Chapter 2193 The Flower War (One Hundred and One)

JDZ is just a large village, that is, a town where houses are gathered together. The town does not have city walls like Huai'an. With the development of the porcelain industry, the town has more than one million people. If you go from the town at night

If you look down from the surrounding hills, you will think there is a fire in the city, because thousands of scorching furnaces emit fiery red light, and the rising smoke seems to form a huge round cover over the city. The Changjiang River flows through JDZ, in

A basin one mile wide formed in the town, and the river reflected the diffuse light of fire.

Miss Wanning's description reminded Nick of Manchester or Birmingham, but without the sound of steam engines, and JDZ was not smelting iron, but manufacturing with a fragile yet elegant material.

The word porcelain comes from a kind of single-shell shell (porcella), because the appearance of porcelain is very similar to this shell. Europeans have never understood the composition of porcelain, although under the influence of Jesuit missionaries, especially Yin Hongxu,

The process of making porcelain has become well known through unremitting research, and Yin Hongxu has lived in JDZ for a long time.

His aunt's cough brought Nick back to reality. He was introducing "Elements of Geometry" to Wanning at the moment. It contained very basic geometric knowledge, but for someone who had never learned this before, Wanning learned it very well.

quick.

Maybe in the future she will also learn geography, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, etc., just like Emperor Kangxi, who not only knew these, but also surveyed and mapped. In the future, Nick will also teach her how to use goniometers, astrology, quadrants and other instruments.

, the prerequisite is that it can be purchased, otherwise it will be the same as the compass and set square she is using now, and Nick will need to make it himself.

He avoided exposing himself to items related to surveying and mapping, superstitious or not, it would bring him bad luck, and good luck was exactly what they needed right now.

Ju and Cao Xi are still busy. Nick has always been in contact with businessmen and has never really had contact with squires. Many of them are still Jinshi. They returned to their hometown for various reasons, and they quarreled.

The reason is not just because of interests, or what Nick thinks are interests.

After the precedent of opening the Hongze Lake sluice to flush out the silt from Jiangpu, a river engineer proposed to divert water from the Huaihe River to flush out the silt from the Yellow River. Some people did do that, but in this way the dam of Hongze Lake would have to be raised, making Hongze Lake

It has become a "hanging lake", and Gaoyan has also become a veritable high weir. As a result, Gaoyou downstream will directly face the crisis of being flooded. And because of serious corruption problems in river engineering, the quality of this dam is even more worrying.

The local gentry, led by former scholar Sun Zongyi, proposed a plan to stop raising the dams and dredge the entrance of the Huaihe River. This formed a fierce conflict with the river management concept of Hetai. At the same time, in the 19th year of Kangxi, Hongze Lake opened

The sluice discharged the flood, and the flood flowed directly into Gaoyou Lake. At that time, Zhizhou was seriously ill and was paralyzed in bed. His family did not inform him in time. Sun Zongyi sent his son to inform him. By this time, it was too late. The flood had already submerged the Gaoyou city. Dozens of people were killed and people rushed to build the city.

Ten more people were killed when the dam was built. However, compared with the flood, more people died later due to plague and famine, and tens of thousands of people were forced to be homeless due to hunger and cold.

Regarding the management of the Huaihe River, whether to build dams or dredge has been controversial since the Ming Dynasty. Originally, there was a flood, and the government wanted to provide disaster relief. Sun Zongyi and other gentry spontaneously organized to build shacks and provide food for the victims, but these did not receive government support.

Allowed, and because he was busy with disaster relief, he offended many people. Sun Zongyi was called an "evil gentry" by the governor of Hedao. He accused his grandson of spreading rumors, dominating the countryside and other illegal behaviors. He was opposed by the gentry and people of Gaoyou.

