An imperial historian put down the pen in his hand, not knowing whether to remember it or not.

Today is not a banquet guest, all the rulers gathered, plus the emperor, it is very likely that what is talked about will be turned into an edict, and the edict will be issued, so this imperial history acts as a living note. For the prudence of several imperial histories, Zheng Lang doesn't care, he has had many private conversations with Zhao Zhen over the years, sometimes there are living note officials on the side to record it, sometimes there is not, there is something to say, no, what should not be said will not be said.

Among them, the most important thing is the crown prince, but unfortunately he did not understand his intentions, either he lived long enough to live to be over eighty years old, and he still had authority inside and outside the government and the opposition, otherwise, those words would have an effect. Without Zhao Ju, even if Zhao Gou is the emperor, he is better than Zhao Ji as the emperor, at least Zhao Gou has a fight with Zhao Zhen in frugality.

Han Qi was very unhappy and said: "Xingzhi, your words are too biased, the country is too peaceful, and the grains are abundant, but it can be done, in case something happens, how can you provide such a huge economy?" ”

Zheng Lang just hey.

Han Qi finally couldn't keep silent.

Because Zheng Lang has already done it, Huang You's three-year surplus was built on the basis of the Shanghu Si Yellow River disaster. How many disasters can compare to the largest burst of the Yellow River in history?

This year's great rule has almost become a milestone in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, and the nightmare of the later ministers cannot be surpassed, so let Yanchen talk about things at every turn, how can it not be a nightmare?

Fu Bi said resentfully: "Xingzhi, in the past."

iYou said that it is still difficult to get to this point, let alone rise and fall. ”

It's not that easy.

Zheng Lang said: "I have another sentence behind me, I also work hard in the brocade rust light, don't make the past a teacher." Governing the country is difficult, and it should not be used as an excuse for laxity. ”

However, Fu Bi's road to prime minister is too bent, fortunately, Jia Changchao went down, otherwise it would be more difficult for him as prime minister, Zheng Lang didn't say it again.

From the bottom of his heart, he is not forced. As soon as he loosened his mind, he would become the second Lefu, and then squeeze toothpaste to the imperial court, and squeeze on the Yellow River all his life. Zheng Lang wants to end up like this? Squeezed, everyone pay attention, and the money will come out. If you don't squeeze it, most of the money will be wasted.

Everyone continued to look at the map, drew the design map of Jingdong Road, and shouted together: "From the water into the sea? ”

This is the result that Zheng Lang has repeatedly observed on Jingdong Road.

The Yellow River has broken its banks countless times in history, the largest one is nine times, Yu controls the water that time, how to compete, can not be taken seriously, the Yellow River is diverted from Luoshui into the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain into Yaojin into the Bohai Sea, into the smoke gradually multiplied, the sediment of Taihang Mountain plus the sediment of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, so that the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain are gradually raised, as Ouyang Xiu said, the Yellow River itself wants to find a low place to rush, break through Luoshui, enter Huaxian County, and look for an exit into the sea from Huaxian County. This is Chun Qiu, of course, it gallops happily, and the common people are unlucky.

After more than 900 years, the riverbed of Hebei gradually rose, and the flow was not happy, so it changed to the south to find a way out, resulting in the flooding of the junction of Anhui and Shandong for nearly 60 years. Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty used Wang Jing, sent hundreds of thousands of people and soldiers to open the mountain and Fu, the Yellow River and the Bianshui flow, the Yellow River from the northeast thousands into the sea, Mu Canal from the southeast into the water, this is the only one in history of the diversion of the good xing, into the Yellow River to the south, the use of the terrain to forcibly restrain the water, the river sand quickly rushed to the Bohai Sea, instead of letting it precipitate.

But at that time, the Yellow River's sediment content was far less than that of the Yellow River today.

To the Song Dynasty, the problem came, all the riverbeds in Shandong were all lifted up, the Yellow River again looked for its own exit, so there were several diversions of the embankment, the largest is the Shang Hu Si, the scale is large, rare in history, several times the embankment caused the two to flow into the sea, the first-class from the famous mansion to En, Hebei, Shen, Ying to the southeast of Khitan Youzhou into the sea, the first-class or the old flow, through Bozhou to Dezhou to Wulu into the sea.

