Wang Mumu heard that Xu Xuan had become a monk, which was incredible; Wang Mumu heard that this matter might be related to Su Shi and Buddha Yin, and he was even more headed. Wang Mumu knew that Su Shi's second visit to Hangzhou was because he himself was unhappy as a Beijing official in Bianjing and asked for release, and Su Shi, who is now in Bianjing, is a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion. His visit to Hangzhou this time was emotional. It is possible that Xu Xuan will become his first punching bag. Wang Mumu's heart was very annoyed, thinking, how could this Su Shi go through thousands of years and fall in love with this popular lover Su Shi, who has thousands of Su fans? Now, it is 1089, and Su Shi has been transferred to Hangzhou Taishou and the commander of the Zhejiang Military Region.

Later generations of people who topped Su Shi said that he was a well-read scholar and an official who loved the people and worked hard. If nothing else, let's just say that his second visit to Hangzhou will be because when he inspected the West Lake, he saw that the grass had silted up the West Lake, and more than half of the lake had become fields. He was with a feeling of apprehension and wrote down the sigh of "Fenghe Pinghu has been long and long, and the people are still sparse after the harvest years", and then, in April 1090, he presented the "Hangzhou begging to open the West Lake" to the emperor Zhezong of the current dynasty, and asked for 100 copies of the imperial approval, so he pulled the investment and used 200,000 migrant workers to build the Su Causeway. This Su Causeway, which has been praised for thousands of years, is the most glorious political achievement in Su Shi's life.

Later generations questioned him and said that he was a bookworm who was not strict with his studies and a playboy who ate, drank and gambled. Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the Su Causeway he built in Hangzhou, this kind of embankment in the West Lake Lake, at best, to meet the needs of the landscape and the environment, is a face project, a political performance project, a wind and moon project, and has nothing to do with farmland and water conservancy, the national economy and people's livelihood.

Wang Mumu was reborn in Hangzhou after faking his death, his Harvard University is not far from the West Lake, and he also led the first batch of 1,200 orphan students to run and jump around the West Lake for swimming. Wang Mumu closed his eyes, judging the troubles and pleasures brought by the West Lake and the Su Causeway with a scientific eye.

Wang Mumu knew this West Lake from memory, as early as in the Tang Dynasty, this water area was called Wulin Water, Holy Lake, Jinniu Lake, Longchuan, Qianyuan, Qiantang Lake, Shanghu, and so on. In fact, this West Lake was originally a lagoon, that is, a lagoon and a coral lake, which refers to the waters within the atoll or between the barrier reef and the mainland. The location of this West Lake was originally a small bay at the mouth of the Qiantang River, so the ancients called it "Qiantang Lake" or "Qianyuan". Later, due to the sand entrained by the Qiantang River blocking its bay mouth, and the slopes of the Paleozoic rock formations of Nanshan caused the stream to flow northward, and the West Lake was formed. The current West Lake, its shape is nearly equiaxial polygon, the lake surface can be regarded as being divided into five sub-lakes by Gushan, the white embankment built by Tang and the future Su Causeway, the sub-lake section is connected by a bridge hole, and the lake water of each part can not be fully mixed, resulting in very different water quality in each lake area, and most of the runoff recharge first enters the three sub-lake areas on the west side, and then enters the Outer West Lake; The rivers entering the lake are short streams, and the main water supply rivers are Jinsha Stream, Longhong Stream and Changqiao Stream.

Wang Mumu was thinking, in history, when Su Shi Yuanyou came to Hangzhou for the second time in four years to serve as Zhizhou, the swamping of the West Lake was already very amazing. According to Su Shi's observations, compared with the situation when he left Hangzhou ten years ago, he said: "In Xiningzhong, the ministers are sentenced to Benzhou, and those who combine the lakes will cover twelve or thirteen ears; Now, between 16 and 7 years, half of it has been stopped. Fathers and elders all said that in the past ten years, the water has been shallow and horizontal, like clouds in the sky, and it will be full in a flash, and for more than 20 years, there is no West Lake. And the West Lake plays the role of providing water for the people and farmland, "and then the people are full of water, the city is rich, and millions of people gather here to eat." Now the lake is narrow and shallow, and the six wells are gradually deteriorating, if it is all a field after 20 years, then the people of the city will drink salty and bitter again, and it will inevitably dissipate. "It directly affects the survival of Hangzhou. Faced with such a serious threat, Su Shi immediately set about formulating a plan for dredging the West Lake, and presented the recital of "Begging to Open the West Lake in Hangzhou" to the imperial court. By the way, this is the first time that the name "West Lake" has been used in an official document, indicating that the city of Hangzhou has been established entirely to the east of West Lake, and the name of West Lake has become popular.

