Baili Hongze, calm. Wu'anguo acted as a hard helmet on his head, and brought a group of special "officials" to build the embankment. He strolled on the newly completed northern embankment of Hongze Lake, while enjoying the lake and mountains, while checking the omissions of this Baili Long embankment.

These "officials" who organized the construction were all students hired by Wu'anguo, the Minister of Water Control, from emerging academies across the country. Although they did not have formal official positions appointed by the court, the young people were all very motivated. In just a few days, several construction omissions that did not meet the design standards were detected. After discussion, they submitted them to Wu'anguo.

"Teacher, in the direction of Sanyi Town, a problem was found in the Zhaogong Dike section. The final height of the entire Zhaogong Dike was lower than the design, with a maximum of half a meter?" A white-faced scholar came to Wu'anguo to report to Wu'anguo with sweat and panting. The northern district of Hongze Lake was extended north by Wu'anguo organization for dozens of miles, and it had already far away from the edge of Hongze Lake during the dry season. Such expansion ensured the water storage capacity of Hongze Lake in the two rainy seasons of summer and autumn, avoiding disasters every year, and also caused the north bank embankment to be too long and winding for nearly a hundred miles. The name of such a huge embankment will change once according to the donor. Perhaps this embankment is called Zhaogong Dike, but the next section was changed to Wang'er Mazi Dike. From a distance, no matter whether the donors are princes and nobles or Fang Fu'an, they are about the same height.

This saves a lot of effort when subcontracting the project. When checking the construction quality, you can also execute it separately according to the name of the embankment section. If there is a problem with the section, you can report the name and find the general direction according to the drawings.

The result is not very satisfactory. No matter the quality of the engineering construction and the cement improved by the Academy of Sciences, the West has not reached the standard that can make the embankment stand for a hundred years, but this embankment is already the best embankment of this era. This is the reality. No matter what kind of ideals and wisdom you have, and what kind of implementation is, it cannot be separated from the limitations of the times.

"Have you found out what the reason is? Which team under the shopkeeper is responsible for the construction?" Wu Anguo spread the drawings on the embankment and hooked the location of the Zhaogong embankment with a red pen. That section of embankment is located at the northernmost point of Hongze Xinhu and belongs to the newly expanded water storage area.

The student who came to report lifted his robe and wiped the sweat on his face and hands. He carefully took out a stack of measurement reports from his close-fitting bag, turned to the middle pages, and pointed dozens of measurement data to Wu'anguo one by one. "I am a worker from Tianjin Zhouji, a time-honored brand, has a good reputation in the industry, and the construction quality is also good. The problem lies in the selection of benchmarks. We selected more than 40 measurement points, and the conclusion is this. The location of Zhaogong Dike is lower than that of other embankments, and there is no water storage during construction, so the height of the embankment construction is based on the surface. Now we measure it with the water surface as the benchmark. We can find that its height is much shorter than elsewhere."

Wu'anguo took the measurement report and felt a sense of joy. Most of the intellectual classes in this era have not yet gotten rid of the bad habit of inferring the feasibility of things by imagination, and governing rivers. This is the same as governing the country. Just open a few pages of newspapers, whether it is comments on current affairs or the idea of ​​some public works, words like "If this is ten years, it will be possible" can be seen everywhere. It is no wonder that the literati take this for centuries. The criteria for selecting talents are based on half of the Analects of Confucius, and everyone has a complete mind.

How to speak beautifully when spending big talk. The way of thinking of problems can't be separated from metaphysics. The more complicated a simple thing is, the more people pay attention to it. In the eyes of those in power, mathematical knowledge is usually just used to cheat. When their "sufferable" tasks are not completed, they are completed by modifying numbers. After such a long time, how can anyone still take into account actual data and logical reasoning? Wu'anguo has never learned a day of water conservancy projects and has no experience in water control. He has more than the officials of this era, and he is just like

The creeds of designers of metallurgical design institutes for several years. In design institutes, everyone always likes to copy a version of the drawings. They are not sure of being unintentional. Most of them are lazy. But it is undeniable that the engineers of their era have regarded feasibility and qualities as the golden rule. There is no three-generation rule that literati advocated among engineers, and few people look for shortcuts to surpass the world within ten years. An excellent design, almost every

A success comes from the accumulation of successful experiences of predecessors or the learning of lessons learned by failures. Anyone who has had several years of practical engineering experience will not have the first time that "there are billions of people in the country. If one percent of them visit my site and one percent buy my services, then..." This idiotic dream is like a dream. Of course, most of them do not agree with the absurd logic that the method of proving the error by countless predecessors is due to the moral defects of the executors themselves rather than the initial design error.

