Cheng Dong didn't know that the reason why Wang Xijue suddenly came to see him and talked so much with him was entirely because of Su Hao's entrustment. Su Hao didn't have a good impression of Cheng Dong, but he couldn't stand Cheng Yi's begging again and again, so he had to cheekily ask Wang Xijue to dial Cheng Dong, if this young man continued to develop like this, he would eventually be abolished.

Wang Xijue accepted Su Hao's commission and found a time when Cheng Dong was most disappointed to enlighten him. Cheng Dong originally had a sense of awe for Wang Xijue, so it was easy for him to listen to Wang Xijue's words. After figuring out the gap between himself and Su Hao, Cheng Dong decided to catch up, and the first choice was to ask to go to the local government to do something for the people.

Arrange for Cheng Dong to be a magistrate, which is also one of Su Hao's requests to Wang Xijue, and Wang Xijue is willing to do it. But Cheng Dong insisted on going to the most difficult place, which was different from the situation entrusted by Su Hao, so Wang Xijue did not agree immediately, but asked someone to send a letter to Su Hao to ask for Su Hao's opinion.

After Su Hao received the letter, he naturally wanted to discuss it with Cheng Yi again. Cheng Yi felt a little distressed about her younger brother going to a difficult place to work, but Su Hao told her that the more difficult the place, the more it can temper people's hearts. Besides, Cheng Dong is also a seven-grade county, no matter how bitter the place is, it won't be bitter to the county master, right?

In this way, Cheng Dong was finally arranged to Zhangde Mansion in Henan Province as the magistrate of Lin County.

Cheng Dong arrived in Linxian County with full ambitions, and asked the official to take him around the countryside, and he was dumbfounded. It wasn't that he hadn't imagined the poverty here, and who knew that the actual situation was ten times worse than he had imagined.

Linxian County is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, and most of the territory is hilly and mountainous. The worst thing is that it is very dry, and as long as it does not rain for ten and a half days, it will be a problem for people and livestock to get water, let alone agricultural irrigation. There is not a lot of land in the area, but without water, no amount of land can be cultivated.

Cheng Dong recalled that it was also because of the drought that Su Hao went to various villages to dig wells. He was inspired by this incident and decided to draw a scoop based on the gourd, and also drilled a well in Linxian County to solve the drought problem.

Cheng Dong didn't have the ability to survey well locations like Su Hao, and he couldn't pull his face to ask Su Hao for help, not to mention that Su Hao was still in Ningxia at the time, and it was impossible for him to come to help him. He found Jiang Yida, a classmate who worked in the Ministry of Industry, and asked Jiang Yida to help find water in Lin County.

Jiang Yida once learned from Su Hao for a period of time the knowledge of well exploration, and also had some practical experience. But after he was invited to Linxian County, he couldn't find the ideal well location. In desperation, he had no choice but to write a detailed report on the geographical situation and rock conditions in Linxian County, and asked someone to take it to Ningxia and ask Su Hao for guidance.

When Su Hao received Jiang Yida's letter, he only felt that he couldn't cry or laugh. Linxian is a famous place in later generations, and the reason for its fame is that the people of Linxian County spent 10 years to build an artificial Tianhe River on Taihang Mountain, called Hongqi Canal. In his previous life, Su Hao was invited to assess the geological conditions along the Hongqi Canal, and he was deeply impressed by the local geological conditions, topography and landform.

In Su Hao's opinion, Cheng Dong made a mess this time, because this place in Linxian County itself is an area with poor groundwater, and there is no other way to solve the water source problem except to divert water from the outside.

After he told Cheng Yi this, Cheng Yi was so anxious that he burst into tears, and begged Su Hao to think of a way for his younger brother. After all, the younger brother has just turned back and wants to make some achievements, if he can't succeed this time, maybe he won't be able to withstand the blow and will give up on himself again.

"Miss Cheng, if it weren't for my brother's favor, this place in Linxian County is not a water storage structure, and where there is no groundwater, how can you let me guide him to dig a well?" Su Hao said helplessly. At that time, they had not yet married, so Su Hao called Cheng Yi like this.

"I don't care!" Cheng Yi was unreasonable when protecting the calf, "General Su, you are resourceful and good at what others can't do." I don't believe that Bangzhi is a dead place, doesn't it mean that there is no endless road? General Su, you can do well, help Bangzhi, Cheng Yi can make cattle and horses for you. ”

"He ...... in that place" Su Hao had to continue to excuse himself, but when he saw Cheng Yi's tearful eyes, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he said: "If you want to say a way out, it's not nothing, I'm afraid that Cheng Dong can't do it." ”

"General Su, please tell me, Bangzhi has made up his mind this time, no matter how difficult it is, he can do it." Cheng Yi guaranteed the ticket for his younger brother.

Su Hao took out a charcoal pen, and according to the memories of later generations, he drew a topographic map of the surrounding areas of [***] County on paper, marked some important locations, and then said: "Cheng Yi, come and see, in the west of Lin County, across the Taihang Mountain, there is a turbidity river, with abundant water. If we can build a dam on the Zhuozhang River, raise the water level, and then build a canal along the mountainside of the Taihang Mountain, we can divert the water of the Zhuozhang River to Linxian County for irrigation, thus turning hundreds of thousands of acres of dry land in Linxian County into fertile land. ”

Su Hao's design is the direction of the main canal of the Red Flag Canal in later generations. Su Hao said this, but he didn't mean to make things difficult for Cheng Dong, after all, the people of Lin County in later generations also mainly relied on manpower to build the Red Flag Canal, if Cheng Dong really had the courage to do it, there would be no possibility of doing it.

