Chapter 519: River Damage

Su You quickly waved his hand: "You're serious. Why don't you ask your son to come in and let Wei'er take a look at his injuries? The fourteen-year-old or fifteen-year-old boy is so strong and stubborn when he kneels outside and goes in and out. People see him. He is afraid of face.

It’s impossible to get off.”

Sun Xue said: "Let him kneel down. Tanhua Lang, the county king, the widow has a merciless request..."

Su You said: "It doesn't matter if you say so."

Sun Xue said: "After this incident, my boy's temperament has changed a bit. He just stays in the house in a daze. In the past, when those gangsters came to call him, they just pretended not to hear."

"I heard that the court was recruiting the children of martyrs to join the Forbidden Army. I thought that instead of letting him get into trouble outside, it would be better for him to inherit his father's legacy and eat his father's rice."

Su You said: "The commander-in-chief must think carefully. After joining the army, he will also go to the battlefield in the future. The sword has no eyes, and he is really risking his life for the future."

Mr. Sun Xue said: "We were born in poverty. It was his father who saved his life with a knife and a gun, in exchange for the royal life in the family. He also has a younger brother and five younger brothers. If I am not afraid of embarrassment, the court's

Pensions, pulling so many half-grown men..."

Shi Wei couldn't stand listening anymore and looked at Su You eagerly.

Su You sighed: "Young Master has an injury on his hand now. If he just surrenders to the army, no one will take him back. I think otherwise, I am also in the third rank of the imperial court and have few companions when I go out. I might as well keep you by my side, firstly to recuperate from my injuries.

The second is to wait for the opportunity. If you stay with me, you will get a salary from the imperial court."

"The Political Affairs Hall has decided today to let me and Bachelor Sima inspect the river affairs, and we will set off tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. If the commander-in-chief has no objection, let your son go back and prepare quickly. We can set off at any time."

Mr. Sun Xue stood up and bowed again: "Thank you, Mr. Tanhua, and thank you, Mr. County Lord."

Su You quickly returned the gift: "If you don't use this gift, it's just for the sake of Jiedu Liuhou."

Sun Xue said: "Then let him come in and pay homage to Tanhua Lang."

After a while, the boy came in, holding his hands and lowering his head, saying nothing.

Sun Xue scolded: "You bastard, why don't you pay a visit to Tanhua and the county prince as soon as possible? From now on, you will follow Tanhua honestly and be a personal follower."

Su You said: "I can't say that I'm a follower. I'm just a companion. It seems that you're 14 or 15 years old, do you have a cousin?"

Sun Xue said: "My son is fourteen this year. His name is Sun Neng, and his courtesy name is Qianchen."

Su You nodded: "Good name, do you know Zhou Chu's story?"

The boy looked up, with a confused look on his face.

Su You said: "Zhou Chu is a minister of the Western Jin Dynasty and the son of Zhou Li, the governor of Poyang in the Eastern Wu Dynasty."

"When he was young, he was fierce and chivalrous. He was rampant in the county. He had extraordinary physical strength. He liked to ride horses and trampled the fields. He was a disaster to the village."

"In his hometown of Yixing, there are dragons in the water and tigers in the mountains. They all attack the people violently. The people in Yixing call it three horizontal lines, and it is especially dramatic in Zhouchu."

"So some people persuaded Zhou Chu to kill the tiger and the dragon. In fact, they hoped that only one of the three horizontal lines would be left."

"Zhou Chu first killed the tiger, and then attacked the dragon. The dragon floated or disappeared, traveling for dozens of miles, and followed it everywhere."

"After three days and three nights, everyone in the village said he was dead and even more congratulated each other."

"But Zhou Chu was not dead after all. He actually killed the dragon and came out. When he heard the people inside congratulating each other, he realized that he had been hurt by human feelings and had the intention to change himself."

"So he went to Wu to look for the two wise men at that time, Lu Ji and Lu Yun. However, his elder brother Lu Ji was not there, and he only saw his younger brother Lu Yun."

"Zhou Chugu expressed his feelings and said: 'I want to revise myself, but my years have been wasted, and I am worried that nothing will be accomplished.'"

"Lu Yun replied: 'The ancients paid great attention to the morning news and died in the evening. Kuang Jun's future is still good. And if people have troubles and their ambitions are not established, there is no need to worry about their reputation not being famous!'"

"Zhou Chu changed his attitude and became a loyal minister and filial son in the end. His achievements surpassed those of his father."

Just as Sun Neng was about to speak, Su You raised his hand to stop him: "The story is very touching, right? So it's easy to get excited and get excited."

"Your father fought bloody battles and served the country loyally. He used his talents where they should be used. Everyone in the civil and military dynasties admired him."

