Huaibei is not a small place.

It is located north of the Yellow River, including southwestern Shandong, southern Henan, Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and its population is no less than that of ordinary provinces.

He is located in the inner world of the empire and is also the hometown of the Ming Dynasty's many nobles in Huaixi. It should have been a place with abundant resources, but now it is the place that makes the Ming Dynasty the most troublesome.

There is nothing else, flooding.

Since the Grand Canal was dug to connect the north and south, every year when the Yellow River floods were heavy every year, the entire Huaibei would be directly flooded along the canal. In order to maintain and repair the Grand Canal, the people of Huaibei would be cattle and horses for the court.

By the time of the Zhao Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty established its capital in Bianliang, and it had to rely on the water conservancy of the Grand Canal. However, during the Northern Song Dynasty, because the imperial court was rich and the profits of merchants, the Huaibei region was once very prosperous.

But by the Southern Song Dynasty, Huaibei completely became the abandoned son of the Central Plains dynasty.

First of all, Du Chong, the so-called famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, not only fled when facing the Jin army Wanyan Zongwang, but also dug the Yellow River embankment, turning the entire Huaibei region into a country of ​​walking.

The Jin army did not kill many people, but hundreds of thousands of people drowned. The people who died of plague and famine caused by the flood were several times more numerous than this.

Du Chong's escape caused Hebei to fall, and Huaibei became the front line of the Song and Jin dynasties. From then on, both sides fought on this land for hundreds of years. The good Jin destroyed Yuanxing and fought on this place for decades.

The warlike and perseverance of Huaibei people is purely beaten rather than born.

More than a hundred years of war have left the people of Huaibei in poverty. The floods in the Yellow River are even more uncontrollable, and the harms brought by floods are not as simple as floods.

After repeated floods, the farmland soaked by the Yellow River becomes saline-alkali land, which is even more unfavorable to farming. Therefore, the entire Huaibei region has been in a vicious cycle over the years, with poor mountains and rivers and stubborn people.

Even after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court invested huge sums of money, but it did not gain much.

Moreover, there are only two points in the control of floods: one is the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the canal transportation.

In fact, the reason why the old man started a massacre of the Huaixi nobles back then was somewhat related to the poverty and despair in Huaibei. Good land was in the hands of these founding nobles or local wealthy families, and countless poor people could only guard the saline-alkali land at home and wailed hard.

Today, agriculture and business in Huaibei are not good, but the only thing that can be used is salt. However, the benefits brought by the salt farm in Huaibei have also been added to the private purse of Zhu Yunsheng and the old man of the Ming Dynasty.

It is the Lianghuai salt tax that is as high as 10 million yuan per year and is used as military expenses.

"The prefect of Sizhou comes to report!" Zhang Ju, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, spoke slowly, "The rain in Sizhou is far better than that in the capital. It has been continuous since March, and the river embankment is in danger!" As he said, he sighed, "As early as the heavy rain came, Sizhou mobilized civilians to build the river embankment, but if this happens again, I'm afraid..."

It’s not just a fear, but a flood will surely rag on the other side.

Zhu Yunxi looked solemn. Sizhou was located in the lower reaches of the Huai River. Once the Yellow River is diverted, its city will be the first to be affected.

"Sizhou is my hometown!" Li Jinglong felt a little sad and cursed, "The people in charge of the business in the village are all eating and eating, but there is no news about such a big thing!"

He was thinking, and he looked up inadvertently, and suddenly he found that the emperor's eyes also fell on him, and he was thinking.

"Grandma, I'm going to be unlucky!" Li Jinglong's back was sweating profusely.

The reason is that the Li family is the largest landlord in Sizhou.

Although he had returned a part of it, one-third of the best land in Sizhou was in the hands of his Li family. Not only did he have land, but because Sizhou was located in the lower reaches of the Huai River to guard the southern port of the North and South Grand Canal, the Li family also had business and shops in Sizhou.

But what Zhu Yunxiu was thinking was another thing. The ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty was in Sizhou.

The ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty and the Fengyang Imperial Tomb are two different things. The latter is a tomb built by the old man for his parents, brothers, and sister-in-law. In the ancestral tomb of Yangjiadun, Sizhou, the ancestral tomb of the old man's grandfather, great-grandfather, Gaozu. The old man's mother, Chen, also conceived in Sizhou.

Therefore, Sizhou is another place where the Ming Dynasty was prosperous besides Fengyang.

