The sky was cloudy and rained all the time.

The rain that began at the beginning of May in the first year of Jiayou has not been able to stop until today. The post houses and restaurants outside the Suzaku Gate, the embroidered flags and bead curtains hanging high in the brothels, hang low in the rain; The wide streets were lit up into jade belts in the rain. The evening drum and morning bell from Daxiangguo Temple, the sound of the riots in the market on Quyuan Street, and the sound of the boatman's horn rising in the fleet of the Bianhe River were all soaked in the lingering lewd rain, losing the agility and brightness of the past, and becoming depressed and stagnant.

However, life must go on, and the officials cannot rest for a single day, otherwise the huge state apparatus will not be able to function; The people can't rest for a day, otherwise this city with a population of one million will be short of food and clothing; The citizens could not rest for a day, and the high prices due to the continuous rain made them feel the pressure of life. The students who are going to participate in the big competition this year naturally can't rest, they are wearing oil umbrellas, wearing clogs, wading through the water to school in rain or shine.

Chen Ke still goes to the tea shed by Yingxiang Pond to study at noon every day, and he and a group of brothers will buy some food at the food shop on the road, come to the tea shed, ask for a pot of hot tea, and make do with lunch...... More than ten days of rain have an impact on life in all aspects, and people not only have a smaller radius of activity, but also have reduced their requirements for life.

At this moment, he stood in the tea shed, looking at the Yingxiang Pond in the distance, the pavilions and pavilions loomed in the rain, and there were no longer any mushrooms and lotus lotuses, only a few water ducks shivering on the water surface.

"It's a foot higher than yesterday." The person who spoke was dark and thin, not tall, and not good-looking, and if he hadn't been dressed as a student, he really wouldn't have looked like a scholar. His name is Jia Kang, Zi Zhengfu, a native of Kunshan, Suzhou, and he is only 19 years old this year, and he is the youngest of Chen Ke's classmates.

On weekdays, others pestered Chen Ke to ask about the content of the "Dictionary". Jia Kang also likes to pester him to ask questions, but most of the questions are about water conservancy issues such as the Liuta River and the layered weir construction method. In this year, talking about water conservancy issues seems to be unprofessional, but Chen Ke found that this little brother not only loves water conservancy, but also is very talented, so he taught him what he knew about water conservancy. After going back and forth, the two became friends, and Jia Jian also joined his gang.

Speaking of the gang, Chen Ke and the five Lu in Fujian are also getting closer and closer, although there are five brothers and their own small gangs, but whenever the Chen family gang goes out for a banquet or participates in a cultural meeting, as long as they say hello, the Lu brothers will never be absent.

Coupled with Lin Xi, Jiang Zhiqi and others who joined during this time, the number of this gang led by Chen Ke is close to thirty. In a party, I don't know who initiated it, everyone unanimously agreed, and they also caught up with the fashion and formed a 'Jiayou Society'. The president naturally recommended Chen Ke, but I don't know if it was because he had personality charm or because he had the money to pay the bill......

This tea pavilion has become a fixed activity place for Jiayou Institute at noon......

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After listening to Jia Yan's words, Chen Ke asked, "What about the underground waterways?" ”

Although Jia Yan didn't know why Chen Ke cared so much about the underground waterway, he had to ask such a question every day. But he replied cautiously: "It should be possible to row in the waterway." ”

"Don't you have a foothold?"

"No, there's no problem in high places." Jia Kang sighed with emotion: "The underground waterway in Bianjing City is worthy of a hundred years of construction, didn't we go down to explore a section that day?" Draining is quite fast. The rain was long, but it was not very urgent, and it was not a threat. ”

"Oh......" Chen Ke was a little disappointed. He didn't want to think about it, if it rained, no one could live in the underground waterway, and what qualifications did he have to be called Sanssouci Cave?

The so-called worry-free, everything is worry-free......

But Jia Kang is a water conservancy genius, he was not paralyzed by the good performance of Kaifeng underground waterways, but said calmly: "But where the water is discharged is a big trouble, Kaifeng City is gentle, and it all depends on the Bianhe, Caihe, and Wuzhang rivers to drain the waterlogging...... At that time, not only will the underground sewers be full of water, but Kaifeng City will also be soaked. ”

"To what extent?"

"The water in Yingxiang Pond will rise another five feet." Jia Kang said with a worried face: "The terrain of Kaifeng City is dictated, and no one can do anything now but pray to God not to go down again...... Otherwise, it will be flooded in five days at most. ”

"Five days, are you sure?" Chen Ke asked in a deep voice.

"Look at the rain, if it's still so heavy, five days. If it rains harder, it won't take more than five days. ”

The two were talking, and they were ordered to secretly protect Chen Ke's old money, and they came into the tea pavilion wearing their robes.

Chen Ke patted Jia Kang's shoulder and greeted him.

"Third brother," Lao Qian said softly, "My son-in-law is here." ”

"Where?" Chen Ke was slightly surprised.

Old Qian Nunu mouthed, Chen Ke saw a carriage without any logo parked on the side of the road.

followed Lao Qian into the car, and saw Zhao Zongji, who had not been seen for many days, watching the rain outside through the curtain.

