It had been proven that work was never finished. After a few days of simple rest and recuperation, the "laborers" from Canal No. 1 were dispatched by East Africa to regulate the Little Rhine River.
The regulation of the Little Rhine River had to be traced back to two months earlier.
"Your Majesty, there have been fifteen floods along the Little Rhine River this year, inundating more than thirteen thousand mu of fertile farmland. Since our villages are generally built relatively far from the riverbanks, we did not suffer major losses. However, during the short rainy season, river water still spilled into three villages. And these are only the statistics from the end of last year through March this year."
Constantin asked, "As far as I know, East Africa's farmland was all painstakingly selected by experienced farmers. Central Province has not expanded its cultivated area in the past two years, and rainfall has not differed greatly from ordinary years. So how did flooding still occur?"
"Your Majesty, we consulted water conservancy experts about this. Their explanation was that the condition of the Little Rhine River was bound to cause such problems."
"What condition?"
"Generally speaking, it is an issue shared by rivers across the world. River water is affected by that... Corioli force—the Coriolis force—and deviates as a result. East Africa's Little Rhine River is pushed toward its left bank by this force. Over time, it has become tortuous beyond measure. Water passing through a winding channel naturally cannot flow out as easily as it can through a straight one, so whenever rainfall grows heavy, the river is prone to running wild."
The Minister of Agriculture tried his best to explain the Little Rhine River's problems using the extent of his own knowledge, fully demonstrating the worrying capacity for governing