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Chapter 113 Inspection of Sluice Gate and Letter from Jiangzhou

Ouyang Rong opened his eyes early.

It's just after dawn outside, the sky is coming, and the house is still a little dark.

But the lively insects in the morning have filled my ears.

He stared at the curtain on the top of the bed and stared blankly for a while.

sniffed.

Well, why do I feel a little stuffy.

Ouyang Rong looked down at the well-covered quilt on his body, without thinking too much, and opened Wei Lai's white left calf resting on his waist, turned over and sat down on the bed.

The movement of him getting up also woke up the sleepy Wei Lai.

The latter rubbed his eyes and got up, looked around in a daze, regained consciousness, hurried out of the warm blanket, and ran out of bed to wait for his master to get dressed.

Ouyang Rong got up and stretched.

The white-haired maid half-hugged him from behind, put two small bracelets around Ouyang Rong's waist, and fastened his belt.

She was taller than her peers, but she could only reach the chest height of her slender master when she tiptoed.

"How did master sleep last night?"

"It's okay, I've been sleeping soundly recently, and I don't have insomnia."

Wei Lai asked curiously, "Then is your face still uncomfortable this morning?"

Ouyang Rong touched his face.

When I woke up this morning, I still had the sour and astringent taste in my mouth, but it was less, and the same was true on my face. There was not much spicy feeling, which was much better than the previous few days.

He shook his head and muttered:
"It's much better. It seems that I have to eat less spicy food recently. My aunt didn't let the kitchen cook it these days, but it's better... Maybe it's some strange allergy."

Wei Lai knelt down to tidy up his clothes and put on his shoes without being too dirty, she raised her face and smiled slightly:
"The mung bean cake in the kitchen is also delicious, I'm going to learn from you."

The master and servant chatted for a while, and after washing up, Ouyang Rong went out to meet his junior sister after breakfast with Mrs. Zhen as usual.

……

"This Yuenv Gorge is truly magical. The intersection of the two river systems is as narrow as the waist of a beautiful woman. There are two mountains facing each other on both sides. The bottom of the water rises, which is really strange."

"It's thanks to Master Mingfu who led Mr. Chen and everyone to build this sluice. This is a real ingenious work, otherwise, no matter how ingenious the terrain is, it will be useless, and Master Mingfu will still be famous!"

"It's not that I chose the original site for the Digong Gate. It was proposed by Di Gong back then. I just copied the gourd. Don't let me down, Mr. Diao, I can't afford it."

"Master Mingfu is humble. You must know that Xiao Gui Cao Sui is also a kind of wisdom. This means that you are calm and calm, not blindly comparing yourself with performance, and you can humbly learn from your predecessors...

"Furthermore, according to the officials, the Folded Wing Canal proposed by the Ming Dynasty is no less inferior to the Digong Gate. On the contrary, it can promote business and benefit the people's livelihood, which is slightly better. The Lord of the Ming Dynasty is so powerful at such a young age. Like Di Fuzi, he is another "Southeast Heritage Jewel" and has entered the ranks of nobles and princes."

"Lord Diao, Mr. Di is the elder of the country that His Majesty respects and honors. I am only a seventh-rank Zhima official, which is not comparable."

Ouyang Rong turned his head, with a half-smile.

As usual, Ouyang Rong and his younger junior sister came again early in the morning, where the Digong gate was built upstream.

This place is called Yuenv Gorge by the locals. The water from Yunmeng Daze in the south enters the Butterfly Creek from the mouth of the gorge, and then winds along the way, passes through Longcheng County, and then flows into the Dajiang River.

Only by looking up from a high place like now, can we clearly understand why the terrain of Yuenv Gorge is so suitable for building gates and why Duke Di chose this site.

On both sides of the river bank of Yuenv Gorge, there are two mountains facing each other.

The locals call them Longbei Mountain and Caifeng Mountain respectively.

The two mountains extend from the bank to the bottom of the river, with stones protruding from them.

A few days ago, before Ouyang Rong led the crowd to start building the gate, he sent Liu Ashan and other people who were familiar with water nature to sneak into the bottom of the river.

It was found out that there is a stone-like corridor at the bottom of the river, which spans tens of feet.

This is naturally a good place to repair the sluice, which can relatively control the water accumulated and overflowed from Yunmengze, a giant freshwater lake with vast mist, from the source.

Ouyang Rong somewhat understands why the previous Longcheng county magistrates were keen to rebuild the sluice here, not only to protect the political achievements and reputation of Mr. Di, but if there is no new water conservancy such as the Zhanyi Canal, then this large sluice is indeed very suitable for frequent floods Longcheng County.

The only problem is that the Digong gate seems to be a little prone to collapse...

At the moment, Ouyang Rong is taking his junior sister, Liu Ashan, and the clerks such as Diaoxian Cheng, to board the Longbei Mountain on the south bank of the Yuenv Gorge, looking down at the brand new sluice that will be built below.

