Wang Yan watched coldly from the side, without any expression on his face. www.biquge.info When Xu Ping made this sand table, he didn't hide it from him, and even asked his opinion, but he ignored it.

In good conscience, Xu Ping's envoy did it very carefully, and Wang Yan had to admit it. But so what? A lot of things are unclear. It's always hard to convince others to agree with your own point of view, but it's easy to sabotage a thing in reverse, and Wang Yan just needs to mess up what Xu Ping wants to do.

Zhao Zhen looked at the sand table for a while, thinking in his heart, how good it would be if all his great rivers and mountains were made into such a sand table, there was nothing to look at, and he would have a long spirit and strength. It's a pity that this kind of thing is just thinking about it, Xu Ping took so many people and spent a month of hard work, and the only thing that was really fine was the small piece on the south bank of the Yellow River. If you map all the terrain in the world, I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be spent.

Seeing that everyone had seen it, Xu Ping cleared his throat and said loudly: "Your Majesty, all the ministers and bachelors, it can be easily seen from this sand table that Luoshui is going to be diverted into the Bianhe River-"

"Wait!" Zhao Zhen suddenly stopped Xu Ping, "These things must be very complicated to say, although your recital is written in detail, it seems that there are still many difficult points, I am afraid that it will still be the case today." In this way, you say, find someone here to write it down, just distinguish the key words, and you don't need to memorize every word. ”

Turning around and looking, he said to a thin middle-aged man, "Liu Zhi, you remember." There is a blackboard prepared in the hall, and there is chalk on the side, and everyone can see it clearly after a while. ”

Liu Zhi led the order, and went over with Xiao Huangmen to prepare.

This blackboard was used by Xu Ping last time, and it has been kept in the Chongzheng Palace, and Zhao Zhen still thinks that he can use it again when the courtiers report complicated things in the future. But I didn't expect to put it for so long, and I never used it again, and today it finally came in handy again. This thing may seem inconspicuous, but it does work well when discussing things.

Liu Zhi is the grandson of Liu Kai, the minister of the former dynasty, who was born in the Jinshi Jiake, and is now serving as a fellow practitioner and is on duty today. Originally, Xu Ping and Wang Yan also asked him to remember it in the report today, and Xiu Jizhu did this. The lines on the blackboard are clear, and it saves him a lot of effort, otherwise this response can only be roughly remembered, and no one has been trained in shorthand in these years.

Liu Kai is known for being a good man, and he left behind a lot of good and bad deeds, and he was the limelight of the year. But Liu Zhi is completely different from him, the big man of his ancestors, he is cautious, and he rarely even has a smile on his face, which is completely two extremes. Having said that, if it's not this kind of character, people like Liu Kai can't do the cultivation of daily life.

Putting the blackboard aside, Zhao Zhen motioned for Xu Ping to start talking.

Xu Ping sorted out his thoughts and said loudly: "Why do you want to divert Luo water into the Bianhe River, I have made it clear last time, and now there are thousands of manpower used to dredge the river every year, so the river is still rising every year." On both sides of the Bianhe River in Kaifeng City, due to the accumulation of sediment dug out of the river, the willow trees planted by the river are about to be buried in some places. This is obviously not a long-term solution, and it will be like a year, and we must find a way not to divert water from the Yellow River. ”

The importance of digging canals has been talked about many times, and everyone understands it. Those of you may not have a deep sense of the heavy work of dredging the river in the middle and lower reaches of the Bianhe River, but the sediment dug up by the river in Kaifeng City can be seen in their eyes, and in some places the river is no longer visible from the riverside avenue. Not to mention that in the spring, the accumulated sediment is blown everywhere by the strong wind, and everyone is annoyed. From this point alone, no one objected to the introduction of Luo into Bian.

