Of course, as a part-time Minister of Finance, Chen Xi also needs to oversee food storage, the national economy, and other areas. In short, Chen Xi's current situation involves a bit of everything, can do anything, and can also delegate tasks to others as a nominal responsibility. However, the thing Liu Zhang is doing interests Chen Xi very much.
After all, Chen Xi had previously thought about building a Western Han Expressway, followed by a Han-Cheng Expressway to connect Sichuan and Shu with the central government. You have to know that the significance of the previously built Grand Canal was not only for water transportation but essentially to connect the central government with the Northeast, the South, and the Central Plains.
It can be said that after the Grand Canal was completed, the entire Central Plains, except for the Northwest and Southwest Sichuan, areas where the nation's ruling power is weak, were essentially brought under control.
