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Chapter 557 Huaisi

The new Ming Dynasty wanted to pacify the Nanpan Kingdom, which was much easier than imagined.

This place is located in the high mountains of Xiyuan in Vietnam. The entire Nanbian Kingdom is in the primitive tribal alliance era. There is not even a real king. There are only two great mages, Huo She and Shui She, for theocratic management.

Historically, even in the 19th century, the Nguyen Dynasty, with the support of the French, became unprecedentedly powerful. It turned the vassal state of Nan Bian into territory and forced the country to return to its territory, but it was only used as a territorial territory.

The Ruan Dynasty simply conferred names and titles on the two kings of Huo She and Shuishe, and then regarded Nanpan Kingdom as a barbaric land. Neither the exiled officials were sent to further manage the area, nor the Yue people were allowed to enter Nanpan for reclamation.

Such a policy of pure restraint and neglect lasted until the end of World War II, until the Nguyen Dynasty was overthrown and deposed by the Vietnamese people. Only then was this place officially brought under rule, and immigration and reclamation began.

Then, the Vietnamese and the Nanpan native tribe started fighting. Even during the Vietnam War, the Nanpan tribe formed an anti-Vietnamese national united front... In short, it was very grassy.

Therefore, let alone this time and space, even if two hundred years pass, these Nanpan people will not have any sense of identity with Annan. Even because of Nguyen Phuc's excessive taxation and extortion, he became even more hostile to the Annamites.

When the agents dispatched by the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the internal turmoil of the Ruan family, they waited for an opportunity to contact Nanpan Shuishe and Huoshe. Both sides immediately expressed their willingness to bring the Nanpan tribes back to Ming China. As long as the emperor of Ming China did not impose excessive taxes on them and demand doubling of tribute, they would not even need to be chieftains (because the two kings were not hereditary in the first place) and would be willing to cooperate in reforming the country.

Who said that unruly people come out of poor places? Those who stutter are the most honest people.

The Nam Phan Kingdom was successfully conquered, and even the rainy season had not passed. Nguyen Thi An Nam was busy with internal turmoil and was unaware of it.

Now just wait until the rainy season is over and Quang Nam's wolf army moves south, and Nguyen Thi An Nam can be wiped out with just a few clicks.

It's ridiculous that these people still don't realize it. The nobles and gentry are busy collecting wealth through extortionate taxes. The officials at the coastal ports are smuggling wildly to make profits. Even the regent and the Queen Mother are joining forces to seize power.

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Jinshen Palace.

Zhu Yijiong kneaded her eyebrows, her face looking tired.

It was not because of the petition, but because the river governor Sun Jiagan, who had gone north a few years ago to regulate the river, was reaching out to him again to ask for money.

Although the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty and the New Dynasty increased significantly last year, there was not much money left because of the war between Kangxi and Tibet. But this year is different. The imperial court has no major external wars, and Nguyen Thi Annan only started fighting in the second half of the year. It's not even a big battle, the garrison in Guangnan can handle it.

Sun Jiagan obviously knew the financial situation of the imperial court, so he rushed to this year's stall and asked the emperor for money again.

Of course, this was not because he was deliberately flirting with the emperor. In fact, the cost of river control far exceeded his expectations.

If the original plan is followed completely, it will only take ten to fifteen years to cure the Huanghuai flood problem. The preliminary river dredging was carried out first, and then the Yellow River was artificially diverted to Shandong. It cost two million taels of silver in the initial stage, and more would be added later when it was insufficient.

As a result, it was indeed not enough.

Not only is it not enough, it is far from enough.

Sun Jiagan went to the north for several years to dredge and excavate, and then he realized that he was still too optimistic.

How can the broken holes left by the Song, Yuan, Ming (Tatar) and Qing dynasties be so easy to repair?

Fifteen years to control the river is just wishful thinking. Without 20 to 30 years, there is no way to control the Huanghuai River. Moreover, this is only the initial stage of the project. Even if the Yellow River is diverted later, management of the Huaisi water system will still have to continue.

The Huanghuai problem doesn't even mean anything anymore. It really doesn't matter. It can be solved as long as the Yellow River changes its course. But the Huaisi River system was turned into a mess because of the three and a half dynasties of monarchs and ministers who simply wanted to preserve water transportation.

