Shi Cao Si Shi participated in the military, and was in charge of Liangjin, boats, cars, houses, crafts, etc.

Jingzhao Mansion is Yanjing, and the rank of all officials is one level higher than that of the place, so this official is from the eighth rank.

Of course, this is secondary, the most important thing is that if Li Xi's proposal can really be approved, then this official position will be in charge of rebuilding the Guangtong Canal!

As soon as Li Xi's words fell, Wei Yue stood up again, his face full of excitement, "This, this ......"

He rubbed his hands together, looking so excited that he couldn't speak.

Li Xi smiled and waved his hand again to signal him to sit down, but this time, he didn't sit back honestly, he just looked at Li Xi with wide eyes, his eyes were full of disbelief, as if he suspected that what Li Xi said just now was just a joke.

Li Xi smiled when he saw this, "So, is there no problem with Master Wei?" ”

Wei Yue still looked like he didn't know what to say.

Majoring in Guangtong Canal...... The size of the power is put on this side, this kind of thing, as long as it is done, it can leave a name for eternity! He could never have imagined that such a good thing would fall on him!

In his mind, even if Li Xi revealed the intention of rebuilding the Guangtong Canal, it was estimated that he would be in charge and he would be in charge of the specific affairs - even so, it had already made him excited enough, but now, Li Xi actually wanted to let himself be in charge of this matter, how could this not make him excited inexplicably, lest it be a dream?

Looking at his excited appearance, Li Xi said: "It is not easy to repair the Guangtong Canal, it is necessary to negotiate with the Ministry of Industry, to obtain the support of Jingzhao Mansion, to the nod of His Majesty, to the nod of the political hall, to ask for money, to ask for people, and the line needs to be redesigned, and such a big thing, the cost is huge, countless people will stare at you, eager to pick out a crack from the egg, it can be said that there is no fault in the slightest...... Speaking of which, it's a thankless errand! ”

After a pause, he sighed and said, "Of course, if Your Majesty and the Political Affairs Hall don't agree to this matter, it's just that, if you agree, I'm afraid that it will inevitably be criticized again, and this alone will be enough pressure." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Wei Yue.

Wei Yue's face was full of eagerness, and he didn't even have the intention of making a show, but just said loudly: "But my lord, once this matter is done, the merit will be in the present generation, and the benefit will be in the future!" ”

Seeing that he actually persuaded himself in turn, Li Xi couldn't help but smile and asked, "So, Master Wei, are you really willing to do this?" ”

Wei Yue straightened his chest when he heard this, hugged his fists and said: "My lord, as long as the adult can afford to look down on the lower officials, the lower officials are willing to take on this responsibility!" ”

Speaking of which, Wei Yue stayed in the household department in charge of Cao Yun matters over the years, but he studied these things a lot, and even he himself deduced several times how to rebuild the Guangtong Canal, for which he also went to the Ministry of Industry to find some craftsmen and officials, if it comes to the enthusiasm for rebuilding the Guangtong Canal, he thinks that he is the first person in the dynasty.

And the most important thing is that he is not just an official who can only slap the table and pat his head, over the years, because he is in charge of Cao Yun, he has even studied in depth things that only people from the Ministry of Industry will study, such as the construction of river canals and dams, such as shipbuilding and bridge repair, etc., for this aspect, he can be regarded as most of the experts!

As we all know, to do this kind of engineering thing, the most feared thing is for the layman to guide the insider!

Seeing this, Li Xi smiled, got up and walked over to pat him on the shoulder, and said very sincerely: "Okay, since this is the case, this official will write to Your Majesty tomorrow!" But ......."

After a pause, he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers of the political affairs hall, all of them are handed over to me, no matter what discussions are outside, they will all fall on me, you don't have to worry, and, as long as Your Majesty nods, the ministers of the political affairs hall also agree, presumably the Ministry of Industry is willing to fully support it, and Lord Yin Pei of Jingzhao Mansion will fully support it, so, on it, you won't have any problems, even if someone wants to trouble you, I can take it for you, as for the specific details......"

