In the house, everyone sat at the table, and Song Ci said: "Tomorrow, Xiaoyue and Xiaoxiang will be watching in the house, and I, Wencheng Wenwu and others will go to this dam to see if there are any mistakes here."

Xiaoxiang said: "My lord, it's already like this, don't you still believe that this prefect is a Qing official?" In my opinion, adults don't seem to trust people too much. ”

Song Ci said: "All the design to the construction of major projects, there must be a cat in it, as for what kind of cat is greasy, Song will not say it, you all understand."

"Greasy? Could it be that the prefect will make a fuss about the dam? Or, to build a tofu scum project?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was silent, if the quality of the big river dam is not good, and it will encounter rising water in the future, then it will be repaid? Especially for the people downstream, I am afraid that it will not only be as simple as losing farmland at that time.

Song Ci put down the dishes and chopsticks and said: "During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Daimyo Mansion of the Imperial Capital was flooded, you should have heard of this, there is no way to verify how many people died at that time, a prefect, no matter how great his ability is, he can only take one life to one life."

Everyone was silent, and they all remembered that this matter must not happen in this Liucheng, and when the time comes, even if the prefect Ling Chi is late, it will not be able to save the lives of so many people.

After eating the food, Qin Xiaoyue took the remaining oil soup outside and threw it away, returned to the house, and everyone turned off the lights to sleep.

Early in the morning of the second day, Song Ci left Xiaoxiang and Xiaoyue here, and then when everyone walked at the gate of the prefect's mansion, they found that many people had gathered here, and they were all waiting for the arrangement of the adults here.

Song Ci counted more than 100 people, all of whom were coolies, and many of them were eating breakfast with steamed buns in their hands.

Song Ci walked up to the elderly man and said, "Old man, I don't know how long you have been working as a coolie here?" When you work, is it hard?"

The old man raised his head and looked at Song Ci, and said with a smile: "What's not hard to say?" Anyway, in order to have enough to eat, no matter how much bitter old man I have, I am worth it. ”

"That'..... What is the quality of the dam's construction? Could it be that they are all going to do porting? Or maybe there's no such stonemason?"

The old man shook his head and said: "I don't know about this old man, anyway, I wait for the minimum salary, one hundred and fifty wen a day, is there more, let alone take it, we don't have that strength!"

Song Ci nodded, and soon, the door of the prefect's mansion was opened, and a team of people came out of it, about twenty people, including Shushi, and a person wearing official uniforms, he was the prefect of this Liucheng.

Lin He said: "Ladies and gentlemen, today is the time for me to wait for the work, everyone come with this official, and we will go to the river immediately."

As he spoke, he walked at the forefront, Song Ci and the others followed behind, and these coolies also followed, coming up, and walking on the streets of Liucheng.

Lu Sheng said: "My lord, I don't think this person is a corrupt official, perhaps, he is an honest official."

Song Ci didn't dare to guarantee this question, the first time he saw the prefect, what kind of person he was, how could he know?

"Lu Sheng, Wencheng Wenwu and Ren You, when I wait for the scene, I must not reveal my identity, otherwise, I am afraid I will not see the truth of the matter."

They snorted.

Everyone walked for a while, and soon came to the destination, Song Ci found that this place was almost finished, and the stones and mud had been piled up together, several meters high, much higher, and they could be stopped in the event of a common flood.

The water in the river is deep, and the river water is turbid.

Many people had already begun their work, carrying stones from a distance to the river, and then piling them up again.

This is to raise the riverbed, although it does not allow the water to leak at all, but it also seems to play a big role.

Song Ci and a few people also followed them and started to operate, Lu Sheng said: "My lord, you go to do something lighter, I'm afraid that the adults can't stand it."

Song Ci said: "Song did a lot of work when he was young, how dare you be sure that Song can't do it?"

On the side, Lin He looked at these coolies and whispered: "Shushi, take an inventory of the coolies, we can't let some people mix their wages, and we can't let some people work without getting copper plates."

