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Zhang Guowei explained: "On the north bank of the old course of the Yellow River, there are many flood channels that can discharge floods and accumulate the sediment brought by the Yellow River. In order to ensure water transportation, the officials of the Ming Dynasty blocked all the flood channels on the north bank of the old course of the Yellow River, and blocked the flood channels in northern Jiangsu. All the flood channels of the Yellow River were blocked, resulting in the continuous accumulation of Yellow River sediment in Hongze Lake and Huaihe River. The method of the minister was to mobilize the people to dig through the old channel of the Yellow River, and also dug the flood channels of Henan and Shandong. At that time, the current river course was blocked, the Taihang embankment was demolished, and the Huanglinggang was dug to allow the Yellow River to flow to Shandong from the old course."

Zhao Han said, "This is a big project!"

Zhang Guowei said: "The old course of the Yellow River and the flooded course, the local people have to relocate. Now, the population of Shandong and Henan is not large, which happens to be a good time to migrate. If it continues to drag on, in another ten or twenty years, the population that needs to migrate will be even greater. many."

Zhao Han nodded and said, "Indeed."

Zhang Guowei continued: "If this method is used, at least 30 civilians should be mobilized, and at least one million taels of silver will be spent. This still does not pay wages to the civilians. If wages are to be paid, the cost of silver will have to increase. It is really too deep. , There are too many projects to be done. Also, after the Yellow River is diverted, manpower can be mobilized to dredge the Huaihe River. The lower reaches of the Huaihe River are silted and sandy, making it impossible for large ships to pass. If the Huaihe River can be dredged, the Huaihe River's estuary can also be built. The ports and cities, and counties along the coast must also prosper in commerce."

Zhao Han sighed and said, "There is money, but it is not easy to organize 30 people, and it is not easy to buy food with money."

Zhang Guowei stopped talking, he waited for Zhao Han to make a choice.

Zhao Han called all the cabinet officials, and after some discussion, he finally issued a decree:

First, select various project sites, and select old roads and flood roads that need to be embanked and dredged.It will take a year or two.

Second, where embankments and dredging are required, no immigration will be made to those areas.

Third, take advantage of the slack season to mobilize local people and carry out dredging in sections.This link is tentatively scheduled to take ten years to complete.

Fourth, ten years later, the projects in Shandong and Henan will be thoroughly improved.This link is tentatively scheduled to take three years.

Fifth, force the Yellow River to divert!

In other words, the entire Yellow River treatment plan is expected to last for 15 years.If not, it will be extended to 20 years.

This is the largest government project since Zhao Han's uprising.

When things are done, it is estimated that Zhang Guowei is about to die, or died halfway through.

Zhao Han said to Zhang Guowei: "Zhang Aiqing, you will spend the rest of your life on managing the Yellow River."

Zhang Guowei got up and walked to the center of the hall, knelt down and kowtowed: "If you can manage the Yellow River perfectly, I will die on the embankment!"

Zhao Han didn't ask him to stand up, and he didn't reprimand him for kneeling down. Instead, he said, "During the river governance period, Shang Fang will be given a sword. Wherever he goes, it will be like my presence. The local officials must fully cooperate."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhang Guowei became more confident.

This is the first time that Zhao Han bestowed the sword of Shangfang, mainly because he was afraid that the local officials would be disobedient, because it would inevitably disrupt the local people's livelihood and economy.

Zhao Han said again: "Zhang Aiqing, you are still the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, with the title of governor of the river, and a rank higher than the minister. One day the Yellow River is cured, and one day you will go straight to the cabinet. If you say something that is not pleasant, even if you die on the river bank Come on, I will chase after you as a cabinet minister!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!" Zhang Guowei said excitedly.

After hearing the words, the ministers of various ministries were envious of Zhang Guowei, and felt admiration and regret at the same time.Because this person doesn't have to do other things, just wait for the rest of his life to work hard, and it is very likely that he will die in office.

Zhao Han said: "Get up, don't kneel from now on."

"Follow the order!" Zhang Guowei smiled and stood up.

Zhao Han warned: "During the governance of the Yellow River, train more capable ministers for river governance."

What do you mean?

