Imperial Palace, Fengtian Temple.

Jiang Xinghuo walked all the way and clearly felt that the heavy rain for days had made the already low-lying Miyagi even more embarrassed in terms of drainage.

Worst of all, the groundwater is still "gurgling" and bubbling out.

The drainage pipes have completely failed, and the palace maids and eunuchs have braved the torrential rain with buckets to clean up the stinky water, but it is only in vain.

Miyagi was built on the reclaimed Lake Yanque, and although the foundation was reinforced by driving wooden piles, laying the bottom with huge stones, and ramming the lime triple soil, more than 30 years have passed, and the foundation is still sinking after a long time, and now it has rained heavily for several days, and the palace is waterlogged.

As a result, the three major halls that were padded seemed to have become islands in the ocean.

Several eunuchs and young eunuchs from the inner court stood under the eaves of the corridor and waited for the emperor to summon them, not knowing what kind of thing was going on this time.

"Master National Teacher!"

"Hmm."

Jiang Xinghuo led indifferently, and walked through the corridor to the main hall with steady steps.

Just arrived at the gate of the Fengtian Temple.

"Drag that out and cut it off!"

The eunuch's shrill voice sounded, making several high-ranking eunuchs standing under the corridor tighten their necks in fright, thinking to themselves, who provoked the emperor?

Jing Qing and Mei Yin's heads, but they were still carried by a long pole and hung on the head of Hongwumen City, and they were all soaked in the rain in the past few days.

"Alright, get out of here!"

The panicked palace maids walked out, the eunuchs serving the Yongle Emperor in the palace gently closed the door, and the senior eunuchs under the porch were notified, and they knew that the plan to receive them had been canceled, and they also left backwards.

After a while.

"Squeak~" The door of the hall was slowly pushed open, and a man in a crimson dragon robe walked out from inside, his brows were tightly locked, and his face was full of sorrow, it was Zhu Di.

"National teacher?"

Zhu Di saw Jiang Xinghuo with his hands in his sleeves, waiting for him.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter, the anger is so big." Jiang Xinghuo looked down at the tips of his boots and asked, these days the road is wet, but he can't wear the cloth shoes made by his aunt.

"It's not a matter of the Songjiang Mansions yet!"

Zhu Di rubbed his left molars, also put his hands together, and looked at the heavy rain outside with Jiang Xinghuo, and said while watching.

"Flood control, disaster relief, quelling chaos, you can't do anything well, a bunch of insects!"

After that, Zhu Di handed Jiang Xinghuo a few copies, which were disaster reports from Changzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, Huzhou Mansion and other prefectures along the Taihu Lake Circle.

Jiang Xinghuo hurriedly browsed it.

In general, Jiaxing and Huzhou, the two provinces south of Taihu Lake, were less affected, while Changzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang, which are sandwiched between the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake, were more severe. Matsue Prefecture, in particular, was the hardest hit.

It's easy to understand why heavy rains have caused the Yangtze River's water levels to skyrocket, and the lack of dredging of its tributaries has caused flooding and flooding of farmland. It will also lead to the expansion and overflow of many rivers in Taihu Lake and Jiangnan, and the surrounding farmland will suffer.

Jiang Xinghuo smiled: "I'm afraid it's not that I can't do it, but I don't want to do it." ”

Zhu Di glanced at Jiang Xinghuo with his afterglow without missing a trace, the anger just now was all pretended, just waiting for Jiang Xinghuo's words.

Zhu Di's principle of employing people has always been like this, and if it is easy to use, it will be used to death.

A few days ago, the national teacher prayed for rain successfully, public opinion instantly reversed, and slapped the courtiers in the face once, at that time, some people took the example of the Northern Song Dynasty national teacher Lin Lingsu praying for rain to say sour words, but the next day, the "Di Bao" announced the principle of hot air balloon and silver iodide, which can be described as a double slap in the face.

Zhu Di is very refreshing, and his body and mind have never been happy and comfortable.

Since Jing Nan started the army, he has been scolded by civilian officials for five years, and finally one day, he can fight back.

And this time, he not only wants to fight back, but also kills people openly.

