Infrastructure masters in the red building

As soon as Jia Fang arrived at Taoyuanzhai, he encountered a landslide. The two towering peaks he named "Taihang and Wangwu" slid to both sides with a huge roar.

There are many karst landforms here, and the mountains are mostly limestone. For a long time, the mountains were eroded and hollowed out by water, and became extremely fragile, unable to support, and then collapsed.

When it collapsed, the "Wang House" fell directly to the lower reaches of the Qingfang River. Jia Fang predicted that the way out of the Qingfang River might be blocked, causing the river to surge, so he hurriedly called the villagers to run out.

The villagers in Taoyuan Village were afraid of an earthquake and had already left their houses. At this time, when they saw Jia Fang running down from the high slope of the Xianliang Temple, he gestured desperately at them, suddenly came to his senses, and at the same time let out a cry. Shout, rush up the high slope.

When the mountain hit the ground, the ground trembled violently, and many villagers fell to the ground no matter how hard they stood.Jia Fang was also among them.

At this moment, he was completely helpless, he could only lie down on the ground, and supported each other with the people around him, waiting for the accident to pass.

I don't know how long it took, but the earthquake gradually stopped.Together with other villagers, Jia Fang helped each other get up from the ground and looked around.Jia boldly looked at Taoyuanzhai and Xinyu villages with trepidation, and secretly prayed that he would never see the scene of houses collapsing.

He raised his head: Taoyuan Village is still there; Xinyu Village is still there; one village, two villages and three villages are still there.

The Diaojiaolou and the newly built Central Plains-style bungalow yards are still there, but the chickens, ducks and piglets raised by the villagers have all run out at the moment, running around the village like no one else, and later distinguish whose chickens are from whose Pig, I'm afraid it will be a little troublesome.

Other than that, there doesn't seem to be much damage.

Jia Fang breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned to look at Qingfang River.

The water of Qingfang River has risen a lot, and a small lake has formed in the lower reaches of Taoyuan Village.But fortunately, the river embankment was rebuilt in the area of ​​Qingfang Bridge earlier. In order to prevent the flood this summer, the river embankment was raised by one layer. Now the rising river water will overflow to the edge of the embankment. As long as it is a little higher, it will cross the river. Embankment, overflowing the river bank.

The food street is fine, the row of beehives just erected on the other side of the Qingfang River is fine, and the brick kilns, which are very important to the development of Taoyuan Village near the river beach, have barely escaped disaster.

"It's dangerous!" Jia Fang breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking in the direction of the original "Taihang and Wangwu", Jia Fang was just as dumbfounded as the rest of the villagers—only to see the two mountains that had been blocking the way to Taoyuan Village for a long time, just like the ones that were moved in the legend. Shanlishi moved away and disappeared from the horizon.

After the mountain collapsed, the earth and rocks poured down, completely crushing the large uninhabited forest on both sides of the mountain. Countless birds and wild animals were frightened in the forest. It doesn't matter whether there are people or not, some even rushed directly into Taoyuan Village.

Taihang and Wangwu are so collapsed, it is obviously impossible to restore the original natural landscape here, but—Jia Fang was stunned by this result, because he found that there was an extra road from Taoyuanzhai to Wuyuan County for no reason. straight path.

Between two points, the line segment is the shortest - this is Jia Fang's first thought.After the road is repaired, the villagers of Taoyuanzhai will go to Wuyuan County, and it will only take two hours.If it is a fast horse, it should be able to run a round trip in two hours.

Although this passage looks very difficult to walk now, full of rubble and collapsed earth, but if there are enough people, this road can be repaired in about a month or two.

Thinking of this, Jia Fang showed a weird face again: he thought of the weird mirror image relationship between the Grand View Garden and Taoyuan Village.

According to the scope of land circled in the booklet in his hand, the large mountainous area between Taoyuan Village and Wuyuan County, including the large forest behind Taihang and Wangwu, also belonged to Taoyuan Village.However, due to inconvenient transportation and inaccessible people, this large piece of land has not been developed for a long time.

