The steam engine was transported to Qingtai Town, but Du Zhongxiao did not order it to be installed. After a few days, it will be transported to Ye County, where iron smelting will begin, and this thing will be useful. Not to mention that it is used in mines, such a large machine, as long as it can run, it is always qualified to be used as a road roller.

It's already April, the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, the spring flowers are gone, and the green fruits are growing everywhere.

When the seedlings in the field grow, it enters the slack season. If they are diligent old farmers, they will go to the fields every three times to hoe and pull weeds, and they will not be idle all year round. The slender men who camp the fields did not have this awareness, and occasionally went to the field to take a look, and saw that weeds had grown, and several people discussed in the field, so they returned to the village and squatted together at the entrance of the village to bask in the sun.

They can't be blamed for being lazy, that's how they live. In the past, when I was pulling fiber, I didn't do any work, so I went home to rest, would I still practice running by the river? If everyone is not looking for something to do, they will find something to do in the field work, and the project of building roads and digging ditches has been carried out on a large scale.

Commander Sun strode along the road under construction, and shouted to the people in front of him: "Pang Dutou, why are you taking people to rest again!" Each village has a section of the road, which can't be done, and which one is not allowed to eat at night! ”

Pang Dutou stood up, looked at Commander Sun and said, "Commander, you don't want to see what place we are divided." If you assign a living way like this, who is willing to obey! They didn't go home, but it was for my sake! ”

Commander Sun said, "Don't be stubborn! It's all based on mileage, and it's the same for everyone! Let me tell you, the amount of soil in a work is calculated by the Yamen of the camp field, and we will assign the road section according to it! ”

Pang Dutou said: "Commander, don't deceive me for not understanding!" The work counted by the yamen is also divided into grades according to the place, one number for soft soil, one number for hard soil, and another number for sand and gravel. If there are puddles and swamps on the road section, each has a conversion. This section we have assigned, you come and take a look, not only there are puddles and swamps, but also countless tree stumps, is it to be discounted? ”

Commander Sun said reluctantly: "I am in charge of ten villages and hundreds of households, how can I have time to calculate!" If you get a bad place, you can only count you unlucky! It's nothing more than digging a ditch in a few days, and I'll send you a good place! ”

Where is Pangdutou, each section of the road is numbered down by the village, and it is not specially arranged. If you are unlucky, the next time you dig a ditch, you will get a bad lot, and Commander Sun will definitely not admit it when he arrives. You don't know each other for a day or two, who doesn't know whom. In the past, when he was pulling fiber, he lived in a centralized area, had a military camp, and had military discipline, and he didn't dare to disobey the command. Now it has been changed to Tuntian, each has a village, has land, and has all kinds of work to be busy, not like before, what should be fought for must be fought, otherwise how can the villagers convince themselves.

Each capital has a head and a deputy head, which is just divided into two villages, and the original head has become the local security chief, in charge of the affairs of a village. The same is to do the work of the husband, one to contribute, and his own village has done more than others, so he can't explain it.

The two fought on the road, and no one dared to give in, and many villagers gathered to watch.

This is the road leading to Qingtai Town, according to the road section of the work, by the nearby Tuntian villagers repair, camp field affairs unified acceptance. Originally, according to the order of the camp and field affairs, each village was calculated according to the work, and the number of jobs produced in each village was converted into road sections, and the sections were responsible. A worker's work in a day is converted into how many earth and rocks are dug up, how many trees are planted on both sides, how thick the stones are and how much sand, and finally rammed and flattened. According to the different soil quality and geography, the place to be constructed is divided into five grades, and each has its own method of converting work.

Commander Sun can't read big characters, but he understands the method of calculation, how can he calculate? I couldn't do it finely, it was always simple and rude, so I took a few people, dragged it away, measured the place assigned to me with footsteps, and then went down according to the village.

