"It's not a way to always consume like this, let's teach the Eight King Kongs to gather in the capital now, I don't believe that we can't beat a few brocade guards!" The black-faced man slammed the table and said.

The black-faced man surnamed Ma is a bald man, his body is as strong as an iron tower, and he is an opponent in a drought with a mastery of iron sand palms, and he has long developed a character of empty eyes.

"Hehe, Second Brother Ma has a good idea, the younger brother agrees with a hundred, why don't you go and flatten the Zhenfu Division Yamen next to the Four Seas Martial Arts Hall for us to see." A young man with oily hair and a powdery face covered his mouth and chuckled.

Ma Wu was not stupid, and when he heard this, he lost his temper and said angrily: "Selangjun, what do you mean by this, do you think Lao Tzu doesn't dare to go?" ”

"Hmph, it's not that I'm afraid that you won't dare to go, but I'm afraid that you, a fool, will kill everyone by acting without permission!" Serang-kun also lost his temper and slapped the table and scolded loudly.

"You ......" Ma Wubald just spit out a word, and the man who had been sitting without speaking said, "Okay, what is the noise." ”

The voice is not loud, but it is full of majesty. This person is of average stature and appearance, and his coarse cloth clothes are no different from the ordinary people on the street, but his eyes are still radiant in the dim light, showing that he is extraordinary.

This person is Guan Shanyue, the head of the Eight King Kongs, and the big guy has seen him move once after getting along for so many years, that is, when he chased and killed Zheng Sihai not long ago.

You must know that Zheng Sihai is the left protector, and the eagle claw skills that have been practiced for decades are not ordinary, even a master like Ma Wubald was easily manipulated by him with a few moves, and the seven people at that time joined forces to be dwarfed by Zheng Sihai, and they were about to be defeated, at this moment, Guan Shanyue, who had been watching coldly, suddenly made a move, and carried Zheng Sihai alone, taking advantage of this opportunity, he joined forces to kill several disciples of Zheng Sihai and his son.

After this incident, the people who were originally very uninterested in this Eight King Kong changed their previous attitudes, and they were both respectful and afraid of him.

As soon as he spoke, the two people who were arguing immediately shut up and sat there strangely.

"The masters of Jinyi Wei are like clouds, and there is also Dongchang in the capital, Jingwei key pawns, once the fight really starts, even if the eight of us have three heads and six arms, we will not have a chance to live." As he spoke, Guan Shanyue picked up the teacup and drank it slowly.

"But we can't return in vain, Zheng Sihai has a lot of secrets in the sect, judging by the situation, he has already taken refuge in Jinyi Weili, once the joint offer is revealed, it will be a big deal." Ma Wubald said a little anxiously.

"Rice bucket, if Zheng Sihai really takes refuge in Jinyiwei, will the places in Jiangnan still be calm?" Serangjun said disdainfully, people often say that the chest is big and brainless, this head is strong, and he is also brainless.

"You...... Hum! Ma Wubald knew that his kung fu was no match for Selangjun, so he could only sit there angrily and stop talking. For a moment, the eight people fell into silence, and the only sound in the room was the occasional burst of candles.

"It's not okay to break through, and at present, Zheng Sihai has not taken refuge in Jinyiwei, let's not force people too much, lest he really take refuge in Jinyiwei." For a long time, Guan Shanyue, who put down the teacup, said.

Everyone was stunned, and Na Roy was puzzled: "Big brother, do you just let Zheng Sihai go, I'm afraid that the sect leader will blame him." ”

"It's okay, I'll make it clear to the sect leader. Let's go to bed early, and we'll leave the capital early tomorrow morning. With that, Guan Shanyue got up to see off the guests, and everyone also got up to say goodbye.

Serangjun, who was walking at the end, paused, turned around and said with a smile: "Boss, you see that there are so many beauties in the capital, can the little brother go out to make a ticket tonight." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Serangjun felt that the temperature around him had dropped, and he could only hear Guan Shanyue say word by word: "I said, if anyone dares to leave here without permission to go out and make trouble, the canon will serve." ”

"Yes, yes, my little brother wrote it down." After saying this, Serangjun turned around and ran, this big brother is too powerful.

"It's worthy of the Yellow River, this water is really yellow enough." Shen Chongming, who was standing on the board, looked at the rushing Yellow River and sighed.

Early this morning, the group left the small town of Huanglinggang and crossed the river by boat to Kaocheng County on the other side, which was the destination of the trip.

The nine bends and eighteen bends of the Yellow River are just a metaphor for images. In the whole territory of Henan, from Kaocheng to Yucheng downstream, the river of nearly 300 miles is the most curved and changeable, and every time the embankment collapses, it is caused by the impact of the river turning.

