Chapter 18 Wang Zhi is here
When Ge Lin heard that Ge Dan was going to the Jiuqu River Dike, he nodded and said, "Okay! Let's go and take a look and know what's going on, and we can know what's going on."
Ge Dan did not sleep well that night, and all kinds of thoughts and thoughts kept popping up in his mind, from Feng Li to the officialdom, from the breaking of the Jiuqu River to the victims, his thoughts kept scattering, and Ge Dan did not fall asleep quietly. When he woke up in the morning, Ge Dan held a big dark circle. Seeing Ge Dan's appearance, Ge Lin just smiled, but said nothing.
It is normal for young people to be anxious when encountering things. If Ge Dan shows nothing, Ge Lin will be worried.
After breakfast, Ge Dan took Ge Lin and Ge Wu and several yamen runners from the yamen to the Jiuqu River Embankment. When he first left the city, he couldn't see anything, but after entering the disaster area, Ge Dan's mood became much worse again. Although the weather was good these days, it didn't rain anymore and the sun was shining brightly, the ground was still muddy, and it was very difficult to walk.
The farmland on both sides of the road was flooded, the fields were filled with water, and a pond was formed in the potholes.
The crops were lying in the fields, and some of them were simply washed away. Seeing such a scene, it would be strange that Ge Dan's face looked good.
Occasionally, Gedan could see one or two people, most of whom were carrying the bodies, while some were staring at the fields in a daze and crying. Some people tried to help the dumped crops. They kept trying to get busy in the fields, but they still had little results. Some crops had their roots broken with a slight movement. Gedan saw a people holding the crops, but they sat in the mud and burst into tears.
Ge Dan looked at this scene with an expressionless face, his heart was as if he was cut by a knife, and at the same time he became more determined to think that he could not continue like this.
Ge Dan thought of himself in his previous life, and lived a daze. Sometimes he saw many comments on the Internet full of hostility, and countless people were complaining one by one, one by one, but seeing this scene now, Ge Dan knew how happy those people were living, at least they had the place, time, and energy to complain. The Ming Dynasty, the glorious Ming Dynasty, and the people were panicked.
Many people think that the Ming Dynasty was the last Han Dynasty, a dynasty with backbone. Especially compared with the Qing Dynasty, Ge Dan thought so before, but at this moment, Ge Dan had no such thoughts in his heart.
The people who struggled to survive, the greed was not enough to oppress the good landlords and gentry, and everything made the entire Ming Dynasty in danger. This was during the Chenghua period. During the Chongzhen period of Tianqi, natural disasters continued, how did the people survive?
As the sedan slowly landed on the ground, Ge Dan's thinking also took back from these ideas and climbed to the side of the broken embankment. The Jiuqu River was still flowing here. Ge Dan squatted down and gently broke a piece of soil from the broken embankment. Then he rubbed it, and looked down. Ge Dan's face became a little ugly. It was indeed a project to coax people.
Without digging, just from the broken river embankment, the Jiuqu River embankment is unqualified. So what about the entire Danyang County river embankment? What about the entire Zhenjiang Prefecture river embankment?
Ge Dan threw away the dirt in his hand expressionlessly, then turned his head to look at Ge Lin, and said with a wry smile: "Uncle Lin, you are so unscrupulous!"
Ge Lin naturally also saw the appearance of the Jiuqu River embankment, but Ge Lin seemed a little calmer than Ge Dan's. He followed Ge Dan's father to be an official everywhere in recent years. Ge Lin had seen many things, so such things were nothing, and Ge Lin had seen even worse things. However, Ge Lin was still very pleased to see Ge Dan's appearance. It was good.
"Go back!" Ge Dan thought for a while, sighed lightly, then turned around and walked down the embankment of Jiuqu River.
Ge Dan quietly went to the river bank of Jiuqu River, and then came back quietly, as if there was no such thing, but this matter could not be hidden from those who were interested. With the arrival of Feng Li, the co-master of Zhenjiang Prefecture, those who were interested naturally knew that something was wrong. Whether it was the clerks in the yamen or the local gentry, they all knew that this time the matter was going to be troublesome.
When the construction of the Jiuqu River embankment, the clerks and local gentry and merchants in the yamen participated, and I am afraid that there will be many benefits.
Under such circumstances, the embankment of Jiuqu River naturally involved countless people's thoughts. After Ge Dan returned to the county government, the atmosphere of the entire county government seemed very strange.
In the study, Ge Dan gently put down the brush in his hand, looked at the official documents he was writing, and nodded with satisfaction. Ge Dan wrote about the matter about the Jiuqu River embankment, breaking the siege and scamming the city. Ge Dan did not cover up at all, and directly spread the whole matter. As for Feng Li's affairs, Ge Dan just thought that he had come to inspect the disaster last time.
The conspiracy in the dark room was naturally impossible to let others know, and Feng Li himself dared not say it. Ge Dan was going to submit the document directly to the prefect's office.
How the prefect's office responded has nothing to do with Ge Dan. After taking the letter paper, Ge Dan began to write a letter. This letter was given to the Nanjing Censorate, and this letter was given to Zheng Bingqian, the right assistant censor of the Nanjing Censorate.
This person still has something to do with Ge Dan. His master was Ge Dan. When Ge Dan was taking the imperial examination in Shuntian Prefecture, Zheng Bingqian was appointed as the chief examiner. Zheng Bingqian was Ge Dan's master. Later, because of writing a letter to impeach Wang Zhi, Zheng Bingqian was sent to Nanjing as the right assistant censor of the Nanjing Censorate. Before taking office as Danyang, Ge Dan specially went to Nanjing to visit this master.
In this era, the deep connection between scholars can be seen in this way. There are many students and students in the same year.
Ge Dan was about to lift the lid, but he couldn't do it himself. You should know that Ge Dan was preparing to offend people this time. If the prefectural office pressed the matter back and the matter was not serious, it would be just offending people for nothing.
The letter was sealed, and Ge Dan was about to send it to Zheng Bingqian and asked him to participate in the memorial. Ge Dan was a little slight, but Zheng Bingqian was different. Zheng Bingqian became the right censor of the Nanjing Censorate, and the memorial could be delivered directly to the cabinet and reached the heavenly listening. Once this matter entered the center, his father would be able to use his strength, otherwise it would be impossible for Ge Dan's father to help him if he was limited to Zhenjiang.
After sealing the letter, Ge Dan breathed a sigh of relief. When things reached this point, they decided to do it, so they had to do the best things and do their best.
Chapter completed!