Manchu civil and military bow down

Xu He slept until night, and when he came out he was still in good spirits. He grabbed a young man and asked, "Has the history of the river course named Li come?"

Isn't Master Hedao Shi's surname Wang?

The servant was slightly stunned, seeing Xu He lower his head, he said silently, "Return to your lord, no."

"Is that so?"

Xu He scratched his head, a little surprised. This man could understand his messy string of Arabic numerals without any doubt.

It's amazing.

But he just woke up and didn't want to think about these messy things.

I was a little hungry, so I went back to the study and had some food.

While eating, there was a sudden bang and thunder outside.

Lightning and thunder, autumn rain, the windows are not closed, the cold wind on the promenade is mixed with raindrops, blowing towards the face.

Xu He paused with his chopsticks. The dam in Pingling County had just collapsed, and the water line had finally fallen. Now, the heavy rain may cause bad things.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, the master braved the rain and pushed the door open, with a frightened expression on his face: "My lord, Xingshi Village is flooded!"

Xingshi Village is the lowest place in Pingling County, very close to the collapse of the dike. Fortunately, the people in the village have been evacuated to a higher hillside a few days ago.

This time it only aggravated the disaster and caused no casualties.

Xu He was standing on the top of the mountain with a bamboo hat and coir raincoat.

The turbid river water formed a high wall, crossed the dam, swirled and churned in the torrential rain, and the whistling sound resounded through the neighing.Hundreds of families were flooded, and all kinds of pots and pans and fallen trees floated on the water.

a mess.

The rain doesn't stop.

Behind Xu He stood a group of people, they were villagers from Xingshi Village.The child was crying loudly, the woman in ragged clothes was sobbing softly, and the rest of the men in Xingshi Village looked down with livid faces.

The flood flooded the fields, houses, and their way of life.

The master was beside him holding an umbrella for Xu He. There were many natural and man-made disasters in Pingling County, and now he is almost numb.

It's useless to sigh and grieve, Jinzhou doesn't give any reply, and the money allocated is getting less and less every year, so what can I do.

The sound of rain, flood, and crying made Xu He's mood cool down bit by bit.

At this time, he suddenly heard someone calling his name loudly. Xu He turned his head and saw the history of river courses in Pingling County running towards him panting, holding up the blueprint.

"grown ups--!"

His clothes and hair were all wet.

Xu He turned around, and the dress under the cyan coir raincoat was the only bright color in the world: "What is it?"

He Daoshi was out of breath, squeezed the paper with white fingertips, and said: "I seriously reorganized all your thoughts and ideas, and told everyone in the Ministry of Water Resources." shock and surprise.

He took a deep breath and calmed down: "But they don't agree, they think you are too young, your qualifications are too low, and you are from the capital, you don't understand the hardships of people's livelihood, everything is just paper work, unrealistic Thoughts, can’t be real.”

He looked at Xu He with clear eyes and said, "But, I believe you—I just finished my investigation just before the rainstorm, the stakes have rotted, and the gaps in the embankment are getting bigger and bigger——From tomorrow, I will follow your design And ideas, everything overthrows and starts over."

Against all, opposing, disagreeing opinions.

...so you're here to show your loyalty.

Xu He felt a little baffled, and a little funny. He raised his eyes and looked in the direction of Jinzhou, and the irritability in his heart gradually subsided, and said: "Let's lead the river to intercept it first, this is also a project."

As for Pingling County, it was so poor that it didn't even have one-tenth of his budget.

"As for the people you mentioned."

With Xu He's fingers, he gently pushed away the umbrella that the master had protected him from the rain, and looked down from the hillside.

The sky is blue, the ground is black, the rain is torrential, the flood is tumbling, and the suffering beings are mixed. His dress is the only bright color, red like a slanting rose, burning to burn people's eyes.

Under the bamboo hat, the boy's eyes were extremely dark and cold. He took out paper from his sleeve, took out a pen, and said murderously, "Those old men, if you dare to say a word, I will use them to fill the river."

This time Xu He was sad very seriously. His mind was full of a crying woman holding a dead baby when he first arrived in Xingshi Village.

Her voice was hoarse and shrill, and she was crying and talking about her life. Her husband was drowned, her father-in-law and mother-in-law were killed by bandits, and now her children are gone.Her complexion was sallow, and in a lightning that split the long night like a silver snake, she tugged at his sleeve, crying and said: My lord, why do you think this world is so unfair.

Why is this world so unfair?

Seeing Xu He, she felt cold, scared and astringent.

On the third day after arriving in Pingling County, he had nightmares.In the dream, there were always the eyes of that woman, empty and hopeless, like a water ghost drowning in the river and trying to drag people into the water.

after waking up

I feel less depressed.

