.    , Qiming 1158

Su Yonglin believed that the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty committed no less evil than Du Chong on the issue of the Yellow River, and they were at the same level as those of Du Chong, so the [South Yi Returning to the River Monument of Song Dynasty] was set up next to Du Chong's Monument.

This monument records in detail the deeds of the emperors and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty three times before Du Chong digs the Yellow River embankment, and records the mentally retarded behavior of the Song Dynasty's monarch and ministers, and focuses on the deeds of Li Chui, the source of all evil.

It tells the root cause of why Song Junchen insisted on changing the Yellow River and a series of subsequent cerebral palsy operations.

He wanted to let everything be revealed to the world, so that people and future generations of time know how much Song monarchs and ministers' operations were like a disaster to the country and the people.

In short, there is a source of injustice and a debt, and there is a right to take revenge. If there is a right to take revenge, no one will be left behind.

The Yellow River has experienced four tosses between the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty and has achieved such a "glorious" "spectacle" today.

If this "credit" cannot be counted on them, then the millions who died because of this will be in vain.

The inscriptions of the two steles were written by Su Yonglin himself. After the stele was completed, Su Yonglin personally went to Kaifeng to preside over the public memorial ceremony, expressing grief to the martyrs, laying the foundation for public opinion for the remediation of the Yellow River in the Ming Dynasty.

But no matter what, after four "god-level operations" by the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River was quickly tortured from the gentle mother river to the barbaric stepmother river, and roared and hurt people at any time.

When things have reached this point, if you don’t really and thoroughly manage them, there will be no peace in the Central Plains. The agricultural production and economic development of North China and Hebei will also stagnate, unable to further develop, or even restore the original state. The huge agricultural productivity of the North China Plain and the two Huaihe areas will also be greatly restricted.

The economic development gap between the south and the north will grow wider, and the lost hundreds of years will further reduce the economic importance of the north to China, affect the development of the Central Plains in all aspects, and will greatly drag down Su Yonglin's industrial development plan.

This is something that Su Yonglin cannot tolerate.

Fortunately, although the Yellow River facing Su Yonglin was destroyed by the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty four times, it was not yet destroyed by the wave of the captain Chang's dike at the entrance of the Garden, so the situation he faced was better than in the future.

Although the Yellow River is already difficult to control at this time, the situation is not so bad that it is irreversible.

After Du Chong, until Su Yonglin destroyed the Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty had only had small fights against the Yellow River, without large-scale governance, and no large-scale destruction.

The reason is very simple.

First of all, although the situation of the Yellow River was already very poor, there were no frequent breaks. The previous generations of Jin emperors had not given up on the attack and destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty. They had always wanted to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. Of course, they concentrated all their efforts to attack the Southern Song Dynasty and had no time to manage the river.

It was not until after Wanyan Liang's death and when Wanyan Yong ascended the throne that the Jin Kingdom completely gave up the conquering and destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and chose to coexist with the Southern Song Dynasty. At this moment, the situation of the Yellow River continued to deteriorate and broke down many times, so the governance of the Yellow River was on the agenda of the Jin Kingdom.

So at this moment, the Yellow River facing Su Yonglin is basically the original Yellow River after Du Chong's break, and at most it has done some repairs and small fuss.

They are also lucky. During this period, there was no large-scale breach in the Yellow River, but river water often flooded, so it can only be said that it is not large in scale.

During Zhao Kaishan's rule, two river floods occurred in southeastern Shandong.

Until Su Yonglin's rule, the Yellow River has become a little more honest and has not yet been flooded or broken.

Although the Yellow River embankment is staggering, it can still walk along the way, barely maintaining stability on both sides of the straits.

However, Su Yonglin could not guarantee at all when this stability could be maintained.

If it rains heavily, the Yellow River water will surge and the embankment will not be able to withstand it. Once it collapses, the lower reaches of the Yellow River will be a country with thousands of miles of land and the people will die. All construction investment will be literally wafted.

Therefore, before the founding of the country, Su Yonglin repeatedly proposed to govern the Yellow River.

Even before the decisive battle with Wanyan Liang, Su Yonglin proposed to use the Revival Association as a special fully managed river management department, which he personally led and gathered the forces of various departments of the court to launch a decisive battle to govern the Yellow River.

