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Chapter 774 Impeachment of Li Jie
"Well, Cao Qing is right, it is necessary to plan ahead. Then Cao Qing might as well talk about how to plan ahead?"

After "deliberating" for a while, Lu Chengqi asked Cao Fangdao.

Cao Fang was taken aback for a moment, and he just said that, but he didn't know how to prepare for the rainy day: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I think that we need to send food and money to relieve the disaster..."

Lu Chengqi shook his head and said, "If the flood is approaching, the roads will be impassable, and vehicles and boats will not be able to, how will we distribute food and money?"

"Your Majesty, the river should be dredged, or the river should be flooded with hard work, and the breach should be blocked as soon as possible, and the embankment should be maintained..."

Lu Chengqi still shook his head and said: "Now that the Yellow River is roaring, how to dredge the river? In addition, the Yellow River has been silted up for a long time, which is quite serious. The water potential of the Yellow River is almost one foot higher than the surrounding houses. Where is the breach? , It’s also a drop in the bucket, sooner or later I’ll break through.”

Cao Fang thought for a long time holding the imperial wat, fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and then said after a long time: "Your Majesty, I have little talent and little learning, and I can't give advice to Your Majesty. I am really afraid!"

Lu Chengqi said lightly: "There is a specialization in surgery, I don't blame Cao Qing. You must know that 'what you get on paper is always shallow, but you have to do it yourself'. If there is no real water control strategy, it's better not to talk about it!"

Although these words were not serious, the civil and military officials knew that Cao Fang's official career should come to an end here.What the little emperor hates the most are people who can only talk but don't know how to do it; what he hates more are those who do things wrongly and speak even more outrageously, Cao Fangyi is the latter.Being remembered by the little emperor, it will be difficult to get ahead in this dynasty.Not long ago, Cao Fang was promoted to Shangshulie Cao Shilang. He was a senior official of the third rank. When he was full of ambitions, he got carried away.Today, the little emperor rejected them one by one, and all the officials were secretly laughing.

Cao Fang shyly retreated to the ranks of civil and military officials. Lu Chengqicai looked around at the crowd and said, "There is no need to worry about disaster relief. There are Changping warehouses all over Henan Province. According to the report from the Supervision Department, there are surplus grain in Changping warehouses everywhere. Overcome the difficulty. As for the Yellow River, I have already sent Li Jie, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, to dredge it. It is expected that the breach will be blocked immediately..."

Before the words fell, someone below shouted loudly: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I have objections!"

After all, one person walked out first, and Lu Chengqi recognized that this was Yun Feng, the Zuo Jianyi doctor.Lu Chengqi frowned, he really wanted to dismiss Yunfeng, but he couldn't catch his sore feet.This person is also annoying, and he always expresses his objections in order to show his existence.Yun Feng contradicted him many times, but he was not dismissed, which made all the officials' tempers grow, and they would "have doubts" and "disagree"...Anyway, there was never a consensus in the imperial court. sound.

