I want to be emperor

Chapter 563 More funds, more preparation
It is an obvious question why the Jiangbei area and even Fengyangfu and other places in Anlu Province are flooded. It is because the Yellow River takes the Huaihe River into the sea, but the amount of water discharged from the lower reaches of the Huaihe River is limited.

Usually, the river water that accommodates the Huaihe River itself goes out to sea. Well, if it is a rare flood season, floods will also occur.

And when a large amount of water from the Yellow River also joins the Huaihe River, even in normal years, the river will be silted up and unable to go to the sea in time. If it is the flood season, it will be even worse...

How did Hongze Lake come about?

This lake did not exist from the very beginning. In the early days, there were only many small lakes here...

However, after the Yellow River seized the Huaihe River and entered the sea during the Song Dynasty, the water from the Yellow River flowed backwards into the Huaihe River, and the water volume increased. Finally, the small lakes in this area were gradually connected into one piece, forming the early Hongze Lake.

Later, in order to prevent floods, all dynasties, especially the Ming Dynasty, continued to build Hongze Lake embankments in the past 200 years, which eventually led to the complete formation of Hongze Lake.

Today's Hongze Lake is already the fourth largest freshwater lake in China.

Therefore, it was more than 400 years since the Yellow River seized the Huaihe River into the sea, and finally created a Hongze Lake.

Looking at the formation of Hongze Lake, we can also simply understand how powerful the Yellow River is when it seizes the Huaihe River into the sea. As for floods, it is incidental to nature.

After several years of investigation and research, the officials of the Ministry of Water Resources finally came to the conclusion that if the flood-prone situation in Jiangbei, Anlu and even Henan is to be changed, the Hongze Lake embankment alone and the flood control dams along the way are the key to change. far from enough.

There are only two ways, one is to excavate the lower reaches of the Huaihe River to create an outlet with a larger water output, and this is obviously impossible, let alone in these years, even in the 21st century. , the project is too big...

Then the remaining solution is to divert the Yellow River to reduce the pressure on the lower reaches of the Huaihe River. At the same time, after the Yellow River diverts, there will be a new outlet through the new river, and the amount of water released during the flood season will be greater, reducing the flood along the Yellow River. disaster.

Based on this, the Ministry of Water Resources officially proposed a plan to divert the Yellow River.

Luo Zhixue also agreed with this, but Luo Zhixue put forward several requirements in terms of specific plans.

The artificial diversion of the Yellow River must be based on the sole principle of benefiting the country and the people.

Under this principle, considering the large sediment content of the Yellow River and the situation of the river channel rising in the future, it is necessary to ensure that the new channel will be usable for the next 100 years or even longer, and avoid the situation of above-ground river channels.

When choosing a new river channel, it is necessary to consider the migration of people as much as possible, and move as few people as possible.

The amount of work for the new channel should be as small as possible to reduce costs.

The time cannot be delayed for too long. The longer it is delayed, the less likely it will be to divert artificially, because with the peace of the world, the people and agricultural production of candidate rivers will recover better and better, and the difficulty of relocation will become more and more difficult. The bigger the loss, the bigger the loss.

Finally, Luo Zhixue emphasized that no matter what the plan is, the supplement for the relocated people must be in place. The first choice is farmland compensation. It is necessary to ensure that every relocated person can obtain a piece of land on which to live after arriving in their new home. Help with cultivating the land, such as cattle, seeds, rations during migration, etc.

In short, the relocation cannot become a migration of blood and tears, but a migration that the people readily accept and even feel that they have taken advantage of it.

Among the many requirements, Luo Zhixue paid the most attention to the issue of relocation and resettlement. Others were nothing, except for the relocation and resettlement of the people.

Luo Zhixue would absolutely not allow a good deed that was supposed to benefit the country and the people, and cost a lot of money, to turn into a bad deed that was scolded by the people and even left a thousand years of infamy.

How should I put it, Luo Zhixue's artificial diversion of the Yellow River is just to leave a good reputation, which will last forever... If this name that lasts forever becomes a bad name, Luo Zhixue will be so angry that he vomits blood.

If anyone makes Luo Zhixue unhappy on this point, Luo Zhixue will make him and even his whole family unhappy for the rest of his life, no, there will not even be a chance to be unhappy, and he will just ransack his family and exterminate his family!
After listening to Luo Zhixue's many requests, the people from the Ministry of Water Resources were both surprised and delighted.

Surprisingly, Luo Zhixue's request is not low, and he hints both inside and outside the words... Don't let me lose the chain in this matter, or you will kill your whole family... If this matter is not done well, it will be really fatal.

