Qin Qiong is a general who is a martial minister, and the prime minister of martial arts naturally has a martial style.

What we pay attention to in doing things is to order and prohibit, which cannot be ambiguous, and it is all the rage. Garrison battalions and government soldiers were stationed to release grain for disaster relief, restore the official yamen in various places, and patrol the two lakes continuously.

Gangneung Fortress.

The Imperial Palace in the city has been changed to Gangneung Palace, the emperor's palace. Qin Qiong's governor's yamen was set up in the outer city, together with the yamen of the three divisions.

Under the back corridor, there is a table, several chairs are gathered together, and a pot of tea is brewed on the table. Qin Qiong, Huang Junhan, Xu Shao, Xu Zhiren, Du Zhisong, Zhai Mohou and a group of people sat there like this.

"Before leaving Beijing, His Majesty once said such a sentence, the two lakes are familiar, and the world is full." Qin Qiong said while holding the cup.

Xu Shao's gray beard is now reappointed as the political envoy of Zuobu in Hubei Province, he has served in Jianghan for many years, and even this is a person here, so he is very puzzled by this sentence.

"Qin Xiang, eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake, the floods are endless. We have always been poor here, except for Nanjun, where the conditions are better, other places are poor, and the south of Dongting Lake is even poorer. These two lakes are ripe, the world is full, where do they come from? ”

Xu Zhiren also said, "I have only heard of Suhu Ripe, the world is full, I have never heard of two lakes ripe, the world is full." ”

Su Shu refers to the area of Susong Taihu Lake, which is now the territory of Shen Faxing, the envoy of Jiangdong Jiedu.

Xu Shao is from Anlu County, his grandfather and father both served as the assassins of Chuzhou, he was previously the commander of Yiling, and it can be said that he knows more about the Jianghan area than anyone else.

Don't look at the two lakes, Dongting Lake and Jingjiang River, and the Hanjiang River in the north, it is said that there are both rivers and lakes and plains, and water transportation advantages, but in fact, whether it is Dongting Lake in the south of Jingjiang or the unstable rivers and lakes in the north of the Jiangbei, it has always been not friendly, and even frequent disasters.

There are thousands of lakes on both sides of the Jingjiang River, and these large and small lakes and swamps are actually caused by floods. Even many lakes, which are unstable, are in fact floodplains.

The key to why this situation occurs is that water control is unfavorable.

Although the Jiangling area was Jingzhou in ancient times, and it was also a key place in the world, and all dynasties spent a lot of effort to govern it, but it only had some results in the Jiangbei area, and the method of governance was also simple, that is, to repair the embankment and try to block the water to the south of the Yangtze River, not to the north of the river.

This is also the reason why Yunmengze, a large lake in Jiangbei in the past, continued to shrink and finally died, and only during the period of the great flood will some lakes appear in Jiangbei after the flood.

For the area south of the Jingjiang River, the treatment is basically small, so when there is a large flood, it will flood, and after the flood, many siltation areas will be formed, so the lakes and swamps are dense, forming a zone that is difficult to live and cultivate.

"Frequent floods in the Jingjiang area and flooding of the river have led to silting up of rivers and lakes, so it is impossible to say that the two lakes are familiar with each other."

Qin Qiong smiled.

"I also know the current situation on both sides of the Jingjiang River now, I have been running around the past few days, although it is the dry season and many lakes and swamps have dried up, but I can see it more clearly. In many places, it is said to be a lake, but in fact it is a silt area with shallow water. ”

According to the information obtained by Qin Qiong, as well as the results of his personal inspection, the current situation in the land of Jinghu Lake is indeed not optimistic, floods every year, and even a big flood every few years, hundreds of people are affected, after being flooded, more and more fields are silted up into lakes and swamps, not only the eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake is constantly increasing, and even between the Jingjiang River and the lower reaches of the Hanjiang River, three large lake belt groups have also been formed.

In the event of a major flood, the entire Jinghu land will become a country with nearly ten counties and dozens of counties.

"Since the end of the great cause, the Jingjiang Hanshui has been neglected by the embankment, resulting in more serious flooding of rivers and lakes, and now a large area of rivers and lakes is added every year, if it continues like this, the entire Jinghu area will become a huge lake area."

Qin Qiong took a sip of tea and continued, "Your Majesty means that the lake must be governed, and the lake cannot be allowed to overflow, and the embankment must be repaired to restrain the lake. Some of the rivers that had been silted up in the past were dredged, the main rivers were dug deeper, the embankments were raised higher, and some of the main lake areas were retained, while some of the swamps and shallow anchors that had been silted up by flooding in the past were all reclaimed and reclaimed for farming. ”

If left unchecked, the flooding of rivers and lakes will be out of control, and the lakes will continue to expand, swallowing up countless fields and villages, and these floods will lead to more silting, and when it is more difficult to drain the flood in time, it will form a greater flood, and so on until the vicious circle continues, and eventually it will become a no-man's land.

In fact, the lake has the role of flood distribution and flood storage, and if the lake is gone, then it will be even more difficult to resist the flood.

At the same time, however, we must face up to the dangers of the lake and not allow it to expand and silt up.

Therefore, the imperial court actually began to investigate Jinghu Lake as early as a few years ago, and put forward some preliminary transformation plans, this plan is very huge, in general, is to strengthen the construction of embankments, Jingjiang and Hanshui and other major rivers must be comprehensively cleaned up of river siltation, and stable embankments have been built, so that there is a stronger ability to discharge floods and restrain water.

At the same time, it is necessary to build embankments in the lake area, and ensure the safety of the fields and villages outside the lake area, so that the lake does not overflow during floods and silt up the surrounding areas into lake areas.

To clean up the main rivers in the south and north of the Yangtze River, it is necessary to clear out the flood outlets of the lakes and then build embankments and dams. For example, in the core area of the 800-mile Dongting, the deep lake area is only dredged and repaired, but for the periphery, it is the area that was later flooded and silted, and it is restored to fertile land by digging ditches and draining the water, and then enclosing the polders to create fields.

Even these transformed fields can use those drainage and drainage ditches to divert water for irrigation.

"If we can do this, then the original flood area, the bitter place of ten years and nine disasters, can become fertile for thousands of miles, the fields in the lake area are flat and fertile, and there are advantages to irrigation, and then the introduction of excellent rice seeds, it is completely possible to crop twice a year, and it is not a problem for one acre of land to produce three or four stone rice a year.

Xu Shao, a native of Jianghan, couldn't help but be shocked by this great plan.

If the imperial court can really invest a lot of manpower and material resources, especially if there is a comprehensive plan, and govern the entire Jinghu more than ten counties together, it will really have a great possibility of success.

If Jinghu Lake is no longer flooded, there will be no more disasters in ten years, and the lake flooding and silting area in the past will also become fertile land for thousands of miles.

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