Chapter 33: The Beginning of River Governance (with Zhao Ziyan's introduction)
Zhao Guanjia played his usual decisiveness, and took a thousand people to leave, 1,000 soldiers and horses, 500 were the royal front Banzhi, and 500 were the cavalry in the Yuetai camp.
In addition to the newly joined cabinet gate and the water department member Zhao Ziyan, the rest are familiar faces, and the highest status is naturally Liu Hongdao, the pacification ambassador of Liaodong and the water supervisor of the capital, followed by Li Xiuzhi, the living house, and Yu Yunwen in the Privy Council.
This line of people, after leaving Yuetai, all the way down the Bianhe River to the northwest, through the slippery county to see, but immediately opened, soon arrived at the river town of Heyin, the shipyard of the imperial naval army, at the moment when the naval army is about to relocate, Zhao Guanjia chose here to view the Yellow River, it is really a bit of the meaning of that time.
After all, when it was still in the old capital, the Jin army sailors directly forced Tokyo, and it was Zhang Rong who took out all his family resources and drove them to the Yellow River, and burned down the Xiaowu Si shipyard at the ancient crossing of the Yellow River in the north stream, and since then the lower reaches of the Yellow River are no longer the Jin people who have the final say. To put it deeper, the reason why Wanyan Lou Room is desperate for a decisive battle in Kansai is also because there is no cheaper bargain in Tokyo.
Nowadays, many things are being laughed about. After a few years in a hurry, the world has changed.
Speaking of which, at present, when he arrived in Heyin, King Lu and Zhang Rong, the commander of the imperial camp and navy, came to greet him early, and this marshal minister with a low level of education finally understood how serious it was for him to abuse the Jurchen captives at will and die too much under the repeated explanations of his son-in-law and prospective son-in-law, and the common people who had finally recuperated and recuperated would have to suffer from the war.
Although it was the people of Longyou, Kansai, it was really unacceptable to Zhang Rong, who was bent on making the lives of the suffering masses better, this was simply subverting his values and making him look down on himself, so this time it was rare to bring a sincere and fearful attitude.
Fortunately, Zhao Guan's family was righteous after all, put down the shelf and went directly to the shipyard that had begun to be dismantled, and then transferred to the barracks, and had lunch with everyone as always-the donkey meat he invented was burned, and while eating, he chatted with Zhang Rong about the people's livelihood in Heyin today, especially how the fishery is recovering.
Speaking of this, Zhang Rong had countless words and wanted to communicate with the officials, "The officials don't know, and our fishermen also know the rules. In the past, it was wartime, but it was necessary to focus on that military, military. But there is no war this year, and there is a strict order from Liu Xianggong in Liqiu Province, saying that he must protect the environment and not go to the Internet, and the state and county dare not listen to it, so that many old men who have retired from the army and settled down in my side have come to me to complain. After plucking up his courage, he finally said: "The officials, they all say that you want to control the Yellow River, and they say that you want to protect it, that ........."
Yu Yunwen finally couldn't listen to it, and reminded, "Lord Taishan, it is to protect the ecological environment." β
"Yes, yes, it's to protect the ecological environment, what's going on, and now it's not easy to go back to the river, so that the people can farm and fish along the river, and live a good life?"
"Of course it's good, but Zhang Qing, you have also settled in the Yellow River for almost nine years, and you should know that Heyin is okay here, the river is wide, but it is not far from Huaxian, I have been there several times, since Jingkang, the war is in danger, and I can't take care of it even if the imperial court is good, so that the Yellow River embankment is in disrepair for a long time, and every summer is rainy, and the river takes the opportunity to flood everywhere and flood the fertile fields. In the past two years, although Kaifeng Mansion has also sent people to dredge, it is a symptom but not a root cause. β
"And as far as I know, there is more than one situation in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and the navy should know best. If the Yellow River is not properly managed, the lives of the common people cannot be guaranteed, how can they fish and farm. Zhao Guanjia looked at the embankment and river from afar, as if he knew it very well.
God knows that he is not bad at high school geography, and he knows that the hateful river on the ground in Henan is not shallow to harm people, and he has made up for it temporarily.
Of course, what he didn't know was that because he cut Du Chong in time, the Yellow River did not burst its embankment like in another time and space, and gradually seized the Huai into the sea, and in the later period of the Jin Dynasty, the Jin State allowed the Yellow River to overflow and broke in Yangwu, which made the Yellow River completely seize the Huai River and enter the main road of the Huai River, and it was out of control from then on.