The good news is that His Majesty has approved the artificial diversion plan of the Yellow River, and is really planning to implement it, which is a great thing for the Ministry of Water Resources, which is in charge of river engineering.

As long as this huge project is implemented, the influence of the Ministry of Water Resources will be greatly increased, and many officials of the Ministry of Water Resources will gain enough political capital from it and then be promoted.

The ministers of the Ministry of Water Resources can count on the credit of this project to enter the imperial study...

In an empire, how to measure the importance of an institution?Putting aside some messy things, the most important thing is the staffing and funding.

Because the official organization doesn’t have any profit needs… You have to do what you should do in daily life. If you do well, you should be punished. If you don’t do it well, you will be beaten. Undoubtedly more funds and more establishments.

What is the most important department in the civil service agencies of the Great Chu Empire?
Needless to say, it is definitely the tax department!
Even the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which manages the appointment and removal of many civil servants, has to bow down to the Ministry of Taxation. Why?

Because the tax department has the most personnel and the most funds, the tax officials in the local area are feared by everyone... more hated than the eagle dogs in the internal affairs department of the Imperial Academy...

As for the Ministry of Water Resources, among the many civil agencies in the Great Chu Empire, the power belongs to the kind of institution that is equally powerful. If it is important, it is definitely not as important as the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Ritual Education.

But to say it's not good, at least it's better than the Ministry of Communications, the Patrol Department, the Ministry of Justice, and so on.

Because the Ministry of Water Resources is responsible for various rivers and lakes, the construction of the crucial flood control facilities is under the full authority of the Ministry of Water Resources.

In order to restore the people's livelihood, the Great Chu Empire has built various flood control and drought relief facilities in various places. Strictly speaking, these projects are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Water Resources.

In addition, the dredging and maintenance of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is also the responsibility of the Ministry of Water Resources.

And having a project means having funds... If the local government wants to build a large-scale water conservancy project, they have to go to the Ministry of Water Resources to pay homage to the wharf and burn incense, so that they can get funding and construction approval.

The so-called power, here it comes!

This is the current Ministry of Water Resources. If we talk about the follow-up implementation of the Yellow River artificial diversion project, such a huge project will be carried out for more than ten or twenty years, and the estimated funding will be huge.

At that time, the power of the Ministry of Water Resources will naturally increase. I dare not say that it will rank among the first echelon of the imperial cabinet, but there is still hope for ranking in the top of the second echelon.

After the meeting, the people from the Ministry of Water Resources walked away with joy and worry at the same time. They will be very busy in the future and need to make a comprehensive plan in the shortest possible time, especially the location and direction of the new river channel. top priority.

This is not so easy. You can choose a place to act as a river, and the downstream will become a vast ocean for you to see in minutes.

Therefore, the selection of a new river course requires detailed on-the-spot investigations to finalize the plan for the new river course.

After finalizing the plan for the new river channel, it will enter a long construction period...

Why construction?Because you can't choose a new river channel and just blast it to divert it... In this way, the new river channel downstream will not be able to withstand a large amount of flood at all, and flooding is inevitable.

Therefore, it is necessary to straighten some curved river sections in advance. If it is not possible, use another place as a river course. At the same time, if the discharge capacity of the predetermined river course is not large enough, then you must choose another place to serve as a new river course to go around, or take a diversion, and then there is Set up flood zones and more.

The artificial diversion plan of the Yellow River in the Great Chu Empire is not to find a place to play blasting, and then ignore it, allowing the Yellow River to flow eastward after breaking its embankment, but to let the diverted Yellow River follow the plan honestly. New River all the way to the east.

If this is done, it will not only reduce floods, but also improve the navigation and irrigation capabilities of the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

People from the Ministry of Water Resources were busy with those who diverted the Yellow River, and people from the Ministry of Industry found Luo Zhixue within a few days and asked to set up a 'Liaoyang Industrial Base' in Liaodong Province.

This industrial base does not mean an ordinary government or a provincial industrial base. According to the current preparations for an industrial base, the establishment of an industrial base requires the approval of the higher-level yamen.

The establishment of local government-level industrial bases must be approved by the provincial government, and provincial industrial bases must be approved by the cabinet.

However, it is still the provincial agency that submits the application, rather than the Ministry of Industry submitting the application directly.

The industrial bases directly submitted by the Ministry of Industry can only be national industrial bases.

To the surprise of the people in the Ministry of Industry, just after the application was submitted, His Majesty didn't talk nonsense at all, and directly approved the establishment of the Liaoyang Industrial Base...

