Infrastructure masters in the red building

Jia Fang hurriedly saluted the fourth prince in the car and said, "Your Highness, do you really want to scare me?"

Jia Fang also really had a headache, and it was all his fault. When the emperor proposed to give him this and that, he refused, but the rejection was not firm enough. As a result, as soon as he returned, a decree came down, and he transformed himself into "" Pingnan Jiedushi" don't mention it, now the whole world may know that the emperor has an illegitimate son who is like a baby bump among the people, and he didn't remember it until he was 16 years old. Put it in his pocket.

Now even the royal family is aware of it.

In fact, it was already a little weird when Shengjia visited the garden last time, but Jia Fang hadn't noticed it at that time.Both the crown prince and the third prince had strange attitudes towards him, but they were both in the way of His Majesty the Emperor, and they dared not express themselves.

The Fourth Prince stared at him for a long while before saying: "Actually... the first time I saw you, I felt familiar... as if I had already seen you."

It may be blood relationship, there is some feeling between the brothers.

Seeing the fourth prince's attitude, Jia Fang also felt relieved, cupped his fists at him, and said: "His Royal Highness will treat Zifang as usual." He sat down opposite the fourth prince, with Shui Xian beside him.

"Where is this going?" Jia Fang just noticed that the carriage was moving slowly, and asked quickly.

"Send our Pingnan Jiedu Envoy to take office?" Shui Xian smiled beside him.Sitting opposite them, the fourth prince couldn't help smiling.

"Please, I'm already worried enough." Jia Fang lost his mind.Although his uncle and father had thought about it thoroughly for him, he still had no idea.

The meaning of the emperor's father is very clear. Taoyuanzhai is an experimental field, and he has tried to grow this experimental field well, so the emperor's father gave him a bigger place to see if he can manage it.

Taoyuan Village itself has its own special features: the form of ownership.All the land belongs to Jia Fang, the villagers of Taoyuan Village are loyal to him, and the new immigrants from Yujiang are grateful to Jia Fang for saving their lives.

Everything there belongs to him, and no one will refuse to listen to him.Compared with the outside world, this stockade is simply a land of nowhere.

But outside Taoyuan Village, it is more "real".First of all, he has to deal with a lot of officials like the county officials in neighboring counties, and endure their rude, bossy and self-righteous masters.

And the people everywhere may not be as conscious as the villagers in Taoyuanzhai, and may not obey everything. If he tries to implement new policies and reforms, and tries to change local customs, he may encounter considerable resistance.

"Go to the Wanqing Building first, sit down and talk." Seeing that Jia Fang was really worried, Shui Xian patted him on the shoulder and pouted at the Fourth Prince, "The Fourth Highness has some contacts in the south, maybe he can help you .”

When they arrived at Wanqing Building when they were young, Shui Xian invited the two of them to the private room.After sitting down, Shui Xian mentioned Lin Ruhai.He told Jia Fang: "Recently, Ruhai is preparing for the Chunwei exam. I am really embarrassed to find him. Let's bother him again when he is on the gold list."

"Lin Ruhai?" The Fourth Prince had no memory of this name.

Shui Xian smiled and said, "It's the living Bodhisattva who brought the 'gold and silver rice' to Beijing."

The fourth prince immediately said "Oh", indicating that he had heard it before.

At the turn of spring and summer last year, Lin Ruhai was entrusted by Shui Xian and Jia Fang to bring "gold and silver rice" made of new rice and old rice into the capital as high-quality and expensive rice, which caused several disputes in Beijing and China. The big grain store was raided, and the confiscated grain was sold directly at a low price, or supplied to the private camps outside the city.

The people in the capital were once very angry at the expensive gold and silver rice, but afterward they gradually realized that if there was no young man from the south of the Yangtze River to bring grain to Beijing, would the major grain businesses fail?

The rumors were passed around, and it turned out that Lin Ruhai was a living Bodhisattva.

Jia Fang: ...that's amazing!

Lin Ruhai is his good friend, and Jia Fang sincerely hoped that he would be able to enter the gold list high school. Didn't it be mentioned in the original book that he was from Tanhualang?

Putting matters aside, the Fourth Prince asked first: "Zi Fang, this Jiedushi...do you plan to just have a false title, or do you plan to, that... do it seriously and do something?"

Jia Fang replied honestly: "Of course it is the latter."

He also wanted to choose the former, but finally had such an opportunity to try to change the world, why let this opportunity slip away?

"Very well, you... are you going to go in person?"

When the fourth prince asked this, Jia Fang really got stuck: "This..."

He has also been thinking about this question: Does he need to come forward in person and sit in the southern counties?

His home court is in Beijing, and the Grand View Garden itself still requires him to spend a lot of energy on it-that is what he aspires to complete within five years.

But now he suddenly has the title of "Jiedushi" on his head, which means that he can do something in the south.But if he travels three thousand miles to the south, it takes half a year to go back and forth. If he really wants to "depart" to the south, it will be difficult to balance both sides.

In fact, he can take care of both, but the question is how to "take into account".

