The next morning, Zheng Jian took to the streets.
Although Qiandu West Street is full of people coming and going, the people living here are all officials' families or high-ranking officials.
Even if you are looking for someone who can read and write, you shouldn't look for him here.
It's just because the people here who can read and write are mostly Gongsheng and Jinshi, and maybe even the number one scholar in the past.
It is true that people can read and write, but whether they can be hired is another question.
If you want to invite scholars or poorer candidates, you still have to go to Nanjing'anfang.
It's just that the road between Zhengdefang and Jing'anfang is not close. Zheng Jian, a housekeeper, is not good at equestrian skills and cannot ride in a sedan chair. Naturally, he has to get up early so that he can do his best.
Facts have proved that although Zheng Jian is illiterate, he is generally reliable in dealing with people.
In just one morning, he found more than a dozen scholars, and even found himself a private tutor, so he had everything he needed.
The next thing will be much simpler. These dozen scholars go to Gu's Mansion every morning to order mao, and eat at Gu's Mansion at noon. They don't return home until the moon rises above the willow branches.
The first dozen hours here were nothing more than hunching over documents and carefully studying the local chronicles of each basin of the Canglan River.
To be honest, it was definitely a chore.
If it is a local chronicle that records events, it would be a bit fun to read, and you can learn about the local customs and customs. So thinking about it, it is not bad.
But what Mr. Gu wanted was some information about the regional map in the local chronicle.
It's nothing more than where the terrain is high and where the river stretches.
It's really boring to read.
Don't be lazy, because after reading, you have to summarize it and even write it down.
This is really killing people.
Most of the talents Zheng Jian found were elderly.
Why is it still just a scholar?
The reason is nothing more than laziness.
If you can really study hard and study hard, let alone become a Jinshi, you will only know the classics. After more than ten years of hard work, it will not be difficult to pass the exam.
So why can these talented people endure such unbearable boredom and sit there for more than ten hours?
No one but Chandor!
This is just a matter of reading local chronicles and transcribing them.
The money given by the Gu family was so much!
He is worthy of being a noble man living in Gandu West Street, he is so heroic.
This kind of work, even in Jing'anfang, Qiannan, cannot be found with a lantern.
That's why this group of people are so dedicated, but in the final analysis, they are all people who smell like copper.
Not to mention anyone else, let’s talk about Li Dongbi, who traveled to various famous mountains and rivers, practiced medicine, asked about medicine, and collected medicinal materials.
He was a ruthless man who was used to living a hard life and had a spirit of hard work!
But since he followed Gu Beichuan, he has become better and better, even if he has a martial arts cultivation level of half a step.
This belly is also growing day by day.
It turns out the food is good.
After all, if you can eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, who would want to eat glutinous rice?
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality!
But this is not a problem that Gu Beichuan needs to worry about. With the speed at which Feihong makes money, as long as he doesn't make some crazy mistakes, he should be able to live and eat well in this life.
In this way, relying on this group of talents to study hard.
In just seven days, the mountain of local chronicles was summarized and transcribed into a thin booklet.
Gu Beichuan called it: Canglan Waters Book!
You can only rely on yourself for what happens next.
The rest of the people, including Li Dongbi and other scholars, probably couldn't help much.
Gu Beichuan spent another three days reading through the Canglan Waters Book. The more he read, the more familiar it became.
From the source to the end of the Canglan River, the total length is more than 6,300 kilometers!
This length is probably comparable to the Yangtze River in later generations, and is even longer than the Yellow River.
Since the river basin is even more vast, Gu Beichuan estimated that it would be nearly one million square kilometers after just a rough calculation.
Of course, it's definitely less than a million, but it's close.
It is no wonder that such a river can flow continuously for three hundred years. It can really be regarded as witnessing the rise and fall of Daqian.
It is worth mentioning that in the heyday of Daqian, its territory encompassed the current territories of Xiliang and Beiyan.
It is considered to be particularly wide, and it can encompass the entire Canglan River.
But now... In the past three hundred years, with the decline of the Daqian royal family and the frequent emergence of weak kings, the ancestral territory has been handed over to others. Now, it is less than one-third of the territory in its heyday.
Naturally, it is not possible to include all of the Canglan River. Part of it is in Xiliang, and part of it extends to Beiyan.
After seeing how vast and long the river was, Gu Beichuan realized how small the Huaihe River was.
The Huaihe River and the Canglan River are known as the most prestigious rivers in Daqian.
Both sides of the Huaihe River are also places where outstanding people and talented people emerge in large numbers.
But compared with Canglanjiang, it is still a little stretched.
It is not easy to manage such a large watershed!
Even if it is only one-third, I am afraid it will take up the hard work of several generations.
Even though Gu Beichuan is a modern visitor and knows a lot of knowledge that does not belong to this era, he is still a little dizzy when facing such a big river.
In later generations, technology is so advanced and there are so many knowledgeable people.
But so what?
It still took a lot of effort to regulate the Yellow River, whose drainage basin was not as wide as the Canglan River.
Fortunately, Gu Beichuan does not need to govern the entire Canglan River Basin, and the Daqian court may not have the ability and determination to govern all the river basins within the territory.
All they want is stability and peace in the small river basin in Canglan County.
With this purpose in mind, Gu Beichuan began to study it carefully.
Even if you have a goal, it is still not easy.
After all, this is a thorny problem that has lasted for more than three hundred years and still has not been solved by anyone.
I think I have tried all kinds of measures one by one.
But what's the result?
The floods in Canglan are becoming more serious day by day.
If Gu Beichuan wants to find a way to achieve long-term peace and stability, he must find out the loopholes and strengths of previous water control methods one by one, integrate them one by one, and then analyze them.
If you look at it from a more comprehensive and detailed perspective, you might be able to come up with a better solution.
But unfortunately, this is another urgent job that needs to be done quickly and slowly.
Maybe one day the imperial court would become disheartened and withdraw its talents. Even if he came up with a solution, he would have nowhere to tell him.
Therefore, in the past few days, Gu Beichuan had to wait and see, trying to find a way to escape in the Canglan waters!
Finally, around the last day of the second week.
The sleepy and sleepy Gu Beichuan looked at the heavily wrinkled Canglan Waters Book in his hand. His eyes suddenly opened, and there seemed to be a flash of light in his bloodshot pupils!
He... seems to have found a way to control the water!
