"The Book of the Guiding River"!

A strange book that was evaluated on the Internet in later generations as a fold and directly buried the three dynasties.

Those monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty are sometimes indeed a group of things that pat their brains to decide national affairs.

And under the influence of the "Guide River Shape Shengshu", he decided to change the Yellow River back to the river.

It can be said that it did indirectly cause the Sanyi River to return to the river, so that the mother river has since become the Houma River, which has been a scourge for hundreds of years.

But in fact, this thing and Li Chui himself are mostly demonized.

As a student studying history, Zhao Jun naturally has to look at problems objectively, rather than subjectively and directly beating people to death.

At least in terms of foresight, Li Chui does have a unique vision.

In addition to the fact that the buttocks are too crooked, and the people's livelihood is not considered, but a lot of mention is made that once the Yellow River flows north, it will cause the Liao State to invade southward, and the specific plan in it is still worth affirming.

Because the specific plan is to dredge the river, excavate the artificial river to discharge the flood, and at the same time dredge and block, which is also an old method since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Later, Jia Lu in the Yuan Dynasty, Pan Jitao in the Ming Dynasty, Jin Fu in the Qing Dynasty and others used similar methods to this, blocking and sparse at the same time.

So in a sense, Li Chui can only say that the starting point is wrong, but the road is right.

It's just that the court in the later period of the Zhenzong Dynasty was very chaotic, and the five ghosts such as Ding Wei and Song Zhenzong were mediocre and incompetent in his later years, which made the court miserable, and he did not take his suggestion and missed the opportunity.

Zhao Jun heard that everyone knew the "Guiding River Shape Victory Book", so he nodded and said: "Yes, it's this harmful thing, but the strategy in it is not too problematic, the old way, digging a canal to discharge floodwater, and reducing the pressure of going to sea on the old road." ”

"I remember that in the "Guide River Shape Shengshu", there are nearly ten rivers such as dredging the Yuhe, Baigou, Chihe, Hengzhangshui, Hutuo, Lanyuan Canal, Bianqu, and Xida River!"

Yan Shu opened his mouth wide: "Such a big project, I'm afraid it's no worse than cleaning up the Yellow River." ”

"It's definitely not as big as cleaning up the Yellow River."

Zhao Jun said: "Li's flood discharge plan is to dig six rivers to connect more than 10 rivers in Hebei, so that one can alleviate the pressure of the Yellow River, and the other is that by planning the basin of the six rivers, it can build vast agricultural water conservancy facilities, and can also geographically strengthen the military defense of eastern Hebei, and the amount of work is much smaller than dredging the old Yellow River road." ”

But even so, the amount of manpower and material resources to be spent is a huge amount. If the construction started in the year of Jing You, the Great Song Dynasty saw that the war with the Western Xia was imminent, and it would have to spend military expenses and dig rivers and canals, so there would not be so much money to act. ”

Zhao Zhen couldn't help but say.

If you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, the treasury is almost empty, and there are more than 1 million guan left in the internal treasury, and this river repair project is at least tens of millions of guan, where can you afford to spend so much money.

"But this is already a more feasible method, and the Yellow River in Jing Younian is still good, and it is even more difficult to control after the Sanyi River is not delayed. As long as the canals can be dug out first, the flood pressure of the Yellow River can be relieved, and the urgent needs can be solved, and other methods can be used to continue dredging. ”

Zhao Jun said: "In the Yuan Dynasty, the Jialu Xiu River was blocked and dredged, and the Jialu River was dug to discharge the flood. In the Ming Dynasty, on the basis of Jialu, Pan Jitao adopted the method of "binding water and flushing sand", while building new canals to discharge floodwater, and building dikes to accumulate water and impact sediment. Jin Fu of the Qing Dynasty put on the shoulders of the two of them while "bunching the water and washing the sand", and at the same time using manual cleaning of the silt, which is a two-pronged experience. ”

The old Yellow River waterway is more than 600 kilometers long, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are quite spacious, the average width of the river channel is about five or six hundred meters, if you want to clean up such a large amount of sediment, even if the modern society wants to mobilize manpower and material resources is immeasurable, I am afraid it will cost hundreds of billions of RMB to get it.

In ancient society, if you want to complete this project, it is no less than building a complete Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Even if you have that money, it can't be done in a few years, it may take decades or even hundreds of years to complete.

Therefore, it is no less difficult to dredge the waterway of the Yellow River and dig out the riverbed that is ten meters higher than the original river channel.

But there is no problem in digging a few new rivers to discharge the flood, because Jia Lu in the Yuan Dynasty, Pan Jitao in the Ming Dynasty, and Jin Fu in the Qing Dynasty all did this.

Among them, Jia Lu dug the "Jialu River", Pan Jitao dug the "Caoyun New Canal" and "Kui River", Jin Fu dug the "Huai'an River", "Zhonghe" and "Qingkou River", and the rest of the large and small diversion rivers and canals are countless.

