第五十章                    黄河大工

If possible, Zhou Mengchen didn't want to do such a big project. He repaired and reinforced five or six rivers in total, and opened thousands of new rivers. This is all money. All of them have to be used by the civil servants.

Moreover, such a complex water conservancy network seems to be able to withstand large-scale floods. However, the Yellow River is not another river. One of the biggest characteristics of the Yellow River is that it rises particularly quickly.

How fast is it? Within thirty-six hours, the water level will rush from dry water to the highest water level. In an instant, the flow can rush up at once.

If you don’t believe it, please look at the flood in Zhengzhou.

When governing the Yellow River, first of all, understand the essence of the Yellow River. The place where the Yellow River rushes out of the mountain is the peak, that is, the Xingyang section is the vertex, and Tianjin and Huai'an are two fulcrums. Draw a triangle. The vast majority of places inside the triangle are washed by the Yellow River.

It can even be said that what is the essence of this area? It is the Yellow River Delta.

You should know that the Yellow River is actually very young. Ten or 20,000 years ago, the outlet of the Yellow River was in the Xingyang area, and the mud and sand of the Yellow River rushed out of the Huanghuai Plain. Whether it was the superposition of flood peaks of tributaries in the upper reaches or because of mountains, a large amount of water vapor could easily condense in this area, causing heavy rainfall.

In short, the Yellow River rises rapidly. When you see the Yellow River almost during the day, you are still a long line between the dams dozens of miles apart, and it looks winding and twisting, almost breaking the flow. But at night, the Yellow River roars and fills the width of the two dams dozens of miles, and even hits the river channel again and again. It even breaks the dam.

Faced with such an unpredictable Yellow River and such a complex water system scheduling, it is probably only possible for a capable minister to play with it.

Scheduling is very difficult, especially in the era without telegraphs, which can easily cause people to run fast without floods.

If possible, Zhou Mengchen also wanted to build a reservoir in Sanmenxia, ​​using the water from the reservoir to adjust water and sand, so as to achieve the ability to rectify the Yellow River.

It’s just a pity that the technical content of Sanmenxia Reservoir is something Zhou Mengchen could not guess at all.

There was an era and an industrial era between him and Sanmenxia Reservoir.

He could not do it even if he killed Zhou Mengchen. He could only settle for the second best and come up with such a huge plan.

After Zhou Mengchen and Xu Wei got out of the way, the river management plan was announced.

Almost one stone stirred up a thousand layers of waves.

Because this is related to the vital interests. The most uncomfortable thing is that the cities in Shandong are close to the canal, because Zhou Mengchen's plan has no place at all, and there is no place at the current canal.

Once the canal is broken, many cities in Shandong will decline rapidly. Because these cities have developed because of the canal. Now, once the canal is broken, it will be restored to its original form.

The local people naturally don’t want to do so. Secondly, there are the people in Henan.

The people in Zhengzhou and other places stopped doing it. Nothing else, most river thaws occurred in the downstream in the Ming Dynasty, such as Kaifeng, Xuzhou, Guide and other places. Zhengzhou was not greatly affected.

Now that I dug a river to divert the water from the Yellow River, will it cause them to suffer if it gets out of control?

Of course they won't want to.

Of course, this plan also brings support from many adults. After all, if it is just as Zhou Mengchen said, from then on, this plan will keep the Yellow River safe, even if there is no accident at all, and a few fewer decisions will be a luxury for them.

Therefore, under the auspices of Zhou Mengchen, many local gentry had heated discussions on the entire plan at the Xuzhou Water Conservancy Research Institute.

Zhou Mengchen followed the good deeds and changed a lot of places, making the entire plan more perfect.

The last one with gray hair said, "Sir, I have heard all your methods. But I didn't understand the old man, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, everyone here can understand it. It's a good method. Is it just a court agreeing?"

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen applauded secretly, thinking that this sentence could not be better.

Zhou Mengchen said: "I don't know how the court will deal with it, but I will definitely use this method to Your Majesty Chen. I think with Your Majesty's benevolence, I will definitely pity the difficulties of living for the people and make up my mind to cure the Yellow River."

As soon as Zhou Mengchen said this, countless people bowed and bowed.

For a moment, Zhou Mengchen felt a little in his heart, and the feeling of being surrounded by countless people was very good.