Cultivate more people who can do things, even if Zhang Guowei dies halfway, he can immediately select officials to make up.

Death will not work, sooner or later there will be an accident, and it will affect water transportation.

Decades ago, the water depth of the Huaihe River was 6-13 meters, but now it is only 3-8 meters.Historically, until the 15th year of Kangxi, the water depth of the Huaihe River was only 1-3 meters. Not to mention large merchant ships, fishing boats may run aground.

Why did Kangxi frantically manage the river?

It's not that he cares about the people, the root cause is that the water transportation is blocked, if the Huaihuang River is not governed, the children of the Eight Banners in the capital will be hungry.

The management of the Yellow River in the Kangxi Dynasty purely followed the methods of the Ming Dynasty, and continued to fool around.A series of 39 dams were built to artificially raise the water level of Hongze Lake in order to increase the ability to store clear water and clear water.

What's even more ridiculous is that after artificially raising the water level of Hongze Lake, Sizhou may be submerged at any time, but the Manchu officials did not organize the people to transfer.

In the year of completion, water transportation was smooth.

But the entire Sizhou sank to the bottom of the lake, countless local people were drowned, and few escaped!

The evils committed by the Manchu Qing court were passed around, but they became Zhu Yuanzhang's pot.

According to legend, the water demon of the Huaihe River, called the jellyfish empress, took the form of a human, married at the bank of Hongze Lake, and lived a life of men farming and women weaving.Zhu Yuanzhang arrested civilian husbands, built the Ming Zu Mausoleum, and exhausted the husband of the Jellyfish Empress to death.Because the Zhu family is the son of the real dragon, the jellyfish empress couldn't bear it.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the jellyfish lady fell in love with a scholar again, Zhang Guolao made a hindrance, and instigated the scholar to injure the jellyfish lady with magic weapons.

In a rage, the jellyfish flooded the city of Sizhou, the scholar, and the mausoleum of the Ming ancestors, avenging the old and the new.Even if the souls of the drowned souls in Sizhou went to the underworld to complain, it was Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Guo who killed them.

Anyway, drowning a city of people has nothing to do with my Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Guowei left Beijing with a difficult task. He had to go back to his hometown first and reunite with his family for half a month.Next, it is estimated that there will be no chance to go home, and I will have to travel between Shandong and Henan provinces all year round.

All the ministers dispersed, and Fang Yizhi, who had been waiting for a long time, was finally brought by the female officer to have an audience.

"Your Majesty, the hot air balloon experiment has been improved many times, and there is no problem," Fang Yizhi said. "In three days, Jinling University will organize a grand launch ceremony, and all teachers and students of the school will participate. If Your Majesty is free, you can also go to watch it." .”

Zhao Han was in a bad mood just after the regulation of the Yellow River was made, but he became happy when he heard this: "I will definitely go!"

Chapter 514 [Hot Air Balloon]

For the time being, there are only two grades at Jinling University, because the third batch of students has not yet enrolled.There is also a basic class for chieftain children and foreign students, with a total of more than [-] students in the school.

Universities in Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Hunan have already been completed and enrolled students.

Universities in Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Hubei will also start enrolling students this fall.

The public-funded students in each province basically study in universities in their own provinces.However, Zhao Han also let go, the top ten in the provincial examinations each year can go to Jinling University to study at public expense.

The schooling period is four years, and you can graduate early if you complete the credits.

Graduates with excellent grades can take the examinations of Imperial Academy and Qintian Academy, and those who pass can become ordinary researchers of the two academies.After this plan was announced, graduate students were called "Shu Ji Shi".

"Sister Feng, why are you back at school?" Lu Tianxiang asked in surprise.

Feng Heng said with a smile: "I heard that today is a very big gift, something made by Qintianyuan."

At this time, the summer vacation is over, and students from other places can go home.Some people visit relatives, some people get married, anyway, the holiday is two and a half months, as long as the hometown is not too far away, there is enough time for one visit and one return.

The legal age for marriage has also been set this year, 16 for men and 15 for women.

Compared with Daming's 13-year-old legal marriage age, it has been raised by two or three years.Some people must have violated it, but the government generally doesn't care about it, it just doesn't register marriages.

