Blackwater County

Wang Lanling got married and came back.

He didn't come back alone, and when he came back, he came back with more than fifty carts of dowry.

Quilts, teapots, kerosene lamps, carriages, furniture, bottles and jars, tea, clothes, women, and other miscellaneous things.

These cars came to Wang Lanling's new house, a mansion covering an area of eight acres.

The entire Heishui County is only three square kilometers in area, that is, 4,500 acres.

This refers to the area inside the city, that is, the area surrounded by the city wall, and those who can live here are considered people with a little money, and those who have no money live in the area outside the city wall.

Several villages outside the city walls belong to this area, all of which are immigrants from the vicinity.

At present, there is still a lot of undeveloped land in the city, and these lands are not terra nullius, but are all public land, reserved for rewards.

The palace has not yet been fully built, and only part of it has been completed, such as rockeries and courtyards, and some landscapes have not had time to be built.

The construction team has been busy all the time, but now that every household is idle and the weather is suitable for work, the speed is not slow.

After Wang Lanling came back, he set up a banquet to entertain the people who came to congratulate, and those who were officials only received one yuan, and those who were not officials did not take a penny, and they also took care of the meal.

After seven days of flowing water feast, Heishui County gradually calmed down.

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Lingtong County

Lingtong County is surrounded by water on all sides, when the city was built, it took the initiative to bring in water to surround three sides, and the outside of the city wall is the river, and the outside maintains a distance of more than 20 meters.

It is roughly a U-shaped horseshoe separating the land from the water, and the direction of the opening is also towards the river, except for the side near the large river, there are the same bridges as the outside world.

There are docks near the big river, which are dedicated to transportation.

Therefore, in those days of heavy rainfall, the pit by Wang Lanling was more serious.

At noon, a procession of more than 1,000 people slowly and chaotically gathered outside the city of Lingtong County.

Among these people are men with blonde hair, brown hair and red hair, and even some bald men.

The team slowly stopped a few hundred meters away from the City Gate Bridge.

The leader got off his horse and said to the people around him: "I'll go first and say hello to the people of the official market department, Chun Yuping, Jin Yuanhao, Yuan Yang, the three of you go in with me." ”

After ordering a few people, the shepherd looked at another middle-aged man with a beard.

"Hu Zhong, you are the most stable, watch some here, don't let them move around, I'll be back later."

Hu Zhong nodded and said, "Please go, leave it to me here." ”

Mu Sheng was very relieved about Hu Zhong, a man in his thirties who was very famous on the border of Muzhou, and everyone around him believed in him.

After the herdsman and the others entered the city, Hu Zhong said to the rest of the people: "This place is very close to the river, and the herdsman estimates that it will take a few hours to return. ”

"Okay!" The men around happily agreed.

Everyone cooks and fetches water, although there are many people, but it does not look messy.

Hu Zhong was also a little tired, walked to the river, found a place to sit down, looked at the wide river and thought about things.

I don't know how long it took, but one of the men next to me stood up and said, "Master, someone in the water is approaching us." ”

Hu Zhong quickly looked over and saw a young man rowing a boat towards them.

Chitie looked at these people by the river, and after getting closer, he said happily: "You are from Muzhou, right?" There are also yellow-haired people, and there are a few golden people under our lords. ”

Dialects vary from place to place, and there may be hundreds of different dialects in a state, and some of them are largely unintelligible.

Fortunately, Hu Zhong could roughly understand what Chitie said, stood up and said, "Yes, we are a caravan from Muzhou, and we will stop here. ”

When Chitie heard this, he was even happier and said, "Then when are you going to Heishui County?" I am from Heishui County, and now I am doing business here in Lingtong County, and there are many stalls in Heishui County in the city, such as roast chicken, roast duck, red bean cake, mixed noodles, and fried rice flowers. ”

Hu Zhong saw that this person was not disgusted with the people of Muzhou, so he said gently: "It is estimated that we will go tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, Heishui County is in front of the cliff mouth, and we will go to Yunshui County from there." ”

Because Wang Lanling's subordinates have a relationship with the Jin people, Chitie does not have the antipathy of these Muzhou people to Muzhou people, so he took out a basket of baked cakes from the cabin.

"Give these baked cakes to you, see that there are many of you, the food must not be good, if you go into the city today, go to the food stall in the west to find me, the price will definitely be affordable for you."

The red iron rowed the boat to the shore and, when it was still a few meters away from the shore, threw the basket out.

Hu Zhong raised his hand to catch this heavy basket of things, and after seeing that it was indeed a baked cake, he said to Chitie: "My name is Hu Zhong, dare to ask the name of the strong man?" ”

Chitie clasped his hands into fists in front of him, "Chitie, my family is the director of the Environmental Sanitation Department of Heishui County, Wang Lanling, if you are in trouble in Heishui County, just go to my family." ”

Lord Xiao Wang is often like this, when he is at home, he is silently detained by his subordinates.

