Qin Qiong was a general who became prime minister with martial arts. The military prime minister naturally had a martial style.

When handling matters, the key is to enforce orders and prohibit them, and they are not vague, and they are in a hurry. The troops stationed in the Weiying Mansion, released grain to provide disaster relief, and restored the government offices in various places. The governors continued to move.

Jiangling City.

The imperial palace in the city has been changed to the emperor's palace Jiangling Palace. Qin Qiong's governor's yamen was set up in the outer city, together with the Sansi yamen.

Under the corridor of the back yamen, a table and several chairs were surrounded, and a pot of tea was brewed on the table. Qin Qiong, Huang Junhan, Xu Shao, Xu Zhiren, Du Zhisong, Zhai Mohou and others sat around.

"Before leaving the capital, His Majesty once said this, and it will be familiar to both sides and the world will be full of people." Qin Qiong said holding the cup.

Xu Shao's gray hair and beard are now renamed the Left Administration Commissioner of Hubei Province. He has served in Jianghan for many years and is even a person here, so he is very puzzled by this sentence.

"Qin Prime Minister, 800 miles of Dongting Lake, is full of floods. Our place has always been poor in the past. Except for the better conditions in Nanjun, the rest of the places are very poor, and the south of Dongting Lake is even poorer. These two lakes are familiar and the world is full, so where does it come from?"

Xu Zhiren also said, "I have only heard that Suhu is familiar, and the world is full, but I have never heard that two lakes are familiar, and the world is full."

Sushu refers to the area of ​​Susong Taihu Lake, which is now the territory of Shen Faxing, the governor of Jiangdong.

Xu Shao's hometown is Anlu County. His grandfather and father both served as the governor of Chuzhou. He was previously a guardian of Yiling. It can be said that he knows more about the Jianghan area than anyone else.

Although the two lakes have Dongting Lake and Jingjiang, and the Han River to the north, they also have both river and lake plains and water transportation advantages. But in fact, the Dongting Lake in the south of the Jingjiang River and the unstable rivers and lakes in the north have always been not friendly, and even disasters are frequent.

Thousands of lakes on both sides of the Jingjiang River are everywhere. These large and small lakes are actually caused by floods. Even many lakes are unstable, and are actually floodplains.

The key to why this happens is that it is not conducive to water control.

Although the Jiangling area was Jingzhou in ancient times and was once a key place in the world. All dynasties have spent a lot of effort on governance, it only has some effect on the Jiangbei area. The management method is also simple, which is to build a dike and try to block the water to the south of the Yangtze River, without coming from the north of the Yangtze River.

This is also the reason why Yunmengze, a big lake in Jiangbei, continued to shrink and finally disappeared in the past. Only during the flood period did some lakes appear after floods in Jiangbei.

For areas south of Jingjiang, the governance efforts are basically small, so when there is a large flood, it will flood. After flooding, many silted areas will be formed, so the lakes and swamps are densely spread, forming a zone that is difficult to live in and cultivate.

"The Jingjiang area has frequent floods and flooding rivers, which has caused rivers and lakes to be silted, so it is impossible to say that the two lakes are familiar with the world."

Qin Qiong smiled.

"I know the current situation on both sides of the Jingjiang River. I have been running around some time ago. Although it is dry season now, many lakes and swamps have dried up, so I can see it more clearly. Many places say they are lakes, but they are actually silted areas with very shallow water."

According to the information obtained by Qin Qiong and the results of his personal inspection, the situation in Jinghu is indeed not optimistic now. The water damage is caused every year, and there is even a major flood every few years. Countless people are affected. After being flooded, more and more fields are silted into lake swamps. Not only is the 800-mile Dongting Lake constantly increasing, but there are even three large lake bands between the Jingjiang River and the lower reaches of the Han River.

Once a flood occurs, the entire Jinghu area is nearly ten counties and dozens of counties, and it becomes a country of marsh.

"Since the end of Daye, the Han River in Jingjiang has been even more obstructed, resulting in the flooding of rivers and lakes. Now, a large area of ​​rivers and lakes has been added every year. If this continues, the entire Jinghu area will become a huge lake area."

Qin Qiong took a sip of tea and continued, "Your Majesty means to control the lake, not allow the lake to flood, build the embankment, and restrain the lake. Re-didle some rivers that were silted in the past, dig deep the main stream river channels, build the embankment high, and retain some main lake areas, while re-encircling and building fields for some shallow swamps that were silted due to flooding in the past."

If it is not managed, the flooding of rivers and lakes will be out of control. At that time, the lakes will continue to expand and swallow countless fields and villages. These floods will lead to more silt. Once it encounters heavy water, it will cause greater flood damage, and if it continues to have a vicious cycle, it will eventually become an unmanned land.

To build fields in lakes is certainly not to eliminate lakes. In fact, lakes have the function of diversion and storage of floods. If the lakes are gone, it will be even more unstoppable when encountering heavy water.

But at the same time, you must also face the harm of the lake and not allow expansion or silt.

Therefore, the imperial court actually started to investigate Jinghu a few years ago and proposed some preliminary transformation plans. This plan is very large. Overall, it is to strengthen the construction of dikes. The river silt must be comprehensively cleaned up the river channel silt and built stable dams to achieve stronger flood discharge and water retention capabilities.

At the same time, embankments must be built in the lake area to ensure the safety of fields and villages outside the lake area. The lake water cannot flood during floods and silt the surrounding areas into the lake area.

To clear the main streams of rivers in the south and north of the Yangtze River, clear out the flood outlets of the lakes, and then burrow the dike and build dams. The main lake area will not move, for example, the core area of ​​Dongting in the 800-li, the lake areas with deep water will only be cleared and built dams. However, for the outside, the areas that were later flooded and silted, they will be cleared and drained through ditches and drainage, and then burrowed into fields, and restored them to fertile fields again.

Even these renovated fields can be used to drain water and drain water and irrigate.

"If we can do this, then the original flood area, a painful place with nine disasters in ten years, can become a fertile field for thousands of miles. The fields in the lake area are flat and fertile, and can also be irrigated. Introducing excellent rice seeds can be ripened twice a year. It is not a problem to produce three or four stone rice per acre per year. Everyone, think about it, wasn't it the two lakes that were ripe at that time, and the world was full?"

Xu Shao, a native of Jianghan, could not help but be shocked by this great plan.

If you think about it carefully, if the court can really invest a lot of manpower and material resources, especially with a comprehensive plan, and manage more than ten counties in Jinghu Lake together, there will be a great possibility of success.

If Jinghu no longer floods, there will be no more disasters in ten years. The silted areas of the lake in the past will become fertile land for thousands of miles, with more than a lot of new land and more food to be added in a year.
Chapter completed!