Nine curves of the Yellow River are thousands of miles of sand, and the waves are blowing from the end of the world. The Yellow River Basin is the birthplace of the Chinese nation. Before the Qin and Han dynasties, the word "river" was basically the special name of the Yellow River, and the river was called "Chuan" or "water", which shows the unique status of the Yellow River in the hearts of the Chinese nation.

Facing the big river of yellow sand rolling in front of him, Liu Che was full of emotions and showed a look of kinship.

Seeing this, Gongsun He, who was good at observing words and feelings, was quite puzzled, and bowed down and asked: "Your Highness came to watch the scenery today, and he was full of interest, but why is his face gloomy now, but he remembers the Heshuo war?" ”

Liu Che shook his head and didn't answer, but turned his head to look at Zhang De beside him, and asked slowly: "You have been cultivating in the Taichu Palace for several years, do you know what the solution of 'the unity of heaven and man' is?" ”

Zhang Denai is a square-faced, thick-eyed and big-eyed man in Guanzhong, more than eight feet long, born in a wealthy family. His ancestor is the first Qin Wei Wei Cheng, after the destruction of Qin, with the ancestor Liu Bang to conquer the world, and then to the right more title, in Hongnong fief thousands of households, has been passed down for several generations. Although the descendants have not inherited the legacy of their ancestors, and the family is in decline, it is also a wealthy family.

Zhang De is even nicknamed Jiangmen Dog, although he has an eight-foot body, he is a weak surname. He is a son-in-law, the third in the family, the surname is benevolent, advocating Taoism, and he is also quite involved in the hundreds of schools. Unwilling to compete with the elder brother for the family business, after becoming a Ding, he went to the Taiji Palace next to Hangu Pass to be born and cultivated, regardless of the worldly things in the family, and now he has passed the year of the crown.

A few days ago, when Liu Che led the crowd to visit the Taichu Palace, he happened to meet Zhang De and several old men sitting in the apse and discussing, so he stopped and listened carefully for a long time, but felt that this Zhang De was really a wonderful person. From his speech and demeanor, Liu Che faintly felt that this person was suffering from a slight split personality. Although he has compassion and compassion for others, and tries to convince people with reason, he does not reject the use of violence, and repeatedly preaches with soldiers. Although he is well-founded and well-organized, he is extremely cunning and sophistry. was so angry that the old man smoked, but he was speechless.

Liu Che felt that Zhang De was really talented and would be of great use in the future, so after returning to the camp, he ordered someone to send him a pirated version of "Lao Tzu's Note". After reading it, Zhang De felt that if he had obtained the treasure, he only felt that it was all what he thought in his heart, but he could not discuss the true meaning, and immediately proposed to meet the person who wrote it. Later, when the two met, Liu Che's body was shocked, and he was domineering, and he took him under his command to listen to it, omitting it.

Today, Liu Che traveled, and he also brought Zhang De, and at this time, his heart moved slightly, and he took the opportunity to mention him.

Zhang De heard His Royal Highness's inquiry, pondered for a moment, bowed down and replied: "Man is the spirit of all things, but like all things in the world, they are all nurtured by heaven and earth, and they are nourished by sunshine and rain and dew, so that they can gain life and vitality. Therefore, people need to obey the will of heaven, respond to the time of heaven, and be in harmony with heaven. ”

Liu Che did not comment, raised his hand and pointed to the embankment on the bank, and then asked: "Since it is to conform to the will of heaven, why build a dam to prevent the river from being blocked?" ”

Zhang De was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he wanted to answer very simply, the levee was not to prevent flooding and save the people from disaster, but he knew that this was not the answer His Highness wanted.

