Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 673 Dragon Training
Prime Minister's Office.

Zhu Yihai took the latest management plan for the Yellow River in Shandong Province presented by Yang Wencong, Governor of River Channels, read it again and again, and finally brought up the Zhu pen, and approved it on it.

With the fall of Emperor Zhu's approval, the imperial court's comprehensive treatment of the new river channel of the Yellow River will also officially begin. The first phase of the project is planned to invest 3000 million silver dollars and will be completed in five years.

In the past, dikes were repaired in various places, but they were all doing their own thing, without unified planning and deployment, let alone any supporting projects. Many places even used beggar-thy-neighbor as a means of local protection.

The embankment was not properly repaired, and some areas were too straight, obviously unable to stand the test.

After Yang Wencong took office as the governor of the river channel, he also inspected and visited all the way from Shanzhou to the mouth of the Daqing River. In fact, the whole Yellow River has serious problems now, but the most urgent one is the new river channel in Shandong section.

Now the Shandong section is thousands of miles away, and there is not even a real embankment.

Embankments have been built in some areas, but they have not been well heightened and thickened, so that they will not be decided every year, and they will be counted every year.Yang Wencong and the officials of the River Governor's Yamen believed that the construction of a complete and reasonable river embankment was the fundamental plan of river defense and must be done without delay.

Moreover, according to the different dangers on both sides of the strait, dike repair and reinforcement plans should also be different, that is, key reinforcements must be focused on dangerous places. The rate is ten feet, and the height is between one and six feet to two feet. In this way, dangerous workers can be confident. In the leveling section, the river beach is gradually silted up, and there are still dikes higher than ten feet, which can prevent flooding. , without damage.

In addition to completing the thousands of miles of dikes on both sides of the strait, it is also necessary to strengthen the regulation of the estuary. If the tail is not smooth, it will be useless to repair the upstream. Yang Wencong also deliberately inspected several points of entry to the sea, and finally selected iron gates to close the sea.

Tiemenguan is originally the old course of the Daqing River. It has a river shape of more than [-] miles, and it becomes wider and deeper as it goes down.

Entering the sea from the old Tiemenguan road, digging deep to divert the river, and firmly building embankments on both sides of the bank can not only restrain water and attack sand, but also make the water flow smoothly, avoiding silt and flood disasters, and also connect the river and sea, allowing sea ships to pass, and department stores to pass through. Gathered.

At that time, from Tiemenguan Haikou, the Yellow River will be directly used to ship to Jinan or even Kaifeng, and the golden waterway will be shipped for thousands of miles.

In Yang Wencong's memorial, there are several suggestions on river governance.

For example, in the past, there were many villages on both sides of the Yellow River, and there were many people living there. Even one step away from the embankment, there were people's land.

Now if the new channel of the Yellow River in Shandong is to be well managed, first of all, good land must be acquired first, and the Daqing River channel will be used as the new channel, and the distance between the two embankments of the river should be at least [-] miles wide.

It is necessary to requisition and relocate, and the small picture is big when the loss is small, so as to ensure the overall situation.Without relocation, there is no way to protect the people and workers.

Now that Shandong has been restored, many people on both sides of the Daqing River have returned to their hometowns from outside. The imperial court must relocate all the people within [-] miles of the new river.

Even inside and outside the embankments on both sides of the bank, there must be an open space of at least [-] feet wide for planting willows, which not only protects the embankment body, but also stores dangerous materials.

After the embankment is repaired, the embankments on both sides of the river must be permanently guarded by officials to patrol the river.

Yang Wencong suggested that when the land is expropriated, more land outside the embankment should be expropriated, and then set up as land for river workers to lease to the river workers who guard the embankment and patrol the river. The river workers can grow the land by themselves and their families, or sublease it to other tenants.

These lands are only rented and not sold, so as to ensure that the river workers who guard the dikes and patrol the river can have a stable income and can feel at ease in their jobs.

As for the riverbank land within the river embankment, it should also be managed by the river channel government office, rent out tenants, let the people grow peanuts, soybeans and other miscellaneous grains, and then collect rent to supplement the cost of river construction.

