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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 282 Inspection of the Yellow River

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    The snow in the Daxianbei Mountains in the far northeast temporarily stopped, but the Hetao Plain at the foot of the Yinshan Mountains was immersed in a blizzard.  ¡Í ?Shuofang County welcomes the second batch of immigrants, still one hundred thousand, still from Guanzhong. They are descendants of the old Qin people, descendants of the Chu people's military conglomerates, and also descendants of powerful people from Guandong who have moved here in recent decades.  Whether you are happy or sad, the imperial edict must be carried out unconditionally.  "What's more, with the care and subsidies provided by the court, powerless people can get opportunities to come forward, and they are happy to accept them." Gongsun Xian, the prefect of Shuofang, talked eloquently.  Gongsun Xian is a lean middle-aged man. His ordinary appearance does not affect his confident temperament. Ever since the imperial court made plans for Shuofang County before autumn, he has been regarded as the best candidate for the imperial court.  The surname Gongsun is very common, which at least shows that his ancestors were descendants of a certain public clan in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, they were authentic Wei people. In the 39th year of King Xian of Zhou Dynasty (330 BC), the Wei State lost Hexi County.  His ancestors surrendered to the Qin State as scholars and struggled for more than a hundred years to gradually enter the middle and high levels of the Qin State.  Qin Shihuang unified the six countries and decided to connect the Great Walls of various countries in the northern border areas, so his ancestors became the first residents of Jiuyuan County. His great-grandfather and his four brothers served as junior officers in the Great Wall Corps, and his father served in Xianyang  He is a middle-level bureaucrat, and his uncle is the captain of the Qin general Meng Tian. He is a serious senior general of the Qin army.  During the war to destroy the Qin Dynasty, our ancestors belonged to the five great ministers Wang Li and Shaofu Zhang Han. They escaped Xiang Yu's trap in the Battle of Julu. They were extremely disappointed with Zhang Han's incompetence and hated Xiang Yu's cruelty. Just like the Five Guanzhong Five  Millions of old Qin people also turned to the banner of Peigong Liu Bang, who conquered Wuguan, and became generals.  The descendants of the Old Qin, with him as a typical example, made great contributions in the battle to restore the Three Qin Dynasties, especially the ancestors of Gongsun Xian who followed Cao Shen to defeat the princes and kings of the Three Qin Dynasties.  The soldiers came to the city and forced Zhang Han to death. From the beginning, he was still an old subordinate of the Cao family.  Cao Shi and Gongsun Xian were also relatively familiar.  When his father died of illness, there were only a few serving bureaucrats among the guests who came to express their condolences. In his early years, he had been promoted step by step from junior officers in Border County. He had made some contributions to the Wu-Chu Seven Kingdoms Rebellion and reached the rank of captain. In the past few years, he had served in Yanmen County for two years.  The captain of many counties was transferred to Beidi County as the prefect in the past few years. He has long experience in staying in the northern border.  Being born in Jiuyuan County and living in border counties all year round as an officer is just an advantage. There are at least dozens of people with similar conditions to him in the court, but his good conditions are because his ancestors are familiar with Jiuyuan County.  As early as the early Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the founder of the country, decided to conduct a detailed survey of the lost land of the old Qin Dynasty in the north. His original intention was to free up his hands to regain the lost territory. Gongsun Xian's grandfather was among the first batch of people sent to his hometown in Jiuyuan County.  What they did at that time was similar to surveying and mapping. They drew inaccurate maps and recorded the words heading west. They disguised themselves as ordinary herdsmen and walked thousands of miles in Monan for nearly ten years. Even after the death of Taizu, they did not complete the tasks given by the court.  Afterwards, the trend of the court changed drastically and turned into a conservative attitude, and beating the Huns became a casual joke in the court.  His grandfather and father did not give up on their goals. They persisted in surveying the border counties and the Monan Xiongnu for nearly fifty years. They escaped from the prairie wolves several times and paid a heavy price to complete the mission.  He also hiked through the Yinshan Mountains in his early years.  Zeng Duhe secretly sneaked into Henan to record the migration habits of the Aries King tribe. With this persistence, almost no one could be more suitable than him. Therefore, as soon as the establishment of the county was approved, he notified Gongsun Xian to make corresponding preparations.  After two months of preparation and one month of taking up his new duties, he rushed to invite the general of chariots and cavalry before the spring flowers bloomed.  "General, look at this place. The river is the most fertile place in the nine bends. The villages are located in the most fertile places on both sides of the river. The cultivated land along the river can meet the farming needs of the people on both sides of the river. There are many ferries on both sides of the river and boats are ready. In the west and  A beacon tower was set up in the north to garrison the county soldiers, and there was a bronze bell in each village to warn the people. Chi-roads were built between the villages to keep communication open. Beacon towers and garrisons were set up along the way to Yunzhong County. If the Huns moved south for a while,  Unable to succeed at the moment, Fenghuo promptly notified Yunzhong County to move reinforcements. If Yunzhong is not as good as Yanmen County, Yanmen is not as good as Taiyuan County, and they will be passed on step by step until Chang'an City. " When the honor guard of the cavalry generals came to the Yellow River, Cao Shi was absent-minded.  Listening, he was thinking about the eternal problem of floods in the Yellow River. His vague memory suddenly recalled a story about Tian Fu. It seemed that an unprecedented big breach of the Yellow River occurred in the early days of Liu Che's ascension to the throne. As the prime minister, Tian Fu not only did not  The organization blocked the breaches, but instead allowed the breaches to spread for their own selfish purposes.  