The giant of the South China Sea, the dragon king of the dry land

"The waterway is the living road, the eight rivers surround Chang'an, the waterways are densely populated, and at that time, the people still need the dog emperor of Raushzi!"

The Metropolitan Water Division, subordinate to the Ministry of Industry, is a Shimizu Yamen that has a very high starting point and can quickly reach the peak at the speed of a rocket.

The entry of the water division is the main thing of the sixth product, and you can be promoted to the outer lang of the fifth grade after staying for one year, and if you are still in the water division after five years, you can be promoted to the middle grade of the fifth grade lang.

The imperial capital Shuntian Mansion Water Division has a total of three Langzhong, five outsiders, and seven directors.

The Southern Capital of the Ministry of Industry of Tianfu also has one Lang Zhong, one Wai Lang, and two directors.

Zhou Li, the four-year-old Tanhualang of Xuyang, did not choose any of the olive branches thrown to him by many bigwigs.

In the incomprehensible gaze of Liang Wenzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he rejected the Ministry of Industry's Fat Poor Camp Division, the Core Yu Heng Division, and the Tuntian Division, which opened low and walked high, and finally went to the Dushui Division, which usually only the last name of the scientific examination would be driven over.

And he worked in the Dushui Division for seven years, in the spring of the eleventh year of Xuyang, after the merits of the ministry, Zhou Li got a middle-class evaluation, but it was still enough for him to be promoted to the fifth rank and the middle position of Lang.

And at the beginning of this year, he felt that he could finally fulfill his ambitions.

He has been sitting in the yamen of the Dushui Division for seven years, and the people in the yamen have gone and come again, and now he is the largest official position in the entire Dushui Division, because he is the only one in Langzhong.

There is not a single outsider, and there are three principals.

There is a reason why the water division is so withered, the Zhengyang Empire has been in power for four hundred years, but there are only four emperors who repair the waterways, and the total waterways opened up are thousands of miles, and countless expenses are innumerable, but now there are still floods on both sides of the Yellow River, and the places that should be dry are still in great drought, and the waterlogged places are still floods.

The imperial court had already given up the idea of building a waterway decades ago, and tried to collect more taxes and silver every year, and when there was a disaster, it could be solved by supporting tens of thousands of taels of silver, and there was no need to spend millions of dollars of silver to build a useless waterway.

The silver that the court threw into the water before and after was more than a million! This is also the reason why the bigwigs ignore the water division.

And the Yamen of the Dushui Division, in addition to letting some speculative people come over to mingle and gild the days, will leave when they have a relationship in the end, and they will lose two years of struggle.

And the Kyoto Metropolitan Water Division is quite good, and there is only one person in charge of the Yamen of the Southern Capital Metropolitan Water Division, and he is still an old official, and I heard that there are not many years to live.

On the second day of becoming Langzhong, Zhou Li gave an excerpt to Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officialdom, he was going to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and then went all the way up, personally walking through the river of life that had given birth to Zhengyang Kingdom for 400 years, but was moody.

The left waiter of the Ministry of Industry was angry, and immediately approved Zhou Li's excerpt, Zhou Li saluted respectfully, and the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry waved his hand irritably, like driving away a fly.

Over the years, this Shangguan has deigned to find Zhou Li many times, but Zhou Li is like a stubborn old cow, his nose has been torn off and he still does not repent.

This time, the Ministry of Works' Zuo Shilang completely lost interest in this talented young man.

Zhou Li walked out of the door of the Ministry of Industry Yamen and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that this Shangguan whom he respected would keep him again, and he couldn't bear to look at Shangguan's indisputable face.

The next day, Zhou Li set off in a hurry, followed only by a faithful old servant, a carriage, and a bag of baggage, which was all his belongings. From his hometown all the way to school, he entered Kyoto when he was a teenager, and he has not bought the next house for eight years, which is unqualified for a five-grade official, or even a zero score!

All the way south, when passing through Yingtianfu, he went to visit the head of the capital water division who insisted on the southern capital, but he saw a pair of red lanterns and a long white paper money outside his mansion.

