In the east side hall of Wenyuan Pavilion, Ye Zhao slowly looked at the folds on the table, the national system was just beginning, and it was no longer as busy as when the new dynasty was established, many things, Emperor Shengde only needed to make a big idea, and the specific matters would be handled by the Government Council.

However, there are some things that have to be decided by Emperor Shengde.

A few years ago, the Yellow River broke and was rerouted, and the river that originally crossed northern Jiangsu into the Yellow Sea turned into a relic, and there was no trace on the map.

"Diversion", these two words, are really terrifying, I don't know how many homes were turned into powder in an instant, and thousands of living beings were washed away without a trace. The bursting of the Yellow River this time caused almost all of the floods in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which were originally jointly borne by the four provinces of Henan, Anhui, and Sulu, to fall on the head of Shandong.

To control the Yellow River, there are two voices, namely "diversion" and "recourse", advocating the diversion of the Yellow River to Shandong or the resumption of the Yellow River from Jiangsu to the sea.

Locally, it is natural that the people of Shandong strongly demand the resumption of the route, while the Jiangsu advocate the reroute.

In fact, as time goes on, it has become less and less feasible.

Since the diversion of the Yellow River, from 55 years to 62 years last year, the Yellow Water flooded every year, if Ye Zhao's memory is correct, after the diversion of the Yellow River in history, from 55 years, in the next 30 years, only 3 years without the Yellow Plague, the rest of the years "no year".

The current proposal is Ye Zhaona's idea, and he wants the Government Council to improve it after a collegiate discussion, set up a "Yellow River Management Committee", and allocate special funds to repair the embankments on both sides of the Yellow River, and the annual amount will be as high as 5 million silver dollars for the next ten years.

The Yellow River has just been diverted, and it will definitely take several years of erosion and artificial constraints before it can gradually form a new course.

Water conservancy project, Ye Zhao will also spend a lot of money no matter what, of course, the supervision of the governance committee must be extremely strict, these silver is enough, but if the water control silver is greedy from top to bottom as in the previous dynasty, then how much money will be wasted.

Hopefully, this year's floods will be lesser.

Ye Zhao can only pray now, it is impossible to cure the Yellow River immediately, he has just been rerouted, the river has not been completed, and even in the next three or five years, he must be psychologically prepared for the flooding of the Yellow River.

Look at the excerpt below, which is the excerpt of several businessmen, including an English businessman, who jointly established a railway company to build the Yanjing-Mukden railway.

In fact, this excerpt has been rejected by Ye Zhao once.

The railway built in the north used the French narrow gauge, which was not the same as the standard steel rail of the Southern Dynasty, because there was a half-abandoned railway foundation in the north and several sections of steel rails that had been laid, and the railway company was also ready to use narrow gauge at first, which was immediately rejected by Ye Zhao.

The new charter has abandoned the narrow-gauge theory, and the cost has increased sharply.

Having said that, although the original railroad tracks in the north country could not be used, the route had already been planned, the villages were relocated, roads and bridges were built, and the basic structure had been completed, so it was much faster and easier than starting from scratch.

Silver, silver, Ye Zhao shook his head, picked up the Zihao that Xuanzhou had just paid tribute, and wrote a line of small characters on the fold.

Zihao's hair is slightly hard, sharp as a cone, sharp as a knife, for Ye Zhao, a person who is used to writing hard pen words and fountain pen words, he is the most suitable.

"Your Majesty, Renshou has arrived." The attendants outside the palace announced.

"Oh, let him in." Ye Zhao put down the brush in his hand.

After a while, the sound of footsteps sounded, leading the official in front, and Prince Rui Renshou in the back.

"The slave greets the emperor." Prince Rui respectfully knelt down and kowtowed.

Ye Zhao bowed his head slightly and said, "Give me a seat." ”

Someone moved to the soft pier next to him, and Prince Rui thanked him, so he sat down. The old man is over fifty years old, his body is still good, his face is ruddy, and his bearing is extraordinary.

Ye Zhao took a sip of the golden silk teacup and said, "There is such a thing, you have the letter to treat the Yellow Plague, right?" ”

"Yes, the minion has heard of it." Prince Rui bowed slightly.

Ye Zhao said: "What do you think? ”

Prince Rui's face was obviously a little stunned, and he would never have thought that Ye Zhao would suddenly ask him to express his opinions on political affairs.

Without doing his homework, the old man was obviously embarrassed and said, "The slave doesn't dare to speak up." He didn't really understand these things.

Ye Zhao picked up the fold of the Dao River and said, "You take a look at this first." ”

His attendant took it and presented it to him.

Prince Rui respectfully took it and looked at it, and then sighed in his heart, the new dynasty and the previous dynasty are very different, the courage is extraordinary, the emperor controls the water, not only set up an errand yamen, but also must be a ten-year outline, than the previous dynasty temporarily crammed Buddha's feet, everywhere to prepare silver, but I don't know how many times stronger.

"What do you think?" Ye Zhao asked him with a smile.

"The emperor is sage, and the servants are not only admired, but also admired." Prince Rui closed the fold and praised it repeatedly.

