Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 838: Human hearts are all black
"Fortunately, the Xuhuai section of the canal was modified during the Wanli period, otherwise, who knows what kind of holes would have been created!!"

Xuzhou territory.

On a river bank.

Zuo Guangdou looked indignant and glared at Yang Lian, saying, "If you dare to pass through Xuzhou, haha, I'm afraid those gentlemen would rather watch the people on both sides of the river get washed away than ask us to repair the dike!!"

"It's no use saying that now."

Yang Lian said calmly: "The most urgent task is to reinforce the dams that have been found as soon as possible. Otherwise, if there is a pipe burst or even a breach, the consequences will be disastrous!!"

"What to reinforce?"

Zuo Guangdou glared and said, "The money your majesty has allocated is only enough to sustain our needs for a few months. According to previous years, this money is more than enough to sustain us for a year!!"

"Yang Wenru! Don't you understand? The civil unrest and riots that occurred in the South Grand Canal were caused by those evil spirits who wanted to drive up the price of grain for their own selfish interests."

"Right now, the grain prices in not only Xuzhou Prefecture, but also Huai'an Prefecture, Fengyang Prefecture, etc., have been driven up to this point because someone is secretly fanning the flames!!"

When Zuo Guangdou reached this point, his face turned red with anger and he gasped heavily.

Right now, he really couldn't understand Yang Lian.

He could even understand such a simple truth, and Zuo Guangdou didn't believe that Yang Lian would not understand it.

But Yang Lian's reaction made Zuo Guangdou angry.

Is this still the Yang Lian he knew? !
Since being banished from the capital, the reputations of Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian have been ruined. This was not done by Zhu Youxiao, but by his former colleagues and classmates.

The Donglin Party was unfamiliar to not only Zuo Guangdou but also Yang Lian.

It was precisely because of these experiences that the life trajectories of Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou changed when they were demoted from the capital to engage in the management and inspection of the Yellow River.

"so what?"

Seeing Zuo Guangdou like this, Yang Lian frowned and said, "What does it matter if you know this? There are so many riverbanks that need to be reinforced right now. Can you, Zuo Yizhi, take care of them all by yourself?"

"If you can, I will leave immediately and find someone who can deal with these evil spirits and monsters and get rid of them!!"

"I……"

Zuo Guangdou was stunned. He didn't know what to say for a moment.

It would be impossible for him to handle the complicated water situation in Xuhuai alone. If it weren't for Yang Lian's assistance, Zuo Guangdou would have given up long ago.

"But how can we solve this problem?"

Zuo Guangdou said dejectedly: "Without a year's repair and reinforcement, the strategy we have set, even if we can withstand the current flood season, once the flood season in the upper reaches of the Yellow River surges next year, when it reaches the Xuhuai line, the consequences will be..."

“Do what’s in front of you first.”

Yang Lian stepped forward and comforted them: "Anyone can mess up at this time, except you and me. There are so many eyes staring at us, watching us wait."

"Just take care of the repairs and reinforcements. I'll take care of the rest. There will be no shortage of food or wood. Everything we need will be there in due time."

"Wen Ru..."

Zuo Guangdou looked at Yang Lian in surprise. He seemed to have guessed something. Before he spoke, he glanced around and then stepped forward and whispered, "You didn't contact the army heading south to pacify the Japanese, did you? This is..."

"No." Yang Lian shook his head and said, "It is very important for the court to stabilize the water situation in Xuhuai. Once Xuhuai dares to flood, there will definitely be big problems."

"But suppressing the rebellion in Zhejiang and other places is also very important. Man Gui and his men are ordered to go south, so they must shoulder a heavy burden and their troops cannot stay at all."

"That……"

Zuo Guangdou suppressed his surprise and said, for some reason, he felt that Yang Lian was becoming more and more unfamiliar. Compared with his previous hatred of evil, the current Yang Lian was even more terrifying.

silence.

Like a stone, no matter how bad the thing was, Yang Lian always kept silent, and no one knew what he was thinking.

But when he thought about what Yang Lian did in Henan, Zuo Guangdou knew one thing: Yang Lian must have made some kind of decision, but he could not guess what exactly he wanted to do.

Yang Lian's reputation gradually became bad because of some things he did in Henan, which damaged the interests of many people.

Zuo Guangdou is in Xuzhou.

"The sound of wind, rain, and reading fills my ears."

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"I care about everything, family affairs, national affairs, and world affairs."

Under Zuo Guangdou's gaze, Yang Lian had a complicated expression and muttered to himself, but after he finished speaking, a sneer appeared on Yang Lian's face.

"Haha!! This is really ironic!"

Yang Lian once behaved extremely radically on some things because of this couplet. In Yang Lian's view, this world and this country need ministers of remonstration, so that the officials in the court and the emperor in the Forbidden City can know how many problems are hidden in this world and this country.

But the result?

"Haha, human hearts, why are they all black." Yang Lian laughed even louder. Although he had learned a lot when he was in Henan, when he came to Xuzhou, he encountered the same things he had encountered before again, and they were even darker than before.

Yang Lian felt disgusted when he saw those ugly faces.

Yang Lian more than just hated them.

I hate my past self even more!!
It turns out that he has been living in a dream woven for him by others since a long time ago. He thought that everything he did was for the world and for the country, but what happened in the end?
Yang Lian found out that he was extremely wrong! !

It turned out that many people were using him and asking him to be the vanguard so that their interests and benefits could be guaranteed in the turbulent court situation.

"Oh no! There's a pipe burst!"

But as a shout sounded, Yang Lian quickly ran towards the embankment. His official robe, which was stained with mud, looked so dirty, yet also so clean.

"Wen Ru~"

Zuo Guangdou stood there in a daze, looking at Yang Lian's back. He was a little dazed for a moment, but then Yang Lian turned around.

"Zuo Guangdou!! What the hell are you staring at? The pipe is bursting! Go and help!" Yang Lian glared at Zuo Guangdou and yelled at him, but at this moment, Zuo Guangdou started to laugh.

It turns out that Yang Wenru has never changed.

It's the people who have changed!!
Zuo Guangdou showed a self-deprecating smile, and then he lifted his robe and ran towards Yang Lian. The official robe Zuo Guangdou was wearing was stained with a lot of mud and even had a few holes. In order to solve the water situation in Xuhuai and other places, Zuo Guangdou had persisted for a long time, but he never complained. In Zuo Guangdou's heart, there was no distraction at the moment. He just wanted to use his lifelong learning to cure the flooding of the Yellow River for the Ming Dynasty and the world! !

(End of this chapter)