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Chapter 563: The Yellow River changed its course and the slave abolition order was issued [two in one chapter]

In the eleventh year of Qianyuan, it was May 18th.

Tongwaxiang Town, Lanyang County, Kaifeng Prefecture.

In the normal years of the Ming Dynasty, this place was quite prosperous because of a ferry connecting the north and south of the Yellow River.

In a radius of twenty miles, in addition to Tongwaxiang, there are several prosperous market towns such as Zhujiazhai, Xiaosongji, Zhaopizhai and Lijinggaokou.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, with the frequent occurrence of natural disasters and the disrepair of the river channel due to the corrupt administration of officials in the former Ming Dynasty, disasters often occurred on both sides of the Yellow River.

Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, because the Yellow River burst its banks near Kaifeng, the copper-tiled housing was affected for a radius of twenty miles and became deserted.

Even if Damei later took over Kaifeng Prefecture and sent capable officials to manage the place, Tongwaxiang and Zhaopi Village on the other side were not the first choice for reconstruction due to sedimentation, so they remained deserted for several years.

It was not until the fourth year of the Qianyuan Dynasty that Zhang Guowei, Minister of Industry of Da'an, who was in charge of river affairs, led a team to inspect the area and identified it as an important location for the "Yellow River Diversion" super project, and this area gradually gained popularity.

Speaking of which, in Huanglinggang downstream of Lanyang and Yifeng, there are tributaries of the Daqing River connected to the Yellow River.

As for this swamp, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes by it, and the Daqing River passes by it to the north.

Today, the administrative level of Tongwaxiang in Da'ei has been changed to a town, and its prosperity has even exceeded that of the Wanli period of the pre-Ming Dynasty.

Apart from farming, he didn't know anything - he learned some brick-making skills when he was young.

Nowadays, they are growing improved wheat varieties promoted by the government, as well as corn, sweet potatoes and other crops, so the family is no longer worried about going hungry.

Zhao Erhu also wants to make life better for his family, and even wants to send his children to middle school in the county.

However, these days, his face was full of sorrow.

There are many workers in the brick factory who look like him.

Not only does the special show pay 400 wages per month, but it also includes food and accommodation.

In this way, even if the Yellow River passes through the Daqing River in the future, if a flood occurs in this section, it will not cause much harm to people's livelihood.

Zhao Erhu is a citizen of Fengqiu County on the north bank of the Yellow River in Kaifeng Prefecture. It is said that his ancestors are suspected of being members of the Zhao and Song clan.

Although this "Yellow River Diversion" super project has sufficient funds, manpower, and the help of steel bars and cement, the possibility of problems in the project in the future is extremely small, but it is always right to take precautions.

No matter whether this is true or not, during the Ming Dynasty, his family had been digging in the soil for several generations, and even became tenants and refugees for a time.

Therefore, Tongwaxiang has become rapidly prosperous in the past few years due to this project.

Fortunately, Da'ei later took over Kaifeng Mansion, and Zhao Erhu's family was allocated more than ten acres of land, and life got better day by day.

However, the Tongwaxiang in Lanyang further upstream is the starting point of a section of the old Yellow River route.

Therefore, after Zhang Guowei conducted many investigations and discussed with his team's technical officials on water control and river control, he finally determined that it would be most secure to use the old Yellow River route to connect the Yellow River and Daqing River.

Although hundreds of years have passed since the Yellow River took over the Huaihe River and entered the sea in the Southern Song Dynasty, the old Yellow River dry up most of the time, but occasionally it becomes a northward flood channel during the Yellow River flood season.

The days were getting better and better.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, although I did suffer a lot, not only did I not lose weight, I became stronger than a few years ago.

This section of the pan-road starts from Tongwaxiang in Lanyang in the southwest, goes northwest through Dongming County in Daming Prefecture in North Zhili Province, Caozhou, Puzhou and Shouzhang in Yanzhou Prefecture in Shandong Province, and merges into Liangshan Water Park with a radius of hundreds of miles. Osawa.

If the Yellow River flows into the sea through the Daqing River, widening this tributary seems to be a good choice.

You can see oil stars in three meals a day, and the salt taste is even more abundant. And you can also have a big fat meal every three to five days.

During the Chinese New Year, there is even a lot of surplus grain to sell, cut some meat, buy half a catty of wine, have a good meal for the family, and even buy a few feet of cloth to make new clothes for the children.

Secondly, because the old course of the Yellow River was previously revealed to be the floodplain of the Yellow River, there are not many villages on both sides.

Over the past few years, he not only admitted himself to the hospital and sent his son to middle school in the county, but he even had enough money to renovate his family's house.

As for buying some new clothes for the family, it is even more indispensable.

More and more people are gathering here. In addition to work, they also have needs for other materials in life.

