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Now the river control project is like a shackle around the neck of the Great Song Dynasty, and if the project is not completed in one day, it will be difficult for the Great Song Dynasty to turn its energy to the outside.

So far, the entire project has taken two years;

In the past two years, at least nearly 300,000 laborers have worked on the embankment, and as many as 450,000 people have participated in the river control during the slack season after October last year.

So far, the total investment in the river control project has been close to 200 million yuan, which is nearly one-third more than the original budget, mainly to speed up the project and to recruit laborers during the slack period to spend more money.

Such a huge amount of money invested in just two years, in other dynasties is unimaginable, even the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, the average annual income is only tens of millions, if so much money is invested in a short period of time, the financial will collapse immediately.

In fact, even if the annual income of the Great Song Dynasty has exceeded 200 million, it is only after the reduction of more than 600,000 troops that it can withstand such a huge investment.

At present, the project has been carried out to the eastern section of Dezhou, the section of the river from Dezhou to Biankou has been fully controlled, the main embankment, auxiliary embankment, remote embankment and lattice embankment have been built, and the work of dredging and deepening the river has also been completed.

Now there is only the section of the river from Dezhou to the estuary, which is actually not easy to burst, and the Yellow River has never broken in this section of the river for thousands of years;

However, at this point in the project, no one wants to start a non-finished project, and although the strength of the sub-embankment, remote embankment, and lattice embankment does not need to be the same as that in the Gyeonggi area, it must at least be built as a precaution.

The main project in the lower reaches of Texas is dredging, which has been diverted since the Yellow River was diverted to the north. The eastward channel is extremely silted up, and the amount of dredging work is very huge.

Now the imperial court plans to complete the entire river control project in May this year, and before the arrival of the flood season of the Yellow River, it will block the north-flowing river channel and let the water of the Yellow River flow to the east.

Of course, the Great Song Dynasty did not hesitate to increase the investment of tens of millions of yuan to shorten the project period, mainly to spare energy to deal with the great changes that could occur at any time in the Liao State.

Information from the Fundamental Staff Pavilion. As soon as February began, Yelu Yanxi could not wait to assemble a large army, and now the number of troops gathered in the area around Shangjing had reached 300,000;

Yelu Yanxi has issued an edict that he will march on the auspicious day of the zodiac on February 27.

The thick clouds of war shrouded the sky over Liaodong, the air seemed to be condensed, there were many factions within the Liao State, Yelu Yanxi had just ascended to the throne, and his prestige was not enough to integrate the intertwined factional forces of the Liao State. It cannot be ruled out that he had the idea of integrating internal forces through military operations such as the Imperial Expedition.

After all, if he can win in the personal campaign, it is the fastest way to increase his personal prestige. And many things can be done in the name of war.

The question is, can Yelu Yanxi win? At least Yang Yi didn't have much confidence in him, so Yang Yi was even more anxious in his heart, according to the time, the time for them to start a war in the Western Regions in the construction of the building would be about the same as the time of Yelu Yanxi's personal expedition, and the ghost would know which side would decide the winner first;

If the Liao side decides the winner first, then Yang Yike will be in big trouble, and the war in the Western Regions is likely to be hastily withdrawn;

So Yang Yi made every effort to promote the construction of the Chinese and Western expeditions, saying that a light point is to add to the snake, and the key point is not to know the current affairs. If you are doing nonsense, all the responsibilities will have to be borne by Yang Yi.

This is the first stroke of his "founding a faction", if he gets a piece of paper, this is undoubtedly the biggest failure of his political career, which Yang Yi cannot bear.

However, he is not good at repeatedly urging them to build a plant, he has given a clear deadline, and I believe that they have already laid out according to this deadline;

Now go and urge them again. It will only disrupt their battle plan, and Yang Yi will not make such a mistake no matter what.

What to do?

If the river control project can be completed as soon as possible. That's not a problem.

On the day of the Flower Dynasty Festival, men, women and children in Tokyo compete to go out of the city to step into the spring, and the Flower Dynasty Festival is also on February 15 every year, which is considered to be the "Hundred Birthday Day".

On this day, every family will sacrifice to the god of flowers, and the woman in the boudoir cut the five-colored paper, took the red rope, and knotted the colored paper on the flower tree, which is called appreciating the red;

You also have to go to the flower temple to burn incense to pray for the blessing of the flower god and the blessing of flowers and trees. There are also customs such as "putting lion flowers" and "putting flowers and lanterns" in various places.

Thirteen Niang and Qing Niang went out of the city together, one by two dressed up as beautiful as fairy girls, and their pretty faces were as beautiful as flowers.

Yang Yi didn't have such a good life, he also went out of the city, but he had to go to Texas to inspect the river control project;

The situation in Liao and the Western Regions was extremely tense, and neither was under his control, so he couldn't sit still, so he invited himself to be an inspector and went to Texas to inspect to see if he could find any way to speed up the progress of the project.

Yang Yi drove lightly, out of the New Song Gate, and ran all the way to the east, Thirteen Niang was intimate, and asked Qin Cao to follow Yang Yi and wait for his daily life.

The spring cold has not disappeared, but the two banks of the Wuzhang River are already willow-colored, and the sparse and fallen tile houses are hidden under the willow trees, which looks peaceful and elegant.

The road near Gyeonggi is very flat, the carriage is paved with thick cushions, and the spring invented by Thirteen Niang, which is installed between the axles, which plays a good role in shock absorption, and it does not feel bumpy when sitting in the carriage.

