The next day, more than 20 leading figures in Wu County were invited to board the lucky boat of the government. Although the Lord of the Mansion invited him to visit the river, everyone knew it was a good idea that this was to explore the waterway after the port was opened in the future.

When I first chose a port city, I could not choose a coastal port, so I had to open an inland city with suitable distances, safety and convenience. After some research, I chose Suzhou silently. In addition to its developed industry and commerce and people's concepts are relatively trendy, there is another important reason, which is the Wusong River.

The Wusong River was twenty miles wide during the Tang Dynasty, and it was two miles wide at the beginning of the country. It should have the conditions to transport the major arteries. Its total length is nearly 300 miles, originated from Taihu Lake, crossed the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, flowed through Wujiang, Suzhou City, Wuxian, Kunshan, Jiading, and then entered Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, and injected into the Yangtze River near Baidu Bridge in Shanghai County. Finally, from Taicang Prefecture to the Donghaikou, it passes through this well-connected golden waterway. In addition to direct access to overseas, it can also connect the wealthy Jiangnan region with developed provinces such as Fujian, Zhejiang, Shandong and Jin.

These situations were all silenced by the map and local chronicles, and were flawless on paper. The rest was this field investigation. If the problem was not big, you could announce the schedule of opening the port to everyone.

So in the morning breeze, our future Maritime Mansion Commander, carrying half of the head figure in Suzhou City, boarded the fifth-story big blessed ship for this exploration... This was also the largest ship that could be found at the moment. In order to achieve the test effect, baskets of stones opposite several floors below were already reached by the draft of ordinary sea boats by experienced old ships.

Everyone set out from the canal pier and used the silent reception breakfast in the cabin. When the sun rose and the boat had already left Suzhou, everyone also came to the platform on the top floor, sat down at the table full of fruit and snacks, while savoring fragrant tea, while watching the scenery around, but they saw clear river water, red peach blossoms, yellow cauliflowers, green weeping willows, warm breeze, beautiful sunshine, and a beautiful spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River... Everyone had to admit that although the garden they lived in was sophisticated, it was still much inferior to this real natural scenery.

For a moment, the gentry were relaxed and happy, talked loudly, and wrote poems and wrote pairs, really treating this trip as an outing.

But the silent mood was not that good, because as soon as he came out of Suzhou City, he found that Wusong River was not as wide as recorded in the book...at least four or five miles wide, and the water depth was also very average. It was obvious that it was indeed a bit difficult for a large ship to ride on the surface.

But it was still within acceptable limits, so he didn't show his concerns on his face, but not long after, he could no longer sit still, stood up and walked to the side, holding the railing and looking out.

When they saw Lord Mansion like this, the laughter and joy naturally ended abruptly. Everyone also stood up and surrounded him, looking forward with silent eyes. They saw that the river was much narrower than when they left the city!

At this time, the sailor below came up to ask for instructions and said, "Sir, the waterway is silted too much. We must discard the stones on the ship, otherwise we will not be able to move forward."

Silent nodded in depression and agreed to the request.

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Cradles of stones were thrown into the river from the ship, reducing the weight of the large ship, and then slowly moving forward; but before he walked twenty miles, the sailor came up to ask for instructions again and had to continue to lose weight.

I just threw some of them and walked for a while. Finally, in the afternoon, I couldn't move forward again - the river surface was reduced to only twenty feet wide, and although the depth was unknown, I could no longer hold such a big ship!

Silent held the railing with his hands, his face turned pale as paper, his eyes seemed to be there? Looking at the river, but in fact he had lost his focal length... There was only one voice in his heart, and he moaned weakly: "It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be!"

The book says that Taihu Lake is 36,000 hectares wide, and the way to enter the sea is the only way. The Northern Song Dynasty Jiaqiao Road: "The ancient Wusong River is deep and wide, and it can rival a thousand pu". Local chronicles show that the river mouth was twenty miles wide during the Tang Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty was nine miles wide, and the narrowest place in the early Yuan Dynasty was still two miles wide!

It turns out that it is better to have no books than to believe in books. I never thought that the only way to vent in such a huge Taihu Lake is so narrow and almost like a ravine!!

"What should I do now?" Everyone looked at each other. Although they were born and raised here, they just knew the neighborhood of Suzhou City, and they were blinded by a little downstream. Someone asked, "Where is this?"

"In Kunshan County." A desolate voice sounded, drawing everyone's eyes over. It was Suzhou's promoter Gui Youguang.

I saw him holding the railing with both hands, and his eyes were filled with tears: "Sir, when you asked me where I was, I said it was Jiading. In fact, Jiading is just the residence of my family. This is my hometown and my place of growth."

"Haha, is that?" Chen Si asked with a smile: "Why don't you live in Kunshan?" In fact, he was a little unhappy with Gui Youguang's sudden interruption, but with the harmonious relationship between the two, he still had to support him when it was time to support him.

Then he heard Gui Youguang say: "In the 21st year of Jiajing, Taihu Lake flooded, and the entire Kunshan was flooded. After the disaster, the plagues were rampant. Nine out of ten houses were empty and I couldn't stay. I had to leave my hometown and take refuge in Jiading. In recent years, the flood peaks and the dangers in Kunshan were constantly coming, so the Han family had to stay in Jiading."

