Yang He ordered Minister Yang to stay here and instructed his younger brother and sister to be good and listen to the ministers and brothers.

He rode a horse, took Han Daxia, Zhang Chugong and other seven soldiers, and got off the official road and headed north.

There are many meadows and lakes under the official road, as well as large areas of sandy and alkali tidal flats, reeds and tundra, which are all traces of the Yellow River's breeze. The original fertile fields were buried by quicksand gravel, and even covered up layers after layers.

The Yellow River has several miles of saline-alkali land. Because the bank embankment is very high, the original accumulated water is difficult to discharge, so it becomes a lake storm. If the water is drifted smoothly, it will naturally become saline-alkali. Some lake storm even becomes barren land without grass, which does not grow.

The road was difficult to walk, Yang He and others kept detouring, and Hu Juye began to curse again. Once, he had been carrying his own palladium and kept smiling.

Yang He is concerned about these river banks. In his opinion, if the Yellow River is well repaired and the problems of drought and flooding are difficult to drain, the coast may not be able to become a fertile land. After all, it depends on the water of the Yellow River, and water is very convenient.

But this is not easy. The problem of frequent breakage of the Yellow River water is difficult to solve. The coast is mostly swamped beaches, and the development is also very difficult. In addition, the soil along the river is relatively barren, with too high salinity, making it very difficult to transform.

After walking for more than a mile, I saw large areas of willow forests spreading along the river bank, and there was no end on both sides of the east and west.

This is for controlling the Yellow River.

In the Ming Dynasty, all the willows were used, and the Yellow River was even more inseparable from willow branches.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the river minister Chen Xuan advocated planting official willows along the river, and then the assistant minister Bai Ang planted more than one million willows along the dike. In the Jiajing year, Tao Xie, deputy envoy of the Censor, took willow branches as materials for river control.

After Tao Xie, Liu Tianhe of the Zonghe River summarized the "Six Methods of Planting Willows". Finally, Pan Jixun further enriched the six methods of planting willows. Most of the official willows were planted on both sides of the Yellow River, and the willow gardens were everywhere on the river.

Looking at these willow trees, Yang He nodded. This is a powerful tool for river protection and can effectively protect the river embankment.

However, in his opinion, in addition to the official willow, it is also possible to encourage the people to plant the civil willow.

After passing through the willow forest, there was a high remote dike in front of me. In the Wanli period, the river minister Pan Jixun built a remote dike, fearing that the river would rise until Fengshan Lake and diversion to break, so he built a cross-diverge to prepare for it.

The remote dike is used to prevent excessive floods. It is more than one mile away from the main dike, or even two or three miles, forming the second line of defense for the river dike.

During the flood season, a water-bearing lake will form between the river embankments on the front line. Not only will the flow rate decrease, a large amount of river water is stored in the water-bearing lake, and it will not increase its harm.

Look one mile away in front of you is the main embankment. The high river embankment is full of willow trees, like long mountains.

There seem to be several gaps on the Yanghe River. This should be a pre-reservation area in places where the river water is surging, so that the river water will flow into the water-containing lake in the remote dike during the flood season, reducing pressure and protecting the main dike.

In addition, there are grids between the main dike and the remote dike, which are like large square grids.

This is used to restrict floods. During the flood season, the flood flood will overflow the dam, and the water potential will weaken between the dams and be constrained within the "grid". When the water level falls, the accumulated water can flow back to the river trough along the dam.

Looking at these magnificent river defense facilities, Yang He couldn't help but admire that the wisdom of his ancestors could not be argued, but unfortunately, all embankments were disrepaired for a long time.

Look at some reed houses and thatched houses below, close to the edges of ponds.

In fact, in order to protect the main embankment, remote embankment, grid embankment, and the people are strictly prohibited from living in each embankment, but there are always unruly people who ignore the laws and regulations, dig dikes and repair houses, and ignore their own lives and other people's safety.