Liu Che didn't care, and said slowly with an expressionless face: "The land along the river has been fertile since ancient times, and the water and grass are abundant. In the pre-Qin period, there were still many lakes such as Lei Xia Ze and Onoze in the middle and lower reaches of the big river, and the land of Guanzhong was still lush with vegetation and vegetation, birds and beasts breeding, beautiful mountains, forests, rivers and valleys, and many geniuses. However, since the Qin Dynasty, Guanzhong is where Gyeonggi is located, and the people's livelihood is rich, and all the people in the world will inevitably flock to it. In addition, our dynasty lives with the people, the rent is very low, and there are countless people who burn forests and reclaim wasteland. In addition, since ancient times, China has emphasized agriculture and light animal husbandry, and in the long run, the vegetation in Guanzhong has decreased, the yellow sand has entered the river, and the river has flooded, who should be blamed? If it is attributed to the will of Providence, it should not be blocked by embankments; If it is too much [***], it is us who are going against the sky! ”

When the people around heard this, they couldn't help but be horrified. His Royal Highness's words can be described as heart-wrenching words, the Han Dynasty advocates the learning of Huang Lao, pays attention to the sky, and now lives with the people's livelihood, but the national policy of heavy agriculture and reclamation has been refuted by His Royal Highness as going against the sky, and spreading it out, it will definitely lead to criticism, and the imperial historians are afraid that they will be impeached continuously.

Liu Che did not have this kind of consciousness at all, it was the emperors and ministers of later generations who held high the banner of "man will conquer the sky", did whatever he wanted, wantonly destroyed the environment, and naturally suffered from the punishment of nature.

What is helpless is that it is the early Han Dynasty that respected the learning of Huang Lao and the prosperous Tang Dynasty that respected Taoism, the two most glorious eras of the Chinese nation, carried out the largest two forest burning and reclamation in the history of Guanzhong, although it benefited the people, but it was a legacy of the descendants. People who only know how to plunder and take, they are not to transform nature, nor to grasp the laws and use the laws, but only care about the immediate interests, killing chickens and eggs, they follow the idea of "I will win others", not "man will win the sky".

Zhang De was benevolent, although he couldn't find the fallacy in Liu Che's words for the time being, he was unwilling to let him deny the national policy of benefiting all the people, and asked stubbornly: "According to what His Royal Highness said, is it wrong to live with the people's livelihood?" ”

Liu Che glanced at him and said lightly: "There is nothing wrong with living with the people's livelihood, but it is wrong to burn forests and land reclamation!" Just as there is nothing wrong with building embankments for flood control, it is a big mistake to build indiscriminately! ”

"Why did Your Highness say this? This dam is not built indiscriminately, the grass people have grown up since childhood, and they know that the flood is a deep disaster, if the dam is not built, how can the people avoid the disaster and live and work in peace and contentment? Zhang De shook his head, there was a faint disrespect in his words, obviously dissatisfied with Liu Che's remarks that he didn't know about the people's suffering.

Liu Che did not show any displeasure, and patiently explained: "The water of this big river has a lot of sand since ancient times, and since Qin, it has been one stone of water and six buckets of sand. Now that there are embankments, the river channel is rapidly silted up, and the downstream section of the river has been silted up for a long time, and now it is an above-ground river. In addition, because the river beach land is often reclaimed, the embankment is built to prevent flooding, forming an embankment in the embankment, the embankment line is tortuous and unreasonable, and the sand and gravel siltation is even worse. In the long run, within a few decades, there will definitely be a flood that has not been encountered in a century! ”

When everyone who accompanied him heard this, they all showed disbelief. After the Qin Dynasty unified China, the river embankments were rectified, and the flooding of the Yellow River has been reduced a lot for more than 100 years. Although flooding has become more frequent in recent years, most of them are caused by dam bursts, so the coastal counties are building higher and more dams. According to His Highness's words, could it be that these conscientious officials have done something wrong?

Liu Che looked helplessly at his subordinates who were puzzled, and sighed in his heart, but he couldn't tell them about the terrible disaster in the future. The Western Han Dynasty began with the Jingdi Dynasty, and in less than two hundred years, the Yellow River broke more than ten times.

