"My lord......" The old man didn't understand what this Liang Wang meant? The high-ranking officials of the imperial court encouraged the people to rob the trough ships of the imperial court, how can it not sound like a good word.

"Let's go, let's continue on our way......" Hong Tao didn't want to argue with this old man anymore about whether he should rob or not, it was useless to talk more.

"Officer, we still have a place on the ship...... You can also go to the dart boat in the back, ...... "The eldest princess is not as cold-blooded as Hong Tao, and she really wants to save these people." Speaking of which, she really should lend a hand, and those are her family's people.

"None of them are allowed to be taken away, this is their home, and after taking them away, they will be outcasts. If you save them today, what if you meet them again tomorrow? How about the day after tomorrow? Lady, you can't save the poor people all over the world by charity alone, but you should rush to Yangzhou as soon as possible to implement the matter of building the river embankment to avoid such a tragedy from happening again. ”

Hong Tao is not as sentimental as the eldest princess, there is no fixed number of good and evil, good and bad, how to help these people the most, not by kindness and sympathy, but by reason.

"Daddy, some of them are very weak, and there are children...... "Wang Eighteen has not cultivated to the level of his adoptive father, and wants to help the eldest princess intercede together, if you don't take them all, a few children can also be.

"Eighteen, as a doctor, it's best not to have this kind of thought in the future. If the epidemic is on the ship, it will not be a few or dozens of people who will die, maybe it will be brought to all the cities downstream along the way, and then will you be saving people or killing people? Hurry up and make preparations for disinfection, everyone, including this officer! "The eldest princess can think like this, but Wang Eighteen shouldn't, if it weren't for her young age, she should be handed over to Wang San for a good education.

Half an hour later the fleet left the shore and continued the voyage, but the eldest princess's mood had changed significantly, and she was sullen in the cabin, and she did not even eat dinner.

Not only was the eldest princess's mood not very good, but Lian'er, who had always been heartless, was also bored, and after eating, she took Wang Feiyu back to the cabin with the Green Lotus sisters, as if she was not very happy to stay by Hong Tao's side longer, for fear of being frozen by that cold breath.

"Is the official too strict, the eldest princess is afraid that she will not be able to accept it in a short time. In fact, when I first arrived in Huangzhou, the slave family was often awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night, and it took a long time to slowly adapt. ”

didn't leave on Monday, she understood very well why her husband gave such an unkind order, and she didn't think it was wrong. I just think that the methods can be more elaborate, and there is no need to be so blunt.

"Madame is not like you, I still know some folk suffering, there is no difference between a year and a day, the longer the time, the more uncomfortable it is, the longer the pain is better than the short pain, and it will be fine in a few days. But we don't have the right to be sentimental, and this errand is not easy to do. ”

Hong Tao's mood is not very good, but unlike the eldest princess, he is not compassionate, but worried about the work of repairing the river system. If the condition of the Tongji Canal is not too bad, then the Huaishui is too bad, worse than the Yellow River.

You can ignore it, and you can still get a reward from the imperial court, such as a face-saving project and a political performance project. But it is a bit difficult to really improve the situation on both sides of the Huaishui River, so big that I don't know where to start.

The fleet actually sailed on the Huai River for only half a day, and soon turned into another artificial canal, the Guishan Canal. This canal is very interesting, it is close to the east side of the Huaishui like a shadow, from the town of Guishan to the end of Chuzhou, less than 100 miles long.

Why do you want to dig such an artificial river next to Huaishui? Hong Tao has a little say in this matter, because the Guishan Canal was excavated by Emperor Shenzong, and he happened to return to Kaifeng from Huangzhou to report on his work, and he listened to his uncle talk about it.

At that time, Emperor Shenzong was very proud, and the canal of more than 60 miles was completed and opened to navigation from the first month of the sixth year of Yuanfeng to the end of February, which was a bit of a feeling of Shenzhen speed.

As for the transfer of nearly 100,000 servants and people, the emperor automatically filtered it, and Hong Tao didn't hold on to it, and it was very unwise to raise a bar and slap the emperor in the face.

Then did Emperor Shenzong eat a bad stomach or fall asleep, why did he dig a parallel canal on the edge of the Huaishui? Hong Tao also felt this way at the time, and it wasn't until Shen Kuo went to the Daimyo's Mansion that he figured out that it was not that his uncle was stupid, but that he was ignorant.

