Moth

Compared with Lu Hanzhang, who was free and tossing around, Liu Changzhou was so busy here that even Jin Dou was so busy that he didn't even have time to hide his bones.

In a word, the entire yamen was busy.

The next day Fang Bingbi re-bound the corrupted "Journey to the River in the New Year's Eve" and sent it to Song Wuchang's mansion.After Fatty Song was served, the magistrate's vassal finally held his hands high and allocated the disaster relief funds allocated to Qinghe County by the Ministry of Household Affairs-of course, the disaster relief funds shrunk by 30.

The official circles of local officials have always been such a situation, the official rank crushes people to death.The imperial edict clearly stated how many tens of thousands of funds the Ministry of Household allocated. Even if the officials at the lower levels knew that their superiors had received a lot of money, they could only bear with it and not get angry—because the memorial to impeachment never reached the emperor’s eyes, and they were not allowed to enter the cabinet before they entered the cabinet. was directly detained.

So Fang Bingbi can only pinch his nose at the moment, and put up with this fat man Song for the time being - when the fat man's backer in Beijing surfaced, he would be able to take the blame for this group of officials.

However, that Fatty Song is not particularly courageous. The Ministry of Household Affairs allocated 80 yuan for disaster relief to Qinghe County, and at least 50 yuan went to the magistrate's office.In addition, Yuanhe County, which was not affected by the flood in the upper reaches of Xuanhe River, gave 50 yuan to support Qinghe County, which adds up to 100 million yuan.

Liu Changzhou flipped through the damaged brochures from newspapers in various parts of the county, and carefully planned how each piece of money in the 100 million disaster relief funds would go. Resettlement, rebuilding of ancestral ancestral hall, rebuilding of Qinghe Tribute Courtyard...every sum is a big sum, not to mention 100 million, even 200 million can barely make up the hole.

Moreover, he had a vague plan in mind. He wanted to tear down the dam that was mostly destroyed by the flood and build a new one.

There was a very classic water conservancy project in the previous dynasty. The designer ingeniously built a thick gate on the low side of the drop. When the gate fell, it could block the upstream water. The boat can slide through the gap first, then slowly open the gate, and wait for the water level to drop little by little, and the boat can directly enter the downstream.

But the money for the construction of water conservancy is simply a toad/toad wanting to eat swan meat, a daydream, and there is nowhere to go.And even if the gate is really built, the generation of people in Qinghe County who rely on transshipment freight for their livelihood will lose their jobs. "Little people are too poor." This group of jobless people is really difficult to deal with.

The summer nights in the south of the Yangtze River are not as cool as water, and the house is still very hot and stuffy.

The smell of chicken feathers that filled the room was almost substantive, like a deadly weapon that wounded people, and finally surprised Liu Changzhou, who had been suffering from a cold for several days and had a stuffy nose.He threw the pile of pocketbooks on the stone surface of the bamboo grove in the back garden, and with the mung bean juice that Master Zhang had kept in the cellar for several nights, and the brilliance of the first quarter moon, he pondered in the bamboo grove how to get money .

There is one more thorny matter that needs to be resolved urgently - those riot gangs who were mad at the old magistrate have recently fought again. Judging from this posture, they are only willing to give up because they intend to mad at the new magistrate.

At this moment, Fang Bingbi was holding a large bowl in his hand, squatting at the foot of the rockery in a funny way, and told Liu Changzhou the reason for the new group fight: "The biggest road gang in the city, the group named Zhao, their boss Zhao Mazi didn't succeed in robbing other people's goods, but he was quite handy in robbing other people's wives. He ruined the house filled by old man You of the boat gang. Old man You chopped Zhao Mazi into a bloody man with an axe. Today there are fifty Someone made a fuss in the yamen, but the brothers settled it."

He smiled quite easily, and there was an unconcealable joy in his tone: "Brothers have been holding back for a long time, and it happened that a group of people hit the muzzle, so it's time to stretch your muscles."

Just as he finished speaking, an unknown object flew over and hit him on the forehead.

Liu Changzhou's voice still had a murmuring nasal sound: "When you started your attack, you never thought of leaving me alone to interrogate these gangs of them. How did dogs bite dogs in the Mainland? There are about [-] people in your group, just Doesn't anyone seriously put their brains on their necks?"

Fang Bingbi is a handsome scholar. The scholar stared blankly at the mung bean juice spilled all over the floor, and instantly exploded.He "squeaked" to stand up, stomped his feet on the spot, and began to growl: "Yes! I put him in jail! Look! Master Zhang just boiled a small pot! You just sprinkled so much for me!"

Liu Changzhou: "..."

The prisons in the local prefectures and counties are extremely simple, with rotten thatch piled up in a mess on both sides of the dark corridors, and a few black mice run past the corners from time to time, and the air smells extremely unpleasant of feces and urine.

