Meng Changling was a civil official with a little gray hair, he lowered his head, walked in front of Cai Jing, and bowed, "I've seen the Taishi." ”

Cai Jing looked at him, thought for a moment, and then said, "Meng Changling, are you an official in the Ministry of Industry?" ”

Meng Changling nodded and said, "Thanks to the Grand Master, remember." ”

Cai Jing smiled and said, "I've been a little busy these days, and it wasn't until today that Xiao'er told me that you have something to do with me, I heard that it is a matter of Dahe, let's talk about it." ”

Meng Changling took out a fold from his cuffs and said, "Please take a look at it, Taishi,

Cai Jing took it and looked at it, recalling the situation of the Yellow River while watching.

The Yellow River, is the mother river of Chinese civilization, but the mother's temper has not been very good, from the joint work to control the water, Dayu to control the water, the Chinese nation and the Yellow River competition has passed thousands of years, until the Han Dynasty Ming Emperor period of Wang Jing, spent tens of billions of national wealth, built a thousand miles of embankment, to keep the Yellow River 800 years of peace, but in the Song Dynasty, because of the continuous accumulation of sediment, the Yellow River broke more and more frequently, and even slowly began to divert, when the Song Liao signed the Tanyuan Alliance, the Liao has not been dispersed, A scholar named Li Chui wrote an article arguing that the course of the Yellow River would continue to move northward and eventually flow into the territory of the Liao Dynasty, so that the Khitans would be able to go down the river and that the Yellow River moat would no longer be able to defend the capital of Kaifeng.

At first, people were still a little skeptical about this point of view, but then, in the first year of Jingyou and the eighth year of Qingli, the Yellow River was diverted twice, and turned over to the north, which is indeed a little turned, just a few miles, but this trend made the whole country panic, so the whole country said that the river should be governed, and the core idea of the river governance is to let the Yellow River no longer move north, first wanted to divert the Yellow River to the east of the Liuta River, and as a result, the Liuta River burst its embankment and directly washed away half of Hebei, the most important military town in Hebei, Dingzhou, the number of soldiers during the Renzong period, After the battle of the Six Towers, the flood was released, and after the Shenzong recreated the military registration, there were only 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers.

Renzong's governance of the river failed, Shenzong ascended the throne, Wang Anshi changed the law, and decided to continue to change the Yellow River back to the old way, as a result, the Yellow River seized the Huai into the sea, irrigated 45 counties, and the Liangtian alone was flooded with more than 300,000 hectares, making the lower reaches of the Yellow River completely collapsed

This time, he decided to clean up the mess left by his father and let the Yellow River flow back to his hometown, but the riverbed of the Yellow River was already very high, and this time the diversion caused a big break, and the Dingzhou mentioned before, when Huizong ascended the throne, there were less than 10,000 soldiers left. The rest, all fed to fish and shrimp.

In the Huizong period, the Yellow River still broke from time to time, and Hebei, Shandong and other places suffered from it, and the Northern Song Dynasty court spent millions of dollars every year on governing the river. It was because of these stories that Cai Jing was highly nervous when he saw that Meng Changling was going to talk about the Yellow River.

After reading Meng Changling's excerpt, Cai Jing breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that Meng Changling did not want to comprehensively control the river, but to choose a section of drainage, and then build a pontoon bridge on the river, of course, although this is not as big as the cost of comprehensive river control, it is still not to be underestimated, Cai Jing asked, "The big river bridge, unheard of for thousands of years, you first tell me, why do you do this, what are the benefits, how much labor is needed, how much grain." ”

Meng Changling arched his hand and said, "Taishi, please allow me to be detailed, the location I chose is the Da Ling Mountain near the Amway Army, the big river comes from the east of the Da Ling, straight to the west of the Da Ling Mountain, a few miles back to the south, the east turns around, the north and the east, then until the east of the Da Ling Mountain, the terrain and water potential, the pressure is straight, such as we can break through the Da Ling Mountain and the two small mountains in the northeast, so that the big river is divided into two strands, and then merge into one share, so, with the three mountains as the beams, this pontoon bridge can rest with the country, and save tens of hundreds of times more than the location of other places, if there is such a bridge, The burden of Hebei must be greatly reduced, and the Taishi is well aware of the law of helping the country through the world, and wants to understand that as for the cost, it will take about 100,000 people and 2 million yuan to cause. ”

Cai Jing squinted and said, "Okay, you think about this matter carefully, and in a few days, I will go to the court, and I will run out to everyone first, if this matter is done, my Great Song Dynasty is the first country to create a permanent pontoon bridge on the river since the beginning of the world, and the official family will be happy, but my ugly words will be said first, in case you mess up, waste money and food, hehe, the scenery of Salmon Island, it is said that it is very good!" ”

