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Zheng Lang took the lead in making Mother Li disgraced, Mother Li finally knew the horror of the doctor, the princess came back and left, and there was a county lord who wanted to improve the bad relationship with Zheng Lang.

But Mother Li's approach still made Zheng Lang quite disgusted, for example, seeing Cui Xian was very polite, no matter whether Jiang Xing'er or Si'er came over, the attitude immediately became bad, Zheng Lang said, let Xing'er and Si'er go down, study Yue'er, don't be bored.

A few innocuous words lightly sent the two ins away. Besides, it's not recommended by him, so what's the matter?

The only ones who know the inside story are Cui Xian and a few mothers, and several mothers are still in Zhengzhou, including Jiang Xing'er, who doesn't know the inside story.

Seeing Erjin leave, Cui Xian stroked her chest, and then used her eyes to slam Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang seems to be at fault in this matter.

Although Zheng Lang has paid too much for this, otherwise where would it be the turn of Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi and others to be the prime minister, Zheng Lang would have been able to serve as the prime minister when he came back from Jinghu South Road. As for going down to see the river workers, it's not easy, isn't it okay to transfer Tian Yu and others back to see it?

After taking a sip of tea, the capital was still very hot in July, and the huge capital had a greenhouse effect to some extent, and the actual atmosphere outside the city began to gradually become more and more refreshing. Cui Xian wiped the sweat from her forehead and said in a low voice: "Guanjin, your personality has not changed. ”

"When."

“sè。 Pander to. ”

Ten years old to be 狎ji, can you not sè.

Zheng Lang pinched his nose and couldn't make a sound.

"Forget it, but the Zheng family always has a descendant, although the sacrifice is worth it." After this, Cui Xian was very distressed, and she is still distressed, but she has always been there after this.

Zheng Lang didn't want to hear it, opened the map again, and thought about it repeatedly, although the map was marked in great detail, it was a piecemeal investigation, and there were many imperfections and lack of consideration. It is a thousand-year plan, unless from the source of Qinghai, all the way to Western Xia, Shaanxi, all the afforestation, or let the desert become grassland again. It's impossible. But at least it is guaranteed to have a lifespan of two or three hundred years. In two or three hundred years, what will happen to the country?

Even Zheng Lang couldn't have predicted it.

Not long after sitting down, Ouyang Xiu came, and there were more members in the future, but Ouyang Xiu did not come to divide the cake, but to ask for a way to govern the river.

The relationship between the two has not been very good, but the main thing is business, only talking about business, and the relationship is irrelevant.

Sitting down, Ouyang Xiu asked, "Has Su Shi gone back?" ”

Among Da Su, Ouyang Xiu still likes Da Su a little.

"No, I sent them to Meizhou, ready to bring their family into the capital, and also bought a house for them.

Ouyang Xiu was speechless, he wanted money to enter the house, he wanted to enter and enter, and forcibly snatched away the disciple he fancied, what should he do?

"Su Shi is very talented."

"Uncle Yong, this is true, given time, at least in terms of literary achievement, Su Shi will be better than you and me. Although literature is important, but in the end, they want to become officials, and I take them to various places to hone their training, unless I teach them literature, I am afraid that I will not be able to teach them in a few years. The training is nothing more than letting them learn how to be a good officer. ”

Ouyang Xiu was speechless again. If you study papers, because Zheng Lang is negligent, you may not be above yourself. However, if it comes to being an official, Zheng Lang's official work is better than his own, and the entire Song Dynasty can compare with it, and it seems that he can't see him. It was Zheng Lang who repeatedly praised Pang Ji, and in private, Ouyang Xiu compared them to the second entry, and Pang Ji may not be as good as Zheng Lang.

However, Ouyang Xiu learned Qian Wei's spirit and cherished it very much, so Zheng Lang said to Jiang Xing'er: "Invite Su Shi and Su Zhe." ”

Studying on the second floor behind the Zheng family, the Zheng family had bought a house for the Su family, but the second Su did not leave, and Zheng Lang did not drive it away, leaving it to them.

Da Su came over and respectfully gave Ouyang Xiu an apprenticeship salute.

Sanjin said a few polite words, and Ouyang Xiu asked them to sit down.