So many things are man-made, Jia Lu, Pan Jitao, Jin Fu can do it, if it was in the Song Dynasty before the Yellow River became completely irritable, why not?

However, Zhao Jun felt that it didn't make sense for him to say this.

"Of course, I'm just telling you that the ruling class of the Song Dynasty lacked foresight, and that the dog emperor and the brain-dead ministers were stupider than pigs," he said. Obviously, before the flooding of the Yellow River, it can be stopped at a very small cost, but it has to be delayed, and choose the most disgusting way to govern, which will harm the millennium, and Song Renzong should be nailed to the pillar of shame. ”

Zhao Zhen was about to cry.

Ever since he mentioned Sanyi's return to the river, he has been scolded as a pig's head.

The key is that in the past, Zhao Jun would occasionally scold Lu Yijian and these people to share the pressure for him, but Sanyi's return to the river was a matter in the middle and late stages of his reign, and it was the later Prime Minister Wen Yan Bo Fubi who scolded these people, none of them were present, or did he have to resist all alone?

For a while, Zhao Zhen glanced at Fan Zhongyan resentfully, and said in his heart, Old Fan was dignified, and asked Sanyi what he was doing when he returned to the river.

The rest of the crowd was in deep thought.

Today's content can be said to be the most exciting content these days, they didn't dare to talk too deeply before, and they tried cautiously every time, for fear that Zhao Jun would find out the clues.

But now Zhao Jun's eyes recovered quickly, and today, he finally doesn't have to hide it anymore and asks questions generously.

This is a very broad-minded thing for the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, seeing that Zhao Jun's vision is about to be restored, and he is about to discover the truth, if he doesn't ask when he finally tells the truth, then when should he ask?

However, Zhao Jun's words still made them feel shocked.

From the total value of social wealth, to the productive forces and production relations, and finally the current three easy to return to the river. An unprecedented perspective was put in front of everyone, and their knowledge and knowledge skyrocketed.

More importantly, Zhao Jun mentioned the essential core of the feudal dynasty, so does it mean that if it is really according to Zhao Jun, as long as the productivity continues to improve and the cake is big enough, the regime will always be stable and will not collapse for thousands of years?

Yan Shu said: "In the final analysis, the Song Dynasty was unable to repair the river because of lack of money. ”

"Yes and no."

Zhao Jun sneered: "Lack of money is just an excuse on the one hand, the root is still to instigate Zhao to be cowardly and incompetent, even if he is hung up and beaten by the Liao State, even the Western Xia in the northwest corner of the country can't do it." In order to stop the attack of the Liao State, he wantonly brutalized the people. Such a garbage country does not deserve to live, and it is better to be destroyed as soon as possible. ”

Zhao Zhen was silent for a long time before he asked in a hoarse voice: "What if, I mean what if." If the Song Dynasty had an industrial revolution that improved productivity, would it have been able to defeat the Western Xia and Liao, repair the great rivers, and keep them all the time? ”

"What are you kidding?"

Zhao Jun said in disbelief: "Productivity is indeed related to production relations, but to be honest, the productivity of the Song Dynasty was much stronger than that of Liao, Jin, and Western Xia, and I have not seen the Song Dynasty eliminate them." ”

"Why?"

"Because in the era of cold weapons, the impact of comprehensive national strength is far less than that of modern times, unless the reform of thermal weapons can be carried out, it is still difficult to overwhelm Liaojinmeng. In addition, there is the institutional problem that I talked about earlier. ”

"Why is it involved in the system again?"

"Aren't the cowardly emperors of the Song Dynasty afraid of foreign enemies to death? Even if thermal weapons appeared, they would not dare to develop them on a large scale. They are as timid as rats, they defend more internally than externally, and they are afraid that if they are armed, the army will turn around and overthrow their rule, how can this group of brain-dead people carry out such reforms? ”

"I don't think you're right."

Hearing that Zhao Jun began to say that the emperors of the Song Dynasty were all brain-dead, Zhao Zhen decided to refute it and said: "Other emperors are indeed brain-dead, but Song Renzong is a very good emperor, if he hears your words, he will definitely humbly ask for advice, strive to improve productivity, and strengthen his country." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Jun didn't raise his eyelids when he heard the words of Gongjing Waza Muguo, and asked lazily: "How can you be sure that he will definitely humbly ask for advice?" Did he do anything firm in history? Or is there something commendable? ”

"Amount"

Zhao Zhen choked suddenly, because he didn't know what he had done in history.

Anyway, just hearing Zhao Jun say that he was barely qualified emperor of the Song Dynasty, and then there was a series of "old perverts", "old skins", "two fools", "cheap bones", "stupid donkeys", "big cowards" and the like.

What exactly did he do, how did he know?

