"Not half a year?"

Lei Changjiang was not shocked when he heard this time, but looked at Lin Qingran with a complicated expression.

The problem of silt in the Nanliu River has been a long time ago, and rebuilding the damaged dam is already a considerable project. It is even more time-consuming and labor-intensive to clean up a large amount of silt in the river.

Not to mention half a year, even if his budget lasts for two years, this can only be achieved under extremely optimistic conditions.

Although he knew that Lin Xuran was very powerful, managed Leizhou Prefecture in an orderly manner and handled some government affairs problems with ease, he was still full of doubts.

It was not that he suspected that Lin Xunran was bragging to him, but that Lin Xunran did not know the vastness of the sludge cleaning project, so he made a wrong judgment and mistakenly believed that it would be completed in half a year.

Lin Weiran seemed to have seen through his thoughts, gently placed the teacup on the table, and then clapped his palms outside.

But Sun Jixiang came in with a silent skinned old man. The old man looked in his early fifties, with a kind face and a little hunched back. Although he was wearing a cloth clothes, he looked extraordinary.

Huh?

Lei Changjiang looked at the old man who came in. Although the other party was wearing a commoner, he could see that the other party was not a farmer who worked all year round, and he couldn't help but look at the other party seriously.

"Xia Shunshui, the sinner, has seen Lin Mansion and Lei Mansion!" Xia Shunshui came to the hall and respectfully saluted the two emperors of the mansion.

When Lei Changjiang heard the word "sinners", he couldn't help but throw confusing eyes at Lin Weiran.

A smile appeared on the corner of Lin Weiran's mouth, pointed at Xia Shui, and introduced solemnly.

Since these dynasties have been farming societies, the main taxes of the court came from agricultural taxes. This is also true. The court attached great importance to the agricultural economy and invested hugely in water conservancy.

The governance of water conservancy is often accompanied by the construction of dams. Just looking at the silver project funds, how can you not think about it? This water conservancy construction can easily become a breeding ground for corruption.

But we can't blame the officials in charge of the supervision. Even if they don't fill their appetite, they have to deal with them, so the embankment will cut corners more or less.

Especially the Ming Dynasty has been in the founding of the country for two hundred years, the thoughts of officials have long been corrupt, and corruption has long become a norm.

Jiajing is an emperor who values ​​money bags very much. He even thinks that money is not enough to spend, and he is also concerned about the whereabouts and effectiveness of his money. As a result, he found that every year he allocated funds to build a dam, and as a result, the dam would be washed away every year as soon as the flood season came.

destroy.

Not only was the dam collapsed, but the previous money was wasted. As the village was often flooded, he also needed to withdraw money from his pocket to rescue the disaster, which really made him so angry that he gritted his teeth.

The same is true. Jiajing was dissatisfied with the civil servants who supervised the construction of the embankment and even hated him to the core. Even Jiajing, who did not trust the eunuchs, sent eunuchs to act as river supervisors.

However, this time he kept a hand. Although the good things of supervising the construction of the embankment were given to these eunuchs, he required that the river supervisors stayed at the dam and stayed honestly during the flood season.

"The dam is there, and the dam is destroyed and the people are killed!"

Although this trick is inhumane, the effect is immediate.

It cannot be said that the situation of the dam collapse has been completely eliminated, but it has undoubtedly greatly reduced the number of tofu projects, and at the same time it has also slapped some civil servants in the face.

This is the case with Chinese politics. Many times, they believe that it is black and white, and they always like to adopt a "one-size-fits-all" policy.

After the imperial court had achieved results in sending river supervisors, it implemented the river supervisor system across the country, allowing eunuchs to replace those civil servants, and investigated those civil servants who urged the embankment.

Xia Shunshui was a Jinshi from the second grade. He received a valuable quota for staying in Beijing and was assigned to the Ministry of Works as the intern. After years of hard work, he was finally promoted to the doctor of the Ministry of Works.

With his qualifications and age at that time, he had a great opportunity to be the Minister of Works, and his future was bright.

But he caught up with that bad opportunity, perhaps due to his name, and was sent by the court to the Yellow River to supervise a section of embankment. This was undoubtedly a fat man, which made many people envious.

Xia Shunshui maintained his conscience and did not intend to act corruption. In the court, he removed him and allowed an eunuch to serve as the river channel supervisor. He just thought it was a normal transfer.

