Zhan Zhao heard that these people might have been strangled to death in the river, so he reached out to hold the neck of the body and shouted in surprise: "I've really been strangled to death, and my bones were broken."

Zhan Zhao grabbed the necks of several other corpses and nodded to Bao Qing, all of whom were strangled to death in the river.

"Can it be the water ghost strangled the man to death?" Bao Liuwen asked.

"Stacked by the water ghost? If you really see the water ghost, you should be scared to death!" Bao Qing said, "Notify the coroner and the constable to transport the body back for further inspection. Judging from this situation, if the rain falls for a few more days, it will probably really break the dam. Head of the Money, you go back and organize people to collect sacks. Those who have already arrived are ready to compact the dam and strengthen it. All work will be done. If the dam is broken, everyone will probably not even be able to drink the porridge."

This was indeed useful. The victims worked hard to get some porridge. Bao Qing probably wandered around the dam for a long time, but no more bodies were found.

When Bao Qing returned to the yamen, the chief clerk Qin had been impatient. Seeing that Bao Qing had come back, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Prince Bao, you are the one who opened a granary privately. If you want to die, you have to take us to die. He kept saying that the east of the city was about to burst, and it was your intention to do it."

Bao Qing smiled and said, "How do you know that the east of the city will not break the dam? Maybe it will break the dam tomorrow. If the granary is flooded, will you be responsible or I be responsible. Now I will distribute the grain to the victims and earn a good reputation for you officials. Besides, the court will also distribute disaster relief food sooner or later. We are raising grain now, so what are you afraid of? At most, fill up the grain."

"You! You are so hopeless! You are still self-righteous! In the first year of Tiansheng, Zhang Chong, the governor of Dengzhou, saved the people in Pingshui, and opened a granary and killed them! Immediately in the second year of Tiansheng, Wang Hui of Suicheng opened a granary and killed them! Not to mention anything else, in recent years, the people in the whole city have died, and no one dared to open a granary privately. You are so hiding the truth and thinking that others don't know? Although you tied up all the officials in the county government with a trick, you are the main culprit, and even the magistrate can't escape!"

"As long as you don't say anything, what can happen?" Bao Qing thought, didn't Mencius say that the people are the priority and the country is the second? Is this wrong? Even if I see the emperor, I can argue.

Bao Qing ordered people to summon the main officials of the county government to discuss the repair of the embankment and mobilize wealthy businessmen in the county to donate money and grain.

"Everyone, we must come up with a charter on how to repair the embankment and get the merchants in the city tonight. I have prepared water, wine and food. We will disperse when we discuss it today." Bao Qing said.

The officials below were reluctant in their hearts. Who wouldn't want to go back to the warm kang to hug their wife? But they were like eggplants made by frost, without saying a word.

After spending so much time, Bao Qing almost fell asleep. When Bao Qing's newly acquired maid Xiao Cui saw that Bao Qing was sleepy, he quickly brought a pot of tea.

"Let's do this, if we are all consuming, it will be bad for everyone! I'll allocate the task below. Xiaowen, please take the ink and record it!" Bao Qing said, "Wang Shuli, I heard that Boss Huang in the east of the city is a relative of your family? Just in time, Boss Huang will hand it over to you. There is also Wu Caoshi, then the Zhang family in the silk and satin farm seems to be your father-in-law's family! By the way, there is also Zhuang Caoshi! I won't talk about the rest. In a while, we will have a contracting system. As long as the officials in the yamen are in charge, they must complete certain amount of money and food!" Bao Qing had already asked Captain Qian in the afternoon. The background of all the officials in the yamen is not related to merchants!

Bao Qing asked Bao Liuwen to register and record the amount completed by each county official.

"Bao County Wei, your contracting system is too poisonous! I want to ask how much food should you be prepared to pay for?" An official asked very dissatisfiedly.

"Me? Why do you ask me how much I spend?" Bao Qing knew that the minor official was named Li Ji'an and was a member of the Li family.

"A joke, of course I will ask clearly so that everyone will pay the money and grain, but you, Bao County Guard, can't pay the money! I won't say much, I want me to pay, but I won't have a penny! I won't go to find any merchants to complete the task. So, Bao County Guard, I will pay as much as you pay!" Li Ji'an said.

