Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 138
After getting the food, Shi Zhongkui thought about it, he was most afraid of attracting attention in the officialdom, the eyes of some officials were always watching every move of the court.

Because it's about their future.

The 8 shi of grain was taken home by myself, and there was no problem at all.

Because I really have 5 taels of silver ingots in my hand.

But if you want to distribute it and motivate the field soldiers to do things, you have to find a reasonable reason first.

To put it bluntly, you have something to do with it, you have a way, and it can benefit the soldiers below.

To put it worse, this is Eli buying the morale of the army.

What is this for?
rebel?

Shi Zhongkui couldn't help thinking of the gentry in Wanping City and Daxing City.

As a local local snake, it is impossible to say that officials of all sizes such as the Wanping County Magistrate and the country gentry are completely unaware of the fountains and wetlands outside Wanping City.

If Shi Zhongkui remembers correctly, Wanping City at this time is Fangshan in the future.

In a Changgou Wetland Park, there are more than 10,000 springs that flow continuously all year round.

The area of ​​the wetland is 173.33 hectares, which is 1.7 mu. If you count the surrounding available land, it will definitely exceed more than 10,000 mu.

This is the wetland left over from continuous development in the future. According to Wanping Land's estimation, the area of ​​the wetland should be more than 3 mu, or even more.

The only trouble is that Liu Yu'er has sensed the existence of many spirits in several lakes formed in the wetland.

Although the cultivation base is not high, if one jumps out to make trouble, it will definitely scare the young and strong of Tuntian Division from going to open up wasteland again.

And this may be one of the main reasons why local people dare not open up wasteland.

Not only was it frightened, but the development cost was definitely not small.

But this made Shi Zhongkui cheaper.

Moreover, he only promised Zou Hengyi, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, and Gao Yongmin, the doctor of the Tuntian Division, to open up 1 mu of land, which is only the area of ​​arable land in one or two villages.

The side length is 666 meters by 1 kilometer, and it takes about three 10 minutes to walk around.

Early this morning, dozens of squires with at least a thousand acres of fertile land gathered in the largest restaurant in Wanping City with anticipation and anxiety.

In the past two days, the big and small landlords around the wetland have all been notified by the officials of the imperial envoy, but in fact, not half of them are willing to come.

The reason why Shi Zhongkui approached them was simple, to raise donations.

But before that, he first asked the Ministry of Industry for money and food but failed.

He went to the household department again, and after being rejected again, Shi Zhongkui began to visit the door to block the two left servants of the engineering department and the household department.

The leader of Liu Yuan came to the door, even if he was a member of the third-rank family, he didn't dare to be so cruel as to drive him away.

On the contrary, the old ladies and wives in the backyard were excited when they heard Menzi's report.

Not only all the sons and daughters of the family came out to greet him, but even the five-, six-, and ten-year-old boys came out to ask for advice.

The purpose is nothing more than to hope to be taught by Shi Zhongkui.

Even if the apprenticeship fails, as long as Shi Zhongkui tries to teach him.

If you say, 'can read', then not only the family will pay more attention to this child, but Shilin will also know this child.

Maybe there is a voice of 'child prodigy' coming out.

Because Shi Zhongkui got Zou Hengyi's care more or less, when he was at his house, he not only met the old lady as a nephew.

It really tested the knowledge of Zou Hengyi's eldest grandson.

Listening to the 11-year-old boy answering the questions with trepidation, Shi Zhongkui smiled and boasted, "The foundation is there. If you keep this state for two or three years, a talent is fine."

The adult male of the Zou family who was present was smiling all over his face.

This is what the leader of the Lianzhong Liuyuan scientific examination said, and no one will refute it on this matter.

And just relying on this sentence, the county magistrates and prefects who will be the chief examiners of the county examinations and courtyard examinations in the future will inevitably mutter in their hearts that if they don't take this child, they will offend both the left servant and the number one scholar.

As long as the essay is passable, the county examination and hospital examination will definitely be fine.

When it comes to the government examination, it is because the school is the main examiner.

It's easier to give the green light.

Because the school of a province has already changed from the ninth rank to the eighth rank in the Song Dynasty, all the way to the present, it must be held by the Hanlin of the Imperial Academy.

Few of his colleagues in the Imperial Academy were willing to offend him.

A society where family background is judged by imperial examinations is like the Jiupin Zhongzheng System, which judges high and low by family background.

Even if the official position is higher than him, I will still bow to him in my heart.

Of course, having hatred is a bad thing.

After Zou Hengyi went home from Yamen, he could only take Shi Zhongkui to the study.