"In the early years of Yuanshou, the Shanghuyu breach in Chanzhou broke through, and the Yellow River diverted its course to the north, flooding the army of several states in Hebei, and the soldiers and civilians were displaced. At that time, the imperial court sent Song Qi, a Hanlin scholar, and Zhang Yonghe, who knew Zhang Yonghe, went to the Shanghu breach to inspect the breach. Manpower and material resources are needed to block the breach. It was said in the memorial to the late emperor that the Shanghu breach was about 550 seven steps wide, and 160 soldiers and [-] river workers could be recruited to block the breach in [-] days. Soon, Guanwen Ding Du, a scholar of the temple, said: "Since the year of Tiansheng, it has taken several years to prepare for blocking the breach in Huazhou before we can start the river battle. What's more, the blockage of Shanghu this year is particularly heavy. Why not dredge the river to reduce the water, so as to block the breach next year?" At that time, the first emperor was worried that the Daxing River campaign would be a waste of money, the construction of blocking the Shanghu breach would be huge, and that Beiliu would reduce water, so he did not immediately block the breach. Later, Jia Chang said, "Please go to the Jingdong Prefecture Army to repair the old embankment of the Yellow River, Diverting water to the east, gradually returning to the old road, and then closing the two mouths of Henglong and Shanghu, it will be a great benefit forever', that is to say, build the old embankment of the Yellow River, block the breach of Henglong and Shanghu, cut off the north flow, and return to the old road in the east of Hejing. At that time The imperial court has not yet dispatched envoys to inspect the Yellow River breach, but only asked officials above the rank and Taiwan admonition officials to discuss their interests and report. In December, Jia Changchao also stated the benefits of returning to the river: after the Henglong breach, the Yellow River will no longer pass through the lower reaches. The old traces of Xingyu. Although there have been river breaks in the past dynasties, the river course has never crossed the north of Yunzhou and Puzhou, and the east of Weizhou and Bozhou. This is especially true for Haikou, which cannot be dredged. After the diversion of the Shanghu River, the Henglong River only has one-third of the original river water, and the Jin, Chi, and You rivers downstream are all blocked, and the river water pollutes the people's fields and even the sea. If Khitan Huqi If you go south, you will have a flat river, and if you don’t return to the river, it will be a disaster for the country. Because the Yellow River will not return to its old course, the fertile fields in Cangzhou, Dizhou, Binzhou, and Qizhou will inevitably suffer from floods, and the taxes will be one or two out of ten. According to the law of the ancestors , the country relies on the Yellow River to strengthen the capital inside and limit the enemy horses outside. Now the north of the Yellow River has lost this barrier. At that time, the national conditions were complicated, and the army marched northward, unable to restore the river. , Entering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we all know that Lan Yuanyong will discuss with the Hebei and Jingdong envoys whether it is beneficial or not to return to the old way, and report to Tian Ting.”

Lu Chengqi patiently listened to his story, and then asked, "What does Yun Qing want to say?"

"Boldly, Your Majesty, please be considerate of the people and follow the example of the late emperor. You must not use the river labor to exhaust the people and waste money!"

Seeing Lu Chengqi asking back, Yunfeng immediately seized the opportunity and advised him: "At the same time, I want to impeach Li Jie, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, for wasting millions of money from the national treasury every year, but the effect of river control is very small. ?”

Lu Chengqi's heart tightened, and he thought: "It's time to come..."

Sure enough, many people waved their flags and shouted after Yunfeng, especially Yushi Zhongcheng Li Ran.

After a long time, Lu Chengqi said calmly: "Li Qing has made great achievements in governing the river. How can he withdraw? No. 1 in water conservancy is none other than him. Changing generals before the battle is a big taboo for military strategists. Besides, river governance is my imperial order. National policy, how can it be said that it is easy to change, and it is useless because of choking?" After the impeachment was dismissed one by one, a court order, the monarch and his ministers broke up in displeasure...

In Henan Province, in the torrential rain, a young man in official uniform was looking worriedly at the newly reinforced Heti.

"Li Xianggong, is this diversion method really useful?"

A civilian husband also asked worriedly, his home is just under the Daming Mansion, if the diversion fails, his home must be the first to be submerged.

"During the Qin Dynasty, there was Dujiangyan, and the method of diversion should be available."

Although Li Jie was worried about the embankment, he had cleared the silt, strengthened the embankment, and deepened the riverbed for more than a year, so he was not afraid of the Yellow River bursting.After the diversion, the Yellow River will return to the east to flow into the sea and reflow into the old river channel, which is already a certainty.

Of course, as a generation of skilled craftsmen, Li Jie naturally understood the reason why the riverbed should be dredged. The Dongliu, which was dry before, had already been dug into a deep riverbed by his laborers.Finally, the river was dredged before the river overflowed the embankment.After opening the sluice today, the river flowed into the east branch like an angry dragon. After a while, the water flow decreased visibly with the naked eye.

Seeing this, Li Jie showed a smile: "Finally passed this level..."

(End of this chapter)