If he cuts someone with a knife, he will cross the court law, punish him in private, and despise the emperor's authority, then Gu Yun will become a guilty person.

What's more, the dark tide in this court is surging, and Zhou Fang has an unknown number of people involved in his head, whether it is Shen Tian or Cheng Ying, the master of ceremonies, these two are intertwined in the imperial court, and they are all characters who cannot be moved.

"Get down to work!" The torrential rain poured on the top of people's heads, Gu Yun looked at the embankment, was anxious, and kicked Zhou Fang towards the river.

Zhou Fang's arm and severed ear were still bleeding, flowing down the water under the heavy rain, his face was pale in pain, but he didn't dare to resist, Gu Yun was too bold, Zhou Fang could feel that he wanted to kill himself.

He doesn't want to die, his life can't be lost in Tanzhou, as long as he survives until he returns to Beijing, he can survive.

Even if Gu Yun catches him greedy for official silver, at most it will be a dismissal and investigation.

Relying on Zhou Fang alone, where did he have the courage to embezzle so much court official silver, and it was impossible for the people behind him to not protect him.

Zhou Fang got up from the mud all over the ground, walked to the piled sandbags, carried them with great difficulty, and walked tremblingly into the river.

Shocked to hear that Gu Yun entered the post station with a sword, and arrested the Ministry of Works, the capital of the Ministry of Works, Shi Lang Zhongzhou, and Fan Li, the prefect of Tanzhou, who went to build the embankment, hurriedly made a sedan chair and rushed over.

"My lord, we're here." The sedan chair stopped, and a messenger spoke.

Fan Li lifted the curtain, hurriedly got off the sedan chair, and walked to the embankment with an umbrella from the side.

In such a rainstorm and dirty weather, he was originally lying comfortably on the bed of the concubine, but this Gu Xiaohou was so lawless that he even dared to slash and beat the Dushui Qing Officials, where did he dare to hide at home without showing his face.

Approaching and seeing that Gu Yun and that Liu Gongzi were both drenched in the torrential rain, and Lord Zhou, who was wearing official uniforms, was very embarrassed to fight the sand and gravel in the river, Fan Li's heart sank, and he frowned and drove to the yacha holding the umbrella beside him, "Roll on, quickly put away the umbrella." ”

Then he made a hurry and ran towards Gu Yun.

"Master Gu Xiaohou, it's too late for the next official!" Fan Li said with a look of shame, "This embankment should have been watched by the lower officials and Lord Zhou, but it bothered you to guard the river embankment on a rainy day, and the lower officials were derelict in their duties, and they all blamed the lower officials' bodies for not being useful, and they fell ill a few days ago and couldn't get out of bed, and they woke up from their illness, only to know that there was such a heavy rain outside......"

Gu Yun glanced at him coldly, interrupting Fan Li's tirade, "Governor Fan's mansion came just in time, there are not enough people, you go and find a hundred strong men." ”

As soon as Fan Li wanted to make an embarrassed expression, he saw Gu Yun's hand fall on the long sword at his waist, and hurriedly changed his voice, "Xiaguan is going, this is going!" ”

"Tell them that as long as they can build the Xiangyuan embankment, one person can receive ten taels of wages!" Gu Yun said loudly.

Fan Li responded with a flattering smile, and hurriedly summoned the yacha and ordered them to arrest all the men who could work in the city.

After Fan Li left, Liu Ziqi and Gu Yun said, "The Xiangyuan River was not dredged in time, there was too much sediment at the bottom of the river, and the riverbed was rising. ”

"Not only that, but the chains that bind the sandbags and stones have not yet been melted and cast, and these sandbags and stones cannot be fixed and strong, and they can easily be washed away by floodwaters." Liu Ziqi looked at the river worriedly, and did not say a word, even if the Xiangyuan embankment intercepted the upstream river water, but the embankment on both sides of the river is too low, and it is very likely that the flood will back, so that the farmland and houses near the Xiangyuan River will be flooded.

Gu Yun threw the sword aside and rolled up his sleeves, "I'll go into the water, you go to find a rope, there is no iron chain, and the embankment must be built with a rope!" ”

Liu Ziqi clenched his fists, his elegant face was full of gloom, if it weren't for the inaction of the officials up and down, how could it be like this, the iron chain of the dam should have been prepared in the official mansion of Tan Prefecture, but now there is nothing to want.

The sandbags for building the embankment were still brought by him and Gu Yun to Xiangyuan, forcing the Tanzhou prefect to find someone to dig up the sand.

Seeing Gu Yun carrying sandbags down the river, Liu Ziqi didn't stay any longer, and took people to leave quickly and went to the city to find ropes.

The terrain of Xiangyuan is not low, and the people in the city feel that even if it is a flood, it should be a few cities downstream of Tanzhou, and Qingzhou and Danzhou, which will not endanger them Xiangyuan.

Therefore, no one is willing to do such drudgery as building river embankments, not to mention that the government has always found people to work as coolies and never paid them.

I heard that the dozens of people who went to work as coolies this time couldn't even fill their stomachs, and no one wanted to go.

Fan Li led people to knock on doors in the city for a long time, and only found about a dozen people, several of whom were elderly men.

There is no way to go on like this, Fan Li is really afraid to take these dozen people back, Gu Xiaohou Ye was angry, and he also slashed at him.

"If you go to the countryside, you have to send someone from every household to build the dam." Fan Li commanded the officials under his hand.

A group of yacha hurriedly rushed to the countryside outside the city to arrest people, and Fan Li led the more than ten people to the river embankment first.