The people in the capital thought that he had been in the capital all the time, and the officials in the south felt that he was appearing in the south one after another. It would be terrible if everyone thought that he had seen a ghost, just like Lai Da did back then.

Shui Xian looked at Jia Fang's hesitation and hesitation: "The Fourth Highness and I are good friends who have known each other for many years. If Zi Fang is willing, you can rest assured of his nature: trustworthy and tight-lipped."

Seeing that Shui Xian had guaranteed tickets for the fourth prince, Jia Fang felt that the fourth prince was the most trustworthy among his "brothers", and said, "Okay, everyone, please don't be too surprised by what I said. .”

"I have a 'shortcut' that can quickly travel between the capital and the south."

"How fast?" the fourth prince asked.

Jia Fang: "...about the time of a cup of tea."

The fourth prince opened his eyes in astonishment, but Shui Xian closed his eyes, and said flatly: "The one hundred thousand stone grains released that day were all brought from the south."

One hundred thousand stone grains, even old grains, solved the urgent need of the capital.

Jia rest assured that Shuixian knew his details, but he still glanced at him and nodded.

The fourth prince was extremely shocked. After a long pause, he looked at Jia Fang and asked, "The shortcut is the capital and the south... where?"

Jia Fang replied: "My fief."

Before last year's drought, Taoyuan Village was a fiefdom of Rongfu, but after the drought, it was transferred to Jia Fang's name.The fourth prince also knew about this matter, after all, the patients with blood plague that Yu Jiang sent to other places were the ones who clearly stated that they had been cast in Jia Fang's fiefdom.

The fourth prince listened to what Jia Fang said, thought about it slowly, and finally realized something, and said: "I have something that I have never figured out..."

"Before Father re-entered the Great Treasure, he once...encountered a great danger, but miraculously escaped from Beijing." The fourth prince said while recalling, "It is said that...he went to the south, and the four princes and eight princes are here... The Southern Rescue..."

Jia Fang admired this fourth prince very much. How could this man roughly guess the truth at that time based on his own words?

Even the details may not be complete, but Jia Fang must say that this person's overall view is really good.

The fourth prince held his chin, thought carefully for a while, and then raised his head. Seeing Shui Xian and Jia Fang looking at him, he immediately smiled and said, "Yuan, so, you... all feel normal." !"

The fourth prince was serious by nature, and he seldom laughed, but at this time he smiled happily, but it was very cute.

Jia Fang shook his head: "It's not normal at all. The first time I found out, I thought I was dreaming, but I didn't wake up until I pinched myself to bleed. Later, I slowly accepted it, and I also found it very interesting... Yes. Contributing to the drought is the right thing to do.”

The fourth prince nodded after hearing this, and said, "Since that's the case, I suggest you do so."

He dipped his finger in some tea, drew a circle on the table to represent the capital, and drew another circle to represent Jia Fang's fief Taoyuan Village.

"I suggest you... you just set up the official office directly, directly in your fief!" The fourth prince said straightforwardly.

Then he dipped his finger in the tea and drew a line from one circle to another.

Shui Xian applauded with high-fives from the sidelines: "That's a good idea. The government offices are all staffed by your confidantes. On weekdays, they come forward to receive officials from all over the place, but they collect the news and affairs for you to make decisions. Whenever you encounter important The matter is up to you to come forward in person, after you appear in person, keep a low profile in Beijing, stay in your garden, don't run outside, if others don't notice you, they will naturally think that you have gone to the south."

"Although the distance between the south and the capital is far away, if you really make quick work of it, you can barely reach it within ten to fifteen days. If someone really asks, if you blur the dates, you should be able to get away with it."

The fourth prince made an idea, and Shui Xian immediately let it go, and Jia Fang figured out all the details in one go.

"By the way...is there any state capital near your fief that you don't want to deal with?" Shui Xian suddenly smiled narrowly, approached Jia Fang, and said in a low voice, "You can also excuse that there are no ready-made ones on your fief." The mansion, directly expropriate the other party's mansion, and use it as the residence of our Lord Pingnan Jiedushi..."

Jia Fang immediately thought of the county lord in the neighboring county, and the master who was full of gossip, and thought it might be a good idea to expropriate the mansion of the other party, and then promote the young secretary Gui Xiaxue to help promote the new policy.

"Anyway, you can live in your own fief every day—" Shui Xian dragged out his voice here, and Jia Fang naturally heard his subtext:

He converted the county government in a neighboring county into his residence, and let reliable staff stay there, but told these staff that Jia Fang himself, even in the south, would only live in Taoyuanzhai.

When other officials came to him, they could only see the staff members, and the staff members could go to Taoyuan Village to find him within the time he agreed.In this way, Mr. Pingnan Jiedushi will be a person who "sees the head but does not see the tail", who is not seen by ordinary officials, but who has influence all the time.

Such an arrangement - perfect!

Jia Fang turned to Shui Xian: "Tell me, how do you want me to thank you!"

