For example, the officials in the county government canal office have been engaged in water conservancy work for generations.

The Ming Dynasty attached great importance to river management, and specially set up river yamen to be responsible for water control.

However, another characteristic of the Ming Dynasty was that the finances were extremely tight, and various yamen were seriously short of funds.

Water conservancy projects have always been projects with huge investments but slow returns.

Therefore, after the development of water conservancy projects in the early Ming Dynasty, water conservancy project construction entered a period of stagnation in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

It would be great if Nanping County Qufang can manage the Minjiang River well, but it cannot manage tributaries like Jianxi at all.

Even when there is heavy rainfall, floods will be directed into Jianxi to discharge the floods.

Not only in Nanping County, but also in the entire Ming Dynasty, the water conservancy projects were in disrepair. Old projects could not be maintained, and there was no money to start new projects.

Su Ze secretly thought that when reading history books, he always felt that each dynasty "ran out of luck" in the later stages, and natural disasters continued throughout the dynasty. It seemed that God was going to send this dynasty away.

But in fact, this view reverses cause and effect.

It was because in the later period of the dynasty, the government's finances collapsed and it could no longer carry out large-scale engineering construction at low cost and efficiency as in the early days of the dynasty. This caused various water conservancy facilities to fall into disrepair. When encountering floods, "the embankments will burst and thousands of miles of rivers will be destroyed."

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Or when locust plagues or droughts break out, if the dynasty is strong and powerful, there will naturally be ways to provide disaster relief. However, by the end of the dynasty, the court is almost unable to pay official salaries, and naturally it is unable to organize disaster relief.

But the time of the Jiajing court was different. At that time, the emperor was not the grandson of his grandson, and the court could still receive a large amount of money from the people.

It's just that this "intelligent" emperor was more willing to spend money on building palaces than on his "people".

The treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty, but the emperor's private treasury was filled with gold and silver.

Emperor Jiajing was like an extreme miser, charging interest on the money he "borrowed" from Taicang to the treasury.

Except for the Minjiang River, the management of other water systems relies on private funds raised by the private sector.

Su Ze said confidently:

"I only need fifty young men who can work, enough to heal the tributaries of Jianxi and Beishan Village."

Chen Bofei couldn't help but ask: "Does Mr. Su really have a way to control the river?"

Su Ze said firmly: "I have a method of 'bundling water to wash away the sand', which can be a century-old plan to completely solve the problem of sedimentation in Jianxi River."
Chapter completed!