Chapter 59 The Yellow River, a topic that cannot be bypassed
The only reason Yun Zheng doesn't want to stay in Tokyo is because he doesn't like to waste his life. This city is too prosperous and comfortable. If he stays here for too long, his ambitions will be gradually worn away, and Yun Zheng thinks that
He is not a strong-willed person, so he had to leave, and he took his whole family with him.
He doesn't want to let go of his life or ambition.
"How can you compete with those tough young men in Qingtang? Your war elephants have been transported to the south, your Wu Sheng army has been divided into chaos, and your nine military princes have become the mainstay of various armies of the Song Dynasty.
Chief, if you dare to call anyone, you will be in big trouble."
"If not, how could my whole family leave? I plan to be the prefect of Qinzhou. I am a civil official, not a military officer. Isn't it reasonable to bring my family to take office?"
Di Qing didn't listen to Yun Zheng's nonsense and said directly: "What are you going to do to convince people like Pang Ji to allow you to go to Qinzhou?'
Yun Zheng rubbed his cheeks with his hands and said: "There will be a way. None of those people are stupid. They know what I am doing. They will not stop things that are obviously beneficial to Song Dynasty. Now it is actually the best
At that time, there were no real villains in the court, but only a group of people who wanted to do something.
Look at Pang Ji. On the surface, he is fighting with us, but he has never delayed the allocation of funds for the Northwest Frontier Army, including the suspicious amount of gunpowder that I think is already large. He also satisfied those people as soon as possible.
.Whether it was army selection or defense changes, he did everything very professionally. Of course, he has no good solution for the lack of horses in the Song Dynasty. I plan to have a good talk with him. Without war horses, our dreams are basically
Empty talk, trying to catch up with those barbarians on the northwest land with two feet is simply a dream.
So, I plan to find a suitable time to talk to him carefully. He may not stop me from going out. He is not a person who has lost his conscience just for the sake of official position.
Everything is discussed openly, and I don’t think this is an overly difficult matter. The Lantern Festival has passed, spring is coming, and the Song Dynasty is also celebrating its reign. Everything should have a new beginning.
good."
Di Qing nodded and said: "In this case, it's time for me, the Deputy Privy Councilor to move on. Just like we thought before, you go to the northwest and I go to Hejian Mansion. In order not to be tabooed by the Liao Kingdom, I'm going here.
Nor does he hold a military position."
Yun Zheng gave Di Qing a smile with difficulty and said: "You will be out here, so I won't accept your life!"
After saying these words, both of them seemed to let go of their worries and spread out their limbs in the pile of furs to enjoy the warm winter sun, but one looked like a tiger and the other looked like a bear...
The Song Dynasty has not been so quiet for a long time. After the opening of the Yamen, documents came from all over the country. Zhao Zhen did not find those documents from the barbarian invaders that gave him a headache. The Liao people were raiding the grass valley, and the Xixia army to capture the dead seemed to have disappeared.
News, more news coming from the border army is a good sign for land reclamation.
If the farmland can meet 30% of the food needs of the frontier army, the Song Dynasty's fiscal balance this year is expected to exceed one million yuan, and it can shift its efforts to regulating the Yellow River. The Ministry of Industry has long had documents proving that regulating the Yellow River cannot rely on tinkering.
A maximum-scale governance must be carried out in order to achieve long-term peace and stability.
In the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, the Kaibao Pagoda of Kaibao Temple in Kaifeng collapsed. This wooden building only stood for fifty-five years. This pagoda was built by Emperor Taizu. He originally thought it would stand for many years. Unexpectedly,
A thunderstorm made it the largest torch in Kaifeng City.
The collapse of the Kaibao Pagoda also marked the beginning of the disasters during the Qingli period. From that year on, endless disasters befell the people of the Song Dynasty. It was not until Nong Zhigao's rebellion that the reconstruction of the Kaibao Pagoda was ordered by the ministers.
It was mentioned on the agenda because everyone believed that thunder and fire attacked the Kaibao Pagoda and defeated the national destiny of the Song Dynasty.
Although Zhao Zhen didn't believe it, in order to comfort the people of the world, he had to rebuild the pagoda in Tokyo in the first year of Huangyou. However, this time he did not build a wooden pagoda, but used bricks and glazed to rebuild a masonry structure in Shangfang Temple.
After several years of exposure to wind and rain, the tower became dark, like an iron tower, so its original name was gradually forgotten, and people began to call it the iron tower!
Zhao Zhen, now that you are standing on the iron tower, he does not need to lower his head. He only needs to look straight up to see the white sails on the Yellow River. They say that people in Kaifeng carry a basin of water on their heads. This sentence is too plain. It should be said that Tokyo
A fatal noose hangs over the man's head.
