All rivers and mountains are safe

Ever since Shen Mingan said that he likes him that day, Lu Ciheng has been in a state of ecstasy for more than ten days in a row, wishing to be with Shen Mingan all the time, but every day he only deals with the big and small affairs reported by various places Just keep him too busy.

The rainy season is coming soon, and the repair of Yizhou dams has always been a big problem. The famine at the end of last year killed tens of thousands of people. It is not an exaggeration to say that the corpses are scattered all over the field. It was only gradually alleviated. If the problem is not solved at the root, it will only repeat the same mistakes this year.

During this period of time, Lu Ciheng went to the court, and eight out of ten of the memorials he handed in were all about this matter. People at the court had a lot of opinions, opinions were not unified, and they couldn't even reach a conclusion after several days of discussion.

Fortunately, Lu Ciheng had personally been to Yizhou, so he knew much more about Yizhou's famine and dam problems than those veteran ministers who hadn't set foot outside Beijing for more than ten years.Lu Ciheng went through the records of the construction of Yizhou dams in the past few decades in detail, and found that Yizhou dams are like a piece of rotten wood eaten by moths. Every time they are built, the surface is painted and stitched, and the inside But it is still corrupt, so the dams that have just been repaired will be washed away by floods again in a few years.

But now time is too tight, even if it is to repair the dam, it will not be in time before the rainy season.

After careful consideration, Lu Ciheng rejected all opinions and proposed to overthrow all the damaged dykes inside and rebuild them.

There are many people living near the embankment. If it is overthrown directly, it will definitely affect the people. The courtiers who opposed this move mostly used this reason to criticize him for disregarding the people.

Naturally, Lu Ciheng also took this into consideration. He ordered the transfer of the people who were closest to the dam. The people affected by the disaster and the flooded fields would be appeased and compensated by the court. Afterwards, the people affected by the dam would be resettled.

After the rainy season, a large number of manpower and material resources were mobilized to rebuild the dam.

Lu Ciheng was tough, and solved the key points and problems of dam construction that Shen Mingan had sorted out before, and let officials with experience in dam repair take charge of this matter, and set up inspectors to implement a reward system for the people who participated in the construction of the dam, not only The monthly money of the builders was increased, and part of their taxes for the coming year was also promised to be reduced.

For this reason, a large number of people were summoned to build the dam in a short period of time.

By October, the foundations for the construction of the dikes and dams have begun to take shape. At this rate, the rebuilt dikes and dams will be completed before the rainy season in May and June next year.

This method is practical and effective, not only avoiding this year's famine, but also seeking protection for the people living near the embankment and the ten thousand hectares of fertile land. Veterans who disagreed with the decision had nothing to say.

The construction of the embankment is the most important thing, but other related matters are also trivial and complicated to deal with. There are countless memorials sent up every day. Shen Mingan lives in Guangyi Hall and often helps to read some.

When literati write memorials, most of them are long-winded essays. Shen Mingan picks out the key points in these memorials, writes the solutions and his suggestions on rice paper and inserts them into the memorials, and then sorts these memorials into categories. Lu Ciheng only needs to Approval of the memorial after these reviews can save at least half of the time.

Lu Ciheng went to Dali Temple during the day, and it was already late at night when he returned to Guangyi Hall. The temperature began to drop in October. Shen Mingan was afraid of the cold, and an earth dragon was born in Guangyi Hall at the end of last month. , as soon as Lu Ciheng entered, he felt the temperature inside was very high.

Candles were lit in front of the table in Guangyi Hall, on which were neatly arranged documents and memorials, Shen Mingan curled up sideways on the soft couch at the side, his black hair fell down beside his naturally drooping cold white wrists , he barely covered his eyes with one arm, and held a booklet in the other. He was breathing steadily, and a thin blanket was covering his body indiscriminately.

His profile was shrouded in the soft light of the candle, which dispelled a bit of the coldness in his eyebrows and eyes on weekdays.

The silver fox velvet cushion on the soft couch was specially found by Lu Ciheng for him. It is soft and warm. Shen Mingan doesn't know why he always likes to curl up on it recently, but the space on the soft couch is so small that he can't even stretch his hands and feet. Lu Ciheng took off his outer robe, and waited for the chill from the outside on his body to dissipate before going to hug Shen Mingan who was on the couch.

As soon as his arm passed under Shen Mingan's leg, Shen Mingan moved as if observing something, moved his hand covering his eyes, and looked at him with a pair of dark eyes, "You are back."

"Yeah." Lu Ciheng squatted down beside him, eyes level with him, "The couch is small, why don't you go to sleep on the bed?"

Shen Mingan looked at him, and smiled lightly, "I'm awake, not asleep, waiting for you."

"Wait for me to do?"

"I want to see you." Shen Mingan didn't know why he had to wait for him, but he always felt that he would feel at ease when he saw Lu Ciheng. He thought so in his heart, so he said so.

Such blunt words fell into Lu Ciheng's ears a thousand times more sweet than love words. He lifted the thin blanket on Shen Mingan's body and put a cushion under him, "A few days ago, Imperial Physician Fan I read your pulse case, and told me that you are not in good health, you don’t eat enough, you can’t make up much of it just by drinking medicine, and the baby will be born in two months, so you still need to eat more to maintain a peaceful state of mind. I asked the Imperial Dining Room to simmer some soup, and you will drink some before going to bed."

"Okay." The child was a month old, and Shen Mingan began to be unable to sleep all night long, with sore hips and pubic pain, and it was only when he was curled up on the soft couch that he felt better.

But lying on the soft couch for a long time was not comfortable. He was afraid that Lu Ciheng would be worried, so he didn't say much. He opened his hand towards Lu Ciheng with a slight smile, hooked his neck, and said in a soft voice: "Ah Heng , you hug me and sit down for a while."

Every time Shen Mingan called him this way, the ending sound always rose. No matter how many times Lu Ciheng heard it, he still felt numb in his heart. He lifted Shen Mingan from the soft couch and carried him to the chair beside the table, afraid He caught a cold, and took the cloak from the hanger for him to wear.

Shen Mingan sat on the chair, straightened his back uncomfortably, and after he recovered a bit, brought the stack of memorials that was the highest piled on the table to Lu Ciheng, and said to him, "The Ministry of Finance for the construction of the Yizhou dam is all I have calculated it and handed it in, but I think there are a few places where the calculation is not correct, and I have sorted it out and written it on paper, you will look at it later.”

Lu Ciheng had told him many times about reading the memorial, but Shen Mingan couldn't take it easy, and Lu Ciheng said distressedly: "These things are a waste of eyes, I'll just look at them later."

"I'm free every day, and I always have to find something for myself to do." Shen Mingan raised his eyebrows and smiled, unfolding the booklet he had been holding in his hand and pushing it in front of Lu Ciheng, lightly resting his pale and slender fingers on it, " This is a memorial from Dali Temple, I think it was signed a few days ago, and it has been three or four days now, hasn't this young master from the west of the city been found yet?"