For more than ten years, Wu'anguo has presided over the construction of roads, bridges, and rivers. The students coming and going around him have changed batch after batch. Most of these people came to follow him, and left with satisfaction after getting what they wanted. Many of them came just for the fanaticism in their hearts and finally returned with disappointment in their work. But these people who were once and the current construction workers had more or less shadows of posting conclusions after investigation and research based on actual data, and their views on the problem became much more objective. Just like the student in front of him, there was no common passionate accusation of the construction workers making such a big mistake in the report he brought, but they were seriously looking for the root of the problem.

The student who came to report saw Wu Anguo's expression and knew that he had agreed with his opinion. He happily handed over another report, "A few of us calculated that based on the measurement ruler that stood in Neihu last year and the water storage speed of Hongze Lake this year, the height difference between Zhaogong Dike and other dams does not affect the overall safety of the dam on the north side. So we still have time to recruit people to make up for this defect. If construction starts at the same time from both sides, with the progress we can reach at present..."

"I will keep the report. After reading it tonight, I will invite everyone to meet at Zhaogongdi tomorrow morning. I will decide whether to adopt your plan that day. What is your name? Go to Dad Mei to get 100 silver dollars and go back to give everyone a few points. I will thank everyone for the people along the coast." Wu Anguo interrupted the students with a smile, and his words were full of praise and encouragement.

"My name is Lin Da, I am a graduate of Peking Academy last year." The student with sweat on his face gave Wu Anguo a gift, ran down the dam happily, stepped on his horse, and hurriedly ran back in the direction. Wu Anguo looked at the back of the student, as happy as his father who watched his child grow up. If the motivation was supporting Wu Anguo, he had to walk on this thorny road until now. The students in front of him were one of the answers.

A wisp of breeze blows from Hongze Lake, making people's clothes and belts flutter, as if they are in a fairyland. The white-haired fisherman and woodcutter are smiling at the autumn moon and spring breeze. After so many years, the right and wrong back then have gone away and the blood has blurred. Looking back at the conspiracy and passion of the past, everything has happened and is inevitable. Now it seems that the people who explored in the darkness, including Wu Anguo himself, no matter how beautiful the wishes and how eager the mood is, have ignored the huge inertia of history. Because of this inertia, before the foundation of the entire country has changed, no matter which hero stands up, he will eventually be unable to avoid the fate of tragic.

Although Emperor Antai was the biggest beneficiary of the conspiracy, what would happen if a civil war was launched to drive Zhu Biao off the stage? In order to protect the interests of the family, Zhu Di, who was newly in power, would definitely take the same actions as Zhu Biao. Even if he was suffering from the heart, there were countless followers involved in his vital interests to push him to go against his conscience and original intention. Wu Anguo did not have the opportunity to become a Bismarck-like iron-blooded prime minister, and used muskets and bayonets to force the things he insisted on. But the principle of equality that was forced to accept in an unequal way is still considered the principle of equality? Close your eyes, Wu Anguo could even imagine that decades later, people took a book of the "Quotes of Martial Arts" that was misinterpreted by countless people to find solutions to all problems. It is not impossible to even find a few masters who "square-book martial arts to rule the world".

Therefore, Wu'anguo had to change his way, put his feet in real again, and steadily find a way for his ideals. Find a possibility of integration between the real situation of this country and the system of existing successful precedents that he already knows. It doesn't matter who becomes an emperor or whether he has an emperor. In this era, the so-called "elites" who only know how to make profits for themselves but refuse to bear half of the responsibility for the country and the nation are just as Ruan Infantry said, "is a bunch of lice in the crotch that can only suck blood." It is also a daydream to expect them to be kind in times of time. What is needed is a system that can be feasible under the specific circumstances of this land, and a specific method to realize this system, and to make this system have a self-improvement function.

