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On December 20, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cixuan held a prefectural meeting in Luoyang. The meeting was chaired by Zhou Yingji, the governor and governor of Henan. The crown prince arranged the work of each government in the next stage and commended those with outstanding political achievements such as Liao Xing, the prefect of Kaifeng, and Hou Fangyu, the prefect of Guide.

A new administrative division was also announced.

First, Huaiqing Prefecture and Weihui Prefecture merged into one, and the newly established Huaiqing Prefecture had twelve counties under its jurisdiction, becoming the Henan Prefecture. Secondly, Ruzhou Zhili Prefecture was once again assigned to Nanyang Prefecture, and the current Ruzhou Prefecture temporarily led Xiangyang Prefecture. This will save a set of prefecture-level administrative teams and improve administrative efficiency.

As a country of ethics, the basic principle that must be followed is: two people become rituals, and three people become rituals.

It seems like a simple meeting, but it is absolutely impossible for everyone to be sent to the meeting. The prefect Sang Kaidi is quite knowledgeable about etiquette and knows a lot about flexibility. He changed the meeting to two parts: "Prespect" and "Feast". First, let the officials meet the crown prince, then each sits to hold a banquet.

The atmosphere of the banquet was relaxed and the words were solemn and harmonious, which was exactly in line with the "conference" the prince said.

Zhu Cilang was also very satisfied with this arrangement. He sat in the middle of the rank. The prefects and officials below were divided into two sides and sat opposite each other, which was no different from meetings of senior officials in later enterprises.

In order to meet the situation, the officials also placed food tables in front of them, including tea, water, fruits and cakes, which were simple and clean, saving expenses.

"At the beginning of next spring, all parts of the province, especially Guide and Huaiqing, must ensure spring plowing." Zhu Cilang said: "The grain in Shanxi next year will be allocated from Henan." Guide and Huaiqing Prefecture are key grain-producing areas in Henan. As long as spring plowing and reclamation can be fully guaranteed, there is absolutely no problem in achieving self-sufficiency in the whole province.

But if there is an additional supply to Shanxi, it will be a bit stressful.

Wu Weiye and Hou Fangyu also felt a little heavy when they looked at the tea and pastries in front of them. However, the two palaces have always been grain-producing places and the land is rich. Now there are potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, etc. that can be planted in the mountains and mudflats, but they are not impossible to complete the task.

"Kaifeng Prefecture," Zhu Cixuan looked at the young and brave Liao Xing, "After the people are at ease, the first priority is to manage the river. Spring farming can be done within one's ability. But river management must be put first. Liao Xing, if you can cure the Yellow River, I will ask you for your title."

Liao Xing quickly stood up, bowed and said, "I will do my best."

Zhu Cilang is very satisfied with Liao Xing's never bargaining work attitude.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, the Yellow River has been constantly invading the Huai River. When the country is peaceful, the government can have the spare time to dredge river channels and build embankments. Even if floods occur, it can help the victims. Once the country has something to do and its energy is placed in other directions, the Yellow River will expose its fierce minions.

After the Tang and Song dynasties, the ecological environment of the Loess Plateau deteriorated and soil erosion was severe. The Yellow River swept into the eastern plains with trillions of tons of silt and sand. The silt and sand accumulated. The river channel was filled with flat land, and the river water naturally overflowed, thus forming a yellow spill area where crops could not be cultivated.

In the fourth year of Hongzhi, the Yellow River broke at Huanglinggang, Jinlongkou and other seven other places, and the flood flowed northward at Zhang Qiu and entered the Huitong River. The canal ships and cargo ships heading north were blocked at Zhang Qiu. Emperor Hongzhi ordered the deputy censor Liu Daxia to block the mouth. Liu Daxia formulated and implemented the strategy of dividing the north embankment south. Under his leadership, the court built the Taihang Dike, the northern embankment of the Yellow River, which was more than 500 miles from Caozhou to Xuzhou.

After the formation of the dam on the north bank of the Yellow River, the Yellow River was prevented from spreading north and ensuring smooth river access. However, allowing the Yellow River to divert southward has caused continuous flood disasters in the areas south of the Yellow River. In the end, there are more and more branches to the southward of the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The more branches the river will be, the lower the sand-carrying ability of the river will deteriorate.

The lower reaches of Hongzhi period were divided into three branches. By the end of Jiajing, there were as many as thirteen branches of the Yellow River in Shandong and Nanzhi, and the Yellow River had no mainstream river channels.

