The outstanding employees of the factory are still waiting to be fed in the Taihu Triangle at this time, and if they want to dredge Dahuangpu, they naturally have to count on the local people, plus the guards of Jinshanwei, Qingcun Zhongqian Office, and Nanhuizui Zhonghou Office.

Ninghaiwei of Jiaxing Mansion, Linshanwei and Guanhaiwei of Shaoxing Mansion also sent some soldiers to cross Hangzhou Bay by boat to Songjiang Mansion to help, but unfortunately at this time, the wind and waves were urgent, and the ships were really limited, so they did not send more.

But in any case, when the national teacher released his words, he still startled everyone. "What did you say? It takes five days to open up the waterway from Dahuangpu to Fanjiabang?"

Huang Zhifu, who was listening to the rain under the eaves, was stunned, and his first reaction was that his ears were hallucinating.

The steward replied, "That's what the national teacher said...... The military situation at the front is in full swing, and now the grain that cannot be collected from the gentry must be transferred to the front line near the three lakes on the left side of Taihu Lake as soon as possible, otherwise the army will be starving."

The exchange of the deed for food is only the first step in resolving the immediate crisis, and the second step is to transport the grain to the front.

However, land transportation is obviously impossible, and the only feasible way is to take the Maohe-Dahuangpu waterway first, and then turn to the Wusong River.

The Wangting-Hushuguan section of the Grand Canal is not feasible because it is an artificial waterway, so the water level has risen over the embankment due to heavy rain at this time, and the sluice gate cannot regulate the flood discharge at all.

However, the natural waterway of the Wusong River is blocked by sludge, and the water flow is relatively gentle, so that the difference between the flow speed and the lake is not large, and it is feasible to transport grain by boat against the current.

But the question is, how to get through Dahuangpu?

After reading the official document transferred by Jiang Xinghuo ordering Huang Zhifu to follow him to Shanghai County to recruit people and carry out projects, Huang Ziwei's brain hurt.

"Ridiculous! Is the national teacher crazy?"

Huang Ziwei jumped up from the rocking chair suddenly, and he felt a little dizzy in an instant.

"A usable river channel can't be dug in five days, even in fifty days! In such a large area, he should be a child digging a mud pond?"

Originally, after that bran porridge banquet, Huang Ziwei felt that Jiang Xinghuo, a young national teacher, was quite reliable, and he was quite happy to make this group of gentry who were usually arrogant to the point of staring at people's nostrils.

But who knows, it will be unreliable to turn around, and it will be able to put forward such an outrageous proposal as opening up Dahuangpu in five days! "Wait!"

Huang Ziwei suddenly groaned for a few breaths, turned his head and asked, "Did Ye Zongxing's poor show go to see the national teacher?" Huating County Ya.

Wang Ji, the commander of Huating County, who was occupied by the dove, accompanied by a smiling face, glared fiercely at the swarthy young man in front of him who exposed straw sandals and toes under his long shirt.

The young man had a swarthy complexion, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his skin was as rough as if he had just come out of the mine.

"In the Xia Ye Zongxing, the famous Zongren, the Xiucai Meritorious Person, the Huating Luhui Ye Family Pedestrian, I have seen the National Teacher." Jiang Xinghuo buried his head in the case, and only then did he raise his head and look at the strong man in front of him who was in the Great Perfection of the Talent Realm.

The imperial examination in Songjiang Mansion is relatively involuted, and just now Wang Ji, the commander of Huating County, mentioned to him that this Ye Xiucai has not been admitted to the examination for many years, and he doesn't know what Mao Sui is recommending himself now.

However, the attendants around Jiang Xinghuo did not have the problem of looking down on people, since he was wandering around the county yakou and said that he had something important to ask to see the national teacher, and after the body search confirmed that his person was not dangerous, he also brought it in.

After all...... In front of the national teacher, there are very many Monroe, and a living person is considered a rare guest.

