水利建设是一项公共事业,必须要有充分的财力、物力和人力作为前提。正如清人陈瑚所说的,“开江之难,难在财和人”。其道理是显而易见的。因此,筹措经费和征调劳力是水利建设中最重要的问题。清代江浙地区的水利经费筹措与劳力动用有着内容丰富的诸种形式,积累了不少值得借鉴的历史经验。下面略加叙述。 Water conservancy is a public utility and must have sufficient financial, material and human resources as a precondition. As the Qing Dynasty Chen Hu said, “the difficulty of opening a river, it is difficult in wealth and people.” The reason is obvious. Therefore, financing and requisitioning labor are the most important issues in water conservancy construction. In the Qing Dynasty, Jiangsu Province and Jiangsu Province have a rich variety of forms of fund-raising and labor-intensive use of water resources, accumulating a lot of historical experience worth learning from. Slightly narrated below.