Seven or eight hundred thousand people! What is this concept? When Feng Yunshan heard Wei Yuan's number, he hesitated a little!

Tens of thousands of people, but it is still easy to organize and control. However www.biquge.info in this era, if the organization of 7 or 800,000 people is not done well, it is another popular uprising, not only did not manage the Yellow River well, but did bad things, causing more turmoil in the Huanghuai region. Moreover, even if in order to prevent the civil uprising in advance, he would send a large number of captives to guard there, suppress them by force, and at the same time improve the treatment of these people, but in this way, it will cost a huge amount of money and food, and maybe the people who do not know the truth will say that they are like Emperor Yang of Sui, and they will be happy to build canals.

But Feng Yunshan looked at Wei Yuan, the white-bearded monk in the hall, and decided to come down, no matter how much pressure there was, he had to face the difficulties. He examined himself, and within a few days of becoming the emperor, he was like those politicians in later generations, suffering from gains and losses, and having a utilitarian heart! Isn't the original intention of me to save all the people, in this case, what kind of money and reputation do you care?

So, Feng Yunshan said loudly: "Then we will recruit one million people nearby, and the empire will send another 50,000 soldiers to supervise and organize the work." I have decided to start the management of the Yellow River immediately! Mr. Wei, I have appointed you as the governor of the Huanghuai Waterway and the minister of the Qincha, and I am specially responsible for the improvement of the Yellow River. Liu Aiqing, you are responsible for cooperating with Governor Wei, finding Peng Yulin's Seventh Division and Shandong Governor Chong'en, and sending people to move all the people along the Daqing River and its tributaries, by the way, there are also connected canals and rivers, all the people in low-lying places are relocated, and subsidize them with a sum of money to let them go to relatives, and at the same time you arrange to set up refugee camps in suitable places to take in the people and displaced people who have nowhere to go. ”

Wei Yuan was overjoyed, knelt down and thanked: "Your Majesty is benevolent and merciful, the world's luck!" I am willing to serve Your Majesty! ”

And Liu Changyou, who was on the side, hesitated for a moment, and then knelt down and played: "Your Majesty, Weichen has the order!" However, the requisition of millions of people and the relocation of all the people in the areas of the Daqing River and its tributaries involve no less than millions of people, but I am afraid that these people have lived in the local area for a long time and are unwilling to leave, and if they are forced to leave, it will cause a civil uprising. ”

Wei Yuan nodded, and also said: "What Lord Zimo said is reasonable, Your Majesty, the minister also feels that this matter may be very difficult. The ministers will personally lead people along the coast to persuade the people, and then create some rumors, although it will cause panic among the people, but it will presumably make the people move away. ”

Feng Yunshan's eyes lit up, yes, how could he forget the power of rumors? He nodded and praised, "Wei Aiqing's idea is good. The rumors are not all bad, as long as the goal of saving the people can be achieved, no matter what means, they can be used, and I will bear for you if there is anything. As the saying goes, no matter whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat! ”

Wei Yuan and Liu Changyou looked at each other, is this a common saying? How come they have never heard of it, but this is really reasonable, they all advocate the application of scripture and learning, the more they think about it, the more they feel that this is not simple, it is simply rich in philosophy.

Feng Yunshan didn't pay attention to what they thought, and directly said his plan: "I leaked to the two Aiqing, this time in two or three months, the Yellow River will be diverted in Lanyang County, what you have to do is two points: First, dig through the fifty miles from the Lanyang section of the Yellow River to the upper reaches of the Daqing River, set aside the last hundred meters, and dig a bell mouth to ensure that once the Yellow River really breaks, the flood must enter the excavated artificial canal through this bell mouth, which can lead water to the Daqing River!" In addition, the main stream of the Daqing River must be clear so that the flood water can pass smoothly and flow directly into the sea. Second, the Daqing River valley and the canals connecting the Daqing River, including the people in Henan, Shandong, and even Zhili, must be moved away by all means, and I will let the soldiers of the captive army cooperate with you if necessary. Two Aiqing, these two things have been done, I promise you a great achievement! ”

Wei Yuan and Liu Changyou hurriedly agreed, this is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people, according to the folk saying, it is a good thing for accumulating yin virtue, not to mention that Feng Yunshan promised them great merit, even if there is no merit, they must do their best to do it.

