Temporarily solved a wave of assassinations, but it was quiet for a few days, and along the way, Pei Yuan carefully read the letterhead written by Shen Jiahe for him, and found it very useful, and he had to admire Shen Jiahe's meticulousness.

But at the same time, he has more and more doubts about Shen Jiahe, in his impression, Shen Jiahe is a lady who has never even appeared in the capital, how can he know the reason for so many floods.

He couldn't figure it out, so he could only fold the letterhead carefully and put it back in his close place to put it away, when he heard Pei Hao outside the carriage asking him: "Should we go to the local yamen to communicate with the local officials first, or go to the place where the incident occurred?" ”

Pei Yuan remembered that Shen Jiahe had told him that night that the most important thing in controlling the flood is to understand the cause, otherwise it is like treating a disease, and prescribing the wrong medicine will only get worse and worse.

Thinking of this, he replied in a deep voice: "Let's go to the place where the flood is most serious first, and only after seeing the situation at the scene can we come up with a good solution." ”

Pei Yuan and Pei Hao rushed directly to the place of the incident with the guards, but what they didn't expect was that the local officials had already stopped them on the way they had to pass.

"Xiaguan Li Changhai, the magistrate of this place, is here to meet the prince." Li Changhai bent down at Pei Yuan and Pei Hao and arched his hand.

"Lord Li is polite, we are about to go to the place where the incident occurred to have a look, so it just so happens that Lord Li will accompany you to lead the way in front." Pei Hao didn't get off the horse, only looked down at him and commanded.

Unexpectedly, Li Changhai arched his hand again, and said earnestly: "The two princes are all gold, how can they be in danger, if the prince needs to know the situation at the scene, just ask the lower officials." ”

Pei Yuan opened a corner of the car curtain, squinted at him, and saw that he looked a little uneasy, so he snorted coldly: "We are here to control the flood, if we only know how to hide behind and open our mouths to command, then why rush over from the capital, or is there something we can't see at the scene?" ”

Li Changhai let Pei Yuan take a look, only to feel that his legs and feet trembled, and when he heard this, he was even more frightened into a cold sweat: "The prince has misunderstood, and the lower officials will lead the way for the two princes." ”

After the group went to the scene, Pei Yuan found that the flood happened really strange, according to what he knew from the county chronicles, there were two forest farms nearby, which could have played a role in preventing sand and fixing the soil, but for some reason, there was no left of the felled at all.

Pei Yuan glanced coldly at Li Changhai, who came over, and saw that he was so frightened that he didn't dare to raise his head, so he only snorted coldly and planned to hold him accountable after he went back.

"It's blocked there!" The water level here is too deep to ride a horse, and after Pei Hao came back from walking around the neighborhood, he pointed out a place not far away to Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan looked over, there should have been a few culverts there, the role was to guide the flow of water, but now it was almost covered by silt, and the water could not flow, so it exploded from other places where it should not flow, and the water overflowed and directly flooded the nearby farmland.

The nearby dikes were either not strong enough to be washed away by the flood, or they were built so low that they could no longer be stopped.

Pei Yuan pondered for a while, then turned his head to look at Li Changhai: "Are there any drawings here?" ”

Li Changhai nodded tremblingly, and then turned his head and instructed the official behind him: "Go, hurry up and take the drawings here to show the prince." ”

After waiting for a while, the official took the drawings of the previous construction of the embankment, Pei Yuan took it in his hand, carefully compared everything on the scene, and found some subtle changes: "Where is the drawing officer of this drawing?" Let him wait at my place. ”

After finishing the order, Pei Yuan looked sideways at Li Changhai and warned in a loud voice: "If you are smart, actively cooperate with us, otherwise you should know the consequences, the matter here has reached the heavens, and you can't hide it if you want to." ”

Li Changhai raised his sleeves to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and praised again and again: "Don't dare, don't dare to ......"

He originally wanted to pull a random cartographer to deal with the errand, but now seeing that this is no less than going to die.

Pei Yuan carefully surveyed the scene again, and took everyone to the post house after remembering some places that needed to be dealt with by hand.

The previous drawing clerk had already arrived at the post house and waited, and after Pei Yuan saw him, he directly handed him the drawing in his hand: "What is wrong with this drawing?" ”

The little official held the drawing in his hand and looked at it carefully, and then knelt down directly and said: "Lord Wang, this is not a drawing drawn by the lower official, the drawing paper of the lower official has always been afraid that someone will do something on it, so he made some marks in the place where he signed, but there is no mark marked by the lower official on it." ”

The drawing clerk took two steps forward under Pei Yuan's signal, pointed out the place where he signed to Pei Yuan, and then pointed to other places and said: "Besides, although this drawing has been going on for a long time, Xia Guan can still remember that some small places are not what Xia Guan drew at the beginning. ”

Pei Yuan was not surprised at all, and asked directly: "Do you remember the drawings you drew at the beginning?" ”

"In case there is a problem with the drawings, the lower officials will leave a draft, and the lower officials will go back to help the prince get it." After the drawing officer finished speaking, he turned around and went out, Pei Hao was not at ease, and sent another guard to follow him to get the drawings.

