Different from Yang Rui's worries, after the mighty parade of the peasant association, the agricultural maintenance association seemed to have done nothing, especially when everyone heard that Xu Guantian had a relationship with the governor, and those landlords were even more demoralized, and the old Zhuang Houtao's side was said to have been reprimanded by Zhuang Yuzhen, and then began to be friendly to the peasant association. Zhuang Houtao often entertained Xu Guantian and others in the name of his son's former division commander, but Xu Guantian was different from the ordinary party leaders after all.

After the march of the Juzhou Peasant Association, these situations only reached the capital city of Yizhou a few months later, and at this time Yang Rui had already walked most of the entire Yizhou, what preparations should be made for the Yizhou incident? What is the difference between Lunan Mountain and Liaodong and Zhejiang? What kind of management and development will Yizhou have after the incident? He had some answers to these questions.

There are many mountains and mountains in Yizhou, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and 70,000 acres of land is not small, but the yield per mu is too low. Of course, what is more important is to rectify the flood in Yizhou, not to mention the food, I am afraid that it will be too late to provide disaster relief.

In a small courtyard in Lanshan County, where the Yizhou Prefecture is located, the oil lamp is shining in the house, and the summary meeting is being held, a young student named Wu Keqing is pointing to the Yishui and Mushui in the Yizhou map hanging on the wall, and said loudly: "In the two hundred and seventy years since the Qing Dynasty, there have been fifty-two major floods in Yishui Mushui. Among them, the Qianlong period was the most, and the most frequent time was once every two years, and then it was the Daoguang period. It is also once every three years, and in the last ten years, there has only been a big flood in the year of Guimao (1903), but according to the big water on the side of Mengyin this month, at the end of this month or the beginning of next month, Lanling and Tancheng will also have a big flood.

Yizhou leads six counties and one state, among which the most prone to heavy flooding are Lanshan and Tancheng counties. In the past 200 years, Lanshan has been affected by 43 disasters, while Tancheng has suffered 48 disasters and Yishui 26 times. Juzhou twenty-three times, Rizhao twenty-one times, as for Fei County and Mengyin are below twenty times. The reason why this is so is because Lanshan and Tancheng are downstream of Yishui and Mushui. Each flood caused the lower reaches of the two rivers to swell. Every flood occurs in July and August, and rarely in May, June or September. At that time, the mountain rainstorm will be a little bit, and the trickle will flow into a stream, all of which will be collected in Yishui and Mushui, and the river will not be able to discharge floodwater, so the more downstream the disaster situation will be more severe, but in fact, the most severe disaster area is still in northern Jiangsu, and this place is not only the flood discharge place of Yishui and Mushui......"

I heard Wu Keqing say this. Li Guangyi, the head of Yizhou, immediately pretended to cough, which couldn't help but make Wu Keqing stop. Now the meeting is to discuss the flooding in Yizhou. On the basis of understanding the floods in Yizhou, Yang Rui thought about whether the floods in Yizhou could be prevented, and the floods in northern Jiangsu two years ago were shocking. But the commentator Wu Keqing is a native of Haizhou, he came together and joined the association two years ago because of the disaster relief and rejuvenation in the flood in northern Jiangsu, his name is very inconspicuous in history, but his father Wu Tongju is still very famous in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Many of the materials he has brought now are things that his father has researched, if it weren't for the fact that his father Wu Tongju was a tribute, Yang Rui really wanted to invite this person to join the meeting and then come to Yizhou to control the water.

"A game of chess in northern Jiangsu, Yizhou." Seeing Wu Keqing stop, Yang Rui immediately understood what Li Guangyi meant, "It's okay, you can continue." Yang Rui didn't mean to blame at all, just lit a cigarette casually and said with a smile.

