Xinshun 1730

Chapter 283 There are many bureaucrats who want to do real things

Before the fleet went south, Liu Yu's staff also wrote the "Tang Feng Storytelling" for the Japanese shogunate this year.

Councils of trading companies can decide what to load and what routes to take, but some political matters are strictly controlled.

It's like a "Tang Feng storyteller" to the shogunate. If you want to trade, you have to hand it over to Nagasaki.

Feng said what was written in the book, which became the focus of the review, and the trading company had no control over it.

According to Liu Yu's wishes, the staff also wrote about the fact that the fleet went south this time.

The reason is also enough to fool around: the imperial court has the intention to change water transport to sea transport. In order to prevent pirates from robbing, they dispatched naval escorts, which may become the norm in the future.

The shogunate relied on Nagasaki as a window to understand the outside world. If it was just a Chinese sea merchant, it would be easy to say. Those ship owners who got the trade letter card alone dared to talk nonsense and come forward to protect the secrets of coastal defense. When.

However, there are hateful Dutch people. The Netherlands still visits Edo every year. They have the upper hand to tell stories, and they will also tell about the situation of Dashun. This matter cannot be hidden.

Since you can't hide it, you might as well write it out directly. Anyway, Japan can't figure out what's going on, and most of them will think that it is really going to change water transportation to sea transportation.

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Jiangsu, Huaian.

Tan Zhen, the Jiedu envoy of Jiangsu who suggested the pilot sea transportation of Su and Songcao rice, was inspecting this year's section of the Yellow River, accompanied by the Governor of Huai'an and several river control officials.

Since the Yellow River was diverted in the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River has been taking the Huaihe River from Jiangsu into the sea in recent years.

For hundreds of years, the once rich land, the once land of fish and rice, has now become a cancer in the waist and abdomen of various dynasties, the legacy of Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Like a piece of rotten flesh from the wound of a grown empire, it will never heal, and it will never heal.

Tan Zhen proposed to try out the coastal transportation of rice in Songjiang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture. Now is not the time to transport rice, and the flood of the Yellow River may come first this year.

The technocrats who governed the river sighed: "Master Jiedu, with the canal, river governance can only treat headaches and feet. The first thing to do is to ensure water transportation, and the second is to govern the river. Put the cart before the horse, put the cart before the horse, we wait It's not stupid, but on the premise of ensuring water transportation first, many river control methods cannot be used."

"Nowadays, the sediment is silted up, not to mention the Yellow River and the Huaihe River. Even Yangzhou may suffer from floods because of the canal communication."

"The siltation is becoming more and more serious. If we don't strengthen the treatment now, in more than ten years or even a few decades, once the Yellow River breaks and diverts to the north, the prosperity of the Jianghuai River will be in danger."

"Where the Huaihe River flows into the sea, there is more and more silt. If the Yellow River diverts in the future and the Huaihe River is difficult to enter the sea, it is very likely that the canals and large lakes will be taken away to flow into the Yangtze River. Once there is a flood, not only the Jianghuai River, but also the tax-heavy areas in the lower reaches of the river will also be very dangerous. "

"If there is not much water and insufficient washing, the Huaihe River will not enter the sea, so it can only go south to the Yangtze River. If the Yangtze River has more water from the Huaihe River..."

With the emergence of new measurement technologies in recent years, the mathematics and measurement levels of river control hydraulic engineering have also improved a lot, and the danger in the future has been seen.

Of course, some people think that the water will flow forever, and they wish that the embankment would burst every year and there would be disasters every year. In this way, the imperial court would have to spend a large sum of money to dredge the canal and improve the river course.

However, in the capital of Yao and the land of Shun, there are always a few people who uphold the idea of ​​making a living for the people.

There are always such "fools" in the world, and the land of China has never lacked such "fools".

These people are looking forward to a complete cure of Huang Huai, the rotten sore in the heart that separates the north and the south.

After Tan Zhen took office, some people talked about the Yellow River, Huaihe River and the canal with the idea of ​​"trying the new official's appointment".

The people who submitted the letter were all thorns in the eyes of previous officials, but they really had the ability and had to use it.

Tan Zhen's trial of carrying rice into the sea may not necessarily be out of the idea of ​​"guaranteeing water transport first, then flooding, so that river control cannot cure the root cause".

But in everything, it doesn't matter what the track is.

Whether it is really wanting to make a living for the people, or to make political achievements and promotions, it is always such a step.

He and Liu Yu had never met before, but he believed that this time, Liu Yu would send a boat south to escort the first batch of rice transported by sea.

This tacit understanding stems from the fact that he knew that Liu Yu was in favor of the faction that abolished the Cao Cao and reformed the sea.

This year's first wave of grain rice is about to start shipping, but Jianghuai has experienced heavy rainfall this year, and floods are likely to occur again.Before the water rice was put into operation, he followed the river management official to the Yellow River to have a look. After listening to the introduction of the river management official, he asked: "If the water is abolished and the sea is replaced in the future, will you be able to cure the Yellow River?"

Several technocrats who governed the river laughed.

"Your Excellency Jiedu is joking, the Yellow River is not the resurrection of Dayu, otherwise, who would dare to say that the Yellow River can be cured? We don't have the ability to do so."

"It's just that if we can abolish the water and change the sea, then the first consideration for river governance is flood and drought, rather than ensuring the smooth flow of the canal. In this way, many methods that cannot be used now can be used."

"Don't say it can cure the root cause, even if it treats the symptoms, it is much easier to use than the current methods."

These officials who govern the river do not consider the food and clothing of millions of waterworkers, nor do they consider the risks of water transportation and sea transportation. They are not so much officials as officials.

They don't consider politics, nor do they have a big picture of the big picture and a macro narrative perspective, they only consider things within their professional scope.

