"If His Majesty's plan can be implemented, the Min dynasty's water conservancy will last for generations to come." Chen Buyi expressed his opinion. The three people listening to him were the ones who had gone with Chen Buyi to the audience yesterday.
The four young people Vézé had met had finished their speeches. After listening to others for a day, Chen Buyi invited everyone to his room. There were some who didn't care, such as Lei Junchen. Chen Buyi's father was a founding hero and Emperor Vézé's old brother. Lei Junchen's grandfather was also a founding hero and Emperor Vézé's old brother. The other two were not as good. They were of ordinary backgrounds and it was hard to tell if they were willing to talk nonsense with young masters.
"Old Chen, have you studied the water conservancy north of the Huai River?" Lei Junchen asked disapprovingly as he dispersed smoke for everyone.
"What do you mean?" Chen Buyi wasn't unhappy at all because of being mocked. He was very happy to have such a straightforward discussion environment. The previous meetings always had the issue of seniority and seniority. Before discussing academic issues, they had to pay attention to these topics that had nothing to do with academics. Now, they only had to consider academic issues.
Lei Junchen looked left and right, then he made up his mind and said, "What did the Yangtze River basin and the Southwest rely on? The population migrated to other places and to the cities. The food in the Southwest is no longer produced by themselves. At most, non-staple foods like meat and vegetables depend on the locals. It will be a big problem to restore the Yellow River basin to this state. Henan can still be considered the Huai River basin, but the rest of the Yellow River basin will become a forest belt. This basin has been cut down for two thousand years. It's impossible to restore it in just a few decades. "
"Yes, our Asian region is a monsoon region." Jin Rengui, one of the two technicians from ordinary backgrounds, also joined the discussion. "It's easy for the water vapor brought by typhoons to the Huai River basin, but it's a small probability event to reach Henan. It would have to be during the Han and Tang dynasties for water vapor to reach the Northwest Plateau. What was the temperature in China then? The average temperature was several degrees higher than it is now. "
Xu Guodong, who was researching the Grand Canal, couldn't help but grimace when he heard his three colleagues criticizing Emperor Vézé's train of thought. However, after Jin Rengui's speech, his mood was lifted and his train of thought became smoother. "In 1854, His Majesty went on the Northern Expedition. At the Xuzhou Ferry, he wrote the words' Yellow River's Old Road, Blue Sea Mulberry Fields'. In the second year, the Yellow River burst and the river moved north. At that time, the Yellow River in Xuzhou really became the old Yellow River. Some people said that His Majesty's words were the law. In fact, the sediment deposition of the Yellow River had caused the river channel to be even higher than that of the north. His Majesty himself said that when he saw that waterfall, he actually didn't let the river flow north, he felt that it was really inconceivable. It was clear that His Majesty already had a correct view of water conservancy. Since that's the case, it's impossible for His Majesty to simply believe that afforestation will have the same effect as the change in Earth's temperature. "
After listening to the discussion of the three guys, Xu Guodong said with a trembling voice, "You guys … Are you guys trying to rebel?"
"Rebel my a * s!" Chen Buyi rolled his eyes at Xu Guodong. He had seen quite a few people like Xu Guodong. Although they seemed to follow the rules, they were actually afraid of offending people and causing trouble. If Xu Guodong was really scared to death, he would have fled long ago. Therefore, Chen Buyi said unhappily, "The Commander in Chief must have heard our speech and felt that we have something up our sleeves. If you don't hurry up and prove yourself, are you going to wait for the Commander in Chief to beg you? "
Xu Guodong no longer dared to seek a foolproof solution with just one sentence, "Are you going to wait for the Commander in Chief to beg you?" He immediately said, "The siltation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is not something that our dynasty has just begun to pay attention to. Over the past few centuries, there have been many attempts to solve it. Using the clearer water of the Huai River to dilute the water of the Yellow River into the Grand Canal has always been a common choice. This is really a method of choosing the lesser of two evils. After the Yellow River flowed north, the Commander in Chief took the lead in passing the 'River Law', which stipulated the greening of both sides of the river and prohibited farming and grazing. This quickly improved the situation of the river south of the Huai River. Therefore, what happened in Hebei was not because of the Yellow River, but because of the greening of the entire Yellow River basin. "
The comrades who could attend the meeting were the best of the best from the various water conservancy departments. If they performed badly in front of Emperor Vézé, the water conservancy department would not be able to raise its head in the future. These four young people were naturally not useless. When they really showed their academic ability and cooperated, they found that they complemented each other. In particular, Xu Guodong, who was afraid that the slightest bit of cheating would affect his future, had an analytical ability that was comparable to Chen Buyi and Lei Junchen, who were from high-ranking families of the Min dynasty.