When the drawings were taken, Pei Yuan compared the two drawings carefully, and sure enough, he found that there were some subtle marks in the place where he signed, so he nodded to the little official, and then threw the previous drawing on the kneeling Li Changhai with a cold face: "Lord Li, explain?" ”

Li Changhai knelt on the ground and trembled, not daring to answer, Pei Hao frowned and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"Not to mention cutting corners in the construction of the embankment, in order to prevent the above from being found out, the drawings were deliberately changed, which is really a good strategy! Not only did they not dredge the blocked culverts, but they also allowed the local people to cut down the trees on both sides. This is not a natural disaster at all, this is a man-made disaster! Pei Yuan angrily kicked Li Changhai.

Pei Hao looked at Li Changhai at this time and was also full of anger: "There has not been a flood disaster here for many years, you thought that there would never be an accident, but you didn't expect that the rain would soar this year." If it weren't for the fact that a businessman who went to Beijing passed by here and saw the famine reported to the capital, would Master Li still be ready to hide it and not report it! ”

Pei Yuan pressed the corner of his forehead and ordered to directly let Master Li be temporarily escorted down, such a person would not dare to continue to let him deal with the flood matter.

But now the top priority is to solve the flood, Pei Yuan thought of the solution in Shen Jiahe's letter, and asked Pei Hao to lead people to dig up the silt blocking the culvert mouth first, and then reinforce all the dikes.

If there is not enough manpower in the yamen, they will mobilize the villagers in the vicinity, who are deeply affected by the floods and will be willing to help.

However, if we need to manage this place in the long run, we must not only control the indiscriminate logging of the mountain people near this place, but also replant trees and grass in the deforested mountains, but these are all things to be done in the future.

After Pei Hao went out, Pei Yuan looked at the little official who had not yet left, and asked gently, "What is your name and how long have you been here?" ”

"The subordinate Xu Feng has been in office for more than three years, but the subordinate has a sentence, I don't know if to say it or not?" Xu Feng looked at Pei Yuandao.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Lord Li is actually a good official," seeing Pei Yuan frowning, Xu Feng hurriedly explained, "The north of this side is the place where Tianzhou Mansion is managed, and in order to prevent their fields from being flooded, Lord Lin of Tianzhou Mansion asked people to seal the culvert, so the culvert was blocked by man, and Lord Li did not dare to dig up the silt, as for the construction of the embankment, when Lord Li came to office, the embankment had already been built." ”

"What did you say!" Pei Yuan couldn't believe that there was so much inside information in this.

Xu Feng's expression was sad: "The official position of Lord Lin of Tianzhou Mansion is above Lord Li, even if you hand over the fold upward, you will be intercepted by Lord Lin, Lord Li has tried many times, but he has not been able to apply for the silver taels to rebuild the embankment." ”

The more Pei Yuan listened, the more frightened he became: "What about Lin Mu?" ”

Xu Feng sighed, he didn't know if he would be able to survive tomorrow if he exposed all this today, but seeing Lord Li being dragged to prison, he still couldn't bear it, "In fact, it was all done by one of Lord Lin's relatives, they relied on Lord Lin's identity to do evil, and Lord Li couldn't do anything about them." ”

"How can a small person from Wupin Zhizhou have such great ability!" Pei Yuan slapped the table violently.

Xu Feng opened his mouth, this matter has been said here, so there is no need to hide the last point: "I heard that Lin Zhizhou has a little relationship with the palace, and he can be transferred from the seventh rank to the palace because there are people in the palace, as for who the big tree behind it is, the lower officials are not clear." ”

The big tree in the palace, it seems that this Lin Zhizhou is going to check it well, Pei Yuan sat down, his mood eased a little, and said to Xu Feng: "You first take the king's message to the prison cell to pick up Lord Li's good life, and then go back to rest first, and the king will summon you again if there is something later." ”

As soon as Xu Feng left, the two killers hidden in the shadows began to move again, but Pei Yuan had already noticed it and had been waiting for these two to make a move.

The secret guard was sent by Pei Yuan to help control the flood, as soon as the two killers made a move, Pei Yuan could only deal with it with his own hands, but he didn't dare to expose his full strength, after killing one of the killers, the other killer took this opportunity to stab him with a sword, and he blocked it with his hand.

Seeing that Pei Yuan was injured, the other party didn't dare to fight, so he turned around and fled through the window.

When Pei Hao came back from outside during meal time, he saw the wound on Pei Yuan's hand at a glance: "What's going on?" ”

Pei Yuan didn't intend to hide it from him, and directly took out a thumb-sized mark from his arms: "From the killer's body, his patience seems to be gone." ”

Pei Hao's eyes widened: "The emperor's secret guard? ”

Pei Yuan nodded, and then ordered his secret guards to guard outside the door, and then watched Pei Hao tell the cause of his mother's death.

Pei Hao looked at the corners of Pei Yuan's slightly red eyes, and couldn't help but clench his fists: "You won't just let them bully you!" ”

Pei Yuan looked at the piece on the table that was about to be sent out, and then stuffed the logo in his hand, and then raised his head to look at Pei Hao and said, "No, one day I will let them spit out to me little by little." ”