March 4, Heishui County, light rain.

Every day, the weather is recorded and recorded in the county annals of that year.

In the absence of a computer, many records can be cumbersome in terms of keeping.

Therefore, only a few things will be recorded, and the matter of the county order to worship the dragon king in the water on March 4 will definitely be added, which is an inevitable thing!

Wang Lanling didn't rush to see Qian Maocai and the county order, they just handled this kind of thing by themselves.

Walking a few hundred meters on the street on a rainy day, no matter how much anger is calmed down, this is not some revenge for killing my father, it is not necessary, it is really unnecessary.

If you think about it carefully, Qian Maocai is stupid or not, and he has little to do with Wang Lanling.

Wang Lanling didn't want Qian Maocai to be so stupid, if he was stupid, he would die.

But Wang Lanling didn't just want this person to take the blame, he was thinking about how to solve the flood disaster, not to shirk responsibility.

His responsibility did not exist from the beginning, and the emperor, the state minister, the county guard, and the county commander, these superiors all knew that he was not responsible.

As for the common people below...... Wang Lanling has been giving an explanation to himself and everyone these days, otherwise he wouldn't be so annoying.

More than a dozen people were drenched in the rain, walking on the street, very quiet, and very imposing.

Even if it is an ordinary person, a group of more than a dozen people walking slowly on the street on a rainy day, most ordinary people feel that something is wrong, not to mention that there are a few people with knives here.

Wang Lanling took Old Man An to a sewer and said, "There are four dark aqueducts in the city, two to the ditch outside the river and two inside the river. ”

"The river in Heishui County flows from the west to the east, and the river is bent north and south, I have asked people, and if the water is sent first, it will first rush to the fields in the east, and then part of it will be divided down along the river from the city, and these four canals have just been repaired the year before last."

As the director of the Department of Water Affairs, Wang Lanling has mostly understood what needs to be done, but even if he knows how to solve some things, he can't solve them.

The source is the upstream problem!

In addition to the problems in Yunshui County, the local problems are also very serious.

Many people for irrigation work on the banks of the river in the east, where almost all of them are fertile land.

There is a clear difference between fertile land and ordinary fields, and the irrigation is very hard, and under the choice of interests, the big families in the city have reached out to the banks of the East River.

Soil erosion is only a small aspect, and although it does have an impact, the main problem now is that once those people's fields are flooded, many people will lose their crops this year and become homeless.

The Department of Water Affairs had said before that it would not be cultivated on the banks of the East River, but unless it was the people of the Six Gates, who came to kill people once, they really couldn't stop it.

Whoever grows some vegetables there today, someone will build a shed there tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow it will be a land occupied by the family.

In the past, the power of the Water Affairs Department was very small, but now that Wang Lanling has great power as soon as possible, he can't deal with the black hands that these families have reached into.

Not only the big families in the city, but also the subordinate relatives of various officials, and even the fertile land occupied by their own families.

It's called Arada, but in fact, whoever occupies it, whoever has a big fist, is who's whoever.

The deterrent power of the imperial court is still there, mainly in the maintenance of public fields, such as those good fertile fields in those places, no one dares to be presumptuous, even if they are really thirsty, they will not pick a melon to eat.

Although the reality is very cruel, Wang Lanling has already understood that unless the flood floods all the fertile fields on the east bank, he will take back those lands to build fortifications, which is the opposite of building the entire county.

The east bank refers to the normal direction of the river coming down from the upper reaches, and Heishui County is located below the Heishui River, and the river was originally diverted to the county to solve the irrigation problem of nearby farmland.

All civilizations are born near rivers, and it is impossible to do without water.

It is impossible for the peasants to go several miles away to fetch water, and the small rivers and ditches cannot meet the needs of the tens of thousands of people in the city and the huge population of the towns below.

Wang Lanling has a lot of things to deal with, and if he doesn't handle it well, his reputation in the local area will be ruined.

When your reputation goes bad, the impact will be very, very great.

There are many things that Wang Lanling can't do now, and if he does it, he will be wrong, and even the county governor will not allow it.

The rest of the people also know a little bit about the affairs of the Water Division, and basically the local officials are some old guys.

