The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 168 The Water Dragon Breaks the Embankment ([-]-character chapter)
Emperor Hongzhi was really angry.But as the emperor, he always maintained his reason despite his anger.

He did not punish Qiu Jun who recommended Nie Cheng.

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is the only knowledge that can be promoted in the imperial examination, and it controls the ascending channel of the entire Ming Dynasty.It is an exaggeration to say that today's Ming Dynasty is based on Confucianism.

The core of Neo Confucianism is obedience, which is a tool to control and rule people.

For any feudal emperor, respecting Confucianism is an excellent means of governing the world.

Qiu Jun, the leader of Confucianism, could not be moved easily, and he still wanted to be enshrined in the cabinet as a Buddha, even though Emperor Hongzhi thought he was not worthy to lift the shoes of Wang Shu and Ma Wensheng.

Whether it is an ancient Mingjun or a successful entrepreneur of later generations.If you want to achieve the highest ideal, you must first learn to compromise.

Emperor Hongzhi knew this well.

An imperial decree was passed to Shandong.

Huang Boren, who lives in Yanggu County, is like Qin Shihuang and Hu Hai stacked Arhats - win more wins!
He was directly promoted from the fourth-rank magistrate to the acting governor, and he also took the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, and was promoted to the third-rank official of the imperial court.

It is true that good officials are rewarded with good rewards.

According to the decree, Jin Yiwei ordered Nie Cheng to be executed.

Chang Feng started to be a thief again.It stands to reason that it would be more appropriate for the governor of a province to be killed and the governor of Beizhen to go there in person.

But on the grounds that he was busy with disaster relief work and didn't have time to go to Jinan, he ordered Qian Ning to go to Jinan to supervise and kill Nie Cheng on his behalf.

Let Qian Ning do the killing and offending.

I often do things like saving the people from suffering and accumulating official reputation and popularity.

Chang Feng must learn to be slick if he wants to survive in the officialdom for a long time.

Qian Ning knew Chang Feng's intentions.The adoptive son of the supervisor of ceremonies Bingbi is not a fool.

In other words, there are not many fools in this world.It's just that the time for everyone to understand something is different.

Those who can figure things out in a very short time are called smart people.

Those who take a long time to figure things out, we call stupid people.

No matter how stupid Qian Ning is, he has been Chang Feng's knife for killing people and a substitute for offending people for six full years. Can he not understand?

Not to mention that there is a fine godfather behind him to give advice.

But Qian Ning didn't feel that he had suffered a disadvantage.He is happy to be Chang Feng's knife.He enjoys being feared.

It's good to be feared and admired.If he could only choose one, Channing would choose the former.

Channing went to kill.Chang Feng was busy saving people.

Ping'an Township Congee Farm.

Chang Feng entered the porridge market with Liu Daxia and Huang Boren.

In the big pot of the porridge field, there is thick wheat rice that can be inserted into the chopsticks, and it is steaming.

An old man walked to the cauldron with a broken bowl in his hand.The grain servant scooped up a whole bowl for him.

The old man knelt down excitedly, held the bowl above his head with both hands, and shouted: "Long live the emperor!"

Seeing this scene, Chang Feng was quite emotional: "The common people don't really ask for much. If you can eat a mouthful of hot food, you will thank the emperor from the bottom of your heart."

Liu Daxia echoed: "Yes. On the other hand, the emperor who can let the common people eat a mouthful of hot food can be called a wise emperor."

The official rations provided by the Laizhou government to aid Luxi have already eaten into the stomachs of the common people.The grain purchased from other provinces and the household relief grain are also on their way to Luxi.

The acting governor, Huang Boren, also ordered the wealthy prefectures in eastern Shandong to transfer official food to the disaster-stricken areas in western Shandong.

Chang Feng said with emotion: "With the current national strength of Ming Dynasty, as long as the top and bottom officials have a little bit of humanity, there will be no tragic situation of starvation everywhere."

Liu Daxia sighed: "I think of a sentence my teacher said."

Chang Feng asked: "What are you talking about?"

Liu Daxia replied: "Confucianism wants to shape people, but it distorts people so that they can't be human."

"I believe that human nature is good. But once a person reads a book and is busy studying Neo Confucianism, he becomes a bad person in the end."

