Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 599 Don't dare to gamble

Three hundred students were writing furiously below, and Luo Youdu's mind shifted to this exam question.

The failure of this dredging project gave Luo Youdu a strong feeling of uneasiness.

According to Luo Youdu's understanding, this premonition originated from a potential memory deep in the brain.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the Yellow River was the most flooded.

With the Central Plains like that, who has the time to take care of the management of the Yellow River?

This is also one of the important reasons that led to the diversion of the Yellow River: without governance, the sediment accumulated more and more, and the riverbed continued to silt up, forming a terrible above-ground river, which caused the Yellow River to stop flowing and divert.

Luo Youdu attaches great importance to water conservancy, but the limited manpower in ancient times can only delay the effect...

Luo Youdu, who fought in the South and the North, also ignored this problem. He only said that he would pay attention to dredging and take care of it every year, so there would be no major problems.

The dredging situation at the beginning of the year gave Luo Youdu a wake-up call.

He vaguely remembered that in the early years of the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River burst continuously, and there were many short-term and short-distance diversion channels.The Yellow River gradually diverted its course to the north, and finally broke through the Shanzhou Shanghu, headed north to Daming, passed through the west of Liaocheng, and joined the Weihe River in Qingxian County, Hebei Province, and then entered the sea.

That is to say, on a certain day, Jingu, the future Tianjin, will become the mouth of the Yellow River.

This also means that a certain section of low-lying land from the lower reaches of the Yellow River to Jingu will become a water marsh.

Farmland villages and towns were destroyed.

As the mother river of China, the Yellow River has gathered a large number of people on both sides.

If this happened, it would be a huge disaster.

The point is that Luo Youdu is not an orthodox researcher of history. He doesn't remember the year when the Yellow River was diverted.

I just remember an early Song Dynasty.

It could be this year, it could be tomorrow, or even seven or eighty years from now.

The two Songs lasted 300 years, and the early Song Dynasty lasted at least 100 years.

Who knows when!
After the news that the Yellow River dredging was not smooth at the beginning of the year reached the capital, Luo Youdu summoned domestic water conservancy experts and specially formed a special operation group for river control. policy.

Many officials did not understand Luo Youdu's behavior.

After all, it takes time and effort to control the river, not to mention that the dredging is not smooth, so what's the big deal?
Before that, who cared whether the Yellow River was cleared or not?

No one can predict the future.

After working hard for half a year, God gave you a dry season. Do you think it's embarrassing?

In the early years, no one cared about the Yellow River, and it flooded all the year round.

No one would have thought that the Yellow River would be diverted again on a large scale.

Luo Youdu dare not gamble, that is the future of hundreds of thousands of people.

Compared with the so-called beliefs in the West, Luo Youdu has a drive to conquer nature in his bones.

He also didn't know if he could succeed in the end, or if he could change his fate.But one thing is for sure, he is unwilling to do things without asking, let alone wait for the disaster to come, and then issue an edict of insufficiency in moral conduct, and finally order to exempt the affected areas from taxes, hastily settle the matter, and continue Be your own emperor.

Whether you can do it or not is one thing, but whether you can do it or not is another.

Luo Youdu came back to his senses, looked at the many candidates who were seriously writing and writing, and left quietly.

The so-called imperial examination does not require the emperor Luo Youdu to invigilate the examination in person, but that he personally writes the questions, and then personally selects the list of Jinshi.

There are many officials in the Hall of Jiying who invigilate and supervise each other.

Luo Youdu returned to the Hall of Yanhe, summoned Dou Yi, and asked about Chungeng's situation.

As the prime minister, Dou Yi knew the most important thing about spring plowing very well, and said: "This year, there is plenty of rain, and the imperial court raised seedlings in advance, and the seedlings have been distributed in various places."

Luo Youdu couldn't help nodding.

The imperial court has the best seedling raising technology, and most of the seedlings in the world are cultivated by the imperial court.

People with money bought rice seedlings directly from the government, and people without money rented rice seedlings from the court. When the harvest was good, they handed over a certain amount of grain.

The distribution of seedlings means that the people have begun to prepare for spring plowing.

He took the map from the table, called Dou Yi to come forward, and drew a large circle on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River with his hands, starting from Huazhou, Chanzhou, Puzhou, Bozhou, and Qizhou on the south bank, and on the north bank. Weizhou, Xiangzhou, Damingfu, Beizhou, and Dezhou were all included, and he said to Dou Yi: "Order the officials in the circle to urge the people to complete the spring plowing as soon as possible and free up the people's resources."

Dou Yi said worriedly: "Will this cause panic?"

The common people are obliged to perform corvee, usually during summer and winter slack seasons.

The forced labor of the common people during the busy farming season can easily lead to resistance.

Luo Youdu said: "That depends on the official's own ability. Communicating with the people and obeying the imperial court's dispatch are their responsibilities as parents and officials. If you can't do this basically, then don't do it. In addition, the Chanzhou, The granary in Daming Mansion is full and can be used at any time.”

He was making preparations for the River Control Special Operations Group.

Luo Youdu is not good at water control, but he knows that to control the huge Yellow River requires a lot of manpower and material support.

Dou Yi frowned and asked, "Are you in a hurry?"

Luo Youdu said resolutely: "Worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joy later. We can't wait for the disaster to come and then react. Since there are bad signs, we have to prepare for the worst."

Dou Yi also read a sentence in his heart: "Worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joys later!" His eyes also changed from hesitation to firmness, and he said: "I will do it now."

Compared with the four sentences of Yu Zhen, Dou Yi likes this sentence more.

The four sentences of Yuzhen can certainly make people excited, but "worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joys later" is really for the sake of the people.

On the fourth day, there were [-] extra test papers on Luo Youdu's case.

"Go get some people and move these to Wende Hall, I will review them one by one!"

Luo Youdu said to Qin Han.

In fact, as the emperor, he didn't need to review these papers one by one.

The examination papers of the [-] examinees had already been approved by the examination papers of the imperial court one by one in advance. They scored each of them and selected the ones with the most excellent marks.

As the emperor, Luo Youdu only needs to choose the number one scholar, second place, Tanhua, and the second and third best Jinshi of his choice from the best papers.

However, Luo Youdu wanted to read everyone's articles on water control, and see if he could find a good solution or wizard for water control, so as to find a reliable way to deal with the current prospect of the Yellow River flooding.

For several days in a row, Luo Youdu slept in Wende Hall, using his spare time to review the examination papers and carefully read their views on the treatment of the Yellow River.

That night, he took a paper from Guohe in Zhaozhou, and saw that he wrote on the paper: "Chan and Hua are narrow dikes, and there is no way to kill the wrath of the Yellow River. Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, most rivers have been between Chan and Hua. If the original of the Nine Rivers in Liyang is diverted out from the foot of Wenzi Mountain, through the golden embankment, and joined with the horizontal ridge, so as to reach the sea, the damage will be stopped!"

(End of this chapter)