By the nineteenth day of the lunar month, the amount of silver raised by the government government reached more than 800,000 taels, and the officials of Fuzhou County also began to raise donations, raising a total of nearly 200,000 taels of silver, and the total amount of silver taels raised was completely sufficient.

The silver donated by the wealthy gentry reached more than 500,000 taels, and the silver donated by the merchants was close to 300,000 taels.

The progress is so fast, and it has a lot to do with Zhu Changxun and Zhu Youxiang.

When such a situation occurred, Su Tiancheng's mind changed, and he wanted to start construction before the Spring Festival to dredge the Yellow River.

The dredging of the Yellow River is a technical task, and the main tasks are twofold: the first is to clean up the silt and yellow sand of key rivers, and the second is to strengthen the river embankment. The time to dredge the Yellow River can only be winter or spring, and summer is definitely not possible, because the water in the Yellow River is so large that no one can move.

Dredging the Yellow River is a bitter thing, in the winter, to enter the river to clean up the silt and yellow sand, the biting river water is not a joke, although it is said that cleaning up the river, building water conservancy is a matter of benefiting the country and the people, but the credit is revealed after many years, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiaxing, Huzhou and other places in the Jiangnan region, floods occurred year after year, Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department accepted the assignment, in the south of the Yangtze River to control the water, because the project is hard, there are some resentment among the people, after the project is repaired, Quickly received the effect, many years have passed, there was no major flood in the south of the Yangtze River, and then a folk song appeared: Shangshu governs the river, there are many merits and grievances, and after thousands of years, the merits are in the grievances.

During the reign of Jiajing and Wanli, the crown prince Taibao, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu, and the left deputy imperial envoy Pan Jitao governed the Yellow River for many years, and achieved remarkable results.

It's a pity that after so many years, the emperor has changed several times. It is not said that he really calmed down and managed the Yellow River well, but ironically, it was Wei Zhongxian who really governed the Yellow River.

When he arrived at the imperial court, Zhu Youzhen was greatly surprised.

Su Tiancheng has only been in Henan Mansion for a year. actually thought about dredging the Yellow River, relying on the strength of Henan Province, thinking about controlling the Yellow River, such courage is extraordinary.

Zhu Youzhen carefully looked at Su Tiancheng's recital, and when he saw that Zhu Changxun, the blessed king, took the lead in donating 200,000 taels of silver for the control of the Yellow River, he nodded slightly, which is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people.

When the ministers of the court discussed. Cabinet Chief Minister, Wen Tiren, made it clear that he supported it.

Of course, Wen Tiren meant, the imperial court was not prepared to take out a tael of silver, since Henan Mansion had raised so much silver, there was no need for the imperial court to worry about it.

Zhu Youzhen felt that he was too reluctant to go, and asked the household department to allocate 200,000 taels of silver from Henan Prefecture to control the Yellow River.

Liu Zunxian, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, who took office last year. He went directly to Henan Prefecture to supervise the dredging and control of the Yellow River. The Ministry of Industry sent many ministers to Henan Prefecture to guide the technical matters of dredging and controlling the Yellow River.

The situation in Henan Mansion has been clear to Zhu Youzhen through many means, and in less than a year, Henan Mansion has completely stabilized. The people are content with their duties, and there are already many people in the surrounding Fuzhou counties who have begun to move to Henan Mansion, and the government can actually think of a way. It is not easy to stabilize these foreign peasant households without taking measures to exclude them.

The most important thing is Sun Chengzong's analysis, the location of Henan Mansion is special, close to Shanxi Province and Shaanxi Province, this year, because of the stability of Henan Province, to a great extent to restrain the pace of development of the Liukou, the activity area of the Liukou, slowly began to shrink, only in Shaanxi Province and a small part of Shanxi Province, before Shanxi Province Pingyang Mansion was the key activity area of the Liukou, but also one of the places where they developed and grew up, but because of the rise of Henan Province, because of the existence of Jiangning Camp, the Liukou did not dare to go to Pingyang Mansion at all.

In Zhu Youzhen's eyes, Su Tiancheng is simply his lucky star, when he arrived in Jiangning County, Jiangning County became the largest silver treasury of the imperial court, and when he arrived in Henan Mansion, Henan Mansion began to stabilize, and the pace of development of Liukou was greatly restrained.

Besides, Su Tiancheng's governance of the Yellow River, in fact, is also taking into account the survival of the people, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, after all, the peasants are poor, they have suffered so many disasters, in a short period of time, it is impossible to fully recover, the governance of the Yellow River, the participation of the people is needed, Su Tiancheng uses the means, that is, directly to the migrant workers involved in doing things, so that many families can be saved. Further solidify the foundation of Henan Province.

Based on this situation, Zhu Youzhen asked the household department to allocate 200,000 taels of silver, and the cost of these silver was worth it, as long as it could stabilize Shanxi and Shaanxi, Henan Province, no matter how much silver it would cost.

On the 22nd day of the lunar month.

Liu Zunxian rushed to Henan Mansion with many officials from the Ministry of Industry.

