Ye Qingchen smiled abnormally, it was a shameful smile, and looking at Zhang Yaozuo's eyes was like looking at an idiot.

He is a clear stream, so he can't get used to Zhang Yaozuo. There are relatives, such as the low-key Cao family, Liu Mei and Li Yonghe, who are quite virtuous, but Zhang Yaozuo's ascension is very abnormal, the niece has been favored by the emperor and has come to recognize her relatives, before the brother died, the orphan and widow, where are you?

Zhang Yaozuo blushed and had a thick neck.

Zheng Lang glanced at it, he didn't have much disgust with Zhang Yaozuo, how many people didn't covet the powerful? On the contrary, this kind of civilian relatives are not very harmful to the imperial court, and the most feared are the wealthy relatives like the low-key Cao family and the Gao family, Queen Cao and Gao Tao are not evil, but after Wang Anshi changed the law, the two of them became the biggest opposition, the reason is very simple, the change hurt the interests of many powerful people, including the Gao family and the Cao family. Even if it has a little impact on Zheng Lang, such as Yintian, Zheng Lang will definitely not touch Zhendingfu and Bozhou, otherwise the equal sign will be a failure.

For Zhang Yaozuo slightly relieved the siege, said: "Dayu is different, the soil and water have not deteriorated, and the cement and sand content of the Yellow River is not high, so as long as the nine rivers are dredged, the river water will be quickly discharged into the sea, and the waterlogging will be reduced." ”

It is this Zheng Lang who is very suspicious, there is this labor and technology in the era of Dayu to dredge the Yellow River into the sea and nine rivers?

"Now it is different, the Yellow River has a high sediment content, and once the water of the north-flowing river is increased, it has the function of quickly discharging floods when the water potential is huge. However, the water potential is small, because there is the water flow of the Beiliu River, the water potential is slower, the sediment precipitation is more intense, in a few years, the north and south diversion will become a hanging river, and then the north and south rivers will be harmed together, and the consequences are unimaginable. Therefore, my previous strategy is to bundle the water and wash the sand, and start from the dragon gate to bundle the water. He also said that the construction of a new Grand Canal has three functions, one is military, and our dynasty has formed an alliance with the Khitan to non-aggression against each other, but who can say what will happen in the future, in case it is harmful. Supplies from the south will be transported to Hebei by the nearest waterway. The second is civilian, although the terrain of Hebei is flat, but the yield is low, and there are droughts and floods from time to time. Grain is ultimately insufficient, with this canal, there is no need to turn around from Bianhe Jingshi to Hebei, the time is fast, the cost will also be reduced, and the state expenses will be reduced. The construction of the new canal will also promote the development of commerce and trade in many states and counties in Beijing. Benefiting the country and the people. The third is to govern the river, where the new canal is located, is the lower reaches of the Huanghuai, close to the estuary, and then use the Grand Canal to distribute the river water, there are not only the three major rivers of the Huanghuaiji, but also many other rivers entering the sea, because it is close to the sea. The river water can be discharged into the sea in time without the hazard of sediment sedimentation. As for the sediment in the canal, it can be controlled by bucket gates, ponds or other implementations. Then the sediment in the middle reaches will be bound by the river water and will quickly rush downstream. The downstream also uses the canal as a flat shoulder to connect many rivers into the sea, and uses the bucket gate to control the quicksand, but the river water can enter the sea in time. This strategy of managing the river will have only one result: the Yellow River will have more sediment at the mouth of the sea, and the coastline will quickly extend to the sea. Is that a hazard? ”

It is very simple to understand, so Ye Qingchen looked at Zhang Yaozuo like an idiot.

It is very difficult for those who don't understand, so Zheng Lang patiently explained. It is estimated that Zhang Yaozuo is not alone, and at least half of the other ministers seem to understand whether they understand or not.

But this kind of patience and gentleness is more important to Zhao Zhen.

This time, no one had any more objections and began to discuss the details. At the end of the day, more than a dozen orders and edicts were issued in succession, until the sky became dark again. Disperse one by one.

Yan Du left very early, Bao Zheng prepared supplies overnight that night, he was a transit envoy in Shaanxi for a long time, with practical experience, the imperial court in the rear strong support, the treasury has sufficient food money, so methodically after a night of scheduling, the next day left the capital, to go down to Lanzhou.