Then to the Jin Dynasty, divided into two streams, the river water is slow, the speed of river sand precipitation is fast, the eastward flow of the riverbed is high, Hebei's economic flooding has led to a large area of terrain rising, including Yang Liulang's hard work to repair the Green Sè Great Wall, and thousands of lakes and rivers disappeared together, Suoxing Yellow River flows into the Huai River together, the Huai River is a petite little girl, this pressure, pressed away from the Huai River for hundreds of miles, near the Yangtze River Wuwei Army has become a pond fish.

The eighth time was in the late Qing Dynasty Xianfeng, Le Fu because of financial shortcomings, squeezing toothpaste, and the impeachment of some officials, which led to the Yellow River not being fully completed when he died, and as soon as he died, it was over. It also ignores the most important point, prevention, and does not have reasonable afforestation in the middle and upper reaches. By the late Qing Dynasty, China's imports had reached more than 400 million, and uncontrolled cultivation had caused serious damage to the water and soil, so after his death, the Yellow River had been quiet for a rare time, and problems began to arise again.

Since Xianfeng has occurred many breaches one after another, the most serious is Xianfeng five years, due to the heavy rain, the upstream tributary flood continues to be injected, the river water soars, the Yellow River breaks in Lanyang Tongwaxiang, one is divided into three, one flows east by the Zhaowang River in Caozhou, the other two are discharged from the north and south of the Dongming Dynasty, cross the canal at the confluence of Zhangqiu, forcibly seize the Daqing River in Lijin into the sea.

If the north does not protect the environment and the entrance is denser, even if Zheng Lang has good intentions this time, there will still be an accident in the Yellow River two or three hundred years later.

The last time the earth entered the know, resisted

I was the garden mouth that Lao Jiang blew up.

Zheng Lang replied slowly: "I have carefully seen many places, the north flow must not be, if the water is not restrained, the river sand will precipitate quickly, the northern riverbed will also be rapidly raised, sooner or later there will be an accident, if the water is restrained, there is no good terrain with the help of forced embankment, once the water is large, the water of Taihang Mountain will converge, there will be a collapse of the embankment." Either go to the south, the Huai River in the south is even weaker, once the Yellow River is diverted to the south, the land of the two Huai will be ruined. There's only one way, to the east. In the past, some ministers of the imperial court proposed to reopen the old course of the Yellow River, but now the old channel of the Yellow River still has water flowing eastward, but eight points of water flow into the sea from the northeast, and only two points remain. In winter, the water is dry. The reason for this is simple: the entire riverbed and the surrounding terrain are raised by the accumulation of sand. If you open the old road again, even if you spend a lot of money to go down, because of its terrain, there will be accidents. Therefore, the minister thought of the water and the treatment strategy, the middle stream of the water, the downstream of the water. When the water is small, the water potential in the middle reaches is bound, and when it reaches the downstream, it is washed again with relatively clear water, so that the river sand quickly rushes to the sea. When the water is large, the canal is used to divert water and discharge floodwater. At the same time, it also saves part of the engineering quantity. ”

Once the canal is adjusted, the old course of the Yellow River in the north and the Huai River in the south will also be rebuilt, especially the Huai River, which will play an important role in sharing. When the flood peak arrived, even if the water level was discharged by one centimeter, the river embankment was saved. Without this centimeter, the embankment will inevitably be breached.

"Hehe flows into Jio," Zhao Zhen couldn't help but be stunned.

The old road of the Yellow River is only a hundred miles away from Jishui, and the narrowest place is only a few dozen miles of road, one in the north and one in the south, but I have never thought about entering the river into Ji!

Then several heads climbed onto the table again.

Zhao Zhen's head and Fu Bi are squeezed together, Han Qi is next to each other, and he keeps arching, every time he arches Fu Bi's head rubs Zhao Zhen's head, and there is a big Song on Zhao Zhen's right, he is an honest enter, and he takes the initiative to keep a distance, but the distance is also very small, Pang Ji directly pulled Zhang Sheng away and drilled in.

Chen Xu and a few imperial historians didn't care about impeachment, and they wanted to squeeze in to see it when they got to the side.

Since ancient times, several major rivers in China, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, Yushui, Yushui in the south, too far away, followed by the Huai River, and then not to the Haihe River, the Haihe River is only a few tributaries at this time to meet the river, but also let the Yellow River to the strong, become the northeast flow of the Yellow River, followed by Jishui.

