Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1420 It's over
The problem of the Yellow River was once indeed a very difficult problem to solve.

However, the Yellow River issue in Dashun is different from that of feudal dynasties in history.

In terms of Dashun, the biggest difficulty of the Yellow River problem is actually only the migration of the uninhabited area of ​​the Yellow River.

This is the difference between Dashun and the feudal dynasties in previous history.

As for the feudal dynasties in history, the biggest difficulty with regard to the Yellow River issue... In fact, I am afraid that it is impossible to care about the millions of people in the so-called No Man's Land of the Yellow River.

The problem of the Yellow River, from the end of the Ming Dynasty, was not a scientific problem, but a political problem.

The ancients were not stupid, and there are too many people who knew that the Yellow River would break through and flow northward sooner or later.Knowing that Huang, Huai, Jiang, and Ji are combined into one, and a super-large-scale flood breaks out, then something big will happen immediately.

only……

Historically, in the sixth year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty and the ninth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, someone proposed to solve the problem of the Yellow River.

But Yang Fangqing, governor of the Manchu River, hit the nail on the head, only referring to the essence of the problem:

[The Yellow River suffers from the same problems in ancient and modern times, but the treatment of the river is different in ancient and modern times.Before the Song Dynasty, the river was controlled, but if there is a road to the sea, it can be south or north. 】

[Yuan, Ming, and up to our dynasty, the southeast water transport, more than [-] miles from Qingkou, all depended on the transfer of the Yellow River.To control the river is to control the water, so it can only go south and not north. 】

This is basically the root cause, the essential problem, of no large-scale projects since the Yellow River began to frequently cause trouble on the Huaihe waterway in the late Ming Dynasty.

If you want to say that a dynasty like the Manchu Dynasty, which moved its borders and banned the sea, could consider the millions of people in the no-man's land of the Yellow River, that is pure nonsense.

That's the fundamental problem.

Water transportation needs to use the water of the Yellow River, and it depends on the Yellow River for more than [-] miles from Qingkou.

Therefore, the Yellow River can only enter the sea from the south, and it is impossible to enter the sea from the north.Even people with a clear mind know that it will happen sooner or later.

However, as long as the problem of water transportation is not solved, it is useless.

Historically, from 1652 when the imperial court gave advice to restore the Yellow River and Yu Dao, to 1852 when Wei Yuan wrote a book saying that a major event must happen in the Yellow River North, it took a full 200 years, back and forth, and finally all stuck in the " Water transportation" on this matter.

In the early stage, there is no need to be overly picky about this. In the early stage, there was neither such urgent demand nor such financial capacity.

Finally, in the reign of Qianlong, financial resources, manpower, material resources, and political stability were all available, and the memorial "On the Adaptation of River Courses" that suggested large-scale projects was also handed in. The fourth "stay for a long time", after all, he is just a man. A successful king dare not do such a big thing.

And when Wei Yuan started to promote Fubei Dao... With regard to the centralization of power, political stability, financial and material resources, etc., it was doomed that even if he wanted to do it, he would not be able to do it.

The reason why it is said that the pressure that Dashun faces on the Yellow River issue is different from that in history is due to the consensus that "the Yellow River must be abolished first", and it has been completed.

But in fact, in fact... To put it bluntly, for the feudal dynasty, the million people in the uninhabited area of ​​the Yellow River are actually not a problem at all for a serious and normal feudal dynasty , the ranking is not ranked at all.

Dashun has experienced a wave of modern problems before entering the modern age.

Of course, even so, after careful calculation, this matter is not accomplished overnight.

The prerequisite for solving the Yellow River problem is the water transportation problem.

The premise of solving the water transportation problem is the Nanyang problem.

The prerequisite for solving the Nanyang issue is the Northwest issue.

The prerequisite for solving the Northwest issue is the Rakshasa issue.

After more than [-] years of tossing and tossing all these things, one after another, it finally reached the point when Dashun was qualified to "solve the Yellow River problem". Although it seemed slow, it was actually quite fast.

It should be said that until now, Dashun is really qualified to say, to solve the problem of the Yellow River and restore the old ways of Dayu.Otherwise, before that, there is no difference between talking and farting, it is simply empty talk.

An ancient book says: Shun used Gun to control the floods for nine years without success.

Counting it, it has been nine years since the First World War was about to start, and Liu Yu finally decided to do the last thing to solve the Yellow River problem.

If you only look at the course of the Yellow River, it is not a problem to say that it took nine years without success.

In the past nine years, Liu Yu basically did not excavate the Yellow River, but did many things that seemed to have nothing to do with the Yellow River.

In several prefectures and prefectures in Shandong, the reform of the permanent tenancy system has been carried out.

The railway from Jinan Prefecture to Jiaozhou Bay was built.

The salt fields around Lijin were abandoned, and large salt fields were built in Yizhou and Haizhou.

Suppressed the Yanhu Uprising in Bohai Bay, and completed the southward movement of the Shandong salt production area to the Rizhao area.

There was no iron ore industry in Zibo area built.

Completed the replanting of cash crops in the central Shandong area, and suppressed the uprising against insufficient compensation for land expropriation by the railway.

Suppressed the uprising of farmers and businessmen in the northwestern Shandong area caused by the collapse of the abandoned canal and the panic of the diversion of the Yellow River.