So he hesitated for a moment and said: "During the Jingyou period, Li Jian did the money method, and the tea merchants gathered people to be dissatisfied and did not want to buy grain into the middle school, which was solved by Song Renzong. ”

"Is there such a thing?"

Zhao Jun scratched his head and said, "Forget it, I haven't read much of "History of the Song Dynasty", so it should be there." This is not a big deal, not to mention that our teacher didn't say that seeing that the money law ended quickly with Li Zheng's death, isn't that still nonsense? ”

Lee Sang-sang is dead?

Zhao Zhen's eyes widened, and the rest of the people also looked at each other.

In fact, these days, they have also asked curiously, such as Zhao Zhen, Yan Shu, and Lu Yijian, when they died.

After all, people will always have concerns about this.

But Zhao Jun likes the history of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, and he doesn't even know when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty died, let alone Zhao Zhen, Yan Shu, and Lu Yijian.

The main course of the Department of History is called "Ancient Chinese History", and this course will not specifically talk about which big figures died when, at most it will talk about the years of birth and death, and students will not deliberately memorize them, but only roughly talk about the history from China's primitive society to the Qing Dynasty.

The content is also the same as high school history, talking about the political system, important events, national characteristics, cultural influences and so on of each dynasty.

If you want to study a certain dynasty and study it more thoroughly, you have to take an elective, and there is an elective course in the history department of the National People's University called "Selected Readings of Historical Materials", and students can specifically look for the historical materials of that dynasty.

Anyway, Zhao Jun didn't take this course, he chose "Political History" and "Cultural History".

It is worth mentioning that among these elective courses, there are also "History of Women", "History of Song and Dance", "History of Beggars", "History of Prostitution"...

And the reason why Zhao Jun knew Li Zheng was because when he happened to take "Cultural History", the teacher talked about tea culture, mentioned the tea law reform caused by the tea culture of previous dynasties, and then talked about Li Zheng himself.

At that time, the teacher mentioned that Li Zhen opened the money method for the second time, and it didn't take long for it to end because Li Zhen died of illness, so Zhao Zhen showed off Song Renzong in him to settle the tea merchant, isn't it still useless?

Zhao Jun's words made everyone fall into a haze, Zhao Zhen immediately beckoned, Wang Shouzhong stepped on small steps, he whispered a few words to Wang Shouzhong, Wang Shouzhong left immediately, and sent the eunuch to the Taiyi Bureau to ask the Taiyi to diagnose and treat Li Zheng.

The scene was slightly silent because everyone heard about Li Zheng's death, Zhao Jun thought that his words calmed everyone, so he smiled and said, "Are there any other records?" ”

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "The Jianghuai disaster in the year of Jing Younian was pacified by Song Renzong's internal funds of 200,000 silk. ”

"Isn't that what should be done? Natural disasters are unpredictable factors, and the government should be the first to be responsible for the suffering of people due to natural disasters."

Zhao Jun wondered: "When the Wenchuan earthquake, how much manpower and material resources did our country contribute? In the flood of the Yangtze River in 98, the People's Liberation Army jumped into the river and used its body to stop the flooding. The monarchs of the feudal era were the family of the world, and they should be more patriotic, and their position should be with the people. The new Chinese people are the masters of their own affairs, the government is not a family, and the disaster relief efforts are still so large, not much stronger than the feudal society? ”

Zhao Zhen was speechless for a while, and then said: "The power of ancient times is already limited, it is not as good as modern times, Renzong's actions are already loving the people like a son." ”

"Not necessarily."

Zhao Jun retorted: "I still say the same thing, the Son of Heaven should love the people rather than herdsmen, and he should have stood with the people." However, there is a saying in the Renzong Dynasty that I remember, "The rich have a land of hope, and the poor have no land", and this is where he is stupid. ”

"Me"

Zhao Zhen was speechless, because this is a fact, from the Zhenzong Dynasty to the present, the land annexation in various places is extremely serious, the people are displaced, and the landless people gather to rebel in countless ways.

But he has no way to solve it, and this is the root of the problem.

Zhao Jun said: "Therefore, Renzong is only benevolent to the scholars and landlords, not to the people. It's funny to say that he is a pastemaker at best, and to say that he is a soft egg at worst, and to expect him to do something. Do you know how a Song Dynasty joke was told? ”

"How?"

Zhao Zhen asked subconsciously.

During the reign of Song Renzong, a young man complained at work: "This kind of emperor is really a soft egg." As a result, one of the Praetorian Guards heard about it and was arrested. The young man defended: "I didn't say which emperor it was, so how can you arrest me casually?" ””

Zhao Jun smiled: "You don't deceive people," the Praetorian Guard roared, "I've been working here for more than twenty years, which emperor is a soft egg, I don't know?" , seeing that Zhao Zhen is a soft egg, the entire Great Song Dynasty knows it. ”

(End of chapter)