Stomping vigorously on the dirt road under his feet, Du Zhongxiao said to Su Song: "Under this roadbed is a big stone, and the top is filled with gravel, which is stronger than the post road." There are many river networks in this area, and it is easy to transport, but a good road has been built. In the future, it will be a good road from here to the state city. ”

Su Song once saw the process of road construction, and said to Du Zhongxiao: "This area is cultivated in this area, and a lot of work has been done to wait for Xiao." If the people who come here to live here are cared for with all their hearts, it can be described as a century-old foundation. A village and a big platform, where else there is such a scene. ”

In all the villages that belong to the government, each village has two or three large ditches, with a high platform in the middle, and the village and cultivated land are located on the platform. The large ditch is used to drain the water during the rainy season and at the same time to reduce the groundwater in the platform. In addition, there is a small river that leads water from the side of the Bianhe River, and the cultivated land in the village can be harvested in drought and flood.

Du Zhongxiao hired a large number of workers from the Bianhe River to come here and repair the infrastructure. In the past few months, there has not been much arable land, and most of the manpower and material resources have been spent on digging ditches and repairing roads. Wait until the beginning of spring next year, and the families who really stay here to reclaim the enclosed farmland will be cultivated.

Looking at the neat chessboard-like pattern around him, Du Zhongxiao said: "For the sake of the official and the benefit of one party, I have built thousands of hectares of land here, which is enough to make the people in this area worry about food and clothing." Leaving such a pattern is not in vain for me to come here. ”

Su Song smiled, and then said: "You have put in so much hard work, you really want to gather people here, but it will take a few years to produce food, and you can't see it in the imperial court examination." In fact, what really looks at the eyes of the court is to deal with Ma Meng and his gang of thieves. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded, and shook his head again: "Forget it, Ma Meng's affairs are handled by others." A local little bully, after a few months of wasted thoughts, it is still unclear, and I am not in that mood anymore. Zirong, for the rest of the day, you will accompany me around the place where the fields are cultivated, and as for matters such as the prosecution of the law, just leave it to Gu Zhixian and them to do it. We're officials, so there's not much point in spending our minds on that. Chenzhou Han Tong sentenced to transport his new steam engine here, and I have been loading it for a few days, and we have time to look at that thing. That thing is done, and in the future, there will be coal-burning boats running on the Bianhe River, and 100,000 slender men will no longer be used, what is the credit? ”

Su Song nodded again and again. He is a person who can do everything well, whether he is able to govern the locality, try cases, engage in economic affairs, and delve into science and technology. However, after a few months of trial of a case, he was also a little annoyed.

In a year or two, several people involved were geniuses in social science and technology, and they had already made the principle of the steam engine clear. Now the difficulty, one is the real scientific research, and the other is the manufacturing problem in the process. For Su Song, instead of bothering to weigh how many boards a thief should play, it is better to put his mind on this. Gu Zhi County checked the law, and he followed to sign it.

While the two were talking along the side of the road, Jin Shuzhao rode over on a horse, and before he could get closer, he shouted: "Official, Shengshang Deyin!" Jingxi and Huainan roads have been robbed in recent years, and the people have poisoned them, and the thieves have been pacified in recent days, and they are no longer allowed to kill. Anyone who commits a capital crime that is not a heinous crime should be spared death! The two officials quickly returned to inspect the village! ”

Du Zhongxiao and Su Song glanced at each other, and asked Jin Shuzhao together: "In this way, Tao Seventeen is not beheaded?" ”

"Don't cut it! Because he is young, it is unreasonable to fill the army and send it to the Far Evil State Army. The judge sat and waited in the inspection village, and the two officials went back to discuss how to deal with it most appropriately. ”

Du Zhongxiao agreed, asked Jin Shu to recall him to restore his life, and instructed his entourage to lead the horse.

After several years of war in the northwest, the interior has also been affected, and there have been several major rebellions in recent years. Zhanghai in the west starts from Shaanxi, and hundreds of people crisscross the Jingxi Road, passing through the state and passing through the county, as if entering the realm of no one. Wang Lun in the east started from Yizhou, also a few hundred people, all the way south, until Yangzhou was recently defeated. These two rebellions were not large in number, but they spread a wide range, and they broke through the state city several times, causing panic among the people.