Even many rural marriages do not register their marriages at all, which really causes headaches for local officials.

Like Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Han also forbids marriage with fingertips.As for whether the people obey it or not, that's another matter.Anyway, when someone regrets a marriage, the lawsuit is easy to fight, and the government will never recognize this kind of marriage contract.

Feng Heng went home to get married this time, and married a promising young official.

After the church visit, the husband's family immediately regretted it and advised Feng Heng not to go to college anymore, but to stay at home and take care of his husband and children.With the support of her husband, Feng Heng ran away directly, and returned to her husband's house after graduation the year after next.Anyway, it's not very far away, so I can go back and have a look during the holidays.

Of course, this cannot be said to the outside world. Feng Heng insisted that her in-laws supported her in studying.

Lu Tianxiang pointed to the elementary school textbook: "Sister Feng, what does this word read?"

Feng Heng leaned over to take a look, and said, "Suspect. I suspect it's frost on the ground, and I suspect that the moonlight on the ground is hoarfrost. Have you learned the pinyin?"

"I learned it. A senior sister taught me. She didn't go home during the summer vacation." Lu Tianxiang said.

Lu Tianxiang's group of students hadn't officially started school yet.But a small number of diligent and good scholars have begun to study by themselves.Luckily, Lu Tianxiang can speak Chinese, and some people have to start learning Chinese.

Feng Heng asked: "Is it Wen Shufen? She didn't go home last summer."

Lu Tianxiang nodded: "It's Senior Sister Wen."

Feng Heng said: "Since you have learned pinyin, you can slowly learn to look it up in the dictionary."

"I don't have a dictionary." Lu Tianxiang said.

Feng Heng said: "There are more than one or two books in the library, dozens of books are placed there. For some rare words, even the school teachers have to look them up in the dictionary."

The two left the room together and ran to the next door to check, but the girl named Wen Shufen was not there.

Feng Heng said: "I must be reading in the library building."

Lu Tianxiang said: "I heard that Senior Sister Wen's family is very poor?"

Feng Heng said: "He came from the southern Ganshan Mountains. The farmers there live on sweet potatoes and corn all the year round. Her primary school was very difficult, and she had to walk for an hour to get to school. The teachers in the school were not good enough, and they didn't know a lot of knowledge. She was forced to get No.2 in the town, went to the middle school in the county at public expense, and was admitted to Jinling University at public expense."

Lu Tianxiang praised sincerely: "She is so smart."

Feng Heng smiled and said: "She is not smart, but hard work can make up for it. In the past two years, I haven't seen her play, either in class or reading. After you start school, you will hear her name from the teacher. If there is no use If she is a successful student, the teacher will definitely use her as an example. She is a famous lady in our school. Regardless of her mediocre appearance, there are many high-ranking officials in Nanjing who secretly seek her as a matchmaker. As long as she agrees, send someone to Jiangxi to propose marriage immediately. "

When dignitaries and dignitaries marry their daughter-in-law, they naturally pay attention to the right marriage.

But now it is the time of the great revolution, the concept of family status is not so important, because every year there are poor people appearing.

Although Wen Shufen came from a humble background, and her appearance can only be said to be not ugly, but this woman is really working hard.And through the school's teachers, her name has spread outside the school.

Marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous person, naturally there are wealthy people who want to have this kind of daughter-in-law.

Lu Tianxiang followed Feng Heng to the playground, where more than a hundred students had already gathered.One of them, tall and straight, with a face like a crown of jade, surrounded by more than 20 students, seemed to stand out from the crowd.

"Who is that man? He's so majestic." Lu Tianxiang asked.

Feng Heng said with a smile: "You don't even know him? He ranks first in the provincial examination in Jiangsu Province, and he also ranks first in the liberal arts examination every year at Jinling University. Besides, he is from a scholarly family, has a lot of property, and is handsome and tall. He is not only famous in school, The whole city of Nanjing is famous. I heard that when he went to the Qinhuai River, those famous prostitutes didn’t accept money, and he could go straight into their boudoirs.”

"Hey, he's not a good person either." Lu Tianxiang blushed.

