Ouchi, Funing Hall.

Inside the gold gate of the coiling dragon, there are layers of bright yellow curtains hanging, and each curtain is a layer of doors, leading to the innermost sleeping palace.

On the Hu bed covered with bright yellow cushions, sat Zhao Zhen, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, who wore a light blue civilian robe, tied his hair with blue silk inlaid with jasper, and looked at the two fake sons present with a smile.

Sitting on the Jindun on the left was a gentle young man with a face like a crown of jade, wearing a purple official uniform, and his face was full of concern.

On the Jindun on the right, there is a young man with a Chinese character face and thick eyebrows, also wearing a purple official uniform, with a faint melancholy on his face.

These are the two children he watched grow up, the eldest is called Zhao Zongshi, the thirteenth son of his cousin Zhao Yunrang, the king of Runan County, and the younger is called Zhao Zongji, the second son of his cousin Zhao Yunbi, the king of Beihai County, with an age difference of two years, and they were all raised in the palace back then.

Although they were sent out later, Zhao Zhen never stopped caring, and even their marriage was handled by him and the queen. The two also treated him with fatherly courtesy and regularly entered the palace to ask for peace, so it can be said that they have always been in love with father and son.

After listening to the greetings of the two, the official smiled and said, "My body is already much better, you don't have to worry about it." ”

"Uncle still has to rest more, state affairs or something, there are ministers to worry about." Zhao Zongshi's voice was as gentle as his appearance: "This time we must recuperate, and we can't leave roots." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Ji nodded and said softly, "Is your eldest man's rash cured?" ”

"The day before yesterday was already better, and now I'm alive again." Speaking of his son, the smile on Zhao Zongshi's face finally warmed up. His eight-year-old eldest son, Zhao Zhongzhen, was born with a tiger head and a tiger brain, and was deeply loved by the official family.

"I haven't seen him in a while." Zhao Zhen blamed: "Why didn't you bring it for me to see." ”

"I'm afraid it's not good, and Lisuo is sick." Zhao Zongshi said softly: "After two days, he has completely recovered and will bring him to his uncle to say goodbye." ”

"It's fine." Zhao Zhen nodded, then turned to Zhao Zongji and said, "What about that kid in your family?" ”

"All day long except eating is sleeping." Zhao Zongji is not as vigorous as Zhao Zongshi, he got married at the age of fifteen, gave birth to a baby at the age of sixteen, and his son has just reached the age of ...... It is precisely because he became a father that he didn't want to pretend to be crazy and stupid, which would make his son look down on him: "There's nothing wrong with it." ”

"Don't be careless, children should be extra careful" ,......" Zhao Zhen sighed with emotion, as if he touched his heart, and was silent for a long time, before he relieved himself and looked at the two and said, "Have you done your homework?" ”

"It's done." Both of them nodded at the same time, each took out a copy from their sleeves, and got up at the same time.

A eunuch stepped forward, took it, and handed it to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen nodded, motioned for him to rest on the table, looked at the two of them and said, "Let's talk about it in general." ”

"We juniors are only shallow in learning, what do we know about major national affairs? Most of them are the same people, and occasionally have their own little ideas, but Uncle Bo smiles. Naturally, Zhao Zongshi came first, he said a few words modestly, and then said eloquently: "The child thinks that if you want to achieve the purpose of returning to the east of the river, the most appropriate way is to open the Liuta River, so that the water of the Yellow River will return to the old Jingdong River into the sea...... Among the old channels of the Yellow River, this river is relatively straight, and the mileage from the sea is relatively short, and it is ",..." by dredging and falling into congestion, cutting bends and straightening, and repairing embankments

Balabala said for a long time, in fact, the central meaning is just one sentence, the plan of the Six Towers River is good!

The official family kept a listening posture, and listened patiently to him, and then smiled and said, "Very good, you have put a lot of thought into it." ”

"Uncle praised it." Zhao Zongshi said humbly.

"Ji'er, what about you?" The official looked at Zhao Zongji and said.

"Back to my uncle." Zhao Zongji took a deep breath and said loudly: "The child thinks that the Six Towers River plan is a big fallacy! ”

"Oh..." The official was slightly surprised: "How so?" ”

Zhao Zongshi's face also changed slightly, and he immediately smiled and said nothing.

"The reason is very simple, if the old road of Henglong can be used, why will the Yellow River be diverted?" Zhao Zongji said in a deep voice: "The Yellow River is three parts of water and seven parts of mud, and there is no reason for siltation. The sedimentation of the sludge starts from the slow discharge of the downstream water. The higher the downstream sedimentation, the slower the water flow. If the flow rate is too fast in the upper reaches and too slow in the downstream, the embankment will be executed in the middle of the lower reaches. This is also the norm. ”

The child specially consulted the hydrological data and found that since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the downstream overflow of this waterway has gradually increased. And into this dynasty, Jingdong's old way has been repeated again and again, and again and again, and it has reached the point where it cannot be rectified at all. What is the reason for this? The child sent people to investigate on the spot, and also interviewed hundreds of experienced old people, and learned that the Yellow River has been silted up from the east of Puyang, and it is not as Li Zhongchang and others said, but above the copper city is considered a highland. ”

"In fact, above the copper city can be regarded as 'extra-high', and the riverbed is higher and higher to the east, and the drop between the highest point and Shanghukou is close to 100 zhang...... It is the nature of water to avoid high and go down, from high to low, so it is difficult to recover the old ways of any highland where the river has been abandoned. Even if it is temporarily recovered by force, it will not be long before it will definitely be executed at the upper reaches of the river, causing a new diversion, and the old road is still the old road Liuta River after all, and the root cause is here! ”

