I became the son of Renzong

Chapter 641
It's not that the cabinet ministers don't dissuade, it's that the officials are quite stubborn in such matters.

Not only the cabinet ministers, but also the concubine of Neiyuan also persuaded him, but it was useless.

The sky did not clear up because of the emperor's trip, and the rainy days continued for many days.The rain was beating on the roof of the carriage, very rhythmic, and the sound was very soft, but Zhao Xi was annoying to hear it.

In the previous life, Zhao Xi was from the north and had no experience in flood control at all.His understanding of flood control is only the content of the documents at a specific period of the year, or browsing through them on a horse's horse, without any impression.

For the Yellow River, his understanding is only the name of the mother river, and the several floods he heard...
Afterwards, it was the rumor that when Dad was in power, the Yellow River diverted and starved to death.

Zhao Xi received organizational education for many years in his previous life. Although he tried his best to integrate into this era, he really couldn't be indifferent to the disasters suffered by his people.

"Do your best!" Zhao Xi felt a little helpless.

"Whether the officials personally inspect the dam or not has no effect on the dam itself, so why bother? Even if we need to inspect the dam, will it be difficult for me to deceive me?"

Officials patrol the dam, and the cabinet ministers have to accompany each other. This is an attitude.

Before Han Qi was so talkative, Zhang Fangping complained first.

That's right, the official family is a northerner who grew up in the palace. In this regard, he is really not as good at flood control as the cabinet who once served in central Sichuan.

But there is no way, no one can persuade the officials to come down.

"We are expressing our attitude, so why don't the officials express their attitude?"

This statement... is basically true.

"How about the raincoat in this workshop city? If it doesn't work, I'll still use the coir raincoat."

Speaking of this, there is more to say.

Rain protection in this era is mostly umbrellas or oil-paper umbrellas.The coir raincoat can be regarded as a single-person rainproof device.

For this reason, Zhao Xi asked Workshop City to use oiled paper to make a cloak-style, or a later-generation raincoat-style, hoping to replace the coir raincoat.

The result was not ideal. The oiled paper was brushed with tung oil, so it was very stiff. It was fine for making an umbrella, but it was not easy-going and not close-fitting when made into a raincoat.

Originally, Zhao Xi had given up hope, thinking that before the advent of plastic, the raincoat of later generations would be impossible to realize.

By chance, when Zhao Xi was reviewing the Lingnan Memorial, he accidentally spilled the milk for supper.Milk was sprinkled on the memorial...

I thought the memorial should be completely scrapped, but when the inner prisoner was busy cleaning it up, Zhao Xi found that the memorial was still the same.

So Zhao Xi asked people to buy this kind of paper from Lingnan, which is said to be called grain paper.

After consulting the data, it turns out that this kind of grain paper was popular in Jiangnan during the Three Kingdoms period. Because of its better water resistance, nobles in Jiangnan often used this kind of grain paper to write letters and copy classics.

The south of the Yangtze River is humid, and this kind of grain paper is used to inherit a subset of classics and history.

This time, when the magistrate of Quanzhou, Guangnan East Road, wrote the memorial, he accidentally used grain paper in the middle, which gave Zhao Xi confidence in the production of raincoats again.

Immediately, Zhao Xi ordered Workshop City to send people to Guangnan to learn the craft of this kind of grain paper, and on this basis, began to try to make raincoats.

A few years have passed, and the Gongfangcheng raincoat is the third generation of grain paper raincoat.

Even Zhao Xi didn't know what was added in it. Anyway, Zhao Xi felt that it was no worse than the raincoats of later generations.

This time, the cabinet must be accompanied by the dam patrol. They are all veterans in their 60s and [-]s, so Zhao Xi ordered the workshop city to send a batch of raincoats...~
The new style of raincoat, Zhao Xi instructed Workshop City to be designed according to the raincoat of the army of later generations, with a hood, double sleeves, and a straight cloak-style raincoat.

At this stall, the carriage had already pulled the officials and cabinet ministers to the embankment of Bianliang, and the officials had already got out of the car in raincoats.

The cabinet ministers didn't care whether the raincoat was working or not, so they hurriedly put on the raincoat and went to the embankment...

At this time, it seems that everyone has forgotten about the raincoat and is staring at the official...

What is this for?I saw the officials manipulating the golden melon warrior's halberd, poking the embankment one after another...

The sound of the rain beating on the dam, ticking on the raincoat, and the surging water of the Yellow River, there was no sound of the official's halberd being poked on the dam.

However, depending on the force used by the officials, everyone can understand that the officials are really poking hard.

If this is a dam made of rammed earth, it might be a vortex after being soaked by rainwater like this, and then poked a few times like this, which may cause the dam to collapse.

And now...

"What does the official mean?"

Fu Bi yelled loudly, afraid that the officials would not hear him.

"Cement dams are different from rammed earth. Once there are omissions on the surface of a cement dam, it will form seepage, and water will be poured into the interior of the dam..."

Zhao Xi was also very loud.In this rainy weather, or on the Yellow River embankment, we must shout when we talk to each other.

Zhao Xi briefly explained to Fu Bi and the others, then walked along the embankment, poking at the embankment with a halberd every thirty or fifty steps.

Walked a long way, almost out of town.

He didn't know if he was tired from walking, or from poking, or that he didn't find anything that worried him during the journey.

The officials finally stopped, and casually threw the halberd to Wang Zhongzheng.

For a while, Fu Bi and the others were already very tired.

Facing the heavy rain, the sound of the rumbling Yellow River flowing in my ears, and the sound of dripping raindrops on the raincoat.I'm very irritable, I don't know if it's the naive behavior of the officials, or because I'm old and weak and can't keep up with the pace of the officials.

"Where is the cement used for the embankment of Bianliang?"

"Back to the official's house, the Bianliang dam was the first to be repaired with cement, and the earliest one was more than ten years old. All the cement used was from the workshop city."

"They were all transported by rail carriages from Workshop City. As for where they were produced, I don't know. Then I will check!"

The chief official of the Water Supervision Department of the Ministry of Industry rarely has the opportunity to have a private conversation with officials.However, as an official who tends to be technical, he is not discouraged, and he speaks logically.

"Are the Yellow River dams all made of workshop city cement?"

"Back to the official's house, no. Last year when we were dredging the Huazhou dam, because there was a cement workshop in Huazhou, the Ministry of Industry bought cement locally to save freight...~"

This is also what should be done.

The cement formula has already been sold in the workshop city, and cement workshops have been opened in many prefectures and counties in the country.

Zhao Xi didn't care too much, although she was a little worried...

"Tomorrow, when you come to Huazhou in person, use the method I just used to check the situation of the dam in Huazhou."

Zhao Xi didn't even know the name of the head of the Water Supervision Department of the Ministry of Industry. From the feeling, he should be a technocrat, so he was relieved to go.

Zhao Xi also knew that if he insisted on inspecting the dams of Bianliang, he could make the trip. If he went to Huazhou, the cabinet and the inner court would probably be overwhelmed.

Anyway, from today's inspection situation, Zhao Xi is quite at ease.

Zhao Xi has always been worried about the current cement. From the current point of view, the effect of this kind of soil cement is still good.

Looking at the trembling cabinet ministers, Zhao Xi felt that he was making a big deal out of a molehill.

(End of this chapter)