Eric Henry
Prince Xian of Hejian said, “Yu once spoke as follows: ‘If the people have nothing to eat, I cannot impose tasks on them; and if projects, once completed, bring them no benefit, I cannot urge them on.’ Hence, he dredged the Yellow River so as to redirect its course, he cut channels to the Yangzi River so that it might communicate with the Nine Tributaries, and he connected the Five Lakes33 so that they might pour into the Eastern Sea.