The Grand View Garden is being expanded by breaking the wall, and the East Courtyard of Rongfu is included in the bag. What about Taoyuan Village - the mountain collapsed directly, exposing the land behind the mountain.

Is this also because of the mirror relationship between the two?

Is it so coincidental?

Jia Fang was still shocked, suddenly a person beside him rushed out from the crowd, knelt down in the direction of the disappearing "Taihang and Wangwu", and then burst into tears: "God——"

The villagers were all reminded by the crying, and stepped forward to comfort them.

"Isn't this old Yao from the brick and tile factory?"

"What's the matter, your brick and tile factory is fine!"

Unexpectedly, that old Yao continued to cry loudly: "God, why do you love me so much!"

Villagers: ...Is this person really stupid, lost his mind?Why is God so loving?

Unexpectedly, Jia Fang next to him clapped his hands and said excitedly, "Who says God is not with us?"

Lao Yao's brick and tile factory has a special kiln for firing cement.One of the raw materials is limestone.Limestone is calcined with clay to make cement.

There is no shortage of limestone in Taoyuan Village, but the amount of cement kiln is also large. In a short period of time, the easy-to-mine nearby has been mined.Lao Yao once mentioned to Jia Fang before that the manpower was not enough to quarry limestone, and the cost of cement would also increase as a result.

But now that "Taihang and Wangwu" has collapsed, all the fallen gravel is limestone.

At this moment, Jia Fang no longer knew how to describe his good luck.He immediately summoned the five village chiefs, and brought Lao Yao with him, to the office for a meeting to arrange the work tasks after the collapse of the "Taihang and Wangwu".

After an efficient short meeting, Taoyuanzhai set up several temporary working groups:

The first is of course the safety inspection working group: this part is mainly composed of villagers with experience in building houses, and is mainly responsible for going to each household to check whether there are hidden dangers in house safety.All houses with hidden dangers should be demolished and repaired.During the renovation period of each house, they can receive materials for simple mobile houses free of charge, and build temporary residences on their own homesteads.

In addition, the safety inspection team also needs to check the structure of the Qingfang Bridge and the safety of the embankments of the Qingfang River. If the Qingfang Bridge and the embankments on both sides need to be raised, it must be completed before the arrival of the summer wet season.

The second working group is also very important, which is the dispute resolution working group: the main task is to resolve the contradictions and frictions caused by the villagers in Taoyuan village because of the loss of livestock and the confession of mistakes.The working group is mainly composed of the original inspection team, and at the same time, several eloquent elder sisters and aunts have also been added to increase the strength and effect of persuasion.

The third and most important working group is the road planning and construction working group. This group will be responsible for exploration and road planning, and strive to open up a new road from Taoyuanzhai to Wuyuan County in the shortest possible time.

This road construction is also extremely flattering.After a road is explored in Taoyuan Village, the limestone can be cleaned directly from this road, and the cleaned limestone can be directly transported to the cement kiln of the brick and tile factory.

The wooden track laid earlier in the village just came in handy at this time, and Jia Fang was also considering building another section of wooden track to support the cleaning of gravel on the road.

Of course, if he wanted to, he could even lay a section of wooden track to Wuyuan County, but that was a follow-up project arrangement, not included in the work content of this temporary working group.

After arranging all the work, Jia Fang decided to go back to the Grand View Garden.He came to Xianliang Temple and looked up at the original location of "Taihang and Wangwu", but now it was empty, there were piles of boulders and soil in the sky above the ground, mixed with big trees and vegetation that were almost crushed into powder .

Jia Fang sighed, and returned to the Grand View Garden. It happened that the workers had completely demolished a section of the courtyard wall between the Ning and Rong Mansions.

Jia Xinxin couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity. The "wall" of the Grand View Garden was demolished, and the "wall" of Taoyuan Village (Taihang and Wangwu) was also demolished.

This mirror image is a bit simple and rude!

After Jia Fang returned to the Grand View Garden, within two days, his uncle Jia Daihua and father Jia Daishan arranged for him to meet with several staff members.

One of them, surnamed Zheng, was Zheng Boyi. He was originally Jia Daihua's staff in Beijing.

