Zhao Zhen’s IQ cannot be underestimated behind it.

He also knew the secret that the new canal is the main body of the river management project, but it is very difficult.

The first difficulty lies in the project, with a large number of investigations, several sand storage tanks, and the final direction of the canal. The most difficult thing is the river embankment. It is impossible for river embankment to be built in all places. If that happens, not to mention 200 million scattered pieces, 300 million scattered pieces may not be enough, and it will slow down the progress of the project.

The river embankment needs to be built, and depends on the specific situation. Some places are like the river walls of the Yellow River, and must be built tall and thick. Some are only built in a hurry, while others do not need to be built. Not only depends on the terrain, but also on the convergence of rivers around the river water and the possible future water flow of each section.

This difficulty will also cause the relevant officials to worry about.

But it doesn't matter. No matter who goes down, it's definitely better to build more river embankments and raise them a little, rather than wanting that something happens to it. As long as it is not done too much, will officials hold them accountable for the waste in the future? After the water is released, moderate repairs will be carried out, and the error will not be large, and officials will not hold them accountable.

The key is the second difficulty.

A new canal came up, went down to Yangzhou, and reached Cangzhou. It passed by more than a thousand miles, all of which were economically developed in the Song Dynasty. This canal further promoted economic development and facilitated irrigation and water conservancy regulation for people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. However, the cargo land that was dug through would inevitably lead to serious disputes.

Not to mention such a long canal, it is just a small Jiangdongwei. The merger of the smallwei or the forcibly demolishing the smallwei that blocks the river channel is conducive to the safety of the wheat fields and the waterways. It is beneficial to everyone, but it can be implemented in practice? Many main households do bad things, either directly confront the government, or unite to fight with officials, or sue the capital, which is full of ugly things. It is just a Jiangdongwei. Think about it, how many similar disputes will arise in the Grand Canal that is more than a thousand miles long?

But why did Zhao Zhen think that Zheng Langzhi is good at making use of it?

Who is Ouyang Xiu? That is the sudden entry that won the ministers of the court and even Xixia. How could you care about these powerful and powerful people? They have also beaten them to death.

Moreover, Ouyang Xiu's current reputation itself has a suppressive effect.

However, he clearly saw Ouyang Xiu's displeasure and hesitation after hearing the appointment.

This made Zhao Zhen feel strange. Ouyang Xiu knew about water conservancy and had always cared about the Yellow River. He understood one, cared for two, cared for three, made contributions and benefited the people of the country. Why not be happy? Look at the two eyebrows frowned.

Zheng Lang continued to give the order because the new canal project was huge, and there were many appointed officials, including He Tan, Hu Su, Xiang Chuanshi, Sima Guang, Wang Anshi and Zheng Lang, all of whom were besold on the new canal.

More than one hundred officials were allocated.

There are more officials, but they are not qualified to enter here. There are appointments, just a decree.

All the people went in and out, but Zhao Zhen did not leave.

Zheng Lang smiled slightly and asked, "Your Majesty, what else do you have to give?"

Zhao Zhen said worriedly: "I am a little displeased when I see Ouyang Qing."

"Your Majesty is busy now?"

“Not very busy.”

"Okay, I will tell your Majesty a story."

"what?"

“Its name is the fantasy drift of the boy Pi.”

Because of the rapid development of navigation, it is not too difficult to listen to this story now, and everyone has heard of Yaozhu countries, but they are not familiar with it. With a little modification, it seems that it can become the real thing that happened at this time.

Zheng Lang Kai said that the issue of religion in the movie can be discussed, but it cannot be discussed in the UK, nor can it be discussed in RI investigators, but it is enough to change it.

All the others are loyal to the original movie and are told one by one.

Zhao Zhen listened to the fantasy story with relish, but when he heard the second truth, he felt a little sad. After the talk, Zheng Lang asked: "Your Majesty, do you believe that story is the real truth?"

Zhao Zhen sighed: "Second."

The first one is full of magnificent imagination and beautiful, but it is not very realistic. The second one is closer to the real escape experience. Then he said: "Although Ping An Supervision brings a lot of money to the country every year, it is too hard."

Zheng Lang would not tell stories to him easily, and it was not Zheng Lang's intention. He thought Zheng Lang was giving advice. Although Ping An Supervision brought a lot of money to the court, ship employees died in shipwrecks every year. This money must be cherished.

Zheng Lang shook his head: "I did not talk about Ping Anjian, but just a story. In fact, neither of the two stories told by the Lord are true, and there is also a third story."

