Xu Shao trembled with excitement.

Even if his hometown is from Anlu County, his family used to be at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River, with a small flood every three years and a major flood in ten years.

But in the past, even in the stable days of the emperor's opening, the imperial court did not have any overall planning and governance of Jinghu, and they were all tinkered with by themselves, and the result was naturally average.

And now, Qin Qiong said that the imperial court actually had a comprehensive plan, which was to do something to the entire Jinghu.

"Qin Xiang, when will we start, now that there is a drought and there is little water in the lakes and rivers, it is a good time to clean up. And because of this catastrophe, there is no shortage of manpower now, as long as the imperial court provides some rations, everyone is willing to obey the dispatch and work for relief, which is a good time to start work. ”

"The imperial court has been investigating Jinghu Lake for several years, and the preliminary planning plan has also done a lot, and the governance of Jinghu Lake is certain, the imperial court has vigorously governed the Huai River in the past few years, and now the flooding situation of the Huai River has been much better. With the experience of governing Huai, it will be much easier to govern Jinghu Lake now. Qin Qiong smiled, there are indeed many favorable conditions for governing Jinghu Lake now.

"However, the governance of Jinghu Lake is not a day's work, and it may take one or two decades of long-term vigorous governance and transformation, so the imperial court does not want to be in a hurry, so now the Ministry of Industry has come up with a plan to divide the entire governance project into ten phases, and the first phase is about three years. Gradually renovating Jinghu Lake, we can now launch the first phase, and the first phase is mainly to clean up the river. ”

After investigating Jinghu Lake, the Ministry of Industry first made an estimate of the flood storage and drainage capacity of the entire Jinghu Lake, and then formulated a corresponding plan for enclosing the lake.

Only by clearing the main river network can we improve the flood discharge capacity in the future, and in the future, we will clear the lake embankment to increase the flood storage capacity.

The two-pronged approach can first restrain Jinghu Lake from harming the people, and then we can ask for land from the lake, enclose the polder, and turn the lake floodplain into a thousand miles of fertile fields.

"In the first phase, it is not only necessary to clean up the Jingjiang, Hanjiang, Xiangjiang, Yuanjiang, Zijiang, Qingjiang and other major rivers, but also to control some dangerous rapids on the Han River, so as to make the river transportation safer."

The whole project planning is very large, even if it is the first phase, it is also very arduous, so in the end it is the overall scale, and then the local subcontracting, led by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the water supervisor and the general supervisor, and then the Jinghu two provinces below are in charge, and the following counties are responsible for it.

"Governing Jinghu Lake is not to eliminate Jinghu Lake, and making fields is not chaotic, and even in this plan, many existing fields, because of planning needs, will also re-destroy the fields for lakes and rivers, and then it will involve flooding some villages and towns, etc., so we must be psychologically prepared as early as possible, and obey the overall arrangement, where the first phase of the river water network is planned, where to dock him, if anyone does not do well, then only who is asked, the heavy will be cut off the head, and the light will also be taken ********* the north of Yiling, Nanjun, Chuyang, Anlu, The five counties of Yong'an, the five counties of Liyang, Wuling, Baling, Changsha and Jiangxia in the south of the Yangtze River, a total of ten counties, are the focus of the first phase of the plan. ”

The dense lake belt is also in the middle of these ten counties, everywhere, which should have been a granary, but in fact it has always been a flood area, and the people are living a very hard life.

Qin Qiong said to a few people, "I will also tell you the truth, I will not return to Beijing for the time being, I will always stay in Jinghu, and at the same time of disaster relief, I will also start to preside over the first phase of the project, and the imperial court will continue to pull grain over and work for relief." My request is to call on the people to come and dig the river and build embankments, but they must be kind to the people, at least three meals a day must be guaranteed, and they must be fed, and the sheds where the people live on the construction site must be planned and built, and there must be no water leakage or sewage crossflow, and doctors must be arranged on each construction site to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic. ”

Qin Qiong even confessed that considering that it is now the disaster season, the cash-for-work can also take care of other old and weak women and children, let the families of those disaster victims live together, arrange some light work for the elderly women, so that they can earn some food, and at the same time, they can also consider building some simple schools on the construction site to teach the children of these disaster victims to read.

"Most importantly, all the victims are exempt from all taxes for this year. In addition to the rations, the cash line is that in addition to the rations, the wages must also be paid on behalf of the workers, and there can be no deductions and no corruption, which is the bottom line. ”

Qin Qiong repeatedly explained this, just in case.

There are many people in the disaster, and a large number of people gather together, especially the heavy work of building rivers and embankments, if it is not properly managed, it is most likely to cause problems.

Qin Qiong didn't want to be a national project that would have been a national project that would benefit the present and benefit the future generations, and finally cause a great uprising among the people.

"Qin Xiang, if in addition to providing rations to the victims, we also have to pay for the work, which requires a lot of food, do we have so much food?"

Today's grain is all dependent on external transfer, although Jinghu has the advantage of water transportation, Bashu, Central Plains, Huainan, and even Lingnan and Guanzhong grain can be transported, but after all, the need is not a little bit.

This is not only the rations for the victims, but also the wages.

"The wages will be paid first for food, so that the people's hearts can be stabilized, and when it is almost over, money or silk cloth will be issued. In fact, there is no need to worry too much about food, and it is not a problem for grain from all directions to be transported by water. ”

Xu Shao reminded Qin Qiong.

"For such a project, the pressure on the imperial court is still very great, and we, the local officials, have to find a way to share the worries of the imperial court. I think that Xiao Miao's private property and official property in the past will all be lost to the official, and those that can be sold will be sold, which can also reduce some of the burden on the court. ”

Xu Zhiren said even more simply, "Xiao Milling worships Buddha, there are hundreds of Buddhist temples in Jiangling City, and there are many Buddhist temples in other places. Didn't the imperial court already have a system for the management of monks? According to the system of the imperial court, we can ban all Buddhist temples and temples that do not conform to the rules and confiscate their property, so that we can get a lot of money, and we can also let no less than 100,000 monks return to the laity, and we can also let a large number of slaves and tenant farmers who depend on them get out of it and become the people of the imperial court. ”

The imperial property, official property and the temple industry of those monks and Taoists of the Xiaoliang puppet dynasty are indeed a lot of industrial money, and it is also said that it is past to clean up at this time.

After all, Daqin had also cleaned up before, so there was no reason to be special to them.

Qin Qiong nodded.

"Let these monks take the exam first, and for those who are pious cultivators, they can be issued according to the regulations of the imperial court, and as for the rest, let them return to the world. Between the mountains and fields, the number of temples that meet the requirements of the imperial court is retained, and the rest are demolished or converted into schools, medical halls and other uses. ”

In addition, Qin Qiong is also preparing to start the census of the imperial court in various places and confirm the rights of the farmhouse, and let the original owner show the deed and re-register the deed.

And for the borderless land, it is necessary to take back the official property.

In addition, all fields that exceed the quota are also dealt with in accordance with the laws of the imperial court.

This is the beginning of Great Qin's real rule over the land of Jinghu, and it also means a new round of reshuffle.