I became the son of Renzong

The cabinet is paying attention to the tax reform, and what Han Qi said is indeed true.

"Mr. Han Ge's words are wrong. The imperial court supports Pingping, and the income of officials has not increased. This part of the court's loss has actually been transformed into the income of the people... no longer pay various miscellaneous items. Taxes are actually a reflection of increased revenue.”

Han Qi was too lazy to argue with Wang Anshi.The main reason is that what he said doesn't make sense at all.

This kind of debate is harmless, neither Zhao Xi nor Fu Bi stopped it.Today's discussion is not aimed at the effectiveness and retention of the tax reform. Xue Xiang, a state-owned temple, has detailed reports every month for the cabinet ministers to review.

All cabinet ministers understand the operation of the new tax system, and basically agree with the new tax system.As for whether to admit that this was initiated by Wang Anshi, that's another matter.

Today's cabinet discussion was convened by Zhao Xi in response to several consecutive heavy rains since the beginning of summer.

The Yellow River has always been a major problem for the country. After several heavy rains in summer, the water level of the Yellow River rose at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.Flood control is the most urgent government affairs at present.

In June of the eighth year of Qingli, the Yellow River diverted its course and broke through the Shanghu River in Chanzhou.Twelve years later, in the fifth year of Jiayou, the Yellow River burst through the lower reaches of Shanghu, diverted through Jinchao City, Guantao, Leling, and Wudi and entered the sea. This is the "Dongliu".

Since Jiayou five years ago, although the Yellow River has not experienced major flooding due to diversion, flood control has been carried out every year, and disasters have occurred every year.

Judging by the continuous heavy rain this year, the flood control situation is quite severe.The section of the Yellow River in Bianliang is completely suspended, and the height of the Yellow River embankment is far higher than that of Bianliang City.

"Officials, since the production of cement, the imperial court has been repairing the dam every year during the dry season, not only raising the height of the dam, but even directly rebuilding the weak link. With the firmness of the cement, the Bianliang dam is foolproof."

"Last year, in the east of Huazhou in Beiliu and east of Dongming in Dongliu, the local state capitals dredged the river beach. Although the rain this year is severe, I think there should be no danger because of the solid cement."

cement?Not to mention the unmarked cement of this era, even in later generations, real reinforced concrete dams have broken down.The ministers believed in cement, but Zhao Xi didn't dare to rest assured about cement.

"What did Si Tianjian say? How's the rainfall in Linfu and Hedong?"

The following weather conditions, as well as the amount of precipitation upstream, are the main factors that determine whether the Yellow River is in danger downstream.Zhao Xi had to be clear about this.

"Si Tianjian believes that the rain is unlikely to be relieved in the short term. According to reports from the two prefectures of Hedong Road and Linfu, it is also raining heavily on Hedong Road and Linfu!"

This is not good news.The atmosphere is a little heavy.Although the current Sitianjian is even more unpredictable than the weather forecasts of later generations, the situation of flood control is actually quite serious.

"Officials, the edict to notify the downstream state capital has been issued the day before yesterday. I believe the downstream local state capital will respond accordingly. The local state capital has certain experience in flood prevention every year."

Having said that, Fu Bi was also very worried. It should be said that all the cabinet ministers were a little worried.

It is impossible to know the situation further upstream. Judging from the situation in Hedong and Linfu, it is almost the entire Yellow River basin that has experienced heavy rain.

Next, not only the downstream problem, but Bianliang is also in danger.

Besides, it has been more than ten years since the first embankment was repaired with cement, and no one knows how long the cement will last.

"Dam patrol tomorrow!"

Zhao Xi still decided to go and see for himself.

Chapter 641

It's not that the cabinet ministers don't dissuade, it's that the officials are quite stubborn in such matters.

Not only the cabinet ministers, but also the concubine of Neiyuan also persuaded him, but it was useless.

