Chapter 280: Killing You (Part I)

Wei Hongji left, and Li Wei sorted out his thoughts again.

It's my mother's, in fact, there were two more times before I went on stage this time, which is not a big deal. The first controversy caused by the deposed queen and queen, and in the end, the mother won a big victory. But at that time, my mother didn't have much real power, and she could only say that like Xu Jingzong and others, she was robbing her father. I didn't even learn to review and review, and I have the art of scheming, at least I am much stronger than I am now, and my ability to handle government affairs is still insufficient. This restricts the mother's ambition or ambition.

At this stage, the mother is consolidating the harem. Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu can't be said to be their mother's people, they just obey their father's wishes and support their mother as the queen, of course, their mother was helped up by them, and they still have to continue to support their mother as the queen in the court. Of course, with a mother, you can continue to pull them to the top. It's a relationship of mutual help. So there was a second time, Shangguan Yi's proposal to abolish the queen, this time the mother turned things around again, and Xu Jingzong made a lot of contributions. Then the father's illness began, and the mother slowly stepped onto the stage, including letting the mother hang the curtain and listen to the government. But his father had many scruples, like Wang Cainian, he built a Three Kingdoms, the longer the time, the heavier the scruples, the relatives were not angry, Xu Jingzong died, and his father even sat back and watched the ministers' deliberate suppression and opposition to his mother.

Therefore, at this stage, the mother still did not count on the stage, bubbled, dived into the water, continued to "lurk", and waited for the opportunity. It wasn't until he was in danger of his father's position, and his father was seriously ill and lost his ability to control things, that his mother jumped up.

Maybe the ministers still have some illusions, but Li Wei knows that his mother will not be willing to retreat this time.

even thought about it for a while, was it at the behest of his mother that he was called to Luoyang by his father. He is in Luoyang, Di Renjie and the others are in Chang'an, and they are beyond the reach of the whip. He and several prime ministers are all in Luoyang, but under his father's nose, it is not easy to say, if he gets too close, the emperor is still alive, and as Zaifu deliberately gets too close to the prince, he can also sit on the blame and degrade. When I think about it like this, my heart is even colder, and I know where I am going, but when I fall into the valley, I still don't know it......

The mother's scheming and calculation ability are even more terrifying.

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The second project of the two canals was completed, first of all, the new opening of the river, Wei Hong's machine was dredged, March 22, the embankment, not navigable, it took a lot of effort to allocate these iron pillars. Sparsely, Li Zhi only approved one word, quasi!

Quite interestingly, this is an unprecedented big project in the Tang Dynasty, and even the danger of the three gates was not solved in the Sui Dynasty. Now that it is slowly resolved, the emergence of a safe route, if there are no accidents, will be the first major event of the year. At least the emperor should be there in person.

No.

Li Wei privately guessed that his father might not be able to wipe his face, and he was so sick that he had to hand over political affairs to his mother, how to go to Sanmen. Or see that Sanmen is his own merit and don't want to come and see. So Li Wei didn't go either, and went to have some flavor of prestige. If you don't go, you are deliberately pitiful. After thinking about it for a while, at this time I would rather be pitiful than threatened to stimulate my father's already failing heart.

Wei Hongji had no choice but to order Horitsutsu.

This irony is very strong, it is too far away, what else can be said, Sanmen is not very far from Luoyang, except for the officials concerned, the emperor does not come, the prince does not come, and even other officials do not come. There were quite a few people who came, many people from the vicinity came to watch, and even the owner of the boat moored the boat on both sides and made a detour to watch, and even many people in Luoyang heard it and ran over to see this feat.

Slowly use the winch rod to rotate the iron pillar up, one winch rod stands on the embankment, and one winch rod stands on the peninsula, which is very long, and can be operated by a total of more than a dozen people, which is actually equivalent to a large wrench. The embankment on the side has not even been flooded, and the iron pillars have been pulled up, and the barbed wire fence has not dared to ask for it, so it has been cut directly. Gradually move towards the middle. We have to rush for time, since the beginning of spring, the river water has begun to grow, and if the embankment cannot be removed quickly, the river water will soon be able to break the embankment.

