This prince is going to heaven

Chapter 642
Jingzhou.

After all the problems of the refugees were resolved, under the leadership of Wen Ruyan, all the youths in the towns and villages devoted themselves to the project of digging the canals.

Jingzhou is located in the northwest. The conditions here can indeed be described as harsh. Although there is a lot of land, there are not many good fields. Not only that, even the proportion of medium-sized land is not much. , the most are still those inferior lands.

Good good land can be planted twice a year, medium land can only be planted once a year, and inferior land, once planted, has to wait another year before planting, otherwise there will not be much harvest.

In fact, there is a lot of low-grade land, but it is because there is not enough irrigation. There is no river in the entire Jingzhou City, and the nearest big river is already hundreds of miles away.

In the past, farmers used to irrigate their crops with water from wells. It is conceivable how much water can be poured into the fields in a year?

There is so much land, if it does not rain, it is all up to the farmers to carry the water bucket by bucket, how much human strength can it have?In the past, it would take ten days to irrigate a piece of land with the power of a family.If there is no rain all year round, the crops in the field will basically be considered useless.

After the officials below said this, Wen Ruyan summoned all the officials in Jingzhou to discuss it again, and finally took out all the remaining silver and used it to dig canals and divert the river water. Only in this way can we guarantee All the land in Jingzhou can have a stable harvest every year.

Wen Ruyan never liked to procrastinate when doing things, he just did what he said, and as soon as he issued an order, he immediately got the response of all the people.

Nonsense, it's all for them, how could they disagree?

What's more, after the refugees returned to the village, although Wen Ruyan distributed food to every household on a per-capita basis, how much could there be? There are no fewer than millions of villagers in Jingzhou. How much grain can those silver taels be enough to buy?
If the family lived frugally, they would probably be able to live for more than a month, and then they would have to rely on the imperial court for relief. If the imperial court's relief was late, wouldn't they have to go hungry?
Right now is not the best time for spring planting, working with His Highness Prince Jing, there is enough food supply every day, not only that, but also monthly money distribution, who can not be active?

Although the project was large, it couldn't support the large number of people. In less than a month, starting from the upper reaches of the big river and ending at the lower reaches, a circular canal about 150 miles long, five feet wide, and two feet deep was dug.

Wen Ruyan did not forcibly change the flow path of the big river. The project could not be completed with just a little money. What he could do was to build such a semicircular river channel, guide the river to flow, and then flow into it from below. that big river.

Since the day when the project was completed and the river was brought in, the whole Jingzhou was completely boiling again!
what is this?
This is a project of Neng Fu Yin for more than ten generations!With this tributary, the people of Jingzhou no longer have to worry about land irrigation.

And because of this project, Wen Ruyan completely remembered everyone in Jingzhou.

In this era, the common people are still simple, whoever treats them well, they will naturally remember who!

Countless people were grateful to Wen Ruyan. On the day when the project was completed, tens of thousands of people knelt down to Wen Ruyan at the same time and shouted four words, His Highness King Jing!

In the scene at that time, Wen Ruyan's eyes were almost red even if he was too strong-minded!

After the river water was diverted, the next thing to consider was to divert countless small tributaries and bring them into the villages, but at this time Wen Ruyan felt uncomfortable.

Because he has no money.

Zhou Tianzi left him more than 100 million taels of silver to relieve victims, buy food, and dig canals.

Right now, if you want to separate these tributaries, you will need almost 20 taels of silver!

After all, there are eight villages and towns in Jingzhou, and each town has more than a dozen villages. This project is not too small.

Where should the money come from?

Want it from Zhou Tianzi?
Wen Ruyan shook his head, he could no longer ask the imperial court for money, Dazhou is now fighting for years, and there are places where money is used everywhere, because the national treasury is empty, and I don't know how many soldiers who died in the battle did not receive the compensation they deserved.

This incident was like a fishbone, deeply stuck in Zhou Tianzi's throat.

Right now, it is impossible for Wen Ruyan to ask Zhou Tianzi for money anymore.

To be honest, since the digging of the canal, Wen Ruyan has reduced his daily expenses to a minimum. Who would have imagined that His Royal Highness King Jing of Zhou would eat steamed buns and pickles every day?

Even Liu Shiru and other court officials came to his mansion and drank plain water, and they couldn't even bring out old tea from previous years.

In the eyes of those officials who were on duty, this scene was so sad that they wanted to cry.

And Wen Ruyan was like this, how could they still think about serving them all day long?Liu Shiru immediately took the lead in donating 2000 taels of silver.

To be honest, this was all he could come up with. The annual salary of a senior member of the imperial court was only 300 taels, and the 2000 taels of silver were all his savings over the years.

His term of office will expire in just over a month, and with the 2000 taels of silver, it is estimated that returning to his hometown will be a problem by then.

As Liu Shiru took the lead, all the officials in Jingzhou contributed capital one after another. However, most of the current officials are people who were suppressed by Bai Wangzhi at the beginning. They are already poor, how much more can they contribute?
In the end, the donation Wen Ruyan received was only a mere 1 taels of silver.

The gap is still huge!
And when Wen Ruyan couldn't sleep all night because of the discomfort, Yanjing Fei's family suddenly sent someone to send a full 30 taels of silver!
After Wen Ruyan read the letter brought to him by Fei Jiajia Ding, he also let out a long sigh of relief.

This money was invested solely by the Fei family, not for anything else, but for Wen Ruyan's sincere work for the common people!

It is said that there is no business without adultery, and that without fraud there is no business, but this Fei Yuan is a little different!
Could this be the reason why the Fei family became the number one merchant family in Yanjing?
pattern!

And with the 30 taels of silver, Wen Ruyan could finally let go and do what he wanted to do.

With Jingzhou as the center, from far to near, began to excavate various small tributaries.

On this day, after the tributary of a certain village was dug, Wen Ruyan, who was covered in mud, dragged his exhausted body back to his mansion.

Since the start of the project, Wen Ruyan has always taken the lead in the work.

I don't know how many officials advised him not to do this. How can a body of a thousand gold do such rough work?
But Wen Ruyan smiled and refused.

What a joke!Don’t know what leadership is?
As he is the one who rushes to the front, is it possible for the rest of them to be lazy?Do you really think that such a large project can be completed in more than a month because of the large number of people?

"Look at the blueprint, which village should we go to tomorrow?"

"Go back to Your Highness, it's time for the Liu Family Village."

"Liu Family Village?"

(End of this chapter)