Zheng Lang did not participate in the matter in the northwest.

In a simple way, the technique specializes in saying it is to leave things to experts. There is Di Qing and Wang Song in the northwest. Historical direction has changed and he lost his golden finger, which is not as good as the two. Therefore, he only used the Liang family's personality and some possible things in history to discuss the general direction with Di Qing, and then did not interfere.

The main thing is the Yellow River.

There is another reason for this year. Next year, the Sixth Mill (around the Sixth Mill in Nanle, Henan Province, the Song Dynasty built many large embankments on the Yellow River, and successively named the First Mill, the Second Mill, or Shanghu Mill, etc. Among them, the Sixth Mill was a large-scale river embankment) and divided into the Ergu River. Later, during the Xining period, the Ergu River was officially built. This is what Ouyang Xiu said in nature. It seems to rely on the river nature, but it is not human.

The more the Yellow River is divided, the slower the water level. The terrain of Hebei is completely raised by the accumulation of a small amount and the flooding of rivers, and finally all squeezed towards the Huai River.

Because the Liuta River is huge in scale and has formed a new river again, I don’t know what impact it will have on the river water next year, but I must prepare for it in the future.

Zhao Zhen’s health cannot wait for many years. Will the new emperor continue to trust himself?

Therefore, construction will be started this year.

The inspections in various places are only part of them, and we must also find various information from the Book of Shu and continue to improve our plans through these information.

More than ten days later, Di Qing had already returned to Yanzhou, and the envoy of the Western Xia was also sent away by the Song Dynasty. Fu Bi sent someone to call Zheng Lang over to discuss matters.

It was a letter from Tian Yu and Cheng Shimeng. The two worked together to recommend more than a dozen officials from Guangdong and Guangxi to the court. Managing rivers is like a war, requiring commanders, generals, and soldiers and small schools. Zheng Lang has been away from Guangdong and Guangxi for a long time, and many officials have been transferred. Some of them have been transferred to other places for merit, and many have political achievements. Some officials have won the same position because no one leads them. But gradually they have become the most popular. The officials recommended by Tian and Cheng, including Zheng Lang, only know that some of them are transferred to Guangdong and Guangxi in the later period.

Zheng Lang spread his hands and said, "Three husbands, personnel transfers have nothing to do with me."

He, the ambassador of the river, was an unprecedented official in the Song Dynasty. The ministers could not figure out its power, but they had no right to appoint personnel. Zheng Lang took it over, and no official dared to object.

However, Zheng Lang was so annoyed that he had not been in the Secretariat for a long time. He didn't know many official information, so he simply ignored it and returned the personnel appointment power to the Secretariat.

"You are in Guangdong and Guangxi." Fu Bi said.

"I have been in Guangdong and Guangxi, but I have been away from Guangdong and Guangxi for a long time. But Yanguo, you must believe that these four ministers are all top-notch officials in our dynasty, whether Cheng Shimeng, Zhou Han, or Tian Yu. I know how many people they recommend, at least they are more proficient in water conservancy."

"I understand, but look," Fu Bi pointed to two names, one was Huang Cheng and the other was Wei Zhongguang.

"He and the other two seem to be good."

"They are all barbarians."

"So what about the barbarians? Nong Zhi is a thief ambition, but the court is really wrong? First, it is too weak, making the barbarians think that our dynasty can be bullied. Second, it is too isolated. It is too low and humble, making them hate them. The former makes them think that our dynasty is weak. The latter causes hatred. Yanguo, will the rebellion in the south increase? You must learn to be tolerant."

Zheng Lang was also tired. Since everyone got together, he simply talked about some Western wars about religion. To the outside world, the first mysterious thing is the inner palace, and the second mysterious thing is the Zhongshu. After all, it was the greatest power in the Song Dynasty. In a sense, the rights in the hands of Zhongshu were better than those in the hands of the king.

In fact, it is very different from what the people outside imagine. Sometimes they also drink tea and chat.

They even talk about the slim waist of the young wife of the home and the golden lotus and feet of the young wife of the west, but they are all learned people and they talk very subtly.

The Secretary of the Central Committee is a little better. The rights of the Secretary of the Six Divisions were almost all cut off. What else can I do besides drinking tea and chatting?

The Western world is too far away, but several "holy wars" occurred in the Uighurs, and several prime ministers have heard of them. They have not paid much attention before. Now Zheng Lang talks about these wars that are crazy because of religion and persecution, and they are all amazed.

After finishing his talk, Zheng Lang said: "Why hasn't happened to my religion in the dynasty, and there is no religion that dares to interfere with the power of the monarch. At most, it only triggers some war of words. Because the word "tolerant" and tolerate all kinds of religions, religion has not formed any harm. Why does Confucianism in our dynasty develop faster than the previous dynasty, and it is also an inclusive one. Many people absorb the good ideas of Tao, law, military, Mo, and miscellaneous schools into Confucianism. So gradually became a trend of blooming with flowers. However, we must also learn this tolerance for barbarians and foreigners."