Zhu Di knowingly asked: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Jiang Xinghuo turned his head and said simply: "This kind of thing is civil unrest, if it is a place like Yungui with complex terrain and many local officials and local people, I believe that it will happen, but in the heart of the south of the Yangtze River, how can it be so easy to give birth to civil unrest?" ”

"Jiangnan is not a good place for rebellion, there are not even decent mountains around, the terrain is flat, do you have to rely on river networks and lakes to make trouble?"

"Further, the government, or the gentry, in the south of the Yangtze River can be said to be deep-rooted, from the population to the land, culture and education, have absolute control, the gentry has not been affected on a large scale, why in just a few days, the people below have a civil unrest? Don't even have a few days of food in stock? ”

Zhu Di was very satisfied with Jiang Xinghuo's answer, Yao Guangxiao had already pointed out an idea for him, an opportunity to take advantage of the flood to do great things, but he didn't expect the opportunity to come so suddenly, and the civil unrest could not be better. If there is a civil unrest, the court will have to fight.

"What does the national teacher mean is that someone deliberately lures the people below to make trouble? Do they want to express their dissatisfaction with me, or do they want to express their dissatisfaction with the change? And how to deal with it? ”

Jiang Xinghuo said earnestly: "Water control, disaster relief, and quelling chaos are actually the same thing. ”

"Oh? The national teacher may wish to talk about it in detail. Zhu Di raised his eyebrows.

"The reason for the civil unrest is the lack of maintenance of water conservancy facilities and the dredging of rivers, so as soon as there is heavy rain, the paddy fields will suffer, and the people will be agitated, and they will rise up to make trouble, Your Majesty will send a few guards to the past, and the people cannot afford to make trouble, so the root of the problem is not to quell the chaos, but how to control the water and how to provide disaster relief."

"Let's talk about water control first."

Since Jiang Xinghuo had reminded Zhu Di before, he naturally collected a lot of relevant information from Huikong, or Yao Guangxiao's channels.

"The provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou and Songjiang are in the lowest reaches of the Yangtze River, and the fields of Changzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou are much higher and less low, and they all surround Taihu Lake."

"Taihu Lake is the core of water control, Taihu Lake stretches for 500 miles, receives water from the mountains of Hangzhou, Huzhou, Xuanzhou and Shexian, and then injects it into the various lakes of Dianshan Mountain, and enters the upper, middle and lower Maohu Lake."

"From the point of view of Songjiang Prefecture, which is the most severely affected, Taihu Lake extends to the tributaries of Songjiang Prefecture, because the Pugang is blocked by sediment in various places, and the flowing water that comes from all over the country is blocked, and the natural rise and overflow is to dredge the Pugang in various parts of Wusong, so that the blocked and silted flood water can flow out and flow into the sea."

Zhu Di estimated slightly, frowned, and said: "What I know, the Songjiang River in Wu is more than 200 miles long from north to south, more than 50 zhang wide from east to west, and it is connected to Taihu Lake in the west, and it is not easy to dredge the sea in the east, right?" That's hundreds of thousands of people. ”

"Yes."

Jiang Xinghuo said frankly: "It's really not good to dredge, and Song and Yuan have tried it, and it's still blocked." ”

"The root cause is that Songjiang is a typical resurgence river in the south of the Yangtze River, the mouth of the Songjiang River is facing the surging tide, there is silted sediment everywhere, just dredged and immediately blocked, and from the long bridge of the river to the lower boundary of about 20 miles, although a little dredging can pass through the flowing water, but many places are shallow and narrow; It is about 130 miles from the mouth of the lower boundary to the mouth of Nancangpu, and this section of the river has been seriously blocked due to the tide, and the river is overgrown with weeds, and even becomes a land island. ”

"Then how to solve it, the national teacher has a way?"

"Yes."

Jiang Xinghuo gave his solution.

"Song Li, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, is good at water conservancy, and I have been deducing with Song Shilang for many days, and I have found a way from the river map archives of the past dynasties."

Taking out a marked map from his sleeve, Jiang Xinghuo obviously came prepared, in fact, when he was waiting for Liu Sheng in the military academy office, he took out this prepared map from the bookshelf.

"There are two rivers that can be used."