Just to take a look, he didn't mean to take Da Su back, and started to get down to business, Ouyang Xiu said worriedly: "I heard that you want to lead the river into Ji?" ”

"Exactly, I've looked at it carefully, and the Yellow River 1st Day Road can no longer be used. The north flow is not passable, and it is not possible to enter the Huai, only to continue to open the river to the east, if a new river channel is reopened, it is not so easy, it is just a dispute over arable land, which will produce countless turmoil. ”

"Yes. Ah, but the amount of water is huge. "Ouyang Xiu also knows this trouble, if the new river is reopened, more than a thousand miles long, and the width of the river surface and river bank can reach more than 1,000 meters wide, how much fertile land will it occupy? Who will let it. Ah, just 20,000 hectares of arable land will be overturned. In addition, there is a new canal to open up arable land. However, a diversion of the river into the river will solve many problems, the eastward direction of the Yellow River has no dispute over arable land, and then choose a suitable place, the length is not a hundred miles, the Yellow River can be directly connected with the water, and the controversy will be reduced.

"So you want a canal, you see," Zheng Lang was looking at the map, pulled out a map from it, pointed to the map, and said: "The main thing about river control is to control sand, and the river sand in the upper reaches is coming continuously. However, it is eastward, avoiding the waters of Taihang Mountain, in case of continuous rainstorms, the water level of the Yellow River will also rise, plus the water. ”

"That's what I'm worried about."

"But it doesn't matter, you look down."

"You Liang Shanbo?"

"It's it," Zheng Lang said. Today's Liangshanbo is not the Liangshanbo of later generations, with a vast wave of 800 li, and the length or width of 800 li is exaggerated, but the area is no less than Chaohu, the fifth largest freshwater lake in China in later generations. How much water will just one Liangshan Po store? Ten Liuta rivers are less than one Liangshanbo. In addition, it can also divert from the new canal and the northeast of the Yellow River on the north side of the Huai River in the south, and once again divert the flow of water from the Yellow River at the peak of the flood. "When the water level is high, the diversion is diverted, and when the water level is low, the water is added to increase the intensity of sand washing, save the amount of work, and reduce the disputes caused by the encroachment of cultivated land." Therefore, I used the strategy of diverting the river into the economy. ”

Zheng Lang patiently explained.

Before the Liuta River accident, only Ouyang Xiu had the loudest opposition, which made him win a round of applause. If you want the whole country to support you, Ouyang Xiu has to pass this hurdle.

Ouyang Xiu looked at the map carefully, and said: "There will also be river sand entering Liangshanbo and the Huai River." ”

The whole project is very complex and precise, not only the new canal, but also the sand storage tank. The canal is divided into two parts, one of which is a steep gate for navigation. This part is only the sand and water brought by the lock when it is pulled and discharged, and the flow is not large, and the impact will not be great. There are also large steep doors for vents. Very large gate, these years under the promotion of Zheng Lang, the rapid development of steep gate technology, the use of iron winch, and iron gate, has been very close to the gate technology of later generations, the difference is only that there is no electric ring.

Before the flood water enters the steep gate, a water storage tank is set up, and there is also a Sanbai Canal, which is also a working lake, so that the river water enters here and has a buffer sedimentation process, and then enters the flood channel, and some sand reeds are planted in the flood channel to further precipitate the river sand. In this way, the sediment content of the river water entering the Grand Canal decreases.

When entering Liangshanbo, a similar sand storage tank was set up again to further precipitate the river sand. It is not only the effect of sand ponding, because the north and south terrain has a high and low overhang, the water level is adjusted, and it is conducive to the navigation function of ships.

Continuing southward into the Huai River, there are two more sand storage ponds.

However, this setting may not be able to precipitate all the river sediment, and the Huai River is gradually becoming chaotic, and the river sand of the Huai River, coupled with the water of the Yellow River, will aggravate the changes in the topography of the lower reaches of the Huai River Basin.

Ouyang Xiu is not a picker, the country has spent so much money, he always wants to come up with a thousand-year plan. Like Yang Guang's construction of the Grand Canal, the Song Dynasty is still benefiting.

