Chapter 157: The Great Drought in Central Fujian (1)
After some hustle and bustle, the banquet at the county guard finally came to an end. The evaluation of this banquet was mixed. There are many people who are full of praise, such as some rich people with humble status but a bit of family background in Dongye City, and big businessmen from other places, who naturally like it very much. The county guards set up banquets, regardless of dignity and humility, all colleagues. Many businessmen at the reception, but also and the county guard had a few words, the county guard was modest, polite, for them to come, Fujian business greatly praised, and expressed strong support. Such low-status businessmen were greatly moved. The future of this county guard is unlimited, and it is necessary to hold on to this thick thigh tightly, and the natural wealth will roll in in the future.
There are many people who are unhappy with the banquet. These are probably the old nobles of Ouyue, the old nobles of Dongou Jun or the old nobles of Dongyue Jun, they pride themselves on being noble, and they are at the banquet with copper-smelling merchants, and they have no dignity and humility, which makes them very ashamed. However, Dong Ou Jun and Dong Yue Jun did not express their dissatisfaction with this, and they naturally did not dare to make discordant tones. Fujian is no longer their world, and if Chen Sheng is annoyed, it is a question whether the current glory and wealth can be kept.
Of course, in addition to the banquet guests, there were other people who paid attention to this grand and unique banquet in Dongye City. Han Dongqing, the county supervisor who attended the banquet in a low-key manner, began to write a chapter and send it back to Xianyang after leaving the banquet. This old man, who was so low-key that he almost forgot his existence, actually stared at everything that was sent in the entire Dongye City with his eyes shining. The harmony between the county guard Chen Sheng and the newcomer made him feel very satisfied, but at the same time he felt a little weird, others may not know much about the fat man Ying Huo, but he is very familiar with him after decades of imperial history in Xianyang. When the fat man was the Shaoqing of Zongzheng Mansion, his eyes were above the top, and many princes tried their best to make him feel satisfied, how could he come to Fujian to be so obedient. Of course, for the performance of Ying Huo and Chen Sheng, Han Dongqing did not lack ink.
and Li Shen, the county lieutenant who was unable to attend the banquet, also sent his cronies to carefully investigate some information from this banquet. The information he got made Li Shen very uneasy, Ying Huo seemed to have a very tacit understanding with Chen Sheng, and it seemed that he had fallen to Chen Sheng's side, and the possibility of wanting to overhead Chen Sheng in Fujian was even lower.
And some other information brought back by the spies made Li Shen even more angry. After a closer look at Fan, the spies could basically determine that Fan was one of the natives who had participated in the beating of them last night. In this way, it can be determined that Chen Sheng was involved in last night's incident. Knowing this result, Li Shen's face instantly turned iron blue.
"Chen Sheng, I am inseparable from you!" Li Shen gritted his teeth and said. He is the emperor's concubine, and he is the son of Li Si, who is powerful all over the world, and the two eldest brothers hold great power, but Chen Sheng dares to ignore his identity behind him and dare to blackmail him. "Contact Zhen Zhishu and let him come here!" Li Shen, who was furious, was born in anger, and immediately came up with a way to retaliate.
Zhen Zhishu is the contact person of a mysterious organization. The organization only recognizes money and not people, as long as the price is reasonable, it dares to do anything, and can ensure that no information about customers is leaked. When he was in Xianyang, Li Shen had already met Zhen Zhicontent, knowing that this person had great powers and was very capable, and Li Shen had also entrusted this person to do some things that were inconvenient to do, and the effect was very good, and the price was fair, the means were secret, and there would be no hidden dangers.
Li Shen had already moved to kill Chen Sheng. In the price list reported by Zhen Zhicheng before, the price of assassinating the defender of a county was five thousand gold. This price is a huge amount of money that cannot be borne by the county lieutenant of 600 quintals, but for Li Sangongzi of Xianyang, this money is just the money to raise a team of singers, which is not a large amount.
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Chen Sheng didn't know that Li Shen had already hated him to the core. But he won't care if he knows. If he was afraid of the Li family's power, he wouldn't let Fan Cheng teach Li Shen a lesson.
In the past few days, Chen Sheng has been very busy, on the one hand, he has to hand over part of the government affairs to Yinghuo to deal with, and on the other hand, he has to deal with the drought in various parts of central Fujian.
Starting from June and July every year, central Fujian will usher in the peak period of rainfall. But this year is different from previous years, after entering July, not to mention the decent heavy rain, there are not even a few drops of drizzle in the entire territory of central Fujian. There is a lot of land in the mountains of Fujian, and the Vietnamese people mostly open up wasteland in the mountains, build terraced fields, and the terraced fields are difficult to store water, and they originally hoped that God would eat smoothly in the wind and rain, and there was no rain for a whole month, and the crops in the fields could not stand it. At this time, the rice in the paddy field has just been headed, and there is no water to irrigate, so it will not produce rice at all. If this water shortage problem can not be solved in time, it will lead to a poor harvest in the entire Minzhong County, and in the next six months, the hard days of the people in Minzhong will come.
This is still a long-term hidden danger. Near-term worries are what make Chen Sheng anxious. Because there is not much precipitation, the water level of the rivers has also dropped sharply, and the phenomenon of competing for water and grabbing water between the townships in central Fujian has suddenly occurred frequently. The Yue people originally liked to fight, and when they got into fights, they were still unsatisfied with the lives of a few people. Chen Sheng was very worried about this, and he could not have time to stay longer in Dongye City, running outside all day long, directing the excavation of canals and the construction of waterwheels to pump water, in order to solve the urgent needs of the head of Qiantou and the contradictions of all parties. In less than ten days, Chen Shengmai's skin color darkened and turned into a piece of black charcoal. There were also many people who accompanied Chen Sheng to suffer, including Jun Cheng Yinghuo and the newly accepted Xu Wugui.
As a county officer, it is normal for Ying Huo to assist the county guard in handling government affairs, but in ten days and a half months, his fat body has lost a circle, and his skin with fine skin and tender flesh has also become rough. How can there be the appearance of Xianyang Shaoqing.
Xu Wugui is not as noble as Yinghuo, and the children of the Mo family are originally typical of hard-working people, but after seeing Chen Sheng's labor intensity, Xu Wugui also secretly admired, such a county guard can really be regarded as a model. Xu Wugui directs and helps build waterwheels and canals in various villages every day, and the labor intensity seems to be very high, but in fact it is not as busy as it seems. Because each village has its own craftsmen, Xu Wugui only needs to command them to work, and that's it. Besides, Chen Sheng also arranged an apprentice for him, and with the help of an apprentice in everything, he couldn't get tired.
However, in the past few days, seeing that the county guard's brows were getting tighter and tighter, Xu Wugui was also a little nervous.