Northern Dynasties

Chapter 549
After this gathering announced to the public the plan and specific procedures of the state government's bidding to repair the weir, Li Tai asked the families to disperse.As for those goods, of course, they can't be placed in the open air, so they are stored in an empty warehouse in the city for the time being and strictly guarded.

Jingzhou's state affairs are in disarray. In addition to the grand plan of opening canals and repairing weirs, the basic personnel structure in the state capital also needs to be rebuilt.

Although Quan Zhongzun used to assign state duties to the powerful, but there were not many appointments in the positions of state officials. First, these positions always required personal ability, and second, these positions sounded far inferior to prefects and county magistrates. Or the famous titles of garrison lord and city lord do not conform to the aesthetics of powerful people.

Li Tai brought a lot of subordinates from Guanzhong, just enough to fill these positions.And there is another unexpected joy, that is, among the nearly ten thousand soldiers and civilians brought from Fancheng, there are also many who can read and write, and the number has reached as many as five or six hundred.

This also shows that the culture and education of the Southern Dynasties was far stronger than that of the Northern Dynasties. Many town soldiers and generals in the Northern Dynasties were still illiterate, but many civilian soldiers in the Southern Dynasties could read and write.These people are already relatively high-end talents, and they only need to be cultivated in a certain format before they can be enriched into Jingzhou's administrative system.

Feeling this, Li Tai came up with the idea of ​​establishing a state school.As the governor of a state, Xuanfeng's persuasion is one of his duties, and it is also one of the best ways to gain influence and strengthen his influence.

Another point is that the garden in the backyard of the state capital is not enough for his father to plow and toss, and Mr. Li Tai can't drive him out to cultivate wasteland. Finding something meaningful to give his father a sense of accomplishment is better than idleness. Doing nothing at home is stronger.

As for sending his father to Huazhou, Li Tai didn't think about it for the time being.According to what he has seen since the meeting, although this old man has gone through hardships, he has not made much progress in the city. Not to mention naive, he still has a little heart.

The current situation in the middle school is also turbulent. Even Li Tai avoids it. If his father goes there, he will inevitably become a focus, and he may not be able to handle it.

And when the state affairs come to an end, he will also strengthen contact and cooperation with Xiangyang. With the relationship and contacts of his father, the communication between them will be smoother.

The personnel reorganization of the state capital can be handed over to Cui Qian, while Li Tai got out and under the guidance of Du Zhaohui and several other Jingzhou locals, he made an on-the-spot inspection of the water situation in the border, and determined a basic rest plan in all aspects.

"Among the prefectures and counties in Mianbei, there are many rivers and canals, but they are all based on the Fiao River and the Bian River. As long as the second stream can be adjusted smoothly, the drought and floods in the whole area can be greatly alleviated..."

Du Zhaohui, as one of the earliest Jingzhou tyrants who attached to Li Tai, respectfully obeyed his orders. When he learned that Li Tai intended to regulate the water affairs in the territory, he also understood it carefully, and now he explains it like a treasure.

By the way, this Du Zhaohui is also a member of the Jingzhao Du clan, and the Du brothers in Xiangyang belong to the same clan.However, the Jingzhao Du clan originally had a large number of clans, and they moved south from the period of the Hu and Di Rebellion. Although they had the same surname, there were many cases where they were completely strangers to each other.

The Baishui and the Bishui are the later Baihe River and Tanghe River. The two rivers run through the Nanyang Basin from north to south, merge into one in Xiangyang and flow into the Han River, so they are also called Tangbai River.These two rivers and their respective tributaries basically constitute a water network covering the entire Nanyang Basin.

Since the Han Dynasty, various water conservancy works have been basically distributed around these two rivers.It's just that when Li Tai traveled all the way, he saw that there were not many water conservancy works that were still in good operation and played their regulating functions. Most of them were abandoned, leaving only some simple traces, and some didn't even have any traces. Du Zhaohui and others barely identified a general location based on ancient records and word of mouth.

But this does not mean that there are no water conservancy facilities in the territory, in fact there are not only but also many.After all, water is the foundation of farming. If water cannot flow into more areas and also have the function of drought and flood control, the narrow strips on both sides of the river will not be able to reclaim much land at all.

Therefore, there are many ponds, weirs and ditches on both sides of the Bishui River and the Bishui River today, and sometimes there are several weirs and ditches within one mile.Such a dense distribution is obviously abnormal, and these weirs are often part of a certain farm, enclosed by fences.

Without systematic regulation of fortifications, if the people are allowed to drill and drain water privately, this will result in such a situation, and water resources will also become the means of production that the tyrants arbitrarily control, promote authority, and use monopoly.

Not to mention whether the distribution of resources is fair and reasonable, this situation will cause great damage to water resources themselves.When the water is dry, it will be silted, and when the water is high, it will overflow. All kinds of silting and flooding traces can be found everywhere in the rivers.