This is also Ouyang Rong's favorite thing to do every few days. He takes his followers to stand high on the top of the mountain to take a closer look at the rough shape of the Digong Gate and learn about the construction progress.

These days, under Ouyang Rong's daily dispatch, with the efforts of Mr. Chen and other craftsmen sent by the Liu family, and a group of young and strong people sent by the county government.

Di Gongzha took shape quickly under the eyes of everyone, almost every day.

Casually coping with Diao Xiancheng, who loves to flatter Shangguan, Ouyang Rong squinted at the large-scale masonry structure porous sluice below.

He seemed to be thinking about something.

He didn't speak for a long time.

Diaoxian Cheng, who was sweating profusely from climbing the mountain, took the sweat towel handed by his subordinate and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

When he was old, he couldn't compare to the energetic young county magistrate, and the latter had a very active and resolute character. As soon as he greeted each other, he led everyone up the mountain and into the forest...

Diaoxian Cheng took a breath, glanced at Ouyang Rong's calm side face, and tried to say:

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The Master of the Ming Dynasty has just come down to become a magistrate. Maybe someday, this talented person who is well-versed in the world will be favored by His Majesty, or have noble people to help him.

"It's just in the emperor's heart. It might fly to the sky. I just hope that when the time comes, the Ming government will not forget the days when I worked with the officials to control the water and repair the gates in Longcheng."

"Master Diao has really worked hard and is willing to make trouble with me."

Ouyang Rong withdrew his mind, sighed, and shook his head again:

"Jane is in the emperor's heart... Can you help me... Heh."

There are some big truths, but Ouyang Rong didn't say anything.

But even an eighth-rank small county magistrate knows that it is not enough to have the ability to manage the world and the ability to control water, and it needs to be supported by noble people.

Of course, if you can make the empress of the court favor you, then it will be done in one step, and you will be able to go to the political affairs hall of the Luojing center to discuss matters tomorrow.

This is really not an exaggeration.

You see, that Mr. Di had just become prime minister within a few months, but he was slapped to the end and was called Longcheng Ling, and not long after that, he was promoted back to Luojing and became prime minister again.

The slope of this promotion is like a roller coaster, it's like a joke...

Although there were imperial examinations in the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was not considered scholar-official politics at all, but aristocratic politics.

Nouveau riche like Ouyang Rong can compare to a noble family of the ninth generation like Junior Sister, and the promotion rank is just a small path that is slightly diverged from the latter's broad avenue.

Every year in the imperial examinations of the gods, there are only a few dozen people from the north and the south to select scholars, which is a proof, and with these dozens of people, not everyone is as lucky as Ouyang Rong, who was awarded an official at the Xingyuan Banquet.

The Guanlong nobles and the five surnames and seven Wangs are the main players on the stage of the Great Zhou Dynasty Hall.

The imperial examination upstarts are at best just icing on the cake, small building blocks used by successive emperors to balance the balance of power.

Therefore, most of the local officials outside of Luojing would not be promoted to the capital in their entire lives if they did not have noble people to support them.

Because of the gradual centralization of power during the Great Zhou Dynasty, the central government and the local government put more emphasis on the inside than the outside, and the local states and counties were divided into many levels. If they had not been upgraded, the improvement would not be great.

This is also what happened to Ouyang Rong after the disaster relief and flood control, if he stays and gets promoted, it may happen to him, maybe he goes to a certain state in the south of the Yangtze River to take up a job as a salted fish, and he is not as comfortable as a county order, um, Maybe there will also be a "Jiangzhou Sima Qingshan Wet".

In this regard, it is also very understandable why Ouyang Rong was promoted from a ninth-rank official in Luojing, which is similar to the emperor's secretarial agency, to a local seventh-rank county magistrate, why he was promoted secretly.

As for the noble backer that Ouyang Rong could find, if he thought about it carefully, the only one he valued was Xie Xun, his mentor, but it was a pity that the latter didn't seem to be involved in the officialdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty now.

"Lord Diao, there is only one person like Master Di. Besides, His Majesty has been here for a long time, and now not everyone can be in the heart of the emperor. Let's not think so much, and do what we have to do now."

Ouyang Rong, who just wanted to get away with the water treatment, glanced at Diaoxian Cheng, who had the "heart of five days of Jingzhao", and said something lightly.

Diao Xiancheng didn't know that someone and he were not on the same track at all.

The same official in Dragon City, someone focused on a quick fight.

"Extremely, extremely, it is right to do a good job of repairing the gate now."

Diao Xiancheng nodded, glanced calmly at the noble daughter of the Xie family behind Ouyang Rong, who was following behind Ouyang Rong, and said with a smile:
"I just can't help but tell you in advance, haha, I'm an official, I'm sure you're a thief, and the Master of the Ming Mansion can probably make a fortune."

Ouyang Rong smiled and didn't answer.