…,

The break is not far from the capital, only three or four hundred miles, the next day Bao Zheng folded to the capital, in the fold Bao Zheng wrote, thousands of miles of plains, all into the ocean, surging turbid waves, see floating corpses all over, on the embankment, mourning all over the wilderness.

It is definitely not so serious, and the Wenchen of the Song Dynasty likes to exaggerate it to show his love for the people. Only half of it can be believed. The water surface of the impossible submerged area is full of floating corpses, and how many people will have to die, but it will not be less. Yan Du also wrote a fold back, not as serious as Bao Zheng said, but the situation was equally badly written.

Zheng Lang sighed after seeing it in the book.

A sense of guilt arose in his heart.

In fact, it doesn't have much to do with him, even if he is not afraid of people's slow disagreement, there are many reasons for the embankment, how can Zheng Lang know which reason caused the embankment? There is a reason, the water is huge, but this reason cannot be prevented, even if the embankment is not broken, the result of the huge water potential will also burst the embankment in other places, and the water potential will be vented.

It has done a very good job, and there are countless people living in such a timely disaster relief.

Seeing that the court paid so much attention, officials from all over the country went crazy to collect boats, ignoring the monstrous waves, searching for the victims trapped in the flood. In addition, tens of thousands of troops from relevant prefectures and counties participated, and several state armies behind the Daimyo Mansion took timely precautions, and compared with history, at least more than seventy percent of the people died.

But Zheng Lang is still a little otaku in his bones.

Seeing Bao Zheng's shocking performance, his face was gloomy, and he was ashamed in his heart, and when he returned home, he was unhappy, so he asked Cui Xian: "How much gold and silver do I have at home?" ”

The Zheng family was very rich at this time.

Zheng Lang doesn't support prostitutes, he doesn't use many humble customers, let alone prostitutes, and he doesn't socialize much, so he doesn't spend extravagantly. In addition to his salary, there is also the industry in Zhengzhou. The Zheng family will not fish the people, but when it comes to his status, who dares to offend, the industry itself is snowballing, for simple reasons, such as the distribution of the group line, who will get the big head? This alone will increase profits year after year. There is a lot of money in the family, but how much, Zheng Lang never asks.

In the past, when the official position was low, he often took out some money to help the people, but the higher the position, he couldn't do this, so as not to impeach and buy people's hearts, Zhao Zhen would not be afraid, but the minister would inevitably be verbose. So you spend less.

But Zheng Lang only asked about gold and silver, which was expensive and small in size, so he didn't ask about copper coins and cloth.

Cui Xian replied: "If all of them are raised, there will be more than 3,000 gold and 20,000 taels of silver." ”

"Find a few people with fresh faces in your hometown, and donate these gold and silver anonymously to the three divisions."

Cui Xian sneered: "Since ancient times, there has never been such an official as you. ”

"I don't want to be a good official, but I want to be at ease."

Cui Xian didn't object anymore, even if she donated all the gold and silver, she still had a lot of money at home, and she would continue to accumulate wealth every month in the future, what would she do with so much money? Regarding the word money, Cui Xian was born in a family of eunuchs, the same as Zheng Lang. It's very open.

With all the gold and silver quietly transported to the capital, from the relatives of the Si'er family in Zhengzhou, a few young people with fresh faces were called and asked to come to the capital. Loaded the gold and silver into a small cart, quite heavy, a whole three carts of gold bars and silver ingots, transported to the gate of the third division, and handed the gold and silver together with the list of verified quantities to the soldiers in front of the third division, so that they could transport the gold and silver to the third division.

The soldier felt very strange, "it just so happened" that Zheng Lang was passing by. He waved his hand and said, "You can move it in." ”

"Whoa."

When Ye Qingchen heard this, he was puzzled, and hurriedly came out to chase the person called by the Zheng family, where could he catch up?

This incident caused a small sensation, and Zhao Zhen said with emotion: "Who said that people's hearts are not ancient? ”…,

What a good person, who has done such a great deed and does not leave his name, this is the real good person. In fact, Zheng Lang is as he said. Just peace of mind. So much gold and silver, it is a lot of money in that family. But for the country as a whole, it's not a drop in the bucket. And well prepared. The imperial court is not much worse than the food money, if it is said that it is poor, the difference is for the future, then I don't know how much the difference is, and it can be calculated by 100 million.

