Warring States Eagle

Early May of the 12th year of Tianwen (1543).It is already the busy season of spring plowing and farming.

Ever since Kikuchi Yoshitake secretly took refuge in Luo's family, and secretly sneaked back to Feihou according to Zheng Liang's instructions, Zheng Liang has never been idle for almost a moment.

On this day, accompanied by some retainers, he began to inspect the territory.Food is the foundation of a country. In order to show the importance attached to spring plowing by the ruler of the country, Zheng Liang personally came to inspect it this time.

Of course, it is impossible to engage in private visits on Weibo.Although the Luo family has always followed the identity card authentication system and strongly encouraged the citizens to report strangers, it is still difficult to prevent some people from mixing into the Luo family's territory through one way or another.Now is not a time of peace, so Zheng Liang had no choice but to start this inspection trip under the cheers and hugs.

"Tick, tick..."

Bailihei's four hooves tapped briskly on the marching avenue paved with mud, sand and low-quality cement, as if sounding a beautiful marching song.Of course, Zhengliang actually thinks that this is Bailihei's adaptation to the new thing called horseshoes that was recently nailed to its four hooves.

As early as three months ago, with the efforts of Ming craftsmen and local craftsmen, the first horseshoe of the Luo family was announced to be manufactured.But without knowing whether it is suitable for local war horses, everyone decided to try it out with a war horse from Ye Gaoshan Ranch first.

After three months of trials, after confirming that the horses could adapt to the modified horseshoes according to the conditions of the local horses, Zheng Liang immediately decided to promote it on the Luo family cavalry team.And Bailihei, as the lord's special cavalry, was naturally the first to enjoy this benefit.

Bailihei seems to be very interested in the newly added horseshoes under his hooves, and will always hit the road hard with his powerful four hooves from time to time.

It's just that these marching avenues paved with inferior cement and sand are not so easy to break.

After more than a year of promotion.This new paving material is now used on almost all the marching avenues in Hizen.The Chikugo Avenue is still being laid.It's just that recently the main energy has been concentrated on spring plowing.Most of the people in the territory have gone to busy farming.As a result, these marching roads can only be laid by newly settled nearby powerful people and refugees.Because the number of people is slightly less.The speed of laying is also much slower.But even so, all the marching avenues inside Chikugo will be paved within this year.

Looking across the ground of Xingjun Avenue, Zheng Liang saw a large paddy field beside the road that had already been transplanted.For some reason, when seeing these paddy fields, Zheng Liang suddenly thought of Matsumiko.Three years ago, when Zhengliang first came here, it seemed that at such a time, he saw a stubborn young woman and a little girl struggling to pull out weeds in the field.

At this time, Matsumiko has become a famous goddess in the territory of the Luo family.In private, many people call her a witch.Of course, this witch never had to dance the witch dance.And the experimental field that Zheng Liang used to run under the Noga Mountain has now been transformed into a shrine, where a statue in the shape of Zheng Liang's appearance is enshrined, and Matsumiko naturally became the priest here.It's just that this priest basically doesn't appear in the shrine, because she has now moved to live in Kishigake City with Zhengliang.

What's even more interesting is that under the deliberate promotion of the Cabinet, such a strange shrine seems to be gradually flourishing in the territory of the Luo family.And behind each shrine is a small farm-like garden.There are a large number of crops that the Luo family vigorously promotes.

And such a shrine also undertakes part of the responsibilities of assisting the Cabinet to promote new crops.Sometimes, even your rhetoric may not be as useful as a sentence from a priest of a shrine.

At this time, the leaders had already begun to work in the dry fields.Except rice.They also have another role to grow, which is also not low in yield, and that is sweet potatoes.

I saw that the people found some sharpened planks.Then, a rectangular hole was inserted with a wooden plank in the collected field, and the people on the side inserted sweet potato vines into the hole one by one and refilled the hole. Water the finished sweet potato vines.Residents with better families would dig a small pit with a hoe near the planted sweet potato vine, and fill it with some fertilizer such as fire ash and manure.

"Master Patriarch, look, the waterwheel we built is in front of you." Before they knew it, everyone had arrived at the bank of Chikugo River with open water.Liu Le immediately pointed to a row of trucks by the river and said.