For the newly built river section, it is necessary to build a reduction dam, a diversion sluice, add dredging ships, and set up an information hall and a fortress.

Even after the embankment is repaired, the second phase of the project will be carried out, and the small rivers on both sides of the river will be dredged separately to avoid new floods caused by the blockage of some original rivers after the Yellow River diverted.

Zhu Yihai fully supports this plan.

The Yellow River is no longer the same, but the new river has no embankment, so it cannot be repaired, otherwise it will flood when it hits the water, and the surrounding areas will not be able to think about peace, and the loss will be too great.

The money that should be paid is still paid.

Let’s build the levee first, step by step, and then dredging, dams, tributaries, etc. There are so many, this thing is a bottomless pit, but it will be a disaster if it is not repaired.

There are also some conveniences in repairing now. First, due to the impact of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were not many people along the Xinhe River after the disaster, so it was more convenient to move. Second, the population of the Central Plains has dropped sharply, and there are places to resettle. Otherwise, if In the prosperous age, this is really a big problem.

Anyway, if you can't break it, you can't stand it. It has already been broken like this, and it happens to be broken and then erected.

Even the embankment repair project can use labor instead of relief, and it can save a lot of investment expenses.

In the past, the old course of the Yellow River was broken every year, and several times a year, not only because of corruption by the river officials, who used river work as a means of making a fortune, but also because the people multiplied and competed with the river for land.

Ordinary people have no land to plant, so whether you care about embankments or beach land, you can plant both inside and outside the embankment.

They were even planted on the edge of the river, and people's dikes were built. The so-called dikes are small dikes built on the river beach by the people on both sides of the bank to protect the fields and villages. inside.

Once there is a flood, it will block the river and force the water, hinder the river, and easily cause the embankment to burst.

Since the late Ming Dynasty, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, in fact, there have been many villages on the riverbanks inside the dikes. Not only the riverbanks were planted, but houses were built directly to establish villages, and dams were built outside.

Therefore, when building a new embankment in Shandong, it must be ensured that at least two dikes are [-] miles wide. There must be no villages in the embankment. The people on the riverbank can properly allow people to grow some miscellaneous grains, but they must not build houses.

Even in some places, it is necessary to ensure that the distance between the two embankments is more than [-] miles, and the safety of the river course must be the premise, and there must be no competition between the people and the river for land.

This will be in the Taiping era, and it will undoubtedly be very difficult to clean up the folk houses, demolish the village houses in the embankment, and clean up the beach fields. How to resettle after cleaning up?
But now, because of the war between Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the catastrophe just experienced, etc., the current situation such as the sharp drop in population is actually conducive to doing these things.

"I have approved the river control plan, and I will immediately ask the Ministry of Households to transfer the money needed."

Zhu Yihai looked at Yang Wencong. He was Ma Shiying's brother-in-law, a great talent in Guizhou, a famous calligrapher and painter, but his ability and loyalty were not bad. When the southern capital died, he was able to bring a battalion of Guizhou troops to resolutely not surrender to the Qing Dynasty and return to Suzhou for execution. He became an envoy from the Tartars, fought against the Qing Dynasty at sea, and did not even join King Yiyang’s supervisory court. After Zhu Yihai went north to Wu, he also took the initiative to lead troops to vote.

In the past few years, he has held many real positions one after another, and he has performed well. He can be regarded as an accomplished servant of the Shaotian Dynasty.

He was chosen to be the governor of the river channel because Yang Wencong has been more principled and flexible in his work in recent years, and he is more honest. In some industries, he also invested money to follow up, so now Yang Wencong, like his brother-in-law Ma Shiying, has a lot of money, but disdains bribery, and even despises the bad customs and customs in the past. He was very merciless, and exposed many of his subordinate officials who paid bribes.

Like the water transportation yamen, salt affairs, and copper affairs yamen, the river course yamen used to be fat jobs since the late Ming Dynasty. The so-called fat jobs naturally meant serious corruption.

If Zhu Yihai don't get a hero who can stand firm, then Zhu Yihai will invest 3000 million silver in it, but the governor of Hedao first corrupted 2000 million with the officials below, so what's the point?

