Yesterday, Li Ke had just received the news from the Dushui Supervisor, but the next morning, the urgent letters from various prefectures and counties in Huainan were delivered day and night to the table in Li Ke's study, and the land was piled up like a hill.

Chuzhou, Haozhou, Shouzhou, Hezhou, Xuanzhou and other prefectures and counties along the rivers, and even the Huai River in the north were not under his jurisdiction. Sizhou, which belongs to Henan Road, sent him an urgent letter, talking about the floods of the Huai River.

As Li Ke expected, although Li Ke was not a marriage officer and the matter of Huai River was not within his power, he was appointed as the Huainan Promotion and Demotion Envoy and was also the prince. No matter whether this matter is within his power or not, he would not escape from this matter.

After all, it is said that it is easy to enjoy the cool under the big trees. In the eyes of officials from all over the country, relying on Li Ke, the towering tree, is much easier than taking responsibility and risks themselves.

However, they reported the disasters in various places to Li Ke, but Li Ke was in trouble. Seeing the two stacks of memoirs piled up in front of him, he frowned.

"Report to Your Highness, the Shui Cao, the governor of Yangzhou, is engaged in Yuan Chengfan's request for a visit." Just when Li Ke was not sure and worried about it, the guards of the royal palace led him into the door and said to Li Ke.

Li Ke was not hydrological and didn't know how to control water. When Yuan Chengfan was an expert, Li Ke heard Yuan Chengfan asked for a meeting and immediately said, "Hurry up, please come in."

"No." The guard of the Wangfu responded and went down to lead Yuan Chengfan into the study.

"My minister Yuan Chengfan pays homage to Your Highness." Facing his benefactor, Yuan Chengfan did not dare to be careless at all. He entered the study and leaned over to worship.

Li Ke came forward in person, helped Yuan Chengfan up, and said to Yuan Chengfan: "Please get up quickly when Yuan is engaged."

Yuan Chengfan stood up, took out a memorial from his sleeve, presented it to Li Ke with both hands, and said to Li Ke: "Your Highness, after I returned to the yamen yesterday, I transferred the Huai River Water Book for nearly 20 years to study Huai River Water Water hydrology all night. This is what I learned last night, so I would like to ask Your Highness to read it."

Li Ke reached out to take the memorial from Yuan Chengfan, and looked down at the appearance of Yuan Chengfan's face. Sure enough, Yuan Chengfan's face looked a little pale and tired, and his eyes were also clearly visible to the naked eye. It was obviously caused by not sleeping all night last night.

Li Ke took the memorial from Yuan Chengfan, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for Yuan's hard work for the country and the people."

After Li Ke finished speaking, he was not in a hurry to open Yuan Chengfan's memorial, but pointed to the memorial beside him and said to Yuan Chengfan: "Maybe Yuan's worker guessed what these are?"

Yuan Chengfan looked at the memorials piled up on the side, and had already guessed in his mind, and replied: "But local officials have reported on floods?"

Li Ke nodded and said, "Yes, it is the report of local officials who reported floods. These local officials only care about their difficulties and do their best, but do not mention the solution. It makes it difficult for me to decide the priority."

Yuan Chengfan said: "Local officials have always been doing things, but your highness doesn't have to worry."

"Oh? Does Yuan have any good ideas for his work?" Li Ke asked after hearing Yuan Chengfan's words.

Yuan Chengfan replied: "Why do you have to read these memorials when the water control masters are the water conditions in various places?"

Li Ke looked at Yuan Chengfan's seemingly confident and asked, "What do Yuan thinks?"

Yuan Chengfan replied: "I think the primary key to curing the Huai River floods should be in Xuyi, Chuzhou."

"Xuyi? Why is this? Xuyi has Hongze Lake, which can provide water and flow. Isn't it the most important thing?" Li Ke asked in confusion after hearing Yuan Chengfan's words.

