Chapter 199: The Dictation of the East Palace
"We're not lying!"
"Don't spew blood from people with the surname Lu."
The slandered laborers waved their fists and shouted angrily.
"Hey, it's up to you, one mouth says the east and the west, yesterday there was a flood, and today there is a drought." Lu Lianxing is not afraid of this rabble.
"Lord Lu, you have to trust us." The laborers cast their eyes and hopes on Lu Yixuan, and the whispers slowly subsided, and everyone held their breath and waited for the little girl to make a decision.
"Abandon the dam." The girl of the Lu family suddenly said sharply, without a little procrastination and hesitation.
Everyone was stunned, silent.
"Luo Tang, you are eight years old in your Chinese New Year's Eve, and you live here as a child, in your opinion, when was the outbreak period of flash floods in previous years?" Lu Yixuan stretched out his hand and pointed at the crowd.
The sturdy Lao Fu's heart was groaning, he subconsciously glanced at Supervisor Lu, and he didn't dare to reply directly.
"Don't panic, speak boldly." Lu Yixin raised his eyebrows, no one understands the viciousness of water better than these people who live on the banks of the river all year round.
Big Brother Luo licked the corners of his lips and wiped his hands on his dirty pants: "In recent years, it has been raining erratically, when I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that the rain was only thirty years, but this year it was advanced, and the time was less than half a month." He didn't cut it all out, but he trusted his grandfather's words.
Ten days, now the time left for them is no more than half a month, which coincides with the words of Aunt Liu in Shihe Village.
"Can you believe the words of that bad old man in your family, you say that there is a flash flood, there is a flash flood, you say that it rains heavily, who do you think you are, according to this, let's not build a dam, wouldn't it be better to ask a few magic sticks to ask the queen mother for a favor." Inspector Lu cursed and mocked with a disdainful face, "Miss Lu, do you really want to 'abandon the dam' because of the nonsense of a few laborers?!" ”
He raised an eyebrow and thought it was ridiculous.
Lu Yixin thought about it and took a deep breath: "The upstream embankment of Huju Gorge should not be rushed......" Before she finished speaking, she only heard the footsteps slowly coming out behind her.
"Who said they were going to abandon the dam?" Someone invited Jiang Zhifu out, the old man touched his beard, and a pair of fine eyes looked as if he hadn't woken up, but in everyone's faces, no one dared to step forward to make a mistake, his eyes fell on Lu Yixuan, "After the Shimen weir is completed, the upstream interception has been consulted by the Ministry of Engineering, and it is a project that the imperial court has also agreed, Miss Lu is now saying that she wants to abandon the dam, should she also ask the imperial court for instructions?" Jiang Zhifu spoke slowly and leisurely, and he was very "businesslike".
"Slow down and persevere, and act urgently." Lu Yixuan burst out of her emotions, she secretly stomped her foot, Jiang Zhe was clearly here to make things difficult, "This depression is behind the waterfall, and the sound of the waterfall is not as strong as it is today two days ago." Lu Yixuan raised his hand and pointed at it, and everyone subconsciously listened, indeed, they could hear the sound of waterfall hitting the rocks in the mountains behind the forest, and no one noticed that it was raining heavily yesterday.
Gu Qingxun suddenly realized, Lu Yixun, this girl, has been remembering everything she saw and heard around her since she first went up the mountain, and they had stopped to hear about this waterfall before it reached the interception point, and the water flow at that time was small and did not sound as turbulent as it is today, which shows that this heavy rain has caused a trend of flash floods.
Master Jiang squinted his eyes and didn't care: "So what." He asked knowingly.
"The quicksand in the upper reaches of the Huju Gorge Canal is loose and easy to drift with the flow, at the beginning of the Wei Daren said well, it is indeed not suitable for interception and damming, the casting foundation is unstable and maybe it will collapse when it rains, I passed through Zezhuang when I went up the mountain, and the unloading of the Yang River channel flows into the Min River around the hill, and there is a section of the embankment that casts the foundation at the confluence of the three rivers," it can be seen that it is an old workman, "now the stone material is not convenient to transport up the mountain, it is better to stay at the foot of the mountain to strengthen and rebuild the embankment, unload the silt sedimentation of the Yang River channel, there are natural embankments on both sides of the river and the river basin is more than one section poor, It was a suitable place to cast a dam, so why give it up. ”
If the Ministry of Industry had followed this plan, the people in dozens of villages would have been relieved.
Jiang Zhe coughed lightly and shrugged: "That's just the legacy left by the former prefect Wei." Obviously, if Lord Jiang has a new plan, he will not choose Lord Wei's approach without any achievements, otherwise how to reflect his new policy and hard work.
If there are achievements, people will only praise the original Wei Daren.
Lu Yixuan couldn't help but bite her lower lip and spit it on her bottom lip when she heard the meaning of the words, she just hated this kind of bureaucratic atmosphere!
"Jiang Zhifu, it is your merit to block the big water today, and if you can't stop it, you are guilty of it, just transport the stones from the construction site under the mountain to the old dam to thicken and reinforce, and then drain the branches of the Yanghe River, and many channels can continue to irrigate in the return of land to the people after the big flood." Isn't that just right?
