Zhang Jiayin is neither a clean official in the strict sense, nor a good official, but he is definitely an official who can work and do things. Dressed in cloth like this, working barefoot on the embankment to strengthen the embankment, and making the shoulders of the flat shoulder red, it is absolutely impossible to do it in the ordinary Qipin Zhengtang.

"Do you think I want to?" Zhang Jiayin did not show the slightest sense of pride in benefiting the party and contributing to the people, but on the contrary, he complained.

"The county magistrate in front of me has arrived home, and he has built a river embankment like this, and I don't know how much he was greedy for the river worker's money, so he threw the pot at me. If you don't step up the reinforcement of the river embankment, how can you resist this water when it comes? Brother, I'll tell you the truth, I checked the county records of our county, and went to a few old masters' houses to look through the books, this time the water is a bit dangerous. I didn't want to leave any love to the people, I knew that the river embankment had burst, and I was going to pay for my head, and I was playing for my own head. ”

He looked at no one on the left and right, and whispered: "The speed of this rising water is definitely unseen in decades, I'm afraid that we are here, and we have to meet the test of a ** water." I originally thought that when the price of food tripled, the imperial court would intervene and suppress it, but now I don't dare. I had to keep enough food to deal with the disaster, and I had to have food to hire the people and recruit strong men, so I had to wait until it rose to five times. The grain in the hands of the immortals, you asked her to prepare it for me, and the county gave her a good price to buy it. ”

"Don't mention the money, it's far away." Yang Chengzu smiled, "The eldest brother is in trouble, and the brothers have to help, not to mention that she is a brother's daughter-in-law, how can she still think about making money, as long as you don't let us lose." It's okay to raise the price a little more, and I can put more prints...... No, I mean that we can attract more grain merchants to come, and when the time comes, we will deduct their grain and forcibly buy it, so that they can't find the door to cry. Big brother, is the water really so powerful this time? ”

"Great, it's still not raining, if it rains, I'm afraid it's even worse. What I'm most worried about now is the rainy season, if our embankment can't be completed before the rainy season arrives, Huaxian County will be in danger. ”

"Is there anything I can do to help now?"

"It's nothing, it's just a matter of personal manpower. Work is inseparable from manual labor, and the manpower of the county yamen is always limited, so it can only make the people strong. But this Minzhuang is not so easy to make up for a while, and the dozens of robbers you brought over have helped me a lot, and I don't even have to take care of my food, and if I die, I will throw it into the river. Anyway, they are not locals, so they don't have to worry about their families making trouble, but they are the best laborers. But just these dozens of people are useless. ”

Yang Chengzu said in his heart: I have more than 100 soldiers in Jinyi, but if I use it as a coolie in this matter, I will be scolded to death. Besides, after I brought in, how many people received my favor? He rolled his eyes and said, "That's it, I'll go back and talk to Zhao Jiuye, and see if I can hire some coolies from him." As for the money and food used to hire coolies, I have come out of the way. ”

"I don't need money and grain, but there are reserves in the treasury of our county yamen. This is thanks to your idea, brother, the summer tax payable this year has not been paid, and it is strictly managed in the treasury, I sent a confidant to watch, and no one stole the grain to sell, nor did it allow people to burn our treasury. At present, there are thousands of stone rice grains in the county treasury, and there is grain for hired coolies, as long as someone does it. It's just that we owe taxes, and I'm afraid that life in the house will be difficult. ”

"Now that we're taking care of ourselves, what's going on in the house, let him go. Let's Huaxian County is close to the wharf, if the Yellow River bursts, the basket will be big. But there is another matter, we still have to guard against the White Lotus Sect's bad behavior. We're fighting the flood in front, and someone stabs us in the back, and that's all over. ”

"That's your envoy, brother Xian, I can't control it. This official is in the main hall of the seven grades, and he is busy on the embankment every day, and even I have put down the official duties in the yamen. Catch the White Lotus Sect again, but I don't have that much energy. ”

"Big brother, don't worry, it's my job to catch the White Lotus Sect, and there is absolutely nothing to say. When I returned, I would spread out all the people to find out the news, and if anyone preached at this moment and deceived people, I would bring them back, and ask them carefully, so that nothing would happen to the county. ”

Yang Chengzu knew that Zhang Jiayin was short of manpower at the moment, and he wanted to pull Jinyiwei to the front line to assist him in his work. But the problem is that these brocade guards are used to being idle on weekdays, and they definitely can't stand the suffering of this river worker.

If you make the decision and send people here, your reputation in Weili will be completely ruined in the future, and the prestige that you have built up with great difficulty will be gone, how can you manage your subordinates?

So he had no choice but to find this excuse to visit the big hat of the White Lotus Sect, which can be regarded as pushing the matter of the river work. Fortunately, Zhao Jiuye's side has been rich recently, and more and more people can't find food to eat, and they all want to make a living by working hard, and there is no shortage of coolies under him.

Especially knowing that Yang Chengzu did Jin Changling, he was happy in his heart, and now the Cao Gang in Henan has fallen into a leaderless state, and they are all worried about the throne of the big incense head. According to Yang Chengzu's explanation, he hid it and watched the changes.

He is a master with hands and eyes, and he has made friends with Fubiao, who is stationed in Huaxian County, during this time. I heard from them that their own old Futai was very kind to Yang Chengzu, and specially sent fifty old soldiers to the town of Huaxian County to assist in pressing the ground, which was an extra preferential treatment.

You must know that Fubiao only has a total of 3,000 children, all of which are expensive. It is not necessary for the average county town to want ten, but this time it is given fifty, and it will not be possible to do it if it is love.

After he learned the news, he felt that his investment was the right one. Don't look at your daughter as small, but with such a son-in-law to support the court, will you still be afraid of people in Henan in the future? With the support of the governor of Henan and the support of the royal palace, the throne of the incense lord of Cao Gang Henan will have to be his own sooner or later, and no one can take it away.

Because of this consideration, Yu Yang Chengzu's request was fully accepted, and 200 coolies were allocated to help the county river workers. Yang Chengzu asked Ruxian to donate one hundred and fifty stone of grain and one hundred taels of silver, and he actually got a plaque of Zhang Jiayin's handwritten letter of urgency and righteousness, and hung it in the teahouse.

Half of her teahouse is now used for tea, and half is also used for money lending. Many people want to borrow seals, and they do it in the teahouse. Thinking about it, everyone wrote a contract under this plaque of urgency and justice, mortgaged all their belongings or pawned their wives and daughters to borrow usury, and their hearts must be extremely happy, and they are grateful for the emperor's grace and God's eyes.

Five days later, the weather in Huaxian County gradually became gloomy, and sparse raindrops fell from the sky from time to time, but this light rain could not stop people, and no one would think that such a light rain might be about to be the prelude to a heavy rain. In the Ruxian Tea House, a group of idlers sat on the second floor knocking melon seeds and drinking tea, watching the proprietress Ruxian swing her water sleeves and dance in the middle of the hall on the second floor.

Ruxian Zi is first-class, and at this time, seeing her eyes seem to contain infinite sorrow, it is particularly pitiful. Holding a wooden sword in each hand, dancing freely, walking lightly, like a soft willow swing in the wind, singing in his mouth, "Persuade the king to drink and listen to Yu songs, and relieve the king's depression and dance." Ying Qin has no way to break the country, and the heroes are fighting in all directions ......".