But Zhang Rong didn't know anything, he really thought about it for a while, and said ashamedly: "What the official said is that the minister's knowledge is short, and he always thinks about the present, but can't see the long-term." This time he also missed a big event, and it is ...... time to go back to Liangshan Shuibo to fish" If others say so, eighty percent is threatening to resign, and Zhao Guan's family can really let him go home and eat his own, but Zhang Rong said so, then he really thinks so, can Zhao Guan's family let go of his naval commander?
Just before he could think of how to persuade him, Li Xiuzhi stood up and said solemnly: "King Zhang Lu's words are wrong, you were born in the hometown of Qilu, you always know Confucius and Meng." These two saints put love for the people first, and what King Lu did was in line with the way of the saints, is it in the article? Although Xia Guan and King Lu met for the first time, they could hear that you were planning for the people, which shows that the rumors are true. Even if you don't think about it for a while, it doesn't matter, just do better in the future. Besides, the Yellow River stretches for thousands of miles, but the fertile land of Ningxia needs sailors to guard against Western Liao, and it is in need of a patriotic general like you. β
Zhao Guanjia was about to petrify with donkey meat in his hand, staring at this pretty young man, if it weren't for the similarity of his eyebrows and eyes, I really wondered if this was Li Gang's old stone. Look at what you said, it made Zhang Rong embarrassed.
Zhang Rong didn't read much, but Confucius and Mencius still knew, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard the words, and the monarchs and ministers were happy among their colleagues.
After all, Yu Yunwen didn't want his father-in-law to really resign.
After a while, Zhao Guanjia remembered something and asked, "What about Zhao Ziyan, why didn't you see him just now?" β
Zhang Rong hurriedly said: "Ah, the official said that the white and fat official, he just said that although he has governed the Qiantang River, he has never been to the north, just now borrowed a few sailors from me and went to the other side of the river to have a look." β
Zhao Guan's family was stunned, thinking that his clan brother really didn't tell a lie, he went to Xiuzhou (now Shaoxing) to live several lifetimes ago, he had never been to the north, he didn't investigate hydrology, you rely on "Water Jing Note" to govern the river!
Liu Hongdao was a little happy, the official family was really as wise as a torch, and he didn't choose the wrong person, and said: "The official family, King Lu, we are also full, why don't we go and see how Zhao Yuanwailang's inspection is?" β
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Zhao Ziyan (1104-1148), whose name is Anji, was the sixth grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and a famous water control expert in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhao Ziwei's grandfather moved to Jiangnan and lived in Xiuzhou (now Shaoxing), where he successively served as a member of the Ministry of Water, a prime minister of the river and a governor of the river.
After Jingkang, the siltation of the Yellow River became more serious under the rebellion, threatening the lives and safety of the people on both sides of the strait. Song Shizu set the "Ten Years of Yellow River Governance" plan in the tenth year of Jianyan, and repeatedly ordered officials to expound their views, and Jiaxing County ordered Zhao Ziwei to be favored by Shizu because he was good at water affairs, and was able to participate in the governance of the Yellow River and the canal for more than ten years.
In view of the characteristics of the Yellow River's sandy nature, Zhao Ziyan put forward the theory of "harnessing water to attack sand" and "storing and clearing the yellow water", and accordingly planned a set of flood control engineering systems of the Yellow River, including the dike, the remote dike and the dike. This paper summarizes the understanding of the relationship between water and sediment in the Yellow River, and has remarkable results, and also has an important historical impact on the governance of the Yellow River in later generations.
In the twenty-second year of Jianyan, Zhao Ziyan served his own work, became ill from hard work, died of illness near Fenglingdu Wharf, and died in the governorship of the river. Posthumously presented the Ministry of Industry Shangshu plus Dr. Guanglu and Zou Guogong, nicknamed Keyi. In order to thank the kindness, the people on both sides of the strait in later generations set up the Zou Gong Ancestral Hall for it.
Zhao Ziyan has two sons, the eldest son Zhao Bogui Enyin came out, inherited his father's will, and served as Junhu Pi in Chuzhou Zhizhou, revitalizing water conservancy and redressing grievances. The second son, Zhao Bocong, was raised in the palace by the Empress Dowager Meng of Yuanyou when he was a child, and was given the name Zhao Yan, who was a famous minister and original scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan, and Zhang Wei were called the four sons of the original school.
Later generations also called Zhao Ziyan's family Xiuzhou Zhao.
ββExcerpt from Baidu Qianke