Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 137

A few more days passed.

As the one-foot-thick freeze on the river began to thaw, Zhu Di sent four sea boats again to go to the Bohai Sea to catch sea fish.

However, this time Xu Xiang took out the fleet and returned to Beiping Mansion within a day of departure.

Then, Guo An and Zhu Fu were hurriedly called over by Zhu Di.

"My minister sees Your Highness!"

"Get up."

Zhu Di waved his hands solemnly, and without waiting for Guo An and Zhu Fu to take the initiative to ask, he said directly: "Now, the fish in the Bohai Sea should have recovered after a winter's rest.

We want Xu Xiang to lead the big boat in the house, and go to Bohai Sea to catch more fish before the imperial navy fleet reaches Bohai Sea.

It's just that, after all our calculations, we didn't expect that at the beginning of the intersection of spring and winter, the hydrology of the Tonghui River will drop, and large ships will not be able to pass.

I don't know what good strategy Guo Qing and Zhu Qing can have? "

Zhu Fu frowned slightly, he was sensitively aware that his position in Zhu Di's heart was somewhat lower than that of Guo Bandit.

A monk left, and another Guo thief came!

No, the monk didn't leave either, he was just suppressed by Guo thief's light.

Thinking about it, Zhu Fu felt inexplicably better again.

As for Guo An, Zhu Fu didn't put so much thought into it. After hearing Zhu Di's words, he immediately became anxious.

In the matter of catching sea fish, there is also Guo An, who is a part of it. If he misses fishing for one day, he will lose dozens of taels of silver.

Thinking about it, Guo An quickly asked: "May I ask Your Highness, are there any big ships outside Beiping Mansion?"

Zhu Di glanced at Guo An helplessly, and said, "There are only a few big ships in my Prince Yan's mansion, how can there be other ships outside?
What's more, if any large ship wants to go fishing in the sea, it needs a huge engineering transformation.Otherwise, we can just find someone to buy a few ships. "

Guo An was taken aback for a moment, he was a little too anxious and forgot about this.

Seeing this, Zhu Di looked directly at Zhu Fu who was at the side, "What can Zhu Qing do for this matter?"

Seeing that Zhu Di finally thought of him, Zhu Fu was deeply moved.

However, he had no idea about how to solve the water flow of the Tonghui River, so he could only shake his head helplessly.

"Your Highness, I don't know about water conservancy, but I believe that this matter is the responsibility of the prefect of Beiping Prefecture, and His Highness should urge the prefect of Beiping Prefecture to resolve it."

Hearing this, Zhu Di's eyes lit up, "Zhu Qing is right."

Because in the city of Beiping Prefecture, there are crowded Yanwang Mansion, Chief Executive Officer, Examiner Division, and Commander Division, all of whom are superiors to the Yamen of the prefect of Peking Prefecture. The prefect of Peking Prefecture is like a small transparency. The presence of the Ping county government is not as good as that of the Daxing county government.

Therefore, Zhu Di somewhat forgot that there is still the Beiping government office.

Zhu Di instructed Zhu Liang who was below: "Go ahead quickly and summon the prefect of Beiping for us."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Zhu Liang responded and walked quickly.

Soon, Yu Rentian, the prefect of Beiping, hurried in.

"Yu Rentian, the magistrate of Beiping, my subordinate official, is visiting His Highness King Yan. I don't know why His Royal Highness is looking for an official to come here?"

"Prefect Yu, please sit down."

Zhu Di had a gentle face, and after Yu Rentian took his seat, he said, "Prefect Yu, there is less spring rain this year, and the water level of the Tonghui River has dropped. It is difficult for large ships to travel, and water transportation is blocked. Many merchants complain. I don't know if Prefect Yu can solve this problem." ?”

"This……"

Yu Rentian glanced at Zhu Di in astonishment, and then got up quickly with a face full of panic.

"Please forgive me, Your Highness. I have never heard of this matter. However, please rest assured, Your Highness, I will definitely send someone to investigate in detail when I go back, and try my best to solve it."

