In Zhexian County, which is approaching early summer, the weather is already starting to be a little dry.

Sun Chengzong has been the master of Li Zhixian for half a month.

In the signing room, he picked up the pen and wrote a few words, thought about it again, picked out a few broken pieces from the nib, nodded and worked hard to write at the moment, and an article was written in his hand in a moment.

Then Sun Chengzong gave the paperwork to Li Zhixian, and Li Zhixian smiled and said, "Mr. Sun, am I still not at ease?" You don't have to show me, just stick it on. ”

Sun Chengzong said: "It's better to take a look at Taizun." ”

Seeing that Sun Chengzong insisted, Li Zhixian picked it up and read it, but after reading it, he was full of praise, and it was not easy for Sun Chengzong to post it.

Sun Chengzong nodded, and after ordering the yamen book to be copied by hand for several copies, he posted it.

After this notice was posted in Zhe County, the county and township exploded immediately.

Yujiagou is next to the county seat.

After the notice was posted, the chief of Yujiagou picked up the gong and struck it.

Hundreds of villagers were called from the ground to the village, and the elder shouted: "Folks, the government is going to open the river again!" ”

The villagers shouted: "I know, I know, it's not the first time, if there is nothing else, we will disperse." ”

"Why do you think we still have to plant crops?"

The lieutenant chief pressed his hands and said: "This time is not the same as before, in addition to opening the river, the imperial court also has to divert the river to irrigate and silt, dam and silt. ”

"Everyone heard clearly, it's a dam and silt! The more than 5,000 acres of land in the east of our village are all in the dam. ”

As soon as the news came out, the villagers exploded.

Everyone said, "Really? ”

"Is the government willing to do good things? As the saying goes, building a road wall in a ditch is to stop mud and collect grain! ”

"Everyone knows the benefits of damming and silting land, and the silt field in the dam is a grain hoard, and no matter how rotten the land is, grain can be harvested."

"Not only is it rotten land, but it is also a land that does not grow crops, as long as the river water is filled with silt, it will immediately become a good field."

"In the east of the village, my family has more than a dozen acres of repulsion land, which was originally a good field, but the river flooded, and it was soaked more than ten years ago, and the original fertile land became a repulsion land that could not grow any crops. If the mud is filled, it becomes a good field again. ”

"What is a dozen acres? What about more than 100 acres in my family? That's the ancestral heirloom, last month, the high hemp seeds in the West Village asked me to sell them to him for three dollars per mu, but I didn't agree? ”

In the past, the Yellow River was overflowing, and if the water did not recede, the soil was easy to salinize, and it became a saline-alkali land.

The solution to turn the land back into fertile land is to divert the Yellow River to irrigate and irrigate, irrigate the Yellow River, flush the saline, and then form a new soil layer.

This point has been adopted as early as the pre-Qin period. There are clouds in the historical records of the river canal, and the water is filled with filling, and more than 40,000 hectares of land are irrigated, and the harvest is one acre and one minute.

As for Zuo Chuying's proposal to Lin Yanchao to dredge the Jialu River, it was in this way that he used the excavated soil to build a dam to form a moon embankment to enclose the riverbank, and then diverted water to irrigate and turn the land in the dam into silt fields.

Our ancestors have 2,000 years of experience in this set of techniques.

Hearing that the government was going to dam and silt the land, the common people inquired about how many acres of brine fields they had in their homes.

At this time, one person said: "Sun Er is stupid, you have 20 acres of rebuke fields at home, aren't you rich?" ”

"What kind of fortune will the government give you white repair? You're really a fool to me! Sun Er was not stupid at all and replied.

"General A, do they want our village to send people or money?"

The lieutenant chief listened and said, "Let me see what the notice says?" ”

The chief looked at it for a while, but he couldn't understand it, and then pulled an old scholar and said, "Niu Xianggong, you are a scholar, look at what is written on this notice, I don't know a few words." ”

The old scholar, dressed in a long gown with patches on his sleeves, but even so, the farmer who couldn't read the big characters below admired him very much.

The cow Xianggong coughed twice, and after reading the notice, everyone asked, Niu Xianggong, what do you think?

Niu Xianggong said impatiently: "Don't make noise, let me look slowly, there is, the notice says that at least twenty men should be produced in each mile, and each male can receive five dollars of silver a month, and there is no limit to men per village, the more the better." ”

"What's the government, doesn't the government want money for us to repair? Is there such a good thing? ”

A villager said: "Yes, you don't look at who is the prefect now, that's Lin Qingtian!" ”

"Last year, no one starved to death in our village, and it was all thanks to him. After he came to Germany, you look at those officials who used to fight with people, which dared to go to the countryside to urge the department. ”

"Lin Qingtian is a good official, a good official for the sake of our people, he knows that there is not much in Zhexian County, but there are many repulsion lands that have been damaged by the Yellow River, so he took the opportunity of opening the river to dam and silt the land for our people."

"This time, we have Lin Qingtian's blessing again."

"Such a good official, why didn't you come to us earlier in the past!"

When the common people heard that the government had dammed him for free, their faces were full of joy.

"In the past, we relied on the sky to grow crops, the rain washed the fertile land, and the drought was difficult to farm, but now that we have grain hoards, what are we afraid of?" An old farmer said excitedly.