The other, Nan Yongqian, was originally a general who joined Jia Dairu when he was fighting at the border. Later, he was impeached by his colleagues for a trivial matter and was forced to resign and return to Beijing.Because Jia Dairu has a wide network of contacts in the army, he knows many generals in the Guangnan camp, so he specially put him next to Jia Fang, and asked him to deal with Jia Fang's "Pingnan Jiedu Envoy" related to military affairs. aspect.

In addition, Jia Daishan also specially arranged two guards for Jia Fang, but Jia Fang has not yet decided whether to let these two people stay in Taoyuan Village or put them in the mansion in Wuyuan County.

But even if he didn't think about it, these people had to start from Beijing.They had seen Jia Fang, and they set off for the south immediately.However, Jia Fang granted the Pingnan Jiedu Envoy to control the officials of Daying in Guangnan and other prefectures and counties.

Before Zheng Boyi left, Jia Fang gave him an opportunity: "The news of landslides and earthquakes in the south may be reported to the capital in a few days. You must be prepared. If you see something on the way, you can draft a document and send it to Rongrong first." State government."

Zheng Boyi was taken aback and asked, "When did it happen?"

Jia Fang: "Just today."

Zheng Boyi: ...How is this possible?

He didn't quite believe what this young man said, Jia Fang's fief in the south was more than three thousand miles away, even if the urgent news was six hundred miles away, it would take at least five days to reach Beijing.How could anyone in Beijing know what happened today?Didn't you figure it out by pinching your fingers?

Jia Fang knew he didn't believe it, but Zheng Boyi would naturally hear the news on the way.What Jia Fang wants to do now is to slowly build up his "image" in the minds of his staff - he is not just a child who relies on his father for his position, he has a mysterious connection with his fiefdom in the south .

Here, Jia Fang's future staff members went to the south first.

In Wuyuan County, Yuan Hua, the county magistrate, sat in the center of the county government office, trembling with fear. The two unnamed mountains between Wuyuan County and Taoyuan Village collapsed yesterday. People are timid.

The county lord immediately remembered that he had personally gone to Taoyuanzhai to write inscriptions on the Jimin Bridge built for the villagers there.

If the two mountains collapsed on the day he went, he might be crushed by the rolling rocks and frightened by the rushing beasts as he walked through the forest path in a sedan chair...

Yuan County Magistrate hurriedly went to the shrine behind the government office and in front of the inner house, burned incense and kowtowed, thanking God for his noble hand, and spared his life.At the same time, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, spat and complained: "What the hell is Taoyuan Village, I will never go there again."

The master who humiliated Jia Fang face to face that day was surnamed Li, but Master Li had no luck at all, and ran to County Magistrate Yuan: "My lord, my lord... the landslide yesterday must be published in newspapers and the court will know about it. You... you set a tone, how should this document be written?"

Landslides are major events and must be reported locally.The more this kind of matter is, the more careful your wording is, after all, it involves "the relationship between heaven and man", and if there is anything wrong, it will be a major event for Master Yuan to lose his favor.

Yuan County Magistrate was very sad when he heard this, and asked, "Is there anyone injured in this county?"

Master Li shook his head: "Xiaogui has been inquiring since yesterday, and so far there has been no report of any casualties."

County magistrate Yuan closed his eyes and stretched out his hands to stroke his chest, saying repeatedly: "That's okay, that's okay!"

But Master Li reminded: "The key is the other side of Taoyuan Village... I don't know what's going on!"

County magistrate Yuan also had a bitter face, and muttered: "Taoyuan...it's all because of Taoyuan..." He suddenly realized, and quickly asked Master Li: "Are the two unnamed mountains that collapsed in Wuyuan County or in Wuyuan County?" In Taoyuan Village?"

Master Li replied: "They are all in Taoyuan Village."

County Magistrate Yuan let out a long sigh of relief again, closed his eyes and stroked his chest: "That's okay, okay——" Wusha basically kept it.

"When you drafted the document, you must write this article carefully. This... the disaster is not in Wuyuan County, but in Taoyuan. Taoyuan Village is dominated by a young man who has not yet reached the weak crown. This person has not done a single inch. Jian, let this place go its own way, so that the sky is angry and the people are angry... You can't write 'Heaven and people are angry', you can help me find a word... I want to write my political achievements, I have visited Taoyuan in person Village, presided over the construction of 'Jimin Bridge'..."