But if Zhang Yan said something else, he would have something to say when he mentioned Sizhou.

In terms of a single Sizhou and a place, the most difficult part to manage floods is the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty of the Zhu family.

The ancestral tomb is next to Hongze Lake, which is a depression. Once the Yellow River enters the Huai River, the ancestral tomb is at risk of being submerged. In order to avoid the flooding of the Longxing Land of the Ming Dynasty, those who control the water can only cause trouble.

During the Ming Dynasty, when it came to the royal Feng Shui issue, the officials who governed the river followed a saying that they must not flood the ancestral tomb. Not only did the officials really think, but the emperor also thought so.

The most famous of them is Wanli, and Chongzhen. Wanli, regardless of the life and death of the millions of people around, must ensure the safety of the ancestral tombs and spend a lot of money to build stone embankments. Chongzhen has the reasons for the transportation of canals and the Lianghuai salt fields, which directly ignores the suffering of the people.

In the 19th year of Kangxi, the Yellow River seized the Huai River and the Ming Dynasty's ancestral tomb was flooded. In the 35th year of Kangxi, all Sizhou was completely sunk into the water.

During this period, starting from the 17th year of the Kangxi reign, the river was controlled by the Gaojiayan and the Zhonghe River were built, which resulted in no more floods in Huaibei for 60 years.

"It is better to drain the river than to block it. If you want to completely control the river, it is absolutely impossible to build a dam alone. Even if it is built, it can only ensure that the ancestral tomb will not be swallowed by floods. If you want to dig a river channel to divert water, it will inevitably involve the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty!"

A place where Feng Shui dragons are prosperous is difficult! Difficult! Difficult!

"Emperor!" Li Jinglong saw that Zhu Yunxi's face was gloomy and calm, and said carefully, "Sizhou is my hometown. In Sizhou, I have no choice but to do so. I have several granaries in my hometown and more than 2,000 tenants from the village......"

"Yongxi!" Zhu Yunxi interrupted Li Jinglong and looked directly at Zhu Gaochi, "You tell me, just look at Sizhou. If you want to manage the river, do you have to move our ancestral tomb?"

"You ask Zhang Yu! My surname is Zhu, please ask me? Could it be that I tell you that in order to control the river, it is best to dig a ditch from the ancestral tomb... I want to say this, without you, my father can kick me to death!" Zhu Gaoxu wailed in his heart.

But he also knew that if he didn't say this, no one would dare to say it.

"The management of rivers is not the head of my minister!" Zhu Gaochi pondered, "But the management of rivers is not as simple as the word "dip and block". Moreover, the danger of Sizhou is the danger of the entire Huaibei. The danger of Huaibei lies in the breaking of the Yellow River, seizing water from the Huaihe... and... "

"Emperor!" Suddenly, Xin Yande spoke, "I have something to say!"

Zhu Yunxiu looked at Xin Yande, "You say!" and said, "But it's okay to say it, I won't say it for sinners!"

"Even if the emperor wants to blame him, I will say it. Even if the emperor does not blame him, I will definitely be criticized by thousands of people. But for the sake of the millions of people in Sizhou and even Huaibei, I must say it!"

Xin Yande spoke loudly, "Why not move to Sizhou City and build a new city?"

As he said, he continued, "Once the Yellow River breaks and flows backwards, the four counties of Huaiyang will be at the least, and the entire Huaibei will be at the worst. In other words, from Sizhou to Huaiyin, the 150-mile Yellow River waterway is the only waterway that can divert water into the sea!"

"When we clear this waterway, Sizhou must be moved!" As he said, he looked at the ministers, "I also know that it is related to the tombs of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, and to the hometowns of the people of a city!"

"But, in front of millions of people in Huaibei, what does the gains and losses of a city and a place count? How can one family and one family be left out of the ancestral tombs!"

As he said that, he took off his official hat and kowtowed heavily, "Your Majesty, it's not that I cannot cure the river in the Ming Dynasty, but that I have too many constraints. If the flood is not cured, I will be perfunctory for decades and will poison the descendants of the future generations! Please build a dike, open a river channel, and treat the flood in Huaibei forever!"

"The country and the country are in the hearts of the people, not in the tomb!"

"The fortune of the Ming Dynasty is in the hearts of the people, not in Feng Shui!"

Suddenly, an angry shout came from outside the hall.
Chapter completed!