Since ancient times, the water has flowed for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years, and the Yellow River has been treated several times, so it has never thought of leading the river into the river.

Among them, including Fu Bi and others, they still know a little bit about water control, and there is no way to do it, today's officials are all-rounders, and if they want to be a good official, they must know a little bit about everything.

Looking at the map, and then thinking about Zheng Lang's entire plan, Fu Bi finally said: "It seems to be a wonderful method." ”

Taking into account the topography, sand washing, and saving the project, although the two original channels of the Yellow River are governed by the upper and the Huai River are governed below, putting aside the beneficial side of the Yellow River, the management of these rivers itself will also have a positive impact on local irrigation and water conservancy.

Sure enough, it's a brother o, and the shot is extraordinary.

This is what Zheng Lang admires most about Fu Bi, his magnanimity is getting bigger and bigger, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi are talented, but what is most lacking is Fu Bi's belly. It's also this belly, otherwise the three entries in the book are not right, and it will be noisy.

Count on Pang Ji to let anyone, let alone Han Qi to let anyone.

Everyone deliberated for a long time before they dispersed.

On the morning of the second death, Zheng Lang finished his post in Zhongshu, which was equivalent to a temporary idle fu at home, and was called to the capital by the yellow door.

There is still something to do, how to deal with the envoy of Western Xia.

Because of the six scouts, Zheng Lang said overnight yesterday, and everyone consciously didn't ask, and the matter of these scouts can't be made public to ordinary imperial history for the time being.

Zhao Zhen sat him down and asked, "Zheng Qing, have you thought about it?" ”

"Some details haven't been thought out yet, it's best to recall Di Qing back to the capital for a temporary post, and I'll discuss it with him again."

"Do you want Di Qing?"

"Your Majesty, it's best to ask Di Qing in terms of military affairs, he is not as good as many ministers in governing the place, but in the military, there are few ministers and him, this is the way of using ministers."

Han Qi and Song Zhen were not convinced, but Pang Ji was a little bit.

Zhao Zhen said: "Yes, Di Qing has also suffered in the northwest in recent years, and he has also been wronged. ”

"Your Majesty, you just let him stay in the northwest, recalling the temple is not to treat him favorably, but to make him suffer."

Zhao Zhen was dumbfounded.

And Zheng Lang was a little worried, Di Qing was lucky to be alive because of his help, once he died, who would he ask in the military? Yang Wenguang, Guo Kui, and Zhao Xun are all a little lacking, and it is still early to count on Wang Shao. He also said: "If Di Qing has something, the country is equivalent to removing an arm." ”

"What about the other generals?"

"Other generals can be generals, but they can't be handsome." Zheng Lang said decisively.

Zhao Zhen was stunned, the scholar looked down on the generals, but Zhao Zhen did not exist to look down on, what he valued was the help of a talent to the country. Asked: "Is there a cure for back gangrene?" ”

"When he was in the south, Di Qing had back gangrene, but it was not serious at that time, and the minister invited a doctor to see it for him, but it has not been cured."

Zhao Zhen was a little distracted when he heard this, Han Qi was very displeased, and said, "What should I do about Xixia?" ”

Let's talk about business, don't talk about Di Qing anymore.

"Xixia O, this time the envoy not only did not agree to renegotiate peace, but on the contrary, continued to forbid and cut off the year, I came up with a plan here......" Xu Xu said the idea in his heart, it was just an approximate idea, and the details had to wait for Di Qing to discuss and improve together.

Sun Tzu wrote a special article in the Art of War, but neither the Song Dynasty nor the Khitan paid much attention to it. On the contrary, Cochin did well with Western Xia.

It was precisely because of this inattention that Zheng Lang was given a chance.

The six scouts gradually entered the core of Western Xia's power, and if they were used well, each of them would be an atomic bomb, and if it exploded, Western Xia would be shattered.

But there is a problem, if there is no war at this time, it will drag on for a long time. As these entries became more and more expensive, Zheng Lang was also worried about a problem, and they joined forces to rebel against the Song Dynasty. If you don't join forces, you won't dare to betray the Song, and once your identity is exposed, there will be no good end.

