The powerful minister favors the small farmer's wife alone

Chapter 145

After breakfast, Xiao Changan left with his people and gathered the chiefs of several villages together.

There will be more than a month of land thawing, and he wants several nearby villages to dig a canal extending in all directions in the village, so that water can be drawn into the fields, and the fields can be planted even in severe droughts.

This proposal was approved by the village chiefs and patriarchs, even if Xiao Changan didn't say anything, they also had a few villages who were planning to dig water canals after opening the village.

In addition to his proposal, Xiao Chang'an also issued an order, that is, not to allow the villages along the river to cut off the water flow, and direct all the water to his own village.

For this reason, he asked the villages to stagger the time of opening the canals to release water, and never allow water to be diverted into the village before the day when the water is released in his own village, so as to ensure that the downstream villages can also have water.

Although the villages close to the water source were reluctant, in their view, the water source was in Sanjia Village, and they should use whatever water they wanted, but Xiao Changan dared not disobey orders, even if they had complaints, they didn't dare to express them.

Originally, before he came last year, he often saw people fighting for grabbing water, and some people were killed.But since he came, he led the soldiers to take over the water source forcefully, and the people in several counties have been able to drink water when the water source is getting less and less. Let the people be convinced of him.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, those soldiers all have weapons in their hands, and those who dare to make trouble will be caught.

Afterwards, Xiao Changan ran around and often couldn't make it to dinner, so Su Xiaoye always put the food in the red rope space and asked him to take it whenever he wanted.

It has been busy like this for a month, the weather is getting warmer, the river is thawing, and young grass has sprouted in the sunny place by the river.

Last year, the drought was so severe that the water in the land had evaporated long ago, and the land was too frozen. After trying to plan it, the people along the river began to dig ditches in the village.

At first, the family dug their own, and then went to the village after digging their own. It took less than five days to dig through all the canals, and each village diverted water into the canals according to the time of their own villages. The river flows into the village along the canals. As long as the river is not dry, there will be no rain this year, and there is no need to worry about running out of water to irrigate the fields.

Because of the severe drought last year, this year each village had to divert water from canals twice to fully moisten the land, and the next step is to cultivate the land.

Last year, many families who raised cattle and horses sold their cattle and horses because they could not afford to raise them.This year, I have to worry about plowing land, especially those who have a lot of fields at home. Those who have cattle and horses do it themselves, and those who don’t have cattle and horses have to hire people to do it. There are more than a dozen villages around here, but I can’t find a few that have cattle and horses. Even if there are, they are all skinny, and they don't look like they can work.

In the end, it was Xiao Chang'an who asked his men's war horses to help, plowing out the ground before sowing.

The land is plowed, and seeds are a big problem. Every household does not keep too many seeds. The seeds planted last year have no harvest, and this year there are not many left.

Su Ling once promised that the people of Sujia Village would get grain seeds, and everyone in Sujia Village was looking forward to it. Fortunately, Su Ling didn't forget about this, and took Su Xiaoye to the county town, and when he came back, he pulled a few carts Grain species.

The grain seeds are not only plump, but also larger than the ones planted by the people in the village before. They look like good seeds.

Su Ling was afraid that his sale would cause looting, so he entrusted the matter to the patriarch Su Huaijiu.

Naturally, Su Huaijiu would not shirk, so he found a few young men from the village, unloaded the grain seeds into the yard, and set up a table at the gate of the yard, and all the grain buyers waited outside the door, and weighed as much as they bought.

(End of this chapter)