Zheng Lang just smiled and asked, "Uncle Yong, is the number of people in the country increasing?" ”

"Yes. Ah, why not? Ouyang Xiu asked puzzled. The increase in imports is also a sign of the country's prosperity.

"How many people do you think I have now?"

"It's hard, but it won't exceed 100 million petabytes."

"It's almost close, but how many people did I have in the founding of the country, three million households, including the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty, at that time the Yinchuan Plain had not been lost, and the number of households in my dynasty was only four million, how many are there now?"

"It's inevitable."

"It's inevitable, and it's also a manifestation of the country's great governance, but in a hundred years, how many households do you guess the country will have?"

"A hundred years later. Ah, "Ouyang Xiu looked yearning, he couldn't see it, if he could see it, it would be a terrifying number.

In fact, it didn't take a hundred years, without Zheng Lang's promotion, more than 50 years later, the entrance of the Northern Song Dynasty was only a staggering 21 million households on the register! If you add the hidden households and the uncountable barbarians, the number of entrances may reach 150 million people.

Poor China, with an average yield of just over 200 catties per mu of land, an area of less than 3 million square kilometers, and a third of the area is a wild area, actually feeds more than 100 million entrances. If it weren't for the fact that the military was too weak, the Song Dynasty was indeed creating a miracle.

Zheng Lang asked, "Can you let me enter the entrance up to 300 million?" ”

Ouyang Xiu calculated in his mind that in the more than 80 years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the entrance has quadrupled, and if it is a hundred years, it will continue to be ruled in a hundred years, and it will quadruple again, it will be sixteen times, and it will also be 50 or 60 million households, of course, it is unlikely. However, it can reach 40 million households, and one household is close to six entrances, not 300 million, and there are almost 250 million entrances. Then he said in surprise: "There will be so many entrances?" ”

"Quite possibly." Zheng Lang said. More than 50 years later, the entrance of the Northern Song Dynasty reached 21 million households, that is, most places in Liangjing and Guangzhou, which were not developed, and there was also the harm of the Yellow River.

But this number is very surprising.

Da Su raised his head together with Jiang Xing'er, who was making tea.

Xing'er said: "How to feed so much." Pander to? ”

"That's not necessarily, if an acre of land can harvest up to ten stones a year, no matter how much you enter, you can feed it."

"Ten stones?" Su Dongpo couldn't help but ask.

Zheng Lang didn't explain much, what is 300 million income, and the later generations also fed 1.3 billion entrances. As for ten stones, it is nothing, and in later generations, one acre of land can easily exceed ten stones for only one season of rice harvest. But that was the later generation, Zheng Lang was very objective, and said: "Ten stones are difficult, although the imperial court has introduced various support and breeding plans, and the output is steadily increasing, once that time, the entrance is really up to 300 million people, if we don't find a way out, it will be a disaster for my dynasty." ”

Ouyang Xiu nodded heavily.

"Way out, overseas." Zheng Lang said. I didn't like overseas, but at that time, I didn't emigrate overseas, and the problem came. Because of the pressure of the land, there will be countless uprisings and rebellions.

"In addition, it is to increase the yield per mu, intensively cultivate, and tap the potential of all land, once this happens, the water and soil damage will be more serious. Uncle Yong, think about it in your mind, once the amount of sediment in the Yellow River is more than twice as heavy as it is now, what kind of harm will it cause? ”

Ouyang Xiu was a little changed.

Generally speaking, if you don't come from the afterlife, you won't have such an idea at all. But if you bring it up and tell it about its harm, you will be a little scared.

Zheng Lang said: "Therefore, this river control project is a hundred-year plan, not a thousand-year plan. In my mind, its role may play for two hundred years, it may play for three hundred years, but it is not a thousand years, and the key is the governance of the country. If the entrance is dense, the country can still be governed, more value will be created, and there will be more labor, can't the Yellow River be moved another nest? ”

It seems to be a joke, but what Zheng Lang is doing is moving the Yellow River, and it is not the first time Zheng Lang has done this, he has already moved the Yellow River once in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is not as large as this time.

