Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2193 The Battle of Flowers (One Hundred and One)

  JDZ is just a big village, that is, the kind of town that gathers houses together. The town does not have a city wall like Huai'an. With the development of the porcelain industry, the town has more than one million people. If you look down from the hills around the town at night, you will think that there is a fire in the city, because thousands of scorching furnaces emit fiery red light, rising The smoke seemed to form a giant dome over the city. The Changjiang River flows through the JDZ, forming a basin one guli wide in the town, and the river reflects the diffuse firelight.

  Miss Wanning's narration reminds Nick of Manchester or Birmingham, only without the sound of steam engines, and JDZ is not smelting iron, but manufacturing with a material that is both fragile and elegant.

The word porcelain (porcelaine) is derived from a single shell (porcella), because the appearance of porcelain is very similar to this kind of shell, and Europeans have not understood the composition of porcelain, although in the Jesuit missionaries, especially Yin Hongxu's. The process of making porcelain through unremitting research is well known, and Yin Hongxu has lived in JDZ for a long time.

The aunt's cough brought Nick back to reality. He was introducing "The Elements of Geometry" to Wan Ning at the moment. It wrote very basic geometric knowledge, but as someone who has never learned this, Wan Ning has learned a lot. quick.

   Maybe she will learn geography, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, etc. in the future, just like Emperor Kangxi, he not only knows these, but also surveying and mapping. In the future, Nick will also teach her how to use the goniometer, planetarium, quadrant and other instruments. The premise is that you can buy it. Otherwise, it will be the same as the compass and triangle she is using now. Nick needs to do it himself.

   He avoided exposing himself to objects related to surveying and mapping, superstition or not, it would bring him bad luck, and good luck was what they needed now.

Ju and Cao Xi are still busy. Nick has been in contact with businessmen for a long time, and has never really been in contact with the squires. Many of them are still jinshi. They returned to their hometown for various reasons, and they quarreled. The reason is not just because of the interests, or rather the interests that Nick thinks.

With the precedent of opening the Hongze Lake sluice to clear the silt from the river and the river, a river worker proposed to divert the Huai River water to flush the Yellow River sediment, and some people did so, but in this way, the dams of Hongze Lake had to be raised, making Hongze Lake more difficult. It became a "hanging lake", and Gaoyan became a veritable Gaoyan. As a result, the downstream Gaoyou will be directly faced with the crisis of flooding, and because of the serious corruption problem of river workers, the quality of the dam is even more worrying.

The local gentry, headed by the pioneer Sun Zongyi, proposed a plan to stop raising the dams and dredging the estuary of the Huaihe River. The sluice released the flood, and the flood flooded directly into Gaoyou Lake. At that time, Zhizhou was seriously ill and paralyzed in bed. The family did not inform him in time. Sun Zongyi sent his son to inform him that it was too late. The flood had already submerged Gaoyou City, and dozens of people were killed. Ten more people were killed when the **** was hit. However, compared with the flood, more people died from the plague and famine, and tens of thousands of people were displaced due to hunger and cold.

   Regarding the management of the Huaihe River, whether to build a dam or dred it has been controversial since the Ming Dynasty. Originally, there was a flood, and the government wanted to rescue the disaster. Sun Zongyi and other squires spontaneously organized to build shacks and provide food for the victims, but these were not approved by the government. In addition, they were busy with disaster relief and offended many people. Sun Zongyi was killed. When the governor of the river, Le Supplemented with the title of "bad gentry", he accused his grandson of spreading rumors and dominating the village and other illegal acts, which was opposed by the gentry of Gaoyou.

However, Zhang Gongchen, a student, was an advisor to Li Yougong, who was guarding the Yanghe Camp. Li Yougong was instructed by Le Fu to raise the embankment of the Cao River in Gaoyou to a rolling dam. Submerged, he originally did not support this plan, but he was charged with "killing his wife and killing his mother". Zhang Gongchen was middle-aged and childless, and only married a concubine and gave birth to a son. The mother and the son were scolded and committed suicide in anger. Some people said that Zhang's wife killed Zhang's mother when the two scuffled. After the incident, Zhang Gongchen asked Li Yougong for help. Li Yougong said that as long as he could sue Sun Zongyi, he could avoid death. When Le Fu found out about it, he postponed the trial of Zhang's case, but for insurance, Zhang Gongchen and Li Yougong became in-laws, and it was Zhang Gongchen who married his daughter to Li Yougong's son.

Zhang Gongchen fabricated the "three major crimes" for Sun Zongyi, which caused an uproar in Gaoyou. Soon the governor who arrested Sun Zongyi came and imprisoned him in the Temple of Fire. The Gaoyou market immediately went on strike to protest. The market was forced to open, the state students cried at the Confucian Temple, the bell rang a warning, and Le Fu sent people to arrest them. As a result, some students who had not gone to the Confucian Temple to cry were thrown into the net and were detained in prison together with their classmates. The resident Liu Zhifu went to Beijing for Sun Zongyi. The Ministry of Justice, the Department of General Affairs, and the Dengwen Drum Academy have all been to the complaint, but none of them will be accepted.

Liu Zhifu turned his heart away and waited on the only way for the emperor to return to the palace, intending to "stop the sedan chair to call for injustice", Dengwen Drum Academy said that it would accept it, but the trial progress was slow, and finally Sun Zongyi died in Yangzhou prison. The city stopped in mourning again, and then the conflict between the government and the people came to an end.

   Repairing the embankment to control the Huaihe River has quick effect, but from now on, the Huaihe River will become an above-ground river like the Yellow River, and if there is a slight breach in one place, it will cause floods.

   The effect of dredging the Huaihe River into the sea is slow, and with the amount of sediment carried by the Yellow River, it is easy to block it again. Raising the dam of the Huaihe River, which only flows into the sea, can ensure that Gaoyou and other waterways enter the river without worry, and new coastal residents will suffer disasters.

Originally, after the death of Sun Zongyi, the court deliberately kept quiet. Sun Zongyi made many friends with many officials, but no one rescued him. In the ninth year of Emperor Kangxi, Sun Zongyi repaired Yue Fei's tomb. murdered for the crime.

  How to manage the Huaihe River is likely to be another problem after Emperor Jiaqing suppressed the White Lotus Sect. If you add the pirates in the southeast, it is hard to imagine how much pressure he would have to bear.

   Emperor Shunzhi once hoped that the Manchus and Han would work together to govern the country, just as the Governor of Nanhe hoped that everyone would work together to control the water.

   But it is not so easy to get people to work together, although sometimes it seems so easy that a single command can do it.

  Nick intends to teach Wanning some knowledge of machinery written by Deng Yuhan. The Ministry of Works also has machinery for canal maintenance, so that she can "share the worries" for her father. She is a very filial daughter.

  Unfortunately, she is not a man. The Admiral couldn't hide his shame when he mentioned this matter, and he was not very relieved about Cao Xi.

   There are many stories of "talented and beautiful women" in Jiangnan, such as Li Shishi and Du Shiniang. They are all brothel women, and they are quite dissatisfied when they mention this admiral.

  Nick remembered that Cao Xi went out in a sedan chair at night, and said nothing more.

Now how to do? As Juren said, don't act rashly, or send Captain Yao's sailors to the capital, or just leave the country?

   But before that, he thought he could go to the mosque to find the little imam and get the book back. It's just that he has to prepare a gift this time. What should he bring?

   (end of this chapter)