Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 540
The seventh year of Chu Li.

According to the best expectations, Gan Ning and the voyage navy should have returned last year, but there is still no news.

Not only Bai Tu and the court, but also the people have repeatedly expressed concerns, and...under the guidance of thoughtful people, while worrying, the reaction is also very strange.

Although no one dared to directly hold Baitu accountable. After all, this rhythm could not be carried out and he could easily be tied up and sent to the government. However, voices such as "Privy Envoy resigns" and "Remove Lu Zhutou" gradually emerged.

After all, the Navy is also a subordinate of the Privy Council, and the land reclamation army needs to train many civilian development skills, so half of it is considered to be under the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Now it is time to place the blame for the navy's loss of contact on Lu Bu and Lu Su.

Lu Su even discussed with Bai Tu privately that if necessary, he could "resign as an official" on the surface for half a year to avoid the limelight and vent the public's grievances.

Previously, they had been promoting the glory and achievements of the navy and the land reclamation army. At this time, the [-] navy and tens of thousands of the land reclamation army were "disappeared", which naturally caused a shock among the people.

To a certain extent, this can be regarded as "unity of power and responsibility" - other princes have never associated the army with glory among the people. Naturally, even if they are destroyed by the regiment, only the families of the generals will be restless, and for As far as the Chu State is concerned, once there is any major policy or war failure, the people will feel the same as soon as they hear about it.

Even though this kind of "empathy" sometimes develops in directions that the court does not want to see, and sometimes is even exploited, but... this is still Chu's advantage, even one of its biggest advantages.

Compared with other princes, or compared with the military and political construction in the feudal era, it is undoubtedly a more modern system that effectively mobilizes the enthusiasm of the people and makes them share the honor with the army and the court.

It can not only solidify the morale of the military, but also truly stabilize the hearts of the people, instead of using the hearts of the gentry and the belt to represent the hearts of the people.

This is why Gu Yanwu in the late Ming Dynasty shouted "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world", but his mobilization of the people was still very limited. After the Qing troops entered the customs, the resistance among the people was not fierce - after all, the gentry took the lead in surrendering. Well, what do ordinary people have to do with which court belongs to which court and whose land is farmed?

On the contrary, later generations have a high degree of recognition of this sentence!
True public support cannot be inspired by shouting slogans or talking about feelings temporarily, but must be accumulated over time...

The State of Chu now has the confidence to say, "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world." It is also the only country that has the confidence. If the war situation goes wrong and the city is captured by other princes, although their common people will not die one by one, they will still hold the right to oppose them. The princes who are loyal to Chu and have the heart to restore Chu.

However, Bai Tu refused Lu Su's resignation - after all, it was obvious that someone had bad intentions, so there was no need to choose this simplest and crudest method.

Instead, we first arranged a wave of newspapers to correct the irresponsible statement that "the navy did not return as scheduled"...

Soon on the streets of Jinling, people who had read some books began to spontaneously refute the rumors.

"Why didn't Dudu Gan come back? Don't take it out of context. The two years mentioned by the Navy at the time were the 'best case', including not only personnel, but also factors such as weather and ocean exploration results... In fact, it is two to five years." Normally, if there is an unexpected situation, such as discovering an important target, it may even be later!
"That's right, it's only been over two years now, so there's no need to worry too much."

"Huh? It turns out that the Hanshui Weir is about to be repaired, and the water storage acceptance can be done this year?"

"I heard that the Han River Weir is like a tall mountain. I don't know if it is true or not..."

"It's actually an advantage to Zhang Lu of Hanzhong. Tsk tsk. I heard that our Chu country wanted to build weirs at that time, but they were still dissatisfied!"

While refuting the rumors, Bai Tu also tried his best to shift people's attention to the Hanshui Weir, which will be completed this year. Compared with the Navy, which has no news, the Hanshui Weir will definitely be completed this year.

The dam body has been partially filled and the sluices are ready. After that, we only need to fill in the guide holes and guide canals that were previously developed to facilitate the project, so that the Han River can return to its original path and start to store water. It will soon be possible to see to the effect.

In terms of the scale of the project, the Hanshui Irrigation Project is even greater than the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project. After all, this is a "masterpiece" that took four to five years to complete even after having cement, concrete, and enough steel production to "squander" a large number of laborers. "!
Li Yan is planning to carry out water storage acceptance during the summer flood season - if the main body of the Hanjiang River weir and several branch weirs on its tributaries can still bear the burden and play a role during the maximum flow of the year. The effect of raising the water level can basically be declared a success.

Chu State will take this matter as the main civil guidance in the first half of the year...

Anyway, if there was a problem with this matter, he would not be unjust if he killed Li Yan directly. Moreover, judging from Li Yan's report, he was still very confident in Hanshui Dayan!

In addition, in the past few years, most of the workers sent by Zhang Lu to assist in the construction of the weir had "believed" in Chu learning and had no intention of going back.

Some of the Tianshi Tao believers who originally came to look for Huang Tianji switched to Chu School, and even... some people voluntarily joined the Enlightenment Department, willing to continue as Tianshi Tao believers, and pretended to return to Hanzhong to resume their lives!

At this time, the construction of the Han River Weir had been completed, but Huang Tianji was still missing, not only from the Hanzhong side, but also from the Chu State.

Shortly after the New Year's Day, after Bai Tu received letters from Cao Cao and Liu Bei, he first formulated a further strategy against the Marquis of Shu, and then... Lu Bu specially chose a good day to come to Bai Tu for a drink.

Bai Tu naturally opened the palace door to welcome Lu Bu. At the same time... Bai Tu also had some doubts in his heart: The invitation from his adoptive father was very sudden. What seemed to be going on?
"Has your adoptive father been in trouble lately?" Bai Tu first asked Lu Lingqi.

"I didn't realize it. My aunt seems to be in a good mood recently..." Lu Lingqi seemed to be more "familiar" with Diao Chan. Then she seemed to think of something and continued: "By the way! General Zhang seemed to have visited his adoptive father several times recently. Once I also saw that my aunt didn't have a good attitude toward him... Ahem, maybe it's because she's not feeling well." Halfway through her words, Lu Lingqi remembered that Bai Tu's "secretary" was still there.

"General Zhang" naturally refers to Zhang Yang...

After all, Zhang Yang is Zhang Chunhua's uncle, and Lu Lingqi can't say anything bad about him, but everyone knows that Zhang Yang is Lu Bu's "relative".

After Zhang Chunhua heard that the matter about the Privy Envoy might be related to his uncle, his expression was not abnormal, and he did not even stop the pen in the secretary, but some doubts and... not a good premonition arose in his heart!

(End of this chapter)