The dredging project presided over by Su Shi was unprecedented in scale, he demolished the private enclosure of the lake, dug the whole lake deeply, and built a long causeway that communicated the north and south in the west of the lake with a large amount of mud excavated, which was called Sugong Dike by later generations. In the deepest part of the whole lake, that is, in the area of the lake center pavilion today, three stone towers were established, and it was forbidden to breed water chestnut root in this range to prevent the shallowness of the lake bottom, and later evolved into "three pools of the moon".

Wang Mumu did not agree with Su Shi's motive for building the Su Causeway. First of all, he said that the embankment was built to protect the domestic water of the people of Hangzhou. Well, as it turns out, he was wrong! He also has another political achievement in Hangzhou that has been praised for thousands of years, that is, when he went to Hangzhou this time, it was very inconvenient for Hangzhou people to drink water, and a piece of water was even sold for eight yuan. Su Shi was determined to completely and permanently solve the problem of water for the people, and personally begged the old monk who had participated in the well control before and was now over 70 years old. Su Shi adopted the suggestion of the old monk, replaced the bamboo pipe with a tile tube, and filled it with a stone trough to make the bottom cover tight and durable, and also used the excess water to build a new second well outside the Renhe Gate from the farthest point of the well, and directly led the water of the six wells to thousands of households with the tile tube, and expanded the scope of water supply. Since then, "the well water of the West Lake has spread all over the city".

Anyone with the IQ of a primary school student can see that the achievements of these two periods are contradictory. If the embankment is built to retain water, then why bother with the old monk to build a well to supply water; If the old monk is begging to build a well for water supply, then why bother to build a large construction project and say that "the people are full of water" that has nothing to do with the wind, horses, and cattle?

Besides, what does it mean to be "shallow and horizontal"? It is both natural and man-made, and there are a large number of "leaves" in the lake, and the "leaves" are rampant and domineering, making the water shallow. So, what is "Leaf"? "Leaves" is cocoon. The naturally sprawling "leaves" are wild cocoon white; The "leaves" in the artificial "leaves" field are the edible cocoons planted by the "leaves" farmers.

In fact, in China, rice, the staple food of the Chinese, began in the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, the white rice, also known as the rice, was one of the "five grains" of the Chinese, and after the Tang Dynasty, "rice" was added to the "five grains", and the Chinese had "six grains", namely: rice, millet, millet, slug, wheat, and mushroom. Among them, "mushroom" is "carving hu", also known as "wild rice" or "coconut white". "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" said: "Those who have rice in the mushroom are called carved by the people of Chang'an." Song Yu's "Wind Fu" cloud: "The daughter of the master, cooking for the minister, carving Hu's rice, cooking the soup of dew and sunflower." In the Tang Dynasty, carved hu rice was a food for entertaining guests, and it is said that rice cooked with wild rice is fragrant and soft and glutinous. Many poets of the Tang Dynasty were fond of it. For example, Du Fu's "slippery memories carved Hu rice, fragrant smell brocade soup"; Wang Wei's poems such as "Yunguo Rice Seedling Show, Chu People's Wild Rice Fertilizer" and other verses. Therefore, Wang Mumu believes that in this era, to build a Su Causeway that has little practical value, on the one hand, he used 200,000 migrant workers, the scale is huge, so large that it is impossible to undertake it alone with the power of one government, so he has to ask the central government for help, asking the emperor for approval to attract some money; On the other hand, he "demolished the private fields in the lake" and forcibly relocated many farmers. Therefore, the Su Causeway project, from this point of view, is a labor project, a project that hurts money, a project that hurts agriculture, and a project that hurts grain!

As for the later generations, it is said that Su Shi's construction of the Su Causeway solves a traffic problem, at least it has a strong traffic function. In this regard, Wang Mumu felt very nonsense. Opening the map, we can see that the West Lake is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with an area of about 6.39 square kilometers, a width of about 2.8 kilometers from east to west, a length of about 3.2 kilometers from north to south, and a circumference of nearly 15 kilometers around the lake. For the sake of narrative convenience, we compare the West Lake to the word "Tian", according to the convention, up the north and down the south. The outer frame of the word "Tian" is the shoreline of the West Lake, that is, its perimeter. The four corners of the current "mouth" are A, B, C, and D clockwise from the upper left. One of the erections in the "field" is set as the Su Causeway, and the intersection with the north bank is called E, and the intersection with the south bank is called F. One of the horizontal lines in "Tian" is the auxiliary line added to solve this problem, and the intersection points of this auxiliary line with the east and west banks are called G and H respectively.

