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The newly sealed Qiu Gate has almost reached the edge of the outer city, and the house that Ji Qingling bought that day is not on Mahang Street, and it is surrounded by just ordinary residents.

Ji Qingling listened to Gu Yanzhang's explanation, so he also glanced at the ditch that was half exposed to the ground and only half dug up, and only secretly felt strange.

Although she has not been in the capital for a long time, she can read the newspapers of the court and the central government in the past, or read the tabloids sold on the streets, from top to bottom, she attaches great importance to the construction of canals in the city.

Without him, it is all the vital interests of everyone.

In the capital, there are four rivers to pass through the water transport, among which the Bianhe River has the most water transport, the Yellow River and the Bianhe River flow the largest, whether it is in the city, or more than 20 other counties and towns in Gyeonggi, they all break the embankment every year, the difference is just that the breach is large or the break is small.

As soon as the embankment is broken and the ditch is destroyed, the people of Gyeonggi will bear the brunt of the attack.

When Emperor Taizong was in the past, he personally went up to the embankment to supervise the prison army to block the Yellow River breach, and said, "The capital raises hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers, and millions of people. When Zhao Rui arrived, he issued a clear order to dredge the ditch in Beijing every year, and specially set up a river canal department to take care of this matter.

But now Ji Qingling turned his head to look at the ditch, where the silt and garbage were tightly blocked, and it looked like it was dredged every year, and it was obvious that no one had taken care of it for many years.

She was afraid that she was wrong, so she took the reins of her left hand, and when she got closer, she couldn't help but compare the direction of the ditch with her hand, and then turned around and asked: "Fifth brother, I don't recognize it, do you say that this ditch is connected to the Wuzhang River?" ”

Gu Yanzhang followed the horse and stepped forward, and looked at it carefully, but the ditch was blocked, and he really couldn't see the direction, so he said: "I don't recognize it either, it doesn't look like it's the same Wuzhang River, but it looks like it's used to divert the Ming River behind." ”

Ji Qingling frowned and said: "If it is blocked like this, no matter where it is passed, I am afraid it will be useless." ”

It's not a big deal, the two just met and chatted a few words, they didn't take it to heart, turned the horse's head, and wanted to leave it behind, who expected that it didn't go far, and then saw that there were a lot of people around the front of the house, and the noisy and shouting didn't count, and most of the road was blocked, and I didn't know what was going on.

Although this place is facing the street, the street is not big, Ji Qingling rode a horse, and saw that there were people everywhere, for fear of a collision, he hurriedly pulled the reins and slowed down.

Gu Yanzhang opened the way in front, Ji Qingling followed behind, the two of them rode on horses, with a wide field of vision, and they were taking in the scene in front of them.

There were two officials standing outside a room, and an old man was talking to a few people opposite.

Among them were an old woman, two children, and a teenager.

The old woman held a mallet in her hand, and her voice was sharp, not like it came out of her throat, but as if she had practiced in the troupe.

"The surname is Hu, you want to bully my old Deng family no one! I, an orphan, if you dare to move, I will not go up to the yamen to sue - I know that you officials protect each other, and we, the ordinary people, will not have any good fruit to eat—only at night, you must remember to lock the door of the house, if something happens, just cry, don't come looking for me! ”

The old woman scolded and raised the mallet above her head, raised her voice a little more, and threatened: "My family often went to your house when I was alive, and I know the way to your house, if you want to cut off his ancestral incense, don't blame him for knocking on your door in the middle of the night!" ”

He hissed again: "You old ** are tired of living, you are not afraid of death, and you don't help your children and grandchildren accumulate some blessings, aren't you afraid that your daughter-in-law's grandchildren are not **!" ”

Seeing that the old woman was scolding more and more fiercely, she had already scolded her whole body, and began to greet her ancestors for eight generations, the old man finally couldn't hold it back, and interrupted him: "He Erniang, where did I create evil?" The old Deng family was originally a second-class household, and the canal was repaired in Beijing, so why didn't they need to be called? According to the rules, everyone else can go out, but you can't go out of your house? ”

