Three hundred students were writing furiously below, and Luo Youdu's mind turned to this exam question.
The failure of the dredging project gave Luo Youdu a strong sense of uneasiness.
According to Luo Youdu's understanding, this premonition originates from the latent memory deep in the brain.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty and during the Five Dynasties period, the Yellow River flooded most.
With the Central Plains in such a state, who has the time to manage the Yellow River?
This is also one of the important reasons for the diversion of the Yellow River: without management, more and more sediment accumulates, and the river bed continues to silt up, forming a terrible above-ground river, causing the Yellow River to cut off and change its course.
Luo Youdu attached great importance to water conservancy, but in ancient times manpower was limited, so it could only have a delaying effect...
Luo Youdu also ignored this problem when he was fighting in the south and north. He only said that he would pay attention to clearing out the silt and take care of it every year, so there wouldn't be any big problems.
The dredging situation at the beginning of the year sounded the alarm for Luo Youdu.
He vaguely remembered that in the early years of the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River continued to breach, and in a short period of time, there were many short-distance distributary channels. The Yellow River gradually changed its course to the north, and finally broke through Shanghuxun in Chanzhou, and headed north straight to Daming, passing through the west of Liaocheng to the border with Qingxian County in Hebei Province.
The Wei River joins and then enters the sea.
In other words, one day, Jingu, the future Tianjin, will become the outlet of the Yellow River.
This also means that a certain section of low-lying land from the lower reaches of the Yellow River to Jingu will become a swamp.
Farmland, villages and towns were destroyed.
As the mother river of China, the Yellow River has a large number of people gathered on both sides.
If this thing really happens, it will be a huge disaster.
The key is that Luo Youdu is not an orthodox student of history. He simply cannot remember the year when the Yellow River changed its course.
I just remember the beginning of the Song Dynasty.
It might be this year, it might be tomorrow, or even seventy or eighty years from now.
The two Song dynasties lasted three hundred years, and the early Song dynasty lasted at least one hundred years.
Who knows when!
After the news about the failure of dredging of the Yellow River reached the capital at the beginning of the year, Luo Youdu convened domestic water conservancy experts and formed a special river management operation team. He put aside all his work and was responsible for field inspections in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to discuss river management.
policy.
Many officials did not understand Luo Youdu's behavior.
After all, river management is time-consuming and labor-intensive, not to mention that it’s just a lack of dredging, so what’s the big deal?
Before that, who cared whether the Yellow River was clear of silt?
No one can predict what will happen in the future.
After working hard for more than half a year, God gives you a dry season. Do you think it's embarrassing?
In the early years, no one took care of the Yellow River, so it flooded all year round.
No one would have thought that the Yellow River would change its course again on a large scale.
Luo Youdu didn't dare to bet, that was the future of hundreds of thousands of people.
Compared with the so-called faith in the West, Luo Youdu has an inner drive that man can conquer nature.
He didn't know whether he could succeed in the end or change his destiny. But one thing is certain, he was unwilling to do things without asking, let alone wait for disaster to come, and then issue an edict for sinners with insufficient moral conduct, and finally ordered to be exempted from it.
The tax authorities in the disaster-stricken areas settled the matter hastily and continued to be their own emperor.
Whether you can do it or not is one thing; whether you can do it or not is another matter entirely.
Luo Youdu came back to his senses, looked at the many candidates who were writing hard and writing seriously, and left quietly.
The so-called palace examination did not require the emperor Luo Youdu to personally supervise the examination. He just set the questions himself and then personally selected the list of successful candidates.
Jiyingdian has many officials to invigilate and supervise each other.
Luo Youdu returned to Yanhe Hall and summoned Dou Yi to inquire about the situation of spring plowing.
As the Prime Minister, Dou Yi was well aware of the most important spring plowing, and said: "There has been sufficient rain this year, and the court has planted seedlings in advance, and the seedlings have been distributed to various places."
Luo Youdu couldn't help but nod.
The imperial court has the best seedling cultivation technology, and most of the seedlings in the world are cultivated by the imperial court.
Rich people purchased rice seedlings directly from the government, while poor people rented rice seedlings from the court. When the harvest was good, they had to hand over a certain amount of grain. There was no such thing as being unable to afford rice seedlings, causing the fields to become barren.
The distribution of rice seedlings means that people have begun preparing for spring plowing.
He took the map from the desk, called Dou Yi forward, and drew a big circle on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, starting from Huazhou, Chanzhou, Puzhou, Bozhou, Qizhou on the south bank, and Qizhou on the north bank.
Weizhou, Xiangzhou, Damingfu, Beizhou, and Dezhou were all included. He said to Dou Yi: "Instruct the officials in the circle to urge the people to complete spring plowing as soon as possible to free up the people."
Dou Yi said worriedly: "Will this cause panic?"
The common people had the obligation to perform corvées, and they usually participated in the slack seasons of summer and winter.
Forcing people to do corvee labor during the busy farming season can easily lead to resistance.
Luo Youdu said: "Then it depends on the officials' own abilities. Communicating with the people and obeying the court's instructions are their responsibilities as parents and officials. If they can't do this basic, then don't do it. In addition, Chanzhou,
The granaries in Daming Mansion are full and can be used at any time."
He was making advance preparations for the river management task force.
Luo Youdu was not good at water control, but he knew that to control the Yellow River, it would require a lot of manpower and material support.
Dou Yi frowned and asked, "Are you in a hurry?"
Luo Youdu said resolutely: "Be worried when the world is worried first, and be happy when the world is happy. We cannot wait for disaster to come before reacting. Since there are bad signs, we must prepare for the worst."
Dou Yi also thought in her heart: "Be worried about the world's worries first, and be happy after the world's happiness!" His eyes also changed from hesitant to firm, and said: "I will do it now."
Dou Yi likes this sentence more than the four sentences of Yu Zhi.
Although the four sentences of the Royal Proverb can make people's blood boil, but "worry about the world's worries first, and rejoice after the world's happiness" is actually for the sake of the people's livelihood.
On the fourth day, Luo Youdu had 300 more test papers on his case.
"Go and get some people to move these to Wende Hall. I will review them one by one!"
Luo Youdu said to Qin Han.
In fact, as the emperor, he did not need to review these papers one by one.
The imperial court's examiners have already reviewed and approved the test papers of the 300 candidates one by one in advance. They each scored the papers and selected the ones with the most merit.
As the emperor, Luo Youdu only needs to choose the number one, second place, third flower, second and third top scholar from the best papers.
However, Luo Youdu wanted to read everyone's articles on water control to see if he could find a good way to control water or a water control wizard who could find a reliable way to control the current prospect of Yellow River flooding.
For several days, Luo Youdu slept in the Hall of Wende, used his free time to review examination papers, and carefully read their opinions on regulating the Yellow River.
That night, he took a paper about the Guo River in Zhaozhou and saw that he wrote on the test paper: "The river is narrow and the slippery embankment cannot kill the wrath of the Yellow River. Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, most rivers have been between the slippery river and the slippery river."
From the source of the nine rivers in Liyang, if the river is now led out from the foot of Wenzi Mountain, passed through the golden embankment, and joined with the horizontal ridge to reach the sea, then the harm will be stopped!"