Yixiu's Rebirth: Sending Bai Lianhua's Sister to Become a Concubine

Li Rongbao stayed there for a while longer. The laborers received their meals and ate in groups of three or four.

Yinzhen had finished talking to the Minister of Works, and he came over to find Li Rongbao, "Let's go eat too."

The officials who came to Tongcheng all had their meals together. Tongcheng was in short supply and it was impossible to transport delicious food and fine clothes specially for them.

The food they ate was the same as that of the common people, except that the steamed corn bread was not mixed with bran.

The common people had no objection to this. In their imagination, the emperor always ate as much braised pork as he could.

Now that these officials could eat almost the same food as them, they were very grateful and had a little more faith in Yinzhen.

After eating a few bites, Li Rongbao's subordinates rushed over and said, "General Fucha, there are bandits causing chaos near Tangxing Village and looting the village!"

"Yinzhen, I will take some people to clean up the mess."

After saying this, Li Rongbao hurriedly took his men to suppress the bandits.

Yinzhen continued to inspect the dam. Suddenly, the water hit the newly built dam, making a muffled sound.

Yinzhen felt something was wrong.

The next second, the dam was broken by the water, and the flood and rubble exploded violently.

The people on the levee and nearby residents were unable to dodge and were swept away by the flood.

Yinzhen didn't have time to think and was about to fly forward, but the officials next to him quickly stopped him.

"Fourth Master! No! It's dangerous!"

Yinzhen quickly retreated and organized officers and soldiers to rescue the civilians who were knocked down by the flood.

When the storm subsided, they counted the number of civilians and found that more than a dozen were dead, dozens were missing, and two Eight Banners men who were directing and supervising on the embankment were also missing.

Everyone knows that this disappearance is likely to be fatal.

Even if we find it, only the corpse will be left.

Yinzhen, who got the news, hurried over.

"Fourth brother, how could such a big accident happen? Wasn't the construction of this dam well calculated? Wasn't the material used very solid?"

Yinzhen's face was terribly gloomy, and he immediately ordered officials to investigate why this section of the dam collapsed.

Yinzhen said, "Fourth brother, this is a major accident. So many civilians died, including two officials. We must thoroughly investigate what happened so that we can give these civilians an explanation."

Yinzhen looked at Yinlu and felt that there seemed to be something else behind his words.

Yinzhen came too fast.

Yinzhen said, "Fourth brother, let me ask someone to help you investigate. The more people there are, the faster it will be."

In front of so many people, Yinzhen naturally couldn't refuse.

"Then I'll trouble you, fourth brother."

Yinzhen vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

But the people he arranged to monitor Yinzhen did not bring any news.

Maybe he was overthinking it.

He still trusted Xia Qi's skills.

Now we can only wait patiently for the people from the Ministry of Industry to check the results.

Yinzhen said, "Fourth brother, I never thought that such a big accident would happen. The emperor will definitely be furious."

He sighed.

Yinzhen didn't say anything.

"We have clearly controlled every step, so how could something like this happen?"

Yinzhen was about to continue speaking when people from the Ministry of Works arrived.

"Replying to Fourth Master and Ninth Master, the dam collapsed this time because of the problem with the materials used!"

Is there something wrong with the materials?

Yinzhen glanced at Yinzhen.

Those in charge of materials this time are all Yinzhen's subordinates!

“Part of this section of the embankment should have been made of bluestone, but it was replaced with sandstone.”

Yinzhen said: "I remember that bluestone and sandstone were among the materials used to build the dam this time."

The doctor of the Ministry of Works explained, "Master Jiu is right. This time, we mainly used bluestone, granite and sandstone to repair the dike. But Master Jiu doesn't know that bluestone is usually used as the main body of the dike, and sandstone is used to pile up and compact to fill the secondary places."

"So this section of the dam is made mainly of sandstone?" Yinzhen quickly grasped the key.

"That's right," the Ministry of Works doctor did not expect Yinzhen to be so perceptive. He said carefully, "Sandstone is relatively soft and much weaker than bluestone. If the water was smaller, nothing would be visible. But now the water is too strong and there have been heavy rains for days, so it was washed away."

"Sandstone is much easier to mine, so in the past..."

The Minister of Works did not dare to continue.

Yinzhen asked Yinzhen, "I remember that the people in charge of mining and transporting the stones were those under my fourth brother."

"Fourth brother, you have always been diligent and cautious in your work. This time, someone like this has sneaked into your team. We must find him out and never let him off easily." Yin'er's face was full of hatred. "Now so many people have been killed or injured. I am really heartbroken. For your own selfish reasons...they are all citizens of the Qing Dynasty."

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Xia Qian: Fourth Master overestimates me. I can’t even beat Xiao Yunzi.

Yinzhen: What use do I have for you!