"What is the Yellow River? It's the mother river!"
As soon as Li Yuanxing opened his mouth, the whole place fell silent.
"In the pre-Qin period, the Yellow River was called a big river. The water at that time was clear. Of course, it must be much stronger than it is now. Why is this happening? I thought it was during the Three Kingdoms period when too many trees were cut down. How much sediment is there in the water of the Yellow River?
, this is bringing down all the soil from the upper reaches, and the river bed is getting higher and higher, so the floods will naturally become more and more."
"Your Highness, do you want to control the river?" Several governors asked in unison.
"By treating one Yellow River, the Tang Dynasty would gain two million hectares of fertile land. Should we treat it or not?" Li Yuanxing asked rhetorically.
Li Er said at this time: "Wu Lang, how many votes are there? How many years of treatment?"
"Eighty million rivers, ten years to control the Yellow River. At least two million hectares more fertile land. Most importantly, in the process of controlling the Yellow River, we get more. This cost is greater than my cousin's canal construction, but the benefits are greater.
For example, in this picture of Chendi, this is a dam. This dam alone can protect the safety of the prefectures and counties eight hundred miles downstream. On the Yellow River, Chendi plans to build six dams. After these six dams, any dam can use hydraulic power.
The electricity generated can be used by ten Chang'an. And..."
When it came to saying yes, Li Yuanxing didn't have enough confidence.
"The river flows out of the Kunlun River and is white in color. The canals and rivers merge into the river, and the color is yellow." Yan Lide, who was not good at words, suddenly shouted.
His sentence comes from "Erya Shishui" in the Han Dynasty.
"When the saint comes out, the Yellow River will be clear!" Wu Zhao said suddenly, but Li Er was shocked.
Li Yuanxing shook his head slightly, because this sentence came from the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that the water of the Yellow River will become clear once in five hundred years, and a saint will be born at that time. So the original sentence should be, when the Yellow River clears, a saint will appear.
"It's rare to see the Yellow River clear in a thousand years!" Li Er also said with emotion.
Eighty million guan. For the current Tang Dynasty, it is a huge sum of money, even more than the consumption of building the new city of Chang'an. Chang'an's eight rivers and eight benefits were repaired, and only two million guan was spent. Another thousand
It's just more than ten thousand shi of grain. But these eight waters and eight benefits brought eight million acres of fertile land to Chang'an City and surrounding areas.
To straighten or not to straighten!
Two million hectares of fertile farmland!
All the officials knew that Li Yuanxing never spoke his mind fully. The expenses must be exaggerated, but the income must be 30% off.
"My suggestion, vote! However, does your Highness have any proposals for regulating the Yellow River?" Wang Jishan, as the current head of Tianying Pavilion, naturally has to do the talking at this time.
Li Yuanxing turned around sharply: "Girl!"
"Someone, bring it up!" Wu Zhao was definitely fully prepared for Li Yuanxing in this regard.
Twenty big boxes, a total of one hundred and twenty sets of information. Naturally, not everyone has one, but of course those with enough status must have one. This is a summary of two thousand years of Yellow River management proposals for later generations, and even includes the most outstanding ones in Sanmenxia.
Mistakes, and subsequent ideas for improvement, etc.
Soil and water conservation in the upper reaches, management and control of river dredging, etc.
As well as artificial heavy flow sand removal, there are also several modern methods such as sand removal and sand accumulation pools.
The Tang Dynasty was inferior to the modern times of later generations. First, there were fewer people. People in the Tang Dynasty originally did not dare to cut down trees. Second, it was easy to manage. Under a decree, anyone who dared to destroy the soil and water, Li Yuanxing, would turn his whole family into slaves. Third
Third, after gaining experience in later generations, Li Yuanxing believed that he could do better.
The entire venue was filled with the sound of heavy breathing and the sound of turning pages.
Even the waiter who poured water did not dare to walk with heavy steps, for fear of affecting the officials' reading of materials.
Suddenly, the Governor of Longxi stood up, thought for a while and sat down again, holding his forehead with one hand.
"Are you having a headache?" Dugu Xiude smiled.
The Governor of Longxi was actually Yu Wenshiji who had resigned as the provincial chief. He had a good relationship with Dugu Xiude. When he heard this question, he immediately stood up: "I'm afraid it's a big tree that attracts wind. Let you be like this."
I don't care. The investment in the Longyangxia Dam in this book is only 500,000 yuan. We are going to build it in Longxi. We pooled the money. It is shown that just for fish farming, it is 100,000 acres of paddy field, which can guarantee 300,000 acres.
Thousands of hectares of fertile land. Why aren’t you cultivating it?”
Li Yuanxing thought to himself, he couldn't be wrong about five hundred thousand yuan.
Five hundred thousand guan is actually about 2 billion in later generations. This number is wrong. Two billion to build a dam is nervous.
Li Yuanxing quickly flipped through the pages: "I'm afraid you've misread this. This is the cost of materials. It requires at least 200,000 workers for two years, and you don't have to produce the steel bars and cement yourself. You have to transport them from Chang'an, which costs a lot of freight.
, plus the food and drink for the craftsmen, so half a million guan of iron will definitely not be enough."
Li Er closed the document in his hand.
"Wulang, the people in Chang'an all say that the King of Qin will give a discount when he talks. The expenses are quoted high, but the output is quoted low. Brother Wei heard it and looked at it. Is one million dams enough for the dam? One and a half million.
