"Chan and Hua dikes are narrow and cannot kill the wrath of the Yellow River. Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, most of the rivers have been between Chan and Hua. In the original land of nine rivers in Liyang, if the river is now led out from the foot of Wenzi Mountain, passes through the golden embankment, and joins the horizontal ridge,
If it reaches the sea, then the harm can be stopped!"
Luo Youdu said something silently.
This sentence refers to Chanzhou. Huazhou is the place where the flow of water is the most rapid in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. The dams on both sides of the river cannot withstand the water of the Yellow River.
It should be diverted from Liyang, go out of Wenzi Mountain in Huazhou, pass through Jindi, merge with Henglong, and go eastward together.
In the article, Jindi and Henglong do not refer to passes, but to dams and fortresses.
Jindi Dam is located at the junction of Yanggu County and Fan County. In the 12th year of Yongping, Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow River burst. Wang Jing, a water control expert, recruited hundreds of thousands of migrant workers to control the river and directed the construction of the left and right embankments.
To prevent the Yellow River from flooding, it was called the "Golden Embankment" by later generations.
The current Jindi Dam refers to the left embankment located near the Yellow River, because in the third year of Xiande of the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Yellow River had shown signs of moving north. The right embankment currently only has the function of flood control and has no use in blocking the Yellow River.
Regarding river management, Luo Youdu recently sharpened his skills and gained some knowledge.
In the past few days, I have read more than 200 exam papers on water control and compiled some insights.
Chinese people have always had the courage to fight against the heavens. Jia Yi of the Western Han Dynasty formed a set of theories on river control in his "Three Strategies for River Control".
The situation in the Eastern Han Dynasty was different. After hundreds of years of erosion, the Yellow River had become an above-ground river. It was very difficult to dredge it. Wang Jing used a lot of manpower and material resources to dig out the highlands of Shanfu, remove the water blocking facilities in the old river channel, and block the horizontal ditches.
Thousands of miles of embankments were built, the blocked Bian Canal was dredged, and the Yellow River and Bian Canal were managed from top to bottom.
This move made the Yellow River peaceful for eight hundred years. Although there were inevitable dangers in every dynasty during this period, they were all within human control. After Wang Jing's governance, the basic course of the Yellow River was fixed and never changed its course.
Until today...
The Yellow River became restless again.
Historically, the Song Dynasty's management of the Yellow River was extremely unsuccessful. After the Yellow River was diverted, they even violated the rules and forcibly diverted the diverted Yellow River again in order to achieve military purposes, viewing the Yellow River as a defensive tool to prevent the Khitans from moving south.
The mother river, which is closely related to people's livelihood, has been used for military purposes, causing great disasters. As a result, the Yellow River was a veritable harmful river in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Most articles summarize previous experience, but Guo He proposed a feasible method.
Luo Youdu couldn't help being surprised. He quickly found a map and compared the place names on the map one by one. He was quite convinced.
However, he did not know whether this method was feasible, but compared to more than 200 previous articles, Guo He rarely wrote out a specific implementation plan.
He patiently reviewed Guo He's other answers. Except for water control, the other answers were unremarkable, and the classics and history articles were quite satisfactory.
"ah……"
After yawning, Luo Youdu continued to read the rest of the exam papers.
He mainly focused on river control, and stayed up half the night to review the remaining dozens of articles one by one.
The vast majority of candidates' answers on the management of the Yellow River were based on their own erudition, based on their own well-read books and historical river management experience, and discussed their own opinions.
This is natural, as most candidates lack practical experience.
Apart from giving Luo Youdu a variety of insights, there were no real results.
However, there are still a small number of people who put forward pertinent opinions, among which Guo He is the one who discusses it in the most detail.
Luo Youdu also made the list of Sandingjia in time.
Bi Shi'an won the first prize without any hesitation, and everyone expected him to do so.
Luo Youdu did not deliberately suppress Bi Shi'an just because he was Dou Yujun's disciple and would become the pillar of Shilin in the future.