"oh."

"At the beginning of the story, I repeatedly said that the young Pi believed in three religions, so his father said that if you believe in anything, you would not believe in anything. The young Pi was not a devout believer, and religion was just a safe haven for him, and could even be used as an excuse for killing.

"The floating island is too illusory. Ping Anguan has discovered thousands of islands, all kinds of strange animals and plants. Some of them live in ingots. However, there will be no clear lake in Baiyao. At night, it will be divided into acid. Such islands will never appear in the world. Its outline is like a female body, but it is actually a metaphor, the mother's corpse!

"In the second story, the chef threw his mother's body into the sea. It was too wasteful. He had already eaten the corpse of a sailor. Why didn't he eat the corpse of a teenager's mother? The tiger did not refer to any one, but to the potential beast in the teenager's heart. Seeing his mother die tragically, he rushed forward fiercely and killed the chef.

"The young Pi floated alone on the sea, and was knocked away by a whale. She had to reach out to the corpse of the sailor and the chef. After the two corpses were eaten, the young Pi experienced painful torture and hunger struggle. The faith was destroyed by the storm and had to feed on the corpse of her mother. The floating island, which was like a god, was a symbol of the mother. She protected her son with her life during her lifetime, and continued to feed her son with her body after her death.

"At the beginning of the story, his love in Anan's score danced a very beautiful dance, which is metaphor for the forest being a lotus. In the floating island forest, the truth is revealed. The lotus is opened, and it is the mother's teeth. It is maternal love and vitality... So when the young Pi saw the teeth, he resolutely pushed the remaining body of his mother into the sea, and even if he was buried in the sea, he was willing to do so. He tied the bracelet sent by Anan Di to his mother, which means saying goodbye to the past. After getting ashore, he was rescued, and the tiger disappeared, and the beast in his heart truly disappeared. In fact, he did not dare to tell the truth, which means it is still there and has been buried in his heart. Therefore, the tiger roared at the end of the story."

There are thousands of good movies. As a otakus, only two movies touched him, one was a sea pianist and the other was a teenager. He was always on his hard drive, but at this time it was in his mind, so he spoke it out without any difference from the movie.

Zhao Zhen carefully recalled the story Zheng Lang just said.

When I heard the third cruel truth and the fantastic and magnificent description just now, I suddenly had a cold war on my whole body.

He said softly: "Empress."

Zheng Lang regretted Zhao Zhen when he drank tea. The biggest tragedy was that his son died young and he never met his biological mother in his life.

After a while, Zhao Zhen woke up from his aftertaste and said, "Zheng Qing, what are you going to say?"

"Your Majesty, is Lu Yijian's article written well? Is Lu Zongdao's article written well?"

"It's good."

"It can be considered good, but compared with the current ministers in the court, can they be considered the top one?"

"No," Zhao Zhen replied without hesitation.

"Because of Your Majesty's diligence and example, he can tolerate ministers. Now the Song Dynasty is becoming more prosperous and strong, and the ministers in the court are even more written in clusters of articles. Ouyang Xiu ridiculed Bao Zheng for having less knowledge, but at least in writing articles, Bao Zheng is far inferior to Ouyang Xiu. The country is rich, the people live and work in peace, and the ministers write well, with stars shining brightly, and beautiful like a fantasy world, like a dream. But if this beautiful veil is unveiled, what will it be? It will be an extremely cruel truth."

"Where is cruel?"

"After a few days of death, your Majesty will know the answer when you are about to leave the capital. However, I have a request to lead the ministers of the two governments to visit me again. Of course, I will not take Your Majesty to the people's homes to actually inspect it."

"Is there anything wrong?"

"Yes, there will be a very interesting experiment."

Speaking of this, there is nothing worth talking about, but Zhao Zhen still sat there, carefully recalling the story Zheng Lang just said.

Zheng Lang would not tell stories to him for nothing, nor was he a jester. He had his metaphor for telling stories, although Zhao Zhen had not yet understood what the cruel truth Zheng Lang said was.

I sat for a long time before I returned to the palace.

In the evening, Zhao Zhen brought his ministers to the Zheng family again.

Zheng Lang had already prepared, and this time he did not deliberately ask for ingredients or ordinary ingredients from Fanlou, so that Zhao Zhen would eat more at ease.

However, Zheng Lang deliberately invited some visitors and some Taoist priests.

