The people began to move, and rushed towards Hai Rui and Zhugan's birthday on the riverside in a dark way, as well as dozens of yamen runners.

The officials next to him were afraid first, and they said to the two adults: "Sir, the people are in chaos, let's avoid the edge first."

Zhu Ganshou was a tough guy. He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be afraid. You have to be even harder than them when dealing with such troublemakers!" As he said that, he wanted to stand up and call, arrest people, beat and kill, but in fact, he had no idea at all and was also worried.

But Hai Rui grabbed his arms and pulled him behind him.

Zhu Ganshou was stunned and saw Hai Rui alone greeting the people coming.

Hai Rui's next move was something no one could have imagined.

I saw him lifting the lower collar of his official robe, pushing the gold mountain, turning the jade pillar, and kneeling down to the angry people.

The people stopped all of a sudden, and they never knelt down to officials, but they had never seen any official kneeling down to the grass people.

"Master Hai, what are you doing!" Zhu Ganshou behind him said in shock: "Get up quickly, what kind of delicacy!"

Hai Rui raised his hand to stop Zhu Gan's birthday. After saying that, he took off his official hat and held it in front of his chest. Because he was kneeling on the high ground by the river, he still needed to look down at everyone and sighed: "Everyone, please don't move forward any more. Today's matter is all wrong with me, not everyone. I have indeed neglected your request. I will apologize to you. If you are still not satisfied, I will throw it into the Wusong River behind you!"

*The moving crowd was completely quiet, and everyone stared at this. The so unique official master had completely lost the manic atmosphere he had just now.

"However," Hai Rui still looked unfavorable and said: "Dropping the Wusong River is to make the people of Kunshan never suffer from floods. It is a good thing for the benefit of descendants. No matter what, it must be done,"

The crowd buzzed and was about to move again, but Hai Rui said: "Same. I will consider everyone's ideas seriously to see if there is a way to accept them and repair Wusong River!"

"How can such a good thing happen?" Xu Qingzhi jumped out again and said, "The saints say that fish and bear's paws cannot be both. Are the saints more powerful than saints?"

"I, Hai Rui, dare not compare myself to a saint," Hai Rui said with a look of a face, "But I believe that things are caused by humans, please go back first. I promise you that all projects will be suspended before finding a solution to both sides!"

After hearing what he said, what other people can have? In front of so many people, I am not afraid that he will change his mind and whisper and then they will all disperse.

Looking at the slowly dispersed crowd, the officials breathed a sigh of relief, and then they realized that they were all sweating.

Two officials from Changzhou County stepped forward and wanted to help Hai Rui up. Before he could do anything, he saw him get up by himself, patted the soil on his knees, put on his official hat and turned around, and said to Zhu Ganshou with a complicated expression: "This matter is not as simple as it seems. If I don't do this, conflict will inevitably be avoided."

Hearing him say this, Zhu Ganshou forgot to care about the question of "decent" and "decent" and asked in a deep voice: "Are you saying that someone is manipulating all this behind the scenes?"

"You should know better than me." Hai Rui said in a deep voice: "Several times, the momentum is about to go down. There are always people coming out to make a fuss at the right time. I suspect someone is making trouble behind the scenes."

"Then you should arrest them!" Zhu Ganshou gritted his teeth and said, "Dare to provoke the people to rebel? Even if you kill them, you will not relieve your hatred!"

"How to catch it?" Hai Rui lowered his eyelids and said, "They are all involved with the people, and not one or two. If you arrest people rashly, they will only make the already restless people allergic and cause greater chaos."

"But if you do this, even if you sacrifice your self-esteem, you will pass this level for the time being." Zhu Ganshou shook his head and sighed: "It's also avoiding the first day of the lunar month, but not avoiding the fifteenth day!"

"There are at least fifteen days left, so we can think of a solution." Hai Rui said lightly.

At this time, dust was raised in the northwest direction, and a large group of people approached, and the silence finally arrived... Unfortunately, I rushed forward and still couldn't catch up with the big show.

"Sir." The two of them quickly came forward and saluted, "I have met you with me."

Chen Si turned over and dismounted, threw the whip into Tiezhu's arms, and asked, "What's the chaos?"

"It has been calmed down." Zhu Ganshou said.

"It's just temporary." Hai Rui added: "And at the cost of suspending the project." He is a honest person and never lie.

"Absolutely not possible!" Before Chen Si could say anything, Gui Youguang suddenly became anxious: "This year is a rare drought, the water level is much lower than usual, which is suitable for building a dike. Moreover, there is money and people in place. As the saying goes, the right time, place and people are harmonious, how can you stop without stopping?" He is from Kunshan, suffering from floods, and his long-cherished wish is to control water.

Zhu Ganshou told the story of what happened earlier to Lord Guan Zun and Gui Youguang. After the talk, he told Hai Rui's guess again. Gui Youguang said angrily: "It must be those big people who are making trouble behind and arresting Xu Qingzhi, and you will know it as soon as you ask!"