Chang Feng said with a smile: "You must let Mr. Qiu Ge of the cabinet know what you said, and I will definitely find you desperately."

Meanwhile, Jinan.

Qian Ning sat majestically on the execution platform.

Nie Cheng, the former governor of Shandong Province, knelt on the execution platform.

Jinan Tongfu officials stood under the execution platform with their hands down, watching the execution.Crowds of common people gathered around the chopping stage to watch the fun.

It was almost noon.

Qian Ning said loudly: "Fellows and folks in Shandong! Nie Cheng's dead body is a vegetarian meal, causing floods in Luxi to starve and die everywhere."

"Today, I, Qian Ning, from Jinyiwei Qianhu, killed Nie Cheng on behalf of the emperor, and complained to the common people!"

All the people shouted: "Good!"

"Master Qingtian!"

The common people are like this, as long as the one who kills is an official, they are happy and applaud.

Because they believe that nine out of ten officials are bad, and it is not wrong to kill one.

Qian Ning said again: "Listen up to the officials of Shandong Yousi! Today I killed Nie Cheng for you to see!"

"Whoever dares to disobey the orders of Liu Duyuan, Changzhen Fushi, and Huang Butang in matters of water control and disaster relief will be the one I will kill next!"

Huang Boren now has the title of Minister of the Ministry of War.Therefore, Qian Ning called it "Dept Hall".

The magistrates in Shandong knelt down one after another and said in unison: "Yes!"

This group of people pretends to be some kind of sage and student all day long, with a noble character.When there was a real threat of beheading, they hurriedly knelt down to Qian Ning, a slave of the emperor.

Qian Ning gave an order: "It's noon, execution!"

The knife and ax were raised and lowered, and Nie Cheng's human skull rolled to the ground.

The common people cheered again.

Qian Ning ordered a group of officials: "The imperial envoy for water control and the acting governor are both in Yanggu County now. After watching the punishment, some officials should rush to Yanggu County immediately!"

The officials obediently left the execution ground and set off for Yanggu County.

At this moment, Guo Qilu, the junior superintendent of Shandong River Supervision, came to Qian Ning.

Guo Qi donkey cupped his hands towards Qian Ning: "Brother! It's really not what it used to be, you are so majestic now!"

Guo Qilu is also Qian Neng's adopted son.Therefore, he is called "Big Brother" Channing.

Qian Ning smiled and said, "Nine donkeys. We haven't seen each other for three years. How are you doing?"

Guo Qilu smiled wryly: "Oh, Zhang Qiu's embankment burst, and I, the river supervisor, cannot escape the blame. I just have to wait for the court to investigate."

"This time the imperial envoy is here to control the floods in Shandong, so my elder brother has to cover up for me."

Chan Ning said meaningfully: "Although we have the same godfather. But when it comes to official affairs, I have to be impartial."

Guo Qi understood, and directly stuffed a 3000 tael bank note into Qian Ning's sleeve: "Brother, I'm sorry."

After receiving a generous gift, Qian Ning immediately changed his words: "Cough! We are half-brothers. To say that you are troublesome is to cheat. If I can help you cover it up, I will help you cover it up."

Guo Qilu is the treasurer of the river affairs stationed in Shandong by the palace.He knew very well that during his three years in office, Shandong Zhihe silver totaled 20 taels.

Among them, only 5 taels were used for repairing dams.

The remaining 15 taels wasn't his own, he didn't have that much appetite.

It was divided by river officials, large and small, from top to bottom.

He himself got 3 taels of silver.If the imperial envoy gets to the bottom of it, he will be responsible for Zhang Qiudi's breach.

Channing patted his chest to cover him up, and his hanging heart was put back in his stomach.No one in the officialdom knew that Qian Ning was now the confidant of Lord Chang of Jin Yiwei.

Besides, it took Chang Feng, Liu Daxia and others a month of hard work to basically stabilize the situation in Luxi.

The disaster relief work has been done in sevens and eighties.Now it's time to focus on water control.

Liu Daxia led a group of officials to inspect Zhang Qiudi first.

The water of the Yellow River is still rushing out from the breach of Zhang Qiudi.

After the inspection, Liu Daxia and the officials returned to the Yanggu County Government Office to discuss: "Now it seems that it is impossible to block the gap in Zhang Qiudi. The only way is to divide the water and block the water."

