Old man Wang didn't know that Sizhou City was destined to be swallowed up by the lake, and misunderstood that Li You hesitated in order to irrigate Sizhou. In fact, what Lord Li is really struggling with is not whether he has determination, he has been an official for so long, he understands that if he is forced to that role, he will definitely be ruthless, but what he can't stand is the consequences of doing good deeds but being scolded.

However, although Old Man Wang's enlightenment was not the right medicine, talking about his deeds inspired Master Li's strong sense of fame, and it worked. made Li You, who has always been unwilling to suffer losses and must leave a name for doing good deeds, let go of the entanglement of "good people are misunderstood", and thought that this was a bloody plot that must have in a soap opera.

Anyway, the flood discharge to save the ancestral tomb is quite in line with the official mainstream values, and it has been endured by the local Diao people who don't know the truth for hundreds of years.

Why is Lord Li unwilling to be a good man? Because from another point of view, the organized and planned sinking of Sizhou City is also a great merit to save the people from fire and water. However, eighty percent of this merit should be hidden under the brilliance of saving the ancestral tomb, and it is difficult to be recognized.

In recent decades, the embankment is a foot high, the water is a foot high, and the water level of Huai Lake on the outskirts of Sizhou has been raised to such an extent that it is dangerous.

Others don't feel anything about it, but Li You has memories of his previous life and knows the consequences very well, and Gu Sizhou in another time and space sank to the bottom of the lake with the ancestral tomb in this way. With little difference in technical conditions, Sizhou, the lowest part of the valley surrounded by water on several sides, is almost destined to be submerged under the general trend of Hongze Lake's expansion.

Therefore, with the current water situation around Sizhou, if there is any accident in the event of a major flood, such as the breach of the embankment, it will definitely not subside after a few days of flooding into the city as before, and it will be a complete disaster.

Moreover, with today's flood control technology, no one can guarantee that this kind of accident will be eliminated, otherwise why can the Yellow River be harmed for hundreds of years and cannot be cured? It can only minimize a few breaks, but the current situation in Sizhou City, can it withstand a break?

Except for Li You, who else can imagine the tragedy of the city sinking into the lake? If the people of the whole city are not vigilant, and suddenly the whole city is flooded, I am afraid that there will be "more than 100 people". This scene can be said to be inevitable, the difference is only in the year, but the biggest problem is that others can't think of it.

All in all, today's Sizhou is like a time bomb that no one knows, if you can drive away the people in advance in a planned way and take the initiative to release water to sink the city, it is equivalent to dismantling the time bomb and saving the lives of the people in the city. It's a pity that the rescued don't know that they were saved.

From this point of view, under the guise of protecting the ancestral tomb, driving the people of the city out of danger, Li You also has a clear conscience and the best of both worlds, not only to protect the fate of the ancestral tomb and himself, but also to save the people from the future sinking lake encounter. But he hated the feeling of being misunderstood for doing good deeds, so he struggled for a few days.

It wasn't until Old Man Wang yelled at him, "You still want to do so much when you have the credit, and you don't want to be Wang Mang, who has no stain on him, and what kind of official is he still an official without these bearers", Li You got rid of the entanglement.

Many things in the world are so complicated, and right and wrong are so difficult to distinguish.

Old man Wang stayed in Xuyi and Sizhou for two days, and before leaving, he said to Li You with a smile: "Master Li has met a lot in Beijing, if necessary, the old man can work tirelessly to help deliver the letter, don't worry about the old man being tired." ”

If Li You wanted to write a letter to the second assistant Xu Ge Lao, Zhao Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, Lu Shangshu of the Ministry of War and others, I am afraid that there are countless people who are willing to work hard to send the letter on their behalf. Of course, Old Man Wang said that helping Li You deliver the letter was just a reason, and it was true that he could take the opportunity to visit those famous bigwigs by sending the letter.

Li You knew this, and couldn't help but sigh and sigh at the vicissitudes of the world. When I first met the year before last, Old Man Wang, a second-rate official from a prison student, was weak, and he cowered when he approached Chen Zhixian, for fear that others would not want to see him and hurt his self-esteem. Now he actually has the idea of taking the initiative to visit Ge Lao Shangshu, and he is really emboldened.

However, now that the master of Su Songdao is the master of the three products, he is indeed qualified to be received and encircled by the big guys, and of course Li You will not do it.

Master Li casually wrote a few letters to the backstage people and asked the old man Wang to send them, just like when he went to Beijing, Chen Xundao and Zhao Liangli asked him to send letters.

Seeing off Old Man Wang, Li You looked at the flood control moon gate of Sizhou City and sighed. The water level of the Huai Lake near Sizhou has risen sharply, and it is already approaching the waterline of five years ago, but fortunately, the levee was raised the year before last, and it is not very dangerous for the time being.

It is time to start levying civilian service to guard the embankment in sections, and if you can't hold it, you can't... Thinking of the people of Sizhou who will not appreciate it in the future, Master Li slightly experienced the feeling of doing good deeds and bursting into tears.

But the old entanglement is gone, and the new entanglement is coming again, if the water situation is not as big as imagined this year, and the ancestral tomb is not in danger, then can he Li You dismantle the time bomb?

