After the court, Li Heng walked around the Taiye Pool, and the kites in the hands of the emperors and grandsons by the pool floated in the sky. The emperor was in a very good mood and sat in the pavilion looking up and admiring. Li Fuguo walked up to him and said suspiciously: "I smelled the smell of wine on Li Siye's body before going to court today, and I walked when I went down to court. Although he survived by self-inflicted devotion, he also fell too completely, right? ”

"After half a lifetime of hard work, I suddenly fell into the gentle township, how can I not indulge in it." Li Heng smiled indifferently. There is such a living example around him, if the old emperor was not obsessed with beauty, would he be able to fall to the point where he is today?

"Now that the Xiangzhou War is imminent, the court cannot relax its vigilance both inside and outside, and the people who sent the 'Inspector's Office' are mostly placed around the Jiujiedu envoys, as well as their homes, to secretly check their correspondence. Prime Minister Xiao Hua also had to check privately to see if he had any improper dealings with Guo Ziyi. But don't let them find out, or you'll be chilled. ”

Li Fuguo snorted, and then said hesitantly: "If you continue to send it like this, I'm afraid there will be insufficient manpower."

"Then remove the people in Li Siye's mansion, there is no need to waste energy with him."

"Okay, the slave will send someone to do it."

……

On the way home, Li Siye rode a horse and staggered half-squinted, and saw a blind old man squatting under the wall of Dongshifang, basking in the sun with his hands in his sleeves, and the banner beside him was written with Yin and Yang diagrams.

He suddenly had a feeling, turned over and dismounted, squatted in front of Lao Dao and asked, "Can it be considered a blessing or a curse?"

Lao Dao was very indifferent to the guests, shook his head and said, "I can only interpret dreams and interpret diagrams."

"Then give me a dream."

"Please come along."

"I dreamed yesterday that I was immersed in the sea and became a fish, and there were schools of fish chasing back and forth, and two of the big fish were fighting, but they had enough to eat the small fish before they had the strength to fight. If I want to stop these two big fish, but I don't want to increase my strength by eating small fish, I don't know if you heard clearly?"

Lao Dao said unceremoniously: "Then your fish is a small fish that is eaten, isn't it nonsense to stop any big fish?"

Li Siye took a deep breath: "You're right."

"Heaven and earth are not benevolent, all things are used as dogs, there is never anything in the world that is not damaged and made up, meanness may not be saints, empty shouting benevolence and righteousness is not necessarily the avenue, saving people and killing people is only different moods. Fifty dollars for dream interpretation, take it. ”

"Thank you." Li Siye took out the money from his arms and threw it into the bowl in front of the blind old man.

He returned to the mansion and began to ponder countermeasures, the imperial court Nine Route Army attacked Xiangzhou, let the eunuch be the commander-in-chief, this battle will be a fiasco sooner or later, his Hexi, Beiting, and Anxi armies cannot be lost by these people in vain, they must be dragged out of the battlefield.

Although Li Heng's vigilance has relaxed a lot, he is still under guard, and it should be impossible to send him to Luoyang.

Chang'an tycoons Michagan and Cao Anding came to the palace, each of them carried a fighting and threw it into the cockfighting arena to let them peck each other, and the three squatted together while shouting cheers and discussing things.

"Peck it! Yu Chaoen is now hot in Chang'an, and even the ministers of the clan have to hand over the prayer stickers when they come to the door, why don't the lords start from him?"

"How? Now the emperor and Li Fuguo are staring at me. Li Siye pondered carefully and said: "Now he is the largest in the world when he comes out of Tongguan, and there must be a large number of staff around him, if I bribe him to go to Luoyang, I will inevitably go through the emperor and Li Fuguo in the end."

"There it is." Cao Anding said in a low voice: "I heard that the canal from Luoyang to Suiyang has been silted up recently, and Jianghuai's grain, grass and rent cannot be mobilized, I can bribe Yu Chaoen for the lord and ask him to recommend you in front of the saint to be the Luoyang rent and yong, this position cannot contact the army, and it will definitely not be suspected by them."

"Even if you reach Luoyang, you can't enter the Hexi Army, and it's even more useless."

