Ba Shui, Pa Dong County Shou Xu Shao is inspecting the city of Shangba River, this newly built small city is now in good shape, just to avoid flooding, but also to build the embankment, what he is now checking is the progress of the construction of the river embankment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This year's rainy season Ba water level rises, but the rainfall is not as much as last year, so the new city has not been flooded, but not every year has such good luck, so the river defense should be paid attention to.

Shangba River City is located to the east of Ba Shui, full of small ponds and reeds, and hilly areas, it is impossible to reclaim a large area of farmland, so Xu Shao has to find another way.

First of all, it was necessary to drain the stagnant water, put lime, and extinguish the snails before the reclamation began, which had sufficient experience, manpower, and agricultural tools, so things went smoothly, and mulberry trees were planted on the hills, and the ponds were reclaimed into paddy fields after being drained of water.

The larger pond is directly used as a fish pond, because Xiyang City has a huge demand for fish, and the residents of Shangba River City are very enthusiastic about raising fish, and even people from other places have come to rent the pond and bring in fish fry to raise fish themselves.

More is to raise ducks and geese, are not worried about selling poultry, there are duckweed in the ponds dotted around, after scooping up and drying, some people buy a large number of people to pull back to feed pigs, the vast wasteland of the past can now find a way to make a fortune everywhere.

"What's going on, the pile of stone seems to be much less?" Xu Shao asked, he reconfirmed the scene and found that something was wrong.

"Mingfu, seeing that the embankment is about to be completed, there is less stone from the quarry."

"It should have been supplied according to the contract, could it be that someone dared to breach the contract?"

"Mingfu, it is said that there are some problems on the side of the embankment construction site, and there are a lot more stones needed, and these few quarries are in a hurry to send the stones to that side first, and our side is delayed."

Xu Shao looked at the direction of the southern riverside, the Yangtze River embankment that has been built is the most important thing in Bazhou now, gathering a lot of manpower and material resources, if it can be completed as planned, there will be a lot of wasteland can be reclaimed into fertile land.

"The river embankment is important, but the river embankment here can't be delayed!"

Xu Shao walked to the wharf not far away, where a cargo ship was unloading stones, and the leader of the team hurriedly greeted him when he saw his parents.

"I heard that the supply of stone is not available, what is going on?"

"Ming Mansion! The small ones will never miss the construction period, and the stones owed in these two days will be made up immediately from tomorrow! ”

"Tomorrow? If it doesn't happen tomorrow, the official will stop the boat on the river! ”

"Mingfu is angry, the small ones don't dare to mess around, there must be stones, but the owner doesn't want to be like this, the river embankment construction site is urgent, the quarry is not manpowered, every day from sunrise to sunset, the stone just mined is transported away."

"If you don't have enough manpower, won't you recruit? Is it that your hosts are accustomed to mountain people who don't want to be paid, and they are not willing to spend money to hire people? ”

"The Ming government doesn't know, now the owner is going to the neighboring states to recruit people, but there are too many owners who recruit people, where to grab how many people come, and now there is a shortage of people everywhere in Bazhou."

Xu Shao sighed helplessly, the other party was right, there is a shortage of people everywhere, and now there is a war again, the Hezhou Governor's Mansion to the east of the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion was invaded by the Chen army, and the Huangzhou Army has sent reinforcements to the east, and also requisitioned Qingzhuang to transport grain and grass, there is really a shortage of people everywhere.

Not only Hezhou in the east, but also Jingzhou and Xiangzhou in the west, Chen Jun and Sui Jun are in trouble in the east and west, and they will have to toss in the next few months, and Bazhou may not be too peaceful.

This is a bad thing, but it is also a good thing, I don't know how many people in Bazhou are looking forward to fighting, and as soon as the fight starts, not to mention anything else, the demand for chickens, ducks and geese will go up, without him, the government will have to make a large number of feathers into arrow feathers.

After a big battle, hundreds of thousands of feather arrows were consumed, not only feathers, but also wood and bamboo poles for arrow shafts had to be purchased, and those craftsmen in the ordnance supervision could earn more wages.

It seems that the crooked reasoning of assassinating Shi Yu Wenwen is about to be confirmed again, and Xu Shao does not know whether this statement of "war stimulates domestic demand" is correct or not.

When he was distracted, the riverbank not far upstream suddenly disturbed, and the people on the embankment construction site pointed at the river, and some people shouted, "Row over and see", Xu Shao raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and vaguely saw that there seemed to be a person floating on the river.

Could it be that there was a murder?!

As the saying goes, "those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black", Xu Shao has been with someone for a long time, and it seems that his psychology is also a little "dark", and the first thing that comes to mind when he sees this situation is the corpse.

If there is a corpse, there will be a case, and if there is a case, it will be time for him to solve the case! Is it love killing? Vendetta? Murder? Accidentally overboard? Commit suicide? Or kill people and throw corpses? A string of ideas popped up in an instant.

"Quick! Go over and see what's going on! ”

"Mingfu, I have a small boat on this cargo ship!"

"Quick, let the boat go and have a look!"

The boatman hurriedly put down the boat to catch things on the river, and after some tossing and turning, he brought it to the river, and everyone gathered around to see that it was indeed a person.

It was a young man, with a pale face and blood stains on his body, and the robe he was wearing looked of good texture, but it had been cut many times, revealing bloody wounds, not only on his body, but also on his face.

Xu Shao pushed aside the crowd, regardless of the muddy ground, knelt down on one knee and began to check the situation, the skin of the person's wound was white, and there were ulcers in many places, it seemed that the injury time was not short, and the time spent in the water was not short.

Stretched out his hand to probe the man's nostrils, and after a while, Xu Shao's face turned happy: "It seems that there is still gas!" ”

Caring about it so much, he leaned his ear to the other party's chest, and the heartbeat was finally confirmed: "He's not dead!" ”

"Quick, go to the city and call the doctor... Find something handy to use as a stretcher! ”

Although he was a little flustered, Xu Shao was probably quite organized, and he often read and watched the deeds of local officials of various dynasties and generations in judging cases on weekdays, but now he is living and learning, seeing that the other party seems to be still a little sane, he tried to shout:

"Can you hear me, can you still speak..."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Shao stopped by himself, and then reached out to touch the other party's face, he seemed to recognize this person, but he couldn't see it clearly with his head, and he brushed away the hair covering his face, and his pupils shrank.

"This, this..."

Ignoring the dirtiness on the person's face, Xu Shao wiped the other party's face with his sleeve, looked at it again, and then gasped.

"Quick!! Call the doctor!! ”

The voice was hoarse, and before everyone could react, Xu Shao desperately picked up the man, but it was too difficult for one person to hug, and others hurriedly helped, one raised his shoulders and one raised his legs, and ran towards the dock under Xu Shao's order.

"Untie the rope now! Sail! Go downstream! ”

"Mingfu, this is..."

"Less nonsense! Untie the rope quickly! ”

"Ming Mansion, what's wrong?"

"This official escorts... Take this person to Xiyang City, and you will each do your duty! ”

Xu Shao roared, and all the officials on the shore looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, and a few attendants were ordered to go on the boat to accompany them, and the captain of the boat panicked and commanded the boatman to operate, and then listened to his command to carry the man to the place where the boatmen were resting and lay down, and covered with clean bedding to prevent cold.

The cable was untied, the boatman shook the long oar, the cargo ship slowly left the dock and headed downstream, in the cabin, Xu Shao held the man's hand tightly and whispered: "Yuwen envoy, hold on!" (To be continued.) )