At the beginning of construction, Li Zhongchang and others said that the Liuta River could serve as a diversion and reduce the pressure of flooding on the Yellow River. But the child learned that in fact, after the diversion, the floods in En'nan and Hebei prefectures are still in danger. And its subtraction is water

, because of the indecent and no return, has made Bin, Cang, De, Bo, Qi several states for trouble: if they are all returned, the trouble will be several times the before. And the above five states, known as rich, Hebei all the way, the use of money to look upon, now the water is injected, not only the people of the five states destroy the land, Hebei all the way, sit and see poverty. The damage is even more incalculable. It can be seen that the suggestion of opening the Six Towers is really ridiculous, harmless, and completely undesirable! ”

When Zhao Zongji made a generous statement, when he talked eloquently with Zhao Zongshi, there seemed to be no difference in the expressions and movements of the officials, they were all very patient listening, and only those who were most familiar with him would find some differences from a small action.

When Fang was halfway through listening to the former, Zhao Zhen's ears moved slightly, and after listening to the latter, the ears of the officials were always straight.

After a while, the official family smiled and said, "Ji'er, do you know that these words are going to offend people." ”

"But the child is more afraid of the unwarranted flood of his uncle's people."

No vain, the two words stung Zhao Zhen, the slender eyes of the official narrowed slightly, and asked Zhao Zongshi again: "What do you think?" ”

"The boy seems to have a lot of sense when he listens to his brother." Zhao Zongshi smiled and said: "But I think that the three generations of the Li family, Li Zhongchang's family history, will never make such a low-level mistake, so the child still believes in the half-break of the two prime ministers." ”

"Hmm......" Zhao Zhen listened and nodded, as if he was also thinking the same.

"Uncle!" Zhao Zongji sighed secretly in his heart, got up and hugged his fists and said: "The net worth of hundreds of thousands of Song Zimin should not take any risk!" ”

"Hmm......" Zhao Zhen nodded again, and seemed to agree with this.

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Coming out of the Funing Palace, the two brothers walked out side by side.

"Brother Xian, is your illness cured?" Zhao Zongshi asked softly.

"Brother, I'm not sick, it's just idle and boring, it's fun." Zhao Zongji smiled.

"It's all fathers, and they have to be like adults." Zhao Zongshi stretched out his hand, smiled and plucked a dead leaf from his shoulder, and said with a smile: "Your performance today is very good." ”

"Thank you brother for the compliment." Zhao Zongji smiled bitterly: "I'm just a rectum, and when these words reach my father's ears, I will definitely be beaten." ”

"How can it be, it's too late for Uncle Wang to be happy." Zhao Zongshi shook his head and smiled: "By the way, I got a set of "The Great Wilderness Sutra", which is very interesting, when will you come over to appreciate it together?" ”

"The younger brother just doesn't lack time, another day my brother has time, send someone to call me, and I'll be on call."

"Haha, okay." While talking, I walked to the gate of the palace, and as soon as I walked out of the palace gate, it was a bustling street. The eunuch led the horse. Taking the reins, Zhao Zongshi smiled and said, "Then I'll see you another day." ”

"Send my brother." Zhao Zongji sang.

Seeing Zhao Zongshi far away, he lowered his face and said with a wry smile: "Half of my body is going to freeze." ”

"Why don't you say it." It turned out to be Chen Ke who led the horse, and he laughed and said, "Half of his body is going to be baked?" "The relationship between the two can't be hidden, so why hide it?

"Haha..." Zhao Zongji smiled: "I don't know how to be angry." ”

"I'm angry." Chen Ke smiled: "Still afraid of him? ”

"Don't say that." Zhao Zongji was worried: "He has twenty-seven brothers. ”

"Damn, his father is so capable?" Chen Ke's eyes widened.

"It's also a skill to be able to live." Zhao Zongji nodded and said: "There are many brothers, and there are always a few extremely vicious people...... It is said that his family is eight and sixteen, and has a deep relationship with the "Sanssouci Cave" and "Ghost Fan Building". ”

"Sanssouci Cave, Ghost Fan Building?" Chen Ke frowned slightly and said, "What's that?" ”

"After more than 100 years of construction, the underground ditches in this Bianliang City are extremely deep and wide." Zhao Zongji pointed to his feet and said: "There are many outlaws, hiding in them, calling themselves 'Sanssouci Cave' It is said that the largest of them is the 'Ghost Fan Tower' built by the beggars, who specialize in plundering women from the ground to prostitution and persecution.

"Not really." Chen Ke looked at the prosperous Bianjing City and said in disbelief: "There is a shop in Bianjing City, one shop in five miles, and one battalion in each box, how many military and police are there?" Why don't you exterminate them? ”

"Why haven't you slashed it? In the past dynasties, Kaifeng Mansion Yin did not send people down to clean up. Zhao Zongji shook his head and said: "However, how many of the 100,000 people in this Bianjing City are scoundrels?" How many ruffians are produced every day? Batch after batch of exterminations, just like cutting leeks, it is unclean......" After a pause, he said in a low voice: "Besides, the gangs that can survive the purging again and again have a background, didn't I say it......." ”

"It turns out that there is a protective umbrella", Chen Ke was stunned.

"Anyway, you have to be careful." Zhao Zongji said: "Among the beggars on the side of the street, there are that kind of people in Bacheng, they don't dare to do anything to me, for fear that they will target you." I'll let them follow you. "Old Qian is Zhao Zongji's chief guard.

"It's fine." Chen Ke nodded, there is no need to be a hero.

(To be continued)