This An Yuan is very capable, and it is no problem to give him a deputy department, if it weren't for this An Yuan's long-term absence, he doesn't know much about Huaxia's gravity, and even he wants An Yuan to become the main department.

This An Yuan has very experience in construction and has presided over the construction of many places, and it is just right for Zhang Yu to put him in charge of the canal.

Zhang Yu picked up An Yuan and went back to the capital directly.

After going back, An Yuan wanted to come to take office immediately, but was stopped by Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu told him to walk around the city for five days, go to the academy for five days, read information for five days, and arrange the other half a month by himself, and he must go to office after a month.

Although An Yuan is talented, he has also been overseas for many years, and he needs to re-understand Huaxia, and the current Huaxia is very different from the previous Huaxia.

An Yuan had no choice but to obey the order.

After coming back, he also actively went to find out, and with this understanding, he realized that there were too many changes, and there were too many things he needed to learn, and even An Yuan thought that he was not qualified for the position of this deputy department.

An Yuan walked around the city for a few days, especially going to taverns and teahouses.

That's changed so much.

He hadn't read this semi-monthly before, and then he collected more than a dozen semi-monthly magazines and started reading them.

"The lord is wise, he actually governs the empire so well."

After spending some time in the capital, he realized how powerful the empire was now.

Of course, he also knew the wealth he had brought back from Fusang, there were too many, and he had at least hundreds of millions of silver coins a year.

Even more, this Fuso is not only one Iwami silver mine, but also many copper mines, as well as other gold and silver mines.

These huge riches allowed the empire to develop rapidly.

An Yuan was full of emotion, the empire was able to develop so rapidly.

Now it is the layout of provinces, cities and counties, and it will be stable for a long time in the future.

Twenty days later, An Yuan came into contact with the canal information given to him by the School of Engineering.

"Dean Zhang, this more than 1,000 miles, in fact, it is not very difficult, it is to dig in sections, do not deviate, and the rest is to manage the workers and logistics." An Yuan said to the dean of the College of Engineering.

Dean Zhang nodded and said: "Sectional digging, it is indeed possible to complete the task faster, some counties along the way can give great help, in addition to recruiting long-term workers, in fact, we can also recruit some farmers in the nearby slack time." ”

"These temporary workers, on a daily basis, are paid on the spot, and regardless of food, they are given an extra day's food payment, so that we can not only save costs, but also dig the canal faster."

Dean Zhang's proposal was immediately adopted by An Yuan.

"Very good, you just need to send some students to survey along the way, don't deviate, and the rest will organize people nearby to start digging."

Anyuan and his family plan to arrange a professional construction team to go over if they are far away from the city, and recruit a certain number of temporary workers every day if they are close to the city.

Temporary workers are not very demanding, let them start working, as long as they provide good tools, and pay directly when they are done.

This method is very good, a person only needs a dozen copper coins a day.

Even if they help carry the soil, or dig the soil, it is not difficult at all, and they can do it.

Dean Zhang said again: "Lord An, in fact, Your Majesty has asked us to plan more than this canal. ”

Dean Zhang spread out another map and said, "We have planned a total of four, including canals from Luoyang to the east, and so on. ”

This An Yuan took a look, and there were indeed other canals.

The canal was very important to the empire because it could communicate several major water systems.

"These were all classified before, and Your Majesty was afraid that the people of the world would accuse him, so he didn't dare to publish them, but they were all planned."

"This time, if we have enough experience in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to dig other canals at the lowest cost, Your Majesty will definitely agree."

This Dean Zhang very much wants to dig other canals, and it is open to An Yuan, which is not a leak, and An Yuan is qualified enough to see these materials.

"It's true that the amount of work is huge, but before this canal is opened, it is absolutely impossible to dig other canals at the same time."

An Yuan learned about it, there are too many projects in the empire now, roads and cities, and a batch of constructions, I am afraid that there will be construction sites everywhere in the past three years.

In this case, if you continue to recruit people to dig by hand, the empire will not be able to bear it.

In the south, Zhang Yu also cultivated a large amount of farmland, which still needed to build many canals.

It's all one project after another, and the empire, as powerful as it is, can't do that.

Dean Zhang wanted to build it very much, but he also knew the difficulties of today.

"Lord An, it can't be repaired at the moment, but please pay more attention to the talents, and when this is completed, we will ask Your Majesty for orders to build other projects."

An Yuan nodded, he could see clearly, these canals were very important.

"Dean Zhang can rest assured, but you can go and survey all the lines first, and find out the difficulties, and then they will start digging the difficult sections half a year in advance." An Yuan said.

Dean Zhang and An Yuan began to study, and at this time, An Yuan had a deeper understanding of Zhang Yu's strategy.

He predicts that it will take ten years to dig it all out.

Now that the country is strong, a large number of people can be recruited to dig.

An Yuan said again: "Your Majesty is eloquent, I'm afraid it won't just be satisfying these, in the future, he will definitely build all the roads in the world, I'm afraid you have to prepare in advance and cultivate relevant talents." ”

Dean Zhang laughed, this Zhang Yu didn't say anything about their support.

Zhang Yu directly allocated 10 million to them at the beginning, and it has not been used up yet.

When they do academic research, the most common thing they use is to go out to investigate, buy field equipment, and hire laborers to live in restaurants and eat.

If it is really as An Yuan said, Zhang Yu has to build various roads after repairing the canal, then the amount of work is really very large, and some of them are busy.

The two men identified some options and studied them for a few more days.

After a month of life in the capital, An Yuan already knows his work very well.

This is a new era, and he went to Zhang Yu with confidence and asked to go.

For more than a month, Zhang Yu has gathered fundraising information.

"Yes, thirty-six million, better than expected."

This time, Zhang Yu raised a total of 36 million, which can speed up the construction of the canal.

An Yuan came to find Zhang Yu and came with a map.

"Your Majesty, the minister requests to go and organize the construction of the canal immediately." An Yuan said.

"Well, An Qing's family, you've been back for a month, but you've already adapted to it?" Zhang Yu asked.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your concern, your subordinates have adapted."

Zhang Yu nodded, and then went to prepare the relevant holy decrees and documents.

This time, Zhang Yu assigned An Yuan with 500 guards, and demanded that 50 of them must follow him all the time.

An Yuan is a talent, and digging a canal is not so simple, especially after recruiting hundreds of thousands of people, there is no room for accidents.

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