"Stand down! Today, you all think about it, tell me a way, and see if you can do it once and for all, so that the ancestral tombs in the future will never be troubled by flooding again. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang pulled Zhu Gaochi and left first, leaving only this one sentence.

Lan Yu had a bitter face, a little overwhelmed, this ...... Looking at what Zhu Yuanzhang means, everyone has to go to the fold, but how can he know how to control the water, isn't it just embarrassing?

Lan Yu had no choice, so he could only come to He Qiu's side to see if He Qiu could give a way to control the water, so he could rub it off and change a few words as his strategy.

Anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang must know who wrote it, but he just got by on the face.

As soon as he returned to the tent, Lan Yu ran to He Qiu and spoke.

"He Qiu, do you have any good ways to control the water?"

He Qiu also felt a headache, this thing is not easy to do, He Qiu said jokingly.

"There is a good way, which is to move the ancestral tomb."

Lan Yu was taken aback and couldn't help but say.

"It's not nonsense!"

Then he took a closer look at He Qiu's face, and he understood that He Qiu must have some way, and began to shout.

"You kid, you're not honest at all, don't say anything good about it quickly, think I'm a general, how can I know how to control the water!"

He Qiu sighed, this matter was not as simple as Lan Yu thought.

Zhu Yuanzhang not only wants to protect the livelihood of the people of Lianghuai, but also does not want the ancestral tomb to be alarmed, I am afraid that there is still a point, he does not want the canal to stop operating.

That's how difficult it is to think with your toes!

What's more, if you want to control the Huai first, the Yellow River must also be quiet, otherwise the Huai River has not been properly controlled, and the Yellow River will flood again, then the previous efforts will be wasted.

What's more, if you want to harness the Huai, you must also manage the canal well, and there are many people's livelihood related to the canal, and if there is any damage to the canal, the opposition of the DPRK and China is absolutely indispensable.

He Qiu broke these things apart, and when he told Lan Yu, Lan Yu also gasped, he had never thought that this matter would be so difficult to do.

But Lan Yu also has his own considerations, he is from Huaixi, and the canal has little to do with him, not to mention that the water of the canal stops, which only affects the prosperity of both sides of the canal.

However, if the Huai River is not properly managed, the Huai River may flood in the Jianghuai area all year round, plunging the people on both sides of the Huai River into a huge disaster.

Compared with these two items, Lan Yu naturally prefers to vigorously govern Huai, but he also knows that if such a reason is brought to the court, I am afraid that he will not be able to convince a few people.

He Qiu exhaled heavily and said with some sarcasm.

"Confucius and his descendants are all benevolent and righteous morality, but looking at their actions, when did they really talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality?"

"At present, the lives of the people on both sides of the Huai River are strongly threatened by the Huai River, they turn a blind eye, and can only stare at the prosperity on both sides of the canal.

Lan Yu said very seriously.

"If you really have a way, you must say it! Now in the court, there are still a lot of people in Huaixi and even Fengyang Mansion, if you can really put forward an effective governance plan, our support will be greater. ”

"If it really drags on, when we're all gone, I'm afraid this thing will be even more difficult!"

He Qiu's face couldn't help but change, he had forgotten this!

And the current capital is in Nanjing, the demand for the canal is much smaller, if you control Huai at this time, I'm afraid it will be a lot less difficult!

Maybe it wasn't as difficult as he expected, and thinking of this, He Qiu couldn't help but feel excited.

No matter what others think, in He Qiu's opinion, the canal is really not as important as the Huai River, and the transportation is wasted, and it can be replaced by shipping, but it is just cleaning a group of officials who make a living from the canal.

But if the Huai River continues to flood like this, the entire Lianghuai region does not know when it will be restored to the grandeur of the Tang Dynasty!

He Qiu couldn't help but cheer up, and said positively to Lan Yu.

"Liang Guogong, there is really a better solution to this matter."

He Qiu casually sketched the general waterways around Hongze Lake and Huai River on the ground, and explained to Lan Yu.

"You see, this Hongze Lake is because of the diversion of the Yellow River, the Huai River water can not flow directly into the sea, it is formed, it is good to say, it is the water, can also flow to the Huai River old channel, but now because of the Yellow River sediment alluvium, the entire Huai River old channel has been higher than Hongze Lake."

"The water of Hongze Lake can only stay in the lake, and once the water rises, it will spread to both sides, especially the south side of the lake, which is the side where the ancestral tomb is located, because the terrain here is lower!"

"If Hongze Lake no longer threatens the ancestral tomb, the most important thing is to dredge the upper reaches of the Huai River, and then dig a wide enough channel to drain the water of Hongze Lake."

"In this way, there will be a big flood, and Hongze Lake will not be flooded, but the amount of work is very large, and during this period, the canal may also be suspended."

Don't look at He Qiu's easy words, but in fact, this is more difficult than controlling the Yellow River!

As long as a wide enough embankment is built on both sides of the Yellow River, supplemented by the method of water flushing and sand washing, and slowly allowing it to wash the river, there will be much less sediment in the river.

In fact, if you look into it carefully, it is just to build a river embankment, and although the workload of the triple river embankment is large, it is also big enough to directly dig a waterway from Hongze Lake to the sea.

After all, the Huai River originally flowed from east to west, but because the canal had to use the Huai River water, it had to change a north-south branch of the Huai River, and in the dry season and rainy season, it had to obey the requirements of the canal yamen and open the gates.

It has added some difficulties to the governance of the Huai River, but if the canal is really put aside, the Huai River alone is relatively simple to govern, it is nothing more than to open the way along the river and let the water of the Huai River flow eastward into the sea again.

It is basically enough for the Huai River to restore its original flood discharge capacity.

Lan Yu smacked his tongue after listening to this, what He Qiu said, he could know how much work was needed just by listening to it, and if he roughly estimated it, I am afraid that hundreds of thousands of people would have to be levied to repair for a year or two.

The money and food spent during this period will definitely be enough to fight another war against the Northern Yuan.

If it weren't for the money in the hands of the imperial court now, I'm afraid Zhu Yuanzhang wouldn't even mention it.

However, Lan Yu still asked curiously.

"Listen to what you meant before, you can also cure the Yellow River?"

He Qiu nodded first, then shook his head.

"It can be cured, but it can't be cured."

Sapphire is very strange.

"What do you mean by that?"

"The Yellow River is more troublesome to manage, it involves more provinces, and it requires a lot of manpower, and I don't dare to guarantee that the imperial court will invest tens of millions of taels of silver to calm down the Yellow River."

He Qiu said with a wry smile on his face, and Lan Yu was silent when he listened.

If you really invest tens of millions of taels, but the Yellow River still bursts, I'm afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang can do such a thing as killing the officials who control the water and sacrificing to the sky, how can anyone dare to open his mouth to control the Yellow River?