Qiming 1158

Chapter 630 Governing the Yellow River
Su Yonglin believed that the three generations of monarchs and ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty had committed no less crimes than Du Chong on the issue of the Yellow River.

This tablet records in detail the deeds of the three generations of monarchs and ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty who tossed the Yellow River three times before the excavation of the Yellow River embankment. Content.

He wants to make everything clear to the world, and let the people of the time know how bad the country and the people are in this wave of Song Junchen's actions.

All in all, if there is a grievance, there is a debt and a master, and there is revenge for revenge, and there is revenge for injustice, and no one will be left behind.

The Yellow River has gone through four tossings by the rulers and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty to have such a "splendid" "grand occasion" today.

If this "credit" cannot be counted on their heads, then the millions of people who died because of it would really be dead in vain.

The inscriptions on the two steles were written by Su Yonglin himself. After the completion of the steles, Su Yonglin also personally presided over the public sacrifice ceremony on the edge of the Yellow River in Kaifeng, offering condolences to the martyrs and laying the foundation for public opinion for the Ming Dynasty to remediate the Yellow River.

Although it is said that after the Middle Tang Dynasty, the Yellow River gradually lost control due to various reasons, but after four "god-level operations" by the rulers and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River was quickly tossed from an unpleasant stepmother to a majestic woman who sacrificed her family methods to show her majesty, roaring and roaring at every turn. hurt.

When things have come to this point, if there is no real and thorough governance, there will never be a peaceful day in the Central Plains, and the agricultural production and economic development in North China and Hebei will also be stagnant, unable to develop further, or even restore the original state. The huge agricultural productivity of the Huai region will also be greatly limited.

The economic development gap between the south and the north will widen, and the lost hundreds of years will further reduce the economic importance of the north to China, affecting the development of the Central Plains in all aspects, and will greatly hinder Su Yonglin's industrial development plan.

This is something Su Yonglin cannot tolerate.

Fortunately, although the Yellow River that Su Yonglin faced was devastated four times by the rulers and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty, it hadn't been devastated by the wave when Captain Chang burst the dyke at Huayuankou, so the situation he faced was better than in later generations.

Although the Yellow River at this time was already difficult to control, the situation was not so bad that it was irreparable.

After Du Chong, until Su Yonglin overthrew the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom only played small troubles on the Yellow River, without large-scale governance or large-scale destruction.

the reason is simple.

As a result, although the Yellow River was in a very bad condition at this time, it did not burst frequently, and the previous emperors of the Jin Kingdom had not given up attacking and destroying the Southern Song Dynasty, but had always thought of destroying the Southern Song Dynasty.

It was not until Wanyan Liang died and Wanyan Yong ascended the throne that the Jin Kingdom completely gave up attacking and destroying the Southern Song Dynasty and chose to coexist with the Southern Song Dynasty instead. Jin Guo's agenda.

So at this moment, the Yellow River that Su Yonglin is facing is basically the original ecological Yellow River since Du Chong's breach, and at most some repairs have been carried out to make small troubles.

It can be considered that they are lucky. During this period of time, the Yellow River did not have a large-scale rupture, but the flooding of the river often occurs, so it can only be said that the scale is not large.

During the reign of Zhao Kaishan, two river floods occurred in southern Shandong.

Su Yonglin has ruled so far, the Yellow River has been a little more honest, and there has been no flooding or bursting.

Although the Yellow River Embankment staggered, it was able to walk all the way, barely maintaining the stability of both sides.

But Su Yonglin can't guarantee how long this kind of stability can be maintained.

If it rains heavily at any time, the Yellow River will swell, and the levee will not be able to hold it. Once it collapses, the lower reaches of the Yellow River will be thousands of miles away, people will be killed, and all the investment in construction will be lost—literally.

Therefore, before the founding of the country, Su Yonglin repeatedly proposed to control the Yellow River.

Even before the decisive battle with Wanyanliang, Su Yonglin also proposed to use the Renaissance Society as a special and full-fledged river governance department.

So much so that after Su Yonglin set up a revival meeting openly and aboveboard, many people simply set up a comprehensive temporary department for Su Yonglin that was solely responsible for managing the floods in the Yellow River, the kind that would be withdrawn after completion.

