There are two roads to get to Jiangnan Road. One is to go north to Henan Prefecture and take the Yellow River Road all the way east to near Yunzhou, turn to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and follow the river south to Jiangnan Road. This is a waterway.
One is the overland route from Duji Road to Suzhou and Hangzhou via Xuzhou, Yingzhou and other places.
Qin Huaidao chose to take the water route. First, the water route passed through a lot of places. It seemed to be a long way, but it was actually faster and more comfortable than the land route. The land route was not only exposed to wind and sun, but also bumpy when riding. Naturally, he was not afraid, but who would want to suffer this if there was a comfortable water route?
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What's more, floods in the Yellow River have been a top problem for all dynasties since the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Millions of silver taels are spent here every year. In a year of great disaster, it is normal to spend tens of millions of taels of silver.
He felt more at ease when he entered Henan Prefecture and took a look at the Yellow River.
The five people walked up the official road, each with their own scenery. They could also constantly hear people's comments on what Chang'an Daily said. For Qin Huaidao, understanding the people's hearts is essential, so wherever he goes, he
I will listen carefully to the people's opinions on the entire New Deal and the things mentioned in Chang'an Daily.
Many of the people said that although they did not understand the meaning of the so-called new ideas, when it was mentioned that the people were the masters of the country, everyone's face was filled with excitement. The changes in the court not only brought new ideas to the entire Han Dynasty, but also brought new ideas to the entire Han Dynasty.
Here comes new motivation.
Under the governance of a court whose power belonged to the people, people gradually emerged from the haze of war and were full of hope for the future.
In addition, "My Big Han and Me" performed by the Chinese National Music Bureau continued to penetrate into various prefectures. For a time, the new trend swept the entire Han Dynasty, making the Han Dynasty prosperous and making people who were secretly afraid to act rashly.
The Yin of Henan Prefecture is now named Lu Zhun. After the Han Dynasty, he entered the Henan Prefecture by jumping three levels from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
In the old system of the Tang Dynasty, there was a capital water supervisor, but regional water affairs were still managed by local officials. Therefore, Lu Zhun was also responsible for the Yellow River water affairs in Henan Prefecture.
Passing through Henan Prefecture, Qin Huidao and others made a special detour to Henan Prefecture's embankment to check the water affairs. The current management ideas are still the same, building embankments to prevent disasters. When the embankments are not built, floods will occur, the Yellow River will surge, and the sediment will be washed away by the rapids and spread on both sides of the bank.
, will not be sedimented. Since the control of the Yellow River began in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Yellow River has been tied up in the embankments on both sides, and sediment has accumulated, gradually raising the downstream river channel. At this time, the Yellow River channel is higher than the plain outside the embankment, and it is a veritable above-ground river.
If the levee collapses, the harm caused will be much higher than in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Spring news is coming, many river workers on the Yellow River embankment are tightening the dam, and a large number of bluestone strips and wooden dragons have been moved onto the embankment, ready to be put into use in the embankment.
In order to further understand the situation of the Yellow River dam, Qin Huaidao specially asked several river workers for questioning.
Seeing an old river worker taking a rest in front of him, Qin Huaidao led Luo Wu and others forward.
He saluted the old river worker and then asked: "Old man, I want to see the Yellow River embankment. I wonder if the old man can help me check it out?"
The old river worker said: "Who are you? The river business is a major matter for the imperial court and cannot be ignored. If there is no order from Lord Fu Yin, you should leave early."
This river worker was also a sensible person and did not scold Qin Huaidao for his recklessness.
Qin Huaidao winked at Cheng Chumo, and Cheng Chumo immediately raised his fists and showed his cards: "This old river worker, I am Cheng Chumo, the son of Marshal Cheng Yaojin, one of the ten generals of the Han Dynasty. I was ordered by your Majesty to patrol the river secretly, and I asked the river worker for my convenience.
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The fame of these second-generation martial artists has spread all over the country. When he heard Cheng Chumo's name, the old river worker became excited. He took Cheng Chumo's warrant and read it again and again before he was sure it was correct.
"It turns out he is the son of Marshal Cheng. He is very good. To be honest, when Marshal Cheng followed Li Er to conquer the world, I was lucky enough to follow him for a period of time. Later, the Li family conquered the world, so I returned to my hometown.
, and later became a river worker. I thought I would never see Marshal Cheng again in this life. I didn’t expect to see Marshal Cheng’s descendants here again. How lucky I am.”
It turned out to be an old member of the Cheng family. Cheng Chumo was very happy when he found out: "It turns out to be an uncle who followed my father. I wonder what I call my uncle?"
The old river worker stood up quickly and signaled Cheng Chumo not to call me that: "Uncle, I can't bear to call you that. My original name is Feng Jizhang. The general can just call me Lao Feng."
Cheng Chu said silently: "Then I'll call you Uncle Feng. Uncle Feng, your Majesty is very concerned about the Yellow River embankment. I wonder if the current embankments on both sides of the Yellow River can prevent floods?"
Old Uncle Feng looked at the turbulent Yellow River not far away, his eyes a little sad.
"You see, the water of the Yellow River has been surging ever since it was discovered. It rushes from the Longyou Road and goes straight to the Bohai Sea. However, the floods are far greater than the human sufferings. Regardless of the number of people who died in the war, the number of people who die due to floods every year is very high.
Quite a few, at least the number of people who died of floods during the Zhenguan period was no less than the number of people who died during the war between Your Majesty and Li Tai."
Qin Huaidao was shocked. He only knew that floods can eat people, but he never thought that the death caused by floods would be greater than war.
The relatively simple-minded Fang Yiai was obviously more surprised than him.
"Old man, are you bragging? How can a mere flood be compared to the number of people who died in a war? You know, massacres often happen when the fighting is severe."
Hearing Fang Yiai's question, Old Uncle Feng smiled. He stood on the Yellow River embankment and pointed to Henan Prefecture in the distance: "Look, this is the Yellow River embankment, and Henan Prefecture is in the distance. If a once-in-a-hundred-year disaster happens,
The entire Henan Prefecture cannot avoid the flood, and it will all be flooded. Guess how many people will die if Henan Prefecture is flooded? How many big cities like Henan Prefecture are there on the entire Yellow River?"
"If we include the counties and villages along the way, the losses suffered will be huge."
After listening to this, several people looked dull. They had always only led troops to fight, but unexpectedly, floods were far worse than tigers.
Cheng Chumo suspected: "That's not necessarily the case. There are embankments built everywhere. Even if there is a flood, it will only overflow from the embankment. Not every place will be affected, and the damage will not be this great."
The former veteran told Cheng Chumo with determined eyes: "It is true that there are levees in various places, but they cannot prevent floods, especially since each place has its own affairs to deal with the disaster. The upstream cannot prevent the floods from being opened, and the pressure is level by level.
According to legend, how terrible is it when it reaches the peak? The key is that when the flood comes, the water volume will not decrease in a short time. By then, the water will cover thousands of miles, and the water will be littered with corpses. How tragic?"
After saying that, Feng Jizhang let out a long sigh. He had seen too many such miserable situations during his years of river management.
Qin Huaidao knew that there was more to what he said.
If officials at all levels continue to secretly steal rivers and silver and pass off inferior ones as good ones, the consequences will be even more disastrous.