The principle that Wu Anguo is familiar with is undoubtedly the equality that he has always adhered to, which restricts the decentralization of power. Just like the concept commonly accepted in large-scale industrial control in the 21st century, only by refining and dispersing control into each module can the risk of overall collapse be minimized. Any local problem can be modified without affecting the stability of the overall concept. Similarly, a country is in principle a precision and complex large machinery, and the government is just the core of its control. The more concentrated the power, the greater the possibility of collapse. If it is dispersed reasonably and restricts each other, it may lose some efficiency during the decision-making period, but after a problem occurs, it preserves the possibility of correction of errors, rather than always rushing to the end in the wrong direction.

In this era, most people hope for inequality. Even if they are a slave, they hope that the inequality system will last forever. Because only by ensuring the inequality system can they have the opportunity to realize it, or have the opportunity to fantasize about how to use the inequality mechanism to bully the subordinates and maximize their own interests when they climb to the so-called "elite class".

During the years Zhu Biao was in power, Wu Anguo was indeed very disappointed and even a little desperate. He was guilty and did something to improve the country's infrastructure, hoping to relieve the deep suffering in his heart. Sometimes he even wondered if he didn't show up, would those friends live safely and enjoy every day of his life in the medieval sunshine. Even if he was confused, he would let them go to death with great enthusiasm but worthlessness.

"Teacher, there is a lack of thickness in the Qian family embankment. We have found the reason and hope to repair it like this." Another young foreman came over sweating profusely and pointed to the drawings to report to Wu'anguo.

Wu Anguo and the young foreman opened the drawings together, checked again whether the data was correct, and discussed whether the repair method was feasible. For more than ten years, it was during this kind of work that the wound in Wu Anguo's heart was slowly healed, and the thoughts in his mind gradually became clear.

You cannot force people of this era to do what they do, but you must be clear about what they are doing. Gradually develop their ideals in every word and action, and let them slowly expand with time. Through the efforts of those people back then, this country has gradually been fundamentally separated from the foundation of small self-cultivation farmers. The original industrial production has already taken shape, a new business environment, a new statistical and accounting method. A new financial standard has been promoted. With the establishment of new schools and libraries in each case, the humanistic spirit of ancient Greece has been gradually spread with Beiping as the core. Bo Wenyuan and others are shouting in the academic community, but Wu Anguo himself chose to be an ascetic, spreading his ideals to more people through down-to-earth work.

Using the meager power in your hands will allow more people to see the difference between new ideas and lifestyles from the original ones. In comparison, people can see it. It turns out that in addition to the traditional order of hierarchy and inferiority between countries and individuals, there are many different ways of interaction between countries and individuals, and no one can be infinitely large. It is so big that they can deprive the interests of the other party. No one is born to be a slave. When they see hope and gradually find that hope is not far away, they will make their own choices. People are born to have a need for comfort, just like before the arrival of Wu'an Kingdom, there was never any tap water and sewer in Peking. It was also very comfortable to live for thousands of years. But once sewers and tap water appear, although there are always some failures and bring many inconveniences, people can no longer live without them in their lives.

The "little foreman" got a satisfactory answer and happily gave a gift and ran down the embankment. This is Wu'anguo's daily work, and he handled it easily. From the lake, it seemed that Wu'anguo was this embankment, or part of this land. Perhaps, he had already been deeply rooted in the land under his feet without realizing it.

Shao Yunfei saw Wu Anguo's every move from afar on the lake. He suddenly felt like he wanted to jump onto the embankment, pat Wu Anguo on the shoulder, and called him brotherly. Before he came, he had countless questions to ask Wu Anguo, but now, he didn't know whether he should break the peace in front of him.

At this time, Wu'anguo was the most real and relaxing. Judging from the comfort of his every move, we know that the shadow he had more than ten years ago had slowly dissipated from his heart. Whether it was Wu'anguo's power as a shadow cabinet, or when he was surrounded by the stars like the moon, Shao Yunfei did not see Wu'anguo as relaxed as he was now. Perhaps this was the lifestyle that Wu'anguo should have. In the past, everyone placed all hopes and dreams on him, as if he was like an immortal, with the ability to turn stones into gold and break mountains and seas. Everyone watched Wu'anguo overcome all obstacles in front, but he hid behind him and was lazy. Then he watched his head breaking blood and exhausted.

Some things still need to be done together. If everything is done by Wu'anguo, Wu'anguo is equivalent to doing nothing.