In the eyes of the gentry and scholars of Songjiang Mansion, Jiang Xinghuo, who washed the eunuch field of Changzhou Mansion in blood, is no different from the plague god, and if he can send it away as soon as possible, he will send it out as soon as possible, and no one will want to visit him if he can't send it away.

"Ye Xiucai came to ask for a meeting this time, why did he come to see him?"

Although Jiang Xinghuo was very short of time and needed to deal with the official documents accumulated in his hand before leaving Huating County for Shanghai County, he was not so urgent that he didn't have time to say a few words to this Ye Xiucai.

What's more, Jiang Xinghuo keenly felt that the black guy opposite didn't seem to want to cling to the powerful, but really had something to ask to see him.

Just, when

After he asked this, he found that Ye Zongxing's face flashed with hesitation and entanglement. "National Teacher, National Teacher ....."

Ye Zongxing stumbled, in addition to the neat self-introduction, now he obviously doesn't know how to answer, he is still a young man who is afraid of society?

After half a ring, he took a deep breath before he arched his hand and said, "I heard that the national teacher is recruiting people and wants to open up Dahuangpu?"

"Exactly."

There is nothing to keep secret about this matter, there are too many people needed, and Shanghai County will definitely not be satisfied, so Huating County will also recruit some people to go north with them, Jiang Xinghuo has just explained this matter to Huating County to order Wang Ji to do it, and the Songjiang prefect is to inform him to write to the Shanghai magistrate and convene the people in advance.

"Dare to ask the national teacher, but do you plan to merge rivers and rivers?" Jiang Xinghuo was slightly stunned, is this still a person who understands water conservancy?

In these years, there are really not many people who understand water conservancy, and Song Li is only one by his side.

In the history of his previous life, it was this Ye Zongxing Ye Xiucai, who also asked to see Xia Yuanji, the minister of the Qin Mission, who came to control the water, and put forward the same set of water control strategies, that is, to use the old road of the Dongjiang River, cross the Great Huangpu, connect with Haipu, and then excavate the new waterway of Fanjiabang in the Bailianjing area, and the waterway of the Wusong River in Lujiazui and flow into the sea.

In only one year, Fanjiabang was opened, and a large amount of water stranded in Shanghai and Zhejiang, such as ten thousand horses galloping, passed through the Dongjiang Ancient Road - Dahuangpu - Shanghai Pu - Fanjiabang, and seized Lujiazui to the mouth of the sea Wusong River Ancient Road straight into the sea, thus forming the later Huangpu River.

At this time, when it came to the water conservancy profession, this Ye Xiucai spoke clearly, and the whole person was obviously confident. He stated his method to Jiang Xinghuo.

The specific method is to widen the Shanghai Pu so that it will be connected to the Great Huangpu at the gate port, and the new waterway of Fanjiabang will be dug deeper and extended to become a new waterway downstream of the Greater Huangpu, and the water of the Great Huangpu will flow northeast..... In the past, the Wusong River was the main river and the Huangpu River was a tributary, but after this operation, after the "confluence of rivers and Pudong", Huangpu became the mainstream river, and the Wusong River became a tributary of Huangpu.

"It's a similar way, but now that things are urgent, we have to do it roughly."

Jiang Xinghuo didn't know this person, so he had a vigilant mind, and he had to guard against people, who knows if it was possible that he was sent by the local gentry or the White Lotus Sect to inquire about the news, and then sabotage? Therefore, it is naturally impossible to reveal the specific plan to a show that only has one side.

"But you can't dig up Big Huangpu in five days."

Ye Zongxing said sincerely: "Don't say that it is to widen Shanghai Pu, and to dig deeper and extend Fanjiabang, just digging up the silted Dahuangpu is not something that can be done in five days."

In fact, in the eyes of everyone, Jiang Xinghuo's order was simply a fantasy. Because of this, it sounds a bit mysterious.

