Lord Moyu was forced to open

Chapter 352 Going to the Countryside
"Zhou Shilang, in my opinion, no matter whether it is possible or not, you should try first." Li Dingguo suggested.

Zhou Lin nodded, and then said: "Today, I will go to Huangshan Prefecture and let the prefect of Huangshan Prefecture recruit and collect corvees for us!"

Huangshan City, the capital of Huangshan Prefecture.

Huangshan Mansion is a mansion city next to the Bian River.

It can be said that if the Bian River breaks its embankment, Huangshan Mansion will be the first to suffer, so Zhou Lin feels that he should be able to gain something from this trip.

But he still underestimated the influence of the Zhao family here.

In the afternoon of the day.

Huangshan Fucheng, the magistrate's yamen.

"Master Zhifu! Old Master Zhifu! It's not good! The minister Zhou sent by the imperial court to repair the embankment is here! I want to see you by name!"

Wang Kai, the magistrate of Huangshan, frowned when he heard that it was Zhou Lin who had come. The Zhao family had already spoken.

No one is allowed to provide any help to Zhou Lin this week.

Zhou Lin's purpose in coming this time is already obvious, and he must want to help him himself.

But if he was the one who helped him, it would be a violation of Zhao Jiafa's words, and he would have a bad life in Bian'an County in the future.

But if he doesn't obey his words, if he doesn't provide help to Zhou Lin, as a court official, he can't justify himself, and he violates the court's order.

It's really embarrassing!

Perhaps seeing the expression on his face, the master at the side hurriedly said: "The Fu Zun is worried about the matter that the servant may ask for help this week?"

Wang Kai nodded: "Exactly, it's a dilemma!"

But the master chuckled and said, "What's so difficult about it?"

Wang Kai showed a look of surprise: "Quickly tell me!"

The master immediately whispered a few words next to Wang Kai's ear, Wang Kai's eyes became brighter the more he listened, and finally he nodded and said:

"Good! Good! Let's do it!"

Soon, Wang Kai brought people to the gate of the Huangshan Mansion Yamen, and saw Zhou Lin who had come.

As soon as they met, Wang Kai hurriedly saluted Zhou Lin respectfully:

"My next official, Wang Kai, the magistrate of Huangshan Prefecture, has met Zhou Shilang!"

"Wai Li, Wang Zhifu, this time I came here to ask for something, I hope Wang Zhifu will help you.

Presumably, Wang Zhifu, you also know that the imperial court needs a lot of manpower to repair and strengthen the section of the river embankment in Huangshan Prefecture, and it is impossible for me to transfer people from Bianjing. Wang Zhifu is the local parent official, so I can only come to trouble you, Wang Zhifu! "

Zhou Lin didn't want to be lenient either, and he immediately told the whole purpose of his visit this time when they met in the first day of junior high school.

Wang Kai, the magistrate of Huangshan, agreed with a smile when he heard the words.

"Hahaha, don't worry Zhou Shilang, I will definitely do my best to recruit people for you!"

Just when he was swearing, the master of Huangshan Mansion suddenly stood up and said:
"My lord, this is not easy.

This year, all the corvees in our Huangshan Mansion have been collected, and now there are no more corvees available in the mansion.

If you want to recruit people, you need real money to show it.

Even if it's real gold and silver, I'm afraid most of the people are still busy with spring plowing at this time of year, so I'm afraid they don't want to come! "

"What? The government's corvees have already been collected, what's going on?

How can this be good! "

Wang Kai suddenly showed a surprised expression, his face was full of sorrow, and he looked at Zhou Lin with apologetic expression:
"I'm sorry Zhou Shilang, I didn't expect that the corvee in this mansion has been conscripted so early this year, and now I'm afraid it's a little bit overwhelmed to recruit enough people."

Looking at this scene, Zhou Lin knew that the other party was probably singing a double reed. It was only April, and the Huangshan Mansion hadn't carried out any major projects. How could it be possible to collect all the corvees? It was clear that he didn't want to help him collect corvees.

But the mouth grows on other people, and when they say that, I can't do anything about it.

Zhou Lin remained calm, without showing any expression, just nodded slowly and said: "It's okay, as long as the prefect Huang informs about the recruitment of people to repair the embankment.

The treatment for repairing embankments is three meals a day for each person, 15 Wen a day, and men over the age of 40 and under the age of [-] will pay as much as they want! "

"Okay, I understand, sir!"

Wang Kai agreed very happily, and soon the officials of Huangshan Mansion spread the notice of the imperial court recruiting people to repair the embankment.

However, until the gate of the city was closed that day, there was still not a single citizen who came to the yamen to sign up!
Zhou Lin had to leave the city in a hurry and returned to the barracks.

……

That night.

The big account in the army.

"What's the matter, Zhou Shilang? What did the prefect of Huangshan say?"

Just after dinner, Li Dingguo asked Zhou Lin, who had been grim-faced since he came back, about today's situation.

Zhou Lin shook his head and sighed, first he said three times:

"Difficult!

The prefect of Huangshan, Wang Kai, agreed to my request without hesitation, but after a while, he made other excuses that he couldn't recruit people.
Just respond negatively there! "

Li Dingguo stroked his chin and said, "That is to say, he didn't want to offend you or the Zhao family, so he decided to use a word to solve the problem?"

"exactly!"

Zhou Lin nodded.

"Then Zhou Shilang is still going to continue to work hard in Huangshan Mansion?
Ben thought there might be no hope?

Now it's spring plowing, not to mention that the Zhao family had already spoken, even if they hadn't, the common people would not be willing to let go of spring plowing and come with us to repair the embankment. "

Li Dingguo shook his head, very unfavorable about this matter.

Zhou Linning thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and said:

"Tomorrow, the Japanese officials will work harder! I will personally go down to the townships and counties to speak!"

Li Dingguo shook his head, feeling that he was doing useless work, but he didn't say much.

The next day, early in the morning, Zhou Lin took a group of yamen servants to the townships and counties in Huangshan Mansion, found a place where the people gathered, and talked there about the benefits of building the embankment and what Huangshan Mansion would face if the embankment was washed away.

Dawangzhuang.

"Folks, repairing the embankment is not for me, nor for the imperial court, but for yourselves!
Maybe the younger generation doesn't remember it, but I believe that the older generation may still remember that when the river embankment was not repaired, Huangshan County would be reduced to a scene of flood every spring flood.

At that time, there will be no harvest in the fields, and there will be no place for people to stand. This is not just talking!
Now the river embankment has already been damaged and needs to be repaired. Otherwise, if the river embankment is washed away when the spring flood arrives, the entire Huangshan Mansion and even most of Bian'an County will be ruined!
This is not dangerous alarmism, but the bloody reality before us and the difficulties we will face!

I am here to ask everyone to take some time out of their busy schedules to help repair the embankment!
You can rest assured that this time, whether it is three meals a day or wages for repairing the embankment, this officer will not default on half a penny!
End of day! End of day!
Please folks help me! "

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(End of this chapter)