Wei Yue's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said loudly: "Don't worry, my lord, give Xia Guan a year, if it doesn't work out, Xia Guan is willing to apologize with death!" ”

Hearing him say this, Li Xi knew that he had not seen the wrong person before.

No matter from which point of view, if you want to rebuild the Guangtong Canal, Wei Yue is the most suitable host. It's just that his qualifications, prestige, experience, etc., will indeed be lacking, which will add some difficulties to the already quite difficult proposal to rebuild the Guangtong Canal.

However, he is passionate, serious about what he does, and most importantly, he is willing to give for it.

That's more than enough.

Besides, he was only eighteen years old and was already appointed by Emperor Xuanzong to be in charge of Caoyun such a big mess, isn't it? In contrast, Wei Yuedu has been in the household department for more than ten years, and in terms of experience and ability, it may be overkill for him to rebuild the Guangtong Canal!

Seeing him look so excited, Li Xi thought to himself that no matter what, he would have to rebuild the Guangtong Canal, and besides, he had to put Wei Yue on top no matter what!

Reaching out and patting him on the shoulder, Li Xi smiled at him, "In this case, the front things will be handed over to me, and the back things will be left to you!" ”

Early in the morning of October 25, Li Xi and others left Weinan, this time the Weinan County Order did not shirk it, and personally sent it outside the city, only a day later. The crowd of people who came from Chang'an, including Wei Yue, showed displeasure on their faces.

However, Li Xi handled it indifferently, and even talked and laughed with the Weinan county magistrate, which made him a little arrogant, and the county magistrate who was about to come over to see Li Xi's swollen face was slightly stunned.

And the face of the county lord named more vulgar was even more cloudy, and after Li Xi left, he leaned over and said to the county order: "Although this son is young, he has a good belly!" ”

Seeing Li Xi and the others drifting away, the official flag with the words "Jianghuai Transshipment Envoy" was blurred to the point that it was impossible to see clearly, and the county commander snorted coldly, "The villain is just a villain." ”

Then he mounted his horse and returned to the city.

The county prince pursed his lips disdainfully after he left, beckoned a person to come with him, and whispered a few irrelevant words, only then did he feel a little smoother, but he couldn't help muttering in his heart: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can't help but look down on this Li Xi too much, let me see, it's just a pus, but make a diligent appearance, hum!" ”

On the morning of 26 October, Li Xi and his entourage arrived at Zheng County, the seat of Huazhou's administrative office.

Similar to the treatment in the two counties of Xinfeng and Weinan, although Wei Yue had already greeted the following as the former director of the Ministry of Household and Water Affairs and the current director of the Jianghuai Transfer Envoy Division, but Huazhou Thorn History obviously will not come to greet Li Xi, although Huazhou is Zhongzhou, but Thorn Shi is also a high-ranking official under the fourth grade, Li Xi is an official from the sixth grade, even if it is a Beijing official, he will not put it in his eyes, so when Li Xi and his party are greeted outside the city, only a record of Huazhou participates in the military, and the county order of Zheng County.

But these are irrelevant, Li Xi still looks like a good person, he doesn't care about anything, he just eats, sleeps, sleeps, and other than that, he goes out to inspect.

Look at Weishui, look at the official road, and look at the old road of Guangtong Canal.

Of course, within this, asking Huazhou and Zheng County to provide data records of local labor arranged every year, as well as records of cattle, horses, and vehicles, is naturally one of the tasks of Li Xi and others to come down to inspect this time.

And about this, the local government is very cooperative, and even this time, some information about Zheng County was personally sent by the county magistrate of Zheng County, compared to Xinfeng and Weinan, the two county magistrates of Qi County, his attitude is much lower.

From beginning to end, Li Xi did not say anything, stayed honestly, went out to see the river, came back to see the information, and then, early in the morning of October 28, they left Zheng County and went to Huayin County, which is also under the rule of Huazhou.

