In the early dynasty, Zheng Lang played: "Your Majesty, the river is huge in July, and the ministers are afraid that there will be a business Hu Si incident, please send cadres to go to the states of Jingdong and Hebei, and break the embankment to release water to kill the water potential." ”

This policy was used last year, when the river was huge, select some areas, open the river embankment, and unload the water flow. So there were no major problems with the Yellow River last year. As for the Yongji Canal in March, it was peach blossom water, and no one thought of it. This is also fatal, Yongji Canal is Yang Guang repaired, leading to the Grand Canal of Youzhou, Youzhou now belongs to the Liao State, but there are a large number of troops stationed in the north, a lot of materials are needed, the Yellow River water comes in, it also brings a large amount of quicksand, the light is the north flow flooding, and the Yongji Canal is silted. But at that time, because of the peach blossom water, the water flow was not large, and the degree of harm was not high. Last year's flood season was not very serious. The unloading area is not large, and there are not many ministers who oppose it, but the benefits of seeing the silt in the unloading area are not only the areas used for unloading, but most of them are saline-alkali land or low-lying areas, but most of the time the two are synonymous with the same, the lower the terrain, the higher the salinity content. The river water washed away the salinity content, and some of the silt was precipitated, and the effect was seen this year, and the crops were growing vigorously.

Last year, the transition period given by God was very important, if the flood was huge, and everyone did not see the benefits, and the flood was released wantonly, and there were many ministers who opposed it, or there were one or two Qing officials lying on the embankment, the problem would come, who would dare to pull it? This problem was more serious in the early Song Dynasty than in the Qing Dynasty.

Not this year, the water potential is getting bigger and bigger, although some areas are selected to discharge floodwater, but the upstream river water is constantly gushing, and the water level has not fallen, but has been rising in some areas. If you want to discharge the flood, you can't make a small knock.

If it is not dealt with in time, the Yellow River will be restored to the Daimyofu, which is not as serious as Shanghusi, and can be flooded several times, and the floods in the Dingding Mansion and Dingzhou area are even more serious. The terrible thing is that the terrain of these three areas is flat, and if it is flooded, it is a big place. The population is also large, with more than 100,000 households in the Daimyo Mansion. There are more than 70,000 households in Zhendingfu, nearly 50,000 in Dingzhou, and one-third of the people were flooded, that is, more than 500,000 people.

Some of the affected areas in Zhendingfu and Dingzhou are not the main stream of the Yellow River. However, it was caused by the Yellow River, and the water in the north of the Yellow River was large, and the water of the tributaries could not be discharged, which caused serious floods in Zhending and Dingzhou. But it's very wonderful, when you do something, there will be many people who point fingers and don't do things. The Yellow River flows vigorously to the north, and for such a serious problem, except for Jia Changchao's painless words, there are no ministers to advise.

In the end, there is no way, even if Zheng Lang succeeds this year, the Yellow River will be divided into several branches into the sea, and outside the flood season, the water potential will flow slower and slower. The sediment settles faster and faster, and the consequences will be more serious. However, Zheng Lang has no choice, let him not make a big deal during his tenure. I'll think about it later.

Zhao Zhen asked, "Zheng Qing." Who is appropriate? ”

Zheng Lang glanced at the ministers below and saw Wang Su, but shook his head, Wang Su loves the people too much, this is a good thing, it is too cute, such a large area of flood discharge, there will be many people who oppose it, Wang Su will not bear it, and look at the others. said: "The minister thinks that he needs two ministers as envoys, Liang Shi as the main envoy, and Wang Su as the deputy envoy, to preside, the flood season in September is over, and the people are properly settled." Return to Beijing and return to work. ”

Liang Shi is the best candidate, but I am afraid that Liang Shi will go too far and use Wang Su to restrain him.

He Tan said: "Zheng Lang, it's too heavy. ”

Liang Shi was the deputy minister of the Western Mansion, Bao Zheng was transferred back from Shaanxi, appointed as the Zhizhi Yuan, and moved Wang Su to a bachelor of Hanlin, both of whom were important officials in the imperial court, so He Tan said this.

"Once there are more floods, affecting thousands of households, tens of thousands of people will die in the floods.