Chitie still had something to do, so he quickly rowed to the dock and disappeared from the sight of Hu Zhong and the others.

Shortly after Chitie left, a bald man took a biscuit from a basket and tried it with a needle.

"Not poisoned." After the bald man said this, he put the baked cake under his nose and smelled it, "It doesn't look like it's poisonous, it smells delicious." ”

Another blonde man said, "Be careful, there are mountain people in Heishui County, how could those mountain people be kind enough to give us food?" ”

On both sides of the place, there is a blood feud that has been passed down from generation to generation.

"The Department of Environmental Sanitation......" Hu Zhong thought about this department, and then looked at others and said: "What does the Department of Environmental Sanitation do?" ”

The rest of the people shook their heads, not knowing what this sanitation department does.

No one ate the pancakes, and they didn't lose them, they just left them in the car and kept them.

When you go out, you have to be careful, especially the people in Shanzhou.

Similarly, the people of Shanzhou are also very defensive against the people of Muzhou!

Hu Zhong is already good-tempered, but he is still very wary of Shanzhou people.

After another half an hour, the shepherds returned.

Mu Sheng sighed, approached and said, "There was water here before, and there is no money in the city this year, so let's go to the next one." ”

Hu Zhong was not surprised by this, since the imperial court allowed officials to do business, their business of these officials and businessmen would be affected.

Unlike coal mines, their cattle and sheep and other things are difficult to preserve, let alone buy them on a large scale.

And what they need is not money, but all kinds of materials.

If the rulers are not willing to use their power to raise these supplies for them, then they will not be able to raise enough money from the petty merchants, and then it will be difficult for this winter.

After losing a lot of business in a row, most people can only pin their hopes on the state capital and the remaining county towns.

Hu Zhong said: "Mu Shou, I met a Shanzhou man just now, he had no ill will towards us, and he also sent us a basket of baked cakes, I didn't let people eat them, he said that he was from the Heishui County Environmental Sanitation Department." ”

When Mu Sheng heard this, he said thoughtfully: "It's Wang Lanling, who has recently become famous...... Wang Lanling in Heishui County, it was because of his relationship that many fertile fields outside Lingtong County were flooded. ”

"But this person is also very powerful, and he has arranged a road for his subordinates to let these people do business in the county town."

Mu Sheng heard about Wang Lanling, and their intelligence system of these officials and businessmen was more extensive.

Hu Zhong was a little curious and asked, "This Wang Lanling, what did he do?" ”

Musheng said: "Before the age of fifteen, he became the director of Heishui County, and the documents he wrote were praised by the saints. ”

"At the beginning of the year, he was the director of the Department of Big Waste, and he was also the director of the Department of Water Affairs when he was in charge of the two departments, and he was also responsible for water control while taking charge of the two divisions, and he opened a 20,000-person conscription to block the Heishui River overnight and protect a large area of Heishui County."

Hu Zhong said suspiciously: "Block the Heishui River? So how could the county and the county let him do that? ”

Mu Sheng smiled and said: "The governor took someone to arrest him, and he scolded him away, he was protecting Heishui County, and the governor was protecting the people of Yunshui County, but he didn't say Wang Lanling, it's quite interesting This person, scolding the governor for being a dog official, and now he is still the director of the Environmental Sanitation Department." ”

"But in the end, the Heishui River was demolished again, in exchange for disaster relief and tax exemption from the imperial court, Wang Lanling arranged for the merchants in the city to do some small business in Yunshui County and Lingtong County to eat."

Chun Yuping asked: "Shepherd, what is the relationship between the Department of Environmental Sanitation and the Department of Big Manure?" ”

Mu Sheng smiled again, squinted his eyes and said: "The Department of Sanitation is the Department of Big Dung, Wang Lanling felt that the Department of Big Dung was not good, so he changed his name to the Department of Environmental Sanitation, and added a lot of things to do, and then the Department of Big Dung in Yunshui County was also renamed the Department of Sanitation, and the same is true of Lingtong County, and the whole Yunzhou Department of Big Dung is gradually using a new name." ”

Yunshui County's big dung division, because of Wang Lanling's relationship, the wind was killed, and many people were reluctant to say the name of the big dung division, so they all used the name of Wang Lanling's sanitation department.

After Yunshui County changed its name, the rest of the places naturally followed slowly.

Hu Zhong slowly learned about Heishui County from Mu Sheng, and also learned about Wang Lanling.

In less than a year, what Wang Lanling has done can already be described as heroic deeds in the eyes of many people.

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