The schematic diagram drawn by Su Hao was packed into a letter bag and sent to Linxian County. Cheng Dong read Su Hao's letter, thought about it in the house for a whole day, and finally made up his mind to preside over the construction of this canal across Taihang Mountain.

Cheng Dong was a little stunned, and when he recognized the thing, he pushed forward one by one. He wrote a letter to Wang Xijue, stating his intention to build a canal to divert water, and finally won Wang Xijue's approval, and allocated a special fund to Linxian County through the Ministry of Industry for repairing the canal.

Cheng Dong found a group of engineers and technicians through Jiang Yida, and Su Hao also allocated a team from the survey camp to go to Linxian County to help with surveying and mapping work. Because he knew that some sections of the Taihang Mountain were rocky and hard and could not be chiseled by manpower, Su Hao also asked Lu Xiu'er to transfer a batch of explosives to Cheng Dong from the capital to open the mountain.

With the silver and corresponding utensils allocated by the imperial court, the next step is to recruit and transfer the servants. When the local people heard that the canal was built for irrigation, they enthusiastically signed up, and some even expressed their willingness to volunteer to participate in the canal repair work, because this is a righteous act that can be passed down through the ages. Cheng Dong, the magistrate, took off his official robe, changed into a short coat, and crossed the mountains and mountains with the technicians and servants, and personally directed the canal repair work. After two years, his fair skin had tanned, and his shoulders were no longer as weak as before.

I can't say how much hardship I have suffered, and I can't remember how many times I have been in danger, and the project of diverting water from the turbidity of the Zhanghe River to irrigate Linxian County has come to an end. Cheng Dong handed over the envoy of the magistrate of Lin County at this time, and as he himself said, he left the opportunity to celebrate the achievement to his successor.

"Okay, Bangji, you've really created a miracle on earth. With such an experience, any difficulties in the future will not be difficult for you. After listening to Cheng Dong and Jiang Yida's introductions, Su Hao praised from the bottom of his heart.

Cheng Dong only began to feel a little relaxed at this time, and he said: "Brother Chang praised it. The younger brother can do this, and it is inseparable from the help of Brother Gai and Brother Jingxi. In the past, the younger brother was a little ignorant, and he offended the brother of the change, and asked the brother of the change not to care. ”

"Haha, the family doesn't talk to each other, what is there to worry about between us?" Su Hao smiled, "By the way, Bangzhi, why did you choose this time to resign from the county?" ”

Cheng Dong said: "What the younger brother wants to do has been done, and the rest of the things are very easy, why should the younger brother waste his youth for the sake of greedy for a false name?" There are still a lot of things to do outside, so the younger brother asked Wang Shoufu to step down from the post of magistrate and switch to other things. ”

Su Hao nodded, Cheng Dong was able to do this, which showed that the training in Lin County in the past two years had indeed worked, he was a little less frivolous and a little more steady, and he was already a usable talent.

"So, Bangji, what is your current position?" Su Hao asked.

Cheng Dong said: "The younger brother is now the capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he is in the seventh grade. ”

"With your achievements in Lin County, it is reasonable to be promoted to the sixth grade of the first grade, and I will ask Wang Shoufu about this matter." Su Hao said.

Cheng Dong hurriedly said: "Brother Gai doesn't have to ask for an official for the younger brother, if the court thinks that the younger brother has this talent, it will naturally promote the official position of the younger brother." Let the brother of the change ask for the official for the younger brother, when outsiders talk about it, the little brother's face is not very bright. ”

Jiang Yida smiled on the side: "Bangzhi, I thought you were a magistrate, and you should be more open-minded when you know it, but who knows that there is still a sense of scholarly anger inside." The brother of the change is your brother-in-law, and the brother-in-law is seeking an official position for the brother-in-law, why not? ”

Su Hao knew that Cheng Dong was still holding his breath, wanting to prove himself, and didn't want Su Hao to look down on him, so he said in a round: "This matter is not in a hurry, Bangzhi has just stepped down, and the evaluation of the court has not come down yet, maybe the first assistant is already preparing to promote Bangzhi, we are all in a hurry." ”

"Yes, yes, with Bangzhi's talent and learning, as well as the experience in the mountains, it is more than enough to be promoted to a higher level, and the experience of being a six-grade is more than enough." Jiang Yida also agreed.

Cheng Dong diverted this embarrassing topic, and he said: "Brother Changzhi, the younger brother is coming back to Jiangnan this time, and he plans to go to Nanyang with you." Wang Shoufu's meaning is also to let the younger brother follow you, so he will let the younger brother serve in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. From now on, the younger brother is your subordinate, and if there is anything that needs to be done by the younger brother, you can just tell him. ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Su Hao laughed and said, Cheng Dong can release his previous suspicions with him, which is always a happy thing. Otherwise, the brother-in-law and brother-in-law will always have an awkward quarrel, making it difficult for the wife to be a person in the middle.

"Bangzhi, it will take some time for us to go to Nanyang, during this period of time, your most important task is to go around the city of Nanjing to see if there is a suitable girl, your sister is anxious about your lifelong event." Su Hao said. (To be continued.) )