Chapter 245 Promise

  Wei Zhi wants to return to Beijing from here. Of course, the local officials will hold a farewell banquet for him. I thought Wei Zhi would refuse, but who knew he would have accepted it.

Not to mention the governor of Mianzhou, even the magistrate Fu became happy, and did his best to order a few tables of wine and food in the best restaurant in the county. The county town where Master Bai arrived in the afternoon, he just met with Master Wei, and he looked surprised. Master Wei glanced at him, but did not speak.

  At this banquet, many people drank too much, and the face of Master Bai was a little flushed. He did not live in another courtyard in the county seat, but chose to live in the same inn as Wei Zhi.

  In the dead of night, Master Bai appeared in Wei Zhi's room.

  Wei Zhi helped Master Bai, who was kneeling on the ground, up, and said: "Since this officer has promised you, he will naturally do it. After you send me off tomorrow, you will take the first step and wait on the turn."

  Master Bai heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words and bowed back to his room.

  But he was not at peace.

  When he rushed from home to the county seat this afternoon, Wei Zhigang came back from the last seriously affected village. He approached to ask for a meeting, but the other party seemed not surprised at all.

With so many squires and local tyrants, he not only remembered his name, but also called out where he currently lives. He even gave a meaningful smile when he asked him to go to Qili Village alone as a guest, and then he didn't ask much. He agreed.

  At that time, Master Bai thought that Master Wei knew something.

  Now, he is more certain.

He said that he was going back to Beijing, but he had to go to Qili Village with him quietly. Although this is in his interest, does this mean that Master Wei knew everything from the beginning, and even what happened in Qili Village in the past two days. See it all too?

  Is he trustworthy?

The thought of    just flashed past, and he calmed down slightly.

   should be credible, he is not even afraid of saints, is he still afraid of these officials in Yizhou?

  In Yizhou, the biggest is the King of Yizhou.

  Unless Wei Zhi wants to rebel, what reason would he have for colluding with the magistrates and vassals?

  Master Bai comforted himself like this.

  Early the next morning, Wei Zhi’s team was ready to go. Wei Zhi got on the carriage and said to everyone: "The summer harvest is just around the corner. There is a lot of work to be done after the disaster. I won't delay your time. Go back."

  This is impossible. Officials headed by the governor of Mianzhou must send people to Shili Changting.

   Both the parents and the officials gave it away. Of course, the squires and local tyrants who followed will not be left behind, so they all followed.

  The mighty team went on the road like this, on the official road, and arrived at the ten-mile long pavilion, Wei Zhi slumped, and said: "If you send it down, the officer will not be able to leave."

  The governor of Mianzhou was a little embarrassed when he heard that, he didn't like the plague **** to stay behind, so he stopped and bid farewell to Wei Zhi at the Shili Changting.

  Master Bai followed the squires and local tyrants to watch Wei Zhi go away, and then bid farewell to the governor of Mianzhou governor.

   County magistrate Fu turned around to discuss something with him, but no one was found.

  Master Bai hurried back to the village and waited at the turnaround where the county town turned into the mountain road, but within a quarter of an hour, Wei Zhi took two guards and rode from another road.

  Master Bai heaved a sigh of relief and was about to step forward to salute. Wei Zhi waved his hand and said, "Master Bai does not have to be polite, let's get on the road first."

"Yes."

  The two rushed to Qili Village on horseback. Of course, they rode their horses soon, and they arrived at the entrance of the village in less than two quarters of an hour.

  At this time, Da Ji just handed the painted confession to Liu, "Except for the person in the room on the right, the other two are willing to put the confession on the confession."

  Liu’s head nodded, wrapped the confession in oil paper, and put it in a box.

  What she was about to say, the housekeeper reported at the door foreign exchange: "Old lady, Master Tang has brought a distinguished guest."

  Liu immediately got up and said, “Send everyone to the backyard, restrain them, and keep them from walking around. Please master them to the front hall, and I will go.”

  The Liu family did not even bring the grandma and the big girl around him this time, only the good luck.

  When the Liu family arrived, Wei Zhizheng stood at the door with his hands folded and looked at the flowers in front of the yard. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he turned his head to look.

  Master Bai immediately introduced, "My lord, this is my aunt, with her maiden name Liu. My cousin is a scholar in the first year of Dazhen, and later served as the county magistrate of Shu County."

  Only Master Bai, Wei Zhi and the two guards he brought, as well as Liu Shi and Da Ji in the front hall.

   Liu did not speak immediately after saluting, Da Ji glanced at the guards Wei Zhi had brought, and stepped back.

  Wei Zhi nodded slightly to his two guards, and there were only three people left in the hall.

   "The old lady has something to say now."

   Liu knelt on the spot.

  Wei Zhi quickly stretched out his hand to help her, Liu refused, raised his head and asked him, "My lord, this time the Qianwei Weir shouldn’t have burst the embankment, and the tens of thousands of souls who died under the great flood shouldn’t have died."

  Wei Zhi sighed, grabbed her arm tightly to help her up, then took a step back and said: "This official knows."

  As soon as he heard this, Liu and Master Bai knew that they were betting right.

  For six years, Liu had nowhere to sue, and he didn't even dare to expose his grievance. Now he finally has a way to talk.

   Liu couldn't help crying.

Wei knows: "The flood disaster in Yizhou is very serious. Your Majesty is furious, especially the repair of Qianwei Weir has only been in the past two years. No, to be precise, the construction of Qianwei Weir has only been completed in one year and eight months. "

"This flood disaster is due to the heavy summer rain, but if the flat flume is not blocked, the Feisha weir is firmer and the golden **** does not collapse, then this will not happen, maybe it just can't stop it. Floods, they are mostly overflowing, and there will be no flash floods."

  The bursting of the embankment came so eagerly and violently that the people downstream were swept away without reacting.

  So in Wei Zhi's view, this is a natural disaster and a man-made disaster.

"When I checked the construction of Qianwei Weir, I discovered that in the second year of Dazhen, Bai Qi, the magistrate of Shu County, had made a statement and wanted to hire labor from other places to repair the Jindi, but he had not delivered it to the capital. The state governor was beaten back."

Wei Zhi shouldn’t have known about this, but I have to say that Bai Qi was careful enough, and Wei Zhi was careful enough. He was investigating various account books in Shu County and found that Bai Qi’s work diary had no specific content on it. The date, and the title of the top fold.

  It's a normal but abnormal one.

  It is normal that when the general water conservancy project is in urgent need of migrant workers, some workers will indeed be hired or dispatched from other places to support;

  The abnormality lies in that the Yanwei Weir is very large, and due to its disrepair for a long time, the project life of the preliminary design is three years.

  The funding began in the first year of Dazhen. By the time Bai Qi went on sale, there was still a year and seven months to arrive. Later, it turned out that the repair work was longer and lasted until the autumn of two years ago.

  Long-term water conservancy projects like this usually involve people from all counties in the state taking turns to work here, and it is rare to send laborers from other places so early.

  (End of this chapter)