In the 25th year of Jiajing, in order to control Huang, the Yellow River was artificially introduced into the Si River to flow south and into the sea with the Huai River. Due to the strong Huang and weak Huai River, sand accumulation in the lower reaches of the Huai River gradually increased, forming an on-ground river. The Huai River no longer became a smooth waterway, but in the lower part of the Huai River, that is, in the Hongze Lake area above the Huai River convergence, first accumulated water into a lake, connecting the small lakes before the Song Dynasty and forming the Hongze Lake.

Therefore, the Huaihe River area is constantly flooding.

It was not until the 44th year of Jiajing that Pan Jixun began the river management project that lasted twenty-seven years.

Under Pan Jixun's governance, the Yellow River finally stabilized, but as the riverbed continued to silt, the number of broken holes on both sides of the Yellow River increased. From the 24th year of Wanli, the Yellow River broke almost every year, and the disaster area even moved south to Suzhou for a generation.

As for Kaifeng, in addition to natural disasters such as the Yellow River flood, there are also man-made disasters. Before, Li Zicheng attacked and opened Feng, and in order to break the enemy as soon as possible, he destroyed the river and irrigated the city, causing trouble. Moreover, later, Li Zicheng did not manage Kaifeng, and naturally no one would completely repair the broken river estuary.

Now that the court has liberated Henan, Liao Xing has also announced to the people that Henan will return to the royal throne from now on, the important task of governing Huang will of course fall on the shoulders of the Kaifeng Prefecture of the Emperor Ming Dynasty.

"According to the convention, a river governor should be appointed to coordinate the various places," Zhu Ciyang said. "Now there is insufficient staff, so we can only take good care of the situation first and wait until the country is stable in the future before thorough management. Liao Xing, you must also start cultivating a group of capable river workers."

Later generations thought that those who took out scholars from the eight-legged essays were all nerds, but this was not the case in the Ming Dynasty. The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty not only allowed writers, philosophers, various humanities masters, but also military strategists and water conservancy experts.

Pan Jixun was a Jinshi in the 29th year of Jiajing. He was first appointed as the Promoter of Jiujiang and promoted to the Censor. Later, he inspected Guangdong and was promoted to Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple. It can be said that before the 44th year of Jiajing, Pan Jixun was a standard judge. If such a resume was in the hands of Zhu Cixuan, he would never have been allowed to manage the river.

But Pan Jixun really achieved results.

Zhu Cixuan dared not expect that he could have another Pan Jishen in his hand, but he still wanted to take the professional training path, improve his river engineering literacy, and inherit Pan Jishen's river management concepts and means.

After Liao Xing learned that he had been assigned to Kaifeng Prefecture, he knew that river management was an unavoidable problem. He had asked someone to buy the manuscripts written by Pan Jixun early on, "The Record of Chenduan Dagong", "Seeing the Two Rivers", "A List of River Defense", "Liuyutang Collection" and other manuscripts, and made full preparations. This time, the crown prince pushed the spring farming task behind, which was equivalent to reducing his considerable burden.

"The prefectures in western Henan still use household registration and people to establish village schools, measure land, and irrigate canals as the main focus, and try to achieve self-sufficiency in grain." Zhu Cixuan said: "After spring plowing, all regions must first conduct academic and administrative assessments. In terms of administrative expenses, the tuition expenses cannot be less than 30% of the total expenses."

The current officials of the Eastern Palace Department still have guarantees integrity. As long as you spend the silver in the right place, you will definitely see the effect. In particular, the biggest obstacle to literacy has been cleared by a magical instrument, and the harvest of educational achievements is much earlier than expected.

That magical artifact is a charcoal pen.

A small charcoal pen costs only seven yuan per piece, but it can allow students to have enough writing exercises to speed up their mastery of words. Zhu Cilang only accepted the use of common characters in the office process, and with the promotion of charcoal pen, the efficiency of the administrative intermediate process has been strengthened by no means a little bit.

Only after the materials are confirmed and summarized, will they be handed over to the old scholar to copy and archive them in regular characters with a brush, so that they can be preserved for hundreds of years.

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"Your Highness has made such a detailed arrangement today. Could it be that he is going back to Jinan?"

After the meeting, the prefect retreated and discussed it. This was also the habit of the clerks, but the real Jinshi officers were unwilling to talk about serious matters in public.

"I heard that three imperial edicts have been urgently summoned." said the person with a clear ear and eyes.

"Yes, it's time for the Spring Festival."

"Hehe, Your Highness was going to get married this year, but he didn't take care of it after the national change. He must make up for it this time."

When everyone heard this, they exclaimed "It should be like this" and "It should be like this".

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Zhu Cilang was the first to leave the seat, not knowing that these subordinates were discussing their lifelong affairs. In this era, it is very immoral to discuss his king, except for the two private matters of marriage and offspring.
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