"Here we are." Hearing the curtain lifted, Zhao Zongji turned his head and blamed Chen Ke: "You are really amazing, you haven't come to see me for more than a month." ”

"Now that the exam is coming, I have to study," Chen Ke put himself on the seat and adjusted a comfortable posture and said, "It's like you, born rich." ”

"I'm willing to change ...... with you" The Liuta River burst its embankment, which not only changed Chen Ke, but also changed Zhao Zongji, after that, he became much deeper, only the anger that occasionally flashed between his eyebrows could reveal the grandeur in his heart: "The result of the handling of the Liuhe Tower case has come down." ”

"......" Chen Ke did not speak.

"There are a lot of people who have been punished, and Li Zhangzhi Caozhou has been deployed to repair the river, Hebei deputy envoy, and the same manager of Gou Xiuhe Yan knows Caizhou, and the official affairs of Kaifeng Prefecture and Jie County, and the same management of Gou Xiuhe, and Cai Ting, the outer lang of the degree branch, knows Chuzhou, and the city of Xiuhe is under the jurisdiction of the city, and the inner attendant Ban Wang Congshan is the governor of Puzhou, and Zhang Huaien, the deputy envoy of the reserve, is the inner temple contractor, and Li Zhongchang, the bank of the Yellow River and the palace of the palace, is the ...... of Dali Temple."

"Fuck ......" Although he didn't plan to ask these bullshit again, after hearing it, Chen Ke was still furious: "Why didn't you give them a two-level promotion!" This kind of painless demotion is almost the same as no punishment: "Your old Zhao family, do you treat civil officials as ancestors?" Thousands of lives, millions of losses, and the displacement of the people of the five states, in exchange for a few demotion punishments? ”

"Don't worry, it's not that simple." Zhao Zongji shook his head and said: "This punishment was set by the two ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, and there is a basis for them to deal with it like this...... Before the punishment decision was announced, Wen Xianggong specially arranged for someone to write a letter, and the results of the handling of officials who had been unfavorable to the river control or had made mistakes over the years were published in the Di Bao. ”

"In May of the third year of Xianping, the Yellow River broke in Yunzhou Wang Lingsi, and the derelict Zhizhou Ma Xiang and Tong sentenced Kong to sit and dismiss the official, patrol the river embankment, and make Li Jiyuan subordinate to Xuzhou; On the first day of June in the third year of Jingde, in the middle of the night, the Yellow River overflowed in the west of Kaifeng City, destroying the outer embankment and destroying the house. Governor Qian Zhaosheng and others were plugged into Biankou, and Zhaosheng and other crimes were still impeached and demoted to their rank; In September of the seventh year of Tiansheng, the officials of Lanzhou sat down with Wang Chuxi to demote the first rank; In October of the third year of Jingyou, the material field on the west bank of Henglong Shuikou in Lanzhou caught fire, and more than 1.9 million yuan was burned. The edict of the transfer department impeached the chief guard officials to hear the ......"

Zhao Zongji read the newspaper no less than ten times, and he was able to recite it out of script: "It can be seen that in the past, there were many punishments for dereliction of duty such as exempting officials, demoting officials, and impeachment, and the most serious ones were subordinate." ”

"I can't complain about Li Zhongchang, they dare to act recklessly," Chen Ke sneered: "Even if you fail, you are just a degraded official, but if you succeed, you can soar and become a good story, why not?" ”

"But this time, Xianggong Wen miscalculated." Zhao Zongji smiled and said: "The situation is different, because Li Zhongchang has been from the beginning. It was by relying on power to suppress public opinion and forcibly promote the opening of the Liuta River. And although they insisted that they did not receive the holy decree on the day of the closure of Shanghu, the minister of the political hall should obviously have ordered them to suspend the project and wait for our measurement results to come out, but the Liuta River has not stopped the work, and the relevant officials acted recklessly, which also made the government and the opposition very angry. ”

"So after the defeat, although there has been a denunciation, but the government and the opposition are obviously not satisfied with the implementation of the convention, and even appeared, Heshuo was flooded, and the people of Bin, Di, De, and Bo were all blamed on Li Zhongchang, Zhang Huaien, Cai Ting and others, and begged these three people to thank Hebei!"

"Needless to say, this is the famous hall made by that Jia Xianggong." Chen Ke sneered: "Such a good opportunity, how could he not take advantage of it?" ”

"Yes, the people of the Jia Chang Dynasty have written and said that Li Zhongchang and others have conspired to distinguish their mouths, slander the imperial court, invite profits and rush to make merit, and the sins are heavy and there are many failures. If it is advisable to carry out the punishment of fleeing, how can it be forgiven? It is required that several people be merged from the public discussion and changed to strict department. The grieved people of the city of Xie lie showed the severity of the punishment of the dynasty. Zhao Zongji said: "It is required to cross the political affairs hall and decide the punishment of several people by discussion." ”

"Not only that, but they also pointed the finger at the two ministers, saying, 'None of the rulers have seen the depth of the river, and although there is a discussion, it is also remote, and there is no real evidence.' Zhao Zongji continued: "It is also said that when the prime minister chooses the river control plan, he does not start from its own feasibility, but to monopolize the credit and attack political opponents. ”

"The result?" Chen Kexin said that this is about the same.

"The official family is still weighing, but Jia Xianggong has been summoned back to Beijing." Zhao Zongji also sneered and said: "The life of the two prime ministers is afraid that it will become more and more sad. ”

Alas, fell asleep again......