Li Ze stood on the embankment of the Lizi River and looked down at the dense people who were digging the silt in the river. It's been a month since the last flood, and now the Lizi River has regained its gentle appearance, most of the riverbed is exposed, and the place where Li Ze is standing is the same place where the last embankment almost broke.

At that time, Yang Kai had jumped, Shi Zhuang had also jumped, and countless members of the Yixing Society wearing black clothes and red scarves had jumped, and the roaring chestnut river swallowed the lives of several members of the Yixing Society, but they were also tied up by the members of the Yixing Society, and the embankment was saved, and at the same time, countless crops in the rear and tens of thousands of people near the county seat of Xindu County were saved.

When the water receded, the management of the Chestnut River became a top priority.

Originally, Yizhou would engage in this kind of work every year, but this year, except for Wuyi, other places were delayed because of the war in Shenzhou.

There is not much time left for him, in two months, the autumn harvest will come, it is the first thing in the first year, it is related to the belly of the next year, but he dare not delay.

Dozens of miles of riverbed, above the embankment, was covered with crowds, and the whole letter was almost a general mobilization. Even Shi Zhuang's army joined in.

Yang Kai's earth-shattering shout on the embankment that day made the name of Yixing Society immediately resound in Xindu, and as Li Ze estimated, after the flood, Yixing Society began to develop in Xindu at an incredible speed.

In Wuyi, Xindu, Yixing Society and the government are already two and one, one and two things, and the chief officials and subordinate officials of the two places are basically all members of Yixing Society. Further down, the most basic management bodies such as townships, villages, and teams were established, which were managed by local members of the Yixing Society.

The development of Yixing Society has begun to break the rule of the landlords and even the clans over the locality, although it is only a small step forward, but in Li Ze's view, this is a big step above history.

In his experience in his previous life, he knew very well that until the Republic of China, the clan power was still extremely strong. When ordinary people have problems, they don't want to go to the government to solve them, but rely on the power of the clan to regulate, and countless tragedies happen under such a social structure, and the ignorant people not only don't think about it, but they are used to it.

The excessively strong clan power directly affects the government's ability to manage the locality, and if a local official does not collude with the local powerful clan, it is basically difficult to move an inch.

But now, Yixing Society has taken a steady step forward, at least, the people feel that they can be trusted, can help everyone, and these people are willing to sacrifice for them.

Walking step by step like this, Li Ze believes that the control of the clan forces over the local area will eventually disappear.

Yang Kai did a good job.

Thinking of the previous county commander Yang Kai, who was a little obscene, a little greedy for money, and a little timid, and now he was transforming step by step into another person he didn't dare to know, he felt surprised and happy.

He had seen Yang Kai train those preparatory members, and the brief materials he prepared for him were greatly exaggerated by him, and the Spring and Autumn brushwork was used vigorously, talking about the emotional place, the tearful exchange, and the awe-inspiring place, his spirit can simply be described as righteous and thin. The things that Li Ze wrote to Yang Kai were essentially some brainwashing things, as the saying goes, if you want to deceive others, you have to deceive yourself first. Yang Kai is now a typical person of this kind.

He himself was already deeply intoxicated.

Since there is no existential crisis, since he is ready to start a career, since he wants to leave his name in history, this guy who was not a good person in the past has completely become a different person.

Li Ze felt that Yang Kai might become a real great figure in the future.

Is this a good thing? Li Ze wasn't sure, he needed to think about it again and take another look.

But for now, it's definitely a good thing. On the riverbed, the members of the Yixing Society in black clothes and red scarves led the people to work in a busy but methodical and energetic manner.

Effectively organizing people to work and maximizing their ability and efficiency is naturally Li Ze's ability, Yang Kai, Sun Lei and other people who have been by Li Ze's side for a long time have long been trained by him to become familiar with each other.

The quantitative assessment of the work such as scribing and contracting, timing and quantification is nothing new in Wuyi, and it is no longer a new thing to do a good job, and there are rewards for doing a good job, and it has been recognized by everyone. If you want to make a big pot of rice in a mess, the biggest possibility is to be expelled by everyone and become a person who is not loved by your father and grandmother, and you have to endure everyone's white eyes and criticism. Of course, it can't be ruled out that there are really some lazy guys who are shy and quiet, then at this time, someone will take him to do other things, of course, this is not too good treatment, such as digging the toilet, but at this time, there are people with whips in supervision.

