The county is a smooth adjustment of the government experience, and it is not difficult to do it, because it is circulated in the government. Lin Yanchao wrote a letter to Zhao Wenxing, asking him to do it within a month.

However, for Lin Yanchao, the river work is imminent, and it will not be able to wait for a month. So he first transferred Huang Xiancheng to the government to take up a post. For the obedient and capable Gu Zhu Bo, Lin Yanchao recommended him to be the county magistrate.

With Huang Xiancheng's right-hand man in governing the river, Lin Yanchao suddenly felt at ease.

After returning to the government from Yucheng County, the construction of the river was imminent.

Huang Xiancheng presented Lin Yanchao with a river engineering plan.

Huang County's river engineering plan is to build several sections of a hundred miles long embankment along the Yellow River in the remote embankment.

Although the plan to build the embankment was very good, Lin Yanchao felt that this matter was quite difficult to operate, and did not immediately agree to Huang Xiancheng.

On the second day, Lin Yanchao came to the mansion and saw several bundles of books under the armpit of Huang County, waiting outside Lin Yanchao's signing room.

"Zitong, so early? You didn't sleep all night last night? Lin Yanchao asked.

Huangxian Cheng's single name is one Yue, and the word is the same. But seeing Huang Yue with two panda eyes, he said with a serious face: "Meng Sima entrusted the river work with great things, do you dare to do your best?" Xia Guan didn't sleep all night last night, just to repay Sima's kindness. ”

Lin Yanchao glanced at Huang Yue again, such as Huang Yue, a scholar like Huang Yue, once he loses his temperament, he will be even more undisciplined than a normal person.

After speaking, Huang Yue presented the scroll under his armpit, and said loudly: "This is the map of the river flowing through the thirteen counties drawn by the lower officials who have governed the Yellow River for decades, and it is visible to Sima. With this plan to govern the Yellow River, it is like a watch. ”

After speaking, Huang Yue twisted his beard and smiled confidently, as if he was in the middle of the dragon, and Zhuge Kongming was full of ambition when he presented "The Map of the Fifty-four Prefectures of Xichuan" to Liu Bei.

Lin Yanchao handed the scroll to Chen Jichuan beside him and said, "Zitong, how about I talk to you in detail after the official has breakfast?" ”

After speaking, Lin Yanchao entered the signing room, leaving Huang Yue with an embarrassed face.

Then Huang Yue still followed cheekily.

Soon breakfast was served, the staple food was hot porridge with preserved eggs and meat, and one end was fragrant, as well as a stack of pickled radishes, and a pot of fragrant tea.

Such a breakfast, simple and nourishing.

Lin Yanchao is a Shangguan, and the kitchen is sent to the public house every day, while Huang Yue is not treated so well, and like most officials in the mansion, he eats in the canteen.

Lin Yanchao was eating, looking at the river map, and saw that Huang Yuehou looked hungry beside him, and ordered him to serve him a bowl as well.

Chen Jichuan gave him a small bowl from the small pot according to his words.

This Huang Yue was really hungry, and a small bowl of hot porridge with eggs and meat was eaten by him, and he ate it after three times and five divided by two.

Lin Yanchao took a sip of fragrant tea, put down Hetu, and asked Chen Jichuan to serve Huang Yue another bowl of preserved egg and meat porridge, and then said: "Zitong eats more, this official has always eaten little, these are enough for this official." ”

Huang Yue finished eating the second bowl of porridge, took the towel handed by Chen Jichuan and wiped his mouth, and then said: "Thank you Sima, if the people in the house can eat such preserved egg and meat porridge every day, it would be great." ”

Lin Yanchao said with a smile: "This is also our wish to be an official. ”

Huang Yue sorted out his thoughts and said: "Sima, this wish is not difficult, as long as the water conservancy law of the lower officials can be implemented, the government does not talk about the daily porridge, but at least the people do not have to worry about food and clothing." ”

Lin Yanchao said suspiciously: "Water conservancy first, then agriculture, although the embankment has a bundle of water, but it is difficult to rely on the embankment to make the territory govern within a few years, so that the people are full." Zitong, don't you still persuade farmers to teach mulberry? ”