Han Qi was furious and said, "Xingzhi, what did you ask them to do?"

These Taoist priests are all famous gods in the capital, but they are gods in the eyes of the people, and nothing is in Han Qi's eyes. Han Qi was angry, and more than a dozen Taoist priests and immortals dared not speak out.

"Zhigui, please believe me." Zheng Lang said lightly.

Han Qi held back his anger and sat down.

Zheng Lang looked at more than a dozen Taoist priests and said, "Daughters, ancient alchemists would make them live forever, which led to the Qin Emperor and Han Wu of the Han Dynasty to delay government affairs and harm the country. Li Shimin even took Hu Monk's immortal pill to death. I don't believe this immortal pill, but can there be elixirs that strengthen the body and harmless to the body?"

Most Taoist priests nodded.

No one dares to say that if you live forever.

However, strengthening the body and invigorating the harmless pills seemed to be not difficult to deal with. Moreover, while Zheng Lang spoke, he looked at Zhao Zhen worriedly, and all had a misunderstanding. Zheng Lang wanted to ask for pills for the emperor. In fact, he also heard some rumors that the emperor begged Taoist priests to refine pills in the palace to eat. However, he had no way to open up all the joints and could not offer pills to the emperor. He was even more afraid that the ministers would be long-winded, so he had to jealous of the imperial Taoist priests.

It is rare to have an opportunity. First, some Taoist priests nodded, and then all Taoist priests nodded.

Being a god, you can escape from the grains, keep the courageous, starve to death, and who is afraid of whom? Besides, is it helpful to you? Who can verify this?

Zheng Lang said again: "I am leaving the capital soon. How long will it take to die? Can I provide me with edible pills for one and a half years?"

Seeing different things, the levels of the problems you think are different.

Several prime ministers already felt that Zheng Lang had the intention and looked at Zhao Zhen. But these Taoists didn't know, so they had a misunderstanding. They thought that the opportunity was rare, so they said in a difficult situation: "I'm afraid the time is too tight."

It is not easy to refine elixirs. It also needs to be colorful. You have to refine mercury to make your face look good, or to refine some inexplicable alloys to make the pills golden. That is a good pill.

"I know that time is tight, so I will give you five thousand dollars immediately. If you set up more alchemy furnaces and buy more, I will have a tighter time and I will not be able to delay it."

Five Thousand Sauce is not a small number, and there is a greater significance behind it. Once the pill is selected and given to the emperor, he will become a success.

First, some Taoists felt embarrassed, and time was too tight, but they said one after another: "Dare to refuse to obey the order."

"Okay, I'll wait for good news for you." Zheng Lang asked Cui Xian to take out five thousand silk sluts and hand them over to the Taoist priests. Those who know the inside story were that five thousand silk sluts were not small numbers, and Cui Xian felt a little painful.

The Taoist priest left, and Zhao Zhen asked strangely: "Zheng Qing, what are you going to do?"

"An interesting experiment." Zheng Lang said.

I don’t want to reveal the answer for the time being, so I will talk about it after the experiment is completed.

This is also a temporary idea that Zheng Lang had when he heard that Zhao Zhen started eating meatballs.

There will be consequences when there are causes. The inner palace cuckolded Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen did not dare to take too much C medicine and would harm his body. So he took the small meatballs refined by Taoist priests and did not seek immortality. Zhao Zhen did not reach this point, but wanted to strengthen his body. When his body kept up, the quality of sexual intercourse would improve.

But what are the consequences?

The next year, I took a lot of elixirs and didn't even want to say anything. The ministers reported the matter, but they just nodded their heads. The minister Wang Tao was right-right, and saw that the situation was a little anxious, so he proceeded to say: "The king's words are accepted by all the ministers and ministers. Now, there is no small or big thing in politics, and they all depend on the Secretary of the Secretariat. Your Majesty has nothing to do. Is it a way to take the lead?"

The situation is very similar to the constitutional system of the kings in later generations. The emperor left no matter what, it was all ministers who were doing things. Whether it was done well or not, can be seen if Zhao Xu fainted.

It was not Zhao Zongshi's mistake. Apart from that crazy thing, Zhao Zongshi was fine in other aspects. He also wanted to reform and did some positive things. However, the accumulated problems have been accumulated since the late Zhao Zhen period and cannot be changed, which led to Zhao Xu seeing the serious imbalance of the country's income and expenditure, and Wang Anshi was also anxious.

The role played by Maruko in the middle is of great significance.
To be continued...