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"At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were hundreds of wastes waiting to be renovated. The Hongqu weir had long been in disrepair, and the weirs blocked the canal and could not be used. In the eighth year of Hongwu, Ming Taizu asked Changxing Marquis Geng Bingwen to dredge the canal, starting from Jingyang, Sanyuan, Liquan, and Gaoling. , Lintong and the five counties have benefited greatly." Zhang Jinyan couldn't help but explain.

"In the 31st year of Hongwu's reign, the Hongqu weir was blocked, and the Marquis of Changxing resumed dredging it."

"In this way, at the beginning of Chenghua, the mouth of the canal became higher and higher, the mountain became narrower, the water flow was about to surge, and the water conservancy was declining. Xiang Zhong, the governor of Shaanxi Province, cut through the mountain as its belly and dug a stone canal for one-third of a mile to divert Jingshui into the canal."

"After that, Yu Zijun and Ruan Qin followed. After a total of one year, the canal was completed and irrigated more than 8,000 hectares of fertile land. It was called Guanghui Canal."

"After that, the channel was often blocked and was dredged every ten or twenty years. However, the water in Jing became shallower and the channel was too high to be diverted."

"By the twenty-eighth year of Wanli, the Lintong River was completely closed, and only four counties remained."

"Unexpectedly, it was still repaired and blocked many times. In the fourth year of Tianqi, only 755 hectares and 50 acres of farmland were irrigated."

"Now there is a canal but no water. It only has a false name."

Zhang Shun seemed to understand, but he roughly understood what Zhang Jinyan meant.

Roughly speaking, there is a Guanghui Canal that used to irrigate 8,000 hectares of farmland in five counties. Now it is broken and can no longer irrigate the fields.

Build a canal? This is a good thing. I couldn't help but ask: "What does Zhang Zhixian mean? Do you want to recruit people to dredge Guanghui Canal again?"

"Rebuilding the river canals is the right way, but there are two difficulties in it, and we have to report it to King Shun!" Unexpectedly, Zhang Jinyan shook his head and said.

"There are two difficulties with Guanghui Canal. One is siltation. Although the Jing and Wei rivers have been distinct since ancient times, the Jing water is clear and the Wei water is turbid. However, in the rainy season, both silt and sand fall, and there is no difference."

"Therefore, diverting Jing River for irrigation will inevitably lead to the risk of siltation. Therefore, Guanghui Canal is dredged every ten or twenty years, which is a waste of people and money. It is a last resort!"

Well, it turns out that this is the origin of the word Jingwei Mingming. I asked why the name of this river sounds so familiar.

Zhang Shun secretly complained and said to himself: "Now that the rebel army has just taken over Shaanxi, if we can simply dredge the river, it will be safe for ten years, which will be considered a great achievement!"

Now that Zhang Shung has just arrived in Shaanxi, he heard that there are constant droughts in various places.

If it doesn't take much effort to ensure that Guanghui Canal can play its due role and there are countless people alive, it will certainly be a great merit.

Thinking of this, he should not ask: "What about the second one?"

"Secondly, the Jingshui River becomes shallower each day, and the mouth of the canal becomes higher and higher. There is water but it cannot be diverted."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Shun was a little confused. Could it be that if the canal mouth was built in the Himalayas, how many millimeters could it be raised every year?

"I saw with my own eyes a few days ago that the river water is almost level with the mouth of the canal, making it difficult for Jingshui to enter the canal!" Zhang Jinyan was actually a little confused, so he had to tell the truth.

"Well, since there is such a dilemma, what are Magistrate Zhang's plans?" Putting aside the unclear things for the time being, Zhang Shun thought that you deliberately mentioned this matter today because you just wanted to raise a difficult problem for me. ?

"Since the opening of the Zhengguo Canal in the Qin Dynasty, the Jingshui River has gradually become lower and lower, and all dynasties have diverted it from the upper reaches of the Jinghe River." Zhang Jinyan couldn't help but smile bitterly after hearing this.

"In the Ming Dynasty, the accumulation reached the stone mountain and had to penetrate the mountain into the belly. It took 17 years to do it. Unexpectedly, it is now too low!"

Good guy, Zhang Shun understands now.

Diversion of Jing water for irrigation has been done in every dynasty and every generation. If the water diversion point is low, don't worry, just dig a new water diversion point from upstream.

As a result, when it was the turn of the Ming Dynasty, unfortunately, the water diversion from the Jing River had already reached the Stone Mountain, making it difficult to dig. So Na Xiangzhong, Yu Zijun and Ruan Qin worked one after another, and it took 17 years to complete the digging.