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "There is such an errand handed over to your parliamentary court to handle, this newly established river governance yamen, all the money, all the money, all have to be supervised by your council, where is the silver spent, how to spend it, every pen has to be verified, all the doors have to be checked, if there is a lack of silver, I will ask you." ”

Prince Rui was stunned for a moment and said, "I'm afraid that the slaves will be confused and won't be able to handle this errand." "This is also incredible, could it be that the emperor saw that he was idle and had nothing to do, and suspected that he was waiting for a complaint, so he deliberately tried to come? Although among the hundreds of political envoys in the House of Representatives, Enping Wei in the south accounts for the majority, but after all, they are all cloth clothes, and what a heavy responsibility is it to govern the river? The Nazhihe Yamen are all capable officials of the new dynasty, when will it be their turn to intervene?

Ye Zhao said: "You are too humble, this matter is so decided, but in the head, you don't point fingers at the project, just supervise the use of money." ”

At this time, Prince Rui knew that the emperor was not testing himself, so he was stunned, hurriedly knelt down, grateful, and kowtowed vigorously: "The slave dares to die without serving his life?!" ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "Okay, get up, you are political envoys, as long as you are above board, you don't have to have too many taboos." ”

"Yes, the minion understands." Prince Rui kowtowed again.

The House of Representatives is now an ornament, and it is better to find them some errands to do, to supervise the flow of river control items without interfering in the affairs of river control, then they must do their best, and at the same time, it can be regarded as gradually increasing the voice of the House of Representatives.

It is also reasonable for Prince Rui to be grateful to Dai Dai, after all, this errand seems to be extremely powerful.

It may be more clear to say that these things are handled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but it is okay in the early days, and if the secret service has been used to supervise the operation of the state system, it is not normal in itself, right?

Ye Zhao took a sip of the teacup and said, "Okay, you can go down." ”

Prince Rui was busy kowtowing and retired.

After Ye Zhao reviewed a few memorandas, he began to study the "Commercial Code" written by himself, which already had a rudimentary form in the Southern Dynasty, and now only needs to be slightly improved, and then its status is determined in the form of a code.

It was almost noon, and Rui Si ran up and down to kowtow.

Now Ruisi is the Minister in charge of the Imperial Household Office, a first-class viscount.

Seeing him come in, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Let's go, go see an old acquaintance." ”

Rui Si from the cloth servant, in just a few years, ranked as a first-class member, is one of the emperor's closest ministers, the situation is strange, he is still like a dream.

…… Several carriages left the forbidden palace from the east side gate, crossed Chang'an Street, and went straight to Baishun Hutong in Hanjiatan.

Baishun Hutong is lined with houses, and the houses of blue bricks and black tiles are next to each other, and there is a faint sound of silk and bamboo fluttering.

In this area, there are not only Taiping Hall, Jintai Hall and other halls, but also fireworks Willow Lane, theater halls, Jiyuan smoke halls abound, it is really a place with complex taste.

When you get off the carriage, Ruisi is stunned, how can the big mansion with the attic towering in front of you be so familiar?

Ye Zhao smiled, nodded with a fan, and said, "Isn't this Yanchun Courtyard?" It was here that I met the imperial concubine in the past. ”

Rui Si suddenly, just the stars moved, this was the first class hall in the capital this morning changed the signboard, but it is a big smoke house, the plaque under the lintel "Fushou Hall", from time to time there are yawning green robe braids in and out.

"Let's go, go in, they're supposed to be there." Ye Zhao walked up and entered the courtyard, and a little servant had already greeted him with a smile, "How many masters?" How many classes do you want? There are a few new Suzhou girls, all of whom are fresh and tender. ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "Do I like to ask someone to accompany me to eat two bites?" Is it okay for a new girl? ”

The little guy smiled, and said in a mysterious voice: "Of course it won't work according to the rules of our new dynasty, but if you want to give more silver, won't it be easier to do things?" Do you think, you gave her the first elegant film, and I will miss you well in the future? ”

Ye Zhao bowed his head slightly and said, "It's good to read me, it's good." ”

Rui Si blinked and glanced at the little guy a few times with triangular eyes, he hadn't beaten someone in person for many years, but now, he really wanted to slap a few big mouths for this eyeless bastard. Take the master's decree as a deaf ear? I don't want this dog's head anymore!

Ye Zhao just put away the folding fan and said, "Go to Lingzhi Pavilion, I made an appointment." ”

The little guy was immediately more attentive, and the Lingzhi Pavilion was the best single room in the smoke house, if it weren't for the dignitaries and dignitaries, they couldn't afford it.

The layout of Fushoutang has not changed, with two-story buildings on all sides, and the escalator on the south side winds up.

Lingzhi Pavilion is the place where Da Chun was chartered, where Ye Zhao and the matchmaker first met, and the outer hall and inner room are more gorgeously decorated, with more French carpets and sofa loungers.

Of course, French carpets are just popular names, but in fact, they are mostly woven in Jiangnan.

"I have to come here!" The delicate and mellow voice, if you only listen to its voice, no one would have thought that the owner of the voice is Su Hongniang, the heroine of the world.

