Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1246 Shuffle
Xu Shao was so excited that he trembled all over.

Even though his hometown is in Anlu County, his family used to be at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River. There was a small flood every three years and a major flood every ten years. From childhood to adulthood, he has seen countless floods and countless floods. The people were displaced and knew the harm of floods well.

But in the past, even in the stable days of the founding emperor, the imperial court did not have any overall plan for the governance of Jinghu Lake, and all localities made repairs by themselves, and the results were naturally mediocre.

But now, Qin Qiong said that the imperial court actually had a comprehensive plan, which was to attack the entire Jinghu Lake.

"Qin Xiang, when will we start? It is a good time to clean up the drought and the lack of water in the lakes and rivers. And because of this catastrophe, there is no shortage of manpower. As long as the imperial court provides some rations, everyone is willing to obey and work. It’s a good time to start working on relief.”

"The imperial court has been investigating Jinghu Lake for several years, and has made a lot of preliminary planning plans. It is certain that Jinghu Lake will be treated. In the past few years, the imperial court has vigorously treated the Huaihe River. Now the flooding situation of the Huaihe River has improved a lot. With governance With Huai’s experience, it will be much easier to govern Jinghu Lake now.” Qin Qiong smiled, and now there are indeed many favorable conditions for governing Jinghu Lake.

"However, the governance of Jinghu Lake is not a one-day achievement. It may take 20 years of long-term vigorous governance and transformation. Therefore, the imperial court does not want to be in a hurry, so now the Ministry of Industry has come up with a plan to divide the entire governance project into ten phases. The first phase is about three years. Gradually transforming Jinghu Lake, we can now start the first phase, and the first phase is mainly to clean up the river."

After investigating Jinghu Lake, the Ministry of Industry first made an estimate of the flood storage and drainage capacity of the entire Jinghu Lake, and then formulated a corresponding plan for encircling the lake. In the first phase, if the main river network of Jinghu Lake is first clear out.

After clearing the main river network, the flood discharge capacity can be improved in the future. In the future, the embankment of the lake will be cleared to increase the flood storage capacity.

With a two-pronged approach, we can first restrain Jinghu Lake from harming the people, and then we can ask for fields from the lake, carry out polder reclamation, and turn the lakeside area into a fertile field for thousands of miles.

"In the first phase, not only will the Jingjiang, Hanjiang, Xiangjiang, Yuanjiang, Zijiang, Qingjiang and other major rivers be cleaned up, but also some dangerous rapids of the Hanjiang River will be treated to make the river transportation safer."

The entire project has a large plan, even the first phase is very arduous, so the final is the overall scale, and then the local subcontracting, led by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Water Supervision and General Superintendent, and then the following Jinghu is divided into two departments, and the counties below are responsible for it.

"Governing Jinghu Lake does not mean destroying Jinghu Lake, nor does land reclamation mean random creation. Even in this plan, many existing fields will be destroyed again because of planning requirements, and it will also involve submerging some villages. Cities and towns, etc., so everyone should be mentally prepared early and obey the overall arrangement. Wherever the first phase of the river and water network planning goes, it must be connected to him. Beheaded, or deprived of office at least ********************************************************************************************************************************* Counties, a total of ten counties, this is the focus of this first-phase plan.”

The densely covered lake group is also located in these ten counties, and it is everywhere. This should have been a granary, but in fact it has always been a flooded area, and the lives of the people are extremely miserable.

Qin Qiong said to a few people, "I'll tell everyone that I won't return to Beijing for the time being, and will stay in Jinghu. At the same time as the disaster relief, I will also start the first phase of the project. Work relief. My request is to call on the victims and the people to dig rivers and build embankments, but the people must be treated kindly, at least three meals a day must be guaranteed, and they must be full. In addition, the work sheds where the people live on the construction site must be well planned and built. There must be no water leakage, cross-flow of sewage, etc., and doctors must be arranged on each construction site to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic."

Qin Qiong even confessed that, considering that it is a disaster period, the work-for-relief must also take good care of other victims, the elderly, the weak, women and children, and let the families of the victims live together, and arrange some light work for the elderly women so that they can earn a living. At the same time, we can also consider building some simple schools on the construction site to teach the children of the victims to read.

"The most important point is that all victims of the disaster are exempted from all taxes this year. In addition to the rations, they have to be paid in exchange for labor. There should be no deductions or corruption. This is the bottom line."

Qin Qiong repeatedly explained these things just in case.

There are many victims, and a large number of people gather together, especially for heavy work such as repairing rivers and embankments. If it is not managed properly, accidents are most likely to happen.

Qin Qiong didn't want a national project that was supposed to be successful in the present and benefit the future, and finally lead to a common people's uprising.

"Qin Xiang, if we need to provide food for the victims in addition to the rations of the victims, if we need to pay for the labor, it will require a lot of food. Do we have so much food?"

Today's grain is all transferred from abroad. Although Jinghu has the advantage of water transport, and grain from Bashu, Central Plains, Huainan, and even Lingnan and Guanzhong can be transported, the need is not 01:30 after all.

This is not only the rations of the victims, but also wages.

"The wages are distributed first, so that people's hearts can be stabilized, and the money or silk cloth will be distributed after the money is almost ready. In fact, there is no need to worry too much about the food. The food from all directions is transported by water, so it is not a problem."

Xu Shao reminded Qin Qiong.

"For such a project, the imperial court is under a lot of pressure. We local officials have to find a way to share the worries of the imperial court. I think that all the private property and official property of Xiao Xian before will be confiscated by the officials, and those that can be sold will be released." If it is sold, it will also reduce the burden on the court."

Xu Zhiren even said bluntly, "Xiao Xian worships Buddhism. There are hundreds of Buddhist temples in Jiangling City, and there are also many Buddhist temples in other places. There are not only golden statues and bronze statues in Buddhist temples, but there are even a large number of temple farms and warehouses, etc. Mortgage lending, the monks are very rich. Didn’t the imperial court have a management system for monks and Taoists? We can follow the imperial court’s system to ban all Buddhist and Taoist temples that do not conform to the rules and confiscate their property. In this way, You can get a lot of money, and you can make no less than [-] monks return to the secular world, and you can also let a large number of slaves and tenant farmers who are attached to them escape and become the people of the court."

The imperial and official properties of the Xiaoliang puppet dynasty, as well as the monastery properties of the monks and Taoists, are indeed a considerable amount of property money, and it is reasonable to clean it up at this time.

After all, Daqin had also cleaned it up before, so there was no reason to be special to them.

Qin Qiong nodded.

"Let these monks and Taoists take the exam first. For those who practice piously, they can be issued according to the regulations of the court. As for others, they will be ordered to return to the vulgar. In the mountains and fields, keep the number of temples that meet the regulations of the court. The rest They were all demolished or converted into schools, medical centers and other uses.”

In addition, Qin Qiong is also preparing to start the census of the imperial courts and confirm the rights of the fields and houses in various places, and ask the original owner to show the contract, etc., and re-register for the contract.

As for the unclaimed land, the official possession must be taken back.

In addition, all fields that exceed the quota must be dealt with according to the system and laws of the imperial court.

This is the beginning of Daqin's real rule over the land of Jinghu, which also means a new round of reshuffle.

(End of this chapter)