Master Li responded one by one, and suddenly remembered something: "You mean... the lord of Taoyuan Village is a young man who has not reached the weak crown?"

County Magistrate Yuan nodded and said: "Originally it was the fiefdom of Rong Guogong Jia Daishan, and later it was transferred to his son, Jia Fang, who lived in the mansion for three years. I heard that he is not too old, maybe he is in his teens, and he must not be as young as a weak crown Year."

Master Li took a deep breath immediately. He remembered that on the day when the Qingfang Bridge was completed, there was a young man in Taoyuan Village. He was a little weak at a young age. He wrote an inscription for the bridge himself, and everyone called him... Jia San Lord.

Master Li let out a "gulp", swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and thought: It can't be such a coincidence.

He forced himself to comfort himself that there would never be such a person, the young master of the Duke's Mansion, who ran all the way to build a bridge for the people in the fief - that must be the steward, it must be a small steward!

The two of them were discussing with each other, when boots rattled outside, Gui Xiaxue strode in, saluted the county lord, and said, "My lord, I have counted the population of the county and confirmed that there is no damage."

Yuan County Magistrate was finally completely relieved, sighed and said: "It's a fluke, a fluke!"

Master Li was thinking about how to write his paperwork: "Since there are no casualties, it can only be said that it is a warning from heaven?"

Gui Xiaxue immediately retorted: "This is determined by the rock quality of the two mountains. What does it have to do with the warning from heaven?"

County Magistrate Yuan and Master Li said in unison: "Nonsense!"

"Isn't a rock just a rock? You see there are quite a few dirt hills around our county, and you haven't seen any of them just fall down like this?"

Gui Yaxue probably got into the habit of arguing with these two people for a long time, and without any hesitation, he directly retorted: "Of course the quality of the rocks has something to do with it. I heard from Mr. Jia San that the rocks in this area are called limestone, and the composition of them can be determined." Dissolved in water, the rain penetrates day and night, and it is easy to form a cavity in the mountainside. As time goes by, the cavity becomes bigger and bigger, and the mountain loses its support, and it naturally collapses."

While County Magistrate Yuan continued to say "nonsense", Master Li asked in astonishment, "Master Jia?"

Gui Xiaxue nodded: "It was the last time, the county lord met when he went to Taoyuan Village to preside over the completion of the Qingfang Bridge."

Master Li was almost intimidated by himself.

Only then did Gui Xiaxue say the most important thing: "Master County, just now the students met people from Taoyuan Village and asked them about the situation there. Taoyuan Village, like Wuyuan County, has no injuries, but Little things like houses tilting and livestock running away."

"But the most important thing is that there is now a convenient road between Taoyuan Village and Wuyuan County. The road that used to take half a day by walking can now be reached in two hours at most."

"Taoyuanzhai notified Wuyuan County, saying that they will speed up repairs and try to build a road that is convenient for the people to pass through as soon as possible. In Wuyuan County, perhaps the existing roads should also be considered to connect to the road from there. ..."

Gui Xiaxue talked a lot with great interest, but who would have thought that County Magistrate Yuan and Master Li didn't listen at all.The two just stared at each other dumbfounded. After all, everyone thought the landslide was a catastrophe. Who would have thought that after the landslide, the road would be open?

County Magistrate Yuan was stunned for a while, then suddenly jumped up and patted Master Li on the shoulder: "Lao Li, Lao Li, hurry up and prepare pens and ink for me, I want to write the pen myself... This, this is not a landslide, this is auspiciousness!"

Master Li also looked like weeping with joy, and pulled Yuan County Magistrate's sleeve, feeling very authentic: "It's not auspicious, isn't it auspicious?"

Gui Xiaxue next to him looked at this and then that, and said, "It's not auspicious, but the components of limestone are soluble in water..."

Forget it, the two in front of me were already so excited that they were about to dance, Gui Xiaxue thought to himself: It's better not to waste your words.