Jiang Xinghuo came out of the Fengtian Palace, looked up at the sky rarely, and looked at the yellow glazed tiles covered on the top of the heavy eaves of the Fengtian Palace.

"It's a testament to history."

Jiang Xinghuo rubbed his somewhat sore cervical spine and thought so.

Reading history in his previous life, he only knew the achievements of Ming Chengzu's life, including the revision of the "Yongle Canon", the recovery of Annan, the seven voyages to the West, the relocation of the capital to Beijing, and the five expeditions to Mobei.

Now I have experienced the beginning of the first three items, and the latter two have unconsciously finalized the historical trend and the context of events between words.

I just don't know, the numbers are still right.

After all, the national policy of the Ming Dynasty has shifted to opening the sea and Yuguo and the four people, so it must have been more than seven times to go to the West, and it is not surprising that seventy times.

But the five expeditions to Mobei are open to discussion.

It's not that Jiang Xinghuo can't give Zhu Di military spending, but the problem is that it is profitable to go to the West to compete for overseas markets and raw material production areas, and the great powers have proven that it is sustainable to exhaust and fish, and it is over.

But going to the steppes and deserts to fight the Mongols is not the same thing.

Not to mention throwing money into the bottomless pit, it can also be said to be fruitless.

In a broad sense, "Feng Wolf Juxu", that is, all the way to the nest of the nomadic people in the far north, the gold content is of course very high, Huo Qubing of the Western Han Dynasty, Dou Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty, and Lan Yu of the Ming Dynasty have all done it.

And in the narrow sense, there are only Huo and Dou in the narrow sense of "sealing the wolf and living in Xu, Le Shi Yanran".

But no matter who it is, even if Zhu Di hits the difficult river, from the consequential point of view, it still does not have the effect of treating the symptoms and the root cause.

Because it is an obvious proposition that the army of the agrarian nation cannot completely eliminate the nomads by carrying the baggage on the expedition alone, and the fierce nomads have been transformed into singing and dancing beings by the power of modern industry.

Therefore, if we look at it from an absolutely rational point of view, then stick to the Great Wall, vigorously develop marine trade, promote the industrial revolution, and wait until the economic and industrial strength have formed a dimensionality reduction strike, and the grassland will naturally not have any so-called threats, just a group of harmless sheep herdsmen.

Riding and shooting? It's our traditional talent.

But the reality is often irrational, because in the current environment, the Ming Dynasty is facing a real threat to the expedition of the Timurid Empire, and now it has simply ended the campaign of Annam, and it is necessary to quickly attack the Mongols with a heavy blow after withdrawing from the quagmire of possibility.

The question of the expedition of the Timurid Empire, Jiang Xinghuo still thought about it simply, or rather, from the perspective of a traverser, he took it for granted.

Jiang Xinghuo, of course, knew that Timur would die on the border of the Ming Dynasty.

But the problem is that even if Zhu Di believes him, and the princes who formulate and implement military strategies also believe him, who can pat his chest and guarantee that the national teacher has predicted that Timur's old lame man will die, and the national teacher's predictions have been accurate so many times in the past, and this time it is also accurate, so we don't need to prepare?

The answer is, no one.

Timur's threat was real, he had an army of 6,700,000 troops, and these 6,700,000 troops were veterans of a hundred battles, following Timur to conquer the east and west, and in a few decades established an unprecedentedly powerful second power in the world.

Do not think that the Ming Empire is far from the Timurid Empire, the two countries are bordering.

Although the distance of the march alone is indeed very long from the map, the difficulty of the march is also obvious at a glance.

But the question is, did the Timurid Empire fight less of such expeditionary battles?

The Mongols had unparalleled expeditionary capabilities, and the Timurid Empire also possessed them, just look at the example of Timur's war, conquer Persia to the west, defeat the main force of the Golden Horde in the Kundurcha River valley and the Tirek River, and conquer the Delhi Sultanate in the Tianzhu region in the east, destroying Delhi, Punjab, Kashmir and other state cities.

If these are still "close" battles, then the examples of battles with almost the same distance and difficulty as the expedition to the Ming are enough to prove the ability of the Timurid Empire to destroy a huge country through expeditions and decisive battles with the main force.

In the first year of Jianwen, the Timurid Empire marched 5,000 miles west (2,800 kilometers from Samarkand to Damascus) and defeated the Mamluk dynasty, which was the existence of the Mongols in a physical sense.

