But this time, Su Yonglin actually gave a new opinion-what will the Yellow River turn yellow?
Water conservancy experts are really out of their depth.
They know how to build dams, how to block the river, and the diversion project is very dangerous. They also dare to take up the challenge to nature, but they really haven’t considered it when they ask them why the Yellow River turns yellow.
Su Yonglin took out a thick stack of paper and put it on the table when they didn’t talk.
"This is the specific report I got after I asked Su Haisheng, commander of Qilu Corps, to go to the Yellow River tour area for in-depth investigation. Please have a look."
Su Yonglin had Su Haisheng’s investigation report distributed, so the officials of the meeting began to read it with five copies.
Specifically, Su Yonglin’s Qilu Corps immediately made Su Haisheng investigate the situation on both sides of the Yellow River Basin and focus on observing the soil, vegetation and production and living conditions in the surrounding areas.
Su Haisheng spent a month working hard with the army along the Yellow River to find out everything Su Yonglin wanted to know, wrote five paper investigation reports, and sent someone back to Zhongdu quickly and handed them to Su Yonglin.
Just in time for Su Yonglin to hold a meeting to solve the Yellow River problem.
"To put it bluntly, the Yellow River will become turbid and carry a lot of sediment. The main reason is that the previous dynasties over-exploited the central land. They cut down trees and destroyed forests, destroying the vegetation on both sides of the Yellow River.
The loess on both sides of the Yellow River is loose, unlike the soil in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River. If there are no trees to protect the loess, it will be very easy to be washed away by the river and carried all the way to the middle reaches. Because of the widening of the river, the terrain is flat and the water flow slows down, the loess will be deposited
The Yellow River in the central region has a fast flow speed and strong scouring force, and a large amount of sediment is sent to the middle reaches year after year, and the riverbed is getting higher and higher, which is what we see now. These two are not three or five years. "
Su Yonglin looked at all the people and almost read Su Haisheng’s investigation report, so he made a concluding speech.
"Even if the former government managed the Yellow River temporarily, there was always a recurrence of floods, and sometimes our government needed to tackle the root of the Yellow River, not only to make the Yellow River return to its original course, but also to fight a decisive battle with the sediment."
After reading this report, Zhao Liang was deeply shocked and heard Su Yonglin say that he was busy and asked, "Dare to ask what the decisive battle means?"
"Four words: Returning Farmland to Forest"
Su Yonglin knocked on the desktop and said these four words word by word.
The ministers were very surprised by this.
The word returning farmland to forest is easy to explain, which means returning cultivated land to forest and returning it to nature, which is easy to understand.
However, these four words pay attention to agricultural production and eat enough, which can be described as quite politically incorrect. The one who comes out is the emperor who represents political correctness.
Chen Jichang, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, couldn’t help but get up and take the initiative to suggest.
"Returning farmland to forests … this policy may be too shocking. If it is publicly announced, it may cause an uproar against the country. Please think twice."
Chapter 63 Must ask the poets for something.
Controversy is certain, but an uproar is not.
Su Yonglin thinks like this
On the one hand, the area of returning farmland to forests is limited, and on the other hand, there is no problem in trying to force this policy.
In the so-called uproar, it was probably the Confucian ministers who advised the emperor to use exaggerated rhetoric.
For example, if the emperor built a palace, people’s livelihood would be ruined …
Su Yonglin is very unhappy with such rhetorical devices.
"What an uproar?"
Su Yonglin shook his head and said, "If the vegetation on both sides of the Yellow River cannot be restored, the Middle Earth will be continuously brought to Henan, Hebei and Shandong, and the river beds will be higher and higher!
The higher the riverbed, the more the river will flood and burst, and more and more coastal production will be destroyed. The grain will be cut off and people will die. Chen Shilang, I ask you, is it terrible to return farmland to forests or the Yellow River burst? "
Su Yonglin put two options in front of Chen Jichang. Chen Jichang thought for a while and really didn’t know how to choose. He thought both options were terrible.
One will directly kill people, and the other will probably cause social unrest.
"I’m afraid neither of them is the common people’s wish to see the Yellow River burst, which is terrible, but the common people will panic if they lose their cultivated land."
He can say that.
Su yonglin still shook his head
"Returning farmland to forests is still limited. If the cultivated land of the people involved can be compensated elsewhere, the state will give compensation for how much farmland will be returned at that time. The court can pay for the land and move the Chinese people to a vast and sparsely populated area."
Su Yonglin announced his compensation policy.
Don’t force the situation, be willing to return farmland to forestry university and never let you suffer.
After several years of war and agrarian revolution, a large number of landlords and nobles lost their lives, which made Su Yonglin hold a large number of idle land. Now he is actively promoting the land distribution in the construction of new countryside.
Taking this opportunity, if we can move some of the middle-aged residents away, it is also feasible to save the fragile ecosystem
Chen Jichang knew about the middle curtain and how much good land the court had, so he was silent for a while.
"Although the imperial court can allocate land and money, as the saying goes, people are homesick and unwilling to leave their hometown suddenly, and people may not want to move. I am afraid that not many people will want to go if they are not forced. If forced, it will lead to boiling public resentment."
"I know. I know everything."
Su Yonglin sighed and said, "We should study what to do and how to persuade more Chinese people to leave you. I know it is difficult to do so, but I hope you understand."
We should have a concept that a piece of land can grow a limited amount of food and feed people, and some places can destroy forests and open up wasteland, while others can’t.
It is no longer the land of abundance, and it can no longer bear too many people. If we continue to go, the soil will become more and more barren, and the grain output will become lower and lower. We will destroy the future generations of the Zhonghe Central Plains alive, and we will all be reviled by future generations. "
The disaster of destroying the Central Plains was reviled by future generations.
This statement is too heavy.
There are very few ministers, such as Tian Jue, who has been following Su Yonglin, who have such a concept that they know the impact of soil erosion and ecological environment destruction on agricultural production.
Most people don’t have the concepts of environmental protection and soil erosion, and they don’t know much about this aspect, even if they know something, they are in a state of knowing but not knowing.
Su Yonglin intends to make up a missed lesson for court officials after this incident, and all officials must attend environmental protection courses to formally introduce the concept of environmental protection agriculture production.
Nowadays, soil erosion and land salinization in the Central Plains are no small matter, and the ecological environment in the central region is far less than that in the past.
A thousand years ago, no one paid attention to environmental protection and rough reclamation, so a thousand years later, they needed what their predecessors had paid for.
If they don’t pay attention to continuing rough reclamation now, then in a thousand years, future generations will have to pay for what they did a thousand years ago.
"I mean, how difficult it is must be pushed forward as a national policy, but it can be implemented slowly. Even if some people think for a long time, there will be immediate worries. Now, if the Yellow River floods, wouldn’t it be a thousand times more difficult to give relief to Zeguo? What do you say? "
Su Yonglin looked around the ministers.
The ministers still don’t know what connection environmental protection has with the Yellow River breach, but many of them have heard of or seen the terrible situation after the Yellow River flooded and nodded involuntarily.
They feel that returning farmland to forests is not pleasant to say, but it is better than the real breach of the Yellow River