Jiang Xinghuo spread out the map, pointed and said: "Jiading Liujia River, that is, the Loujiang River in ancient times, leads directly into the sea; The Baimao River in Changshu flows directly into the Yangtze River. They are all wide and smooth rivers, so since the current Songjiang River is really difficult to dredge, you might as well dredge the Pugang on the north and south banks of the Wujiang River, and divert the water from the various outlets of Taihu Lake into Liujia and Baimao Second Ports, and then help the Songjiang River divert and flow into the sea through them. ”

"Songjiang is not to say that it is completely ignored, the current problem of Songjiang is that the downstream resurgence is serious, but there is a tributary of Songjiang available, that is, a section from Fanjiabang to Nancangpukou (that is, the Huangpu River in later generations), which can be directly connected to the sea, and dredged to make it deepen and widen, connected to Dahuangpu, and wait until these river sections are dredged, and then according to the topography, set up stone sluices everywhere, open and close on time, and build embankments to strengthen when the river dries up every year."

Zhu Di looked at the map, studied it for a while, and concluded.

In other words, the water in the upper reaches of the Songjiang River can be diverted into the Yangtze River estuary by the Liujia River and the Baimao River. There's nothing wrong with that. What I consider is that the water in the middle and lower reaches of the Songjiang River is the section of Fanjiabang-Nancangpukou that is chiseled and merged into Dahuangpu? But this is equivalent to substituting branches for work, can it work? ”

"It works." Jiang Xinghuo said, "This section of the tributary, the Southern Song Dynasty called Huangpu Pond, to the Yuan Dynasty because of the river channel gradually widened, so it is called the Great Huangpu, after me and Song Shilang serious research, this section can be diverted or even replaced by the Songjiang flood discharge role." ”

Zhu Difu asked again: "Quelling chaos and controlling floods, these two are finished, what about disaster relief?" ”

Jiang Xinghuo said seriously: "One is to borrow the Liujia River and the Baimao River to divert the river, and the other is to dredge out the Huangpu River, these two projects must be more than 100,000 people, the heavy rain has just begun to fall, and I don't know when it will be, don't think about the grain harvest of these wealthy mansions this year, the focus is on how to repair the water conservancy, and it will not affect next year and the year after that." ”

"But that's not a good thing."

After Jiang Xinghuo paused, he continued: "Songjiang Mansion is the key area for the reform of the law, that is, it is very suitable for the development of the textile industry, especially the development of the cotton textile industry, but at present, it is not enough for men to cultivate and weave for women, and the establishment of large-scale handicraft workshops in the cotton textile industry is to free the population from the land. Normally, there are no such good opportunities. ”

From the Song and Yuan dynasties, cotton cultivation gradually spread from Lingnan to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Songjiang because of the climate, soil and so on suitable for cotton growth, so cotton planting quickly popularized, but at that time due to the backwardness of cotton textile technology, cotton seeds to be peeled by hand, and there is no machine to play loose cotton, from cotton spinning into cotton cloth is time-consuming and laborious, and the spun cotton cloth is also very loose and rough.

Until Huang Daopo learned a set of cotton textile technology from the Li nationality and brought back to Songjiang, Songjiang's cotton textile industry began to develop greatly, and in the early Ming Dynasty, Songjiang cloth became a best-selling product with excellent quality, beautiful flower decoration, and was famous far and wide, and the population engaged in the cotton textile industry also became more, but after all, it was not a scale.

Only by establishing a factory area, a large area of handicraft workshops, and tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cotton textile industry workers to carry out collective division of labor, can we truly form the trump card of the first industrial revolution to earn wealth - high-quality and low-cost textiles.

And the dawn of this opportunity is precisely conceived in the midst of crisis.

"Disaster relief, to work for relief, among the victims, men work to repair the river, women and children work to go to the cotton textile industry. If you find a wasteland with good transportation conditions in Songjiang, you can establish a large-scale cotton textile handicraft workshop. ”

Zhu Di said the last question.

"What if there's an obstacle?"

This is a very real problem, because since this civil uprising is strange, it means that all of Jiang Xinghuo's actions are in a dangerous state.

This danger not only comes from the threat to personal safety caused by the possibility of a dog jumping off the wall, but also from the uncertain turmoil...... Sometimes what seems to be a friend is not necessarily a friend.

Zhu Di has deeply felt this in the process of implementing Qingzhang Tianmu.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhu Di has doubts about Jiang Xinghuo's heart.

Taiping Street and the Great Altar were handled very well, but after all, they were a little merciful.

A hint of coolness flashed in Jiang Xinghuo's eyes.

"Didn't Your Majesty give me Shang Fang's treasure sword?"

(End of chapter)