Chapter 63: Zhao Gongdi
Kunnan, on the east bank of Chenghu Lake, a concrete causeway rises from the ground, and there is no end in sight.
Today is the day when the Chenghu embankment is completed, and it is also the day when the Kunshan water conservancy project is successfully completed.
Colorful flags were displayed on the lake embankment, crowds of people were crowded under the lake embankment, and the people of the whole county and even neighboring counties flocked to it. The people of this county are here to celebrate, and the people of Linxian want to see what this miraculous 'Kunshan miracle' looks like?
And I heard that Hai Qingtian will also attend.
Tens of thousands of boats, large and small, blocked the river leading to Chenghu. That's why Zhao Gongzi had to abandon the boat and rush here from the car, so that he got motion sickness, and he had to lie on Sister Ma's lap......
This made Zhao Gongzi more and more disgusted with the bad road in Kunshan County, and ordered Secretary Ma to write it down, and turned around to urge Kun Kaisi to repair the road this year.
In fact, Sister Ma thinks that this bumpy road is not necessarily useless.
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When Zhao Hao got off the carriage, he saw that at least two or three hundred thousand people had gathered up and down the lake embankment in the distance, and he didn't want to get close at all.
The people of Kunshan beat the gongs and drums of victory, danced the dragon and lion happily, stepped on stilts, rowed boats, and celebrated this great moment.
It was an unprecedented miracle that 300,000 officials and citizens worked together to complete the entire 300-mile embankment project in only half a year.
The entire Jiangnan officialdom was shocked.
Not only did Cai Guoxi, the prefect of Suzhou, and Wu Qing, the newly appointed soldier of the army, come to watch the ceremony, but even Hai Rui, the governor of the Heavenly Patrol, was invited to attend this memorable completion ceremony.
Cai Guoxi also specially ordered all the counties in the prefecture to come to visit and learn the 'Kunshan experience', and going back is like learning to catch up and surpass, and strive to be the first......
"Did we fight us?" Zhang Defu, the magistrate of Changzhou, looked at the long causeway that seemed to be a ghostly workmanship, and said with a look of resignation: "It's better to recognize the situation and keep up with Zhao Zhuangyuan's pace." ”
"Haha, the arrogant Brother Zhang is convinced, it seems that it won't be long before Changzhou County can use cement." Wang Zhizhou from Taicang said with a smile.
"Lord Wang's words are not authentic, didn't you Taicang also set up Taikaisi?" Yang Chenglin also smiled: "Your seventy-mile Yangtze River embankment is only a matter of the past two years, right?" ”
"Alas, don't come to this set, isn't it that you two are talking to Fuzun all day long about repairing Taihu Lake first, repairing Taihu Lake first, and the Jiangnan Group can rank you ahead of us?" Wang Zhizhou said angrily: "We have two directors!" ”
"Hehe...... "Yang Chenglin sloppy and said with a smile: "Isn't this last year's flood, and Taihu Lake has just flooded?" ”
"When does Taihu Lake not flood? Compared to the Yangtze River, it is a bathtub. Wang Zhizhou said depressedly.
"Brother Terry, there's nothing to rush. If you look at Kunshan, the 300-mile causeway was repaired in just over half a year. It's all going to be solved in office. Zhang Defu smiled and patted Wang Zhizhou's arm.
"That's right." Wang Zhizhou also laughed, feeling that he really didn't need to be in such a hurry.
Chang Shu County and Jiading Zhi County on the side also joined in carefully, begging the three of them to be sure to introduce Zhao Zhuangyuan later.
Only Na Chongmingzhi County Jin Xuezeng and Wujiang Zhixian Yi Ke did not come over for a long time.
The former had already gone to pay homage to the master, while the latter really didn't have the face to go up.
As soon as Zhao Shouzheng took office last year, he came to beg him in a low voice, wanting to use Wujiang County to build a Taipu River to discharge floodwater to relieve the pressure on the Wusong River. was rejected by Yi Kejiu.
That time the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel, and Yizhi County relied on the fact that there were 100 miles of stone ponds in the county, but they really didn't give Zhao Zhuangyuan face. At that time, Zhao Shouzheng patted the table and swore that he would build a 200-mile stone pond and let Wujiang County taste it, and it would be half a year to soak in the water!
