Qiming 1158

Chapter 632 You must ask Song people for a fee

Controversy is certain, but uproar is not necessarily.

Su Yonglin thought so.

First, the area of ​​returning farmland to forest is limited, and second, with the power at his disposal, there is no problem in forcibly promoting this policy.

As for the so-called uproar, it is probably the exaggerated rhetoric used by Confucian officials to persuade the emperor.

For example, if the emperor builds a palace, the people's livelihood can be ruined and so on...

Su Yonglin was very unhappy with such a rhetorical technique.

"What uproar?"

Su Yonglin shook his head and said, "If the vegetation on both sides of the Yellow River in Guanzhong cannot be restored, the Guanzhong soil will be continuously brought to Henan, Hebei, and Shandong, and the riverbeds will be constantly raised, and the rivers on the ground will get higher and higher!
The higher the riverbed, the more flooding and bursting of the river will happen, the production along the coast will be continuously destroyed, the food harvest will continue to fail, and people will continue to die. horrible? "

Su Yonglin put the two options in front of Chen Jichang. Chen Jichang thought about it for a while, but really didn't know how to choose. He just felt that both options were terrible.

One will directly kill people, and the other will probably cause social unrest.

"Your Majesty, I am afraid that neither of the two are what the common people want to see. The rupture of the Yellow River is terrifying, but if the land for cultivation is lost, the common people will probably panic."

That's all he could say.

Su Yonglin still shook his head.

"Returning farmland to forest is limited. If it involves the common people's farmland, it can be compensated in other places. The state has public land. At that time, the amount of farmland returned will be compensated as much as possible. The imperial court can even pay money and land to relocate the people of Guanzhong to Guanzhong. A vast and sparsely populated place.”

Su Yonglin announced his compensation policy.

Do not engage in coercion, take advantage of the situation, as long as you are willing to return farmland to forest, Daming will never let you suffer.

After several years of war and land revolution, the death of a large number of landlords and aristocrats has left Su Yonglin holding a large amount of idle land. Now he is actively promoting the construction of new countryside and land distribution.

Taking this opportunity, it would be a feasible strategy to restore the fragile ecosystem in Guanzhong if some of the residents of Guanzhong could be relocated out of the city.

Chen Jichang knew the inside story and how much land of good quality the court had, so he was silent for a while.

"Your Majesty, although the imperial court can allocate land and money, but as the saying goes, it is hard to leave the homeland, and the people are nostalgic and unwilling to leave their hometowns, and suddenly it is not what the people want. People are willing to go, but if they want to force it, it will inevitably lead to public resentment."

"I know, I know it all."

Su Yonglin sighed and said, "So we need to study in advance what to do and how to persuade more people in Guanzhong to leave. Everyone, I know this is difficult, but I hope you understand.

We must have a concept that the amount of food that can be grown on a piece of land is limited, so the number of people that can be supported is also limited. Some places can be deforested to open up wasteland, while others cannot.

Guanzhong is no longer the Land of Abundance. It can no longer carry too many people. If we continue, the soil in Guanzhong will become more and more barren, and the food production will become lower and lower. We will destroy Guanzhong and the Central Plains alive and cause disaster. For future generations, we are all to be reviled by future generations in the history books. "

Destroying Guanzhong and Central Plains, leaving future generations with calamity, was reviled by future generations.

This statement is too heavy.

Only a very small number of ministers, such as Tian Guizi and others who have been following Su Yonglin, have such a concept and know the impact of soil erosion and the destruction of the ecological environment on agricultural production.

Most people still don't have the concept of environmental protection and soil erosion, and they don't even know much about this aspect.

Therefore, Su Yonglin intends to give court officials a supplementary course after this incident, and open an environmental protection course that all officials must participate in, and formally introduce the concept of environmental protection and agricultural production.

Today, the soil erosion in Guanzhong and the salinization of the land in the Central Plains are no longer a trivial matter, and the ecological environment in the Guanzhong area is far worse than it was in the past.

1000 years ago, no one paid attention to environmental protection and cultivated it roughly, so they need to pay for the inaction of their predecessors 1000 years later.

If they don't pay attention now and continue to cultivate roughly, the descendants after 1000 years will have to pay for their inaction 1000 years ago.

