Chapter 252: Determination

I don't know if the future generations are the needs of the scenery, or the Yellow River is dry, the traffic is developed, and there is no need for navigation, and these three gates and pillars still exist. Of course, if we can discuss the south-to-north water diversion project, the Three Gorges Project has been completed, and it is a piece of cake to remove this pillar. I don't know the others, but I only know that the Sanmenxia Reservoir has been built with chicken ribs, and it has cost money, and the Yellow River and Wei River have been damaged, and there is little electricity.

But in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, shipping is still the mainstream mode of transportation, although Chang'an is not the capital, Cao Yun still exists, but also proves that even in the Qing Dynasty, there is no way to get this pillar away, at least the Ming and Qing dynasties black powder has been invented. Maybe Guanzhong shipping is not the mainstream, and the cost is not worth it, but it also proves its stubbornness. But isn't that the case? It's just that he has very little historical knowledge, and no!

The Ming Dynasty was defeated, there were many reasons, Chongzhen in addition to the unjust killing of Yuan Chonghuan and self-destruction of the Great Wall, what he did was not too mediocre, at least when he saw Chen Yuanyuan's beauty, he immediately gave it to Wu Sangui, at least he was trying to reform his actions, at least Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he did not surrender and hanged himself. Can Liu Chan do it? Can Sun Hao do it? Can the prince baby do it? Can Chen Shubao do it? Can Li Yu do it? Can the two sects of Huiqin do it? The main reason is that there are too many shortcomings left by the previous masters, and there is Li Zicheng. The reason for the rebellion was that the small cold wave climate led to the great hunger in Guanzhong, and then to Hedong, if Sanmen Caoyun could solve it, would it be a little better. Not to mention how bad the Qing Dynasty was, the replacement of the Central Plains by nomads was itself a kind of backwardness.

Therefore, when I was a lecturer in my previous life, I accidentally saw the article written by Yuan Hefei, desperately pressed the Ming and lifted the Qing, and used the words stinky and shabby, and evolution (the meaning was not a human, but a monkey) to the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and then called the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Ye, Kangxi Ye Yunyun, very indignant. Some people say that the Ming Dynasty did not cede land, did not pay compensation, did not call ministers, did not make peace, did not pay tribute, the Son of Heaven guarded the country, and the king died in Sheji. Although the Ming Dynasty is exaggerated, in comparison, looking at the Qing Dynasty, it is just upside down!

I thought about it for a while, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt the importance of Sanmen Caoyun. But even the Ming Dynasty has not been governed, how to govern it now? Could it be that Weishui became worse later, and there was no money to reopen the Guangtong Canal, after all, the Guangtong Canal had not been treated for a long time, and it was about silted up after the Ming Dynasty.

But thinking about it this way, the governance of Sanmenxia is probably not possible, no wonder Yu Wenkai did not succeed at the expense of the people's death and financial resources, no wonder Yan Liben was helpless. If the economy can't keep up, even if you can "change" a lot of money, what if the technology can't keep up?

At this moment, a mournful shout came out from the cliff plank road under the cliff. These plank roads for pulling fiber are not excavated on the top of the cliff, which is the case, but it is inconvenient to pull fiber. So Yang Wulian carved a plank road on the cliff near the water. First, a square mortise was chiseled out every two meters below, wooden beams were inserted, and between the wooden beams, wooden planks were used to connect, and a plank road exposed beyond the cliff appeared. Then chisel the hole in the wall of the cow's nose on the top, tie the stone ring, and tie the rope horizontally, so that the slender man can hold the force when pulling the fiber.

It is very humane, so that the accident rate will be greatly reduced when pulling fiber. It also shows that the determination of the imperial court is only how much it will cost in this era, or how many people will die, just two mile-long plank roads in the south and one in the north.

The volume of water transport has increased, but accidents are still occurring, and there are almost one accident every few days when the transportation is busy.

Li Wei stood on the top of the cliff, the slender man at his feet could not see, but he could see the slender man on the north bank, that is, the direction of the human gate, because of the force, a rope broke, the slender man lost weight, although the other hand grabbed the rope of the cliff wall, there were still a few slender men who fell down like kites. The other slender men saw that the opportunity was not good, and immediately lowered the rope, and the ship that was going up the current had just come from the pillar, and approached the entrance of the human gate, and the rope was released together, and the ship immediately spun a few times, and crashed headlong into the pillar. Not far away, after a visual inspection, it was only about two or three hundred meters away, and the people on the boat shouted in surprise. In the blink of an eye, the ship had already hit. Immediately rolled a few times and sank in the Yellow River. The people on the boat and the few slender men who fell from the shore, some of them bubbled a few times in the water, and then they were no longer visible.

Li Wei said: "Go down." ”

This is not a war, it is a peaceful environment. If you don't see it, you pretend not to know, but if you see it, after all, it's a modern person, and the idea is always the same.

