When the handsome man and the white-faced Confucian hurriedly hurried to the mouth of the Chengguo Canal outside the city, there were already many soldiers with armor in the vicinity of the canal guarding the periphery, and the idle people could not approach at will.

It seems that the hussar general who was patrolling the canal arrived ahead of time and had already descended to inspect the canal.

The handsome man made great efforts to find the master book of Yixian, and then brought the two of them in, but the riding slaves and servants could only stay outside.

When they entered the inside, they could not immediately see the hussar general, so they could only stay honestly in the crowd of officials in Yixian County, patiently waiting for the hussar general to receive him.

The handsome man had already calculated everything on the road when he came, but when he stood in the crowd and waited, he couldn't help but feel a little up and down in his heart, on the other hand, the white-faced Confucian looked like he didn't care about himself, looking at everything around him with interest.

Standing in the crowd, waiting boringly for more than half an hour, suddenly there was a new reaction in the crowd, the officials of the county temple took the lead in bowing, and the handsome man and the white-faced Confucian also hurriedly followed the others to bow.

They also noticed that the hussar general had returned from his inspection of the mouth of the ditch, and the two of them quietly raised their heads and secretly surveyed the crowd that was slowly approaching.

To their surprise, among the crowd that came, although there were many people dressed in official robes, in the middle were an old man and a young man wearing coarse cloth and a young man.

The handsome man had sharp eyes, and hurriedly looked at the old and the young.

The old man had a hat on his head, a lot of mud on his clothes, straw sandals, gray temples and an old face, showing that he had reached an aging age.

The young man also had a lot of mud on his body, a pair of calf nose pants looked a little bloated on his lower body, he was barefoot, his two fine red and dark calves were not only mud, but also small bloody wounds, a straw rope was tied around his waist, and the broken hat on his head was hanging down, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

Could this be the hussar general who dominates the Three Rivers and the Megatron Pass?

When the handsome man secretly looked over, the crowd had already walked over, and the saluting people also stood up one after another, he looked at the shiny robe on his body, and recalled the old and young just now, and faintly felt a trace of uneasiness about miscalculation.

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The crowd did not stop, but turned and walked up an embankment.

Du Ji, who was dressed in official uniform, looked at the old man and the young man in the middle, and his mouth couldn't help but have a faint bitterness.

After the Hedong army defeated Han Sui, Yan Xing quickly turned to stabilizing the political affairs of Guanzhong.

For the sake of politics, do not precede the employment of people. In addition to eliminating a group of three-auxiliary talents such as Zhang Ji, Su Ze, Yan Gan, Li Yi, and You Chu, Yan Xing soon appointed a new batch of three-auxiliary taishou.

Wei Qi got what he wanted, and successfully served as 2,000 stones, serving as Feng Yi's Taishou. The Jingzhao Tai Code was held by Changshi Yan, who came from Anyi, Hedong. The title of Fufeng Taishou, Yan Xing pushed it to Duan Xuan, the general of Zhengxi who recovered Guanzhong and made great contributions, but this is only a fictitious title, Duan Xuan himself returned the military power of the army, and lived in Chang'an City, and all the government affairs of Fufeng were handed over to Du Ji, the Fufeng County Cheng.

The 600-stone county official seems to be of low rank, but in the case of the Taishou Yaoling, he is actually the Taishou of the county, Du Ji's own talent is outstanding, and he is a scholar from the Sanfu family, so he can get this hot position.

Even compared with the same group of hussar generals' mansion Peng Shi who were released and promoted, Du Ji's official position is not low.

Zheng Hun, who was born in a famous family and is also a celebrity, is about to go to Hedong Taishou because of his resume as a county magistrate, and go to Hedong to fill the vacancy left in the Hedong County Government after Yan Zhi left.

Yang Jun, who was loyal to Su Hongliang and respected by Yan Xingxin, was promoted and took over the position vacated by Jia Kui, with high and powerful positions, correcting lawlessness and supervising officials.

Sima Lang was simple and refined, and was appointed by the Chang'an Order, which governed Chang'an City, although Chang'an City was no longer the Xijing of the past, but with the process of Yan Xing's vigorous management of Guanzhong, Sima Lang's position in Chang'an Decree will become more and more prominent.

Only Sima Zhi, who is also talented and virtuous, for some reason, was just released to become a small county magistrate, and the history of Pengzhong in the house was circulated in private, saying that Sima Zhi offended a certain big man.

This incident also made Du Ji more diligent after taking office.

However, no matter how diligent Du Ji is, he can't stop the huge pressure of political performance from Feng Yi and Jingzhao counties.

Feng Yijun's vitality was not damaged, and after the arrival of Tai Shou Qian, according to Yan Xing's instructions, in addition to issuing the decree of Hedong, measuring land, liquidating the population, assessing officials, building schools, recruiting fugitives, and promoting Tuntian, he also summoned and mobilized the county's big surnames Haoqiang, preparing to rebuild the Zhengguo Canal and the Baiqu Second Canal.

The Guanzhong sergeants of the former Han Dynasty were well-populated and relied on the agricultural water conservancy that had been painstakingly built and operated by generations.

Among them, the Zhengguo Canal and the Baiqu Second Canal are the most famous, the Zhengguo Canal is the heritage of the Qin State, and the Baiqu is the Guanzhong irrigation canal initiated by the Zhaozhong doctor Bai Gong during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The two are also called "Zhengbai Canal", which drains from Jingshui into Luoshui and Weishui, and the land where the canal passes has become a fertile and fertile field nourished by Jingshui river mud.