The sky did not clear up because of the emperor's trip, and the rainy days continued for many days.The rain was beating on the roof of the carriage, very rhythmic, and the sound was very soft, but Zhao Xi was annoying to hear it.

In the previous life, Zhao Xi was from the north and had no experience in flood control at all.His understanding of flood control is only the content of the documents at a specific period of the year, or browsing through them on a horse's horse, without any impression.

For the Yellow River, his understanding is only the name of the mother river, and the several floods he heard...

Afterwards, it was the rumor that when Dad was in power, the Yellow River diverted and starved to death.

Zhao Xi received organizational education for many years in his previous life. Although he tried his best to integrate into this era, he really couldn't be indifferent to the disasters suffered by his people.

"Do your best!" Zhao Xi felt a little helpless.

"Whether the officials personally inspect the dam or not has no effect on the dam itself, so why bother? Even if we need to inspect the dam, will it be difficult for me to deceive me?"

Officials patrol the dam, and the cabinet ministers have to accompany each other. This is an attitude.

Before Han Qi was so talkative, Zhang Fangping complained first.

That's right, the official family is a northerner who grew up in the palace. In this regard, he is really not as good at flood control as the cabinet who once served in central Sichuan.

But there is no way, no one can persuade the officials to come down.

"We are expressing our attitude, so why don't the officials express their attitude?"

This statement... is basically true.

"How about the raincoat in this workshop city? If it doesn't work, I'll still use the coir raincoat."

Speaking of this, there is more to say.

Rain protection in this era is mostly umbrellas or oil-paper umbrellas.The coir raincoat can be regarded as a single-person rainproof device.

For this reason, Zhao Xi asked Workshop City to use oiled paper to make a cloak-style, or a later-generation raincoat-style, hoping to replace the coir raincoat.

The result was not ideal. The oiled paper was brushed with tung oil, so it was very stiff. It was fine for making an umbrella, but it was not easy-going and not close-fitting when made into a raincoat.

Originally, Zhao Xi had given up hope, thinking that before the advent of plastic, the raincoat of later generations would be impossible to realize.

By chance, when Zhao Xi was reviewing the Lingnan Memorial, he accidentally spilled the milk for supper.Milk was sprinkled on the memorial...

I thought the memorial should be completely scrapped, but when the inner prisoner was busy cleaning it up, Zhao Xi found that the memorial was still the same.

So Zhao Xi asked people to buy this kind of paper from Lingnan, which is said to be called grain paper.

After consulting the data, it turns out that this kind of grain paper was popular in Jiangnan during the Three Kingdoms period. Because of its better water resistance, nobles in Jiangnan often used this kind of grain paper to write letters and copy classics.

The south of the Yangtze River is humid, and this kind of grain paper is used to inherit a subset of classics and history.

This time, when the magistrate of Quanzhou, Guangnan East Road, wrote the memorial, he accidentally used grain paper in the middle, which gave Zhao Xi confidence in the production of raincoats again.

Immediately, Zhao Xi ordered Workshop City to send people to Guangnan to learn the craft of this kind of grain paper, and on this basis, began to try to make raincoats.

A few years have passed, and the Gongfangcheng raincoat is the third generation of grain paper raincoat.

Even Zhao Xi didn't know what was added in it. Anyway, Zhao Xi felt that it was no worse than the raincoats of later generations.

This time, the cabinet must be accompanied by the dam patrol. They are all veterans in their 60s and [-]s, so Zhao Xi ordered the workshop city to send a batch of raincoats...~

The new style of raincoat, Zhao Xi instructed Workshop City to be designed according to the raincoat of the army of later generations, with a hood, double sleeves, and a straight cloak-style raincoat.

At this stall, the carriage had already pulled the officials and cabinet ministers to the embankment of Bianliang, and the officials had already got out of the car in raincoats.

The cabinet ministers didn't care whether the raincoat was working or not, so they hurriedly put on the raincoat and went to the embankment...

At this time, it seems that everyone has forgotten about the raincoat and is staring at the official...