He thought his life's work was to build rocks to control floods, until a blood-stained account book revealed the truth - it was never just floods that swallowed up the people.
Zhang Heng, an official from the Ministry of Industry, spent his entire life walking on the edge of a broken embankment and in the quagmire of corruption. Huzhou, Bianjing, Southeast... He built real embankments, checked the money flowing to private houses, and fought against an intricate network. When the secret account was revealed and the list pointed to the depths of the court, what he presented was no longer a volume of documents, but a reckoning with the country at stake.
However, floods are easy to stop, but people's hearts are difficult to control. The real achievement is to build a embankment of conscience that will never collapse in the quicksand of time.
A wave of support 😋