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On December 20, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong held a prefect-level meeting of Henan Province in Luoyang. The meeting was presided over by Zhou Yingzhi, the governor of Henan and the political envoy of Bu, and the crown prince arranged the work of each prefecture in the next stage, commending those with outstanding political achievements, such as Liao Xing, the prefect of Kaifeng, and Hou Fangyu, the prefect of De.

At the same time, new administrative divisions were announced.

First of all, Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion were merged into one, and the newly established Huaiqing Mansion had twelve counties under its jurisdiction and became Henan Mansion. The second is that Ruzhou Zhili Prefecture was once again assigned to Nanyang Prefecture, and now Ruzhou Zhizhou temporarily takes Xiangyang Prefecture. In this way, a set of prefecture-level administrative teams can be saved and administrative efficiency can be improved.

As a religious country, the basic principle that must be followed is: two people become rituals, and three people become rituals.

It seems like a simple meeting, but it is absolutely impossible for everyone to sit in one room and pass away. The prefect Sang Kaidi had a lot of research on etiquette, and he was quite flexible, so he changed this meeting into two parts: "court meeting" and "meeting feast". Let the officials meet the crown prince first, and then each of them will take their seats and hold a feast.

The atmosphere of the banquet was relaxed, and the speech was solemn and harmonious, which was exactly in line with the "meeting" that the prince said.

Zhu Cihong was also very satisfied with this arrangement, he sat in the middle of the throne, and the prefect officials below were divided into two sides, sitting opposite each other, which was no different from the meeting of senior officials in later generations.

In order to meet the occasion, there is also a food table in front of the officials, with tea, water, fruits, and cakes, which are simple and clean, and save expenses.

"In the spring of next year, all parts of the province, especially Guide and Huaiqing, must ensure spring ploughing." Zhu Cihong said: "I hope that next year's grain in Shanxi will be transferred from Henan. "Guide and Huaiqing are key grain-producing areas in Henan, as long as spring plowing and reclamation can be fully guaranteed, there is absolutely no problem for the province to be self-sufficient.

However, if there is an additional supply to Shanxi, it will be a bit stressful.

Wu Weiye and Hou Fangyu looked at the tea and pastries in front of them, and they also felt a little heavy. However, the two provinces have always been the land of grain production. The land is rich, and now there are potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other semi-grains that can be cultivated in mountains and tidal flats, and it is not impossible to complete the task.

"Kaifeng Mansion," Zhu Cihong looked at the young and resolute Liao Xing, "After the people, the first thing to control the river is." Spring ploughing can be done within one's means, but river control must be put in the first place. Liao Xing, if you can cure the Yellow River, I will ask for a knight for you. ”

Liao Xing hurriedly got up, bowed and saluted: "The minister will definitely do his best." ”

Zhu Cihong is very satisfied with Liao Xing's work attitude of never bargaining.

Since the Western Han Dynasty. The Yellow River continued to encroach on the Huai River. When the country is at peace, the government has the resources to dredge rivers and build embankments, so that even in the event of flooding, the government can provide relief to the victims. As soon as the country has something, focus on other directions. The Yellow River will show its ferocious minions.

After the Tang and Song dynasties, the ecological environment of the Loess Plateau deteriorated. Soil erosion is severe. The Yellow River carries trillions of tons of sediment into the eastern plains. Sediment accumulated, the river channel was filled in flat, and the river naturally overflowed, forming a yellow flood area where crops could not be cultivated.

In the fourth year of Hongzhi, the Yellow River was executed at seven outlets such as Huanglinggang and Jinlongkou in Caozhou, and the flood went north in Zhangqiu and entered the Huitong River. The boats and cargo ships heading north were all blocked in Zhang Qiu. Emperor Hongzhi ordered the deputy capital Liu Daxia to plug the mouth. Liu Daxia formulated and implemented the strategy of dividing the north embankment into the south. Under his auspices, the imperial court built the Taihang Embankment, the northern embankment of the Yellow River, which is more than 500 miles long from Caozhou to Xuzhou.

After the formation of the embankment on the north bank of the Yellow River, the northern flood of the Yellow River was prevented and the smooth flow of the Huitong River was ensured. But let the Yellow River divert southward. However, it has caused continuous flooding in the area south of the Yellow River. Eventually, the lower reaches of the Yellow River will have more and more southward branches, and the lower the river's sediment-carrying capacity, and the worse the river channel will be.

The downstream was divided into three branches during the Hongji period. By the end of Jiajing, there were as many as 13 branches of the Yellow River in Shandong and Nanzhi, and the Yellow River had no main stream.

