Everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as you build a good foundation, the sea-shaking embankment in the form of fish scales is half successful.

Because the designed sea-shaking embankment is like a terrace, it is repaired layer by layer, just two or three layers, plus the assistance of sandbags, is enough to cope with all the following tides.

Then as long as the original foundation is raised layer by layer, there is no need to care about the tide of the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, you can be able to work with confidence and boldness.

The people of Hangzhou have been suffering from the Qiantang Tide for a long time. In the past, officials in history have all supported them. They failed again and again, smoothed out their hopes and began to accept their fate. Just like when they got Stockholm syndrome, they were afraid and even made up a set of dramas about Wu Zixu turning into a tide god, and worshiping and offering sacrifices to the false gods.

You should know that Wu Zixu died on the fifth day of the fifth month. Although he sank the Qiantang River, it was the upper reaches of the Qiantang River. Moreover, the reason for the formation of the Qiantang tide is that sea water flows back, not the return of the river water, and the two cannot be combined at all.

Now that Li Yuan'ai has successfully shot the tide, and the effect of shaking the sea embankment has begun to show, every family in Hangzhou is happy and will support the corvee service on the construction site without any defeat.

Every day, local gentry and people spontaneously send clean drinking water and food within their capacity to the construction site.

Faced with this general trend, the Shaking Sea Elevator was formed little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye, much earlier than expected.

Seeing this, Li Yuanai arranged labor and asked for leave to go home to farm in batches.

Even so, they were officially completed in mid-June of the following year, one month earlier than expected at the end of July.

Li Yuanai also had to sigh: "The people's hearts are available!"

On the day of completion, Li Yuanai arranged fragrant white rice for all laborers, and it was fragrant rice from Zhenla Kingdom.

Due to the environmental terrain of Zhenla, the rice they produce is fuller than that of China and will taste better.

People usually eat brown rice, so where have they ever eaten big white rice?

When paired with meat food such as chicken, duck, pork, etc., everyone eats it with relish.

After rewarding the labor service, Li Yuanai also made a request to dig West Lake.

"I originally planned to give you some rest time, but it's still two months before the autumn harvest season. I believe that at that time, you are all thinking about your own grain harvest and have no intention of working. So, taking advantage of this momentum to dig up the silt of the West Lake. The West Lake has been blocked for a long time, and there are many mud in the lake, and there are many eels and loaches. You can collect them when you are digging the ground, so that you can sell them together. How about the money you get? "

According to the original plan, they had to work until the autumn harvest.

Now the construction is completed early, and I am idle when I get home. Now I eat the white rice specially prepared for them by Li Yuanai, and I still have some hope of income, so there is nothing to say.

Just one word "do" is done.

Compared with the sea-shaking embankment, it is much easier to open the river and clear the dike of West Lake.

Li Yuanai directly imitated Su Shi at that time, digging silt while piled up silt to form a dike for people to walk.

There is no reason why West Lake in Hangzhou can become a symbol of Hangzhou. West Lake is surrounded by mountains on the south, west and north, adjacent to the urban area in the east, and adjacent to Qiantang River in the south. There are three islands in the lake. The West Lake mountains are centered on West Lake and can be divided into four levels from near to far, forming a landform landscape with overlapping mountains.

It is just because West Lake is blocked, it has become a muddy landslide lake, resulting in harsh environment and blocked roads.

But as long as you clear the silt and unblock the West Lake, you will instantly revitalize the scenery around West Lake in Hangzhou as a painting.

Especially West Lake is close to the urban area and is very popular, and the development of West Lake will be changing with each passing day.

Li Yuanai fully believes that as long as the Qiantang Chao problem is solved, Hangzhou can leap forward with the geographical advantages of West Lake and become the beautiful pearl of Jiangnan.

When Li Yuanai was governing Hangzhou, Li Zhi from the capital was busy with various natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Li Zhi was an ill-fated emperor.

Before he ascended the throne, there was an earthquake in Jinyang, Hedong. More than 5,000 people were killed by the collapse of houses, and tens of thousands of injured people.

After ascending the throne, Jinyang suffered another aftershock...

Li Zhi did not dare to slack off and hurriedly sent disaster relief personnel to the disaster area to rescue and comfort the disaster area. He also specially ordered that the disaster area be exempted from two years of taxes, and each family of the victims would be given certain compensation.

His handling method was not a problem, but he couldn't hold back the frequent occurrence of earthquakes.

Three months after the last earthquake, Jinyang earthquakes again.

Half a year later, the Jinyang earthquake came again...

Before and after Li Zhi ascended the throne, four earthquakes occurred in Jinyang.

Before Li Zhi ascended the throne, he happened to be named King of Jin.

This natural disaster was a coincidence, but in this feudal society, any natural disaster could be said to be the emperor's virtue. In this place where Li Zhi was granted, he encountered earthquakes every now and then, and Li Zhi's prestige was turbulent, which was inevitable.

Not only that, after the Jinyang earthquake, Henan also suffered floods, Shandong collapsed, and small locust plagues occurred in Huainan...

In short, only two years after Li Zhi ascended the throne, natural disasters of all sizes occurred everywhere in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Zhi had no time to worry about it, and he devoted all his thoughts to appease the people, and the affairs of the temple seemed to be useless.

Tai Chi Palace!

Li Zhi rubbed his slightly painful brain Ren and his eyes moved on Liu Rengui and Xu Jingzong.

Xu Jingzong and Liu Rengui, one of them was a confidant who promoted him, took a lot of blame for him.

The other one is a minister trained by Li Yuanai, but his talent and skill are very rare and can be called a loyal minister.

Today, the two started arguing unexpectedly.

The source of the debate was a man, Yuan Gongyu, the governor of Suzhou.

Xu Jingzong recommended Yuan Gongyu, saying that Yuan Gongyu had achieved remarkable achievements in governing Suzhou and his economy made great progress.

However, Liu Rengui impeached Yuan Gongyu to waste water resources randomly, use the convenience of the canal to make profits for Suzhou, with short-sighted vision and seizing the day.

The two started arguing at Yuan Gongyu.

"Your Majesty, the King of Wu once said in a chat with me that man and the natural environment are interdependent. Since ancient times, water has gone to low places, and thousands of rivers have finally returned to the sea. However, in order to survive, countless rivers have forcibly violated the principles of nature. This has caused countless rivers to change their courses. Such actions will harm the natural harmony of the sky. However, because the benefits are imperative and irreversible, the Grand Canal will appear. Therefore, the towns along the canal must maintain the smooth operation of the canal. If you do it wantonly, you will be punished by heaven. Because of this, when the King of Wu built a water reduction gate for the Grand Canal, he specially ordered local officials not to open the water reduction gate arbitrarily to avoid wasting water resources. Except for the exception of military food, the rest will be limited to three days to open the water reduction gate, and the water reduction gate will be supplied to merchant ships and cargo ships."

"As far as I know, Yuan Gongyu, for his own interests, ignored this order and as long as the passing merchant ships pay full fees, they can open the gates for it anytime and anywhere. This behavior has been maintained for many years."
Chapter completed!