In fact, the celebrities and scholars in the late Han Dynasty all had this tone, not to mention that they were not afraid of death, but most of them regarded reputation as more important than life, and most of these people were not very capable, but relatively speaking, their morality was guaranteed.

Cui Yan is a model of ability and morality, but his temperament is too strong, and he doesn't like to speak softly, he is a typical example of uprightness, there is no problem in the hands of Ming Jun to go down in history, but in the hands of the faint king, it is basically a typical example of death at the beginning.

Although the ability is very strong, but if Cui Yan is allowed to handle government affairs, even if Liu Bei's Wenchen is a little lacking now, there is no shortage of such a one, Chen Xi originally arrested Cui Yan into Liu Bei's collective, essentially to make Cui Yan as a minister.

Liu Bei's side, from Chen Xi down, can not be regarded as Zhengchen, although they are all smart, but because they are smart, they have obvious advantages and disadvantages in their personalities.

In addition to some times of direct advice, Cui Yan ensured that the overall situation of the entire officialdom would not form a civilian-official circle with the core of playing tricks, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and more importantly, let Cui Yan uncover the pots, and expose those pots that Chen Xi and others can't pay attention to, and the people below dare not expose them!

These two points are very important, and now the top-level circle under Liu Bei's command is okay, although they are all instinctively seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, but on the whole, relying on their wisdom, they can basically solve all problems, so there is not much impact on the entire force.

However, this may not be the case in the future, if there is no one in the upper echelons who dare to speak directly, or there is no need to dare to speak directly, then when this wave of people dies, this circle will be completely corrupted, and it will be corrupted from the beginning.

Once the upper collective did not dare to shout for the right path. Then the country is not far from the end, so at the very beginning, Chen Xi was ready to get a Zhengchen in.

The meaning of the existence of this Zhengchen is to make the upper echelons dare to shout for the interests of the country at any time. Instead of being a clay sculpture, retreat at the slightest danger.

So when Cui Yan joined Liu Bei's side. Chen Xi gave Cui Yan "The life and death of the country is profitable, how can it be avoided because of blessings and misfortunes", to put it bluntly, it is to encourage Cui Yan to do this kind of dangerous thing, Liu Bei always has to have a smart person who is not afraid of death to do this kind of thing!

Of course, Cui Yan was very happy after receiving this screen with only two sentences, he himself belongs to the kind of upright and upright typical, and these two sentences made him find the final destination, what did he not say, what is there to fear if he dies for the country!

So Cui Yan was sure of Chen Xi's thoughts. Immediately began to purge the entire Qingxu Yanyu Ji officials, and while the group expanded, there were not a few mixed sediments!

"Chen Hou, Lu Tingshi, and the head of the Li family have completed the field inspection of the water conservancy network under their rule and have come to report to the two." Just when Chen Xi and the others had finished handling a lot of government affairs, a herald came to say back and forth.

"Ask him to come in." Chen Xi and Lu Su glanced at each other, and they both saw the joy of each other, and the construction of the water conservancy network was finally put on the agenda. Although the Yellow River only floods once every two or three years, this is enough for Chen Xi to have a headache.

"I've seen Marquis Chen, I've seen all the military marquis." Li Shu bowed slightly and said, slightly self-contained.

"Sit down. I would also like to thank the Li family for coming to design and arrange for the reign of Duke Xuande. Chen Xi ordered someone to move a chair for Li Shu to sit down, and now the couch is not used much except for very formal occasions, but I want to come. It won't be long before the couch will be out of history.

"But Chen Hou is polite." Li Shu smiled and said. I was slightly surprised by Chen Xi's title, although I had heard it a long time ago. But I was still a little dumbfounded.

"Whether it's polite or not, it's all for the sake of governance, Yuan Chang, please speak up to us." Chen Xi said with a light smile.

The Li family's water control methods are slightly different from those recorded in other classics, and the Li family is more focused on adjustment and compatibility.

"It's fine." Li Shu took out a scroll of maps, these maps were taken by Li Shu after he came to Liu Bei's side, and the maps of this era belong to strategic materials.

Therefore, when he got the map, Li Shu was obviously satisfied with Liu Bei's trust, although his family had these maps and had studied them for a long time.

Open the map, and Chen Xi originally roughly planned the Grand Canal, there is a clear difference, if Chen Xi roughly drew the canal on the map before is the word "person" after the flip, then now it is obviously a lot more complicated.

However, generally speaking, the water intake of the canal has not changed much, but compared with the original canal, there are now two more nodes in the canal, and the direction of the water flow has also changed a few more, which is generally much more complicated than the previous canal.

"In my opinion, the value of the existence of this canal is not so much to strengthen the liaison between various departments in the Central Plains, but to further transform the five major grain-producing areas." Li Shu shook his head and said, "So my design plan focuses more on the entire water conservancy network than on the main construction of this canal." ”

"With my current design, it will take 20 years to build the main body of the canal, and after connecting these five water intakes, the main body of the canal can be built, but with all due respect, if it is just for the purpose of transporting goods, transporting troops, and strengthening the liaison between various places, in fact, it is enough to take the sea route." Li Shu said bluntly.

Liu Bei has taken too many sea routes here, and now many people in the world know that the sea route can be walked, although the flat-bottomed boat is not reliable to take the sea route, but it means that it can be used, and there is room for improvement.

"And Mr. Gongyou has been building official roads, and the march of good horses is not weaker than waterways, and Mr. Wenhe's horse administration has also been committed to solving this horse problem, once Xuande Gong unifies the world and paves the official roads to all parts of the world, the canal is not of great significance." Li Shu said flatly, he didn't care at all about being a great power for repairing rivers and controlling water, this was demolishing his own platform.

Chen Xi nodded slowly after listening, and echoed Li Shu's words, although it was not quite right, but these are all facts, and they are reasonable, but they are a little off-topic.

Although the significance of the Grand Canal freight is declining because of the relationship between shipping, the significance of strengthening the rule of the north and the south still exists.

As for the five major grain-producing areas, it is indeed time to transform, even if it is to throw money at the core of the Central Plains, it will be smashed out of a grain-producing area that ignores drought and floods, which requires a complete water conservancy network system, but it would not be good if this was based on the hydraulic power of other water veins mobilized by the Grand Canal! (To be continued.) )

PS: Tomorrow will be April, let's also compete for the list, the monthly pass will be left to me at that time, it doesn't matter this month......