After confirming his cooperation with Mi Zhu, Chen Yang first asked him to stay in Xudu, so as to facilitate his surveillance of him and avoid him from secretly contacting Liu Bei.

However, the facts proved that Chen Yang was thinking too much, because Mi Zhu really wanted to surrender to him.

After seeing off Mi Zhu, Cao Lan appeared in the Chen Mansion and he sent a piece of information about Xiahou Yu.

Chen Yang just took a simple look and felt a sense of pride in his heart, because the arrangement of shadows had initial results.

"So you are not giving up!"

Chen Yang threw the information aside, too lazy to pay attention to it for the time being, and continued to keep watching.

Now is the second day of the wedding, and Chen Yang doesn't want to deal with too many other things, so he just stayed with Zhang Chunhua and Cao Ning, and two days passed like this.

On the third day, Cao Cao sent someone to find Chen Yang, saying that Chen Yang should take Cao Ning back to Cao's mansion.

Chen Yang didn't know the rules of this era, so he had to get up early in the morning and go to see Cao Cao with sleepiness.

Wedding is a joyful night and singing.

After these days, Chen Yang felt that his body was about to be hollowed out.

At the same time, Chen Yang was thinking that Lao Cao should have a deeper meaning in finding himself.

Before leaving, he asked someone to find Ye Shun and brought the cement blocks in the factory to Cao's mansion to wait.

After a long time, Chen Yang finally walked into Cao's mansion and first saw Mrs. Ding.

Then, Cao Ning was taken away by Mrs. Ding.

Chen Yang was taken to the meeting hall of Cao Ang's mansion by Cao's mansion, and they spoke politely for a long time.

It was not until Guo Jia and Xun Yu came that Lao Cao began to find another meaning of Chen Yang today.

"Zi'an, can the water conservancy project you mentioned before be realized?"

Cao Cao had received Xun Yu's letter and knew what the water conservancy project looked like.

Even if it is a waste of money, Cao Cao wants to hear Chen Yang's opinion.

Based on Cao Cao's understanding of Chen Yang, he believed that there must be a reason why Chen Yang proposed that reservoir, and it was definitely not nonsense.

Before Chen Yang could respond, Xun Yu immediately objected and said: "Prime Minister, Zi'an's water conservancy project cannot be implemented. Building a reservoir to collect rainwater is extremely ridiculous. How much money do we have to invest to build such a reservoir? I am afraid that before the reservoir is completed, it will cause public grievances!"

Even if Guo Jia trusted Chen Yang so much, he didn't believe it could be realized at this time. He shook his head and said, "Using our current conditions, building a reservoir is tantamount to imitating Qin Shihuang to build the Great Wall, and even the reservoir may be useless."

Cao Cao's thoughts were also shaken and he asked, "Zi'an, is the reservoir really feasible?"

Xun Yu said: "I think Zi'an thinks this matter is too simple, and I don't recommend it."

Chen Yang knew they would say this, and he thought: "A reservoir may not cause public resentment. Now the world is in chaos, with white bones exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing thousands of miles away. So, how many refugees will be produced near Xudu every year?"

Xun Yu said: "This year, due to war, spring drought and bandits, the refugees in Yuzhou have exceeded 50,000, and various counties have a great headache for this."

Xu Du is in Yuzhou.

Chen Yang also said: "There are so many 50,000 refugees, and the court has to build resettlement places. Otherwise, they may become bandits, or they may be starved to death and cold to death. Wenruo has already placed a lot of refugees this year, right?"

During the period when the conquest of Yuan Shu and Lu Bu, Xun Yu and Man Chong were handling government affairs in Xudu. He knew the situation of refugees best and nodded solemnly.

"If all these refugees are placed, they have to provide food and accommodation, especially in winter, and there is also a warm environment. Wenruo, do you think it's troublesome?" Chen Yang asked.

"Trouble, but what can I do? I can't ignore the refugees!" Xun Yu sighed long, "When will the world be peaceful?"

Chen Yang said: "Repair of a reservoir is also a good way to resettle refugees!"

Guo Jia asked, "Zi'an, are you talking about letting refugees go to build a reservoir?"

This sounds like a good way.

"If the refugees go to build the reservoir, they can buy grain to solve the problem of eating and the problem of resettlement them. Of course, this money is allocated by the internal warehouse. The salt mine has begun to make profits, and in a while we will no longer be short of money, enough to give the refugees the wages."

Chen Yang also said: "In addition, we can use this measure to stabilize those refugees who live in no fixed place, avoid them from entering the mountains and becoming bandits, reduce the bandits in Yuzhou, and provide labor for us to build reservoirs. As long as the refugees are used properly, they are not useless."

Xun Yu also quashed: "Although we are not short of money or food, doing so is really a waste of money and is extremely wasteful. I don't think it's feasible!"

Chen Yang said: "The grain we purchased this year should be able to support us for three years. What if there is another severe drought in three years?"

The method of cutting leeks has been used once, but it cannot be used again the second time. If there is a shortage of grain, the grain merchants will no longer sell grain to Cao Cao.

After hearing Chen Yang's question, Xun Yu didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Chen Yang also said: "My reservoir can effectively replenish irrigation water sources in drought weather, which is beneficial to agricultural development, and of course it is also harmful in the early stage!"

"Building a reservoir may destroy part of the cultivated land, require the migration of villages, and may even cause geological changes. However, once developed, this disadvantage is not worth mentioning. It is beneficial to the present and the future!"

Cao Cao was a little moved after hearing this, but he was very hesitant and asked again: "Fengxiao, Wenruo, what do you think?"

Xun Yu said: "I think it's not appropriate, but what Zi'an said is reasonable!"

His ideas were conservative and he dared not take too much risk, so Cao Cao would keep him for government affairs.

Compared with Xun Yu, Guo Jia was just the opposite and said: "If it can solve the problem of the waste of money and damage to the people, it is not impossible."

Chen Yang said: "In fact, there is no rush to build a reservoir. It can be built within three to five years. If it fails in three to five years, or even longer, as long as we are not in a hurry to achieve success, the impact of the people and the money will be small. I invented a curved plow that can reclaim more wasteland and build more water diversion canals to ensure a bumper harvest in recent years. After we store too much grain, we will not be afraid of shortage of food. If the reservoir is built, we will no longer be afraid of drought. There will be a continuous source of food, and the people will become richer and richer."

These words made Cao Cao and the others fall into deep thought.

Guo Jia said: "Zi'an, build a reservoir and collect rainwater. How should we collect this rainwater?"

"First of all, in addition to collecting rainwater, reservoirs also need groundwater, rivers, lakes and other supplies, so the terrain requirements are very high."
Chapter completed!