Zhou Mengchen struck while the iron was hot, and after he returned, he asked to go back to Beijing to discuss the matter of river management.

Although Zhou Mengchen's memorial did not arrive in the capital, many people have known about Zhou Mengchen's plan to govern the river.

For example, Jiajing.

Jiajing glanced at Huang Jin beside him and said, "Huang Daban. What do you think I should do?"

Huang Jin immediately said: "Your Majesty, slaves and servants are not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the court according to the ancestors."

Jiajing's eyes were cold; he glanced at it and said, "When he was doing things, he didn't think of this sentence, but now he remembered it."

When Huang Jin heard this, he pounced and said, "Your Majesty, please spare me."

Jiajing said: "Send the order to let Zhou Mengchen enter the capital."

Jiajing saw it very clearly that Zhou Mengchen was unable to run Xu Jie this time. It was also a good thing for Jiajing.

After all, the more stable Xu Jie's status is, the more uncomfortable Jiajing feels. Now no one in the cabinet can compete with Xu Jie. Now it seems that Zhou Mengchen has this ability.

In Jiajing's opinion, Zhou Mengchen is also good to come back.

Zhou Mengchen's memorial came to Xu Jie's hands, and Xu Jie looked at the memorial in his hand. Xu Jie returned home and gave this memorial to several disciples. Xu Jie's tone felt a bit rough. He said, "What should I do about this situation now?"

The current situation made Xu Jie really not in a mood. After Zhang Juzheng received the memorial, he read it over and over again several times, but was reluctant to speak for a long time.

Xu Jie asked, "Uncle, what do you think?"

Zhang Juzheng said: "Teacher, from the perspective of students, Zhou Mengchen's plan is basically about talking about war on paper. It seems that Zhou Mengchen's drunkenness is not about wine, but between mountains and rivers."

Xu Jie nodded and said, "You still don't want to tell the truth. It's just that Zhou Mengchen wants to return to Beijing. But I never expected that Zhou Mengchen would use such a method. It's really------"

Xu Jie was very surprised by Zhou Mengchen's changes.

Zhou Mengchen was somewhat pedantic before. Now Xu Jie, as Zhou Mengchen's whetstone, was Xu Jie who taught Zhou Mengchen to do anything in political struggles. But now it is different. Facing Xu Jie, Zhou Mengchen's methods are much more flexible.

There is no bottom line.

The matter of governing the river is related to countless people and even to the safety of the country. It is simply too much for Zhou Mengchen to use it as a means of attacking political enemies.

What does Xu Jie think of Zhou Mengchen’s plan to govern the river?

That's absolutely not possible.

It was not just because of the financial resources of the court, but because the project volume was too large. It was so big that it made Xu Jie frightened.

In summary, the amount of earthwork for the entire water control project was even larger than that of Emperor Yang of Sui. What happened to Emperor Yang of Sui? Such a large project would cause accidents if you were not careful. The Yuan Dynasty was already a lesson in the past.

Xu Jie didn't think Zhou Mengchen had the ability to supervise such projects, and there was no need to do that.

The ministers who had previously managed the water did not make such a big noise. For example, Xu Youzhen.

Xu Youzhen's character is a problem, but he, Liu Daxia, and Pan Jixun, were all famous water-controlling officials in the Ming Dynasty. Xu Youzhen managed the Yellow River, and the Yellow River did not have much problem for thirty years.

The Yellow River, which has an average of 1.7 times a year, has not burst a large-scale dam in the past 30 years, has been a very good result.

However, the resources Xu Youzhen used were far inferior to Zhou Mengchen.

Why can't Zhou Mengchen learn from Xu Youzhen? He Gao's uniqueness?

Zhang Juzheng said: "Teacher, the most important thing now is how to deal with it?"

Xu Jie put away his decadent mood and said, "What do you think should I deal with it?"

Zhang Juzheng said, "It seems that it is inevitable to keep Zhou Mengchen in Beijing. First, it is what Your Majesty means. Teacher, your arms cannot be hindered. Secondly, Zhou Mengchen is very aggressive today. The teacher must have an explanation. You can't just say coldly and don't practice it, and it's all done."

"For the Yellow River, we must have our own plan to explain to the top and bottom."

"In the end, Zhou Mengchen must be given a place so that he will be at peace."
Chapter completed!