When the genius was bright, Liu Changzhou went to visit the prison with his hands in his hands. Relying on the fact that his nose was not yet breathing, he belonged to the period when he was invulnerable to all smells, so he walked very slowly step by step.

In such a big prison, only one unkempt man was locked in the last cell.The man curled up and nestled in the corner of the wall, with a dozen mice squatting on the thatched mat under him.

Liu Changzhou casually picked up a candlestick in the corridor, weighed it in his hand, and threw it out without saying hello.The nest of mice dispersed in an instant, leaving behind a dead mouse.The person in the corner also trembled very slightly, and slowly sat up against the wall.

Liu Changzhou lifted his hem and sat down at the prison door, whistled, and said, "Dude, did you sleep well last night?"

The man in the corner pulled the messy hair hanging in front of his eyes to the side, revealing a very seductive face--the eyes are long and narrow, with the ends of the eyes raised, and there is a very delicate cinnabar in the corner of the right eye, which is very tall and straight. The bridge of the nose is neatly inlaid in the center of the melon-seeded face, and Liu Changzhou, who is marked with a scarred face, will feel ashamed.

That person was also a standard sissy when she opened her mouth, and she threw herself forward without any spine, and cast Liu Changzhou on the ground, howling and saying: "Master Qingtian, the grass people are wronged! The grass people's name is Du Heng. Four Chui Alley. Caomin is in charge of current accounts under Zhao Mazi, and he doesn’t know anything else except this, please Master Qingtian to find out!”

Liu Changzhou didn't speak, just listened to the man lying on his back and howling without saying a word.After howling, he was probably tired from howling, so he silenced himself, and only looked at Liu Changzhou with a pair of charming eyes, not knowing what to do with this fierce scar face sitting there without saying a word.

Liu Changzhou rubbed his ears with his little finger, and asked, "How many people does Zhao Mazi have under his command? Where's old man You?"

Du Heng went in without knowing it, and answered honestly: "Returning to the master, there are a total of 150 or two people recorded in the Zhao Family Gang. On the surface, there are 160 people in the You Family Gang, but in fact it is ten times smaller than this number." Come about. The You Family Gang has the largest number of people in the county, and then the Zhao Family Gang ranks second, and the rest of the Qian Family Gang and the Li Family Gang are also around [-]."

Liu Changzhou leaned on his chin and let out a "hmm": "Then how many people do you think there are in the whole county who eat this bowl of food?"

Du Heng felt that although the scarred one-eyed dragon looked more fierce, he was not that scary, so he boldly moved forward and sat opposite Liu Changzhou: "Roughly speaking, there are at least two thousand people. "

Liu Changzhou thought about it in his mind, the total number of displaced refugees was 5000, it is estimated that this group of gangs will have no work to do, and now there are nearly 20 temporarily unemployed people, if these [-] people make trouble, it will not be his NO .[-] people can control it.

They have just arrived and are not familiar with the place, so they can only piece together some fragmented information from Fang Bingbi every time. He wanted to know more about the situation, so he asked abruptly: "Then you mean, relying on Xuanhe Estuary? There are [-] people who started with this gap advantage?"

Du Heng nodded, and finally let out a pure sissy voice without crying: "Actually, all the county magistrates have thought of building projects on the Xuanhe Estuary, but the terrain and mountain body of Qingliang Mountain are too special, so it is very difficult. Every spring flood When the water is rising, the amount of water coming down from the upstream is too large, far exceeding the capacity of the reservoir. The water level in Jiudao Bay rises sharply when the spring flood comes, and at that time it directly floods the houses on both sides of the bay. It used to be that The opened farmlands will all become lakes when the water level recedes, and the good farmlands will be filled with gravel washed down from the upstream. Therefore, there is almost no 'farming' industry in Qinghe County, but the business at the end of the four industries is relatively prosperous. , the road gang and boat gang are more prosperous than other states and counties.”

Liu Changzhou reacted very quickly, and he figured out the causal relationship in a blink of an eye--to build a dam, firstly, it needs manpower, secondly, it needs financial resources, and thirdly, it depends on whether the conditions of Qingliang Mountain are allowed or not.And there is another point, if the members of the road gang and the boat gang want to take care of their jobs, they will definitely oppose it.

He knocked on his knees, and said carefully: "In your opinion, if a sluice gate is really going to be built at the Xuanhe Estuary, how much manpower and financial resources will it take?"

Du Heng muttered something in a low voice, then suddenly jumped up as if struck by lightning, kicked away the thatch near the prison door with his feet, opened up a large open space, and turned over in his chicken coop again. After a while, he pulled out a wooden hairpin, squatted down on the ground and pulled it up.