The fourth prince on the opposite side laughed "ha", clapped his hands and said: "He has already thought about it..."

Shui Xian propped his elbows on the table, rested his chin with his hands, tapped his temples lightly with his slender fingers, as if thinking: "What do you want to use today?"

This person is really, the more he is in front of acquaintances, the more he refuses to put on airs.

Jia Fang: "Okay, okay——I'll go to the other side to say hello and ask them to send the best materials left today."

These two, obviously, are either greedy for hot pot or barbecue.

After Jia Fang returned to the Rong Mansion, he combined the opinions of the fourth prince and Shui Xian, changed his face, and proposed it to his father Jia Daishan.

Jia Daishan also thought this was a good idea: "Taoyuanzhai is your own fief, and you should be there, but of course it is up to you to decide whether to stay permanently. The other aides only work in the mansion of Jiedushi in the neighboring county. You can send your official business to Taoyuanzhai and wait for you to deal with it. On New Year’s Day or when you encounter important affairs, you can go to the neighboring county to order a job.”

"Success!" Jia Daishan replied immediately, "The staff you need have already been found, and they will come to see you in the next few days, and then hurry up and head to the south immediately."

Jia Daishan got up and walked to the indoor map, looked at the location of Taoyuan Village, and then asked Jia Fang, "Which county did you fancy?"

Jia Fang said loudly, "Wuyuan County."

The county lord who insisted on changing the name of his "Qingfang Bridge" to "Jimin Bridge", insisted that he was a master in charge of the government, and that Gui Xiaxue who was so smart that he was so smart... ready to welcome the festival. Make an adult!

Jia Daishan had no objection to this, he wrote down the location and said, "Yes, I will find an aide to write a letter to the county magistrate of Wuyuan County for you, saying that his county government office will be requisitioned."

Jia Fang: Great!

"In addition, my father also wrote letters for you at the Guangnan Camp. As you are, it is not appropriate to ask too much about military affairs, but it is necessary to say hello to the military. Not this year, but there will be suitable opportunities in the future. Father will find a way For you to transfer a few proper people to Guangnan Daying..."

Except that Jia Daishan is not Jia Fang's biological father by blood, he has done almost everything that a biological father should do.

When Jia Fang asked to thank you again and again, Jia Daishan said with a sad face: "Silly boy, what is there to thank?"

Both father and son were not sentimental people, they just sat silently for a while, and then separated from each other.Jia Daishan went to take care of everything for Jia Fang.In the Grand View Garden, Jia Fang, in addition to completing the repairs of Hongxiang Garden and Zhuijin Building, is also responsible for planning the demolition of the courtyard wall and merging the Rongfu East Courtyard into the Grand View Garden.

Unexpectedly, before his "Pingnan Jiedu Envoy" took office, quite a few accidents happened in Taoyuan Village.

This day, Jia Fang was leading people to demolish the courtyard wall of the Grand View Garden. Jia Fang saw that the courtyard wall was demolished, and suddenly felt something in his heart: the courtyard wall is being demolished here in the Grand View Garden, what will happen to Taoyuan Village?

The more Jia Fang thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. He couldn't tell what was wrong. He immediately left the small workers who were demolishing the wall and went directly to Daoxiang Village. Taoyuan Village.

The villagers of Taoyuan Village are all gathered outside the house at this moment, and everyone builds a pergola, looking towards the direction of Taoyuan Village towards Wuning County.

Jia Fang suddenly felt that his feet were not stable, and he thought to himself: Could it be that the ground moved?

The villagers also shouted together: "The mountain has collapsed, the mountain has collapsed—"

In an instant, there was thunder in the ears, and the shouts of the villagers could not be heard, only the huge roar echoed.

Jia Fang looked in the direction the villagers were staring at, and saw a strange scene that he had never seen in his life. He saw two steep peaks with an altitude of about 200 meters, and the mountains actually slid to the two sides.

These two peaks might not be considered high if placed elsewhere, and the volume of the peaks is not too large.But because of the relatively low altitude near Taoyuan Village, and the karst landform, the mountain peaks stand straight up and down on the ground like stalagmites.

These two mountains are also a bit special, they happened to block the passage from Taoyuan Village to Wuyuan County. After Jia Fang, he gave them two nicknames, one was called "Taihang" and the other was called "Wangwu". ——No way, who let them always block the way?

Because of these two mountains, the straight-line distance from Taoyuanzhai to Wuyuan County is not too far, but it takes at least half a day to detour.

Jia Fang watched the two mountains slide down to both sides. He looked at the direction of the landslide and felt bad. He might block the way of the Qingfang River. The Qingfang River was about to swell.

Immediately, he ignored the movement of the ground, and ran to the food street quickly, shouting and making gestures, telling everyone to run to a higher place.

The villagers of Taoyuanzhai didn't realize the danger of this matter at first. After all, there are dense forests on both sides of Taihang and Wangwu, no one lives there, and the road is impassable.But now seeing the water of the Qingfang River rise visibly with the naked eye, they immediately felt fear, shouted together, and rushed up to the high ground together.