In addition to these, there are some group competitions and other stimulation methods, which are the wrists of Yixing Society. In short, all of them have only one purpose, that is, to do the work quickly and beautifully.

Li Ze, who was standing on the embankment, looked at all this, but what came to his mind was some documentaries he had watched in his previous life.

Crowds of people, gongs and drums, banners, and the most rudimentary tools, but some of the greatest projects in the world. Now, he seems to be doing the same thing.

In the past, it was basically impossible to completely control the Chestnut River in Xindu in more than a month, mainly because of the lack of manpower, but now for Li Ze, this problem does not exist, and the people who have been taken back from Texas have already made their homes here. He now has plenty of manpower, and now except for a very small number of people who have a little wealth when they came from Texas and can support themselves, the rest of them are still supported by Li Ze.

There was the sound of gongs and drums locking in the distance, and Li Ze turned his head and saw a long line of banners of various colors, carrying all kinds of tools, and leading a few large animals, which were heading towards here from a distance.

He couldn't help but laugh, this was a support team from Wuyi. Wuyi had already completed the governance of the Lizi River, so this time he sent some people to Xindu to support, which was also one of Li Ze's strategies to integrate the two places.

Walking on both sides of the team are all Yixing members in black clothes and red scarves, and most of the people in the queue are the Texas soldiers who were captured by him in the last battle with Texas, and these people are all strong laborers.

After these people's families were settled in Wuyi, they also settled down completely, after all, their families must have come, and no matter how reluctant they were, they had to accept their fate. After staying in Wuyi for a while, they slowly gained some understanding of Wuyi's policies, and they couldn't help it.

What was it like to live in Texas before?

Now that we are in Wuyi, although the days are still very hard, at least, everyone has hope.

This time, they rushed from Wuyi to support Xindu's river governance, which was not only Li Ze's efforts to further integrate them into the local area, but also a further test for them.

To Li Ze's surprise, there was a person he hadn't expected at all to follow Wuyi's team.

The record of the guards of the Tang Dynasty Prison joined the army, Gao Xiangsheng.

Since swallowing the one hundred Mo knife hands, four hundred thousand Niu Wei and five hundred thousand treasures sent by this guy in one gulp, Li Ze has almost forgotten this guy. After the war, Liu Dai was appointed as the county lieutenant of Shiyi, but he was reluctant, but his arms couldn't twist his thighs, and he took a few cronies to Shiyi to take office, where, with a thousand armor soldiers led by Shen Congxin, what else could Liu Dai do? As for the remaining Qianniuwei, they have now basically integrated into Li Ze's army and become the backbone of his armor soldiers.

After eating and wiping it clean, he suddenly saw the creditor coming to the door, Li Ze still felt a little embarrassed.

"Gao joined the army, which Chen Feng blew you over? Hahaha, don't come unharmed?" Li Ze greeted him with a smile, and bowed his hand again and again,

"What kind of gust of wind can it be, of course it's the whirlwind of your Li Gongzi showing his might!" After Gao Xiang returned the salute with a fist, he looked Li Ze up and down, but let out a long sigh.

"What, is there anything unsatisfactory about Gao's participation in the army? Did you go to Wuyi to find me and be unhappy, or did they snub you? If so, just say, I'll clean them up, Gao Senjun can be regarded as a benefactor of my Wuyi, and when he comes to us, he deserves to be received with the highest courtesy." Li Ze smiled cutely.

Looking at Li Ze, who was young but unfathomable in the city, Gao Xiangchang shook his head again and again: "At the beginning, we thought that we had chosen a little sheep that was being watched by a vicious wolf, but we knew that this little sheep was just a tiger in sheep's clothing. It's ridiculous to say that what we tried to achieve was only to be found out that we had done it ourselves."

What Gao Xiangsheng said naturally means something.

When the three places of Chengde jointly used troops against Lu Long, they also thought that Lu Long would be defeated in Yingzhou, and the local power would rise again because of this war, so they chose Li Ze as a lever to leverage the local forces. Unexpectedly, in the end, it was Chengde's defeat, but Li Ze, the lever they were ready to pry Chengde, became Chengde's savior.

If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place!

Just sit back and watch Chengde fail, and they will naturally intervene openly.

This is the reason why Gao Xiangsheng lamented that it was counterproductive.