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Latest website: www.ddxsku.com On September 8th, the second phase of Kunshan County's water conservancy project was completed as scheduled.

After a month of hard work by 70,000 laborers and 100,000 old and young women and children in the county, a 50-mile-long north-south embankment was built along the Jiepu River and Yangcheng Lake, and a double embankment was built for the 17-mile-long Yanglin Pond.

The flood disaster in Kunbei has been completely eliminated, and a total of 100,000 acres of flooded land on both sides of Yanglintang have seen the light of day again!

On the day the project was completed, Lin Run, the governor of Yingtian, came to inspect the project. He also attended the rustic completion ceremony in Kunshan County and made an enthusiastic speech.

After the ceremony was over, the civilians returned to the city to celebrate... actually, after a big feast, Lin Zhongcheng, accompanied by Zhao Shouzheng, went to inspect the previously repaired Wusong River embankment.

Lin Zhongcheng inspected very carefully. He brought a small hammer and knocked here and there on the river bank to personally check the construction quality.

Zhao Hao was also mixed in with a large group of entourage. It was not that he wanted to join in the fun, but Lin Run specifically asked him to accompany him today.

The will of the highest local official could not be violated, so Young Master Zhao didn't even dare to wear sunglasses, and put on the eighth-rank green official robe that he hadn't worn since coming to Jiangnan. A group of guys wearing blue and green official robes followed behind Lin Run and his father from a distance.

Seeing Lin Run's serious expression, he whispered to Xiong Dianshi beside him, "What is he hitting with a hammer?"

"Of course." Xiong Dianshi nodded and said softly, "The young master's men have been working with big hammers for a long time but to no avail. What's the use of the Zhongcheng's small hammer?"

"What the hell." Young Master Zhao rolled his eyes.

"Puchi..." Xiong Dianshi was amused. After returning from Jinling, although he was still a man-eating old bear in front of others, he became a smiling little bear in front of Mr. Zhao.

The two men's carefree conversation attracted the angry glare of a blue-robed official in front of them.

"You are being disrespectful to the Prime Minister, do you know that? What is your name?"

"My name is Ni Daye, what's your name?" Young Master Zhao was just bored, so he immediately took out a pair of sunglasses from his sleeve and put them on his nose.

"I am Tian Baiguang, the magistrate of Songjiang!" The official glanced coldly at the two green-headed fly-like officials, seeing that one of them had an oriole on his chest and the other had a house sparrow.

He regarded them both as minor officials in Kunshan County and looked down upon them even more. "One is an eighth-rank official, and the other is a nobody. No wonder they don't know the rules."

"You're the only one who understands?" Zhao Hao unfolded the fan and saw a line of large characters written in a flamboyant style on it: 'No one understands better than me'.

“You…” Judge Tian felt that he was being teased and couldn’t help but spit: “You know shit!”

"Lord Tian is the Tongpan of Songjiang. He is in charge of the officials in Kunshan, but his hands are too long!" When Xiong Dianshi saw his thigh... Oh no, the young master was humiliated, he immediately stepped forward and stared at the other party with a gloomy look.

"That's right, what right do you have to control us?" Young Master Zhao shook his fan contemptuously, revealing the two words "science" on the other side.

"I'm here to welcome the Minister of Justice to inspect our Songjiang." Tian Tongpan twitched his lips twice and said in a muffled voice.

"Damn, turns out he's just a bootlicker." Zhao Hao and Xiong Dianshi retreated tactically and ignored him.

"Hmph, you two just wait!" The scorned Tian Tongpan felt that if he didn't get back at them, the face of his sixth-rank Tongpan would be lost on this embankment.

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In front, Lin Run finished tapping and finally stood up with satisfaction and said:

"Great! This cement embankment is indeed worthy of its reputation. It is stronger than the stone embankments built in other counties! No wonder it can withstand storms!"

"I am also worried. It is great that we can withstand several typhoons." Zhao Shouzheng smiled modestly.

"You are very good, better than we had expected." Lin Run looked Zhao Shouzheng up and down and saw that the pampered and handsome top scholar had become dark and thin, and his eyes looked much bigger than before.

"This hospital didn't hire the wrong person. Our initial concerns about you were completely wrong!"

"I'm ashamed!" Zhao Shouzheng bowed and thanked him, "I just kept in mind the Zhongcheng's instructions and kept the people of the county in mind at all times. The whole county was united and fortunately resisted the flood this year."

"Alas, Magistrate Zhao, being too modest is actually pride." Lin Run waved his hand and pointed at the levee under his feet and said, "Could it be that this impregnable levee was built by luck?"

"If this is considered a miracle, I don't think there is another county magistrate in the world who can create such a miracle." Lin Zhongcheng gave the highest evaluation.

Zhao Shouzheng thought to himself, that’s because they are too stupid to give birth to a good son like me... Hey, why does this seem a little strange?

"It's not a good son like me, but a good son like my son." Mr. Zhao corrected him seriously.

"But I'm very curious. Could you please tell me how much it will cost to build this dike?" After Mr. Zhao finished his humble words, Lin Run asked softly.

"If converted into silver, it would be at least one million taels." Zhao Shouzheng followed his son's instructions and reported a figure that he had heard for the first time.

In fact, according to Jiang Xueying's account, the first phase of the project cost only 500,000 taels.

But when reporting to the higher-ups, this calculation obviously cannot be made. After all, the labor for the first phase of the project was free, and the profit margin of Kunkai Company was not taken into account.

If he only wanted to save face and offered 500,000 taels, Lin Run would ask Kunkaisi to repair the dikes of the ten prefectures of Yingtian at this price, and he would have to pay for it with all Mr. Zhao's Dubi pants.

One million taels is not a lot, but the Baili Shitang in Wujiang cost three million taels.

In this comparison, Kunkaisi is truly a good company that makes money conscientiously.

It was only one million taels, but it still shocked Lin Run.

"I came to Kunshan County last year. At that time, Magistrate Feng was so poor that he could barely make ends meet. But I couldn't help him and gave him 5,000 taels of silver to help him get through the New Year. You've only been here for a few months. Where did you get so much money?"

"The county teamed up with the local gentry and the Jiangnan Company to form a Kunshan Development Company to do this. The county naturally had no money, so it only held a quarter of the shares, and all the project funds were paid by the gentry and the Jiangnan Company."

"Then what benefits do they have?" Lin Run asked again.

"The county promised to rent the abandoned land to Kunkaisi as compensation." Zhao Shouzheng explained carefully:

"For example, after the second phase of the project is completed, 100,000 mu of flooded land on both sides of Yanglintang will be turned into fertile fields. The county has signed a lease contract with Kunkai Company as compensation for the previous phase of the project."

"How is the leasing method?" Lin Run asked very carefully. He had worked as an imperial censor for half his life and he had a hunch that there might be a lot of filth and corruption hidden here.

"Here is the contract. We haven't had time to report it to the government yet. Please give it your consideration, Minister Zhong." Zhao Shouzheng quickly took out a contract signed between the county and Kunkaisi from his sleeve and presented it with both hands.

Lin Run took it and read it carefully word by word. At the end, he looked at the rolling Wusong River and sighed:

"I admire you so much! Magistrate Zhao is such a genius to come up with such an idea!"

Mr. Zhao couldn't help feeling ashamed, thinking that he was taking his son's reputation away again.

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