Rui Si saw the charming beauty who suddenly appeared in front of him, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Slave Rui Ji asks the imperial concubine Niangniang to say goodbye." ”

In the land of fireworks, the matchmaker naturally changed into casual clothes, Ye Zhao was stunned at the time, a slim long black sweater, with a high collar and two layers on the chest, as complicated as wearing a fancy shoulder, the hem reached three inches above the knee, with excellent elasticity, tightly wrapped around the matchmaker's delicate body, and then down were black cotton socks, knee-length leather boots, cold and charming, Ye Zhao's eyes were dazzling, and he almost couldn't pull it out.

Do you want to come and wear a big hat when you enter the door, otherwise it won't cause a sensation?

"Get up." The matchmaker said softly to Rui Si, but glared at Ye Zhao, feeling that Ye Zhao was really the same as the little pervert in this room back then.

Ye Zhao coughed dryly, sat down at the sandalwood round table, and his own maid served fragrant tea.

"What about Dachun? Haven't arrived yet? Ye Zhao's voice did not fall, the footsteps sounded, Da Chun hurriedly entered, and kowtowed again.

Seeing Da Chun coming in, Ye Zhao smiled: "Chun'er, see who this is?" If you want to say that you are the big matchmaker for me and your sister-in-law, thank you so much! ”

Ye Zhao and Da Chun had a few meals, and gradually stopped Da Chun's energy, but Da Chun didn't dare to call Ye Zhao "brother" anymore.

Listening to Ye Zhao's words, Da Chun smiled dryly, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Ye Zhao said: "Okay, sit down, today is our own people, let's be less polite." ”

Ruisi and Da Chun were both sitting on the chairs next to half of their butts, and the two had just met, but they hugged and made love very much, and they had their own feelings.

Ye Zhao smiled again: "Your sister-in-law has to go to the front line again, and when she hears about you, she wants to see you." ”

Da Chun's heart was warm, but he didn't dare to look directly at the matchmaker.

The matchmaker knew that her father-in-law really didn't have many friends, and she wanted to tie up this Dachun back then, but she tied up a bad fate, which is funny to think about.

To Da Chun, she felt a little closer, and said softly: "Chun'er, I will return to Beijing later, and bring my younger siblings for a walk." ”

Da Chun hurriedly claimed yes, hesitated, and said, "Your Majesty, Da Chun wants to ask the emperor for something." ”

Ye Zhao said: "You say." ”

Da Chun said: "Da Chun doesn't want to go to the patrol hall to be an errand boy, Da Chun wants to be a soldier, isn't it recruiting Mongolian divisions now?" Dachun wanted to try. ”

At present, the Southern Dynasties are reorganizing and recruiting garrisons to be transferred to Outer Mongolia, which are officially called the First Royal Frontier Division and the Second Royal Frontier Division.

Each division was about 10,000 people, the first division was stationed in Kulen, and the second division was stationed in Uriya Sutai.

At present, the first division is being reorganized, and it will go to Ulaanbaatar with the new minister of Kulun, and as for the second division, because Uriya Sutai is in the steppe of the two tribes of Outer Mongolia that has not yet been surrendered, it is still necessary to see how the situation develops.

Of course, although the infantry division entered Mongolia, when it arrived at the station, it would definitely slowly develop into two arms, horse and infantry, and a certain number of Mongols would also be recruited into the army.

Moreover, most of these two frontier guards also have a kind of construction corps, not to reclaim Mongolia, but in addition to the supply of the central political axe, I want to solve part of it myself, under the current conditions, the road is too far away, if we do not "develop the masses in the local area, the army and the people work together", in Outer Mongolia to maintain the existence of 20,000 troops, just relying on the Central Plains to transport all kinds of heavy supplies, it will be an extremely heavy burden, in the event of an emergency, it will be even more unprepared.

If these two garrisons can overcome all kinds of difficulties and take root, the central government's control over Outer Mongolia will be strengthened like never before, and it will also be an unprecedented achievement in the entire history of the Central Plains Dynasty. You must know that even the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had the closest relationship with Mongolia, did not have a real garrison in Outer Mongolia, and the armed personnel accompanying the minister were only a few hundred. However, in Tibetan Province, an armed force of about 3,000 people has been maintained.

Nowadays, relying on the war, relying on the strength of the new dynasty, and the excuse of preventing the intrusion of the Rakshasas, it is the best time to take the opportunity to garrison troops in Outer Mongolia.

Hearing that Da Chun was going to be a soldier, Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "You just let me stay in the capital obediently, do you know why I asked you to come here?" Once I come to meet your sister-in-law, and then another, in the future, you will have to take care of this kind of smoke house for me, and you must slowly ban them. ”

After a pause, he said, "In a few days, I will take you to meet the sixth sister-in-law, you are on an errand under her." ”

Da Chun was stunned, Brother still has a royal concubine who is patrolling?

Ye Zhao smiled again: "Your sister-in-law, who is the deputy director, is a serious person, you have to be careful under her, do a good job, don't embarrass me." ”

The matchmaker couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Sisi is so stubborn, I don't have a problem with her." ”

Da Chun scratched his head, why did he feel like he was being set on fire to roast?

(To be continued)