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On December 17, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong held a prefect-level meeting of Henan Province in Luoyang.The meeting was presided over by Zhou Yingqi, the governor and chief minister of Henan Province. The crown prince arranged the work of the various governments in the next stage and commended those with outstanding achievements, such as Liao Xing, the prefect of Kaifeng, and Hou Fangyu, the prefect of Guide.

At the same time, new administrative divisions were announced.

First of all, Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion merged into one, and the newly established Huaiqing Mansion governed twelve counties, becoming a big mansion in Henan.Secondly, Ruzhou Zhili Prefecture was once again assigned to Nanyang Prefecture, and the current Ruzhou Zhizhou is temporarily in charge of Xiangyang Prefecture.In this way, a set of government-level administrative teams can be saved and administrative efficiency can be improved.

As a country of ethics, the basic principle that must be followed is: two people make a ritual, and three people make a ritual.

It seems like a simple meeting, but it is absolutely impossible for everyone to sit in one room and dismiss it.The prefect Sang Kaidi has a lot of research on etiquette and is quite flexible, so he changed the meeting into two parts: "meeting" and "banquet".First let all the officials meet the crown prince, and then take their seats and hold a banquet.

The atmosphere of the banquet was relaxed, and the speech was solemn and harmonious, just in line with the "meeting" that the prince said.

Zhu Cihong was also very satisfied with this arrangement. He sat in the middle position, and the prefect officials below were divided into two sides, sitting opposite each other, just like the meeting of high-level officials held by later generations of enterprises.

In order to meet the occasion, there are food tables in front of the officials, which are arranged with tea, water, fruit, and cakes, which are simple and clean and save money.

"In the spring of next year, all parts of the province, especially Guide and Huaiqing, must ensure spring plowing." Zhu Cihong said, "I hope that the grain in Shanxi will be transferred from Henan next year." Guide and Huaiqing are key grain-producing areas in Henan. , as long as spring plowing and reclamation can be fully guaranteed, there is absolutely no problem in achieving self-sufficiency in the whole province.

But if Shanxi is additionally supplied, it will be a little stressful.

Wu Weiye and Hou Fangyu looked at the tea and cakes in front of them and felt a little heavy.However, the two prefectures have always been food-producing places, and the land is rich.Nowadays, there are half grains such as potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes that can be cultivated in mountains and tidal flats, and it is not impossible to complete the task.

"Kaifeng Mansion," Zhu Cihong looked at the young and courageous Liao Xing. "After Anmin, the first priority is to control the river. Spring plowing can be done according to one's ability. But river control must be the first priority. Liao Xing, if you can cure this Yellow River, I will ask you to be a prince."

Liao Xing got up quickly, bowed and said: "I will definitely do my best."

Zhu Cihong was very satisfied with Liao Xing's work attitude of never bargaining.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, the Yellow River has continuously invaded the Huaihe River.When the country is peaceful, the government can spare power to dredge the river and build embankments.Even if there is a flood, it can relieve the victims.Once the country has something to do, focus on other directions, and the Yellow River will show its fierce minions.

After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the ecological environment of the Loess Plateau deteriorated.Water and soil erosion is serious, and the Yellow River carries trillions of tons of sediment into the eastern plains.The silt deposits, the river channel is filled into flat land, and the river overflows naturally, forming a yellow flood zone where crops cannot be cultivated.

Hongzhi four years.The Yellow River breached at seven places including Huanglinggang and Jinlongkou in Caozhou. The floodwaters traveling northward entered the Huitong River in Zhangqiu, and all the water and cargo ships going northward were blocked in Zhangqiu.Emperor Hongzhi ordered Liu Daxia, the deputy capital censor, to block his mouth.Liu Daxia formulated and implemented the strategy of dividing the North Dike into the South.Under his auspices, the imperial court built the Taihang embankment, which is more than [-] miles long from Caozhou to Xuzhou.

After the formation of the levee on the north bank of the Yellow River, it prevented the Yellow River from flooding northward.Guarantees the smooth flow of the Huitong River.However, allowing the Yellow River to divert southward has caused continuous flood disasters to the areas south of the Yellow River.In the end, there are more and more southward branches in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The more branches, the lower the river's sediment-carrying capacity, and the worse the river channel condition.

Hongzhi was divided into three branches downstream.By the end of Jiajing, there were as many as thirteen branches of the Yellow River in Shandong and Nanzhi, and the Yellow River had no mainstream channel.