But a lot of bad luck fell on him. At that time, the River Governor was found to be corrupt. When he was supervising the construction of the embankment, he also paid a certain amount of "industrial bank" to the River Governor's office as he thought.

It is precisely because of this small amount of "Implementation Bank", his home was confiscated like other civil servants who supervised the construction of dams, and he himself was sent to the Qianhu District, Haikang, Leizhou to guard the border.

From a high-ranking doctor in the Ministry of Works, he suddenly became a sinner guarding the border, and he really fell from heaven to hell.

Why!

Lei Changjiang was also quite sympathetic when he heard about Xia Shunshui's experience, because his experiences with Xia Shunshui were somewhat similar.

He was originally a glorious Beijing official and a conscientious chief in the Ministry of Revenue, but because he offended his immediate superior, he was sent to this side.

After introducing Xia Shunshui's identity, Lin Xuran recommended very seriously: "Brother Zhiqing, if Xia Shunshui is responsible for the dredging project of Nanliu River, half a year will be enough!"

"It's more than this time just to clean the silt?" Lei Changjiang looked at Xia Shunshui suspiciously, and directly expressed the doubts in his heart. After all, the other party was not Lin Junran, so there was no need to worry too much.

Xia Shun faced his gaze, smiled and nodded, "Leifutai, if the previous method of controlling rivers was adopted, this time was indeed insufficient. It would probably take two to three years, and the migrant workers would be consumed in tens of thousands!"

"But I don't know what good ideas are there?" Lei Changjiang looked at the other party's very professional appearance, especially when he said that he was undoubtedly aware of the matter of governing the river. He immediately became interested and asked seriously.

Xia Shunshui was also observing Lei Changjiang, looking at his eyes and replied: "To quote Lin Futai's words, it is 'It is better to use people to govern rivers than to manage rivers'!"

"How to use rivers to control rivers?" Lei Changjiang frowned slightly and looked at Xia Shunshui seriously, but found that he looked at Lin Weiran who was drinking tea, and also looked at Lin Weiran in confusion.

Lin Qingran knew that Xia Shunshui was not a greedy person, and used a tea cover to gently pull out the tea channel: "Simply put, we don't have to organize migrant workers to carry the silt themselves, but the river will move the silt away by itself!"

"Brother Ruoyu, do you have some whimsical thoughts..." Lei Changjiang wanted to say that Lin Qingran was whimsical, but he thought that this would offend Yu Lin Qingran, so he swallowed it back again.

Not to mention that Lin Qingran pulled him out of the quagmire and pushed him to this position, just because Lin Qingran's current identity as "purchasing ambergris with orders", he could not speak without restraint.

Xia Shunshui continued his words: "Mr. Lin's idea is indeed unexpected and suddenly enlightened. As long as we tighten the river channel and use the impact of the Nanliu River, we will definitely be able to bring the silt in the riverbed to Tokyo Bay and Nanliu River.

The problem of silt will be solved!" Speaking of this, he bowed to Lin Qingran and said, "This method of rinsing sand in the bunch of water will benefit the world and create a new school of river control."

This is not all a compliment. Twenty years later, Pan Jixun became famous all over the world with the "water-blocking and sand-floating method", and profoundly influenced the "governing Yellow" thoughts and practices of future generations, and made a contribution to the river management cause of China's river management.

He made a significant contribution and became a famous historical water control expert.

"Block the water to wash the sand?" Lei Changjiang frowned slightly, but he became suspicious of the feasibility of this method.

"Leifutai, I have conducted many simulations in the Craftsman Courtyard. As long as the river is tightened and the water is bound, it can form a greater impact force. This method is the only way to do in Nanliujiang!" Xia Shunshui saw his suspicion

, said confidently.

Lei Changjiang shook his head and said, "No, I looked at the ancients' methods of water control, mostly to expand branches and broaden the waterways."

For the sake of Nanliujiang, he has studied water conservancy a lot, but found that the concept is exactly the opposite of the "water-bundling and sand-floating method". This is also true, and he has conventional doubts about this method.

"Leifutai, this method is not only exhausting people and causing money, but also burying the root of disaster for the next hidden danger!" Xia Shunshui's face rose and then bowed to the north seriously and said, "This Yellow River tributary has been repeated again and again."

The diversion nowadays not only often floods and disasters, but often destroys the canal channels and takes away the water source of the canal, causing our Ming Dynasty to almost paralyze!"

