The heavy rain suddenly became like there was no place to collect, and it continued to continue.

Zhao Liang stopped going to Yangzhou and stopped in Hankou for the time being.

The entire Huguang area government was busy, because the rain was not right, and the heavy rain that kept falling in the sky made everyone worried.

It’s obviously about to fall, why does it rain heavily at this time?

God, can't you be safe for two years?

How many people begged.

There were countless people gathered in front of the Dragon King Temple in Hankou. Even if it was raining heavily, countless people came to kowtow and prayed to the Dragon King to take the heavy rain. Although everyone knew that the situation was not good, the arrival of natural disasters was still inevitable.

First of all, there was a warning message from Jingzhou.

Rumors are frequent in Hankou City. Sometimes, some people say that Zhijiang broke down, and sometimes, some people say that Jiangling was flooded.

Anyway, the three towns in Wuhan are all lively.

Shu Chang, who was the governor of Huguang at the time, and Li Shou, the newly appointed governor of Hubei, also organized manpower to defend the Yangtze River embankment, but before the Yangtze River had any problems, the Han River broke its first.

The place where the breaking point is at the horse entrance in Hanchuan. The river channel in that place is like a kicked foot. It twisted several miles southwest in vain, and the water channel is terrible.

The Han River in Makou broke its dam, flooded, drifted, and had no population, and countless livestock and fields.

While the Han River broke its dam, there were also rapid news from Qianjiang and Mianyang in the upper reaches of Han River. Hankou market was in a hurry three times a day, and the price of grain on the market rose like a rocket.

The late rice that just planted was watered by heavy rain must have suffered a lot, and the miserable storm was everywhere for a while.

"We have to fight floods and protect the dikes again!"

Zhao Dean from Huaiyuan County, Fengyang Prefecture, Anhui Province, thousands of miles away, was also talking in a troubling mood.

He was an official in Yingzhou Prefecture, and since then, he has not been in Alexander for many rains in summer, fearing that the flood would spread.

Now that he has been transferred from Yingzhou Prefecture to Fengyang Prefecture, he still has to continue to worry.

He had made up his mind and when this term ended, he would beg Zhao Liang to take action to help him get out of such a bad place even if he was not promoted.

He is going to a place where there will be no flood.

By the way, it would be even better if there is no strong room behind you.

In the past few years as an official in Anhui Province, Zhao Dean had long seen everything clearly. Why did the Huaihe River system start to flood frequently after entering Daqingguo?

That is definitely not because the Yellow River seized the Huai River and entered the sea. No matter how much it affects it, it only affects the downstream, but it is just the boundary of northern Jiangsu, and what is wrong with northern Anhui?

The reason why floods here are getting worse and worse is that people are committing their own death.

Because northern Anhui and eastern Henan are both plains, although the land here is not as popular as the land in the south of the Yangtze River, it is also a good piece of fat. Therefore, the fertile fields here are mostly occupied by large households and huge households. In addition, the population explosion in the Qing Dynasty made the land smaller and more people, and the contradiction of no land to cultivate is sharper. In this case, the people have deforested forests and opened fields, surrounded lakes to build fields, occupied acres of land on river beaches, and fought for land with water, etc., which is not surprising.

These behaviors destroyed the ecological balance of the local area in later generations. Although officials in today's era do not understand what ecological balance is, they can also know that the harsh impact of doing so on waterways during flood discharge is extremely harmful.

In particular, people built ditches and fields on the water surface of rivers and lakes, resulting in the area of ​​rivers and lakes shrinking. Whenever the floods in summer and autumn are severe, the water has no effect and overflows and flows, which directly harms the local agriculture.

As early as the 23rd year of Qianlong, Zhang Shizai, the general river in Hedong, pointed out that there are civil dams in the Yellow River beaches in eastern Henan Province, which are built by private dams. In order to prevent the river water from overflowing and flooding the fields, these civil dams are gradually increased by farmers. If not prohibited in time, they will continue to increase, which is hindering river defense. Although the embankments on both sides of the Yellow River on eastern Henan are twenty or thirty miles apart and the river is wide and far away, due to farmers fighting for land with water, they rent acres of river beach land, but they are afraid that the water will be flooded, so they only seek temporary benefits and increase the private dams again and again, so that the river body gradually becomes more and more likely to collapse the embankment when the flood water is long, causing the river to overflow on both sides.

The court did not know the disadvantages of the Huaihe River area, but it could not be stopped even if it knew.

The superiors were helpless, and Zhao Dean was even more helpless even if he was just a small magistrate.

He felt that the "flood fighting and disaster relief" that would take place every year is simply like the officials and the people asking for trouble.

When he was in Yingzhou Prefecture, he was already very troublesome every time he dealt with the flood. Now Huaiyuan is even more troublesome.

