Han Dong looked at Zhang Zhaohua's drawings in amazement, "Niangniang, you draw so well, why has the slave never seen you draw before, and the grandson doesn't even know! It turns out that his painting skills are inherited from you." ”

"This is an engineering drawing, not a drawing of flowers, birds, fish and insects," Zhang Zhaohua finished one, carefully flattened it and said: "And I draw it very roughly, and others probably can't understand it. ”

Kuaixiang's pattern is Zhang Zhaohua's most admired and beloved, from Brother Chun'er got the original picture, Zhang Zhaohua knew that he couldn't draw a cat and a tiger, so he simply made a hot sample to survive, and the pattern she painted now also unconsciously brought a little Kuaixiang's shadow.

"This is the foot of the embankment," Han Dong carefully identified: "It's really exactly the same, the grass dam underneath...... Same. ”

Zhang Zhaohua drew some rough drawings, and there are also fine drawings that are partial plane drawings and partial enlarged drawings. After a while, Yang Shiqi also entered the shed, and Zhang Zhaohua was about to tell him something: "Lord Yang, I have just inspected the embankment, and there are several places that are extremely vulnerable to the impact of the river, and these places should be used to throw bricks to form a dam to mitigate the impact." ”

"There is also Huanglinggang," Zhang Zhaohua said, "we need to build culverts, set up stone sluices and water gates, and release water to assist transportation during the dry season of the Yellow River;

Yang Shiqi's brows furrowed together, as if he was in a tangled situation, he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and said: "I calculated the practical silver and the actual silver, and the floating sales have more than doubled." ”

Zhang Zhaohua saw that the paper recorded more than 1,275,000 taels of practical materials for the embankment project, but the actual reported silver was as high as more than 2,690,000 taels, and the amount of fraudulent silver was as high as 1,400,000.

"How did they sell it?" Zhang Zhaohua said, looking at this thrilling figure.

"When the dam is built and the earthwork is calculated," Yang Shiqi said, "the depth of the soil next to the embankment and the soil filled in are added together, and if you dig one inch, the embankment body is equal to one inch from the height, and then the excavated soil is piled on the new embankment, and the embankment is increased by one inch. Moreover, they only tamped once after filling three feet of soil, and the embankment was loose and not firm at all. ”

"These bastards!" Zhang Zhaohua shot the case, furious: "Corruption is full, cutting corners, dare to do this!"

Zhang Zhaohua was so angry that her head was dizzy, she was here day and night calculating, patrolling, she didn't expect that the river officials would have been complicit in a long time, embezzlement and embezzlement of limited river control funds, and cut corners on the project, sure enough, all the officials in the world can be killed, if this is in the hands of Emperor Gao, I am afraid that they would have been peeled and filled with grass long ago.

"What about Lin Fang?" Zhang Zhaohua said: "I want to be the first to do him!"

"Lin Fang left for Huaiyang a few days ago," Yang Shiqi said: "I'm afraid he doesn't know about this." ”

Zhang Zhaohua thought that Lin Fang's big silicons used to gag his mouth were all real and did not cut corners, so he couldn't help but nodded: "When he was there, the officials didn't dare to be blatant - it didn't matter if he left." ”

The two of them immediately walked to the embankment, Yang Shiqi stopped a car pulling bricks, pulled a few bricks from the car, and said, "Look at this, turn your head, don't you see anything?"

Zhang Zhaohua saw that the head was big and neat, and the surface was smooth, so he said: "I have only seen the tribute bricks of Linqing, and this brick can be compared with the tribute bricks. ”

When the Beijing palace was built, the Linqing official kiln came into being, and the Linqing bricks became the tribute bricks for the construction of Beijing with the advantage of good soil quality and convenient canal transportation. After the bricks were burned, they were wrapped in wool paper, loaded onto ships, and transported to Beijing through the canal. Moreover, the official kiln burning bricks in Linqing are not only for the Forbidden City building, but also for the emperor's mausoleum building, so the Changling bricks and stones are also fired and cast from the official kiln of Linqing, because the quality of Linqing Gong bricks is very high, there is a sound of knocking, there is no hole in the break, it is hard and solid, and it is not alkali or corroded; Zhang Zhaohua has knocked it before, and the sound is very crisp and solid, and she picked up the brick - on the one hand, she was surprised by the weight of the brick, and on the other hand, she was surprised by the sound of the tapping, which was like beating a hollow iron box.

Yang Shiqi nodded, he knocked the brick open casually, only to see large and small stones rolling out of it, it turned out that the bricks were stacked with large stones that had not been processed, and the gaps were filled with small stones-

"Not only that," he said, "the lime mortar is not enough, and the mortar joints are too thin." ”

Zhang Zhaohua didn't know anything about the details of these projects, and what she saw every day was truckloads of haystacks, stones, and bricks being transported in large quantities.

"The river project is so erosive," Zhang Zhaohua was blown by the wind, and he also calmed down: "How many officials do you think are inseparable?"

Yang Shiqi didn't speak, he took Zhang Zhaohua down the embankment and walked to the front of the river hall warehouse.

"Lord Yang forgives me," the official of the River Hall wiped his sweat and said respectfully: "It's not that the lower official deliberately stopped the adults from entering, the lower official received the order, the River Hall should be sealed for the time being, and no one can enter." ”

"I went in yesterday," Yang Shiqi was not angry, and said with a pleasant face: "Today, you adults gave an order not to let me in?"

"Your Excellency is joking," the official said, "This river hall is the top priority, and we must also guard against theft, not specifically for you." ”

Yang Shiqi left without saying anything, and said to Zhang Zhaohua, who was confused: "Yesterday, I entered the warehouse and saw that half of the stacks stored in it had deteriorated and become rotten materials, and the other side was also loose and insufficient, and it didn't even meet the amount. ”

"These materials are all materials prepared locally in Shandong-" Zhang Zhaohua said suddenly: "It should be the leftover things from the last flood, Shandong Political Envoy Division, according to the Inspection Envoy Division, it turned out to be them!"

She suddenly reacted: "I think they know about your accounting, otherwise they wouldn't have stopped you from entering the warehouse today." You are not an official in Shandong, and you are not a Qincha, so they will suspect you, or they will use means against you!"

Yang Shiqi pointed to the dam being built in front of him and said in a low voice: "Although this embankment is rotten, when the old road of Jialu is repaired and the water flow is calm, it can still withstand for two or three years, and no one will be able to detect their hands and feet." The next time the levee bursts, it will only say that the flood is strong, not that there is a problem with the embankment. ”

"And on this river," Yang Shiqi paused, and said: "It is no secret that officials embezzle public funds for river repairs on weekdays, and only when there is a major event that the embankment bursts and floods for 3,000 miles, the officials will be held accountable, so they have nothing to fear." ”

Zhang Zhaohua's hands and feet were cold: "Doesn't it mean that you are in danger now?"

"They still have to woo me," Yang Shiqi smiled: "If you find that you can't win over, you will show the knife, right?"