Chen Buyi and Lei Junchen found that the whole thing was heading in a clearer direction, so they kept quiet. It was not strange that the Commander in Chief suggested restoring the Dreamy Cloud Swamp. Currently, there were a series of cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, such as Changsha, Wuhan, Anqing, Wuhu, Nanjing, Shanghai, as well as places in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang. These were all elite areas that could not be lost. The Dreamy Cloud Swamp had experienced many changes and had not been completely annihilated. As long as the Yangtze River became clear and with policy support, restoring the Dreamy Cloud Swamp would not be a big problem.
In the future, even if there was a flood in the Yangtze River, the flood would first enter the Dreamy Cloud Swamp through the openings on the river, making the flood water level high. However, the situation of the Yellow River was completely different. Just as Xu Guodong had said, restoring the Han Dynasty Yellow River, whether it was the cause or the result depended on the individual's attitude. The person who decided the national policy was not this group of young water conservancy workers, but the Military Governor Vaize.
At the thought that they might have to provide services for the Commander in Chief's policy, Chen Buyi and Lei Junchen, who were from the top families of the Min dynasty, did not want to say anything else other than to shut up. At this time, anything they said would be wrong.
However, Jin Rengui could not help but continue to say, "I don't know how the central government defines the Huai River, but the location of the Huai River is very important. If the central government can first dredge the Huai River basin, perfect the waterways of the Huai River basin and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and let the water of the Huai River lower, that would be the most effective effect … "
Xu Guodong, who was studying the dredging of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, responded with a few words, while Chen Buyi and Lei Junchen became very good listeners. In other words, they made the speaker feel that the content of his speech was valued. However, in the eyes of Chen Buyi and Lei Junchen, this Jin Rengui was probably a water conservancy expert of the Huai River, and the possibility of him taking the initiative to cooperate in politics was greatly reduced.
The water conservancy conference lasted for five days and ended after that. Chen Buyi and Lei Junchen received a private notice to stay. In the end, when they saw that the person presiding over the conference was not Emperor Vézé, but the Minister of Water Conservancy, they were somewhat disappointed. Among the hundreds of people who attended the conference, nine people stayed, and Xu Guodong was one of them. Jin Rengui, like the others, embarked on the journey back to his original unit.
Vézé did not stay not because he did not care about this matter, but because he did not have the time to specifically stay for this. If Vézé was personally in charge, the first thing he would do was to remove the current Minister of Water Conservancy and replace him with a new Minister of Water Conservancy that Vézé could approve of. If the people in the system could not complete the tasks assigned by the higher-ups, they had to be replaced. This was the basic principle of organizational engineering.
After finishing the water conservancy work, Vézé went south to Anhui to inspect the party building work. The building of the party was the foundation of the country, and the weakening of the party meant the beginning of its demise. Especially now that Vézé was preparing to establish a republic, if the next president was chosen from a group of incompetent people, the result would probably be the 21st century Kuomintang.
The relationship between the party and the government was connected through the president of the country, and in theory, the current president, Shen Xin, was in charge of this work. The political direction of the party, the concept of governance, and related decisions were realized through the work of the prime minister. Therefore, both the president and the prime minister were members of the standing committee of the party. However, the president was the General Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, which was a working unit of the party. Above the General Secretary was the president of the party. This was not a position, but the number one person in the party, the person who decided the philosophy and direction of the party. It was the chief political helmsman. Therefore, Vézé's current job was to do political work.
When he arrived in Anhui, as soon as Vézé had a discussion with his comrades, the provincial party committee immediately began to complain that there had been a large-scale immigration wave throughout the whole of Anhui. Vézé had stayed in Anhui for a period of time. This place used to be a land of fish and rice, a rich and fertile land. However, since the Yellow River was breached at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the ecological environment here had become worse and worse. Moreover, as the earth's temperature dropped, Anhui was cold in winter and hot in summer. It was either droughts or floods, so Anhui became a major province of immigration.
Henan had a large population, and Fujian had always had the habit of wandering outside. However, in the past decade or so, Anhui had become the main force of immigrants. Especially when North America had initially settled down, a large number of Anhui immigrants responded to the call of the country and set off by ship.
Therefore, Vézé did not criticize them. He just smiled and said, "This shows that the implementation of the national policy in Anhui is good."
If it was in the past, when the Military Governor Vaize praised them like this, the local cadres in Anhui would be overjoyed. Now, after Vézé praised them, not only were the cadres not happy, but their faces became bitter. "Commander-in-chief, we responded to the call, but we can't make it to the point where there is no one within a hundred miles. Commander-in-chief, we used to laugh at Jiangxi, saying that the migration of people to the mountains could starve bandits to death. Now we know that it was not a joke. If this continues, Anhui's economy will be at the bottom of the country! "
Every province had to conduct an economic assessment, and human resources were the foundation of society. Without human labor, there would be no economic activity. Cities with a population of millions or even nearly a million people appeared in the land of the Min dynasty. At this time, the population of Anhui was less than ten million. If they were to randomly fill the cities, there would be no people left in the vast land of Anhui. It had to be said that in addition to the large amount of water, the land of Anhui was really not fertile.
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