But looking at the reed and thatched huts below were abandoned, accompanied by traces of war and fire, it was obvious that the flood could not threaten them, but the possible disasters and bandits caused them to move away.

Looking at the embankment in front of him, Zhang Chugong also admired him. Every time he looked at these embankments, he felt his insignificance.

Yang He and others followed a grid embankment to the large embankment and walked up the slope. When they saw the light, the vast and magnificent Yellow River appeared in front of everyone.

Later generations only abandoned the Yellow River. Yanghe came once. At that time, the river was only more than 100 meters wide, or even less than 100 meters wide.

However, although the water of the Yellow River in front of me is coming and the drought is coming, the river water has shrunk a lot, but the river is still at least ten miles wide.

The water level in the center of the river is still high, and some large ships may not be able to walk, but small boats can still sail.

Yang He saw several fishing boats floating down the river, which made him feel the smell of some people.

He looked across from the river and there were still large plains on the other side of the river, and there were some faint mountains, with extremely vast scenery.

The Yellow River flows eastward in a vast way. Seeing the Yellow River always makes people feel like they are filled with tears.

It’s a pity that the mother river once became a river of harm.

Looking at the Yellow River in front of him, it is worthy of being a suspended river. The riverbed and beach surface is probably more than ten meters higher than the ground of the river. In this way, once the river breaks, the surging river water will rush out of everything.

So how can Yanghe develop on the south bank of the river with confidence?

Seeing that the embankment was still a little continuous and shaped like a thread of silk, this is a thread of embankment.

Pan Jixun advocated the strategy of "building dikes to bind water, using water to attack sand", using strands of dikes to block branches and strengthen the dryness, fixing the river trough, increasing the erosion force of the water flow, greatly reducing the phenomenon of river sand silt, and dredging itself without frequent dredging.

There are moon dikes outside some main dikes, which are shaped like half a month.

This is also designed to protect the main dam, using mathematical principles to reduce the impact of floods.

Pan Jixun's four general rivers gradually formed a single tidal lever to a double tidal lever to a double tidal lever. Finally, a complete embankment system consisting of a tidal lever, a tidal lever, a tidal lever, a tidal lever and a tidal lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever lever

He also has four defenses and two defenses.

Prevent day, night, wind, rain, officials, and people.

Unfortunately, the finances are now collapsed and many effective measures cannot be implemented.

After Pan Ji was exterminated, the Yellow River has been refuted.

Yanghe looked around and there was no one on the embankment, but there seemed to be a shallow pavilion more than a hundred steps to the east.

"Go and take a look."

Yang He wanted to inquire about this situation and ask the locals, but it would be best.

Han Daxia asked if he would go over and check in first.

Zhang Chugong also looked at Yang He. The world was in chaos, so it would be no exaggeration to be careful.

Yang He shook his head, Qianfu and Difu were both armed. In addition to corvee or hiring, some Qianfu were also served by military households in the garrison.

Moreover, in order to prevent rivers, a shallow shop or a fortress is set up every two or three miles on the Yellow River embankment. Their circle is very closed, so it is better not to be hostile and conflicts rashly.

At this time, Yang He also saw that there were not people in the shallow shop, but there were a few people judging their heads and some people were holding bows and arrows in their hands.

Maybe I saw a few soldiers here dressed up and rode a horse, so I hesitated and no one came forward to ask. Generally speaking, people are forbidden to walk on the river bank.

Yang He got off the horse, and Zhang Chuxun hurriedly took it.

Everyone walked over there, Chen Qiuao and Han Daxia walked beside Yang He, both of whom were raising their shields intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhang Chugong and others followed behind, holding the weapons in their hands tightly. Even Hu Juye and Zeng Youhui had no cynical expression on his face and was full of vigilance.

Yang He walked first and saw more than a dozen people gathered in front of the archway, each with bows and arrows, snatching swords and other weapons.

Some people even took flags and gongs. Obviously, seeing that the situation is not good, they can shake the flags and roar the gongs.

