Xinshun 1730

Chapter 954 Fishing
After dealing with the company's dividends and setting a high accumulation policy, Liu Yu asked the bank to print banknotes for the emperor's dividends and domestic income, changed his face from worry, and headed for the capital.

This time he did not take a boat to go to sea. It was not because he was worried that the ship sank and the emperor was worried about shipping. Anyway, he was carrying banknotes. Even if the ship sank, there would be no legends about the sinking of the Spanish treasure ship.

He chose the most classic route back to the capital.

Suzhou Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, Qinghe Ferry, cross the Yellow River, go up Hebei, cross Shandong, and return to Beijing.

The Grand Canal is about to be abandoned, and he wants to take another look at the Grand Canal before it is abandoned.

The last time I came to Qinghekou to meet the emperor was early winter.

It is summer now.

The weather has been pretty good recently, and it is supposed to be the bustling season, but everywhere I see, there is always an indescribable depression.

Before entering Qingjiang Estuary, the face of the governor of Huanghuai who came to greet him turned green.

A few days ago, when he got the news that Liu Yu was coming, the governor of Huanghuai knew something was wrong.Liu Yu is a person who likes to wander around and investigate people's sentiments.

Walking around at this juncture is easy to be beaten to death.

If something happened, he couldn't bear the responsibility.

Xindao, you said that you were born in the navy, so can't you take a boat to Dagukou honestly?What kind of canal road did you say you took?Isn't it just looking for trouble?
There was a lot of dissatisfaction in my heart, but I was able to get along on the surface, so I could only call my confidantes, picked seven No. 80 experts, and told them to follow Liu Yu and ensure safety.

After exchanging pleasantries, they introduced a few people Liu Yu recognized, such as Liao Hanhui, who was encouraged by the emperor's "Small Yu, my fish" last time when he was going to speak boldly about governing the Huaihe River.

In the "Xiang Army" compiled and trained by Cao Gong, there are also some old troops of Liu Yu, all of whom were engineers, and now they are needed to organize and train the Xiang Army.

The governor of Huanghuai hosted a banquet for himself, but the place where the banquet was held was in the big tent outside the city, not Qingjiangkou.

"Duke Xing, don't blame me for being negligent. If you enter Qingjiangkou, today's meal will not be enjoyable. A gentleman stays away from the kitchen. There are some things, knowing it is one thing, and seeing it with your own eyes is another."

The governor of Huanghuai picked up the wine and first set the tone for today's reception.Some officers who were qualified to be accompanied by veteran engineers in Jinghai Palace also knew what it meant. Before they started drinking, they persuaded them first: "Since it is the community, there will always be people who suffer. Temporary disadvantages, long-term benefits .Duke, don't be sad."

Liu Yu laughed, picked up the wine glass and drank it down, and then said: "Don't worry. I promoted this matter, and I am not ignorant of the consequences. The 80 Qingjiangkou will not take three years, and there may only be 8 left." people."

"Before I came, did you think that when I entered Qingjiang Estuary, the road would be paved with flowers, the people would welcome me wholeheartedly, and everything would be full of vitality?"

"I'm thinking about it. It's all about the overlord of Chu being trapped in Gaixia and Wujiang killing himself."

After finishing speaking, he poured another glass of wine, got up and said, "Water control is not my specialty. Waste water to change the sea and the fate of Nanyang, but it is closely related to water control. This battle, whether it is Gaixia or Pengcheng, all depends on you. Please." !"

Everyone got up one after another and drank the glass of wine with Liu Yu.

Liao Hanhui who was accompanying him hurriedly said: "Duke, don't worry, I have been appreciated by His Majesty, and I have to provoke it. This treatment of the Huai River is my idea and my suggestion. Although a certain person is not talented, he is also somewhat confident. .”

"It's raining heavily now, just wait until the weather is cold and the water is dry, and work hard for a few months. The main trunk will be opened first, and the tributary irrigation canals will be slowly repaired in the future."

"During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was still possible to build Dujiangyan, Zhengguo Canal, and even conquer Lingnan and build canals. Is it not as good as before?"

"Today I made it clear. The Hongze Lake, Huaihe River, and Anhui floods have killed people every year. This year's governance of the Huaihe River will definitely kill people, and hundreds of thousands to millions of people on both sides of the canal will definitely be affected. But, they die every year, and even one day when Hongze Lake breaks its embankment, it can be said to stab people and kill them, is it not me or soldiers?"

