After Yan Jing led the crowd to leave, the whole city seemed a little lonely and empty, even after the Song people entered Yanjing, although on the surface, Yanjing City was no different from the beginning after some pacification, but it can still be felt that Yanjing City is like a walking corpse, and it always feels like it lacks a spirit, giving people a feeling of powerlessness.

And when Ye Qing returned to Yanjing, even Ye Luyue could feel that Yanjing City, which was originally like a pool of stagnant water, seemed to be re-injected with new vitality, and suddenly seemed to come back to life.

Liu Keshi also felt deeply about this, when he arrived in Yanjing for a pacification sent, although the entire people's hearts have stabilized, but he always felt that the capital of the Jin Kingdom, after the Jin people evacuated, seemed to have sucked away the soul of the entire Yanjing City, making this Yanjing City like an old man in his twilight years.

Ye Qing returned to Yanjing for a toss, although he did not make any substantive moves, but the overall feeling was as if that vitality had been re-injected into the city.

Even now that Ye Qing has thrown himself into the broken camp and has not come out for more than half a month, whether it is Liu Keshi or Ye Luyue, he can still feel that the entire Yanjing City is a little different from usual.

What made the two feel even more excited was that Yelu Chucai, the minister of the Jin State, and the two pacification envoys of Hedongnan Road, Tian Li and Wang Rujia, also suddenly rushed to Yanjing from Hedongnan Road and Taiyuan Mansion at this time.

Because the three of them returned to Yanjing, Ye Qing, who had been locked in the broken camp for nearly twenty days, was finally able to see the light of day again, and at this time, in the broken camp behind him, there would be loud noises almost every day, mixed with some cheering voices.

Ye Qing, who is less exposed to the wind and sun in the broken camp, seems to be much whiter than before he entered, but because of his unshaven beard and red eyes, he still gives people a sloppy and nervous feeling on the whole.

Whether it is Yelu Chucai, Tian Li, or Wang Rujia, before coming to Yanjing, they all knew that Ye Qing was now the king of Yan, so the first time they saw Ye Qing, they were a little more respectful in their attitude than in the past.

When Liu Keshi arrived, Ye Qing had already led the three of Yelu Chucai and was waiting for him in the conference hall of the Fuli Nuo University.

Yanjing Mansion does not have a government office now, and the current temporary government office is placed in the mansion of the beggar Shilie gods and slaves in Yanjing, but Ye Qing is obviously not interested in that place, not to mention that his goal is to turn Wanning Palace into Yanjing's government office, so before negotiating and agreeing with the Lin'an court, many officials in Yanjing are like lonely ghosts, and there is a place that can be used as a government office casually.

In addition, there are not a few mansions left by the wealthy nobles and clan officials of the Jin Kingdom when they evacuate, and now for the officials of Yanjing, they cannot even make full use of them, and there are also many idle mansions.

After watching Liu Keshi hurriedly walk in, Ye Qing first stretched out his hand to signal Liu Keshi not to be polite, and casually introduced Tian Li, Wang Rujia and Yelu Chucai to Liu Keshi, and then got up and walked to the black cloth hanging on the wall behind him, and neatly pulled down the black cloth.

Everyone saw the true face under the black cloth, a map from Yangzhou to Yanjing, including Huainan Road, Shandong Road and Hebei East Road, and on the map, the most obvious is a black line marked with a river, connecting Yanjing to Yangzhou

Distance.

Liu Keshi looked dazed, not knowing what Ye Qing meant by calling him over in a hurry and showing himself this map.

Yelu Chucai was also at a loss, not knowing what Ye Qing was going to do.

Different from the two of them are Tian Li and Wang Rujia, at first, the expressions of the two people were also dazed, I don't know what Ye Qing meant by letting them look at this map, but when the two looked at the standard black line of the river on Shandong Road, their expressions looked a little surprised for a while, and then when they looked at it again, the whole person began to become a little shocked, stood up unconsciously, pointed to the black line on the map, and asked Ye Qing: "This is ...... This is the transformation that King Yan once proposed when he was the first official to govern the flooding of Shandong Road for King Yan, and the new river channel that was dug up? ”

Wang Rujia still stared at the black line on the map, and said solemnly: "Yes, it was the new river channel that King Yan suggested that the two of us renovate and dig at that time. So what does King Yan mean ......? ”

"Yes, I mean what you think right now." Ye Qing patted the map on the wall, and then said with a smile: "When Emperor Huizong made the Genyue Garden, he relied on the canal to transport a large number of exquisite stones to Kaifeng, and it is precisely because of the existence of this canal that Luoyang and Kaifeng can not only transport stones, but also grain, grass, goods, etc. So if you let the two of you dig a new river to Yanjing, I don't know...... Is there a way to do it? ”

Wang Rujia and Tian Li glanced at each other, and they could see the shock and excitement in each other's eyes.

The two were officials of the Jin State at the beginning, and before they were borrowed by Ye Qing to control the water, they had suggested that the Jin court dig a river connecting Yanjing to Huainan Road, so that the distance between Yanjing and the Southern Song Dynasty court could be shortened, and in the future, it would be much more convenient to use troops or transport grain and goods than by land.