For this reason, there are folk songs in Guanzhong to sing the merits of Zheng Bai Erqu.

"Where is the field, Chiyang Taniguchi. Zheng Guo is in front, and after the white canal rises, it is a cloud, and the ditch is rain. Jingshui is a stone, and its mud is several buckets. And irrigated and dung, grow my corn. Food and clothing, the mouth of billions. ”

And these two important canals are now in Feng Yijun County under Wei Qian's rule.

In the winter of last year, in order to dredge and repair the silted and destroyed canals in various sections before the spring flood of this year, Zuo Fengyi mobilized 20,000 or 30,000 Hedong and civilian servants, and this move was strongly supported by the hussar generals.

With the concerted efforts of all the people, the project of the Zhengbai Canal was completed ahead of schedule before the arrival of this year's spring flood.

It is said that the hussar general and his soldiers spent the entire winter on the construction site of the canal.

As for the agricultural water conservancy and irrigation canals in Jingzhao County, they have completely obtained the relics of the former Han Dynasty, and the Lingyi Canal, Fanhui Canal, Mengfu Canal, and Fengshui Canal are all water conservancy projects that can benefit thousands of Lishu people as long as they are repaired and dredged.

Yan Shi, who recruited farmers and built weirs and canals for the hussar generals in Hedong, and the prominent location of the Jingzhao area also had the largest number of displaced people.

Only the dilapidated Fufeng County, where the population fled seriously and the farmland was abandoned and abandoned, although after Du Ji took over, it improved slightly, but compared with Fengyi County and Jingzhao County, it was still obviously suppressed.

However, at this time, Yan Xing, a hussar general who had just finished inspecting the mouth of the canal, and Yan Zhi, the chief of the Guanzhong River and canal affairs, did not notice the sadness on Du Qi's face.

"The progress of water conservancy in Fufeng is still too slow, not only the Chengguo Canal has not been dredged, but even the canal mouth is not repaired firmly, if it is not for the insufficient amount of Weishui water this year, I am afraid that this canal mouth will also be washed away by the Weishui of the spring flood!"

Although Yan Xing turned his back to Du Qi and the others, the pressure in these serious words was pressed on Du Qi of Fufeng County and the new county magistrate of Yi County.

The county commander of Yixian County trembled, and immediately complained:

"General, it's really not that the subordinates are slacking off in politics, but that Yixian County is dilapidated and the population is fleeing seriously, and the mouth of the Chengguo Canal was not repaired in the winter of last year."

Hearing this, Yan Xing turned to the county order of Yixian County, his eyes were grim.

"Understaffed? Hasn't the state already ordered all counties to provide relief for work, recruit workers and grant land, how can there still be a shortage of manpower? If you are an official and unbearable, you can resign from the seal, and I don't know how many people in these three assistants want the bronze seal and black ribbon of 600 stones! ”

River work is a hard and tiring labor. In order to mobilize enough manpower, Yan Xing not only led the army to work, but also let the counties and counties provide relief for work, and ordered the county officials to mobilize the children and servants of the families surnamed Haoqiang to repair and dredge the canal where it was located, and promised that after the canal was repaired, they would be granted fertile land along the canal in return.

Yan Xing's questioning words already had a stern reproachful tone at the end, and the county order of Yixian County was also put to the place from outside the Hussar General's Mansion, knowing the Hussar General's temper, he was so frightened that he couldn't stand anymore, and hurriedly bowed down to apologize.

Du Yi saw it in his eyes, frowned, and said to Yan Xing gently:

"The general didn't know that what the Yixian county decree referred to in the words was a shortage of manpower, which meant that except for the children of the big surname Haoqiang, there were very few households who could bring their own food and clothing to work. Although there is no flood flow in winter, but the weather is very cold, if the river workers in the lower canal do not have enough medicine, wine, clothing, food to drive away the cold and stomach, soak in the river water construction life is worried, and this year is cold, even some places in the canal are frozen, and the ice-breaking construction is even more difficult. ”

"Not long after Fufeng was newly settled, even the relief grain was transported from Sanhe, and the rest of the medicines, wine and other materials were often scarce. However, Ji Xingchun has already inspected, and there are few poor families under the rule of Yi County who have frozen to death and starved to death, and it is obvious that although the county order of Yi County has been ineffective, it has still made some efforts to implement the decree issued by the state and county. ”

After listening to Du Ji's words, Yan Xing was angry, he just wanted to increase the pressure to urge Du Ji, Yixian County Commander and others, and he had no intention of ignoring the life and death of the river workers in order to rush the work, so he waved his hand to let the kneeling Yixian County Commander get up, and he turned to Changshi Yan and said:

"Lone thought that the Hedong army would quell the rebellion in Guanzhong in time and could relieve Li Shu of the suffering of the military disaster, but he didn't expect that in addition to Feng Yijun, the other two counties in Guanzhong were ten rooms and nine scargeons, not only a large number of fields were abandoned, but even the population of Sanfu that had been preliminarily and strictly verified was less than 800,000. Even if there are fugitives returning to their hometowns in the future, looking at it alone, it will not exceed a million, compared to the land of Guanzhong in the former Han Dynasty, but a county, it can be described as withered and dilapidated! ”