The old woman waved the mallet in her hand and was about to rush forward, but fortunately she was stopped by the young man behind her, who was very unhappy and scolded hatefully: "Why is my old Deng family a second-class household?!" You go and count, how many people are there in my family? How can I be a person, you dragged me, an old immortal, to repair the ditch! ”

The old man pointed to the young man opposite and said, "Isn't Deng Si a human being?" ”

The old woman's eyes suddenly widened like copper bells, and she scolded: "The surname Hu, do you still have a conscience, my old Deng family is the only one left, and you still want him to repair the canal!" Years ago, was the second ditch of my family repaired in vain! Who moved the bricks in the culvert in that part of the Wuzhang River? Is there no name for my Erlang? ”

Although she is old, her strength is not small, she scolded in her mouth, and the mallet in her hand was already thrown away by the strong wind, but fortunately, she was not on the right head and did not hit the old man opposite.

The man behind heard that the wind was not right, and hurriedly got out of the way, and the mallet smashed on the ground, and the bones rolled a foot away, and then the thunder and rain stopped.

The two officials standing behind the old man saw that the situation was wrong, and they were about to step forward immediately, but they were blocked by the old man.

The old man didn't dare to move when he saw the old woman's fierce and vicious appearance, so he hurriedly stood still and said: "The Wuzhang River was repaired a year ago, but today it is going to Tongbian River, and I don't ask your family Deng Sibai to do it, it is good, there is no waterlogging in the city this year, and your family can generally get benefits, and when Deng Er comes back, you also have to rest, and you don't have to work hard, isn't it good?" ”

The old woman spat on the ground and said to the people who were looking around: "Everyone is here, and they all listen to what kind of he says!" When I went to repair the Wuzhang River a few years ago, I generally said that I wanted to go to the Tongbian River, well, I went back and forth, and the result was that the Wuzhang River was passed! Where to go in Wuzhang River, where to go in Bianhe, surnamed Hu, are you really stupid, or are you pretending to be stupid?! ”

She got up, and someone in the crowd followed and coaxed: "Hu Lizheng, Wuzhang River beats the royal street and the state bridge, no matter how clean it is, it has nothing to do with our newly sealed Qiu Gate!" The Bianhe River is not passable, go to the Wuzhang River, you take the coolies we sell to please those officials, your own house is not here, but we still have to dress and eat! ”

Someone else followed: "When we are illiterate, you don't know anything?" The storyteller said earlier, the emperor originally set to open the Bianqu once a year, and he had to drown the river sand in the Bianhe River once a year, you took our silver money, and drew the people here to serve, but did not dredge the Bianqu, nor did you dig and kill, what Wuzhang River did you use, I only asked, do you want face or shame? ”

For a while, the crowd booed.

The old man saw that the situation was not good, and even more so that things seemed to be getting bigger, so he didn't dare to stay longer, so he slipped away with two officers and soldiers.

The old woman drove the people away, and Fu Cai thanked the people in the audience: "Thanks to the big guy's help today, if it was only me, I am afraid that they have forced the people to take them away." ”

Everyone waved their hands, and someone said: "I really can't stand it, only his second mother, he can drag on for a while, and he can't drag on for a lifetime, sooner or later, he will still come to look for you." ”

The old woman also sighed: "It really can't be done, so I rented out this house for the time being, and used the money to buy a forced labor, and I will redeem it when my second man comes back...... This time and twice, they say that they want to open the canal and the Jun River, and they pump people every year, and they don't see the real Jun River, but they protect the people who eat the emperor's grain on the royal street, and we still have to suffer if we do our best......"

