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Chapter 532 River Embankment

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    The next day it was still pouring and raining.

    As soon as it dawned, officials from Kunshan County rushed to the county government office from all directions to prepare for the first ¡®morning court¡¯ of the new county magistrate.

    Oh no, Yashen.

    This is another enviable benefit for the county magistrate.

    Even if a Beijing official is a scholar, he will not enjoy the respect of the local emperor.

    Those Qingliu Ci officials who have never let go in their entire lives can¡¯t even imagine how intoxicating this happiness is.

    He Xiancheng, Bai Zhubo and Xiong Dianshi, who lived in the county government office, also came out of their respective official houses and walked along the corridor to the lobby.

    "I'm so sleepy." Bai Shouli yawned again and again, and complained in a low voice to his two colleagues: "Last night, I worked until the fourth watch before I finished serving the porridge. It was almost dawn when I came back to sleep."

    "You shouldn't sleep." He Xiancheng glanced at him and said, "Look at Old Xiong, he hasn't slept all night, how energetic is he?"

    ??Xiong Dianshi has a dark complexion, deep eye sockets, small but bright eyes, and a thick short beard around his mouth. At first glance, he looks like a ruthless character who is not easy to mess with.

    The county police chief and warden stood straight and didn't say anything.  But both colleagues are used to it.

    Yesterday he took a boat to the border of Loujiang County to meet Zhao Shouzheng, but no one was there for the whole day.  It wasn't until midnight that I learned that the county magistrate had come around from the Wusong River.

    When the city gate was opened at dawn, Xiong Dianshi returned to the county government office.

    "Cheer up, be careful of getting into trouble again." He Xian Cheng stretched himself, cheered up and went into the lobby.

    At this time, the county's inspection, teaching, instruction, postmaster, tax supervisor as well as the six-room secretary and the three-shift team leader have basically arrived.  Green official uniforms and blue official robes were noisy in the lobby.

    "I heard that the eldest master came to the city yesterday and brought more than a hundred people with him?"

    "That's right, the two boats are full of people."

    "This is going to be troublesome"

    "Yes, it will be inconvenient to do something in the future."

    Seeing the three disciples come in, the lobby became quieter.

    However, after waiting for a long time, there was no sound of the big master coming out, and the officials and officials started making noise again.

    "Is it too late?"

    "No, it's already past midnight."

    "Why don't you come out, sir?"

    "Did you oversleep?"

    "Second Master, go and ask."

    Without their urging, He Wenwei had already hurried towards the Moon Gate.

    After a while, He County Prime Minister came back with an embarrassed look and said to everyone: "The eldest master went to patrol the embankment early in the morning."

    "Inspection of the embankment?" Yesterday, many officials heard from the county minister that they would patrol the embankment today.

    But everyone didn't pay much attention to it. They thought that the elder had to get over his addiction to Yashen first, and then go to the Confucius Temple, Guandi Temple, Chenghuang Temple, etc. before he could go around the embankment and just show off.  .

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Instead of doing so many glorious things, you go to the embankment and step in the mud you have a brain twitch, right?

    Thinking back to the scolding they received when picking up the driver yesterday, the officials felt even more heartbroken and secretly looked at the kind-hearted old man, why was he so naughty?

    ¡°Alas, the days ahead will be difficult.

    "Then we are still waiting here?" Bai Shouli said in his heart, I just went back to sleep.

    "Wait a minute!" He Wenwei rolled his eyes at him and ordered everyone: "Hurry up and meet the county magistrate on the embankment!"

    "Hey, okay."

    The officials hurried out of the Yamen, got on their sedans and carriages, some riding donkeys, and some walking, and headed towards Chaoyang Gate in a noisy way.

    ??~~

    At this time, dozens of figures wearing raincoats, bamboo hats and wooden clogs were walking on the embankment of Wusong River in the rain.

    "Compared with the hundred-mile river pond made of stone in Wujiang County, this mounded river embankment in Kunshan County is simply nothing.