In the fourth year of Jianwen, that is, the year when Jiang Xinghuo was in prison, the Timurid Empire defeated the main Ottoman force in Ankara, the second largest city of the Ottoman Empire, and captured the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I alive, almost coming to Constantinople.

These two expeditions, which were 2,800 and 2,900 kilometers in a straight line, respectively, fully demonstrated the terrifying strength of the Timurid Empire.

You know, from Samarkand to Jiuquan and Zhangye, the distance is 2,600 kilometers, and to Lanzhou is 3,200 kilometers.

It is obviously unreliable to pin the safety of the Ming Dynasty on the death of the imperial monarch.

If the old lame man is gone, of course, everyone is happy, but in case the people lead hundreds of thousands of people to rush over, and the result is that the Ming Dynasty is not prepared at all, then the matter will be troublesome, even if it can't shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi and other places have become battlefields, which is also a serious destruction of the Ming Dynasty's national strength.

Therefore, the northern expedition to Mongolia next year has become inevitable.

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head, temporarily throwing these troubles out of his mind.

"The palace in Beijing has to think about how to repair it."

As the highest-level building in the palace, Fengtian Hall is usually used for important occasions such as enthronement, wedding, canonization of the queen, birthday (longevity festival), expedition, and court meeting.

Well, the three major halls of Nanjing Palace City are called the main hall Fengtian Palace, the middle hall Huagai Palace, the apse Jinshen Palace, as for why the name is different from the general impression, it is because the name change is Ming Xianzong Jiajing from the Great Rites after the trouble, Fengtian Hall was renamed the Huangji Palace, the Huagai Hall was renamed the Zhongji Palace, and the Jinshen Hall was renamed the Jianji Palace, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, Shunzhi changed the name of the Huangji Hall to avoid his father Huang Taiji (the Ming Dynasty called it Huang Taiji), so the Huangji Hall was renamed the Taihe Palace.

Looking at this behemoth that is 30 zhang wide, 15 zhang deep, nine rooms wide, and five rooms deep, Jiang Xinghuo pondered, or we should go directly to cement in Beijing, and now there is low-phosphorus steel and it is not impossible to get it, but it is just a little troublesome.

Of course, it's just a matter of thinking.

led the little gray horse from under the corridor in the palace, and Jiang Xinghuo rode out with a "da-da-da".

The big white horse gave a gift to Song Li, I thought something would happen, but I didn't expect Song Li, the old boy, to have a very hard life, and he is still bouncing every day.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo turned around and went to the Ministry of Rites.

"The national teacher is good."

The officials of the Ministry of Rites are still familiar with Jiang Xinghuo.

This time he was promoted, Jiang Xinghuo was more or less promoted, and he also gave a slightly higher evaluation to these Langzhong, Wailang, and Principals who were close to him.

There's no way, the basic plate is too small, only the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households can get started in the six departments, and the rest are other people's territory, even if you want to interfere, you will be beaten back, such as the Criminal Department, the Ministry of Officials, and it is even more ironclad, so you don't use these people, who do you use? Everyone and you are here to get promoted and make a fortune, such as Zhuo Jing and Xia Yuanji, who have good partners with ideals, but there are too few.

Therefore, as long as the ability is sufficient, there is no big problem with the conduct, Jiang Xinghuo uses it as much as possible in line with the principle of exhaustion.

You can't turn people away because of your high status, and then make the whole dynasty full of enemies, then you can't do things.

The new right attendant Lang Molin of the Ministry of Rites was still on the way from Beijing to Nanjing at this time, so the Ministry of Rites was still under the jurisdiction of Shangshu Zhuojing and Song Li, the left attendant.

Seeing that Zhuo Jing's door was closed, Jiang Xinghuo grabbed the little official who was passing by with his head down, and asked, "Where is Zhuo Shangshu?" ”

The little official muttered, "I can't see me, I can't see me", but he was still caught by Jiang Xinghuo, and he said with some trepidation: "If you go back and return to the country, Zhuo Shangshu has often gone to Qintianjian recently, and he is about there. ”

Qin Tianjian?

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it, since Zhuo Jing planned to introduce his granddaughter to him, he didn't seem to pay much attention to what Old Man Zhuo was doing recently.

But it doesn't matter, he originally came to find Song Li this time, but in line with the principle of respecting the elders, let's take a look at Zhuo Jing's presence first.

Song Li and Zhuo Jing's rooms were not next to each other, and Jiang Xinghuo had to turn around and go in the opposite direction.