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But there was Zhang Gongchen, a member of the Yanghe camp who was guarding Li Yougong's staff. Li Yougong was instructed by Le Fu to raise the embankment of Gaoyou Cao River into a rolling dam. Zhang Gongchen's fields were under the embankment in the north of Gaoyou City. He was afraid that if the gate was opened,

Yao Yao, originally he did not support this plan, but he was accused of "letting his wife kill his mother". Zhang Gongchen was childless in middle age and had to marry a concubine to have a son. When his wife found out, he cut off Zhang Gongchen's beard.

The mother was scolded for protecting her son, and she committed suicide in anger. Some people say that Zhang's wife threw Zhang's mother to death when the two were fighting. After the incident, Zhang Gongchen asked Li Yougong for help. Li Yougong said that as long as he could sue Sun Zongyi, he would avoid death.

, Le Fu postponed the trial of Zhang's case after learning about it, and for insurance purposes, Zhang Gongchen and Li Yougong became in-laws. It was Zhang Gongchen's daughter who married Li Yougong's son.

Zhang Gongchen fabricated the "three major crimes" for Sun Zongyi, which caused an uproar in Gaoyou. Soon the governor who arrested Sun Zongyi came and imprisoned him in the Fire Temple. The Gaoyou market immediately went on strike in protest, and the governor punished several people with his rod.

The market was forced to open, and the students in the state cried at the Confucian Temple and rang the bell to warn, and Lefu sent people to arrest them. As a result, some students who had not gone to the Confucian Temple to cry threw themselves into the trap and were imprisoned with their classmates. Liu Zhifu, a local citizen, went to Beijing for Sun Zongyi.

The complaint was filed with the Ministry of Punishment, the General Affairs Department, and the Denweng Yuan, but none of them accepted it.

Liu Zhifu was worried and waited on the only way for the emperor to return to the palace, planning to "stop the sedan chair and complain". Then Dengwen Drum Court said that he would accept the case, but the trial progress was slow. In the end, Sun Zongyi died in Yangzhou Prison. Gaoyou

The market went on strike to mourn, and then the conflict between the government and the people arose.

Building embankments to control the Huaihe River has quick results, but from now on the Huaihe River will become an above-ground river like the Yellow River. If there is a breach in some places, it will cause flooding and disasters.

Dredging the entrance of the Huaihe River to the sea is slow to achieve results, and with the amount of sediment carried by the Yellow River, it is easy to block it again. Raising the dam of the Huaihe River that flows alone into the sea can ensure that Gaoyou and other waterways entering the river are safe, but new coastal residents will suffer.

Originally, the court deliberately kept silent after Sun Zongyi's death. Sun Zongyi made so many high-ranking friends, but no one rescued him. In the ninth year of Kangxi, Sun Zongyi repaired Yue Fei's tomb. According to legend, Yue Fei was a hero who fought against the Jin Dynasty, but he was regarded as "unfounded" by Qin officials.

Murdered for the crime.

How to manage the Huaihe River was probably another difficult problem for Emperor Jiaqing after he suppressed the White Lotus Sect. If pirates from the southeast were added, it is hard to imagine how much pressure he would have to bear.

Emperor Shunzhi once hoped that the Manchus and Han people could work together to govern the country, just like the governor of Nanhe hoped that everyone would work together to control the floods.

But it is not that easy to get people to work together, although sometimes it seems easy and can be done with just one command.

Nick plans to teach Wanning some mechanical knowledge written by Deng Yuhan. The Ministry of Industry also has machinery for canal maintenance, so that she can "share the worries" for her father. She is a very filial daughter.

It's a pity that she is not a man. The admiral couldn't hide his shame when he mentioned this matter, and he was not very relieved about Cao Xi.

There are many stories about "talents and beauties" in Jiangnan, such as Li Shishi, Du Shiniang, etc. They are all brothel girls, and they are quite dissatisfied when talking about this admiral.

Nick thought of Cao Xi going out in a sedan at night and said nothing more.

What should we do now? Don't act rashly as Juren said, should we send Captain Yao's sailors to the capital, or should we leave the country directly?

But before that, he thought he could go to the mosque to find the imam and get the book back. But this time he had to prepare gifts. What should he bring?
Chapter completed!