The husband is the future chief [infrastructure]

With the beginning of the first person, seeing his name and place of origin are recorded in the book, people around him began to donate one after another.Although most of them are some small money, but the accumulation of little money is better than nothing.

But those wealthy households in the city remained still. At this time, Yuanwai Sun was drinking tea at Master Qian's mansion, and he was talking about the donation for road construction this time.

More than anyone else, they hoped that their names could be engraved on the monument of merit, but they didn't donate money now, they were all waiting for the other party to donate first.

Look at how much the other party donated, it should be more than he donated, so that the name on the merit tablet can be higher than them.

Obviously, not only Master Qian thought so, but also Yuanwai Sun.

Sun Yuanwai came here today not just to talk, but inside and out, he was asking how much money Master Qian planned to donate.

In just two days, almost every other wealthy family in the city donated no less than a hundred taels.

The deadline for donations is ten days. If you miss these ten days and try to donate again, you will lose your name on the stele of merit.

Since the first person came to donate, there have been many rich people who donated intermittently.The roster is now full.

In the next few days, Lin Zhao asked someone to publish the rankings of the first few pages of the roster.

This is where competition comes in.

When someone sees that his opponent's donation rank is higher than theirs, then he must be dissatisfied!

So I began to add money on the original basis until the final donation exceeded the opponent.

There are also those like Master Qian who want to stay in the top three, but whenever they see someone stealing the top three, they will immediately throw money to replace them.

Therefore, the list of donations will be changed every other day, and the wealthy households in the city will focus on the ranking every day.Whoever is under another's house today will turn around and run on top of other people's house next time.

In just a few days, the ranking list was updated very quickly.What followed was that a large amount of money was donated to the Yamen's account every day.

This method that Lin Zhao thought of aroused the desire of the rich to win, and even the amount of donations greatly exceeded the estimated amount.

After ten days passed, the amount of money raised by the yamen was as high as several 10 taels.

When Master He saw this number, his face was full of joy, and he admired the new county magistrate even more.

He said sincerely: "Your Excellency is really a good plan. You don't have to worry about the money for road construction. Not only that, but we also have money for the third phase of the project."

Lin Zhao looked at the newly prepared account book of the yamen, and suddenly there was enough money.

Back home at night, after dinner and a simple wash-up, he and Jiang Ziyan had another toss.

Afterwards, Jiang Ziyan lay on his side and said, "You are really there. This method is really good. The yamen should have raised a lot of money this time, right?"

Lin Zhao wrapped his arms around his waist, pulled him around his body, hummed, and said, "The effect is really good, but it's thanks to you reminding me."

"Don't be poor soon. The next step is to build the second phase of the route. How is it? Is there enough manpower?"

"Enough is enough. The people are very active in building the road, and have responded to sign up. By the way, the cement factory may have to increase production."

Jiang Ziyan nodded, "I know this. Except for the orders made outside, the remaining cement must be used for road construction first. How is the mining going at the mine?"

He was referring to the iron mine.

Lin Zhao pinched his fingers and said, "It went well. Your mine/pipe formula works very well and saved them a lot of effort."

The planned route for the second phase of the project is actually not easy to repair, because the road is not smooth, but the slope of each section should be gentler, which is acceptable.

There are specialized civil engineers to plan and supervise these, instead of Jiang Ziyan or Lin Zhao personally going to supervise the work every day.

This time, corvee workers from about eight villages were recruited. On the first day of the official start of construction, these people got up before dawn.

The weather in mid-March is dry and cold. Now it is the time of late spring. In March, peach blossoms often snow, so the weather is not very warm.

Villagers in Shangtian Village and several nearby villages immediately put on thick cotton wicks, put on a coat, took an old water bottle that had been used for a long time, and went out with the stuff on their shoulders.

After all, they came to work, and there were so many people who came to work this time, if they came late and were regarded as lazy, then the work would definitely not be done.So everyone was more diligent one by one, but at Chenshi the roadside was already full of people.

On the second day after the construction started, Lin Zhao came to inspect the situation.

He came here on horseback. When he got to the place, he got off his horse and looked at the cement floor that was just finished today.

The cement floor of more than ten square meters has been completely dried, with a layer of white color floating on it, it seems that it is almost dry.

The county lieutenant at the side saw that the circles under Lin Zhao's eyes were dark and black, and guessed that he hadn't had a good rest, so he said very thoughtfully, "My lord, why don't you go to the side and rest for a while first."

Lin Zhao waved his hand and said no.It was a bit late yesterday to have a quarrel with Jiang Ziyan, and there were a lot of things to deal with during the day, which only took a little effort.

At this time, a voice from a yamen servant came from not far away: "You old man, why are you wandering around here for nothing? These are all roads planned by the government to be built. If you delay the progress because of you alone up?"

After the yamen servant finished speaking, the old man didn't seem to hear him, but he still pushed forward with his head stretched out, as if he was looking for someone.

The yamen servant swung his whip up, and the old man staggered suddenly, and he was beaten to the ground because of his hunchback.

He looked up at the yamen servant, but the yamen servant was taken aback. The old man was dressed like a beggar, his dark face was covered with scars, and he looked very terrifying.