Zhao Zhen's brigger.

Zheng Lang sent officials to investigate the terrain along the river and the barren salinity of various places last year, so he selected a number of flood discharge areas, and then carefully drew more than a dozen maps. …,

They were handed over to Liang Shi and Wang Su, and said: "Where is the specific site, you can check for yourself, but you must be ruthless, although the water potential this year is not as good as the year before, it is far more than last year's water level." If you are not ruthless, you will not be killed. However, it is necessary to put the people first, and the people in every flood discharge area must be properly settled. You go first, and I will immediately ask the third division to transfer 500,000 stone of grain and 500,000 yuan of silk for your dispatch and use. ”

Looking at these maps, Liang Shi's eyes were complicated.

Zheng Lang doesn't have a good impression of this person, and he doesn't have too much bad feelings, the Junzi Party does not tolerate others, but he is a person who does practical things. Similar to the later Lu Huiqing, if you use it well, you are a good minister, and if you use it badly, you will eat the master. It's a double-edged sword, depending on how you use it.

Liang Shi would not have thought that Zheng Lang actually had this idea in his heart, it was a little troublesome to go down this time, the embankment would burst and discharge the flood, and there would definitely be opposition from the people, and if it was not good, Yanchen would be impeached. But it can only be done well, which is a political achievement, no less than going down to gilding. Zheng Lang didn't reject him too much, it was completely different from Wu Yu and others, and it shouldn't hurt him.

But looking at this map, my feelings are a little complicated, how long will it take to draw this? It is said that in the past two years, the world has been under great governance, and I haven't seen Zheng Lang do much, either it is a bank, but it is too early to achieve benefits, or it is a farmland water conservancy law, which is just a new law extended from Fan Zhongyan's heavy agricultural mulberry law. But the world has actually changed for the better, and only by seeing these dozen maps can we understand why the world has become better.

It's not that I don't say anything, I do it, I do a lot, but I don't see it.

With the map, Wang Su left the capital and went to Hebei immediately, mainly flowing north, unlike the original Yellow River, with a long riverbed, many sections of the river are opened by the Yellow River itself, the river section is shallow, and there are some officials and local large households unreasonable blocking of the embankment, resulting in a narrow river, so the water potential is large, more likely to cause disasters.

Large swaths of the flood area were opened, starting from the east of the capital and continuing to the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and most of the selected flood areas on Zheng Lang's map were almost all opened, and the water went down. There are floods, but not severe, only localized.

It seems to be a good way, and no one wants to do much to mention the Beiliu case.

Zheng Lang knows very well in his heart that it may not be a good thing, most of the terrain has been transformed after water storage, and there can be some harvests, and the next time these people will let the officials open the river embankment to release water and flood discharge? Even this year, some Yanchen were impeached, which made Zheng Lang suppress. What about later? It is not uncommon to have an annual harvest of four or five buckets of land, but how much controversy will a land with an annual harvest of two stones cause?

Regardless of it for the time being, it is estimated that most of the time I will not be in the capital.

August came, and Zheng Lang went to the suburbs. I looked at the cotton harvest.

The most suitable for cultivation in Hebei is North American fine staple cotton, and it is impossible to obtain their seeds. Lingnan coarse staple cotton is good, not picky, as long as it has evolved over several years. This kind of cotton can be grown in most parts of the country, but the yield is low, the cotton fiber quality is poor and short, and even the cotton cloth must be made with silk to weave exquisite cloth, otherwise the cloth quality will be very inferior. So he asked Wang Su to get long-staple cotton from the Western Regions to see if he could plant it.

Nurtured for several years. It was not successful, and even the fruits produced were seriously mutated, but the coarse wool brought from Jiangdong once again radiated strong vitality and slowly adapted to the climate and topography of Hebei. Looking at the cotton in the Fan family's field, Zheng Lang smiled bitterly.

Several accompanying big heads of households also laughed, and the rare Zheng Lang was stunned.

However, what they did finally made Zhao Zhen pay attention, and it would not be a few years before Chenguang would improve all the northern seeds. But it worked locally. So he gave several of his children official positions, which were official officials, indicating that the imperial court rewarded them for their righteous deeds. …,

Zheng Lang went to Gaoliang Land again.

