I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 849
Zhu Zhanji also joined in the fun and said,
"That's right, that place is indeed Shen Wansan's manor, but now that it has become a garden, there seems to be nothing special about it!"

Speaking of Shen Wansan, he was one of the most well-known figures in the early Ming Dynasty. He was even more famous in Nanjing City than his old Zhu family.

But it is a pity that there were too many people involved in the Sapphire case back then. Shen Wansan's son was also implicated because of his inextricable relationship with Sapphire. disappeared from history.

Even the manor that their family used to win the world is now just a place for tourists to play.

But what Yang Suwen wanted to talk about was not Shen Wansan's manor and Shen Wansan.

What he wanted to talk about was actually another person.

That person is the famous poet, statesman, and reformer "Wang Anshi!"

The main reason why the circle drawn by Yang Suwen was misunderstood as Shen Wansan's manor was that the sketch was sloppy, and the place he wanted to talk about was too close to Shen's manor, so everyone misunderstood it.

He watched for a while and no one could figure it out, but luckily he said it himself.

"You all misunderstood, what I really want to talk about is not the Shen Family Manor, but a monument!"

Hear the word monument.

Suddenly someone seemed to remember something and said loudly,

"Captain Yang, what you're talking about isn't the Wang Anshi Lagoon who built the field stele back then!"

Yang Suwen finally showed a smile on his face, someone finally remembered.

Speaking of this stele, Zhu Zhanji, who has lived in Nanjing for many years, slapped his thigh suddenly and said in surprise,

"Captain Yang, don't you want...to imitate Wang Anshi..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Zhanji no longer knows what words to use to express his thoughts.

Yang Suwen smiled slightly and said,

"This is also thanks to your reminder, His Royal Highness.

It is obviously unrealistic to drain the entire Xuanwu Lake, but if we follow the example of Wang Anshi back then and reconnect the dams at the northwest corner, with the advantage of being high in the east and low in the west, it may not be impossible to turn the northwest corner of Xuanwu Lake into a piece of land. Good land! "

At that time, Wang Anshi successively served as an official in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu and other places, from a small general judge to a prefect.

In the seventh year of Song Xining, Wang Anshi served as the magistrate of Jiangning Prefecture (Jiangning was later Nanjing).

When I was playing in Xuanwu Lake, I felt a lot of emotion.

In the original history, there was no Xuanwu Lake in Jinling, but later generations diverted the river water to irrigate it for the convenience of playing, and created such a huge artificial lake covering an area of ​​more than 2 mu in the center of Jiangning.

He felt that it was such a waste of such a large area just for fun.

So he wrote to the imperial court, wanting to release the entire lake water of Xuanwu Lake, and build tens of thousands of acres of fertile land to fill the people of Jiangning.

His proposal was unanimously approved by Song Shenzong and the people of Jiangning.

Therefore, Wang Anshi led more than [-] people in Jiangning to "open the cross river and set up four gates!"

The lake was poured out, and more than [-] mu of fertile land were obtained.

What is the concept of [-] mu of fertile land? You must know that although there are many fertile fields in the Jiangnan area, it is also because of the large population.

In fact, the per capita arable land is less than two mu. Sometimes, even a family of four or five can only live on the few mu of land.

These [-] mu of fertile land almost solved the livelihood problem of [-] households who had no land to value.

Ten thousand households does not mean 1 people. Even if there are only three people in each household, it is equivalent to solving the problem of food and clothing for 3 people.

Back then, Jiangning was not the Nanjing of today, and the population was not so large. Overall, it is estimated that there are only 50 million people.

Wang Anshi's move can be regarded as helping one-tenth of Jiangning's population get rid of poverty and become people with land.

This kind of merit, this kind of merit, also laid a solid foundation for him to become an important figure in the reform of the Song Dynasty.

It can be said that without Wang Anshi's move to build land in the lagoon, there would be no later famous reformer Wang Anshi.

But it is a pity that after the Song Dynasty came the Yuan Dynasty and various chaos caused by the rise of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the dam built by Wang Anshi in Dannian was left unattended all the year round, the original [-] mu of fertile land was only about [-] mu by the middle of the Yuan Dynasty.

Then, after the Yangtze River diverted several times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and flooded, as well as natural and man-made disasters, when Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Nanjing.

The fertile fields originally reclaimed by Xuanwu Lake are basically depleted.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very talented, and the land of the Ming Dynasty was not comparable to that of the Song Dynasty. He didn't care whether there were thousands of acres of fertile land in Nanjing. Fortunately, with a wave of his hand, Xuanwu Lake was restored.

Now it has become a place for tourists to play again.

Although Xuanwu Lake has become a lake again, the dikes and dams left by Wang Anshi are still there. With a little repair, they can easily reproduce the wonders of Wang Anshi's farmland!
It was precisely because Zhu Zhanji had the opportunity to see this once-in-a-lifetime scene that he became so excited.

You must know that Wang Anshi had made such a great achievement at that time, and he had heard more than once from his teacher.

Now he also has the opportunity to experience the feat of Wang Anshi back then, how can he not be excited.

Of course, their time was short and their manpower was limited, so it was simply impossible to drain the entire Xuanwu Lake.

But if it is just to drain the water in an area in the northwest corner, it can barely be done in two or three days.

And Yang Suwen was able to figure out the key method to solve Ma Dazhong's deadlock precisely because he knew the secrets of this period of history.

But now another problem popped up.

Repairing the embankment again would require a lot of fighting and a lot of manpower.

But in this way, it is very likely that Ma Dazhong will be alerted.

When Yue Feng raised this question, Yang Suwen smiled slightly, looked at Zhu Zhanji and Wang Cheng, and then said with a smile,

"This problem is actually very easy to solve. By the way, it can also help Wang Cheng solve a small problem. It can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone!"

When Wang Cheng heard that this incident was actually related to him, he immediately waved his hand and said,
"I can't do it. I've already taken a big risk by helping you find out the news. For such a dangerous thing, you should find someone else. I can't do it."

Yang Suwen smiled mysteriously,
"If you get involved, how will you explain Jiang Qianhu's matter to Cao Ran then.

You don't really want to follow his orders and burn down Jiang Hao's old house, do you? "

(End of this chapter)