"What's your house? The big old man on the dam is our Wugong. If you want to know him, go up and say hello. Don't worry, we won't laugh at you." The boss of the boat reached out and patted Shao Yunfei on the shoulder and reminded him kindly. "Like you, you pretend to be our Wugong's friend along the way. I can meet a few people who come to see him on the lake every month. Usually, I feel embarrassed and turn around and leave. There are also a few who come forward to say hello. The man Wugong has no airs. As long as the work in his hands is not busy, he will chat with them. If the guests stay on hold, they may have a drink at Wugong's house for two cups. When they come the second time, they will become Wugong's friend."

The other passengers on the ship had already abandoned the boat for their own purposes, so only Shao Yunfei added silver coins and asked the boss to carry him across Hongze Lake and head straight to the north dike to find Wu'anguo. He was afraid of finding the wrong party, so he explained to the boss on the ship several times that he was definitely Shao Yunfei who was just a fake one. The boss and his friends just didn't believe it. For the sake of the silver coins, they laughed and carried him to the embankment and stopped at a possible location in Wu'anguo.

"How many people are coming to find Wu Gong?" Shao Yunfei ignored the ship boss's kind advice and asked irrelevantly.

"Many, when we first started to build the dike, people often came. It is said that they advised Wu Gong not to do stupid things and to choose impossible tasks. To be honest, even those of us who were seeking a living on the water did not believe that Wu Gong could control the water. Since ancient times, no one who served as officials used to use the method of digging rivers and building canals? Who had ever seen people move first and let people make way for the water? Fortunately, they lived in Huai for nine years and had a disaster. Those who had to live in Huai for nine years were all poor men. Who would not want to leave if they had a way out? I heard that there are good ones in the north.

The fatal bad guys were replaced, and some people took the lead and changed it. Some people who were reluctant to leave their family business in the second year heard that those who went to the north really had a good separation. They also handed over the contract. The boss of the ship poured a bowl of sour plum soup for Shao Yunfei and brought a bowl of it himself. He squatted on the side of the ship, drinking it while giving Shao Yunfei a verbal talk about the story of Wu Anguo. These stories are not news on the lake. Everyone knows that everyone can tell different versions. At some point, everyone has begun to be proud of Wu Anguo and his story.

"Keep, please don't laugh at us for being unaware of it. We ordinary people are not all like this. We will be moved only when we see something real. No one can believe it when we don't put it in front of us. There is no way, I have been deceived by the government over the years and I'm afraid. But our Wu Gong let everyone know that there are really officials in this world who take everyone seriously. I heard from my elders that the Yuan Dynasty also governed the Huai River, but every time they built the North Dike. No matter whether they live or die in the south, they are connected to their canals. It's a death! The south is our home, he

We were too lazy to care. But when Mr. Wu came up, the first thing he built was the South Dike and digging a lake in the south. He led the accumulated water for decades to the Yangtze River. I remember that a sesame official who was in charge of the canal ran to the lake in a fraud and frightened manner, accusing Mr. Wu of flooding his river channel. He was pulled by Mr. Wu's neck and beat him up. Everyone looked at him. Later, the money given by the court was not enough. Mr. Wu's brother, Mr. Gao, passed by and raised his hand and found a silver note worth more than 100,000 yuan..."

"So many, isn't Gao Fatty very stingy? Why are you willing to spend money?" Shao Yunfei exclaimed. In his impression, if there was a money-making activity, Gao Deyong accidentally rushed to the second place and would cry and shout, so that he would not come to donate money in vain. He must have received several times the amount of money donated from Wu'anguo.

"Your servant, don't believe it. I was looking for a job in the contract team and I heard from you with my own ears. Otherwise, the South Dike would not be called Gaojiayan." The guy on the boat was loudly helping him. Wu Anguo and his friends were great heroes in the eyes of everyone, and no outsiders could tolerate doubts.

"It's normal that he doesn't believe it." The boss of the boat glared at Shao Yunfei, and then said to the bottom: "In previous years, no official spoke better than singing. On the surface, he was clean and deducted the imperial court's river management money from his back. He used our Wugong to pay the bags of his own and his friends to build embankments for the people. Someone has heard of it in which dynasty and generation. When the Gaojiayan was completed and the first time he was divided into three rivers from the Yuzu, all the people who could come from the entire Hongze Lake came, which was more lively than the New Year. Everyone said that God finally opened his eyes to send a good official."