You must know that at this time, the course of the Huangpu River and the Wusong River are not connected, and the Fanjiabang next to the Great Huangpu is another turning river, and the Great Huangpu as the downstream of the Mao Lake or the Mao River, with the arrival of heavy rain, has in fact formed a large-scale dammed lake.

The so-called Mao Lake, is the water of Taihu Lake flows to Songjiang Mansion, in the low-lying area of the gradual natural formation of the lake, and the water of the Lake southeast tends to Gupu Pond, Xietang, the east is scattered to the Matang, the Stick Port, Lujiaqu branch canals, through Zhanjiahui, to Henglujing, and finally to the Great Huangpu, piled up here, forming another lake.

Taihu Lake, Mao Lake and Dahuangpu, from the map, are "O-0-0".

At present, Ye Zongxing is not the only one who has thought about opening up Dahuangpu, diverting the Wusong River, directly abandoning the downstream of the Wusong River siltation, and letting the Wusong River turn to merge with the end of the Mao River to the end of Dahuangpu, and then pass through the water system of Fanjiabang, and directly enter the sea through Pukou after expansion.

But the problem is that the amount of work is so large that the local government really does not dare to undertake it.

Such a large dammed lake, digging with manpower, it is inevitable to repair and dig the embankment, but the flood does not care so much about you, and if you are not careful to grasp the proportion in the middle, the embankment will collapse in advance, and it will cost a lot of lives!

And how to control the flow of water? washed out both sides of the strait

How to compensate for farmland? If you lose money, you can't afford to sell the Songjiang Mansion.

- That's the land of the gentry! "I have my own way."

Jiang Xinghuo couldn't and didn't need to explain anything to Ye Zongxing, so he had no choice but to answer like this. "Master Guoshi, you are letting the people go and die!"

Ye Zongxing said angrily, "Even if you have a noble status, you can't disregard the lives of the people for your personal likes and dislikes!

Of course, Jiang Xinghuo would not take people's lives as child's play, looking at the other party, Jiang Xinghuo said sincerely, "Don't worry, no one will die."

However, in Ye Zongxing's eyes, Jiang Xinghuo still had that calm and breezy appearance, and he didn't seem to take this matter to heart at all.

"You ······"

Ye Zongxing was extremely angry, but he didn't know what to say.

"Master Kuni, since you want to do this dangerous job, there is one thing you need to think through.

"The excavation of the dammed lake is extremely dangerous." Ye Zongxing said in a deep voice, "If something happens, don't regret it!"

Ye Zongxing snorted coldly, brushed his sleeves and left.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't say anything, shook his head, and continued to bury his head in the case in front of him, before leaving Huating County for Shanghai County, he still had a lot of official documents to deal with, and reports on disaster relief and material transfer in various places were coming in a steady stream.

Huating County ordered Wang Ji to leave with interest.

The national teacher was crowded in the same place with him, so he could only stay in the front office, and the young Wang County Commander sighed instead.

"Well, it's nice to be young!"

Looking at the back of Ye Zongxing's departure, Wang Ji sighed, and said to the people around him with deep eyes: "The old man was also young, and he was also full of spirit and enthusiasm at that time, and felt that as long as the hoe is strong and the weak is supported, and justice is supported, any wrong thing in the world should be corrected...... It's a pity that as the years go by, more and more things change, and more and more things make people confused."

Regarding the matter of digging up Dahuangpu, of course, Wang Ji also felt that it was inappropriate, but he didn't dare to dissuade him for half a sentence, and he only dared to complain a few words here.

"County Venerable, haven't you always disliked Ye Zongxing?" The henchman next to him asked. "You know what?"

Wang Ji glanced at him and straightened his official hat.

The older county respected sighed silently in his heart: "I don't like not to become the Wang Ji I wanted to be when I was young...... That's why I hate this outspoken Ye Zongxing everywhere!"

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