The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 263 Yongji Canal Construction Begins

"Test examination... I really don't know what the scene will be like in Yecheng in winter!"

Zu Ti couldn't help but take a deep breath. If he were young, he might have gone to Yecheng to take the assessment, but now that he was the governor of Yuzhou, he had to do his best for the Sima family.

Zu Ti thought of this and immediately summoned Zu Yue.

"Brother, are you looking for me?!" After Zu Yue saw Zu Ti, he saluted Zu Ti.

"Young Master, please give your orders. Starting from next month, Xingyang, Chenliu, Yinji, and Gaoping will begin to strengthen defenses, build barriers, and strengthen training. The money and food needed will be paid from us!" Zu Ti said flatly.

"Brother, these cities are all close to Liu Tai's sphere of influence, but Liu Tai is ready to fight!" Zu Yue was a little worried after hearing Zu Ti's words.

"Liu Tai probably won't attack us this year. He just took over Shi Le's territory last year and was so full of food that he is now digesting it. There is no time to attack us.

If there was no discord in the court, this would be the perfect time to attack Liu Tai! "Zu Ti couldn't help but sigh when he said this.

After a year, I originally thought that the disputes in the court would be reduced, but the conflicts between the Wang family and Sima Rui became more and more acute.

Even Liu Wei and Diao Xie had several conflicts with Director Wang, and in these conflicts, Sima Rui obviously seemed to be partial to Liu Wei and Diao Xie.

Obviously, as Sima Rui became the emperor and was no longer the original Queen Langya, Sima Rui was no longer satisfied with the "king and horse sharing the world" governance method. Sima Rui wanted to take power by himself and dominate the Jin court.

But the problem is that Liu Tai is now eyeing him and has even instituted a system such as the examination system.

The Jin court really cannot continue like this, otherwise if civil strife breaks out, the Jin court's foundation may be destroyed.

As a border general, the only thing Zu Ti could do was to train the border city defenses and soldiers to be more elite. Only in this way could Zu Ti feel more secure.

However, Zu Ti immediately wrote a letter reporting Liu Tai's recommendation of the imperial examination system to the court.

Even Zu Ti had no way to curb this kind of policy matter, and could only leave it to the court to discuss countermeasures, because Zu Ti really did not want to rebel. If Zu Ti wanted to rebel, he would either learn from Liu Tai and recruit talents, or He took advantage of the situation and intercepted the talents to go to Yecheng, leaving them for his own use, but Zu Ti did nothing in the end.

Because many talents came from aristocratic families, Zu Ti knew that as long as he did not rebel, he would not be able to give the aristocratic families the benefits they wanted.

Zu Ti's letter was sent to the center, but Director Wang did nothing after reading it.

Because Director Wang knew that this examination system had a relatively low status in the northern aristocratic families, it could only be implemented if Liu Tai had a firm grasp of the force. As for the Jin court, it was absolutely impossible to implement this system. Even if it was implemented , will also be boycotted by the family.

However, Diao Xie's main responsibility was to participate in the formulation of the court's rules and regulations, and he and Liu Wei implemented the "Zhizhizhi", striving to maintain imperial power and suppress the clans. Diao Xie almost immediately understood the examination system implemented by Liu Tai, and inspected the clans. The suppressive effect of the lifting system.

Therefore, Diao Xie immediately advised Sima Rui, "Now Liu Tai wants to use the examination system to select talents from all over the world. From now on, the selection of talents for the court will be determined by the court, not by the family. If your Majesty wants to get rid of the Wang family, this Naiyang is planning a good plan!"

When Sima Rui heard Diao Xie's words, he was a little worried and said:

"But if we use this strategy, we will offend all the famous families in the world. If so, how can our Sima family have a foothold in Jiangnan!"

Diao Xie quickly said to Sima Rui: "It is by using this strategy that we can bypass the Wang family and contact other aristocratic families."

Sima Rui was in a daze when he heard Diao Xie's words, and said quickly: "Come quickly."

However, Diao Xie explained to Sima Rui, "Rulin said, "Book of Changes" refers to Wang Fusi, "Book of Changes" refers to Kong Anguo and Zheng Kangcheng, "Zuo Zhuan" refers to Du Yuankai and Fu Zishen, and "Shi" was written in Mr. Mao, the "Li" follows the Zheng family... Even though the Wang family is rampant in the court, if the theories that each school is good at are tested, the king will successfully let scholars from each family enter the court, so that the Wang family can no longer cover the sky with one hand!"

