Chapter 6: It turns out that there is a lot of water in the yard

After dinner, the local people and Kaifeng brought them to work again, saying that they would build the wharf today.

Zhang Zhong originally planned to stop going to the yamen today. It was too late, but Zhang Xiaobao was going to go. He wanted to see what was going on there. He could find some solutions if he found out earlier and moved in earlier.

The four of them didn't want to go either. They felt sleepy after a day of trouble. But looking at the hundreds of people with weapons around Zhang Zhong, they were afraid that Zhang Zhong, who dared to do anything, would cause harm to them, so they could only forcefully go to the yamen with sleepyness.

The government office in Luzhou is located in Wulei County, not far from the county office. Usually in this case, the officials in the county office will feel very uncomfortable, especially the county magistrate, who should be the largest official in the county, but he still has to obey the orders of the government office and cannot show the prestige he should have.

But Luzhou seems to be the opposite. The original governor hoped that his yamen would be farther away from the county yamen. He only had fifty soldiers, but there were 150 yamen runners in Wulei County. The emperor was far away. Regardless of whether it was a county or not, he still provided weapons. These weapons were bought by the county magistrate Zhang Yi himself. As for where he got the money, it would be simple.

After nearly two hours, the group passed by the county government office. From the outside, they looked almost very dilapidated from other places. Fortunately, the door did not fall, but you could see the two-story building inside, which was well built. This should be the county magistrate's home.

Corrupt officials, this is Wang Juan’s idea. A county magistrate is still a remote county magistrate who wants to build a building with his salary. He dreams. His family is really capable. Who would come here to be a county magistrate? This is different from Zhang Zhong. Zhang Zhong is promoted to the fourth rank, and others will not do it when he finds a good state.

The group continued to move forward and walked out for about half a quarter of an hour before the government office appeared in front of them. The low wall was built of mud. The paint color of the mansion door had almost lost. There were bugs on it and small holes were stolen. Looking in through the wall, the place was also quite large.

Unfortunately, there is no two-story building. At this time, there is no one else except for a few people doing odd jobs. The people doing odd jobs are sitting next to a fire eating, and the rest are dark.

The door was opened directly, and a harsh sound came. With a bang, the door was completely opened, and the people who were doing odd jobs came over. The reason why the door was opened just now was that they did not bolt at all.

Several people saw the clothes Zhang Zhong was wearing by using the lanterns on Zhang Zhong. They immediately knew who was coming and asked in while bowing.

Zhang Zhong first came to the hall where the case handled the case in the mansion was specially designed. He walked to the table and looked at it. There was a layer of dust on it. It seemed that he had nothing to do for a long time. Then he turned to the study room. The study room was empty, let alone a book, there was not even a small number. From the traces on the ground, you can tell that when you took office, you moved away all the things you could move. What is this poor thing?

When he went to the signing room and other places, it was also empty. Zhang Zhong shook his head helplessly, knowing that it was not easy for others to become officials, and these things would either not stay. There was new things on the boat. No wonder the officials were greedy and poor. They finally became officials. If they were not greedy, they would use anything to socialize and give them a good life for their families.

Perhaps only those who are really willing to do things for the people are less greedy, and the children from big families don’t have to be greedy, just for political achievements. Although they are not from big families, they have a lot of business at home and are greedy for thousands of guan, even if they are tens of thousands of guan, it is better to take a break while they are free.

After seeing the office space of the Mansion Center, I walked backwards. The one behind is the same as in Huayuan County, with one yard in one yard. It may be that the land here is worthless, and the courtyard group behind is more than twice as big as in Huayuan County.

When it was dark, you should pay more attention to your feet when walking with lanterns. This place was OK. There was no bluestone road, but there was some sand. Both sides of the road were bare and there were no flowers and plants. Two kapok trees were standing in the yard. After walking out for a few steps, Zhang Zhong found something was wrong.

There was water here, and it looked sparkling with the light of the lanterns. When I was waiting to enter the yard, I could no longer sit down. Looking at the room from a distance, the paper on the window had been broken by the wind and rain, and only some small pieces were stuck on the window frame.

"It seems that no one lives in this room. It has a lot of water and is very fashionable. It should be the same in other places, right?" Zhang Zhong asked the choreographer.

"If you say that, it is true. I don't know why, water is always leaking out here. It will be very uncomfortable for people to live in such a place. If the master has money at home, it is better to buy a house outside. Governor Shi has always wanted to buy a house, but unfortunately he hasn't saved enough money."

The choreographer answered respectfully. He saw so many weapons-carried people around the new governor, and felt that he should be rich.

