Chapter 1297 of 3096
Chapter 1297: On the importance of planting trees! (under)
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Inside the Temple of Ganlu.
Just when Li Zexuan was so bored waiting to find a place to sit and rest for a
while, there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall.
Li Zexuan's face was solemn, and he hurriedly stood in the hall "stand".
"Hehe! Your kid must be impatient to wait, right?"
Sure enough, the person here was Li Er, and the old Li Long walked into the
hall step by step. When he walked to the side of Li Zexuan, he said with a
smile.
Although Li Zexuan had this idea in his heart, he would not be stupid enough
to say it. Hearing that he quickly handed over: "Your Majesty summons the
minister into the palace. There must be something important to tell. The
minister is full of energy right now and is ready to listen. Hadith, how can
you be impatient~?"
"Haha! You kid!"
Li Er pointed at Li Zexuan, smiled irritably, and then raised his foot to the
seat above.
At this time, a servant came to report: "Your Majesty, Zhao Guogong, Fang
Xiang, Du Xiang, Xiao Shangshu, Yan Shangshu are waiting to see you outside
the hall!"
"Xuan!"
Li Er sat on the couch and said solemnly.
After a while, several important imperial officials walked in. They were a
little surprised that Li Zexuan was also in the hall, Changsun Wuji and
others.
After the monarch and his ministers saw the ceremony, Li Erchong and Zhao Song
nodded in greeting. The latter took out five pamphlets and distributed one to
each of the five ministers. Li Er said at this time:
"Everyone, Aiqing, this is the fold that Li Zexuan submitted yesterday. I
asked someone to transcribe five points. You will take a look first. After
reading it, I will ask questions!"
"No~!"
The five important ministers promised, and then they all glanced at Li Zexuan
imperceptibly, and they were probably secretly saying: Sure enough, where
there is Li Zexuan, there is right and wrong!
When everyone bowed their heads and saw the first few sentences of Li Zexuan's
memorial, a sense of absurdity arose in their hearts. If it were not for the
wrong occasion, it is estimated that they would laugh out like Li Er at the
beginning of last night. But soon, their faces became serious.
Time passed bit by bit, and there was no sound in the hall. Li Zexuan held his
hands and stood silently in the hall, secretly guessing in his heart that
these old officials would ask him some difficult questions for a while.
"Huh? Have you finished reading it? Do you have any objections to what Yong'an
Hou played on the Zhezi?"
About a quarter of an hour later, Li Er's voice rang in the hall.
The five ministers first looked at each other, then Fang Xuanling stepped
forward and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister has a few questions to ask
Yonganhou, I wonder if you can?"
Li Er waved his hand and said: "You don't have to be restrained. If you have
any questions you want to ask Yonganhou, just ask, if you can answer
Yonganhou, just answer it!"
"The ministers will follow the order!"
All the ministers under the hall bowed their hands.
Fang Xuanling looked at Li Zexuan at this time and asked, "Dare to ask
Yonganhou, you said the water quality of the Yellow River was clear before the
Qin and Han dynasties, do you have evidence~?"
Li Zexuan stepped forward and replied: "Of course there is evidence! The
juniors and the gentlemen of the academy have reviewed the history of previous
dynasties and found that the previous record of "Heqing" began in the late
Eastern Han Dynasty, indicating that before the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was
relatively It is said that the Heqing phenomenon may be more common, not a
strange incident, so it has not been recorded! Since the Eastern Han Dynasty,
the sand content of the Yellow River has increased and the turbidity has
become worse, so "Heqing" has become the auspiciousness of the country, and
the writing is in history!
Fang Xuanling contemplated for a moment, and nodded slightly: "Hou Yongan said
in the memorial that if the Yellow River is allowed to increase in sediment,
the eight waters of Chang'an will become turbid in less than 20 years?"
Li Zexuan said: "About this point, I believe the younger generation should not
say it, the picture of the house must be clearer than me? In the previous
dynasty, what was the water quality around Chang'an City? What is it now? You
should have your own mind! "
He has only been here for a year, so naturally he doesn't know the situation
in the former Sui Dynasty, but Li Gang knows! According to Li Gang, the water
quality around Chang'an City is indeed inferior to the previous ones!
Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others looked at each other, and finally
sighed, obviously tacitly acquiescing to this fact.
Li Zexuan added: "The quality of water is related to the lives of millions of
people inside and outside Chang'an City. The cholera outbreak in Chang'an City
last year has nothing to do with the presence or absence of yellow sand in the
river, but it is also caused by pollution of the water. Cholera! The land
where we are now has soft soil. When there is a strong wind, the yellow sand
will be filled, and when there is a heavy rain, the loess will flow into the
river. In the long run, the sediment content in the Yellow River is bound to
become higher and higher. Water can't afford the consequences!"
Everyone's complexion changed. After all, the cholera in Chang'an city last
year is still vividly visible!
Fang Xuanling paused, and asked again after a long while: "Hou Yongan, you
said that the increase of sediment content in the Yellow River will easily
lead to the riverbed being too high in the lower reaches. A heavy rain will
cause the Yellow River to burst. This can happen~ ?"
Li Zexuan smiled slightly and said, "This is natural! Yan Shangshu is good at
engineering and manufacturing. He must know this better than me! If Fang Xiang
doesn't believe in juniors, you can ask Yan Shangshu!"
Without waiting for Fang Xuanling's question, Yan Lide nodded and said: "Yes!
If the sediment of the Yellow River is allowed to accumulate, the sediment
will be deposited in the shallower part of the downstream water flow, and the
river bed will definitely be too high. Over the years, the river bed will be
raised. It’s not a problem! If there are continuous heavy rains, the lower
Yellow River will surely burst! By then, thousands of people will suffer!"
In fact, Yan Lide's prediction is still optimistic. In modern times, the water
level of the Yellow River is more than 70 meters higher than that of Kaifeng,
and it has become a veritable hanging river above the ground!
Xiao Yu asked in a deep voice: "Hou Yongan, what do you mean is that if the
court does not adopt your tree planting measures, the flooding of the lower
Yellow River will become more and more serious in the future~?"
Li Zexuan nodded and said:
"In the past few days~www.mtlnovel.com~Mr. Li Gang and I have looked through
the local county chronicles of the lower reaches of the Yellow River in
previous dynasties. It is well documented that from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty
to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty for more than 800 years, the lower
Yellow River was altogether There have been only 20 ** breaking floods, an
average of one flood every 41 years;
In the four hundred years from the Three Kingdoms to the former Sui Dynasty,
there have been twenty-three floods in the lower reaches of the Yellow River,
an average of once every seventeen years! If we don't take measures now, the
Yellow River will burst more and more frequently in the future, even to bursts
every three years! At that time, the money spent by the court on flood control
and relief of the people would far exceed the money spent on planting trees
now! "
Speaking with data and speaking with facts, this is what Li Zexuan, an
engineering expert, is best at and likes to do. After these words, the faces
of everyone in the hall became serious.
And Li Zexuan’s next sentence was even more shocking, “Before my master died,
he not only predicted this year’s locust plague, but also predicted that in
nine years’ time, the Yellow River would burst its dykes again, and Luoyang
City would be completely flooded and the lives would be destroyed. !!!"
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