So much so that after Su Yonglin opened up the Revival Association, many people simply set up a comprehensive temporary department for Su Yonglin that was fully responsible for the control of the Yellow River floods, and the one that was withdrawn immediately after the matter was completed.

This time, Su Yonglin decided to put the Revival Association on the surface and openly publicize part of the Revival Association organization to let Tian Guizi come out and make his appearance.

Then he was used as the actual person in charge of governing the Yellow River.

At this formal meeting, Su Yonglin made some announcements.

"I set up the Revival Society before to coordinate all court departments when governing the Yellow River. Although the Revival Society is not a formal court department, when it comes to governing the Yellow River, the Revival Society is a higher level in any relevant department."

Only then did some unknown officials know what organization the Revival would be.

To put it bluntly, it is a power organization specializing in the governance of the Yellow River. When it comes to the governance of the Yellow River, any relevant official offices will automatically lower their positions when they meet, and they must stand up and accept dispatch.

In addition, Su Yonglin also announced that Tian Guizi, the left censor of the Censorate, was the head of the Revival Association, and was fully responsible for governing the Yellow River. This gave many officials the impression that the revival would not be aroused.

Just kidding, the boss of the Censorate asked to take charge of the Yellow River. If you have any illegal acts, he will use his power to deal with you. Do you still want to become an official?

Ruthless, that's really cruel.

But to be honest, Su Yonglin set up the Revival Association not only to govern the Yellow River, but to govern the Yellow River itself is a very complicated matter.

Human, material and financial resources are necessary prerequisites, and Qingming administration is even more important.

Otherwise, the plans proposed for the control of the Yellow River many times in history were practical and in line with natural laws, but when it was put into practice, there would be big problems, which made the original good plan a mess and ended up failing.

The most typical one is Jialuzhi River.

The extremely corrupt Yuanting said that it was supporting Jialu's river management, but the corrupt officials under the charge of doing business did not know where to embezzle the project funds and materials.

The materials used are not the best.

The tools used are not the best.

Even the food given to laborers is the worst.

The money allocated by the imperial court was originally enough to complete the management of the Yellow River, but this was not the case.

The Jialu River was successful on the surface, but it only lasted for a few years. After a few years, everything was still the same, collapsed everywhere, and stirred up civil unrest. In the end, Jialu himself died on the battlefield to suppress the peasant uprising.

Coincidentally, Pan Jixun, a river management expert in the Ming Dynasty, later four times of the Yellow River control management, were also affected by political and administrative factors, so he failed to succeed and failed to successfully resolve the Yellow River flood.

There are too many government departments that need to be coordinated to govern the Yellow River. The conflicts between them, the temptation of huge project funds, and the management of the people who need to be collected along the way, the transmission of messages, etc. are all indispensable procedures for governing the Yellow River.

The most important thing is the mutual cooperation and mutual achievements among leaders in governing the Yellow River, as well as the guarantee of river management funds and materials.

Anything that goes wrong with one link, the Yellow River management will not be done well.

Therefore, Su Yonglin believed that it was not that the ancients could not govern the Yellow River, but that the corrupt administration made it difficult to govern the Yellow River, and endless internal frictions ruined the projects that could have been completed.

Therefore, Su Yonglin chose to use the Fuxing Society and General Tian Guizi to lead the Yellow River governance, take all the power, surpass any court department, and have absolute disposal power.

What he thought was that this time it was necessary to successfully solve the Yellow River flood. Even if it could not be completely solved, it would be led back to the old path and never allow it to continue to seize the Huai River and into the sea.

If the Yellow River continues to enter the sea with its current river channel, once the water rises, it will inevitably lead to the Huai River and the Huai River channel will be narrow and cannot accommodate the huge amount of water of the Yellow River. It will inevitably overflow and overflow, which will only cause the lives of the two Huai Rivers to suffer and there will be no peace.

So after discussion, it was unanimously determined that the key point of this governance of the Yellow River was to change the Yellow River back to the old path, and it was best to be the old path of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so that the Yellow River would pass through Kaifeng and turn to the northeast, bypass Shandong, and flow east into the sea.
Chapter completed!