"When the time comes, I will find a way, and the dignified captain will be responsible for dredging as a rent transferee? I'm afraid this reason is not convincing. But if Yu Chaoen can raise the problem of dredging in the court, I will recommend myself to His Majesty Mao Sui to take charge of this dredging position. I don't believe that after eighteen turns, they can still guess my true purpose. ”

"That's it, please."

……

Yu Chaoen stood high on the pavilion, Cao An stood below with his head tilted and smiled and crossed his hands, this proud eunuch general didn't even glance down the corner of his eye.

"Your Taiwei and I have an old favor, and I am worried that I have no chance to repay it, and now His Majesty and the Duke of Yu Guo are jealous of his high merits, if I am asked to recommend him to Luoyang, it will definitely not work, but it is still no problem to mention the matter of the river in the court."

"Thank you so much, Father-in-law Yu."

On the second day of the court, Guan Junrong comforted Yu Chaoen to stand at the forefront of the court, and his rank surpassed that of Prime Minister Xiao Hua and second only to Li Siye.

After going to the court, the emperor saw that Li Siye's lips were purple, as if he had had a stroke, and casually instructed two sentences, and then opened his mouth to ask Yu Chaoen about the preparations for the grain and grass of the crusade army.

Yu Chaoen stepped forward and said a few words, and quickly changed the topic: "The bottom of the Luoyang to Suiyang section of the Grand Canal is seriously silted, and it is difficult for ships to pass, so the supply of money and grain is not good."

Li Heng asked in annoyance: "What about the Luoyang rent envoy?" What about the Luoyang Cao Yun Envoy? What do these people eat? There is no solution?"

Li Siye held the tooth wat and looked left and right to see that no one answered, so he took the initiative to step forward, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the traditional method of river dredging is only to use waterwheels, pickaxes and other tools to stir and muddy the sediment in the riverbed, which is conducive to the impact of the water flow so that the sediment flows downstream. There are several sets of methods for cleaning up sedimentation, one is the comprehensive treatment method, the second is the cofferdam dredging method, and the third is the blasting and dredging method, which is to use the height of the river bank to raise the river level, connect the rest of the high-water level rivers nearby, install sluices to increase the flow and so on......"

"Alright, alright!" Li Heng waved his hand and said, "Don't tell me about these trivial things, I only ask you, will you still desilt?" How long will it take to clean up the river?"

"If there are enough manpower, one or two months is enough, and the minister is willing to share His Majesty's worries and go to Luoyang to clean up the river."

The emperor asked suspiciously: "In the past few months, you have always been a cloud of people and have no insight into the government and politics. How can you be active today and take the initiative to make suggestions?"

"Your Majesty, because the dredging of this river is not a government office, this is a technical job, although the minister has no insight into the government and politics, but this technical work is still very willing to study and be proficient."

Li Heng and Li Fuguo glanced at each other, nodded and said, "In this case, I will order you to temporarily serve as the envoy of the Tokyo Gicao Transport, recruit the people to be in charge of the river dredging project, and set off with Yu Chaoen on a certain day."

"Oh," Li Siye crossed his hands again and said, "The minister dares to ask, can you bring your family there?"

Li Heng raised his eyebrows: "You still want to bring your family?"

"Minister, the minister only asks to take Du Jiuniang alone."

Behind him came the low snickering of the ministers.

Li Hengshu stretched his brows and smiled: "You can bear with it, no one will rob you if you leave her in Chang'an Mansion, and you can't miss the important affairs of the court because of beauty." Retreat! “

After retreating from the court, Yu Chaoen immediately went to see Li Heng, the emperor sat on the couch in the study in the palace, Li Fuguo bowed and stood aside, Yu Chaoen bent his waist lower and asked: "The slave maid went to Luoyang this time to lead the army to attack Xiangzhou, and came to listen to the holy teachings." ”

Li Heng leaned back slightly and said: "The army is thousands of miles away, and I can't expect what is ahead, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi have the style of generals, listen to the opinions of the two of them in case of trouble, but you must also have your own opinions, don't be led by their noses." In addition, no matter what happens, don't let Li Siye take charge of the army, and leave him to clear the rear. ”

"Oh, slave and maid obey."