Mei Xiaoren looked up at the moon and asked, "What about the people around the prime minister, it's the same?"

"Who are you referring to?"

Mei Xiaoren almost wanted to ask for that name, but he had told her not to mention it to others, no one, so she had to ask another: "For example, a university scholar."

"Wei Shuying" Jiang Rong pulled the corners of his mouth and laughed dryly, "A raccoon dog"

Mei Xiaoren frowned.

Jiang Rong saw that she didn't believe it, and said with a straight face: "Where is the Wenhua Palace, the orders issued by the prime minister are issued by the Wenhua Palace, and he knows about it and does not stop it, what do you say he is?"

Mei Xiaoren stopped talking, she had the ability to read people, and she could see that Scholar Wei was by no means a corrupt official, she would rather believe that Scholar Wei was under the roof, or for other reasons.

Jiang Rong also said: "When the prime minister proposed to dig the canal, many ministers came forward to advise, and even the Ministry of Industry did not agree. ”

"Ministry of Works" Mei Xiaoren was surprised. She hadn't heard it in a long time, but she was impressed.

"Yes, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu just thought twice before acting, he actually arrested the Ministry of Industry Shangshu and imprisoned him, and even his relatives were not spared" Jiang Rong was already a little angry in his eyes.

Could it be that this is the reason why Yinyuetai won the full door of the Wen family Mei Xiaoren was worried by Jiang Rong s words in his heart, worried about Lord Bishop

"What is the current situation of the Ministry of Works' Shangshu family, has it been disposed of?"

"It's the same whether there is a disposition or not, who can get out alive if they enter the Hidden Moon Platform Prison"

The river was sparkling, and the waves were rolling, just as difficult to settle as Mei Xiaoren's mood. Other doubts arose in her heart, and she looked at Jiang Rong with a frown, "Sick, why do you know so much?"

I am afraid that it is difficult for the son of an ordinary minister's family to know these things, and even if he knows, he will not dare to open his mouth to discuss them, but Jiang Rong talks eloquently every time he mentions the court, and he does not shy away from it at all, as if no one is afraid.

"I have my own way."

Mei Xiaoren asked: "You said that we are friends, and friends should be honest, then you still refuse to tell me where you are sacred."

Jiang Rong smiled, "Don't worry, I don't have any big background, it's just that I have relatives who are big officials in the court." ”

Mei Xiaoren could see that Jiang Rong's position was so clear, then his relatives must not be members of the Prime Minister's party.

Mei Xiaoren stayed here for a while, and only after Chen Wu's injury stabilized did she let the others take Chen Wu back to Qiushui County.

She and Jiang Rong set off before they left, and went to Takixian County first, and withdrew the silver from the Xiao family money village in the county seat.

Mei Xiaoren came out with a bag of silver. Jiang Rong stood in front of the door and looked up at the plaque and asked, "This Xiao family's money bank, is it from Yun County or the state capital?"

"Yun County." Mei Xiaoren responded. Her family's money bank, except for Xuanzhou Mansion, has long been spread over other places.

Jiang Rong suddenly remembered one thing, and asked again: "Didn't you propose to Miss Ren at the beginning, why didn't you have a follow-up?"

The corners of Mei Xiaoren's lips hooked, "You care about me and Miss Qingqing for a while, and you care about me and Miss Xiao for a while, you want to even give me a wife and concubine."

Jiang Rong glanced at her, "These two girls are otherworldly women, how can they commit themselves to you as a concubine." ”

Mei Xiaoren sneered lightly: "It's like you've seen it all." ”

"I've seen it, on the day you went to propose." Jiang Rong said seriously, touched his chin and recalled, "Miss Xiao and Miss Qingqing are equal, but their temper is more than a little worse. ”

Mei Xiaoren glanced at him contemptuously and took the first step.

Jiang Rong caught up and said: "Her temper is very similar to yours, but how can you get along with each other, it's not suitable, it's okay if you don't have it." He patted her on the shoulder and emphasized, "Qingqing girl is really good." ”

Mei Xiaoren didn't want to continue this topic with Jiang Rong anymore, so she quickened her pace and went straight out of the city, just when she ran into Chen Wu and them, she gave the silver to a few people.

She was on a business trip, and she couldn't send them back in person, so she could only part with them.

Mei Xiaoren turned his eyes to look at the embankment next to him, now the river workers have to do to increase the embankment, so it is the right thing to pile up stones on it, but there is something wrong here

Several river workers are gathered in one place, digging the foundation stone of the embankment.

"What are they doing"

Someone replied, "My lord, they are digging another ditch." ”

"Digging through the river embankment to build a ditch"

Although Mei Xiaoren didn't know much about water conservancy, the river embankment was originally a copper wall to resist the torrent, and a hole was dug on it to pay it back

Mei Xiaoren ordered them to stop work, and after sending the old department away, he summoned the officials of the workshop to question.

In the cabin, Mei Xiaoren sat behind the bookcase, and several officials stood in front of her, almost all of them buried their heads and did not dare to raise them.

"Whose idea," she said lightly.

The official only said: "The lowly officials will not dare to move the river embankment without authorization"

"Does Futai-sama know?"

"When Lord Futai came, construction hadn't started here."

Mei Xiaoren turned his eyes to the side, and after thinking about it for a while, he knew the answer, it seemed that someone spent the silver allocated by the imperial court and used the manpower to repair the river, and dug this ditch privately from Lao Li, intending to divert water for the nearby manor.

Then she remembered the squires who often went to the Tongzhi Office, and they seemed to ask for this as if this was the case.

Mei Xiaoren didn't break the order even if she knew whose order it was, she looked at a few officials, and a few officials also looked at her timidly, and everyone knew it.

"Let's see." After Mei Xiaoren finished speaking, he got up and went out.

In front of the embankment, Mei Xiao Renzai carefully looked at the place that was chiseled through.

There is never a shortage of water in the south of the Yangtze River in the spring ploughing season, and those squires begged Gao Jingshu to dig ditches, just to borrow the human and financial resources of the imperial court to help them do something once and for all, so as to avoid the labor of digging wells and fetching water by themselves.

Mei Xiaoren is not worried that Gao Jingshu is abusing his power for personal gain, but that the river embankment below is so chiseled, and there are already large and small cracks around it, not to mention whether he can bear the weight of continuing to rise, he is afraid that he will not even be able to withstand the flood.

She turned around and asked, "How are the river workers who have sent an official letter to the upstream recently, and are there any rivers that will be broken through in the near future?"

"Back to my lord, the Sui An Mansion sent a letter a few days ago, saying that the Huihe River is about to penetrate into the Jinhe." The official said, "The lowly has submitted this letter to Lord Tongzhi. ”

Mei Xiaoren was silent when she heard this, she hadn't even seen a shadow of this letter.

Jiang Rong had been standing beside her indifferently, and when he heard this, he leaned over and leaned into her ear and said: "The taste of being overhead is not pleasant, if I were you, I would definitely scold them and let them know who is the main person in charge of the river work." ”

Mei Xiaoren didn't do it, she is no longer an ignorant person who has just entered the officialdom, how can she not understand that there will be consequences if she is willful.

Gao Jingshu has been in charge of the river workers for many years, as long as Lao Li does not say anything to let him hand over the power to govern the river, then he is still the right master in the eyes of these officials.

What's the use of scolding, if she scolds them, when the news spreads to Xuanzhou, it will become her intention to work against Gao Jingshu.

Lao Li said that if she and Gao Jingshu disagreed, he would give up one of them.

One is the Tongzhi who has followed him for many years, and the other is her who has just arrived, how will he choose