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Chapter 69 Song Yongchen (2)

Zhao Xu sat on the throne of Funing Hall, watching the figure who walked slowly into the hall from outside the curtain.

Unlike in memory, Song Yongchen is still young now.

He is not yet 50 years old, but his body is still strong, his skin is dark, and the narrow-sleeved purple robe he wears is one size larger than that of ordinary courtiers.

"Minister, promote the Bianhe embankment department, promote the imperial city department, and promote the ministers in Beijing. I pay my respects to everyone, and I respectfully ask the saints for blessings!"

His voice was also louder and more confident than in memory.

Zhao Xu listened, nodded slightly on the throne, and said: "The escort, please get up!"

Then, Zhao Xu adjusted his sitting posture, looked at Song Yongchen who was slowly getting up in the hall, and asked, "It's been a few days since Emperor Daxing passed away, why didn't he see the escort, and cry before the coffin?"

"Could it be that the guard is no longer loyal to me and Emperor Daxing?"

Zhao Xu's questioning made Song Yongchen, who had just got up, break out in cold sweat.

What can he do?

Could it be, tell the young master that I have not even been able to enter the imperial city these days!

It wasn't until today that the Empress Dowager granted her permission to enter the palace to worship the Young Master?

Dare he say it?

Who came out and did anyone believe it?Who will testify against him?

Back then, Wang Anshi couldn't even find any witnesses!

Therefore, Song Yongchen could only bow down and rely on the two palaces to find a good excuse for him, and said: "I want to tell everyone: In the past few days, I have been ordered to make a portrait of Emperor Daxing in the Jingling Palace...so I couldn't enter the palace in time, pay homage to everyone, and cry in front of Emperor Daxing's spirit..."

"I beg everyone to punish the minister to death!"

After finishing speaking, he bowed his head to the ground and bowed with a long body.

What Zhao Xu wanted was his excuse, so he nodded and said, "If that's the case, then I misunderstood the guard!"

"Get up and talk!"

Zhao Xu remembered that before he was eight years old, he was taken by his father to meet Song Yongchen several times.

Although I forgot when and where.

But later, when he grew up, he recalled Song Yongchen, and heard Song Yongchen mention many times that "the first emperor once called his ministers to His Majesty to speak before the emperor".

Song Yongchen let out a breath and got up cautiously.

Although he failed to enter the palace, outside the palace, he heard too many legends related to this young master.

The ruling and opposition parties have also witnessed many times, the young master's handsomeness.

Therefore, he did not dare to neglect.

Besides, Song Yongchen knew that it was the will of the two palaces that he entered the palace to face the saint this time.

At this moment, in this palace, there is the empress dowager.

"From now on, the detainees will stay with me!" Zhao Xu didn't wait for Song Yongchen to react, and said directly: "As for the many dispatches from the outer court, let's take them down first!"

He is a child, and a child has the privilege of a child.

One of them is willfulness.

Song Yongchen raised his head in astonishment.

Zhao Xu knew that he was reluctant to part with the Bianhe embankment department and the Qingbian department.

These two official offices entrusted Song Yongchen's life-long painstaking efforts.

In particular, the Bianhe Embankment Department set up stacking yards and resale yards along both sides of the Bianhe River to restrict merchants in Bianjing to unload goods in the stackyards and conduct transactions in the resale yards.

As a result, taxes were imposed on the business of Bianjing City, and then the profits obtained by Di'an Division were used to maintain the operation of Qingbian Division.

Qing Biansi is an official office related to the lifeline of the entire Bianjing!

It is not only responsible for maintaining and repairing the Luoshui-Bianhe Canal dug north of Sishuiguan.

It is also necessary to maintain the water storage capacity of hundreds of large and small reservoirs dug along the entire banks of the Bian River and in higher terrain!

Because the flow of Luoshui is relatively small compared with that of Bianhe River.

In order to maintain the clean water from Luoshui and wash away the sediment in the Bianhe River, it is necessary to increase the inflow of water during the dry period of Luoshui to maintain a sufficient amount of inflowing water for scouring.

Otherwise, before Xining, the silt of the Bianhe River would continue to silt up and block the Bianhe River, which would continue to happen.

In addition, along the banks of the Bianhe River, a large number of Zahe wooden banks must be regularly maintained and replaced.

Otherwise, if the Bianhe River is not fast enough, it will also cause sediment deposition.

However, Song Yongchen opened his mouth.

He saw the young master sitting on the throne.

The young master is only eight years old!Even if he is talented, how can he explain to him the importance of the embankment department of the Bian River?Can he understand?

Even if it is possible, how to explain the matter of Qing Biansi?
The principle of clear water scouring, the setting of the wooden bank of the narrow river, and the water diversion gates set up between the Luoshui River and the Bian River...

These are not things that can be explained clearly in a few words.

Even the Emperor Daxing needed him and Shen Kuo to explain in person in front of the emperor, and also made corresponding clay models to simulate the flow of the Bian River and Luo River, the erosion of sediment in the hall, and once this happened, what benefits would this canal bring to the Song Dynasty?
Therefore, Song Yongchen could only lower his head: "I would like to obey the holy will!"

His energy dropped instantly.

But Song Yongchen wouldn't know.

Zhao Xu asked him to go back to Da Nei just to protect him.

The embankment department of the Bianhe River is a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the old party.

reason?

Competing for profit with the people, taxing too much, is this crime enough? !

If it is not enough, the ancestral system can also be involved-since the ancestors of the Song Dynasty, elms and willows were widely planted on both sides of the Bian River to protect the embankment.

You have completely destroyed the ancestral system for a little business tax, and you still say that you are not a traitor?

Zhao Xu knew very well that this was an unstoppable trend, and there was no need to stop it.