Starting from the downstream, it is not that the downstream water is small, but the downstream is the river water that flows back, and the water potential will be slower, and the downstream Hori will be opened, and the river water will be poured in, so that the Xinkai River will overflow with river water, and the water level between the inside and outside is not much different, the pressure is low, and the risk of the embankment is also small. The principle is not clear, but the basic principle can still be understood.

Slowly moving to the middle of the embankment, the river began to spread in, and Wei Hongji ordered: "Withdraw!" ”

Earlier, Wei Hongji had discussed this matter with Li Wei, which was also a crucial step, and he couldn't be in a hurry at first, so he leaked a small opening first, after all, this opening was not in the center of the river, it was on the side, and the water spread to it was not fast, and it couldn't take away the embankment. Let the inner and outer water levels be level, and then start the second operation. also said some principles, but Wei Hongji didn't understand it.

Seeing that the water level of the Xinkai River was gradually rising, the people watching on both sides heard cheers. In short, the downstream embankment is still very smooth, but the time is very slow, not very long, and the total length of the embankment is only a little more than nine zhang, but this method of setting aside the iron pillar is too backward, and the iron pillar is dense, after all, there is the pressure of the water level on both sides, once it is not completed, the embankment is broken, and the fate of nearly a thousand people inside is in danger. Therefore, it was slow, and it took more than two days, and at night the work continued with torches, before the embankment was opened. However, the gravel and mud bags are still on the edge of the Xinkai River, and there is no upstream river to come down, so they will not be able to take it away for a while.

This is only when we reach the upstream, and the edge is still very smooth, without pressure, the danger is not high. After a day and a night, move to the middle, and danger appears. It is not the downstream of Danshui, the water potential is gentle, not the upper reaches of Danshui, the water risk can be small after all, the river water passes the dragon gate, it begins to widen, so far there is no three gates, because the mountain is bound, the water flow is still very fast. Half of the embankment was like a dance, and Wei Hongji ordered again to let the people stand on the embankment with a rope.

The larger the opening, the higher the flow of water rushing in. Those stones and mud bags downstream had long since rushed to somewhere, and finally what Wei Hongji was worried about happened, the embankment was like a tense bowstring, and finally because the force was too high, it collapsed, broke into three sections, and the river rushed down from the disconnection. Several people were washed into the water, but they were lucky enough to tie the rope and rescued them, suffering some injuries ranging from severity to severity, but no one died. Then Wei Hongji sat there in a daze.

At the end of the day, all the barbed wire was broken, the accumulation was washed away, and the remaining iron pillars were stressed in a small area, and finally stopped. But a new problem came out, the iron pillar had to be removed, the embankment did not collapse, and the embankment was operated standing on the embankment. Can it be washed out, the side is better, where is the middle one standing? It is also thanks to the coke-smelted steel, which is not a good steel, but the strength and toughness are better than the original pig iron. Otherwise, if you are pressed into the river, you can only look at the ocean and sigh. After thinking about it for a long time, I had to use the gentle slope on the edge to hire people again, pick up mud bags, and shorten the distance. Then send a man with good water to tie a rope, forcibly swim over, and screw the thread to twist the pass. Little by little, it was pulled out again. It took several days of delay before slowly moving up one iron pillar at a time.

The embankment of Hori began on March 22 and was not completed until the first day of April. However, it took a lot of twists and turns, and it was finally completed.

Because of this delay, the new river embankment was opened early, but it fell behind, and the Danshui downstream project was finished in front. Of course, not all tidal flats and reefs are being removed, and in that case, it may not be completed in two years, mainly because the tidal flats and reefs on the waterway, and the marginal sections, if smooth or easy construction, are cleaned up by the way.

These two projects can be said to have attracted worldwide attention, and the people have been paying attention to them since the start of construction last year. It seems to be smooth, although dozens of people have died, it is impossible for such a big project not to die, and the pension is heavy, and there is no opposition from the people. Now that the construction has been completed, the imperial court is actually very cold and ignorant of it. There was more talking.

Under this pressure, a minister finally came up and talked about it.

A belated holy decree was issued, and the queen of heaven and the prince led hundreds of officials to Longmen, and sent ceremonial officials to formulate rituals and pay tribute to the river god and other activities.