After Huayin, you will arrive at Tongguan.

I don't know if it's because of Li Xi's standard of coming to other places to receive as an example, when he arrived in Huayin County, the county magistrate was also enthusiastic on the surface, but in a blink of an eye, he immediately "called himself sick", and they cooperated with all the affairs that Li Xi wanted to inspect, but they only arranged for a county master to deal with it, because the county lord was also just rightly sick.

In this regard, Wei Yue and the others were extremely dissatisfied in their hearts, but Li Xi, the chief officer, put on a smile and disagreed, as an entourage, it was naturally difficult for them to say anything.

It's just that with these cold receptions along the way, those captains who were transferred by Yin Pei Yaoqing of Jingzhao Mansion couldn't help but be a little disappointed in Li Xi.

Originally, I thought that Li Xi, a talented man, would take up a new post immediately, and as soon as he came up, he was directly from Liupin, or directly in charge of a yamen, and he thought that it must be a new official to take office with three fires, and people are like jade horses and dragons, and at worst, they must have the prestige of a Shangguan, but along the way, Li Xi is so low-key that people are depressed, and the local area is obviously cold, and he actually hasn't expressed the slightest displeasure - this makes those who follow them feel discouraged!

Not to mention that Li Xi is a dignified six-rank official, and it is a matter of the chief official Caoyun, even if they are the captains of Jingzhao Mansion, if they are ordered to come down, they will never take these local officials seriously.

Chang'an City at the foot of the Son of Heaven, even if he is just a little lieutenant there, he has his own pride, especially when he comes to the local area to do things, he has to put this arrogance out no matter what.

It doesn't matter what you have six or seven grades, or even if you have five grades...... Lao Tzu is no grade or grade, but Lao Tzu just looks down on you!

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has been such an unwritten saying, except for the land of Chang'an, other places are called "border officials", which means that they are not in the stream, and among the border officials, whether the status is noble or not, the most important reference data is also how far away from Chang'an is the place where you serve - the rules are like this, everyone has unanimously acquiesced for more than a hundred years, being a petty official in Chang'an, that is also called a Beijing official, that is, it is more noble than you being an official in a foreign country!

To put it mildly, don't look at these captains as nothing in Chang'an City, but when they are pulled to the local level, it is estimated that only the local officials at the level of the assassin history have the identity and qualifications to suppress them, and the others are not in the stream!

Therefore, if you talk about it seriously, in fact, in the hearts of these captains who thought that they would definitely act happily when they came out with Li Xi, they were more dissatisfied with Li Xi, the chief official, such as inaction, good surname, easy bullying, etc., than they were dissatisfied with the local officials' simple treatment.

Aware of this emotion, Yang Shenyu and Wei Yue both chose to go to Li Xi at night to vaguely mention a few words, and they don't know if Li Xi understands or not, anyway, he still looks like he doesn't take it to heart, and still goes his own way.

This time, Li Xi's main goal was to inspect the three water and land passages in Jingzhaofu and Huazhou, Weishui, Guangtong Canal, and the official road from Chang'an to Luoyang, and he was not ready to continue to go east for the time being, so after seeing Weishui and Tongguan in Huayin County, as well as the confluence of Weishui and Dahe a little further east, Li Xi stopped his steps and turned back to Huayin County, and then summoned Wei Yue and Yang Shenyu and others to discuss for several days.

The local officials did not take them seriously, although they would still arrange to live in the post house, and there would be no shortage of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but in terms of etiquette and treatment, it was much worse.

In fact, coming along the counties of Xinfeng, Weinan, Zhengxian, and Huayin is the main road from Chang'an all the way to the east, so no matter which county Li Xi settles in, he will definitely meet many officials who come and go, but Li Xi still follows the rule, does not make friends, and does not inquire - almost completely unconcerned.