When Huang Yue heard this, he immediately showed embarrassment and said: "The lower officials are stupid, they can only govern the river, not farming." ”

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "I want to hear it again, what you said before about the dike and the remote dike, the method of silting and fixing the embankment?" ”

Referring to Huang Yue's business, he regained his self-confidence and said eloquently: "In fact, the day before yesterday was in a hurry, what Sima and I said was nothing more than the embankment and the remote embankment, in fact, there are also the Gedi and the Moon Embankment, which are a total of four embankments. ”

"Embankment, remote embankment, lattice embankment, moon embankment? What is this embankment, the moon embankment for? ”

"The embankment restricts the water, the remote embankment detains the flood, the lattice embankment falls into silt, and the moon embankment prepares for danger. The embankment is built on the first line along the river, forced by the river, built relatively short, when the river rises, the water is full and exceeds the top of the embankment, but it will not break the embankment. ”

"As for the embankment, it has been built, and it is two miles away from the river, tall and thick, and when the river water rises sharply, it can prevent the river from flooding the embankment and the embankment from bursting."

"As for the lattice embankment, the grid is horizontal, built between the embankment and the remote embankment, and the embankment is sandwiched between the upper and lower embankments, that is, like a mouthword. When the river overflows the embankment, the river water will wash along the embankment, which is easy to destroy the root of the embankment. The construction of the lattice can block the water potential, and the river silt will be deposited in the embankment, so that it will not be washed downstream. ”

"In case the embankment bursts, the river flows down the embankment, and when it encounters the embankment, it still returns between the embankments, so as to avoid the trouble of seizing the river and protect the embankment. When the water recedes, the silt ground is high, and the silt can protect the root of the remote embankment and support the embankment of the remote embankment. ”

"Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Lin Yanchao couldn't help but be amazed by the Gedi case designed by Huang Yue, this kind of wisdom simply crushed the vast majority of officials, even if they read the Four Books and Five Classics countless times, they couldn't think of this way.

Lin Yanchao couldn't help asking, "How did you come up with this method?" ”

Huang Yue pinched his beard and smiled, and said slowly: "Xia Guan went to the Yangtze River with his father when he was young, and he thought that the river was ten times stronger than the river, why did the river not be so harmful as the river?" ”

The runoff of the Yangtze River is several times that of the Yellow River, why did we only hear about the Yellow River in ancient times, but not the Yangtze River.

"What kind of idea does that Zi Tong have?"

Huang Yue said: "I don't dare to be creative, in fact, Xia Guan was inspired by Liu Zhuang Xianggong, he said that the river is not as good as the river, and it lies in the cessation of the lake measurement. The lakes downstream of the river are mostly silt or used for farming. I returned to De, and there was Meng Zhuze in the mansion. Meng Zhuze is the head of the Nine Servals, and he is still above Yunmengze, but it is a pity that Meng Zhuze was silted up in the Northern Song Dynasty. ”

Liu Zhuang Xianggong is Liu Tianhe, a capable minister of river governance in the Ming Dynasty. Jiuxu is the largest of the nine lakes in ancient times, Meng Zhuze was originally in the territory of Guide, for the lower reaches of the Yellow River, but in the end it was silted up by sediment, and now it has become farmland.

"If Meng Zhuze is here, the rivers in this province will never be tyrannical today. Therefore, the lower officials came up with the idea of using a tike and a few miles wide between the embankments, which can not only be silted, but also used for water storage and flood detention. ”

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "Zitong is very right, it's just ......"

Huang Yue sighed and said: "Xiaguan is also Sima is embarrassed, the river bank allocated by the river yamen is only enough to repair the remote embankment, not to mention the construction of another embankment, not to mention the matter of repairing the embankment, it still needs the consent of the Yanzhou government of the north embankment, so that the two governments can coordinate the construction of the embankment." ”

Lin Yanchao smiled when he heard this: "This is bad, the river bank is not enough, the official can go to the money village to borrow." If the Yanzhou government of the north embankment does not agree, the official can go to the river yamen to file a lawsuit. All in all, this embankment must be repaired. ”

Huang Yue was surprised when he heard this: "Sima, this ......"

