Sui and Tang Dynasties: Killing Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven at the beginni

Chapter 437 The river map is lost.

When Yang Guang canonized Li Mu as the head of the Du Canal, he didn't even care about the opinions of ministers like the Guanlong Ba family.

Under this general trend, under the joint crushing of many factions, these ministers of the Eight Great Families of Guanlong have no room to turn around.

Li Mu's appointment as the supervisor of the canal seems to be expected by everyone.After all, whether it is to build a canal or build the eastern capital of Luoyang, these are all major projects that require the power of the whole country of the Sui Dynasty to complete.Yang Guang had to find someone he could fully trust to be in charge, so Yang Guang could trust anyone completely, of course it was Li Mu.

For the Jiangzuo gentry and the ministers of five surnames and seven Wangs, as long as the canal can be built, and the east capital can be built, it doesn't matter whoever is the supervisor of the canal.

As for Yang Guang's confidant ministers, they naturally raised their hands to support Li Mu to be the supervisor of the canal.

Therefore, it can be said that almost none of the ministers in the court had any objection to Li Mu as the lord.

Why do you say there are almost no opinions?Because, Yu Wenhuaji felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

One must know that these few times, Yang Guang had been let Yu Wenhuaji be the first bird, and now all members of Guanlong Ba Family were offended by him Yu Wenhuaji to death.Now it's time to pick the fruit, but Yang Guang let Li Mu go, how can this make Yu Wenhuaji feel at ease.

The anger in my heart was the anger in my heart, but for Yu Wenhuaji, he didn't dare to stand up to refute Yang Guang's opinion.

However, in Yu Wenhuaji's mind, he should be the supervisor of the Du Canal.At this time, Yu Wenhuaji already felt a little dissatisfied with Yang Guang in his heart.

"Thanks to His Majesty's great love, I will do my best to repair the canal and build the Eastern Capital!" Li Mu accepted the order.

"The general is in charge of supervising the canal. As for the rest of the personnel involved in the construction of the canal, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Officials jointly drafted. All officials involved in supervising the construction of the canal must obey the general's orders!" Yang Guang immediately issued an order.

Building the Eastern Capital and building the canal, these two things have a sequence.If you want to build the Eastern Capital, you must first build a canal.

Because the huge amount of materials needed to build the Eastern Capital cannot be prepared in Luoyang alone.Many of the rocks, wood, etc. needed to build the capital need to be transported from special places of origin.

The fastest way to transport these materials for the construction of the Eastern Capital is obviously by water.

Therefore, before the construction of the Eastern Capital, it is necessary to build a canal first. With the canals to transport materials, the construction of the Eastern Capital can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

However, building a canal is not that easy.In planning, the Grand Canal is a large river running through the north and south of the Sui Dynasty, with a total length of more than 2000 kilometers. This can be said to be a huge project.

Among other things, it took the Ministry of Works a full three months just to draw up the river map of the Grand Canal.

Moreover, this is only a preliminary drawing of the river map, and the specific direction of the river map has to be revised and improved based on this preliminary drawing of the river map.

Daxing City, the General's Mansion.

Yu Wenkai, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, brought his deputy Li Chun to Li Mu's residence.After three months of busy work by the Ministry of Industry, the river map has already been drafted.

However, whether this river map is still not working, whether it can be used or not, it is up to Li Mu, the supervisor of the canal, to arrange the board.

Li Mu said that this river map can be used, and only this river map can be used. If Li Mu says it can't be used, then everyone in the Ministry of Industry has to modify it according to the requirements.

"General, this is the river map, can you see if there is anything that needs to be modified?" Yu Wenkai said, and handed over the river map in his hand.

After Li Mu took the river map and spread it out on the table, he took a closer look and his eyebrows were knit together.

Even in Li Mu's eyes, this picture of the river is not very good.

Why did Li Mu say that this river map is not good enough?Let's put it this way, the picture of the river is too curved, with twists and turns.

Although Li Mu doesn't know construction work, Li Mu was a person who went through nine years of compulsory education in his previous life, and the straight line between two points is the shortest. Anyone who has gone to school knows this.

Good guy, this river map was designed by a group of people from the Ministry of Industry. It is simply a mountain road with eighteen bends.Originally, the straight-line distance of the river map was less than [-] kilometers, but they designed it to be [-] kilometers long.

Let's put it this way, this is to throw a few pieces of meat on the map, find a dog to lick it, and the route drawn by the lick is more reasonable than their design.

In Li Mu's plan, the straight-line distance of the main canal is only about [-] to [-] kilometers.Even if there are occasional mountains blocking the road and you need to take a detour, the longest distance will not exceed two thousand kilometers.

However, on this river map, nearly [-] kilometers of river channels have been designed.Li Mu can accept detours where there are mountains, but this is obviously a flat area, but he still detours.Isn't this taking off your pants and farting, looking for trouble?

You know, more than 1000 kilometers of rivers have been added out of thin air. How much food and national strength will it cost?

What is the purpose of building the canal? The purpose is to drain flood water and transport. The design of the river and the transportation of goods by boats will take more than 1000 kilometers for no reason.Isn't this stuff nonsense?
"Who presided over the design of this river map?" Li Mu asked with a dark face.

Seeing Li Mu's expression, Yu Wenkai felt bad.As the minister of the Ministry of Industry, he is an expert. He didn't know that there was something wrong with this river map.However, it has to be designed like this!
In fact, originally this river map could be designed in one month, why did it take three months? There is a way here.

"General, this river map was designed by the lower officials!" Yu Wenkai hurriedly responded.

"General, I'm Lord Yuwen's deputy!" Li Chun quickly responded.

"Your Yuwen armor, is this level?" Li Muli asked in a voice.

"General, this canal passes through the fertile fields, houses, and even their ancestral tombs of many Jiangzuo gentry and five surnames and Qiwang families. There is no choice but to take a detour!" Yu Wenkai said bravely .

He, Yu Wenkai, is just a minister of the Ministry of Industry, and these powerful families came to him, how could he offend these powerful families.

"Take advantage of others?" Li Mu asked with a cold face.

"No, absolutely not, I will guarantee Xiangshang's head!" Yu Wenkai shook his head and said.

Without corruption and breaking the law, it is just a matter of not daring to offend the powerful family. If it is corruption and breaking the law, the nature is different.

Li Mu shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "You, Yu Wenkai, and Li Chun, who are both forward-looking and backward-looking in doing things, are afraid of wolves and tigers. It's dangerous for the two of you to go on like this!"

"You two, you can do it, but you can't do it!"

(End of this chapter)