The reason why Wanghelou is named Wanghe Tower is because sitting in front of the window of Wanghelou, you can really see the Yellow River. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wanghelou is built near the east city wall of Fuzhou City, the building is five stories high, higher than the Fuzhou city wall, and Fuzhou City was originally built on the stone beam, so looking east on the top floor of Wanghelou, you can clearly see the Yellow River like a giant dragon.

Standing on the top floor of the Wanghe Tower, looking at the Yellow River from the window, it makes people feel heroic and has a different feeling.

After eating, Zhong Hao and Yang Huaiyu did not go to Baihuawu, but asked for a pot of fragrant tea, sitting in front of the window while looking at the Yellow River, chatting.

Although Baihuawu is good, there are also those flowers, grasses, mountains and rocks in other places, which may not be worse than Baihuawu. To visit Baihuawu, how can you sit in front of the window and look at the Yellow River, this is a rare experience.

Zhong Hao and Yang Huaiyu faced the Yellow River, and the things they talked about were naturally inseparable from the Yellow River. When talking about the Yellow River, it is natural that the Yellow River floods that occur frequently today cannot be bypassed.

The Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, is the birthplace of Chinese civilization.

Since the period of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors, the common people have lived on both sides of the Yellow River. Fertile land, humid climate, and convenient water sources have created this rich land, and also gave birth to strong dynasties. Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, these majestic dynasties, all relied on the Yellow River to nourish to create glory.

Before the Great Song Dynasty, from the pre-Qin period to the Han and Tang dynasties, the Yellow River was in a long period of "safe flow", and there was basically no large-scale flood. During this period, the Yellow River was really the mother river of the Chinese nation, nurturing countless Chinese sons and daughters along the coast and creating the glory of China.

However, people often only know how to take, not in return, or they do not know how to be sustainable. As the population of the rich Yellow River basin grew, more land needed to be cultivated to feed them, and the ecology was gradually destroyed. In addition, the construction of houses and palaces, deforestation, war and many other factors have caused serious damage to the ecology of the Yellow River Basin.

At that time, people did not know how to govern, so the problem became more and more serious. The Yellow River is mostly a loose loess area, and once the vegetation is damaged, it is easy to lead to soil erosion. As more and more sediment enters the Yellow River, so does the flooding.

Sediment accumulates, the riverbed gets higher and higher, the river channel becomes narrower and narrower, and the circulation is okay on weekdays, but when it rains heavily and the water of the Yellow River swells, there will be flooding. The river could not be discharged in time, and the flood could only find a place to vent itself, so the Yellow River burst, and the flooding of the Yellow River inevitably appeared.

It was unfortunate that the Great Song Dynasty was just in time for the Yellow River flood to completely break out!

In the Great Song Dynasty, the Yellow River reversed its previous state, from a gentle mother river to a tyrannical Yellow Dragon.

Since the first breach of the Yellow River in the first year of Jianlong, there has been a decisive battle in almost a few years, or even a year. The Yellow River broke so frequently in the Great Song Dynasty that if the Yellow River did not flood in any year, the historians of the Great Song Dynasty would definitely write down the year of Hening, so that the record was full of a sense of happiness.

The Great Song Dynasty did not adopt a radical cure for the floods of the Yellow River, but passively adopted a method of repairing and repairing the problem. This kind of treatment method that only treats headaches and foot pains cannot fundamentally solve the problem of flooding, but is only a negative improvisation, and when it is not possible to make do, a terrible diversion will occur.

The Song Dynasty was unfortunate because it had to pay for the excessive destruction of the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River by the Chinese nation since the Han and Tang dynasties. Today's official family is even more unfortunate, he has to pay for the success and excession since the founding of the country.

Because when the current government is in power, it is no longer possible to control the raging of the Yellow River in this passive and improvising way of governance, and breaches and diversions are commonplace.

In the first year of Jingyou, the Henglong section of Jingdong burst, and the flood that burst out of the embankment swept away people and animals, overflowed the boundary of the Daimyofu, and then turned to the north. Since then, rivers have been plagued frequently in the Central Plains, and for nearly 80 years, there has been no peace .......

And that's just the beginning. Fourteen years later, on June 6 of the eighth year of the Qingli calendar, an auspicious day. The Yellow River bursts the embankment in Shanghu Si, the capital of Lanzhou, and the width of the breach is nearly one mile, and the turbidity waves empties the yellow water and surging, stretching across the northern part of the Central Plains.

After these two times, the Yellow River was completely diverted, and its water changed to the north, passing through the east of the Yellow River in Henan and the west of the Daimyo of Hebei, crossing the Hebei Plain, joining the Yuhe River, and then entering the sea through the Jiehe River.

The most destructive part of the flood is the breach and diversion, if it is just a breach, as long as it is blocked, it does not matter, and it can still be maintained.

But the reroute...... The sudden diversion of a river that flowed safely in other directions has so many implications. A disaster for the whole country along the old and new rivers!

It only takes one or two more disasters of this magnitude to destroy a country.

Zhong Hao was crossed after the Yellow River diversion in the eighth year of Qingli, and his first identity when he came to the Great Song Dynasty was the disaster victim of Lanzhou, although he made it up, but it was also related to the Yellow River's major diversion, and it was precisely because of this diversion that Zhong Hao had an identity that was not easy to be suspected.

After this breach of the second Shang Hu Si, the Yellow River was completely rerouted.

It is precisely because of this that the rich land of Hebei was completely destroyed by the floods of the Yellow River. The fertile land is gone, the people are displaced, and the people are struggling to make a living. The entire land of Hebei is about to become a Shura hell for thousands of miles in the red land, and the price paid by the Great Song Dynasty is self-evident.

More importantly, because the Great Song Dynasty lost the Yanshan barrier, the Song army could only rely on the Tangbogou River to defend on the Song-Liao border in Hebei. When the sediment-laden waters of the Yellow River came northward, the ponds that the Song army had worked so hard to dig were gradually silted up and lost their role as a national defense. This is a major event related to the national defense of the Great Song Dynasty and the survival of life and death.

The flooding of the Yellow River can now be said to have threatened the foundation of the survival of the Great Song Dynasty!

At this point, the thorough control of the Yellow River must be put on the agenda.

In today's prosperous era of talents, there are many talented and capable ministers, and in addition to repairing the embankment, they have indeed thought of many other ways to control the floods.

But the bad thing is that there are too many capable people. These ministers boasted that they all had talents, everyone had their own ideas, and everyone firmly believed that only their own ideas could solve the problem, so the quarrel began.

After the diversion, the Yellow River had a three-year quiet period (this period of calm is said to be four years in many sources, but it is indeed only three years from June of the eighth year of Qingli to July of the third year of Huangyou, I don't know why many sources say that it is four years), and it is also the golden period of water control, which was wasted by this group of conceited and clever senseless.

Last year, that is, in July of the third year of Huangyou, the Yellow River broke its embankment again at Guogukou, Tao County, the Daimyo Mansion. This time it took more than five months, and it was not until this spring that the embankment was re-closed. However, although the levee was re-closed, the silt in the waterway was getting thicker and thicker, and the water was in danger of overflowing the levees at any time and collapsing again.

The work of curing pornography is really urgent. (To be continued.) )