This old colleague was a happy mourner, and he died at the age of nearly seventy. In the Zhengyang Empire, the average age of ordinary people has increased from thirty years old in the early days of Zhengyang to forty years old now. At the age of sixty, an old man can already ignore the rules of the law and do as he pleases, and such an old man is called Renrui!

Zhou Li instructed the old servant to send a letter, so that the relatives of the old colleague were burned, and the two could only exchange their experience in water control through yin and yang.

With great regret, Zhou Li left and went straight to the mouth of the Yangtze River, Songjiang Mansion.

I heard that this old chief has presided over more than 100 water conservancy projects, and his rich experience can be called a must in the Rising Sun Dynasty, and now it has really become a masterpiece.

Since the coastal bandits of the East China Sea were rampant, the imperial court suffered losses in many clean-ups, resulting in the gradual decline of the originally prosperous Songjiang Mansion.

Board the boat from the mouth of Songjiang and go out, this is a pleasure boat, it is opened by the Chen family, the local family of Songjiang Prefecture, the sound of silk and bamboo on the boat is endless, the cabin is in and out of the room are all merry talents, noble gentry, this is a complete painting boat!

It's just that in the current Songjiang Mansion, only the Chen family's ship dares to go to sea, and it is rumored that the Chen family has colluded with those overseas pirates.

But those who can really get on this boat are all those with some net worth, not only are they scared of the rumors, but they even feel so exciting, so the price of a ticket for this cruise ship is fried to 100 taels of silver!

Zhou Li naturally didn't have this money, he relied on the official seal of his five products.

Wupin, in Songjiang Mansion is already a big official, the prefect of Songjiang Mansion is one level older than Zhou Li's official, and the second-in-command prefect of Songjiang Mansion is also a positive five pin, which is equal to Zhou Li's official position.

But one is a Beijing official and the other is a foreign official, and the weight between the two cannot be compared.

"Lord Zhou, young and handsome, I hope to get together with Lord Zhou, and I am in the best wave Yalou in Songjiang Mansion."

Zhou Li helplessly looked at the prefect of Songjiang Mansion in front of him, and the old man didn't know where he got the news, so he stopped him at the city gate.

He bowed to Qin Tongzhi, and then Zhou Li declined Qin Tongzhi's kindness, but the Lord Qin, who had a one-foot long hair, squinted his eyes and said with a smile:

"Lord Zhou! This meal was personally purchased by the prefect, and if it weren't for his busy business, I wouldn't have come to invite Lord Zhou on his behalf. ”

"Zhou thanked Lord Qin, and asked Lord Qin to report to Governor Chen on my behalf, Zhou came to have a heavy official business this time, and he is going to take a boat to sea in Songjiang Port tonight, I really have no leisure, I'm sorry!"

After that, Zhou Li glanced back at his old servant, the old servant understood, and led the carriage up, Zhou Li did not get into the carriage, but walked forward quickly.

He knew in his heart that whether it was Lord Qin or Governor Chen, their purpose was nothing more than to use him to catch up with his teacher, Songjiang Mansion had been repeatedly attacked by pirates in recent years, and most of the people had fled, and the taxes here had long been inferior to those in the early years. These two adults have been looking for an opportunity to transfer out of this place, but who wants to take over this place? First, there is no oil and water, and second, there are still many troubles, and the most important thing is that this place is not safe, and the sea is very powerful, and the officers and soldiers in this place cannot resist it at all.

"Lord Zhou, when you come back, we will meet again!" Qin Tongzhi shouted loudly behind Zhou Li, and Zhou Li smiled bitterly and did not look back.

Songjiang Port, which was originally a prosperous port, can be seen from the many buildings outside the port, which once flowed with people and prospered. But since the attack of the pirates, most of the buildings here have been empty, and many restaurants and inns have moved out of here, and people have gone to empty buildings.

Zhou Li sat in the carriage, lifted the curtains, and found that the roads here were completely dilapidated on both sides, and many shops did not even have their doors, looking through the empty doorways, and the yard was piled with a thick layer of dead leaves. This scene cast a haze over Zhou Li's heart.

The old servant drove the carriage to the port, and there were still some people here, but they were basically coolies who carried goods, and there was a small pavilion on the side of the port, in which several people were talking and having fun.