River control has always been a great achievement since ancient times. Clearing the Haiyan River was the common dream of all emperors after the river became turbid. At this time every year, Zhao Zhen would come here to see the Yellow River, because at this time every year, it is the time to
When the river opens, the rolling Yellow River water carries a large amount of ice and thunders down from the upper reaches to the lower reaches.
The terrain of Tokyo is flat, and ice will accumulate when it reaches here. If too much ice melts down at once, and the ice downstream has not completely melted, an ice dam will be built in the river, eventually creating a subversive
as a result of.
This river has never given people peace of mind. Blocking it like this is no solution. One day, the accumulated sediment will raise the river bed. When the terrain downstream is higher than the upper reaches, the Yellow River will collapse.
Zhao Zhen himself knew this problem, and the ministers also knew it. Everyone was waiting for the day when the Yellow River embankment collapsed, but they didn't know when that day would come or in what way. This feeling of waiting for death was simply crazy.
Zhao Zhen was looking at the Yellow River, and Mr. Peng Li was taking Yun Er and Su Shi to look at the river. What the Yun and Su families needed most was war horses, so the old man was sitting in a carriage, and three young men were riding horses.
Followed by seven or eight tough family generals.
Such a crowd looks like nobles at first glance, so the crowds coming and going on the broad Yellow River embankment will naturally avoid them, thinking that these nobles are just leisurely looking at the scenery. At this time, the weeping willows on both sides of the Yellow River have not yet turned green, so what can you see?
?
Every time they walked a hundred feet, a family member would go down to the river and fill a jar with Yellow River water. Yun Er and Su Shi would make a sign and carefully put it on the ox cart behind. There were already more than a dozen bottles on the ox cart.
With a jar like this, it seems that they have been walking on the embankment for a long time.
After all, the old man's energy was a little low. Mr. Peng Li fell asleep unknowingly. When he woke up, he found that the carriage had stopped. He was wrapped in thick fur. He didn't know how long he had slept.
The voices of young people discussing outside the carriage came in. The voices were very low, apparently because they were afraid of disturbing themselves.
"I just weighed all these jars. The jar of water upstream is one, two or three cents heavier than the jar of water at the bottom. In other words, after a jar of muddy water has traveled thirty miles, the sediment
There is only one, two or three cents less. All the sediment of these two or three cents has been deposited on this section of the river bed. If we calculate the flow of the Yellow River, we can easily figure out how much sediment is deposited every year, and we can calculate
When will the Yellow River completely burst its banks?"
"You are right. As long as the siltation rate is faster than the rate at which people raise the river embankments, the Yellow River will definitely burst its embankments."
"Not only that, you also have to calculate the speed of the river bed elevation. The higher the river bed downstream, the slower the river water flows and the faster the sedimentation rate. This is a variable response and cannot be simply calculated with constants.
, the value must be progressive.”
"Knowing the day when a disaster occurs is not a skill; being able to think of ways to regulate the Yellow River is the real skill."
"My eldest brother said that actually the best way is to change the course of the Yellow River. Instead of letting the Yellow River choose to change its course, we should choose a way out for it first, so as to minimize the losses. But I always feel that this method will not work.
It is impossible for us to build a direct channel for the Yellow River to the sea in a few years."
"My elder brother said that the people who managed the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty were actually fools. They were just as stupid as Dayu's father in ancient times. They only knew how to raise the river embankment. This method of treating the symptoms but not the root cause is what is the difference between committing suicide?
In fact, regulating the Yellow River is not to make the Yellow River wider, but to make it narrower. Only after narrowing, the speed of the water flow will speed up. Once the water flow becomes faster, the water flow will automatically cut down the river bed, and the rapid river water will continue to flow.
With the sediment carried in this way, the river level will become lower and lower, doesn't it solve the problem of the river bed rising continuously?"
Seeing that the three disciples were having a lively discussion, Mr. Peng Li stuck his head out of the window and said with a smile: "What I thought was simple. In the eighth year of Qingli, the Yellow River burst at Shanghuxun in Chanzhou, and then changed its course to the northwest.
It stretches east of Neihuang in Henan and west of Daming in Hebei, passing between present-day Fuyang River and Nanyun River, along the east of Nangong, Zaoqiang, west of Wuyi, east of Xianxian, and finally merges into Yuhe River in Qingxian County, and enters the sea through Jiehe River.
You only think about solving the troubles in Tokyo, why don't you think about the difficulties of the people of Daming Prefecture? River control is never a single thing, it is almost the embodiment of the will of the entire empire.
Where it should be diverted, where it should be raised, and where it should be abandoned all need to be clearly demonstrated, and the emperor who makes the decision probably needs to have extremely strong control skills, otherwise a civil uprising is just around the corner."
Su Shi smiled and said, "I am the one who regulates the river. There is another person who governs the people. It has nothing to do with it. I am only responsible for making suggestions. As for whether they are successful or not, it is none of my business!"
Mr. Peng Li struck Su Shi on the head with a ruler and said: "You bastard!" (To be continued)