Moreover, he had to thank Shi Zhongkui first before talking about business.

When I went to the home of Zuo Shilang of the household department the next day, the treatment was suddenly improved again.

As soon as he got off the sedan chair, he walked into the side door after the door announced, and there were already kneeling servants in the yard.

Following the same routine as Zou Hengyi, Zhao Bochun, the left servant of the household department, could only hold his nose and agree to help him.

And when he left, he personally sent him out.

He didn't enter the door until he got on the sedan chair and left.

This matter quickly spread throughout the capital, and many families had children who were fairly well educated, and they couldn't wait to bring a big sedan chair to invite him to come.

Jia Zheng couldn't sit still any longer and went directly to the door, and then Jia Lan joined the ranks of day students.

As for Jia Baoyu, this guy is eager to come to ask for advice, and he has a reason to go out by the way.

It's just that the discussion is definitely not the Four Books and Five Classics.

The news that Shi Zhongkui was planning to open up wasteland and came to ask for money quickly spread throughout the court.

Some officials and nobles who had been staring at Shi Zhongkui's land reclamation for a long time, naturally began to speak for him.

In the end, not only did he get three thousand shi of grain, but he also got the official document that he could ask the squire to solicit donations as he wished.

As for Guan Zhenghong's case, there was nothing wrong with it except for an official document reprimanding Shi Zhongkui for his unfavorable nursing care.

And while he was in the capital, he had already been sent to the Ministry of Punishment for review.

Shi Zhongkui's hint of "maintaining the dignity of scholars" forced the fifth-rank doctor of the Ministry of Punishment to close the case.

Otherwise, more people will find trouble with the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

But when he first entered the officialdom, some of his subordinates committed suicide in fear of crime, some felt that Shi Zhongkui was upright, and some were more vigilant and guarded against him.

But overall it's good, after all, this case can't stand up to scrutiny.

After a little thought, he guessed that he had suppressed the matter to the lowest degree of harm.

Don't look at Mr. Bao in the drama, but in reality, basically few people are willing to work with him.

But if you want to say who is the most hated person by your colleagues, Fan Wenzheng, who "worry about the world first", must be ahead of Mr. Bao.
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Dozens of large landlords with at least a thousand mu of land in their homes were 10,000 unwilling when they heard that they wanted to donate food and money themselves.

Moreover, less than half of the people who came this time.

Not to mention that there are even more squires with tens or hundreds of acres of land in their families.

If you donate money and food yourself, don't you let others take advantage of it?

Shi Zhongkui had been prepared for a long time and asked Xue Biao to hang up a picture album with someone.

Not to mention the squires, even the county magistrate Wanping who accompanied him all looked eagerly.

Repairing river courses and irrigation systems is one of the achievements in itself, and it is also an item that is very easy to add points.

Shangguan likes it, gentry likes it more.

When leaving office, Manmin Umbrella can be played.

"My lord, if you can do it, my family will be the first to donate 1 shi of grain."

One hundred stone is equal to 1.2 catties, which is actually only 6 or 7 tons when converted into modern weight.

Regardless of the small number, even in a famine year, when the magistrate of Wanping City asked for food, this group of people was not generous enough to give a hundred stones at the first opening.

And set the tone, the number of people behind will be almost the same.

After all, this is not a free gift during a famine without any return.

If there is less supply, we will not have enough confidence to compete with others for water sources when irrigating in the future.

more than 40 people raised donations, and finally just passed [-] shi.

Shi Zhongkui secretly thought that this group of guys were really smart, and that five thousand shi, or 5000 taels of silver, in exchange for a source of water that would benefit their children and grandchildren, was worth it no matter what.

And the average is more than 100 shi, which is only one-tenth of the grain harvested in a year.

Shi Zhongkui was not angry, he had never thought about how generous these landlords and old fortunes could be.

Adding the [-] shi from above and the remaining [-] shi, he immediately had [-] shi of grain in his hand.

After getting the grain and grass, there is also a reason to reasonably explain the source of the grain.

Of course Shi Zhongkui didn't want to waste any more time.

With the help of Wanping Digong, I want to choose a self-spring at a height higher than the outside world more than a dozen times in the vast mountains and plains, just like opening the perspective of God.

To put it bluntly, Ziyongquan means that when the underground river flows, when the water flow encounters rock cracks, if the water pressure is strong enough, the water will be washed out along the cracks by the water pressure.

That's why many mountains have spontaneous springs.

Of course, this is also affected by the season and precipitation.

After rainfall, water seeps into the underground river, naturally increasing the water pressure.

