My Daming New Empire

Facing a group of military masters, the two middle-aged men did not dare to be arrogant. The man who asked the question said: "To repair the canal, let's dig it."

Ma Dezhong felt cold and asked, "Did you move the grave?"

"His family is dead, and he has no descendants. Who will relocate his grave!"

"Then who built the canal? Didn't they pay for the grave?"

The other man saw that Ma Dezhong's face was calm, not like a villain. At this time, his courage became bolder, and he rushed to say: "Does the Yanshenggong Mansion know? This is our Qufu, no, the first-class family in the entire Ming Dynasty. More than half of the people in Qufu All the land belongs to Duke Yansheng’s family, and there are lands belonging to Duke Yansheng’s family everywhere in Shandong. Only his family can have such a large piece of land, and they can also build canals for watering.”

Ma Dezhong's tone became calmer, and he asked, "Since it is Yansheng Gong's family, why does it disregard etiquette and morality?"

"You...Master Jun, you can say that about Yanshenggong's mansion? Be careful! This mansion, this mansion is full of civil and military affairs, and even the emperor is for his family. Don't get yourself into trouble."

Another man said: "It is said that his family paid for it, but the construction of the canal was done by government servants recruiting peasants. Even if they paid for it, how could they fall down!"

But Ma Dezhong heard something strange, and asked, "You said the canal was built by the government?"

"Of course, this Yan Shenggong is a noble man, and the government must contribute to repairing the canal. I even worked for a month for this."

Mi Fan said on the side: "This government labor is for repairing canals, building roads, and transporting grain and grass. How can you build canals for a family?"

Although many details have not been clarified yet, Ma Dezhong only felt that the lofty Yanshenggong Mansion in his heart had fallen to the dust with a bang.

In the past, every time he could proudly tell his colleagues that he and Confucius were fellow villagers, but now, he just felt at a loss, without the slightest honor to be proud of.

Why did Confucius, a sage who was revered as the sub-sage, come down to this point?

And what should he do?

Do you want to go to Confucian Mansion to find justice?

Thinking of Sunan often saying that a man can do something and not do something, Ma Dezhong made up his mind.

This is the tomb of his parents being dug up, how can he be a coward because of the power of the Confucian Mansion?

If you are ashamed to be a son of man, how can you be a father in the future!

However, he is not an uninformed villager, he has traveled around half of the world, so of course he knows that he needs to find out the facts first.

He looked at the village not far away. Originally, he didn't want to get in touch with his own people.Since his house was taken and the land was taken, he did not consider them to be relatives.

But now, you have to ask them clearly.Anyway, they should know better about it.

If you can find the bones of your parents, try to find them.

He looked up at the sky, calmed down for a while, and then said, "Let's enter the village."

(I didn't dare to write, but wanted to write again, and I was entangled in my heart, which made Kawen very powerful.)

Chapter 33 Investigation

Compared with Ma Dezhong's grief and loss, Tang Sai'er's family seems to have experienced a reversal from hell to heaven.

When he left home, his father was arrested and forced to do hard labor, and his mother was seriously ill with no medicine available.

However, during this trip to the capital, he originally had the idea of ​​burning everything together, but because Jin Yiwei found out his whereabouts, he even saw His Highness the Grandson.

They followed the Jinyiwei's brigade all the way north along the Jiaolai Canal, and then headed west when they arrived in Pingdu. Seeing that the accompanying Jinyiwei and naval soldiers were decreasing one by one, they knew very well that this was the official investigation of the imperial court.

When their ship arrived in Weifang, there were only four Jinyiwei personnel left to accompany them all the way.

In the Weifang Weisuo, they took eight horses from the barracks with Jin Yiwei's handwriting, and then traveled by land to Putai County.

At the Daqing River Ferry, the only southward crossing in Putai County, they met Wang Xuan, Hao Yunzhong and others who greeted them here.

Seeing the four of them riding tall horses, accompanied by Jin Yiwei, Wang Xuan couldn't bear to shout, "Third Sister, Master is back!"

Tang Sai'er originally thought that she would have to wait until she came back before she could rescue her father with the help of Jin Yiwei's people, but she didn't expect that the news from the court spread faster, and someone had rushed to deliver the news before them and released her father.

She laughed happily, and asked: "The imperial court wants to investigate those corrupt officials for their lack of food, everyone knows, right?"

Wang Xuan said with a smile: "That dog official Chen Zhuyun was so frightened that he hanged himself. The county government has arrested a lot of corrupt officials, and it's almost impossible to lock them up."

Tang Sai'er turned his head curiously and asked, "Master Chu, why is there anyone else who is faster than us?"

Chu Song said with a smile: "We stayed in Jiaozhou for one night on purpose to leave time for some people to do it themselves. This case involves a wide range of people and there are many people. It is impossible for the court to arrest everyone."

Tang Sai'er understood, and said, "Are you only catching the culprit?"

"Of course not! This is what we did in the past. But this time, His Highness is afraid that he will go to war. They ate it secretly, thinking that it would be fine if they wiped their mouths clean, but His Highness Taisun can't tolerate sand in his eyes, so he won't let them go easily of."

Tang Sai'er couldn't help but feel a little depressed when he thought of the man he saw in the capital who was only one year older than him.

In recent years, compared with ordinary women, she has been well-informed.But in the past 21 years, no man has been able to make people unable to resist the idea of ​​rebellion like him.

It should be that he has the whole world in his heart, which is why he makes people feel small.

Meeting so many dignitaries in the capital, including many experts like Yang Zhangde, Tang Sai'er didn't even feel afraid.But facing that man, she felt fear from the bottom of her heart.

Luckily he didn't know his secret...

Chu Song looked around and asked, "This is the Daqing River, it doesn't look wide!"

Lin San sighed: "My lord, it is precisely because the Daqing River is not wide that whenever the Yellow River enters the sea through the Daqing River, it will cause a catastrophe."

"That's the reason. If the Daqing River is wide enough and deep enough, there will be no floods when the Yellow River takes the way."

The people got on the ferry twice, and Chu Song kept observing the Daqing River on the boat.

When heading to the West, it was his turn to be on duty on the flagship of His Royal Highness Taisun again, and he heard His Royal Highness talking to Huang Yuan, mainly about the danger of the Yellow River.

The Yellow River changes its course every few years, like a snake, going south and north.

The southernmost point is Haizhou (Lianyungang), and the northernmost point is Tianjin, the seaport of Beiping.

Every time it diverts, it will cause a large-scale disaster.

And His Highness mentioned that he wanted to completely dredge the Daqing River, so that the Yellow River would only flow into the sea through the Daqing River from now on.

But considering the cost of this project, it will be very high and it will be difficult to complete it at one time.However, if the dredging of a river course cannot be completely completed, it is tantamount to wasting effort.

So even His Highness is now helpless about the flood caused by the diversion of the Yellow River.

In addition to the high cost, Chu Song also made a note of His Royal Highness' plan to allow the Yellow River to flow from the current Huaihe River and northern Jiangsu to the Yellow Sea, and to flow from the Daqing River to the Bohai Sea.

And this plan required dredging of more than 2000 miles of river, which shocked Chu Song, so when he passed the Daqing River, he couldn't help but take a few more glances.

And such a project, even if all the people from Daming were brought in, it would probably not be completed!