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Chapter 881
All the way to Chang'an Prince Qin's Mansion, Guo Hongjing was actually determined not to betray, and was ready to be imprisoned or exiled.

He didn't escape, and he was lucky, thinking that Li Xia might be able to let him go for the face of the Zhang family.In the future, he will no longer be trusted by the court, so he will just resign and return to his hometown.

After waiting outside the lobby for a while, Dong Wenyong whispered a few words to the attendants of Prince Qin's residence, and then let them in.

I haven't seen more details yet, but Guo Hongjing noticed that the threshold of the lobby has been trampled to only half of its original height, and the floor tiles behind have also been trampled, shaking slightly.

Li Xia is indeed poor... This is the first impression.

After entering the lobby, they heard discussions.

"So, after calculation, the cost of each mile of canals is 280 and five guan, and 320 seven mile canals cost a total of 460 guan..."

"This is just the cost of rebuilding the Zhengguo Canal, and there is also the water diversion and trenching of Chang'an City..."

Guo Hongjing only saw a group of people pointing around a few large blueprints, and for a moment he didn't care to see who Li Xia was, so he only clicked his tongue that Guanzhong could spend so much money for water conservancy repairs.

He listened in a daze, while Dong Wenyong had already stepped forward to whisper a few words with one of the young men, and then came back again.

"Wufang, you go and have a look."

"I?"

"It's not about whether you surrender or not, it's for the benefit of the people in Guanzhong, isn't it? You have forgotten your brother's way of life?"

Guo Hongjing had been interested in the blueprint for a long time, so he walked a few steps cautiously, and stopped at a place where he could see clearly.

The officials around him ignored him and were still pointing and talking.

"If this is the case, irrigating more than [-] hectares of land for two years in three years is enough to make Guanzhong prosperous and strong."

"I vaguely understand the king's intention. Making paper money will increase the yield per mu. If you count it, the cost is worth it..."

Guo Hongjing was not interested in the expense, but his eyes fell on the mouth of the Yinjing Canal, and he couldn't help asking: "Do you want to excavate the Da and Xiaolong Mountains? The stone here is hard, and I'm afraid it won't work in three to five years." Are you there?"

A middle-aged official turned his head, looked Guo Hongjing up and down, and didn't ask who he was, only said: "Since you dare to propose this plan, you must have a way to do it."

Guo Hongjing was quite curious, but he didn't dare to ask further questions. He pointed to the other two blueprints and said, "Since the Longshou Canal, Yong'an Canal, and Qingming Canal have been rebuilt, why not dig the Zaohe River to join the Longshou Canal in the west of the city, so as to Improve water quality in the city?"

"Oh? You know the water system in Guanzhong very well?"

"These are old canals, they can be checked."

Although Guo Hongjing has never been to Guanzhong, he is very familiar with the affairs of all roads, rivers and canals.

"Since it is going to be built, why not build the Cao Canal as well? The Cao Canal starts at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains and receives additional water sources from the Bahe River, the Chan River, and the Fian River along the way. It can irrigate the downstream farmland and supply water to Chang'an, and more than [-] miles of rivers and canals can be used for water transportation, which will cut the water transportation time from Tongguan to Chang'an by half..."

After the discussion started, Guo Hongjing once forgot that he was in an enemy situation.

He even got into an argument with a young man.

It wasn't until he suddenly caught a glimpse of the other party wearing what seemed to be the prince's uniform, and Guo Hongjing took a closer look, that he suddenly realized that the young man was Li Xia.

At this moment, he felt a little absurd. A captive who had just been brought back was brought to the meeting hall to discuss government affairs with the enemy.

On the other hand, this kind of meeting makes people faintly feel like the kind of unofficial history story of a wise king and a virtuous minister.

However, in the end it cannot be betrayed.

Fortunately, Li Xia didn't ask him to defect, and only left him to chat for a few more words after discussing the matter. He didn't force him at all, but asked at the end: "Since we're here, how about going to Yinjing Qukou to see?"

Guo Hongjing was curious about this matter at first, but he was stunned when he heard the words, he wanted to go but felt that it was inappropriate to agree to it like this, after thinking about it, he replied: "As a prisoner, we can do as we please."

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Said to be a prisoner, Guo Hongjing did not feel unfree after arriving in Chang'an.

Yu Dechen took care of him every day, but did not restrict his travel at all.

And he doesn't have many other places he wants to go, he often likes to go to the Longshou Canal outside the city to watch the progress of the canal repair.Occasionally speak your mind.

Although he has just arrived, he seems to be quite used to Chang'an.

Keeping integrity?Or do more for the people?How to choose is becoming more and more confused...

