Chapter 101: Dredging and Counterflow
The two magistrates chatted and found that the shrinkage of the money in the process of allocation was indeed exploited by many people, and the man did not dare to say it, after all, he himself was moving every year.
The two of them got on the embankment, braving the drizzle and looking into the distance, there were a few fishing boats still working in the silence, Chunli sighed: "How difficult it is to mourn the people's livelihood, hey." ”
"Don't sigh, go and see." Xiao Ziyan said.
"Over there?" Chunli was surprised, her intuition was that she had heard it wrong, how dangerous it was at this time, how could she go over there? dam
Xiao Ziyan nodded, the magistrate's name was Liu Xinggui, he nodded and hurriedly prepared a boat to come, and everyone headed towards the vast moat.
The boat rode the wind and waves, Xiao Ziyan was not afraid at all, his bright eyes stared at the fishing boat in the distance, and in an instant, a stormy wave swept over, and he saw a lot of fishing boat wine glasses swept away and disappeared into the darkness.
Seeing this, Xiao Ziyan was a little shocked, that Liu Xinggui had already made a soft hand, knelt on the ground and begged the prince to evacuate, Xiao Ziyan delayed a lot of work before withdrawing.
"This is the last chance my father gave me, if this matter is not done well, I will never be able to soar again in my life, how can I cherish my life?" Xiao Ziyan was furious.
Everyone knows that this is Xiao Ziyan's last chance, and he is willing to help, and then Xiao Ziyan and Ji Chunli trekked through mountains and rivers, and the two went to a lot of places, Ji Chunli can only treat diseases and save people, and when it comes to treating floods, he doesn't know anything.
The next day, before dawn, Xiao Ziyan had asked someone to find Ji Chunli, and Chunli yawned, "What are you doing?" ”
"Repair the embankment, let's go and supervise the work, let's go." Chunli has no choice but to follow behind, the embankment is like a dragon, this embankment was built many years ago, although it is still being built every year, in fact, it is just a casual "sewing and mending", at this moment Xiao Ziyan used the money of the imperial court to build the embankment, and a group of people braved the rain to work diligently.
Chunli looked over and found that the riverside was crowded with people, and everyone was sweating like rain.
"The heavier the levee, the more likely it is to be washed away by floods, isn't it?" Of course, this is conjecture, but it is not entirely conjecture.
After the flood came, he was like a wolf and a tiger, and in Ji Chunli's view, it must be wrong to simply build a dam.
"You come to supervise the work, let them hurry up!" Xiao Ziyan handed over a horsewhip to Ji Chunli, Chunli was stunned, took the horsewhip from Xiao Ziyan's hand, and suddenly felt that the responsibility was heavier than Mount Tai.
Why do you call "she is here to supervise the work"?
Xiao Ziyan walked away, Chunli looked at it and found that many people were ordinary people, everyone saw Chunli approaching the six gods without owners, "Female official, the villain is doing things, the villain is doing it~!" Female officers don't whip villains, villains are doing things. ”
"The female official is gracious, the villain is also doing it!"
There was a lot of mourning, Chunli hid the horsewhip, but everywhere she went, there were complaints, and after turning around, Chunli's mood was complicated, and she didn't know what she would do in the future.
She didn't want Xiao Ziyan to succeed, but when she saw the people crying out so hungry and cold, so frightened, this scene turned into a flowing picture scroll tumbling in Chunli's mind, and she looked at it and looked at it with mixed tastes.
At the end of the day, the embankment is a lot higher, but the rain falls from the sky, and the embankment that has just been built has been washed away.
After two days, the levee was almost finished, and the flood carpet spread to the side of the levee, and in the afternoon, there was a roar in the water, and the waves were rolling and screaming and crawling forward, and everyone watched from afar that the levee was crumbling, and then the flood had broken the dam, and for the first time in history, the flood had entered the capital, and many people who were running slowly were swept away.
Fortunately, the king of Dongsheng is relatively high, otherwise the whole army will be wiped out at this moment, and the flood will swallow up a lot of houses and crops, the situation is dangerous, and soon someone will report the news to the center, Emperor Jiading heard it, but he was angry, "And then?" ”
"Then, they're still figuring out what to do next, and the villain will send you as soon as there's news." A guard knelt in front of the emperor, and the emperor nodded heavily.