However, when a group of people stayed in the official post of Huayin County for a few days, they said that they saw the slow treatment of the locality, but those captains finally couldn't help it, and after only one day's work, they had already had two conflicts with the local officials in the official post and even the officials of Huayin County, but fortunately, in the end, Wei Yue came forward to pull things back, and although the local people did not treat Li Xi very well, they also knew that the other party was a Beijing official, plus those captains were also born in Jingzhao Mansion, just the proud momentum on their bodies, They didn't want to provoke people like them, so in the end they didn't cause anything terrible.

However, if the situation continues like this, it seems that this conflict between his retinue and the local officials will gradually become difficult to control.

Because of the hard work in the past few days, Li Xi has vaguely felt that some people have even dared to deliberately scratch in front of him. I found a time to ask Gao Sheng--he often sat and lay down with those captains, and his ability was really compelling, so after a few days of hard work, he had a good friendship with those captains--Gao Sheng only said in the end: "My lord...... It's not like an official from Chang'an! "Nothing else.

In this regard, although Li Xi did not simply laugh at it, he did not express his position or change.

It wasn't until November 4, when Li Xi and the others returned to Weinan County on the way back to Chang'an, that things suddenly took a 180-degree turn!

As early as October 27, when Li Xi and his entourage had just arrived in Zheng County, his letter requesting the rebuilding of the Guangtong Canal to dredge the water had already been sent to the Chang'an Political Affairs Hall, and on the 29th, this letter was in the hands of the two prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, Xiao Song and Han Xiu.

Then, because Emperor Xuanzong had already spoken, Li Xi's recital had to be done specially, so after the two prime ministers saw it, Li Xi's recital was immediately transferred to the household yamen, and in the afternoon of the same day, together with the opinions of the household department after reading the recital, this recital was sent to the Nanxun Hall of Xingqing Palace.

On the morning of the thirtieth, with Emperor Xuanzong's instructions, the political hall immediately discussed the rebuilding of the Guangtong Canal, and this time, even Yang Chongli, the secretary of the Taifu Temple in charge of the national treasury, also went to participate.

Emperor Xuanzong's reply was very simple, just one word, accurate.

And Xiao Song and Han Xiu, who have always had a very stiff relationship, have surprisingly consistent opinions on this matter - in fact, even with Han Xiu's Geng Jie, it will only be shown according to different things, although it is very expensive to rebuild the Guangtong Canal to dredge the Caoyun Passage, but once it is completed, it will naturally have many benefits, as the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, he will not even have this overall view because he wants to save money. And with Xiao Song's cleverness, he would not stand up to the emperor in this kind of thing that Emperor Xuanzong clearly wanted to support.

So in the end, although there were still a few officials, especially a few officials from the household department, who raised considerable objections, this matter, which had been discussed countless times since the founding of the Tang Dynasty but was finally resolved, was decided in one morning.

On November 1, Emperor Xuanzong officially issued an order, which was supervised by the Jianghuai Transit Envoy and the Yamen, with the full assistance of Jingzhao Mansion and Huazhou Prefecture, to rebuild the Guangtong Canal. Moreover, in this holy decree, the rebuilding plan and personnel selection drawn up by Li Xi were all recognized, and they were clearly written on the holy decree.

In the afternoon of the same day, after the sub-signature of the Ministry of Justice, the matter was made known to the world.

On November 4, the holy decree arrived in Huayin County.

Then, not to mention the captains who were in the official post at the time, even the officials of Huayin County were in disbelief after getting the news from the official post.

This guy just came out to inspect it, and the holy decree from above chased him down? Want to rebuild the Guangtong Canal?

As soon as they heard the news at first glance, except for a few insiders such as Wei Yue, no one else was not stunned.

Guangtong canal, can it be said that it will be repaired at that time?

Your Majesty actually agreed?

A few lieutenants who knew something about the situation in Guangtong Canal said the background, and suddenly, everyone looked at Li Xi's gaze, and they were a little inexplicably in awe.

(To be continued)