Xu He scratched his hair irritably, "Damn, what's all this?"

Sure enough, he came to this place to suffer.

Everyone in the county government was worried and held their breath, not daring to say anything.

Xu He spent all the available money in his hands on dam repairs, but it was just a drop in the bucket.

The paperwork he sent to Jinzhou also fell into the sea, and there was no reply—clear corruption and arrears, without giving a single reason.

Waited for half a month.

In the past half month, he has been on the dam, observing the progress of the dam repair, and he has not eaten or drunk well for several days.

After being pampered and pampered for so long, it was rare for him to run around and work hard. Xu He felt irritable in his heart, and the prefect of Jinzhou gave him such an attitude, and he was about to explode.

——It’s ok, if you don’t reply, then I will stop in front of your house and see if you still ignore people!

He has lost patience with the governor of the river in Jinzhou.

Lie down on the table, Xu He wrote a new letter seriously.

This letter was sent directly to the capital.

In the next few days, the torrential rain subsided, and the dam repair went smoothly.

Xu He took the time to visit several villages in Pingling County. As soon as he entered the house, there was a rotten and damp smell. The villagers' impression of him has gradually changed over the past few days. The idiot beauty, I didn't expect to be a life-saving living Bodhisattva.

They took out the few buns left at home to entertain Xu He, seeing that he was dressed in rich and luxurious clothes, they even wiped them several times with a handkerchief before handing them over with some embarrassment.

Xu He took it, ate it, and asked some questions with a calm smile.

After going out, within a few steps, he couldn't help it, ran to a place where no one was around and vomited - wow!That steamed bun has turned rancid!What a bad smell!

The elder guard who followed him here from the capital hurriedly handed Xu He the handkerchief, with a slight unbearable expression on his resolute face, "Young master, you don't need to tire yourself so much."

When he was first assigned to Xu He's side, his impression of Xu He was that of a pampered young master.Because of his admiration for General Zhen Guo, he didn't reject the matter of protecting Xu He, but in the end he felt a little contemptuous.After getting along now, looking at what he did in Pingling County, that kind of contempt turned into shock and heartache, shocking his accomplishments in water conservancy and river channels, and feeling sorry for his suffering in this world.

When this young master was in the capital, he was a proud young man and in full bloom, how could he have suffered such grievances.

Xu He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief.

The more I think about it, the more popular I am with the group in Jinzhou.

Fuck, wait.

Ge Laozi: "Clean up, we will go to Jinzhou tomorrow."

What Pingling County lacks most now is money. At night, he briefly explained the matter to his master.

The middle-aged teacher took the account book from him and was silent for a long time.

Xu He asked a question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time, and said, "Didn't the previous county magistrates think of skipping the report? As soon as this ledger is handed in, the higher-ups will know that there is a problem in Jinzhou."

The corner of the master's eyes was slightly glinting, he sighed, and said: "Master, your thinking is too simple. Not to mention that you can falsely report the price of buying materials and hiring labor, just the bandits on Pingling Mountain are just lying in the middle of the road. The catastrophe, no matter how much is allocated, can be shirked by bandits and intercepted. If this account book is reported, there is no guarantee that it will be slandered and used as a fake account. What's more, the river governor in Jinzhou is someone from the capital The nephew of a great man, this matter is difficult."

A paper lantern swayed in the autumn wind, misty.

Xu He turned his head.

This poor and dilapidated mountain county needs to cut off the root of decay in order to gain new life.

There were only two people he took with him to Jinzhou, one was the accountant of the county government office, and the other was the guard sent by Xue Chengyu to his side.

The accountant was trembling, and he didn't even know why Xu He brought him with him.He had never stepped out of Pingling County in his life, and he was restless on the carriage, wishing he could hide himself in a corner so that Xu He wouldn't see him.

Xu He brought him along for convenience. He needed a familiar person by his side for the procedures and paperwork for entering Jinzhou City, as well as the process of meeting the magistrate.

It was him that the master recommended to him.

"What are you afraid of? Will a tiger in Jinzhou eat you?"

Xu He was a little speechless.

Mr. Accountant, surnamed Wang Mingsheng, Wang Sheng didn’t dare to look directly at Xu He, and the two were so frightened: “No, no, no, my lord, it’s my first time going to Jinzhou, I’m a little nervous.”

Fool.Xu He imitated him: "Yes, yes, yes?"

Wang Sheng: "..."

It was probably in the poor and remote place of Pingling County. He stayed for more than half a month. When the carriage entered the city gate, he looked at Jinzhou from outside the curtain. Come.

The pavilions in Jinzhou are not high, but they are exquisite and elegant.