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Although the flood has receded, the food shortage has been resolved, and even the Li family, which was their enemy, has been completely uprooted, the affairs of the county are still busy. For example, the rebuilding of the Puyang River embankment, after all, it is only the end of March, who knows if there will be another heavy rain next, and the flood season has just begun.

Fortunately, at this time, Yang Chen's reputation among the people had reached an unprecedented peak, and everyone in the yamen obeyed the instructions, so after he gave the order, the embankment repair project was immediately in full swing. What's more advantageous is that Yang Chen was a college student who graduated from the Department of Water Conservancy in his previous life, and he will do more scientific and difficult water conservancy projects in his later life, so this little thing in front of him will naturally be difficult for him.

Under Yang Chen's overall planning and command, the new Puyang River embankment began to emerge at an unprecedented high speed. What amazed those people and officials even more was that as long as the embankment was built according to Yang Chen's intentions, both the materials and the workload would be far less than in the past, and looking at the condition of the dam, it was much stronger than the previous embankment, which was enough to ensure the safety of the lives of a county.

Seeing that Yang Chen had such a clever method, the officials and people of the county naturally respected and obeyed him more. There are rumors among the people from time to time, saying that this is because God saw that the people of Zhuji were suffering deeply from the Puyang River, so he sent this Yang County order to rescue everyone. If it weren't for Yang Chen's veto, I was afraid that the embankment had not yet been built, and there would be an additional Yang Gong ancestral hall by the river to replace the Dragon King Temple, which was useless in the past.

In this way, the enthusiasm of the people of the county was even more stimulated, and in only about three months, the river embankment has been re-erected on the Puyang River to meet the possible new round of flood tests. This time, God helped the officials and people of Zhuji County, and after the rain stopped in March, there was no more violent rainfall, and finally the project was successfully built safely and steadily.

And all the people involved in the embankment repair project are convinced that this time, with the protection of this embankment, it is enough to protect the peace of Ji County for 50 years. People no longer have to worry about flooding the city on a certain flood night.

The construction of such a causeway to protect the people's safety and security can make the people feel more deeply grateful than any other official honesty or redress of wrongs. Other colleagues who didn't take Yang Chen, a young county magistrate, very seriously in the past, were even more impressed by him at the moment, and even some officials from neighboring prefectures and counties even came to ask him for advice on how to build embankments. After all, there are too many rivers and lakes in the Jiangnan region, and floods are always a sharp sword hanging over the heads of officials, so that people dare not treat them carelessly.

After the embankment was completed, Yang Chen could no longer deny the hearts of the people, so he had to agree that everyone named the embankment Yanggong Embankment, and carved an inscription in front of the embankment to commemorate it. The life span of this embankment is far beyond the people's guess, and after nearly two hundred years of wind and rain, the river erosion, but it still stands to protect the life and property safety of the people of Zhuji, and is worshiped by future generations of embankment builders. Of course, that's all for later.

While Yang Chen was busy repairing the embankment, Yang Zhen was also busy, busy continuing to search for the whereabouts of the White Lotus Sect. Although he insisted on planting the identity of the White Lotus Sect on Li Chenggang and them, he knew very well in his heart that there were still White Lotus Sectists hidden in the county.

Although after quelling the riots and surviving the difficulties, the county town also returned to calm, and it was no longer possible for the White Lotus Sect to find any loopholes. But Yang Zhen still couldn't swallow this breath, if they hadn't secretly burned Chang Ping, they wouldn't have been so passive before, he naturally wanted to find the enemy and fight back.

It is strange to say, whether it was before or now, it seems that these White Lotus Sect disciples are as if they have never existed, no matter how hard he tries to find them, he has no clue.

In mid-April, as the construction of the embankment was in full swing, there were fewer and fewer people under Yang Zhen's hands, and Cai Yingyang, Ruan Tong and Wang Hai followed him to search carefully, and even Wei Yong, a real subordinate, was asked by Yang Chen to help build the embankment because of his familiarity with this place.

Of course, after the matter of the Li family, Yang Zhen's status in the county government is already extremely high, and no one dares to despise him anymore, and it can even be said that many officials are still afraid of him. After all, his identity as Jinyiwei has been made public, and there are few people in the officialdom who are not afraid of Jinyiwei.

But this could not help him find the whereabouts of those White Lotus Sectists, and after more than 20 days of overt and covert visits, Yang Zhen still did not find any clues, which made him have to make a decision to abandon this operation. Perhaps, those White Lotus Cultists who were hiding around Yu Changfeng had sneaked out of the city after killing him.

Just when Yang Zhen was still hesitating whether to give up, the arrival of one person completely made him have to stop.

