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Chapter 1145 Chapter 1146 Talking about Nile Pass ([-])

At the end of the previous dynasty, the imperial court was already very faint. The emperor didn't want to govern the country well, but only thought about beauties and cultivating immortals, and his cultivating immortals did not follow the righteous path, but worshiped an evil cultivator as a master.

What do you think this evil cultivator relies on?
It is blood and tears, and the lives of countless people.

How can such an emperor treat the people well?

At that time, there was a thing that sounds very absurd now. As soon as the last emperor of the previous dynasty took office, the first decree promulgated by the emperor was "If a family has two children, it needs one in the country." What does it mean? You have to turn it over to the country/home.

I didn't tell you what to do when you hand it in. Anyway, this is an imperial decree, and you have to hand it in if you don't.

These boys and girls handed over are naturally the nourishment for the emperor and his master to cultivate.

The emperor is already like this, and the courtiers will naturally follow suit.

Some people followed to the so-called cultivating immortals, some people occupied the fields and private property of the common people openly, and some people used good registration as slave status to squeeze out the last value of the common people.

To say that the people are in dire straits is to praise the last period of the previous dynasty.

But even at this time, there will be some people who truly care about the people and serve the people wholeheartedly.

Liang Minzhong, the magistrate of the old city, is one.

Liang Minzhong was born in a noble family, and his father and elder brother were both officials in the court. He should have followed the path of becoming an official in the court.

But this person is a genetic mutation in a good family, and his three views are still concerned about the common people, not like other people in the good family think that those are all splinters and not enough to die.

Therefore, after Liang Minzhong passed the exam and Tanhua really entered the court and became an official in Beijing, he really couldn't integrate into the changed officialdom at that time, and others looked at him as an outlier.

He wanted to change, but he said nothing.

In the end, when he was nearly thirty, he left the capital and invited himself to go to any place in the border town of Xicheng.

On the other side of the old city, because it is too far away from the capital, it has not been affected much, but it is poor.

Liang Minzhong is able to show his ambition here.

He is also really capable. In less than ten years, he has completely changed the poverty that was once so poor that the whole family may not have a complete set of clothes.

It can’t be said that they dare to sleep with the door open, but at least one of them can not freeze to death or be starved to death, yes, it sounds so sad.

Because of the remoteness of the old city, while it will not be disturbed by the imperial court, it will not be noticed by the capital.

Then, the boundary of the old city is a plain area, the surrounding mountains and forests are far away, and the water source is not abundant.

As we all know, growing food is inseparable from water. No matter what kind of food you grow, you need some for drought resistance, but you can't have nothing at all.

And in Xicheng, there is a river that is not wide enough to walk about half a distance away from Xicheng.

In addition, there are no really drought-resistant crops at all at the moment. They all grow millet, that is, millet. Although this stuff does not require water like rice, it also requires water.

The river is far away, and there is no such thing as a waterwheel. It is purely artificial, so irrigation becomes difficult, and the natural yield per mu is not high, so you have to pay taxes...
Before Liang Minzhong came to Xicheng, it can be said that people starved to death every day, and people froze to death every day when the weather was cold. The common people were alive, but they were just numb and panting.

Liang Minzhong is not a time traveler, and he doesn't understand the technology of later generations, but he is a good official who truly serves the people.

When he arrived in Xicheng and knew the serious water shortage in Xicheng, he looked at the river which was not very wide. He was afraid that one day the river would dry up and the people in Xicheng would have no way to live, so he started to walk along the only river channel Along the way, he was going to find the source of water.

It took more than a month, but it was found for him.

The water source of the river comes from one of the several giant peaks in the natural barrier to the east.

These giant peaks are all high in altitude, almost the same as the Himalayas, and the halfway up is full of snow. The rivers in the old city are formed by the accumulation of snow water from the snow on the mountains.

However, nature doesn't seem to favor the old city very much. How could the snow water only converge into one river, but there was only one river in the old city.

God doesn't hurt, we can hurt ourselves.

Liang Minzhong led the people in the city to open canals to divert water from several nearby rivers. This man is really righteous. He didn't directly divert all the rivers to his side, but only diverted part of the water.

If there are cities and villages in the lower reaches of those rivers, wouldn't it be a desperate way to survive if all the water sources were taken away? !
Just like that, Liang Minzhong spent a year widening the Xicheng River, which was originally only less than five meters wide, by twice as wide.

He also artificially excavated another river channel from the upper reaches to the old city, and spent nearly ten years to make the poor city of the old city with only loess, with the aorta and blood vessels, truly alive. .

Water is the essence of human beings. With water, people's life will gradually improve.

Liang Minzhong also asked a friend to bring a drought-resistant crop—corn—to Xicheng at his own expense.

At the beginning, the common people didn't know what corn was, and they didn't believe what Liang Minzhong said was high-yield and drought-resistant, so Liang Minzhong planted corn himself to prove it.

When the common people saw the golden corn, who would not want to plant it if they didn't really want to die? !

From now on, although the old city seems to have been abandoned by the imperial court, there is no support from the imperial court at all, and although the life of the common people is still tight in some wealthy places, at least they no longer have to fear that someone will starve to death Frozen to death, with hope for the future.

It's just a pity that their protector, Liang Minzhong, died suddenly in No. 13 years after he arrived in Xicheng at the age of 40 when he went to see the people collecting grain.

Without the empress Liang Min, no matter how much the previous dynasty didn't care about the old city, it was still the previous dynasty's own city, so they would naturally send another magistrate here.

But this one, people are not very good, and they are the real representatives of "one hundred thousand snowflake silver in Qingzhi County in three years".

Hu Han, like Liang Minzhong, came from an aristocratic family, but he is completely opposite to Liang Minzhong's view of the people as real people. He has the arrogance of a pure aristocratic child.

In his eyes, civilians are not even considered human beings. Whether they have enough to eat or not, whether they are warmly dressed or not, has something to do with him? !

Oh, this is not entirely true, and it has something to do with it. If ordinary people have more money in their pockets, they can get more out of it.

Hu Han originally had resentment about being sent to this remote place, but this man was timid. He dared not express his resentment to the person who sent him, but directed his resentment to the common people in the old city.

It's all because of these people, if there is no one in the old city, why would the government send him here?

Because of this resentment, the first thing he did when he came to the old city was to kill a child who was less than ten years old with a stick outside the city before entering the city, just because the child ran into him by running around.

From then on, the people of Xicheng have lived a more miserable life than before Liang Minzhong did not come.

(End of this chapter)