"I don't want you to answer now, and I won't believe you if you answer."

"Go back and calm down, and then think about what kind of person you want to be in the future. In order to become that person, what efforts are you going to make from now on?"

"Now that you've figured it out and thought about it, you no longer have any doubts in your mind. Then tell me the answer. For your father's sake, no matter what you want to do, I will try my best to help you."

"Now let the county master check your injuries. After bandaging, you can go back with your mother."

That night, Su Song and Chen Zhaoming came to visit together.

When Su Song came in, he complained: "Mingrun, how could you do this? I checked the river engineering records in recent years and found that the Yellow River is about to have a dam breach in almost two years. How can you volunteer for such a hot job?"

"

Su Mingrun bowed and saluted, and then asked Su Song calmly: "Brother, do you think there is anyone else in the court who is more suitable for inspecting river affairs besides me?"

Su Song sighed: "I knew you would stop me like this, but you will sacrifice your life for the country. My Su family also has a figure like Fan Wenzheng, and my brother is proud of you."

When I say he is proud, his tone and expression don't even mean the slightest bit of pride.

After a few people came inside and sat down, Su Songcai said, "Is Mingrun familiar with the changes in the Yellow River?"

Su You shook his head: "I only know that river damage comes from the sediment in the water. After the Yellow River flows through the Jingwei Plateau, because the local soil is all loess, when the river reaches Chang'an and Luoyang, the river is already three parts full of water and mud."

"Due to the flow rate, the sediment will not accumulate on the bottom of the river, so the middle reaches of the river are relatively safe."

"But when it passes through Kaifeng and reaches Hebei, the flow slows down due to the low and flat terrain, which means that sediment is also deposited."

"As the silt at the bottom of the river bed gets higher and higher, the water level keeps rising. When the silt fills up the river bed, the river channel no longer exists, and the massive Yellow River water has to find another outlet. Then disaster strikes.

."

"The fundamental solution is to plant more vegetation in Shaanxi to protect the soil and reduce the amount of sediment it carries."

"This is the case with the Jinghe River. When it first came out of Liupan Mountain, the water was so clear that it could even be used to make tea."

"You can enter Weizhou. Due to the advanced farming on both sides of Weizhou, the vegetation is completely exhausted, so it begins to carry a huge amount of sediment."

"By the time we enter the entrance of the Weihe River, we are already half water and half mud, creating a strange scene where Jing and Wei are clearly distinguishable."

"The Jing Canal in the former Qin Dynasty was blocked for this reason. After I arrived in Weizhou, I reopened the source of the canal in the upper reaches of the Jing River and solved this problem."

After speaking, he sighed: "Shaanxi is now a heavily fortified area. The local manpower and full-scale farming are not enough to supply the army. Firewood camps and various equipment require a large number of trees. Now talking about afforestation is a bit fanciful.

Dasu, on the other hand, has created many pine forests in Fengxiang."

Su Song nodded: "It makes sense, but the problem of river damage is not only prominent in our dynasty, it has also been very serious in past dynasties."

"Before the Qin Dynasty, river management was an important position in the imperial court. Gonggong, Dayu, Hebo, and Kuafu were all great sages who controlled water in ancient times."

"From one generation to the next, the Yellow River embankment has been repeatedly breached and repaired. It has been repeatedly repaired and collapsed. Basically, it breaks once every two years and changes its course once every hundred years."

"In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after years of war and turmoil, there was no power to control the rivers, causing the Yellow River and the Bian River to burst at the same time, turning the entire north into a flood."

"It wasn't until thirty-six years later, when the country's strength increased, that Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty appointed Wang Jingxiuhe of Lelang."

"Wang Jing focused his efforts on river control on the Bianhe River, an important tributary in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. He used the Bianhe River to divert the Yellow River water from Xingyang, now northwest of Zheng County, through Tokyo, Nanjing, to Xuzhou, where it entered the Sishui River, then on to the Huaihe River, and then to Qian

Take the entrance to the sea."

Chen Zhaoming said: "This project is more than a thousand miles long. Wang Jing cut and straightened the Bian Canal, dredged the shoals, reinforced dangerous sections, and renovated the downstream river channel. He also set up a sluice at the intersection of the Bian River and the Yellow River.

, to control the amount of water flowing from the Yellow River into the Bianhe River."

Su Song said: "Below the mouth of the Bianqu River, a water gate is set up every ten miles. By regulating the water gate, the amount of water flowing into the Bianhe River from the Yellow River is controlled, so that the water volume of the Bianhe River is kept in a balanced state, thereby achieving the purpose of protecting the Bianhe River. Once there is a flood season,

The Bianhe River can divert a large amount of Yellow River water, thus protecting the dams in the lower reaches of the Yellow River."
Chapter completed!