Seven years of Chu Li.

According to the best expectations, Ganning and the Voyage Navy, which should have returned last year, have not been heard from so far.

Not only Bai Tu and the court, but even the people have repeatedly expressed concern, and ...... Under the guidance of someone with a heart, while worrying, the reaction is also strange.

Although no one dares to directly hold Bai Tu accountable, after all, this rhythm cannot be brought up, and it is easy to be directly tied up and sent to the government, but voices such as "the resignation of the privy envoy" and "the removal of Lu Zhutou" have gradually risen.

After all, the navy is also subordinate to the Privy Council, and half of the Pioneer Army is considered to be the Ministry of Civil Affairs because it has to train many civilian development skills.

Now it is the pot that has lost contact with the navy and is detained on the heads of Lu Bu and Lu Su.

Lu Su even discussed with Bai Tu in private, if necessary, he could "Zhishi" for half a year on the surface, avoid the limelight, and pour out the grievances of the people.

It has been publicized before, the glory and meritorious service of the navy and the desert army, but at this time, the 20,000 navy and tens of thousands of the desert army "said no, they didn't", which naturally caused a civil shock.

To a certain extent, this can be regarded as "the same power and responsibility" - the other princes have never associated the army, in the people with glory or something, naturally even if they are wiped out, only the families of the generals will be restless, and for the Chu State, once there is any major policy and war defeat, the people will feel the same as soon as they hear about it.

Even if this kind of "empathy" sometimes develops in a direction that the imperial court does not want to see, and even sometimes it is used, but it ...... This is still the advantage of the Chu State, even one of the biggest advantages.

Compared with other princes, or compared with the military and political construction of the feudal era, it is undoubtedly a more modern system to effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of the people and make them share honor with the army and the imperial court.

It can not only solidify the morale of the army, but also make the people's hearts truly stable, instead of using the heart of the gentry to represent the people's hearts.

This is also why Gu Yanwu at the end of the Ming Dynasty shouted "The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband", but the mobilization of the people is still very limited, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, the resistance of the people was not fierce - after all, the gentry took the lead in surrendering, and where did the ordinary people manage which court it was, and who to farm the land for was not ......

On the contrary, the recognition of this sentence by later generations is very high!

The real will of the people is not something that can be stimulated by shouting slogans and talking about feelings on a temporary basis, but it must be accumulated over time in ordinary times......

The state of Chu now also has the confidence to shout "the rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible", and it is also the only one who has the confidence, if the war situation is erosive and the city is conquered by other princes, the people of their own flat heads, although they will not all die, but they will still hold the loyalty to the state of Chu and the princes who have the heart to restore Chu.

However, Bai Tu refused Lu Su's resignation - after all, it is obvious that someone has bad intentions now, and there is no need to choose this simplest and crude method.

Instead, a wave of newspapers was arranged to correct the irresponsible statement that "the navy did not return as scheduled......

Soon on the streets of Jinling, people who had read some books began to spontaneously refute the rumors.

"Why Gandudu didn't come back? Don't take it out of context, the two years that the Navy spoke of at the beginning was the 'best case scenario', including not only the personnel, but also the weather, the results of ocean exploration, and so on...... In fact, two to five years is normal, and if there is an unexpected situation, such as the discovery of an important target, it may be even later!

"That's right, it's only been more than two years now, so there's no need to worry too much."

"Huh? It turns out that the Hanshui weir is about to be repaired, and it will be able to do the water storage acceptance this year? ”

"I heard that the Hanshui weir is like a mountain, I don't know if it's true or not......"

"It's cheaper than Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, tsk, I heard that our Chu State was going to build a weir at that time, and they were still not convinced!"

While refuting the rumors, Bai Tu also tried his best to shift the people's attention to the Hanshui Weir that will be completed this year, compared to the navy that has no news, the Hanshui Weir will definitely be completed this year.

The dam part has been filled, the sluice gate has also been ready, and then as long as the guide hole and guide canal that were opened to facilitate the project are filled in, so that the Hanshui can return to its original path and start to store water, the effect can be seen soon.

Purely in terms of the scale of the project, the Hanshui weir is even more than the Dujiangyan, after all, this is a "masterpiece" that still takes four or five years to complete with cement, concrete, and enough steel production to "squander", and after a large number of laborers are levied!

Li Yan is going to carry out the acceptance of water storage during the summer flood season - if the main body of the Hanshui weir and the sub-weirs on several tributaries can still bear and play a role in raising the water level during the summer flood season, it can basically be declared successful.

The state of Chu took this matter as the main civil guidance in the first half of the year......

Anyway, if something goes wrong in this matter and he directly cuts Li Yan, he is not wronged, and judging from Li Yan's report, he is still very confident in the Hanshui Dayan!

In addition, in the past few years, most of the laborers sent by Zhang Lu to assist in repairing the weir have already "believed" in Chuxue at this time, and have no intention of going back.

Originally, some of the Heavenly Master Dao believers who came to find Huang Tianji also switched to Chu Xue, and even ...... Some people voluntarily joined the Ministry of Enlightenment, willing to continue to be a believer in the Heavenly Master Dao, and pretended to return to Hanzhong to resume their lives!

At this time, the construction of the Hanshui weir had been completed, but Huang Tianji was still nowhere to be seen, not only on the Hanzhong side, but also on the Chu State.

Shortly after the New Year's Festival, after Bai Tu received letters from Cao Cao and Liu Bei, he first formulated a further strategy against the Marquis of Shu, and then ...... Lu Bu specially chose a good day to come to Baitu for a drink.

For Lu Bu to come, Bai Tu naturally opened the palace door to welcome, and at the same time ...... Bai Tu also had some doubts in his heart: his father-in-law's invitation this time was very sudden, it seemed that something was going on?

"Is there anything going on with my stepfather lately?" Bai Tu first inquired about Lu Lingqi.

"I didn't find it, my aunt has been in a good mood recently......" Lu Lingqi seemed to be more "familiar" with Diao Chan, and then seemed to remember something, and continued: "That's right! Recently, General Zhang seems to have gone to see his father-in-law a few times, and once I saw that my aunt didn't have a good face for him...... Ahem, it may be that my aunt is uncomfortable. Halfway through Lu Lingqi's speech, she remembered that Bai Tu's "secretary" was still there.

"General Zhang" naturally refers to Zhang Yang......

And Zhang Yang is Zhang Chunhua's uncle after all, and Lu Lingqi is not good at saying anything bad about him, but everyone really knows that Zhang Yang is Lu Bu's "relation".

After Zhang Chunhua heard that the matter of the privy envoy might be related to his uncle, his face did not show any abnormality, and he did not even stop the pen in the secretary, but there were some doubts and ...... in his heart Not a wonderful premonition!