Although the court decided to block the block after several disputes, it was difficult to block the large hole that was opened at that time. The blockage failed and the Yellow River flooded the plains for more than 20 years before it was blocked. Tian Fu's dark history is part of  This is the most unscrupulous one. Hundreds of thousands of people died in the sudden floods. Millions of people's homes were washed away and turned into swamps. They were displaced for decades without a place to live. They were almost reduced from ordinary people to untouchables.  of the destitute.  That big timeIt happened to be on the eve of the Han-Hungarian War that the country lost millions of people in tax revenue and hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land. Several of the most populous counties in Guandong became a vast country, causing huge losses to the financial system of the Han Empire.  , and at that time, the Han-Hungarian War was imminent. The emperor could not wait patiently to plug the breach, clean up the silt and swamps, and restore productivity. It would take more than ten years to reorganize the dilapidated counties.  So the Han-Hungarian War started, with millions of extremely poor people in the country homeless, and despite the heavy losses caused by floods in the country, they attacked the Huns. In just a few years, the treasury and financial system collapsed. The emperor worked hard to win the war.  The taxation caused the country's prosperity to decline, and he himself died bearing eternal praise and eternal infamy.  And Tian Fu, the culprit, has long since been slapped on the butt and sent to hell. The common people only remember the ruins of the Han Dynasty, but no one cares about the immeasurable impact of Tian Fu, the culprit.  "One mouse excrement ruins a pot of porridge! Tian Fu, this rat excrement, does not ruin a pot of porridge, but ruins the great situation of the Han Empire. Without his efforts to block the breach of the Yellow River, the Yellow River would not have been flooded for more than 20 years.  Without his selfishness, the court would have lost millions of people's tax revenue and hundreds of thousands of hectares of harvests. Not only would the court not be able to collect taxes, but it would also have to find ways to resettle refugees. The river floods have been fighting for more than 20 years.  The domestic hematopoietic system was disrupted, business development came to a standstill when the war broke out, social security declined, and tax increases entered a vicious cycle again. The price paid over and over was staggering, and the invisible losses amounted to more than tens of billions of dollars every year. ¡± Cao Shiding!  Looking at the Yellow River, I felt very complicated.  The water of the Yellow River becomes turbid here. The Loess Plateau in Henan contains amazing amounts of sediment. The river water flows from both sides and naturally carries the sediment southward. The northwest side of the Hetao Plain is the starting point for carrying the sediment. There is no need to worry about excessive amounts.  The silt makes the river silt up. The rapid river water carries the silt into the middle and lower reaches of the Hetao Plain. When it reaches the Hukou Falls, it turns into pure yellow river water.  After passing through the river, it turned sharply eastward at the confluence of the Weihe River east of Chang'an. That place was called Fenglingdu. On the opposite bank was the boat service Kong established by the imperial court. The speed of the Yellow River that continued to flow eastward slowed down significantly, and the sediment carried by the river water  It gradually settled in the area east of the northern Hangu Pass river (Sanmenxia), and gradually rose from Luoyang to the east. That area was also an area prone to river flooding.  In the Spring and Autumn Period and before, rivers overflowed in Hebei, and large areas of plains in the Zhao region were once huge swamps. In the early Warring States Period, the countries in Kanto were busy building dams to contain lakes and swamps, and push the river water back to the correct channel bit by bit.  Here, from the early Warring States period to the present for more than 300 years, the Yellow River has always been stable in the river channel and rarely has a tendency to flood.  He doesn't know when the Yellow River will overflow, but he will definitely try to block the river, because he knows that once the Yellow River overflows, it will definitely bring immeasurable losses, not just the loss of hundreds of thousands of hectares of food, but the loss of  It is so simple to tax millions of people, and the continuity of economic development in Guandong is destroyed. One-tenth of the population of the Han Empire is displaced, and one-tenth of the population growth is lost. People who have no food to eat will not consider it.  Have children because they can¡¯t even support themselves.  With the vicious cycle going on, it will be difficult to heal the wounds in ten or even twenty years. Is the emperor willing to waste ten years of great youth?  Impossible, he will definitely insist on launching a war. Even if the domestic losses are unbelievable, he will firmly launch a war. Defeating the Huns is his lifelong ideal, and for this he will do whatever it takes.  He understood the emperor's insistence very well, especially at this moment, when the Huns were in a short-term crisis, the Han Empire must seize the opportunity to go north to attack the Huns, eliminate the main force of the Huns as soon as possible and eliminate the foreign invasion in the north, so that the emperor could think of turning to the west or  South completes other objectives.  Cao Shi also supported the emperor's great ideals. No matter how tyrannical the emperor, who would be called Emperor Wu of Han, became in the future, he would not mind struggling to realize the ideal of hegemony of the Han Empire. He could not care about personal political gains and losses for the time being.  As long as we can complete the lifelong pursuit of several generations, we will at least be worthy of not leaving any regrets in this life.  Now it seems that defeating the Xiongnu is not a difficult problem. The difficulty is to defeat the Xiongnu without being seriously injured. He is very worried that the emperor's persistence will cause the Han Empire to suffer a bloody blow. It is a pity that the emperor does not obey his words and only sighs.  Can sigh.  The emperor will eventually grow up. Even if he stays in Chang'an, he will not be able to influence him for a long time. The relationship between teacher and friend will be ended sooner or later. Trying to control the emperor for a long time will definitely lead to family ruin. Maintaining a superficial close relationship like this is probably the best way.  Good results.  Unknowingly, my thoughts flew far away.  "General, general!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster! PS: Sorry for being late again, I will fill in the word count and write two more chapters today.
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