As the name suggests, the water diversion method refers to dredging tributary rivers and diverting the water potential of the main river.

The water barrier law is to set up embankments on the shore.

Chang Feng stood beside Liu Daxia without saying a word.He never expresses an opinion on things he doesn't understand.

How to control the river is Liu Daxia's business.He only cares about Zhi Heyin not to be corrupted by officials.

Liu Daxia ordered people to spread out a "Shandong River Map".

He pointed to three places with his hands: "We have to dredge the Jialu River in Huanglinggang, and at the same time dredge the upper reaches of Sunjiadu and Sifuying to divide the water."

"These three places use the water division method."

"At the same time, build a long embankment from Xuncheng through Dongming and Changyuan to Xuzhou. This line uses the water barrier method."

Water control is a big game of chess.According to Liu Daxia's vision, this large project starts from Luxi in the north and ends in the central plains of Xuzhou in the south.

The construction site of the first step of the project, Huanglinggang, is located in the center of the universe of later generations - Cao County, Heze, Shandong!That awesome 666 place.

When river supervisor Guo Qilu heard that Liu Daxia was going to dredge the Jialu River in Huanglinggang, beads of sweat broke out on his forehead.

Every section of the dam in Shandong is a tofu-like project.

Civil officials eat grass, and military officials eat dirt.This uncivilized eunuch eats grass and soil.

Zhang Qiudi is the tofu project.But Zhang Qiudi has been washed away by the flood, and there is no proof of his death.

No one can tell whether the breach was caused by too much water potential or because of the tofu project.

The dikes along the Jialu River are different.It was not washed by the water, and it was placed there.

As soon as the imperial envoys arrived, those workers who were [-]% or [-]% grass leaked stuff. Qian Ning couldn't keep him even if he wanted to!
Although Chang Feng didn't speak, his eyes kept scanning the officials.From Guo Qi's expression, he could see that this person had a ghost in his heart.

Guo Qi donkey's brain turned quickly.

There is a danger of revealing the deficit in the warehouse, and the grain officer has a unique method of "burning the warehouse with a fire dragon".That is to say, set fire to the granary and destroy the criminal evidence.

The tofu project in the river course is in danger of being exposed, and the river course official also has a unique method of "water dragon flushing the embankment".That is, man-made dikes were broken to let the flood wash away the evidence.

Guo Qilu made up his mind and sent people to rush to Huanglinggang in Cao County to break the embankment and release the water.As for whether the common people suffer or not, he doesn't care.

Huang Boren raised a question: "According to Liu Duyuan's vision, such a huge project may require more than [-] civilian workers."

"If corvée is collected from Shandong, the burden on the people of Shandong will be too heavy."

Everyone should stand on their own standpoint and think about the problem.

Huang Boren is the acting governor of Shandong.To do things should proceed from the interests of Shandong people.There's nothing wrong with that.

Liu Daxia said: "It's still the old method of water control, using work for relief! There are hundreds of thousands of victims in Luxi. All men aged 40 to [-] who participate in water conservancy construction will be given half a stone of grain and rice every month."

Half stone grain rice is 83 catties.Add some wild vegetables to cook, enough to feed a family of four for a month.

Huang Boren said: "Wonderful! The disaster victims have food and rice to earn, so they must sign up enthusiastically."

Liu Daxia said: "Everyone, go and mobilize the people of Luxi. Within five days, we will collect [-] civilians and leave for Cao County."

All the officials dispersed.

Chang Feng's eyes stayed on Guo Qilu, the river supervisor.

Ten years of experience in Jinyiwei gave him a keen intuition.

He always felt that Guo Qidonkey was a little sneaky.

Guo Qi's donkey came out of the Yanggu county government.In front of the gate of the county yamen stood several little eunuchs from the river supervision yamen.

Chang Feng stood inside the gate and watched Guo Qi donkey.

I saw Guo Qi donkey talking to a little eunuch for a long time.The little eunuch cupped his hands and got on a horse.

Fatty Xu happened to come over: "Master Chang, what are you looking at?"

Chang Feng said: "Did you see that little eunuch riding a horse? You follow him. Arrest him outside the city. I want to interrogate him."

"Don't let Guo Qilu and Qian Ning know about this."

