The two of them only talk about the master and servant, regardless of the monarch and the minister, on a February day, around the steaming stove, scalding mutton slices and duck intestines, leisurely and comfortable.

"Zhang Rang, if one day, I am no longer the emperor, would you like to follow me?"

Zhang Rangban sat down at the bottom, serving him hot food, and smiled without raising his head.

"Whether Your Majesty is Your Majesty or not, in the hearts of slaves and maids, it is the same, where you are, slaves and maids are there."

Now that he is no longer deliberately slapping horses, life is impermanent, and when he comes to a field like his, what else can he care about.

is only this master-servant relationship that has been maintained for more than twenty or thirty years.

Liu Zhi smiled, after the baptism of the years, the famous eunuch who was once extremely vicious and was respected as the "middle father" by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty has now been pampered and not frightened, and he is forced to become famous and fortune.

This change is not insignificant, it seems that some people may not be born evil, but Emperor Huan's unlimited favor has inflated his ambition step by step, so that it is out of control in the end.

"Zhang Rang, you...... Have you ever blamed your parents? ”

The pain of his life was basically caused by his eccentric parents, and when he was a child, his family suffered a famine, and his parents chose to sell him to become a eunuch.

But he left his younger brothers and sisters, and later saw that he was developed, and kidnapped him with family affection, forcing him to satisfy his various selfish desires.

His younger brother committed a murder and was beheaded for public display, and even Zhang Rang, who was once in the sky, became nothing, but his parents blamed him for failing to save his younger brother.

In those years in his hometown, he suffered from the scolding and neglect of his parents, but Zhang Rang still supported them in his old age.

"What is hated or not, this is my life, no wonder they are."

Zhang Rang sighed slightly, Liu Zhi felt that he should have hated it too, but this hatred, with the passage of time, has long been gone.

While chatting, the two slowly ate and drank, and gradually the East began to whiten, and Liu Zhi's interest was almost the same.

"Someone is coming, and it is rumored that Chen Yu will meet him in the Zhongde Palace."

Liu Zhi clapped his hands, went to wash up, and went to the study refreshed, and Chen Yu arrived in a short time.

"Gong Chen, I got an idea in a dream last night, you can come and take a look."

Although the two monarchs and ministers don't get along often, they are very close to each other, and they both want to build the country well all the time.

Chen Yu originally heard the words obtained in the dream, but he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, he had never believed in any chaotic and strange things.

When he walked to the front of the case, he was also taken aback when he saw the ditch route marked by Liu Zhi, and the emperor not only drew the whole line on the big map.

There are also a number of small maps, which are supplemented with some important locations in detail, which seems to be clear at a glance.

Bringing water from the edge of Tibet is not unthinkable. But there were mountains and rivers everywhere, and the difficulty of opening a canal was unimaginable, so he only took a cursory look at it at that time and gave up.

However, the route marked by His Majesty was very ingenious, avoiding all the high mountains, and taking advantage of the difference between the two sides, so that the river would flow to the Western Regions on its own.

It only needs to be excavated and guided in some key places, and then the river channel can be dredged, which is dozens of times less difficult than he originally thought.

Although the cost is still very high, it is already feasible, and it is no longer a fantasy.

However, this also made him question, due to the limitations of time and technology, the maps at this time were very simple, and many details could not be marked.

Looking at the original map, the details of the mountains and rivers were not very clear, but the small map added by the emperor clearly marked the direction of the mountains and the location of the canyon.

On this point, in fact, even Liu Zhi himself was an afterthought, and he did not know anything about the situation at the junction of Tibet and the Western Regions.

But in the dream, he can see it clearly, clearly, even after waking up, he can remember it vividly, which makes him feel a little incredible.

Or perhaps, that power is helping this country or the era.

Although judging from the diagram drawn by Liu Zhi, this route is indeed feasible, but after all, the emperor has not visited the scene in person, who can guarantee that the scene in his dream must be true.

After pondering for a long time, Chen Yu finally said, "It looks really good, but it still needs to be tested on the spot, whether there is any deviation." ”

Although he is upright, he was born in poverty, and when he was young, he was unwilling to do so, and he was a civil servant for many years, so he was also proficient in the world.

Therefore, although he did not directly oppose it, he still had reservations, and did not blindly follow it because the other party was the emperor.

"Okay, I'll hand over the drawings to you first, send someone to survey them, and give me an answer as soon as possible."

Chen Yu immediately agreed, and he also wanted to know if there was such a reasonable route.

If there were, it would have almost subverted many of his previous perceptions.

But Liu Zhi himself is very confident in this, after all, what he saw in his dream last night was too real, as if he was there.

Now the biggest problem is only Hunzhou, and in his study, there is a huge map that occupies almost the entire range of the wall.

It was a complete map of the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the territory of the Han Dynasty at this time was not even inferior to the era of Kublai Khan.

To the north was as far as the banks of the Volga River, and to the west were present-day Nepal and Pakistan, as well as parts of India.

To the east, the entire Korean Peninsula is in possession, and to the south, the whole of Southeast Asia, including Australia and New Zealand, is also the territory of the Han Dynasty.

He is indeed proud of the vastness of the territory of a single round, but the larger the area, the more difficult it is to govern.

Since he has been included in the category of the Great Han, he must take responsibility, not to mention how prosperous they are, at least to ensure that they do not starve and freeze.

At present, after years of adjustment, the gap between the rich and the poor is still widening rapidly.

In particular, Tibet and the Far North, which was finally recovered, have been very difficult to develop due to geographical conditions and climate, and so far they can only barely fill their stomachs.

However, the Far North should not be affected by the great drought, and although the climate is extremely cold, water is abundant.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhi's eyes suddenly lit up, if water was diverted into Hun and Liaozhou from the relatively high terrain of the extreme north, theoretically speaking, it would be much easier than diverting water from the Central Plains.

He believed that as long as the drought problem was solved, with the development of heavy industry and the abundance of mineral deposits in the northwest, it would one day catch up.

If you want to explore the topographical and hydrological resources of the Far North, I am afraid that there is a person who can help.

That is his in-law Duan Jiong, the general of Zhenbei, who seven or eight years ago was transferred to the extreme north region with a harsh and bitter cold climate because of his defeat on the expedition.

He hasn't come back for many years, and even his own princess Shang Wuyang, he just came all the way to send some gifts.