I Built the Canal During the Daye Period

My name is Chen Jiashu, and I died in a construction site accident. When I woke up, I became Yang Guang—— Holding a piece of paper in my hand: Canal, Eastern Capital, Imperial Examination, Liaoning Expedition... I have marked the construction period, number of fatalities, and landslide points of each project. On March 10, the 14th year of Daye, I wrote my death date at the bottom of the paper. Then, I burned the paper. Because soon I discovered: Knowing the answer to every question and being able to correct every question are two different things. I changed the construction period of the canal from five years to "five years", and reduced the death toll of laborers from 450,000 to more than 11,000; I forged iron coupons for the front line to make "decisions on the spur of the moment" and piled three times the amount of food and fodder at the water's edge; Those who know where they are wrong, and those who make mistakes, It's the same person. This is not a cool article. This is the story of a chief engineer who took over a dynasty: He could save a canal but not a machine. He can see the road but cannot walk. But water knows the way.