They were not modest either. Some even thought that even if Dayu came back to life, he might not be able to heal the Yellow River.

There were few people at that time, but now there are many people. If the road is changed, there will be hundreds of thousands of victims.

Who?Who to abandon?
People are not trees, they cannot grow back after being drowned.

However, the Yellow River burst is almost inevitable, a small wave will come in three years, and a big wave will come in decades.

If you don't make up your mind to change the way to manage it yourself, you can only wait for the natural disaster to come and die more.

Now it is dragged down for water transportation. In the future, once the Yellow River breaks north and changes back to the river channel before the Song Dynasty, not only the new channel of the Yellow River will suffer, but the Huaihe River will not have the water of the Yellow River in the future, and it will not be able to rush into the sea. It will be dangerous from Huai'an to Yangzhou.

"Master Jiedushi, this dynasty has great advantages in governing the Yellow River."

"The imperial mausoleum of Zhu Ming in the former dynasty is in Fengyang. In addition to protecting the canal, we must also consider protecting the mausoleum. In this way, it is inevitable that hands and feet will be tied up, and many methods cannot be used. They can only move around in a small area."

"The ancestral mausoleum of this dynasty is in Tianbao Mansion, so there is no need to consider these matters. To protect the mausoleum and protect the water, the only thing left is to protect the water."

"If we can solve the problem of transporting rice to the north, I dare not say that the flooding of the Yellow River will be eradicated, at least there will be no major disasters."

Technical difficulties, with more than [-] years of experience in water control, can be described as the most abundant in the world at this time.

However, technical problems are easy to solve, and political problems are hard to solve. Dashun has no pressure to protect the imperial tomb from being flooded. The ancestral tombs were flooded...

Tan Zhen thought that this was indeed the case, and said, "If you want to solve this matter, it's not up to you or me, but to Donghai."

"This year, we will try to transport the rice from Songjiang and Suzhou. If it goes well this year, we will have the possibility to control the Huanghuai River in the future. If it doesn't go well this year, I'm afraid it will be difficult."

"I haven't touched a boat very much. I was either in the capital city or in the southwest to suppress rebellion and return home. If you want to talk about the sea, you have to ask Ying Suobo."

"Since he has always wanted to abolish the water and change the sea, whether he can take this first step depends on his ability."

Although he has never met, Tan Zhen still believes in Liu Yu's ability and is full of confidence.

In the past two years, Songjiang has added a lot of strange yamen and increased some strange taxes, but Songjiang has become more and more prosperous, and no one is calling for profit from the people, which is a strange thing.

These unexpected but effective weird methods are the source of his confidence in Liu Yu.

"Water control is originally the responsibility of the governor of the River Channel. It is not appropriate for an envoy to do it on his behalf. However, as long as the water transportation issue is not resolved, the Governor of the River Channel is tantamount to doing things in shackles. It is difficult to think about it."

"This matter of abolishing the water and transforming the sea may not be possible, but everything that is forewarned will be abandoned if it is not forewarned. You should write some regulations first."

"If the rice transportation goes well this year, I will also submit it to His Majesty when the envoys come to Beijing to perform duties in time for the winter festival."

There are many unspoken rules in officialdom.

Although he, the Jiangsu Jiedushi, is in charge of the Yellow River and Huaihe River, he is always in danger of flooding, but it is always bad to bypass the governor of the river.

The two are not affiliated, which seems to be slapping the governor of the river in the face.

The most difficult thing about water control is the interpersonal relationship in the officialdom.

Tan Zhenneng served as the Jiedu envoy of Jiangsu, which shows the emperor's trust, but the official rank is still below the governor of Hedao.

The current governor of the River Channel supports the Canal faction, whether it is because of real support, or because of interest, or because of the interest groups involved, it is always at odds with Tan Zhen, who supports shipping.

The yamen of the Governor of Hedao is in Huai'an, and the Jiedu envoy of Jiangsu came to Huai'an to inspect the flood.
Thinking of these troubles, Tan Zhen could only sigh.

"Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!"

Facing Taotao Huanghe expressing such emotions, Tan Zhen thought to herself, after all, she had to do this, and she didn't want to leave a name for future generations, but she wanted to be worthy of her conscience.

Thinking about Dashun's current situation, he was born in the Southwest Kaituguiliu, so he has his own understanding of the current situation.

Now that the Western Regions are pacified, Mongolia has surrendered, and the Northwest has immigrated to reclaim the Hetao and the Western Regions, the disasters in the Northwest have temporarily stabilized.

The South is economically developed, the Southwest is reformed and the land is returned, and the Northeast has been mowed down by the predecessors and frantically immigrated to Shandong and Henan... In Tan Zhen's view, the major internal troubles of Dashun in the future can only come from the Huaihe region .

This is the channel connecting the north and the south. Once the flood occurs, it will inevitably fester.This place itself is not a safe place, going south can directly threaten Dashun's economic center of gravity, and the festering is more likely to lead to several provinces.

If the influence of external Western countries is not taken into account, if the situation in Dashun occurs in the last years of the previous dynasty, the Huai region may become Shaanxi and Henan in the former Ming Dynasty.

It seems that this is a reason for the emperor to make up his mind: while the emperor is in his prime, his prestige is rising, and the world is in peace, try his best to heal the most festering scar in the world.

Thinking of the experience of reforming land and returning people in the southwest, Tan Zhen became ruthless, thinking that if there are many refugees who have no means of living because of the waste of water and reform of the sea, then... Suppress it.

Military reform, military reform, spending so much money on military reform, the surrounding foreign troubles have been calmed down, so we can't keep it in vain.He was ruthless and made the worst plan, but he didn't know if the emperor would dare to make such a decision.

(End of this chapter)