"With Lin Qingtian here, we ordinary people can finally live a good life."

"It's not just a good day, it's getting better every day!"

Seeing this, the chief said: "Everyone says that Lin Qingtian is good, so do you want to go to the dam?" ”

The villagers raised their hands and said, "I'll go, I'll go!" ”

"General A, count me as an honest one!"

"Forget the old stone!"

"Dam repair, count me in!"

"What? Old Yutou, what are you going to do, the land at home is no longer planted? ”

"What to plant, plough for a year, the cattle are dead, and you can't harvest three or five buckets, but as long as the grain hoards are together, that acre is at least two or three stones."

"What's more, Xiuhe still has silver to take!"

"Why don't we go to such a good thing, are you right?"

All the villagers said together, and when the chief saw it, there were more than 30 villagers who had signed up, not counting the other people who had not yet come, and it seemed that the county had done it without much effort.

Li Changzheng was proud, and the people below said: "General A, let's not only look at your face, but also look at Lin Qingtian's face." ”

"Who of us ordinary people doesn't want to live a good life, Lin Qingtian is an official who can make the people live a good life."

"In the future, if we have a grain hoard, we ordinary people will not flee from the famine in the year of famine, and beg when the green and yellow are not available."

"Lin Qingtian said it the day he became the prefect, within three years, let the people of all the people who return to Germany live a good life, what is that called, that's right, it's Dazhi, people spit on a nail, do what they say!"

The villagers were full of confidence.

"Damming is like repairing a warehouse, blocking mud is like accumulating grain, and the village has a 100-acre dam, so no matter how dry it is, it's not afraid!" An old man sang this folk song right now.

When the people heard this, they all sang: "The hundred-acre dam in the village is not afraid of drought no matter how dry it is!" ”

"No matter how dry it is, I'm not afraid!"

Many villagers had tears in their eyes, and since then the wasteland has been turned into fertile land.

The common people really have a good life.

Within three years, Lin Qingtian did not lie to our people.

Villagers, you say a word, I say a word. At that moment, one of the men was crying loudly.

Everyone looked at it as the widow of the Yu family in the village.

Everyone asked, "Sister-in-law of the Yu family, what's wrong with you?" ”

The eldest widow of the Yu family cried for a while, and only after the half-loud sound stopped: "Last year, the head of the family saw a doctor and owed a lot of debts. Last month, Gao Hemp came to the door and said that he would use three dollars and five cents to collect the 20 acres of land in the east of our village. ”

"I thought to myself that the land of reprimand, since it does not grow crops, and it is also barren and barren, it will be sold to him. Who knew that as soon as today's notice came out, the land became a grain hoard. Why do you think my life is so miserable! ”

Hearing what the eldest widow said, several people in the village also said: "Yes, last month, Gao Hemp, I don't know why I came to our village to harvest the fields, and I specifically collected the brine land." ”

"We all thought he had his head caught in the door, but we didn't expect him to get the news early."

"That's right, I heard that Gao Haozi's son-in-law is on an errand in the county government, and he is still the number one person."

The villagers gossiped and learned that the reprimanded fields in the hands of several people in Yujiagou Village were all bought by Gao Hezi last month.

This person learned the news in advance and bought the land from the people. As long as the dam is blocked, then these repulsive fields will immediately turn stones into gold, and bad fields will become good fields. Even if Gao Hemp doesn't plant this field, as long as he sells it, he doesn't make ten times more money in one go.

When the villagers heard the news, they were immediately indignant and scolded Gao Haozi.

"Don't be angry, this high-marijuana bastard colluded with the government, we will go to the county government to sue him!"

"Sue him? There are officials in Gao Hezi's family, and the people don't fight with officials! ”

"People protect each other, do we fight him?"

"What can't be defeated! If the county government can't sue me, we will go to the government to report it, with Lin Qingtian here, which corrupt official dares to bully me, the people. ”

"That's right, Lin Qingtian will definitely uphold justice for us!"

When the people heard about the lawsuit, they were all scared in their hearts, but when they heard Lin Qingtian's three words, they suddenly became bold.

At that moment, a few people in the village who were deceived by Gao Hemp to buy the fields asked Gao Xianggong to write a complaint, and then went to the county office.

When everyone came to the gate of the county government, they saw that many ordinary people had already gathered.

These ordinary people gathered around the gate of the county yamen, holding white slips or field deeds in their hands, and said: "There are officials and businessmen in the yamen who colluded and bought our family's land at a low price last month, begging the county master to return us justice." ”

The common people were boiling with anger, and there were a few ruffian-looking humanists inside: "What are you yelling about? Don't know how to read? I wrote it in black and white, but now I want to regret it? ”

"You Diao people, believe it or not, the old parents arrested you and beat the board!"

"When I was detained, I didn't say anything when I took the money, but now when I see the money, I go to the yamen to avenge my grievances?"

Just when everyone was arguing, the gate of the county government opened, but Sun Chengzong walked out.

The entrance to the yamen was suddenly quiet. Sun Chengzong looked at the crowd: "Fellow villagers, what you have to say, Taizun knows. Have you read the last sentence of the notice? From the 5th of last month, as long as it is within 30 miles of the Jialu River, all the deeds of land sales signed by this government will not count! ”