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The imperial court quarreled for more than half a month on whether to allocate funds to Mingzhou to build the seawall, and finally agreed to allocate funds, but only according to the money required for the 6.6-foot (about [-] kilometers) size of the earthen pond. That is to say, if Mingzhou wants to To build the stone pond, they had to find ways to raise funds by themselves.

Fan Zhizhou had a headache. Although he could take advantage of the opportunity of corvée at the end of the year to let the common people repair the seawall, their subsidies were also given by the imperial court, but the repair of the seawall cannot be completed in a few months, and additional civilian labor must be recruited, and the number of people is less than A thousand is not enough, and he has to find another way to raise this money.

If it is to build an earthen pond, he is not reconciled. There are obviously better ways to make Mingzhou more prosperous and prosperous, so why give up?

Knowing his troubles, Lou Hao went home and discussed with Lou Gao, "Should we donate some money to the government to build the seawall? This is also doing good deeds and accumulating virtue."

Lou Gao said: "The Lou family can donate money, but even if they take out all the money, it's just a drop in the bucket."

Song Yuyan and Tang Zhi happened to come to Mingzhou and visited Lou's house on the way, so Lou Gao talked to them.Song Yuyan was thoughtful, and then took out the map of Cixi's coastline she had drawn.

During that time, she always ran to the seaside, not only to survey geology, but more importantly, to observe the environment and map on the spot.

The Cixi County Government has a map, but the drawing is too rough for her to use.The map she drew marked the location of the high tide and low tide, the extent of the land affected by the tide and the salinization, and the distance of the village.

She said: "If the seawall is built, then this area can become a fertile field, and ash trees can be planted here..."

Lou Gao looked at her map in amazement: "This map is really detailed and marked! Where did you buy it?"

Song Yuyan: "..."

Is the point here?

"I drew it myself."

"I almost forgot that you can paint!"

Seeing Song Yuyan staring at him, Lou Gao smiled "hehe" and said, "I know what you said, but the problem is that the stone pond may not be repaired yet!"

Tang Zhi shook his head and sighed, took the map, and said: "These lands are flooded by the waves every year and become barren lands, so neither the government nor the common people plant anything there, and there are no lands. If it can be turned into fertile land, who does Lord Lou Erlang think these fertile fields will belong to?"

Lou Gao was at a loss for words for a moment, he rolled his eyes, and immediately understood what they meant: "What you mean is that we can buy these lands from the government in the name of buying land, and when the government has money, they can buy it." We have built the seawall, and we are the ones who benefit in the end?"

The [-]-foot seawall benefits tens of thousands of acres of farmland. There are several or tens of hectares of land in Mingzhou. There are powerful and powerful landlords, but they are still not satisfied, so when there is no farmland to cultivate, they only Will go to annex the farmland of ordinary farmers.

If there are tens of thousands of acres of land, their goal can be shifted.As long as they have tasted the sweetness, more funds will be invested in the construction of seawalls along the remaining sea coast in the future.

The price of land is only 2 or 3 yuan per mu, and [-] mu costs [-] to [-] yuan.Then, in the name of building meritorious deeds, etc., and tricked him into donating a lot of money from rich and powerful households, the funds for the construction of Shitang were collected.

Lou Gao was very moved, but he also knew that people from the Lou family could not bring up this matter. It would be best if someone close to Fan Zhizhou came up with this idea, so that Fan Zhizhou would come forward to negotiate with the powerful landlords .

Lou Gao went to arrange this matter, and under the help of someone with a heart, Fan Zhizhou's wife heard about these methods.

She knew that her officials were worried about the seawall recently, so she told him what she had heard outside during the day, and said, "Why don't the officials persuade the wealthy households in Mingzhou to donate money to repair the seawall?"

Fan Zhizhou said: "There are quite a few wealthy households in Mingzhou, but not all of them are kind-hearted people. There are only a few of them who often do good deeds and accumulate virtue. But as a parent official, how can I come forward and ask them to donate money? Whether they donate or not will definitely look at my face, if someone doesn’t want to donate, they must be worried that I will blame me and have to donate, so, wouldn’t it be forcing them to donate, which is against my original intention?”

