"Your Highness, if the Lanhe River Canal cannot be opened within twenty days, I am afraid that the thousands of acres of fertile farmland outside Kunyang City will not be harvested!"
"Without food, people's hearts will wander, and the people will rebel! If we lose Kunyang again, we will no longer have a foothold..."
With a nagging sound in his ears, Li Ke slowly opened his eyes.
However, looking at everything in front of him, he looked confused.
Aren't you writing your doctoral thesis in your dormitory? How come when I open my eyes again, everything around me has changed?
The spacious and bright study room, the exquisite workmanship, the simple wooden desk, the exquisite incense burner with rising smoke...
And the roommate who was killing him in the dark beside him suddenly turned into an old man wearing a long robe, a hair crown, and a white beard.
Didn't you wake up? Li Ke rubbed his eyes.
But when I opened my eyes again, I found that everything was still the same.
And everything is so real, not like a dream at all.
Could it be that he has traveled through time?
Just as Li Ke was thinking about it, a memory that did not belong to him suddenly surged out of his mind, causing his brain to hurt.
After sorting out that memory, Li Ke was shocked to find that he had really traveled through time.
And he still traveled through time in the body of a deposed prince.
The dynasty Li Ke lived in at this time was called Wei.
The owner of Li Ke's body was originally the Crown Prince of Wei Dynasty.
Because he was framed by the second prince Li Qi and his gang, not only was Li Ke's biological mother, Queen Xiao, killed, but Li Ke was also deprived of his status as crown prince, demoted to Yan Yun, and never allowed to return to Beijing.
He was also given the title of Yong, mediocre Yong, and his fiefdom was only in the city of Kunyang.
However, even so, Li Qi and others did not intend to let Li Ke go. On the way to his demotion, they sent three groups of killers to chase him.
If it weren't for the guards' desperate efforts to save him, the grass on Li Ke's grave would have been two feet high at this time.
The huge gap in identity, the death of his mother, and the narrow escape from death along the way directly made the original owner of the body disheartened.
After taking office, not only did he have no intention of dealing with political affairs, but he was greedy for pleasure every day.
As a result, the already barren and impoverished Yanyun land has become even worse, and the people are in dire straits!
Coupled with the severe drought in Kunyang, the people in the city are now miserable. There are even vague rumors of trouble, and all forces are ready to take action.
Moreover, Kunyang is adjacent to the border fortress, and the Khitans from the north often come south to invade...
There are foreign tribes outside who are watching eagerly, and may go south to plunder at any time.
There are enemies in the DPRK who may kill you at any time.
There was also a severe drought, which made it difficult for the people to survive and were in danger of causing trouble.
Troubled internally and externally, this is truly the beginning of hell.
Li Ke didn't expect that he would face such a difficult problem just after crossing over.
But now that the matter has come to this, Li Ke has no way out and can only find ways to resolve the crisis at hand step by step!
Since God allowed me to travel through time, I had no choice but to go on.
Moreover, I have the brain of a doctor from the 21st century in both science and engineering.
Li Ke didn't believe that he couldn't carve out his own world in this ancient world where knowledge and resources were scarce!
Thinking of this, Li Ke suddenly turned his head and said to the old man who was chatting with him: "Mr. Su, why is the progress of the Lanhe Canal so slow? If I remember correctly, according to the progress, the canal was completed half a month ago. It should be penetrated.”
The old man's name was Su Xun. He was originally a guest in the East Palace who served the prince and praised the ceremony when Li Ke was the prince. He was a third-rank man and was loyal to Li Ke.
After Li Ke was deposed, he resolutely followed Li Ke to Yandi, and his official position was directly reduced to the fifth rank of Kunyang Magistrate.
Hearing Li Ke's question, Su Xun was stunned for a moment, and then answered with excitement.
"Reporting to Your Highness, when digging the canal before, all we encountered were soft rocks and sand. As long as we continue to increase labor, the progress can be greatly accelerated."
"But the last ten feet of the canal is almost entirely made of hard rock. Even if I use all the manpower I can, I can only dig more than one foot per day. According to this progress, I want to dig these ten feet. It will take at least a hundred days to completely drill through Zhangshan Mountain..."
Hundred days?
According to the current drought conditions, if the crops outside the city cannot be watered within twenty days, let alone a hundred days, they will all die of drought.
Li Ke thought for a while and then asked: "Mr. Su, as long as we penetrate the last ten feet of the mountain, we will definitely be able to solve the current drought in Kunyang, right?"
Su Xun nodded, and then sighed: "Even so, there is basically no solution now!"
However, before he finished speaking, Li Ke suddenly stood up from his seat and said firmly: "I can't see it. To be honest, I have already thought of a way to open up the Lanhe River canal!"