Powerful households close mountains and marshes, industries spread all over the countryside, and ordinary people in the head of Guizhou roam the countryside with no place to stand, which can basically cover the current situation of people's livelihood in Jingzhou.There are also registered households and villages, which are mainly distributed around the cities of prefectures and counties. If you are more than ten miles away from the city, it is difficult to see villages where ordinary villagers live in small households.

After inspecting the water affairs in the territory, Li Tai felt that there was a long way to go.

If today’s Mianbei area is like northern Shaanxi before, it’s okay to look at the wilderness, but all kinds of rural forces are intertwined, and they are in the border area. If the drastic actions touch the interests of the powerful, it is undoubtedly self-destruction. So provoke It is necessary for them to carry out internal competition and elimination spontaneously.

That batch of goods was very attractive to people, and soon some people made bids and put them into the state capital.The format of the bidding documents was drawn up by Li Tai, basically divided into the manpower that can be mobilized by each company, the construction period required for the project, the budget that needs to be allocated by the state government, and so on.

The tender documents submitted at the beginning basically wanted to use a small and broad idea, employing hundreds of people and a construction period of several months, but the lion asked the state government to pay a huge amount of money.

Huang Fuhu and the other three tycoons broke their families because of greed. They have not learned a lesson at all. They probably only think that these three families are purely unlucky, and they will definitely not be like this if they change themselves.

For this kind of insincere bid, Li Tai naturally vetoed it completely, and even sent someone to announce it directly outside the state capital.Although this is not a punishment in itself, it also exposes their greedy face to others, and the next bidders should take this as a lesson and correct their attitudes.

The Liumen Weir project is not a small one. It can collect enough river water to irrigate thousands of hectares of farmland in the three counties. It can be seen that this pool weir must be very large.Today, the outline of the pool and weir barely remains, and it is necessary to re-dred the silt and excavate it and tamp the weir and embankment. Even the construction of the state capital is quite difficult, and it is even more difficult for ordinary households to afford.

Before the deadline for bidding, the state government finally received more than 30 bids. Excluding those who simply joined in the fun, there were only six that could barely meet the requirements of the state capital.

Each of these six companies can provide more than a thousand servants, and the required construction period ranges from three to five months. As for the required funds, they also try to get as much as possible.

Li Tai is not a stingy person, he doesn't care much about the amount of funds needed, as long as it is not too outrageous, he will not directly deny it.Compared with these, he is of course more interested in the labor power that these families can provide, whether they are exaggerating the facts or still concealing something.

In order to clarify this point, he summoned the representatives of these six companies separately, and gradually tested the maximum service they could put in with the requirement of shortening the construction period. The results he obtained also surprised him.The sum of the maximum service force that these six companies can provide alone has reached nearly 2 people!

In other words, these six tyrants alone have covered at least 2 people. Considering that most of the servants are strong men, the number of people behind them may increase several times!
Li Tai originally thought that the army leaders of Beizhen and the tyrants of Kansai were quite strong, but compared with Mianbei, the perennially turbulent place of the Fourth World War, it inevitably pales in comparison!He used to think that population expansion was quite difficult, but now it seems that if these six companies are settled, the small goal set before can basically be exceeded.

But it is very difficult to eat it in one bite. Even if only half of the nearly [-] soldiers can be compiled into an armed force, that is still [-] soldiers.Even if his subordinates are all brave and elite, they can be defeated or completely wiped out in the face of this army of thousands of towns, but it is difficult to completely recruit them.

In order to prevent these six families from exaggerating the facts and defrauding the government, Li Tai also proposed to verify that their steps are accurate, and asked them to send blood relatives to the state capital to serve, of course, as hostages, and the project funds will be paid in batches. Next, a barbarian chieftain of the Huan family was selected as the person in charge of the weir repair.

This barbarian chieftain is called Huan Shuzu, and now he is the prefect of Hanguang County, a subordinate of Jingzhou. He can mobilize more than [-] servants to repair the weir, and has repeatedly guaranteed that the fortifications will be completed before the spring flood next year.

However, when Li Tai inspected his land, he saw that there were only about three thousand soldiers in the army. After asking, he found out that Huan Shuzu planned to recruit three thousand mountain men for his own use and employment in the next period of time.

When Li Tai heard about Huan Shuzu's plan, he couldn't help complaining in his heart. It was the first time he saw a white wolf with empty gloves who was better at playing than himself. They are all relatives of yours. If you say you want to recruit three thousand, you will be able to recruit three thousand?

But when he heard Huan Shuzu's self-reported life experience, he had to admit that he was indeed short-sighted. He was not just bragging, but really that awesome.

Although Huan Shuzu was a barbarian chieftain, he was born in the Huan clan of Qiao Guo, a famous Wei and Jin family, and a descendant of Huan Wen, a powerful official in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.If Huan Chu, which was usurped by his ancestor Huan Xuan, is also counted as a serious regime, then he is also a serious descendant of the royal family!
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