I am the king of the dead

"The method of returning to the water is an idea that I have been lingering since I rushed to the capital in Jing'an, and then from the capital to Guizhou."

The backwater method is to build dikes, block the water flow, open gates, artificially limit the size of the water flow, increase the water volume of the dangerous shoal, and make the dangerous shoal no longer a dangerous shoal.

"Oh?" Yang Jun stood up straight, thought for a long time and said, "This idea sounds good."

"Captain Yang, I have selected a few places to see where the embankment is to be placed." Xu Youzhen chose to walk instead of riding a horse this time.

On the way here, he read the hydrological data on the dredging of the Daming Wujiang River, but he needed to be down-to-earth to determine whether the backwater method was practical.

Is Chapter 500 saving them or harming them?

Traveling all over the world, it is sad to cross the Wujiang River, the Qianli Beach is connected to the beach, and nine out of ten boats are smashed.

Xu Youzhen arrived at Gongtan Town, waiting for the ship, and he wanted to go down the river.

In the 27th year of King Qin Zhao, Sima Cuo, the general of the Qin State, led hundreds of thousands of people from Bashu, starting from Fuling, going up the Wujiang River in a mighty way, and reaching the Sinan area. This was the first large-scale military operation in Guizhou in history, and it was also the first time The beginning of Wujiang Water Transport.

Since then, on the Wujiang River, boats have shuttled back and forth, transporting salt, tung oil, raw lacquer, camellia oleifera, green hemp, cinnabar, mercury, cotton, wax and other special products. Merchants gathered along both sides of the river, forming a group of commercial and handicraft towns. .

While Xu Youzhen was waiting for the boat, the sky began to drizzle, and the surface of the river seemed to be foggy, and a layer of mist appeared. Coupled with the howling wind in the mountains, people suddenly felt a chill, a refreshing feeling The air is filled with rain.

Through the mist of water, Xu Youzhen saw the ship he was waiting for.

The crooked head boat is a kind of ship specially used to pass through the Wujiang River. It is a thick plate ship with a thickness of nearly three inches, a length of about three feet, and a width of about one foot. It can hold up to 250 cargoes.

The bow and stern of the crooked ship are raised very high, which is to prevent bad waves from breaking into the ship.

The strangest thing about this ship is that the stern is high on the left and low on the right, and slanted to the right, with a height difference of nearly half a foot. It is a crooked stern.

The bow is also crooked.

The bow of the crooked-headed ship was tilted to the left, and the stern was tilted to the right, as if it had been twisted.

This is because ships on the Wujiang River generally travel on the right side, so whether it is going up or down, the water flow on the left side is not so fast, so there is this crooked ship.

"Boater, can you pass along the river?" Xu Youzhen boarded the boat and looked up at the sky. It was raining, so she wondered if something would happen.

The boatman is the owner of the ship, and there are not many ships on the Wujiang River. Most of them are controlled by big companies such as Yifenghe, Zhang Yifeng, Yuelaihe, Dasheng, and Zhoujiayan in Sinan. They travel between Sichuan and Sichuan, transporting Sichuan salt To Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

Two years ago, there were only about 250 ships of this kind of crooked-head ship that could carry [-] materials in the entire Wujiang River, and there were only more than [-] boatmen engaged in the ships on the Wujiang River.

Therefore, King Xiang's entry into the noble family not only had to solve the problem of earning income from labor, but also the problem of having no place to work.

Since Xiang Wang Zhu Zhanqian arrived in Guizhou and ordered Guo Yan to supervise the construction of Wujiang Shipyard, according to local conditions, a total of [-] crooked-headed ships were built in just one year.

The construction speed of the Wujiang Shipyard has allowed the crooked-headed ships to increase rapidly at a speed that merchants cannot understand.

The boatman was wearing a short shirt and a bamboo hat, and the paddle in his hand was about two feet long, almost as long as the boat.

"Yes, yes." The boatman was not good at talking, he just spoke calmly.