"Hurry up and get out!" the yamen servant scolded.

Seeing him getting up slowly, he swung the whip again.

The county lieutenant followed Lin Zhao's gaze and saw a yamen supervisor waving his whip at a person on the ground.

He frowned, looked at the yamen servant, and then winked at the other people beside him.

Soon, the nearby yamen servant stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter? Didn't your lord tell you that you are not allowed to whip the corvee? What are you doing?"

The man hid the whip in his hand and said, "Brother Big Niu, this man is not a corvee here, and he doesn't know where he came from. He has been staying here and refuses to leave. He has said it several times and won't listen I was also afraid of delaying the progress of road construction, so I whipped him because there was nothing I could do."

At this moment, Lin Zhao had already walked over. Hearing the yamen servant's explanation, he knelt down and helped the old man who had not fully stood up on the ground, and said, "Old man, do you have something to say?"

The old man glanced at Lin Zhao, and the county lieutenant next to him reminded him, "This is the magistrate of our county. If you have anything to say, you can speak directly."

Hearing that it was the county magistrate, the old man was about to kneel down in fear and fear, but Lin Zhao held his arm.

His figure was trembling, as thin as skin and bones, he glanced at Lin Zhao cautiously, and then made several gestures.

Lin Zhao suddenly understood that the old man could not speak.No wonder the yamen servant told him many times to let him leave here, but he was not moved at all.It is estimated that there is something wrong with the ears, Lin Zhao guessed that he is probably a deaf-mute.

The old man's gestures were very disorganized, unlike the set of sign language Jiang Ziyan taught Lin Xing, which had specific meanings.As long as you study the system, you can understand it.

Lin Zhao could only guess what he meant from his messy-looking gestures.

The old man looked very excited, and said ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Lin Zhao could only guess vaguely from the inside, "Dead? Framed? Far away? What do you mean, please explain clearly."

The old man became more and more excited as he gestured, and even looked a little crazy.

Lin Zhao looked at his gestures, and became more and more startled.Fortunately, others couldn't understand what he was gesticulating, otherwise I'm afraid they would say he was talking nonsense.

In his gestures, almost all of them are full of bloody, dead people and other meanings.

Lin Zhao's intuition told him that there must be something secret about this old man.But no matter what it is, it cannot continue here.

So he raised his hand and made a few gestures that he often saw from Lin Xing on weekdays, which probably meant: "Go back with me first, and then talk about your affairs."

Originally, Lin Zhao might have thought that he needed to make more gestures, but he didn't expect that the other party seemed to understand his gestures, stopped struggling, became depressed, and obediently followed the yamen servant.

Lin Zhao specially ordered: "Take him down first, remember, treat him well."

After the old man was taken down, Lin Zhao went down to check the newly made concrete floor, and knocked it with stones, it was not bad.

Seeing Lin Zhao personally inspecting the project, the villagers worked harder.After turning around for a while, Lin Zhao sat down to take a rest.

The county captain at the side brought a pot of tea from somewhere, sat down on Lin Zhao, and said, "Does your lord know that there is a peach blossom county near Lin'an?"

After walking for a long time, I was also tired, so I simply chatted with the people below for a while.

"Of course this official knows about it. Lin'an County is adjacent to Taohua County, and they are both under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou."

"That's right, this Peach Blossom County lives up to its name, because there are many peach blossom trees. Every March, when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, it can be described as a paradise, which always attracts a large number of people to watch."

Lin Zhao nodded, he also knew about it.The Ten Miles of Peach Blossom in Taohua County is famous far and wide. Although it is next to Lin'an, it is on the other side of the mountain. The junction of the two counties is clearly separated.

The county lieutenant said with a smile: "I heard that the peach trees in Taohua County are very strange this year. Normally, they should be in bloom at this time, but this year there is no movement at all. A friend of the lower official originally came here just because of the fame, but he saw some. The peach trees are starting to turn yellow and wither, let alone bloom."

Although Lin Zhao is not good at dealing with flowers and plants, the environment he grew up in made him feel that the tree might have encountered some kind of disease and pest.

He said: "Did you find someone specialized in agronomy to look at it?"

"Look, I heard that the magistrate of the next county is so anxious that his hair is going bald. This peach blossom is a famous brand in Taohua County, so we must not just let things go wrong like this."

"Well, whatever, I hope this tree can be cured."

At that time, I can also visit the beautiful scenery of Shili Taolin with Ziyan.

"Don't worry, my lord. Left and right are not the responsibility of our county. I believe the county magistrate next door will have a solution."

Lin Zhao heard a few words of gloating from the county captain's words.But if you think about it for a while, you can understand why.

It is also a county under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, but Taohua County is valued and promoted by the magistrate, and it is developing very well.

The adjacent Lin'an County is like an orphan that no one wants. Parents don't love their mothers or mothers.

Now I don't know why something happened to Taolin in Taohua County. As an official in Lin'an County, the county lieutenant is naturally a little happy.

It's like the mentality of "Let you treat one more favorably than another, will you be punished now?"