The laborers who listened to this rhetoric were stunned for a moment, but they couldn't help but applaud.
Gu Qingxun's eyes lit up, what a little girl.
"Open the river and divert it, just rely on these few people?" Jiang Zhe couldn't help laughing, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the number of people one by one, "Dozens of people want to reopen the river in front of the torrent, I'm afraid it's whimsical!" "You're welcome.
"Lord Jiang, there are a total of three rivers in the lower reaches of Huju Gorge, surrounded by mountains and rivers, there are five villages and two towns in the Qinshan River section alone, and tens of thousands of people can be mobilized by you, as a parent official in Surabaya, you don't even have this prestige, right?" Lu Yixin put his hands around his chest and threw the problem back to Jiang Zhe directly.
Master Jiang was gagged: "Even if you take the people on the spot, where does the money come from, you can't ask people to contribute in vain." ”
"This is to the point," Lu Yixuan wanted to clap her hands, calling people to do day jobs is not your strong point, her expression was full of provocation and mockery, "Duzhi opens a warehouse every year for the flood in Surabaya, releases grain, allocates funds for disaster relief, and I don't know where the millions of silver are spent." ”
"River work, transportation, stone, wood, can be less than half an inch."
"Okay, I'll give you an idea now," the girl held her head high, her eyes bright, "The villagers of the three villages near the old foundation of the Yanghe River were requisitioned and unloaded to fill the stone to thicken the foundation and stabilize the foundation, and now it is indeed too late to open the river to drain the river, there are many tributaries in the Qinshan River section, the bottom is shallow but the silt has been accumulated for several years and is difficult to drain, with Shaozhen and Laixin Liangdian as the center, dredge the branches, and divert as much as possible before the big water may rush down the gorge and hit the Shimen weir head-on, all the workers who open the river, after the rainy season, return the land to the people, The fields were returned at double the amount of silver, and if the berm was meritorious, the court could exempt them from paying taxes for half a year. ”
She raised her arms and drank, as if her mind had been able to blurt out this way after a thousand turns on this road.
The confrontation with the feudal officials is not inferior.
That's why she spent days walking around rivers and villages when she made it up the mountain, and those seemingly casual questions became the decision of the moment.
There is no time to give you too much hesitation.
Old Master Jiang was stunned for a long time, probably frightened by the aggressive momentum of this yellow-haired girl, Lu Lianxing on the side opened his mouth and stiffened and pulled Master Jiang's sleeve, and the old man's originally narrow eyes were almost narrowed into a slit: "Heh! He sneered behind his sleeves, and said sharply, "Miss Lu said well, but where did you get the power, you really think that you are the Guardian of the Heavens and can make ideas and change strategies for the imperial court?!" "It's just taking chicken feathers as an arrow, a girl who has not dried up is ashamed to say that she wants to open a river to clear the dredging, and also says that she wants to abandon the dam and return the land, the most outrageous thing is to reduce or reduce taxes, who do you think you are?" Calling you 'Xiao Qincha' is to give three points of face, Miss Lu, just look at it with a pair of eyes, don't stretch your hands too long. ”
Let a powerless girl's family stand on top of their heads and call around by name, then where do they put their faces on the officials of Surabaya, except for the poor pool to ask the guilt, it is he Jiang Zhe who loses his head.
The eyes of the two of them intersected as if they had sparked sharp blades in the air, and the tense atmosphere was filled with a sense of suffocation for a moment, only the sound of the waterfall coming through the mountains and forests was beating on everyone's hearts.
Supervisor Lu pinched the whip in the palm of his hand, and for the first time, he saw the girl's family facing this Jiang Lao'er's face and heart not beating, as if he really regarded himself as Lord Qincha, and the whispering laborers around him cowered and did not dare to speak, and everyone could see that the prefect was very annoyed.
Jiang Zhe's slightly stiff back straightened, and he walked in front of Lu Yixuan step by step, his small eyes shining brightly.
"This Surabaya, it's not up to you to decide." Master Jiang snorted coldly and passed by the girl of the Lu family.
"Lord Jiang," Lu Yixuan suddenly spoke, her voice was clear, she looked at the old man's back, "Although I, Lu Yixuan, am not the Guardian of the Heavens, but I also hold the decree in my hand. ”
She raised her hand.
Jiang Zhe paused and turned around, his face was a little puzzled, but he saw that the girl had long sleeves and flowers, slender wrists, and was holding a piece of jade in her palm.
But Jiang Zhe's expression changed greatly, and he gasped and fell to his knees.
"Lord Jiang, Lord Jiang, what are you doing!" Lu Lianxing didn't understand what kind of drama this was, he wanted to pick up this confused old man, but his arm was pulled hard by Jiang Zhe.
Poof, Lu Lianxing also knelt down, and the muddy water splashed all over his body.
"The jade, the important weapon of the country and the great treasure of the court, dare to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince what his decree is!" Jiang Zhe's eyes were staring at Lu Yixuan's palm, he was terrified and couldn't believe it, the jade ruler representing the East Palace would appear in the hands of this girl, and she still had such a card secretly supporting her.
Now, her words are power, and the dispatch of Surabaya has become the dispatch of the prince, how dare the local officials disobey.