Yang Fangxing And The Study Of The River Administration In The Early Qing Dynasty

Since the end of the Ming Dynasty,the Yellow River has suffered from natural disasters such as drought,insect pests and other natural disasters.The fields have become barren and the people have been living in hardship.In addition,the chaos of the local people along the river has remained unabated and the people have been forced to flee.As a result of successive years of war,the rulers had no time to take account of the river administration.As a result,the river service was abandoned,the river was devoid of people,and the river dyke was in constant disrepair.During the Shunzhi period in the early Qing Dynasty,the river was abnormally overrun.It has caused serious social and economic losses to the banks along the river,therefore,it has become a practical problem that the Qing government urgently needs to solve.The first year of Shunzhi(1644),the Qing government followed the Ming Dynasty,set the river governor a member responsible for governance River patients.In July,Yang Fangxing,then a secretary,was appointed the first River Governor.Yang Fangxing River in Qing Dynasty history as the first river governor,in fourteen years,is one of the longest serving governor of the river the history of the Qing Dynasty.During his more than 10 years of river control,He led many people to block the mouth of the Xiao Song Dynasty,Liutongji,Jinglong mouth,Dawangmiao,and so on.He built dikes and dams in Henan,Jiangnan and many other areas,and big dredged Caohe River,repair Fuxing Gate site,excavation of river diversion and so on.In addition,due to the destruction of war.The Qing River service system has been due to the overall collapse.After Yang Fangxing took office,he rebuilt the river prevention system.Set up pipe river division,parallel with the river management.The river mark was also set up with the establishment of the river governor,and played an important role in the river prevention construction as a military force in the early Qing Dynasty.In order to improve the efficiency of river management,Yang Fangxing was prudent in his duties and not allowed river officials to hold two posts,river officials specialized in the matter,and live in the river trunk Ya she and coordinate the relationship between river officials and local officials.It is of great significance for the reconstruction of the river official system in the early Qing Dynasty.Yang Fangxing accumulated a large amount of experience in river control in the course of river control,to a certain extent,reduced the river infestation in the early Qing Dynasty,guaranteed the smooth flow of water transportation,and laid the foundation for restoring the social economy and consolidating the dominant position of the Qing government.Yang Fangxing's political theory of river still has strong reference significance for us to carry out water conservancy project today.