Farmer’s Blessed Girl

When Wei Zhi wanted to return to Beijing from here, the local officials of course wanted to hold a farewell dinner for him. He thought that Wei Zhi would refuse, but who knew that he would agree.

Not to mention the governor of Mianzhou, even the magistrate Fu was happy, and tried his best to order a few tables of food and drink in the best restaurant in the county. The county seat where Master Bai arrived in the afternoon, just met with Master Wei, and he looked at it in surprise. Lord Wei glanced at him, but did not speak.

In this banquet, many people drank too much, and Master Bai's face flushed a little. He did not live in another courtyard in the county town, but chose to live in the same inn as Wei Zhi.

In the dead of night, Master Bai appeared in Wei Zhi's room.

Wei Zhi helped the kneeling master Bai up and said, "Since this official has promised you, I will naturally do it. After you finish sending me off tomorrow, go ahead and wait on the turning lane."

Hearing this, Master Bai breathed a sigh of relief and bowed back to his room.

But he was not at peace.

This afternoon, when he rushed from his home to the county seat, Wei Zhigang came back from the last severely affected village. He went up to ask to see him, but the other party didn't seem surprised at all.

With so many squires and local tyrants accompanying him, he not only remembered his name, but also called out the place where he lived. Even when he said that he was invited to visit Qili Village alone, he smiled meaningfully, and then did not ask any further questions. agreed.

At that time, Master Bai felt that this Lord Wei knew something.

Now, he is more certain.

He said that he wanted to go back to Beijing, but quietly went to Qili Village with him. Although this was in his interest, does this mean that Mr. Wei knew everything from the beginning, even what happened in Qili Village in the past two days. See it all?

Is he trustworthy?

The thought just flashed by, and he calmed down slightly.

It should be credible. He is not even afraid of saints, so is he still afraid of these officials in Yizhou?

In Yizhou, the biggest one is the King of Yizhou.

Unless Wei Zhi wanted to rebel, why would he collude with local officials and vassal kings?

Master Bai comforted himself like this.

Early the next morning, Wei Zhi's team was ready to go. Wei Zhi got into the carriage and said to everyone, "The summer is about to close, and there is a lot of work to be done after the disaster. I won't waste your time. Let's all go back."

This is impossible. The officials headed by the Mianzhou governor must send people to the Shili Changting Pavilion.

Parents and officials have sent them, of course the squires and local tyrants who come along will not fall behind, so they follow them one after another.

The mighty team set off like this, on the official road, and at the ten-mile long pavilion, Wei Zhi sank his face and said, "If you send it further, this official will not be able to leave."

The governor of Mianzhou was a little embarrassed to hear this. He didn't like the god of plague staying behind, so he stopped and said goodbye to Wei Zhi at the Shili Long Pavilion.

Master Bai followed all the squires and local tyrants to see Wei Zhi away, and then said goodbye to the governor of Mianzhou and the magistrates of various places.

The county magistrate Fu turned around and wanted to discuss some things with him, but no one was found.

Master Bai hurried back to the village and waited at the turning point where the county town turned into the mountain road, but within a quarter of an hour, Wei Zhi and two guards came from another road on horseback.

Master Bai breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to go forward and salute, Wei Zhi waved his hand and said, "Master Bai doesn't need to be more polite, let's go on our way first."

"Yes."

The two of them hurried to Qili Village on horseback. Of course, they arrived at the entrance of the village in less than two quarters of an hour.

At this time, Daji just handed over the deposited confession to Mrs. Liu, "Except for the person in the room on the right, the other two are willing to affix their confessions."

Mr. Liu nodded, wrapped the confession in oil paper, and put it in a box.

She was about to say something when the housekeeper reported at the foreign exchange door: "Old Madam, Master Tang has brought a distinguished guest here."

Liu Shi immediately got up and said, "Send everyone to the backyard, restrain the servants, and tell them not to move around. Please ask Mr. Tang and the others to go to the front hall, and I'll go right away."

This time Liu Shi didn't even bring his mama and the big girl around him, only Da Ji.

When Liu arrived, Wei Zhizheng stood at the door with his hands behind his back and looked at the flowers in front of the courtyard. Hearing footsteps, he turned to look.

Master Bai immediately introduced, "Sir, this is my aunt, maiden name Liu, my cousin was a Jinshi in the first year of Dazhen, and later became the magistrate of Shu County."

In the front hall, there were only Master Bai, Wei Zhi and the two guards he brought, as well as Mrs. Liu and Daji.

Liu Shi didn't speak immediately after saluting, Daji glanced at the guards Wei Zhi brought, and stepped back first.

Wei Zhi nodded slightly to his two guards, and there were only three people left in the hall.

"The old lady has something to say now."

Liu Shi then knelt down on the spot.

Wei Zhi hurriedly stretched out his hand to help her, but Liu refused, raised his head and asked him, "Sir, the Qianwei Weir should not have burst this time, nor should the tens of thousands of unjust souls who died under the flood."

Wei Zhi sighed, grabbed her arm tightly and helped her up, then stepped back and said, "I know."

As soon as they heard this, Mrs. Liu and Mr. Bai knew that they had made the right bet.

Six years later, Mr. Liu had nowhere to file a complaint, and he didn't even dare to reveal his grievance. Now he finally has a way to talk.

Liu Shi couldn't help crying.

Wei knows: "The flood disaster in Yizhou is very serious this time, and Your Majesty is furious, especially since the repair of Qianwei Weir has only passed two years, no, to be precise, the construction of Qianwei Weir has only been completed in one year and eight months. "

"This flood is due to the summer rainstorm, but if the flat water trough is not blocked, the water in the Feisha Weir is stronger, and the golden embankment does not collapse, then this will not happen, or it may not be able to stop it. Floods are mostly floods, not flash floods.”

The levee burst came so quickly and violently that the people downstream were washed away without reacting.

Therefore, in Wei Zhi's view, this is a natural disaster and a man-made disaster.

"While investigating the construction of the Qianwei Weir, this official found that in the second year of Dazhen, Bai Qi, the magistrate of Shu County, had submitted a letter and wanted to hire laborers from other places to repair the golden embankment, but it had not been delivered to the capital. The state governor was beaten back."

Wei Zhi shouldn't have known about this, but I have to say that Bai Qi is meticulous enough and Wei Zhi is careful enough. When he checked various account books in Shu County, he found the work diary recorded by Bai Qi during the case file. There was no specific content on it, but he wrote the date, and the title of the top fold.

It's normal, but not normal.

It is normal that when migrant workers are urgently needed in general water conservancy projects, some workers will indeed be hired or dispatched from other places to support them;

The abnormality is that the Qianwei Weir is very large. Because it has been in disrepair for a long time, the construction period of the preliminary design is three years.

Funding began in the first year of Dazhen, and it would take one year and seven months to complete by the time of Bai Qi’s fold. Later, it turned out that the repair work was even longer, and it was not completed until the autumn of two years ago.

For such a long-term water conservancy project, people from various counties in the state usually come here to serve and work in turn, and it is rare to dispatch laborers from other places so early.