Approaching the Chinese New Year, although it is about to be on duty, there are really a lot of officials who are still working in the Ministry of Rites, because there are a total of four Qing officials in the Ministry of Officials, namely the Ritual Division, the Ancestral Priest, the Host and Guest Division, and the Fine Diet Division.

And these few manpower, every Chinese New Year, to organize ceremonies, welcome foreign missions to the court, not to mention busy feet do not touch the ground, it can also be said that the group turned.

In addition, the Ministry of Rites, like other departments, also has some directly subordinate institutions, but unlike the Ministry of Industry, which has a large number of institutions, the Ministry of Rites is relatively simple, there are three, one is the Casting and Printing Bureau is responsible for making seals for officials, and the other is the Department of Teaching Workshops (also known as the Teaching Bureau).

As for the last one, it's naturally the Angel Pavilion.

"Don't say it, don't say it!"

"Don't say anything?"

As soon as I entered the door, I saw that a green-robed junior official was dancing with Song Li's eyebrows, not knowing what he was talking about.

Seeing Jiang Xinghuo coming in, he immediately sat up.

"Let's go out first." Song Li waved his hand.

The green-robed petty officer bowed slightly, then saluted Jiang Xinghuo, and then went out in a hurry.

"What for?"

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows and looked at the door.

Song Li laughed and said, "The sectarian department still wants to send me a concubine, am I that kind of person?" ”

Believe you, a ghost.

"Coming here to run for office?"

Song Li said disdainfully: "He has the ability to come from left to right, let him do things, I asked him if there was a shortage of people in the Angel Pavilion in Luzon, did he dare to go by himself?" There are more of these people in the yamen, and they are swaying around on weekdays, and they like to tie up with their bosses, and some of the cousins eat this set, and they get carried away by others, and when they really lose power, they are afraid that he will be the first to fall into the well. ”

"If only you can carry it." Jiang Xinghuo asked again, "What about Zhuo Jing?" Recently, I heard that I always run to Qin Tianjian, what are you busy with? ”

Song Li rubbed his head and thought for a few breaths before replying, "It seems that you are studying what "Starry Sky Chronicles"? ”

Jiang Xinghuo was slightly stunned, and immediately understood.

This matter should not be said, it still has a lot to do with the Ministry of Rites.

Rites, since Dong Zhongshu tied up the induction of heaven and man, it has become the existence of the unity of heaven and man, and the rites must not only conform to the Zhou rites of the pre-Qin Dynasty, but also conform to the laws of heaven.

Then to break the sense of heaven and man and re-realize the doctrine of the Holy King, it is necessary to let the people see the truth of this world in terms of astronomy and the universe.

These things, just by doing experiments now, must be there, but they are not very useful, and the reason is very simple, although it is not to say that there is no evidence, but even if seeing is believing, the acceptance of the people is not high.

At the same time, with the progress of the Great Voyage, more and more people have seen the vastness of the world, and they have seen that the world does not seem to be geographically centered on China, and there are many other different existences in this world. Then the combination of astronomy and geography will naturally break the theory of heaven and man induction from an all-round perspective.

Daming is very good, it is the status and level of this Qin Tianjian, to be honest, it is completely incomparable with the previous dynasties, not to mention the Song Dynasty, it is worse than the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the Ministry of Rites Shangshu personally gave guidance.

Don't look at the directly subordinate institutions under the Ministry of Rites, there are only the Casting and Printing Bureau, the Teaching Workshop Division, and the Angel Pavilion, which are the least number of directly affiliated institutions among the six departments, but in fact, this kind of Ministry of Rites has no direct subordinate relationship, but there are really a lot of departments with guidance relationships in the default rules, or the Ministry of Rites is the department with the most guidance relationship among the six departments.

Guanglu Temple is a three-grade temple, mainly responsible for purchasing sacrifices, preparing palace and diplomatic banquets, under the guidance of the Ministry of Rites, and has direct business dealings with many departments of the Ministry of Rites; Also under the guidance of the Ministry of Rites, there are Taichang Temple, which is in charge of national sacrificial ceremonies, and Honglu Temple, which is in charge of the national ritual and music, and Honglu Temple, where the court meeting, guests, and auspicious etiquette are introduced to praise and rituals.

This is equivalent to half of the six temples that belong to the Ministry of Rites.

Of course, this is also a normal business dealing, the ministry belongs to the higher level of the temple guidance department, but for Guanglu Temple, Taichang Temple, Honglu Temple, there is no corresponding financial and personnel power, all the financial rights and human rights and other powers of these temples are directly pinched in the hands of the emperor.