"Oh!" Sima Rui heard a bit of excitement in his eyes when he heard Diao Xie's words.

He really didn't expect that the examination system circulated from Liu Tai would be so effective and could help him win over various aristocratic families.

For Liu Tai, the examination system is a system that bypasses the examination system, which is the breeding ground for aristocratic families, and is about selecting and storing talents.

But for Sima Rui, the selection of talents from all over the world brought about by this system is not important in itself. What is important is to bypass the constraints of the Langya Wang family so that he can select suitable families from the families under his command to check and balance the Wang family.

Therefore, Sima Rui immediately sent out the news, expressing his hope to discuss the examination questions with the aristocratic families under the Jin court so as to select suitable talents to serve the court.

Of course, the Langya Wang family is also among them, but the Langya Wang family is indeed weaker than other theoretical sects in terms of pure knowledge.

There is no way, the Langya Wang family has focused their energy on helping the Sima family stabilize the court situation for several generations, such as Sima Yue paired with Wang Kuang and Wang Yan, and now Sima Rui paired with Wang Dao and Wang Dun.

In this way, the Wang family is naturally much worse than other families in terms of learning, and other families do not have as much power as the Sima family, so naturally they can only do learning when they return home.

This means that when the Wang family wants to participate in this new game, they cannot spare too many manpower to participate.

In other words, the people brought out by one's own family cannot even hold up against the elites brought out by other families.

There was no way, these Jin Ting aristocratic families also saw it. No matter what Sima Rui and Wang were competing for this time, but the sweetness that finally came out from their fingers, he couldn't miss it, so he pounced on it decisively one by one. .

No matter who we help in the future, the only thing that is certain is that we must first occupy the position.

It can be said that Diao Xie's move really made the Wang family very passive. They no longer carried out the examination and examination system. After it became the examination and examination system, the Wang family had trouble adapting to it for a while.

However, compared with Liu Tai's pursuit of fairness and justice in promoting the imperial examination system, for Sima Rui, the imperial examination system was just a tool in his hands.

Whoever wants to take refuge with me, I will immediately give you a tailor-made test, and the test must be anonymous and state your family name. Even if you hand in a blank paper, you will pass.

However, the aristocratic families in this era are always concerned about face. They have already set the questions based on what their family is best at, and they are all still in the anonymous examination system. For the aristocratic families, the papers will still be full.

So in this year, both Liu Tai and Sima began to implement the examination system.

Of course, the so-called recommendation system has not been abolished. Jin Ting and Liu Tai will definitely continue to implement it.

At least for a long time, the parallelism of the inspection and examination system will become the norm. However, Liu Tai would be relatively harsh on the examination and examination system. All those who are recommended are jointly and severally related, while the examination and examination system is a bit more relaxed. At least the talents who pass the examination and examination system have nothing to say about their strength.

No matter how you say it, it is not easy to organize an assessment involving the entire force, especially in remote areas where you need to notify them and wait for them to come over.

So no matter how much there is talk about this kind of thing, it is still something that only needs to be concerned about in winter.

Liu Tai's first concern was spring plowing. With the end of spring plowing, Liu Tai naturally turned all his thoughts to his second concern, which was naturally the Yongji Canal that Cao Yi was building.

After a year of field survey and searching for water vein data in various places, Guo Pu planned according to the mountain and river topography, opened and widened the corresponding river channels, introduced canals to supplement the water veins of the waterway, and drew important nodes on the canal that conformed to the mountain and river topography to serve as docks or markets. .

Wang Bo proposed a specific construction plan based on the entire waterway and the experience of his ancestors in managing the Yellow River.

In particular, Wang Bo believes that because Yecheng is located at the junction of the two canals and has opened a canal to connect Zhangshui and Bishui, becoming an important node for both parties, this canal can be split from one project into two projects.

One is to dredge Yecheng to Jinkou, ensure that the entire Zhangshui River is unobstructed, and build ports along the coast.

Another project is to open up all the channels from Yecheng to Jishui, so as to ensure that the road from Yecheng to Jishui is smooth.

However, a problem arose at this time, that is, several rivers south of Yecheng had obvious drops, and the channels needed to be lengthened to solve the problem of water drops.

In this case, there will be a lot of farmland that needs to be occupied, and some of the farmland has even been cultivated by the people.