Is it enough? If you practice ten times, it only costs 15 million guan, so it is said that it is too much. Is 20 million guan enough? In fact, where did you spend the money?"
Li Yuanxing chuckled.
Such questions cannot stump him.
"Brother Emperor, there is another big problem, which is planting trees. How many trees need to be planted on both sides of the Yellow River? There must be hundreds of millions of them. Also, in addition to using labor, building dams will also affect the livelihood of some people and make them move.
We also need to provide some supplementary money. Because the water has to be temporarily diverted, it costs money to dig canals, which affects the farmland, so farmers must be supplemented!"
Li Yuanxing began to sit down and calculate slowly, all small accounts.
Li Er also had an idea and gave Cui Junsu a wink.
Cui Junsu immediately asked his men to start an abacus and calculate the expenditures mentioned by Li Yuanxing.
Li Yuanxing had to build 20 forty-foot-wide, pure reinforced concrete bridges, six large dams, more than 70 small water conservancy facilities, six artificial lakes for sand drainage, and a total of 300 miles of branch canals.
Hydropower station control, generators, as well as the design of 100,000 miles of steel wire for power supply, and a 10-foot-tall composite pure steel electricity tower.
Including the cement roads along the river, Li Yuanxing drove 10,000 miles directly.
Finally, Li Yuanxing even managed the dam, garrison, and granary.
In the end, Li Yuanxing even added the inflation rate. The reason was that labor costs would rise, and the prices of many people's livelihood products and supplies would definitely rise to some extent. Li Yuanxing gave him 5% a year.
Cui Junsu's men finished the calculation and did not give it to Li Yuanxing immediately, but gave it to Wu Zhao.
After Wu Zhao read it, she knew that Li Yuanxing's calculation was too high. The inflation rate of the Tang Dynasty was at most about 2 to 3 percent, and luxury goods could not be included in the inflation rate.
Wu Zhao has calculated the cost of the dam in detail. The only limitation at the moment is steel production.
Therefore, in the next three years, we can only choose a location to build one dam.
In Wu Zhao's heart, he still planned to place it in Luoyang, namely Sanmenxia or Xiaolangdi.
The actual expenditure calculated by Cui Junsu's men is 32 million yuan, and this is a ten-year expenditure, not all at once in a year. Your Highness, the King of Qin, only brought back the gold from the Japanese island, not even the silver.
Counting it all together, it is already far more than this number.
Wu Zhao nodded slightly and said softly: "It's high!"
"Princess Mingyue's opinion, how much higher is it?" Cui Junsu asked sincerely. When it comes to budgeting, especially this kind of advanced product, Wu Zhao is definitely the number one person in the Tang Dynasty.
Wu Zhao approached Cui Junsu and said softly: "If the control is good and there is no waste or official corruption, it will be about 20% higher, and it will definitely be lower than 26 million yuan."
Cui Junsu understood and asked in a low voice: "Why did Your Highness say 80 million strings!"
"You can understand that he is full of nonsense!"
Wu Zhao answered with a smile, but Cui Junsu shook his head because he didn't believe it.
There is no need for His Highness, King Qin of the Tang Dynasty, to talk nonsense here, let alone just make up a number and start talking nonsense.
Seeing Cui Junsu's disbelief, Wu Zhao also secretly praised Li Yuanxing's credibility.
Wu Zhao also became much more serious and said in a low voice: "However, if we include the docks, ships, and surrounding practical facilities, as well as all the officials responsible for the management of the Yellow River in the past ten years, as well as the patrolling soldiers, plus
The railway from Huating to Yizhou, as well as the supporting facilities, are worth 80 million yuan, which is not nonsense."
Li Er also heard it, came closer and asked, "Why didn't Wulang mention the railway just now?"
"He wants to get the money first, and then consider whether to build the railway. I know he is in trouble because the railway is too long. He is afraid that someone will steal his tracks, and he is even more worried that there is no good management on the road. The speed of the train
It's extremely fast. If it hits people, they will die. Not to mention, this railway is not easy to repair!"
Li Er could understand Wu Zhao's explanation.
Because once Li Yuanxing opens his mouth, I don’t know how many officials will support this railway matter.
It is definitely not like regulating the Yellow River and requiring a vote.
Li Yuanxing dared to build the railway to the Eastern Roman Empire, and the officials dared to unanimously approve it, so Li Yuanxing suppressed the railway.
Li Yuanxing saw Li Er, Wu Zhao and Cui Junsu discussing in low voices, but he did not approach.
He knew that Wu Zhao would definitely talk about the railway, and it was still okay to talk about it on a small scale.
Wu Zhao added: "There is another thing that Li Yuanxing considers. People will definitely die in such a project. And it will definitely not be one or two people. He budgeted more money to compensate these people's families in the future."
It is no secret that Li Yuanxing loves the people.
If placed in the former Sui Dynasty, let alone slaves, no one would care even if hundreds of civilians died.
When Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo, more than ten thousand civilians died on the road. Who did he take care of, and who did all the officials take care of?
The Tang Dynasty now provides pensions for soldiers who died in battle, but what about civilians? Li Yuanxing did not dare to mention it easily. He was afraid that the Tang gentry would react too fiercely, and he was also worried that his people's livelihood policies would be implemented too quickly.
But Wu Zhao knew in his heart that after the shock of the wounded soldier returning home that year, Li Yuanxing still had some shadows in his heart.