The roads through Shu collapsed, the plank paths broke, and mountain floods swallowed lives year after year.
The imperial court sent seven commissioners to control the floods. Three died, and four fled.
Then came a disgraced official sent into exile. His crime was "spreading heretical ideas". They said he'd told the court something impossible. No one paid him any attention. But standing on the banks of the Min River, he saw no dead end. He saw hidden channels ten feet underground, waterways abandoned for a thousand years, and vast fields waiting to be brought back to life.
Others controlled floods by praying for rain. He did it with contour lines.
He cleared blocked dikes, reopened the roads through Shu, and channeled the Min River to irrigate a thousand miles of barren land.
From exiled convict to the "Living Water Classic" in the mouths of the people of Shu.
I didn't do it on purpose, just look at it. The contents of Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 are 50% similar. I don't know what happened. I finally said yes. I finally remembered that I had seen the results and compared them again. It was true.