His ancestors moved to Gongtan Town in the early Song Dynasty. They have been engaged in sailing boats for generations, coming and going in the waves for 40 to [-] years.

Xu Youzhen is a high-ranking official, and the boatman is still a little nervous.

"Is it possible to sail in this weather?" Xu Youzhen sat on the boat and asked a little worried.

Seeing Xu Youzhen boarding the boat, the boatman smiled and said, "What's the problem?"

Xu Youzhen chatted with the boatman for a few words, and the boatman's chatterbox opened up, and he babbled on for a long time. He is a Han citizen. Although Chinese is not very fluent, there are not too many problems in communication.

The boatman said with a smile: "There are five towpaths and fourteen dangerous beaches up and down the Wujiang River. I know exactly where you can pass and where you can't. Don't worry about it, the officials."

There are more than a thousand towing trackers. They have to tug the boat on the towing track less than five feet away from the cliff no matter whether they are exposed to the wind or the sun, or the torrential rain is pouring. The blood is all facing the ground and the back is facing the sky, holding the body like a bow to pull the boat.

Xu Youzhen had never seen these trackers, because since Beiya entered Guizhou and began to swindle the beaches, the five silted places that needed trackers to navigate, no longer needed trackers.

King Xiang Zhu Zhanyan placed them all in the shipyard, where they learned how to maneuver the boat from the boatmen while doing physical work.

The boatman started to take the boat, and he said with great satisfaction: "In the past, the owners of the boats were all rich and powerful chieftains and officials. Sixty percent of the revenue from water transport went to the boatowner, the boatmen and boatmen accounted for [-]%, and the trackers accounted for [-]%."

"If the ship sinks, the owner of the ship will lose money, and the boatman will lose his life. They are all trying to make money."

"After Prince Xiang comes down, there will be no need for so many trackers. It's about four or six."

Xu Youzhen said suspiciously: "It's so hard, why is it only [-]%?"

"Forty percent belongs to the shipyard, and sixty percent belongs to us." Said the boatman, shaking his head hurriedly.

Xu Youzhen understood.

After the boatman opened his chatterbox, he couldn't hold back and said: "Now the waterway is much easier than before. Three years ago, the sky was dark and the sky was dark, and the storm was violent. As a result, the boat capsized. Of the six boatmen, I was the only one who survived." come down."

"After Prince Xiang came down, it's been almost three months. I haven't heard of anyone's shipwreck. Only His Highness and the governor seem to be dissatisfied. They are busy all day long, blowing up stalls all day long."

"I know what they are chanting, such as one dig, two bombs, three blocks, four marks, five twists, not to mention, these military guys are quick to do things."

"I heard that recently in Zhentian Cave, I dealt with the Tianzhen Stone, and said that within a year, I knocked out the Skyzhen Stone."

Zhentian Stone is the Hengjiang stone on Zhentian Cave Beach. That stone will become a hidden reef in summer and autumn. It is a high-risk area for shipwrecks. If the Zhentian Stone is not blown up, how can this section of waterway be possible? Is it okay?

Of course Xu Youzhen knew what Xiang Wang Zhu Zhanqin and governor Yang Jun wanted to do. Wujiang Shipyard was building a [-]-material crooked-head tank boat. This kind of ship was much larger than the current crooked-head tank boat. , Naturally, the large Hengjiang stone must be killed.

Not long after Xu Youzhen boarded the boat, she felt a strong sense of vomiting. The boat was very bumpy, and then he found out that he was seasick.

But he still kept his spirits up and carefully recorded the silt along the way.

When they arrived at Sinan Wharf, Xu Youzhen finally couldn't bear it any longer and vomited so badly that she seemed to want to vomit out her stomach before giving up.

The boatman and the boatmen shook their heads again and again.

Those who have never been on a Wujiang boat know how dangerous this place is.

Not to mention Xu Youzhen, the boatman and the boatmen also vomited when encountering a little bit of bad weather. There is no one who is not used to seasickness.

Has been punting has been vomiting.