Ouyang Xiu said speechlessly: "Could it be that the force of the force can win?" ”

Wang Anshi's idea is to win by entering, and Zheng Lang thinks that he can win by entering, but he doesn't want to raise such a controversial question, and said: "It's not to force victory, but to make changes in accordance with the way of death, such as whether to wear more clothes when it's cold." Like the river, the Yellow River comes with sediment, and after years of precipitation, we have no way to dress it, but we can give him a new home. ”

"This ......"

"Uncle Yong, my dynasty can change the Yellow River, which is also a manifestation of national strength."

"Yes. Ah," Ouyang Xiu cheered up this sentence. Yang Guang's repair of the Grand Canal is not a skill, and the Song Dynasty now does not strip the people and cut the people to govern the Yellow River, which can be regarded as the real internal governance.

Then Zheng Lang's family began to be in full swing.

Then the court on the rich Bi led the east and west of the two mansions to write to ask Zhao Zhen to add the name of Zhao Zhen Daren Supreme Governance, to have a heartfelt words, the emperor in order to make the people good, thrifty food and clothing, the treasury has a huge river policy to govern the wealth of the surplus, the emperor still maintains a simple style, not the emperor of Daren, how can he do this step.

It just so happened that Yushitai gave this supervisor a headache, and Dongfu had nothing to smoke, so let's smoke. Tit-for-tat, the direct minister of the East Mansion is not shameless, for the sake of glory and wealth, sycophant and sincere.

After a few quarrels, a message came out of the harem, out of the harem Pengcheng County Jun Liu in the Dongzhen Palace, for the Fa Zheng Xumiao Master, gave the law the number of Daoyi, and sent the Huang family out of the palace. At the same time, 236 palace maids were released, and 214 palace maids were released last month because of the lunar eclipse.

Hearing this news, several prime ministers breathed a sigh of relief.

Cui Xian said: "Your Majesty is benevolent. ”

If the emperor is on the throne, the case will also be strictly investigated, and at least the official will have to be released. However, once that official is released, this matter cannot be covered up, and it will become a big case. Zhao Zhen would rather suffer this dumb loss himself and eliminate the matter. So the big thing turned into a big thing, and the thing turned into a thing.

didn't think that after Liu went to Dongzhen Palace, his style was still very buoyant, Zhao Zhen was finally angry, seized the title of Master Fa Zheng Xumiao, forcibly cut Liu's hair, and became a nun in Miaofa Academy. It was impossible for Zhao Zhen not to be angry at all, but for the sake of the overall situation of the country, he forcibly endured this grievance.

Then he ordered the establishment of the River Governance Division, and placed the River Governance Division in the Zhongshu, this time to govern the river, it will use countless resources, material and financial resources, and officials, who cannot be placed in the Zheng family's office, which is also out of order.

Zhao Zhen also has selfish intentions, and fills up the omissions in the decision-making that Zheng Lang put in the middle.

Pick up Jia Changchao's recital.

Zhao Zhen came to the Zhongshu to inquire that Jia Changchao's eastward flow was different from Zheng's eastward flow, but it also proved that Jia Changchao had a wise vision for governing the river.

Zheng Lang looked at this recital, then looked at Zhao Zhen, and said: "Your Majesty, Jia Changchao can be the ambassador of Tongzhihe, but it is not enough for Jia Changchao to enter one, at least five more are needed." ”

"What about five?"

"Fu Bi, Pang Ji, Han Qi, Song Zhen, Tian Qian."

It's the opposite.

Zheng Lang also said: "Governing the river is for the country for a hundred years and for the benefit of the people, not in exchange for a place for political achievements." If we continue to want to make political achievements and fill in the officials who don't understand water conservancy, even if the state mobilizes hundreds of millions of dollars, the Yellow River project will still have an accident. However, the ministers didn't care, and quarreled over the appointment. If Your Majesty takes the lead in using it with selfish motives, great things will go. ”

Forget about Li Zhang, I feel guilty in my heart, Li Zhang knows a little about water conservancy, and he can also be mobilized. What did Jia Changchao put in it? That's an old fritter, you have to have qualifications, you have deeper qualifications than yourself, you want an official position, or a teacher that Zhao Zhen respects, when he orders himself, or does he order him?

And Jia Changchao can't open this head, once it is opened, the big thing will be done, and it will cause more trouble in the appointment.