Although the fertilizer content of the craftsman division is small, it has always been very stable, and Andezhou has been in the craftsman department since he was young, and slowly climbed to the position of director, and knows some local things very clearly.

"It's really going to be renovated this year, I remember that I actually planned to repair it last year, but there was no movement after half of the repair, Guo Juli's guy was very slippery, no one wanted to offend, and it was gone after fooling around."

Although An Dezhou was dissatisfied with being pulled out to get drenched in the rain on a rainy day, Wang Lanling laughed for a while, and was indifferent for a while, and he didn't dare to continue to rely on the old and sell the old.

With the right attitude, there is a lot less dissatisfaction.

The matter of the Water Affairs Department itself is Guo Juli's matter, and when Wang Lanling heard this, he was immediately dissatisfied.

"Guo Juli is definitely capable of doing something, but he just doesn't do it! Not only did he not do it, but he also brought his gang of people into waste! I can't find anyone who can use it now, and all of them have learned to play stupid, and they all know how to mess around all day long! ”

Whether Guo Juli has the ability or not, just look at the previous records of the Water Affairs Division, Wang Lanling knows that Guo Juli is absolutely clear about waterproofing, but if he doesn't do small things or big things, he will do some coping scenes.

An Dezhou smiled awkwardly, everyone is an official just to be promoted and make a fortune, and besides, there is nothing to do with the Water Affairs Department itself, and if something happens, it can be pushed up to natural disasters.

People who love to show are not welcome.

Wang Lanling looked at the top of the canal and observed the condition of the inlet.

"Lord An, the people of the Craftsman Division, can you dig all the drainage canals in the city within a month and direct the water out."

Andezhou pondered the approximate distance of several canals in the city, and quickly said: "No, we don't have so many people, although there are many people in the craftsman department, but we still have to make iron pieces, caustic soda and oil refinery, and all kinds of shops have to buy and sell things." ”

In the city, high-end supplies such as toothpaste, soap, iron and glass are made by people from the craftsman department, and then handed over to the people of the official department to sell.

Therefore, the director of the craftsman department, who has risen step by step, can give very accurate answers in some things, which is why Wang Lanling threatened him to come over.

These grandfathers, only in front of the people who make them afraid, can show their true skills.

"Find a way! Tell me a way, whether I can do it or not is my business, you are not a person from the Department of Water Affairs, the way you say, whether you listen to it or not is my business, it is up to me to judge. ”

Wang Lanling looked at An Dezhou and forced him to come up with an idea.

An Dezhou looked at Wang Lanling's eyes, lowered his head and frowned and thought about it, and quickly said: "I have a way, now the stone construction and the river ditch have to be repaired, and there is no way to make the canal, and the ditch that does not contain water is also in vain, and someone must be able to control the water." ”

"Where do you transfer people from? I don't think there's any drama in the county. Wang Lanling first thought about the county town above, but he also realized the attitude of the county town.

An Dezhou approached Wang Lanling and said seriously: "Open the service!" ”

Wang Lanling frowned, the water droplets on the hat on his head kept falling, and he led people to the side to take shelter from the rain under the eaves of the closed shop.

"In previous years, the county government and the city patrol department were responsible for this conscription, so I'll talk to them about this matter then." Wang Lanling is also a little clear about the truth of the conscription, but it is not his own scope, and the specifics are not clear.

The last time Wang Lanling was rewarded with a fief for a slave, he learned about the slave and knew that being a servant to himself, a public servant, could be exempted from servitude.

Since Andezhou said it, he didn't mean half of it.

"I'm not talking about this, I think you're a capable person, and you don't understand a lot of things, so I'll tell you the truth."

"If you open a conscription, you can pull 10,000 people, and if you let someone else open it, it will be 5,000 at most!"

"Do you want 5,000 people to work, or 10,000 people to work?"

Wang Lanling clasped his hands in front of him, leaning on the door panel behind him to think about things.

Conscription, like taxation, was a fundamental right enjoyed by the Empire.

Just like taxes, there are many people who evade servitude.

Of course, Wang Lanling knows what is going on, one person doesn't care about two masters, how can those feudal lords let their serfs serve.

"You want me to offend everyone in the local area......"