Fatty Xu was surprised: "Why are you still carrying Qian Ning?"

Chang Feng reminded him: "You forgot, Guo Qilu and Qian Ning are both Eunuch Qian's adoptive sons!"

According to Bai Ang's previous lecture, none of the river officials is clean.

Chang Feng believes that Guo Qi's designation of the donkey has also benefited from the river.It's just a matter of more and less.

Today, when the county government was discussing matters, Chang Feng saw his flustered expression.After coming out and sneaking around again, he must have a guilty conscience.

In the evening, Chang Feng was having dinner with Liu Daxia and Huang Boren.

Dinner is three bowls of steamed wheat rice, a dish of pickles, and a dish of fried vegetables.

The victims ate wheat porridge.The three of them couldn't bear to be extravagant.

Liu Daxia said: "Huang Butang, the three thousand stones of sea salt you transported from Laizhou will come in handy."

"I asked every porridge shed to put a handful in every pot of porridge."

"If people don't eat salt, they will have no strength. How can we let the victims follow us to control the water?"

Huang Boren said: "I forced the salt merchants to donate that batch of sea salt. Heh, I guess they are still greeting my eight generations of ancestors."

Although he ate simple tea and light rice, Chang Feng felt that it was even sweeter than the Confucian banquet.

He participated in too many official battles and court intrigues in the capital.This time, he finally accepted an errand that could benefit the common people.

At this moment, a strongman came to report: "Master Chang, Master Xu said that the person you want has been arrested. He is locked up in the Temple of Earth in the west of the city."

Chang Feng stood up: "I'm going to the west of the city. Liu Du Yuan, Huang Bu Tang, you take it easy."

Liu Daxia asked, "Who did you arrest?"

Chang Feng smiled: "This matter is confidential, and it is not convenient to disclose it at the moment."

Half an hour later, in the west of the city, the Earth Temple.

Chang Feng got off his horse, threw the reins to an accompanying warrior, and strode into the Earth Temple.

The little eunuch in the river supervision yamen was blindfolded.Fatty Xu crossed his legs and sat opposite the little eunuch.

Chang Feng told Fatty Xu: "Tear off his blindfold."

Fatty Xu followed suit.

The little eunuch saw clearly that it was Chang Feng, and hurriedly said: "Master Chang, why did you arrest me? Is there a misunderstanding? We are all the emperor's servants, we are a family!"

Fatty Xu spat at him: "Ahhh! What kind of family do you deserve?"

The little eunuch is very good at making connections: "I am the great-great-grandson of the old inner minister Wynn. Master Chang is the grandson of the old inner minister. I have to call Master Chang!"

Chang Feng smiled and looked at the little eunuch: "My dear grandson! You are right, we are a family. A family can talk about anything."

"Tell me, why did Shaojian Guo send you out of the city?"

The little eunuch was perfunctory: "Ah, Guo Shaojian asked me to go back to Jinan to pass on a message to the brothers in the river supervision yamen."

Chang Feng asked: "Oh? What message?"

The little eunuch made it up: "Ah, let them bring the Yellow River flood tables for the last ten years for Liu Duyuan's reference."

Chang Feng's complexion changed: "Bold! How dare you lie to me, grandpa? Don't think I don't know!"

"Don't think I don't know" is a panacea for fraudulent confessions.Chang Feng is marked with three poles if there are dates or not.

Although the little eunuch didn't fall into the trap, there was a look of panic on his face: "Really."

Chang Feng said: "If you don't tell the truth, then I will punish you. Xu Guangzuo!"

Fatty Xu said with a smile: "Yes! Master Chang, tell me, should I give him a tiger stool, or should I use nails to nail his feet first?"

Chang Feng shook his head slightly: "Fart! After all, he is my good grandson. How could he be subjected to those cruel punishments?"

"Old Qi, who is in charge of execution in the imperial prison, told me that the lightest punishment for Jin Yiwei is the sole punishment. It is to scratch the soles of the victim's feet with horse mane."

"The most itchy part of a person is the soles of the feet. Those who are tortured will feel extremely itchy."

Fatty Xu drew out his waist knife directly: "Come on, I'm going to cut the horse's mane."

Fatty Xu came out of the Earth Temple and cut off a large pile of mane from the horse.After a while, I went back and forth.

