After Mingzhu left, the system couldn't help asking: "His Royal Highness, can he really agree?"

"He should and should." Yinfeng shook his head, "It's time for him to choose between Gu and Big Brother."

"Why does Your Highness have to win him over?" the system asked curiously.His Highness's attachment to the Pearl is really rare, and he has been thinking about it for so many years.

Yinrong smiled meaningfully, "He is very useful."

Mingzhu has a lot of eyes and can sift things. If he is a helper, it will be much easier for him to do things in the future.Just like now that he wants to participate in the project of entering the river, if Mingzhu persuades him to go to Khan Ama, the matter will be completed.

Putting his chin on both hands, the system doubted: "But he likes to exploit so much, it's not easy to handle."

"Smart people can't make decisions arbitrarily, just put the benefits on the bright side and let them choose for themselves."

The system is not ashamed to ask, "What's the benefit of following you?"

Yinfeng's face froze, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "Follow Gu, and you will live forever."

"Tsk tsk tsk" the system continued to tease without fear of death, "Your Highness is really boastful, if you are deposed in the future, it will be bad luck to follow you."

"..." This guy is getting more and more presumptuous now.

Seeing that his face was livid, the system no longer canceled it, and instead asked seriously: "Your Highness, are you not afraid that your father will suspect you of forming a party for personal gain when you win him over? Didn't you deliberately stay away from Suo'etu in order to avoid suspicion?"

"He is a bright pearl, so naturally he is different from other people." Yinfeng said to himself, "Even if Khan Ama doubts it, he will suspect that he has brought Gu to ruin."

If it is said that the person who knows Mingzhu best in the court, it is naturally Khan Ama.And since Mingzhu became his master, Khan Ama saw that he was lying for the first time, didn't he always suspect that Mingzhu led him into trouble?

There was a sinister smile on Yinreng's face, and he, Khan Ama, would become more and more suspicious in the future.

Mingzhu stepped out of the palace wall, still thinking about what the prince said today.Those words were too explicit to allow him not to think too much.

Want to choose between the eldest brother of the prince?Mingzhu thought that he would never have this day, after all, Eldest Brother was the prince whom he had grown up with, and he had spent so much time on him all these years.

His original plan was to continue to maintain a friendly distance from the prince even if he alienated the elder brother. It is okay to buy a good one occasionally, but it must not be seen that he is on the side of the prince.Being wise and protecting yourself is the way to stand in line.

But now it seems that this plan will not work, the prince must let him show his horses and horses.

What exactly Mingzhu thinks, let's put it aside for a moment.Because Jin Fu, the chief engineer of the river channel, finally entered the palace to report on his work.

Kangxi met him in Qianqing Palace.Jin Fu has also been the chief engineer of the river channel for two years, and he can be regarded as dedicated to his duties and conscientiously, so his face is particularly hard-working.Seeing Kangxi, he neatly slapped his horseshoe sleeves and knelt down, perhaps because he always forgot to run around Shaanxi, the tone of his speech almost had a slight Guan Zhong accent.

Kangxi was a little bit amused to hear it. He had heard a lot of capital accents these years, and it was rare to have such a foreign speaker, and it sounded very different.He has always been satisfied with people who do things down-to-earth, so when he spoke, his tone was more gentle, "I also know that you have succeeded Hedao for a total of three years, and you will be blown to pieces by the wind in Guanzhong. Now you look good. Well, I'm relieved."

Jin Fu heard that this was a joke, and subconsciously touched his face.Because his face was too dark, it was hard to see whether he was embarrassed or not.He replied sternly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. I am in good health. It will not be a problem for your Majesty to be on official business for another 20 years."

But the more serious he is, the heavier the Guanzhong accent in his tone.

Kangxi was amused by him and laughed loudly. After laughing enough, he comforted him: "Take care of yourself. I'm still pointing at you to continue working hard on the banks of the Yellow River."

Jin Fu pursed his lips, but didn't answer the joke.

After the joke was over, the monarch and his subjects began to talk about serious matters.Kangxi gave him a seat, and after Jin Fu thanked him, he sat down with a golden knife, and the movement of raising his robe seemed very informal.Kangxi raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything about his rude behavior.Among civil servants, there are really few people with such incomplete etiquette.Just take it as a fresh look.

Jin Fu didn't notice his expression, took out another map from his sleeve, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, this time I came to Beijing, I just want to ask for an order again, and ask the emperor to approve the construction of the river dam that I have previously reported. thing."

Kangxi signaled Liang Jiugong to take it, "I have seen the scripture you posted, what is the current situation of the river?"

"Before I came here, I just asked someone to measure it. Compared with last year, the upper river channel has moved inward by more than thirty feet."

He was also talking about the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the section in Henan.

Kangxi recalled the river width reported last year, and asked: "Is it the flood season now?

"After winter comes the dry season"

"How are the people in Shaanxi today?"

"When I came here, I didn't see any victims of disasters fleeing in the territory. Presumably they all went to the south."

Kangxi took the map from Liang Jiugong, looked at it and said, "I'm still considering what you asked for, and I'm still a little undecided. I just want to ask you, if you don't build this dam, will it be affected? "

Jin Fu pondered for a moment, and said solemnly: "The Yellow River is already turbulent, and its flow is increasing day by day. If you don't block it in the middle and upper reaches, the downstream river will have too much sand and silt, and the lower river will be completely blocked. , the middle reaches completely dried up into a tidal flat.”