Henan Prefecture to manage and dredge the Yellow River's notice, has been posted out, the notice is written very clearly, recruit migrant workers to dredge the Yellow River, each person per day a penny of silver remuneration, the government is responsible for life, the project will start on the 24th of the month, if you are interested in participating in the dredging and governance of the Yellow River, go to Fuzhou County Yamen to sign up directly, on the 23rd of the month to Mengjin County concentrated.

Seeing the notices posted everywhere, Liu Zunxian was surprised, he didn't expect that Su Tiancheng would actually offer such a reward, wouldn't he know that he could be conscripted for repairing the Yellow River.

Su Tiancheng took many officials from Henan Mansion to greet Liu Zunxian outside Luoyang City.

After seeing Su Tiancheng, Liu Zunxian didn't have time to say anything else, and immediately pulled Su Tiancheng aside.

"Master Su, the management and dredging of the Yellow River is a big project, and the notice of the government government actually pays migrant workers, this is not a trivial matter, are you thinking twice."

"Lord Liu, the lower officials have carefully considered, now is the agricultural season, but also the season of green and yellow, the government posted a notice to recruit the people to renovate the Yellow River, in fact, it is also a means of relief to the people, Lord Liu came to Henan Mansion, the lower officials have one thing to think about, if there are 100,000 people to dredge and renovate the Yellow River, two months, can all the projects be completed."

Liu Zunxian thought for a moment.

"100,000 people, two months is no problem, after all, the distance between the Yellow River in Henan Province is not too long, but this organizational work is very complicated, and Henan Province is also responsible for the lives of migrant workers, which is also a big project."

"My lord said so, the lower officials are not worried, the government raised 1 million taels of silver, the court allocated 200,000 taels of silver, a total of 1.2 million taels of silver, to pay the wages of migrant workers, it needs to consume 600,000 taels of silver, living expenses up to 50,000 taels of silver, and the rest is material expenses and other matters, the silver is enough."

Liu Zunxian looked at Su Tiancheng, although he was not very familiar with Su Tiancheng, but he also knew Su Tiancheng's reputation, I saw it today, and when I heard Su Tiancheng say this, I felt really different.

"Master Su, it seems that your purpose is not only to dredge and control the Yellow River, according to your algorithm, not only in Henan Province, but also in Henan Province, the Yellow River can be dredged together."

"Xia Guan doesn't have such thoughts, that's not the scope of Xia Guan's work."

"Oh, then what do you mean, the recruited migrant workers are not limited to the people of Henan Province?"

"This is not necessarily, in principle, a family out of a young man, the lower officials have calculated, if 100,000 people govern the Yellow River, two months, can get six taels of silver, enough to maintain the life of the family for more than a year, two months later, into the spring ploughing season, you must start planting, you have silver in your hands, you can also buy grain seeds, if there are more people, each person gets less silver, but there is no big problem, it is enough to maintain the family."

"You kill two birds with one stone, this official thought of the disaster relief you once used in Henan, it seems that you also used this method to stabilize Henan to the greatest extent, and now the hand is bigger, if you can recruit 200,000 people, it is 200,000 families, not to mention Henan Province, the entire Henan Province can be stabilized."

"The adults have praised it, the lower officials are still a little anxious, seeing that the time is coming, the officials of the Yamen of Fuzhou County, during the Spring Festival, can not rest, all of them must participate in the project of governing and dredging the Yellow River, the officials must take the lead, ask the people to do it, the officials do it first, Deng Hui, the magistrate of Mengjin County, has begun to be in a hurry, and the migrant workers who have concentrated in Mengjin County are close to 50,000 people, and there are many people, and they have rushed over in a steady stream."

"Oh, that's the case, then the official won't go to Luoyang, go directly to Mengjin County, the project can't be delayed, so many migrant workers need to do things separately, and they can't be congested together."

"It's a bit hard to do this, but the government officials have all gone to Mengjin County, and the lower officials have drawn a map of the route of the Yellow River in Henan Prefecture, which is quite detailed, which section has problems, where the situation is better, all on this."

When Su Tiancheng took out the drawings, Liu Zunxian didn't care about anything, and immediately beckoned the officials from the Ministry of Industry and began to look at the map.

After a while, Liu Zunxian raised his head.

"Master Su, your arrangement is very detailed, which saves a lot of time, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry will mark out the specific lot according to this drawing, and divide it into many lots to start construction. Okay, let's not waste time, go directly to Mengjin County. ”

Everyone was riding horses, and along the way, Su Tiancheng continued to introduce the situation to Liu Zunxian.

The specific details of the construction, he also said, divided into a number of engineering teams, this is certain, each engineering team has a specific person in charge, the government sent out officials to participate, the person in charge of the engineering team is paid higher, but the responsibility is heavy, after accepting the task, it is necessary to organize migrant workers, within the specified time to complete, if it can not be completed, the person in charge must take responsibility, but the responsibility and power are equal, all specific things, subject to the arrangement of the person in charge.

As for the remuneration, in principle, each migrant worker is worth one dollar a day, but this is also combined with the progress and quality of the project.

The more Liu Zunxian listened, the more surprised he became, such a method can implement specific responsibilities, and each engineering team will compete to see who can complete it as soon as possible, and the more they do, the more money they will get, and who is unwilling to do it. Besides, the engineering team that can't do well can't put forward opinions. (To be continued......)