Both sides approached with caution, and the people there relaxed their expressions when they saw Yang He dressing up.

Yang He walked forward, and he bowed with a smile, "Yang He, a student from Xialuyi, are you the shallow husbands here?"

The more than a dozen people's alert expressions immediately relaxed, and each of them couldn't help but put down the weapons in their hands, and many people's faces also had a look of awe.

Judging from their expressions, not to mention Han Daxia, even Zhang Chugong, Hu Juye and others now have a look of pride on their faces. The leader is a person, a scholar, and a horse, and he is respected wherever he goes.

Many people on the opposite side became hasty and looked at the leader.

The man also hurriedly said, "It turns out it's Mr. Yang, the villain Kang Youyin Die Jing."

Yang He bowed and said, "It turns out it's Mr. Kang."

Kang Youyin hurriedly said, "I am so proud of my words, I dare not take it."

Yang He looked at the people opposite him, all of whom were small hats, green clothes, gray-backed armor, green webbing, and a typical shallow husband dress.

The old man, Kang Youyin, was about sixty years old, had gray hair and beards, wrinkles on his face, and a kind appearance, giving people a very kind old man.

After seeing the ceremony, he even greeted Yang Henoi and sat down, and ordered the few people from Qianfuzhong. Although it was a local language, Yang He also heard that he asked them to catch fish.

All the Susan husbands agreed, and some people immediately went to work hard. It was obvious that Kang Youyin had a prestige among the dozen Susan husbands.

Everyone went in, Yang He kept smiling and talking to the old man Qian. Han Daxia and Zhang Chugong were still a little wary. Zhang Chuxun and Hu Juyi looked around curiously. Hu Juye and Zeng Youhui remained silent, and looked around from time to time.

Only open your mouth and snatch the fish?

There will be something good to eat when you want.

Everyone entered the shallow pavilion. This shallow pavilion is a typical fortress along the Yellow River. It has an archway and well pavilion, three main rooms, two fire rooms, and walled door tower screen walls.

When I walked into the pavilion, there were bamboo, wood, bricks, putty, nails and other materials everywhere, as well as many other items such as football and drums.

Kang Youyin introduced that they guarded the three-limit river embankment and needed to build 200 piles of stakes and 10,000 bunches of grass every year. The number of trees varies, and the labor service was very heavy. The government said that the husband gave 10 taels and 8 cents of silver to feed each year, but they often failed to make a living, and their lives were very hard.

Fortunately, I can only survive by guarding the Yellow River water and a large willow forest.

Speaking of this, a helpless expression appeared on the old man Qian's face.

They lived here for generations and protected the Yellow River for generations. Their feelings for this river are beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Speaking of absconding, I definitely don’t want to escape. It’s just that the older generation has feelings for the rivers, and the younger generation has more plans for other ways. Even his two sons, Kang Mingzhi and Kang Minghai, are unwilling to be superficial husbands. One becomes a carpenter and the other becomes a bricklayer.

After the opening of the Canal, the Yellow River in this section was rarely dredged, and millions of stones of grain were diverted, and they actually became dykes.

Those who are in contact will go to the side of the Canal, and Liufu has already left.

Maybe when people get old, Kang Youyin feels more emotion. Seeing Yang He being kind, he can't help but talk a lot.

When Yang He heard this, he felt that the Yellow River had declined like this empire. Especially after the opening of the canal, four million stones of grain were transferred to Pizhou every year, and Xuzhou also declined. In previous years, the two Hongs of Luliang were well-known.

Yang He asked Kang Youyin about the shallow shop if there were ships. He heard that Yang He was going to transport hundreds of people and a large amount of supplies. Kang Youyin shook his head.

His shallow pavilion has a boat, but it is just two small fishing boats and can't carry anything at all.

However, he also came up with an idea. The shallow shops from Fangcun to Shuanggou were under the jurisdiction of Lingbi Guanhe, and there were several large ships there, which should be enough to cross the river.
To be continued...