Volume 14 Chapter 7 (4)

Seeing this, Qi's heart widened, and he was about to continue talking, but he saw the purple-clothed boss shawl on Liao Shuiqing's body, and then untied a brocade belt from his wrist and helped Liao Shuiqing tie it up, the technique was very skillful, obviously he often served like this, and Liao Shuiqing's expression was natural from beginning to end, and there was no abnormal look, Lu Qi clearly remembered that these two people were masters and servants, but why were they so close and better than husband and wife, and couldn't help but feel more suspicious in their hearts, but they didn't dare to show it, and said with a smile: " The little woman was clumsy, and only felt that as a gentleman, she should not use an ordinary inkstone, but she just looked at it for a long time, but she didn't know the essentials, and asked Mr. for some advice. ”

Liao Shuiqing smiled slightly, and did not answer directly, but slowly groaned: "The city palace is desolate, and the mountains and rivers are still half sunset. Therefore, the tile is chiseled into today's inkstone, and the world is to be taught to write the rise and fall. (Note 1) Have you ever heard these poems?"

Lu Qi heard the words in her heart, because she didn't pay attention, at this moment she couldn't help but turn around and look, this time she watched carefully, only to see that the square tile inkstone is one foot eight inches long, eight inches wide, slightly in the shape of a silver ingot, the color is as black as ink, the pottery is dense and warm, like jade not jade, like stone not stone, there are piano patterns, the ink pool is below the middle of the inkstone, the inkstone forehead is broad, and more than 100 words are engraved on the inkstone, and the handwriting is as thin as a mosquito's foot, but it is elegant and flying.

Appreciate for a moment, Lu Qi heartily admired: "It turned out to be the Tongque Tai inkstone, I have heard for a long time that the Tongque Taiwa is made of Zhanghe Cheng mud mixed with walnut oil, the physique is fine and hard as a stone, and the ink is not wasted pen, but since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the copper Que Tai inkstone is hard to find, so that the fish and dragons are mixed, the truth and the false are indistinguishable, presumably with the elegance of Mr. This inkstone should be genuine, I can't imagine that Lu Qi will be able to see the true face of Tongquetai inkstone in his lifetime. ”

Liao Shuiqing smiled indifferently: "Qin bricks and Han tiles, can be made of inkstones, the reason why the Tongquetai inkstone is precious, but it is borrowed from Wei Wu Yuwei, which can make people think about the ancients. Fine and expressive, but unfortunately it is slippery and not inky, can only be played, and there is an inkstone refined by the remnants of the Han Dynasty. Although it is simple and elegant, it can not be used seriously, but this copper bird platform inkstone can be said to be well deserved. That's why I took it with me, and since you have the opportunity to see this inkstone today, why don't you try my study?"

Lu Qi also has such thoughts in her heart, so she is not prevaricating. Sure enough, I stepped forward to lay paper and ink, but the pen holder was full of brushes, which was not suitable for writing. She was hesitating. The old man in purple had already taken a pencil case. In the pen case, there are more than a dozen purple sheep hairs of different thicknesses and lengths, and the branches are very valuable. Lu Qi groaned slightly, then took the most common sheep's hair, and concentrated on the pen.

Liao Shuiqing had already walked behind Lu Qi at this time, and seemed to be interested in watching her put down the pen, Lu Qi knew that the words in her pen were the easiest to leak what she thought, so she just recorded the poems that Liao Shuiqing had just read. Putting down the sheep's hair, Lu Qi moved away so that Liao Shuiqing could watch, and at a glance, she saw a wisp of a smile on Liao Shuiqing's lips, somehow, she only felt that her mind had already been seen through by Liao Shuiqing, and she couldn't help but hang her head and avoid Liao Shuiqing's gaze.

Seeing this, Liao Shuiqing smiled slightly, looked down at the poems written by Lu Qi, and praised it for a while: "Clear and beautiful, both rigid and soft, the words are like their people, but they are too cold, and the red dust is naturally disturbed, and avoiding it is not the best solution." ”

Lu Qi understands that Liao Shuiqing only has three points to comment on words, but in fact, there are seven points on people, but she has a cold temperament and is tired of the world, so although she knows that what Liao Shuiqing said is not unreasonable, she is just smiling. Liao Shuiqing knew it, but he was not angry, he just stretched out his hand to open the porthole, pointed to the endless embankment on the north bank of the river, and said, "Do you know the origin of this embankment?"

Lu Qi also read the scriptures and history, and after a little thought, he replied: "The water scripture note says, 'Jiangling City is inclined to the southeast, so the origin is the golden embankment, starting from Lingxi. Huan Wen ordered Chen to supervise the construction. This is the Yonghe period, Huan Wen was the history of Jingzhou at that time, and the little girl was only shallow in learning, as for the later things, it is not very clear. ”

Liao Shuiqing stood in front of the window, stared deeply at the Jiangbei causeway, and said in a tone that was almost self-talking: "After the river water comes out of Shu, from the Zhijiang River below, to the Yueyang Chenglingji, it was originally the ancient Jingzhou region, so it is known as the Jingjiang River, the Jingjiang River is Jiuqu ileum, the river is meandering, the water flow is slow, it is most easy to silt up sediment, the riverbed changes drastically, and there are often natural bends, so that the people can not live in peace, so since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the officials and people on both sides of the strait have built embankments on the basis of the natural river embankments formed by the water flow, so as to protect the fertile fields on both sides of the river. At the beginning of the previous dynasty, it coincided with a flood that was rare in a century, which washed away the Jingjiang embankment built by the local government, flooded millions of fertile fields, and caused many casualties