"I……"

Liao Hanhui saw that Liu Yu's complexion was not very good, and thought that Liu Yu felt ashamed in his heart, at least ashamed of the 80 people in Qinghekou.Once the canal is abandoned, these people can only live in other places, and the prosperous business in the past will never return, and even Huai'an Prefecture may "lose all the residences".

But he didn't know that Liu Yu's thoughts were extremely firm. He had experienced many things like the Dayuling trade route in Lingnan, so how could he still have such a fragile heart?
It's just that Liao Hanhui didn't finish his sentence. Governor Huang Huai felt that Liao Hanhui's words became more and more wrong. He was afraid that he might say something wrong, so he hurriedly interrupted and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, this is not a pre-war mobilization. I took over Xing The public’s affairs in the Western Regions, even to suppress the rebellion, never said such impassioned words. It’s really unnecessary, it’s unnecessary.”

"Now that there is enough silver, Xinggong guarantees that the rice and grain shipped by sea are in place, and the Academy of Sciences has special high-efficiency explosives. Although it cannot be used for war and is somewhat dangerous, it is first-class in explosives."

"The pre-Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties can do things, why can't this dynasty do it? Why bother to think about the overlord being trapped in Gaixia, it's really unnecessary."

"Do you only think that you are the only one responsible?"

"I'm here to do the most offensive thing. Do you know how many people's ancestral graves will be flooded? How many people's lands will be flooded? Your Majesty told me, just do it and don't be afraid of offending people. But speaking of it, such things... No one will object on the surface, how many knives will I have to stab me secretly?"

"It's easy to hide from an open gun, but hard to defend against a hidden arrow. In this matter, we are all grasshoppers on the same rope. If you swear, you are called the turtle king Bayi Yiteng."

"What's the big deal? Duke Xing and I, as well as all of you present here, were murdered from the mountain of corpses in the sea of ​​blood. It's worth sighing about such a small matter, as if it seems to be left behind ?”

Liu Yu was already a little numb to the point where there were too many lice and it didn't itch.

The so-called planning is up to people, and God is up to it. Everything that can be done has been done. Whether it can be done this year depends on whether God gives this opportunity. Pity the people who have been ravaged by the Huaihe River for hundreds of years.

Relying on the words of the Governor of the Huanghuai River, Liu Yu also said: "Exactly. What's the big deal? Brother Liao is an expert in water control and has a specialization in art. Since you are confident, what else should I worry about?"

"While enjoying the wine, why don't you show this water control atlas, and I'll take a look too."

Liao Hanhui nodded in response, and soon, a huge map was hung up.

Liao Hanhui came to the picture with a glass of wine in his hand, and he really had the air of giving advice.

However, Liu Yu only felt emotional, the same iron farm tools, no machinery, the same people, almost the same level of productivity.

The same project, but different organizational capabilities, will be used in later generations for the main irrigation canal of the Huaihe River into the sea, that is, the mobilization level of a prefecture-level city.

It is also a hub at the level of shovels, earth baskets, and Qinghekou. A prefecture-level city mobilized, started in November, and completed in May.

But at this time, the power of the whole country is needed, and the total fiscal revenue for one year needs to be provided, and the power of the whole country that cannot make big moves for several years.To mobilize resources from all over the country, rice from Nanyang, beans from Liaodong, iron from Gyeonggi, money from Songjiang Prefecture, and even borrow money from the Netherlands.

The mobilization power of the whole country is comparable to that of a prefecture-level city in the future.

In the previous life, I saw a lot of big projects. At this time, although Liao Hanhui was passionate and generous, giving advice, Liu Yu was not so excited and just listened quietly.

The place where the passage of the canal into the sea passes is the place with the largest population in Nanyang in recent years.Especially the catastrophic Funing.

Xinhe will divert water from Gaojiayan, go to Huai'an and Funing, and then enter the sea.

In the future, a three embankment will be built between the Yellow River and the Xinhe River.

According to Liao Hanhui's excited introduction, the disaster-stricken areas such as Funing will be turned into fertile irrigation fields.

Of course, even though he was working in northern Jiangsu, he should be the happiest in Anhui.

One of the major reasons for the Huaihe floods was that the former government’s policy of ensuring water transportation along the river made Hongze Lake higher and higher, and the water flow in the upper reaches was not smooth, and it was bound to flood when it rained a little.

