Chen Wenzhi did not plan to follow Li Xin's method to refund the money from one prefecture to another, and then do some lottery to determine the order, but rode on a fast horse and rushed to the Longtan military camp with only three or five horses. This time, he did not choose to obey resolutely, but planned to convince the marquis.

Li Xin was quite surprised by Chen Wenshan's overnight arrival, this guy has never had any ideas, why is he still stubborn this time? But since Chen Wenshan was cleaned up by Shi Kefa, he is like a different person, and he has devoted himself to his work, which can almost be said to be a model of a diligent official who forgets to sleep and eat, and works day and night. Li Xin still decided to see him immediately to see if he had anything to justify.

If the lottery is decided, the former is not grateful, and the latter is resentful, and if there are narrow-minded people, they will think that the marquis of the town is worried and biased and secretly operated. A good thing that is good for each becomes a bad thing. What's more, if they have a grudge again, maybe they will do something to dismantle the stage. ”

Chen Wenzhi speculated that Li Xin's mind was naturally to use this to entrap the officials of various provinces, but it was a little taken for granted to him after all, since this matter also involved his own net worth and life, he had to be strong.

Li Xin's original intention was not to use this kind of small favor to entrap these local officials, but he couldn't let good things turn into bad things, so that these people who benefited would be resentful of themselves, right? He just felt that it was just a drop in the bucket for the prefectures and counties to pay for the rankings, and maybe the officials would have to add the money to the heads of the people, and only collect the labor costs. But I also didn't expect that letting these people spend less money would face all kinds of unknowable accidents.

He is not a stubborn person, and since there are many risks, he agrees with Chen Wenshan's construction.

"In that case, do it yourself. I don't interfere too much! ”

Li Xin praised his work in Ying Tianfu again, and originally wanted to say that as long as this errand was done beautifully, he would ask Quasi Sun Ji to promote him to act as Yin of Ying Tianjing Zhaofu, but after thinking about it, if this matter did not work out, wouldn't it dampen his enthusiasm? So, I didn't talk about it.

"In fact, according to the current progress of the project, only Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang can be completed in midsummer, and the rest of the prefectures and counties will miss the irrigation period even if they are repaired, and they are afraid that it will be useless to the crops in the field."

Li Xin frowned and said: "Straight pipe repair is, if you don't need it this year, you can use it in the future, and it will be much more convenient for the people to collect water for irrigation." ”

"The marquis of Zhenyu always cares about the people, which really makes the lower officials both admired and embarrassed!" Chen Wenshan slapped a sycophant at the right time.

Sun Ji didn't pay much attention to Li Xin's method of lifting water with firepower at the beginning, he was all about the Huangmei thief in Chizhou, and even went to Ningguo Mansion to visit Shi Kefa, who had retreated to this place after the defeat of the army, and sent him a lot of military supplies and grains. When Sun Ji rushed back to Nanjing from Ning Guofu non-stop, Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of Nanjing's household department, came to the door with a roar, and dragged him to the riverside construction site as soon as they met.

"Let the ministry take a look at it, this year's harvest should be safe in response to the great drought in Tianfu!"

Sun Ji realized that what Zheng Sanjun said must be Li Xin's method of lifting water with firepower, so he stopped him and exclaimed, "It's done?" ”

"It's done, it's done! What's even more rare is that the marquis of the town did not use the local people's resources, which is really an eye-opener for the old man. To be able to accomplish such a seemingly impossible project in such a short period of time is something that only the army that prohibits it can do. ”

Oh? At the beginning, when Li Xin and Sun Ji talked about repairing the canal, he let him do it out of his trust in Li Xin, and he needed to allocate manpower and distribute materials, and he could also coordinate in the name of the governor. But Li Xin didn't come to the door after saying hello, and he didn't pay much attention to this matter, and then he went to inspect the prefectures and counties in the war zone non-stop, not wanting to really finish it today!

"Is it really water?"

The goatee under Zheng Sanjun's chin trembled excitedly, although he was just over the age of confusion, he was already a little white.

"It's water, it's water! This year, the harvest will not be lost! ”

Zheng Sanjun's excitement is not without reason, Nanzhili is known as "Su Song's second mansion is half the world", and the huge amount of its wealth is eye-catching, if it is because of the drought and the harvest is lost, it will inevitably affect the two of the three major sources of wealth. One is food; The second is cotton. Both of these things are linked to the land and are closely related, and if the land is harvested this year, it will make the financial situation of the imperial court even worse.

And Li Xin's method of lifting water with firepower, and using an elevated wooden trough to divert water, although it is also quite expensive, but it is worth the money.

Zheng Sanjun also had a strong interest in Li Xin and his person, and ordered people to turn out all the newspapers about Li Xin over the years, and after careful study, he found that as early as the twelfth year of Chongzhen, this person had engaged in this method of lifting water with firepower in Shanxi, and was even impeached by the local political envoy for violating nature and hurting the peace of nature. In this regard, the emperor, who has always been mean and unkind, has rarely remained silent. Zheng Sanjun immediately flipped through the autumn newspaper about Li Xin, and found that only Shanxi produced grain in the great drought in Hebei, Henan, and Shanxi, and a slight surplus was handed over to the state treasury.

