Chapter 079 The husband and wife are both confused

Cui Youwang and his subordinates were talking about Lin Jue and the others, and Lin Jue and the others were also talking about Cui Youwang.

"This Lord Cui has a selfless appearance on his face, but in recent years, Shaanxi has been irrigated by the Yellow River, and the grain has been abundant, and it does not look like he can't afford to pay for the grain, it seems that this Lord Cui is hiding very deeply!"

Li Yibai looked at Lin Jue with his mouth open for a long time, and Lin Jue picked the corner of his mouth, "Do you think I don't know what you're doing if you don't say it?" You don't want to think about it, what is the relationship between my Lin family and the Xie family, before I came, I specially visited Xie Wangye, and Xie Wangye had already reminded me. ”

Li Yibai didn't forget this, but he didn't expect Xie Guang to tell Lin Jue about such a major event related to national affairs. He didn't mean to hide Lin Jue, but this matter was widely implicated, and he didn't want to involve Lin Jue. Using Lin Jue to test Cui Youwang, firstly, as long as the relationship between the two is concerned, they will be able to inquire, and who dares to guarantee that there will be no eyeliner from any side. Second, he did this with the intention of confusing Cui Youwang, if things accidentally took a dangerous path, the difference between an exposed pet minister and a hidden pet minister is very big.

After all, Cui Youwang will also measure how much weight Lin Jue has in Li Yibai's heart and how much use value he has.

On the first day, I mainly rested, met with officials from all walks of life on the second day, and participated in a banquet invited by Cui Youwang, the "head snake of the land", and on the third day, we were going to start doing business.

Officials below reported that the embankment was in danger of bursting, and the main reason why the Ministry of Works came to assess the danger of the embankment and see whether it should be reinforced. Lin Jue didn't know much about this, and Yan Ziyu of the Ministry of Water was mainly in charge, and he just assisted from the side.

Don't look at Yan Ziyu's disagreement with the main department of the other two departments, and the struggle has been going on for a long time, but being able to sit in the position of the master of the first part is naturally not a joke. Yan Ziyu's familiarity with the water ministry made Lin Jue very impressed. "So according to Lord Yan's meaning, there is no need to repair this dam?"

"It is precisely that this official has been familiar with historical materials, in order to shorten the construction period of this embankment when the late emperor built it, he always drove craftsmen to work day and night, and countless people died of exhaustion. In addition, the trend of official corruption is prevalent, cutting corners occurs from time to time, and it is not easy to persist in this century. Over the years, the dynasty has been reinforced and repaired, treating the symptoms but not the root cause, and now the danger of bursting the embankment is in sight, unless it is rebuilt, it can only be supported for another year or two even if it is continued to be repaired. ”

Lin Jue pondered for a moment, "In that case, what does Lord Yan mean?" ”

After all, if he is not good at this, Lin Jue will not point fingers, but on the contrary, he respects the meaning of the Ministry of Words and Water. Yan Ziyu was satisfied, but he did not hide his selfishness, after all, it was rebuilt, and it was also the cooperation between the Ministry of Water and the Ministry of Industry, and it was impossible to complete such a large project by the Ministry of Water alone. His Majesty also expected this, so he made the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Water go together.

"This embankment is repaired every year, but it can't last long, and it costs people and money, so it's better to make it break the embankment, or repair it again, once and for all."

Lin Jue said: "No matter which one it is, we can't decide after all, why don't you ask the meaning of the king of Yonghe?" ”

Yan Ziyu agreed.

The two talked to Li Yibai, and Li Yibai said: "After all, this embankment was built in the previous dynasty, although our dynasty has been reinforced, in the end, it is a drop in the bucket for the entire embankment." That being the case, according to what the Ministry of Words and Water said, I will write a recital to report these two situations to my father, and when my father has made a decision, it will not be too late. ”

If the embankment is to be blown up, I am afraid that the people downstream will need to move out in advance, which is not a trivial matter, and it is always up to the emperor to make an idea. If it is reconstruction, it will involve the allocation of funds from the households, the selection of the people who will build the embankment, and the allocation of labor, which is not a simple matter of lip service and lip service.

With Li Yibai coming out, Lin Yan and the others were relaxed, and they also took the time to taste the folk snacks of Shaanxi. Yan Ziyu couldn't let go, but Lin Jue dragged Yan Ziyu around one stall after another, and tasted all the snacks on the whole street.

Yan Ziyu admires Lin Jue's belly, he is not as tall as himself, he is not as big as himself, and he doesn't know how the belly grows, what mutton steamed buns, dumplings, soup dumplings, cold skin, oil cakes, fried white sausages, meat sandwich buns, only those who can't be named, and there is nothing he doesn't eat.

Not only did he eat it himself, but he also had to wrap it up for the appetite, and after shopping down the street, the attendants who followed him were not idle in their hands. This is really unbearable, if you can eat it, Yan Ziyu looked at Lin Jue's eyes staring at the dumpling banquet, I am afraid that I will have to wait.

Although he ate and drank with him for most of the day, Yan Ziyu was not without gains, at least when he went back, the eyes of King Yonghe looked at him very gently. This made him have to think, could it be that the rumors in Beijing were true?