Guanzhong is not a fertile land in the first place, and it is mostly silt and sand. The wind and sand are already heavy. If tidal flats are added, the environment will be even worse.

After Kangxi listened, his face became a little dignified.The Yellow River is indeed of great importance. If it is not left unchecked, it may eventually become a serious disaster.

Jin Fu saw that he had not made an order, so he said anxiously: "I ask your majesty again, Yunchen finds someone to build a dam on the middle river during the dry season, so as to change the situation of the Yellow River."

Kangxi sighed, "Don't worry, I didn't say no."

Jin Fu's face froze, he was silent for a while, and finally asked in a muffled voice, "Is the emperor worried that you don't have enough money?"

Kangxi glared at him, "Will I send you that little money?"

Not to mention that now that there is an annual supply from the Russians, the national treasury is very full, not to mention repairing the river, he can afford to fill a full-fledged navy.

Just talking about building a dam is not something that can be explained clearly in a few sentences.The Yellow River is not a source of stability. It has been diverted several times over the centuries since there were records of river governance.He is worried that if the dam is built today, it will become useless in a few decades, and it will be a joke for future generations.

"Since there is money, why doesn't the emperor allow it?" Jin Fu poked his neck, looking a little unconvinced.

Kangxi laughed angrily at his expression, it was rare for someone to dare to be stubborn in front of him.

Kangxi asked: "What are you in a hurry for? I didn't say no."

"Since there is money, why is the emperor hesitating?" Jin Fu's anxious tone remained undiminished, "Now is the dry season, if the emperor agrees, I will go back tomorrow and find someone to measure the river."

He was really worried that the river course was different from other things. After this period, if he wanted to start construction, he would have to wait until next year.The one-year construction period was delayed in vain, and Heshang still doesn't know what will happen next year.

Kangxi ignored him, and ordered Liang Jiugong to bombard people, "Go back to the post and wait for three days. I will give you news in three days."

Jin Fu didn't own a house in Beijing, so every time he came to Beijing, he could only temporarily live in a post house.Kangxi felt sorry for his hard work and wanted to reward him, but he refused on the grounds that he didn't come to Beijing often.

Jin Fu wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Liang Jiugong.

But before he stepped out of the hall, Kangxi suddenly said, "Wait a minute."

Jin Fu hurriedly bypassed Liang Jiugong, "Did the emperor agree?"

Kangxi smirked, "If I agree to your conditions, will Prince Xu be the supervisor?"

Jin Fu was taken aback for a moment, but for a moment he didn't understand what the master meant.He has been an official for many years, and he hadn't met the prince a few times when he was young. He really knows very little about this successor of the Qing Dynasty.Jin Fu suspected that if the prince had a weird temper, he would not hire a supervisor for himself, but an ancestor.

Thinking of this, he also began to hesitate.Promise, maybe you will bring back an ancestor by the way, if you don't agree, then the dam will not be repaired?

He thought about it for a while, then raised his eyes to look up, and said boldly, "If the crown prince has the skills of an expert, I have nothing against it."

Kangxi snorted, isn't this an obvious refusal?

"Go and go, talk back in three days."

"My minister retire."

Liang Jiugong followed Lehe, and waited for Jin Fu to leave before asking: "The emperor really asked the crown prince to go?"

Kangxi straightened his face, "I haven't made up my mind yet."

His son said he could help, but he didn't quite believe it, nor was he willing to let his son actually help.Jin Fu looked at it and didn't really want outsiders to intervene. Kangxi couldn't help thinking, could it be that he wanted to see his son be severely rejected by Jin Fu?Judging from Jin Fu's stubborn attitude in court today, it is not impossible to hate the prince.

Thinking of that scene, he was really looking forward to it.

But Yinreng didn't know that just as he forced his Khan Ama's courtiers to stand in line with his front foot, he was kicked out by Khan Ama's back foot.

But even if we know, our princely highness will probably be overjoyed.After all, this is what he was looking forward to.

Jin Fu waited dryly in the post house for three days, and he was extremely anxious and uncomfortable.This is the characteristic of people who do things in a down-to-earth way. Once there is an idea in their mind, they will always be in fear if it doesn't come true.

He waited anxiously, but Yinreng enjoyed drawing pictures in his study every day.

He had finished watching the documentaries given to him by the system, and he began to watch other materials.There are still some principles and data that are not fully understood, so Yinfeng does not read other books every morning, but checks and calculates according to the drawings given by the system, and then asks the system to call out the current data of the Yellow River. Started simulating what the dam he wanted to build would look like.

Although Khan Ama hasn't agreed yet, he has to make two preparations.If he couldn't come to the scene in person, even if he forced Suo'etu or Mingzhu to recruit, he would also find someone to send the drawings to Jin Fu.

The system took the opportunity to tease him, "Did your Highness forget that when you sent Dai Zi the blueprint in the dark, you were caught by your father?"

At that time, His Royal Highness thought he was doing it a secret, but in fact, he had been discovered long ago without knowing it.He was also forced to take off a layer of vest.

Yinfeng had a dark face, "Heroes don't mention being brave in the past."

The system laughed loudly: "Hero, learn your lesson."

"... "

Neither Kangxi nor Yinfeng expected that Mingzhu finally made up her mind to belong to the prince's camp after a few days of entanglement.

It's a pity that before he played a role this time, Kangxi had already made up his mind to give his son a chance to practice and allow him to meddle in the river engineering work openly.

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