Regarding the statement that Su Di facilitated transportation, Wang Mumu also wanted to die stupidly like Sima Guang smashing the cylinder. You see, from the corner of the "field", such as A, starting from this, to E, B, G, H, D, you can't use Su Causeway; And going to F and C, taking the Su Causeway and not going to the Su Causeway are theoretically the same length.

The two points G and H on the auxiliary line of the West Lake cannot be used at any point in the surrounding area.

The two points E and F on the Su Causeway, except for the point-to-point point of E and F, they go to any other point, whether there is a Su Causeway or not, and the distance is the same.

Therefore, the transportation function of Su Causeway, at best, is only good for people who go from E to F and F to E, and this benefit is convenient for less than 2 kilometers. Hehe, for the 2-kilometer journey of a very small number of people, Master Su used work for relief, recruited people to open the lake, used 200,000 migrant workers, destroyed countless fields, and alarmed the central government, this parent official, is really good!?

Wang Mumu, who has crossed over from the 21st century, still knows more about the current West Lake, which is in the west of Hangzhou, which is a suburb and a rural area. At this time, there are no obstacles around the West Lake that affect the passage around the lake, so it is not possible to compare and highlight the traffic function of the Su Causeway with the buildings and obstacles around the West Lake in the 21st century.

Wang Mumu, who was in the 11th century, knew that people nowadays mainly rely on walking to get around; And the wealthy family of the official eunuch has an ox cart, a horse-drawn carriage or a sedan chair. Therefore, for the rich family of the official eunuch, the cow and the horse or the subordinate walk more than 2 kilometers, is the accounting better? For the average civilian, how big is a 2-kilometer journey? This age is basically negligible. Wang Mumu remembers that even in the 20th century, a pair of uncles and aunts he knew, after work, fell in love, from Minhang, along Humin Road, shopping and shopping, huh? What is this place? This is Caohejing, and they are about to arrive at Xujiahui, and the two of them walked for 25 kilometers unconsciously. I have to go to work tomorrow, so I hurried back and walked more than 50 kilometers without tirelessness in one night.

Therefore, the West Lake is a lake, the West Lake is not a river, and the so-called transportation function of the Su Causeway is just a gold paste to cover up. What's more, if the West Lake was not dredged at that time, Canghu Lake would become fertile land, which would greatly solve the surrounding traffic problems.

Also, Su Shi's renovation of the West Lake, that is, the lake mud and grass were dug out, but there was absolutely no foreign transportation, first piled up the surrounding lake shore, and then because the center was far from the shore, "cut corners", so there was a Su Causeway. Therefore, at the beginning of the project, the Su Causeway was not in the planning of the project, it was just a by-product of "cutting corners and saving time" in the construction process, so the gold sticking of water conservancy and transportation was purely far-fetched to it in post-production.

Besides, Su Shi's remediation of the West Lake, those lake mud and grass, are just moving a piece of land within the lake area. The matter immortality theorem, the heap around the shore of the lake is to reduce the diameter of the West Lake; The construction of the Su Causeway is to artificially reduce the surface of the lake, isn't this contrary to the purpose of the "water retention" of the Su people's renovation of the West Lake, or at least it is a useless toss? !

As for Su Shi's concern that the swamping of the West Lake would lead to the disappearance of Hangzhou City, Wang Mumu believes that it is not that Su Shi has been fooled, or that Su Shi is fooling people. First of all, in the biggest sense, the Big Bang, the earth was born, and the earth at this time was a fireball; When cooled, it is a stone ball; After centuries of rain, it became a water balloon; Later, the weathering of mountains and rocks and soil erosion gave rise to today's earth. From the visible truth in front of us, reclamation and leveling, the sea becomes fertile land, the bottom of the lake is a treasure land, and there is farmland by the river. In his previous life, Wang Mumu was a Shanghainese. If you look at Shanghai, Xujiahui, Lujiawan, Tanziwan, Caohejing, Dajiangwan, Zhaojiabang, Lujiabang, Baxian Bridge, Damuqiao, Fenglin Bridge, etc., these places are now Tongqu Avenue and square houses. But as the name suggests, not so long ago, these places were crisscrossed by lakes and rivers, and boats were endless. The development of the city is like this, Su Shi wants to "retain" the West Lake, and the Empress Dowager Cixi wants to build the Summer Palace with only ornamental functions!