Because this place is at the intersection of Wo Water and Huai River, if there is a gap in the treatment, it will not be allowed to be flooded in Fengyang Prefecture in the south.

However, although such things are a bad thing for ordinary people, they are really a great thing for big families.

"Why is this?" Liu Yang asked with his little head tilted.

Mrs. Liu glanced at her son and asked, "Have you read all the notes your father asked you to read before?"

"Not yet." Liu Yang immediately lowered his head.

He had too much homework, from the most basic Chinese studies, arithmetics, to history, geography and western studies, as well as physical education classes. He was already very tired just by dealing with these homework every day, but his father also handed him a few notes from time to time.

This is really worthy of being a real father!

"You." Liu pointed at Liu Yang's forehead.

"Mom~" Liu Yang hugged Liu's arm and screamed in a coquettish manner.

"Mom knows that you have a lot of homework and are tired of your studies. But no matter how hard or tired your father gives you, you must read carefully." Liu reminded her child and said, a brilliant luster flashed in her eyes.

Thinking of the words Zhao Liang said to her, her heart was as pounding as if she was playing drums.

"There are many useful experiences there. Don't you understand what my mother said just now? If you read the notes your father gave you, you will understand. Sometimes, the disadvantages of the common people will become the advantage of the big business, and the losses on one hand will become the profit on the other hand."

Liu Yang was a little confused. But after returning to the study, he obediently took out the notes sent by Zhao Liang and read them carefully.

Two days later, when he saw the first half of Chapter 7, he suddenly realized: It turned out to be a land merger that took advantage of the danger!

When ordinary people suffer, the big families and huge families take advantage of the fire to rob the farmers and use the desperate situation to buy the land of farmers with low prices for grain and silver.

Then Liu Yang immediately labeled his father with a big "traitor".

However, the label of "treatment" was downplayed a lot after he read the second half of Chapter 7, because his father explained the "ideal society" he imagined in the second half of Chapter 7.

Eliminate self-cultivated farmers and small landlords and allow the countryside to completely differentiate second-level areas.

One type of people are farmers, who have the ability and skills, and have money, and can accept new things as soon as possible.

Another type of people is agricultural workers.

Then the excess population can enter the city and the factory.

Liu Yang then went to see Chapter 8.

In Chapter 8, Zhao Liang analyzed the essence of many dynasties such as the Han, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, self-cultivated farmers, as well as small and medium-sized landlords with little land. They have always been the cornerstone of political and economic stability in various dynasties and the main source of state taxes and soldiers.

The prosperity to decline of each dynasty has gone through a process of the large number of self-cultivated farmers to decrease, so the rise and fall of dynasties can be directly bound to the number of self-cultivated farmers. When the number of self-cultivated farmers is large, it is often the most prosperous period of the dynasty.

And when a large number of self-cultivated farmers went bankrupt under the oppression of taxes, the dynasty would decline in an irreversible way.

This is an irresistible process, because once the dynasty enters a stable period, land annexation will become more intense, just like the Zhao family. A small landlord more than ten years ago now owns hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land.

As land annexation intensified, a large number of self-cultivated farmers became tenants, and the number gradually decreased, and the dynasty also entered decline, until the next major change led to the reallocation of land.

This is also a great cycle of history.

No one in China has ever been able to escape this cycle of reincarnation.

Therefore, Zhao Liang believes that suppressing mergers is not advisable, and it is impossible to completely organize it, and it is just a chronic suicide.

If you want to break this cycle, you can only find a stable life path and source for the wealthy labor - and a factory workshop that requires a lot of labor is a good place to go.

In his notes, Zhao Liang listed some basic data about the Zhao family's industry, such as the labor of textile factories, such as the labor of coal and iron in Ruzhou, etc. The number added to it was shocked by the eight-year-old Xiao Liuyang.

There are so many people doing things for their fathers?

How many people are there in Chenzhou City?

Zhao Liang also said, if there is not only one Zhao family in the world, but two, three, four..., ten, eight, nine, and thirty-five, three, three, five, five hundred Zhao families, would there be so many people in the world doing nothing?

Hankou is just a town, and the streets inside are already filled with victims who fled from the surrounding areas. The heavy rain caused many rivers in northern Hubei to flood, and the flooded floods have not subsided. Refugees from all directions can only flock to the city - after the rural areas are affected, the city is their only hope for survival.

There are government officials there, and government officials always care about their lives or death.

In just a few days, tens of thousands of refugees had poured into Hankou. They supported the elderly and the young, hiding in all places where they could hide from the rain: temples, eaves and even under big trees. As long as the terrain was slightly higher, they were crowded with people. But many people still had to lie in muddy places and let the rain water pour it.

This is no longer midsummer.

The officials in Hankou did not do anything inaction. In fact, they are already "doing all their efforts" to relieve the victims.

So the victims could at least drink two bowls of hot porridge.
Chapter completed!