In front of a magnificent mansion in Weihui Mansion, Henan Province, thousands of workers are busy moving various building materials, and another group of workers are responsible for erecting temporary housing one after another with these materials.

The overseer's whip crackled, whistling and flying in the air from time to time, and then fell heavily on the worker's body, breaking the skin of the man. If someone is in poor health, he will be beaten to the ground when he goes down, and he will not be able to get up for a long time.

These overseers are all stout men with big shoulders and round waists, fierce eyebrows, fierce appearances, and the momentum is the first to suppress people. In addition, this is the work of building a palace for the heir, which is the so-called imperial mission, and it doesn't matter how many workers are killed, the hands are extremely ruthless.

Those people who were brought in were still sweating profusely in this warm and cold day at the beginning of the new year. From time to time, workers fall to the ground, and some of them will never be able to get up, so they can only be carried away, ready to notify their families to claim the loss.

Wei Hui took office as the prefect to participate in the frying of grain, and finally his whereabouts were unknown, sealed and fled, and now the prefect Luo is openly new to the office, and is planning to take over the affairs of the cultivation palace, and make a contribution in front of the new monarch, and personally supervise the battle on the construction site of the palace. A number of officials in the palace are lined up on the left and right, and they regard this construction site as a government office.

The eleventh son of Hongzhi Tianzi, the king of Ru, Zhu Youji, is here, this prince has a weak temperament, and his sense of existence in the vassal country is close to nothing. Although the prefect of Wei Hui is nominally his vassal, he can actually be the lord of this prince. Since the Son of Heaven came to see the emperor's uncle, then the palace and the required expenses had to come out of King You, like this palace was directly seized from a courtyard of King You, and on this basis, the amount of work was not too large.

However, there are nearly 10,000 followers around him, and even if it is arranged in part of the school grounds, the number of personal servants is very considerable, and with such a large number of people, there must always be enough places to stay. In order to build this palace and let the future Son of Heaven have a good impression of himself, Luo Zhifu even pulled all the workers of the river defense to work here, and even embezzled the money from the river workers.

Due to the news that the heir came to Weihui not long ago, the construction period was tight, and most of these buildings were temporary buildings built with reed mats and wood, and a large number of felt was used for warmth and aesthetic considerations. There are also places to supply the guards to live, and they simply use felt tents.

Looking at these buildings, Wei Hui's new promoter Mao Bowen couldn't help frowning, they were too close. The weather was dry, and the materials were so dry that a candle or an oil lamp could cause the camp to burn.

And so many people light fires for heating, or use lamps and candles to illuminate, it is inevitable that fire accidents will occur. Judging from the newspapers along the way, there has been a small-scale fire on the road in Heijun's team, but fortunately it did not cause bad consequences, but only damaged some of the property.

But if the same accident happened here in the palace...... Looking at the houses next to each other, as well as the palace of the heir in the center, Mao Bowen couldn't imagine it anymore......

Although he is a civil official, he is a person who knows the soldiers, and after looking at it a few times, the more he looks, the more he feels that this palace and the surrounding residential area are full of dangers, and he hurriedly looks for Luo Zhifu. "Taishou, the distance of this palace repair is too close, and the materials used are dry, in case of returning to Lu, I am afraid that the rescue will not be able to make it too late, and there will be a big disaster. According to the opinion of the lower officials, it is still necessary to increase the distance between them, so that even if one or two houses catch fire, it will not affect the pond fish. ”

Luo Gongran was discussing something with the master beside him, this master named Liu Wannian was a virtuous man he had recently recruited locally. In terms of taxation and criminal name, he has a lot of means, since he defected to Luo Gongran, he has made the proprietor a lot of money, and now he is the first cronies to be used by Luo Gongran's side. For example, suggestions such as using river workers for hard labor, misappropriating river workers' silver for the Son of Heaven's cultivation palace, and even buying silk everywhere, wrapping colored silk for the trees in Weihui City, etc., all came from his mouth.

Mao Bowen has never liked this Master Liu very much, but he is an official and will not have any conflicts with a staff member. I don't know what the two discussed, but in short, Mao Bowen's speech seemed to make Luo Gong a little unhappy.

"Ru Li, the construction period is so tight, you don't supervise the work there, you ran to the official, just to say this? These houses were not built casually, but were found in ancient books by Benguan and Liu Friends for a few days, called the Stars Array. These houses are the stars in the sky, guarding the palace of Banzai. The layout is secretly in line with the way of heaven and earth, with the protection of its own gods, there will be no calamity, you think too much. ”

Liu Wannian said with a smile: "It's also a good idea to don't drive Mao, but don't drive, please think, when Long Live comes, there will be many guards around." Day and night patrols, even if there is a little fire, it has long been extinguished by the soldiers, how can it really burn? The Holy Son of Heaven will help him, and there will be no such thing. Besides, if this house is too far away from each other, it will occupy more places, how can we Weihui have so many places for them to occupy? ”

Mao Bowen snorted and looked at the rows of shops in the outer circle of the temporary housing. The reason why the house is so close is that I don't want to demolish these shops, and these shops are either Luo Gongran's shares, or Liu Wannian's private property.

In short, there are many people in Weihui Mansion who want to make a windfall when they are long live to patrol Wei Hui. Even the money for these workers' food and building materials, and some people have a share of the profits. Their own suggestions blocked their financial path, so they were naturally not very popular.

Luo Blatantly sank his face, "Ru Li, you don't have to worry about this safety matter." As long as you make sure that the project is completed on time, the house will be built strongly. If it can't be completed by then, it will be difficult to explain it to the Shangxian Yamen. I heard that you feel sorry for those workers, and you have to supervise the work and not whip Lifu at will, these people are all cheap bones, how can you finish it if you don't fight? Do you want to let Banzai come and look at this mess? Hurry up and urge them to speed up the progress, and you don't have to worry about the rest. ”

Liu Wannian said with a smile: "Mao Beijia seems to be a little too enthusiastic, probably in his eyes, Dong Weng can't see this fire." ”

"Ignore him, an elm pimple, nothing to care about. What qualifications does the three-year jinshi of Zhengde have to show off his might in front of this official? If there is no Liu Gelding, whether he can be a senior jinshi, I am afraid it is still two words. ”

And in the shop in the outer circle, a beautiful young man in brocade clothes sat in the backyard and tasted tea, and after a while, a strong man pushed the door in, and Shi Li said: "Holy Maiden, our people have sent news that Guo Xun, the Marquis of Wuding in Beijing, came here to protect the Jingying Guanjian, you see, are we avoiding it?" ”