Ouyang Rong opened his eyes early.

Outside, just after dawn, the sky was bright, and the inside of the house was still a little dark.

But the sound of insects in the early morning has filled my ears.

He stared at the curtain on top of the bed for a moment.

sniffed.

Hmm, I feel a little stuffy.

Ouyang Rong looked down at the good bedding on his body, and without thinking much about it, Ban Kaiwei laid the white left calf on his waist, turned over and got down.

The movement of him getting out of bed also woke up the sleepy-eyed Wei Lai.

The latter rubbed his eyes and got up, looked around in a daze, sobered up a little, hurriedly jumped out of the warm bed, and ran out of bed to serve his master to dress.

Ouyang Rong got up and stretched.

The white-haired maid half-hugged him from behind, and two small bracelets went to Ouyang Rong's waist to tie his belt.

She was taller than her peers, but she could only stand on tiptoe to the chest height of her slender master.

"How did the master sleep last night?"

"It's okay, I've slept pretty well lately, and I haven't had insomnia."

Wei Lai asked curiously, "Is your face still uncomfortable this morning?" ”

Ouyang Rong touched his face.

When I woke up this morning, the taste in my mouth was still sour and astringent, but it was less, and my face was too, and there was not much spiciness, which was much better than a few days ago.

He shook his head and muttered:

"It's a lot better, it seems that I still have to eat less spicy things lately. In the past few days, my aunt has not let the kitchen do it, but it has improved...... Maybe it's some strange allergy. ”

Wei Lai knelt down to tidy up the corners of his clothes and put on his shoes without being dirty, she raised her face and smiled:

"The mung bean cake in the kitchen is also delicious, and the slave goes to learn it."

The master and servant chatted for a while, and after washing, Ouyang Rong went out to meet the little junior sister after eating breakfast with the Zhen family as usual.

……

"This Yue Nu Gorge is indeed magical, the confluence of the two water systems, and narrow as a beauty's slender waist, there are two mountains on both sides, the underwater terrain is raised, it is really strange."

"This is thanks to Lord Mingfu and Mr. Chen and everyone for building this sluice. This is the real ingenious thing, otherwise no matter how miraculous the terrain is, it is useless, and it is still the name of the Ming Mansion! ”

"Di Gong Gate is not the original site of the official, it was proposed by Di Gong back then, the official is just painting the scoop according to the gourd, Lord Diao, don't bother the official, you can't afford it."

"Lord Mingfu is humble, you know, Xiao Gui Cao Sui is also a kind of wisdom, which means that the adult is calm and calm, not blindly comparing and reckless, and can humbly learn from his predecessors......

And according to the lower officials, the folding wing canal mentioned by the Ming Mansion is not inferior to the Di Gong Gate, on the contrary, it can also promote commerce and trade, benefit the people's livelihood, and win slightly. Lord Mingfu is so powerful at a young age, it is impossible to say that it will take time, and like Di Fuzi, he is also a 'southeast pearl', and has entered the ranks of Zhu Zi's ministers. ”

"Lord Diao, Duke Di is a national elder who is highly respected by His Majesty, and he is a seven-grade sesame official, which is not exciting."

Ouyang Rong turned his head, smiling rather than smiling.

As usual, Ouyang Rong and the little junior sister came again early in the morning to build the Di Gong Gate upstream.

This place is called the Yuenu Gorge by the locals, the water of Yunmeng Daze in the south, from this gorge mouth into the Butterfly Creek, and then meanders all the way, through Longcheng County, and then into the river.

Only by looking up from a high place like now, can we clearly understand why the topography of the Yuenu Gorge is so suitable for building a gate and why Di Gong chose this site back then.

On both sides of the river bank of the Yuenu Gorge, there are two mountains facing each other and facing each other.

The locals call it Longbei Mountain and Caifeng Mountain respectively.

The two mountains extend from the bank to the bottom of the river, with stones protruding.

A few days ago, before Ouyang Rong led everyone to start building the sluice, he sent Liu Ashan and other people who were familiar with the water nature to sneak under the river.

It was found that there is a stone road at the bottom of the river, which stretches for dozens of feet.

This is naturally a good place to repair the sluice, which can relatively control the water accumulated and overflowed from the huge freshwater lake of Yunmengze from the source.

Ouyang Rong somewhat understood why the previous Longcheng County commanders were keen to rebuild the sluice here, not only to maintain the political achievements and benevolent name of the current Difuzi, but also if there was no new water conservancy of the Folding Wing Canal, then this large sluice gate was indeed very suitable for Longcheng County, which was prone to floods.

The only problem is that the Di Gong Gate seems to be a bit prone to collapse......

At this moment, Ouyang Rong was taking his little junior sister, Liu Ashan, and Diao Xiancheng and other scribes to climb Longbei Mountain on the south bank of Yuenu Gorge together, looking down at the brand-new sluice gate that was about to be built below.