Since the resignation of the waiter of the Ministry of Industry, the main department of the Ministry of Industry has been in dire straits. Later, Lin Jue was the main department of the airborne engineering department, and the other three main departments were twisted together to guard him tightly. Later, Lin Jue was summoned by His Majesty, and the three of them saw the situation clearly, how did they not know that Lin Jue's backstage was actually the current saint, and the three of them had the idea of making friends again.

If Lin Jue is really favored by His Majesty the Emperor, not to mention a small squire, it is the position of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu, and the position of Shangshu is also at your fingertips. Transferred to the Ministry of Industry, I am afraid that it is not to annoy the emperor, but that the emperor intends to temper him. How can such people not be all of them?

Now that he and Lin Jue have come to Shaanxi together, they can be regarded as supporting each other along the way, and they have some friendship. Now that he has the blue eyes of the king of Yonghe County, the position of this squire is probably not far away.

Not to mention how the Ministry of Water made friends with Lin Jue after that, at this stage, they have crossed the Ming Road every day, even Cui Youwang is a little confused, are these Beijing officials really just here to inspect the embankment?

Still, he didn't dare to take it too lightly. After all, in the past few days, the spies have come to report, all of them are the Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Words and Water, and the official positions of other officials are low, and every day is just some ordinary things, only Li Yibai, the king of Yonghe County, neither goes out as often as Lin Yan and the others, nor does he do some chores like other accompanying officials, and he only hides in the room every day and does not come out, which is very suspicious.

Cui Youwang originally thought that this county prince was hiding in the room in name, but in fact, he secretly went out to make a secret visit, and his subordinates risked being found and punished to break in twice, but they were all reading books in the room. And when Lin Jue comes back every day, he must bring him food and play, and when he goes out to greet him, he doesn't seem to go out often.

Cui Youwang was really confused by these people.

Even so, the defense of his subordinates did not dare to make any changes. Especially the spies sent out to keep an eye on these people, only those who kept an eye on them more closely did not dare to relax at all.

More than half a month has passed since Kuaima passed the book, and the news of Emperor Hongzheng came from the imperial capital. Now that the DPRK and China are arguing over this matter, most people tend to blow up the embankment, after all, it takes time, effort, and money to rebuild the embankment. Due to the previous snowstorm in the suburbs of Beijing in the south, Emperor Hongzheng repeatedly reduced taxes, and now the treasury is not very rich.

Especially in the previous foreign invasion of the border, Xie Guang followed the emperor's order to recruit troops and grain in Shaanxi, Gansu and Gansu, but some soldiers were recruited, but the grain and grass were of no benefit. Especially in Shaanxi, Cui Youwang refused Xie Guang's request under the pretext that there was a severe drought in Shaanxi for many years, and the government still had no surplus grain to raise, so how could he still raise military rations, so that the state treasury had to take out a large sum of silver as military salaries. Now there is no surplus of silver in the treasury to build dikes.

Emperor Hongzheng's decree was to let them find a way to strengthen the embankment first, at least not to burst the embankment suddenly in the short term, and wait for the Beijing to discuss a way before issuing the decree.

Reinforcing the embankment is just some labor, plus bricks, marl and soil, these Cui Youwang can afford it, but he did not make it difficult for others, and he was very open to row these materials. Yan Ziyu is used to doing this, and he doesn't need Lin Jue's help, so he starts to arrange the arrangement directly, Lin Jue is happy, and only helps Yan Ziyu when he needs it.

Yan Ziyu wants to go one step further now, so he naturally has to show something, and Lin Jue doesn't want to compete with him. However, because of the lack of someone to accompany him, he couldn't move around anymore, so he honestly followed Li Yibai to nest in the post house.

That's the case, Cui Youwang still sent people to keep an eye on it, and he didn't dare to relax at all.

Lin Jue glanced at the servant standing outside the window through the crack in the window, "It seems that this Cui Youwang is cautious enough, you sit in the post house every day, and he has to stare at you with such a good step." ”

Li Yibai crooked on the couch and pinched a grape, "If he doesn't stare like this, let's worry about whether he has found any clues." Such a close stare at people shows that the manpower sent by the imperial brother is very secretive, and he is still unaware of it, which is a good thing. ”

However, Li Yibai is going to grow hair every day in the post house, "Let's go out for a walk tomorrow, although you brought back a lot of things first, but when you came back, it was cold, and it didn't taste much to eat." I'll go out with you tomorrow, and I'll try it if you look at the authentic snacks of any house. ”

"You go out so aggressively, don't spoil the prince's business."

Li Yibai smiled, "No, how long has it been, the imperial brother is coming to the letter." Look at it, within tonight, the imperial brother will be able to deliver me a message, and I will prepare to go out tomorrow. ”

Lin Jue is indispensable, and he is almost the same as he goes. In ancient times, this was inconvenient, if you want to eat authentic and authentic meat buns, you still have to come to the local area, otherwise you will always feel that the taste is not pure enough. It's just that ancient times are not as good as modern times, and it is difficult to get out of the door.

Li Yibai beckoned Lin Jue to lie down on the couch and fed him a grape, "You taste this grape, the taste is much better than ours in Beijing." ”

There is nothing to do during the day, and it is not good to go to the opera garden to listen to the play, it is really boring, Li Yibai is confined in the house, and can only pass the time by eating and reading travelogues.