Ji Hu Da was shocked, but Wei Duoyou spoke again: "If our army wants to defeat the sacred army, we must first consolidate the foundation and then attack in one fell swoop! If we do not consolidate the foundation, even if we win, we will not be able to eradicate the sacred army, and we will eventually be entangled in generations."

Is this a satirizing the strategic mistakes of the previous kings of the Great Zhou Dynasty? Ji Hu endured the unhappiness in his heart and left the border camp with the determination of "doubt you doubt others, don't doubt others."

After leaving the northern border and heading south, Ji Hu immediately patrolled all parts of Guanzhong. At this time, the civilians in Guanzhong were all over the country. Among the villages, except for the patients and the elderly and weak who were really unable to move, nine out of ten rooms were empty. At this time, Ji Hu had to inspect only two major events:

First, have officials from all over the country distributed river and canal grain to the elderly and weak in a timely and sufficient manner, and have there been any evil policies that starve people to death?

The second thing is, are the left-behind officials and lieutenants patrolling carefully, and are there any evil examples of refugees and bandits taking the opportunity to plunder the void villages?

At the end of the first month, Ji Hu's horse team passed through one deserted village after another, and entered Guanzhong with difficulty. After working hard for days, he finally fell ill. Back to Haojing, the Imperial Physician Order took three old doctors to watch the emperor take medicine every day. Although Ji Hu did not delay the daily handling of official documents, he could not walk around. He was so irritable that when he saw the Imperial Physician and the Medicine Cup, his face turned gloomy.

At this moment, Ji Hu's biggest concern was the progress of the canal. Although he knew that the prosperity and fortune would be smooth, everything would go smoothly, he was always worried and unable to feel relaxed. After all, he had never been to the canal. How big is it to be laid by all economic ministers? How much benefit can it be after it was completed? He never saw it, and he always felt uneasy if he didn't go through it personally.

According to Rongyi's original plan, the Zhou king's priority was to stabilize the overall situation. As for rivers and canals, they would go as soon as they were on the water ceremony, and there was no need to inspect the rest of the day. Ji Hu knew clearly that the reason why Rongyi didn't want him to inspect the rivers and canals was also a painstaking effort. First, it was because he realized that he was too busy and did not want to worry him; second, if he went to inspect, there would be many additional arrangements and disturbances, which would be unfavorable to the construction period.

But he really wanted to go and see it. After thinking about it over and over again, Ji Hu made a decision: Before the water ceremony, he must go to the river and the canal to see it with his own eyes.

After the opening ceremony in early March, Ji Hu immediately ordered secretly: The light cart was simple and headed straight to the Laoshui River Canal. Rui Liangfu carried out the itinerary and sent a courier to inform Rong Yi. However, Ji Hu said, don’t disturb anyone, and it’s natural to be natural. The important thing is to see it yourself. Rui Liangfu thought that this trip was in the hinterland of the royal capital and all parties could take care of it, so he no longer insisted.

He mobilized the original crew members who often followed the inspection tour, and Rui Liangfu was scheduled to be on the third day of the third month. Before leaving, Ji Hu still felt that there were too many people and horses, and ordered that as long as Rui Liangfu and Qi Zhong and five royal city soldiers follow, they would not ride the king's carriage, they would all ride horses. Rui Liangfu was nervous, but could not be stubborn, so he had to instruct a knight who left behind to report to the eunuch Jia Xiangji to answer, and then hurriedly got on the horse to chase the King of Zhou and his party.

In the early morning, the eight horses left the north gate of Haojing and let the horses go for about an hour before they saw clear and clear water. They walked upstream along the river. After more than an hour, the section of the lunar slope was over and entered the vast mountain forest.

Rui Liangfu pointed out that the green mountain standing on the east bank of the east bank of the Rakushui River was the Hukou construction site. The mountains, forests, rivers and valleys were rugged and difficult to walk. Ji Hu ordered the horses to be left to be taken care of by a knight, and the other six people followed him up the mountain.

Ji Hu was prepared for this. He wore a knight's soft armor, a refined long sword on his waist, and a special horse whip. He did not wear a cloak that was eye-catching and easy to stumbling, which was almost no obvious difference from the rider who traveled along the mountain. He rode the long sword to thorns and shrubs to find a way. The horse whip sometimes threw it on the trunk to borrow strength. Without Qi Zhong's hand, he walked lightly and neatly.

After a while, a large tent camp appeared among the trees, with several dark and dirty flags floating, but they were empty and difficult to find.

After walking through the camp for a while, I saw five or six old men busy making meals in front of several earthen stoves. The forest was filled with smoke and a strange smell. Rui Liangfu walked over to ask an old man, saying that this was behind the gourd, and that it could go down to the canyon when it reached the top of the mountain. This was a camp of thousands of people, and the assigned work was to take care of the water drainage outlet that had been opened. As for the smoke? The old man smiled and said, "You will know when you go up and look."

"This taste is so weird! Is it sour and sour, is it brewing wine?" Qi Zhong shouted.

"Let's go! Go up and take a look." Ji Hu strode up the mountain.

