The fourth year of Chengping.
Early spring.
Ying Yuan personally named Cai Wenji as "Princess Jing" and made her live in "Wenhua Palace".
Three days later.
He summoned the six ministers and the left and right prime ministers to the Xuanzheng Hall.
At this moment, he was staring at a map hanging on the wall.
On the drawing, he drew a long red line with a cinnabar pen.
Discovered by those who care.
The red line starts from Hangzhou and ends in Jeju, Shandong.
After serving in the court for many years, everyone knows this very well.
Your Majesty summoned them here, so he must have something important to tell them about.
So, one by one, they began to look forward to it.
After a pause, Ying Yuan looked around at everyone and said softly, "My dear ministers, please stop standing and sit down."
Hearing the noise, several eunuchs came and brought over some chairs.
After everyone was seated, Ying Yuan slowly spoke:
"Except for attending court, I haven't gathered you together for a long time.
I believe many of you have already guessed that I have something to say today.
But before that, I want to ask you something.
Does anyone know how far it is from Hangzhou City in Jiangnan Road to Jizhou Prefecture in Shandong Road?"
As soon as the words fell.
Everyone began to whisper.
Finally, Cao Gong, sitting as steady as a mountain, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, if my prediction is correct, it is more than 5,300 miles."
The territory of this world is much larger than that of Ying Yuan's previous life.
After a pause, Ying Yuan smiled and nodded, "Yes, more than 5,000 miles.
After much deliberation, I decided to build a canal starting from Hangzhou, north to Jeju, west to Xianyang, and south to Lingnan.
I have calculated the total length of this canal, and it is approximately 16,000 miles, encompassing most of the Qin State."
As soon as the words fell.
All officials, including Cao Cao and Cai Jing, were shocked.
The first thing they thought of.
That is, for such a huge project, how much manpower and material resources are needed to complete it?
I'm afraid that all the tax revenue of the Qin Dynasty for several years will be spent on this.
If during the construction of the canal, Qin State suffered a natural disaster or was invaded by foreign enemies.
Then by then, we will be unable to fight back or respond!
This project is too big!
It can be said without hesitation that if we are not careful, we may even lose our country!
Therefore, the canal must not be built!
So they said one after another:
"Your Majesty...this..."
"Your Majesty, aren't you being a little hasty?"
"His Majesty..."
“…”
Ying Yuan had expected their opposition.
Since you are going to be incompetent and destroy the country.
Then it must be that the more you disagree with something, the more I want to do it.
Building the canal will cost a lot of money and manpower, but I still want to do it!
"I did not call you here today to seek your opinions.
Even if you don't agree, I will still build this canal.
Three days later, I want to see a detailed memorial on the construction of the canal.
Otherwise, I will offer your heads as a sacrifice to the heavens!"
Ying Yuan has already said this.
Naturally, they did not dare to resist openly.
...
After leaving Xuan Zheng Hall, they jointly requested to see Queen Daji.
He told the emperor that he wanted to build a canal.
When Daji heard this, she was also very surprised.
The Qin State does not have the same national strength as the Chu State.
If we continue like this, I'm afraid it won't be long before we face the crisis of national destruction.
Therefore, Daji went to Xuanzheng Hall to meet Ying Yuan without any hesitation and tried to dissuade him:
"Your Majesty, it's not impossible to build a canal, but it's just that our Great Qin is really overwhelmed by such a huge project from the beginning.
It would be better to proceed slowly, what do you think, Your Majesty?"
Anyone can see the benefits of building a canal.
Once the north and the south are connected, it will be a big step towards national prosperity rather than local prosperity.
After all, as the saying goes, if you want to get rich, build roads first.
River transportation is also a form of transportation!
This is just the visible profit, there are many more that cannot be seen.
But...
This project is indeed quite huge.
If you are not careful, it will cause complaints from the people, which will not be worth the loss!
Ying Yuan frowned and said, "If you want to persuade me about this, there is no need.
I must build this canal. I don't want to hear anything more from you now. Please leave!"
"His Majesty..."
"I told you to step back!"
Hearing this, Daji was silent for a while, then she bowed and said, "Yes, I will take my leave."
As soon as she left.
Ying Yuan was overjoyed.
OK.
You all oppose it, which means that building the canal will definitely damage the national strength.
Perhaps, the Qin Dynasty would perish like the Sui Dynasty recorded in previous history because of this canal.
Although this may not be the main reason.
But there are more ways to destroy the country than just building a canal!
...
After Daji returned to Kunning Palace, Cao Cao and others were not in a hurry to leave. They were waiting for news.
Seeing the former's somewhat distraught expression, they already knew that even the Queen could not stop His Majesty's determination to build the canal!
“My Lords, I apologize for not being able to persuade Your Majesty to postpone the canal construction plan.
However, since Your Majesty has decided to build the canal, I hope that you gentlemen can do your best to help Your Majesty.
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