    ??It has rained for days and days, and the embankment surface has been soaked and soft. It is muddy when you step on it. It is very difficult for people to walk on it, and their faces are even more ugly.

    It wasn¡¯t until they entered a grass pavilion overlooking the water level that the group led by them took off their bamboo hats and untied their raincoats, revealing faces that were white or green with ugly expressions.

    It was Zhao Shouzheng and his son, Gu Dadong, Zheng Ruozeng and other leaders of Kunshan's wealthy families.

    The big dogs all stayed in the city last night. Zhao Shouzheng had people wake them up before dawn, and then asked them to lead the way, and braved the wind and rain to inspect the river embankment.

    At this moment, they had already arrived at Nanshan Temple at the mouth of Xiaolai River.We have walked ten miles eastward along the Wusong River.

    Naturally, everyone was exhausted.  An old man like Zheng Ruozeng just sat down on the coir raincoat, speechless.

    What the big dogs didn¡¯t expect was that the eldest man, a frail scholar, looked as usual, with no trace of fatigue on his face.

    "It's very pessimistic." Zhao Shouzheng looked at the crowd and said with a serious expression: "The embankment is too short and there are not enough stakes and fencing. How can we withstand this year's flood?"

    Mr. Zhao had made some mistakes before he came, and knew that if he wanted to build an earth embankment to resist floods, he would first have to drive a wooden stake one foot deep, with each wooden stake driven into the soil at least three feet.

    Then, behind the wooden piles, nail a row of bamboo poles horizontally to make a strong bamboo fence.  With a fence to withstand the impact of river waves, we can build a dike with earth and build a fairly solid river defense.

    "It was done meticulously before." Gu Dadong smiled bitterly and replied: "But as soon as the river water rose, the embankments had to be filled with earth, and the bamboo and wood fences couldn't bear it at all, and they broke off in sections.  After taking office, the old parents simply stopped working on people and money, and only asked to survive the summer harvest, which would be considered a victory."

    "As long as there is no hurricane, the earth embankment can hold up. It just keeps getting thicker." The patriarch of the Dai family put on a tall hat and replied with a resigned look on his face: "When there is a hurricane, the wind will be high and the waves will be strong, and the bamboo and wood will be damaged."  The fence cannot withstand the impact at all, so it is a wise move for Mr. Feng¡¯s parents to do this.¡±

    The other gentry were all talking about the same thingWe in Kunshan are like this. As long as we can hold on until the summer harvest is over, we will be flooded.

    Anyway, the water will definitely recede in September. Anyway, the newly built county town is still strong, so it is not afraid of soaking

    Zhao Shouzheng heard that they were not willing to work hard and carry out large-scale construction, so he looked at Zheng Ruozeng and said, "I wonder what Mr. Kaiyang has to say?"

    "Haha, back to my parents, I certainly hope that the embankments will be permanently fixed and there will be no more floods. If we can see Kunshan once again become a land of plenty, we will die without regrets."

    The question is, can it?

    Zheng Ruozeng defeated Zhao Shouzheng's army.

    "I firmly believe that this day will definitely come!" Zhao Shouzheng glanced at the gentry and said confidently: "Let us start by guarding this section of the river embankment!"

    "Yes" the gentry responded sparsely.

    "You don't seem to have enough confidence?" Zhao Shouzheng's expression sank, and he secretly said that my son and Mr. Qingteng were talking again.

    ¡°Tell me, how can you have confidence?!¡±

    "First of all, building embankments requires spending money, a lot of money" The gentry then bit the bullet and said, "Kunshan is poor. The county has no money, and neither do we. Without money, nothing can be done."

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: The old parents dragged them to the embankment early in the morning because they were weasels paying New Year greetings to the chickens - they had no good intentions.

    They are all afraid of being ripped off by the new county magistrate.

    However, Zhao Shouzheng waved his hand coolly and said loudly: "You don't have to worry about money. This county can solve it by itself!"

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Right, son?

    ps. I finished writing the third update at almost 12 o'clock yesterday, so I can only post it while writing today.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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