This is also what Ouyang Rong likes to do most every few days, taking his subordinates to stand on the top of the mountain, take a closer look at the general prototype of Di Gong Gate, and understand the progress of construction.

These days, with Ouyang Rong's daily personal scheduling, and the efforts of Mr. Chen and other craftsmen sent by the Liu family, as well as a group of young people sent by the county government.

Di Gongzha quickly took shape under everyone's noses, almost every day.

Casually dealing with Diao Xiancheng, who likes to pat Shangguan's ass, Ouyang Rong squinted at the large scale of the masonry structure porous sluice below.

I seem to be thinking about something.

He didn't speak for a long time.

Diao Xiancheng, who was sweating profusely while climbing the mountain, took the sweat towel handed by his subordinates and wiped the fine sweat on his forehead.

When he is older, where can he compare to the energetic young county magistrate, and the latter is a very action-oriented and resolute character......

Diao Xiancheng took a breath, glanced at Ouyang Rong's calm side face, and tried to say:

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the Ming Mansion has just come down to be a magistrate, maybe another day this world-experienced talent can win the favor of His Majesty, or have the help of nobles.

"It's directly in the emperor's heart, maybe it's going to soar into the sky, I just hope that when the time comes, the Ming Mansion won't forget the days when the Ming Mansion will work with the lower officials to control the water and repair the sluice gates in Longcheng."

"Lord Diao has really worked hard, and he is willing to accompany the official to make trouble."

Ouyang Rong retracted his mind, sighed, and shook his head again:

"Jane is in the heart of the emperor...... Do you want to help...... Scold. ”

There are some big truths, Ouyang Rong didn't say anything.

However, even a small county with eight grades knows that it is not enough to have the talent of the world and the ability to control water, but also to have the support of nobles.

Of course, if you can make the empress of the current dynasty favor you, then you can directly do it in one step, and you will be able to go to work in the political hall of the Luojing Center tomorrow.

That's not an exaggeration.

You see, within a few months of becoming the prime minister, Di Fuzi was swept to the end and derogatorily called the Dragon City Order, and then not long after, he was promoted back to Luojing and became the prime minister again.

The slope is like a roller coaster, like a joke......

Although the Great Zhou Dynasty had imperial examinations, it was not a scholar politics at all, but an aristocratic politics.

Noble people like Ouyang Rong in the imperial examination, where can they compare to the ninth-generation high-ranking families like the little junior sister, and the promotion level is just a small path that is slightly divided on the broad road of the latter.

Every year, there are dozens of people in the imperial examination of the gods, and there are dozens of scholars from the north and south, and these dozens of people are not as lucky as Ouyang Rong to be given an official at the Xingyuan banquet.

The Guanlong nobles and the five surnames and seven wangs are the main players on the stage of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

At best, the nouveau riche were the icing on the cake, the small building blocks used by successive emperors to balance the balance of power.

Therefore, if the local officials outside Luojing do not have a hand from the nobles, most of them will not be able to rise to the capital in their lifetime.

Because of the gradual centralization of power in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the central and local governments were heavy on the inside and light on the outside, and the local prefectures and counties were divided into many levels, and they were upgraded by several levels, but if they were not promoted, they were not promoted much.

This is also the situation that may happen to Ouyang Rong after this disaster relief and flood control, if he stays and is promoted, maybe he will go to a certain state in Jiangnan Province to take up a salted fish position, and he will not be comfortable with the order of a county, well, maybe there will also be a "Jiangzhou Sima Qingyi wet".

In this regard, it can also be very understandable why Ouyang Rong was promoted from a nine-rank official similar to the emperor's secretary in Luojing to a local seven-rank county order, but he was promoted and secretly degraded.

As for the noble backer that Ouyang Rong can find, if you think about it carefully, you can only value his mentor Xie Xun, but it's a pity that the latter doesn't seem to be involved in the officialdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty now.

"Lord Diao, there is only one character like Di Fuzi, and besides, His Majesty has been on the throne for a long time, and now not everyone can be in the emperor's heart. Let's not think about it so much and do what we need now. ”

Ouyang Rong, who just wanted to control the water and get done, glanced at Diao Xiancheng, who had the "Heart of Jingzhao in the Five Days", and said lightly.

Diao Xiancheng didn't know that someone and he was not on the same track at all.

is also an official in Longcheng, and someone focuses on a quick battle.

"It's extreme, it's right to do a good job of repairing the gate right now."

Diao Xiancheng nodded, quietly glanced at the Xie noblewoman behind Ouyang Rong, and said with a smile:

"I just can't help but say it in advance, haha, the officials look at the people and thieves, and the adults of the Ming Mansion can fly to the sky."

Ouyang Rong smiled and didn't reply.

In the rear, Xie Lingjiang, who was wearing a sword in men's clothes, glanced at Diao Xiancheng.

In fact, she has always thought that the pair of senior brother and Diao Xiancheng is very interesting.