Wiped out Zhang Hai, Yang Wenguang, who had not been able to move for 20 years, finally came forward, which made Du Zhongxiao, who got the newspaper, sigh. In his previous life, he left a general who didn't know how many stories he had, but he didn't expect his career to be so unsmooth. Yang Wenguang contributed the most in this battle, and when he returned to the capital, he saw Fan Zhongyan and got his appreciation, so he had the glory of the Yang general.

Yang Wenguang, who has the greatest credit, was promoted to Xiaoxiao Dianzhi, which shows that the scale of the battle to destroy Zhang Hai is not large.

Wang Lun is a thief and a martial wing pawn in Yizhou, in fact, he is equivalent to a pawn in the inspection village where Du Zhongxiao is now, known for his prestige, and he killed Zhu Jin to make trouble. Then he attacked Qingzhou and Mizhou, and then went south, even through several states until the Yangtze River, before finally being destroyed.

Wang Lun's incident made Du Zhongxiao have a very magical feeling, and he almost thought that it was the prototype of Liang Shanbo in history, but later, neither his identity nor time were right, so he dispelled this thought. Wang Lun also had only a few hundred people, and he swept through more than a dozen states on two roads.

For these two rebellions, the ministers inside and outside the court did not know how many pieces of music were written, and they also affected Bozhou's disposal of Chai Benshan. Because the place he contacted was the state army affected by Wang Lun's rebellion, so in order to avoid accidents, the big thing was small. But Du Zhongxiao just felt confused.

According to the impression left in the history class of his previous life, this was a peasant uprising, and the scope of the impact was very large, dozens of states, equivalent to one or two provinces in his previous life. As a result, there were only a few hundred people per share, and there was no trouble except for running far. It took a lot of thought for Du Zhongxiao to finally understand that not every rebellion is a peasant uprising, let alone every rebellion can coerce the displaced people.

Because Shaanxi is located on the northwest front, when Zhang Hai first rose, it was indeed the people who could not bear the oppression and started the incident. But when they entered Jingxi Road, the main force was not peasants, but all kinds of sergeants and soldiers. In particular, the uprising of hundreds of troops in the Guanghua Army greatly increased their momentum. Wang Lun needless to say, the main force has always been all kinds of military personnel, and their main force has never been ordinary people.

Why is it so big? Du Zhongxiao knew from the newspaper that there were only twenty-four soldiers in Jinzhou City, and the Guanghua Army had no city walls, so a few hundred people could come and go freely in a land of thousands of miles. Within a thousand miles, it is not easy to gather hundreds of characters like Song Sigong and Ma Meng? This is the fact that as soon as the Water Margin came out of the Water Margin, the composition of the personnel was mainly composed of thieves and rebel officers and soldiers.

What impressed Du Zhongxiao the most about these two turmoil was that they did not coerce the homeless, and they snowballed bigger and bigger. Why? This is what Du Zhongxiao doesn't understand, and he wants to find the answer in the process of becoming an official. The social structure at this time was different from the typical ancient society he had learned in his previous life. Why is it different? What's different? He has to get to know him little by little before he can really be a politician.

The places where these two rebellions passed were the hardest hit areas of the warlords of the late Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties, and the clans had long since disappeared, and the local gentry had not grown up. It is not the landlord's regimental training that is relied on to defend the place, and the people are not involved in it nor are they restrained by the landlord.

At this time, Du Zhongxiao saw the measures of the Qingli New Deal, and knew very well that the generation of officials who were now in power only had the consciousness of reform, and had not formed a program for reform, nor did he know what to do. And the social reality he is facing now is different from what he learned in his previous life, and he himself also doesn't know how to reform. He needs to practice little by little, to find a way.

Watching Jin Shuzhao beat the horse and leave, Du Zhongxiao said to Su Song: "The northwest is discussing peace, the thieves are gradually subsided, and the Shengxia Deyin is at the right time." Tao Seventeen committed a capital crime, and we have been dragging it there, and with this result, it is finally considered a complete merit. ”