The black belly is too fierce

Chapter 276 She has a way to prevent floods

When the queen heard Huang Manxi speak like this, she asked with great interest: "Does Manxi girl have any good ideas?"

Huang Manxi saw that the queen noticed her, stood up excitedly, and replied with a smile on her face: "Yes, my little girl also has a good idea."

The queen nodded: "Let's listen."

Huang Manxi nodded obediently, and her expression became serious: "The constant flooding of the Lancang River is because the river is blocked by silt and the flow of water is not smooth, so the heavy rains in summer are the high incidence of floods. So the emperor only needs to send the local people to dig Just walk through the silt and dredge the river.”

Hearing this, the emperor nodded in agreement: "I have also thought about the method you mentioned, but in the first few years, I could still send people to dredge the river, but in the past few years, the number of people has been decreasing. , and dredging the river is a big project, and it is impossible to complete it with their hands alone, let alone completely cure the flood."

Huang Manxi is also opportunistic. This method has been mentioned countless times by many ministers present, and it is not a good method at all.

Seeing that the emperor was not very satisfied, Huang Manxi proposed again: "The emperor can also build a dam. The dam has the ability to store floodwater and can play a role in flood prevention."

Hearing the words, the emperor shook his head with a gloomy expression, and said solemnly: "I don't know how many times I ordered people to build the dam, but the flood was so strong that it broke the dam every time. So the dam was built and built again, back and forth. Repeated countless times, it is a waste of money and people, and the people are complaining."

Hearing this, Huang Manxi had nothing to say.

She could come up with these two methods in her mind because she often listened to her father chanting in front of her, so she was able to remember them. If such a good method can't prevent floods, no one will be able to come up with other methods.

Although Huang Manxi was disappointed that this problem could not be solved, she felt at ease thinking that no one else could surpass her answer, and waited for the queen to announce the result with a smile on her lips.

At this time, Concubine Hui, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly turned her gaze to Su Moliang, and asked softly, "Miss Su, I want to hear your thoughts."

Huang Manxi couldn't help sneering when she heard this, and said sarcastically, "Hehe, a pariah from the Southern Sui Kingdom, what can she think of? I heard that the people from the Southern Sui Kingdom are not only poor in strength, but also stupid in mind. It's hard for her."

Su Moliang didn't want to stand out at first, but she was somewhat angry when she heard Huang Manxi talking about the untouchables of the Southern Sui Kingdom.

So, she stood up unexpectedly this time, and retorted loudly: "Miss Huang, you said that our Nan Sui country is weak, I admit it, but you insult our people in the Nan Sui country for being stupid, I disagree with that. "

"Wow, how dare you talk back! Shut up if you have no other choice, you have no place to speak here!" Huang Manxi growled sharply, not giving Su Moliang a chance to defend himself.

Su Moliang sneered when he heard the words: "Miss Huang, if I have a way, what will you do?"

Huang Manxi saw another brazen person, and immediately sneered: "Hehe, it's up to you? Well, if you really have a way to satisfy the emperor, I will apologize to you and admit your mistake, how about it!"

Su Moliang nodded slightly: "Okay!"

After finishing speaking, she turned her head to look up at the emperor above, and said loudly, the loud and clear voice resounded like jade beads dropped in the hall: "Your Majesty, flood control is the same as seeing a doctor. If you want to completely cure the flood, you need to find As far as I know, there are roughly four reasons for the floods. First, the Lancang River has a wide basin, abundant rainfall, and the main stream has a long flood season and a large amount of water. Second, the Lancang River started from Cangyuan Kingdom It originated in the north, passing through many small towns on the way, winding down, the river is curved, and the sediment is easy to silt up, so the water flow is not smooth. Third, in recent years, the emperor probably saw floods that destroyed a lot of crops, so A special order was given to promote agriculture. As a result, the people surrounded the lake to reclaim land, and some ecological lakes were reclaimed into farmland, which destroyed the lake's ability to regulate and store, and lost the ability to resist floods and disasters. , destroyed vegetation and trees, and lost a lot of water and soil. The above points are all the culprits that lead to floods!"

Hearing Su Moliang's long speech, the women present were ignorant and couldn't quite understand it, but the ministers and officials present suddenly realized as if they were awakened by a stick.

They have never considered these reasons in detail, let alone sorted them out in such a systematic way.

Now that Su Moliang said it, everyone thought it was right and nodded quickly.

The emperor was also shocked when he heard the words, and his contemptuous eyes just now became serious.

He really didn't expect that this little girl from the Southern Sui Kingdom would have such an opinion, which is really shocking.

Seeing that everyone was intimidated by Su Moliang's words, Huang Manxi immediately retorted unconvinced: "Cut, what's so great about knowing the reason, now the emperor asked you to tell the solution, and you said a lot of reasons. The bull's head is wrong with the horse's mouth, and the answer is not the question."

Su Moliang glanced at her indifferently, and said with a light smile, "Don't Miss Huang know that you have to see, hear, and ask when you see a doctor? If you don't even know the root cause, how do you start to treat it? If you don't even know the cause, you just blindly Doing it, not only cannot cure the disease, but may worsen the disease! Just like the two methods you just mentioned, on the surface it is a way to stop the flood, but in turn, not only did not cure the flood, but also cost people and money, and caused heavy casualties!"

"You—" Huang Manxi was immediately silenced by her, blushing.

The emperor had never seen such a well-organized and eloquent girl, so he couldn't help being more interested, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Su Moliang, don't make circles with me, just tell me the way to prevent floods."

Seeing that the emperor couldn't wait any longer, Su Moliang twitched his lips and raised a smile: "Since we already know the reason, we should prescribe the right medicine. First, we should close mountains and cultivate forests in river basins, restrict logging, conserve water sources, and block water and soil." Lose the source of floods. Second, do a good job in water and soil conservation in mountainous areas, plant trees and cover, plant grass, build terraces, dig water storage pits and ponds. Third, build embankments in the middle and lower reaches, open ditches in depressions, and adjust water storage , can control both floods and droughts, killing two birds with one stone! Fourth, dredging the river in the middle reaches, cutting the bends to make them straight, prohibiting the reclamation of lakes for farming, and ordering the conversion of farmland to lakes. If these points are achieved, basically there is no need to fear floods. The emperor can also sit back and relax."

Hearing this, the main hall, which was still a little noisy, was so quiet at this moment that only the shocked gasps of the crowd could be heard.

Everyone stared at Su Moliang dumbfounded, even Gong Moyu looked at her in disbelief.

He never knew that the question that had troubled his father for so many years, spit out from the mouth of the woman in front of him, turned out to be so simple and clear!
(End of this chapter)