Zhao Zhen gave up.

However, because of the addition of Jia Changchao, more ministers were blushing. As a result of the controversy, the edict on the appointment of Tian Yu and the others could not be passed, and they were directly stuck on the side of the two systems. It also made the River Governance Division continue to be a bare-bones commander, Zheng Lang entered the office alone, or two officials were assigned from the middle book to help lay down the miscellaneous.

A few years later, Zhao Zhen brought a person to the River Governance Division.

Di Qing.

After receiving the edict, Di Qing hurried back to the capital. I didn't dare to delay, because the Western Xia envoys were also rushing to the capital.

Zheng Lang put down a large pile of copywriting in his hand, saluted Zhao Zhen, and then looked at Di Qing, who stayed in the northwest for a few years, and Di Qing's hair was slightly gray. However, his eyes were also flat, Zheng Lang looked at Di Qing's eyes, and he didn't know whether he was happy or worried.

Looking at Di Qing's eyes in the south is excited, and you can see Di Qing's self-improvement spirit from his eyes. When I went to the capital, I looked at Di Qing's eyes with melancholy, as if it was the early sky before the storm in June.

This blandness is a manifestation of being open and bearish.

And the change in Di Qing's eyes can also be seen in Fan Zhongyan.

He said in a low voice: "Kunlun Mountain is also old." ”

Zhao Zhen asked curiously: "What is Kunlun Mountain?" ”

"Your Majesty, I am a scholar and a martial artist, Fan Zhongyan and Di Qing are the two Kunlun Mountains of His Majesty's Dynasty. They not only made great achievements, but also set up a moral monument. Fan Zhongyan passed away, and Di Qing was also old, which made the ministers angry. ”

Zhao Zhen looked at Di Qing, who was praised by Zheng Lang at a loss, and also said with emotion: "Di Qing is old. ”

"Your Majesty, with Your Majesty's words, there is no regret even if the minister dies of old age." Di Qing bowed down.

Zhao Zhen said: "Di Qing, I know that I have treated you too thinly, so you don't have to be polite, let's get down to business." ”

This sentence alone, Di Qing is enough.

Zheng Lang sent the two chores down, and this was really arranged, and the specific news of the six scouts was not even known to Da Song now, only that several top scouts had entered the side of the hidden traitor, but they did not know the details.

Di Qing muttered after hearing this: "How many young people will it take to recover Western Xia?" ”

"Maybe ten years, maybe twenty years."

"They were old then, too."

"Helpless, not only are they old, but Wang Song is also old, but it's not for a long time, Hugh wants to see that Liang."

"Zheng Gong will still have the disaster of his relatives."

"Zhongye, that Liang is the daughter-in-law of the family without a treasure, and he actually ignored the power of the Yan who did not hide the slander, and openly corresponded with Li Liangzuo, and his courage was invisible. Either a traitor or a traitor. But for my dynasty, it is a great opportunity, since I did not hide the false Pang missed most of the opportunity this time, then I can use this Liang family in the future to make the Western Xia crisis again. ”

"Gong Zheng, I have an idea, can I take the opportunity to take Suizhou."

There are many benefits to taking Suizhou, the first Suizhou is one of the five states of the Western Xia Old Nest, and it can inspire the people of the entire Great Song Dynasty, and the second Fulin Road is too thin, and a Suizhou just separates it from Yanyun Road, and if you take Suizhou, it will become a whole, and it will also have a positive impact on the defense of Fulin Road.

Zhao Zhen's eyes lit up.

Zheng Lang shook his head and said: "It's not proper, Your Majesty, Hanchen, it's very inappropriate not to recover Western Xia, only take Suizhou, because I have a biggest enemy in the Dynasty, not Western Xia, not Khitan, and also not the nomadic strong clan that will rise in the north in the future, let alone Dali and Jiaozhi." ”

"Who is it?"

"It's in our country."

"Taxi ...... Literati? ”

"It's not a doctor."

Zhao Zhen was surprised, and couldn't help but ask on the side: "Then who is it?" Of course, he didn't believe that Dr. Zheng Langshi was the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty, but this is not, that is not, who is it?

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