It is impossible to follow the example, everyone is corrupt, all kinds of places make money, materials are shoddy, and even bean curd projects are not acceptable, and this kind of problem was actually very common before the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone on the river is greedy, and there are various ways to be greedy, so the imperial court spends money every year, and the people donate and send money every year, and they have to go to the river to work, but the river is still destroyed every year.

Even those shameless river officials have become so frenzied that if the river cannot be settled, they will find a way to deliberately let the river be settled, because if it is settled, the money will be pulled out and they will be greedy for more.

"I will send a special river patrol censor to supervise."

"In addition, a special river channel audit department will be sent to set up a special river channel audit department. I believe in your integrity and ability to audit the river channel project. The current main officials of the river channel yamen are also hand-picked by me, but the officials below , you have to keep an eye on it,

The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant nest. "

"I will never dare to disappoint His Majesty's trust. I must manage the river well and manage all my subordinates well. If the embankment of the Yellow River in Shandong is not repaired, I will not go home."

"I believe you, the priority is to clean up the new river channel in Shandong first. At the same time, the old channel in the Henan section also needs to be repaired. Those dikes must be demolished and the people in the villages must be removed. The embankment should be reinforced and raised. To increase the height, the tree should be planted, and the money should be spent, and the management cost of this piece will be allocated separately."

"Governor and Governor of Shandong Huang Zongxi and Governor of Huanghuai and Governor of Henan Chen Qianfu, I will also give them a special decree to fully cooperate with the management of the Yellow River.

I will give you three to five years. If you can manage the Yellow River well, I will bestow upon you a hereditary duke title. "

Yang Wencong is now the county marquis of the founding of the country, which is also hereditary, but he is only a county marquis, and he is still three levels away from the Duke of the state. Moreover, he is a civil servant, and now he is mainly in a civil position. He can't make military achievements, and basically has no chance to be promoted to the top. Lord.

Zhu Yihai's hereditary Duke promised that even Yang Wencong couldn't help being moved, and thanked him repeatedly.

"Henan, Shandong, and the newly established Jiangbei. These three provinces were originally the heart of the Central Plains, with the most fertile Huanghuai Plain. However, in recent years, there have been thieves, floods, droughts, locust plagues, famines, plagues, and invasions by Tartars. , the Central Plains has almost become a ghost land, and if you want to restore the prosperity of the past, if the water is not cured, you can stop talking about everything."

"I keep my word. If you repair the embankment of the Yellow River in Shandong, I will give you the crown of the Duke of Jin County, and manage the Yellow River in Henan, and I will give you the Duke of Jin County. When Guanzhong is also recovered, you will also manage the middle and upper reaches. , I will give you the title of hereditary duke.

I am in charge of raising money for you, and you are in charge of planning and governance ahead. We, the monarch and his ministers, will work together to bring this rebellious Yellow River dragon into obedience.

The foundation of prosperity lies in agriculture and commerce, and water conservancy comes first! "

"Thank you!"

Yang Wencong's blood boiled.

"I'll give you a budget of 3000 million yuan first, and if it's not enough, I'll raise it. I can also borrow money from the internal funds to the Ministry of Households, and I can also issue special national bonds for the management of the Yellow River. You don't have to worry about money, just go ahead and do it boldly."

"I asked the two governors to take charge of the demolition of embankments and relocation of people in the river embankments of Henan and Shandong provinces, and fully cooperate with you to control the river. There is a shop every five miles along the embankment, and a fort every ten miles. According to the law of the town, the rivermen will be recruited. , Set up a special Hefu Tunzhuang outside the embankment, let them bring their families to stay in the Tunzhuang under the river embankment, the river husband guards the embankment and patrols the river, and Yu Ding, a family member of the river husband, rents the river field to cultivate.

Since we want to do it, we have to show the momentum of beating the Tartars, and we must get him done. "

"I will specially transfer 3000 people from the imperial camp to supervise the troops for your governor of the river. You will command and dispatch them to facilitate your work. Whoever dares to stop you from governing the river, you can kill first and then play!"

(End of this chapter)