Going through the Red Mansions quickly means going against the system.

There are two types of emperor's ministers. One is the trusted minister who is sent on business trips to deal with important matters. One is to be demoted, abandoned, and told to get away.

In general, the two alternate with each other and change according to his preferences. It is really difficult for people to puzzle over.

A person like Jia Zheng, who only travels for a year, is considered a short-term worker. If you can go back satisfactorily by then, you will be considered a trustworthy person.

It does not mean that those who are on business trips for a long time are not trusted, but that the emperor is small-minded and only trusts those who accompany the king and make wishes and promises to the emperor every day.

But if there is one thing, if the contact is not made on time, the emperor's sensitive little mind will easily go wrong.

How else to say that accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger? His thoughts are unpredictable, which makes people feel tired.

Jia Zheng thought of a way to write a diary to show his loyalty.

He knew that there were spies planted by the emperor around him, so he deliberately wrote to them.

In terms of behavior, he looks calm and calm on the surface, and only helps his subordinates to do practical things. Behind their backs, they all complained in the diary.

I wrote down everything about Governor Li who looked majestic but was actually vulgar, and interesting things about river repair.

After writing it, he secretly hid it by the pillow so that no one could move it, as if he had a secret.

The emperor's cronies loved secrets the most. Jia Zheng wrote it at night, and the spies copied it and quickly presented it to the emperor for reading.

This just hit the emperor's itch, and he didn't dislike Jia Zheng's "The Family Is Rich" at all. He read it as a novel and fully enjoyed the pleasure of peeping into the secrets of his courtiers.

"It would be great if everyone was like Jia Aiqing."

The emperor sighed, no longer feeling that the Jia family was not considerate. Even the sense of betrayal that Jia Yuanchun brought to her before was also wiped away.

Jia Zheng didn't know that his trap would be effective immediately, and was still circling the river, not even paying attention to Baoyu.

Even if he is busy every day, Jia Zheng knows that this work cannot be completed within a year.

Since taking on this job, in addition to the early landform inspection, Jia Zheng has also checked the changes in the river with "county records" and "township records".

After coming here, Jia Zheng understood why the river embankment was repaired and broken every year.

River embankments are built every year to avoid the busy farming season. For example, when there are severe droughts and floods, people will be sent to repair them.

For example, this time, it was because of the reduction in water volume caused by the severe drought that major repairs were thought of.

But the river course will change.

A large river is straight at the beginning, but as time passes and the landform changes, it becomes crooked.

This is the result of the erosion and accumulation of large amounts of sediment in the upper reaches of the river.

Building rivers means controlling sand, and we must follow the trend and use it to our advantage.

In previous years, repairs were all about treating headaches and foot pains, so we just did it for a while.

What's more, people will rush to claim the land reclaimed by the changes in the river.

The land washed by the river is indeed fertile, but once it is turned into farmland, a new chain of interests will be formed.

Not to mention that this kind of behavior will destroy the river embankments, but when the flood comes, it will be the time when God will harvest human lives.

However, there is more farmland in townships and counties. This is the performance of officials. If Jia Zheng wants to ask officials to give up their performance with a few words, he is thinking nonsense!

Therefore, Jia Zheng's idea of ​​serious overhaul is "making trouble".

Now Governor Li stopped looking at Jia Zheng. When he saw Jia Zheng, he excused himself and disappeared because he was busy.

The local official Zhao, who worked with Jia Zheng on building embankments on the river, also had many opinions about him.

Jia Zheng kept all these in a small notebook and asked the vengeful emperor to help him punish people.

With the money borrowed from the Zhen family, Jia Zheng became bold and aggressive in his work. If there are stumbling blocks in the fields, spend money to buy them and modify them. You must wait for the year of floods so as not to harm the lives of the people.

But the people don't know.

Through the words of the villagers who built the river embankment, everyone knew that Mr. Jia, a high-ranking official from the capital, was a bad official.

Relying on being favored by the emperor at the Duke's Mansion in the capital, he came to Lu to dominate and prosper.

"Bah! This kind of dog official must be greedy for money! How else could he get so much money!"

"That's right! I'm on a business trip with a woman and a child, and I make some weird and obscene things on the river embankment every day. Maybe it's to ruin the feng shui of our hometown."

"I heard that this dog officer is very powerful! In the capital, he forced his brother-in-law to live in a stable, while he, a fifth-rank petty official, took over the family property in an unjustified manner. His brother was a first-rank general, but he couldn't defeat him ! The emperor was deceived by him."

"Brother Song, what do you think? We feel useless when we work under such a bad official!"

"That's right! Brother Song, what do you think we should do?"

During the lunch break, the men building the river embankment gathered together to grind their teeth.

The Song River, known as the contemporary Black Song River, is surrounded by people. It seems that as long as he gives an order, the people around him will follow suit.

The old Yamen officer Huangya whom Jia Zheng Baoyu saw that day was looking at him from a distance. Even if he saw them gathering together, he pretended not to see them.

This Song River was the first person to discover Jia Zheng when Jia Zheng and his family came to inspect the river embankment.

At that time, he stared coldly at Jia Zheng, who was dressed as a rich man, and thought about robbing the rich and giving to the poor.

But he was stopped by Huang Ya, the old government official.

This Songhe is a local surname. He has been the king of children since he was a child, and he admired Song Jiang, the timely rain of the Song Dynasty.

Coincidentally, they have the same surname and similar first names, so they follow Song Jiang as an example every day and engage in righteousness.

But he doesn't have Song Jiang's family background, he is just a rogue. But he behaves very righteously in daily life. After all, he knows that he is a brother and will mind other people's business.

Therefore, he actually made a group of brothers, and eventually they made a big fuss while robbing houses and went to jail.

But he became even more arrogant after entering prison. Even Song Yasi had been in prison, and so had he. But wasn't it really a "timely rain"!

At this time, with his scarred eyes open, he looked at Jia Zheng from a distance on the river embankment, directing the construction of the waterwheel conveyor belt, and touched the knife at his waist with gloomy eyes.

This is the "treasure sword" that he went to great lengths to hide, and it is meant to do great things.

"Song, Brother Song, this Master Jia is not that bad, right? Since, since he came, we can all have enough to eat."

Just when Song He, encouraged by everyone, was thinking about the white knife going in and the red knife going out, a small voice suddenly came from beside him.

This was his neighbor's child. The father and the child's brother both lost their lives following Song He. This little one also went to jail with Song He.

This is his closest "confidant".

"Little Keba! Are you being bribed to stay after a good meal? Why don't you think about the people in our village? You only think about yourself! You don't even think about it. If this dog official ruins the feng shui of our place, what will happen to us? It will take a few lifetimes for the villagers to turn over. Will you be happy by then?"

"no no!"

Xiao Keba waved his hands wildly to deny. If Baoyu were here, he would be able to recognize him as the child who was beaten that day.