The situation in the capital is very chaotic now. Feng Manlou himself has now offended Zhao Tingmei, the king of Wei, to death, and this time it must not be much better.

I was annoyed that I had unintentionally been involved in these fights. Now in the imperial court, part of it is the power of Zhao Tingmei, the king of Wei. Some of them were led by Zhao Pu, and they were actually the forces that supported the emperor, and these forces were mainly cultivated by Zhao Guangyi before he ascended the throne. The other part is neutral, that is, it does not participate in both sides, mainly led by Shen Lun,

Among the forces led by Shen Lun, some of them were officials of the previous dynasty, and Shen Lun was one of them who followed Taizu into the dynasty. The other part is the other regimes that were eliminated by the Song Dynasty, and the officials who surrendered, among them Li Fang.

Because these people did not touch either side, they also formed a neutral situation, focusing only on the Great Song Dynasty, not just the emperor.

Thinking of this, Feng Manlou suddenly came to his senses, now the two brothers Zhao Yuanzuo and Zhao Yuankan are simply people without roots, as time goes by, I am afraid that soon, everyone knows that they are the people next to the two princes. It seems that I have no choice.

Then, we must find a way to strengthen their power. Until now, only these centrists can fight for it. It just so happened that Li Fang was the invigilator in his imperial examination room, that is, his own teacher, and it seemed that he must take time to visit.

The next day, someone arrived at the post station early in the morning, but it was a eunuch in the palace, named Liu Lun, who conveyed the emperor's will and announced his face.

Feng Manlou was surprised, how could he be known by the emperor as soon as he entered the capital. The official of this post station came forward and said, "My lord, my lord just entered the post station yesterday, and the lower official reported it!" ”

I see. Feng Manlou thought in his heart, it seems that the news of this official family is still very well-informed, since he is now announcing his face as a saint, he should still be sober now, and he will not be confused, he didn't expect that the official family was sick, and he had to meet him, Feng Manlou was very moved and surprised.

In December of the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, the emperor summoned the wind to fill the building in Yunnan, asked the policy of governing the river, and the full building should deal with the inflow, and then awarded the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Water.

This is the record of the official in charge of recording the life of Emperor Taizong. Of course, in the end, it still has to be repaired, just like the record of Taizu, although there are officials who are specifically responsible for recording daily life, but after Taizong ascended the throne, he let people repair and sort it out.

The era name of Taiping Xingguo is very strange, Emperor Taizu has just died, Taizong ascended the throne, and announced the change of the era name, instead of waiting until the first day of the first month of the second year to change the year name as in previous dynasties.

Therefore, the first year of Taiping Xingguo is November of the ninth year of Kaibao, and from this point of view, it is now just December of Taiping Xingguo. The wax moon time is the season of cold winter.

Feng Manlou just walked behind Liu Lun, and the whirring north wind blew, making people shiver with cold. There are still snowflakes in the sky, which is a sign that something seems to be happening today.

Sure enough, after entering the palace gate, when he entered the imperial city again, he was stopped by the gatekeepers of the imperial city division and interrogated for a long time before entering.

Entering the palace gate, the wind is full of buildings and sees from a distance, the official family is sitting on the top, and his face is very pale, because this is a side hall, and it is not as grand as the main hall. And a woman next to her, standing aside, was persuading the official family to take care of the dragon's body.

When he saw the foreign minister entering, he immediately took his leave and withdrew. I saw that the woman was wearing a phoenix crown and a xiaxia veil, very solemn, guessing that it should be Queen Li, very young, but in her early twenties, she was young and beautiful, no wonder she was deeply loved by the official family.

Feng Manlou immediately fell to the ground and shouted long live. Zhao Guangyi looked at Feng Manlou who was kneeling on the ground, because of the reason for kneeling, his head was buried very low, and he couldn't see the appearance clearly, so he said: "Get up and speak!" ”

To get up and talk, of course, is to stand up, to sit down, that is simply impossible. Even if the prime minister is still standing and talking, when the Great Song Dynasty was founded, the prime minister could sit and talk to the emperor, which made the emperor lose his sense of superiority, so he quietly withdrew his position, and from then on, the prime minister could only stand and talk to the emperor.

Because it was far away, Zhao Guangyi still didn't see it clearly, and now that the weather is cold, the doors and windows are closed, the light is insufficient, and the sunlight outside can't penetrate at all. And under the desk in front of the emperor, there is still burning charcoal. The coal is the coal of later generations, and the smell of a stream of coal is not fully burned in the wind and the building is very pungent.

"Just come forward and speak!" Zhao Guangyi said again.

Feng Manlou had to walk a distance forward, but he still bent his head slightly, he didn't dare to look directly at the emperor, otherwise he would be accused of contempt for the king.