The two types of scholars who can most broadly represent the Great Zhou Dynasty have fewer ways to display their ambitions, the former has fewer and the latter has more:

The senior brother pursues bottom-up, while Diao Xiancheng pursues top-down.

Ouyang Rong explained a few words to Diao County Cheng and the scribes behind him, and everyone dispersed.

Only Ouyang Rong, Xie Lingjiang, Liu Ashan and others remained, continuing to look at the new sluice gate under construction at the foot of the mountain.

Xie Lingjiang took the lead in asking the words in Ouyang Rong's heart:

"This terrain is so exquisitely crafted, and it is a sluice gate with such exquisite craftsmanship, how can it collapse every few years and not last for four years?

"It's worse than any of the smaller sluices I've seen elsewhere in disrepair."

Ouyang Rong quieted down and turned back with a smile: "Maybe there really is a dragon king?" ”

He pointed to the boundless, green island of Yunmeng Guze on the side of the guide.

Xie Ling Jiang smiled tacitly.

"Senior brother, is the Di Gong Gate about to be repaired?"

"It's been completed eighty or ninety, and it's been built, and it won't be until the middle of this month at the latest." Ouyang Rong said casually: "Let's go, go down to Mr. Chen and have a look." ”

"Is it mid-term...... Good. Xie Lingjiang lowered his head and muttered.

A few people looked at the high place for a while, then turned around and walked all the way down the mountain.

They came to the sluice gate site where construction was underway.

On the embankment that stretches for dozens of meters, I saw that there were many leading craftsmen and shirtless young people working hard, moving stones and sand......

These days, the weather is beautiful, there is not much rain, the water level of this gap in the Yuenu Gorge is not high, there are many men with good water quality floating on the water surface on both sides of the sluice, floating water transportation.

Taking advantage of the favorable time and place, the progress of this new Di Gong Gate is in the final sprint.

Xie Lingjiang followed behind the senior brother and saw the senior brother walking all the way at the sluice construction site, taking a look and touching.

From time to time, the young county magistrate smiled at the laborers around him and asked about food and accommodation, well, the focus was on whether the Liu family, who paid for the construction of the gate, cut corners and neglected the workers...... Occasionally, when he saw a man resting in sweat, he would take out the water bladder he carried with him and hand it over.

Xie Lingjiang didn't care if the senior brother was putting on a show, and the gentleman didn't care about his deeds.

She only looks at "qi".

And the Di Gong Gate at the foot was repaired in the day after day of the senior brother's wandering, condolences and supervision, and it is now about to be completed.

Ouyang Rong took people to take a look at the three inner gates of Jingxiao, Bangtang and Pingshui that were being built in the eye gate, which is the core building in the Digong Gate, and the role is a kind of preparatory gate, and it is also the final part of the completion.

It was also here that I met Mr. Chen.

Just met and saluted, the old craftsman from the Liujia sword shop saluted respectfully:

"I would like to inform the prefectural magistrate that I have complied with your instructions and have a long stone tablet erected on the shore of the lock, which is also cut according to the size you proposed."

Ouyang Rong, who was behind his back, nodded, "It's hard work." ”

Mr. Chen looked a little confused, hesitated, and asked:

"Lord County Order, is the monument to commemorate the new gate, why don't you engrave more inscriptions on it?"

Ouyang Rong shook his head and said:

"This is called the Water Monument, not for commemoration, the official uses it to observe the water level, in the future, not only this gate will be erected Water Monument, but many places downstream will let people set up one."

He sighed and said in a serious tone:

"We can't wait for the Digong Gate to be washed out, or even when the flood is coming, before we know to run away, and we can't judge the flood simply by empirical formulas, we have to have some measures to observe and warn in advance."

Mr. Chen and the old craftsmen under him nodded as if they didn't understand, and couldn't help but glance at the young county magistrate with a serious face.

After routinely inspecting the sluice gates under construction twice, Ouyang Rong took Xie Lingjiang and others to the riverbank, preparing to go to Diao County Cheng, who was deploying materials for sluice repair.

Walk on the tree-lined paths.

Xie Lingjiang saw that the shoulders of the senior brother in front of him had slumped slightly, and his posture seemed to be relaxed.

She tried to speak:

"Big brother."

"Huh?"

"Do you remember...... Still owe me a small wish? ”

"Well, it seems that there is such a thing, little wish...... Did you think it through? ”

Ouyang Rong paused, turned his head and said curiously:

"Let's talk about it......"

At this moment, a shout was heard in the distance:

"Mingfu, you are here, there is a letter from Jiangzhou!"

I saw Yan Liulang hurriedly running over with a crossbody bag and handing a tightly wrapped envelope to Ouyang Rong.

Xie Lingjiang swallowed back his words for the time being.

She heard the senior brother beside her look down at the envelope, and at the same time muttered:

"Lord Shen's reply is ...... fast"

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