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Chapter 1258 Someone is jealous

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    Gao Gong became impatient again when he heard this. Li Chunfang was really causing trouble for others.

    This time he didn't want to waste any more words, so he glanced at Zhang Juzheng, and his uncle answered for him: "Yuan Weng misunderstood. The principle of 'promoting both rivers and seas, and water transportation as the foundation' will never change. We have never planned to  We have given up on water transportation. We are just planning to increase the intensity of sea transportation, from the current two million dan to four million dan."

    "The total water transportation amount is only four million dan per year!" Li Chunfang felt like she was being treated as a fool and couldn't help but raise her voice.

    "That's because water transportation can only transport four million stones a year. If the rivers and seas are used simultaneously, six million stones can be transported a year without increasing the burden on the people!" Gao Gong said tit for tat: "Two more million stones can be transported  If Shi comes over, things will be much better in the north, and the court will be able to do more!"

    "There is nothing we can do about it. This year during the Peach Blossom Flood, the Yellow River burst its banks again. The flood once again broke through the Wangjiakou area, flowing down from Shuanggou. There were more than ten breaches in the north and south, the river was silted for more than 800 miles, and more than a hundred canoes were drifted and overturned.  , a loss of more than 40,000 shi of grain." Bu Gu then sighed and said:

    "The water transport, which was restored last autumn, has been cut off again. I don't know when it will be possible to reopen it."

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    The violent dragon of the Yellow River is obviously not so easy to tame. Even if Pan Ji tames more magic weapons like cement, he still cannot succeed in the battle. In fact, the most dangerous Gaojiayan area has withstood the flood because of the use of concrete embankments.  test.

    But the production of cement is limited, and there are still long earth embankments that need to be replaced for several years.  The place where the embankment broke was the earth embankment that had not had time to be rebuilt

    But the government and the opposition have completely lost patience with the repeated attempts to repair the Yellow River. Officials have turned all their accumulated anger on the river Prime Minister Pan Jixun.

    Mr. Gao Ge also strongly criticized Pan Jixun for his mistakes in ensuring luck, which caused huge losses.  He demanded with fierce words that he immediately abandon the current plan to control the Yellow River, ignore the Yellow River for now, and make every effort to open up the Ba River to protect water transportation.

    As mentioned before, in order to solve the chronic problem that the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is often cut off due to yellow flooding, the DPRK has three plans - opening the Jiao Lai River, opening the Ba River, and restoring the old route of the Yellow River.

    The Jiaolai River project has been investigated and rejected the year before last, so there are only two projects left.  Gao Gong was a supporter of opening the Bahe River, and Pan Jixun was a staunch supporter of the latter plan.

    Gao Gong believes that now that the Yellow River has burst its banks again, it proves that Pan Jixun's method is not effective, so it is still necessary to open the Ba River - that is, to build a canal with a total length of 260 miles from Xia Town via Taierzhuang to Pizhou, which can make Beijing and Hangzhou more  The canal 'avoids the dangers of the Yellow River' and achieves smooth flow.

    So he wrote to Pan Jixun with great interest, hoping that he would start planning the project to open the Ba River according to his own wishes, so as to add another highlight to his glorious political achievements.

    Pan Jixun received the letter, but refused to cooperate. He bluntly said that the embankment was repaired without any problems, but the reason why the embankment burst was because the repair was not enough.  We should increase our efforts and continue repairing river embankments. How can we give up halfway?  Moreover, not to mention the huge cost of building the Yahe River, once it is completed, the imperial court will completely abandon the Yellow River and allow it to overflow. What will happen to the millions of people along the Yellow River?  It will eventually lead to a huge disaster!

    Seeing that he had made a big mistake and still refused to repent, Gaoge Lao couldn't help being furious, so he drafted an order to order Pan Ji to stay in peace while Zhu Heng, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was fully responsible for the excavation of the Ba River.

    Zhu Heng told Gao Gong that he also agreed to dig the Ba River.  But he had calculated a few years ago that this project would cost at least one million taels of silver, 200,000 civilians, and take three years of work.

    And before it is completed, water transportation will be completely cut off.

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    Gao Gong then asked Ge Shouli, the Minister of Household Affairs, to inquire.

    In the early years of Longqing's reign, when the pavilion was in full swing, the imperial court fell in disgrace, but Ge Shouli, the Minister of Duhubu, remained unmoved.  At that time, the subordinates of the Ministry of Revenue wanted to follow the example of other ministries and jointly impeach Gao Gong. However, no matter how much the two ministers Xu Yangzheng and Ma Ziqiang tried to persuade him, Ge Shouli still refused to sign the memorial.

    In the end, the two of them had to leave his name blank and handed over a piece of white hair that made people laugh out loud.  After Gao Gong resigned from office sadly, Ge Shouli, knowing that he would be attacked by the Xu Party, also begged to return home by supporting his old mother.  After Gao Gong came back, he immediately kicked out Ma Sen, the Minister of Household Affairs, and reinstated him to his original official position.

    With this relationship, Gao Gong naturally attracted him as his confidant.  There was nothing taboo about what Ge Shouli said. He told Gao Gong that first of all, the Ministry of Revenue had no money, and he had to find a way to raise money to open the Bahe River.  Furthermore, the water transportation yamen has been shut down for a year, and the top and bottom officials have been complaining. If they are shut down for another three years, they will have to rebel.

    Of course Gao Gong knew that things were difficult to handle.  Because Xu Jie and Li Chunfang have already finished all the easy things, and the rest are naturally hard to crack.

    He asked Ge Shouli if there was anything he could do, but Ge Shouli said no.?, this money must be put into Taicang.  Ge Shouli finally emphasized: "If I work for a long time and make wedding clothes for others, I will never offend those people in the shipping group."  "

    "As he spoke, he shuddered and said, "If you really want to do it, you have to let the Jinyi Guards protect me day and night, otherwise I'm afraid of dying."

    Gao Gong didn¡¯t listen to his last sentence, and his previous words put him in trouble.  If the money wants to enter Taicang, then the fleet must be operated by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and hundreds of thousands of people in the water transport yamen will go to drink the northwest wind?

    How could you agree?

    But what Ge Shouli said is right. If it is still handled by the Caoyun Yamen, Taicang's income will inevitably drop sharply, and it will become a wedding dress for the Caoyun Yamen.  Not to mention Ge Shouli, Gao Gong was not willing to stir up the hornet's nest of the Royal Shipping Company for those Nanjing nobles.

    ps. The inertia is so strong that I just finished writing it at this point.  Try to finish it before 24:00 tomorrow (remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com
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