I embezzled 100,000 taels at the beginning, and the empress begged me to be more greedy

Let’s put Liu Sheng’s matter aside for now.

The most important thing for Jiangzuo now is disaster relief.

It won’t be too late to stabilize the situation first and then deal with the Jiangnan family.

Although a granary in Yecheng was burned down, with the support of the Zhao family in Jiangnan, Jiangzuo was not short of food and silver.

Reservoir construction site.

The people and workers returned to their respective posts and stepped up construction.

Because of the heavy rain yesterday, the place was muddy and it was difficult to walk. Moreover, with so many workers building the reservoir, the scene was too chaotic. There were only a few hundred officials on the scene, and it was difficult for them to manage tens of thousands of workers.

Because the weather was quite hot and humid, most of the workers complained.

The current environment is indeed bad. Jiang Zuo sees it, but he is not in a hurry.

Ma Hengwei also inspected the area and suggested, "Sir, if you still build water conservancy projects here, I am worried that the newly built dam will be washed away by the flood again."

Jiang Zuo shook his head and said, "No."

"Sir, the soil here is difficult to build large-scale projects. I suggest that we find another suitable site as soon as possible."

Ma Hengwei leaned over and touched the clay, shaking his head.

It has been raining continuously these days, and the clay used for construction has not been able to dry for several days.

If a solid dam is not built in time to prevent the next flood, the people in the Tonghe area will suffer from floods again.

"This place is the most suitable." Jiang Zuo still insisted on his opinion.

At this time, Master Guo hurried over and said, "Sir, the cement has been delivered. There are more than 500 bags. If it is not enough, I will send more people."

"Okay, take me to have a look." Jiang Zuo finally relaxed his tense mood and went to supervise the work.

When we arrived at a construction site, we saw workers unloading bags of sand powder from a donkey cart. After opening the bags, they poured it into a pile of sand, added water and mixed it with gravel. After stirring thoroughly, they laid the powder on the embankment frame.

"What is this? Why do you need to add so much water?"

It was the first time that Ma Hengwei had seen such a thing, and he was a little confused.

"Cement." Jiang Zuo explained.

“How is it different from clay?” Ma Hengwei had never heard of it.

Jiang Zuo patiently explained: "After this cement dries, it is harder than any mud or stone, and even swords and knives cannot break it."

"impossible."

Ma Hengwei didn't believe it. The flying fish knife in his hand could cut iron like mud, so how could it not break these mud and rocks?

In less than three hours, the cement on the ground had dried and become extremely hard.

Jiang Zuo ordered people to bring wet cloth and lay it on the cement to prevent the cement from cracking.

“It’s so hard.”

Ma Hengwei reached out and touched it, and immediately felt that it was very magical.

If we use these cement materials to build a city wall, wouldn’t it be indestructible!

"Master Jiang is truly an extraordinary person, to be able to find such a good thing."

Ma Hengwei praised again.

After spending many days with Jiang Zuo, this serious and cold Thousand Cavalry Commander has already felt great respect for Jiang Zuo.

Master Guo smiled and said, "It's nothing. Most of the city walls and roads in Anding County are made of cement."

"No wonder Anding County is so prosperous!" Ma Hengwei was completely convinced, and said silently in his heart: "If we can promote this cement product to the northern counties of Dayan, then the northern grassland barbarians will never be able to break through any city in Dayan."

"Master Guo, this amount of cement is still not enough. Does Anding County have no stock left?"

Jiang Zuo asked.

Master Guo flipped through his notebook and said, "Your Excellency, these are all the remaining stocks in Anding County. If more are needed, I will go and tell the Anding factory to increase its capacity and start production."

"Then go quickly and increase the production capacity by another 30%. I want to complete the construction of this reservoir within two months."

Jiang Zuo ordered.

"I humble my duty and obey my orders."

The conversation between Master Guo and Jiang Zuo made Ma Hengwei, who was standing by, feel confused.

Ma Hengwei knew nothing about what factory or production capacity it was. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he was really short-sighted. At the same time, he admired Jiang Zuo even more.

The project urgently needs to proceed slowly in order and chaos.

In the past few days, Yecheng has been calm and peaceful, and no trouble has occurred so far.

Disaster relief efforts are beginning to progress smoothly.

……

Imperial City.

In the Yihe Palace, Chen Qingyun was trimming flowers and plants, trying to relax from his busy government affairs.

After a few light footsteps, Qiuyue came to the side of the empress and said, "Your Majesty, this is Jiang Zuo's memorial and a letter."

Chen Qingyun quickly handed the scissors to the maid beside him, and then took the letter from Qiuyue's hand.

There are two.

They are all from Jiangzuo.

Chen Qingyun casually opened one and read it carefully.

Halfway through reading, Chen Qingyun suddenly closed the letter.

"Are you getting married?"

What does it have to do with you whether you get married or not!

Why did Jiang Zuo suddenly ask these questions?

Could it be that he has already...

Thinking of this, the usually fierce empress actually blushed on her beautiful face.

"Jiang Zuo has really crossed the line. He dared to ask me about these matters between men and women. He must be tired of living!"

and many more……

This letter seems to be addressed to Chen Siyue.

Soon, Chen Qingyun restored the majesty of the empress, put the letter away, and then opened the memorial from Jiang Zuo.

Chen Qingyun was very concerned about whether Jizhou's disaster relief work had encountered any problems.

In the memorial, Jiang Zuo wrote very briefly.

"I have stabilized the prices in Yecheng, and the food supply is still sufficient, but I still need your Majesty's support. I have coordinated the disaster victims in various parts of Jizhou and started to build a water conservancy project to completely solve the flood disaster in Tonghe..."

Jiang Zuo did a good job on this matter.

The arrogant empress couldn't help but praise Jiang Zuo in her heart at this moment.

Thinking of the previous memorial, Jiang Zuo didn't know why he asked the Huwei Army for assistance, nor did he know whether he had encountered any trouble.

It seems that the memorial written by Jiang Zuo did not tell the whole story.

After reading the memorial, Chen Qingyun hesitated for a while before opening the letter addressed to Miss "Chen Siyue" again.

Compared with the memorial, it was the letter sent to Chen Siyue that expressed his inner distress.

"The affairs of Yecheng are numerous and extremely complicated. The landlords and profiteers of Yecheng are targeting me everywhere. I don't know why the empress made me take on this hard task. I am really unlucky. Now I just want to return to Anding immediately to meet Miss Siyue..."

I'm sure Jiang Zuo must have gritted his teeth and cursed the empress for being a human being when he wrote this letter.

After reading these two letters, Chen Qingyun felt quite complicated.

She didn't know whether she should continue to play the role of the so-called "Chen Siyue" and communicate with Jiang Zuo.

How can I, as the current empress, have an ambiguous correspondence with this minister...

However, Chen Qingyun clearly felt that his mind was most relaxed when he was playing the role of Chen Siyue.

Why is this...