Li Yuanai went north to return to Luoshui to investigate the situation.

It is not easy to accomplish a major event that has been accomplished for hundreds of thousands of years.

This is especially true when diverting a river.

The Bian River is the key core of the canal transportation, but the Bian River is not suitable for building dams. Li Yuanai felt the truth when he first arrived in Bianzhou.

Bianzhou is the core of the four-way grain transport. Whether it goes north, south, or eastward, or westward, like Jingxiang, all pass through the Bian River.

The existence of the dam will affect these ships that can travel to and from the Bian River without flood discharge, which is not worth the loss.

Li Yuanai still saw this clearly. At least before the emergence of the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, no one could shake the status of the Bianzhou canal.

Regarding the Grand Canal of Beijing-Hangzhou, Li Yuanai also believes that it will definitely appear in the future.

There is something called the inevitability of history. Even if one changes history, such great achievements that will last forever will still appear in the world. The way it appears will be different.

Therefore, it is imperative to lead Luo into Bian.

The only thing I worry about is that the road to Instinu is difficult to walk, and the manpower, financial and material resources that require consuming are not supported by the Tang Dynasty.

It is not a clever choice to harm the present and bring huge damage to contemporary people for the sake of the so-called achievements of the future.

However, Li Yuanai had already made up his mind that even if this road was not easy to go, he would have to continue for the future. It only took a little longer, ten or twenty years, and there would be a day of success.

He had this idea because he had a pessimistic attitude in his heart from the beginning.

It is not my turn to bring Luo to Bian, a matter of one sentence is really so simple.

There is never a shortage of smart people in this world, but what is lacking is a fool like Yugong who dares to go against the trend.

Li Yuanai felt that she was this idiot at this moment.

Qilipu Village.

Li Yuanai, Yan Liben, Luo Tong and his group of more than ten people rushed into the village soup restaurant in a small village at the junction of Luoshui and the Yellow River.

Drinking tea in the Zhenguan Dynasty was not popular yet, and most of the tea was used as medicinal materials.

There is naturally no teahouse in the streets and alleys, and it is replaced by soup restaurants.

Soup means hot water, and literal meaning.

In general soup restaurants, there is enough hot water, and the soup depends on the size of the store.

The soup restaurant in the village where they are located is for pedestrians to drink water and rest.

The hot water pipe is enough, and the soup is only some vegetable soup.

Li Yuanai glanced at the sign and said, "Cook more locust leaf soup for us, and then twenty more Hu cakes. Hurry up, we have to hurry up."

The shopkeeper was an old man and shouted, "Muwazi, move carefully, don't let the customers wait in a hurry."

Their small village shop usually costs passers-by.

So many guests flocked to him all at once. The old man smiled and came up enthusiastically and wiped the table several times. He couldn't stop talking. He asked, "Where are the guests? You are not a businessman with a foot. I'm sharp-eyed, and you can tell at a glance that you are rich and powerful people."

Li Yuanai smiled and said, "The old man is amazing. We are here to see the mountains and rivers. When we are tired along the way, we will take a break in your store."

It was too troublesome and too annoying to bring people with a hundred people, so they were divided into several ways and investigated in various ways.

The old man was hospitality and was still a chattering man, so he couldn't control his mouth and enthusiastically introduced him to the fun places around him.

Li Yuanai didn't think he was long-winded and listened patiently.

It was not until the old man's son presented the soup and cakes, and saw his father talking, that he grabbed him.

Seeing this, Li Yuanai smiled, missing her father a little, so she picked up the bowl and drank the soup.

Sophora leaf soup, which is called soup, is at best when the locust leaves are boiled, and some salt is added to taste a little.

But it is a little better than drinking boiled water.

Bitering sesame cakes and drinking locust leaf soup, Li Yuanai said: "Let's go to the vicinity of Dali Mountain later, and let's go to Guangwu Mountain tomorrow."

Yan Liben said: "There is no need to go to Guangwu Mountain. I have lived there for more than a month. The soil there is mostly loess and yellow clay. Most of them are sand accumulated through tributaries of the Yellow River. They are easily damaged, collapsed and landslide. From the excavation there, it is easy to bring mud and sand into the Bian River, which has the opposite effect."

After hearing this, Li Yuanai nodded. He didn't say anything else. He still firmly believed in Yan Liben's judgment.

The old man shouted, feeling uncomfortable in his heart, his ears kept standing up. When he heard Yan Liben say this, he couldn't help saying, "You can go to Gubailing to have a look, where can you do it!"

Li Yuanai felt aroused in her heart and asked, "Brother-in-law, do you know what we will say?"

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I have heard similar things about this young man. A young man who is almost the same as this young man, just half a year ago, drank soup and cakes in my shop every few days. Later, he stayed at the village master's house for a while. He was in our small shop, saying something in Guangwu Mountain and the mud. I can't understand it, and I can't remember it very clearly."

Li Yuanai asked again: "Where is Gubailing and why?"

The old man said, "That evening, I was very happy when I was born in my shop. I couldn't help asking him why. He said God blessed me. The earth dragon in Gubailing turned over and broke out a crack. I don't know how happy he was. The earth dragon turned over, how terrible it was. I still remember that several houses in the village collapsed at that time, and we were so scared that we worshipped the Bodhisattva Three Pure Land Ancestors for one night."

Li Yuanai naturally knew that the so-called earth dragon turning over was an earthquake. The earthquake caused a crack to break out?

Li Yuanai and Yan Liben looked at each other.

Li Yuanai hurriedly asked, "Where is my father-in-law Gubailing?"

The old man pointed southeast and said, "It's right there, about ten miles."

Li Yuanai asked again: "Do you know where the younger generation lives? Whose surname is?"

The old man shook his head and said, "Mengzheng must know that our village is small and there is no inn. So the young man stayed at the village master's house for more than ten days."

"Let's go, let's go to the village master's house to take a look!" Li Yuanai didn't care about eating, so he got up and asked about the address of the village master's house.

Following the direction pointed by the old man, Li Yuanai found the village headquarters of Qilipu Village.

Mun Zheng was still a little wary of Li Yuanai's inquiry.

Li Yuanai directly revealed his identity.

When the village heard that it was the King of Shang of the Tang Dynasty, he immediately lost his doubts and said: "That man was named Jiang Zhiming, a descendant of Jiang Jing, a former member of the Ministry of Works of the previous dynasty. He wanted to clear his father's name and was always studying the canal matter."

Jiang Zhiming had lived in his house before and had a certain understanding of each other.

Li Yuanai didn't know who Jiang Jing was.

Yan Liben heard it and said, "The Jiang family has been studying water control for generations and has made great achievements in this regard."

Li Yuanai suddenly remembered someone, Jiang Shidu, a water control expert who was as famous as Li Bing, Ximen Bao, Wang Jing and Wang Jing.

He didn't remember that Jiang Shidu was a celebrity from the Tang Dynasty, but after Yan Liben said this, the Jiang family might be the Jiang family.

Li Yuanai asked about Jiang Zhiming's place.

Muramamasa said: "Before Jiang Zhiming left, he said he would go to Bianzhou to find his old friend Lawyer Pei, but there will be no news since then."
Chapter completed!