Zhou Li got out of the carriage, he knew that the coolies in front of him were carrying goods, and the people in the pavilion were his fellow travelers. His ship would not arrive until late in the evening, and in the past few days, only his ship had docked at Songjiang Port, so the people here could only be his fellow travelers.

There was nowhere to go, so Zhou Li walked to the pavilion, and when he got closer, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the people in the pavilion were all water conservancy officials of the local government, and the clothes on their bodies were the uniforms of water conservancy officials.

The pace became faster, Zhou Li stepped forward to ask, and it was as he expected. And he also claimed to be a water officer.

The Water Conservancy Officer is the lowest-ranking official under the Metropolitan Water Division.

Through conversation, Zhou Li was pleasantly surprised to find that these five water conservancy officials belong to different counties in Zhejiang Province, they are not very old, but their ambitions are not small.

The person who put forward this suggestion was a young man named Tang Feiwei, who has been a water conservancy officer for three generations in his family, and can be said to be an ancestral job, and not only has his own views on water control, but also has a lot of views on the water conservancy of the whole country now. In his words:

Now the people are in distress and can no longer withstand the floods, but in the past few years, God has no eyes and cannot see the suffering of the people, and the floods have become more and more frequent. Large-scale floods have occurred in Zhejiang Province for three consecutive years, and countless tributaries of the Yangtze River have been diverted, and many fertile fields have been flooded. However, the government had no intention of governing at all, and although it was exempted from taxes after the flood, it gave money and food for disaster relief. But the exempted taxes were for the gentry, and the money and grain given fell into the pockets of the officials and lords, and all the suffering was eaten by the people.

As a result, these water conservancy officials, who were not treated well by the officials, simply found an excuse and wanted to go to the sea to see if it was possible to find some other ideas at sea, in fact, they just came out to relax. As a result, their superiors unanimously agreed, and said that it didn't matter how long they had been out, but when they were not in office, their money would not be issued.

From the time Zhou Li met this group of water conservancy officials, his fate was moved by an invisible hand, and since then his life route has deviated from the original track.

The day after they went to sea, their ship encountered Haikou and Zhou Li survived, and landed in Fujian with the five water conservancy officers and escaped. Regarding this catastrophe, Zhou Li and the five water conservancy officials were all secretive, and no one came to inquire about it, and they never revealed a single thing.

And since then, these five water conservancy officials have been following Zhou Li's side.

Until they encountered the river bursting its embankment in Wuchang Mansion and the water flooded Jinshan. Zhou Li and the five water conservancy officers rushed to the disaster relief team without thinking about it, and found that all the people who rescued the disaster were either prisoners or tenants of the landlords and squires, and they were on the front line of disaster relief, and many people were injured and killed.

But the government treated them like livestock, and they had to work more than ten hours a day, but they only had two meals, and they were all gruel and rancid buns that could show the shadow of people, until one day, when one of the prisoners was very hungry, but found that the officials in charge of them were eating white rice and strips of meat from the squire.

When Zhou Li knew what was going on here, and hurried over, a prisoner with a group of tenants had already beaten the four servants to death, and finally threw them into the raging river.

After the other officials arrived, Zhou Li wanted to mediate, but a group of officials directly drew their knives and killed them, which directly caused a mutiny among the people. And the original prisoner who provoked the incident was beheaded by the officials. The culprits are gone, no one is guilty, and the 10,000 people who have been rescued feel that they have lost their lives, and they have turned into evil ghosts one by one, and there is not even a process of transformation in the middle, as if they were wolves in sheep's clothing.

Dozens of officials were finally thrown into the river, and when the local county magistrate arrived, Zhou Li was painstakingly persuading those people to be convicted, but he was regarded as the head of the thief by the county magistrate and ordered to be arrested.

And the prisoners who have not yet been appeased by Zhou Li have already started to kill, and they can't stop it anymore.

In the end, Zhou Li was inexplicably promoted to be the leader, and after leaving hundreds of corpses, he was coerced by tens of thousands of people and left here.

And in this process, Zhou Li was basically confused, and when he recalled it afterwards, he only remembered that there was a person's voice that had been surrounding his ears at that time, surrounding...