If it is so difficult to open a new canal to divert water now, this matter really has to wait.

If the rebels really spent more than ten or twenty years digging a canal here, Mrs. Hong would probably burst into laughter.

"So now there are two views. One is to re-open the door to divert the water, once and for all, to ensure that the canal will have continuous water for decades." Zhang Jinyan couldn't help but smile bitterly. ,

"Second, reject Jing and divert springs, so that the water will flow slowly!"

"Oh? How do you say this?" Zhang Shun was stunned when he heard this. You cut off the Jingshui River. How can you still have "small water and long flow" in Guanghui Canal?

"In the past, when Xiang Zhong and others were excavating the stone mountain, they discovered that there was a natural spring in the mountain, so they diverted it away and returned it to Guanghui Canal with the Jingshui River."

"Now that the Jingshui River cannot be diverted, some people have proposed to continue digging springs and simply replace the Jingshui with springs to completely solve the problems of siltation and low water levels!"

"Oh? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two?" The second one sounds very reliable, so why are there still arguments? There must be something fishy in it.

"If Diaoerzui Shishan is excavated, the project will be huge and the gains will outweigh the losses. It is estimated that it will not take more than a hundred years to benefit another canal!" Zhang Jinyan couldn't help but smile bitterly, "It is only 10% of the canal, which irrigates more than 8,000 hectares of fertile fields. It is really very profitable. !”

"Rejecting Jing and diverting springs will solve the problem once and for all, but how can the spring water be like Jing water? More than 700 hectares of water are irrigated every year, which is better than nothing!"

In fact, how did Zhang Shun know that what Zhang Jinyan mentioned to him was actually a public case that lasted throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties.

A plan is complex, expensive, and effective, but it is likely to lead to the same fate as Guanghui Canal.

The latter plan saves time and effort, but it can only irrigate more than 700 hectares of cultivated land, which is really better than nothing.

Zhang Shun thought for a while and couldn't help but make up his mind and said: "Well, it's already late today, let's not talk about rest for now. Tomorrow I will go to the Guanghui Canal diversion site with you to check it out, and it's not too late to make further calculations!"

Since he took the initiative to "patrol hunting", he couldn't be like Qianlong when he went to the south of the Yangtze River and just focus on eating, drinking and having fun. He had to check and solve the problem.

Zhang Jinyan was startled when he heard this, and then he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He quickly kowtowed and said, "The people of Sanyuan are so grateful for the King of Qin's love."

What do you think? It turns out that the "Rejection of Jingquan and Diversion of Spring" diverted too little water, so it only benefited Jingyang County. The other counties of Sanyuan, Liquan, Gaoling and Lintong were undoubtedly without water.

Although Zhang Jinyan told Zhang Shun about the matter from a neutral perspective, he still hoped in his heart to divert Jing into the canal, which would also benefit Sanyuan and other counties.

Seeing that Zhang Shun took this matter so seriously, he felt much better about the rebels.

In fact, Zhang Shun didn't know that Zhang Jinyan was also a celebrity in the original history. He served as the magistrate of Qingjian County and Sanyuan County in Yan'an successively. He dealt with the rebels at that time for a long time and made some achievements.

He is not like Zhang Shun imagined, a spineless person who always looks at his beauty and makes enemies.

Later, Zhang Jinyan served as the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the Minister of the Ministry of War.

Waiting until Li Zicheng captured the capital, Zhang Jinyan saw that the situation was over, and then he and the bachelor Wei Zaode led hundreds of officials to express their congratulations to welcome the rebels.

When the Qing army entered the pass, many officials immediately changed their offices and took refuge with the new master.

However, he fled directly back to his hometown. Instead, he accepted an official position in the Southern Ming Dynasty and was appointed governor of Hebei, Shanxi and Henan military affairs.

He waited until Duduo pacified Henan and Jiangnan before he had no choice but to hide in Shangmashan in Lu'an Prefecture. It was not until Hong Chengchou sent people to surrender that he had no choice but to defect to the Manchus.

This person is neither Wang Qiaonian nor Zhang Bojing, who died generously, nor is he Hong Chengchou, who surrendered to the enemy and aided the tyrants.

Compared with them, he is more like an ordinary person under a building that is about to collapse.

Some persist, but cannot persist to the end.

However, he was luckier than others. Although he was later exiled to Ningguta due to the "literary prison", he left a series of documents here to future generations such as the monograph "Ningguta Landscape Notes" with high research value.