All the way silently, to the imperial study, Emperor Xuanhe was very busy, the drought over there in Anxuancheng is related to the collection of grain in various places next year, and it is not allowed to be sloppy.

Fu came in and reported: "Your Majesty, Lin Daran is gone." ”

"Let him in." After being busy for half a while, Emperor Xuanhe felt that his throat was smoking, and he drank two cups of tea violently, and Lin Yuzhao came in from outside: "Weichen see the emperor." ”

"Get up, I came to you for the sake of An Xuancheng, An Xuancheng has not rained for many days, if it continues to develop like this, I am afraid that there will be no grain harvest this year, and how much grain is still stored in the household department, if An Xuancheng really has no food this year, it will be enough for the people everywhere." Because of this, Emperor Xuanhe's hair turned white several times.

"Your Majesty, now the household has enough grain in stock, but it is not enough to support our entire Jiang country for a year." In previous years, the grain collected by An Xuancheng accounted for seventy percent of the entire Jiang country, and if there was no seventy percent, the people of Jiang would definitely go hungry.

"Chaoshang has been making trouble for several days for the drought in Anxuancheng, and there is no good way, Aiqing, you have a good plan." The water that had been transported before had already bottomed out.

Lin Yuzhao also thinks about this all day long, he is in a high position in the household department, the drought in Anxuancheng is closely related to the household, others can stay out of the matter, he must not be able to: "Back to the emperor, Weichen thinks that the top priority at the moment is to send someone to dig a ditch to divert water, although this is a stupid method, but it is better than letting Anxuancheng's grain die of drought." ”

"Dig a ditch to divert water, but even if the ditch closest to Anxuancheng is diverted water, it will not be completed in a month or two, and when the ditch is dug out, the grain will die of drought." Emperor Xuanhe had been to Anxuancheng and knew how vast the area of Anxuancheng was, and in the endless rice fields, all of them needed rainwater irrigation.

"But if the emperor doesn't do this, Anxuancheng will have no way to survive in such a drought, we can send someone to dig a ditch between the two cities, and then let the people of Anxuancheng dig the fork in the city, so that you can also save some manpower, today's grain collection will definitely be affected, it is better for the emperor to decree that the people of Anxuancheng can reduce the amount of grain handed over by each household this year, and every year Anxuancheng collects eight parts of the grain to various places, and the remaining two percent go to the treasury, it is better to only collect forty percent of previous years this year, This year, the state treasury will not leave any surplus grain, and the remaining 40 percent will be taken out from the state treasury and distributed to various localities, which will also relieve the pressure on the state treasury and even more relieve the pressure on the bone treasury. ”

Lin Yuzhao thought about it for several days, and reluctantly came up with this method, Anxuancheng has been in a great drought, and it is inevitable that the people will not be able to pay the levy, if they only let them communicate with forty percent of the year, no one will be unwilling, after all, some of these grains are also given by the imperial court, and now they can earn less silver to survive the drought, and they can still make a comeback next year.

Emperor Xuanhe took out the map and studied it carefully, Anxuancheng was in a great drought, and there was no rain in three or four surrounding cities, if you want to divert water, you can only divert water from Qingzhou, which is four hundred kilometers away, this is still the closest distance, such a big project, it is difficult.

Emperor Xuanhe rubbed his eyebrows: "It can only be like this, there is no better way." "Such a long ditch requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and not only that, but it is not so easy to prevent someone from breaking it.

Lin Yuzhao and Emperor Xuanhe discussed for a long time in the imperial study, and finally decided to divert water from two roads, one in the south of Anxuan City, and the other in the north of Anxuan City, and the two roads were built at the same time, and at least 50,000 horses were used.