Chapter 57 Hebei Dry

Although Zhu Qizhen has great hope for the Water Conservancy School.

But time doesn't wait for anyone.

Although it was nearly June, it was still a drought. The land had broken through the size of a palm, and most rivers were cut off.

But everyone knows a basic fact, that is, with the arrival of summer, heavy rain is coming. No matter how severe the drought is, it will not rain all year round.

As time goes by, drought prevention is important, but flood prevention is also put on the agenda.

Yu Qian has no time to stay idle in Beijing. Ruan An, Mu Jing, and Chen Yu followed Yu Qian to leave Beijing and go to the capital of Zhili Province, which was the newly established Tianjin Prefecture.

As for the first batch of colleges of the School of Water Conservancy, there was no time to recruit students. Zhu Qizhen waved his pen and gave all the eunuchs who were studying in the inner study to the School of Water Conservancy.

After all, no matter what, these teachers in the inner study are all from Hanlin Academy, and even if they have cultural qualities, they don’t have to teach them from literacy at least.

As soon as Yu Qian returned to Tianjin, he immediately assigned people to inspect the rivers in various places, emphasizing three things: First, the work-for-relief matter must be used to send grain to the people. Secondly, he wanted to try his best to ensure that some fields relying on the river will not be completely harvested. Third, he sent people to inspect the river banks in various places. If there is a river embankment that is not repaired and there are flood hazards, he will deal with it immediately.

You can't wait for heavy rain to come before you get born.

Yu Qian decided to take charge of the inspection of the Daqing River area with the most floods. He not only inspected the Daqing River, but also watched all the areas of Baiyangdian and Triangle Dian.

The rest of the people went to various places to inspect river defenses in various places.

Yu Qian brought Zhang Jing with him, and Zhang Jing was also a subordinate promoted by Yu Qian as the prefect of Shuntian, and he was very capable.

But this time Yu Qian asked Zhang Jing to inspect the Hutuo River.

Because Zhang Jing’s route to Hutuo River has many parts that overlap with Yu Qian.

Yu Qian was very careful with his carriage, and he rode a horse across the Triangle Lake with dozens of people.

You read that right, it is just crossing the Triangle Lake, because the shimmering lake in the past has now been divided into many small lakes. The depth of all lakes in Hebei is not deep.

Yu Qian rode a horse among the reeds, as if he was walking in the endless sorghum field. Large patches of withered yellow reeds were still telling them that this was once a lake.

The land that was originally silted, under the sun exposure for nearly a hundred days, it seemed like a broken seal, and the black soil opened its mouth hideously.

Everyone is silent.

On the one hand, if you see too many such scenes, you will become numb.

In addition, the sun seemed like a fire, and it had already dried all the moisture in the human body.

No one wants to speak.

"Father, I'll go get some water." Yu Mian shook the bamboo tube in his hand, listened to the sound of water inside, and said.

Yu Qian calculated the distance and said, "Let's go together."

In the first year of Zhengtong, Yu Qian was transferred to the capital, and Zhu Qizhen was very fond of favor for Qian, so he was given a gift in the capital, so he specially sent the Jinyiwei to invite Yu Qian's wife to the capital.

This ended the tragedy that was thousands of miles apart between them and their husbands.

Yu Qian had only one Yu Mian and one son in his life, which actually had a lot to do with this. His wife and children were around him, so Yu Qian brought his eldest son Yu Mian by his side to teach him.

The group passed through the withered and yellow land. Yu Qian looked at it carefully and his heart suddenly sank.

After so many days, Yu Qian has been patrolling everywhere, and he has traveled through this area several times. When he first crossed the Triangle Lake, the people below advised him that this road was very muddy and difficult to walk.

But if you don’t pass through the Triangle Lake and start from Tianjin and go west, you have to detour north or south.

Yu Qian's intention was just beginning of February. As people said, although a road had already emerged, it seemed like a road. There was no other place in many places, but it was okay to ride a horse by.

But after him, he passed by several times, but never once was shocking.

The road was intertwined with water and reeds, but later the water receded and the ground was muddy. Later, the ground dried up, and even after the reeds were ruined by locusts, there were a lot less.