What he found in Tongwa Xiang was a brick-burning job, specializing in the kind of large bricks used to build river embankments.

Such as dredging this section of the Yellow River, strengthening the river banks, preparing for damming downstream, etc.

Therefore, a few years ago, when he learned that Tongwaxiang was recruiting workers, he discussed it with his parents and wife, then gritted his teeth and came here to make a living.

Because Da'ei now recruits people as laborers for projects, they will provide certain subsidies, and three meals a day are quite guaranteed.

If we could live such a precarious life in the late Ming Dynasty, it would be a great satisfaction.

It's a pity that he has lived for more than thirty years and has not been able to eat as well as he has in recent years.

For one thing, the old course of the Yellow River is wider. If it were to be built into a canal connecting the two rivers, less work would be required.

In addition, many "technical personnel" will be hired.

On the contrary, if you choose the downstream tributary of the Daqing River, the project will be even bigger. The river runs right through Caozhou and Yuncheng, both of which are densely populated areas in Shandong. Once an accident occurs, many people will suffer. ···

But now in Dawei, the vast majority of people can live such a life, and many people even live better, so comparisons are inevitable.

When the family was at its most prosperous, it was barely enough to keep from going hungry and go to a private school in the village for two years to learn a few words.

But after all, he was going to Linxian to make a living and work for the government, so he was already prepared to endure hardship.

Therefore, during the pre-Ming Dynasty, this section of the old Yellow River course was also called the Yellow River Floodway.

After Zhang Guowei selected this place as the starting point for borrowing the canal, he left a team to start related work.

Because everyone has heard that as the "Yellow River Borrowing" project is about to be completed, work in the factory will also be lost, and most of us will be fired.

Therefore, Zhao Erhu, who used to work extremely seriously and attentively, seems a little listless these days.

Dangdang Dangdang!
A gong sounded.

Then I heard the factory manager shouting loudly.

"All workers should handle the tasks at hand and have a meeting on the playground within a quarter of an hour!"

Hearing this, Zhao Erhu and several workers were stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously followed the order and handled the work in hand.

After coming back to his senses, one person couldn't help but worry: "Will the factory resign us today?"

"If we really have to resign, what can we do? If the factory can't get jobs, we can't support us in vain, right?"

"Well, at worst, I can go back to my hometown to farm. Anyway, if I farm well now, I can live a small life."

"I don't want to farm anymore. If the factory really wants to resign me, I will go to Kaifeng City to make a living."

Zhao Erhu heard something in his heart and immediately said to the man: "Brother Chai, if you want to go to Kaifeng, you must ask me to come with you."

"Okay." Brother Chai was also very happy that someone agreed, "We will take care of each other when the time comes, and we will definitely be able to get through."

As they talked, they arrived at the playground together.

This factory is owned by a local government and is quite large in scale. The system is based on the plans of the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court. In addition to a large canteen, there is also a playground for their daily activities. There is even a canteen next to the factory because it is some way away from Tongwaxiang Town.

When a few people came to the playground, they saw that there were already two to three hundred people gathered here.

When factory director Guo Kun arrived, workers No. 500 to 600 were all here, and they even lined up in square formations according to usual training.

Guo Kun is in his forties. It is said that he was a small landowner in the Qianming Dynasty and his family opened a brick workshop.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he first became a refugee, and then for some reason he became an official in Dalei.

Later, he became the director of the "Tongwaxiang Brick Factory" affiliated to Kaifeng Prefecture.

He stood on the stage, cleared his throat, and said loudly: "I know, there are rumors in the factory these days, saying that the Yellow River diversion project is completed, and our factory will probably close down, so we workers are Aren’t you going to be fired too?”

"Because of this message, many workers have no intention of working these days, and even make frequent mistakes when doing things, resulting in their wages being deducted in vain."

"Today, our factory director told everyone clearly that even if the Yellow River diversion project is completed, our factory will not close!"

Hearing this, the workers below couldn't help but hum and whisper.

"real or fake?"

"The factory director won't fool us, right?"

"When has Director Guo never spoken too much? What he said is probably true. This is great!"

As he said this, the workers became happy.

"cough!"

Guo Kun coughed a few times, suppressed the workers' comments, and then continued: "Why would the factory director say this? Although our brick factory was converted to the production of river engineering bricks, it does not mean that we cannot bake ordinary bricks. Blue bricks and tiles for houses.”

"Although the factory is government-run, it also has a development fund, so in a few years the factory director has been preparing to build some new brick kilns, specifically for bricks and tiles used by civilians."

"In addition, the Yellow River diversion project is about to be completed, but it does not mean that our factory's river project bricks will no longer be marketable."

"You know, the bricks from our factory are those that Zhang Da Sikong has agreed upon."