There is another thing that Zhao Zhen appreciates.

Zheng Lang had already planned how to deal with this disaster, and he used to enter Dongfu as the prime minister in a low-key manner, and even made people think that Zheng Lang was willing to take a back seat and still hand over the power of prime minister to Chen Zhizhong. But after the disaster, it suddenly became a high profile.

In the past, floods like this could not have been at the time of the disaster. This is a natural disaster, if it is not, the court cannot be blamed. Some officials have a bad conscience and can hope that people will drown together to save the aftermath. When disaster strikes, the damned die. Dust to dust, dust to earth, has nothing to do with the imperial court, but the aftermath has something to do with the government and the imperial court, and these victims must be settled. The difficulty lies in the back.

This time it's just the other way around.

The difficulty lies in the front, such a big disaster produced more than one million destitute displaced people, and then Zhongshu was like a very precise machine in the case of Zheng Lang's sudden high-profile, running without any mistakes, the pacification of the victims, the mobilization of materials, carried out in an orderly manner, and there were almost no mistakes.

Compared with last year's disaster in the book, it has become a contrast with Xuanming.

But Zheng Lang was worried every day because of guilt, and the ministers of the two governments looked at his attitude, almost speechless.

What made the minister even more speechless was Zhao Zhen.

Zheng Lang's arrangement can be described as not thoughtful, Zhao Zhen is still not at ease, and sent Zhang Luo as the pacification envoy of Hebei, Zhang Liang is also a minister with political achievements, for the official kindness, pure and filial piety, when he was a child, he heard that the thigh meat can cure his father's disease, and quietly cut off his own meat for his father to eat. It would not be too bad for such a minister to be sent to Hebei as a volume pacification envoy.

Zhao Zhen said to the prime minister in the capital hall again: "Spring and summer have rained for a long time, not only the embankment in Lanzhou, but other areas have also suffered from the continuous rain. ”

This is purely a waste of himself, with Zhao Zhen's small body, it is not a hunger strike, but a big supplement, if you don't have a hunger strike at every turn, it is estimated that you will not be able to survive at the age of fifty. Zheng Lang wanted to persuade, but he didn't know how to persuade.

Wen Yanbo said: "Your Majesty, the weather has gradually returned to normal recently, which is really a sense of sainthood. ”

But strange to say, Zhao Zhen said this sentence before, the weather changed from cloudy to sunny, and it really returned to normal.

The weather became more and more normal day by day, the imperial court dealt with it in a timely manner, and the negative effects of the disaster were gradually resolved, and the rule of officials also returned to normal.

It's July in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Zhen summoned the prime ministers to the capital hall again.

Wuyijieshan wrote the third letter, I believe in Zheng Lang more, but the time is getting longer and longer, although Brother Ning Lingge fled to the Khitan, but the Wuzang brothers and sisters have always secretly suspected that the father and daughter did not move to help him escape, and he did not do anything to the father and daughter for the time being, but he was very worried about the Wujishan father.

Zheng Lang wrote the conditions, he was also satisfied, Dai Dailing quietly let go, providing convenient conditions for the people who did not move to the tribe to defect, did not move the mountains and couldn't hold back, and wrote a letter to ask Zheng Lang, when will your Song Dynasty take me and my people?

Zheng Lang is also a member of the Privy Council, but the main order is orderly, mainly to deal with the affairs of the Chinese book, the letter to Song Zhen, did not move to ask Zheng Lang, but it is related to the national system, and the Great Song Dynasty handed the letter to Zhao Zhen, so Zhao Zhen asked the ministers.

Several prime ministers were silent.

Zheng Lang replied quickly, "Please allow Your Majesty." ”“

Why not take it in? You don't need to ask, it's already been discussed. And Zheng Lang still has a little curiosity in his heart, the four beauties of China, he must be one he has never seen, the reason why they are called the four beauties is that kind of level that brings disaster to the country and the people. Compared with them, it seems to be a little worse than the Wu Yi family, but it is also the kind of beauty that brings disaster to the country and the people, he has seen a lot of beautiful women, and it may make a country change dramatically, at least Yuan Hao, as the king of a country, has read countless people, and read countless beauties, but Yuan Hao's father and son are obsessed with this, how beautiful the Wu Yi family will be, so that he can't help but often have some reverie.

If you want to see a real person, you can only let her come to the Song Dynasty! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )