It is said that Su Tao found a Mr. Xiong who knew how to control water and came to ask for advice. Since the magistrate asked for help, Mr. Xiong readily agreed. Then he asked about "Guan Zhang". Su Tao only responded vaguely. Naturally, Mr. Xiong was invited later.
Returning to the government office to discuss matters, Mr. Xiong mentioned "Zhang Daguan" again. Su Tao thought about it again and again, and finally ordered someone to go to Cixiang Village and call Su Cheng over.
Su Cheng has decided to go to Dajiala to study, but her chocolate factory has just started, so she has to stay longer. The person sent by Su Tao asked her to change into men's clothes and go to discuss water control. Su Cheng was surprised and couldn't guess which way to go.
The god helped her put in a good word, and then he rode over on horseback disguised as a Confucian scholar.
Su Cheng entered the government office's study room, and a boy reported that "Guan Zhang has arrived." Mr. Xiong stood up after hearing this, and when he looked at Su Cheng, he recognized the woman at first glance. He quickly turned to look at Su Tao. Su Tao coughed and said,
Pointing at his daughter, he said, "This is my...nephew." Mr. Xiong quickly bowed, and Su Cheng bowed back. Everyone pretended to be confused, pretending to understand.
There was a huge map spread on the desk, and what was drawn on it was the Ganjiang River and a small section of the Yangtze River. Standing next to the map, Mr. Xiong bowed deeply to Su Tao and said: "Yesterday, the official was the magistrate of Anyi County.
Officials, today they have become officials of the prefect of Jiangxi Province. The two are completely different, so what a junior official wants to do today is also different from what he wanted to do yesterday."
Su Tao stroked his beard and asked: "What's the difference?"
"Whoever eats his salary will be loyal to whom." Mr. Xiong said, "Yesterday, the clerk only thought about how to defend one county, but today he has to think about how to defend the whole province."
Su Tao's face darkened: "How many dams are there that I'm afraid can't be defended?"
Mr. Xiong said: "In my opinion, the four places that collapsed last year cannot be defended. This year is more dangerous than last year, and there are three other places that are difficult to hold."
Su Tao was stunned: "Everywhere collapsed in the old year?"
Mr. Xiong pointed out: "These two places collapsed nine years ago, and the Ministry of Works sent people to repair them." He pointed to two places, "During the flood last year, these two places also collapsed. Xie Zhifu reported to the court,
But this time there is no movement from the Ministry of Industry." Pointing to three more places, "The water will be bigger this year, and these three places are also in danger."
Su Tao sighed: "Nine years ago... the six departments of the imperial court still left some traces of the late emperor's time." He looked at the map of Huizi again and saw that the collapse places were all in the rapid and dangerous places on the lower reaches of the Gan River. After thinking for a long time, he said,
"In your opinion, if seven points are urgently repaired..."
Mr. Xiong said: "It's already May, and we can't repair seven places urgently. Even if we invite magic soldiers to repair it," he pointed to four more places, "I'm afraid these places will collapse."
Su Cheng couldn't help but sigh: "Are all downstream people so unreliable?"
Mr. Xiong said: "In the early years, the imperial court would renovate according to time. Since the Jiangxi bandit rebellion, the Ministry of Industry rarely came. Most of the county magistrates along the coast knew something about it and would try to repair it by themselves. In the past few years, the water was small, and even if there was a flood,
There will also be a few small holes washed away, but there have never been big holes. However, last year, four big holes were broken in one go. This year, the water is even bigger. What I just mentioned are only the seven places where big holes are most likely to be broken. It is not that they will not be broken elsewhere.
, only looking at big and small damages. This dam has not been repaired for a long time." He raised his eyes and looked at Su Tao, "Now that things have come to this, it is impossible to protect everything."
Su Tao nodded slowly: "I know." Su Cheng couldn't bring himself to mention it, but he heard Su Tao say again, "In that case, we can only repair the best places first."
Mr. Xiong said: "The three places that were not damaged in the old year are the best to repair. If you want to repair more..." He thought for a moment and said decisively, "With the rain this year, we can only add one more."
Place."
Su Tao said: "Then choose the place with the largest number of people."
Su Cheng blurted out: "No, we should choose the most difficult part of the road." Everyone looked at her, and she explained, "If we use soldiers to build embankments, the soldiers will all be strong men, and their foot strength is much stronger than that of the common people.
It is cheaper to let them go into inaccessible areas to build embankments than to move people out."
Mr. Xiong said: "Zhang Daguan, the junior officials did not say that as long as we build embankments, we can stop the flood." Su Cheng was stunned.
Su Tao continued: "It's too late. Even emergency repairs may not be able to save it. All the people must evacuate."
Su Cheng thought about it, since everyone has to leave anyway, it is indeed the place with the largest population that should be built first. He couldn't help but nodded: "What you are saying is that late students don't think well."
Su Tao listened and felt inexplicably comfortable. He coughed and said, "How old are you? I just read a few books that I don't know where to read. I can only guess."
Su Cheng hurriedly bowed to her father: "Thank you for your advice." Su Tao proudly stroked his beard.
Mr. Xiong thought: "In terms of population, our Anyi County has the largest population."
Su Cheng looked at the map and pointed: "Is Anyi County here?"
"good."
Su Cheng frowned: "It's so close to Nanchang Mansion." She said seriously, "If so, Wan Sheng suggests giving up Anyi County."
Su Tao asked her: "What's the reason?"
Su Cheng arched his hands and said: "After Mr. Su took office, it is obvious that Nanchang City will undergo major expansion. I have been to Ping'an Prefecture and Taiwan Island, and both places have experienced major expansion-except for wealthy families, historical sites, and important places.
Streets, temples, Taoist temples, and ordinary people's houses were almost all demolished and rebuilt; the city's territory also expanded several times. The book says this is called the inevitable transformation of urbanization. Anyi County is the closest to Nanchang City, and it will be the earliest in the next few years.
Regarding the reconstruction, I dare say that even if the embankment is not breached, most of the houses there will have to be rebuilt in four or five years."
Mr. Xiong frowned and said, "That was four or five years later, what about now?"
Su Cheng said: "The victims will be resettled on the outskirts of the city first. There is such a large Taoist temple in Feihong Mountain, and as long as there is enough rice and food, a lot of people can be accommodated. And since they are close, it is cheaper to move out. Besides, after being ruined by bandits for more than ten years, how can anyone survive?"
What's the population? We just suffered a disaster last year."
Mr. Xiong thought about it for a long time and said with a wry smile: "Compared to more than ten years ago, the population is really small and the fields are also severely depleted."
Su Cheng added: "The roads in Jiangxi are not convenient. Except for a few official roads, it is not easy to travel anywhere. The water has risen now. At least Nanchang Prefecture has bought enough food. In the future, the flood will subside, and the refugees will be closer.
We can afford to stay in the camp for a longer period of time. Those who are far away and have inconvenient roads will find that all the houses have collapsed and there are no livestock after returning. I am afraid it will be difficult to find food rations."
Mr. Xiong said in surprise: "Sir, I heard that the official warehouse in Nanchang Mansion has been empty for a long time. When will there be food again?"
Su Tao smiled and said: "I bought it from Wu and Lingnan."
Mr. Xiong immediately asked: "How many people can feed for how long?"
Su Tao said: "It's more than enough to cope with this flood. Just buy it after the flood. Don't worry about it."
Mr. Xiong said: "If this is the case, after the flood, it is better to use the victims as river workers and let them repair the dams, rather than recruiting people from all over the world. The people in other places will let them cultivate the land so that they can have a good harvest this year and not worry about food next year.
Already."
Su Tao said with a smile: "I also have this intention."
Mr. Xiong chuckled, stroking his hands, and then asked Su Cheng about the methods of water control she knew. Su Cheng had never controlled water before, but he had heard Jia Cong talk about it when he was in the capital in his early years, so he relayed it. Finally, he said: "There is no method that can be used in Jiangxi yet.
Cement factory. Because I thought that there would be no need to build factories in the suburbs in recent years, I bought many from Lingnan, which can be used to build embankments."
Su Tao nodded. He stared at the map for a long time and said, "Soldiers must be dispatched."
Su Cheng looked around: "Why didn't you invite General Li to come over?"
Su Tao said: "He and Mr. Yang are training in the suburbs. I have sent someone to invite them."
Su Cheng pursed his lips and said, "Soldiers haven't learned how to build embankments. Is it possible to learn it temporarily?"
Mr. Xiong glanced at her: "Guan Zhang seems to have something to say."
Su Cheng said: "Soldiers are ruffians. Soldiers are ruffians. There are many ruffians in the army. If you ask people to build embankments and give them rewards, of course they can do it, but they may not like the job of embankment construction. Who will teach them? Old river workers? They are willing to listen.
What?"
Su Tao asked: "Do you have any ideas?"
Su Cheng smiled and said: "Didn't Mr. Su invite some water doctor from the Ministry of Works? How about inviting a few old river workers to be the water doctor?"
Su Tao frowned: "I am no more than a prefect, so where can I hire someone to be the doctor of the Ministry of Works?"
Su Cheng pursed his lips: "I didn't ask the Ministry of Industry to invite you."
Su Tao still didn't know what he meant. But Mr. Xiong opened his eyes wide and said after a while: "Master Zhang is so brave." Su Cheng smiled brightly. Mr. Xiong said to Su Tao, "What Mr. Zhang means is,
A doctor from the Ministry of Water who works as a river worker."
Su Cheng said: "Make some clothes for them, imitating the official robes of the doctor of the Ministry of Water, but they are not the same. This does not count as pretending to be a court official. Even the ruffians in the army can't recognize what official robes the doctor of the Ministry of Water should wear. Besides,
, they are originally river workers who manage water, so it is not wrong to say that they are from the Ministry of Water Resources.”
Su Tao Fangzheng, who had never thought of imitating a court official, immediately frowned. However, Mr. Xiong advised him: "It's just a trick to deceive a few soldiers." Su Cheng saw her father's hesitation and became nervous.
He opened his mouth, but in the end kept it tightly shut, as if he always wanted to hear or not. Su Tao was undecided.
After a while, Li Guopei came from the suburbs of the city. Su Tao's master then recounted what the master and his wife had discussed with Mr. Xiong, including Su Cheng's suggestion that he use the river worker to pretend to be a doctor of the Ministry of Water to deceive the soldiers. Li Guopei listened.
He actually agreed and said: "I can't control the people below. If the river worker doesn't have a name, they may not be willing to listen." Only then did Su Tao agree. Su Cheng covered her mouth and smiled - this was her father's disregard for the court.
first step.
Su Tao originally just wanted to call Su Cheng to talk about the methods of water control she had heard about, but unexpectedly she could come up with a few useful ideas. Later, everyone discussed water control, so they acquiesced to the master calling her up every time.
For dozens of days, we discussed and dispatched people. How to persuade the people who might be affected by the disaster to leave their homes, how to drive away those who refused to leave, where to resettle the population, how to transport food, who to watch the granaries, how to repair the dams, how to transport the food.
Su Cheng didn't understand how to move cement and other materials over, how many soldiers and horses to send where, and she just listened silently, occasionally giving some suggestions, and benefited a lot after many days. But what was going on on the embankment, she didn't know.
It's not something she can know - no one dares to let her go. Su Cheng sighed: "I'm still just talking on paper." Yang Guotai said: "Just be satisfied, at least we let you talk."
On this day, it was almost midnight when several people finished discussing the matter. Mr. Xiong let out a sigh of relief and sighed: "Master Su is really rich. I don't have to worry about Jiangxi being underdeveloped in the future."
Su Cheng smiled and said, "Mr. Xiong's compliment is really not right."
Mr. Xiong said: "It's not a compliment, so it doesn't go to the point. If there is no money to support it, none of these things will be possible. Where did Mr. Su get so much money?"
Su Tao smiled and said: "It's not mine. This money was obtained from confiscating Xie's family and his gang members."
"All the money from the Xie family and their relatives was brought to Beijing, and what was left was just some property. Even if your Excellency did several auctions, you still wouldn't be able to get so much. After all, it's more than 600,000 yuan at least.
As for the money, I don’t know if there will be other large expenses in the future. Where did Xie Jing keep so much money?” Su Tao couldn’t help laughing.
Last year, King Yan knew that the Dingcheng Hou Mansion secretly sent the Seventh Prince to the Rongguo Mansion for hiding. King Yan sent Feng Ziying to Dajiala to conduct a detailed investigation, and Jia Congzhi handed over the responsibility for secretly exchanging the tokens to the Seventh Prince.
The prince's biological mother thanked the noble man. Although King Yan was angry, seeing that their work was in vain, their daughter was unwilling to obey. The strategy of hiding the dragon could not succeed no matter what, and he felt as happy as watching a fire from the other side. So he just
All officials in the Xie family were exempted, and the Dingcheng Hou Mansion was not taken seriously.
However, the Xie family knew that how could the family be prosperous with just a sign of the Marquis Mansion? They wanted to switch to other princes. It was very troublesome for a large family to move, and Xie Jing had been loyal to King Yan for many years, so it was not easy for others to trust him. Like this
Naturally, the only way to clear the way was with money. Fortunately, Xie Jing had made a lot of black money in Jiangxi and was a very rich man. It was not cheap to carry money with him, so he went to the HSBC bank in Beijing to open a deposit account, wanting to carry only his passbook.
Move around.
Unexpectedly, Su Tao checked the accounts last month and found out that the Xie family's various properties owed countless taxes in Jiangxi, so he gave the capital a discount. Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin were all there at that time, so he asked Feng Ziying to act in a play. Feng Ziying swaggered.
He went to the HSBC Bank in Beijing and told them that the Xie family owed heavy taxes and wanted to seize their accounts for investigation. They were a small bank, how dare they disobey the boss of King Yan? So they followed the instructions and sealed Xie Jing's account - this incident
King Yan was completely unaware of this. Even if others heard about it, they would not dare to ask after seeing that it was Feng Ziying who took action in person. Xie Jing's more than 30 million silver deposited in HSBC Bank were all frozen until Su Tao found out the accounts and deducted the dues.
Taxes can only be thawed. Xie Jing wants to cry but has no tears.
This time for water control, Su Tao didn't have to worry about money at all - he could just deduct it from Xie Jing's account. So it was very generous. Su Cheng secretly clapped his hands and said with a smile, "That's it, if you come out to fool around, you will eventually have to pay it back."
In early June, the rain became heavier and heavier. The adventurous patrols on the dikes continued to show that two dikes were about to be unable to support them. On June 12, Anyi County took the lead in dikes again. The water this year was higher than last year.
In addition to the fields that were flooded last year, Anyi County was also flooded. A few days later, two more dykes were built. As Mr. Xiong said, the three dykes that he thought were the most dangerous were built.
Fortunately, the people in the three places were driven away by the officers and soldiers, and no population was lost. As for houses, livestock, and crops, there were not many to worry about in the face of natural disasters.
There were originally many Taoist temples on Feihong Mountain on the outskirts of Nanchang. The Taoist priests conspired with the bandits to attack the city the month before, and now they have all been sent to North America with the Mei family. The remaining Taoist temples have become temporary refugee camps. Pan Xigui mingled among the refugees.