In the 25th year of Jiajing, in order to control the Yellow River, the Yellow River was artificially introduced to the south of Surabaya and entered the sea together with the Huai River. Due to the weakness of Huang Qianghuai and Huai River, the sediment in the lower reaches of the Huai River gradually increased, forming an above-ground river. The Huai River no longer becomes a smooth waterway, and in the lower part of the Huai River, that is, in the Hongze Lake area above the Huaisi confluence, the water first accumulated into a lake, connecting the small lakes before the Song Dynasty and becoming Hongze Lake.

It is also for this reason that the Huai River area is constantly flooded.

Until the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Pan Jitao began a twenty-seven-year project to control the river.

Under Pan Jitao's management, the Yellow River finally stabilized, but as the riverbed continued to rise and the number of breaches on both sides of the river increased. After the 24th year of Wanli, the Yellow River broke almost every year, and the disaster area even moved south to Suzhou for a generation.

As far as Kaifeng is concerned, in addition to natural disasters such as the flooding of the Yellow River, there are also man-made disasters. Before Li Zicheng attacked and opened the seal, in order to break the enemy as soon as possible, he broke the river and flooded the city, and the lives were devastated. Moreover, when the war changed, Li Zicheng had never operated Kaifeng, and naturally no one would completely repair the broken estuary.

Now that the imperial court has recovered Henan, Liao Xing also announced to the people that Henan will return to the royal system from now on, so the heavy responsibility of governing Huang will of course fall on the shoulders of the Emperor Ming Kaifeng Mansion.

"According to the usual practice, it is necessary to appoint a river governor to coordinate the land," Zhu Cihong said, "and now there is a shortage of manpower, so we can only take care of the present first, and then thoroughly govern it after the country is stable in the future." Liao Xing, you also have to start training a group of capable river workers. ”

Later generations thought that the eight strands were all nerds, but this was not the case in Daming. The imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty can not only take out writers, philosophers, and various humanities masters, but also military strategists and water conservancy experts.

Pan Jitao is the Jinshi of Jiajing for 29 years, the first Jiujiang magistrate, promoted to the imperial history, and later patrolled Guangdong, and then promoted to Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple. It can be said that before Jiajing forty-four years ago, Pan Jitao was a standard judge. If such a resume was in Zhu Cihong's hands, he would never be allowed to govern the river.

But Pan Jitao really cured the effect.

Zhu Cihong didn't dare to hope that he could have another Pan Jitao in his hands, but still wanted to take the path of professional training, improve the quality of river workers, and inherit Pan Jitao's concept and means of river governance.

After Liao Xing learned that he had been assigned to Kaifeng Mansion, he knew that river control was an unavoidable problem. He asked people to buy the manuscripts written by Pan Jitao such as "Chenduan Dagonglu", "Two Rivers Guanjian", "List of River Defense", "Liuyutang Collection" and so on, and made full preparations. This time, the crown prince pushed the spring ploughing task to the back, which was equivalent to reducing his burden a lot.

"The prefectures in western Henan are still based on arranging households and people, setting up village schools, measuring land, and diverting canals for irrigation, so as to achieve self-sufficiency in food as much as possible." Zhu Cihong said: "After the spring ploughing, all localities must first conduct academic and political assessments, and in terms of administrative expenses, tuition expenses cannot be less than 30 percent of the total expenses. ”

The current officials of the Donggong system are still guaranteed to be honest, and as long as the silver is spent in the right place, the effect will definitely be seen. In particular, the greatest obstacle to literacy has been cleared by a miraculous artifact, and the results of education have been reaped much earlier than expected.

That artifact was charcoal.

A small charcoal pencil costs only seven dollars each, but it can allow students to have enough writing practice and speed up the mastery of words. Zhu Cihong only accepted the use of vulgar characters in the office process, coupled with the promotion of charcoal, and the efficiency of the administrative intermediate process was strengthened.

Only when the materials are confirmed and summarized, will they be handed over to Lao Xiucai to copy and archive with a brush in orthographic characters, so that they can be preserved for hundreds of years.

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"His Royal Highness has arranged so meticulously today, is he going back to Jinan?"

After the meeting, the prefects withdrew and discussed. This is also the habit of scribes, but the real non-commissioned officers are reluctant to talk about things in public.

"I heard that there are already three holy decrees urgently summoned." Ears and eyes are the way.

"Also, it's going to be the Spring Festival."

"Hehe, His Royal Highness was originally going to get married this year, but he didn't take care of it after the national change, and this time he must make up for it."

When everyone heard this, they exclaimed "it should be so" and "it is finally so".

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Zhu Cihong was the first to leave the table, not knowing that these subordinates were discussing his life's affairs. In this era, it is very immoral for a minister to discuss his king, with the exception of two private matters: marriage and heirs.

Because these two things are still one thing in the final analysis, that is: national unification. (To be continued......)