In the evening, after using the chicken soup, taking a hot bath, and changing into clean clothes, Zhu Pingan waved a brush in the study to summarise today’s investigation, and listed the solutions to the hidden problems found.
After summarising, Zhu Pingan drew a map based on the survey.
The maps archived in the government offices were not accurate and detailed, Zhu Ping An had long made up his mind to make a map of Jingnan using modern methods. In the past, when he went to the countryside to visit and inspect the countryside, Zhu Pingan came back and drew a map of the places he visited. When Jingnan was finished, he would merge this small map into a general map of Jingnan.
After drawing the map, it is already late at night at midnight, Zhu Pingan in the painting child repeatedly urged, before not yet finished wash up and go to bed.
Tonight’s bed is warm again for nothing ……
Looking at the aunt, as usual, and rested elsewhere, the painting child had to wrap tightly his small quilt.
On the second day, it was still cloudy and rainy, and the rain was still falling so earnestly.
Zhu Pingan woke up early, had his breakfast, and called on Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou and the others to go out to investigate again.
Climbing mountains and wading through water, combing wind and rain, it was another day of going out early and returning late, coming back even later and more wretched than yesterday.
On the third day, Zhu Pingan did not go out, through the Yamen to the townships issued a flood prevention and flood control expedited official document, pointed out the county’s water hazards, listed a specific measure to mobilise the whole county into the flood prevention and flood control.
Originally, Zhu Pingan also worried about the people do not cooperate, consider the introduction of a number of supporting initiatives to ensure that the flood control and flood control smoothly, but Zhu Pingan is still too small to look down on their own credibility and influence, the official document issued not long, Zhu Pingan received feedback, the people are very cooperative, the whole county up and down the line, the action of the fervour of the whole day.
Of course, there are a few people do not cooperate, feel that Zhu Pingan see too much, fuss, abuse of public power, not just a few days of light rain in a row. However, without the government’s intervention, a few old men from their village went up to clean them up.
“These days it rains, you all know the wife and children hot pit head, but you have a few know, our county has braved the wind and rain survey for two days, early morning and late at night, climbed the mountains and waded through the water, survey water, the little old man I have seen in the eyes of the eye. If it wasn’t for the fact that the county governor fought off the Japanese invaders, applied for tax exemptions, and gave out so much silver to those involved in defending the city, would you be able to have wives and children in hot pits? Flood prevention and control, who is this for? It’s not for ourselves! This rain has been falling for eight days in a row, the water in the river pit rose day after day, I worry about the little old me sleepless nights. People do not have far-flung worries will be close to worry, fortunately, our county Zun is a person who understands, has long thought of us to go ahead. County honourable this is all for our sake, you guys still grumble, conscience all let the dog eat!!!”
“The only reason you guys are able to have wives and children in hot pits is because County Honour is out there carrying the weight for you!”
“It’s not yellow plum season, this rain has been falling for eight days in a row, it’s not normal. Flood prevention and flood control, this is a matter of human life. If there is no flooding, we are now but a handful of force; if it is bad luck, flooding came, then we are saving ourselves, in saving the lives of the big guys.”
The old man on his crutches, pinching the waist will be a few refused to work on the pricks a scolding, will they clean up the obedience, red-faced self-consciously take shovels, baskets to join the flood control and flood prevention.
Seeing the whole county up and down the flood control, Zhu Pingan assured a lot, will be the county Xu official divided into several batches, go to different places to guide the flood control, Zhu Pingan also took Liu Dazhou and other people chose a few places where the situation is critical to walk around.
After returning at noon, Zhu Pingan took into account the flood control not only to Jingnan up and down the chessboard, the entire Taizhou government is also a chessboard, especially a few neighbouring counties is also particularly important, so, Zhu Pingan and discretionary tone, wrote an official document a few letters, so that the servants to the Taizhou government offices, as well as a few neighbouring counties of the Yamen.
“Heh! But having rescued Taiping once, he, Zhu Pingan, has taken himself as the Taishang Emperor of Taiping County? But it was just a few days of light rain, and it rises to flood control and flood prevention? Giving me orders! What a thing!”
The new Taiping Magistrate, receiving a letter from Zhu Pingan reminding him of flood prevention and control, opened it and only scanned it, laughed coldly, and casually threw it onto the table.
The new governor of Taiping County has a lot of opinions about Zhu Ping An. He came to Taiping County to take up his post, and he thinks that he is hardworking and conscientious. On a whim, he went out on a private visit to hear his reputation among the people, but all he heard was the people saying good things about Zhu Pingan, what the neighbouring county Jingnan governor Zhu Pingan this and that good, wise and godly, fought off the Japanese invaders, judge cases like Bao Gong in the world, and plead for the people’s lives to reduce the taxes. ……Blah blah blah, about Zhu Pingan’s good words, the new governor’s ears have been cocooned, but about his own words, from the people’s mouth did not hear a word.
Instantly, the new governor of Taiping’s glass heart was broken!
For example, it feels like a couple of newlyweds, the little minister thinks of his wife, the results from morning to night, the little wife has been talking about the old king next door, how much better. You say, this little prime minister to the next door old king opinion can be small? The new governor of Taiping was the same, and all of a sudden he held a grudge against Zhu Pingan.
If you love a house, you will hate it, and vice versa. Once you have an opinion about you, then you have an opinion about everything about you.
Zhu Pingan’s kindness was taken as a finger pointing by Taiping Magistrate! Trying to brush up his presence in Taiping County! Fishing for reputation!
What bullshit about teenage brilliance!
He doesn’t even know astronomy or geography! It’s normal to have a few days of rain in a row in a water town like Jiangnan, a land of fish and rice. How to rise to the flood control and flood prevention? It rains in every house during the yellow plum season, and there are frogs everywhere in the grassy ponds. This familiar old poem have not heard of it? Jiangnan water town he does not rain, he is still a water town! It’s ridiculous!
Now you’re still the Governor of Jingnan, not yet the Commander of the Imperial Criminal Investigation Department, you don’t know who you are, and you’re dictating to my district! Hmph! Wait until you are in office before you issue orders to me!
The new governor of Taiping got angrier and angrier as he thought about it, picked up the letter again, tore it up and threw it into the rubbish bin!
The other neighbouring counties, although not as bad as the governor of Taiping, basically did not take Zhu Pingan’s letter seriously, or put the letter on the shelf, or casually mention it to their subordinates, and then it will not be taken seriously.
Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, had learnt a lesson from the last Japanese invasion, and had been training new recruits in the barracks outside the city to prepare for the Japanese invasion, and had sent a message to the government officials not to disturb him if there were no important matters. After receiving the official letter from Taiping County, the government official read the content, reminding the flood prevention and control, and thought that it was not an important matter, and the government office also issued the official letter of flood prevention and control in the middle of the year, so there was no need to disturb the government official. Therefore, the official of the government office casually put the official document of Taiping County in the receiving cabinet.