"The side of Qingliang Mountain facing the Xuanhe River is a huge natural rock wall. On the one hand, it is very slippery. Unless it is drilled in hard, any overlapping will not help. In addition, the drop of the hanging river mouth is nearly a hundred feet. If you really want to build it. If the sluice gate is easy to collapse, it must be at least a hundred feet high. It must also be considered that the water level rises during the spring flood, which will inevitably increase the water storage capacity of the reservoir."

"In fact, the first step is the most difficult. There is no foothold on the cliff of Qingliang Mountain. Let alone digging in, it is very difficult to get close to it. I have been here for so many years, and I have only heard of one person who has this I can come and go freely on that cliff."

Liu Changzhou waited for the next sentence, but the sissy stopped talking.He glanced at him and urged: "Go on, why? Do you want me to reward you?"

Du Heng shook his head quickly, shaking the chicken coop like a whirlwind, and said submissively: "That man, that man is still a death row prisoner. Two years ago, his stepmother forced his own mother to death , he stabbed his father and his stepmother to death one after another, and ran away. It is said that someone saw him in the north of Qingliang Mountain, but it was too early. You can ask the city guard guarding Fengyang Gate in the west of the city , his name is Zhan Baili, he is a know-it-all, he may know."

Liu Changzhou stretched out two hands to support his chin, looked this person up and down, and then quickly threw something small.Du Heng's half-open mouth was suddenly closed, and he swallowed like a conditioned reflex. After swallowing, his eyes widened, and then he began to cry very hopelessly, pinching his neck with one hand, Raising the orchid finger with one hand: "I'll never let you officiate bastards!"

Liu Changzhou stood up, patted the dirt and grass on his body neatly, and said slowly as he walked out, "I'll give you three days to find out where the condemned prisoner is. Come and find me in the yamen in three days. If you find it, I'll give you the antidote; if you're unlucky and don't find it... I'll find you after you become a ghost, so no matter if you're a human or a ghost three days later, we'll see you there." He passed by the prison door, He tore off the key chain hanging from the yamen servant's waist, threw it back, and the man flashed out of the gate.

Fang Bingbi appeared like a ghost: "Master, there is a man in the flower hall who claims to be the shopkeeper of Hengmen. He said he wants to return something." Behind it is a rapping parrot, chattering non-stop, I really don't know where the sage books have been read.He asked rather strangely: "Master, when did you have a taste for drinking tea? Didn't you say that it was horse urine?"

Liu Changzhou rolled his eyes, stretched out a hand silently, and slapped him on the forehead: "Broken mouth."

He wandered all the way to the flower hall, and just stepped over the threshold with one foot, Xie Qingyun reversed the expression of wanting to tear people up when they first met, and greeted him with a flattering face: "Young one has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai, so it's Master Fang , Master Liu, I offended you so much that day, I hope you will forgive me."

Liu Changzhou's brows twitched -- could this be the legendary sycophant?It tastes good.But in front of people, he is Fang Bingbi's follower. He stood behind Fang Bingbi very well, showed a flattering face that was exactly the same as Xie Qingyun, and said with a disgusting smile: "Master, come on!" The original painting of Mr. Wushan that I will give you in a few days is from this brother's shop."

With a business-like face, Fang Bingbi waved his hand in an official manner: "It's a private matter. I have to go to the Song Zhifu's house for a banquet, you continue." Then he turned and left.

Xie Qingyun handed over a very exquisite wooden box, because she had suffered at the hands of this rascal, her smile was a little fake, and she was a little timid: "Master Guan, how can we take your things? I'll return it to you , I also hope that your lord will not remember the faults of villains, and the prime minister can hold a boat in his belly, so don't be as knowledgeable as grassroots people."

Liu Changzhou's expression returned to the original after Fang Bingbi left. He took the flashy wooden box and said calmly, "Oh." The insignificant piece of jade was wrapped as heavy as a stone, it was like taking off your pants and farting.However, the whole body of the box has a refreshing air, and there is a faint smell of damp grass and trees in the mountains after the rain, which refreshes people's spirits.

Xie Qingyun wished to tear this scarred one-eyed dragon into pieces, and she even wanted to tell nonsense with sincerity on her face: "My boss invited the official to sit in the small shop, so I can accompany the official, I don't know what the official is. Can you make time in your busy schedule?"

Liu Changzhou became impatient, and said casually, "After half a month."

He didn't remember the weird box until he was exhausted at night.

He opened the box. In addition to his own jade piece of "Chess in the World", there was a tea tray the size of a palm. tip".As soon as the box was opened, there was a refreshing smell of beach and sea rocks, which made people wake up all of a sudden.

Liu Changzhou never knew how to write the word "Ya", so he took a piece off the tea tray with two fingers, put it in his mouth and chewed dryly, thinking that this thing is good for refreshing.