Wu Keqing glanced at Li Guangyi embarrassedly, and only said: "One of the floods in northern Jiangsu is Yishui and Mushui, and the other is the Huai River. There was a Qing generation, Yongzheng spread into acres, and the population could not be controlled, so there were things to do when cutting down trees and enclosing lakes to create fields, not only in Yishui, but also in other rivers. In addition to the population, there is also the sudden change in rainfall, in the past two hundred years, the rainfall in Yizhou is concentrated in July and August, the precipitation in these two months accounts for seven to eighty percent of the whole year, and the stricter is that the annual precipitation is often concentrated in a few days, which makes the flood suddenly, flooding along the way. Taking June of the eighth year of Yongzheng as an example, it was rainy for dozens of days before the rainstorm, and then it rained for five to seven days in a row, and the rainfall range spread throughout the entire Yimu Sishui system, so that the whole territory of Yizhou and northern Jiangsu was flooded, which was a flood that had not been encountered in three hundred years.

In addition to cutting down trees, enclosing lakes to create fields, and sudden changes in rainfall, there is another reason for the frequent floods in Yizhou is that the upper reaches of Yishui are mountainous, the terrain is high, once the precipitation, the water laxative speed is very fast, and the middle reaches of the area are flat, the main stream is tortuous, especially in Tancheng County, the river is extremely curved, the flow is long, the flow rate is slow, and it is easy to accumulate water, so it is easy to become a disaster in case of flooding.

These four should be the root cause of the floods in Yizhou. And once the flood, is the hunger all over the wilderness, hungry people jam the way, most of the floods recorded in the Tancheng County Chronicles have made the wheat no harvest, if it is a flood in July, it is not only the wheat in the field is empty, it has been harvested, it is also mildew and rotten, in addition to the grain is not harvested, the houses, the fertile land is also destroyed, and after the flood, the fertile land is silted up, the soil fertility declines, and some places do not even grow a hair. A big reason for the low grain yield per mu in Yizhou is the ...... floods."

Wu Keqing continued to introduce the affairs of the Yimu River Basin, but Yang Rui didn't have anything to listen to, everything in Yizhou was fine, but the flood was the deadliest. If there is another flood of the scale of the previous year, it will not be a question of whether or not to provide relief, but a question of where the revolutionary army will go on a long march. Thinking of this, just waiting for Wu Keqing to speak for a while, Yang Rui interrupted him and asked, "So judging from the current situation, will there be floods in the next few years?" ”

Comrade commissioner suddenly pulled the problem so far, Wu Keqing suddenly stopped, and after thinking about it, he said: "This year's flood is certain, but it is not a major disaster, and in the next few years, it depends on the weather. ”

Hearing Wu Keqing's uncertain answer, Yang Rui immediately knew that he had asked in vain, as far as the current technology is concerned, it is difficult to know the weather in the next few years by manpower alone. He couldn't help but extinguish the cigarette. He got up and walked out into the courtyard.

Yizhou is a good place to secede, but. But what if there is a catastrophic flood? Just like the one in northern Jiangsu the year before last, what should I do? The end of the Qing Dynasty was a disaster-ridden season, and in the novel, Yang Rui saw the flood in the Yangtze River basin in Xinhai, which was mentioned by accident, so what is the situation in Yizhou? If Yizhou also has a big flood in the Xinhai year, will it be better for the revolutionary army to provide disaster relief or an uprising? If you don't come to Xinhai, what should you do? When the base area is blocked, the grain will be transported from there at that time.

Yang Rui walked in circles in the courtyard. In the room, Li Guangyi and Wu Keqing were all stunned and waiting. Only when he turned around for an unknown amount of time, did he return to the house, and then said to Wu Keqing: "Xiao Wu." You have also talked about the causes and effects of the flood, so let's not talk about the disaster relief first, let's talk about river control. ”

"Governing the river?!" Wu Keqing was very surprised, and then he was pleasantly surprised. "Okay! Good! He hurried to the wall and ripped the map off. Then he replaced it with a more detailed and accurate river map, and finally drew a few lines on it with a sharp stroke of his pen, and then said excitedly: "Comrade commissioner, in fact, the control of the flood in Yizhou was proposed as early as the early Qing Dynasty, but no one has implemented it. After all, this is not a trivial matter, it costs countless amounts of money and food, and if it fails, it will be beheaded. ”

When I heard about it, there was a lot of money and food spent. Yang Rui chuckled in his heart, but he was so happy to see the young man. Or nod his head and let him continue, the disaster treatment plan of hundreds of years ago may be easier to do now.