The common people and merchants in Bianjing City have been strictly restricted by the new law for more than ten years.

They must trade in the market, must unload goods at the embankment department's stacking yard, and must conduct large transactions in other designated yards.

Even official goods must be purchased, and government shops must be leased.

Although, some of these proceeds were eventually spent on Qing Biansi.

The Biansi of the Qing Dynasty protected everyone in Bianjing, and even the entire Gyeonggi Road. After guiding Luotong Bian, the sediment content of the Bian River was greatly reduced and the flow rate was greatly increased.

As a result, the navigable time of the Bian River has been increased by more than 300 days from the original [-] days. If the year is good, it can even be navigable all year round.

Therefore, after the self-guided Luotong Bian project, every winter in the past, Kaifeng Prefecture needed to mobilize civilian workers, and the battle of dredging Bian that cost 30 man-hours was never seen again.

But who knows?

Those who know will also pretend to be deaf and dumb.

This is the case for most people. It is a matter of course that they get benefits, but as long as they suffer losses, they will never forget them.

Naturally, whether it is public opinion, people's hearts, or the general trend, as well as the two palaces, and even Zhao Xu himself, the Bianhe embankment department, the market affairs, and most of the Bianjing field affairs must be abolished.

Only those storage yards, official mansion stores, and yard operations that existed in the Jiayou and Zhiping eras will be kept.

If Song Yongchen continued to be outside, he would definitely be hit.

If she is not careful, she will have to live with Zhao Xu for the rest of her life and be exiled.

The best moments in life will be wasted.

"You don't have to worry about being in charge!" Zhao Xu looked at Song Yongchen's expression and comforted him, "Qing Biansi, Father Huang has already told me..."

Song Yongchen raised his head with an incredulous expression on his face.

"Even if it is only to save the people of Kaifeng from dredging and silting in winter every year, the Qingbian Division should exist!"

In Zhao Xu's previous life, as soon as Sima Guang came to power, even before he came to power, he had already sharpened his sword against Qing Biansi.

First, the Qingbian Division was abolished, and then several less important water diversion outlets were ordered to be abandoned.

Then even the hundreds of large and small reservoirs excavated along the banks of the Bian River will all be backfilled.

However, Lu Gong, who co-assisted the government with Sima Guang, knew the importance of writing.

He immediately stopped Sima Guang's recklessness, and after Lu Gongzhu's earnest persuasion, Sima Guang finally agreed to stop completely denying the Daoluo Tongbian project.

Therefore, although the Qing Bian Division was abolished in name, the Daoluo Tong Bian project was also theoretically considered to be "harmful to the people and disabled".

However, the diversion of water from Luoshui to flush the Bianhe River has been going on.

Those hundreds of mouths diverted water from the Bianhe River, and after the sediment settled, the reservoir that was re-injected into the Bianhe River was not backfilled, and even some people still regularly transported away the sediment in the pond.

however……

Dang Sima Guang and Lu Gong died successively.

Their disciples and grandchildren don't care about this!

What did you say that a large number of civilians will be used to dredge in winter?

Hasn't it been like this since the ancestors?
How dare you criticize the ancestor system?It seems that you are Wang Anshi's evil party!

Bianhe sediment began to deposit?

Isn't the dam broken yet?

What are you in a hurry for?
If the dam is really going to break, it will be better to suffer the people downstream.

You can follow the stories of Jiayou and Zhiping, dig a breach downstream, and pour the flood out.

If someone is serious, tell them that in the past, Jiayou and Zhiping often broke through downstream, drowning thousands of people each time.

Since the introduction of Luotong to Bian, even in the spring flood season, the water volume of the Bian River has skyrocketed, and only three to 400 people died in the entire river basin, including people who fell and died.

Tell them again that in the past, the Bianhe River was full of ships and grain all year round, with a maximum of 600 million stones per year.

Now it can exceed 800 million shi a year, and there is still enough energy to transport 100 million shi of grain to Luoyang.

They will cover their ears, do not listen or listen, and chant sutras like crazy.

In short, these people have not been flooded by the Bianhe River.

I also forgot that in the Renmiao era, the Bian River flooded into the city of Bianjing and washed away thousands of houses.

There is only one reason why they regard the Qing Biansi and the Daoluo Tongbian project as tigers and wolves - Daoluo Tongbian was first advocated, proposed and launched by Wang Anshi.

Admitting that Daoluo Tong benefited the country and the people is tantamount to admitting that Wang Anshi was "right".

This principle is the same as Sima Guang wanting to abolish the immunity law at all costs, even dragging his sick body.

How can the new law be good?
It must be denied, it must be completely overthrown!
But he completely forgot that Sima Guang himself supported the immunity law in the past.

Before Wang Anshi's political reform, he criticized Yaqian soldiers every day.

These things, Zhao Xu's heart is clear and clear.

Therefore, the Bianhe embankment department can let go, but the Qingbian department must be kept!
This is the bottom line question!

Zhao Xu didn't want to work hard to rebuild the Qing Biansi after he grew up.

It's no fun reinventing the wheel!
　The Daoluo Tongbian project used many, many new technologies and innovative river control methods.

　　Among them, the narrow river bank is the harbinger of Shushui sand attack technology in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the principle is the same.

　　Using the clear water of the Luo River to wash away the sediment is exactly the same as the sand removal technology of today's Xiaolangdi Project. The basic principle is that it uses the power of water itself.

　　PS: Sima Guang's personal morality and his political stance should be viewed separately.

　　Personally, he is almost impeccable.

　　But in politics, sometimes naive, sometimes stubborn.

　　Just like the immunity law, he himself knows that this thing is right, but he must abolish it regardless of everything, even if he dies.

　　He personally told Mr. Lu that he would die with peace if the immunity law was not abolished. Mr. Lu had no choice but to agree.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)