Xuyi was originally a county under Chuzhou, and Hongze Lake was even within Xuyi, so it was not considered a famous mountain or river. Yuan Chengfan didn't know how Li Ke knew about Hongze Lake, but he still said to Li Ke: "Hongze Lake is only more than ten miles in a radius. If it is still OK to gather in a small stream, it may be far from enough to transfer to Huai River."

More than ten miles?

When Li Ke heard this, he was slightly stunned at first, and then he remembered it.

The Hongze Lake in Li Ke’s memory is vast and radius of thousands of miles, but that is all five hundred years later.

There is no saying that the Yellow River will seize the road in the Huai River today, so there is no Hongze Lake, which has only been formed since the Northern Song Dynasty and has accumulated water for thousands of square meters. The current Hongze Lake is just a small moor in the middle and lower sections of the Huai River.

Seeing that Li Ke seemed a little stunned, Yuan Chengfan didn't know what he was thinking. He just thought he could not fully understand his meaning, so he continued to explain: "The Huai River starts from Tongbai, meets in Si and Yi in the east, and enters the sea in the east. The length of the Huai River is more than 2,000 miles. Among these more than 2,000 miles of Huai River, the most water level is the Xuyi section of Chuzhou."

Xuyi, Chuzhou.

After hearing Yuan Chengfan's words, Li Ke found the memorial of the Chuzhou Governor Fang An from this stack of high memorials.

"His Highness Jun Jian of the King of Chu, and the governor of Chuzhou Fang An, bowed: The heavy rains of the Yangtze River and Huai River, the Huai River and the canals surged, all of which were dangerous to break the dike. Both waters were the key flows of the world. If the dike broke, the disaster would not be the one in Chuzhou. It may extend to the Jianghuai River and the southeast half of the wall, or turn into a marsh country..."

Fang An’s memorial book didn’t write much, much less than those in other prefectures and counties. However, Li Ke looked at the contents of this memorial book. Although it was still in summer, Li Ke’s back felt a chill.

As Fang An said, Chuzhou is located in a dangerous place, and the Huai River and the canal meet here. If the two rivers burst and flood, it will not only be Chuzhou, or even Huainan, the granary of the Tang Dynasty, but also the entire Tang Dynasty will be in turmoil.

Although Guanzhong is known as a fertile land, it is narrow and the capital is no longer able to provide for itself every year. Otherwise, the former Emperor Yang of Sui, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan, and the Emperor Li Shimin would not have visited Luoyang every year, and brought a group of officials and imperial guards to eat the Dongdu.

Huainan transports nearly one million stones of grain to Guanzhong every year. If the Huai River floods, if there is no such million stone of grain this year, it will even cause turmoil in Guanzhong.

After reading the memorial of the governor of Chuzhou Fang An, Li Ke, he handed the memorial to Yuan Chengfan. Yuan Chengfan took the memorial handed over by Li Ke, looked at it, and said to Li Ke: "Your Highness, the words of the governor Fang are true, and there is no exaggeration. This matter should not be underestimated."

If the Huai River floods, Li Ke knows more clearly what this means later than Yuan Chengfan. Naturally, he dare not be careless or negligent. However, if all the water control is handed over to Fang An and other local prefectures and county officials, Li Ke is not very relieved.

Li Ke thought about this and suddenly had an idea in his mind, saying to Yuan Chengfan: "As Yuan Chengshi and Governor Fang said, the water relationship between Chuzhou is very important and cannot be neglected. I want to go to Chuzhou in person to supervise the water control in person. What do Yuan Chengshi think?"

If Li Ke went to Huainan in person, he would have his own benefits. First, Li Ke was the prince of the dynasty and the ambassador of the promotion and demotion of Huainan in charge of the ritual. Wherever he went, he would be like an emperor to come. If Li Ke went to Chuzhou, he would definitely inspire people. Second, Li Ke had a noble status. If he went there in person, he would definitely shock the young people. He could not only support Yuan Chengfan, make his orders possible, but also urge local officials not to slack off.
Chapter completed!