Behind, Xie Lingjiang, who was wearing a men's sword and wearing a sword, glanced at Diao Xiancheng.

In fact, she has always thought that the pairing of senior brother and Diao Xiancheng is very interesting.

The two types of scholars who can most broadly represent the Great Zhou Dynasty have fewer ways to display their ambitions than the latter:

Senior brother pursues bottom-up, while Diao Xiancheng pursues top-down.

Ouyang Rong explained a few words to Diao Xiancheng and the scribes behind him, and everyone dispersed.

Only Ouyang Rong, Xie Lingjiang, Liu Ashan and others were left, continuing to look at the new sluice under construction from a high place.

Xie Lingjiang was the first to ask what was in Ouyang Rong's mind:

"This uncanny terrain, and a sluice with such exquisite workmanship, looks solid, how could it collapse every few years and not last four years?
"It's worse than the little dilapidated sluices I've seen elsewhere."

Ouyang Rong was quiet for a while, then turned around with a smile: "Maybe there really is a Dragon King?"

He pointed to Yunmeng Guze, which was surrounded by endless green islands beside the guide.

Xie Lingjiang laughed tacitly.

"Eldest brother, is the Di Gong gate almost finished?"

"Eighty to ninety percent of the work has been completed. It will be the middle of this month at the latest." Ouyang Rong said casually, "Come on, let's go to Mr. Chen's place and have a look."

"In the middle of the month...Okay." Xie Lingjiang lowered his head and muttered.

Several people looked at the high place for a while, then turned and walked all the way down the mountain.

They came to the construction site of the sluice.

On the sluice embankment that stretches for tens of meters, many leading craftsmen and shirtless young men are hard at work, moving stones and sand...

The weather has been beautiful these few days, there is not much rain, and the water level at this gap in the Yuenv Gorge is not high. There are many men with good water skills floating on the water surface on both sides of the sluice for floating transportation.

Taking advantage of this favorable time and place, the progress of this brand new Digong gate is in the final sprint.

Xie Lingjiang followed the elder brother, and saw the elder brother walking and stopping all the way at the sluice construction site, looking and touching.

From time to time, the young county magistrate smiled at the laborers working around him and asked about food and accommodation. Well, the focus was on whether the Liu family, who paid for the repair of the gate, had cut corners and neglected the workers... Occasionally, when he saw a sweaty man resting, he would go straight Take out the water bag and hand it over.

Xie Lingjiang doesn't care if the big brother is putting on a show, a gentleman doesn't care about his deeds.

She only observes "qi".

And the Digong gate under his feet was repaired day after day by the elder brother who wandered around and supervised it, and it is now about to be completed.

Ouyang Rong took people to look at the three inner gates of Jingmu, Chongtang, and Pingshui that were being built in the Yan Gate. These were the core buildings in the Digong Gate.

It was also here that I met Mr. Chen.

When we first met, after saluting, the old craftsman from the Liu Family Sword Shop respectfully said:

"Report to the county magistrate, I have obeyed your order and asked someone to erect a long stone tablet on the bank of the gate, which was also cut out according to the size you suggested."

Ouyang Rong nodded with his hands behind his back, "Thanks for your hard work."

Mr. Chen showed some confusion, hesitated, and asked:

"Master County Magistrate, is the monument erected to commemorate the new gate? Why don't you carve more inscriptions on it?"

Ouyang Rong shook his head and said:
"This is called the Shui Ze Monument. It is not for commemoration. I use it to observe the water level. In the future, not only will there be a Shui Ze Monument at this gate, but people will erect one in many places downstream."

He sighed and said in a serious tone:
"We can no longer wait for the Digong gate to be destroyed, or even when the flood is approaching, before we know how to run. We can no longer judge floods purely based on experience and formulas. We need some early warning measures."

Mr. Chen and his senior craftsmen nodded half-understanding, and couldn't help but take another look at the serious young county magistrate.

After routinely inspecting the sluices under construction twice, Ouyang Rong took Xie Lingjiang and others to the river bank, planning to visit Diao Xiancheng, who was allocating materials for the sluice repair.

Walk on the tree-lined path.

Xie Lingjiang saw that the shoulders of the senior brother in front of him had slumped slightly, and his posture seemed to be relaxed.

She tried to say:

"Big Brother."

"Ok?"

"Do you remember... still owe me a little wish?"

"Uh, it seems that there is such a thing, little wish... so you have thought it through?"

Ouyang Rong paused, turned his head and said curiously:
"Then tell me..."

At this moment, a cry came from a distance:
"Mingfu, you are here, there is a letter from Jiangzhou!"

I saw Yan Liulang hurried over with a postman carrying a messenger bag, and handed a tightly wrapped envelope to Ouyang Rong.

Xie Lingjiang temporarily swallowed his words.

She heard the elder brother next to him look down at the envelope, and at the same time mutter:
"Master Shen replied quickly..."

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(End of this chapter)