"Later, when we broadened the Sanhe River and dug Nanwu Lake, more people helped us. Everyone had money and strength. Some officials and princes from the court also came to join in the fun. Nanwu Lake was originally a swamp with water accumulation every year. Everyone started to work together and built a rough structure. In less than two years, they dug out a rough shape. After taking the water, they were filled with water. They were the scene you saw on the road these two days."

This is what Wu'anguo does. When you work for the people steadily, you don't need to inspire righteousness or slogans. The people will naturally follow you. When you don't do things for the people, no matter how great or noble you set your goals, no matter how tragic you say, you are just a bragging king in their eyes, a joke after dinner.

"When the five lakes and one river in the south were almost dug, the newly expanded embankment in the north was almost the same. At this time, God made trouble. Last year, the Yellow River poured floods south again and came down from the town of Wutou. The water, like mud porridge, mixed with thunder, broke through. Mr. Wu and his friends were guarding the lake day and night, fearing that the south embankment could not be held back. The north was high, and the government had the previous years of defense for the embankment. Even if it was flooded, it would not be too cruel.

As long as the Gaojiayan collapsed, everyone's hard work for several years was gone. In those days, the tooth man was guarding the head of the dam, and that place happened to be called Wujiadun. The name was Wujiadun. Several old men on the lake couldn't bear it and knelt down and begged him to leave. He didn't leave. He stood like a pouring rain like iron!" The boss of the boat was a little wet, and he stretched out his calloused back and wiped his eyes, and introduced the legend on the lake to Shao Yunfei with the hoarse noise.

"I guess God is afraid of a gentleman. The flood rose to the water diversion point, and obediently entered the Sanhe River, followed the river to Wuxia Lake, and then poured into the river quietly. Last year, the flood was the smallest time in our Huai River in decades. Afterwards, the government deducted Mr. Wu's money for building a dike and detained the disaster relief funds. It was also a silver note sent by Mr. Wu's friends from thousands of miles away to help everyone study. After that, more people came to find Mr. Wu, and everyone had the same name. I heard that there were even the emperor's people coming to persuade Mr. Wu to return to the court to be a great doctor (the official name of Fang Xiaoru who made a comeback in the retro style is very 'foresight', and he changed the name of a bachelor and other official name to a doctor), but Mr. Wu ignored it! If Mr. Wu did not pay attention to me, I would ignore it. After doing so much work, I would give a doctor and the same title as the waiter in Tulou. Isn't this obviously a pest?"

"That's right, the conscience of those guys in the court had been eaten by dogs." The guy on the boat interjected again and glared at Shao Yunfei, as if his conscience was also eaten by dogs.

"There was a guy like you two days ago. At first, he was dissatisfied with Mr. Wu. Everyone talked about Mr. Wu's benefits and he didn't like to listen to him. He squatted on the lake for two days, looked at what Mr. Wu had done, and left in shame." The boss of the boat glanced at Shao Yunfei, as if waiting for him to leave with a discouragement.

Shao Yunfei smiled at everyone, walked slowly to the bow of the boat, shouting at the dam from afar, "Hey, Lao Wu, what are you busy with..." The voice folded back and forth on the empty lake surface, jumping with the waves.

Wu Anguo raised his head and saw the familiar figure at the bow of the boat. Although it was a little blurry, he knew it was Shao Yunfei based on the outline. He happily raised the drawings in his hand and shook them back and forth: "It's Xiao Shao, what wind has blown you."

The ship boss and the guys were stunned. The helm who even forgot to grasp the direction of the ship. He stared at the iron hooked one-armed man in front of him, and then asked stammered for a while: "You, you are really that, that Shao, Shao, Master Shao, who was beaten so hard that he was so angry that he was in trouble."

"I've said it a long time ago. I'm Shao Yunfei, who is just a fake one, you just don't believe it." Shao Yunfei smiled friendly, and everything that happened on the lake made him feel happy.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of water in the reeds thorns, and a small boat rushed out quickly and headed straight for the embankment.

Shao Yunfei instinctively pulled to his waist. Before he could touch the musket, the peaceful lake surface was already broken.
Chapter completed!