After Liu Changyou took charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, he was very familiar with the situation of the people in the township, he thought of a serious problem, and hurriedly thought of Feng Yunshan's report: "Your Majesty, Weichen has another thing to do: I don't know if the empire can consider the problem after the Yellow River breaks." Although the people on the banks of the river will be relocated, the floods will flood all the low-lying and plain farmland, and not only the floods, but once the floodwaters recede, they will also cause severe locust plagues and droughts. ”

Wei Yuan also agreed: "Not bad! Your Majesty, the floods of the Yellow River are surging, and judging from the previous breaches, large areas of river beaches and depressions are often formed in the places where they pass, which are extremely conducive to the reproduction and growth of locusts, and the locust plague in the coming year is also extremely serious. Moreover, once the Yellow River breaks and forms a de facto diversion, it will have a serious impact on the rivers, lakes, mountains and rivers in the places it passes, destroying the natural water system and the farmland water conservancy irrigation ditches built over the years, causing the water system to be disordered and the rivers and lakes to be shallow, seriously weakening the rivers and lakes to contain and irrigate their capacity, forming a vicious circle of 'either flooding and drought', and suffering disasters all year round. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded, what the two said was reasonable. Not only that, but after the flood, there will be a large-scale plague, and it is necessary to prepare large quantities of lime and sour vinegar, and the people must be told not to drink raw water that has not been boiled. I have to arrange these things myself. So, he said to the two: "Very good, you can think of this, which means that you are people who do practical things." In the aftermath of the flood, I fear that there will be another plague, and I must take precautions. We will send the soldiers of the Imperial Army and the Ministry of Medical Education to cooperate with you to release lime and vinegar to kill the source of the plague. ”

Feng Yunshan thought that he might have thought a little simple. He recalled the diversion of the Yellow River in history, as if the months after the diversion were only the beginning of the disaster, and did not settle down because the flood waters receded.

This diversion of the Yellow River is different from ordinary natural disasters, which are mostly one-time or intermittent, and the affected people have a chance to breathe after the disaster or between two disasters, and can accumulate some material and financial resources to resist the next disaster. The diversion of the Yellow River cannot be completed in a short period of time, and it will take several years of erosion or artificial constraints to form a new channel. In the 30 years from this breach to the completion of the repair of the embankments on both sides of the Yellow River 30 years later, there were no floods in the Yellow River for three or four years, and the rest of the Yellow River flooded every year. Even after the completion of the Yellow River embankment in the future, it is still indecisive.

If you want to clean up the Yellow River, you must also have a large-scale project, so a temporary emergency, I'm afraid it will still be difficult to work! However, he had to do this, he could only save those people first, and then he wanted to create a world miracle, from Kaifeng Mansion to Xuzhou, and then to Huai'an Mansion into the canal and Huaihe River, and dredge all the sediment accumulated in the river for nearly a thousand miles, and this project will be unprecedented. But once the implementation is completed, changing the course of the Yellow River back will be a great cause for the ages.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan made up his mind!

He directly summoned Zeng Guanlan, vice premier of the cabinet, and Wang Minyun, vice minister of the Ministry of General Affairs, and asked the two to draft the holy decree together, and after Zhu approved, he directly stamped the jade seal of the emperor of the Chinese Empire, and ordered Wei Yuan and Liu Changyou to take full charge of the rectification of the Yellow River.

The next day, Wei Yuan, who was in his sixties, did not have time to rest, and could not wait for the establishment of the Huanghuai River Governor Yamen, so he and Liu Changyou, together with Liu Changyou, led more than ten chief deacons of the Ministry of Agriculture, left the Shengjing City and took a boat to Qingjiangpu, Huai'an Prefecture, where the Huanghuai River Governor Yamen was located in the original Manchu Nanhe Governor's Yamen.

At the same time, Feng Yunshan issued orders one after another, allowing the soldiers of the Seventh Division and the First Division of Yuanyi to send troops into the territory of Shandongdong to prepare for the forcible relocation of the people on both sides of the Daqing River.

Half of the empire took action for the Yellow River.