After reading the water situation, Master Li returned to Yujia Village for lunch, and planned to go to the state government in the afternoon to meet Wang Zhizhou and urge him to levy civil service. If you don't deal with it, you can't deal with it, but in this kind of thing, he and Wang Zhizhou are sitting together, and it is estimated that Wang Zhizhou will not dare to make ghosts.

The flowers bloomed two and each showed a branch, but it was said that Li You moved from the Sizhou Mansion to Yujia Village, and said that Wang Zhizhou of Sizhou was judging things in the court, and suddenly a family member hurriedly passed the word, saying that the second lady had an urgent matter.

Wang Zhizhou has always doted on concubines, so when he heard the words, he put down the case and returned to the back office. When I entered the room, I saw that Ma was sitting on the edge of the bed wiping his tears, and there was an unconscious man lying on the bed.

"What's going on?" Wang Zhizhou asked.

Ma Shi sobbed: "I heard that it was Lord Li who patrolled the river to beat it, and after the beating, he was sent to the gate of the state government. I don't know how the slave's brother offended him, how could he be so vicious..."

Wang Zhizhou understood, eighty percent of it was Lord Li who asked him yesterday to intercede for that Yu Wan'er, and after being rejected by himself, he took Ma Qianjun to be angry. actually sent people to the state government after the beating, even if there is a big force, but this is too domineering!

Li You also had no choice, he beat Ma Qianjun to show others, the best place is of course in the state office, maybe there is a small official who is dissatisfied with Wang Zhizhou, so he will find him to "report and expose".

Seeing Ma crying bitterly, Wang Zhizhou was very distressed. He was just a poor scholar at the beginning, with no money and no power, he would only die studying and doing eight shares, although he had a lustful heart, no beauty could look down on him, and he was unwilling to marry a mediocre lady. It wasn't until Lian Zhongxiang tried and met the test, and became an official to Zhizhou, that he found Ma's beauty, who was satisfied everywhere, and he regarded it as a treasure.

"Don't cry, it's not that the time has not come, endure these few days, and the official will ask Li You to repay." Wang Zhizhou comforted.

Regarding Li You, Wang Zhizhou did not like and did not welcome him from the beginning. This is not simply jealousy, people who are officials and know the state will not be so emotional. It was because of Li You's arrival that hindered his plans.

Sizhou, a desolate and desolate place, now has only a few thousand households inside and outside the state, and it is not even as good as some counties, so Wang Zhizhou wants to change places to be an official. When he knew that there might be floods this year, he made some wishful thinking about the ancestral tomb.

As long as you reach the flood season, you can make a contribution, and you may not be able to soar, but you will definitely be rewarded and promoted... But Lord Wang's abacus sounded, and he didn't expect some accidents to happen. Li You was sent to take charge of the river affairs along the southern end of Hongze Lake, depriving him of the power to be in charge of his own affairs.

If you do it in this case, wouldn't it be all Li You's credit? Wang Zhizhou has not been generous to this point.

If Lord Wang knew that this was the governor who really had no place to place Li You, but it was difficult to resist the order, he had no choice but to throw Li You to the farthest away from the important places of the canal and Huanghuai, which is theoretically also the area with relatively simple water conditions and the lightest work, so he was afraid that he would vomit blood in anger.

However, Wang Zhizhou quickly adjusted his mentality, and it didn't matter if Li You came to Sizhou. He is in charge of the southern half of Gaojiayan to the area from Sizhou, and the boundary is nearly 100 miles long, so under normal circumstances, it is impossible to only be stationed in Sizhou, and there is always a time to go north.

As long as the matter is done while Li You is not in Sizhou, the credit will still be his lord's, and Li You will not get half a point. And he can impeach Li You for negligence with his backhand, let him lose three layers of skin, and it is difficult to say whether he can keep his official position!

With this thought, in the face of Ma Qianjun, who was beaten to half death, and the little concubine with tears rippling, Wang Zhizhou restrained himself, if he couldn't bear it, he would make a big plan, and he must endure it at this critical juncture.

But Wang Zhizhou endured it for a few days, and saw that Li You was jumping up and down outside Sizhou City, refusing to leave Sizhou, and even putting on a posture of being stationed for a long time, so he was really anxious for Lord Li in his heart.

Obviously, he told Li You that the local situation is very safe, so don't worry too much, why doesn't he leave? Does he know that Gaojiayan is the key area he should be responsible for? There is no big man in the southern section of Gaojiayan for more than 40 miles, so he is so relieved? The Sizhou embankment has its own official and is guarded by this local official, and he is not too noisy to point fingers here!

No one could have imagined that there was a danger of sinking lakes in both Zuling and Sizhou, but Li You was extremely nervous about it.

For Li You, who refused to leave for a long time, Wang Zhizhou's patience was almost to the limit, and he had already written the impeachment text, intending to sue Li You for the crime of "coveting the comfort of the state city and refusing to go to the weir to go to the danger".

The charge given to Li Youan by Lord Wang seems to be very correct on the surface, Sizhou is also a state city no matter how withered it is, and it is much more comfortable than the countryside along Gaojiayan. Li You, who is in charge of the 100-mile flood situation, is only stationed in the immovable place of Sizhou, and in the eyes of outsiders, he is very suspected of coveting comfort.

The governor can't let Li You neglect his duties like this, Lord Wang thought. As long as Li You can leave Sizhou and he takes over the Sizhou River affairs, then everything is easy to say.

(To be continued)