If they join forces to deny it, even if the Song Dynasty pushes their family to the front line, they unanimously refuse to admit it, saying that the Song Dynasty is against the Western Xia monarchs and ministers, and the big thing is going to happen. It's normal to think that if you help to forgive Zuo, your identity will inevitably be extremely noble in the future, and when you return to the Song Dynasty, what can the Song Dynasty give them. Moreover, in order to cover their identities, they each got married and had wives and children in Western Xia.

Zheng Lang didn't want to let go of this opportunity in vain, let alone give Xixia any more gifts, he didn't have enough money, so he wanted to give Xixia a gift.

It happened that Pang Ji's idea made Zheng Lang have an idea, so he had this idea.

Song Zhen said: "Do you want to fight O? ”

"It's a fight, a small-scale diversion battle, presided over by Di Qing, Bo Zhen, you can rest assured."

"It seems good," Zhao Zhen said hesitantly.

With a small broad, Zhao Zhen likes it.

Moreover, he also wanted to wait for the Yellow River to be well governed, and the whole country would have no major drawbacks, and take the Western Xia in one fell swoop with the strongest attitude. If you can make a big deal with a small amount and seriously weaken the other party, why not? As for how difficult the intermediate process is and whether it can be realized, if you don't understand military affairs, you can leave it to two ministers who understand military affairs.

This is a classified.

Zhao Zhen handed over another notebook and said, "Zheng Qing, take a look." ”

Zheng Lang opened it and saw that it was a tie drafted by Fu Bi, Pang Ji, and Han Qi this morning, and the first thing was to say that Zheng Lang's strategy to stop Kantian and hide the field yesterday was similar to what Zheng Lang said. Zheng Lang had been executed for a period of time before, but then he didn't implement it, he just picked it up again, and then it was normalized, and it was not difficult to check it once a year. The second thing is about the establishment of supervision and supervision, and also talks about the punishment for tax evasion, which is 50 lashes for the most serious and 100 canes for the worst cases.

Zheng Lang was furious and said, "Why is the punishment so light? ”

Han Qi said: "I have discussed with Alcohol Zhi and Yanguo, once the prison sentence is executed, these people who are not rich or expensive will be in an uproar, Xingzhi, you also said that stability must be the priority, first stability, then governance, and then reform." ”

It seemed to make sense, but Zheng Lang retorted: "Wrong, once you deal with it like this, is it the servant who enters to be punished, or the master who enters to be punished, even if he is punished, he knows that he is either rich or expensive, and that Yaqian dares to really fight?" ”

It is a small thorn strip or a small bamboo cane, if you don't meet a cool official, it is a staff of 200, at most the buttocks are broken, and you will be fine.

Knowing that Han Qi and Fu Bi were not very troublesome, Zheng Lang said again: "Zhigui, Yanguo, let me talk about the family first." Households below the fifth class, since the sixth class, began to be half hungry and half full, the seventh class, the eighth class, the ninth class are almost abject poverty, although the great rule, such a family is not a small number in our dynasty, strictly speaking, these households are to be given by the imperial court. But now, even ninth-class households continue to pay taxes, and in some places those who have not implemented the exemption law, and the sixth- and seventh-class extremely poor households even have to pay taxes in addition to paying taxes. Your Majesty, you have also seen with your own eyes that the ministers took you to see that those who entered the family were only fifth- and sixth-class households, which made Your Majesty sigh more than once, if it was a seventh-class household, what kind of living conditions would it be? ”

Zhao Zhen was silent.

Then there are the first-class households and the few second-class households, who do not pay taxes, but reward, and if they are in a good mood, they will reward the state a little more, and if they are in a bad mood, they will not give a penny to the state. The minister proposed these two strategies, not to let them pay taxes again, but to let them reward a little more. ”

is a bit radical, but it is basically consistent with the facts, Wang Anshi changed the law, and wanted to crack down on these big families entering the house, but what was the result?

No matter what you do, if you want to pay them for nothing, it will be difficult.