However, Jin Ting has never had this kind of ambition to open the world, and the rivers of Kaifeng and Luoyang are unimpeded, although it is more inconvenient to take the waterway, but Jin Ting is willing to be content with the status quo, and does not think that the matter of digging a river is beneficial to the imperial court, but thinks that this suggestion of the two is a move to work the people and hurt money, and it is really impossible.

And when the two of them were borrowed by Ye Qing to control the water, they would receive Ye Qing's suggestions on river management from time to time, although they were different from the suggestions of the two in some places, but when the two of them were dredging the channels and digging new rivers, they could still faintly feel that Ye Qing could see at a glance that it was a redundant move, and even behind the excavation of the river that cost the people and money, there seemed to be some conspiracy hidden.

It's just that the two of them didn't think much about it at that time, not to mention that even if they thought about it, they didn't have the courage to think that Ye Qing's purpose was to one day build a canal connecting the north and the south after capturing Yanjing.

And now looking back at the rivers they dug when they were in Shandong Road to control the water, it is almost clear that the direction and key points of these rivers are all prepared in advance for the purpose of one day connecting and connecting Yanjing.

Ye Qing looked at the two of them suddenly realized, and the original easy-going signature smile on his face gradually became proud, and now it seems that no one thought that many years ago, the purpose of cutting down on food and clothing and making great efforts to control water is not only to control water, but also to allow Yanjing to connect with Yangzhou's waterways one day in the future!

"Well, what's the best way to do it?" Ye Qing looked at Tian Li and Wang Rujia, who were a little sluggish, with a look on their faces

The smile is more and more smug at this time.

"If it's King Yan......." Wang Rujia has been staring at the map tightly, sometimes shaking his head and sometimes sighing, and then said firmly: "Xia Guan admires King Yan's foresight, the two of us are really unattainable!" If King Yan believes in the two Xiaguan, the two Xiaguan hereby promise King Yan that in three to five years, the Xiaguan guarantees ....... ”

"In three years at most, I want to make the commercial goods of Yanjing City go directly to Yangzhou from the waterway." Ye Qing's tone was equally resolute, and he continued: "Shandong Road and Huainan Road are already connected, and Hebei East Road, which can borrow the river of the old canal, what really needs to be dug is to reach Yanjing, so in three years, give me a river full of gold and silver ships at a glance, is it possible?" ”

Ye Qing did this, in addition to making Yanjing also have a close relationship with the Jiangnan area, he naturally considered Miss Yan, who was about to come to Yanjing.

And Miss Yan is by no means dragging her children and daughters to simply "settle" in Yanjing, and almost all the business focus in Yangzhou will also be transferred to Yanjing because of this, so the excavation of this canal, whether it is for public or private, it is necessary for him to dig and build it in the shortest possible time.

Liu Keshi admired Ye Qing's five-body throw, and only now did he understand Ye Qing's intention to call back Tian Li and Wang Rujia, and what he didn't expect was that Ye Qing, who was also the pacification envoy of Huainan East Road, had already begun to prepare for today's situation.

Thinking about it along this line of thought, Liu Keshi unconsciously had a chilling feeling, many years ago Ye Qing was making unknown plans for today's things, so what about Ye Qing's real mind in a few years now? Or is it that only when that day comes, will he be able to know what the real purpose of Ye Qing's move to dig the canal today is!

Yelu Chucai, who had never spoken, had an extremely gloomy face at this time, Ye Qing's city was deep and scheming, and he had already understood it when he was in Jinan Mansion, but even so, in the time of Jinan Mansion, he never thought that the river that Ye Qing went to inspect from time to time would still have such a sinister purpose!

At first, when he accompanied Ye Qing to look at those rivers, he thought that Ye Qing was showing him the credit for controlling the water and saving the people, where did he think about it, in fact, the reason why Ye Qing inspected the rivers was completely to prepare for how to dig and connect the canal after capturing Yanjing!

Ye Qing pretended not to see Yelu Chucai's gloomy face, even now, Yelu Chucai, who is arrogant and arrogant, actually has not really surrendered to Ye Qing, even if he is convinced now, but in Yelu Chucai's heart, he still retains a trace of expectations for Jin Guo.

Ignoring Yelu Chucai, who had a deep expression, Ye Qing turned his head and looked at Tian Li and Wang Rujia, whose eyes were shining with excitement, and they were originally experts in water control and canal construction, so they naturally knew that if the canal connecting Yanjing to Yangzhou was dug out, what would this mean to Ye Qing and even the entire northern land.

The two of them had already talked endlessly in front of the map, Ye Qing even sometimes listened a little puzzled, and Liu Keshi was already a question mark on his face, and he couldn't figure out what the two of them were talking to Ye Qing at all.

Yelu Chucai sat on the chair, with the buzzing voices of Tian Li and Wang Rujia in his ears, but his mind was always entangled in how he should go next.