Li Guang couldn't guess Dou Guangguo's thoughts for a while, but Dou Guangguo refused to tell Li Guang plainly, Liu Heng finally saw that someone was superior to Li Guang, and he wanted Li Guang to be embarrassed, so he immediately ordered Li Guang to come up with a way within three days.

Dou Guangguo's intelligence is indeed higher than Li Guang's, if it weren't for Li Guang's wisdom in later generations, many major events would have been guided by historical materials, even ten Li Guang would be less than one Dou Guangguo. Fortunately, Dou Guangguo pointed out that Bai Deng's tax was the key to a breakthrough at this time, and Li Guang thought in this direction.

Although it is a good thing to select from among the people those who specialize in the aqueducts, it will require a lot of supplements, and it will take a long time, and it will be a considerable expense for the river. Li Guang was upset about this matter, but he refused to bow his head and ask Dou Guangguo for advice, and he was determined to compete with Dou Guangguo in front of Liu Heng.

Li Guang was bored, so he rode around to relax, and Yan Eighteen followed Li Guang's side closely. Li Guang admires Yan Shibai very much, he is brave and wise, and he is thoughtful, and in many things, he seems to be able to stand alone for Li Guang.

"What is the young master bothering today?"

"There is still a way to control the river system, but the follow-up silt clean-up can't come up with a good way for a while."

"What's so difficult about this, the water conservancy fortifications are protracted, why don't you teach the people to specialize in this matter to resist military service."

"I think so too, but there is still something wrong with this, and I am afraid that the people will be resentful of labor every year."

"The people who specialize in water conservancy can be exempted from military service, and the young master will take the treasury grain as a reward, presumably the people will not be resentful."

Yan Eighteen's idea was something that Li Guang had never thought of, but once Yan Eighteen said it, Li Guang immediately understood the beauty of this method.

Later, when Li Guang was in high school, he planted trees in the north for many years to protect the water and soil along the Yellow River and control the wind and sand in the desert north. But there is such a great power, skillfully using the people's hearts, guiding the people to plant trees, and giving financial supplements according to the number of acres. In comparison, the income of farmers from growing grain is far less than that of tree planting. In just five years, the vegetation in the north has been greatly improved, the flooding of the Yellow River has been greatly reduced, the desert of Mobei has been curbed, and the rare waterfowl of the river that were extinct in the past have a habitat again.

The country benefits, the people benefit, the eternal measure of policy. This case just follows suit, how can it not be imagined? Eighteen, eighteen, but on weekdays, I still underestimate three points.

Since Li Guang figured out the relationship between China and China, he immediately rushed to the courtyard where Liu Heng lived temporarily, and was aggrieved for a few days.

"Big brother, I've figured out a way."

"Oh, let's hear it. If you don't have the young man's idea, I will punish you for half a year. ”

"What if it's a good idea?"

"If the idea is good, I will make you a marquis, eat thousands of households, and lead a domain between the rivers."

"Okay, so the little brother will say it carefully, the eldest brother doesn't have to regret it, Uncle Guo is here to be a witness."

Li Guang took out a map of Hejian, and the map carefully marked the location of the major villages, the number of people, the area of cultivated land, and the geographical topography. This was originally a map that Xu Ping had personally marked for many years, and it happened to be borrowed at this time. Liu Heng saw that this picture was marked in detail and knew that it was the handwriting of a person who was good at governance. Li Guang asked Xu Ping to describe the terrain of the river in detail, and Liu Hengdang even kept Xu Ping secretly in his heart, and at the same time appreciated Li Guang's good use of his knowledge.

"The map between the rivers is not complicated, the north is high and the south is low, there is luxury water in the west, and there is black water in the northwest, which flows into the Sancha River. There is the Yellow River in the north again, flows through here from the northwest, turns to the east, passes through the south of the city of three surrenders, turns to the south, and enters Shuozhou in the east, and the land can be 2,000 miles. The river is surrounded on three sides, and the so-called river loop is also. The terrain between the waters is gentle, which is conducive to water conservancy construction, but the loam is delicate and easy to accumulate at the bottom of the canal. If the water is successful, it is really a granary of two thousand miles of the Han Dynasty. ”

"Xu Ping, in your opinion, if it is according to Uncle Guo's idea, where should the canal be opened to divert water?"