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Two days later, Li Xia went to Jingyang County to inspect the mouth of Yinjing Qu.Guo Hongjing also followed in the team.

He couldn't tell who he was.He was said to be a prisoner, but in fact no one underestimated him; he was said to be the brother-in-law of the King of Qin, but in fact he had not married the second sister of the Zhang family.

If it must be said, Guo Hongjing found that people in Guanzhong treated him as a "water conservancy master" and often called him "Mr."

This attitude is very sincere, because Guanzhong really lacks people who understand water conservancy like him.

The team arrived at Sanyuan County on the first day... The next day, Li Xia killed someone.

At that time, a public trial was held in the lobby of the Sanyuan County Government, and the people of the whole county were allowed to watch.

But the presiding judge was not Li Xia. Li Xia just sat in the back of the courtroom and listened in silence from the beginning to the end.

On the contrary, Guo Hongjing was lucky enough to watch the whole interrogation with Yu Dechen.

It was a case of corruption of ink. The magistrate of Sanyuan County and his officials embezzled 28 yuan of funds for repairing the canal.

In fact, it is very boring. Most of the time, the officials of the Integrity and Visiting Department questioned the officials, the officials of the Mokan Institute calculated their calculations, and the Public Opinion Department escorted offenders one by one.

In the end, the evidence was conclusive, and the principal culprit was beheaded for public display as an example to others.

It was such a rare and common case, but Guo Hongjing thought about it, and suddenly found that the Great Mongol Kingdom or the Yuan Dynasty never punished corrupt officials.

For example, Ahema is greedy for Ruosi, but his behavior is called "financial management".

Is this made in Chinese?
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"Due to spending 13 more canal repair funds in the past two days, King Qin and the princes discussed for a whole day and still felt embarrassed. This corrupt official has more than doubled the canal repair funds."

"He thought he was doing it flawlessly, but he didn't know that the Department of Integrity and Intervention had already set his sights on him."

"I just hope that there are no such corrupt officials elsewhere..."

On the way from Sanyuan County to Jingyang County, Guo Hongjing also made a few friends.

One is Li Zhaocheng, who is Li Xia's elder brother, the head of the Lianfang Department, and one of the officials who presided over the corruption case in Sanyuan County; the other is Jiang Di, the Zhonglang of the Mokan Institute, a rather peculiar woman .

I didn't expect Yu Dechen to be so dull and have friends. Guo Hongjing himself is also dull, so he doesn't have many friends in the Central Plains.

Asked about this, Jiang Di laughed and said: "I didn't want to associate with this dull Taoist priest, but he has a very interesting junior."

"That's right." Li Zhaocheng also said, "If it wasn't for the little Taoist being a more interesting person, let's see if I will take care of him."

Yu Dechen was not angry when he heard it, he was obviously used to their teasing.

The atmosphere was a little relaxed, Guo Hongjing thought that the etiquette in the south was more serious, but he didn't expect that even men and women could communicate so freely, so he couldn't help but wonder.

After several people discussed this, they came to the conclusion that the reason was that the King of Qin didn't like red tape...

All the way to Dalong Mountain, he saw the "little Taoist priest" they said.

It is said to be a small Taoist priest, but what can be seen is that many people are listening to Sun Deyu's command, and want to use gunpowder to explode the rock under Dalong Mountain.

Guo Hongjing didn't believe that gunpowder could have such power, and thought it was difficult to do it.

How could it be possible to control the gunpowder to produce the intended effect?
But Sun Deyu had a well-thought-out appearance, personally pointing out where and how much gunpowder should be loaded.

"Get out of the way, go to the distance! Dean Sun is about to blow up the mountain!"

"Are you ready?! Cover your ears..."

"..."

Everything is in order.

Guo Hongjing stood in the distance, covered his ears, and heard a "bang" from a distance, and saw a cloud of dust rising from the foot of Dalong Mountain.

He didn't see more details, but he knew that Sun Deyu's gunpowder must have been greatly improved.

After a long silence between heaven and earth, there was a sound of jubilation.

That was the voice Guo Hongjing wanted to hear the most, the voice of the people cheering for the construction of the canal...

Another point is that these young people under Li Xia made him particularly concerned.

Li Zhaocheng, Jiang Di, Sun Deyu, Yu Dechen, these people are in different yamen, but when the Guanzhong wants to do something, such as the construction of water conservancy this time, everyone can contribute.

They didn't say that they would unite as one every day, and they even looked very relaxed, but they all did their part, such as investigating corruption, examining money and food, improving gunpowder, and even going to the enemy's territory, because they saw someone "like a "Good official" wanted to take him back...

(End of this chapter)