Guo An directly stared at the prefect Yu with wide eyes.

And Zhu Di's expression immediately turned cold, "Yu Rentian, do you think this king is lying to you?"

Yu Rentian's face turned pale, and he quickly got up and saluted and begged for mercy: "Your Highness, forgive me, I have absolutely no intention of doing so.

However, the affairs of river engineering and water conservancy have always been handled by the magistrate and general judge of the government office, and the lower officials don't know much about the water conservancy of Tonghui River. "

Zhu Di's face became serious, he turned his head and shouted to Zhu Liang, "Quickly go and summon the Tongzhi and Tongju of Beiping Mansion to this king."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Zhu Liang responded and walked out quickly.

Zhu Di snorted coldly, sat on the chair by himself, sipped his tea slowly, and ignored Yu Rentian.

Regarding this, Yu Rentian could only lower his head, and did not dare to act rashly.

It's just that, regarding the purpose of Yan Wang Zhu Di's actions, he has already guessed more than a dozen possibilities.

Waiting for Yu Rentian's legs to stand numb and his forehead to start sweating, Zhao Jie, the Tongzhi of Beiping Mansion, and Tongdan Dangfuzhong finally arrived.

"My subordinate, Zhao Jie, the co-prefect of Beiping Mansion, will meet His Royal Highness King Yan!"

"Your Majesty, the General Judge of the Beiping Mansion, will see His Royal Highness Yan Wang again!"

As the two greeted each other, Zhu Di raised his head slightly.

"Today, we summoned you and the others because the hydrology of the Tonghui River has declined, which has affected the water transportation. I wonder if you and the two of you can have a good plan?"

Both Zhao Jie and Dang Fu couldn't help being dumbfounded, subconsciously glanced at the prefect Yu Rentian beside him.

It's a pity, I just saw Shangguan with a pale face, sweat on his brow, and a stiff expression.

This made the two of them panic even more. Could it be that King Yan wanted to use this to question them?
However, since they took office, apart from accepting the rules of appointment, charcoal respect, year respect, door respect, and some makeup respect and literary respect, they have never been greedy for ink since they took office.

Could it be that someone in his own yamen offended His Highness King Yan?
However, after thinking about it, the two hurriedly replied: "Reporting to His Highness King Yan, since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, some dignitaries and monks and temples in the upper reaches of the Gaoliang River, Lugou River, and Jinshui River have privately led canals to irrigate farmland and vegetable fields, which has led to a The water flow of the Hui River is decreasing day by day.

Now, every winter and spring, the water transport ships from the south stop at Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou, and no longer enter Beiping Prefecture. "

Zhu Di asked in a cold voice: "This king asked you about a good solution, why are you telling me these things?"

Zhao Jie and Dang Fu looked anxious, "Reporting to Your Highness, Tonghui River water transportation has been inconvenient since ancient times, and there is nothing I can do about it!"

"No way? Well, there is no way!"

Zhu Di snorted coldly, "Father, the emperor appointed you as the magistrate, co-prefect, and general judge of Beiping Prefecture. They are all the parents' officials of Beiping Prefecture, and it turns out that you are so vegetarian?"

"Your Highness, calm down."

The Tongju Party trembled again, remembering that he had talked about the Tonghui River with some officials before, and quickly said: "Your Highness, the water transportation of the Tonghui River was originally led by the previous dynasty Guo Taishi to draw the water from the Gaoliang River.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Gaoliang River alone was not enough to support the water supply of the Tonghui River. Therefore, in the early Yuan Dynasty, the Lugou River and the Jinshui River entered the Tonghui River from the south of Dadu to facilitate water transportation.

Nowadays, the Tonghui River has started to run short again. For the current plan, we can only send officials to strictly investigate the irrigation of the upper reaches of the Gaoliang River, Lugou River, and Jinshui River. This may bring some water to the Tonghui River. "

"Your Highness, what the party judge said is very true. It is time to strictly investigate the irrigation of farmland by the people in the upper reaches of the Gaoliang River, Lugou River, and Jinshui River."