The bottom is blocked.

Moreover, there is no need to protect water transport, and the Yellow River strategy of "protecting the north but not the south" that began in the Ming Dynasty can basically be abandoned.

However, Liu Yu has nothing to do with Anhui affairs.

But from Liao Hanhui's introduction, a plan of "fishing and law enforcement" in Liu Yu's heart gradually took shape.

Funing is the place where Liu Yu was forced to engage in young crop loans that were purely "throwing money" when the catastrophe went to Nanyang last time.

Now that the Xinhe River has been repaired there, and it is going to be turned into an irrigation area, Liu Yu feels that his money cannot be spent in vain.

My Youth Loan is quite influential over there, as it is a charity organization after all.The darkness is full of eyes and ears.

Now that the new river is going to pass through there, it must be to mobilize the people there.

Fishing law enforcement, how to catch?
Liu Yu already had an idea in mind.

Seeing Liao Hanhui talking about the planned Funing irrigation area, he was talking about the many "evil policies" of the previous and current dynasties.

"In the past, we needed to ensure water transportation. When it was flooded, we had to drain water into the fields; when it was dry, when the seedlings in the fields were half-scorched, we had to ensure that the water transported by the canals could not be used to irrigate the fields."

"Now that the water transport has been abolished, this new river has been repaired. It can drain water when it is flooded, and can irrigate the land when it is dry. This is called a river."

"If the new river is built and connects Huai'an to Funing, according to my calculations and inventory, at least 120 million mu of irrigated fields will be added."

When Liao Hanhui's finger moved to Funing, Sheyang and other places, Liu Yu said: "This section must be to organize the people and conscript them into civil service? In my opinion, relying on the Xiang army alone may not be enough."

Liao Hanhui hurriedly said: "Exactly. The Duke doesn't ask, I'm going to say it. I still need to ask the Duke to come forward to coordinate and transport the grain, rice and utensils by sea."

"It's the main place for going to Nanyang in the past few years, and the Duke is familiar with it there. Since the young crop loans can be spread all over the counties, there is no problem if you want to come to grain and rice utensils."

"No disasters this year, I mean..."

He glanced at Liu Yu, and finally said: "I mean, can the people who owe the Duke money to go to Nanyang postpone their departure until March next year?"

"The construction starts in October. If there are no accidents, if the weather is early and cold and there is no autumn rain, it should be completed in March. I also asked that in March, the monsoon has not yet risen, and it is still possible to go to Nanyang."

Liu Yu said with a smile: "Don't talk about March, even if you don't leave this year, it's nothing. It's just throwing another [-] to [-] silver coins. But it's just that I'm the Yue Zu acting as a substitute. This matter still depends on the Jiangsu Festival. The envoy came to give me a document, so I can coordinate. Although they owe the young crop loan, they have not yet arrived in Nanyang, after all, they are the people in northern Jiangsu, and I can't control them."

"How about this, when I return to Beijing this time, I will report to the Holy Master Ming to clarify this matter. I think I will also ask for more errands. I will be responsible for the logistics, supplies, and collection of money and food for the people along the coast."

Since he said that, everyone present was very happy, and the fear was that he would ignore it.This kind of logistical affairs of coordinating tens of thousands of people or 10,000+ people is difficult for ordinary people to manage.Moreover, it depends on sea transportation. If there is an extra department to coordinate, it will be troublesome.

Now everyone is like a fucking grasshopper on the same rope, each with its own difficulties: Liu Yu has the most lice on his body, Liao Hanhui is the most dangerous, and the governor of Huanghuai suppresses the situation and offends people and wants to flood the ancestral graves and fields. If you open it, you must do it well.

Liu Yu's reason for taking this muddy water trip is simple: fishing and law enforcement.

Give the local gentry the money and food that should be paid to the civilian husbands.

They "distributed" to the laboring people.

Liu Yu thought to himself, there must be injustice for shooting all of them. Every other one will be shot and one will be designated as slipping through the net. Today I will give you the opportunity to embezzle, detain, and embezzle. Just change your last name.

And there is no need to be too explicit about this matter, as long as you mention it to the emperor in a subtle way, the emperor should understand what Liu Yu wants to do in his heart.

If he didn't plan to launch a major national case, he would directly tell Liu Yu that it was impossible.As long as there is no objection, it is tacit consent, and it may even be necessary to prepare the firing squad and check the acres in advance.

(End of this chapter)