A week later, on July 6, the Department of Water Resources was officially upgraded to the Ministry of Water Resources, and the 10 Cabinet Ministries became 11 Ministries, and the first cadre was appropriately adjusted.

Li Bing, former director of the Ministry of Construction and director of the Department of Water Resources, was transferred to the post of chief of the Ministry of Water Resources, Yan Rang (Yan Lide), former vice minister of the Ministry of Construction, was promoted to chief of construction, Zuo Zheng Guo of the former Department of Water Resources was promoted to vice minister of water conservancy, and Li Chun, former director of the Bridge Department of the Ministry of Construction, was promoted to vice minister of construction, and still served as the director of the Bridge Department.

So far, the Ministry of Water Resources has jurisdiction over the General Office, the Department of Flood Control, the Department of Fisheries, the Department of Irrigation, the Department of Waterways, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Water Supply and Drainage, and the Department of Reclamation. As is customary, the Ministry of Water Resources has also put the framework in place early, and most of the positions are vacant as always—one person holds multiple positions—well, waiting for someone to be destined.

In Li Kang's words, this is "setting goals for the vast number of grassroots officials and motivating them to fight for them."

When the Ministry of Water Resources was first established, Li Kangte summoned Li Bing and Zheng Guo, and gave them an order to the two of them, urging them to deal with the internal chores of the Ministry of Water Resources as soon as possible, and then immediately conduct an all-round investigation of the territory of Huaxia, carry out water conservancy construction in a targeted manner, and first put the flood control department and irrigation department into operation.

"The two of you are veteran water conservancy experts, Daqin swept Liuhe, and there is a lot of reliance on you, I hope you can do it in Daqin, you can also do it in Huaxia, and do better. Li Kang encouraged.

"No, dare not to die!" Li Bing and Zheng Guo hurriedly said.

The most famous water conservancy projects in ancient China, Dujiangyan, Zhengguo Canal, Ling Canal, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Longshou Canal, Anfengtang and so on, among them, Dujiangyan and Zhengguo Canal are the masterpieces of Li Bing and Zheng Guo respectively, irrigating tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land. The former is still playing a role even into the 21st century, and it cannot be overpraised for its grand influence, far-reaching significance, grandeur of engineering, and enormous contribution.

Since both of them said that they were going to die, they would definitely not be sloppy, and with their skills, Li Kang was still very relieved about these two people.

However, Li Kang still decided to add another carrot hanging in front of them.

"If the Qing and others can complete the task in excess of the quality and quantity, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, I will not hesitate to reward the marquis!"

After finishing speaking, Li Kang immediately clearly felt that Li Bing's breathing had thickened, and his body trembled unconsciously, obviously the two of them were very excited at this moment.

Can the two of them not be excited? This is the first time that Li Kang has promised his subordinates a knighthood.

Since ancient times, all dynasties have been the first military merit, Han Gaozu Liu Bang even engaged in a white horse alliance, bluntly said "non-merit is not a marquis" - although not many people abide by it - but the Ming Dynasty did not do non-military merit is not knighted, even Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Taishi, who dragged the cool and handsome to bomb the sky, failed to mix with a lowest-class earl (the Ming Dynasty had no sons, males) dangdang, and the middle and late stages have fallen, and only Wang Yangming, a lone seedling civil official, was awarded the title of a new earl - posthumously awarded the title of Xinjian Marquis - but people were also awarded because of military merits. Although other dynasties are not so strict, relatively speaking, they are not much worse, such as the late Qing Dynasty Li Hongzhang (first-class Su Yibo) and Zeng Guofan (first-class Yiyong Marquis) The difference in the title during his lifetime can be seen, which is enough to show how rare the title is if you don't go to the battlefield, unless you can give birth to a good daughter and become a relative.

Li Bing and Zheng Guo didn't have any extravagant hopes, thinking that it would be good to mix up a low-level title heirloom as the founding father at most, but they didn't expect that Li Kang would be a marquis when he opened his mouth, which was the second class of the traditional fifth-class title! If calculated according to the Qin and Han dynasties' 20th-class military merit system, only the top marquis and the marquis of Guannei could be called marquises, second only to the vassal kings.

No matter what kind of title system Li Kang adopted in the future, the marquis was a high-ranking lord and a prominent lord, and he was ranked as a super-high-ranking lord! If he was actually sealed, he would also have the qualifications to be called a "prince and marquis."

It's exciting to think about.

was ready to serve the death force, but now he was lured by Li Kang with a giant carrot, and both of them made the decision to eat and live on the front line, and vowed not to return to the court if they did not complete the task, whoever dared to drag their feet would fight with whom!

Li Bing and Zheng Guo walked out of the political hall with excitement, and soon the news of Li Kang's promise to be a marquis spread among a certain group of people, and the fierce debate about "going west to the south" was like a fire spewing oil, and no one was willing to compromise at this time.

Of course, this is none of Li Bing and Zheng Guo's business, now, except for building canals and dams, they are not interested in anything, and they are eager to connect all the water systems in Huaxia and build embankments all over the territory in one day.

The officials are still arguing while going to work, and Li Kang is not ready to end up now, the more he argues, the clearer it will be, it will be August soon, and the big wedding is imminent, and everything has to wait until after the marriage.

In ancient weddings, there were six complete wedding customs: Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Nazheng, inviting dates, and greeting relatives. But because Li Kang was troublesome, and the ministers were also anxious to let Li Kang get married as soon as possible, so Li Kang's wedding was very streamlined, mainly three things: Nacai, invitation, and kissing, and even Nacai was unilaterally decided by Li Kang's side, and he didn't discuss it with the woman at all.

First of all, the exchange of Geng stickers (age, birthday) is exempted, and naturally there is no "measuring the divine will", "arranging eight characters", etc., Guan Zhong and others have already determined that Tan Yunxian and other women have no obvious offense with Li Kang before recommending, this is enough at the moment, the conditions are simple, what do you pay attention to?

Not to mention the relatives, Guan Zhong and the three recommended, Li Kang agreed, and this was done, and afterwards sent an official document to tell Tan Yunxian's three daughters and their families, and the family matter was decided. As for the dowry, there is no need to discuss, do you still think that Li Kang's dowry is not good, it is completely Li Kang who looks at it, well, to be exact, it is the officials of the Ceremony Department who look at it.

Of course, according to the urine nature of the Chinese people who have always been more face-saving than the sky, Li Kang's dowry is absolutely cold, at least under the existing conditions, it is definitely luxurious.

Six pieces of traditional silk and satin, a pair of gold earrings, two gold rings, one hundred and two silver gifts, sixty-four of various kinds of food, and six quintals of wine...... Of course, a wild goose is indispensable!

This alone saved dozens of days of effort.

However, unlike Xue Tao and Wei Chi Chifan, Tan Yunxian, as the main room, also got Li Kang's "book", commonly known as "red and green book paper" (two layers of paper, red on the outside and green on the inside), and then Tan Yunxian replied to the post, commonly known as "Wending", as for the woman's return gift, now everyone is not rich in hand, and there is no accumulated storage, so the three women made a sachet for Li Kang to return the gift.