While the father, son, daughter-in-law and brothers of the East and the West were busy performing ethical dramas of kindness, filial piety and family affection, the Great Zhou Republic in the North was in fatigue.

Yes, it's exhausted!

To Zhao Huan and Du Chong, two war criminals who should be on the gallows, are harmed!

The Yellow River flooded again and was diverted again! The Yellow River, which captured Huai and entered the sea last year, was diverted again near Liangshanpo, flowing south into Huai and east into Ji.

This is natural. After each major change of course of the Yellow River, it usually lasts for many years before it can finally stabilize.

In history, Du Chong dug the Yellow River in 1128. In the following decades, the rivers in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River have been erratic, sometimes flowing south into Huaihe, sometimes flowing east into Ji, and sometimes diverting south to east. It was not until 1194 that the route to seize Huaihe and sea was finally determined, and then it was not until 1855 that it flowed east again. However, during this period, medium-scale diverting occurred, which caused trouble in Shandong, Henan, Anhui, northern Jiangsu and other places.

Finally, it was time to settle down in the new China...

After hundreds of years of trouble, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River have naturally been completely abandoned, and China's economic center has left the prosperous Central Plains.

Now, the process has just begun, and there may be a possibility of reversal.

"...This time, many territories in Puzhou, Yunzhou, Qizhou, Zibo and Qingzhou were flooded again. In particular, Pu and Yunzhou were particularly severely affected. Many military households who were placed there last year also suffered from disasters!"

In a large meeting hall of the Senate in Tianjin, Zuo Xiangzhang Zhifeng was in front of a large map platform to introduce the newly established Senate Water Conservancy Branch to members of the newly established Senate Water Conservancy Branch to the situation of the resurgence of the Yellow River this summer.

Wu Haogu is also in the meeting hall. He is not a member of the Water Conservancy Branch. He is in charge of military and diplomatic branches in the Senate. The establishment of such a "brochure" is mainly to facilitate the veterans to study practical affairs. However, the "brochures" are not clearly distinguished between the "brochures", and "visiting each other" is also allowed, because there are many important issues that cannot be handled separately by a "brochure".

For example, the problem of the Yellow River and Huaihe River construction!

"It was not repaired last year, so why did it flood again this year?" Huang Silang of the Water Conservancy Branch asked a question.

Huang Silang is an expert in engineering construction and knows a little about water conservancy, so he is in charge of water conservancy and creates the affairs of the two branches.

"Last year, the focus of river engineering was to protect Xuzhou." Mu Gongyang, Minister of Works, replied, "The focus was on the construction of the Liguo Dam and the Sishui Lake flood discharge area, and the river channel from Sishui to Huaihe River was cleared. Unexpectedly, the Yellow River was divided into easterly this year..."

The Yellow River has now lost control of its original river channel and is turbulent everywhere!

"In fact, it's good to divide the east stream!" The person who spoke was Su Qi, who is now the Minister of Works of Wuyijiu Cabinet. "If the Yellow River can be divided into the east and south streams, the pressure on the downstream can be greatly reduced and it will not be easy to form a large flood."

"Can you maintain two streams?" asked Su Dalang, the veteran in charge of the Finance Branch, "The Yellow River is not very willing to flow eastward... The riverbed flowing eastward is too high, right?"

The Yellow River originally flowed eastward, but in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a tendency to divert north and south through the north and southward flows!

Because of fear that the Yellow River flows north and lets the Liao people go downstream (in fact, the Liao people are going against the current), the "Three Yi Return to the River" was caused in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and people wanted to change the route of the Yellow River! As a result, it caused a disaster. Su Dalang knew about these things, so he seemed very worried.

"If Du Chong is included this time, the Yellow River will be the Four Yi! It's such a sin!" Su Dalang shook his head repeatedly.

"What do people from the river engineer say?" Wu Haogu asked at this time.

He didn't know how the Yellow River flowed in history, but he knew that the terrain in northern Jiangsu is very wrong now... there are a lot less!

Considering that northern Jiangsu is an impact plain, the less lost land must have been caused by the silt accumulation of the Huai River.

But how can there be so much mud and sand in the Huai River? Thinking about it, you can only rely on the water of the Yellow River.

In other words, the Yellow River captures the Huai River is a major trend. This major trend cannot be changed artificially!

Because the reason for the Yellow River to divert is the silt downstream, which causes the riverbed to rise. The flow of water to the lower reaches is a natural law. How do you change it? The Yellow River will choose to flow south, because the east flow, the river channels that flow north have already accumulated and raised, and only the south flow is more pleasant. Later, the river channels of the south flow gradually accumulate, while the river channels in the middle flow gradually rise, and the east flow is relatively smooth again.

Anyway, this matter can only be followed...

"People in the river engineering field believe that the south flow is the general trend," replied Su Qi, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works. "But the flood diversion area of ​​Liangshanpo and the river flowing east into Ji must also be retained to avoid excessive flow of water in the south flow, causing the Huai River to flood."

He paused, "The people from the River and Construction Bureau believe that to prevent major floods from occurring in the Huaihe River, the Yellow River must be dispatched in a unified manner. The Huaihe River's flood discharge and flood discharge cannot be fought independently. If there is a lot of precipitation in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, it is necessary to use Liangshan Pond to release floods and divert floods."

