When it comes to the Yellow River, people will inevitably think of the big river that originates from the plateau and flows eastward into the sea. It is the mother river of Chinese civilization, and it has nurtured thousands of years of brilliant civilization.

However, in today's Song Dynasty, this peak era of Chinese culture, the Yellow River mother and her descendants had been in trouble for decades. In just a few decades, several large-scale diversions occurred in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The entire southern part of Hebei East Road was almost white due to the major diversion and breach of the Yellow River.

Now there is no more prosperous scene to the north of the Ji River!

August is always a season of harvest. To the south of the Ji River, the wilderness is filled with heavy wheat ears waiting to be harvested, and there are endless cars, horses and pedestrians on the road, as if reminding Wu Haogu: This is one of the most beautiful eras in classical China.

However, this beautiful era seems to be only at the Ji River. The Ji River is north and south, and is the two worlds.

What Wu Haogu sees now is that the fields are deserted and the land is sparse.

"How could this be? Why is there no one to cultivate the soil in Jibei? Where have people gone?"

Wu Haogu rode a horse, and Ximen Qing walked with horses. Looking at the desolate scenery in front of him, he couldn't help but ask: "Damn Song Dynasty was not crowded with people and land, and there was not even a place to raise horses? Why didn't there be any good land in front of him?"

Ximen Qing turned his head and looked at Wu Haogu, and suddenly smiled sneered: "Dalang, you are really focused on learning fine brushwork and don't hear the water of the Yellow River."

"Water of the Yellow River?"

"Teacher, since the reign of Emperor Renzong, the Yellow River has been flooding. In the first year of Jiayou, the second year of Xining, the fourth year of Xining, the seventh year of Xining, the fourth year of Yuanfeng, and the eighth year of Yuanyou, the big river has been diverted and countless villages and towns have been destroyed.

Among them, the flood in Xining was particularly powerful in the seventh year. The Yellow River seized the Huai River and almost destroyed Xuzhou City!”

"Oh, I remembered that Su Dongpo was the governor of Xuzhou that year." Wu Haogu remembered a little.

He murmured: "I didn't expect that the Yellow River will be so troubled. Fortunately, it was in our dynasty. If it were the Han and Tang Dynasties, it would have caused a major change."

"Haha," Ma Zhi laughed, "If it were in the Han and Tang Dynasties, how could there be so many breaches?"

"What do you say?" Wu Haogu asked.

Mi Youren said: "Actually, most of the floods in the Yellow River are man-made disasters!"

"Man-made disaster?" Wu Haogu asked, "Is it possible that the local officials have been corrupt and have not built the river embankment?"

"If this is the case, there will not be so many breaks and diversions." Ma Zhi said, "The river silt and silt, and the river channel is raised, and it will not flow over time. Diversions are inevitable. It has only changed the way several times over decades, haha..."

The lower reaches of the Yellow River were like a river hanging on the ground in the Song Dynasty. If the Song Dynasty had the engineering capabilities of later generations, it would be impossible to maintain the river hanging on it.

But there were no steam engines back then, and they were all carried by shoulders and hands, and there were not too many laborers. How could it be possible to maintain the hang River?

So it is normal to change the route... but it has been changed a lot within a few decades, and the flooding has been going on for years, so it is not normal.

"How could this be?" Wu Haogu asked.

"Because, because," Mi Youren stammered and refused to continue.

"It's because the Yellow River flows north." Ximen Qing replied for him, "The Yellow River itself is going north and flowing into the territory of Liao."

The Yellow River flows north?

Wu Haogu thought about it and finally remembered this.

The Yellow River seemed to have changed its way during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong, causing several small and medium-sized floods, but it was not a big deal for the Song Dynasty's disaster relief capabilities. However, this time the change of direction led to a sensational argument: the Yellow River may flow into Liao in the north, and the Liao soldiers will go downstream to Kaifeng!

This is really terrible! The Khitan soldiers flowed down the Yellow River, and the Song Dynasty was about to destroy the country.

