In fact, the famous scholars in the late Han Dynasty all had this tone. Not to mention that they were not afraid of death, but most of them regarded fame as more important than life. Most of them were not very capable, but relatively speaking, their morality was guaranteed.

Cui Yan is a model of ability and morality, but he is too strong and doesn't like to speak soft words. He is a typical example of being upright and upright. There is no problem with being famous in history in the hands of a wise ruler. In the hands of a fool, he is basically a typical example of dying at the beginning.

Although he is very capable, if Cui Yan is asked to handle government affairs, even if Liu Bei is a little lacking in civil officials, there is no shortage of such one. Chen Xi arrested Cui Yan into Liu Bei's collective in order to make Cui Yan a clan minister.

Liu Bei's side, from Chen Xi, cannot be regarded as a loyal minister. Although they are very smart, they are obviously seeking profit and avoiding harm in their personalities.

In addition to sometimes giving direct advice, Cui Yan came over and ensured that the overall situation of the entire officialdom would not form a civil servant circle with the core of being sloppy and seeking profit and avoiding harm. More importantly, Cui Yan would let Cui Yan take the blame and expose the blame that Chen Xi and others could not pay attention to and the people below dare not expose it!

These two points are very important. Now the top circle under Liu Bei is not bad. Although they are instinctively seeking profit and avoiding harm, overall, relying on their wisdom, they can basically solve all problems, so there is no big impact on the entire force.

However, this may not be the case in the future. If there is no Zhengchen who dares to speak out directly or does not need to speak out directly, then when this wave of people dies, the circle will be completely corrupt and it will be corrupt from the beginning.

Once the upper class collective dares not shout for the right path, the country will be not far from over, so at the beginning, Chen Xi made a plan to get a Zhengchen in.

The meaning of this Zhengchen's existence is to make the upper class dare to shout for national interests at any time, rather than as a clay sculpture, and retreat if there is any danger.

So when Cui Yan joined Liu Bei's side, Chen Xi gave Cui Yan "If you benefit the country from life and death, how can you avoid it because of good fortune and disaster." To put it bluntly, it is to encourage Cui Yan to do such dangerous things. Liu Bei always needs someone who is smart and not afraid of death to do such things!

Of course, Cui Yan was very happy after receiving this screen with only two sentences. He was a typical example of being upright, and these two sentences made him find his final destination. What he didn't say is, what's the fear of dying for the country!

So after Cui Yan confirmed Chen Xi’s idea, he immediately began to purify the entire Qingxu, Yan, Yuji administration. While the group expanded, there were many mud and sand mixed in!

"Mr. Chen, the governor of Lu, and the head of the Li family have already inspected the water conservancy network under their rule and came to report to the two." Just as Chen Xi and others finished handling a lot of government affairs, a messenger came to report.

"Please come in." Chen Xi and Lu Su looked at each other and saw the joy of each other. The construction of the water conservancy network was finally put on the agenda. Although the Yellow River only has floods every two or three years, this is enough for Chen Xi to have a headache.

"I have met Mr. Chen and all the military marquis." Li Shu said with a whisper, looking a little proud.

"Sit down, I have to thank the Li family for coming to design and arrange it for the rule of Xuande Gong." Chen Xi ordered people to move a chair for Li Shu to sit down. Now, there are not many use cases where the couch is very formal, but I think that in a short time, the couch may be out of history.

"Horse Chen is polite." Li Shu said with a smile, and he was a little surprised by Chen Xi's name. Although he had heard of it for a long time, he was still a little silence when he saw it.

"Whether you are polite or not, it's all for the sake of governance. Yuan Chang would like to speak out to us." Chen Xi said with a faint smile.

The Li family's water control method is slightly different from the blockage and dispersion recorded in other classics. The Li family focuses more on adjustment and compatibility. The core of their family's water control classics is how to take advantage of the situation and eliminate dangers.

"Okay." Li Shu took out a roll of maps. These maps were collected by Li Shu after coming to Liu Bei's side. The maps of this era are all strategic materials.

Therefore, when he got the map, Li Shu showed obvious satisfaction with Liu Bei's trust. Although his family has these maps, he has been studying them for a long time.

Opening the map, it is obviously different from the Grand Canal that Chen Xi had roughly planned. If the canal that Chen Xi roughly drew on the map was a word "man" after the overturn, then it is obviously much more complicated now.

However, generally speaking, the water intake of the canal has not changed much, but compared with the original canal, there are two more nodes in the canal and the direction of the water flow has also changed a few more places. Overall, it is much more complicated than the previous canal.

"In my opinion, the value of this canal is not so much to strengthen the connections in various parts of the Central Plains, but rather to further transform the five major grain-producing lands." Li Shu shook his head and said, "So my design drawings focus more on the entire water conservancy network than on the main construction of this canal."

"According to my current design, it takes twenty years to build the main body of the canal. After connecting these five water intake places, the main body of the canal can be built. But if it is just for transporting goods, troop transporting troops, and strengthening contacts from all places, it is actually enough to go by sea." Li Shu said bluntly.

Liu Bei has walked too much on the sea route. Now many people in the world know that the sea route can be taken. Although it is not reliable to walk on the sea route, being able to walk means being able to use it and there is room for improvement. Naturally, the canal transport that comes with the Grand Canal is much less meaningful.

"And Mr. Gongyou has been building official roads. For good horse marching, it is not weaker than waterways. Mr. Wenhe's horse Zheng has also been committed to solving this horse problem. Once Duke Xuande unified the world, he paved the official roads everywhere in the world. The canal is not very meaningful." Li Shu said calmly, not caring about being a powerful person in the construction of rivers and controlling water. He is demolishing his own platform.

After hearing this, Chen Xi nodded slowly, as if he was echoing Li Shu's words. Although it was not right, these were all facts and were reasonable, but they were a bit off-topic.

Although the significance of Grand Canal freight is declining due to the sea transportation, its significance of strengthening the rule of the north and south still exists. Chen Xi rarely pins his hopes on a single thing, official roads and waterways are all needed!
Chapter completed!