This school grassroots and academic bully is called Chen Weisong, the son of Chen Zhenhui, the fourth son of the late Ming Dynasty.He graduated from elementary school in half a year and middle school in one year. He was admitted to Jinling University at public expense with his grades as the number one scholar in Jiangsu Province.

The reason why he was able to go so smoothly was that he himself had outstanding knowledge, and he had already learned most of the knowledge in elementary and middle schools.

Don't look at Chen Weisong's coolness at this time, but he was very down and out in history.His father, Chen Zhenhui, did not want to be an official in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, his family was in decline, and his property withered.His two younger brothers both entered the Hou family and became Hou Fangyu's brother-in-law, and he himself went to the Hou family to live under the fence.

By the way, this guy is gay.

And in another time and space, he didn't shy away from homosexuality, and even wrote a poem commemorating his marriage with the book boy in the bridal chamber, so he made it known all over the world!

It can also be said that it is the most literary gay work in Chinese history: A Little Drink and Tea.Happy today, the hairpin is shining, the shadows on the temples are shining, and the light is rippling in front of the lamp... The male and female are indistinguishable, but Lin Feng privately takes the spring bow... It is the flower and candle of your life, just like a married woman singing with her husband...

Chen Weisong in front of him was the focus of the audience, and there was a girl staring at him infatuatedly in the distance.

But Chen Weisong's eyes glanced at a boy from time to time.

Suddenly, a group of soldiers rushed to the playground, and all passages in the school were also put under martial law.

The students were not surprised but happy. Looking at the battle, it was obvious that the emperor was coming.

Feng Heng said excitedly: "Tianxiang, you are very lucky. You have only been in school for a month, and you can see your majesty. I have been studying in Nanjing for two years, and I have not seen your majesty yet."

Lu Tianxiang's eyes lit up immediately: "I can ask His Majesty to let me be the female general."

Feng Heng smiled and said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult."

Before the emperor came, Fang Yizhi's scientific research team came first.In addition to the researchers from Qintian Academy, there are also several science students from Jinling University who are carrying the hot air balloon that has been disassembled into parts.

The hot air balloon was assembled in the center of the pasture, and then everyone waited together.

"The Emperor is here!"

Not only the emperor, but also several concubines, princes and daughters, even brothers and sisters Zhu Cihong and Zhu Aimee came.

It was opening the way for martial law, and shouting and embracing, Lu Tianxiang sincerely praised: "It's so majestic to be an emperor!"

Feng Heng quietly pulled her sleeves, took Lu Tianxiang forward, bowed to the guards and saluted: "Meet Your Majesty!"

Zhao Han rode the BMW donated by Jeju Island, raised his hand and smiled, "Excuse me."

Zhao Han and his party were invited to sit on the stage.

Fang Yizhi came over and reported: "Your Majesty, the hot air balloon is ready, please allow it to take off."

"Ascension." Zhao Han nodded.

The sphere of a hot air balloon is made of linen.As for the fuel, it was charcoal and cotton fibers impregnated with oil.

This is advanced enough that in another time and space, humanity's first hot air balloon was launched into the sky, fueled by straw, wool, firewood, carrion, old boots and wet cloth.Just because the inventor of the hot air balloon thought that the hot air balloon could be lifted into the air because it was pushed up by thick smoke and peculiar smell.

In the second experiment, straw and wool were used as fuel to fly several hundred meters high, and it took more than ten minutes to fall.

In the third experiment, the king of France was alarmed.The experimental site was in the square in front of the Palace of Versailles. The hot air balloon was painted with the French royal family logo and collected old boots, carrion and waste items from all over Paris.When the fire ignited, the square was full of stench, and people covered their noses one after another, but excitedly watched the hot air balloon take off.

"ignition!"

Fang Yizhi gave an order, and several assistants lit the fuel, and the hot air balloon began to inflate slowly.

There were two people standing in the bamboo basket, they were Fang Yizhi and his son.I have done experiments with piglets before. After the flame is extinguished, the hot air balloon will not fall sharply, but will land slowly on the ground. There is basically no danger to life.

"Fly up, fly up!"

"Isn't this the big sky lantern (Kung Ming lantern)?"

"Will it fall?"