Meng Changling said happily, "Thank you Taishi for your success, please rest assured, the lower official guarantees the life of the whole family, and this move will be successful!" ”

Cai Jing nodded and asked Meng Changling to leave, Cai Qian waited for him to leave and said, "Daddy, is this really possible?" Building a bridge over a big river has never been heard of. ”

Cai Jing stroked his beard and said, "Whether it is feasible or not, such an unprecedented thing, the official family will definitely be interested, and it has really been done, but it is also for the benefit of the people." ”

After a few days, the day of Dabi, which countless people are looking forward to, has arrived, Jiang De looked at the examination room with a similar scene as the college entrance examination in later generations, and touched his nose, he didn't expect that in this era, he would actually go on this experience.

"Xiao Langjun, be careful." Master Li took the veil and helped Jiang De tidy up his clothes, Jiang De smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Xu has helped me review it in the past few days." ”

Yi Fengnu said, "That's it, sister, don't worry, our brother De'er is a talent, look at the books he took out, which one is not respected by everyone." ”

Master Li shook his head and said, "This imperial examination, where can anyone dare to guarantee it." ”

"Let's get in!!" Several officials shouted loudly, and the candidates began to enter with their vouchers, because there was no photographic technology at this time, so there were a few recognition officers in the recognition of people, and they had in their hands the candidate information that they had obtained before, on which there was the candidate's name, age, place of origin, appearance and other information, and the appearance is often described from the skin color, beard, eye size, etc., every year there will be a few people who are caught because of the beard getting longer and the skin darkening, for fear that they are catching knives and not allowing these people to take the exam, This makes these movers have to carefully maintain their figure and appearance before each big competition to prevent them from being allowed to take the test. It is worth mentioning that in the Song Dynasty, there was no such thing as a gunman, but a knife catcher, which originated from the story of Cao Cao looking for someone to pretend to be himself in the past, and he was catching a knife next to him.

After Jiang De was called, he walked in, and the first thing he did when he went in was to search his body, at this time he had to admire the intentions of some people, Jiang De actually saw that someone was found to have hidden a matchbox-sized book in the food box, and it was actually a spring and autumn book on it, Jiang De couldn't figure out how it was printed, he could only say that there were too many people. In fact, this is Jiang De a little fuss, and so on to the Qing Dynasty, there was also a matchbox-sized book printed with the "Book of Changes", "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", "Spring and Autumn Zuo Chuan" all the contents of the five Confucian scriptures and the detailed annotations of Confucian masters, later generations found that they wanted to imitate, but found that no one did it under the premise of not using high technology, and its technology has been completely lost.

Candidates sit down, saying that they are seats, but in fact, they are all independent cubicles, separated by bricks and tiles, unless you are really a giraffe, you will never be able to see the test papers next to you, and when the test questions were sent, Jiang De almost wanted to cover his mouth and laugh excitedly, it was really those questions, Jiang De coughed, recalled the article he had memorized for a few days, and immediately started writing.

Jiang De was answering the question seriously, but he didn't notice that a few acquaintances were on patrol.

"Jiang Xiaolang, ah, yes, looking at the speed of writing, it can be seen that there is a bamboo in the chest, and the Taishi's family is really an idle person."

"Hehe, the old man didn't instruct him, so I'll leave it to you here, and the old man went to meet the official family and said that everything is normal in the imperial examination here." Cai Jing smiled and stroked his beard, he came here to earn the name of the master, and specially asked Zhao Ji for instructions, after all, without the following officials to carry him, no matter how good his decree is, he will not be able to get out of Bianliang City.

- Half a month later

"Hit! Hit!! Li Zhongfeng rushed all the way up, and the people around him who didn't know asked one after another, "What's the matter?" What's in it? ”

"How do I know, I had a stroke?"

In the room, Jiang De, who was playing chess with Xu Guanzhong, was just about to make a move, when he heard a roar from far to near, and before he could hear what he said, a person came in through the window and smiled at Jiang De, "Xiao Langjun, you have hit!" Before the words fell, the door was knocked open, and Li Zhong said excitedly, "Xiao Langjun, hit!" ”

Shi Qian smiled, "It's a pity, you're one step slower." As he spoke, looking at Jiang De with blank eyes, Xu Guanzhong bowed to Jiang De and said, "Congratulations to the lord, the lord, according to reason, but I want to give a lotus." ”