Wang Mumu is also reasonable, he will not buckle his hat indiscriminately, and will not use the modern theory of maintaining the city's swamp wetland, that is, maintaining the city's kidneys and lungs, to blame Su Shi who has a thousand-year gap, nor will he use the swamp's strong water-locking function is precisely the environmental protection knowledge of maintaining the important components of urban groundwater to deny that there is a thousand-year-old gap Su Shi, but, for thousands of years, the literati, wise bloggers, officials and scholars, experts and authorities, and professors who have blindly followed the trend have all been in the clouds, using new knowledge and new technology for the old concepts. The old trick is greased and whitewashed? Wang Mumu thought, this Su Causeway, should start construction in 1090 next year, I want to think about it, do I want to spoil the good things of Lord Su Shi and the bad things of the people of Hangzhou?

Wang Mumu thought that perhaps, there would be a few people from Hangzhou who would point a sword at him, because his own thinking might make China's Jiangnan lose a misty West Lake. However, Wang Mumu thinks that if there is a lack of a Summer Palace-like attraction in the south of the Yangtze River in China, it is very likely that there will be an additional lover wall like the Huangpu River on the bank of the Qiantang River! Fisherman's Wharf! Free Trade Zone! Open City! The starting point of the Great Voyage!

Moreover, Wang Mumu also thought that if the West Lake became a field of cocoons, on the one hand, the farts of Hangzhou people's chickens would be greatly improved; On the other hand, the economic work is busy, can the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty not be the one who "wants to compare West Lake to Xizi and mistakenly regard Hangzhou as Bianzhou"? Don't be that", "the warm wind smokes the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou is Bianzhou"? Don't think about the Yellow River and the West Lake, don't think about Bianzhou and Hangzhou?

Wang Mumu thought that "saving" the West Lake was just "saving" a landscape; And giving up West Lake should be more beneficial than disadvantageous, and it can advance together with the interests of the broad masses of the people!

Wang Mumu thought that "saving" a scenery was just "retaining" a series of romantic feelings; And giving up that kind of scenery, the two Song Dynasty may be able to have some hegemony mentality to resist the advance of the northern peoples.

Historically, when the Northern Song Dynasty died, many, many Song people and many descendants were blamed on Master Li.

Historically, after the death of the Southern Song Dynasty, many, many Song people and many descendants were blamed on the West Lake, not thinking about Bianliang, a pool of troubled water, including the leaders of Meng Yuan, who were very disgusted with the West Lake. Therefore, just as no one will cherish Master Li anymore, no one will cherish West Lake anymore; Just like the Mengyuan people are working hard to practice Master Li, everyone is also practicing the West Lake very badly, and the West Lake is gradually declining, almost farmland. Therefore, there is, in the third year of Ming Zhengde (1508), Yang Mengying, the prefect of Hangzhou, tried to repel the public opinion to dredge the West Lake, because no more dredging, the West Lake will cease to exist. It can be seen that in the Song Dynasty, when national disasters were at the head, national turmoil was frequent, and finances were cramped, the landscape project of West Lake was carried out on a large scale, at least objectively, it helped the southern invasion of the northern strongmen. However, the world scolds Master Li, and the world also complains about Xizi Lake, that is, no one accuses Su Shi of this style of unshirkable responsibility! No one is holding accountable the builders of the platform that is drunk and dreaming of death! No one confronts the flag-bearers of extravagance.

To be honest, if the Song people didn't have the West Lake, they might not only have a vision of two or three thousand meters, and they might not have the tone of spring dawn at Su Causeway. Without the lake, turn to the river and the sea, maybe you can have an infinite field of vision, and you can go to the deep blue early; If you miss the spring dawn of your children, you may be able to ride the tide of Qiantang and embark on the spring tide of expansion. Even if, from the worst and worst point of view, the death of the cliff and mountain is because they thought that they had reached the cape of the heavenly cliff and had exhausted the mountains and rivers, so 100,000 people jumped into the sea! Couldn't this be avoided? If they hadn't habitually only had so many visions in those years, and were accustomed to just such a long Su Causeway, the West Lake effect numbed their nerves, and they didn't think of going south to Hainan, crossing to the east, failing to see the world behind Leizhou Bay and the Taiwan Strait, and ending up at the end of this self-made world, the end of the road, history, and the difference of one step, how different it would be!