This argument gradually became the common argument of scholars and officials. During the Renzong Dynasty, Emperor Renzong and the dynasties could not bear the possibility of the Yellow River continuing to change its course to the north. So he wanted to conquer the heavens and let the Yellow River flow eastward at all costs.

As a result, the Yellow River East Flow Project immediately had a flood. In the first year of Jiayou, a major breakdown occurred. After the breakdown, the Yellow River was divided into two parts in Kaide Prefecture, all the way east and all the way north.

But this matter is not over yet!

During the Xining period when Wang Anshi was in power, under the leadership of Wang Anshi, the Song Dynasty court continued to toss and flowed northwards by the "two Yellow Rivers". As a result, in the second year of Xining, the two major breaks were made twice in four years.

Then there was no way, Wang Anshi decided to restore the original state of Ergu River. It seemed that someone had invented a silt-clearing thing called Iron Dragon Claw to prevent the river sand from silting, but it was definitely useless. Not long after, Song Ting again slept and started a major project to block the northward flow of the Yellow River, hoping to get the Yellow River back to the old path, and then use Iron Dragon Claw to dredge the river channel.

As a result, in the seventh year of Xining, the Yellow River captured the Huai River and entered the sea, flooded forty-five counties, and destroyed 300,000 hectares of land!

During the Yuanfeng period, the Song Dynasty still believed that people would conquer nature and continued to torture the river. As a result, it continued to break the law, which made Song Shenzong lose his heart and gave up the great cause of river management.

However, during the Yuanyou period, the Song Dynasty began to make trouble again and continued to use water conservancy projects to force the Yellow River to flow eastward.

Needless to say, in the eighth year of Yuanyou, the Yellow River broke its dam in the north, and there was another heavy flood. However, the Song Dynasty rulers and ministers decided to block the Beiliu River, forcing the Yellow River to flow eastward. In the ninth year of Yuanyou, that is, four years ago, the Yellow River broke the ridge and diverted the route, and flowed northward again, flowing into the border river of Song and Liao (later Haihe).

Ma Zhi looked at the desolate scenery in front of him and couldn't help but sigh: "Decades of floods and man-made disasters are all caused by fear of Liao, but what are you afraid of this Liao Kingdom? Do you still think they were so brave a hundred years ago? In fact, the Liao Kingdom can go south along Henan, but why can't the Song Dynasty go north along the Yellow River?

If we advance at the time of the flood, hundreds of thousands of troops can take boats to the north, and military food and supplies can also be transported by water. I wonder how much effort can we save? Moreover, there are many big rivers to sail in the north of the boundary river. Now the ones we need to worry about the flow of the Yellow River are actually the Khitans!"

Wu Haogu is silent!

In fact, since the rebirth of Soul Piercing, Wu Haogu has discovered more than once that the Song people's fear of the northern Liao Kingdom had already penetrated into the bones.

And this kind of fear is actually a kind of hatred and an anxiety that is difficult to rest.

To completely cure this fear and anxiety, it is impossible to torture the Yellow River again and again. Only by restoring Yan and destroying Liao!

If the Khitan was strong, the Song Dynasty would have to tossed the Yellow River, wasting countless money and drowned many innocent people.

However, the Khitan period declined, and the northern expedition of Yanyun and the restoration of the Han family's hometown was probably the will of the Song Dynasty.

And can this country's will be changed by Wu Haogu alone?

"I'm afraid that one thief will be destroyed and another thief will rise again. And the new thief is more powerful than the old thief..."

Wu Haogu sat on the horse, raised his eyes to the distance north...

Now Hebei is just exhausted, and other parts of the Song Dynasty are still good. But once the Northern Dynasties achieved the replacement of old and new, the new barbaric regime was the corrupt and comfortable Song Dynasty that was unable to resist.

By then, Chinese civilization will enter a period of great regression.

And I don’t know where I and Pan Qiaolian will be?

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu exhaled a breath of turbid air with all his might.

He clamped his legs and urged the horse to take two steps. "Brother Ma, Brother Xiao Yi, it's not early, so it's better to be faster in the wilderness, so as not to sleep in the wilderness after dark. If you meet a bandit again, it would be bad."
Chapter completed!