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Building bridges and paving roads is a political achievement.

It is the basis for officials in the Ministry of Personnel to evaluate whether an official can be promoted.

It takes money, a lot of money.

If it were easier to handle, Zhao Kui would not choose to put pressure on merchants every year to squeeze out some money to live off.

When he was young, when he first became the county magistrate, he also thought about doing a career.

It was later discovered that the Four Books and Five Classics only taught him how to take scientific examinations, but did not teach him how to be a powerful official capable of doing important things.

Building bridges and paving roads seems simple, but in fact it requires money, manpower, and the property and houses involved must be handled carefully. If you are not careful, you will be sued to the city. At that time, let alone the credit, it is just the one on your head. The head is not enough to chop off.

Zhao Kui tried several times, but failed every time and was completely exhausted.

Now I only think about how to spend some money on those merchants to improve my life, and I have no other thoughts at all.

Now, someone told him that they wanted to give him political achievements and help him pay this sum of money to build bridges and pave roads?

Zhao Kui's eyes flickered.

A little excited, but also a little panicked.

His eyes fell on Master Zheng, and he found that he also had blank eyes like him.

However, Master Zheng was Master Zheng after all, and he quickly found his voice, "Miss Tang, can you tell me in detail?"

Yunling sat down and stretched out her hand towards Yuliu.

Yu Liu stepped forward and placed a piece of paper on the table.

"This is a drawing of the approximate locations of various villages and towns in Lake County and the nearby rivers."

Zhao Kui and Master Zheng looked down.

As the future eldest concubine of the Zhenxihou Mansion, it was not surprising that Yunling had handwritten a map of the territory that only the county government had.

The two of them looked at it without commenting.

The main reason is that I have just arrived and haven't had time to see the general affairs of the county government.

Even if they had time, they wouldn't bother to look at the pictures.

Zhao Kui cleared his throat, "It costs a lot of money to build roads."

Even though the Tang family has risen in the past six months, it is actually just a small merchant. At best, it only has thirty to fifty thousand taels of silver, but it cannot withstand such consumption.

Yunling stretched out her finger and clicked on the veins of several rivers.

"Let me tell you the truth. If it's a brick road, it's really hard for the Tang family to bear. But what if it's something else?"

Master Zheng reacted, "You mean to widen the river and build a waterway?"

"Master is right."

Zhao Kui frowned, "The river channel widening was not done in previous years, what's so strange about it?"

The imperial court would collect corvees every few years to clean up the rivers. How could such a trivial matter be considered a political achievement?

Could this little girl be joking with him?

"My lord, when you go south this time, you want to take a boat on the Dongrui River, right?"

"Not all of the Dongrui River was dug out from scratch. Many areas were once fields. Craftsmen dug and connected them along the original river veins."

At this point, Zhao Kui already understood what Yunling meant and asked suspiciously: "Do you want to connect these rivers?"

Yunling nodded, "Since you are the official of a county, you must also do practical things for the people of Hu County."

Zhao Kui was speechless, "Hu County is prosperous, and every village, town, county, and even Yuezhou City has official channels, so why bother?"

There is already a road, so why waste money and money on building a waterway?

Although it was not his property that was hurt.

"Sir, there is an official road from Ruidu to Yuezhou City. Why did you choose to travel by water?"

"Of course it's a quick move." Zhao Kui blurted out without thinking.

"Then why don't you want to create a more convenient road for the people?"

"If these rivers are widened and connected, passing through Hu County and finally connecting to the Nanxiu River in the south of Yuezhou City, people in Hu County can directly reach the Yuezhou City Pier from the waterway."

"Although the official road is good, it is winding and winding, and it is bumpy and difficult to travel when encountering mountains. If it is a waterway, it will be safer and more convenient."

"What's more important is that waterways don't require livestock. If people want to go to the county town, they don't have to spend huge sums of money to buy one, or take other people's carriages and horses. They only need to prepare an ebony boat."

"Sir, you also came to Hu County by carriage from Yuezhou City. Let's not talk about the bumpy carriage, but let's talk about the time it takes. It takes about three hours to take a carriage from Yuezhou City to Hu County. If you take a boat, it will take more time. Considering the distance between the two cities, it can be reached in an hour as long as there is a favorable wind."

Zhao Kui had to admit that he was moved.

He turned to look at Master Zheng again.

Master Zheng thought for a while and asked directly, "What is the purpose of Miss Tang's willingness to contribute money and effort? Is it possible that she just wants to make it easier for herself to go back and forth to the county?"

"If I just want to go to and from town more conveniently, I just need to buy a house in the county. One of the reasons why I do this is to transport some goods by water.

My Tang family's dim sum sales were very good, and many customers placed orders in the county town and Yuezhou City. However, the carriage was bumpy and the cakes were often broken when delivered to customers, which caused a lot of criticism, so I thought if the waterway was feasible , it is a great help to my family’s business, and this is also my own selfish intention. "

"Secondly, I am familiar with the sister of the Zheng family. Now that I have thought of this method, I will definitely come and ask the master and the master immediately. If I skip the two of you and go directly to the government office in Yuezhou City, why not It doesn't make sense, doesn't it? Both in public and private matters, our Tang family wants to be on good terms with you two."

"Leaving aside the Tang family, Sister Zheng and I hit it off and we have a deep love as sisters."

Master Zheng understood and was moved.

He and Zhao Kui looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

"Miss Tang, I'm in a hurry today. After the Dragon Boat Festival, I will personally accompany my daughter to visit the Tang family."

Knowing that the two of them might have to plot together, Yunling stood up and said goodbye, "On the sixth day of the fifth lunar month, my daughter and her grandfather will be waiting for Master Zheng at home."

After Yunling passed the hanging flower door, Zheng Rongwan hurriedly went up to hold her hand and led her to her room.

She is Master Zheng's only daughter. Even if she gets married, the Zheng family will leave a room for her in their own residence so that she can rest when she returns home.

"Sister Tang, you seem to have grown taller." Zheng Rongwan pulled the person in front of him and gestured.

"Everyone in the family said so, it should be a bit high."

She hasn't come to Guishui yet. She should be able to grow again. She hopes to grow taller. Otherwise, she will have to raise her head when talking to Zhou Qiong in the future, which will make her neck sore.

I looked around, but there was no red cotton.

Thinking that Zheng Rongwan had been walking alone in the county government office from the moment he welcomed her to now, which was somewhat inconsistent with her status as the second grandmother of the Zhao family.

Then he asked, "Why didn't Hongmian come with her sister?"

Zheng Rongwan showed a wry smile, "She was guarding in my yard... Hong Mian couldn't get out of her way. The other girls were taking her with me and I was afraid of delaying you, so I came out alone."

Zheng Rongwan also had a lot of bitterness.

"Do you still remember Qu Wanwan?"