All the prefectures and counties surrounding the Huaisi River system have to spend money to manage them, including but not limited to building large new embankments around key lakes in key river sections, and prohibiting people in the corresponding water areas from reclaiming land around the lakes.

Needless to say, not only will money be spent, but people's livelihood in Huaisi Prefecture will also be affected, because a lot of agricultural land must be abandoned. Even if the imperial government provides compensation, local people will still be resentful. After all, farming is an industry and is the deep-rooted pursuit of the people.     The so-called buying land and property, the word "tian" means property.

In ancient times, landless people were also popularly called liu, those without houses were called hooligans, and those without houses and land were called hooligans (yes, many of you are hooligans).

In fact, even without Sun Jiagan, the Ming Dynasty and the New Dynasty had always been managing the water conservancy in the south of the Yangtze River, which was also forced to do nothing. And this is not bad. The Jiangnan area in the early Qing Dynasty was called the Bad Top. Huaisi flooded almost every year, either floods or severe droughts, just like a joke.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan was an area hit hardest by floods and droughts. For more than half of the time, major disasters occurred here, and there were constant minor disasters. It was not until the Yellow River was diverted to Shandong that things improved.

Well, it also successfully ruined water transportation and put a heavy foot on the accelerator of the declining late Qing Dynasty.

Sun Jiagan's specific river control plan has been listed in detail in several thick memorials. They also drew drawings and refined the original diversion, and even the money spent exceeded the tens of millions mark.

According to the plan in this set of memorials, the Huanghuai river control project will continue to be carried out in the next few decades, and the amount of money invested will exceed 100 million at least. Even so, it can only be managed roughly. In the future, you will have to pay money every year for maintenance.

Still, it's pretty good.

Because at least there is still hope, but if we delay it for another hundred or two hundred years, there will be no hope at all. We can only start over again and dig the main irrigation canal in northern Jiangsu.

This new canal is one of the few large-scale river projects in world history. Fortunately, in the new era, industrial machinery can replace labor, which greatly saves labor and time.

Zhu Yijiong read the plan over and over again and wrote Zhu Zhu's approval: "Order the cabinet and the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate funds as soon as possible. All county officials who correspond to the project will immediately receive orders from the post office and must fully cooperate."

This is also the cabinet's vote proposal. Although the cabinet feels that it will cost a lot, the Huanghuai issue is indeed imminent. They are all smart people and know the trade-offs.

In fact, the previous emperors and ministers all understood the seriousness of the problem, but since the Yuan Dynasty, the capital has been in Beijing. If water transport is ignored for the purpose of river control, who can bear this responsibility?

Compared with the previous dynasties, the biggest advantage of the new Ming Dynasty was that the capital was set in Nanjing, so it did not need to rely on water transportation.

As for the gradual collapse of water transportation due to river management, this is not a problem. Water transportation has always been just to allow Beijing to better absorb blood from Jiangnan. Even if there is no water transportation, there will be no major problems in the counties along the road.

Water transportation is only one of them, there are also developed water systems in various places, as well as salt courses in places that must pass through.

Regulating the Huaisi water system may harm some people in the short term, but in the long run, it can reduce floods and droughts, allow local agriculture to develop rapidly, and stable river water transportation can also provide development soil for industry and commerce.

Zhu Yijiong thought for a while and then wrote to add: "Sun Jiagan was promoted to the governor of the rivers of the five provinces. Officials from all regions are not allowed to obstruct the river management affairs of the five provinces of Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu and Anhui. Grant Shang Fang the sword and allow him special circumstances. , act cheaply.”

To act cheaply is to kill first and then report later!

He is the governor of five provinces, and he is Shang Fang's sword. This is a set of official rewards.

It became immediately clear to the cabinet that Sun Jiagan might not be able to return to Beijing alive.

However, just running around and dying in the office of governor of the river is not too bad. At least a posthumous title is guaranteed, and it is possible that he will get a good posthumous title, or even a title, a title, a family heirloom, etc.

It's just that the officials in various places are not very happy. They don't want Sun Jiagan to conscript civilians everywhere in their jurisdiction.

Now, the emperor directly issued an order to completely block their retreat.

Not only that, the Ming Dynasty and the New Dynasty had to spend a lot of the annual increase in fiscal revenue to fill the huge hole in the Yellow River.

You still have to find a way to make money!

(End of this chapter)