Yang Feng came out of the Donglai Silver Building, and there were already six sergeants waiting at the door wearing mandarin duck battle jackets and waist knives leading Yang Feng's Huang Cong horse to greet him, led by Song Ye, the young sergeant who came out to dig wild vegetables the day before yesterday and met Yang Feng first.

Since Yang Feng distributed food to all the military households and carried out the reform of the Thousand Households, he immediately received the support and support of almost all the military households of the Thousand Households, these military households do not care who the military land of the Thousand Households belongs to, they only know that Lord Yang wants to retrain the army, and all the selected sergeants can receive a rich salary every month, which is enough for their relatives to eat, and this is enough!

Since Yang Feng gave them food, he naturally won the support of the military households, and Song Ye was one of them. On the day Yang Feng distributed the food, Song Ye's family had a full meal for the first time, watching his two younger sisters gobble up fragrant rice, Song Ye cried, and Song Ye's frail and sickly father struggled to make an immortal ranking for Yang Feng that night.

On the third day, when Yang Feng wanted to choose a personal guard, Song Ye was the first to sign up, after several selections, Song Ye and other thirty-five sergeants were selected as Yang Feng's personal guard, on the day he was elected as a personal guard, his father gave him a set of mandarin duck battle jackets that he had treasured for more than ten years and was reluctant to wear, and told him to serve Yang well.

Song Ye led the horse to Yang Feng and handed the horse to him with both hands. Yang Feng took the reins of the horse and turned over on the horse, Song Ye and other guards also got on the horse, and the group rode their horses towards Yang Feng's residence on Chaotiangong Street.

It's also quite interesting to say, after selecting the guards, Yang Feng also specially sent people to Nanjing City to buy a batch of war horses, but the horses were bought, but then he found out that none of his guards could ride horses, which made Yang Feng angry, and issued a strict order for Song Ye and them to learn to ride horses in the shortest possible time, and sent Geng Bingyi, who had the best riding skills in thousands of households, to teach them to ride. After a few days of assault study, Song Ye and the others finally barely learned, but at best, they could only ride, and they were still far from riding horses or going into battle to kill the enemy.

Soon the group came to the door of Yang Feng's house and knocked on the door, Yang Laishun and his wife opened the door when they heard the sound, and the two of them were very happy to see Yang Feng, so they wanted to beckon Yang Feng into the house, and shouted for Yang Zhou to prepare to cook, but Yang Feng refused with a smile.

Yang Feng asked: "Old Yang, I came here this time to ask you, from now on I will be stationed in Jiangdongmen Qianhu, it is estimated that there will be fewer people here in the future, do you and your wife plan to follow me to Jiangdongmen Qianhu to live together or continue to stay here?" ”

Yang Laishun thought for a while before replying: "Young master, if the villain couple also went to the guard house with you, then no one will see this house, and you must not be short of people to serve in the thousands of households, the villain still stays here to take care of your home, and you will have a place to stay in the city in the future, and there is one thing that the villain has not told you, a few months ago, the villain has entrusted someone to bring a letter to the unfortunate boy at home, so that they should not stay in Liaodong, and hurry back to serve the master, yesterday he has asked people to reply to the letter, After he resigned from the envoy from Liaodong, he came back to work for the young master, and the villain was afraid that once he left here, the unlucky boy would not be able to find the villain after he came, and it would be bad. ”

"That's it!" Yang Feng nodded, and then smiled: "That's okay, the house here can't be watched by no one, since you don't want to go to the Thousand Households, then take care of the house for me here." When your kid comes back, tell me, and I'll try my best to arrange a future for him. ”

"Thank you, young master, little man!" Yang Laishun and his wife were excited to kowtow to Yang Feng, but were stopped by Yang Feng.

Yang Feng sat down for a while, declined Yang Zhou's request to stay for lunch, and instructed the two couples to pay more attention to the price of grain in Nanjing these days, and report to him as soon as possible at the Jiangdong Gate Qianhu Office, and left dozens of taels of silver for them, and then took Song Ye and several other guards to embark on the return journey back to the Qianhu Office.

On the way back, Yang Feng and others rode horses and trotted along the riverside. The terrain where the Senhu of the East Gate is located is from low to high, and there are uneven fields along both sides of the river, and the slightly turbid river water flows to the northwest.

There are some granges on both sides of the river, radiating the surrounding fields and granges. Most of these fields are good fields, with large granges of thousands of acres and small ones of hundreds of acres.

Song Ye pointed to the days next to him and told Yang Feng that these fields were originally owned by thousands of households in Jiangdongmen, but the best of the largest and the fields near the river have now been encroached upon by the magnates in Nanjing, leaving only more than 1,000 acres of not very good fields still in the hands of the thousand households, and these fields were originally all occupied by the officers, and the military households in the Qianhu either rented the officers' fields to plant, or could only endure the high land rent of the surrounding magnates to lease their fields to plant. However, in recent years, due to the continuous dry weather, the water level of the Yangtze River has been declining, and it has become more and more difficult to obtain water for irrigation.

Yang Feng got off the horse, led by Song Ye and others, and headed towards the fields by the river. When Yang Feng walked through some fields, he saw that the ditch next to the field was dry, and the surrounding fields were cracked, and the surface of the field was warped with pieces of shocking crust, although there were still some small snowflakes falling on it in the sky, but they disappeared in a blink of an eye, which was shocking to see.

Looking at the fields around him that had become parched and cracked due to the lack of water, Yang Feng sighed. Even though the Yangtze River is nearby, the surrounding fields are not irrigated, which is simply the biggest joke. However, Yang Feng also knew that this period of time was the Xiaoice period in history, and such a bad climate would last for more than ten years before it would be alleviated, and such a climate in history also indirectly or directly accelerated the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

Walking to the riverside again, Yang Feng found that the water level of the Yangtze River was indeed very low, and a large riverbed had been exposed. Although there are some water diversion tools such as keel waterwheels and chain bucket waterwheels that rely on manpower or animal power on the riverside, these irrigation tools that appeared in the Han and Tang dynasties can only lead the water source to some lower fields on the riverside, and a little farther away from the fields with slightly higher terrain, so they have no choice but to rely on some manpower or animal power to carry out shoulder and hand back, but this is just a drop in the bucket for such a large field, and it does not play a big role at all.

Seeing this, Yang Feng finally understood. In this period of the Xiaoice River under the great drought and cold, it can be said that there are thousands of miles of red land everywhere, even Nanjing, which is close to the Yangtze River, a place with rich water sources, not to mention other places, the consequence of water shortage is that the people cannot reclaim wasteland, cannot farm, a large number of good land has to be abandoned, the people have no food to naturally make trouble, coupled with the continuous invasion of the Manchus in the north, this led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.