Qin Cao wore a dark purple embroidered plum heart Luo robe, with a concentric bun on his head, a purple wood hairpin in a simple horizontal position, and a dress as pure as an orchid, elegant and poetic.

After leaning against the car window and looking at the spring light, she turned around and asked softly, "Yang Lang, what are your plans to go to Texas?" ”

Yang Yi shook his head lightly and said: "Let's go and see first, in fact, I may not have any way to go, but I feel that instead of sitting in the capital in the city, it is better to go to the embankment to have a look, if there is really no way, it should be regarded as a distraction." ”

Yang Yi said easily, but Qin Cao was difficult to let go: "Other slaves don't understand, but slaves think Yang Lang ........."

Seeing that Qin Cao wanted to speak and stopped, Yang Yi smiled faintly: "Do you think that I am too hasty to support Chong Jianzhong's war against Black Khan?" ”

"Yes." Qin Cao's voice is very low, and for a long time, including Thirteen Niang, they rarely ask about Yang Yi's officialdom, especially this kind of important decision related to the overall situation of the imperial court, even if they know, they rarely intervene and abide by their duties.

"Maybe it's a bit risky, but if the matter of the Western Regions is not solved as soon as possible, once the Liao side goes to war, the stalemate in the Western Regions will definitely drag on for years and months, which will cause very big losses to the Great Song Dynasty, hehe, regardless of the interests of the Great Song Dynasty, the Silk Road has been cut off for a long time, and it will also cause great losses to our family, I am selfish, in order for our family to make more money, it is common to gamble on the interests of the country."

Qin Cao glanced at him lightly and said: "Yang Lang is talking nonsense again, our family is not short of that little money, Yang Lang is worried about the world first..."

"Stop! Don't use such words to scold me. ”

Qin Cao's words made Yang Yi can't help but have the sentence 'Worry and worry about falling into the water first, and then the joy of falling into the water', the old face was a little hanging, and the look of surprise made Qin Cao laugh out loud.

"In short, the slave is proud of Yang Lang."

"Is Jean proud? I'll see. Yang Yi said and took her into his arms and kissed her lightly on her cheeks.

"Yang Lang......... Don't make a bad ........"

Yang Yi went east along the Yellow River, taking a look along the way, this time in addition to the main embankment, auxiliary embankment, remote embankment, and grid embankment along both sides of the river, there is another point that impresses Yang Yi very deeply, that is, a large number of flood discharge areas have been added downstream.

For example, Liangshanluo, Wangyuluo, Dongling Lake, Baisha Lake, Baiyangdian Lake, etc., in addition to these original natural lakes, many people in low-lying areas have been relocated, and large areas of depression have been circled out for flood discharge during the flood season.

This will undoubtedly take up a lot of arable land and move a lot of people, but in the long run, this is definitely a good thing, because Hebei and Henan are densely populated, and excessive reclamation will cause serious ecological damage here;

Just like in the early days of the Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong was still fertile for thousands of miles, but with the rapid increase in population, excessive reclamation, and serious soil erosion in Guanzhong, now Guanzhong is withering, and it is difficult to restore the prosperity of the early Tang Dynasty.

The same is true in Henan and Hebei, where excessive population density has led to excessive reclamation and the disappearance of a large number of forests and lakes, making the ecology of the lower reaches of the Yellow River face a severe test.

However, at present, Jinghu Lake and Lingnan are sparsely populated, a large amount of fertile soil is uncultivated, and later generations have Jinghu Lake is ripe, and the world is full of words, and most places in Jinghu Lake are still wild, which is really a pity.

Therefore, setting up a large number of low-lying areas as flood discharge areas and relocating people to the Jinghu area will be of great benefit to the ecological balance of the lower reaches of the Yellow River and to the development and utilization of Jinghu Lake.

The connection of these natural lakes and a large number of low-lying areas are designated as flood discharge areas, which are like huge squabs, absorbing large amounts of flood water during the flood season, reducing the pressure on the Yellow River dikes, and providing water for the surrounding agricultural areas during the dry season, and even reverting to the Yellow River to inject water into the Yellow River during the dry season.

The cost of the river control project is huge, and it will eventually exceed 300 million guan, of which at least 100 million guan will be used to relocate people.

In addition, it is to connect the Wuzhang River, Surabaya, Jishui, Bianshui, Daqing River and other rivers, according to the original Yellow River when the embankment rushed out, dig out the flood channel, set up the flood outlet, these flood outlets are usually closed, to ensure the flow of the Yellow River, in order to achieve the purpose of attacking sand with water;

Once the flood peak arrives and the water level rises to the level of the flood outlets, it will naturally discharge from these outlets into the Daqing River, which is a tributary channel to prevent the main embankment of the Yellow River from bursting due to the huge peak pressure.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he also mobilized hundreds of thousands of servants to rule the Yellow River once, which benefited the entire Han Dynasty, and there were few cases of embankment breakage.

Since the Han Dynasty, only the Sui and Tang dynasties have governed the Yellow River, but the intensity has not been reached.

Now the Great Song Dynasty is carrying out this river control project, the amount of work exceeds the Han Wu period several times, embankment, flood discharge, diversion, all kinds of complete facilities, for the lower reaches of the Yellow River to win a hundred years of Pingning should not be a problem.

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