Lin Yanchao said: "Repairing the embankment is not only for river control, this official remembers that you said before that in Yucheng County, the government and the people stole the Yellow River embankment for silting, although the land of the rebuke was silted up, but in the end, the embankment collapsed when the flood was strong, and the water covered the affairs of several counties?" ”

Huang Yue nodded and said: "Exactly, the fertilizer of the silt field, five times that of the high field, and ten times that of the lower field." The people are greedy for the profits of the land, and often steal the official embankment, so that it is often overflowing. This government has never been able to prohibit it......"

During the Northern Song Dynasty, there were often cases of people secretly digging the Yellow River for irrigation, which eventually became the ammunition for the old party to attack Wang Anshi's farmland water conservancy law.

Speaking of this, Huang Yue was suddenly startled and asked, "Could it be that Sima wants to use the river water to fall into silt?" ”

Lin Yanchao nodded and said with a smile: "Exactly!" ”

After speaking, Lin Yanchao opened the river map and said to Huang Yue: "There are two to three miles wide between this remote embankment and the river. The place where the embankment can be repaired in the realm of this mansion is in Xiayi, Yucheng and Shangqiu, which is about 100 miles long, so only this mansion can get more than 1,000 hectares of good silt fields, that is, more than 15,000 acres of silt fields, if you count the territory of Yanzhou, it will be doubled. ”

When Huang Yue heard this, he couldn't help but pat the case and said: "Wonderful, it's really wonderful, why didn't this official think of this, Sima Zhen can follow the officials." No wonder Sima is a native of Jiangnan, and he must be used to seeing the polders by the lake, so he came up with this method, right? ”

Lin Yanchao smiled when he heard this, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

Huang Yue carefully speculated on the details and said: "The amount of land in Yucheng County of Taihu Lake is only more than 2,000 hectares, if it is really obtained, it will not be more than half of the land in Yucheng County." However, if the field is silted in the embankment, it is only easy to cultivate for half a year. ”

Lin Yanchao nodded and said: "The river flood season is from May to August, the silt field can be sown in September, and it will be harvested before April of the next year. ”

"This is much safer than bursting the embankment and irrigating the farmland outside the embankment, and besides, the river does not rise every year, and there is even a time when the flow is broken."

This uses the method of silting fields in the embankment, and Lin Yanchao is borrowing from the methods at home and abroad in later generations.

In foreign countries, there is a summer embankment, the difference between the winter embankment, the summer rain is heavy, retreat to the summer embankment, wait for the water to pass, and then guard the winter embankment, and then use the summer embankment, the silt between the winter embankment to cultivate.

In modern times, between the embankment of the Yellow River and the remote embankment, people are also living in farming.

There are even private people who build their own production embankments in the Yellow River embankment, which is also the use of the Yellow River silt for farming. It's just that the common people built their own production embankment, which was much higher than the Ming Dynasty embankment for greed, which affected the flooding and was repeatedly ordered to be demolished by the government.

Huang Yue exclaimed: "The construction of the embankment can not only fall and solidify the embankment, but also obtain thousands of acres of silted fields, which is a wonderful method to kill two birds with one stone." If it can be promoted, why worry that the river cannot be cured. ”

"But the lower officials are still worried that Hegongyin is not enough, can Sima consider repairing Shangqiu first, or a section of Yuxian?"

Lin Yanchao waved his hand and said: "You are worried that the river industry and silver are not enough, and it is a big deal that Ben Cheng will sell the silt fields in the embankment to the big households in the house at a price, but now Ben Cheng is worried that the river yamen will refuse." ”

Huang Yue was surprised: "This won't be, when Master Pan was Hetai, he was ready to build an embankment in Guide, but he was finally transferred." If we go to the river yamen to build a dike, there is no reason for the river yamen not to agree. ”