"When the Wujia River is opened from the west to the north and south of the plastic square, according to the distribution of villages between the rivers, eight canals will be opened in the north and south to meet the needs of irrigation immediately."

Xu Ping said, holding a piece of coke in one hand, gently drew a sketch of the river system on the map, and after sketching, the whole map looked, it was just a water system in the east-west direction, plus the original Wujia River and the Yellow River, a total of three horizontal water systems, north and south according to the distribution of villages, a total of eight water canals to be opened, vertical and horizontal, completely consistent with Dou Guangguo's concept.

"Righteous brother, I still understand the layout of the water system, but I don't know how the righteous brother should deal with the aftermath of the water system maintenance? This is related to the title of the righteous brother. ”

"There are two hundred and ninety-seven villages of all sizes between the rivers, and seventy-three large villages are distributed on nine newly opened water systems, and the seventy-three villages through which the canals pass are not subject to taxes, military service and other servitude, and the grain is replenished in equal quantities according to the length of the canals, so that the people can be taught to concentrate on repairing the canals and maintain them with peace of mind. First, the court subsidy is exempted, and the second is that the people's livelihood is not worried, and the grain subsidy must be slightly higher than the surplus of the local people in previous years. ”

"What General Li said is also a good way, but exempting taxes and subsidizing grain every year is against the laws of the imperial court, and this case cannot be opened." Zhang Cang, who came later, was accustomed to thinking from the perspective of the imperial court, and felt that although Li Guang's strategy was good, it could not be vigorously promoted after all.

"Zhang Aiqing thought a lot, in the pre-Qin period, the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the pre-Qin foundation for hundreds of years, all because of the policy of benefiting the country and the people, the first emperor, hundreds of thousands of labor, face hundred miles cast ministers to resist the enemy, although it is beneficial to the country, but it hurts the people's livelihood, so the throne is not more than a generation, now the first emperor founded the country, that is, the policy of rest and recuperation, all for the protection of the people's livelihood, I should follow the example of the first emperor Shi Ren Zheng and the world, the river is just a precedent, but the canal repair materials, only seventy-three villages, it is difficult to get together, can call the rest of the people in the river, according to the number of acres, pay the canal tax, It is specially used for the maintenance of inter-river canals. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Liu Heng wholeheartedly supports Li Guang, how dare Zhang Cang speak out again? If you oppose it again, don't you say that the national policy of the first emperor to rest and recuperate is wrong? Although Zhang Cang is old-fashioned, Zhang Cang is not stupid, he says what he should say, and he doesn't say what he shouldn't.

"Does the position of the marquis of that minister still count?"

"What you said is not complete, but it is my finishing words that have allowed your policy to be perfected, the position of marquis cannot be given to you, if he conquers the Mobei alien race for me one day, I will make you a marquis of ten thousand households."

"Since it is not allowed, the minister does not dare to force it, but the minister's salary is not a month to keep up with the previous month, and His Majesty should consider this." Li Guang saw that Liu Heng was cheating, where was he willing to follow, and changed the law to make Liu Heng vomit blood.

"Hejian has gradually become the scale of a county, this is indispensable to your credit, he has more than 100,000 people in Hejian every day, I will seal you the Taishou of Hejian County, are you satisfied? How about you deign to the Hejian Order today, and the officials under your rule can choose their own posts? ”

Although Liu Heng did not give Li Guang the title, he gave Li Guang the greatest power in the entire Hejian, this is Liu Heng's bearing, Zhang Cang is envious, Dou Guangguo is also envious, Hejian is a blueprint to be drawn, Li Guangde can display his ambitions in the Hejian domain, how can people not be envious?

Liu Heng lived in the river for less than a month, and the water conservancy problem between the rivers was properly solved, so Liu Heng did not dare to stay in the river anymore.

"The country benefits, the people benefit, Aiqing, don't forget your ambitions, I am waiting for your good news in Chang'an."