When Wang Lanling, An Dezhou and others were inspecting the drainage of various canals on a rainy day, Lao Tao had already found some people he usually knew.

Lao Tao has lived here for so many years and has met many people, some of whom can speak, and some of whom know each other.

For more than ten years, there are some people he has never spoken, but he knows very well that these people are capable!

There may not be a single capable person among hundreds of people, but among tens of thousands of people, they will definitely not be all fools!

In addition to food, clothing, housing and transportation, a poor life may limit people's horizons, but it cannot limit a person's wisdom in life.

Lao Tao is not looking for someone who builds planes and tanks, he is looking for heroes who can solve the current problems!

The so-called heroes are the group of people who tremble under the majesty of the empire......

"Knock knock!"

On this quiet rainy day, Lao Tao knocked on the door of a house.

"Who?" The voice of a child came from the door, and soon the door was opened, and a child about eight years old opened the door and looked at Lao Tao vigilantly.

Lao Tao didn't care about the child's eyes, and looked at a few people in the room.

The house is very small, not a building, but a small house built by himself.

When you open the door, you will see the only space in the house, where there is only one place to eat, sleep and rest.

In a space of less than 20 square meters, there are corn cobs on the mud pot stove, as well as home-style decorations such as chili skewers, sweet potato chips, and garlic skewers hanging from the roof.

Near the boiler were water tanks and rice bags, as well as some fuel such as twigs and straw, and next to it, in addition to a large wooden box, was a bed that took up most of the room.

On the bed, there were adults and children, a mother and her child, and on the floor, where there was not much space under the bed, a man was holding the wooden handles on both sides of a stone plate with both hands, and placed it in the mill on the table, in which there were some crushed herbs.

Seeing this man, Lao Tao said directly: "Come out, I have something to tell you." ”

Ye Jiuchuan knew this person and knew that the other party was a person from the Big Dung Division, but he had never spoken before and rarely met.

"What's the matter?" Even though it didn't feel like a good thing, Ye Jiuchuan stood up.

There is no place to run in this house, let alone a place to hide.

"Time is pressing, follow me!" Lao Tao didn't say anything, turned around and walked outside.

Ye Jiuchuan breathed a sigh of relief, took the hat from the side, and quickly said: "I'll go out, the child's mother tells the child, don't say it, don't ask." ”

He walked out quickly, and in the rain he caught up with Lao Tao, who had already walked out more than ten paces away.

Lao Tao went to the house of two people again, and although these two people were puzzled, they still obediently followed.

After calling the three of them, Lao Tao said: "Lord Wang told me to do something, if this matter can be done, it will be like Lord Wang's eyes!" ”

Ye Jiuchuan and the other two glanced at each other, he knew those two people.

Ye Jiuchuan is not Langzhong, his profession is to play suona, he is a teacher of [Tianyin Valley], and he cultivates "Lingyin Decision".

The other two are similar, one is his thirty-year-old junior sister, who is now married and has children, and her profession is drama.

The other is a quiet young woman with some appearance, her real name is unknown, her current stage name is Hua Niangzi, she is a prostitute raised outside by the governor of the Liu family, and she is under the tutelage of [Blood Killing Hall], and she is practicing "Magic Sound Spirit".

It's like a war, when the empire suppressed all kinds of heroes, basically fifty percent of the young heroes and ancestors were directly beaten into a sieve, and the rest were either arrested and put in prison, or they were derogatory like women.

Even if he surrenders quickly, unless he completely forgets about his martial arts and goes down the mountain to be a good citizen, he will be crippled by someone who finds a reason.

Fortunately, in the past two years, everyone has been disabled, and everyone has adapted to the current life.

The flower lady didn't remember the other two anymore, and said, "What do the two of them do?" ”

Lao Tao quickly said: "This is Ye Jiuchuan, the blower of the opera troupe, and the opera troupe next to him are all from Tianyin Valley, this is the flower lady, who used to be in the Blood Killing Hall, and the one who repaired "Demon Sound Regency", is the woman raised by the previous governor in the courtyard outside. ”

Hua Niangzi did not express an opinion on Lao Tao's introduction, she is not the kind of person who is thin-skinned.

"Lord Wang is Wang Lanling of Wangjiabao, right? What did he ask us to do? ”

Lao Tao didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "You can't talk without moving your mouths?" ”

The flower lady frowned and said, "I can't, I can only change my voice." ”

Lao Tao looked at the other two, and the woman shook her head, "I can't either, my martial arts have been wasted over the years, so I can only talk big, shout a few words, and sing for three or four hours in a row." ”

Ye Jiuchuan said: "I don't know ventriloquism, but there is an echo in the Lingyin Decision, which can hide from people and speak, so that people can't find me, as long as others can't see me talking, even if I speak in his ear, he can't tell the difference between left and right." ”

Lao Tao clenched his fists and said: "In the next mountain thunderbolt, Tao Kun!" ”

****

Wang Lanling was a little worried about the riverside after all, so when he discussed things like stone slabs, wells, ropes and wood with An Dezhou, he went to the north of the city.

The river water in Heishui County flows from the west to the east, and the river channel is bent north and south, that is, a horizontal and skimming bend, and when the river water is rapid, it will rush out of the river and go directly to the east, submerging the downstream places.

There is no problem with the layout of Heishui County, which leads the river down through the county seat, while leaving a low-lying open space in the east as a flood discharge area.

Just like the method of Yunshui County, everyone knows that it is better to block than to sparse, so all kinds of fortification arrangements have left buffer space.

But no matter what, the water will flow down the river.

The rivers on all sides, especially in the east of the city, were dug wide and deep, mainly for transportation.

It will be very troublesome to transport goods by land, and it will also require many people and livestock, plus people eat horses and chew, and it will cost a lot of money to make a trip.

But when it comes to water transportation, it's really easy to get a few tons of goods.

The imperial shipping industry was very developed, and in the military, ships with less than 100 people were called small boats.

Civilian vessels are smaller, usually passenger pleasure boats within 10 meters.

Although Heishui County does not have large ships of several thousand tons, there are definitely a fleet of giant ships with a larger loading capacity outside.

When Wang Lanling was close to the river, he saw more than a dozen small boats of different sizes parked on the river in the distance, the large ones were more than ten meters, and the small ones were only two or three meters.

These people all looked in one direction, and Wang Lanling didn't see the fluttering county magistrate and governor in the water, and he immediately felt bad.

"Calculate the time, it's long overdue to get into the water at this time......"