Xu Ping pointed to the sand table and said: "Your Majesty, ministers and bachelors, please see, if you want to divert water from Luoshui into the Bianhe River, then from the current Biankou upwards, it is equivalent to building a section of canal parallel to the Yellow River." The upper section of the canal is from the opening water outlet of Shakou Town, Gongxian County, to the confluence of Bishui County. After arriving at Gubailing, there are two routes, one is to take the south of Guangwu Mountain, take the north of Xingyang County, and enter the Bianhe River in Xingze County. The other route is from the north of Guangwu Mountain, along the beach of the Yellow River waterway, after crossing Guangwu Mountain, and then entering the Bianhe River in Heyin County. ”

"Both rivers have their own advantages and disadvantages. Let's talk about the southern route first, the advantage is that it is far away from the Yellow River, the river is not affected by the Yellow River, and there is no need to worry about the flooding of the Yellow River affecting the newly opened canal. There are also several disadvantages. First, although this line was not blocked by high mountains in the past, the geology was rocky and it was not easy to excavate. More importantly, this route will inevitably converge with Suoshui and Suoshui, and Suoshui and Suoshui are the water sources of the Jinshui River, and to seize the water of the Jinshui River is to cut off the drinking water source of the capital. ”

Jinshui River from the time of construction, is the source of drinking water in the capital, at the beginning was limited to the use of the palace, Taizu for the time did not succeed to the throne of Taizong Mansion dug a branch canal, is not a small grace. However, with the passage of time, the Jinshui River is no longer exclusive to the palace and princes and ministers, and many people in the capital also rely on this river to live.

As for the Bianhe River, because the water brought from the Yellow River is muddy and sandy, except for the ice that some people dig from the river in winter, no one drinks it every day, and it is purely the Cao River used for transportation.

The disadvantages of the southern route are not easy to dig, and the most important thing is to pass through the water source of the Jinshui River. Without the clear and sweet water of the Jinshui River to drink, Xu Ping himself also wanted to know what the dignitaries and people in the city wanted to say about themselves.

"Speaking of the northern route, to Gubailing, it will follow the beach of the Yellow River all the way to the east, and take the north of Guangwu Mountain. After passing the Guangwu Mountain, it joins the Bianhe River in the south of the current Biankou. The advantage of this river is that it is easy to dig, all the tidal flats of the Yellow River are crossed, there are no hard rocks and hard bottoms, and it is all the sediment left by the Yellow River. The existing Bianhe River is basically unaffected, just waiting for the river to be dug and plugged up. When it comes to the special New Year, the water is really not enough, and you can still use the Yellow River to replenish the water, as long as the Biankou is dug again. Another point is that as long as the waterway is dug deeper, the water of the Yellow River can be diverted from the ground into the river, which is also a way to replenish water. ”

"As for the bad part, the main thing is that a large section of the river passes through the beachhead of the Yellow River, and if there is a major flood that has not been encountered in many years, it is likely that the Yellow River waterway and the canal waterway will overflow together. With the sediment in the Yellow River, after the water recedes, I am afraid that the river will be completely silted up, and it will have to be re-excavated. ”

Luoshui flows into the mouth of the Yellow River upwards to Baibo, and the waterway of the Yellow River in this section is quite wide. After the water of the Yellow River comes out of Baibo, it suddenly calms down, and the sediment is easy to silt up, so Baibo Town has now become the county seat of Heqing, which is very special. With such a wide river, it is really difficult to have the catastrophic flood that Xu Ping said. However, Xu Ping also felt that the extreme weather had occurred so much in these years and months that he didn't dare to say it to death.

But on the whole, the most unfavorable situation on the northern front is just a new dug, which is not unacceptable.

After Xu Ping finished speaking, Liu Zhi wrote them one by one on the blackboard, and Lu Yijian asked Wang Yan, who was standing on the side with an expressionless face: "Wang Yan, Xu Ping has finished speaking, do you have anything to say?" ”

Wang Yan stepped forward with a hug wat: "The lower official has it!" Xu Beizhi said that after all, it is the benefit of digging the river, but the suffering of the people along the river is not to be discussed. Xia Guan thought that this was the undesirable place to dig a canal! (To be continued.) )