Wei Hongji had no choice but to delay, leaving a few iron pillars on the side and not moving, until the sixth day of the fourth month, when Wu Zetian and Li Wei arrived. After the funeral was completed, the people were ordered to continue to set aside the remaining iron pillars. I put a boat down from the upstream first, and when I arrived at the Xinkai River, I sailed over it in an instant, but the channel was staggered, and even if I stood on the Renmen Peninsula, I could see that the boat was still four or five feet away from the pillar. It's also a safe distance.

The boatman on the boat is also very excited, this is the ghost gate, can go around, the excitement can be imagined, lying on the bow of the mountain and shouting long live. Even Dai Zhide and others had smiles on their faces, there were too many sunken boats and too many dead people in this section of the river.

But Wei Hongji stood beside Li Wei and said, "Your Highness, the water is still very urgent. ”

Although it is wide, compared to the Yellow River, the distance of five zhang is really nothing. Moreover, the current Yellow River is not the Yellow River of later generations, and the water potential is very huge. The straight line is opened, the flow speed is fast, the water is more people, and even the water of the gods and ghosts are divided into a part, but at the beginning of April, in June and July, the water potential is greater, and the water flow is more urgent than now.

Li Wei also said in a low voice: "If you want to slow down the water, even if the Divine Ghost Ermen River and the Ghost Gate Peninsula River are opened, there is still nothing you can do, just alleviate it." Once the river is opened, it can only resolve the harm caused by some of the pillars. ”

I can only say this, but it is better to open than not to open.

Wei Hongji sighed again: "I don't know how Dayu controlled the water back then?" ”

It is said that Dayu divides the Yellow River into nine waters, and even says that it has also governed the Yangtze River and the Huai River. Between the dragon gate and the three gates, there are many legends of Dayu controlling the water. At that time, the people were mainly active in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, or they were far away in Wuhan Huangshi, Fangfeng in Taihu, Tushan in Huainan, Yi in Zhaozhou Dingzhou, Laiyi in Shandong Peninsula, and Hu in Chang'an. It is possible to control the water, and even invented the theory that blocking is better than dredging, which can divide the nine waters of the Yellow River, and I don't believe it. Jianghuai water, even more disbelief.

But I didn't dare to take this seriously, and I smiled silently.

Wei Hongji is still thinking about it, treating a three-door is so wasteful, not to mention money, there are all kinds of new things, new methods, and then think about the record of Dayu's water control in the history books, I can only admire the ground. Just thinking about it, more boats kept coming from the upstream, and one by one they arrived at the Xinkai River, and they all rushed to the shore to bow down and thank them. Of course, this is definitely not thanks to Wu Zetian, but to the crown prince.

Pei Xingjian twisted his beard, looked at Wu Zetian's back, and smiled.

Some time ago, the queen did a very beautiful job, and even he couldn't help but admire it. But this is a conspiracy, and it will not be on the table. And the two canals can be said to be meritorious, and they are yang schemes.

Especially the three gates, even the Sui Dynasty did not hesitate to live and die of the people, there was no way to solve it, and it was solved in the hands of the prince, although in order to raise funds, some controversial things were done, but the imperial treasury was not moved, and the construction was successfully completed, which is a miracle in itself.

This is just the beginning, once all the projects of Sanmen are completed, the river will become calmer, the accident rate will be less, and the pressure on the people to pull the fiber may be reduced by more than half. As soon as the Danshui Canal was opened, there was an additional back road in Guanzhong, which decomposed the pressure for the Jiangnan Liangzhuan.

Don't talk about the prince's previous exploits, it is the merits of this move, no matter what the queen's strategy, dare to instigate the emperor to abolish the prince? Moreover, the emperor and the queen ignored the society and repeatedly suppressed the prince, and the people could only sympathize more. Public opinion is so great that it is also an unstoppable force. Not only Pei Xingjian thinks so, but some officials who are "clever" at both ends of the rat are also in trouble.

Wu Chengsi also saw some clues from this cheer, and whispered in Wu Zetian's ear: "The newly opened river is completed, Your Highness is like the sun in the sky, just like the water of this big river, no one can stop it." ”

"Hmm," Wu Zetian snorted, speechless. But there is a dark cloud in her heart, she thinks long-term, and her son doesn't seem to be very hostile to her in recent years. But there are officials, and the son is in charge, so he will deal with these officials, and the three of them talk about tigers, and they may not be the same as they are now......

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