When I reached the top of the mountain, I suddenly saw another scene. A forest surrounded by rocks on my left hand, and it was obviously a water diversion outlet that had been opened and temporarily closed. The canyon on the east side was steaming and white smoke, and there were sometimes a sky-high fire and jumping in the smoke. The sour and grey smell became much stronger than when I was just halfway up the mountain.

In the smoke-filled canyon, there were jingling hammers and continuous and exciting horns. It was impossible to guess what was happening in this canyon?

Rui Liangfu looked at the unfamiliar mountain and said, "It is best to find a river and canal official to lead the way. The king is waiting for me, and I will find someone to come and not tell Rongyi."

Ji Hu waved his hand: "No need. It's not the three mountains and five mountains, can you still get lost? Walk down and see it yourself."

Suddenly, a high-pitched mountain song flew out from the mountainside, swaying through the clouds and fog.

"What a song!" Rui Liangfu couldn't help but exclaim.

Ji Hu's eyes were bright and he didn't say anything. He hurried down the mountain. After walking about an arrow, he saw a big tree surrounded by smoke in the middle of the mountain. Under the tree was an old man with white hair and a dark and beautiful village girl. The old and young were pointing at the canyon and laughing loudly, happily as if they were immortals outside the world.

Ji Hu strode over and asked, "Is this young lady singing just now?"

The village girl echoed and giggled: "Yes, aren't singing well?"

Ji Hu said: "Okay! Is it a song made by the young lady?"

The village girl giggled again: "I just sing. The lyrics were compiled by my grandfather."

The old man with white hair and hair smiled and said, "General, I am not messing around, I am a bunch of old brothers on the construction site. To be honest, it is all the words of our people."

Ji Hu nodded repeatedly: "That's right, otherwise they can let you sing?"

The old man nodded happily: "The general is a sensible person!"

Ji Hu asked with a smile: "Can you calculate the work even if you sing?"

The old man said with emotion: "The general doesn't know that my grandfather and grandson were originally stone workers. He sang, but he wanted to have fun when he was off work. It happened that Lord Rongyi inspected the construction site every day. Once, he heard my granddaughter singing. He praised me and forced my grandson out of the work camp and specially composed songs and sang, saying that he was teaching everyone to grow up and was excited to listen!"

Ji Hu laughed: "Okay! Rong Yi has a solution, both the old man and the young lady have made contributions."

The old man suddenly pointed to the canyon: "Look at General, look, you're going to break the last three pillars!"

Village girl Yila Jihu: "The general comes here and sees it clearly. Grandpa, be careful."

"Okay! I'll see it too." Ji Hu walked along with the village girl and walked under the big tree on the cliff.

The old man smiled with sigh: "The general is lucky! If it weren't for today, I'm afraid you wouldn't see such a wonder in your life."

At the foot of Ji Hu and the village girl, there was a hawk-beak stone hanging out of the sky under the big tree. Ji Hu thought roughly, about two arrows from the bottom of the valley. Although there were smoke, it was clear that it was clear to the bird's eye view of the canyon.

From a high point, a wide channel had already bloomed in the canyon, snow-white, like a snow valley among the smokey green mountains. In the middle of the channel, three bare gray stones stood, squatting like three blue-gray elephants. At this time, a group of shirtless men were constantly carrying thick tree trunks and chopping firewood around the rocks. In a short while, the strong men had already built three tall firewood mountains around the rocks.

As the Chaishan was piled up, three other strong men each carried a big-bellied pot of pottery jar and swept the cans of black and shiny juice at Chaishan. Ji Hu understood that this must be fierce tinder oil. But he didn't understand how to crush this huge "stone elephant" with strong tinder oil?

"Rise the fire—" a long shout from the high platform beside the channel.

With this call, a loud sound of war drums came from the high platform, and a team of shirtless men each held a thick turbulent torch to surround Chaishan. Another drum sounded, and the strong men's turbulent torches were neatly divided into three points: one piece was thrown to the top of Chaishan, one piece was stuffed into the bottom of Chaishan, one piece was

*** Chaishan's belly is as fast and neat as the soldiers in the battle formation.

Suddenly, a fire rose and red smoke rushed straight to the mountainside. On the rocks of the mountain, Ji Hu and the village girl both coughed violently. The fire was raging in the canyon, and the fire burned for half an hour. When the fire was extinguished, the thick ash slid down, and the three blue rocks in the channel suddenly turned into three red and translucent volcanoes, which was spectacular and gorgeous to make people amazed.

"Viol--" A hoarse roar echoed through the canyon on the high platform of the channel.

"The final pass is passed, and the hydraulic engineer has personally ordered it!" the village girl shouted happily.

Ji Hu looked at it intently and saw that more than a dozen cloud cars were quickly pushed out of the ditches, surrounding three volcanoes. Each cloud car quickly climbed up a group of shirtless men and stood on each floor of the ladder. At the same time, more than a dozen shirtless men had already lined up under the car, and one by one, one by one, one by one, passed them on to the cloud car like flowing water.

Several strong men at the top of the cloud car shouted and raised the pot of the ship high. Then a continuous stream of golden vinegar poured onto the red and transparent volcano. Suddenly, thick white smoke rushed straight to the sky, and a thunderbolt exploded in the white smoke, like a burst of thunder.
Chapter completed!