The growth is very vigorous. Anyway, it is the nature of playing tickets, throwing tens of thousands of dollars every year, and a household is only sharing a few thousand, not much, and the right to spend a few nights at the heads of various lines in the capital. So what to do, but Zheng Lang was still very dissatisfied.

The weather is gradually not so hot, the wind blows in early autumn, and there is a slightly cool feeling, Zheng Lang looks around, this vast independent area is in addition to sorghum cotton. There are also beans, and the main grains of the autumn harvest in the north are beans and sorghum.

Actually, it's not right, it should be corn.

Return to the capital and continue to watch the floods.

The disaster was worse than he had imagined, and although the Zheng flood method was used, it was not a cure. Even this year's Ben has not been completely cured. Heavy rain is still falling one after another, until September, the capital is still floating continuous autumn rain, a large area of flood discharge, play some role, the Yellow River still has some small bursts, most of the low-lying places have waterlogging. There is also a water-retaining earthen embankment that cut corners, and the earthen embankment collapsed during the flood discharge, resulting in the flooding of more than 20,000 acres of irrelevant cultivated land behind it, and more than 100 people were drowned. was so angry that Zheng Lang wanted to scold his mother in the Chinese book.

But it was not that the minister did not speak, Ding Du was originally going to write a book on the deep digging method (digging the Yellow River deeper, making the river deeper and faster, and the method of controlling the river), as well as the method of blocking the embankment and returning to the east in order to return to the capital of Jia Changchao (blocking the Shang Hu Si break and diverting the water to the east, which used his thoughts, and it is also the best strategy among the strategies, but it is not a good way), and some people suggested the northward flow method (choosing the new north flow of the Yellow River to dredge the deep water), and they have already begun to quarrel.

It was Zheng Lang who stayed in Zhongshu, he went from Jiangdong Wei, to Qiantang Dike, to Sanbai Canal, and the farmland water conservancy law, the huge water conservancy achievements are daunting, and he has this flood discharge method. Since the defeat of the Gaoliang River, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty have become accustomed to respect, and there will be no major problems anyway, so they have to get by.

Again, many areas have been affected by the flood, and there are also some problems, but the problem is not big, because of Zheng Lang's operation, although the grain has fluctuated, the price increase is not high, and the affected people have been quickly pacified, what else can be said?

A hidden danger is accumulating deeper and deeper.

The Yellow River is too headache to take care of, but there is one person that everyone must take care of, Zhang Yaozuo.

He Tan's mother was old and wanted to serve as an official near her hometown in order to take care of her mother, so Zhao Zhen humanized and let He Tan know the state as a member of the Ministry of Officials. Before leaving, He Tan played two things.

The first thing to talk about is the provincial officials, and Fan Zhongyan's reform also involves the reduction of officials, because he has a strong partisan nature, and he has not been meritorious. After Jia Chang came to power, he overturned and overthrew again, just like Sima Guang did with Wang Anshi's reforms, and all the laws and regulations that occurred in Wang Anshi were overturned indiscriminately, and as a result, the officials were more redundant than before.

How to solve the redundant officials, He Tan has no good strategy, but only mentioned reducing the number of graces, important officials in the southern suburbs sacrifice in addition to their descendants, Xu Xiang is a period of relatives, and other officials are sacrificed in the suburbs for three years. Instead of being overwhelmed as it is now. This is a compromise between the current Enyin Law and Fan Zhongyan's Provincial Official Law, all relatives are not allowed to be favored, and the officials are not satisfied, and continue to give officials the opportunity to give them the opportunity to be friends and reduce official complaints. However, the actual number of official favors will decrease, and the speed of redundancy will decrease.

The second thing is to talk about Zhang Yaozuo, Zhang Yaozuo's promotion speed is too fast, and he has no political achievements, and there are many complaints below. After all, he is the elder of Zhang Guifei, and it is reasonable to give wealth and nobility, but he doesn't give it like this, why not just give it to officials like he did with Li Yonghe. Wouldn't it be good if you don't give power, you will be rich and noble all your life, and the officials will have no complaints? Besides, His Majesty let the three divisions be merged into Zhongshuhu?

The last sentence made Zhao Zhen happy.