This made the officials of the Ministry of Industry who prepared countless materials in order to convince Luo Zhixue at the imperial meeting feel very strange!
If you want to say it's not good, this thing has been done, and it must be worth celebrating.

But you have to say, well, I always feel a little bit positive. They are ready to overcome many difficulties to convince Luo Zhixue. After all, it is a state-level industrial zone, and it is still a huge industrial zone. Affecting the industrial layout of the empire, logically speaking, it is not so easy to take shape...

But they hadn't started to exert their strength yet, Luo Zhixue agreed.

Compared with the artificial diversion of the Yellow River by the Ministry of Water Resources, the difficulty of the two is completely different. You must know that the Ministry of Water Resources has already released various reports on the artificial diversion of the Yellow River a few years ago, and it has collected a lot of information last year. He described the pros and cons to Luo Zhixue in detail, and explained in detail when Luo Zhixue held the imperial meeting this year, and finally got Luo Zhixue to agree to this plan.

Logically speaking, such a large project in Liaoyang Industrial Zone also has to go through such a complicated process, but what the officials of the Ministry of Industry did not expect is that His Majesty approved it without asking, and then started What are the people from the Ministry of Industry planning to do in the Liaoyang Industrial Zone?What about the detailed plan?
This stunned the people from the Ministry of Industry... because they haven't made a detailed plan yet!

According to their vision, it should be the stage of persuasion and persuasion, and then all parties will wrestle for several months, and finally all parties will compromise and reach an agreement, His Majesty grants... By then, their Ministry of Industry will almost make a detailed plan. .

Now...they haven't even started the detailed planning phase yet.

As a result, the officials of the Ministry of Industry assumed that they had entered overtime mode... A large number of officials of the Ministry of Industry worked overtime day and night, reading countless materials, especially the materials of Dangtu, Dayun, Songjiang and other industrial zones, and then reading the materials of Liaodong The various survey reports sent back from there have to be coordinated with the finance department on funding issues.

Hundreds of people stayed up all night every day, and finally worked out the preliminary plan within five days...

When Luo Zhixue saw that the Minister of Counselor Yuan Gaofeng's eyes were red and his black eyes were as big as a panda, he thought of the top-secret report from the Internal Affairs Department a while ago, saying that Yuan Gaofeng secretly raised a pair of twins outside. Can't help but say: "Old Yuan, your body is important!"

Yuan Gaofeng, who had stayed up late for several days with hundreds of people to give a report, couldn't help but be greatly moved when he heard this. His Majesty still knows the hard work he put in!
Immediately, he said with a very moved expression: "Thank you for your concern, it is my duty to share your concerns... and my body is still young, so it doesn't matter."

This made Luo Zhixue feel weird... Nima, you are raising a bunch of daughters outside and tossing yourself like this, and you said it was to share my worries... I really want to share my worries, but I didn't see you put that A pair of twins were sent to the palace... According to people from the internal affairs department, that pair looked stunning in the world.

Sure enough... this person is easy to get confused after he has been an official for a long time. I figured out that Yuan Gaofeng has also served in the center for many years, and he will be replaced in a few years. It's just that the next minister of the Ministry of Industry is hard to find. Not only must there be sufficient prestige and qualifications, but also good experience in political struggle, and then must be proficient in business affairs.

Not easy to find!

Yuan Gaofeng did not expect that Luo Zhixue was already thinking about the candidate for the next Ministry of Industry Minister.

At this meeting, Yuan Gaofeng had already handed Luo Zhixue the detailed plan of the Liaoyang Industrial Base respectfully, and at the same time began to explain.

"The Liaoyang Industrial Base will rely on local iron ore and coal resources. According to the preliminary survey results of the local area, we have discovered iron ore in Xianningying and Anshanbao, as well as many coal mines. Therefore, we plan to In these two places, build two steel factories."

"In addition to the steel plant, we will also invest in various supporting industries such as machinery, textiles, and oil extraction."

"Because we also found that the Northeast region is more suitable for growing soybeans. Recently, the demand for soybeans in some of our chemical plants has increased rapidly. Therefore, we plan to vigorously promote the cultivation of soybeans in Liaodong. This will not only promote the agricultural development of Liaodong, but also Promote the development of local soy-based chemical and food processing industries."

"In this way, the Liaodong region can implement steel-based heavy industry, soybean-based chemical industry and food processing, and adopt a new development model of walking on two legs and paralleling industry and agriculture!"

When Yuan Gaofeng eloquently introduced the industrial and even agricultural layout of Liaodong, Luo Zhixue sighed softly... Forget it, let him work for a few more years!
For twins or something, let the Palace Affairs Office find them!

(End of this chapter)