Chapter 367 The Nature of the Problem

After a lot of fuss, the team set off.

Old man Feng was familiar with geography and led the way.

Su You looked at Zhang Qi suspiciously along the way, and Zhang Qi felt a little scared in his heart: "Master, why do you always look at me?"

Su You sneered: "The young master is thinking about a question: Why don't you have a nosebleed?"

Zhang Qi was puzzled: "Is this thing still with you?"

Su You said: "Tell me the truth, have you ever gone to that alley full of women?"

Zhang Qi's face suddenly turned red: "I didn't...don't...don't talk nonsense..."

Su You suddenly realized: "Oh... So this is the truth! Zhang Xiaoqi, you can't get better!"

Zhang Qi was so panicked that he waved his hands up and down: "Really not..."

Su You stretched out his hand and pointed upward: "I swear to God."

Zhang Qi became even more panicked: "I'm too lazy to pay attention to you! Master, you are so boring!"

After saying that, he patted the horse and ran forward.

Su You touched his chin and murmured: "Hmph, what's so great about it? It's not just because of your good looks, it's because you're being rude when someone is prostituted..."

All the way to the head of the canal, Li Laoshuan dismounted and surveyed for a while: "Master, this is indeed an old canal, but now the river has changed its course."

Su You looked at the environment: "I didn't expect the water at the source of the Jing River to be so clear. It seems like it's a vegetation problem."

Li Laoshuan opened the map and explored it, then looked up at the terrain in this area and pointed: "Xiao Qi, go there first and set up the benchmark."

Zhang Qi was afraid that the young master would catch him and question him, so he quickly ran away.

Su You took out the theodolite from behind Quan Mao Chi and set it up. He measured several directions. After some calculations, he connected a few lines on the map and pointed at the intersection with the tip of his pen: "Grandpa, we are at this location."

Li Laoshuan directly used his hands, with his thumb and index finger at a ninety-degree angle, facing several landmarks, straightening his arms, looking first with his left eye and then his right eye several times, and said with a smile: "Young master can't make mistakes, this method

It’s better to tie it up as you taught me back then, it works really well.”

Su You said: "The main thing is the accuracy of the drawing."

After speaking, he pointed on the map with the tip of his pen: "There is a ground pile buried here, and the number is Weibei 3359."

Then Shi Wei shouted: "Brother Xiaoyou has been found, come here quickly."

Su You moved the theodolite over, and on a hill opposite, Zhang Qi had already set up a benchmark, waved a small red cloth flag, and blew a whistle.

In the next few days, several people slept in the open and carried out surveying work in the area near the head of the canal.

In Li Laoshuan's atlas, a new canal is gradually being surveyed and taking shape.

Su You and Zhang Qi inserted the last pole and looked at the red cloth ribbon floating on the wooden piles that stretched from the back of the hill to the old trunk canal. Su You asked Li Laoshuan: "Grandpa Li, how long is it in total?"

Li Laoshuan said: "One stick for half a mile, thirty sticks for fifteen miles."

Su You turned around and asked Old Man Feng: "Li Zheng, how much manpower can you organize?"

Old man Feng shook his head: "The strong men from all over the country will go into battle, two to three thousand people."

Su You said: "That won't work. The ditch must be repaired before it turns green, otherwise it will affect the alfalfa harvest."

Zhang Qili calculated: "The terrain here is flat. We calculate based on the cross-sectional area of ​​the canal of nine square meters. If the construction team of 2,500 people completes the project in one month, each person will need to dig about 30 cubic meters of soil, which is one square meter of soil per day.

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Su You asked Old Man Feng: "Can you complete it with two hundred wages a day?"

Old man Feng said "Ah": "Give me back the money?"

Shi Wei immediately calculated the result: "Brother Xiaoyou, the salary for this canal is about fifteen thousand guan. If you want to take care of the food, it should be 25,000 guan."

Zhang Qi calculated more carefully: "Master, if this canal is only counted as earthwork, it would be about half a meter."

Li Laoshuan was a little confused: "Master, this algorithm is wrong. We have chosen the location of the canal head well. We only need to place the excavated soil piles on both sides of the canal. Only half of the earthwork is needed.

Shouldn’t the project cost be reduced by half?”

The three little ones looked at me and I looked at you, and they suddenly felt stupid.

Zhang Qi immediately said: "Look, this is the sequelae of doing word problems..."

Su You gave Zhang Qi a kick: "You are really good at throwing the blame. Great, just follow what Grandpa Li said. Since the cost is not expensive, let Dashiru build the prefabricated panels. If we want to do it,

If done well, if the Zheng Guo Canal is done well, it will be profitable for at least a hundred years!"

Old man Feng said: "Well, I'm afraid you are mistaken, officer. This canal is not the Zheng Guo Canal. The Zheng Guo Canal is in the lower reaches of the Jing River and irrigates Guanzhong, not Jingyuan."