Of course, the murmur is not without noise, it is still the political envoy of Shanxi, who once wrote that the drought in Shanxi was not reported by the Taiyuan prefect, so there was no harvest in the field. However, Zheng Sanjun can judge that Shanxi in the twelfth year of Chongzhen has indeed been in a great drought after synthesizing the situation in Shanxi mentioned in the newspapers of various places.

With this basic understanding, Zheng Sanjun specially looked at the resume of the political envoy who had repeatedly impeached Li Xin, this person's name was Liu Lingyu, who was originally the imperial history of the right frugality of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate was Yang Sichang's backyard in the twelfth year of Chongzhen. The inside story of the battle behind it is also clear at a glance. And Li Xin was able to get things done under such a situation of resistance, which shows that his ability is not bad.

This Nanjing household secretary couldn't help but smack his tongue again and again, saying that Li Xin was a Qiu Bawu man, if it weren't for the black and white words written in this newspaper, who would believe that these measures were all from his handwriting? This is clearly a man who can be a minister! And this kind of person who is allowed to write and allow martial arts, put it in the two Han Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties, that is the material for the general to enter the phase. It's a pity that since the Song Dynasty, he has used literature and martial arts, and how many pillars have been wiped out to serve the country!

The two men rode to the river beach with a large number of retinues, and from a long distance they could hear the roar and strange screams, and when they looked up, they saw billowing smoke. In fact, Zheng Sanjun came to this construction site more than once, but because he did not have the access permit of the governor's yamen, he was repeatedly blocked by the soldiers of the Three Guards. In this regard, he also praised the strict discipline of the Three Guards Army and its lack of inflammation. In fact, if the local people of course no one observes, if there are high-ranking officials and nobles from Nanjing, there will be special people to stop them, just to prevent these people from adding to the chaos of the project. Because the Three Guards were repeatedly restrained and rectified by local civil officials, they did not have a good impression of these people, and their implementation was extremely thorough, and there was even a tendency to overkill.

This time, Zheng Sanjun finally entered the rumbling scene of lifting water under the leadership of Sun Ji. But I saw hundreds of shirtless and sweaty people constantly pulling the bellows, and some people from time to time filled the whole vehicle with black charcoal into the hearth, as the towering chimney continued to spit out soot, the dome device next to it rumbled like a monster, the tall wooden swing arm swinged up and down on the top of the stone wall close to the two of them, and the top of the pipe connected to the other end of the swing arm gushed out clear river water as the swing arm reached the highest point, pouring into the wooden trough.

At this time, there was a soap next to him and then introduced the situation to the two adults attentively, "Originally, these hearths were used to burn firewood, but the Marquis of Zhenyu heard that Huainan was rich in coal, so he asked people to go to Huainan to purchase coal, and the strength of burning charcoal to lift water is much stronger than burning wood!" ”

Strange devices stood everywhere along the riverside, the thick soot spew filled everywhere, the steam sizzling and decompressing, and the constant impact of gold, iron, wood and stone, all kinds of audio-visual sensations were mixed together, and Sun Jiao felt that he was in a strange world. He knew that Li Xingong was a miracle skill, but he never expected that he would be able to create such amazing things.

"This Li Xin is really a strange person, I wonder if the ministry can introduce the old man to him?"

Sun Jie's eyes widened in surprise, as if he was a little incredulous. Although Zheng Sanjun is the head of the household department in Nanjing, his level is the same as that of Beijing, as an important minister of the imperial court, do you still need to be introduced to see a martial artist? Looking at Sun Jie's puzzled gaze, Zheng Sanjun explained with some embarrassment: "Zheng wanted to see the Marquis of Zhenju several times, but he was politely refused!" ”

Immediately afterwards, Sun Jian suddenly realized that when the Three Guards first came to Jiangnan, Zheng Sanjun had gone back on his word and reneged on his promise to borrow food, but Li Xin refused to see Zheng Sanjun several times, and what he did was indeed a bit excessive. He hurriedly explained for Li Xin with a smile.

"The Zhenyu Hou is straightforward by nature, don't be surprised with Brother Zhang, it's better to choose a day than to hit the sun, how about we go to the Longtan army now?"

"Just what I want! Just what the doctor ordered! Zheng Sanjun smiled awkwardly, he also understood that he was in a difficult situation first, and it was understandable that Li Xin had a temper and did not want to see him.

At this time, Sun Ji had a new impression of Zheng Sanjun, and this person was willing to go to see Li Xin, naturally out of the public heart of appreciating talents, which is not without admiration. However, who does Li Xin need to appreciate now? He is already a super-grade marquis, and the emperor of Beijing City is too late to prevent him, how can he give him more powers?

Three days later, news came from Beijing, and the emperor reactivated the former Xuanda governor Lu Xiangsheng to the rank of governor of Shandong's leading army, in an effort to restore the traffic of the fù canal and communicate between the north and the south.