"Yes, sir." The history of the book did so.

In the coolies, Song Ci and the others kept carrying stones to accumulate, and some coolies took other tools and gave the gap a good race, obviously doing it in full swing.

On a hot day, after a while, he was already sweating, and a servant came over with two buckets of water and shouted, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the hot water prepared for you by the prefect, come and taste it."

Many people ran over, Song Ci and others were also in the crowd, and after drinking a bowl, they came to rest under the shade of the tree, Song Ci felt that this prefect was not so bad, at least it was good for the people.

Wen Chengdao: "My lord, what do you think of this prefect now?"

Song Ci said: "Maybe it's good, but all this may be in disguise, could it be that you forgot what Zhang Ji said a few days ago?" He is not even afraid of the prefect, could it be that this person can be a Qing official?"

The crowd was silent, rested for a while, and finally continued to work, but the next moment, when a coolie was working, he accidentally fell from the dam and fell into the boiling river, and soon disappeared.

Everyone exclaimed, someone died, something was wrong, the prefect of the government all ran over, the river was too fast, there was no way to go down to save people, and if you go to one, you will die.

Song Ci thought that the prefect would order someone to go down to the river to save people, but the silence of the other party made him suspicious.

The person who fell into the water was soon gone without a trace and was washed away, and even if the person with good water quality was powerless, he was unable to return to the sky.

Lu Sheng said: "My lord, I'll go into the water to save people."

Song Ci shook his head, "To save people, you must first ensure your own safety, if you die, the person who fell into the water will also die, won't it be a heavy loss at that time?" Moreover, this person may have been more than lucky.

The prefect said: "Everyone work quickly, and strive to finish it early, as for those who fall into the water, the prefect will lose money."

Many people left one after another, and in the distance, Lin He said: "Shushi, according to the regulations, give the family twenty taels of silver, hehe, the court will pay fifty, the official will pay twenty, and one person can still fight for thirty taels, which is really gratifying."

Shushi said: "Adults are really tall, really high, this person is thirty taels, ten people are three hundred taels, and you can also do some tofu scum projects, as long as you are done, adults can at least earn a thousand taels of silver!" Ahaha. ”

"A thousand taels? No, no, no, the ultimate goal of this official is ten thousand taels, what can one thousand taels do? The official didn't pay attention to it.

"Yes, yes, my lord is wise, as long as the project is completed, 10,000 taels is not a trivial problem?"

Song Ci is here, everyone is working, and at this moment someone has fallen into the water, in less than a day's effort, there have been two people who have fallen into the water, and the situation is also very auspicious.

He couldn't sit still now, it was too weird, and there might be something strange about it.

It was still the same as just now, everyone just glanced at it casually, and the prefect only sighed for a moment, neither saving people, nor letting the officials go down to retrieve the corpse, which was very strange.

Song Ci saw this scene in his eyes, thinking that this matter might not be simple, if he didn't get tired, he wouldn't believe it if he was killed.

Finally stayed up until the end of the afternoon, and the strange thing is that the prefect is here the whole time, so he doesn't need to go back to the mansion to deal with other things?

On the way back with everyone, Song Ci caught one person and asked, "Old man, I want to ask, isn't it common for people to fall into the water and die when this dam is built?"

The old man sighed: "This is all fate, although the salary is high, but it is not easy to take, it is too dangerous, old man, I have seen too many people die."

Song Ci said: "How do you understand this? Mo.... Could it be that these people are so careless in their work?"

The old man sighed and said: "It's not easy to say, it's not easy to say, the old man has been working here for three months, almost, several people fall into the water and die every day, young man, you said that they were careless in their work, and .....

Song Ci was silent, the old man had something to say, like.... It's like a subtle way to tell something.

"Old man, in that case, how much compensation can these people get from the imperial court? Is it compliant?"

"This.... I don't know about this old man, anyway... This job is almost finished, and it is a miracle that the old man can survive, a miracle. ”