The embankment, nearly a thousand miles of river embankment has a new look, especially the sand market in the lower reaches of Jiangling, low, the embankment built is very firm, with its firmness, every inch is like gold, and it is called the inch gold embankment. Just control the water together, can not just build an embankment and dam, but also need to store water and floodwater, so the embankment on both sides of the river has left a hole mouth flood distribution, in the past there were 'nine holes and thirteen mouths' said, the north bank of the river is the long lake, three lakes, Bailu Lake, Honghu Lake was originally a natural lake used to store water and floodwater, the south bank of the river is mainly Dongting Lake, at that time the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the river can be passed, the embankment on both sides of the river is not high or low, Jingjiang has few floods for more than 100 years, it can be called the land of fish and rice. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, in the last years of the previous dynasty, the government was corrupt, the king was mediocre, he only cared about the tyranny and tyranny, built the palace, the courtiers were intrigued, embezzled money, where could they still take care of building embankments, so the mouth of the river embankment was gradually blocked, coupled with the growth of people, the lack of arable land, there was often the act of building embankments and plugging the polders, and when the previous dynasty collapsed, there was only the north and south of the Jiangbei Haoxue and the Jiangnan Hudu North-South Divided, and after a few Jianghan fell into the Yang family, in order to Tuntian, the Hao Cave was also blocked. At that time, Dibaling County was still under the control of the Tang family, so it reopened the tuning mouth, and the boiling river water flowed into Dongting Lake through the tuning string and Hudu, and the water surface of Dongting Lake expanded rapidly, but in less than 20 years, Dongting West Lake has been silted up into a continent, and Jingnan is flooded almost every year, until nine years ago, I persuaded the Tang family in Jiangning, on the south bank of the Jingjiang River, according to local conditions, dredge the lake, divert the floodwater, rebuild the embankment, from west to east or natural, or artificial, forming Songzi, Taiping, lotus pond, Tuning the string four mouths, the river water flows south from the four mouths of Jingnan, and comes out of the north of Yueyang Chenglingji, surging endlessly, and there is no flood again, which keeps the peace and joy of the south bank of Jingshui. Speaking of this, Liao Shuiqing suddenly stopped talking, and his eyes were even brighter, and he no longer saw the original banter.

Lu Qi listened attentively, some of these things she had seen in the classics, and some of them were immersive, but nine years ago she was still young, and she was busy with schoolwork, so she didn't know the process of Dongting water control, at this moment listening to Liao Shuiqing's eloquent story, such as a few family treasures, I only felt as if I had seen the changes in the Jingjiang River for thousands of years, and then thought of Liao Shuiqing as a woman to do this great thing for the benefit of the country and the people, I admired it very much, and the little doubt in my heart did not know when it had gradually faded, and I couldn't help but say: " Even if regardless of Mr. 25 years ago, Mr. Cun's kindness to the people of Dongting is enough to deserve the reputation of 'Hebo'. ”

Liao Shuiqing smiled slightly bitterly when he heard this, and said, "I can't deserve it." The word 'Hebo', repairing the dredging of four mouths is just an expedient measure, the way to control the water, dredging and blocking the two ways can not be wasted, the north bank of the Jingjiang River is only blocked and not sparse, there is the danger of breaching, and the sediment on the south bank of the Jingjiang River is silted, the bottom of the riverbed and the lake is gradually rising, but 30 years, the difference has been four feet high, from the north bank of the Jingjiang River to watch the boat, as if floating in the air, if it goes on like this, after seventy or eighty years, I am afraid that the difference between the height of the two sides of the strait will be calculated in zhang, once it encounters a flood that is rare in a hundred years, causing the river to break the embankment, only afraid that the Jianghan thousands of miles of fertile soil, all of them will be turned into Zeguo。 ”

When Lu Qi heard this, she was already frightened, and unconsciously asked, "Since Mr. knows the drawbacks, isn't there any way to solve it?"

Liao Shuiqing's eyes flashed, and there was a shocking cold light in his eyes, and he said coldly: "Even if you know these drawbacks, what is the use, is the Yang family willing to reopen the diversion cave on the north shore?" Tens of millions of acres of fertile land on the north bank of the river, most of them belong to the powerful, who will be willing to let their fields come to naught, in fact, the lack of embankments above and below the river, not to mention the Jingjiang River, there is more Jianghuai Yellow Trouble, like a sword hanging on the head, I don't know when it will fall, but it is a pity that most of the princes in the world only have that high position, and a few people can see the suffering of the Li people, that is, some people are willing to build water conservancy, and most of them are forced to do so, if the lord of Huofeng County, If the world cannot be unified, even if Liao has the ability to control the water, he can only cry out in vain. Speaking of which, girl, you know what they're worried about, right?"

Lu Qi's heart shook violently when she heard this, and she raised her eyes to look up, only to feel that Liao Shuiqing's eyebrows and eyes were faintly domineering, especially the pair of eyebrows that were bent like the moon, but at this moment they were like a sword out of the sheath, which made people frightened at first sight, such Liao Shuiqing is no longer a madman who laughed and scolded and indulged arbitrarily when he first saw him, nor was he a great sage who was obsessed with academic calculations, nor was he the legendary "Hebo" who was compassionate and compassionate, but a princely overlord who was powerful in the world, and did not dare to disobey, and people couldn't help but want to bend their knees at first sight.