Now, Yu Qian has discovered that the pond where he had collected water several times before has now turned into a muddy field, and he could even see some dark corpses wrapped in mud in the mud.

Yu Qian knew that these were the corpses of some dead animals.

Yu Mian was also a little disappointed and said, "Dad, let's go somewhere else, the water here can't be drunk."

Yu Qian nodded and said, "Okay."

Yu Mian could not understand his father's mood, so he lost twice and finally found a place where the water here seemed to be the same as usual. He still rushed over with a cool feeling. Yu Qian washed his face with water and filled it with bamboo tubes again, and then he took the people on the way again.

In the evening, I broke through the Triangle Lake.

In the Triangle Lake, I didn’t feel it yet, I just felt that the sun was a little poisonous, just a simple heat. However, the Triangle Lake was a lake before, and there were still some traces of moisture in the air.

But as soon as I left Triangle Lake, everything in front of me immediately became dusty.

Even the air has a hot breath.

Yu Qian settled his post station in Baoding County and did not meet the magistrate of Baoding, but took Zhang Jing and his son Yu Mian to the embankment of the Daqing River.

This Daqing River embankment is still newly built.

Yu Qian looked at the Daqing River, sighed and said, "Zhang Jing, look, when I went to Henan from the capital during the Xuande period, I passed by here. At that time, the Daqing River was several miles wide, but now there was only a beam of flowing water. This beam of flowing water was still something I fought with the upper reaches. The people were short-sighted and I don't know how many people wanted to cut off the Daqing River. But the upper reaches were the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the lower reaches were not the people of the Ming Dynasty. The people of the upper reaches wanted to survive, and the people of the lower reaches should not live."

"If the people upstream encounter floods, they will leak down. If they encounter drought, they will not leave any trace. Then the people in a river may become enemy countries."

"The Daqing River is between Baiyangdian and Triangle Dian. It has received water from many places. I have come here many times and mediated with multiple places. I am afraid there will be a little harvest here in the future. However, if the rain is heavy this autumn and July and August, this place will be a key point. I will guard here and go west. I will not go."

Yu Qian sighed softly. The worst situation of floods in the past was that Baiyangdian and Triangle Dian were connected into one air, and from Beijing to the south, hundreds of miles, they all became a country of water.

It's just close to the Taihang Mountains and is accessible.

This is the embodiment of the strategy of using water as a military force in the Northern Song Dynasty. After hundreds of years, it will become like this once heavy rain continues.

Yu Qian said that the water conditions here are the most dangerous, but it is not false at all.

Zhang Jing said: "Please rest assured. I will definitely inspect the Hutuo River carefully and will definitely not let the Hutuo River go."

Yu Qian said, "It's good that you have this heart. Today's emperor likes practical people the most. I am a top student in a certain subject. I am from a third-class student and have no name. I rely on Your Majesty to trust and take charge of the power of water control in Zhili. The court and the people dare not ignore me. Brother Zhang, although he is young, his name is not obvious, but as long as he does things in a solid manner, he will be seen by Your Majesty. In the future, Brother Zhang may not be able to sit on my position."

Although Yu Qian looks honest, his skill in drawing cakes is not bad at all.

Although calling me brother often means being polite, it means being polite to the superiors to the subordinates. It is not that Zhang Jing is older than Yu Qian.

Zhang Jing was also very excited when he heard this. It was indeed not obvious that the title of "Tianzi" was not obvious. In history, he only served in Shuntian Prefecture. He was immediately submerged in history, and was not the same person as the one who fought against the Japanese in the southeast during the Jiajing period.

A wave of emotion came from Zhang Jing's heart, and the scholar was moved to death for his confidant, and said, "Please rest assured. If the officials go here, the Hutuo River will be stable and have nothing to do."

"If anything happens, please take my head away."

Yu Qian said, "Where do you mean this? Why do I have to go around the rivers? The Hutuo River is the most difficult to cure. You just need to be careful when you go here. Hebei water conservancy is related to each other. It is not because of this disaster today. Don't be anxious, take it slowly."

Zhang Jing was very moved and made a secret decision in his heart that he would not cure the Hutuo River. He would never give up.
Chapter completed!