From Xue Jinping's 500 garrison soldiers, [-] people were selected, armed with spears and crossbows, tents, food and grass, followed Shi Zhongkui on horseback, and spent half a day marching to the future Changgou Wetland Park.

According to the guidance of Geotechnical Engineering, the team camped at the foot of a [-]-meter-high mountain.

Shi Zhongkui climbed up the mountain with his men, and when he looked down, he saw dozens of reed marshes and lakes, large and small, formed by thousands of springs for many years, scattered a few kilometers away.

"My lord, there were records of reclamation of wasteland when the kingdom of water was first established, but the topography records that when the reeds were set on fire a hundred years ago when the land was reclamation, there was heavy rain from the sky as soon as the fire started.

And it's only raining in this area, a little farther away, there is no raindrops at all.

At that time, both the country gentry and the people believed that there were evil spirits, or that Uncle Hu was angry, so they let it go. "

Of course Shi Zhongkui understands the reason. Humans need more arable land, which is tantamount to taking habitat from animals and spirits.

It's strange that the spirits who have become spirits will agree.

Even if he is himself, he is actually competing with the lake for water.

After all, the water flowing from the selected dozen or so springs also flows into the nearby lakes.

What I have to do is to change the road, and then use the principle of water flowing to the ground to gather the water and draw it out easily.

And the black fish monster back then was just raining and didn't hurt people's lives, so it can only be said that she has a brain.

Otherwise, Taoist priests will come to the door, or the county magistrate will report to the court, which will be even more troublesome.

Not to mention the emperor's order, even the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture went to the City God's Temple to file a complaint, which was enough to force the City God to subdue the demon.

Of course, they still dare to stay near Gyeonggi, and old spirits basically don't dare to make trouble.

So Shi Zhongkui thought about it, and decided to talk to that black fish spirit first.

It's really hard to agree, and I won't kill her directly.

Instead, on the periphery, according to the established plan and route, dig inward bit by bit.

Moreover, the route chosen by this ditch must gradually go higher.

When the ditches are dug to the vicinity of the selected dozen or so high-altitude self-springs, they are almost close to the largest lake in this area.

If the black fish essence is sensible, then everyone will live in peace.

If you can't bear it, cast a spell to stop it.

At that time, he will have enough reasons to attack her.

And I didn't intend to really burn the reeds. Snakes, rats and ants are still life no matter how small they are. If it's not necessary, don't destroy their habitat.

The Wanping county magistrate who spoke just now reminded again, "My lord, this lake itself is a low-lying area, if you want to draw the water out, you have to repair the water storage lake and raise the waterline.

But this is no small project. "

"I know",
Shi Zhongkui secretly thought that he had the foresight, and he only promised to open up 1 mu of farmland to Zou Hengyi, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry.

According to calculations, only three of the fourteen springs need to be used, and the water drawn out is enough to irrigate two to three thousand mu of land.

At the same time, it is enough to explain to the landlords who donated 5 shi of grain nearby.

As for how to allocate water rights, it has nothing to do with myself.

The remaining 11 springs do not move.

In case of trouble when dredging the river, you can also use this to win over the forces in the court.

After all, the price difference between farmland with plenty of water and farmland with water shortage is often one to two times, or even several times.

You can even invite mountain gods to block some springs, so that you can increase the water output of those springs you choose.

Not to mention irrigating more than 10,000 mu of land, it is not difficult to irrigate [-] to [-] mu of land.

For ordinary people, this method is a fantasy.

But for Shi Zhongkui, it was easy.

And if it is only used to irrigate wheat fields, the number of farmlands that will benefit will definitely be several times greater.

Generally speaking, there is no need to hesitate at all for this multiple-choice question.

Regardless of whether rice or wheat is food, the more land that increases income and the more people it supports, the greater the merit.

However, the errand I received specified the rice fields. Even if tens of thousands of acres of wheat fields were indeed profitable in the end, someone would still take care of me.

And most of those landlords who profited will pretend to be deaf and dumb.

This has happened more than once in history.

The end of the water conservancy master who controlled the Yellow River in the braid dynasty was dismissed from his post and died of illness after being involved in a "farming and disturbing the people".

So Shi Zhongkui didn't think about it for long, and decided to follow the prepared plan.

But before that, I still have to meet that black fish spirit.

He said "down the mountain" to the entourage, and while it was still early, he rode a horse and led Xue Jinping and others to plan the first phase of the ditch excavation route.

It was also evening time.

In his tent, he summoned Land Lord Wanping to inquire again, and after confirming that there was no Uncle Hu, he asked his successor, Ye Youshen, to look for the Black Fish Essence.

(End of this chapter)