"I mean, no matter how difficult the difficulty is, it must be pushed forward. As a national policy, it can be slow, but it must be implemented, even if it lasts for a long time. People have no far-sightedness, and there must be near-term worries. Don't think about the future now, once the Yellow River floods. , Burst, the country is thousands of miles away, wouldn't it be a thousand times more difficult to provide relief? Ladies, what do you think?"

Su Yonglin looked around at the ministers.

The ministers still don't know what the relationship between environmental protection and the Yellow River is, but many of them have heard of or seen the tragic situation after the flood of the Yellow River, so they nodded involuntarily.

They feel that returning farmland to forests sounds ugly, but it is better than the actual rupture of the Yellow River.

The rupture of the Yellow River will kill a lot of people, and the impact is also very broad, and the blow to the country's economy is very heavy. If they do not support the emperor's approach, once the Yellow River ruptures, they can imagine how annoyed the emperor will be.

If what the emperor said can really consolidate the soil, it will definitely reduce the flooding of the Yellow River. Even if it can't, it is the fault of the emperor himself. He must be embarrassed and angry, and the officials are safe.

Thinking of this, the ministers had no idea of ​​resistance, so at Su Yonglin's insistence, the policy of returning farmland to forest was adopted by the imperial court as a national policy.

The imperial court will begin to plan the implementation of this strategy, send people to conduct field inspections to determine the strategy, and think about the way to do things with the least loss, so that the local people will not have too strong disgust.

Returning farmland to forests was approved by the imperial court as a fundamental solution and was ready to be implemented, but it took a long time to cure the root cause and the effect was slow. During this period, this "standard" could not be left alone.

The above-ground rivers in Kaifeng and the Yellow River after the diversion have to be dealt with.

Therefore, in this regard, a lot of manpower and material resources are still needed, and a certain amount of time is spent to strive for the return of the Yellow River to the old way of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

For this reason, Su Yonglin asked water conservancy experts to jointly formulate measures to change the Yellow River back to its old path.

For the sake of the spirit of the Central Plains and the people of the world, he will spare no expense.

At this time, it was suggested at the meeting that the Huaihe River Basin was not entirely under the rule of the Daming Kingdom, and that the Song Kingdom in the south was controlling the land in Huainan. If only Daming's side had rectified the Yellow River, wouldn't the Southern Song Dynasty be able to reap the benefits?
Although it is imperative to manage the Yellow River, the Central Plains will be restored to its vitality, but if the Southern Song Dynasty can also benefit, should it be negotiated with the Southern Song Dynasty, and should the Southern Song Dynasty also make some money for the management of the Yellow River?
The person who made this proposal is none other than Lin Jingchun, Minister of the Ministry of Finance.

After Lin Jingchun, who is proficient in finance, took office as Minister of the Ministry of Finance, he organized Daming's finances in an orderly manner, but because Su Yonglin has too many things to do, he doesn't know how tight Daming's finances are.

As for the cost of managing the Yellow River, Lin Jingchun thought about it for a while, and felt that his heartbeat was a bit fast, his blood pressure was a bit high, and he felt that he would not be able to sleep well at night.

He began to rack his brains to think about how to save money, and after thinking about it, he suddenly thought of the Southern Song Dynasty.

If Daming abolishes the power of nine bulls and two tigers to manage the Yellow River, the Central Plains will be safe, the Huaihe River will be safe, and the Southern Song Dynasty will be safe, so in terms of governing the Yellow River, he may be able to reap the benefits for the Southern Song Dynasty. things are very unsatisfactory.

"In the beginning, the people of Song Dynasty caused the diversion of the Yellow River. They tried many times on the Yellow River, and they failed to manage the river. Not only that, but Du Chong, who stayed behind in Tokyo, also dug the river bank, making the lower reaches of the Yellow River a swamp country, and life was devastated. This responsibility is Song people!"

Lin Jingchun gritted his teeth and said, "If the people of Song are not made to pay for this, Daming will suffer a great loss. Your Majesty, this minister thinks that we must ask the people of Song for some fees, and we cannot let them continue to be so shameless."

(End of this chapter)