"Its main thing is in four words, that is, 'leading into the sand'." Wu Keqing was very excited, wrote down these four words on the wall as he spoke, and then pointed to Houhekou Village, fifty miles east of Tancheng City: "To guide Mu into the sand is to dig a river channel to lead the water of the Mu River to the Sha River, so that once the upstream flood is discharged, then the flood will have one more channel." And the river excavation place is in the broken waist of Maling Mountain, that is, it is called Xitou Ridge, it is only about six to seven zhang higher than the flat land, about ten zhang higher than the water surface of the Mu River, and the west of this ridge is about eight miles to the Mu River, and the east of the ridge is twenty miles to the Shahe River of Daxing Town. That is to say, as long as a 28-mile river channel is excavated, the water can flow down the Shahe River into the sea.

And in order to make Yishui can also discharge floodwater, it is also possible to dig another river, so that Yishui is connected to each other, the two rivers are normally about 20 miles apart, if you can find a suitable location, then dig 30 miles of river to lead Yishui to Mushui. In this way, the flood in the entire Yizhou can be roughly solved. However, the most difficult part of this method is that Maling Mountain is full of rocks, which is extremely difficult to excavate, and the second is that the Shahe River must also be widened and heightened, otherwise it will not be able to withstand the flood peak when the flood is discharged. In addition, during the period of stability, more reservoirs should be built upstream of Yishui to prevent the flood discharge from being too fast and causing pressure on the river. ”

Wu Keqing opened the world, and immediately solved the flood in Yizhou on the map, only to see that Yang Rui was a little flustered, and only waited for him to say that it was okay for a while. Yang Ruicai asked, "Have you calculated the amount of earthwork to excavate the river?" ”

It seemed that he also felt that what he said was exaggerated, Wu Keqing blushed and said: "Probably, according to the calculation, a river channel more than eight miles long, thirty zhang wide, and four to five zhang deep will be excavated on this side of Maling Mountain, plus the soil and stones on the mountain, and nearly 600,000 cubic meters of mountain rocks will be excavated initially, that is, 1.8 million cubic meters of mountain rocks." As for the earthwork, it is more than three million square meters. ”

The figures that Wu Ke calculated were extremely terrifying, so Li Guangyi shook his head and sighed: "It's too late for us to make a revolution, I'm afraid we don't have time to dig so many earthworks." When the revolution succeeds, this flood will be cured even if it smashes pots and sells iron. ”

When he speaks like this, the others are also in general thoughts, if the earth is not said, how can Maling Mountain be opened? If you use a hammer, I am afraid that it will be difficult to open a foot of the ground in a day. Every year, there are three months of free water control, how many rocks can be opened in these 100 days? Moreover, this water was obviously to be led to Haizhou, and Haizhou was not included in the plan to raise the matter. Who will ensure the safety of personnel when crossing the border to repair the river after the incident, and if the river is repaired before the incident, is it necessary to raise the matter or to control the water?

Everyone was in denial in their hearts, but they all looked at Yang Rui before they could speak. In fact, Yang Rui is not afraid of Kaishan, after all, for the Revival Association, explosives are not expensive. In addition to the upfront investment in equipment, the cost of wages, water, electricity and coal is also the cost of synthetic ammonia. In fact, the key is coal, to produce one ton of synthetic ammonia, it takes three and a half tons of coal, and these coals cost more than a dozen taels at retail prices, but for the Northeast synthetic ammonia plant, the cost is only three or four taels.

It is not difficult to open a mountain with explosives. Then the rest is a matter of earthwork. According to the construction drill of the Baxing Army, if a cubic meter of soft soil excavation is a short period of work, it only takes one hour per person. If it is a long and uninterrupted work, it will take one or three hours; In medium soil, it takes 1.15 hours to excavate a cubic meter in a short time, and 2.3 hours to excavate a long time; The short time for hard soil excavation is 2:2 and the long time is 5 hours. Not in terms of hard and soft, but in terms of medium soil quality, each person can dig three to four cubic meters per day. With 100,000 people, 300,000 to 400,000 square meters of earth and 5 million square meters of earth can be excavated every day. That is, half a month's thing. Of course, this is ideal, and there is also the work of transporting the earth, the preparation for construction, etc. But if 100,000 people go to work, within a month. The river can still be dug out.