"Well, there is no hurry to do this. You all look around. There are Xiaobao, the people in the Zhuang Medieval Protection Team. Juanjuan follows me to go around."

Zhang Zhong didn't know what to do, so he asked his son and daughter-in-law in a hurry, and sent the others away and walked back with the crowd. After walking out for a while, the people from the Miao Protective Team dispersed their warnings, and Zhang Zhong looked at his son.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan looked at each other, squatted and dipped some water with their fingers, gagged, and said, "It's not sea water, there is no bitterness or saltiness at all. It should be the groundwater seeping up. You need to ask others how fast the penetration is.

If groundwater seeps up regularly, it means that the terrain here is low. If the terrain here is not low and it can still seep up, that means..."

"It means there is pressure water below, so you can get it from Liujing. Huzi, go and ask the person who is doing odd jobs, what's going on here." Wang Juan continued Zhang Xiaobao's judgment.

Hu Zi ran out and came back in a while and reported, "This place is higher than other places. There are usually five feet high water in the house. It has been built with such a high wall. The water will no longer seep out at that height. But in this way, other places will seep up, saying it is fast or slow.

When I took office, I asked my family to dig a ditch so that the water could flow out. I just looked at it. I saw that when I took office, I wanted to dig more ditches, but I found that after I dug too much, the water would be released, and the surrounding areas were all wet. There were many houses next to the yamen. The people didn’t want to, so I filled them in again.

Also, there is a river three miles away from here. The governor wanted to dig a river, but the four judges in the yamen disagreed, saying that they were using the money from the yamen to waste the people and lose money. The county magistrate of the county also told the people not to come to help, and the people dare not come, let alone that people can't afford to work when they take office."

After Huzi said that, he stepped aside, and nothing happened to him next.

Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan, and Zhang Zhong walked back together. At the end, he saw a ditch where water from all over the place gathered together and flowed out along the ditch. When he pushed open the corner door behind, he could see that the water in the ditch flowed toward several families. Then he walked forward. These families dug the ditch and led the water to other places.

"I understand that there is no basic construction here. When heavy rain falls, the rain will flow to the ditch. I am really sad for the person named Shi. The governor is so big that he is not an ordinary person who is not an ordinary person."

Zhang Xiaobao didn't have to follow him and knew what was going on, so he doubted how that man became the governor.

"I didn't hear Hu Zi say just now. The governor wanted to do something. The four people stopped him first, and then the county magistrate threatened the people. His family didn't have much money to do private work. Just dragging him on, these people were bad enough. Depending on the situation, the four judges and Zhang Yi joined forces to bully the governor."

Wang Juan analyzed on the side, which meant to tell Zhang Xiaobao, find a way quickly, otherwise your father would be bullied.

Zhang Xiaobao curled his lips disdainfully, "Let me see who dares to use the original method on our home? I live in this place, so it's great to have a self-flowing well. Dig down from an unimportant courtyard next to it, build a pond, and connect it to the river three miles away, which is full of water.

Think about it again, the governor’s family does not have much money, but he still has fifty soldiers in his house and builds weapons. Why is this? Raising those people is quite expensive. Does it mean that he is afraid that his or his family’s lives will be threatened? Then who can threaten his life?"

"The yamen runners dare not, and the county magistrate will not let the yamen runners do such things, but people outside dare, especially to his family. I guess that person has something to do with Zhang Yi. In other words, when someone threatens the life of the governor's family, the yamen runners will not come forward and they can't count on them at all."

Wang Juan then added that this kind of thing is very common and looks confusing. It is very simple after knowing it. If you want to blame the governor, you will blame the poor ability. A powerful person will clean up the other party.

Zhang Zhong listened on the side and thought that this was the case, but he was not afraid. His family had a lot of money, and he didn't have to care whether the money was enough. As well as the guards of the prince's palace, his family would not be hurt.

When Zhang Zhong and his family analyzed the matter and decided to live in the mansion, more than a dozen people in the yamen of Wulei County were gathered together to discuss the matter.

"Mr. Zhang County Magistrate, I heard that the new governor is extraordinary. He has wealth at home and many people around him to protect him. Is the previous method not easy to use? Otherwise, he would give him some of the salt farm or give him some of other precious tributes?"

A person who was half a head taller than others and was thin and sat on the cushion opposite Zhang Yi and said to Zhang Yi.

"Is there any money at home? You can take out tens of thousands of guan at will. Do you believe this? Don't rush to use the threat method in the past. I will find a way to find him tomorrow and find an opportunity to give him a thousand guan of guan. Let's see what he will do?"

Zhang Yi didn't believe that Zhang Zhong's family could be so rich, so he was going to test it first, because this was a treatment that his ex didn't have.
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