Su Yonglin believed that the three generations of monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty had committed no less evil than Du Chong on the Yellow River issue. They were on the same level, so he set up a "Song Jun and Chen Sanyi Huihe River Monument" next to the Du Chong stele.
This stele records in detail the deeds of the three generations of emperors and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty who tormented the Yellow River three times before Du Chong dug the Yellow River embankment. It also records the mentally retarded behavior of the Song emperors and ministers who were addicted to food, and focuses on the deeds of Li Chui, the source of all evil.
It tells the story of why Song Junchen insisted on changing the course of the Yellow River and the root causes of a series of subsequent cerebral palsy operations.
He wanted to make everything known to the world, so that future generations would know how harmful Song Junchen's operations were to the country and the people.
All in all, if there is an injustice and there is a debtor, no one will be left behind.
The Yellow River went through four twists and turns by the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty before it reached such a "splendid" and "grand occasion" today.
If this "credit" cannot be attributed to them, then the millions of people who died as a result really died in vain.
The inscriptions on both monuments were written by Su Yonglin himself. After the monuments were completed, Su Yonglin personally went to the Yellow River in Kaifeng to preside over a public memorial ceremony to express condolences to the martyrs and lay the foundation for public opinion for the Ming Dynasty's regulation of the Yellow River.
But no matter what, after four "divine-level operations" by the emperors and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River was quickly transformed from a gentle mother river into a savage stepmother river, roaring and hurting people at every turn.
When things have reached this point, unless we truly and thoroughly manage them, there will never be peace in the Central Plains. Agricultural production and economic development in North China and Hebei will also come to a standstill, unable to develop further or even restore their original state. The huge agricultural productivity in the Huaihe region will also be greatly restricted.
The economic development gap between the south and the north will become wider and wider, and the lost hundreds of years will further reduce the economic importance of the north to China, affecting the development of the Central Plains in all aspects, and will greatly hinder Su Yonglin's industrial development plan.
This was something Su Yonglin couldn't tolerate.
Fortunately, although the Yellow River Su Yonglin faced had been devastated four times by the Northern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers, it had not been devastated by the wave of devastation when Captain Chang burst its embankment at the Huayuankou, so the situation he faced was better than that of later generations.
Although the Yellow River was difficult to control at this time, the situation was not so bad that it was irreversible.
After Du Chong and until Su Yonglin overthrew the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom only made small fuss over the Yellow River, without large-scale governance or large-scale destruction.
the reason is simple.
First of all, although the condition of the Yellow River was already very bad at this time, there were no frequent breaches. Moreover, the previous generations of Jin emperors had not given up on attacking the Southern Song Dynasty. They had always wanted to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty. Of course, they concentrated all their efforts on attacking the Southern Song Dynasty and had no time to control the river.
It was not until Wanyan Liang's death and Wanyan Yong's accession to the throne that the Jin State completely gave up attacking the Southern Song Dynasty and chose to coexist with the Southern Song Dynasty. At this moment, the condition of the Yellow River continued to deteriorate and broke out many times, so the Yellow River began to be regulated. Jin Guo’s agenda.
Therefore, the Yellow River that Su Yonglin faced at this moment was basically the original Yellow River since the Duchong breach. At most, some minor repairs had been made.
It was their good fortune that no large-scale breaches occurred in the Yellow River during this period, but river flooding occurred from time to time, so it can only be said that the scale was not large.
During the reign of Zhao Kaishan, two river floods occurred in southern Shandong.
Since Su Yonglin's rule, the Yellow River has been a little more stable and has not yet flooded or burst.
Although the Yellow River embankment was stumbling, it was able to walk all the way, barely maintaining stability on both sides.
But how long this stability can be maintained, Su Yonglin can't guarantee at all.
If there is a heavy rain at any time, the water in the Yellow River surges, and the levee cannot hold it. Once it collapses, the lower reaches of the Yellow River will be thousands of miles of land, people will be killed, and all construction investments will be in vain - literally in vain.
Therefore, before the founding of the country, Su Yonglin repeatedly proposed to regulate the Yellow River.
Even before the decisive battle with Wan Yanliang, Su Yonglin proposed that the Fuxing Society be a specialized and full-power river control department, which he would personally lead, and gather the power of all departments in the court to launch a decisive battle to control the Yellow River.
