a while, and finally decided that the elite of the camp led by Xi Shepeng would camp on the north bank tonight, and Yang Hu, Fu Gengwen, and Han Chengmeng would first cross Chenshui with Feng Yi and go to Chenzhong to meet Han Qian and An Jixiang.

They thought to themselves that An Jixiang would act as His Majesty, and Fu Gengwen would represent Hunan Province, so it was impossible for Han Qian to go too far and be too blatant......

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An Jixiang first followed Han Qian to Chenzhong, and when Feng Yi and Yang Hu, Fu Gengwen and Han Chengmeng came over, the sky had already darkened, and he waited until after the night banquet specially arranged by Han Qian, and then returned to the post house, before he had the opportunity to ask Yang Hu and Fu Gengwen the specific situation after the on-site investigation of the Laoyaling dam repair site.

"The river dam is more than five zhang high, more than 1,000 acres of lake, there are many infiltrations in the middle of the dam body, and it is not a problem that has only appeared recently, and the downstream people and animals have been evacuated. If Chenzhou Fanying wants to take this road, there is indeed a possibility that something will happen, and once an accident occurs, some things are really difficult to say. Fu Gengwen frowned and said to An Jixiang.

Yang Hu was unsatisfactory with Fu Gengwen's remarks in front of An Jixiang, and he hoped that Fu Gengwen could point out Han Qian's intentions straightforwardly.

Regardless of whether Yang Human is dissatisfied or not, Fu Gengwen can only say this.

The reactivation of Xingshangshu Province and the establishment of the Metropolitan Protector Division to govern the affairs of the southwestern prefectures, the imperial court's intention to strengthen the southwestern prefectures, especially Xuzhou, is self-evident.

But from another point of view, even if His Majesty is very suspicious of the Marquis of Qianyang, and all kinds of measures are to check and balance Xuzhou, but deep down, does Your Majesty really hope that Xuzhou will change, or does he hope that Xuzhou will not change?

Fu Gengwen has been a county official since he was eighteen years old, and he has been trained for thirteen or fourteen years, and he has long understood the difference and subtlety in it.

When he was in Guangde Mansion, almost all the clan lords were in turmoil for Shang Wensheng's death, and he couldn't help but cooperate.

However, at this time, before Huanghua and these characters did not directly put pressure on him, and there was no conclusive evidence, he had to think about calming down the situation before it could be more beneficial to himself.

What good is it for him to escalate the situation at will?