Come to think of it. Yang Rui asked again: "After digging the river, is the Sand River dug deeper and higher?" How much work is there? ”

Everyone never thought that Yang Rui still wanted to ask, Wu Keqing was also taken aback, and only waited for a while before he said: "The Shahe River is a hundred miles long, and if you want to dig deep and raise it comprehensively, I am afraid that there will be at least five million earthworks, plus the thirty miles that Yishui is connected to Mushui, adding up to 10 million earthworks." Wu Keqing's brain was extremely fast, and he shook his head after these numbers were obtained. Said: "Comrade commissioner, this workload is too much! It's too big......"

"Not too much!" He shook his head, and Yang Rui also shook his head. "It's just twice as much as the excavation in Malingshan. The purpose of the revolution is to provide food and clothing for the people, and the same is true for the purpose of governing the river. Xiao Wu: You can first take someone to measure the technical details of river excavation. No,...... Yang Rui thought of this, and wanted to say that the railway in Anhui was almost finished, and the surveying and mapping team over there could be transferred, but the matter of the railway was confidential, so he had to say: "The general association will immediately send a surveying and mapping team over there to analyze the rationality of the plan and formulate the details of the entire project." We don't have to finish this project all at once, if it's difficult, we can complete it in two years. As for the opening of this Maling Mountain, as long as there are explosives, it is not too difficult. ”

Seeing that the commissioner comrade actually agreed to go to control the river, Wu Keqing only felt that his nose was sore, and he suddenly bowed down, and he didn't know what to say incoherently. Li Guangyi was also excited, and said, "This is a great thing!" Mr. ”

Yang Rui hurriedly persuaded them and said, "The revolution of the Fuxing Society was not originally a light attack on the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Bringing down the Manchu Qing dynasty is only a small step in the revolution, and it is a big step to make the country rich and strong and the people well-fed and clothed. If Yizhou is a base area, then all the Yizhou People's Revival Association should cherish it, think about what the people think, and be anxious about what the people are anxious about, which is what every revival member should do. Okay, that's how it was decided, and I'll always negotiate over there. You must pay attention to secrecy before you do anything, and don't just survey and map here, and the Manchus will know what we are going to do. ”

Yang Rui took the opportunity to educate like this, so that everyone present could not forget it. Li Guangyi, who is from Yizhou, said after a long time: "Sir, how can you explain to the government if you send a survey and mapping team?" You know, that tripod or something, everyone has seen it when the Germans came before, and once they see this thing, those gentry are probably going to spread it. ”

Surveying and mapping can't be hidden, Yang Rui thought of this and said: "Aren't you the head of education of the normal school, and isn't Li Yukai the superintendent of the school." Do you say that it is not good for the surveying and mapping school in Shanghai to come here for internship? ”

Yang Rui knew that the Japanese East Asian Tongwen School was always spying on Chinese intelligence and surveying and mapping the geography of various places under the pretext of internships, so he thought of this method. Li Guangyi also probably knew what this meant, so he said: "If it is in the name of an internship, it is estimated that Li Yukai will believe it." It's just that, sir, if you can tell him the reason, then the money and grain government of the river will always give a part. ”

"No need." Yang Rui said with a smile: "When Yizhou is defeated, even Li Yukai's private money is ours." He said with a smile: "Fifteen million earthworks, 100,000 people 50 days of work, including the delay in transporting soil and other things, it is only 100,000 people doing 70 days, a total of 7 million jobs, based on a daily 100,000 yuan, only more than 800,000 taels." It is divided evenly among more than two million people, that is, three or four cents of silver, and those who do not want to pay can bring their own dry food to work on the river.