The crooked head boat stopped at Sinan Wharf, and Xu Youzhen turned on her light oil lamp at the posthouse, and began to write and draw.

He soon discovered that his ideas about the backwater method simply wouldn't work.

It's not that there is a problem with the method, but that he really can't do it.

He found several places suitable for backwater navigation.

For example, this Wujiang Ferry, he took a fancy to at a glance, it is a geomantic treasure, but a dam can be built at Wujiang Ferry, at least fifty feet.

To achieve the navigable effect of backwater submerging the dangerous shoal, it is necessary to drag the people of Guizhou to build a dam at Wujiangdu, but even so, it may not be possible.

Because the project volume is really too big.

Therefore, Xu Youzhen can only choose a good place, and if there is such a condition in the future, let the descendants build it.

The backwater method is one of the important means to solve navigation, but unfortunately, he can't do it now.

In the early morning of the next day, Xu Youzhen went on a boat again to the north. He wanted to go all the way to Fuling, study and understand the hydrology of the entire Wujiang River in conjunction with the previous dredging documents, and then start to control the water.

There is a batch of tung oil in Guizhou, about 100 million catties. In March, it has been collected in Chongqing Prefecture. During the wet season, it goes south from Chongqing Prefecture to Jingzhou City in Huguang.

The 100 million catties of tung oil were divided into sixteen tank boats, and it only took two days to travel from Chongqing to Jingzhou along the river.

Thousands of miles of Jiangling to return in a day.

It was only June when this batch of tung oil arrived in Nanya, and Li Xian only left 20 catties of tung oil, and the rest were sent to Songjiang Mansion.

The resumption of work at the Longjiang Shipyard was not smooth. Both the shipyard and the Treasure Shipyard were official factories. The land of the official factory had been invaded, and all the boatmen had been disbanded. The old site of the Longjiang Shipyard is now full of people.

Migration and resettlement are complex and difficult, so we communicate with each other door to door. The full resumption of work at Longjiang Shipyard is imperative.

This is a symbolic event of Daming's resumption of shipbuilding in official factories. No matter how difficult it is, it must be pushed forward.

However, because the Songjiangfu Shipyard has no historical burden, when the ship was built, it marked out a piece of land and began to build it. Li Binyan built it near Baoshansuo along the Yangtze River.

After the confluence of the Songjiang River and the Huangpu River, the intersection with the Yangtze River is the most suitable place for shipbuilding, and it is extremely convenient to travel.

Songjiang Shipyard has started construction in an all-round way, but Longjiang Shipyard is still struggling, so [-]% of the tung oil was sent to Songjiang Prefecture, and only [-]% was left in Nanya.

In addition to supervising the Longjiang Shipyard, Li Xian is also supervising the construction of the Artisan College and the Tongshi Hall. These two places are places of education, training shipwrights, blacksmiths, and Tongshi.

In addition, Li Xian's biggest case recently is the case of a terribly female household.

Li Xian and Li Binyan disagreed about the share of the assets under the control of the Songjiang Prefecture Weaving Bureau.His Majesty has already approved it, and Li Binyan's [-]% wins.

Li Xian doesn't care much about winning or losing, he cares more about the resettlement of terrified female households.

"Wei Guogong, shouldn't your Yanyun Building be closed? Even if it doesn't close down, can those fireworks incidents be stopped?" Li Xian was discussing with Wei Guogong about the further investigation of the abnormal female household.

Once the rescue of the abnormal female households is started, then a natural question, should the prostitutes in the oblique alleys of Nanjing City also be solved together?

Yang Han, who arrested the elders of the Li family, was also there, and Yang Han, as the commander of the Jinyiwei, must be present for the investigation of the murder of the terrified female household.

It is a secret that Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong managed the Yanyun Building. Even today, everyone knows that the business of Yanyun Building is huge, and few people know who is behind it.

Of course Xu Chengzong knew that the case of the abnormal female household would definitely involve Yanyunlou in the end, and the closure of Yanyunlou was also within his expectation.