Silently asked everyone, "Is other counties the same?"

Everyone nodded sadly and said, "Taihu Lake is 36,000 hectares wide, and the way to enter the sea is the only way. During the rainy season, the lake water rises and vents down. Most prefectures, including Suzhou City, are flooded, almost every year. Kunshan is low-lying and is even more severely affected, so there is a saying that "beggar Kunshan".

Looking at the narrow river surface, silently asked softly: "Is this related to narrowing of the river channel?"

"It's the reason for the Wusong River!" Gui Youguang said in a deep voice: "Northeast of Suzhou, surrounded by rivers and seas, and the Taihu Lake is stored in the middle. Taihu Lake is huge, and Wu is low. The way to enter the sea is unique to Wusong. However, the water of Taihu Lake is pouring out and also carries a lot of silt, which gradually deposits downstream. Moreover, the lake fields are fertile and are often surrounded by the people, and compete for the benefits of size with the water!" He pointed to the rice fields on the north side of the river and said: "Sir, please see, the farmlands of hundreds of feet are actually the original river channels. In this way, the river has been built, and the river has almost become a flat land, and the water channels are thin and weak. When the flood comes, how can it be released in time? How can it not flood?"

The silent face nodded seriously and did not respond. This situation was really surprising. He directly asked him to give up his promise and die.

Everyone on the boat came with hope, but when they encountered this situation, they didn't know what to say.

Finally, Lu Ding said slowly: "In fact, at the beginning of the country, he used the method of "Ji Song and Liu" and opened the Fanjiabang waterway to find another way out. In the past century, the Wusong River has been dredged many times, but it has been dredged and silted repeatedly, with little effect, and it cannot change the shrinking situation in the end.

"This is really a silence reminder. No one can solve the problem of Taihu Lake floods. If you are entangled, you will miss the matter. Finally, the old man said: "And the rainy season is coming soon. Now it is too late to cure Wusong."

Everyone also echoed: "Sir, in fact, we will suffer a considerable loss every time the flood is caused! Who did not want to solve the flood in the past dynasties? But no one could solve it... Taihu Lake nourished Suzhou and turned us into a rich Jiangnan water town; it also flooded again and again, so that we would not be rich enough to rival the country. This is the way of heaven, which is destiny, and we all recognize it!"

Silence nodded slowly and said to Gui Youguang: "Do you have a solution?"

Gui Youguang nodded and said, "Yes! It can be treated as a big deal or a small deal. Those who treat the great deal take the sea as a means to completely clear the Wusong River, remove the silt of the rivers and lakes, so that they can receive the water of the Zhihe River, restore the old appearance of the Tang and Song dynasties, and guide the water of the rivers and lakes and pour into the sea, which can be solved once and for all!"

Silent raised his hand to stop his long speech and said, "Tell me how much money it will cost first?" He had done it in the cabinet. In his impression, water control is like piles of gold.

"That..." Gui Youguang said: "I'm afraid it costs millions of taels..."

"Millions of taels?" Lu Ding laughed and said, "If the court had this money, would it be necessary to let the palace master open a port and trade with the Western barbarians?"

"Wusong River will be treated sooner or later." Chen Si nodded and said, "But now the court's war is in a tight situation, and it is time to use money. It is obviously inappropriate for us to take major projects," he said, "When the war is over, the war is over, and we have money, we will definitely do a big deal... Looking at the congested river surface, Chen Si knew that the rain is sparse now and there is nothing to do. It is conceivable that if this problem is not solved, when the rain is continuous in summer, the river water will surge and flood into disasters, so don't think about opening a port, and use the power of the government to fight floods and rescue disasters!

When he thought of this, he found that he should no longer resist Gui Youguang's opinion, but should pay great attention to it, so he asked, "Tell me about your Xiaozhi? At least he has to deal with the most difficult periods in these few years."

Gui Youguang had known that the former was not good, so the reason he had to say it was just to cover the latter. He said: "If it is forced by the situation and it is better to build a waterproof embankment..."

As soon as this said, there was an uproar. Everyone laughed and said, "It's wrong for Duke Zhenchuan. The river channel is silted so far. Even if it is necessary to rectify it, it should be cleared and dug. What should I do if the embankment is built?"

Siren also asked, looking at Gui Youguang, but listened to him confidently: "The water of the Hujiang River contains mud and sand. Because this section of water flow is slow, it gradually deposits and silts, so that the river channel becomes narrower. Drying dredging is a method, but the cost is too high and it is too late now." As he said, his hands raised up parallel to him: "It is the dry season, the water flow is flat, and the water volume is less than 30% of the water abundance period. You can imagine that if we build a dam in the low-lying area of ​​Kunshan to restrain the water flow and artificially create a rapid flow, it will inevitably wash away the silted mud and sand. After a rainy season, the silt here will inevitably be greatly slowed down. This is to benefit ourselves by using the power of heaven and earth."

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this. It was indeed a clever way, so they asked, "How much does it cost?"