On April 17, when Yang Zhen was transferred to the county government at noon, a left-behind official reported to him with some trepidation: "Lord Yang, a guest from Hangzhou wants to see you by name, saying that he has something important. Since that time, these officials who used to be commensurate with Yang Zhen's brothers, or call him Erlang, only dare to call him an adult.

"Someone from Hangzhou?" Yang Zhen frowned slightly, vaguely guessing that Tang Feng had sent someone. Maybe the matter he reported has been known to people at the top, and the court is going to reward himself. This made him laugh secretly in his heart, he didn't expect that this kind of planting and blaming could be rewarded by the imperial court, it seems that many people in the Ming Dynasty are still too easy to deceive.

When he came to a signing room in Ertang, Yang Zhen saw a familiar and bloated man smiling at him. He also showed a happy smile at that time: "Who do I want to see me, it turns out that Brother Wei is here in person." "It was Wei Changdong who had a good relationship with Yang Zhen.

As soon as Wei Changdong saw Yang Zhen, he couldn't help but arch his hand and said, "Yang Baihu is not harmed." I didn't expect you and I to be separated for a few months, but you have done such a big thing, which is really envious and admirable. As he spoke, there was another burst of admiration.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be. It's just a fluke in the next place. Yang Zhen said humbly. After each of them sat down, he said tentatively: "I don't know why Brother Wei came to Zhuji this time?" But does the Lord of the Thousand Households have any commands? ”

Wei Changdong put away the smile just now, and said a little seriously: "Yes, it was Qianhu who sent me here this time to give you a notice. Because of your meritorious service in breaking the White Lotus Sect this time, you have been promoted to 100 households by Beijing. ”

"Oh?" Yang Zhen only raised his eyebrows slightly, but there was not much joy on his face. In fact, there is really nothing to make him happy, he has long guessed that the matter will be reported to the imperial court, and the simplest thing is to remove the test word in his official name, and promote it from a hundred households to a hundred households, so as to officially become a middle-level military attache in Jinyiwei.

"Looks like you've been prepared for this." Wei Changdong smiled slightly, and said as if he was a passer: "But what I say next, you may not be able to prepare." ”

"Are there any other rewards?" Yang Zhen couldn't help but be curious, he couldn't imagine that this time his boss Yamen would be so generous, in addition to being promoted to an official position, he would have other benefits for himself.

"Whether this is a reward or not, but it depends on the wisdom of the people." After Wei Changdong paused, he said in the most serious tone: "After receiving the order of the Beizhen Fusi, we old brothers will go to Beijing with the Lord of Qianhu to take up their posts. You, Yang Zhen, are also on the list of transfers. ”

"Huh?" At this time, it was really a bit unexpected for Yang Zhen. He had never wanted to go to Beijing, and he didn't want to.

For ordinary officials, it is everyone's dream to be transferred to Beijing as an official. Not to mention that he will be sent to Beijing after promotion, even if he is transferred, he can be regarded as a promotion if he can be appointed as a Beijing official. But Jin Yiwei is a little different, because in other places, no one can control them, especially when he becomes a hundred households, he can gain a lot of power in any province. just went to Beijing, and he, a hundred households in brocade clothes, was not very valuable. Because in the entire city of Beijing, there are too many dignitaries and dignitaries, and there are too many nobles and sons with the false titles of hundreds of households and thousands of households in brocade clothes, and he naturally has no power at all.

And what's even worse is that there is an east factory in the capital. Because of business relations, Dongchang's forces generally rarely go out of Beijing, so Jinyiwei's local influence is not small, but when they arrive in the capital, the institution that now controls Jinyiwei will crush them to death.

These understandings made Yang Zhen's brows furrowed, and he asked tentatively: "But did the appointment clearly point out that I should go to the capital?" ”

"Yes, your name is only after Tang Qianhu." Wei Changdong didn't know that Yang Zhen was unwilling in his heart, in fact, let alone him, it was Tang Feng, who was still thinking of finding someone to avenge Zhai Qu's revenge, and he was quite reluctant to enter Beijing this time. It's just that Shangfeng ordered, and their subordinates could only continue.

"This is a little strange, why would they suddenly transfer us to the capital?"

"Because we have done a meritorious service. This time, the merits of the Zhuji White Lotus Sect made the Zhenfu Division understand our ability again, and thought that it was useless to stay in the place. Wei Changdong said the official face in the order.

But Yang Zhen didn't see it that way, if it was changed to a holy decree issued by the emperor, it might make sense, but Liu Shou had this guy who had an obvious holiday with them, he couldn't believe it.

When Wei Changdong saw him like this, he lowered his voice and said, "If you want to be honest, it is that they feel that the time is almost over, and the matter on the Wuchang side should have been forgotten, and it is time to transfer us to deal with it." Anyway, sooner or later, there will be this day. ”

Yang Zhen can accept this, but he is still quite unhappy in his heart, why would they piggyback on himself?