"Have the officials thought about what to do with the barren land after the seawall is repaired and turned into fertile land?"

Fan Zhizhou said: "Of course it is rented out as an official land."

"Then why didn't the officials sell these fields in advance, and then use the money to build seawalls? Then build a merit temple to include all those who donated money..."

Fan Zhizhou thought for a moment and asked her, "Who gave you these ideas?"

She said: "I said it when I went to the street and listened to people talking about it. You don't know if you don't go to the street on weekdays. Now everyone in the street is talking about seawalls and cement. I heard that those rich businessmen even got together Let’s prepare to make a large amount of cement together, so that in the future, if someone wants to repair a house, they don’t need to use mud bricks anymore!”

Speaking of cement, Fan Zhizhou said: "Then Song Dalang is such a strange person. No wonder Liu Chuo mentioned him to me before leaving office. I thought he was worthy of Liu Chuo's attention because of his backing from the Song family. I didn't expect that it was cotton first. , and now it’s made of cement, with many tricks.”

He also took out the schematic diagram of the seawall section designed by Song Yuyan, "He is not an ordinary person. Such a precise and reasonable seawall construction concept is much more ingenious than the seawall of the Qiantang River."

"This kind of strange person, the officials might as well draw them to your side. Isn't he good at water control? There is also a lack of people capable of water control in the court, and the officials can recommend him. If he is reused in the future, he will definitely remember the officials' recommendation. of."

"If the construction of the seawall goes well this time, I will definitely recommend him..." Fan Zhizhou murmured.

He discussed with Ning Zhi for a few days, and then made up his mind to hold a banquet, inviting all the powerful landlords in Mingzhou, and the opening chapter was to look forward to the future of Mingzhou together.

These powerful landlords were severely suppressed when Liu Chuo was in office, and they have always held a wait-and-see attitude towards Fan Zhizhou these years, and Fan Zhizhou extended a hand to them, and they were a little moved.

But before the seawall was successfully built, the land there was still a barren land that could not grow any high-yielding grain. It seemed that it was not worthwhile for them to buy the land at such a high price.

While they were hesitating, Lou Gao bought [-] mu of land in one go.He believes that Song Yuyan, if the seawall is successfully built, then the five hundred acres of land will be another step for the Lou family to move from a wealthy family to a famous one!

Regardless of whether the stone pond construction method is adopted at that time, the construction of the seawall is a foregone conclusion, so he will still benefit, but it may cause a little loss every year.Big deal, he sponsored the government to build the sea pond in the area around the part of the field he bought into a stone pond.

The other powerful landlords originally wanted to take advantage of Fan Zhizhou to lower the price, but Lou Gao's flattering behavior deprived them of the initiative to negotiate, so they were afraid that the fields over there would be sold out if they were too late to speak. The Hao Qiang scrambled to open their mouths.

Within an hour, all the fields within the seawall construction area were sold out.Then Ning Zhi opened his mouth to talk about the construction of the Gongde Temple.

Ning Zhi was an upright person, and when he came forward to say these words, everyone didn't think he was fooling them to collect money for the construction of the seawall, but they paid more attention to this matter.

Besides, not everyone can enter the Gongde Temple. Just like the Zhuangyuan Memorial Archway, it is to be handed down. It is the door plaque and signboard.

These people care more about the Gongde Temple than buying land.

Seeing these people scrambling to ask questions, Fan Zhizhou thought, let alone a [-]-foot seawall, it is possible to build a [-]-foot seawall.

Ning Zhi didn't like these powerful landlords at first, and felt that some of them bought the farmland of poor people at a low price, but building seawalls was beneficial to both the country and the people.

Fan Zhizhou is right, it is they who exploited the common people on a daily basis and want to return it to the common people.Naturally, he would not let go of this opportunity to cheat them.Then he said: "Whoever does good deeds and accumulates the most virtues will have the name of the Gongde Temple at the top."