In other words, you can exert influence, but as long as the business is done well, people can also "yes yes" on the surface, and in fact don't take your etiquette department seriously.

There is also a guidance relationship between the military department and the criminal department.

For example, Taifu Temple, as a temple of the three products, is responsible for the management of the national horse administration, because the big head is a war horse and a military transport horse, so it is directly guided by the Ministry of War.

The Criminal Department is the Dali Temple, which is in charge of the trial of criminal and prison cases, as the review body, and the Dharma Temple, which is responsible for revising and promulgating laws, which used to be commonly known as the "Three Law Divisions System", and now it has become the "Four Law Divisions System".

But on the bright side, Dali Temple and Jufa Temple are independent, and the Criminal Department only has the ability to guide, not even power, because these are not written on paper, but just the unspoken rules that have been honed out by the six ministries and the temples and divisions for so many years.

"Why did the national teacher come here so late?"

When Jiang Xinghuo was thinking, Song Li got up and poured him a cup of tea, holding the cup of hot tea, Jiang Xinghuo also came back to his senses.

"I'll tell you three things."

Hearing this, Song Li also put away his relaxed expression and looked at Jiang Xinghuo solemnly.

"The first one is that after the New Year, after the handover in Beijing, Mo Lin and Lu Xiang will come over, Mo Lin and Lu Xiang will come over, Mo Liang is a square person, you and Zhuo Jing should pay attention to it, and you should get along well on weekdays, and don't be hostile. This kind of person may not be tied to death in the same boat just because of his background, and we can also win it if we do well ourselves. ”

Jiang Xinghuo's words were relatively straightforward, and Song Li also understood what he meant, and nodded.

"The second one is, how are things going in the Angel Pavilion?"

Song Li replied without hesitation: "The angels of Japan, Korea, Annam, Champong, and Ryukyu, these five countries have all been determined, and the angel pavilion in the capital of each country has angels from the Ministry of Rites, and different countries are sent from the Ministry of Rites and the Principals according to their different importances, as well as the attachés sent by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Jinyi Guard. As for the state of Luzon, it is really not settled yet. ”

"Do the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies cooperate with the Jinyi Guard?"

"They are all quite cooperative, but there were some well-chosen people before, even if they were promoted, they were reluctant to send overseas, and North Korea rushed to go, except for North Korea, they were all afraid of tigers."

Jiang Xinghuo bowed slightly, and said: "It's not surprising, North Korea is the same as Annan, claiming to be 'Little China', but Annan has just ended the war now, and many places are still unstable, and North Korea has been peaceful for decades, bordering the Ming Dynasty, and it is close, so it naturally wants to go." ”

This situation is not difficult to understand, for many central officials, being sent to foreign countries to be angels, especially island countries such as Japan, Ryukyu, and Luzon, is about the same as knocking coconuts with barbarians, and the future is dark.

On the contrary, the army and the Jinyi guards didn't have so many worries, because they already had a lot of expatriate jobs.

But at the moment when the foreign policy of the imperial court was turning, these people did not want to go, but they had to go, and someone always had to do the work anyway.

Therefore, there are some petty officials, as well as Guozi prison students who want to quickly seek a background, they can't help the temptation of being able to directly become a blue-robed official, and after the training of the Ministry of Rites, they are sent to overseas countries.

Commodity insurance, futures, angel hall system, city shipping system, open sea policy, these are all inseparable, since the historical line has gone in different directions, so in the face of the torrent of the times, no one can resist these things.

"What about the third thing?"

Facing Song Li's inquiry, Jiang Xinghuo looked at him steadily.

Obviously, this matter is about Song Li himself.

"There is an opportunity, but whether you want to take it or not, it's up to you."

Jiang Xinghuo opened his mouth and said: "Last time you were in Jiangnan to control the water, you contributed a lot, and now the floods in Jiangnan have subsided, and the river works are in good order, which is all the credit of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and no one can erase it. With your ability, it is actually more suitable to go to the Ministry of Industry. ”

Song Li was slightly stunned, but his expression remained unchanged, and he asked after thinking about it.

"Is Huang Fu going to move, or is Chen Shou going to move?"

Chen Shou is the descendant of Zhu Gaochi's lineage, and is known as "the first person in the waiter" by Zhu Gaochi, if Chen Shou wants to be promoted or leveled, then he is still a left waiter in the past, from the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites to the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, and the real power may not increase much.

And if Huang Fu wants to move, then it is the "last step" for civil officials.

That is, from the squire to the book.

