Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 989 Water Conservancy (2)

There were many people gathered in the Chongzhi Hall. Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the throne, looked around and saw many familiar people. He felt emotional in his heart.

During a certain period of time, the chaotic river administration that pursues a certain policy will truly change from today. For the Ming Dynasty, today is destined to be an unforgettable day.

The ninth day of the sixth month, the fourth year of the Tianqi reign.

Perhaps in the next few years, few people will remember this day. After all, if we want to rectify the river policy and make it truly effective, it will require a huge span of effort.

However, Zhu Youxiao firmly believed that one day in the future, the entire Ming Dynasty would remember today.

"I know that many people have their own thoughts about this imperial court meeting. They may think the same or different things."

Zhu Youxiao collected his thoughts and looked at the ministers gathered in front of him. He said calmly, "I, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, have summoned you to the capital urgently when there are many problems in the central government and the local areas. Before coming to the West Garden to participate in the imperial court meeting, I also asked you to go to various places to observe the Haihe River system."

“Is it time to carry out large-scale rectification of the Yellow River?”

"Or is there any new decree?"

Zhu Youxiao's words echoed in the hall. Fang Zhenru, Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian and other river patrol censors, as well as the officials and river management talents who followed them to Beijing, all showed different expressions on their faces when they heard this.

This is indeed what they care about most.

Time can really change a lot.

At least that's what Zhu Youxiao thought.

All the river patrol censors who were appointed earlier and are still in their positions have passed Zhu Youxiao's test without exception. Those who did not continue to serve, those who were dismissed, those who were removed from office, and those who were arrested, Zhu Youxiao had long forgotten what these people were called, because they were not the people he wanted.

The reason why river management is difficult is that there are too many people involved, and each person has his or her own ideas. With so many ideas, the key is that the territory under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty is vast. The Yellow River alone passes through many provinces and stretches for thousands of miles from west to east. It is really too difficult to regulate the Yellow River.

Therefore, in the past, Zhu Youxiao's idea was very clear. He wanted to gradually transfer and concentrate river affairs from local areas around the Yellow River, and let the group of river patrolling censors be responsible for this matter. While doing their utmost to maintain the stability of the Yellow River, he could gather more river management talents from the public, regardless of their background or age, as long as they had talent in this area.

At the same time, the officials in charge of river management under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu will start the rectification around the Haihe River system, and receive full targeted support from the imperial treasury. While constantly improving the Haihe River system, they can also accumulate corresponding experience and cultivate corresponding talents. This is not only to improve the Haihe River system, but also to prepare for the subsequent large-scale rectification of river affairs! !
No one knew better than Zhu Youxiao that the Ming Dynasty was in a Little Ice Age and that there would be many disasters in the future, especially floods.

It is extremely difficult to use human power to fight natural disasters, but Zhu Youxiao wanted to achieve a situation, that is, to maintain overall stability, so that when such disasters occur, there will be no way out and they can only wait until the disaster breaks out and then clean up the mess. The loss will be too great.

"I will not hide my doubts and confusions from you all. I will just explain the basics of this court discussion first." Looking at the ministers who were looking around, Zhu Youxiao continued.

"From now on, the River Management Bureau will be renamed the Water Resources Bureau. All matters concerning rivers, lakes and reservoirs under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty will be under the jurisdiction of the Water Resources Bureau. To ensure the stability of major rivers and lakes, and to prevent flood disasters from occurring, and to ensure local stability, the central government must take the lead in order to solve the problem at its root!!"

A word stirred up a thousand waves.

Fang Zhenru, Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian and other ministers, as well as a number of river management talents who accompanied the emperor to the capital, were all shocked after hearing what the emperor said.

Many of them believed that the emperor came to Beijing this time to solve the problem of regulating the Yellow River, to ensure that the Yellow River would be stable most of the time and would not cause harm to the local area again.

After all, these people have always been active in various places along the Yellow River in the past, and many of them have been active on the front line to solve the flood problems of the Yellow River. But what about now?

What the emperor said obviously involved not only the Yellow River, but also other things. After all, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was too large, and there was more than one Yellow River under its jurisdiction, but also the Yangtze River, and a number of rivers and lakes. Perhaps these were indeed quite different from the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, but they were equally important.

Just like the Huai River, which has a deep connection with the Yellow River.

The reason why it is difficult to regulate the Yellow River is not only because of the Yellow River itself, but also because there are different rivers in different regions that need to be taken into account. However, in many cases, it is often impossible to take all of them into account, which leads to some bad things happening.

But from today on, Zhu Youxiao made a clear proposition, that is, the rivers and lakes within the territory of the Ming Dynasty are closely related to the General Administration of Water Resources. This is to accurately position it at the central level so that no problems will arise. In the end, it will have no foothold.

While the ministers in the hall were shocked, a group of people walked in from the hall door.

It quickly attracted attention.

"who are they?"

"I don't know."

"Hmm? Isn't this Liu Rongsi, the river administrator?"

"Really? Isn't that Yang Fangxing?"

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"Why are they here too?"

Amid some discussions, Liu Rongsi, Yang Fangxing, Pan Xuanshou, Pan Xuanru, Lu Daqi, Yuan Jixian and his group walked towards the front of the hall with firm steps.

"I will pay my respects to Your Majesty!"

"No gifts."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Liu Rongsi and his party bowed and saluted in front of the emperor. Zhu Youxiao smiled faintly. Since they wanted to comprehensively improve water conservancy, they must have a backbone and a large number of talents.

Zhu Youxiao has been planning for this day for a long time.

To comprehensively improve water conservancy, we must not only have talents in river management, but also talents in other areas. After all, water conservancy improvement is a complex issue. Those who understand water conservancy may not necessarily understand coordination, and those who understand coordination may not necessarily understand other things. If you want to get something done, you must have talents in various areas.

Now that the Ming Water Conservancy Administration has a backbone at the center, no matter what problems it encounters in the future, there will be corresponding people to solve the corresponding problems.

For example, the special silver for water conservancy improvement is what Zhu Youxiao said in the past. In the future, the national treasury should set aside a sum of money every year together with the internal treasury to be used for river management.

But that being said, how to implement it requires someone to solve it, right?

After all, treasury expenditures require consideration from all aspects. It's impossible for no one to mention it and they just give you a fixed amount of silver every year to solve it, right?
There was no such rule in the Ming Dynasty, so many things had to be done with corresponding officials before they could be done. Only by centralizing power could certain results be achieved.

(End of this chapter)