Chapter 1019: Lower Jiangnan
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There are two roads to Jiangnan Road, one is to go north into Henan Province and take the Yellow River Road all the way east to the vicinity of Yunzhou, turn to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and go south along the river to Jiangnan Road, which is a waterway.
One is the overland route of Dugi Road, passing through Xuzhou, Yingzhou and other places into Suzhou and Hangzhou.
Qin Huaidao chose to take the waterway, first, the waterway passes through many places, it seems that the road is far away, but it is faster and more comfortable than the land route, the land route is not only wind and sun, but also the horse riding is bumpy, he is naturally not afraid, but who wants to suffer this crime if there is a comfortable waterway?
What's more, the flooding of the Yellow River has always been the top problem of all dynasties since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it costs millions of silver taels every year, and it is normal to spend tens of millions of taels of silver in a year of great disaster.
When he entered Henan Mansion to see the Yellow River, he was also more relieved.
For Qin Huaidao, it is essential to understand the people's hearts, so whenever he goes, he will listen carefully to the people's views on the entire new policy and the things mentioned in the Chang'an Daily.
Many of them said that although they did not understand the significance of the so-called new ideas, when they mentioned that the people were the masters of their own affairs, everyone's faces were filled with excitement, and the changes in the imperial court not only brought new ideas to the entire Han Dynasty, but also brought new impetus.
Under the rule of a court whose power belonged to the people, the people gradually came out of the haze of war and were full of hope for the future.
There is also a "Me and My Han" played by the National Music House that continues to penetrate into various state roads, and for a time a new fashion swept the entire Han Dynasty, making the Han Dynasty show a thriving trend, and also making people with ghosts in the dark dare not act rashly.
Henan Mansion Yin is now named Lu Zhun, is the Han Dynasty by the Ministry of Servants even jumped into the Henan Mansion, is the name of the dynasty from the second grade of the big man, the Henan Mansion affairs, although the Han Dynasty according to part of the old Tang Dynasty system, with the capital water supervisor, but the regional water affairs are still managed by the local officials, so the Yellow River water affairs in the area of Henan Province are also responsible for Lu Zhun.
Passing through Henan Province, Qin Huaidao and several other people specially detoured to the embankment of Henan Province to check the water affairs, the current management of the idea is still the same old, build embankments to prevent trouble, when the embankment is not built, the flood is overflowing, the Yellow River is turbulent, the sediment is washed by the rapids and distributed on both banks, will not be deposited, since the Spring and Autumn Period began to govern, the Yellow River is tied to the embankment on both banks, the sediment is silted, and the downstream river channel is gradually raised, the Yellow River channel at this time has been higher than the plain outside the embankment, it is a veritable above-ground river.
If the levee collapses, the damage is much higher than in the Spring and Autumn period.
In the future, many river workers on the Yellow River embankment are stepping up the dam, and a large number of bluestone strips and wooden dragons have been moved onto the embankment and are ready to be put into use in the embankment.
In order to further understand the situation of the Yellow River dam, Qin Huaidao specially asked several river workers to inquire.
Seeing that there was an old river worker resting in front of him, Qin Huaidao took Luo Wu and the others forward.
He saluted the old river and then asked, "This old man, I want to see this Yellow River embankment, I wonder if the old man can lead me to check one or two?" ”
Lao Hegong said: "Who are you?" The matter of the river is a major matter of the imperial court, and if there is no warrant from Lord Yin, a few people should leave early. ”
This river worker is also a sensible person, but he did not reprimand Qin Huaidao's recklessness.
Qin Huaidao glanced at Cheng Chumo, and Cheng Chumo immediately hugged his fists and showed his cards: "This old river worker, I am the son of Marshal Cheng Biting Jin, one of the top ten generals of the Han Dynasty, Cheng Chumo, was ordered by His Majesty to secretly inspect the river, and asked the river industry to make it convenient." ”
The reputation of these second generations of martial artists has already spread all over the country, and as soon as he heard Cheng Chumo's name, Lao Hegong became excited, and he took Cheng Chumo's warrant and looked at it, which was confirmed.
"It turned out to be the son of Marshal Cheng, very good, don't hide a few people to say, when Marshal Cheng followed Li Er to fight the world, the old man was fortunate to follow the expedition for a period of time, and then the Li family won the world, I returned to my hometown, and then became a river worker, thinking that there was no hope of seeing Marshal Cheng in this life, and I didn't want to see the heirs of Marshal Cheng here, how lucky."
It turned out to be the old department of the Cheng family, and Cheng Chumo was overjoyed when he learned about it: "It turned out to be an uncle who followed my father, I don't know what to call my uncle?" ”
Lao Hegong hurriedly stood up and signaled Cheng Chumo not to call me that: "Uncle can't afford it, my original name is Feng Jizhang, and the general can call me Lao Feng." ”
Cheng Chumo said: "Then I'll call you Uncle Feng, Uncle Feng, Your Majesty is very concerned about the Yellow River embankment, I don't know if the embankments on both sides of the Yellow River can prevent floods?" ”
Old Uncle Feng looked at the turbulent Yellow River not far away, and his eyes were a little sad.
"You see, the water of the Yellow River is surging, since someone found it, it rushed away from Longyou Road, straight into the Bohai Sea, but the flood is far greater than the human suffering, don't look at the number of people who die in the war, there are many people who die because of the flood every year, at least the people who died due to the flood during the Zhenguan period are not less than the people who died during the war between His Majesty and Li Tai."
Qin Huaidao was shocked in his heart, he only knew that the flood ate people, and he never thought that the death caused by the flood was even greater than the war.
The relatively simple-minded Fang Yiai was obviously more surprised than him.
"Uncle, are you bragging, how can a mere flood be compared to a person who died in a war? You know, slaughtering the city is also a common occurrence when the fight is fierce. ”
Hearing Fang Yiai's questioning, Old Uncle Feng smiled, he stood on the Yellow River embankment and pointed to Henan Mansion in the distance: "Look, this is the Yellow River Embankment, and Henan Mansion is in the distance, if there is a once-in-a-century flood, the entire Henan Mansion cannot be avoided, all of them will be flooded, guess how many people will die if Henan Mansion is flooded?" In the entire Yellow River, how many big cities like Henan Mansion are there? ”
"If you count the counties and townships along the way, the losses will be sky-high."
After listening to this, a few people looked sluggish, they have always only known how to lead troops to fight, but the flood is far better than Menghu.
Cheng Chumo doubted: "Not really, there are embankments built in various places, and even if there is a flood, it will only overflow from the embankment, so that every place will not be affected, and the loss will not be so large." ”
The former veteran told Cheng Chumo with resolute eyes: "It is true that there are embankments in various places, but they cannot prevent floods, especially in various places. The point is that when the flood comes, the water volume will not be lowered in a short period of time, and the water will flood for thousands of miles, and the water will be full of corpses, how tragic is it? ”
After speaking, Feng Jizhang sighed, he ruled the river all year round, and he had seen too many such tragic situations.
Qin Huaidao knew that what he said was more than that.
If officials at all levels secretly swallow up the river and silver again, and shoddy it will be good, the consequences will be even more unimaginable.
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