In fact, what we really want to pay is only the money for the preliminary surveying and mapping, which is only a matter of a few thousand taels of silver, which is very, very little. The real money and efforts are the people who can benefit from the river control here. It's something they're totally happy to do. That's why I often say that it's not that China is poorly governed, it's that its managers are incompetent. Some of this incompetence has been passed down over thousands of years. The government did not want to disturb the people; and then there was the incompetence of the Manchu bureaucrats, who had no ability to plan and still less to organize, and in particular, they did not dare to let the people manage themselves and govern themselves, because they were afraid that the people would make trouble as soon as they organized. Ay! China. It's that I'm trapped by myself. ”

Yang Rui sighed when he thought of Manchu scum like that, but sighed and sighed, many things still have to be done. Another adjustment was made in the house. Arrange planning and other matters, everyone is very excited, and they are doing righteousness, and now they have come up with a river control. However, this is not surprising to Yang Rui. Liaodong invested tens of millions of taels in the base area. Now Yizhou is investing 4,000 taels, or after Yizhou is occupied by the Renaissance Society, it is still worth investing more than 800,000 taels to control the river, which not only shows that it has a reputation, but also can establish a base area without floods. It will rule the world.

The matter of controlling the flood has been arranged, and the rest depends on the affairs of other aspects of the entire Yizhou. Revolutionary era. Coal, iron and copper are indispensable, coal mines are in Linyi, mainly gas coal and gas fertilizer coal, generally used to make thermal coal, but to coke also, but the quality of coke is not good, no viscosity, fragile, firepower is also small, but in the absence of coking coal, it can still be used; As for iron mines, there are dozens of them in the whole Yizhou, but the grade is low, but in the case of not building a large steel mill, it is no problem to meet the casting of grenades and mortar shells. It seems that in the future, not only these blacksmiths will be co-opted, but more new talents will be trained; Finally, there is a copper mine, which is also available in Yizhou, and it is prosperous in Yinan Tongjing and Rizhao, but the taste is not high.

After the mineral inspection is completed, the next thing is the necessities of life, that is, the three whites: grain and cotton. Yizhou grain is completely sufficient; Because the salt is coastal, it will not be transported by airship like Yanzhou, and it can be dried on the seaside, even if the beach is occupied by the Manchu army, it is very easy to smuggle so close to the sea. It's just that cotton is a problem, Yizhou is planted locally with grass cotton and medium cotton, and the yield is extremely low. When Yang Rui rode a donkey around in the past few months, he saw that many poor people had woolen sweaters made of wool, and there were a lot of sheep in Yizhou, and there were a lot of wool, but this kind of wool sweater was actually a down jacket, because of the relationship between the fabric, these wool would be drilled out one by one, and the sewn inside would fall down one by one, and it was estimated that it would not take much time to wear it, and this woolen sweater would become a jacket.

Seeing Yang Rui talking about cotton, Li Guangyi explained: "Although there is cotton in Yizhou, it is still not enough, not to mention that the imported foreign yarn is selling well, and there are even fewer people who grow cotton and spin yarn by themselves." Is it possible to prepare a part of this cotton in advance, and then ask the people to plant a part after the event? "Li Guangyi has seen the blockade situation in Yanzhou, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is extremely tight, and grain, cotton, and salt are not allowed to be brought in, and what worries Yizhou is cotton.

"I remember that since the beginning of the previous year, the general association has sent people to plant American cotton, what happened to the result?" Yang Rui picked up the briefing and remembered that he had seen something before.

"The U.S. cotton was planted, and the seeds were sent by me. But, no! Li Guangyi shook his head, "The croppers are inert, new things are planted for them, they are very afraid that this thing will not be planted, what is said that a delay is a year, and then they are guaranteed to let them plant, and the cotton produced is not bad, but in the past two years, the cotton is no different from the local cotton, sir, is this the cotton of the United States is not adapted to the soil and water here?" ”

Hearing that this was the case, Yang Rui had a bottom in his heart, and said: "It's not that American cotton is not adaptable, but because there is more soil cotton and less American cotton, as soon as it blooms and pollinates, it messes up the germline." The only solution is that the entire Yizhou only grows American cotton, or there can be no native cotton in the vicinity of American cotton for 50 miles, so as to save the seed system from messing up, so that the seeds will not be inferior to one year. (To be continued......)