This is at the level of the position, in the blank period where the prime minister system has been abolished and the first assistant system has not yet appeared on the stage of history, the civil official is a supreme minister in the true sense.

"Huang Fu, he may be transferred to other ministries."

Song Li frowned deeply, this step was not so easy.

Shilang is the third grade, Shangshu is the second grade, and from the level of the second grade, there is no official position, that is to say, it is either the third grade or the second grade, and the middle is empty, whether you can cross it or not, it all depends on yourself.

Generally, Zuo Shilang is promoted to Shangshu, and he is a senior Zuo Shilang who has been in charge of the ministry for many years and has actually been in charge or the main assistant, so he will be justifiably promoted to Shangshu.

Without this condition, there is only one way left.

With the title of Zuo Shilang, he was transferred to do big things that others couldn't do, and with this credit, he was naturally promoted to Shangshu and blocked all criticism.

"So what is the opportunity that the national teacher said?"

Song Li vaguely guessed, but he still didn't dare to believe it, because this task was too arduous, and countless people had tried it for thousands of years, but few succeeded, and even dragged down the Yuan Dynasty.

"Harnessing the Yellow River, correcting the Yellow River from the status quo of seizing the Huai into the sea, now Shandong and Hebei are seriously short of water, but the Huanghuai is flooding all year round, which has affected the basic agricultural production of the Hebei Plain and the Henan Plain, as well as the plain area of Shandong near the Yellow River, are important grain-producing areas, if you want to restore the economy and population, you must not control the Yellow River, Your Majesty admires the model of cash-for-work and intends to apply it to a larger scale of the Yellow River control project."

"These two are not on the same scale."

Song Li was a little instinctively afraid, the surging Yellow River is a nightmare for many water controlrs?

"Mo Daoshi has one eye, instigating the Yellow River to rebel all over the world", it takes hundreds of thousands or even millions of manpower to control the Yellow River, once it is not done well, it is deliberately provoked by people to stir up conflicts or even uprisings, it is a complete disaster.

Even if you can manage people in an orderly manner, what about the river? Can you really be obedient?

Really burst the embankment or something went wrong, the water is ruthless, it is not strange how many people drowned, let alone promotion, it would be good not to be killed.

In fact, in the history of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, Song Li was able to become the secretary of the Ministry of Industry because of the governance of the Yellow River.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River that was seized into the sea because of the Mongols' rottenness has always been Zhu Yuanzhang's heart disease, but because the population and production in the early Ming Dynasty have not recovered to a better state, at the end of the Hongwu Dynasty, in terms of national strength, he has the ability to govern the Yellow River, but at that time Zhu Yuanzhang had put Zhu Yunwen in the first place, worried that the construction period of the Yellow River would be too long, and the large-scale labor force would gather, which would lead to unexpected events and affect the normal handover of the empire, so it was also shelved.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he asked Song Li to govern the Yellow River in the spirit of "it has been broken a long time ago, and how bad it can be".

The first thing Song Li did was to open the dredging Huitong River, this river in the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty from the East Ping'an Minshan to the Linqing River, the diversion of Wen water to the water, belongs to the Wei River, for the passage of the Cao, the name is "Huitong", but the bank is narrow and shallow can not bear the heavy load. In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, the Yellow River broke at the mouth of Yuanwu, and directly destroyed Anshan Lake, and the Huitong River was silted up.

After on-the-spot investigation, Song Li weighed a variety of plans, and finally adopted the suggestion of the local old man who had participated in the late Yuan Dynasty to control the water, and built a dam from Yancheng-Daicun, which stretched for five miles, to curb the flow of Wenshui, and divided Wenshui into two, four percent to Xuzhou Pei County in the south, and sixty percent to Linqing in the north.

After the dredging of the Huitong River, the current Yellow River is equivalent to an additional flood discharge river, and with this precondition, the Yellow River can be partially changed from the status quo of seizing the Huai River into the sea.

Of course, the main problem still cannot be solved, because the Yuan and Ming dynasties both built the capital of Beijing, in order to maintain the task of transporting grain from the south to the north of the Grand Canal, they tried their best to prevent the Yellow River from bursting to the north so as not to endanger the canal. According to this method, in fact, it is still the same as the Yuan Dynasty, treating the symptoms but not the root cause, and the Yuan Dynasty appeared in the Yuan Dynasty when the Yellow River flows into the south into the vortex and Ying, and the south and east flow into the Si as the secondary.

Jiang Xinghuo's vision is more long-term, and his determination is greater.