Not to mention, water conservancy experts from new universities are better than those of the self-taught water conservancy experts in the Northern Song Dynasty! I know that we need to manage the entire basin, and we should not treat the head when we have headaches or feet hurt!

Moreover, they also knew that they would set up flood discharge areas and flood diversion rivers - self-taught Confucian water conservancy experts also knew that, but setting up flood discharge areas and flood diversion rivers would occupy a large area of ​​fertile land... This matter was nothing to the Great Zhou, but it would be troublesome to the Song Dynasty ruled by the literati and officials.

Land acquisition is a problem, and flood discharge areas and flood diversion rivers are reclaimed another problem... On the contrary, in the Great Zhou, Western Song, and Eastern Song, they all seem to be nothing big, and none of them could do it well at that time.

"Can we build large sluice gates?" Wu Haogu asked.

Ordinary wood and stone sluices were built in ancient China. However, it was a bit difficult to test the sluices that blocked and dispatched the surging Yellow River water.

"The people from the Water Conservancy Bureau are trying to build iron bars and mortars." Su Qi said, "A mortar weighs tens of thousands of pounds, and can only be pulled with iron chains, winchs and oxen. In addition, the gate dam made of iron bars and bricks are enough to withstand the water of the Yellow River."

The so-called iron-bar-marble-building version is a reinforced concrete version! It existed like black technology in the Middle Ages, so the price is of course necessity, it must be very expensive.

The mortars built in the plate are all top-quality, so you have to add ground iron slag!

Iron tendons are even more amazing, made of forged with crucibles and cooked iron.

Such a reinforced concrete gate is naturally reliable and may last for hundreds of years.

In addition to the gates that need to be reinforced concrete, the key flood gates must also be repaired with large pieces of bricks and stone cement, so as to ensure that there is no large amount of water to wash away.

However, the rest of the embankments can only be made of rammed earth. Even so, the project volume is so large that it is unimaginable.

And the most troublesome thing is not the project volume, but the river channels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are not fixed. There will be situations where one is repaired and destroyed - because the Great Zhou Republic cannot complete the construction of thousands of miles of embankments in the shallow water period of three quarters.

So when the Yellow River is flooded in the second year, for example, there will be a bank dam that has not been repaired and will even cause some completed bank dams to break.

"Have the budget been made?" Su Dalang asked the question about money.

Zhang Zhifeng shook his head, "The total budget is not easy to do... no one knows how many river workers need to rework? So now we can only make the budget for the autumn of the 11th year of the Republic to the spring of the 12th year, which costs about 6 million taels of silver coins.

The government is planning to use the rent of the official land as collateral to issue bonds to raise the money."

For a long time in ancient China, the matter of river management was spent on every year and repaired every year, and nothing happened once and for all.

Therefore, it is impossible to ask Zhang Zhifeng to come up with a total budget, and he can only come up with an annual budget.

And this river engineer is also a conscientious account to some extent! If the supervision is not effective, the expenditure will be 6 million taels, and I don’t know if there is 1 million spent on the blade.

“How many bonds will be issued next year?”

"It is expected to cost 10 million," Zhang Zhifeng said, "it costs money to manage the canal and restore the Liguojian Iron Mine and several carboniferous mines in Xuzhou.

In addition, it will also cost a lot to relocate the troops and knights."

Now most of the new knights and new mansion soldiers have received manors and bonuses, but a group of knight soldiers who have just settled down have suffered floods. This is because the government is not considerate and must spend money to resettle.

"It costs 10 million..." Su Dalang looked sore and turned his eyes to Wu Haogu.

During the nine and ten years of the Republic of China, the fiscal revenue of the Great Zhou Republic was only about 15 million.

Now the debt is worth 10 million!

This deficit is really a little higher, right?

"10 million is about 10 million..." Wu Haogu smiled, "As long as we can manage Huang, Huai and Yun well, are we still afraid that we will not be able to pay back the money in the future?

But we have to spend money on the edge, and to manage Huang, Huai and Huai are a thousand-year plan, so there must be no sloppy... We must set up a government office in charge of river workers to facilitate supervision of the Senate."

"That's natural." Zhang Zhifeng promised, "The Ministry of Industry will establish a unified Hebei Bureau, which will be in charge of Huang, Huai and Transportation Engineering. It not only needs to manage Huanghuai, but also the canal waterway system of Nanzhi, Henan, Shandong and Hebei. The Huang, Huai and Transportation Engineering are actually a water system, and only by planning them can we achieve real results.

The government, the Ministry of Industry, and the River Industry Bureau naturally welcome the Senate to conduct review and supervision."

The review and supervision of the Senate of the Great Zhou Republic is not a casual statement - Wu Yijiu, the head of state, has an opposition in the Senate!

Wu Yijiu is a so-called Republican, and the Senate also has a Su Wang Party, who advocates the implementation of royal government. Of course, it is not chosen by Wu Yijiu as the king, but by Wu Haogu or Wu Yiyong. The two parties can actually be regarded as "Yijiu faction" and "Yijiu faction".

If Wu Yijiu people now use the river engineering to make a big profit, the brave men will definitely not let them go, so they have to clamp their tails a little.
Chapter completed!