Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 345 Fighting for the Initiative II

"My lord, you don't need to worry. Since the 50 people are under Xiao Ke's subordinates, Xiao Ke will naturally arrange the board and lodging." Gu Qi was very generous.

Talking so well?
Liu Shouzheng, who has always been calm, was stunned when things went smoothly.

It seems that just now you come and go, seeing tricks and breaking tricks are all illusions.

Could it be that this kid just didn't understand from the beginning, rather than not cooperating?

As soon as this absurd idea popped up in his head, Liu Shouzheng couldn't help thinking more and more, and the eyes he looked at Gu Qi became a little hotter.

"My nephew is pure and kind. With the help of my nephew, I will be able to get through this crisis in Lushan County safely."

"Didn't your lord say that if you want to take care of the main river channel under the jurisdiction of Lushan County as soon as possible, at least hundreds of river workers will be needed?" Gu Qi repeated the old saying.

Liu Shouzheng's pupils shrank slightly when he heard the words, and he raised his voice: "Does my nephew have other help?"

"Not to mention other support, Xiao Ke bought a few acres of land outside the city a month ago, and watched the nearby people busy with the spring planting in the village this month, so he also caught up with the excitement and recruited some farm laborers to work in the village. "

"What does nephew mean?"

"Xiaoke's Zhuangzi happened to have a river beside it. Some time ago, the water level of the river beach was rising. Afraid of causing troubles in the future, he asked his men to dig more ditches together with the farm laborers in the Zhuangzi."

"Dig additional canals? My nephew, why didn't you ask someone to reinforce and repair the embankment?" Liu Shouzheng didn't understand why.

"It's not easy to strengthen the embankment, ordinary farm laborers do not have this ability, and skilled river workers are not easy to find in Lushan County.

In addition, the stone and soil materials needed for the expansion of the river embankment are all silver taels. If only a section is added, it will not be of much effect. If the entire river is renovated, no matter how much money Xiao Ke brings, it may not be enough. pinned.

But excavating channels is different. As long as the direction of the channel is determined, someone will take care of it and measure the quantity. "

Gu Qi said with a slight smile: "Furthermore, my lord has heard that it is better to be blocked than to be blocked?"

Blocking is worse than sparseness. This saying comes from Yu. Water Control in "Zhou Yu".

All local officials in Dakang who are familiar with common affairs will not be unaware of this allusion.

It's just that few people use this method to control water when it is really useful.

Liu Shouzheng clearly remembered that in Dakang territory, there were several floods, no matter how big or small, all of which were included in the book, all of which used the method of strengthening and repairing dams.

One is because the five elements generate and restrain each other, and repairing the soil restrains water and eliminates it.Therefore, once there is a flood, all officials in charge of water conservancy affairs must follow the way of heaven and first choose the method of building and strengthening.

The second reason is that although the method of building and strengthening is quite labor-intensive and material resources-intensive, it is indeed an effective method.

All floods are unstoppable when they erupt. If there are no strong and durable dams to stop them, they will not wait until the time of dredging.

The method of dredging is certainly a clever use, but the method of reinforcement is the most important and most error-free pragmatic method.

Water conservancy is a major issue in people's livelihood. In fact, every year, the imperial court sends more officials to the places where rivers and rivers often suffer from floods to monitor, repair and strengthen the rivers in order to prevent sudden floods and the people along the rivers.

Although the current emperor of Dakang is not a wise and powerful emperor, with great talent and general strategy, literary and martial arts, and a hardworking emperor through the ages, he has no special great achievements during his reign for the people to talk about.

But if he is said to be a fatuous person, it would be unfair to this old official who has been on the throne for decades.

In the eyes of many local officials such as Liu Shouzheng: Although their old officials are not very good at governing, they are also indecisive and soft-hearted, but they can also be called conscientious and diligent in dealing with government affairs. civil.

Even if most of the work is useless, there are even problems in the direction of dealing with many problems.

But just because this official's ordinary behavior is considered kind-hearted and gentle, he is not a moody, cruel and harsh generation. Most of the military officials in the Korean and Chinese, and even the border officials, are sincerely entrusting him as the master.

Due to three years of severe drought, Yuzhou was almost abandoned by the imperial court.Among them, the common people suffer, and the officials also suffer.

If the common people could not survive, they could escape famine and migrate out of Yuzhou to find another livelihood. However, local officials like them could not move a step because they did not have the documents and official edicts transferred by the imperial court.

Even so, although Liu Shoucheng and many other local officials in Yuzhou felt bitter in their hearts, they never really resented the officials.

There are many factions in the DPRK and China, and some things cannot be easily changed by the emperor.

What's more, apart from man-made, what is more difficult to control is God's will.

The three-year drought in Yuzhou was God's will, and it was irreversible by manpower. It was beyond everyone's expectation that the drought had just eased and the flood was coming.

Yuzhou Prefecture is only adjacent to Jiangzhou Prefecture, with many mountains and plains in its territory, and the number of rivers and lakes in it is only one-third of that of Jiangzhou Prefecture.

For this reason, in the past few decades, Yuzhou Prefecture has never suffered such a severe drought, nor has there been any worry about flooding, and it can even be said that the weather is smooth.

And because many plains in Yuzhou Prefecture are suitable for farming, although it is not as rich and rich as Jiangzhou Prefecture, which is good at doing business, it is also a well-known granary in the Central Plains.

The people under its rule are rarely rich and powerful, and most of them are small and peaceful. Except for those mountainous and extremely poor areas, most of the people in Yuzhou Prefecture used to live a peaceful and leisurely life.

This also makes the officials who govern and monitor floods in the imperial court have never been to Yuzhou Prefecture for nearly a hundred years since the establishment of the Dakang Dynasty, which is very worry-free.
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It's just that everything has two sides.

The court inspectors did not come, and local officials paid less attention to water conservancy.This has caused most of the river embankments in Yuzhou Prefecture to be in disrepair for many years, loose and unusable.

In the past, it was okay when nothing happened, but once something happened, it was just a rise in the water level of the river caused by the rain, and many river embankments outside the city collapsed even before the mountain torrents poured out.

It is because there is not much difference between the weathered and evacuated stone materials on both sides of the river and the paper-pasted ones.

Similarly, this is why no matter whether it is Liu Shouzheng, his fellow magistrate He Yong, who is in charge of water conservancy, grain affairs, and river and sea defense, and Wang Hebin, the general judge in charge of taxes and folk customs, they all agree that the most urgent task is to repair the collapsed places first. The embankment, and then the reinforcement of the main river channels near the villages, towns and counties, in order to ensure the livelihood of the people along the coast.

As for the method of dredging, the connection between Lushan Lake and the downstream Youjiang mentioned by comrade He Yong before is actually a method of dredging.

Because this place was originally connected, and it was artificially filled in the later stage, and now it is being cleaned up again, so Liu Shouzheng and the others didn't think much about it at the time.

Before today, it never occurred to me that ditches can be repaired to add other means of evacuating floods.

Seeing that Liu Shouzheng's eyebrows were slightly thick and thoughtful, Gu Qi knew that he was already somewhat moved by the construction of the canal, so he added fuel to the flames.
(End of this chapter)