Turned over and dismounted, and walked straight to Guo Quan's shed, here, Zheng Jun came not once or twice, in the winter of last year, he had come here to invite Guo Quan to live temporarily in Liaoxi City, in order to avoid the wind and snow, but Guo Quan politely declined, insisted on living on the construction site, staring at the last difficulty to overcome, for such a conscientious old Shangshu, Zheng Jun is not as good as himself. can only meet Guo Quan's needs as much as possible in terms of logistics, most of the things in this shed are Zheng Jun for Guo Quan, when he first set up camp here, Guo Quan's residence can be described as a family with four walls.

"Zheng Junshou!" In front of the door of the shed, Guo Quan's guards bowed and saluted.

"What about Guo Shangshu?"

"Back to my lord, Lord Shangshu hasn't rested for several days for the final blast at this point, and is resting now. I'll go in and report right away. The guard replied.

Zheng Jun stretched out his hand to stop the guard who turned around and wanted to enter the door, and said with a smile: "No need, we are old friends, I will let him rest for a while since I go in." ”

Pushing open the door, Zheng Jun stepped into the door lightly, the sunlight slanted in from the open door, just shining on Guo Quan, who was sleeping on the rattan chair, looking at the ravine-ravine and weather-beaten face, Zheng Jun's heart suddenly swelled with an incomparable respect, if it wasn't for here, if he didn't know Guo Quan's identity, just like him, walking on the street, anyone would treat him as an old farmer in the field who had worked hard all his life.

Looking around, in addition to stacks of dossiers on the table, there are models one by one, these things are Guo Quan's treasures, they will be taken wherever they go, slowly walked to the table, reached out and picked up a model of a suspension bridge, Zheng Jun knew that this was the team led by Guo Quan, just invented and explored a new bridge technology. And the first application of this latest technology is not in this Cuiping Mountain, where a suspension bridge connects the two hills.

It has been a full ten years since the beginning of the Stone City, and for Guo Quan, these ten years are equivalent to cities, roads, and bridges, and he has deeply imprinted himself on the land of the Han Dynasty. Zheng Jun was very envious of this old man, because he knew it. With the passage of time, people like him will eventually turn into a dust soul with the passage of history, and eventually disappear in the vast dossier, and only people like him will be passed on by word of mouth and go down in history.

Gently putting down the suspension bridge model, Zheng Jun turned around and walked in front of Guo Quan. Looking at the old man who was still sleeping, slowly, Zheng Jun's face changed a little.

He slowly bent down and approached Guo Quan little by little. His face also turned white as he approached, and he raised his hand a little stiffly and slowly stretched out to Guo Quan's face.

The body shook, and the whole person froze somewhere in an instant.

The next moment. Zheng Jun screamed: "Someone, someone!" ”

Inside and outside the house, there was chaos in an instant.

Zheng Jun sat down in his chair blankly. Staring at the doctor who came in a hurry, he hurriedly tried his last bit of effort, and after a while, the doctor finally stopped in despair, turned to look at Zheng Jun, and his voice trembled a little, "Lord Zheng, Guo Shangshu has left." ”

Zheng Jun closed his eyes, and two lines of clear tears flowed down.

He has been running for the Han Dynasty for more than ten years, and has built countless cities, bridges, and roads.

The next day, the Cuipingshan project stopped, the officials and workers of the Ministry of Industry gathered outside Guo Quan's shed, in front of them, a carriage was parked, on top of the carriage, there was a huge coffin, today, the body of their beloved Ministry of Industry Shangshu Guo Quan will set off from here to Jicheng, they want to come to see him off.

Among them, there are old subordinates who follow Guo Quan everywhere, skilled craftsmen who Guo Quan digs everywhere, and even more workers who are temporarily recruited from time to time.

Many workers who have just arrived, at first did not know the old man who was wearing a coarse cloth coat and often scurried around the construction site, was one of the several high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty, they once thought that this was just a worker like them, and after a long time, they knew that this was a great official, which completely subverted their perception of officials, even if the officials of the Han Dynasty were close enough to the people, but like Guo Quan, he was still unique, he often held a stoneware bowl, While eating with the craftsmen, they debated some technical details, and they also happily talked with the workers about some short things in the family, and in the hearts of these workers, the old man was more like an elder than a high-ranking official.

It was quiet outside the shed, except for the extremely suppressed low sobbing. Zheng Jun watched several old craftsmen wiping Guo Quan's body and changing into a new official robe, which had been pressed under the box in Guo Quan's house, and he rarely wore him, more often, he was wearing burlap clothes, shuttling on the construction site, sweating on hot days and muddy on rainy days.

These old craftsmen are all old people who have followed Guo Quan all the way, at least seven or eight years, Zheng Jun knows that the highest position among them is the Ministry of Works, and the lowest is also a scattered doctor, these official positions are all awarded by the imperial court in recognition of their contributions, and on their bodies, they are all marked with a distinct Guo Quan's brand, and there is no trace of an official at all.

