Chapter 35: Shennong River

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This group of grassroots Ming Dynasty leaders had never seen what the official master should be like, and when they saw that the master finished speaking, they discussed it while eating.

The leader of the Ming Dynasty summed up Sun Yi's speech as "one stupid method, two small goals".

A stupid way is to keep doing more work, and the words of Lidel Ye's world are hoofs and laughing donkeys.

The first small goal is to sell 100 million needles, and the Ming Dynasty people think this number is too big, but Lord Lidel said that this is a small goal. Since the master has spoken, just do it, and if you can't finish it, you will pass it on to your son and grandson to continue to do it, and one day this small goal can be completed.

The second small goal is to build a latrine, Li Del Ye thinks that this matter is very big and difficult, and the Ming Dynasty people think that this matter is very small and easy, even less than half a year and three months.

The stuffy bastard didn't care what the leaders were talking about, he was just focused on eating.

When he wanted to serve the third bowl of porridge again, Yang Liu shook his head at him, "Sister Milk Baby hasn't eaten yet, you can leave a bite for her!" ”

The stuffy man reluctantly put down the dishes and chopsticks.

The sun fell and said to Sun Yi, "Lord Lidel, we don't have a name for this place yet, you can give one." ”

In later generations, this land at the foot of Wolf Mountain was known as the "Hetao Plain". However, the meaning of the name Hetao has evolved several times in history, for example, in the Republic of China, the Hetao refers to the entire alluvial belt of the Yellow River from Ningxia to the mouth of the Shanxi River, and in the Ming Dynasty, the Hetao refers to the entire Loess Plateau and the Ordos Plateau surrounded by the big bends of the Yellow River. If Sun Yi directly named this land according to the meaning of the Hetao in later generations, it was obviously inappropriate.

Sun Yi pointed to the Wolf Mountain, which stretched to the west in the north, and asked, "What is your name in that mountain?" ”

Daoist Jia immediately replied: "In the book, it is called Yangshan, and the people call the big mountain in the northwest as Wolf Mountain, and the small mountain in the east is Two Wolf Mountain, and the two mountains together are still called Wolf Mountain." ”

Later generations no longer used the name Yangshan, and the Two Wolf Mountains were changed to Segeleng Mountain. Sun Yi felt that the names of Wolf Mountain and Two Wolf Mountains were more pleasant.

Sun Yi pointed to a peak in the east, "What are you calling that mountain?" ”

Jia Daoshi replied: "This is Yin Mountain, commonly known as Qingshan. ”

In later generations, this mountain was still called Yin Mountain, which was composed of two parts, Muna Mountain and Daqing Mountain, and Sun Yi decided to change its name to Qingshan Mountain and Daqing Mountain.

In later generations, the Yinshan Mountains in a broad sense included Yangshan and Yinshan, which were geographically the natural dividing line between agriculture and nomadism.

Sun repeatedly pointed to the low and neat Ordos Plateau in the south, "Does that high plateau have a name?" “

The sun fell and said: "Climb over the dam, pass through the sand and go to Shaanxi, so it is called Shaanxi Dam." ”

Sun Yiyi: "This land starts from Qingshan in the east, sandwiched between Wolf Mountain and Shaanxi Dam, and the Yellow River crosses it, so it will be called Wolf Mountain River in the future." ”

The Yellow River of later generations meandered all the way along the Shaanba Plateau in the Langshan River, but the data shows that before the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Yellow River in history was divided into two here to become two branches in the north and south, the South River is the Yellow River in later generations, the channel of the Yellow River is the tributary in history, and the North River is the main stream of the Yellow River. The North River diverges from the mouth of the river and the South River, rushes all the way along the foot of the Wolf Mountain, first north and then east, and finally turns south, and merges with the South River again at Qingshanzui. The two rivers in the north and south contain the Wolf Mountain River in the hinterland.

Sun Yi confirmed to Yilong, a professional raft guest, and Yilong said that what Lidel Ye said was basically true.

A dragon put down the bowl and said, "In addition to the South River and the North River, the Yellow River also has two middle rivers here. A middle river runs through the north and south rivers in the middle of the Wolf Mountain River, and divides the Wolf Mountain River into east and west halves along the north-south direction. ”

Sun Yiyi: "Then the name is Xichuan and Dongchuan, and the river between the two rivers is called Langshan River." ”

One dragon and another said, "The Langshan River divides into a middle river that flows from east to west in the middle of Dongchuan, parallel to the North River and the South River, all the way through Dongchuan, and the three Yellow Rivers converge at the foot of Qingshanzui. ”

Sun Yi gasped.

Before Sun Yi came to the Hetao to fly this time, he had learned about the terrain of the entire Hetao. He had already guessed the approximate location of the Wolf Mountain River. The western part of the Hetao Plain is high in the south and low in the north, and the rivers are mostly north-south. The eastern part of the Hetao Plain is high in the west and low in the east, and the rivers are mostly east-west.

The Wolf Mountain River itself flows in the north-south direction, and it can divide the tributaries in the east-west direction, which must be between the east and west terrains of the Hetao Plain, which just divides the Wolf Mountain River equally!

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Hetao Plain began to be developed, the peasants took great pains to dig eight large canals to divert river water for irrigation, known as the "Eight Great Canals". The purpose of the "Eight Great Canals" is to connect the South River and the North River with the help of natural topography to realize the self-flow of canal water. The Wolf Mountain River can be regarded as a god-sent irrigation canal. The east-west tributary of the Middle River branched out by the Langshan River covers a basin area no less than several large north-south irrigation canals!

Sun Yi looked at everyone in disbelief and sighed: "Your luck is really good! ”

"Do you know, I thought it would take at least two or three generations to develop the Wolf Mountain River, but now with this middle river, you have almost picked up hundreds of miles of fertile land along the coast!"

Jia Daoshi thought about it for a while, and said suddenly: "When Lord Shennong invited him out of the mountain, he said that these wolf mountains and rivers are all good people who have sworn an oath, and it must be Lord Shennong's mercy and sending down good land to the good people." ”

Wang Erniu couldn't take care of his mouth full of food, and when he heard this, he suddenly knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, "It must be Shennong's spirit that has appeared!" ”

The sun fell and muttered to himself: "Lord Shennong gave me a way to live......

Sun Yi looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but wonder, is there really a Shennong clan secretly helping?

"This middle river will be called Shennong River in the future!"

(Author's note: The hydrology and topography of the Hetao described in this article are all based on the actual description of the Houtao Plain in the "Imperial Opinion Quantu" during the Kangxi period.) The two middle rivers are by no means apocryphal. Kangxi's "Imperial Opinion Quantu" is the earliest map of the Hetao, and there is a time gap of about 70-80 years with Sun Yi's 1632. )