"It is true. The Yellow River has been treating it, but it has been cured but cannot cure the root cause!" Lei Changjiang is not a stubborn person. When talking about the Yellow River and the Grand Canal in the Capital, he was immediately convinced by his words.

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Xia Shunshui looked at his change and bowed silently, and was also impressed by the change of his concept. After all, at the beginning, he did not believe in Lin Weiran's method of shaving water to wash sand.

Lei Changjiang turned his head and looked at Lin Weiran, and asked seriously: "Is this method really feasible?"

"Theoretically, there is absolutely no problem, but the specific implementation depends on Mr. Xia!" Lin Xuran nodded seriously, then pointed at Xia Shunshui with a smile.

He knew that the key to success or failure of anything lies in people, especially this complex water control project, and he had seen Xia Shunshui, who had rich experience in water control.

Of course, the reason why he pushed Xia Shunshui out at this time was actually because he had deeper plans. It was not only for the current Nanliu River, but also for the Yellow River, which is full of disasters every year, and his future career.

"Mr. Xia, can you help me!" Lei Changjiang stood up from his seat and bowed respectfully.

Xia Shunshui looked at Lin Qingran, and after receiving Lin Qingran's nodding response, he said bitterly to Lei Changjiang: "I am a criminal slander in the border guard. If Lei Futai doesn't mind, I will do my best to do this.

good!"

"If this is the case, I will thank Mr. Xia first!" Lei Changjiang bowed and thanked him again, and then led him to sit down.

Xia Shunshui had been sent by Lin Qingran to Lianzhou Prefecture to inspect the situation of Nanliujiang here.

At this time, he took out the map he had been carrying and began to tell the water control plan one by one. Where to "water binding" is carried out, and how to promote the project.

It has to be said that Xia Shunshui is indeed a rare water control talent, considering many factors. Even if it is a seasonal change, he still calculates and plans to use the rainy season to "bury water and flush sand".

Lei Changjiang kept listening to him, but he didn't know much, and he gave another long gift to Xia Shunshui who was talking.

It was during the conversation that a clerk hurriedly ran in, bringing them bad news.

Unlike Leizhou Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture not only has the wealthy Haibei Yanjiaya, but also the military preparation yamen. Especially the latter, it commands the guards of the three prefectures, and its official ranks are also strong enough to surpass the prefects of the three prefectures.

"Commander Luo surrounded the government office?"

No one expected that Luo Bancheng would be taken back to the government jail. Luo Haojie, commander of Lianzhou Guard, arrived with a large number of troops and immediately surrounded Lianzhou Prefecture.

When Lei Changjiang heard that the other party was so arrogant, he was not angry and immediately led the people to the front yard.

When they arrived, they saw that Luo Haojie had already taken Luo Bancheng out of the government jail, and his expression seemed very arrogant. He snorted disdainfully at Lei Changjiang who was rushing to come.

Lei Changjiang stepped forward and immediately asked angrily: "Commander Luo, what are you doing?"

"This is the person you are looking for by Lord Bingbei. Please tell him to go!" Luo Haojie pointed to Luo Bancheng and said arrogantly.

Lei Changjiang frowned and said in anger: "He is my criminal. He has committed a murderous crime and no one can take it away!"

"Is that so? But he is the one he wants by Lord Bingbei. He has important clues from the Red Flag Gang, so I must take them away!" Luo Haojie said with a tough attitude.

Lei Changjiang knew this was an excuse, and then said without hesitation: "I don't care about this. In short, no one wants to take people away and leave them for me, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"

"Is that true? Take the person away, who dares to stop him and beat me up!" Luo Haojie's face turned right, and he immediately showed a ferocious look.

Lei Changjiang looked around, especially Captain Huang's eyes were clearly timid. When he looked at the fierce Lianzhou Guard, no one really dared to stand up and dared to come forward to stop him.

But at this moment, a majestic voice suddenly rang out and said, "Slow down!"

"Lin Futai, you want to stop him too!" Luo Haojie looked at Lin Weiran, but was not afraid.

Lin Weiran shook his head and said with a smile: "Prince Lei and I are very interested in the matter of the Hongqi Gang, and we also want to know the important clues of the Hongqi Gang. Let's lead the way!"

The method of shaving water to rinse sand is to tighten the river channel, use the impact of water to impact the silt and sand at the bottom of the riverbed, so as to achieve the purpose of silting and flood control. It is generally suitable for rivers with large flow, such as the Yellow River. This method was first used to manage the Yellow River.
Chapter completed!