The most powerful one happened fifteen years later, in the third year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty, when the Yellow River broke at the gourd. The flood rushed southeast into Junozawa, flooded into Surabaya and Huaishui, and flooded 16 counties, causing serious damage. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Ji Di and Zheng to lead 100,000 people to block, but they were unsuccessful. After that, the Yellow River flooded for 23 years. It was not until the second year of Yuanfeng that Emperor Wu sent Jiren and Guo Chang to lead tens of thousands of people to block again.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even came to the scene in person and ordered the entourage officials from the general down to participate in the glogging work, and the project was very arduous. The method used in plugging is explained by some people as the pile firewood flat plugging method. Firewood was needed to plug the mouth, and the bamboo forest of Qiyuan was cut down hundreds of miles away. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also wrote the "Song of the Gourd", which described the great disaster caused by the breach, the arduous surname of the plugging project and the technical measures of the plugging. The plugging was successful, and the Xuanfang Palace was built on the embankment as a commemoration.

In the following 1,000 years, the lower reaches of the Yellow River burst nearly 2,000 times, and the major diversion was 26 times, each time displacing millions of people and starving to the wilderness.

Liu Che really didn't want the swinging tail of the dragon in the lower reaches of the Yellow River to continue to bring profound disasters to the people of China. The best way to do this is to reduce the siltation of the river and avoid the Yellow River being diverted too often.

The so-called diversion of the Yellow River is to abandon the original riverbed after the river breaks and follow a new channel called diversion, the Yellow River is very frequent due to the sand and siltation, the changes are impermanent, and the diversion is very frequent, although the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River have also changed many times, but the major impact is the diversion of the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

In many time-traveling novels, most of the macho men with the halo of the protagonist want to build water conservancy, and they all throw a lot of money and use huge manpower to build embankments. In Liu Che's opinion, it is pure nonsense. Water conservancy projects must go through strict demonstrations, and the so-called blockage is better than sparseness, blindly hard work, and the construction of embankments will surely cause endless disasters once they burst.

The Three Gorges Dam, which has been debated endlessly in later generations, is a clear proof that no matter how great the economic interests are, they will not be able to cover up a peerless hidden danger, and once the Three Gorges dam fails, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River will be a vast ocean, and it is impossible to imagine how many people will die. Some people even think that the Three Gorges has caused the geological structure to change more dramatically, resulting in a series of earthquakes in Sichuan, but there is no way to know, so I will not comment on it for the time being.

In fact, people have been paying attention to the Three Gorges, but they have neglected a water conservancy project with little economic benefit but quite important -- the Xiaolangdi of the Yellow River. The development goals of Xiaolangdi are flood control and silt reduction, followed by water supply, irrigation and power generation. It can be described as storing and clearing turbidity, eliminating harm and rejuvenating profits, and comprehensive utilization.

Liu Che pondered for a moment, looked at Zhang De and said slightly: "Water control is not simple, the lonely king has a plan in his heart, but now there is a major event that benefits the country and the people, I don't know if you are willing to do it?" ”

Zhang De was stunned when he heard this, he followed His Highness for only a few days, and he really didn't believe that His Highness could do any big things, but he still bowed down and said in a deep voice: "If it is really beneficial to the country and the people, the grass people should do their best, and then die!" ”

Liu Che nodded with satisfaction, and said with an interesting smile: "It's not necessary to die, the Lone King just asked you to build Taoist temples in various places and preach widely." After thinking of the name of the Taoist temple, the lonely king, let's call it 'Tzu Chi'. ”

Liu Che laughed secretly in his heart, putting the name of Buddhism on the head of Taoism is really interesting. In the future, the dredging of the river will inevitably conflict with the original embankment, causing many short-term floods, and it is necessary to have a non-governmental charitable organization similar to the "Tzu Chi Association" in later generations to mobilize the masses to assist in disaster relief. The power of the political axe alone still can't be fully taken into account.

(Huhu, enough sleep, good mood, continue to work at night, see if there is time to update one more chapter in the early morning...... Don't wait, just wake up tomorrow morning and watch it. ）

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