"In the future, when surrounding prefectures and counties repair rivers and ditches, as long as they use bricks, they will definitely give priority to our factory."

"As long as there are jobs in the factory, we will not lay off anyone. So, I hope everyone will stop thinking and work peacefully."

After hearing Guo Kun explain the reason, Zhao Erhu and other workers felt reassured and looked even happier.

Guo Kun paused and then said: "By the way, the last section of the canal of the Yellow River diversion project will be excavated tomorrow."

"I heard that there is going to be a ceremony at the last section of the canal that separates the Yellow River. Everyone has contributed to this big project. I will take a holiday tomorrow and go and see it together."

After hearing this, the workers couldn't help but cheer happily.

"That's great!"

"Thank you, director!"

"Let's go see it together tomorrow and learn a lot!"

The next day.

Zhao Erhu followed his co-workers to not far from the north bank of the Yellow River, and found that the area was already crowded.

There were quite a few security forces to maintain order and there was no chaos. Just because there were so many people, the police cordoned off again, and they couldn't get a closer look.

Zhao Erhu and the others didn't mind, so they found a slightly higher place and watched from a distance.

In the meantime, a senior official in red robes stood on a slope and talked for a while. Then when he came down, someone lit a long string of hanging whips.

Amidst the crackling sound of hanging whips, a gap was dug in the last section of the earth dam between the canal and the Yellow River.

Suddenly, the raging Yellow River water broke down the remaining earthen dam, rolled into the canal, and rushed northwest.

The sound of rumbling water even covered up the sound of firecrackers.

Seeing the dams built by the river engineering bricks and cement they fired, tightly restraining the water of the Yellow River in the canal, Zhao Erhu felt an inexplicable sense of pride in his chest.

He thought to himself that when he went home for the holidays, he would be able to brag about it to the villagers and his son several times.

At the same time, he also vaguely understood why the factory had a holiday today so that they could watch the completion ceremony of the project.

After the ceremony was over, when Zhao Erhu returned to the factory with his coworkers, many people were talking about it.

"When I worked in a special field before, I just thought that the salary was not low and the food was good, so I felt motivated to work."

"I don't know why, but I feel more energetic about working in the future."

"Me too."

In the 11th year of Qianyuan, on May 19th, the "Yellow River Diversion" super project presided over by Zhang Guowei, a famous minister of river control in Damei, was officially completed.

From this day on, the situation that the Yellow River began to seize the Huaihe River and enter the sea ended in the early Southern Song Dynasty. The Yellow River then entered the sea through the Daqing River.

At the same time, the estuary of the Huaihe River is preserved and the water quality becomes clear.

In addition, Huainan Province has gained hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland.

Shandong Province has not suffered from the Yellow River borrowing the Daqing River to flow into the sea.

In addition, after many years of management by Zhang Guowei's water control team, the level of water conservancy facilities in Shandong, Huainan, and Henan provinces has been greatly improved, and the places where flood disasters occur have also been greatly reduced.

In the next few years, all three provinces will have clear signs of Haiyanhehe!

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It was also the eleventh year of Qianyuan.

Damei sent a three-pronged army to attack the Khoshote Khanate, and the middle route army led by Helianyue captured Lhasa in just over two months.

Gushi Khan Tulubaihu died of illness during this period. He was succeeded by Dayan Khan (the eldest son of Tulubaihu) and the regent Suonan Qunpei, who represented the Tibetan nobles, and the fifth Dalai Lama, who represented the Gelug sect of Buddhism in power. They all expressed their surrender to Damei.

In this regard, the entire Qinghai-Tibet area was owned by Dalei.

Da'ei established the provinces of Qinghai and Us-Tibet that year, and issued the "Abolition of Slavery Order" targeting the three provinces of Monan, Us-Zang, and Qinghai to abolish the serf and pastoral slave systems in the three provinces.

Both the serfdom system in Tibet and the pastoral slave system in the grasslands have a very long history. It can be said that it is the basis for local sects and nobles to rule ordinary farmers and herdsmen.

Therefore, not long after Damei's "Abolition of Slavery Order" was issued, many nobles in Uzang, Qinghai, and Monan colluded with the temples and raised troops to rebel against Wei...
It was the fifth day of August in the eleventh year of Qianyuan.

Nanjing, Forbidden City.

Tianxin Palace.

Liu Sheng stood on the royal steps with his hands behind his back, tilted his head slightly, and said with a cold face: "All the eight nobles of Uzang and the thirty-three small nobles of Uzang rebelled? So what?"

"The telegram ordered Helianyue, don't worry, send troops immediately to quell the rebellion! All rebel leaders will be shot, and those in their families who are over five years old and under sixty years old will be arrested and exiled to Montenegro Province!"

(End of this chapter)