[This extra chapter also needs to be refreshed in the early morning~2023.6.6 "Collection of the Seventy-two Hours of the Moon Order": "On May Day, it is said that the grain with awns can be planted."]
When I was very young, I felt that the world was not good.
Famine, war, killing.
The average life span of a person is only 31 years.
Many people never had a bite of clean wheat rice until they died.
The most devastating thing is a disaster.
Floods hit, and the mountains and plains were filled with wailing; drought and locust plagues, and the despair of no harvest;
"Zuo Zhuan·Xuan Gong Fifteenth Year" once recorded: "The widower sent Yuan to complain about his illness, saying: 'I will change my son to eat, and I will dissect the bones to cook'."
When people are in famine, they cannot be called human beings. How can they still care about courtesy? All morals have become corrupt and they are worse than dogs and pigs.
White bones are exposed in the wild, and people die of hunger everywhere.
How can a person become a person?
Why do we have such a hard time?
Isn't there a solution?
I started thinking about this when I was very young.
I don't like complexity.
So it was easy to figure it out.
——Since people will starve to death, it must be because they don’t have enough food.
——Since there is not enough food, it must be that there is not enough land to grow food.
——Since there is little fertile land, it must be because we are not doing enough irrigation.
And on a sunny afternoon, I read the bamboo slips from Qin State, on which were written some sacrificial texts praising the virtues of Dayu.
Dayu is the common master of the world, and he is also the master of water control that turns sparse water into blockage.
It is said that he visited his house three times without returning. It is said that he changed the face of flooding in the Yellow River Basin. It is said that his projects benefited tens of thousands of people.
Tens of thousands of people have been given new hope and improved by the success of flood management.
As I was scrolling down the page, a person's name caught my eye.
Li Bing.
Accompanied by his deeds
Li Bing set up a stone man's water gauge, excavated shoals, dredged waterways, built irrigation and navigation projects such as Wenjing River, Baimu River, Luoshui, Mianshui, repaired cable bridges, and dug salt wells.
I am fascinated by the Dujiangyan water conservancy project built by Li Bing, the governor of Shu County, and his son Li Yu.
The hot wind blew in front of me, and the swaying light and shadow of the long and slender leaves created a river on my bamboo slips, and the knot of the bamboo slips was like a dam.
I have never been to Qin, but now Dujiangyan in Shu has become a symbol calling me.
I immediately found the teacher, but he told me: Li Bing has been dead for twenty years.
Twenty years have passed since King Qin Zhaoxiang's reign.
Li Bing changed the irrigation of the entire southwest water system to the plains, benefiting not just tens of thousands of people, but affecting thousands of future generations. His Dujiangyan Irrigation System transcended the significance of the times.
I watched the fellow disciples and brothers around me who were obsessed with politics, respected in writings, willing to expound their own theories, and traveled among countries in search of an ideal country and world.
But I could never get involved.
I can't listen to what my teacher Xunzi said
In order to persuade students like us who seem to be confused all day long, he also wrote "Encouraging Learning".
To be honest, I didn't listen at all.
I don’t understand politics, I don’t understand scholars, let alone which doctrine I belong to.
I was like the kind of student in a class who strayed from serious teaching.
My senior brothers once thought that I was not yet enlightened, so they wanted to teach me to become their fellow travelers.
Perhaps in modern terms, I may look like a fool, but the senior brothers who looked after me were all Xunzi's proud disciples, and they were also famous figures in history.
I have three senior brothers who are very close, one is named Han Fei, one is named Li Si, and the other is named Zhang Cang.
It is no exaggeration to say that they have influenced an era and even the future.
Senior Brother Han Fei, he is from South Korea like me. Maybe because we are fellow students, he naturally thought that I would go back to Korea with him after I completed my studies in the future, so he took great care of me.
I like Han Fei for a very simple reason. He is so good-looking, and he is a member of the Korean royal family. Naturally, I would be very happy if the noble wanted to be my friend.
He said that I seemed to be easily deceived, and taught me not to stay with that senior brother named "Li Si" for too long.
It was in Li Bing's eyes that I saw a paradise that I wanted to realize.
But I have always felt that I am a very lucky person.
Because I have found a career that I want to fight for all my life.
Because it is located deep inland and far away from the sea, the northwest region has become an arid region with the lowest annual precipitation in my country.
"Therefore, if you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't build rivers and seas."; "If you don't climb mountains, you don't know how high the sky is; if you don't stand by deep streams, you don't know how thick the earth is."
Yu Shou pioneered water diversion from Jing River for irrigation, which had a profound impact on later generations.
