Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1331: Chapter 1284: The Discipline This Era Lacks

When Li Shu left, he was obviously very displeased, and Chen Xi was somewhat disappointed. The reputedly highly knowledgeable family was supposed to be researching hydraulic engineering, so why were they so keen on improvisation?

”Forget it, even without the Li Family from Yizhou, can we not handle it?” Chen Xi said helplessly. He then considered the idea of reusing waste and asked, ”Did you remember the water management plan for the Five Provinces and the detailed planning map when he just explained it?”

”We remembered every word without missing a single one. We can completely restore the map. But since you think his construction approach isn’t suitable, why still use it?” Li Youu replied in a huff; once these things were displayed to them once, they were enough to remember it.

”To be honest, if it doesn’t involve the Grand Canal, I quite admire his construction of the water network.” Chen Xi sighed and explained to them some public hydrologic changes that led to climate change in future generations.

Large-scale waterway redirection has a huge impact on local climates, and Li Shu’s plan is based on extensively drawing water from the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Huai River, and Hai River to the Qing, Xu, Yan, Yu, and Ji provinces that aren’t exactly lacking water but have distribution issues.

Such a large-scale waterway deployment will definitely lead to a significant increase in rainfall in the Five Provinces, which were originally not short of water, further affecting the entire climate, possibly resulting in floods.

After all, the eastern route of the North-to-South Water Transfer in the same region in later generations caused considerable trouble by doing so. This area itself doesn’t lack water, with a temperate monsoon climate, and the water resource issues are more about misallocation than scarcity.

Therefore, Chen Xi’s initial plan was to manage water distribution internally within the Five Provinces without drawing water from other river systems; however, Li Shu’s method directly involved the main waterways of the Central Plains Region.

Even in future generations, decades of professional research, coupled with non-existent disciplines of this era using large computers to simulate, cannot guarantee whether the climate changes caused by waterway adjustments are more beneficial than harmful or vice versa.

And now Li Shu is so determined. It’s absurd for Chen Xi to believe this; without being able to answer rainfall and water extraction levels, how could Chen Xi trust it? Even if the Li Family has merit in water network planning, Chen Xi wouldn’t approve it.

”That’s the thing; he couldn’t even completely answer questions about precipitation, withdrawal volumes, or the environmental impact of hydrological changes, let alone suppress changes caused by large-scale hydrologic shifts,” Chen Xi shrugged helplessly. ”Do you think I’d dare to agree?”

”The Jiangnan Area is humid and hot, with more rain than the North due to climatic issues, but these involve not simple watercourses but the collision of maritime and continental climates. How many people do you think are studying these now?” Chen Xi nostalgically recalled his studies in geography.

Li Youu, Jia Xu, and others were speechless; these subjects for them were like Heavenly Books, yet strangely compelling to listen to, proving that climate was indeed very worthy of research.

”So if we really follow the Li Family’s actions, squandering water from the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, and Huai rivers like that, the entire climate of the Central Plains could end up like Zijing’s household in June or July.” Chen Xi said in an annoyed tone.

”Really?” Lub Su said weakly, as he couldn’t understand what Chen Xi was talking about, yet the systematic and reasonable nature of the argument made sense.

”I don’t know, I was just saying it was possible.” Chen Xi laughed, ”So we draw the Five Provinces’ hydraulic transformation framework from Li Family, then modify it without using those four rivers’ water, just limiting their quantities.”

”Are you sure doing this won’t cause too much impact?” Jia Xu, after hearing Chen Xi’s calamitous environmental climate theories, hesitated about the Grand Canal. If building it causes disaster on both riverbanks, perhaps it’s better not to build it at all.

”No big problem.” Chen Xi smiled, ”There will be some impact on the riverbank areas, but overall it’s minor. Besides, the real aim of building this is to strengthen governance links and obviously facilitate the mobility of troops and personnel.”

”Then we build it...” Jia Xu said, having no better plan himself, seemingly trusting that the one who understands environmental climate here makes the rules.

”First, reproduce the hydraulic network framework of each province. I’ll forget it if we delay, as I don’t have your excellent memory.” Chen Xi gestured for everyone to quickly restore the Five Provinces’ water network.

Li Shu left with everything, clearly not planning to assist Chen Xi. Equally, Chen Xi was slightly displeased with the Li family’s refusal to follow his direction, leading him to promptly plan to find someone else to construct it.

After all, with the Li Family’s water network framework map in hand, all that’s needed is to find someone to modify it by removing the Grand Canal’s impact and converting it to local water sourcing. Liu Yan has also recruited several hydraulic experts of such caliber.

About an hour later, the five present restored a Five Provinces framework map. Though there were noticeable differences between individual recreations, with a general ability to remember once seen, variances still existed among individuals.

Li Youu, well-grounded, marked villages, estimated underground water veins, and specific excavation data on the map, while Chen Xi only managed the general outline, marking counties and the hills they crossed.

”Bring them over, and I’ll mark the unmarked parts for you.” Li Youu sighed, knowing the group couldn’t completely restore the map. The gathering of talent here, despite being remarkable, lacked the effort to exceed personal limits and pay attention to details.

Chen Xi was somewhat embarrassed, turning out to have drawn the roughest one possible. Despite having strengthened memory with Spiritual Capacity, the gap remained in what could be achieved.

”Zichuan, you study too much and too miscellaneously, you should forget some rarely used knowledge; it will help you remember things better,” Xun Yue advised Chen Xi, genuinely feeling it was past memorization affecting current learning rather than Chen Xi’s nature as the hinderance.

”I’ll try.” Chen Xi awkwardly grinned, knowing it wasn’t that he’d hit the limit of memory capacity but truly lagging behind the talent of others by nature.

”Well, that’s almost it; we should now find a group of experienced, compliant hydraulic engineers to work along. We’ll also assign one person from official channels to lead.” Li Youu quickly filled in details on each planning map and proposed.