Chang Feng took off the little eunuch's shoes.Fatty Xu began to torture him.

The little eunuch first laughed loudly: "Hahaha, sir, don't make fun of me, grandson, hahaha."

After a while, the itching on the skin turned into a piercing itching.

The itching was extreme, more unbearable than the pain.

The little eunuch begged for mercy: "Master, hahaha, please spare your grandson! I will say everything, hahaha!"

Chang Feng ordered Fatty Xu to stop.

The little eunuch seemed to escape from death, panting heavily: "Master Chang, if I tell you, can you protect me from death?"

Chang Feng nodded: "As long as you tell the truth, I will protect you from death."

The little eunuch came out of the palace, and he had heard of Jin Yiwei Chang Tu's ruthless methods for a long time.

He knew that he couldn't escape this catastrophe, so he simply sold his boss, Guo Qilu.

The little eunuch said: "Our Shaojian Guo asked me to go to Cao County and find Zhang Zhi County in Cao County."

Chang Feng asked: "Oh? What do you want to do with Zhang Zhi County?"

Chang Feng was shocked by the words of the little eunuch: "Let Zhang Zhixian lead people to open a hole in the embankment of Jialu River and destroy it."

Chang Feng took a breath: "Destroy the embankment? Just make a hole, and the river can wash away the entire embankment."

"There are people in three counties along the Jialu River embankment. Are you Guo Shaojian crazy? He is trying to create a flood!"

"for what?"

The little eunuch replied: "In order to destroy the criminal evidence, the workers on the Jialu River embankment are all like tofu."

"In the past three years, the river supervision office has used 3 taels of silver for the Jialu embankment project on the books."

"Our Shaojian Guo colluded with the prefect of Heze, the magistrate of Cao County, and the commander of the Hegong Battalion. We lied about the number of earthworks, cut corners, and falsely reported the amount of earthwork excavated by civilians."

"There are 4000 taels that are actually used on the embankment."

Chang Feng frowned: "That is to say, 3 taels of ICBC were corrupted by them for 6000 taels?"

The little eunuch replied: "Exactly. Not only the Jialu River, but also the embankments of all rivers and rivers in Shandong have ghosts!"

"Guo Shao listened in and said that Liu Duyuan was going to Cao County. He panicked and was afraid of revealing his secrets. That's why he ordered me to report the news, and the water dragon rushed to the embankment!"

Chang Feng was furious: "Liu Duyuan and Huang Butang racked their brains to figure out how to control the water. Guo Qi donkey actually ordered people to destroy the embankment and flood the people?"

"If this matter is done by him, Heze Mansion will have tens of thousands more disaster victims out of thin air!"

The little eunuch echoed: "That's right! He has such a dark heart! I can't stand my grandson!"

Chang Feng said: "Boy, you are from the palace. You should know that I have a good relationship with Eunuch Xiao, Eunuch Qian, and Eunuch Li."

"Do you dare to confront Guo Qi ass? If you dare, I will guarantee you to be promoted from the ninth-rank envoy to the seventh-rank regular follower!"

"If you don't listen to me. Heh, I will make you disappear from the world as easily as splitting an earthworm in half."

Threatened and lured, the little eunuch immediately jumped back.

The little eunuch said: "Then from now on, the grandson will depend on grandpa to support him!"

Chang Feng said: "Let's go, let's go back to Yanggu County."

The three left the Earth Temple.

Fatty Xu pulled Chang Feng aside: "Are you sure you want to touch Guo Qi's donkey? You said it yourself, he is Eunuch Qian's godson."

Chang Feng said: "The water control plan of Liuduyuan is so vast, and the number of silver and silver associations used is a huge number."

"The national treasury of silver is limited. I plan to punish a group of local officials in Shandong and confiscate their homes to replenish mercury!"

"Guo Qilu is the young supervisor of the river channel. All officials related to the river channel revolve around him."

"Take care of Guo Qi's donkey first, then you can follow the vine and pull out the radish and bring out the mud!"

Fatty Xu was surprised: "Aren't you the most opposed to setting off a big case these years?"

Chang Feng said: "One time and another time. If it weren't for the gang of river officials in Shandong who were greedy for ink. Why would the people eat while changing sons?"

A major river case in Shandong is about to kick off.

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