After some deliberation, Wu Sangui finally agreed to let the young and middle-aged people among the victims stay to control the Yellow River. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Yellow River is the mother river of China, which nourishes the land of the Central Plains and feeds the people of the Central Plains. However, with human activities, the vegetation in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River has been destroyed, especially the climate of the Loess Plateau has become dry, the forests have been destroyed, and a large amount of sediment has poured into the Yellow River every year, causing the downstream riverbed to rise and gradually become a hanging river on the ground.

For the people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, they love and hate the Yellow River, which provides them with irrigation farmland and drinking water, and nourishes the earth, but for more than 1,000 years, the Yellow River has burst its banks many times, and even seized the Huai into the sea. Whenever the Yellow River bursts, it brings profound disasters to the people downstream.

Wang Yu has already formulated a plan to control the Yellow River, using the young and middle-aged among the victims to control the Yellow River, if Wu Sangui obstructs it, then Wu Sangui will completely lose the hearts of the people.

When Huang Xigon handed Wu Sangui the Yellow River control plan and diagram formulated by Wang Yu, Song Shiyi and others, Wu Sangui, Liu Xuanchu and others were dumbfounded after reading it. After a while, Wu Sangui sighed: "If this plan can be implemented, the Yellow River will no longer be a disaster river from now on!" ”

Fang Guangchen and Wang Shirong took the picture and looked at it, only to see that the Yellow River control plan is to first increase the height and widening of the embankment, which is nothing, anyone can imagine this. But the problem is that when Dayu controlled the water, he understood that the river was not blocked, but dredged. How to dredge the water of the Yellow River? The method that Song Shiyi and others came up with was to build another embankment outside the embankment after the embankment was heightened and widened, and the distance between the two embankments was more than one to two miles.

The twin embankment plan is not only to restrain the water of the Yellow River, but also to play a certain role in channeling.

Some places between the inner and outer river embankments were raised and shelterbelts were planted. Because of the high excavation, some places between the two embankments were dug deep and turned into cisterns. Some diversion culverts are dug on the inland river embankment to bring river water into the reservoirs, and the multiple reservoirs are distributed in steps, and the sediment gradually settles down, and finally becomes clear water and is stored in the outermost reservoir. The cisterns are connected to canals, which bring water to irrigate the fields where they are needed.

The sediment in the first reservoir gradually settles down, and at regular intervals, the sediment is cleared and the excavated sediment fills the open space between the two embankments, where fruit trees can be planted.

In order to prevent flood damage, flood outlets have been built on the embankments of some sections of the river, and the sluice gates are closed on weekdays. When the flood comes, the floodgates are opened to divert water from the specially excavated artificial river, and then the flood water is channeled into the Liangshanbo and a series of lakes on both sides of the Yellow River.

"Amazing!" Wang Shirong sighed, "If the river is governed in this way, there will be a place to discharge the flood when it comes, and the river water can be used to irrigate farmland in normal times." Heavy rains often occur in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, causing flooding and drought in the lower reaches. In this way, the overflowing flood water is channeled into the reservoir, turning the harm into a benefit for the people downstream! ”

Song Shiyi and others put forward a plan to control the Yellow River, once this control plan was completed, the Yellow River became the Yellow River after the sixties and seventies, the Yellow River no longer broke its banks, was firmly bound to the original river channel, the land between the double embankments also turned into fruit forests and fertile fields, and the river water irrigated the farmland downstream.

Walking across the Beijing-Shanghai Railway Yellow River Bridge, the people who walked through the Beijing-Kowloon Railway Yellow River Bridge know that the train has climbed the embankment when it is still far away from the Yellow River, after passing the embankment, it is an open space between the outer embankment and the inner embankment, the train passes on the bridge, and below is a piece of farmland and fruit groves, after passing through the open space between the two embankments, it officially enters the Yellow River, and the train roars across the big iron bridge, across the north and south of the Yellow River.

If interested readers take the train through the Beijing-Shanghai Railway and the Beijing-Kowloon Railway Bridge, you can pay attention to the fact that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Yellow River was treated like this, and it is impossible for the Yellow River to burst its banks again, even if it is a flood once in a century, the Yellow River will not burst again. However, the amount of water in the Yellow River became smaller and smaller, and even the flow was cut off.

Wu Sangui thought for a long time and exchanged words with several staff.

"Such a plan will benefit the people of our Central Plains and Northern Zhili, and we naturally can't stop it anymore." Even Wang Shirong, who vacillated in the middle, agreed to the plan to harness the Yellow River.

Fang Guangchen nodded and said: "It is true that we have no reason to stop it, the victims can stay and control the Yellow River, and the silver and food given to the victims will also be provided by the south." But the army of the South could not stay! They must withdraw their troops as originally planned! At this point, we must do a good job of handing over with the Qiongzhou army, whose army can only be stationed in Xuzhou, Kaifeng, and south of Luoyang. The grain transported through the canal was handed over to us at the junction of the two armies, and we distributed it to the victims of the Yellow River. ”

After Fang Guangchen's proposal was proposed, Wu Sangui nodded again and again.

"Lord Huang, we can govern the Yellow River together, but your army must withdraw according to the original plan. Our two armies take Luoyang, Kaifeng and Xuzhou as the boundary, and do not invade each other. Since you provided the food, you brought it up and gave it to us to distribute to the victims. As for harnessing the Yellow River and supervising the migrant workers, we will do all these things well. Wu Sangui said.

"The prince is willing to promise to stay behind the victims to jointly govern the Yellow River, and the lower officials have thanked the prince here for the people of the world!" Huang Xigon stood up and slammed towards Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui asked again: "The grain in Beijing depends on the canal for supply, and the grain you collected from the south has been provided to the victims, can there still be enough food for the military and civilians of Beijing, the emperor of the imperial court, and the civil and military officials?" ”

Huang Xigon replied: "According to the previous practice, how Huguang provided grain to the north back then is still the same, and we cannot reduce the grain provided to the north. It's just that the grain shipped to the capital will be transported by sea from Cao to sea! We will use larger ships to transport grain to Tianjin, and from Tianjin to Beijing. Only a small part of the grain is still in transit. The food provided to the victims was also transported. ”

"Why do you have to go by sea?" Wu Sangui was a little unhappy in his heart. Because Wu Sangui has already planned to let a group of the most obedient and have already handed over a lot of tribute to serve as Caoyun officials, Caoyun is a fat shortage, and he has earned the silver that he has spent in his life for several lifetimes. In addition, Wu Sangui also asked a group of veterans who were injured in the war to retire from the front-line troops and put them in the Caoyun Yamen to serve as Caoyun soldiers. Don't underestimate Caoyun soldiers, there is also oil and water, veterans who have made meritorious contributions can grow old in Caoyun Yamen, and they will not worry about eating and drinking for a lifetime, and they can also leave a fortune for future generations.

But now, Wang Yu wants to suppress the Cao Yun and change it to sea transportation, so the officers and soldiers who serve on both sides of the canal as Cao Yun officials will not reduce a lot of oil and water?