The man quickly ran out and traveled countless times a day.
After the flood entered the royal capital, the water level was constantly rising, and it was about to pass the city gate, but when everyone was at a loss, the flood suddenly went downstream, and the flood gradually disappeared for a while, and everyone celebrated.
Downstream, Xiao Qiyu didn't build a city wall at all, he knew that the city wall was terrible, just like a dying old man who had entered the last years of the wind and candle, how could such a person stop the flood of thousands of troops?
He chose to dredge, and all the floods were diverted to inaccessible wilderness or some downstream, and there was no other action on his side.
When Xiao Ziyan saw this, his heart was beating and he scolded many of the strategists who followed him, but those people knelt on the ground and didn't dare to say a word. The flood is over, but the embankment still has to be built, and the work of the cycle has begun, Chunli feels that this is a symptom but not a cure, and chats with Xiao Ziyan.
But at first, Xiao Ziyan was still calm, and soon Xiao Ziyan became angry and scolded Ji Chunli for her opinion.
"Why am I the woman's opinion?" Chunli's meaning is very simple, "Throw away all the existing embankments, continue to dig the foundations, and then build them, so that they can really work." ”
But Xiao Ziyan didn't listen at all.
Chunli had no choice but to let him take the people to build every day, everyone dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, seeing that it was completed, Xiao Ziyan hastily comforted the affected people and was ready to go back, and then looked at Xiao Qiyu's side, the situation on his side was very bad, the embankment had been broken, and it could be finished at any time.
As for Xiao Qiyu, he is actually in big fish and big meat.
Xiao Ziyan's people reported Xiao Qiyu's behavior, Xiao Ziyan frowned, "Isn't this a trick?" It's all at this juncture, is he eating and drinking with public funds? ”
"Yes, it's all public money!" Grasping Xiao Qiyu's evidence, Xiao Ziyan was suddenly arrogant, and went to Zhongjing in the afternoon to complain, in fact, the news of Emperor Jiading was much faster than Xiao Ziyan's, he already knew what Xiao Qiyu was doing, but he remained silent.
Xiao Qiyu is a far-sighted person, and it is really impossible for him to mess around.
"I will deal with it, and you will also hang the people and fight the crimes, and be a king who is courteous." The emperor said so, Xiao Ziyan stepped down, the second thing he did was to bribe the magistrate, so Liu Xinggui had already been bribed, isn't it like this every year?
In the afternoon, Liu Xinggui dug up the "Ganoderma lucidum grass" near the Land Temple, and immediately reported to the imperial court, hoping to commend Xiao Ziyan, Xiao Ziyan was too eager for quick success, Chunli reminded Xiao Ziyan not to get an axe, but Xiao Ziyan just didn't listen.
In the afternoon, Chunli and Xiao Ziyan had an awkward quarrel, the two broke up unhappily, Chunli decided to go to Xiao Qiyu to see the situation, Xiao Qiyu's behavior was so strange that even Ji Chunli couldn't guess it.
When I went to Xiao Qiyu's side, the first thing Chunli saw was Xiao Qizhen, Xiao Qizhen was settling accounts, and everyone next to him was sweating like rain with abacus and brushes, and they were very busy.
Xiao Qizhen didn't take any wooden utensils either.
It was as if he could only sleep when he smelled the smell of shavings and turpentine, as if these were the source of his happiness and security, but today he was rarely heroic, sitting cross-legged in the courtyard and settling accounts with everyone.
Chunli didn't dare to approach for fear of messing with them, but Xiao Qizhen got up.
"Chunli, are you here?" He was slightly embarrassed, put the paper on the ground and approached Chunli, Chunli said, "What are you guys counting?" ”
"Brother Huang wants to build a barrage dam, from beginning to end, it needs silver, calculate how much it needs." In fact, if it is carried out according to the construction model of "from beginning to end", it will naturally be a sum of money with no upper and lower limits.
However, they still got together and seriously calculated, "Do you want a million taels of gold?" Chunli asked.
"It's about 10 million taels," Xiao Qizhen smiled, "It's not enough, we've been thinking about it for a long time, where will we get so much money." "There is indeed a shortage in the imperial court, and once this matter continues, it will be protracted, and the bow cannot be abandoned halfway.