So much so that after Su Yonglin set up the Fuxing Committee in an upright manner, many people simply thought that Su Yonglin just set up a comprehensive temporary department with full power to control floods in the Yellow River, and that he would withdraw as soon as the matter was done.
This time, Su Yonglin decided to put the revival meeting on the map, openly and openly disclose part of the organization of the revival meeting, and let Tian Guizi come out to show off.
Then he was used as the actual person in charge of regulating the Yellow River.
At this formal meeting, Su Yonglin made some announcements.
"I established the Fuxing Society before to coordinate all the court departments when managing the Yellow River. Although the Fuxing Society is not an official court department, when it comes to managing the Yellow River, the Fuxing Society is a higher level than any relevant department. of."
Only then did some officials who didn't know what was going on know what kind of organization the Renaissance was.
To put it bluntly, it is an administrative organization specializing in the management of the Yellow River. On the issue of Yellow River management, any relevant official office will automatically be lowered to the next level when meeting, and must stand up and accept the dispatch.
Moreover, Su Yonglin also announced Tian Guizi, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as the person in charge of the Fuxing Committee, who would be fully responsible for the management of the Yellow River. This gave many officials the impression that the Fuxing Committee was untouchable.
Just kidding, the boss of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is in charge of regulating the Yellow River. If you do any wrongdoing, he will directly use his power to deal with you. Do you still want to be an official?
Cruel, that is really cruel.
But to be honest, Su Yonglin established the Fuxing Association not just to regulate the Yellow River, but regulating the Yellow River itself is a very complicated matter.
Human, material and financial resources are necessary prerequisites, and clear government is even more important.
Otherwise, many times in history, the plans proposed for regulating the Yellow River were feasible and in line with the laws of nature. However, when it came to practice, big problems arose, and the original good plan was turned into a mess, and ultimately failed.
The most typical one is Jialuzhi River.
Yuan Ting, who was extremely corrupt, said that he supported Jialu's river management, but the corrupt officials responsible for the work did not know where the project funds and materials were embezzled.
The materials used are not the best.
The tools used are not the best either.
Even the food given to the workers was 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.
On the surface, Jialu's river regulation was successful, but it only lasted for a few years. A few years later, the Yellow River floods remained the same, with collapse everywhere and triggering civil uprisings. In the end, Jialu himself died on the battlefield to suppress the peasant uprising. Lost.
Coincidentally, the four attempts to control the Yellow River by Pan Jixun, a river control expert in the Ming Dynasty, were also affected by political factors and administrative factors, so that they failed to succeed and failed to successfully solve the Yellow River floods.
There are too many government departments that need to be coordinated to manage the Yellow River. The conflicts between them, the temptation of huge project funds, the management of the people who need to be collected and distributed along the way, the transmission of information, etc. are all indispensable procedures for managing the Yellow River. .
The most important thing is the mutual collaboration and mutual achievements among the leaders of Yellow River management, as well as the guarantee of funds and materials for river management.
If there is a problem in any link, the management of the Yellow River will not be done well.
Therefore, Su Yonglin believed that it was not that the ancients could not manage the Yellow River, but that corrupt officials made it difficult to manage the Yellow River, and endless internal friction delayed the completion of projects that could have been completed.
Therefore, Su Yonglin chose to use the Fuxinghui and Tian Guizi to lead the management of the Yellow River, taking over all power, surpassing any court department, and having absolute power to deal with it.
What he wants is that this time the Yellow River floods must be successfully solved. Even if it cannot be completely solved, it must be led back to its original path, and it must not be allowed to continue to seize the Huaihe River and enter the sea.
If the Yellow River continues to flow into the sea on its current course, once the water rises, it will inevitably take the Huai River and flow into the sea. The Huai River channel is narrow and cannot accommodate the huge amount of water in the Yellow River. It will inevitably overflow and flood. This will only make the lives of the two Huai Rivers miserable and there will never be peace. .
So after everyone's discussion, it was unanimously determined that the key point of regulating the Yellow River this time was to change the direction of the Yellow River back to its old route, preferably the old Eastern Han Dynasty route, so that after passing through Kaifeng, the Yellow River would turn northeast, bypass Shandong, and flow eastward into the sea.