The course of the Xiaoqing River has been expanded, making it an important transportation line connecting the bean cake and fertilizer production areas in Northeast China, and directly leading to the central Shandong area where cash crops are replanted.

In the end, the migration of the people in the Yellow River No Man's Land was basically put on the right track, and the hundreds of miles of no man's land and the lake no man's land of Fuliang Mountain Lake were completed.

Nine years without success.

That's about it.

But now, there is only the last "little problem" of digging the Yellow River channel.

At least, compared to many prerequisites for building the Yellow River, such as going to Nanyang, abolishing water transport, expanding the Kanto, producing food, and making money from World War I, this last matter is indeed a "small problem".

Since there is only one last bit of "little problem" left.

Therefore, Liu Yu, who originally wanted to move the Yellow River, proposed a plan that was inevitably somewhat "conservative".

The more radical plan was put forward when Liu Yu had failed for nine years and was finally about to start digging the river and was determined to solve the problem of the Yellow River.

More than ten years ago, on the issue of the Yellow River, Liu Yu was still a radical among the radicals. At that time, few people dared to think about drying up the Yellow River.

But now, the radicals among the former radicals have become conservatives in an instant.

At this time, at the construction site of the new embankment of the Daqing River in Jinan Prefecture, Zhao Yi, the champion of the new discipline a few years ago, was explaining his more radical river control plan with Liu Yu there.

"Guo Gong, the disaster of the Yellow River has been difficult to solve since ancient times. The reason why it is difficult to solve is that there is no universal law. The reason why there is no universal law is that the root of the Yellow River problem is not solved."

"The reason why the river breaks is because it carries sand, which is easy to stop and accumulate. As a result, the height of the river is getting higher and the sea mouth is getting more and more blocked. Therefore, the break does not stop, and it will become a disaster for all generations."

"If you know the cause of the collapse, you can practice the law of the ages."

"Mo Ruo opens the north and south rivers at the same time, and they will rotate every 50 years."

"If you travel the Beihe River for 50 years, close the dam mouth and expose the Nanhe River. Then the Nanhe River will dredge the sediment. After 50 years, the water of the Yellow River will be driven southward, and then go to the Nanhe River to dredge the Beihe River."

"This alternation makes the water turbulent, and there are often deep rivers. Since the river is deep, how can it collapse?"

"If this is the case, then riverworks, soldiers, and labor services need not be provided; costs for reeds, earthwork, stone and wood can also be omitted."

"Although this theory has never been created in the past, it is actually a long-term strategy for the safety of all generations."

"Li Du's poems have been handed down thousands of times, and it is no longer new. Talented people have emerged from generation to generation, each leading the coquettish for hundreds of years. The creation of a theory that has never existed in the ages may not necessarily be impossible to do. To lead the coquettish, we should look at the present..."

Zhao Yi's ideas are much more radical than Liu Yu's.

Liu Yu just wants to restore the ancient Yellow River Road.What Zhao Yi meant was that he dug and dug anyway, so why not just leave two paths?

When the Yellow River is in the north, it digs the sand in the south.

After waiting for the rotation, go digging the sand in the north.

If there is really a big flood, it will be opened directly, and the two rivers from the north and the south will go together. Isn't this stronger than Liu Yu's thinking about rebuilding Onozawa as a reservoir for the flood discharge area?

Moreover, the Yellow River Road itself has been flowing for hundreds of years, and it was originally a no-man's land.There is no need to consider the migration here at all.

Liu Yu looked at the champion not long ago and couldn't help laughing.

There are some things that are completely different when spoken in different situations.

In history, Zhao Yi did put forward this idea.

But if everything remains the same, without Dashun's series of policies such as going to Nanyang and changing sea transportation, Liu Yu will definitely laugh at Zhao Yi, saying that he has read Shibai, and after reading it for a long time, he will be full of empty talk and nonsense.

Because, if everything remains the same, the root of the Yellow River problem is the problem of water transportation; and the problem of water transportation involves the Western naval power in Nanyang; going to Nanyang also involves the problem of the Northwest and Rakshasa...

Don't talk about these things.

Just say "two rivers, 50 years each in the north and the south", then Liu Yu must think that this is bullshit.

It's not that it doesn't make sense.

But even if it is correct, it is correct nonsense, pure nonsense, which does not touch the essence of the problem at all.It is really sad to read history like this.

After reading and reading, the question boils down to: "This piece of meat, should I make braised pork? Or should I make sliced ​​meat?"

I never thought of the question: "Where can I get a piece of meat? How can I get this piece of meat?"

Of course, when that refers to "no meat", Liu Yu must be ridiculed.

But now.

Pre-problems are resolved.

When Zhao Yi said these words again, it seemed that Liu Yu's water control plan was too conservative, and Liu Yu didn't care.

After all, if you talk about it at this time, it is not a bastard, but at least it is one of the feasibility studies of many plans.

Liu Yu didn't care.

In fact, he no longer cared about who would be in charge of completing the project of the Yellow River North Road in the end.

That's it, it's a matter of course.

So, after laughing, he didn't talk about the plan itself, but recounted Zhao Yi's poem in a strange way.

"Li Du's poems have been handed down thousands of times, and they are not new. Talented people come out from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years. Good poems! Good poems."

These words stunned the surrounding officials and flood control technicians.

I thought to myself, when did Duke Xingguo not pay attention to practical issues and instead admire poems?Is the sun coming out from the west today?
(End of this chapter)