Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty Chapter 1298: My prosperous Tang, no regrets!
There is a modern song called "The Descendants of the Dragon". There is a line in this song that reads: "There is a river in the far east, and its name is the Yellow River..."
The Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, this surging mother river gave birth to the brilliant Chinese civilization, but she has never been a "good mother". The continuous diversion and flooding in history brought the people of the Yellow River Basin There have been countless devastating disasters. Even in the modern era of the 21st century, there are still a large number of floating corpses on the Yellow River!
Throughout the development of human civilization, it is actually a history of struggle between man and nature. There is harmonious coexistence, and there is also a tense sword. With the vigorous development of Chinese civilization in the Yellow River Basin, more and more human activities and expanding population will develop into floods without accident.
Judging from the dynasty changes in Chinese history, the Yellow River Basin has been in a cycle of decline-war-reconstruction-prosperity-decline. Every new round of prosperity is a new round of disaster for nature. As the agricultural civilization of the Han culture shifted more and more southward, the sediment accumulated for hundreds of years finally ushered in a new round of outbreaks.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Yellow River breached and diverted more frequently.
According to the "Introduction to the Ming and Qing dynasties", in the 277 years of the Ming Dynasty alone, the number of breaches and diversions of the Yellow River reached an astonishing 456 times, an average of seven months. Will happen once. In the 1,500 years from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty, the number of bank bursts in the entire Yellow River Basin was only more than 60 times, and only one bank burst or flood occurred in 25 years on average!
While the river floods claimed millions of lives, they also caused a large number of refugees to flee and population migration, forming a population flow of "large disasters, small disasters". Among the more than 60 million registered population in the Ming Dynasty, about one tenth became a refugee. Not only did they live in no fixed place and wander in foreign countries, but they also famine everywhere and starve to death countless.
was the Henan region. In the early Ming Dynasty, 72% of floods occurred in Henan Province!
Of course, if this is the case, the imperial court spends countless amounts of money on building river embankments and treating floods every year. During the Ming Dynasty, the cost of building river embankments and treating floods every year reached% of the imperial government’s fiscal revenue. Around ten, during the Qing Dynasty, this proportion once reached 20%!
In the Ganlu Hall, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Li Er asked with an ugly face: "There will be a flood in Luoyang in nine years~? Li Zexuan, Ling Xuzhen really had this prediction before his life~?"
The five ministers in the hall looked at Li Zexuan with scorching eyes. The Yellow River burst and flooded Luoyang. This is not a trivial matter, and the real person of Lingxu has been infinitely mythical by many people, and his predictions It has to be taken seriously!
Last year, Li Zexuan said that in June this year, a locust plague would break out in the Guanzhong land. Eventually, the military commander group headed by Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin stepped forward to guarantee that the imperial court sent a fleet to trade and exchange food.
At that time, Changsun Wuji and a group of civil servants thought that even if the locust plague would not break out as scheduled, the court would not lose money for so much food at such a low price from a small country in Southeast Asia! And everyone can expect that the decisive battle between Datang and Turks will be within a few years. Even if there is no locust plague, Datang will need a lot of food and grass to prepare for the battle!
So they also agreed to Li Zexuan's Guangtun grain policy!
But now Li Zexuan also said that Luoyang will be flooded in nine years, causing the whole city to be flooded. Is it worth it?
You must know that Luoyang City's status in Datang is second only to Chang'an. In the first year of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, Luoyang was established as the eastern capital. After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he made people build palaces in Luoyang. Later, Wu Zetian, who had already taken over the power and became the ruler of the dynasty, directly took the eastern capital to Luoyang. The name was changed to the capital of God, which shows that Luoyang played an important role in the Tang Dynasty!
Chang'an City is the political center of Datang, while Luoyang is the economic and cultural center of Datang! Although the population of Luoyang City is not as great as that of Chang'an, it is not far away, with a population of at least 700,000 or 800,000!
If Luoyang City was flooded, the loss would be really too great!
Under the gaze of everyone, Li Zexuan bowed his hand to Li Er with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, it's a matter of great importance, the ministers dare not say anything! The teacher has said that for the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Huang Qi Jingtian, heavy rain, Gushui Overflow, enter Luoyang Palace, four feet deep, destroy Zuoyemen, ruin palace temple 19~!"
is a matter of great importance. Li Zexuan does not dare to talk nonsense. According to the official history, Luoyang City will indeed be flooded in July of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, but these words are not said by the real person of Lingxu, but written in historical books!
"What? Water enters Luoyang Palace?"
Hearing what Li Zexuan said was very serious, as if he had seen it with his own eyes, Li Er’s face was immediately covered with a layer of haze, and the Luoyang Palace was so high. If even Luoyang Palace was flooded four feet, folk Wouldn't it be a flood and a million dead bodies?
"If you say that if you plant trees in the Yellow River valley, the flood disaster in Luoyang after nine years can be avoided~?"
Last year, the city of Chang'an had no snow for the whole winter. This year's locust plague is almost a foregone conclusion. For Master Li Zexuan’s prediction of the real person, Li Er dare not ignore.
Li Zexuan pondered for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, it is so-called ten years of trees and a hundred years of tree people. It is not a day or two for saplings to grow into big trees. Improving the soil structure of the Yellow River Basin is definitely not within a year or two. It can be done!
chen cannot guarantee that planting trees and afforestation can change the fate of Luoyang's flooded city nine years later, but compared to building dams and disaster relief and controlling floods, tree planting is definitely the most effective and cheapest way to manage the Yellow River at the moment!
Once the Yellow River Basin has a large-scale shelter forest~IndoMTL.com~The sediment content in the Yellow River will be greatly reduced. Even if the Luoyang flood in nine years cannot be avoided, it may appear in ten or twenty years. Suspended rivers, dams and dykes on the ground will not appear easily again! This is a matter of merit for the present and future generations. Your Majesty is wise and martial and has lofty ambitions. The minister hopes that His Majesty can make a cautious decision! "
Although the number of floods in the Yellow River in the Tang Dynasty is indeed more frequent than in the previous dynasties, compared to the following Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the floods in the Tang Dynasty can be said to be infrequent at all. serious!
However, as a descendant of the Yellow River, Li Zexuan, as a traverser who knows the future, since he is reborn in such an open and inclusive era, he feels that he has the responsibility to treat the Yellow River when it first becomes dirty. This can prevent thousands of Han Chinese from dying in the flood!
The people who died in the floods of the Yellow River are all his compatriots!
His Tang Dynasty, no regrets are allowed! Therefore, Li Zexuan took a lot of effort and spoke a lot of words to persuade Li Er and persuade the empire’s princes. He believed that his afforestation and anti-disease policy might not be possible for thousands of years. Some people remember Yongan Hou Li Zexuan, but those who grew up drinking water from the Yellow River can remember him as the initiator of afforestation!
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