In terms of the flow of the Huai River.

In order to have a water storage effect, the scale of the reservoir lake must be quite large.

To build such a huge reservoir lake, it will inevitably take a lot of time, a lot of manpower and material resources.

But now the flooding in Shannan Province is serious, and the downstream embankment may collapse at any time.

At this time, instead of thinking about how to strengthen the embankment, we went to build some impoundment lake.

Li Anmin really didn't understand what Wu Huanian was planning.

"Your Majesty'......"

Zhou Qi opened his mouth, but Dan Zhi shouted a word and lowered his head.

Li Anmin came back to his senses and turned his head to glance at him.

Seeing that he squirmed and pinched and looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, Li Anmin said: "If you have anything to say, just say it." ”

"Uh, Your Majesty."

Zhou Qi said with a sad face: "The old slave actually doesn't want to talk about this matter. ”

"After all, it is your Majesty's decision to let Wu Huanian relieve the disaster and control the flood."

"But what Wu Huanian is doing now is really unreasonable."

"If he is allowed to continue to do such nonsense, I don't know how many Li people will suffer."

Zhou Qi pondered for a moment and said, "The old slave thinks that Your Majesty should send another messenger over, at least remind him." ”

This is not that Zhou Qi deliberately targeted Wu Huanian.

It's really what Wu Huanian is doing now, and it's a bit beyond common sense.

Even if Li Anmin was ready, Wu Huanian was prepared to cut off his head to calm the people's anger if he could not relieve the disaster and control the water.

But in the end, it will also greatly damage Li Anmin's image among the people.

And as a close servant of the Son of Heaven, he must consider Li Anmin.

Hearing his words, Li Anmin was also silent.

Of course he can think of things that Zhou Qi can think of.

Otherwise, how can you be an emperor?

But Li Anmin also has his own considerations.

"There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need to suspect people."

"Since you use him, you have to believe him."

Li Anmin paused and said, "But it's necessary to remind him." ”

"You go and help me prepare pen and paper."

"I'm going to write the book for him myself."

"No!"

Zhou Qiying is.

After a short time, he put the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone in front of Li Anmin.

Li Anmin waved his hand, held a brush, and danced on the paper.

Wait until it's finished.

Li Anmin picked up the letter paper, dried the ink, and handed it to Zhou Qi: "Let someone send it to Wu Huanian." ”

"Tell him that if the disaster relief and flood control are done properly, I will naturally be rewarded."

"If there is a mistake, then he will wash his neck and wait for death......"

……

Meanwhile.

On the other side of Sannam-do.

Wu Huanian and Shi Hu strolled on the banks of the Huai River.

The water level has risen to a terrible level.

However, Wu Huanian's face did not show any fear, but stood in the shortest place and the highest water level on the riverside.

Wu Huanian looked up at the sky, and the sky was cloudy and sighed.

"Look at this day."

"Three days as fast, half a month as late."

"It's going to be pouring down, and we're going to have to speed things up."

Wu Huanian narrowed his eyes and looked at the east, his eyes were indescribably complicated.

Digging a man-made lake is not a trivial matter, and you can't just find a place to start construction.

One is more long-term, because once this man-made lake is excavated, it will be related to the stability of both sides of the Huai River in the next few decades or even hundreds of years.

The second is the current manpower and material resources.

If you want to dig an artificial beard, you need at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of laborers.

Can you say that in the current situation of Shannan Province, go there to find so many people?

Even if there are so many people, who is going to pay for them?

With the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver given by the imperial court, it would be good to be able to buy enough rice and grain for the victims, where is there enough to open the river?

So Wu Huanian had to come up with a way to get the least cost and the most efficient.

Wu Huanian was silent for a while, then turned his head to look at Shi Hu and asked, "What do you say at home?" Did everything come over? ”

"It's delivered."

Shi Hu replied truthfully: "Now there are all Taizhou County Ya. ”

"That's it."

"Now it's just a matter of finding a place to open the river."

In the past few days, Wu Huanian has inspected many places along the Huai River.

However, because the mountains in Shannan Province far exceed the plains, he has never been able to find a satisfactory excavation site.

Either the low-lying plains are too narrow to be used for the excavation of impoundment lakes.

Either there is some obstacle in the middle, and it is simply impossible to dig a reservoir lake in a short time with contemporary material resources.

With that in mind.

Wu Huanian couldn't help but secretly scold himself for being stupid in his heart.

In my previous life, why didn't I look at the map much?

You must know that the method of controlling the Huai River in his time was to dig a reservoir lake.

But it's too late to say anything now.

Now it's time for a downpour to fall.

If the water of the Huai River cannot be lowered to the safety line, the dams in the lower reaches of the Huai River will be destroyed in an instant.

Seeing that he was silent and did not speak.

Shi Hu squatted on the ground bored, using his fingers to flick the dirt to relieve his boredom.

After a while.

Wu Huanian also came back to his senses, looked down at Shi Hu, and was about to call him to continue to look elsewhere.

But at this glance, Wu Huanian's whole person was stunned on the spot.

Shi Hu drew around on the ground, and actually drew a strip that looked like a centipede.

On the long torso, there are long and narrow legs.

Seeing this, Wu Huanian only felt that a flash of lightning flashed in his mind.

He stepped forward and pulled the stone tiger away, looking down at the centipede.

Shi Hu didn't know why, and his face was full of inexplicability.

But before he could react, Wu Huanian jumped directly to his side and grabbed his neck.

"Genius."

"Stone, you're a genius!"

Wu Huanian hugged Shi Hu's neck and said excitedly: "You are really my brother's lucky star!" ”

Shi Hu blinked and scratched his head.

What's wrong with your eldest brother? How do you look stupid?

"Brother."

"What do you have in mind?"

Shi Hu's personality is like this, if you have anything to say, you don't know how to ask directly.

"I should have thought of it a long time ago."

"In this place of Shannan Road, there are mountains as far as the eye can see."

"It's very difficult to dig a reservoir, and at least in the modern era, there is no way to dig it out quickly."

"But the centipede you drew today reminded your brother that we can't open a reservoir lake, but we can open a reservoir river."

Wu Huanian turned to point to the Huaihe River: "Let's look for those low-lying places on the edge of the Huai River, lay the river, dig up the Huai River, and then divert the water into the low-lying places." ”

"If one can't solve the problem, we'll dig ten."

"If you can't solve it with ten, we'll dig up a hundred."

"As long as the water level in the upper reaches of the Huaishui is controlled, the downstream disaster can be easily solved."

Shi Hu couldn't understand the meaning of Wu Huanian's words.

But he could see from Wu Huanian's face that the eldest brother was excited.

He was also happy for a while: "Brother, then you don't have to die?" ”

"Of course you don't have to die."

"And my brother may be able to make a great name for eternity."

When Wu Huanian said this, he also strode in the direction of the carriage.

"Stone, let's go."

"Let's go back to Taizhou to gather people and start construction immediately!"