Lin Zexu is famous for his efforts to eliminate tobacco smoke at Humen, but few people know that he was also an "expert" in water management. In 1831, 106 years after the construction of Jiayingguan, Lin Zexu became the governor of Hedong Road, responsible for flood control in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Lin Zexu was famous for his seriousness on the river. It was winter when he took office. Braving the cold, Lin Zexu along the Yellow River on both sides of a thousand miles of patrol, check the flood control materials reserves, "no stacks do not measure, no hall is not demolished". Find out who faked immediately removed from office and investigated. Emperor Daoguang praised him: "to the river workers to check the material stacks, there has never been such a serious person!"
After the defeat of the Opium War, Lin Zexu was sent to Xinjiang. Lin Zexu to Kaifeng after a hundred illnesses carefully designed to plug the mouth of the program, and with the civilian workers together with the piling and lifting the soil, and ultimately plugged the break.
In Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places, Lin Zexu has outstanding water management achievements. After his death, the people in Henan, Jiangsu and Shaanxi built temples to honor him. Later, Emperor Guangxu crowned him as the Yellow River Dragon King and "arranged" him in Jiayingguan. "The Yellow River Dragon King are like this, the folk have, the influence is big, the emperor said 'can', even if it is 'corrected'." Jiaying Guan "Yellow River Dragon King" is very well studied Wang Xiaopian summarized this way.
Before Yongzheng ascended to the throne in charge of the Wuzhi river workers, had promised that if the plugging was successful, it would be in Wuzhi to build a total of large and small rivers in the Dragon King Temple. When he took the throne, the treasury was very empty, only more than 7 million taels of silver. However, Yongzheng still allocated 2.88 million taels of silver to fulfill his promise. Qi Sule, the governor of the river channel, mobilized the imperial craftsmen as well as civilian workers from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Anhui provinces to build the Yellow River Dragon King Temple in Wuzhi, modeled after the imperial palace in Beijing. Yongzheng three years in February, the Dragon King Temple was completed, Yongzheng personally wrote "Jia Ying Guan" three words, for the Dragon King Temple set the name.
Yongzheng also ordered in Jiaying Guan on both sides of the East, West, two Taoist hospitals. The west yard for the Daotai Yamen, jurisdiction of the present day Anyang, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo and other areas in northern Henan; the east yard for the river Yamen, of course, the task is to manage the Yellow River. Thus, Jiaying Guan became the Yongzheng dynasty's "yellow committee". Let the yellow ministers sitting in the Yellow River, the most dangerous section of the office, I'm afraid that only the Yongzheng such an iron-fisted emperor to do it.
Resident in Jiaying Guan, Yongzheng's most admired minister of the river, deputy governor of the river JI Zengjun (later governor of the river). He sat in Wuzhi, presided over the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River embankment affairs. History, JI Zengjun river is good at making the best use of the situation, both to protect the embankment, but also to save labor and materials. During his tenure, he commanded the construction and reinforcement of Wuzhi below the thousand miles of the Yellow River embankment, so that "Yu province embankment rainbow stretches, standing as a golden soup".
Because JI Zengjun river management merit, Yongzheng almost every year to reward him. JI Zengjun later officer to the Ministry of War, Prince of the Prince, enjoy the first-class treatment, but has been in Wuzhi river.
Su Shi, the word Zizhan, good Dongpoju Shi, Sichuan, Northern Song Dynasty, the literati, Song Dynasty, the "three Su", that is, his father Su Xun, his younger brother Su Zhe and him. Su Shi's achievement is the greatest among them.
Su Shi was a young man who was well versed in the classics and history, and was a man of great talent. He was awarded a bachelor's degree in the second year of Renzong Jiayou (1057) and was praised by Ouyang Xiu, a leader in the literary world, who said, "The old man should avoid this man and put out a head of land."
Su Shi was first appointed as a magistrate in Kaifeng, advocating reforms, and when Wang Anshi changed the law, he wrote a letter opposing it, and was transferred out to Hangzhou as a general judge, and moved on to become the governor of Mizhou, Xuzhou and Chaozhou. He was an enlightened and skillful local official who cared about the people's hardships and did good things for them. When he was governor of Xuzhou, the Yellow River flooded, he personally led the army and people to build embankments to block the water, and when he knew Hangzhou, encountered a severe drought, he handled the relief, opened a medical workshop, and saved a lot of people. He also dredged the West Lake, built a water conservancy, and constructed a dike on the turnip (the famous Su Causeway), which has been praised by later generations.
After the Ming Dynasty, with the social and economic development and the Yellow River overflow disaster aggravated, the court paid more attention to river control, river control institutions gradually complete. Ming dynasty river, to the Ministry of works as the director, the prime minister of the river is directly responsible for, after the prime minister of the river is added to the title of governor of the military affairs, can directly command the army, the provinces along the river below the governor of the local officials also have the responsibility of the river, and gradually strengthened the lower reaches of the unified management of river affairs. Qing dynasty river governor authority is greater, directly under the orders of the court. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the cause of river control had great development, dike repair and management and maintenance techniques have made great progress, and a number of effective river control experts emerged, represented by Pan Jixiao and Jin Fu. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and during the period of the Republic of China, there were constant wars, and the national government was in decline, so the river control was also in a state of stagnation. Modern Li Yi Zhi, Zhang Hanying as the representative of the water conservancy experts, vigorously advocating the introduction of advanced Western technology, the study of comprehensive management of the Yellow River strategy, but by the social and economic conditions constraints, it is always difficult to make a difference.