Zhao Guangyi said: "Xingren, I remember this table, or I personally gave it to you, do you remember?" ”

Feng Manlou, who was very familiar with the current affairs, immediately bowed down and said: "Weichen is grateful, thank you for the emperor's grace!" ”

Zhao Guangyi shook his hand and said, "That's it, that's it." You are a meritorious man, and I am just pushing the boat along the water. I heard that you have done a lot of things in Yuhang, and Liu Jinbao, the county leader, has already reported it. He also talked about the situation when you left Yuhang. ”

Feng Manlou was unaware of this, and said, "Weichen doesn't know! ”

Zhao Guangyi suddenly smiled and said, "I don't know? According to the newspaper, when the people of Yuhang learned that you were leaving Yuhang for Beijing, they were crying for ten miles. Moreover, the people of Yuhang spontaneously elected nine chiefs, wrote an umbrella for you to see off, and even gave you a monument to cultivate morality and politics, have you heard of these things? ”

Feng Manlou was stunned for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen really doesn't know. Early in the morning, Weichen got up and left Yuhang, and after that, he didn't know at all! ”

Seeing the nervous appearance of Feng Manlou, Zhao Guangyi said with a smile: "It's a good thing not to know, it can be seen that the people are sincere, if there are more such officials in the Great Song Dynasty, why worry that the Great Song Dynasty will not be rich and strong." It's just that some officials, in order to show their kindness, deliberately made false tricks to fool the people and fool me. You're kind of self-disciplined! ”

Feng Manlou was already in a cold sweat in his heart, if he had taken a step late at that time, I am afraid that he would have fooled the people in Zhao Guangyi's mouth. It's okay, it's okay!

Zhao Guangyi may have felt that the atmosphere was too tense, so he praised two sentences in order to ease the atmosphere, and said: "Do you know that I am not ungrateful, and I also remember your merits. But in the future, we must be more diligent in our work, concentrate on doing things for the people, and not vain the sincerity of the people of Yuhang. ”

The official position of the Great Song Dynasty, those who live in their officials do not know their duties, ten constants**. The difference between the officials and the officials who are appointed is that they have officials, positions, and dispatches. Officials are appointed to their ranks, and their positions are to be chosen, not to be sent to govern internal and external affairs.

Secondly, there are ranks, honors, and knights. Therefore, the scholars take the stage pavilion and the promotion and prohibition as the eunuchs, and do not take the delay of the official as the proud lag; It is important to send important dramas, not to the presence or absence of ranks, lords, and lords. The people of the time said: "Ning Dengying, not Qing; Rather hug the coffin, not be a prisoner. "A false name is not enough to strengthen the world.

In other words, in the Great Song Dynasty, the most prominent position of power is not the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries, these are just some false positions and some honorary titles.

The most important position is to ascend to the Pavilion, and to enter the promotion and prohibition. What is the Taiwan Pavilion, it is the Tianzhang Pavilion, the Longtu Pavilion and the like, what the Zhaowen Pavilion, the Literature and History Museum and the like. However, the officials in this group are actually university scholars who really have real power.

The so-called promotion and prohibition are the two governments. The two mansions, one is the government affairs hall, which is the institution under the Zhongshu Gate, the government affairs hall set up in the palace, and the leaders of the government affairs hall are the prime ministers. In order not to centralize the power organs, the post of Governor of the Council, that is, the Deputy Minister, was established. The government hall is in charge of government affairs, and even the salt and iron, finance, official evaluation, etc., are all in the three divisions of the yamen.

Another institution is the Privy Council, but the Privy Council is a military officer, but now the Privy Council is mostly civilian, and the generals are just some meritorious officials, such as Cao Bin, Pan Mei and other famous generals.

The other one with real power is the three envoys of the yamen.

This is the stage pavilion. It has only been half a year since Feng Manlou entered the cabinet, which is already faster than a rocket. Of course, Zhao Guangyi also said just now, these are just rewards for your merits, and the most important thing is to look at your future performance.

Feng Manlou realized this, and he couldn't help but be moved. But I heard Zhao Guangyi say: "This time you were asked to enter Beijing, it was Shen Xiang who recommended you, saying that you are good at building embankments, and I am calling you here today, just to ask you, how do you think the Yellow River should be governed?" ”

These things, Feng Manlou in the textbooks of the previous high school period, the teacher has already passed. Without thinking about it, he said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that in order to control the Yellow River, we must first sort out its roots. ”

After speaking, he paused, waiting for Zhao Guangyi to ask, but Zhao Guangyi was stunned, the root cause? In the past, it was just the construction of embankments, deep silt, and excavation of canals, and the root cause of this was never talked about.

Zhao Guangyi asked, "What is the root cause?" ”

Feng Manlou said: "This root is on the word yellow." The reason why the water of the Yellow River is turbid is because the water contains a large amount of sediment, so it is named the Yellow River. The root of this is the sediment. ”

"The Yellow River originates in Tibet, where there is no vegetation in the high mountains, so it carries some sediment. And that's not all. ”

"Importantly, the Yellow River flows through Lanzhou, on the Qinfeng Road, and through the Dangxiang Lands of Yinzhou, which are covered with sand, loess, and sparse vegetation, known as the Loess Plateau. Because the vegetation on the Loess Plateau is extremely scarce, the water and soil cannot be protected, and as soon as the Yellow River flows, it washes sediment into the water, causing the water quality of the Yellow River to become turbid. ”

Zhao Guangyi asked: "It is a well-known fact that there is sediment in the water of the Yellow River, so what is it?" ”

"Your Majesty, after this sediment enters the Yellow River, before it flows through the Yongxing Military Road, because it is a high mountain area, the water flow is turbulent, and the sediment is not easy to precipitate, so it enters Hedong Road, Hebei West Road, Hebei East Road, that is, the Central Plains." Feng Manlou hurriedly said.

"After entering the Central Plains, because the terrain is gentle, the sediment will be slowly deposited, and over time, the river will be lifted higher and higher. And our embankment is getting higher and higher! Feng Manlou said.

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