This has to start with the structure and characteristics of the tanker, the tanker ship is not high, there is still a lot of cargo, the waterline is very close to the deck, and it cannot withstand strong winds and waves. Its sails are basically like a solar panel on a car, and it can't be said that it is useless at all, but it is almost the same with and without it.

The temper of Huaishui in the Song Dynasty was very bad, the river was deep and the water flow was still rapid, and it was barely okay to go along the river.

Every year, more than 100 trough ships sink because of wind and waves, and there are more civilian boats, and the Xuyi to Chuzhou river with a relatively large height difference in the riverbed is an accident-prone area.

Emperor Shenzong is a ruthless man, he saved money for the Northern Expedition with a black heart, and even the Jinjin Workshop was stopped, can he tolerate the loss of so many ships and goods in vain every year? Definitely not, so the relevant officials were called in and asked them to think of a complete solution.

At that time, there was a shipping envoy named Jiang Zhiqi, who heard that a magistrate in Hongze Town had dug a section of the river that ran horizontally with Huai, which was specially used to drive trough boats, and the effect was very good. Unfortunately, due to lack of funds, I gave up the idea halfway.

Emperor Shenzong also felt that this method was very good, and he consulted Chen Youfu, the supervisor of the capital, and there was no objection, so there was the Guishan Canal. This canal is 15 zhang wide and 1 zhang 5 zhang deep, diverting water from the Huai River, and the water level is controlled by the Hongze Gate, which successfully avoids the Huai River.

"Send someone to send a letter to Lao Shi, and find Jiang Zhiqi and Chen Youfu, the capital water supervisor, alive to see people dead to see corpses." Driving on the Guishan Canal, Hong Tao admired the brains of the ancients in addition to admiration.

With the economic and technical capabilities at this time, digging a canal is probably the most reasonable solution, and I can't think of a better trick. And these two officials built the canal well and quickly, which is really a rare design and construction talent, why not use it if there are ready-made ones.

As long as they are alive, don't be too big officials, no matter whether the new party or the old party, or whether they are willing to help them repair the river or not, they must get on their own thief boat. They can't come for a reason, Wang Shi's poison is the most suitable for this matter.

"Write another letter to Nanjing Lizhonggui, and ask him to find a way to transfer Lord Shen Cunzhong back to assist the king, and if he can do it, the official will restart the fertilizer factory!"

In addition to these two officials, Hong Tao also needed more helpers, especially those who had experience in building river embankments, such as Shen Kuo. Whether Zhao Hao will let Shen Kuolai join him is a matter for Queen Pang. Presumably she would have made the right choice after seeing the name of the fertilizer factory.

"It's so late, and the husband still wants to go out?" On Monday and Sunday, while listening and recording, I was a little puzzled when I saw Hong Tao get up and put on his coat.

"I'm going to talk to Gao Dashang, this kid is a little wilted, he has to be enlightened and enlightened."

When it comes to the fertilizer factory, Hong Tao can't help but think of Gao Yu, a disabled person. After returning to Kaifeng, I saw him twice, and it was indeed as Wang Shi described, he was very depressed, and he must have been unable to get rid of the dead life of those people.

The middle of the five building ships is Hong Tao's ship, and Gao Yu and Wang San live on the back one. Hong Tao boarded the boat in a dinghy, and the officer on duty at night was Wang San himself.

This girl has big round shoulders, all horizontal, and a horizontal face, which always reminds Hong Tao of the female man who opened a black shop in the Water Margin, so her pseudonym is Sun Erniang.

"Oh Great, why didn't you continue to study your experiment?" When he came to Gao Yu's cabin, he was sitting under the lamp and looking at the dark porthole in a daze.

"Mr. has no new army and workshops, and the students have no craftsmen, so what is the use of experimenting......" Gao Yu answered this question very negatively, with a disheartened and lazy virtue.

"Are you still blaming the official for being ruthless?"

"......" Gao Yu first shook his head habitually, and then immediately replaced it with a nod.

"They had to die in that situation, do you know why?" It seems that Gao Yu will not be able to solve the unhappy knot if this problem is not explained clearly, so Hong Tao simply sat down and prepared to start the class.