"Don't be impatient." Chen Ji finally spoke: "Mr. Hai's method of handling is very correct. If it gets chaos today, we will be passive... By the same token, people should not hurry to catch it, so as not to intensify the situation."

"But where can I find the best of both worlds?" Gui Youguang sighed and said, "If you want to keep the fields downstream, you cannot move the river channel. But if the river channel does not move, how can you start dredging?"

"Don't worry," Chen Si laughed and said, "There are always more difficult than difficulties. Let's focus on your ideas and see if there is any other way." As he said, he asked, "Brother Dou Nan, has the task I gave you last time been completed?" Dou Nan was the one who wished you a birthday.

"Yes, sir." Zhu Ganshou nodded and said, "Everything is obvious in both things."

Last time he returned from Zhouzhuang in silence, he asked Tiezhu to call Zhu Ganshou to Suzhou, and scolded him: "Are you the magistrate of the county, the parents of the people, or the protective umbrella of the local tyrants and evil gentry?"

Zhu Ganshou said inexplicably: "What do you mean by sir?"

Chen Si told him coldly about the experience of Wei Youtian's family. What is unbelievable is that Zhu Ganshou was not aware of it.

"All people have died, but you dare to say you don't know?" Chen Jing smiled backwards and said, "There is still the officer in the gang, aren't you your subordinate?"

"My dear master," Zhu Ganshou thought for a long time before saying: "Since ancient times, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and county magistrates generally cannot go to the village. Besides, the officials took office only one month earlier than the adult, and they are also authentic new officials. They feel that they should not make too big moves, so they never took care of the villages below... The public security of the villages below was also handed over to the Kunshan inspector, so if no one reported the case, the officials would not know." As he said, he guessed: "Is it because someone colluded with the Kunshan inspector, which covered up the truth and expelled the victims to deceive me, the county magistrate."

He heard what he said, and his silent expression eased slightly, "I think you won't be so bold. You must verify the case of Wei Youtian's family as soon as possible. If it is true, the murderer must be severely punished, especially the commander behind the scenes. No matter who it is, don't be ruthless."

Zhu Ganshou Zheng said with a key point: "Yes, the official will investigate and report it to the Lord as soon as possible."

"Also," Chen Mo asked softly: "Is the Xu family's invasion in Kunshan awesome?"

Zhu Ganshou looked hesitant for a while, and finally he said with a key point: "In fact, there has been penetration, but it is said that it has only become more severe in the past six months and has eaten tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in the county."

"I'll give you another task," said Chen Silently: "Look out the Xu family's industry in Kunshan, whether it is directly owned or indirectly controlled, let me find out."

"Yes." Zhu Ganshou responded in a deep voice.

A soul-stirring "food war" made the officialdoms in Jiangsu and Zhejiang know the energy of silence. Zhu Ganshou, a small magistrate, would never dare to oppose his immediate superior. After returning from Suzhou, he began to investigate.

More than half a month has passed, and both tasks have emerged. He looked at Hai Rui and Gui Youguang, and then they walked away with a chance. When they walked away, Zhu Ganshou said: "Tell me about that case first, it's true!"

"Huh..." Silence let out an inexplicable sigh and nodded, "You continue talking."

"I was afraid that the noise was too loud, so I was shocked. The officials disguised themselves in Wei Youtian's village and said it was his relative. After asking for a few people, they all said it was true that someone beat Wei Youtian's second son to death and captured the other two." Zhu Ganshou also sighed and said ashamed: "They all said that the people from my Kunshan Inspection Department did come that day... Those people often went to the countryside to disturb the people, and they would not admit their mistakes." As he said that, he seemed a little lucky: "But the people who beat and arrested the people were not from the Inspection Department, but another group of people who came with them... I suspect they were Xu Wu's brothers."

Silence made no comment and said, "What happened later?"

"Nothing later," Zhu Ganshou shook his head and said, "Because he was afraid of alarming the enemy, there was no one in the inspection department for the time being. He was planning to ask the Lord if he wanted to arrest Xu Wu next?"

"Let's talk about the second thing first." Chen Si said softly: "How big is the Xu family in Kunshan?"

"If you don't check it, you won't know it. If you check it, you will be shocked." Zhu Ganshou said astonished: "If you directly have indirect control according to the adult standards, there are 57,000 acres of fertile land, most of which are the thickest river fields, accounting for half of the river fields in the county. There are two pawn shops, one of which is Xu Wukai; there are also ticket shops that specialize in printing money, as well as silk shops, raw medicine shops, and even ji courtyards and gambling halls. Together, they will account for half of the county."

Chen Si couldn't help but tease, "You have to be careful, otherwise when you wake up one day, the county government will become someone else's."

Zhu Gan Shou was so embarrassed that his face flushed: "Sir, there are two types of offerings, self-distribution and false offerings. The latter is okay. The former is not known to outsiders at all. Everything is done privately. If the officials did not inquire in every way, there would be no way to know this."

"Don't care, I'm joking." Chen Si smiled and said, "By the way, what question did you ask me just now?"

"Xu Wu's question," Zhu Ganshou said: "Catch it or not?"