There is a small road, down to the Ghost Gate Peninsula, and the same as the human gate, there is also a peninsula, but the triangular tip tends to the southeast, and after passing the pillar, it turns to the northeast, and the water flows to the south bank violently. And unlike the Renmen Peninsula, the Renmen Peninsula began to open almost from the west side of the Renmen, but the Guimen Peninsula began to stretch out suddenly from the end of the Ghost Gate dozens of meters away, forming a straight triangle. The current is fast, so once the ship enters through the Ghost Gate, even if it passes through the turbulent current, it will hit the Ghost Gate Peninsula 100%. The Shenmen is also not good, the water of the Shenmen is turbulent, because the river is tilting to the south, out of the Shenmen, just hit the pillar, or can only bypass the Yin of the Pillar, and the Yin of the Pillar has countless reefs. Therefore, it can only sail from the human gate, and there is still a glimmer of life.

There was no way to ride a horse down, so I had to lead the horses and come to the Guimen Peninsula. Because of this accident, the ships downstream stopped, and the plank road was not very crowded, but the relevant officials of Shaanzhou admonished together: "Your Highness, the plank road is on the top of the cliff, and there is a surging rapids below. ”

"It's dangerous to even walk alone, these slender men pull fiber day and night, how to make it. It's lonely and dangerous, it's you officials who are derelict in your duties! ”

When I saw that something was going on, I was unhappy in my heart, and I spoke with fire.

Several officials did not dare to speak up, in order to facilitate management, both sides of this section of the river are under the jurisdiction of Shaanzhou, Henan is the capital of Shaanzhou, Shaanxi County, Hebei is Pinglu County. In other words, the entire territory of Sanmen Caoyun is within the jurisdiction of Shaanzhou, and if you want to shirk the responsibility, you can't shirk it.

When they came to the dozens of slender men, because they were afraid, these slender men just pulled the stone ring and howled vigorously, as if they didn't even see this pedestrian coming. Of course, facing the threat of death every day, even if it is Li Wei, it is impossible for them to be grateful to Dade.

Li Wei is also helpless, he can't cut off his luck because of a dead person. Then there will be more people who will die.

After a few words of comfort, they had no good feelings or bad feelings towards the prince, and some of the slender men finally stopped their fear and began to talk. There are mainly two kinds of slender men who pull fiber, one is to come voluntarily, the price is high, and some people have no way out because of poverty, although they know the danger, they have to do it. But this group of people is still few, and now there are people who are dying of hunger, but not many, for the sake of transportation, the government has to force the people to come to pull fiber. According to the practice of the imperial court, one ding is 20 days of conscription a year, but because of the fiber, the government soldiers, and other things, the people on both sides of the strait serve as long as forty or fifty days a year. This is within the tolerance range, but most of it is used for fiber pulling. As long as the village is larger, with a few hundred households, almost every village has died because of fiber pulling in the past few decades. One thing can be proved, Luoyang aside, Zhengzhou has 60,000 or 70,000 households and a population of more than 300,000. There are nearly 50,000 households in Ruzhou, with a population of more than 200,000. There are nearly 100,000 households in Bianzhou, with a population of more than 500,000. The area of Shaanzhou is equivalent to these three prefectures, once because of the important terrain, the establishment of the metropolitan governor's office, the jurisdiction of Shaanxi, Ding, Xiong, Han, Gu five prefectures, but only nearly 30,000 households, 130,000 people are insufficient. Speaking of the ratio, one household in other states, excluding the number of people who have fled, the ratio reaches 1:5 or 6.00, while in Shaanxi is only 1:4. Even in Yuzhou, which is smaller in area and almost all of them are mountainous, there are more than 20,000 households, the proportion is the same, and the population is not much different. But what about the area and the topography?

There are also a few who are trilogy with criminal criminals in service.

Most of them are because of the lack of manpower or unwillingness to exert force, resulting in the boat not being able to pull up, and even the torrent rushes, the ship is reversed or overturned, and even other slender men are dragged into the river.

The wreckage was told one by one, and it became a tragic history of blood and tears.

Liu Tingshi of Shaanzhou said in a low voice: "The minister also feels the suffering of the people in the territory, but with luck, Shaanzhou will continue to suffer." ”

Speaking of this, even his eyes wrinkled. In fact, if it is not Caoyun, it is close to the eastern capital, sandwiched between the two capitals, not all of them are mountainous, in addition to Zhongtiao Mountain and Kunshan Mountain, there are also many places that are plains, and there are many rivers that flow into the Yellow River, which is convenient for farming. Not a barren state capital.

But with Caoyun Shaanzhou can only suffer, a year of grain plus salt and other materials, up to millions of stones, that is to say, thousands of ships a year, the peak of grain transportation, there are hundreds of ships a day. Not counting passenger ships and other small ships. At its peak, there must be one or two thousand people in the people who pulled the fiber.

Li Wei didn't speak, and after listening silently, he came to the Ghost Gate Peninsula, and then stared at the pillar. There are a few lines of big characters on it, it is Li Shimin who wrote it through here, at that time there was not much luck, the people did not think it was bitter, Li Shimin was shocked by such a scene, wrote down the pillar of the pillar, looking north at the Dragon Gate, the vast traces of Yu, the vast Changchun sixteen big characters, ordered Wei Zheng Lefu to engrave on the pillar.