"It can't cost a lot of money." Gui Youguang finally moved everyone, and he couldn't help but cheer up: "Sir, please see, the east and west banks are actually very high and low. The east and west banks are in high terrain, so he is afraid of flooding, but he is afraid of not raining for a month and cannot water. On the contrary, the terrain is too low, and the water floods the Jinshan, so the people on both sides of the east and west sides work together to build the west banks... There is no need to take soil from a distance, just dig on the river. On the one hand, the river can be dredged, and on the other hand, the old shore with mud attached can be built and built higher and wider! When the rainy season in summer and autumn, the water surface will rise, and then the people on both sides will dredge the branch river for the east bank and store water for the moon to prevent raining for a month!" As he said, his hands closed, "This financial resources are not in vain, and drought and flood are prepared!"

"Okay!" Lu Ding praised the first time: "What a wonderful method!" Everyone was also excited to hear it, and felt that there was no more appropriate method than this. They said one after another: "In this way, the river channel has been deepened and widened, and the adults have no worries."

Seeing that everyone looked at him, he smiled silently and said, "I would like to discuss it. If it is feasible, just do it."

Gui Youguang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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When the boat returned to Suzhou City, it was already dusk. Everyone said to Lord Zun of the Beschaft, boarded the car and sedan waiting at the pier, and went home.

His eyes were withdrawn from the crowd of people who went away, and when he looked at Gui Youguang, he became extremely strict.

Gui Youguang was quite self-aware, knelt down on the ground, possessed himself and said, "I am a good at making a decision, please punish me!"

"Why didn't you discuss with me in advance?" said silently and coldly.

"I am afraid that the adults will not agree." Gui Youguang said: "The only way to make this bad decision." If he had said it earlier, silent would definitely try to avoid this section of water. For example, changing the port opening site to Taicang Prefecture, where there is Liujiang River entering the sea, is a better choice. However, in that way, Suzhou City will lose this golden opportunity for development and Wusong River will not have the opportunity to dredge it.

Gui Youguang did not want to be a sinner in Suzhou, so he could not let Master Fu Zun know the real situation in Wusongjiang early. He had to wait until today, and he had invited half of the wealthy families in Suzhou City. He could not say it when he changed his course, so that he had to agree.

"How is this different from coercing me?" He said coldly. He had been holding this fire for a long time, and he was so angry that he was not so angry.

Gui Youguang removed the black veil and put it on the ground, and said calmly: "I am allowed to deal with my humble duties!"

Chen Si squatted down, looked at Gui Youguang, and said with a smile: "I feel very happy when I put it on my side, right?"

"Not happy." Gui Youguang whispered: "I have been trusted by the elders, and I feel that I am loyal to you. I am the only one who is loyal to you. I think that my hometown is still in dire straits, and I have to dare to commit the last time..."

"What a great person," Chen Si patted his shoulder and joked: "If I take off the black veil like you, wouldn't I become a 'black sky'?"

"The subordinates dare not," Gui Youguang said: "I am responsible for my own fault, and I deserve it."

Siren stood up, and with a foot hooking ball, he picked up Gui Youguang's black yarn into his hand. While patting the soil on it, he said lightly: "Do you know, where is the most annoying thing for Qingliu officials?"

Gui Youguang shook his head.

"It's just about giving opinions but not doing the facts!" Chen Si said calmly, "So no matter what the result is, they are correct and honorable." He said, "Do you think so too?"

Gui Youguang quickly shook his head like a rattle and said, "I am not that shameless in my humble position."

"Then don't want to give up!" Silent put the black sa on his head with a straight voice: "Do your own things to do, and you will be limited to seven days. Come out with a detailed plan and submit it!"

"Sir..." Gui Youguang's eyes were filled with tears: "You...I..."

"Why, don't you?" Chen Si asked with his eyes narrowed.

"I'm willing," Gui Youguang quickly cheered up his spirits: "You are such a kind and righteous gentleman!"

"Renyi is a bullshit!" Chen Si glared at him, "It's our credit for doing it well. We will be promoted and made a fortune together; if we can't do it well, you can take the blame!"

Gui Youguang knew that the Lord was just talking about angry words. If a big deal of a river maker was like this, the prefect would not be able to escape if he had a mess. The reason why Chen Si said this was just to exert his anger and add pressure to him.

"I'm not bragging about myself. I've been inspecting Wusong River for more than ten years," Gui Youguang laughed and said, "I can still come up with effective methods for the management of Wusong River when visiting the river workers and checking historical records." After saying that, hesitated and said, "But I really have to command so many people and manage such a big project, but I don't have the ability."

"Well, just be a good chief engineer," said silently, "I have someone else to choose someone who really leads people to work," and said, "I'm definitely the best contractor in history!"

"who?"

"Hai Rui." Silently hit his hands: "After talking to you yesterday, I was thinking about what he did best. Finally, I found that he was definitely the best candidate for managing the project." As he said, he was very honest and did not want to make profits; he was energetic and was not afraid of hardship; he was ahead and enjoyed behind. If such a person manages the project, I feel at ease, comfort, and at ease."
Chapter completed!