In the 25th year of Jiajing, in order to control the Yellow River, the Yellow River was artificially diverted into the south of Sishui, and flowed into the sea together with the Huaihe River.Due to the weakness of the Yellow River and the weak Huaihe River, the accumulated sand in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River gradually increased, forming an aboveground river.The Huaihe River no longer became a smooth waterway, but in the lower part of the Huaihe River, that is, in the Hongze Lake area above the Huaisi confluence, water first accumulated into a lake, connecting the small lakes before the Song Dynasty, and became Hongze Lake.

It is also because of this that the Huaihe River area suffers from constant floods.

Until the 44th year of Jiajing, Pan Jixun started a 27-year river control project.

Under Pan Jixun's governance, the Yellow River finally stabilized, but as the river bed continued to silt up, the number of crevasses on both sides of the Yellow River increased.After the 24th year of Wanli, the Yellow River burst almost every year, and the disaster area even moved southward to Suzhou.

As far as Kaifeng is concerned, in addition to natural disasters such as the Yellow River flood, there are also man-made disasters.Before Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, in order to defeat the enemy as soon as possible, he flooded the city with rivers, and the lives were devastated.Moreover, the war changed later, and Li Zicheng never managed Kaifeng, so naturally no one would completely repair the broken estuary.

Now that the imperial court has restored Henan, Liao Xing also announced to the people that Henan will return to the royal family from now on, so of course the heavy responsibility of governing the Yellow River falls on the shoulders of Huangming Kaifeng Mansion.

"According to the usual practice, a governor of the river is to be appointed to take care of all the regions," Zhu Cihong said. "Now that we are short of manpower, we can only take care of the present and wait for the country to stabilize in the future before thoroughly governing. Liao Xing, you also need to start cultivating a group of capable people. the river workers come out."

Later generations thought that all the scholars selected by stereotyped writing were nerds, but this was not the case in Ming Dynasty.The Ming Dynasty’s imperial examinations not only produced writers, philosophers, and various humanistic masters, but also military strategists and water conservancy experts.

Pan Jixun was a Jinshi in the 29th year of Jiajing. He was first awarded as Tuiguan in Jiujiang, promoted to Yushi, and later patrolled Guangdong, and was promoted to Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple.It can be said that before the 44th year of Jiajing, Pan Jixun was a standard judge.If such a resume was in Zhu Cihong's hands, he would never be allowed to control the river.

But Pan Jixun really got the effect.

Zhu Cihong did not dare to extravagantly hope that he could have another Pan Jixun in his hands. He still wanted to follow the path of professional training, improve the quality of river engineering, and inherit Pan Jixun's river management concepts and methods.

After Liao Xing learned that he was assigned to the Kaifeng Mansion, he knew that river governance was an unavoidable problem.He had asked people to buy the manuscripts written by Pan Jixun, such as "Chenduan Dagonglu", "Two Rivers Guanjian", "River Defense Overview", "Liuyutang Collection", etc., and made full preparations.This time the crown prince pushed back all the spring plowing tasks, which equated to an extra relief of his considerable burden.

"The prefectures in western Henan still focus on organizing households for the people, setting up village schools, measuring land, and diverting canals for irrigation, and trying to achieve self-sufficiency in food." Zhu Cihong said: "After the spring plowing, all localities must first conduct academic and administrative assessments. In terms of administrative expenses, tuition expenses cannot be lower than 30.00% of the total expenses."

The current officials of the East Palace Department still have a guarantee of integrity. As long as the money is spent in the right place, the effect will definitely be seen.In particular, the biggest obstacle to literacy has been cleared by a magical artifact, and the harvest of educational achievements is much earlier than expected.

That artifact is the charcoal pencil.

A small charcoal pen, each costing only seven coins, can give students enough writing practice and speed up their mastery of characters.Zhu Cihong just accepted the use of vulgar characters in the office process, coupled with the promotion of charcoal pens, the efficiency of the administrative process has been enhanced by not a little bit.

Only when the manuscripts of the materials are compiled, will they be handed over to the old scholar to use a brush to copy and file them in regular characters, so that they can be preserved for hundreds of years.

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"His Royal Highness arranged so meticulously today, could it be that he is going back to Jinan?"

After the meeting, the prefects withdrew and discussed one after another.This is also the habit of the scribes, but the real non-commissioned officers are unwilling to talk about business in public.

"I heard that there are three imperial decrees that have been urgently called." said the clairvoyant.

"Yes, it's the Spring Festival."

"Hey, His Highness was going to get married this year, but he didn't take care of it after the national change, so he must make it up this time."

When everyone heard the words, they exclaimed "it should be so" and "it's finally so".

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Zhu Cihong left the table first, unaware that these subordinates were discussing the important events of his life.In this era, it is very immoral for ministers to discuss their ruler, except for the two private matters of marriage and children.

Because in the final analysis, these two things are still one thing, that is: national unification.