Zheng Jun stood up and looked at Guo Quan lying on the bed, very calm, with even a satisfied smile on his face, he walked very peacefully.

"It's almost time, please put Guo Shangshu in the coffin!" He said softly.

Several old craftsmen whimpered, stretched out their hands together, lifted up the marching bed where Guo Quan was sleeping, and walked slowly towards the outside of the shed.

Gently put Guo Quan's body into the coffin, and as the coffin lid was closed, the cry suddenly became louder on the construction site.

"Let's go!" Zheng Jun shouted loudly.

The carriage started slowly, and behind him, countless people knelt down.

"Congratulations to Mr. Guo going home!" An old craftsman shouted.

"Send Mr. Guo." Thousands of people fell to their knees.

Jicheng, the Great Council, the big councilors from all over the Han territory are gathering together, and the eyes of hundreds of people are looking at Jiang Jiaquan, who is making a summary of last year's annual meeting, and behind him, all the members of the council hall and the scholars of various ministries are standing in a hurry, and at this time of year, it is also the time when the big councilors are the most proud. Their only job at this time is to pick thorns and find out the shortcomings of these senior officials who were in charge of government last year.

And these few days are also the most difficult days for these senior members, and the councilors in the political hall are slightly better, but those senior members of various ministries, once they are criticized too much and do not get the support of the majority in the subsequent vote, they will inevitably step down. Resignation.

Although this has not happened once in the three years since the Great Council was convened, it does not mean that it will not happen, and none of the ministers wants to be the first of their own.

Shoufu is highly respected, no one is going to find fault with him, this year's problems are focused on the renovation of the old city of Jicheng, and Wu Kai, who is in charge of this matter, is a little uneasy, before this. He has already heard some rumors, about land acquisition and demolition, about replacement, about compensation. No matter how careful you are with such a large project, there will be a lot of problems, and Wu Kai is thinking about how to get through this pass safely.

He took the lead in this project, and the Ministry of Engineering was responsible for the implementation. However, Guo Quan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, is not in Jicheng, and the main work is presided over by the two waiters on the left and right in Jicheng, and the oil and water here are too big. A little loosening of his hands, it is thousands of silver, Wu Kai himself can't look down on it, but there is no guarantee that there are no such things. Judging from the rumors I heard, I'm afraid that there are a lot of such things below, and they have been caught by some big councilors, so I'm afraid that this spring will be a little sad! Wu Kai tilted his head and looked out of the window of the big council, the sun was shining, the spring flowers were blooming, this time in previous years, but it was a good time to step into spring, but this year, who still has this thought!

Naturally, Takato would not appear in the Great Council's hall, and as usual, he came quietly and sat upstairs in a room with a curtain hanging upstairs, listening to the voices below.

"Lord Wu may be a little sad this year." Through the bead curtain, looking at the councilors and the members of the various ministries below, Gao Yuan smiled and said to He Weiyuan beside him: "Look at his appearance like a pins and needles, there must be something wrong with his head." ”

"Yes, with such a big project for the transformation of Jicheng, it would be strange if there was no problem, but Lord Wu himself is very upright, and he is not afraid of the accusations of these big councilors." He Weiyuan said with a smile.

"That's not necessarily, if the leak at the bottom is bigger, won't he be responsible for leadership?" Gao Yuan smiled and said: "That's okay, give him a wake-up call, our Lord Wu, on top of the transformation of Jicheng, is a hands-off boss, pick his thorns, let him sober up, it's not so easy to discuss politics." ”

"Actually, Lord Li Can, who is in charge of maritime affairs, is afraid that it will not be easy." He Wei said from afar.

"Oh, he's okay too?"

"The legislators from Cangzhou and Fenzhou accused Li Yizheng of abusing his power for personal gain, using his position and influence to crowd out other maritime merchants on top of overseas trade and expansion, and even accused him of colluding with Kou Shuguang, the commander of the Navy." He Wei said from afar.

"Huh?" Gao Yuan glanced at He Weiyuan and groaned, "Weiyuan, someone found you?" Do you want these words to reach my ears? ”

He Weiyuan nodded, "The king knows everything, someone has indeed found me, and I hope I will talk about it at the king's side." ”

"You confess, what did that man give you?"

"Gave me 10,000 yuan, a thick stack of new bills just released by the central bank!"

Gao Yuan laughed, "If you send it, then put it away." This person will only get more from the maritime merchants, what do you think about this? ”

"There may be exclusion, but collusion with Commander Kou is probably unlikely, Commander Kou was born in the Supervision Yuan, and he knows the powerful relationship here, these maritime businessmen, I am afraid that they want to pull Li Yizheng down." He Wei said from afar.

Gao Yuan smiled, "I know about this, it's not so easy to pull down a councilor, first ask for more than half of the votes in the big council, and then ask me to approve it, they will send you money, which probably means this." ”

"Yes."

"Let's see! Don't look at Li Canpang, that's not a good bully! Gao Yuan said with a smile. (To be continued......)