He had a certain understanding of Bi Shi'an. Compared with the younger generation of scholars like Song Bai, it was better to let Bi Shi'an, who was strict with himself and lenient towards others, help manage the scholars.
The second place on the list was Ma Shi. This man was erudite and had thousands of books in his mind. All his answers quoted from classics, as if he were taking an open-book exam.
Tanhua Lang was Shi Ying, and Shi Ying was remarkable in his answers on regulating the Yellow River, but he also had great experience in criminal law, and his answers impressed Luo Youdu.
As for the rumors in later generations that Hwarang was happier than the top pick, that is all nonsense.
Anyway, Luo Youdu didn't know Bi Shi'an, Ma Shi, or Shi Xing in Sandingjia, so how could he tell whether they were handsome or not?
As for Guohe, it ranks among the top three.
Strictly speaking, Guo He's other answers, taken together, did not meet the standards of being a third-class scholar and a Jinshi.
But some people were seriously partial to science, so just because of his article on water control, Luo Youdu decided to make an exception and grant him the position of Sanjia and Jinshi.
As soon as the imperial list was released, Bi Shi'an's name immediately resounded throughout the world.
This guy got a good beating from Wang Yansheng and got a blessing in disguise. He was already a talented prime minister, and he got guidance from a famous teacher, so his cultural foundation became even deeper.
This time he came to Beijing to take the exams as the number one in the clouds. He ranked first in the provincial examination and first in the palace examination, becoming the first good person in history to win three yuan in a row.
On this day, Bi Shi'an finished washing up early and came outside the palace amidst the admiring eyes of everyone.
At this time, a large number of Jinshi have gathered outside the palace. According to the rules of the Luo Yu court, all Jinshi will be received by Luo Youdu on the second day after the results are released, and then a gathering banquet will be held to entertain all high school Jinshi.
Compared with the Qionglin Banquet of the Song Dynasty, Luo Youdu's Gathering Banquet was of much lower quality.
In order to please the literati, Zhao Kuangyin specially gave banquets to the Jinshi in Qionglinyuan, the imperial garden on the west side of Tokyo City. He continued to build it, making scholars all over the world yearn for this place, and it was not until Huizong that it was finally completed.
Then within a few years, the Jin people went south...
Luo Youdu was not as heroic as Zhao Kuangyin and was short of money, so he held a banquet in a side hall near the Jiying Hall of the examination room.
As for the private project of Qu Shui Shang and Chun Feng Deyi, let them do it on their own, since the imperial court would not participate anyway.
Save if you can.
If any literati had enjoyed the treatment of scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty, they would have started to make trouble long ago.
However, the literati of Luo Yu Dynasty were all poor people who had never seen the world. They were very satisfied with Luo Youdu's arrangement.
A literati who has never been rich has no definition of luxury in his mind.
Seeing Bi Shi'an's arrival, the surrounding Jinshi came forward to say hello and say hello.
They are all Jinshi in the same class, so they will have to help each other in the future.
Bi Shi'an is undoubtedly the most glorious one.
Ma Shi and Shi Ying also came forward to say hello.
The three of them are undoubtedly the most shining ones.
Luo Youdu met all the high school Jinshis in the palace. The leaders were naturally Bi Shi'an, Ma Shi, and Shi Xing. Thirteen people were born in the second-class Jinshi, and thirty-six people were born in the third-class Jinshi. They were listed in front of the palace in batches.
Luo Youdu looked at the talented people below, and his mood cast a shadow over the Yellow River. At this moment, he was also in a good mood.
If the military is a contradiction in protecting the country, then officials are the parts that make the country run.
Without military personnel, the country will no longer be safe, but without civilian officials, the country will not be able to function and will be in chaos.
It is not advisable to emphasize literature over martial arts, and the same is true for emphasizing martial arts over literature.
Regardless of superior or inferior, they are all indispensable.