Yu Rentian and Zhao Jie nodded as if grabbing a life-saving grass.

Zhu Di asked in a cold voice: "Strictly investigate the people's irrigation of farmland? Just ignore those gentry families?
The people's farmland is irrigated by that little water flow. If you close the ditch, wouldn't it cut off the people's way of life?Where are you going to put the people along these rivers? "

Dang Fu hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, the Gaoliang River is related to the water transportation capacity of the entire Tonghui River, no matter what, the common people cannot be allowed to use water from the Gaoliang River, Lugou River, and Jinshui River to irrigate the farmland.

Otherwise, with more and more ditches on both sides of these rivers, the water flow of the Tonghui River will become less and less. "

Zhu Di's expression softened a little, but he continued to ask: "In this way, can the spring water transportation problem of Tonghui River be solved?"

"This……"

A trace of hesitation flashed across Dang Fu's face, "Forgive me, Your Highness. There are tens of thousands of households attached to the three rivers. It is extremely difficult to completely cut off the irrigation of the canal. There has never been such a precedent since ancient times, so the next official also Not sure!"

Zhu Di was immediately furious, "Are you trying to use the livelihood of tens of thousands of people to try the water transportation of the Tonghui River?"

"This is the only solution."

Dang Fu muttered.

Guo An couldn't stand it anymore, and asked directly: "Dare to ask the party to make a judgment, and how do you plan to prohibit these tens of thousands of people from using ditches to irrigate the farmland?"

Zhu Di also stared at Dang Fu coldly.

Dang Fu's expression became ruthless, and he said: "This is a decree of the Beiping government, and those ordinary people must implement it if they don't."

Guo An asked again: "Then what if all the gentry block it collectively?"

Dang Fu froze, thought for a moment, and then said slowly: "The gentry have less land, if someone disagrees, we can deal with it according to the circumstances."

"Hmph, it's a good one to deal with."

Zhu Di asked in a cold voice: "We just gave hope to the people of Beiping Mansion, and you are going to drive them all to a dead end?"

Dang Fu's face turned pale, and he said hastily: "Your Highness has learned from you, this official has no such intention."

Zhu Di said sharply, "But you are doing it."

With a plop, Dang Fu knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Your Majesty, I have learned that the lower officials only want to solve the matter of the Beiping Mansion's water transportation, and they don't think about that much at all."

"Okay, okay, get up, we didn't say to cut off your head, why are you so scared?"

Zhu Di waved his hands a little irritably.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Only then did Dang Fu get up slowly.

Zhu Di looked at Yu Rentian and Zhao Jie again, "One of you is the magistrate of Beiping Prefecture, and the other is the co-prefect of Beiping Prefecture. What's your plan?"

Yu Rentian and Zhao Jie immediately showed fear on their faces, "I am ashamed to be an official."

"Humph!"

Zhu Di's face was even more irritable.

At this time, Guo An thought of something, and suggested to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, why don't you build roads?"

"Build the road?"

Zhu Di was taken aback for a moment, full of doubts, what's the matter with water transportation and road construction?

Similarly, Zhu Fu, Yu Rentian and others on the side were also full of doubts.

Guo An explained, "Your Highness, Zhangjiawan Wharf in Tongzhou is not inferior to Haizi Wharf. Every spring when the water transport on the Tonghui River is inconvenient, the water transport ships will berth in Zhangjiawan, and then a level road will be built from Zhangjiawan. The wide road leads directly to Wanping County.

Nowadays, these merchants will complain, because although the road from Tongzhou to Beiping is not far away, the road is rough and inconvenient for vehicles and horses.

If a smooth road is built for them, and they can walk in rainy and snowy weather, those merchants will not complain. "

"A road that is feasible in rain and snow?"

As soon as Guo An's words came out, Yu Rentian, Zhao Jie, and Dang Fu were all shocked.

They have never heard that such a path exists.

Unless these roads are paved with smooth bluestones like the streets in the city, it is possible.

But how is this possible?

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(End of this chapter)