Yi Zhi County didn't believe it at all at that time, and teased them that they couldn't repair it for a hundred years!
Who knew that in just half a year, the boasted cow would be realized, and it was a full 300-mile long causeway.
In addition to wanting to shout Niu Boyi, he now wants to ask where there are regret pills for sale.
Xiao Yi also wants cement......
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At this time, the sound of crackling firecrackers rang out, drawing everyone's eyes to the lake embankment.
The celebration has reached the most important part, 'erecting a monument for the record'.
In the octagonal stele pavilion on the embankment, Hai Rui, the governor of Yingtian, and Su Songbing, prepared Wu Qing to remove the red silk on the stele together.
On the two-meter-high bluestone stele, there is an inscription written by Mr. Wang Shizhen of Fengzhou, which describes in detail the great achievements created by Zhao Zhuangyuan within half a year since he took office, and is called "The Story of Zhao Gongdi".
Because his article is too condescending, it will make the viewer feel frustrated that he is too uneducated, so he hides it.
The right to excerpt this history recorded in the "History of the Old Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Zhao Shouzheng" for readers:
‘…… Shouzheng came out of Wu County, but before he arrived, the iron buttocks champion has moved Jiangnan. The prefect Cai Gong thought that he was a talented person, and he should not be underestimated. coincided with the great flood in Kunshan, the city walls were damaged, the fields were flooded, and the drifting people and animals were not counted. He was recommended to Governor Lin Gong. The public summoned to talk with each other, and cited the ancient sages, saying: 'Kunshan must be a king, but give in, but what?' He was indignant and said, 'It is not necessary.' Then he changed to Kunshan. ’’
'Defend the right to Kunshan, the city will be defeated, and the rich people will fight to avoid the water. Shouzheng said: 'The rich people come out, and the people are shaken, who will I keep?' I am here, and water must not defeat the city! Driven to re-enter, the people are still uneasy. Shouzheng then sat on the embankment, and led his son to carry a shovel out. Kunshan's father and elder said: 'The county still does not avoid Tu Yan, my villain, should serve his life!' So tens of thousands of officials and citizens went up to the embankment and swore to live and die with the embankment. ’
'There is the deputy capital of Yu Shi Pan Gong, who is upright and righteous, and came from Huzhou to help. It rained day and night, the flood was the worst in decades, and the river embankment was crumbling and full of dangers. If the command is determined, the army and the people are at peace. It also made the officials block and guard, and built grid, remote, wisp, and moon embankments to defend the river and pond, and finally protect the county's borders. ’
'Find out Mei, solve the danger. Shouzheng and Pan Gong and others discussed, asked 100,000 servants, and built a stone pond for a hundred years. Yi Gong of a neighboring county said: 'The champion is scorching, and it is difficult to achieve it in a hundred years. When the public heard this, he laughed and said, "How can the summer insect be said to be ice?" 'Nai ordered Zihao to use lime as material to make cement, and mixed this thing with coarse stone to form an embankment. The day becomes two miles, the river embankment is in January, and China and foreign countries think that it is a miracle. ’
After half a year, he led the officials and people to build the embankment for 300 miles. Keeping the cloth clothes on foot, painting day and night. The heat is not covered, the cold is not furrowed, and he said: 'The people are working, how can I endure it?' The first month of the following year was completed, and since then, Kunshan has always been flooded and farmland, and it has become the land of fish and rice, and the people know the joy of the people. However, the public is as haggard as an old peasant. ’
During the period of water control, the public carried out a national sanitation campaign to eradicate schistosomiasis and eliminate the four pests, which is also a move for the benefit of the future. The people of Kunshan still call it 'Father Zhao', and say 'Without Father Zhao, there is no Jade Kunshan'......
According to the "Selected Notes on the History of the Old Ming Dynasty":
People often take the great achievements of Zhao Zi and the great achievements of Zhao Gong, such as the great Su and the old Su, and say that 'one person attains the Tao, and the father is more valuable than the son'. ’
What's more, slandering the Duke as a 'puppet', a 'cone bucket', and a 'repeater', but looking at Zhao Gong's feat in Kunshan, this is a big mistake. Woohoo, the talent of the champion and the ability of the slaughter, the speaker turns a blind eye, and his conscience is dog food? ’
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