"Okay, I'll give you the answer now." Silent nodded, spit out a word and said, "Catch."

"Sir, please forgive me for your own apology. Xu Wu is a member of the Xu family. Their family likes to be in a group..." Zhu Ganshou said: "In fact, they are all villains who later depended on the Xu family. For example, Xu Wu, Zhu Tang was renamed Xu Tang, Chen Xin was renamed Xu Xin, Wang Zhong was renamed Xu Zhong, Chen Juxue was renamed Xu Xue, and Chen Juxue was renamed Xu Xue, all of whom were the family members of the Xu family, and they were known as the Five Tigers of Kunshan. They relied on the power of the Xu family to commit evil deeds and bully the market, but they regarded themselves as the family members of the Pavilion... And if something happened, the third son of the Xu family did manage it, so they became more arrogant and made people feel helpless."

He thought of something again and said, "The scholar who took the lead in causing trouble today is Xu Qingzhi, the son of Xu Kuoxue, so I suspect that this incident is also related to the Five Tigers." He said earnestly, "So please think twice before you act, so as not to alarm the snake."

"Very good, you really have your heart." Shen Shu nodded and praised, then changed the subject: "But you should still arrest him," and smiled faintly, "You are not arresting him for the 'Jiangtian' incident, but because of the old man Wei's case. As long as you grasp this, they will not be able to incite the people..." He said with a stern tone: "In this way, as long as the four tigers dare to make trouble for Xu Wu, they will all be arrested! If they don't squeeze them out, they will not know what it means to destroy the county magistrate and the prefect who destroyed the family!"

"Sir," Zhu Ganshou looked at the silence for a while before laughing, "I was worried that you were a gentleman, how could you fight against those vicious and deceitful villains?"

"Even a gentleman is more vicious and deceitful than those villains," Chen Jing smiled faintly, "Otherwise, how can you maintain justice?" He said this very pretentiously, and his face was so sluggish.

Fortunately, Zhu Ganshou didn't see it, and he was still savoring the last sentence of silence. After a long time, he hit his hands with his hands: "What the lord is talking about is the truth. If you want to defeat the fox, you must be more cunning than the fox. Is that what you mean?"

"That's what it means." Silent smiled.

"I understand!" Zhu Ganshou said: "Even if the four little tigers didn't want to help Xu Wu, the lower officials would have the idea to frame them and put them all in the cage."

"This is not what I teach you." Silently said.

"The subordinates are self-exercising." Zhu Ganshou reacted very quickly, and after saying that, they both laughed.

Zhu Ganshou went back to arrest the people. Hai Rui and Gui Youguang, the two water control committee members, came back and bowed to them silently and said, "Brother Gangfeng has been wronged, thank you for your hard work."

The two of them quickly returned the greeting, Gui Youguang said: "Sir, we have just decided. If we want to solve the current problem, we can only give up the old river channel and find a new sea access for the Wusong River, but the possibility..."

"Huangpu River." Before Gui Youguang finished speaking, he blurted out silently. After saying that, both of them were stunned because they suddenly remembered that the short and wide river was the Dianshan Lake that originated in Kunshan County.

"But the Huangpu River seems to flow southward." Gui Youguang suddenly frowned.

"Map!" said silently.

The followers quickly brought the hydrological pictures from the lower reaches of Taihu Lake and pounced on a flat bluestone. The three of them put their heads together. They saw that after the Huangpu River originated from Dianshan Lake, they did go south first, but sixty miles later, then turn east; after seventy miles, they turned north and finally entered the sea!

The entire river is only more than 200 miles long, but it has an obvious "concave" shape! When the river turns north, it gets closer and closer to the lower reaches of the Wusong River!

When he saw this, Gui Youguang suddenly remembered and said, "Fifty years ago, the prefect of Suzhou, Li Yunsigong, opened the Beixinjing to Caojiadu section in the lower reaches of the Wusong River, connecting and widening Caojiadu to Songjiabang section, and leading it into the Huangpu River!" Beixinjing is where they are now standing, twenty miles downstream!" He said in surprise, "How do you know this allusion?"

"Maybe it's God's will!" Chen Si laughed. Of course, he couldn't say that he remembered Zhou Xun's "Suzhou River". It seemed that in that era, the Wusong River became a tributary of the Huangpu River!

This is really "the mountains and rivers are full of no way, and the willows and flowers are brighter and there is another village"! The three of them excitedly drove the boat and headed downstream of the Wusong River. With Gui Youguang, an expert, it was not difficult to find a main stream in the complex and vast waterways. The clutch quickly went downstream and arrived in the Beixinjing area.

Sure enough, I could still find the "old way" left by Li Yunsi in the past, which could indeed allow the Wusong River, which leaked the water of Taihu Lake, to enter the sea from Huangpu! I also confirmed that the original river was thirty meters wide and prepared to restore its old view!

In this way, there is no need for the original old river channel, but instead turns the Wusong River into a tributary of the Huangpu River. The problems that were originally unsolvable will be solved.
Chapter completed!