readx;? On this day, Lu Nancheng and others came all the way to Songjiang County, saying that this Songjiang County has always been a boundary prone to flooding, and every year the household department has to allocate silver down, which is not the beginning of this year when the imperial court also allocated a lot of silver, and now it is natural to explore how the flood control levee is built. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A few people walked through the street, and soon saw the young men who were busy on the embankment, and the scene of sweating and working made Emperor Zhaohua go away with some of the unhappiness for several days in a row.

Today's weather is still good, there is no lingering drizzle, the sun is not so hot, but it is a good day to work.

Shen Yuan stood there and looked back and forth, and soon found something not quite right over there, and hurriedly beckoned Lu Nancheng, "Master, look over there." ”

Lu Nancheng's eyes followed the place where the green jade pointed, it turned out that in addition to some busy young men, there were also many thin children running back and forth, the young faces were not smiling, laboriously carrying sandbags, and some even fell to the ground due to physical exhaustion.

If you look closely, you can see not only emaciated children, but also many gray-haired old people busily carrying things back and forth.

It stands to reason that the workers who strengthened the embankment were voluntarily participated by the common people who reported their names, but it seems that there are many people at this scene who are obviously physically exhausted and are still struggling to carry back and forth, busy, this abnormality must be problematic, but you can't just rush forward to ask, the imperial guard next to you suggested that you can go to the teahouse and sit there, there are many people, and there will be a lot of news.

A few people entered the nearest teahouse, and they didn't want a private room, so they sat in the lobby and listened to those people chatting and talking.

The guards went to the tea shed where there were more people outside, although they were the hidden guards on the bright side, although they were in the name of the imperial guards, but they also had a lot of experience in finding out the news, and they were sitting there at the moment, but they were all together with those people in a few words, and Shen Yuan was not far behind, and sent Biyi to the corner of the street to see what news there was.

"Eh, uncle, we are from other places, and there are some good things in this Songjiang County. ”

"Oh, from other places, young man, then you have to taste our Yangtze River Sanxian!" The uncle, who was sitting there drinking a big bowl of tea and enjoying the coolness, quickly started talking.

"Oh, Sanxian, then you have to talk to me. ”

"Oh, speaking of these three fresh, it's the saury out of the mist of the spring tide, and the puffer fish that is short of the reed buds, and the anchovy, these three are made into that dish, that's called a fresh, a beautiful!" As he spoke, some people on the side laughed and said that the anchovy and puffer fish were eaten by ordinary people, and he had never eaten them, so why did he talk nonsense to people here.

The old man retorted unhappily, saying that you don't know a lot about your youth, and the guards chatted back and forth with a few people like this, and then inadvertently pulled the topic to the flood disaster on this side, and the conversation was also in full swing, and the atmosphere was very good.

Over there, Biyi turned around and went to the corner of the street, and chatted with a few ladies who were sitting in a circle with the soles of their shoes by asking for directions, first asking the nearest rouge gouache shop, and then being joked by a few people that they looked smart, and somehow they were involved in the work of the masters, and took the opportunity to inquire about a lot of news.

After a while, the two of them rushed back to the teahouse before lunch, and now they couldn't sit in the lobby anymore, so they changed to a restaurant over there, found a private room, and ordered a few dishes.

"I heard the aunt over there say that the construction of the embankment in Songjiang County requires at least one laborer per household, and the men in her family were requisitioned, and those who only have the old and weak in the family are forced to repair the embankment with the elderly and children. Biyi replied with a glance.

"No wonder there are so many old people who are still moving things when they can't do their jobs there. Shen Yuan let out a deep sigh.

Not only did they demand that each family have to provide a laborer, but the local government also withheld the money that had to be paid to the people who came to work as laborers. The guard continued Biyi's words.

"Oh, how much has been deducted?" Lu Nancheng asked, although he had already thought that there would be such a thing, but he still had to ask a question.

"It is said that at that time, the official government issued a list of recruits that each person had half a tael of silver per day, but when it was sent to his hand, it was less than 300 yuan. ”

"Is this Songjiang County government really doing such a thing! Those people didn't bring it up to make a fuss?" Shen Yuan was also a little indignant when she heard this, this blatant withholding of the people's hard-earned money would make her think of her mother who died of overwork and illness.

"Alas, madam, these local people have long been accustomed to it, this official government is one set in the open and one in secret, the local people said that in the early years, it was not that no one made trouble, but the government insisted that the money was for those who could work to reach a certain amount, and said that those old people and children could not reach the amount of work, how could they give so much money. Biyi echoed.