This time, Su Yonglin decided to put the revival meeting on the bright side, and openly and openly disclosed some of the revival society's organization, and let Tian Guizi come out to make a bright appearance.

Then use him as the actual person in charge of governing the Yellow River.

At this formal meeting, Su Yonglin made some announcements.

"Before I set up the organization of the Renaissance Society to coordinate all the imperial court departments when governing the Yellow River. Although the Renaissance Society is not an official court department, it is a higher level for any relevant department when it comes to the governance of the Yellow River. of."

Only then did some unidentified officials know what kind of organization the Renaissance was.

To put it bluntly, it is a power organization that specializes in the governance of the Yellow River. When it comes to the governance of the Yellow River, any relevant official meeting will automatically be one level lower, and it must stand up and accept dispatch.

Moreover, Su Yonglin also announced that Tian Guizi, the chief censor of the Central Court, was the person in charge of the Fuxing Association, and was solely responsible for the governance of the Yellow River, which gave many officials the impression that the Fuxing Association would not be offended.

Just kidding, the boss of the Metropolitan Procuratorate took charge of the management of the Yellow River. If you have a little illegal behavior, he will directly use his power to clean up you. Do you still want to be an official?
Ruthless, that's really ruthless.

But to be honest, Su Yonglin established the Revival Association not only to manage the Yellow River, but the management of the Yellow River itself is a very complicated matter.

Both human, material and financial resources are necessary prerequisites, and the clear and bright administration of officials is more important.

Otherwise, many times in history, the proposed plans for the governance of the Yellow River are feasible and in line with the laws of nature, but when it comes to the practical level, a big problem will arise, and the original good plan will be messed up, and finally it will fail.

The most typical is the Jaluji River.

Yuan Ting, who was extremely corrupt, said that he supported Jia Luzhi River, but the corrupt officials who were in charge of doing things did not know where the project funds and materials were embezzled.

The materials used are not the best.

The tools used are also not the best.

Even the food for the laborers is the worst.

The money allocated by the imperial court was originally enough to complete the governance of the Yellow River, but this is not the case.

On the surface, the Jialuzhi River was successful, but it only lasted for a few years. A few years later, the Yellow River flooded as usual, collapsed everywhere, and provoked civil uprisings. In the end, Jialu himself died on the battlefield of suppressing the peasant uprising. Lost.

Coincidentally, Pan Jixun, an expert on river governance in the Ming Dynasty, was also involved in four times of governance of the Yellow River due to political factors and official governance factors, so that he failed to achieve success and failed to solve the flood disaster of the Yellow River.

There are too many government departments that need to be coordinated in the governance of the Yellow River. The contradictions between them, the temptation of huge project funds, the management of the people who need to be collected along the way, the transmission of information, etc., are all indispensable procedures for the governance of the Yellow River. .

The most important thing is the mutual cooperation and mutual achievement among the leaders of the governance of the Yellow River, as well as the guarantee of funds and materials for the governance of the river.

As long as there is a problem in one of the links, the governance of the Yellow River will be bad.

Therefore, Su Yonglin believes that it is not that the ancients could not manage the Yellow River, but that the corrupt official governance made it difficult to manage the Yellow River, and the endless internal friction turned the projects that could have been completed.

Therefore, Su Yonglin chose to use the Fuxing Association and Tian Guizi to lead the governance of the Yellow River, and to take over all power, surpassing any court department, and having absolute disposal power.

What he thought was that this time, the Yellow River flood must be successfully solved, and even if it could not be completely solved, it must be led back to the old way, and it must not be allowed to continue to seize Huaihuai into the sea.

If the Yellow River continues to enter the sea with the current channel, once the water rises, it will inevitably seize the Huai River and enter the sea. The Huai River water channel is narrow and cannot accommodate the huge water volume of the Yellow River, and it will inevitably overflow and flood, which will only make life in the two Huai Rivers devastated, and there will never be a day of peace. .

Therefore, after discussion, it was unanimously determined that the main point of controlling the Yellow River this time is to change the direction of the Yellow River back to the old route, preferably the old route of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so that the Yellow River passes through Kaifeng and then turns to the northeast, bypasses Shandong, and flows into the sea in the east.

(End of this chapter)