Fourth Lord's Black Moonlight Queen

Chapter 262

After returning to Yixinzhai anxiously, Li Jingui held in the palm of his hand the solution kit that he had been clutching all the way.

Cangyang Gyatso said that she gave birth on the day of her birth. He said that Xiao Hongyun in her womb was born on the same day as his Ama, and the birth date was originally in the first month of the twelfth lunar month, so this baby had to be born a full month earlier!

Now it is almost mid-July, so the child will be born on October [-].Less than four months to go!
Fourth Master had just left the Beijing office for a few days, and it would take at least half a month's journey from the capital to Kaifeng Mansion.

What's more, after arriving in Kaifeng, I am afraid that he will face more serious problems, which are related to the state affairs of the common people in the world.

At this juncture, even if the sky falls, Li Jingui has to find a way to carry it by himself.

The Yellow River bursts its dikes every year, and it tests the governance capabilities of officials along the river every year.

Harnessing the Yellow River costs money, and the imperial court has to allocate funds every year, so local officials have opportunities to take advantage of it.

Compared with the previous dynasties, the Qing Dynasty's governance of the Yellow River was full of disadvantages.However, the attention of the Qing court to the Yellow River cannot be said to be insignificant.

When the Qing Dynasty just entered the customs, Lord Shunzhi set up a river governor to manage the affairs of the Yellow River.

However, the grass vegetation in the upper reaches of the Yellow River continued to deteriorate, which made the flooding of the Yellow River more serious in the Qing Dynasty.

The Yellow River carries a large amount of sediment and deposits to the downstream channel, and gradually rises above the ground on both banks, causing the Yellow River to overflow and divert.

The simplest way to control the Yellow River is to quickly block where it bursts.

In this way, Zhihe is passively waiting for it to breach, and then plugging it up.

Lord Kangxi worked hard to govern, and now the Qing Dynasty is in a prosperous and prosperous age, the imperial court is rich in finances, and its annual income is about 5000 million taels of silver.

It is precisely because of the silver that the Lord Long Live is also very generous when allocating funds to control the river. Every time a major breach occurs in the Yellow River, he will often spend millions of taels of silver to manage it.

In the face of vain money, corrupt officials are prevalent for selfishness and malpractice.

Although the Qing Dynasty hoped that the officials would be clean and honest, Lord Kangxi ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety. The farther away the emperor was from the sky, the more corrupt the officials were.

In order to make more money, river defense officials even pray that the Yellow River will burst every year.

The imperial court is not a fool either. In order to prevent corruption and selfishness in the river affairs, the imperial court stipulates that every time the Yellow River bursts, the imperial court will only pay [-]% of the money and food consumed by blocking the mouth, and the remaining [-]% will be paid by river defense officials at all levels. money.

The original intention of the imperial court was to hope that the river defense officials would do their duty. As long as the Yellow River does not burst, neither the imperial finance nor the river defense officials would have to pay.

However, river regulation is only a passive way to block the gap. If the problem of water, soil and vegetation damage in the middle and upper reaches is not resolved, the Yellow River will still burst even if the river defense officials go shirtless in person.

What's more, river defense officials at all levels will lie about the disaster every time the Yellow River bursts in order to evade the imperial court's river control policy and not to spend money.

Don't think that they underestimated the disaster information in order to evade responsibility. On the contrary, they exaggerated the disaster situation many times before reporting.

In this way, not only do river defense officials not have to pay, but they can also get a fortune from the imperial court's river control funds.

Fourth Master's trip was not to supervise He Gong, but to kill others, so she was worried.

At the end of October, and tomorrow is the fourth master's 22nd birthday, the fourth master's letter from home should have arrived a few days ago, but Li Jingui couldn't sit still and waited, but he didn't see the letter from home for a long time.

"Master, it's time to go to Yixinzhai to say hello."

"Well, if Fourth Master's family letter comes, remember to take it with you and wait outside Guan Juxuan as soon as possible."

　The crow is the sacred bird of the Qing Dynasty!
　　The emperor of the Qing Dynasty believed that the crow was the patron saint of Aixinjueluo, so there was an image of a crow on the statues worshiping ancestors in the Kunning Palace in the Forbidden City. From the emperor to the common people, they all worshiped it and regarded the crow as a god. To bless the sacred bird of the Qing Dynasty.The reasons are as follows:
　　1. Legend has it that Aixinjueluo was born because a crow was eating a red fruit by a woman and gave birth to a baby boy. Aixinjueluo appeared so miraculously, which shows that in the legend of the Manchus , Aixinjue Luoshi is inextricably linked with crows.

　　2. Due to internal strife, the ancestors of Nurhachi's lineage were almost killed. It was the appearance of a crow that saved him and kept Nurhachi's lineage, which led to the later Qing Dynasty.

　　In the process of Nurhachi leading the troops to conquer the various ministries of Jurchen, a large group of crows appeared as a warning to protect Qing Taizu Nurhachi from desperate situation.

　　3. The Manchus have low productivity and rely on hunting for a living, but hunting has certain chances. If they can’t hunt, they will starve. They found that following the crows can get a lot of harvest every time, which ensures the continuation of the nation.

　　Crows have five virtues: reciprocal feeding, longevity, wisdom, warning, and no mistakes.The saying that the crow is ominous does not exist in the customs of some ethnic groups. The Manchu Qing respected it as a "divine bird". The auspicious bird of the Manchus is a crow rather than a phoenix.

　　ps, the transformation of a crow into an auspicious bird in this article has a lot to do with the heroine!
　　
　
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