"This is what you said! Everyone has heard it clearly. How much I, Bao Qing, will you be as good as you, Li Ji'an? Who else wants this?" Bao Qing asked.

As expected, three of them stood up, Bao Qing felt a little depressed. It seemed that he had insufficient prestige! It seemed that he had to show off his prestige.

"Then I will pay two thousand guan!" Bao Qing said.

"What? Two thousand stakes?"

"Two thousand guan? Are they true or false?"

There was a lot of discussion below, and Li Ji'an even took a breath, looking incredible.

Li Ji'an gritted his teeth and said, "Who are you lying to? Two thousand guan! Do you dare to make a document? If you dare, I will follow!"

Bao Qing made a note without any ambiguity and said in his heart that it was much easier to raise it now. A total of four people followed me, and nearly 10,000 yuan was added immediately.

Just when Bao Qing was sleeping all night in the county government to raise money and food for disaster relief, the Li family mansion was brightly lit, and Li Jiujin also stayed all night.

"I didn't expect that this Baoer was quite rich, and he actually donated 2,000 guan at once!" Li Jiujin said.

"Brother, what do you care about the Bao's family? We are in trouble now. The victims are building dams in the south of the city all day long, so it's hard for us to do it! Besides, how can we kill so many people?" The person who spoke was Li Jiujin's younger brother Li Tianba.

"This is a trouble. You killed more than a dozen victims a few days ago and have attracted the attention of the Bao surname. The Bao surname is not a fuel-efficient lamp. You can see at a glance that those people were strangled to death in the river. If I had known that this kid was so troublesome, he should have taken the opportunity to eradicate him after he died in the house. We, a county in the long term, shouldn't have a county lieutenant. After killing a few, it's been a few years since we were safe? Another one with the Bao surname came out!" Li Jiujin gritted his teeth with hatred.

"What should I do? In just a few days, the silver ship transported to Jiangnan to provide disaster relief has passed by Changyuan County in these few days! Brother, think of a solution quickly."

"This matter is really annoying. It's been so many years since the previous money has not been recovered. It's all your bad ideas."

"Brother, we can't blame us! We did it according to the above order. Brother, why can't we get this money after so many years? At that time, we really put the money box in the hole at the bottom of the river as required."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this for now, just say that the disaster relief money ship is coming soon. How are you going to do it?" Li Jiujin asked.

Li Tianba touched his head and replied, "What else can I do? It's the same as in previous years! I pretended to be a water ghost to drive away the people on the edge of the south dam of the city. Then I robbed the ship! I sank the money box to the bottom of the river first."

"This group of victims who repair the river embankment every day is really troublesome! If it really doesn't work, please contact the Meihua Gang and they will think of a solution!"

Bao Qing stayed in the yamen all night, and the next morning, he rushed home. As soon as he pushed open his door, Zhu Daniu got up early. When he saw Bao Qing, he asked, "Brother Bao! You can't stay in this house anymore. It's haunted! My parents are making a fuss to go out. By the way, why didn't you come back last night?"

"Oh? It's really a water ghost?" Bao Qing said in a slight shock.

"Ah? Brother Bao! How do you know that the water ghost is making trouble? It's the pond in the middle, with white hair shaking and scattering, and it's so scary. All the way, there's a pool of water stains on the ground. What should I do? Otherwise, my parents and I will move to the yamen to live?"

"Move to the yamen? Do you think that yamen is my home? There are too many people there now, and many elderly, weak, sick and disabled disaster victims are there, and there are many people doing things there! It's really inconvenient! But don't worry, I'll bring a master to catch ghosts tonight!" Bao Qing didn't believe there was really a water ghost, so he was a promising young man who grew up under materialist education in the new society.

"Then, how did you come here, Brother Bao?"

When Bao Qing heard this, he felt like a gust of cold wind blew. Yes, how did he come here? How did he run to the Song Dynasty? How did he explain? That water ghost? Bao Qing was sweating in his forehead when he thought of this!

"Brother Bao, what's wrong? Have you come here in a sedan chair? I said before that if I have a chance, let my mother sit back in a sedan chair." Zhu Daniu said.

Bao Qing looked at Daniu's eager eyes and felt unbearable, so he said, "Don't we have a lot of money? You can just get it if you hire a man. I'm back."

"Oh, Brother Bao. But our money has been taken away! I don't have a penny!" Zhu Daniu said.
Chapter completed!