Someone said: "Last year is a small year, this year's flood is afraid of a big year, a year ago said to repair the culvert, people have been pumped away, and there is no repair, you see the ditch outside only dug a few shovels, where can bear the big water from the Bianhe River." If it weren't for the fact that my family was here, I would have wanted to move to the rest of the place and come back when the water had passed! ”

The bystander replied: "This dream is well done, when you come back from other states with a family, good guy, go back to the house, you don't even have to open the door!" ”

"Why don't you have to open it?" Someone else asked.

The man said, "The door has been washed away, where else can I open the door?" ”

Everyone laughed for a while, and after laughing, they were all very embarrassed, but they had to disperse and go home.

The woman hurriedly picked up the mallet and pulled it home, and then closed the door.

Ji Qingling watched this farce, although he didn't know the cause and effect, he could hear them talking, and he could more or less speculate a little.

She asked Gu Yanzhang: "Fifth brother, isn't there a river canal division in Beijing that is in charge of the canal and the Jun River?" How can you listen to their tone as if no one cares? Wuzhang River has its own Wuzhang River work, how can it be that it has to draw a new place to seal Qiumen? ”

"Originally, there was a river canal manager, but there were many small things in this place, and he was asked everywhere to ask people, and his place was a routine dredging river, but there were often Gemen Di Marquis who received an errand to repair the canal, because there were few people at hand, and the errand was also urgent, so he asked the river canal secretary to discuss."

The Marquis of the Pavilion Gate is mostly a military attache and a clear position, and most of the people who can get this position are not the clan, or the royal family, and the hair is as thick as the legs, compared with it, the people in charge of the Gouhe Canal Division are like the grasshoppers after the autumn, but if they earn harder, they will have to kick off their two small and slender grasshopper legs, how to dare to refute, naturally they have to obey orders honestly.

As a result, most of the strong men who were taken away in the name of repairing the Bianqu Canal of the Jun River went to the places where high-ranking officials and dignitaries gathered, such as Tongna Royal Street, Zhou Bridge, and Junyi Bridge, leaving the people in the outer city unattended. The Bianhe, Wuzhang River, Yellow River, and Huimin River, which should have been dredged every year, may not be dredged once after four or five years.

The more sediment accumulates in the river, the more difficult it is to clean, and the ditches have not been dredged for several years, and even the holes have been blocked, making it even more difficult to deal with.

It is because once there is a big flood, the outer city is always stronger than the inner city, and the inner city is far away from the inner city and is closer to the inner city.

"Although there is water in the capital every year, and the Yellow River and Bianhe River burst their banks every year, we can't blame the canal and the Jun River for not doing well, but if it is done well, it should be slowed down a few points?" Ji Qingling couldn't help asking.

Gu Yanzhang said: "It's not necessarily easy to say, when I was studying in Liangshan in the past, Mr. took us to analyze together, in fact, the Yellow River and the Bianhe River generally passed through here in the past, but there has never been a flood today. ”

The population of the capital is millions of huge, no matter clothing, food, housing, transportation, naturally it is impossible to be self-sufficient, all rely on the four rivers in the city, and the Bianhe River transport volume is the largest, the most boats, in the past few years, the number of grain transported by the Bianhe River alone, has gradually changed from the original more than 3 million stones, to more than 7 million stones.

It can almost be said that it is all dependent on the transportation of the Bianhe River to feed the millions of people in the capital.

Because of this, the smooth flow of this river has become a major event related to people's livelihood.

It is not an exaggeration to say that if the Bianhe River is suspended for one day, the prices in the capital will rise accordingly.

The impact is so huge, the flow of the Bianhe River, the speed of the water, etc., are naturally the most important, only the water speed, the water level is appropriate, so that the boat can easily travel on it.

But because of this, the small river that originally flowed into the Bianhe River was blocked, and the remaining big river flowed in, not to mention the sediment, and the small stream of the clear stream was also less, and in order to keep it smooth, it could not stop the navigation and clear the canal, which naturally led to the more sediment, the higher the riverbed.