Jiang De waved his hand, conjured out a handful of gold leaves and stuffed them into Shi Qian's hand, and conjured up a handful of silver leaves and put them in Li Zhong's hand, he didn't care how many points he had, he was happy in his heart, this came to the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty, and he didn't go in vain, and thanked Xu Guanzhong, "Thank you Mr. Xu for your teachings, the palace test can be regarded as a smooth pass, you don't know, at that time, Zhao Ji kept walking around me, so that I almost couldn't remember those scriptures." ”

Xu Guanzhong said with a smile, "Zhao Ji's respect for the lord is also a good thing, by the way, what is the rank?" Who is the champion? ”

Shi Qian just wanted to say, but was stopped by Li Zhong and said, "Flea, I have to say one!" Shi Qian waved his hand, indicating that he would not fight, Li Zhongdao "is the fifty-first of the second grade, and the champion is Qin Hui, a native of Jiangning, it is said that he writes a good hand, and the official family likes it at first sight." ”

Qin Hui? Is he really as champion as recorded in the wild history? Jiang De was thinking about it, and heard someone coming from outside the door, before anyone arrived, there was a fragrant wind, Master Li and Yi Fengnu entered together, and smiled at Jiang De, "Congratulations to Xiao Langjun, congratulations to Xiao Langjun, the title of the gold list is inscribed." ”

Li Zhong scratched his head and asked, "Why do the two little ladies know so quickly?" ”

Yi Fengnu glanced at Li Zhong and said, "Who else doesn't know about your call all over Tokyo." ”

"That's right, Brother Li Zhong's call was heard even by our husband and wife outside Qiong Lou." Another voice, a big man came in, Jiang De looked at the person, got up and said, "I've seen senior brother, sister-in-law." ”

Lin Chong arched his hand and said, "Senior brother is really good at learning, and when Master knows, he will be very happy." ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "That's right, Shi Qian, immediately help me send the news back to Neihuang, and make everyone happy." ”

"Okay!" Time shifted in response.

Another person came in and said, "I have to send it back quickly, Brother Jiang, congratulations." "It's Li Gang who came.

Jiang De shook his head and said, "There are not necessarily so many people on weekdays, but today they are all here, yes, Li Zhong, go and inform Chef Gao, prepare wine and food, and we will have a good meal tonight." ”

Li Zhong responded with a smile, and Li Gang pulled Jiang De and asked, "It's okay now, in the future, we will be ministers in the same palace, and we will definitely be able to assist the official family and govern a peaceful world." ”

Jiang De hurriedly shook his hand and said, "Don't don't, Brother Boji, you know my character, I don't want to go to the morning court so early every day." ”

Li Gang seemed to have been mentally prepared, and sighed, "I had already guessed that you would be like this, you lazy character... Hey, I really hope to have your help, although the Taishi allows me, I feel more and more that I can't do anything above the court, in the final analysis, my voice alone is too weak. ”

Jiang De asked, "What?" Is something wrong? ”

Li Gang nodded and said, "Meng Changling of the Ministry of Industry is on the top, and he wants to control the river and repair the bridge. ”

Jiang De frowned and said, "Isn't this a good thing?" How? Don't allow it? ”

Li Gang stomped his feet and said, "What's good, Brother Jiang, do you know how much this thing costs?" Taishi is ready to make a large number of 300,000 migrant workers, and the river is not so easy to lead, since the founding of the country, the river has a two-year decision, I am worried that this time it will cause a new big decision. ”

Jiang De thought for a while and said, "I don't know about this matter, it's not good to judge at will, but in my opinion, if you are really worried about this matter, Brother Boji, it is better to take a look at it on the spot, otherwise you can't make a sense, how can the official family depend on you?" ”

Li Gang listened to Jiang De's words, nodded and said, "Brother Jiang is the same as I thought, that's it, don't talk about this, today is your big day, let's go drink first!" ”

Jiang De smiled and said, "That's it, put these worries aside in advance, let's drink, teacher, girl, can I bother you to play a song today?" ”

Master Li glanced at Yi Fengnu and said, "Okay, let's check the work of the two of us today, by the way, Yan Qing and I also practiced a tune, just let you listen to it today to see if there is anything to adjust." ”

Li Gang shook his head and sighed, "Master Li's masterpiece, where do I dare to put forward any opinions, today is the light of Brother Jiang." ”

That night, the house was full of joy.

- Late at night

"300,000 people, Taishi is also so ambitious." Xu Guanzhong said to Jiang De a little drunk.

"Yes, the construction of the Yellow River pontoon bridge, I don't know who will be convenient in the end." Jiang De listened to Li Gang talk in detail at the wine table, then remembered the story of the pontoon bridge, and said, "After the Qionglin banquet in a few days, it is necessary to assign a position to this lift, and the Taishi has already sent someone to ask, how do you say we should deal with it?" ”