Zheng Lang continued: "What really pays taxes is what enters the family, most of the second-class, third-class, and fourth-class households with relatively thin power, in fact, starting from the fifth-class households, even if they are allowed to pay taxes, how much can they pay? Second, third, and fourth class households are the focus of state taxation. And to tax them from them, and the state has no psychological burden. If we want the country's financial situation to be good, we must protect their rights and interests, they are the real gods of wealth of the country, and we can maintain them and cultivate more fifth-class households to become third- and fourth-class households, so that the country's finances can become healthier and healthier. The ministers proposed two strategies, not to collect wealth for the country, but to reduce the apportionment of white spoons to them, and at the same time set up a supervisor to supervise the forced apportionment of officials in various localities in disregard of policies. There will be more and more second, third and fourth households, and the country can form a real good cycle. What is this cane? ”

Fu Bi had a bitter face and asked, "Xingzhi, what do you think should be done?" ”

The punishment of imprisonment will not work, so what can be done other than the cane?

"Those who hide in the field have no land, and those who evade taxes are punished with money, so why bother with a cane? At the same time, all kinds of taxes are indicated, and the officials below are not allowed to collect taxes arbitrarily. Officials must not be allowed to levy taxes that are not levied, and those who should be levied should not be less, and if they want to evade taxes, they will be severely punished. Only then can the system be perfected and the country be healthy. ”

Zhao Zhen said: "Fuqing, according to Zheng Qing's policy, I will go down and modify the notebook later and hand it over." ”

Fu Bi's face is even more bitter, and in this way, he will offend a lot of people.

Zhao Zhen said: "Zhu Qing disperse, Zheng Qing, Ming Yao continues to go to the early dynasty." ”

"Whoa."

A few were just about to disperse, and Xiao Huangmen hurriedly came in with a book of folds and said, "Your Majesty, something is wrong." ”

"What?"

"Your Majesty, you see, this is a note sent by Han Zhongcheng, and something big happened in the harem." As he spoke, Xiao Huangmen trembled, and his face was extremely frightened. If this is true, even the eunuchs will be unlucky.

Even if it's true, how can it be spread outside the palace?

"What harem?" Zhao Zhen hurriedly opened the recital, and after reading it, he suddenly sat down on the dragon chair, holding his chest and not speaking.

There was curiosity when they entered, including Zheng Lang, who stretched out his head and looked at the fold. Now the writing is written with a brush, although it is a small block of rope, but it is much larger than the pen writing. Therefore, some people have high myopia, or high presbyopia, and they still see the twists and turns and deal with government affairs.

You can see the words on the fold in the distance.

The matter was caused by the Ten Pavilions, Zhao Zhen made a child, and selected ten beauties from the palace as the object of making children, among which there was a beauty named Liu, and a beauty called Huang, but Zhao Zhen's health was not very good, and he could not meet their needs for a white spoon by dealing with one or two reluctantly, and dealing with ten.

It was when Qingchun was young, and he didn't understand it without getting into it, and once he got into it, he felt very comfortable, but what if Zhao Zhen couldn't be satisfied?

When this Liu family was holding ten pavilions and ten reds, he did a shocking thing.

It is difficult for normal ministers in the harem to enter, but some ministers pay homage to them for important matters, or hand notes to the emperor for the two mansions, and occasionally can enter and leave the harem. Among them, there was an official who paid homage to him who was handsome, because Zhao Zhen wanted to make a son, and he spent the most time in the Ten Pavilions, so he often entered the Liu family's residence and let the Liu family take a fancy to him.

It's not something that can be seen right away, it needs to be reported, sometimes Zhao Zhen has to rest, and he has to wait for a while, and this time will come out. Then Liu seized the time and communicated with the official. The specific official, Han Jiang did not say. But most of it is true, and I don't dare to slander the harem with fake news, it's a big thing to lose my head. Liu not only communicated with Jiān himself, but also took Huang with him to communicate with this official. Just like those supermodels and celebrities in Sanya later, they opened a mess

ty。 The scandal was getting louder and louder, and for some reason, it spread out of the palace, letting Han Jiang know that he couldn't get used to seeing Zhao Zhen pampering the Ten Pavilions, and after some investigation, it was confirmed that it was correct.

A few bigwigs quickly finished reading it, and then quickly twisted their heads to the side, and it was too late to twist it again, just a few short lines of words, which had already been seen in their eyes.

Then several bigwigs were sweating, and Zheng Lang was even more sweaty. All sweated, even the little eunuch knelt on the ground, sweating, and wiped his head with his sleeve from time to time.

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