Then I looked at the list and said, "I know some of these two people. One came from Guizhou to learn from the local barbarians and the other was to appease the local barbarians. When I was in Guangdong and Guangxi, I chose some excellent people to train them. Before they grew up, I went to Tanzhou. What's the specific thing? Since Tian Cheng and the other two were selected from nearly two hundred barbarians, it would probably not be bad. Yes, these two people are the sons of the chief leader of the Great Barbarians on Guangnan West Road. If we let them go to the two Beijing officials, how much impact will it have on the south?"

"Xingzhi, if you say this, we promise."

"Yanguo, it's not that I have to agree as soon as I say it. Whether I can agree or not has to be seen from the perspective of the country. It is the model of an ancient gentleman. By the way, I also want to recommend two people, one for Sima Guang and the other for Wang Anshi. They went to Taipingzhou with me since childhood, and then surveyed and moored in Hangzhou for a period of time, and were very good at water conservancy."

Zheng Lang has several students. Yan Rong is not the best in his talent, but he is gentle, down-to-earth and diligent, and low-key in his life. Perhaps because he was from a businessman family, he was very proficient in business. After Chen Zhizhong's promotion, he managed the safety supervision and then was in charge of the banking supervision for his merits.

Banking supervision is very important, so Zheng Lang did not mention it.

Needless to say, the second brothers of the Fan family, there are not too many people who recommend them.

Lu Gongzhu was praised by Zhao Zhen many times for his resignation, and was awarded the Chongwenguan review and verdict of Taichang Temple. With the background of the Lu family, it was only a matter of time before he could rise to power, and water conservancy management was not the director of Lu Gongzhu, so Zheng Lang would not talk about it.

There are also the Su brothers, who have just passed the Jinshi period and lack the ability to conduct a mission. Even if they are granted a mission, they will not be very high. Zheng Lang can grant an assignment by himself if a small official is a mission. Will the Secretariat dare to object?

Pang Ji said: "Xingzhi, we have also thought about Sima Guang and Wang Anshi."

He didn't know whether he had ever thought about Wang Anshi, but he must have thought about Sima Guang.

The younger generation Pang Ji admired most in his life was Sima Guang. He helped him many times and wanted to compete with Zheng Lang for this student.

Zheng Lang smiled and then said, "I wonder what kind of candidates Zhongshu has chosen?"

His failure to participate in the selection of officials does not mean that he is not asking. If all the officials found by Zhongshu in the end were 25, that would be miserable.

Fu Bi took out a thick list from the draw.

Zheng Lang opened and looked through. He didn't know many officials, and some officials had heard of them. Most of these officials who had heard of them were quite talented. After all, river management was the biggest thing in the Song Dynasty's internal governance. With hundreds of millions of yuan of investment, several Zhongshu masters dared not joke. However, Zheng Lang was not sure whether these officials were good at water conservancy. However, the names above made him pay attention.

First, Bao Zheng, the ambassador of Quan Zhihe, changed from one to two people, and the other was Ouyang Xiu.

Zheng Lang looked at Fu Bi.

When you put it on paper, you only have names. However, there are stories behind each name.

In particular, Ouyang Xiu tied Bao Zheng and Quan Zhihezhi Ambassador, which was of great significance.

Not only is Bao Zheng and Ouyang Xiu disagree, but on the contrary, Fu Bi and Ouyang Xiu have a good relationship. There is also a story, Bao Zheng's disciple Zhang Tian.

At the beginning, Ouyang Xiu and Bao Zheng did not celebrate the festival. Ouyang Xiu once recommended Zhang Tian to magistrate Guangxin Army. At that time, Xia Shu and Yang Huaimin built plans to increase the pond water of seven counties in Hebei, but Zhang Tian disagreed. Although Yang Liulang increased the pond water, he took it as his responsibility to not worry about the people. With the original low-lying lakes, they dug rivers and ponds of large and small to block the speed of the Khitan cavalry's possible going south. However, they should not pay too much attention to the role of ponds. If they are widely repaired, they will damage the fertile land of the people and invade the cemeteries of the people, which is inconvenient. So they were exiled to the Yingzhou taxation, and after a long time, they were magistrate Yizhou again.

The eunuch Zhang Zongli sent Jingjun to the county to drink and no one dared to speak out. Only Zhang Tian made the case and ordered him to be swept through Xiling. Bao Zheng, the envoy of the Third Division, recommended Zhang Tian, ​​but Zhang Tian inherited some of Lao Bao's character and dared to speak. Because of Lao Bao's holiday with the bosses of the two governments, Ouyang Xiu's holiday, and the big and big Song dynasties, his recommendation was counterproductive, and the ministers of the two governments criticized him several times.

Zhang Tian was also angry and disagree. If he disagrees, he would disagree. Why did he throw dirty things on me? Do you still have the demeanor of being a priest? He wrote a letter to Fu Bi's five mistakes, and said that he had been the most important thing in the world for decades, and now he is the priest of Yuan. It is a pity that he has taken such a move.