"It's not that I, Old Xu, are greedy for money. This Yanyun Building is indeed making money every day, but this person is gone. What's the use of making so much money?"

"But Governor Li, I think the Yanyun Building will be delayed for a few years before closing." Xu Chengzong didn't think it was a good idea to stop the Yanyun Building now.

"What did you ask those girls to do? If you don't go to the Yanyun Tower, you will go to the Kagura Fairy Capital, and if you don't go to the Kagura Fairy Capital, you will go to the inclined alley. You closed my Yanyun Tower, but scattered all over the city. Yes, it's even harder to catch."

"Yanyunlou can immediately stop the skinny horse business, but where are these girls from the world of fireworks going?"

"Do you want to force these private wives into beggars, or simply into prostitutes?"

"There are many of them, and they know nothing but selling. Are we saving them or harming them?"

If the imperial court simply forbids lean horses and private nests in Yangzhou, and does not allow the existence of prostitutes on the surface, but instead harms these women, then what is the difference between the imperial court and the elders of the Li family?

It backfired, and it was the result Xu Chengzong didn't want to see.

Therefore, to ban private prostitutes, we must use shelter.

Housing requires money and food, official housing, and livelihood, otherwise it cannot last long.

Of course Li Xian considered this issue. He raised his head and said, "Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, our weaving bureau in Nanjing City of Yingtianfu can also be expanded. I have already submitted a letter to the imperial court."

Xu Chengzong immediately asked: "Are they unwilling to go? Do you think that people in the fireworks world are all forced?"

"Many of these private nests are caused by madams' love of money and women's love of beauty. This is a very complicated problem, and it is not simply caused by their lack of work."

"Let them honestly go to the Weaving Bureau to be female celebrities. They may not be happy. Even if we force them to enter, what will they look like in the Weaving Bureau? What will they look like in the Weaving Bureau?"

The world of fireworks is fascinating, and many people are addicted to it. Xu Chengzong has seen too much.

What's more, these women don't care about production, they like to intrigue the most, and the result of sending them to the weaving bureau is to toss the weaving bureau into disgrace.

Xu Chengzong's opinion is that it's better to let them go up and down in the world of fireworks and fend for themselves.

He continued: "Even if we expand the Weaving Bureau, we expand the official residence, and take in all these women, there may not be a good result."

Of course Li Xian thought about the consequences, he thought about it for a long time and said, "But we still have to do it."

Xu Chengzong still shook his head and said, "I still don't agree with such a hasty policy."

"A lot of people have flower fistula. If you put them together with those deformed female households, don't say I didn't remind you."

Xu Chengzong never asked Liu whether he was in his own place, because he was afraid of death.

If he wants to play, he has never been out of the court, and he specializes in marrying a powerful and powerful skinny horse, and earns it in the house as a concubine. To the other girls in Yanyun Tower, he has always kept himself clean.

Because of willow disease.

Li Xian finally understood what Seo Seung-jong was objecting to.

Xu Chengzong formally did not want to see the court fail in the case of the abnormal female household, so he objected to the immediate closure of the Yanyun Tower and the seizure of Shenle Xiandu.

It's easy to seal up, and then what?What should they do?Are these people cured?

If not cured, those rescued deformed female households, living with them in their daily life, are prone to get sick, but the treatment can't cure them, the flower fistula keeps recurring, and the tortured by the disease is so painful that they choose to throw themselves into the Qinhuai River. Not a minority.

There are many difficulties in this, and it is definitely not a problem that can be solved with a single order from the court.

Chapter 5 and One is his first move!

"You successfully persuaded me." After being silent for a long time, Li Xian finally blocked the plan to completely wipe out prostitutes and prostitutes. He felt that it was necessary to wait.

It's not that Li Xian is afraid of difficulties.

But in reality, they have no effective way to solve the diseases of these prostitutes.

Rescuing them who are not very happy to be rescued, and letting them live with the rescued deformed female households is a harm to the deformed female households.

Keeping oneself clean is an idiom of Qu Yuan.