Although it is difficult to harness the Yellow River, it is by no means completely impossible.

In this matter, when simulating the Yuan Dynasty in the imperial prison, a choice was actually made.

The so-called "one peck, one drink, no matter what is predetermined", is about that.

"Since we want to control the Yellow River, we must manage it well, now the Yellow River is taking the Huai River into the sea, and the Huai River is taking the river into the sea, the Huai River does not even have its own outlet to the sea, and it wants to flow from the Sanjiangying into the Yangtze River and then into the sea, how can it be done in the long run?"

The Huai River originally belonged to the outflow river, that is, the Huai River water will eventually flow into the sea from the land, the Huai River originally also had its own inlet channel, it was a river that flowed into the sea alone, but due to the reasons of the water system and landform of the Huai River Basin, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River have been diverted many times in history, especially the Yellow River's seizure of the Huai River into the sea, silting up the downstream channel into the sea, so that the original Huai River water system was disordered, resulting in frequent natural disasters, or waterlogging or drought, as the previous situation in the south of the Yangtze River, are caused by unfavorable water control.

"Of course I know."

Song Li smiled bitterly: "Every time the Huaishui is in full bloom, the west wind and waves, the white waves are like mountains, and in the hundreds of miles of Huaiyang, the public and private are panicked, and those who dare to sleep in peace. But, alas. ”

"Big Ben."

Jiang Xinghuo said earnestly: "That's why I want to use you, only you can do this, you don't have to worry about money, Xia Yuanji and I will find a way." ”

"In addition, if you are willing to pick this beam, I have two methods here, and I will give them to you together."

"Those two ways?"

Song Li was slightly surprised, if it was water control, he was indeed an expert, he knew that Jiang Xinghuo was erudite and talented, but he could make any achievements in water control. I really don't know anything other than using gunpowder to blast it.

"Tell me first, if you were asked to control the Yellow River, what would you do?"

Song Li thought for a while, and then said: "If I am really asked to control the Yellow River, then I can only dredge the channel of the Huai River system, and then build a levee on the north bank of the Yellow River." ”

In fact, this is indeed the method that Song Li chose in the history of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life.

It can't be said that it is the best solution under the limited budget and labor, because after the completion of the construction of the embankment on the north bank of the Yellow River, the Yellow River can flood to the north, and then ensure that the river will not have problems, but this only solves one aspect of the problem, and will also bring new problems, that is, the Yellow River will divert to the south, and more and more, the more the Yellow River is diverted, the lower the flow and flow rate, which will lead to the lower the ability of its own sand carrying and sand washing, and the more serious the siltation of the Yellow River, at that time, it will be formed" If the riverbed rises, the embankment must be raised, and if the riverbed continues to rise, the embankment must continue to be raised".

This strategy of drinking to quench thirst eventually led to more than a dozen tributaries of the Yellow River in the Huai River basin in the later years of Ming Xianzong.

Later, the governance of the Yellow River went through two stages, namely the Hongzhi stage and the Wanli stage, the Hongzhi period was the famous minister Liu Daxia was responsible for the governance of the Yellow River, Liu Daxia took the control of the Yellow River to the north, and part of it was divided into the Huai River instead of seizing the Huai River, Liu Daxia led people to build a river embankment of more than 1,000 miles on the north bank of the Yellow River, and then dredged the old Jialu River at the location of Huanglinggang, so that part of the Yellow River flows into the Si River, and part of the Yellow River flows into the Whirlpool River and the Yinghe River, thus forming the main stream of the Yellow River into the Si River in Xuzhou, The situation that the tributaries enter the Huai River from the Vortex River and the Yinghe River is actually essentially no different from the large and small Yellow River in the previous Yuan Dynasty.

As for the real governance of the Yellow River, it is necessary to wait for the Ming Dynasty Wanli period of the water control expert Pan Jitao, Pan Jitao is the "storage, brushing, transport" three-step management plan, not only in the north bank of the Yellow River to build a dam, but also on the south bank, and then with the famous "water to attack the sand" method to scour, to see that the Yellow River water is insufficient, and to Hongze Lake embankment to force the Huai water into the Yellow River to help attack the sand, so that the sediment of the Yellow River that has been deposited for I don't know how many years to wash away, and this flush away, It was like opening up the second vein of Rendu, and it was immediately smooth, and until the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River did not have too many breaches and disasters.

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head and said: "No, I have two methods here, one is reinforced concrete, and the other is water and sand, you remember." ”

(End of chapter)