After carefully looking at the hand-drawn watershed map brought back by Master Xile, he gathered a group of subordinates to discuss the possibility of building a canal, and came to a completely feasible conclusion. Emperor Jiayuan was excited and asked the minister of the Ministry of Industry to follow Master Xile to the field.

That's it, more than a year later.

Master Xile and the Ministry of Engineering agreed on the exact construction method, and Emperor Jiayuan also arranged various preparations.

Now that the Master of Joy has returned, it is a natural sign that this great project is about to begin!

The canal established has a huge relationship with Shanshui County, because the confluence of the selected river and the North-South Grand Canal is in the territory of Shanshui County.

Emperor Jiayuan's good friend Wei Lang, the county magistrate of Shanshui County, the good young master of Wei Guogong didn't do it, why did he run to the ravine to be the county magistrate?

It's not for Emperor Jiayuan to keep an eye on the construction of the Grand Canal.

Waiting for all the villages to arrive, the participants are in place, and the Weilang County Order seems to have two words of encouragement.

Shanshui County Jiayuan Ten Year Swimming Competition officially began!

Promising teenagers from various villages in Shanshui County, ** upper body, wearing dark knee-length pants, jumped into the water with a pop.

On the shore, the eldest girl, the little daughter-in-law, the mother-in-law, the mother-in-law and the mother-in-law pointed at them.

This leg is not long enough!

That arm isn't strong enough!

Ha ha! Which village is actually a fat man? But it's fat, and it swims very fast!

The leading few young people with long hands and long legs and well-developed limbs are the focus of women's attention. These are good candidates for a quasi-son-in-law (quasi-husband)!

The cheers on the shore were deafening, and the people in Dujia Village shouted Du Sanlang's name at the top of their voices. Du Xiaoxi also joined in the fun.

Nearly 100 villages competed in turns, and the final winner was decided in less than half an hour.

Du Zhilian stepped step by step on the high platform where the county order was located, and his face was covered with excitement.

The onlookers let out a chorus of "Cut!" ”

You married old man, what's the fun?!

The reward for the first place in the Shanshui County Swimming Competition is extremely generous. Not only are there material rewards, but they can also exempt half of the village from forced labor.

In a county town in a ravine in Shanshui County, there will naturally be no roads and horses. After all, the county magistrate will not be idle and go to various mountains to comfort the villagers, so the previous labor service ended with collecting money.

After the establishment of the North-South Grand Canal, the labor of the people of Shanshui County became a variety of work related to the canal. Reinforcing dikes, tidying up ports, scooping up sand, and even salvaging garbage from canals.

These tasks, especially sand scooping, were a very dangerous thing for the ancient people who could only rely on their hands. Every year, many people die in the water, even if almost all the men in Shanshui County are good at water, they don't dare to hold it up.

Being able to alleviate labor is a great joy for every village.

When Du Sange walked onto the high platform, Wei Lang County Commander had already stood up and praised Du Sange amiably. Behind Wei Lang, a delicate scholar stepped forward with a tray covered with a red cloth.

Wei Lang lifted the red cloth, and two sets of gold-headed noodles appeared in front of Du Sange.

Du Sange only felt that his eyes were full of golden light, so shiny!

Swallowing hard, he stammered and asked, "Give it, give it to me?" ”

Wei Xianling nodded with a smile: "This is your reward!" It's yours! ”

Third Brother Du snatched the tray and held it in his arms, and knelt down for Wei Lang, "Master Xie County!" ”

Du Sange held the trailer and walked towards the team in Dujia Village in a covert manner.

If gaze can kill people, Du Sange has already been sliced into slices of meat as thin as cicada wings by the eyes of those who have seen along the road!

The eldest girl, the little daughter-in-law, the old women looked at the red cloth bag that was protected by Du Sange and beat their chests, it was originally a dowry for their daughter (herself)!

Although there are many old men participating in the water competition in Shanshui County every year, most of the time they are slapped on the beach by unmarried young men who have been beaten with chicken blood, and there has been no married person sitting on the throne for several years. And those unmarried young men who won the first place will also marry a beautiful lady with the golden hairpin they won as a dowry.

As a result, Du Sange, who is married this year, snatched the golden hairpin away. It can't be more abusive, I don't know how many girls are going to cry at night and have red eyes.

The sad aunts didn't know that in order to compliment the emperor's good brother and the county magistrate, the local tyrants of Shanshui County were stunned to subsidize the gold hairpins in previous years into two sets of pure gold noodles.

Du Sange was greeted by several radish head brothers into his own team, and did not wait for the documents of the county order to exempt the adults from hard labor, but they were invited away by the government officials together with the Li Zheng of other villages, and the villagers who came from all over the country were also told to go back to their own homes and find their own mothers.

Those who don't know why can only go home first.

Father Du hugged Du Xiaoxi and temporarily bid farewell to everyone in Dujia Village, and led a row of slippery sons towards home.

Along the way, Daddy Du was in the limelight.

A slick son simply dazzled the eyes of passers-by.

"Daddy! Father! Look! ”

Big and small entered the house, Du Sange closed the door to death, and after looking left and right sneakily, he whispered to Daddy Du and the eldest brother and the second brother to enter the house, and Du Wulang and several small ones were locked out of the door by him.

"What for?"

Daddy Du sat down on the stool, lifted Du Xiaoxi's diaper very naturally, and changing his daughter's diaper has become a compulsory course for Daddy Du every day.

Third Brother Du was still stingy, "Dad, look! ”

Two sets of glittering heads appeared in the room, and Daddy Du felt that the whole world was lit up.

In the past, most of the top prizes were gold-filled hairpins, but this year, the hairpins, earrings, rings, and bracelets are complete, and they are all pure gold. Daddy Du was so excited that he almost threw Du Xiaoxi in his arms.

"Ahh Yes! "I want it! I'm going to! ”

Du Xiaoxi crawled to the center of the table with his bare butt in three or two, raised a golden hairpin and laughed.

Haha, golden! It's true!

I think she Du Xiaoxi has lived for more than 20 years in her last life, and she has never seen gold, let alone touched it. Today, I can touch the ancient gold, and I am also a local tyrant.

Daddy Du carefully snatched the hairpin from his daughter's hand and put it in his arms.

……

The official took nearly 100 Li Zheng and did not go directly to see Wei Lang, but took people to the backyard of the county government in Shanshui County.

When a group of people came in, they saw the large round table that had been set up for the banquet inside, and dozens of shopkeepers were serving food back and forth. Everyone looked at each other, but more of them were shocked.

This style of painting is a little familiar!

Back then, the previous county magistrate, who had been beheaded for more than a year for corruption, liked to invite them to dinner.

Same position, same place, same way.

The emperor's good friends should not look down on them mountain people, right?

Eun, they're definitely overthinking.

All kinds of weird smells were fermenting among the Li Zheng, and Wei Lang's scholar Changting saw the Li Zheng's eyebrows coming and going, so he almost muttered together, and quickly stood up.