Niu Shilang planned to spend half a month to investigate in detail, and then ordered the local government to recruit people to repair the weak places he found, and the errand was completed.

"Hehe, a bowl of water and half a bowl of sand, this water is not yellow." I don't know when Niu Shilang also walked out of the cabin, and when he heard Shen Chongming's emotion, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Hehe, what the adults said is that this sand is indeed a bit too much, and if it continues to develop like this, I am afraid that the riverbed will be higher than the ground." Shen Chongming sounded the word that later generations described the Yellow River hanging on the ground, and he couldn't help but tremble, living on both sides was really fatal.

"Yes, this is where the difficulty of controlling the Yellow River lies. Compared with other rivers, this Yellow River dam consumes the most, and the imperial court gives a little silver every year is not enough at all. Niu Shilang said with emotion, the weather is really good today, there is no cloud and there is no possibility of rain.

"Then why didn't you truthfully report to the imperial court and ask the court to allocate more silver taels, once there is a real flood, the cost of disaster relief is not something that the silver used to build the embankment can withstand." Shen Chongming raised his doubts, everyone knew the danger of the Yellow River, but all the way, he didn't hear Niu Shilang talk about how to build the embankment.

"Let the court allocate the silver, hehe." Niu Shilang smiled bitterly twice and explained: "You may not know that you are in the Guozijian that the household department can't even get the official's two months of money, and these days are all sending out some ingots and rice noodles, and I haven't even seen a copper plate." ”

Shen Chongming had a chill, it was unbelievable that such a big country couldn't even pay the salaries of civil servants.

"In the first year, the official went out of Beijing to patrol the river, and there were nearly 100 followers, in addition to the necessary servants and miscellaneous servants, there were also some craftsmen who repaired the embankment, and in the second year it was reduced to 70 people, and in the third year it was less than 50 people, and this year you also saw that there were only 40 people, and only this official was the only one who understood water conservancy." Niu Shilang said with a sad face.

This way came to eat and sleep, because when he left the capital, Lord Shangshu only approved a hundred taels of funds, which is a round-trip fee, so many people can only save it.

"Then the adults don't have the money, why should we still repair this embankment?" Shen Chongming asked cautiously. When he got on the boat today, he glanced at the embankments on both sides of the ferry, which were already a little broken.

"Of course, it will be repaired, and part of the annual income of Kaocheng and Yucheng counties will be used as the cost of repairing the embankment, and then a few thousand people will be recruited to repair the place that needs to be filled in and repaired with a straw broom, and it will not take much silver." Niu Shilang said helplessly.

Although I don't know what a straw broom is, but the Ming Dynasty can't open an official salary, and you can imagine how many years of income these two small counties can have. With a fraction of this amount of silver, the embankment of the river can be repaired for three hundred miles, and this straw broom is certainly not a good thing.

The journey was smooth, and it didn't take long for the ferry to dock at the ferry port in Khao Cheng County. There was no pennant display, but it was a noisy gong and drum, and the magistrate of Kaocheng County waited at the ferry early in the morning with a group of officials of all sizes from the Yamen.

As soon as the ferry appeared in sight, Huang Dongliang, the county magistrate who had been watching, waved his fat palm and shouted: "Quick, beat the gong and drum." Then, the fat on his body trembled and ran forward, and the officials behind him hurriedly followed.

"Xiaguan examines Huang Dongli of Chengzhi County, see Lord Niu!" Watching Niu Shilang take the lead out of the cabin, Huang Zhixian knelt on the ground with his clothes lifted.

"Hehe, Lord Huang, my lords, hurry up and excuse me." Niu Shilang's modest smiling face reappeared, and he walked a few steps to Huang Zhixian to help him up.

"My lord has come from afar, and it's been hard." Huang Zhixian said as he took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead. After running a few steps just now, Huang Zhixian was already sweating profusely, and such a good weather was hell for a big fat man like him.

"Lord Huang is polite." As he spoke, Niu Shilang's brows couldn't help but wrinkle. The fat man put on his patched official uniform again, and it seems that he is going to cry poor again.

Shen Chongming was also dumbfounded at this time, there were no less than twenty officials and officials who came to greet him, most of them were ruddy and fat, but everyone's clothes were patched, if they smeared a little dust on their faces, they would definitely be the members of the beggar gang!

"My lord, the lower officials have prepared a banquet in the city, and they are waiting for you to come." Huang Zhixian didn't feel that this beggar pretending to be a beggar had attracted the attention of several poor people, so he didn't feel it and laughed.

"There's Lord Lao Huang, please." Niu Shilang said, and walked forward with his own care, he didn't mean to invite at all, this yellow fat man, this trick is really hateful every year.