All these require official intervention to relocate some people, and I hope Liu Tai will approve it.

After reading the plan, Liu Tai said with a little doubt, "Why not use canal locks?"

"What is a ship lock?" The group looked at the plan they handed over and were somewhat dumbfounded when Liu Tai asked such a question.

Because Liu Tai took it for granted that the ship locks that existed in ancient times only appeared in the Song Dynasty.

Liu Tai only thought that ship locks were a technology that only appeared after the modern shipping system was developed, so he immediately asked the supervisor to fly over.

Compared with doing it yourself, it is easier to just talk.

Following Liu Tai's words, Jie Fei built an open wooden box. The water flow was high and low through the wooden box, and at the same time, a wooden boat floated in the wooden box.

The wooden bed floated in the wooden box. The gate was closed and water began to be released upstream. As the water flow increased, everyone soon saw the wooden boat floating higher and higher, and then smoothly passed from the lower river to the upper river.

"This is the ship lock!" Liu Tai said, "Is it a canal facility that uses the buoyancy of water to allow ships to pass up and down?"

After seeing with their own eyes the simple model made by Liu Tairang Jie Fei, Cao Ni, Guo Pu and Wang Bo couldn't help but shine.

Because they found that if they used Liu Tai's ship lock, they had to make a detour due to the height difference. There were many places where the height difference was not very large, and they could be modified to a certain extent.

Therefore, Cao Yi said to Liu Tai, "Please give us seven days, your Majesty, and we will definitely present the new version of the Yongji Canal design!"

Liu Tai heard what Cao Ni said and said to Cao Ni, "This matter is related to my luck as a man, but I am cautious, so I will give you half a month to revise the construction drawings and streamline the construction project.

If you need the support of computing power, you can also call on military historians and soldiers who are good at Jiuzhang arithmetic. "

The top scientists of this era were either killed in Luoyang, became hermits and hid somewhere, or went to the Western Jin Dynasty.

The most capable mathematicians in Liu Tai's hands should be Ge Hong and Guo Pu. Guo Pu is here. Ge Hong is still concentrating on executing the plan of "Buddha is the Tao" and is temporarily unable to free himself, so he can only use quantity first. Top it off.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Cao Yi didn't respond much to Liu Tai's words, and immediately took Guo Pu and Wang Bo down to change the picture!
Although Liu Tai listed Yongji Canal as the most important project and all resources were open to this project, naturally, Cao Yi had to take down this project.

The first step is to determine how many resources are needed to carry out the project, so that Liu Tai can make a plan for the project, instead of just doing it wherever he thinks of it. No matter how much money and food he has, it will not be enough for this project.

In addition, for Liu Tai, an engineering project can stimulate a lot of work in the surrounding area, thus stimulating the economic vitality of the surrounding area.

Regarding Wang Bo's proposal to divide the project into two projects, at least Liu Tai agreed in principle.

Because for Liu Tai, by executing the plan in this way, he can arrange different raw material supply bases.

One is to supply raw materials from the three states of Qingjiyou around the Bohai Sea, and the other is to use the land of Hebei to supply raw materials, so that its own power can be developed as a whole.

At least politically speaking, it is a good choice.

Therefore, it is even more necessary for them to provide accurate construction plans again so that Liu Tai can safely allocate funds.

In fact, it took Cao Yi about nine days to come up with the new project plan.

This project requires 20 professional corvees who have been trained since Qingzhou, 50 captive soldiers, [-] foreign captives, and no less than [-] corvees that require surrounding supporting facilities.

In addition, the cooperation of local aristocratic families is needed. The real affected people are probably more than 300 million people, from Jinkou to Jijun, and even the Yongji Canal spans the entire Jizhou.

This project construction plan, which almost involves the main artery of power currently controlled by Liu Tai, was sent to Liu Tai.

The entire construction plan is expected to take two years to completely open the Yongji Canal and complete the northern section of the Grand Canal!

Liu Tai knew very well that as long as the Yongji Canal was opened, he would be able to utilize the resources of the Bohai Bay, and that would be the time for him to launch an attack on Zu Ti!

Liu Tai nodded with satisfaction when he looked at the project, and then said to Cao Yi, "The Yongji Canal project has officially begun. All this is left to you!"

"I obey the decree!" Cao Yi replied to Liu Tai.

(End of this chapter)