Su You was surprised and said: "How is it possible? Isn't this the supporting water conservancy project in the upper reaches of Zhengguo Canal?"

Old man Feng said: "Old man, I don't know very well, but I heard from the old people that it was built by Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty and modeled on the Zheng State of the Qin Dynasty and the Baigong Canal of the Han Dynasty."

Su You felt his face burning with pain: "Really? Then I'll go back and read the book."

Old man Feng was very worried: "Guardian, do we still want to repair this canal?"

"Repair! Of course we have to repair it!" Su You said to Li Laoshuan: "That's roughly it. Feng Lizheng, go and inform each village. We will use the village as a unit and calculate the price by length. After passing the inspection, it will be half a meter, three days."

One knot!"

Old man Feng was a little confused: "How much is this meter?"

Su You pulled the measuring tape out on the floor: "So long!"

Old man Feng was so excited: "For such a good thing, let's burn pine wood and torch for the officials to do it for!"

Su You gave Old Man Feng a vaccination: "You are doing it for yourself, and the more people there are, the better! You can't just think about making money in your own village without notifying the people in place. The sooner this canal is repaired, the sooner you will reap the benefits."

Yi, you have to take a long-term view, you know? If you let me know that you have selfish motives, hehehe..."

Old man Feng bowed and said: "What the official said is true, just because you gave me that big deer, I can't do this blindly!"

After returning to Longshou Village and resting for a night, Su You was ready to return to Weizhou.

Li Laoshuan said to Su You: "Master, then I won't go back. I have to have a good discussion with Brother Feng about the whole canal regulations."

Su You felt a little embarrassed: "Grandpa Li, the conditions here..."

Li Laoshuan's eyes were shining with tears: "Our Li family has taken advantage of the young master for ten years, and now the old man is finally useful. Young Master, please grant the old man your favor and let me serve you."

Su You took Li Laoshuan's hand and said: "Grandpa, you are serious. Your great contribution to the salt industry in Sichuan is enough to establish a monument and be famous for eternity. But since you have this intention, Su You will... please give me a lot of help."

Yes, you are the master craftsman."

Li Laoshuan was happy: "Then you go back quickly, there are many important things in the city waiting for you to deal with. You can take care of yourself here, and I will keep it safe for the young master to handle properly."

Back in Weizhou City, before Su You could sit down, Cai Que came over and said, "Prefect, Zhenrong Zhijun wants to see you."

Su You said: "This Lord Xiaoyin, Longshou Village is so close to his residence and he doesn't come to see me. He has to wait for me to return to the city."

Cai Que nodded: "Why don't you give him a try?"

Su You smiled and said: "Wouldn't it ruin my reputation for being decisive in situations? Let's go and see it together."

When he came to the living room, Zhong Hui was dressed in civilian clothes and was admiring the furnishings in the hall. His eyes fell on a Boshan stove with staggered brass and white copper, and he was fascinated by it.

Boshan furnaces are all in the shape of a group of peaks, but this furnace is extremely exquisite. There is a white bronze miniature deer drinking water by the stream, and there is a brass miniature tiger beside the forest at the foot of the mountain, with half of its body exposed, waiting to attack.

Zhong Yi stood aside and coughed twice when he saw Su You approaching.

There was no response from Zhong Ji until Su You called out: "Dazhi."

Only then did Zhong Ji come back to his senses: "Oh, I will see the prefect at the end of the day."

Su You said: "Do you like this incense burner? You can take it away later."

Zhong Ji bowed and said, "This is too expensive to use."

Su You smiled and said, "How do you know it's valuable?"

Zhong Ji said: "This is the secret gold and mithril rumored by the Fan tribe, right? The inlay craftsmanship is so exquisite and the strokes are so subtle. Is it carved and polished? That would take a lot of effort."

Su You said: "These are all goods prepared for trade with the Tibetan tribe at the fair. What do you think of their high quality?"

Zhong Ji took out a glass mirror. Behind the corner of the glass, there was a colored peony, and beside it was a poem: "Clouds think of clothes, flowers think of face."

Zhong Ji looked at the clear and handsome middle-aged face in the mirror and straightened his beard: "I'm afraid the people in the Fan tribe can't afford such an expensive thing, right?"

Su You said: "Anyway, when the bidding comes, the one with the highest price will get it. I'm not worried about that. Even if the Tibetan tribe can't afford it, they can still sell it to Xixia."

The exegesis is a little uncertain: "Will it be an enemy?"

Su You said: "Trading and capitalizing on enemies are two different concepts."

“The purpose of trade is to exchange what we have and to obtain the resources we need from each other. The so-called capitalizing on the enemy means that after the enemy obtains the resources, he uses them more efficiently than we do. This is the essence of the problem.
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