"Yes, these local governments are really excessive, deducting the people's money, but I also heard the uncle say that in fact, this embankment is repaired every year, and the most terrible thing about repairing every year is that it has no effect. The guard continued.

"No effect? The household department has allocated money every year, what does it mean that there is no effect?" Hearing this, Lu Nancheng's expression became solemn and looked straight at him.

"It is said that they colluded with the local businessmen in charge of procurement, and that the materials collected to repair the embankment could not achieve the effect of strengthening the embankment, and the government and businessmen filled their own pockets, and when the flood passed, the embankment made of random materials was naturally broken again, and they continued to report to the imperial court to allocate money. ”

When Lu Nancheng heard this, he put the tea cup in his hand on the table hard, "What a person who fills his pocket! It seems that this Jiangnan County really has a lot of filth." ”

When Shen Yuan heard this, he was also extremely uncomfortable in his heart, thinking that the government would just deduct some from it, if he repaired the embankment with those materials that could not withstand the flood, it would not be these ordinary people who would suffer at that time, and he couldn't stop smiling bitterly when he thought that many people would be separated from their wives and families because of this.

"I have only gone to a few places, either the officials protect each other, or the officials and businessmen collude, and the people are oppressed, how can I have such a number of magistrates in my dignified Xuanchi country, the parents are officials, and the parents are talking about being the masters of the people, they are good, so they will eat the local people!"

Emperor Zhaohua sneered again and again, and ordered to continue to go to Suzhou according to the set route.

It is said that this Suzhou is "looking back at the unforgettable Splendid Garden, smiling and recalling the Smoke and Rain Lane." "This moving small bridge and flowing water, which can't hide the soft silk bamboo Wu sound, whispers softly in the ear, it is an indescribable thousands of customs.

Since it is into the boundary of Suzhou, it is natural to feel the small bridge and flowing water, silk bamboo and Wu sound while making an unannounced visit, and I found that this Suzhou is still good, and the streets and alleys can vaguely see the selling merchants, the children who are running around, or the old people who are hanging around.

When they arrived here, several people were not so eager, as if their bodies and minds were much more relaxed, Emperor Zhaohua came to this Gusu for the first time, after all, Shen Yuan had been in Suzhou and Hangzhou for so many years, although the life was not very good, but they could still act as a guide, the two of them were like an ordinary couple of people, enjoying the scenery here.

Since he pretended to be an ordinary businessman, he also lived with those merchants who came to the south of the Yangtze River to buy silk fabrics, and the inns in Suzhou were all based on the situation of the garden or the ordinary inn housing to attract customers, so several people lived in the banana garden where the merchants gathered.

Entering the garden is a poem, on the book: rain frightened poems dream to banana leaves, under the book is: the wind carries the sound of the book out of the lotus flower. Such a scholarly poetic garden has always been pleased by those merchants, but because of this, it seems to be contaminated with a little bookish atmosphere, this scholar and businessman, but the rules and regulations are clear.

After entering, this big garden is divided into four small gardens, and it is not that there are some rich merchants who have chartered a big garden, but after all, a few people are now mainly visiting in the open and secret, and too much publicity is always not good, so they directly chose to share a big garden with others.

There are some plantains planted in this plantain orchard, and the style is very similar to most of the gardens here, but they all look at the travelogues of the ancients, and this Suzhou has a thousand different gardens.

There is a large courtyard in this big garden, which can be used by merchants to entertain guests or interact with each other, as well as some flowers and strange stones for merchants to enjoy, and the four small gardens have their own style of courtyards and rooms.

Emperor Zhaohua and others lived in the banana leaf garden of this plantain garden, this garden is divided into four parts: east, middle, west, bedroom, the east is distributed with pine forest lawn, bamboo house Qushui, the middle part is mainly used to entertain guests, the scenery of this part is also wonderful, the pavilion built around the water, can be described as a pond wide and wooded, and many rockeries and strange stones, and then look at the west, but the corridor rises and falls, the reflection between the water waves is sufficient, many lake stones, many floors, can be used to listen to the silk bamboo Wu language, the bedroom part is also extremely comfortable.

Although the whole banana leaf garden is not big, there are a lot of things that should be in the middle of the term, and the delicate ones are not rough, and it is really small but complete, and it is no wonder that those rich people are keen to rent a garden here to live.

It took a few days, and the guards didn't find anything during the secret visit, and the county order that came to Suzhou was a good thing, and there were no such bad things under the rule.

On this day, Shen Yuan and the family members in the small garden enjoyed the strange stone together in the compound.

The lady of the wind is a curious mountain and strange rock, so there is a way to enjoy these things, everyone gathers together, and it can be regarded as a mutual exchange between each other, and enjoy a few points.

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