So the landlord Hao Qiang, who originally only planned to donate hundreds of thousands of coins, started the bidding mode in order to get his name at the top.

For the sake of his [-] mu of land, Lou Gao hoped that the seawall would be successfully built no matter what, so he didn't mind being a trustee and pushing up the donation money.Zhao Yu's father, who had always been a deadly enemy with his father, and other wealthy households were naturally unwilling to be inferior to the Lou family, so they also donated twice as much as the Lou family.

Fan Zhizhou: "..."

If he had known that these people were so competitive and compared each other, he should have done this long ago, so why bother to ask the court for funding again and again!Now the officials have a headache when they see his notes, and they cry to him that the treasury has no money.

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Once the funds are in place, the construction of the seawall can begin.

Lou Gao has already reached a cooperation agreement with Song Yuyan and some wealthy households, and started mass production of cement to prepare for the construction of the seawall.

Fan Zhizhou recommended Song Yuyan to the imperial court in the name of "Unique Talent and Strange Learning". The officials thought the name looked familiar. After asking around, they realized that this was Song Fu's nephew. She planted the cotton that Mingzhou paid tribute to last year. I heard that the cement that the court disputed before was also made by her.

So the officials called Song Fu again and asked him, "Song Qing is a capable nephew, why didn't Song Qing recommend him?"

Song Fu also wanted to recommend his own family members, but the officials were very taboo about this, so naturally he couldn't follow what the officials said.So he used the excuse that Song Yuyan did not obtain fame and was not enough to take on important tasks, which not only expressed his impartiality, but also affirmed the practice of selecting scholars through the imperial examination.

The official nodded and said: "If you have extraordinary talents and knowledge, why bother to stick to the imperial examinations? Fan Qing thought he had the ability to control water and recommended him, then I will appoint him as the supervisor of Quanzhi Mingzhou Weir and Sluice Capital, and supervise the construction of Mingzhou seawall .”

The Weir and Sluice Dujian is a government office officially established by the imperial court last year. It is responsible for the construction and maintenance of canals, weirs, and seawalls. From the nine-rank Zhima official, there are officials such as the Weir and Sluice Commander and the Water Control Supervisor.

Of course, the addition of "Quan Zhi" in front of it means agency, which means that Song Yuyan is only temporarily acting for this position. If she really has the ability to control water, she may become a regular at that time.

Song Fu was a little confused. His nephew was an ordinary person before, and suddenly he got an official position, and he didn't have to pass the scientific examination!Although he would rather Song Yuyan pass the imperial examination to become an official, otherwise he would definitely be despised in the future.

When he returned home in a daze, his wife saw that he was not in the right state and asked him what was going on.He then told about the appointment of the official family to Song Yuyan. When his wife heard the words, she gave him a blank look and shouted, "Then why are you still standing there? Write a letter to your family and tell me about it!"

Song Fu came back to his senses: "Yes, I forgot about this!"

So he hurriedly repaired a copy of the book and sent it home.But no matter how fast the letter was sent, it was not as fast as the imperial court's documents. Song Yuyan received the imperial court's appointment before the patriarch of the Song clan got Song Fu's family letter.

Song Yuyan was stunned: "?!"

No, I just want to take this opportunity to make some money, I don't want to embark on an official career.

I wanted to help Tang Haogen solve his troubles, and earn some design fees and supervision fees from the government by the way. When the project is finished, she will have nothing to do.

Who would have expected Fan Zhizhou to be so "polite" and recommend her directly, and get her to be the acting section chief of the Engineering Management Section of the Water Conservancy Bureau, and she immediately felt pressured.

Tang Zhi was more stressed and anxious than her. She was restless and asked Song Yuyan: "If your identity is exposed, will the court hold you accountable?"

Song Yuyan comforted: "It will be fine. I will quit when the seawall is completed. The court can't force me. After all, this is only temporary. If the seawall is built quickly, it will only take a year."

In contrast, Song Yuyan seemed too calm. Seeing her undisturbed appearance, Tang Zhi calmed down, and at the same time, his speculation about Song Yuyan's origin became deeper and deeper.