Standing here, I can see more clearly, after the confluence of the three gates, because of the surge, with waves, rushing towards the pillar. Sanmenxia has not been to the previous life, and there is Sanmenxia Reservoir, about can't see it, now it is three or four zhang high, it is estimated that Yuwenkai chiseled some more, otherwise it is higher. There are also several zhang in circumference, very much like a fang, and the half-moon shape stands in the middle of the Yellow River.

And it's very steep.

Not to mention that there is no technology, even if there is, it is impossible to operate as many craftsmen as you want to stand on it. Even if you can do it, it's dangerous to stand on it. Besides, even if the upper part could be chiseled away, the stone pillars under the river would still be difficult to chisel. If it is not a dangerous reef, but it is facing the center of the river, and without coordinates, there will be more boats running on the reef.

Wei Hongji said: "Your Highness, this is a stubborn stone, which cannot be eradicated. If you want to be cured, there are only two ways, one is to find another way and transfer from the shore. The minister could look at it for a few days to see if he could find a way to dig it. Then set up two bins at both ends for transshipment. ”

It's also hard to find, the water at both ends of Sanmenxia is still very fast, and ships can't be moored anywhere. It can only be like the Renmen Peninsula or the Ghost Gate Peninsula, where a platform is stretched out for ships to dock. The current at this platform location should not be too fast. Even if the platform can be found, if there is an unclimbable mountain behind it, it will sigh with joy. So Chu Lang's move failed back then.

Li Wei also shook his head: "It's not easy to choose a place to dock, but you can choose it, in this section of the river, the handling loss is immeasurable." You need to open a position, and then you need to use your husband. Originally, the people of Shaanzhou were suffering for this, but if they were conscripted for conscription, it would be even more bitter. If it is not levyed on the basis of conscription, the state will need to spend a lot of money every year. It's not a long-term solution. In addition, the number of three-door transports is huge, and the cost of building a warehouse alone can be very huge. (Note)"

Li Wei's words, Wei Hongji can't refute. After thinking about it, he said, "Either there is only one other way, digging a new river from Renmen Island." ”

It is impossible to intercept the Yellow River again and avoid this precipitous place from other places, there are big mountains on both sides, Zhongtiao Mountain stretches to Taihang, and Kunshan Mountain stretches to Bear's Ears Mountain, even Yang Guang, a loser, is alive, and he does not dare to think about it.

Therefore, Wei Hongji's second suggestion seems to be the only option.

In the past, there were three mountains on the Renmen Peninsula, in addition to the pillars, there were two mountains, both in the north, and the northernmost mountain was like an "L" shape, and the L point was very high. The second mountain, next to it, was not so high, uneven, like a sickle. If the ship hits it, it will not end well either. However, because the river bends to the southeast, it is not above the main stream. If a new river is dug from Renmen Island, according to the impulsiveness of the current, it will just bypass the pillar. As long as you don't want to die quickly and deliberately sail the ship south, there is a good chance that you will bypass the pillar. The crisis is eliminated.

Li Wei said: "Go over and have a look." ”

Of course, it is impossible to cross from the Guimen Peninsula, even if Li Wei thinks that the officials from Shaanzhou who came to him will hold him if they don't want to put their hats on their heads.

I went around and crossed the upper reaches to the Renmen Peninsula. There is a lot of moss growing on the top, and the blue-brown stones are also exposed underneath. Wei Hongji asked the stonemason to take out the axe, chisel and hammer, and chisel. There was a spark for a while, and the stone did not move.

Wei Hongji shook his head again and said, "Your Highness, it's still not possible." If you want to get through, there are at least 1,000 feet in length, and if you open it small, you can't open it shallow. If you want to dig deep and wide, and you can sail in the dry season, with the hardness of this stone, it is not suitable for construction. ”

Several slender men immediately knelt down and said, "Prince Renai, save us." ”

I didn't dare to say anything, but I heard that the prince came to find a good way to control the Sanmen River, so he was very happy, and he was happy to lead the way in front. But Wei Hongji's words made their hearts of joy hit the bottom.

Looking at these miserable slender men, the wreck didn't know where it had drifted, and the shipping was still very nervous at the end of August, and some slender men began to shout the horn and start pulling the fiber. The coarse linen clothes, fluttering with the river breeze, are mostly malnourished, skinny, dull-eyed, and extremely tragic. Li Wei suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "I still want to treat!" ”

: Later, Pei Yaoqing used this method to say that there are four million dings in the world, and each ding pays 100 wen and 50 wen camps, that is, it costs 200,000 yuan to build a warehouse. Also, he deliberately chose Wei Hongji, and at this time, when it came to civil engineering attainments, Wei Hongji should be the first, faintly above Yan Liben, similar to Yan Lide.

I bought a few books from someone, all of them genuine, and it cost more than a hundred oceans. Putting aside right and wrong, I was very indignant when I saw a full face in the book. Nagged for two paragraphs. Especially the word Zhu Yuanzhang's evolution diagram evolution, he can only caress his chest, fortunately, a certain surname is Wang, not Zhu.

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