Zheng Liang turned around to look, and sure enough, he saw a row of overturned cars appearing in front of him.This kind of waterwheel is the first batch of water turning and dumping vehicles approved by Zhengliang.

The principle of this water turning overturning car is very simple, after the water wheel is set at a specific position.Extend the pedal shaft of the overturned car to make a vertical wheel (vertical wheel).Next to the vertical wheel, another wooden shaft is set up, and two horizontal wheels (horizontal runners) are used on the shaft.The upper horizontal wheel and the vertical wheel are the front wheels (the branches of which protrude from the wheel circumference), and the branches of the two are interlocked with each other.And the water rushes against the lower lying wheel.When the water flow hits the lower lying wheel, the lower wheel will move, drive the upper lying wheel, and then drive the vertical wheel alternated with the upper lying wheel, and use the principle of gear linkage to drive and place it in the side ditch The car overturned, and the water was transported ashore.

This is a kind of waterwheel that uses the power of nature to save manpower, and this waterwheel can deliver water and irrigate day and night.So when Zheng Liang first saw its design, he immediately approved its construction.

Unexpectedly, the trial site of the first batch of waterwheels was chosen here.Zheng Liang immediately tried to approach the waterwheel by the river, ready to take a closer look.At this moment, the soil on the embankment by the river suddenly shattered.

"Patriarch, be careful." All the retainers behind him exclaimed when they saw the sudden small-scale collapse of the embankment where the Patriarch was standing.

Fortunately, the embankment did not collapse after a small part collapsed, and Masara avoided the bad luck of falling into the Chikugo River.

"Aoyama Nobumoto, Jiangchuan Clan." Zheng Liang, who returned to the safe area, looked at the short embankment with a livid face, and shouted in a cold voice.

"Master Patriarch." Among the retainers, Aoyama Nobumoto and Jiang Chuan Clan immediately walked in front of Zheng Liang, and knelt down together.

"Check, let's see who built the embankment and who was in charge of supervision. No matter who it is, they will be cut down immediately." Zheng Liang shouted angrily.The sound was so loud that almost everyone nearby could hear it.

Everyone couldn't help being startled.Isn't it just a small river embankment collapsed?Wouldn't it be enough to kill all those responsible?

Of course they didn't know why Zhengliang was so angry.According to the inspection information provided by the Cabinet, currently the main rivers in Hizen are Matsuura River, Kase River, Rokkaku River, Peach River, Kurokawa, Tangchuan and other large and small rivers; The shared Chikugo River, Yabe River, and Yanagawa River are also dozens of rivers, large and small.

Among them, the Chikugo River, the largest river in Kyushu, provided irrigation water for the fertile soil of the surrounding plains, but it also frequently flooded and caused water damage.In addition to the Chikugo River, the Matsuura River and the Yabe River are also frequently flooded.

It is also in consideration of the increasingly severe climate of the Little Ice Age in the future and the prevention of river flooding due to extreme weather. Zhengliang has invested a huge amount of money and food in the construction and improvement of water conservancy facilities in the past three years.

With such a huge investment, it is impossible for Zheng Liang not to be angry that there is still a shabby project.In his previous life, what Zheng Liang hated the most were these moths who took the hard-earned money of the people and enriched themselves.

Zhengliang is determined to deal with these responsible officials severely. On the one hand, it will make everyone pay more attention to the matter of water conservancy construction. Money and food, otherwise you have to pay the price in blood.

A good inspection tour of the territory was terminated early after such an incident.In the evening of that day, Zheng Liang received a detailed report from Aoyama Nobumoto and Jiang Chuan Clan.Sure enough, the officials in charge of construction were greedy for grain as wages, which led to cutting corners on the embankment.

At this time, Zheng Liang thought of another punishment method.It is to take these captured officials to parade around the territory to set up building materials on the opposite side. After the parade is over, they will be demoted to slaves and be responsible for the maintenance and guarding of that section of the embankment. Once there is another problem with the embankment in charge, Just behead.

When Zheng Liang was handling this ink corruption case, a fast horse was speeding towards Anyue City with an astonishing news.

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