You are not Xia Shu, nor Jia Changchao, nor Li Shu. Why do you do such a villain?

Fu Bi didn't say anything, but someone stood up, Tang Jie.

Tang Jie and Bao Zheng were both direct ministers of the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, but because of Wen Yanbo's affairs, the two of them quarreled and became irritated. So they talked loudly and said that Zhang Tian "had a traitor inside, boasted and dared to speak out outside, and secretly attached himself to the eunuchs of the royal family, and dared not cut them down, but stripped the rest, causing the country to lose grace and harm the body, and begged for demotion!"

Ninety percent of them were nonsense, but Tang Jie re-appointed this time, and was famous all over the world and demoted Zhang Tian to Qizhou.

No one knows how many stories happened behind Tang Jie.

But one thing is that if Ouyang Xiu and Bao Zheng were the ambassadors of the river management project, Bao Zheng would be very sad as the second in command of the river management project. In terms of mouth, pen, or influence, Lao Bao was no match for Ouyang Xiu at all.

Fu Bi said: "Xingzhi, Ouyang Yongshu was quite proficient in water conservancy. At that time, Liutahe failed and he was the first person to attack. This was the only way to apply it."

Don't think too much, I don't have the intention to save the whole bag.

This is Ouyang Xiu. The following series of lists, one-third of them have all the inside stories of one story.

Whether Fu Bi was applying only to the dose, Zheng Lang closed the list, smiled and said, "Okay, I haven't been in Zhongshu for a long time, and many officials have appeared recently, and I'm not very familiar with it. I believe you will apply only to the dose."

Don't be afraid.

There are policies above and countermeasures below.

When he returned to the Hehezhi Department, Zheng Lang wrote a note.

Let’s start by writing the general policy of river control.

Such a large project and many constructions must be carried out in a sequence. If the Yellow River in Hebei cannot be blocked, something big will happen.

The main thing to carry out construction is the new canal. The canal is the most important link in river management and the largest construction project. It uses water storage, water injection, water drainage, and water. Without canals, it is all a paper talk. When the canal peak arrives, part of the flood water will be poured into the Huaihe River Basin from the east. Therefore, Huaihe River management is also the first step to start.

The second is to dig deeper and widen Ji water, which must be completed before the Yellow River water is injected. This is the second phase of the project, and the upstream water binding project is also started.

The third phase of the project is to bring Huang to Ji and close the tributaries of Hebei.

The last phase of the project was to renovate the northern waters.

The beginning of the talk is quite normal.

But in the end, Zheng Lang said something, because the project is huge, spanning more than a thousand miles. If you count from the west to the southeast of the Huai River, it will reach more than two thousand miles. You are a human being, not a god, and you cannot take into account both ends and must be divided into project sections.

Each project section must have a specific responsible official. Of course, if the river management is successful, the achievements will be greater. There will be gains and losses. It is okay to grab credit, but each must take on his own duties. The officials in each project section must be responsible for the project of the project section. If something happens, severe punishment will be carried out.

Zheng Lang has a disguised responsibility contracting system.

Don’t be afraid of robbing merit. Grabing merit is robbing political achievements. Few officials are so noble that they are as noble as Fan Zhongyan. If they don’t have this motivation, they will be relaxed in the project. But if you want to rob this merit, it is not so easy to rob! If something happens, you have to pay for it. Do you have the ability to measure your own thighs?

Let’s go up, accurate.

It’s not a joke. How can Zhao Zhen be careless if he has more than 200 million yuan?

He also notified the world of this edict.

But even so, officials who wanted to enter the river management project still squeezed through the barriers.

It is not the south, there are barbarians, there are Jiaozhi, miasma, and there is also a hot climate, which is far from the political center. The weather in the Yellow River is normal and belongs to the core area of ​​the country. It is a Liuta River project, and its status in the hearts of officials is higher than that of Guangdong and Guangxi. However, Liuta River failed, otherwise no one would have been able to go down as Prime Minister Wen Yanbo.

In the midst of noisy, it is almost August.

Tian Yu and the other four came to the capital first.

Zheng Langzheng was waiting for them.

If you talk about helpers, these four people are the real helpers, who are good at managing rivers and have been tempered by the development of Guangdong and Guangxi, they are now the first-class master of river management in the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, among the four, only Zhou Han was getting older, while the other three were only in their forties and fifties, which was when they became rich and stronger.

Not only do they govern the river, but they are also the best-in-class officials.

Perhaps he is unable to serve as the chief magistrate, but as a local official, he will be four bright pearls of the Song Dynasty.

The four of them arrived, and Zheng Lang asked all the officials to come to the Water Control Department to report.

During this period, the Water Control Department was empty, only Zheng Lang and a few people doing odd jobs.

Until today, the Water Control Department has truly become a yamen.
To be continued...