There is a large swamp in the section of the road that has been allocated in Pangdutou Village, and all of them have to be filled. There used to be a lot of big willow trees on the bank of the swamp, and all of them had to be cut down and cut out of the roots, and the amount of work was much larger than that of the nearby village. Within two days of doing this, the villagers quit.

During the time of Taizu, because the conditions of the people who repaired the river were too difficult, the practice of the previous dynasty was changed, and the people went out to work to do conscription, and the officials gave grain and rice, two liters per day per ding. Later, this became a common practice in the Song Dynasty, and although the people still did not give money, they gave rice and did not need to bring their own dry food.

In accordance with this general principle, Du Zhongxiao made some changes. First, rice is no longer distributed separately, but converted into money and grain, which is used as the fire and food expenses of each village, and each village cooks and eats in a unified pot. The ancient military system, or a group of five or a group of ten, is the most basic establishment of the army, which refers to the number of people who fire and cook together. Words like partner come from this meaning. With the development of productive forces and the progress of social organization, this kind of establishment no longer conforms to reality. Du Zhongxiao makes a big pot of rice in Yicun, which actually means to experiment with the military system in the future.

Each village divides the earthwork, and according to the requirements of the camp fieldwork, if the villagers suggest, they can also distribute the earthwork to the head. The whole project, how much work is needed, how many people need to do it, and how many days are calculated. There are always people who do it fast, someone who does it slowly, and those who do it fast, who do the same amount of work, and do two liters of rice for one more job, which is converted into money and distributed.

With this provision, if the road section in Pandutou Village is not good, it will require others to do more than double the work, which is equivalent to losing a lot of money, how can the villagers be willing to do it? In the past two days, there have been countless quarrels, until today, it has begun to evolve into passive sabotage, who wants to earn this money.

This is where the value of the pamphlet "Fang Tian" lies, and if you learn it, you will be able to carry out the orders of the camp and field affairs and distribute them reasonably. Like Commander Sun, who is illiterate in big words, and the earthwork does not understand it at all, this kind of conflict will definitely happen.

There was a twelve- or thirteen-year-old child in Pangdutou Village, who had studied for two days before, and found someone to read the booklet, and did a rough calculation as if he didn't understand it. The amount of work assigned to his village is three times that of the camp and field work. The villagers exploded the pot and made it clear to Pang Dutou that if Commander Sun did not reassign the task, everyone would not do it. Anyway, a worker has two liters of rice, and let him find someone from another village to do it.

The child's calculation is not accurate, but it is reasonable and evidence-based, and others do not believe it. With this basis, the people in the village felt that they had lost the work they had done in the previous two days, and they were willing to do it again.

Commander Sun bites himself to death and distributes it evenly according to the number of steps, has no selfishness, and is not afraid of where he sues. Pang Dutou pulled the child over and pointed to the nearby lots, where there was a puddle, how big it was, and how much earthwork needed to be converted. Where there is a big tree, how much earthwork should be converted. In that section of the relatively large swamp, from drainage to filling, how much earthwork should be converted, according to reason.

Exhausted from the quarrel, Commander Sun sat down on the side of the road and said hatefully: "If you are in the barracks, drag you out and beat you with a hundred military sticks, and see if you dare to quarrel!" It's a pity that now that there are no pro-soldiers, you dare to talk back to me! ”

Pang Dutou said disdainfully: "It's funny, everyone has land, and the soldiers don't care about their own land?" You don't have any money to pay! We are the same as eating and working, doing so much more work than others, originally making money, but now we have to take rice in, which is willing to listen to your nonsense! ”

Commander Sun gasped for a while, and there was no way to think about it, so he finally had to say: "That's it, thinking of many years of friendship, I won't report to the yamen and ask you for the crime of not obeying military orders!" Today you work honestly, tomorrow you will all draw lots, and it is up to fate which section you catch! ”

Pang Dutou said: "Why! The yamen obviously has a charter, which is clear and fair! A child can calculate the earth, can't the conductor calculate? Find a few who will count early, where are these disputes! ”

Commander Sun puffed out his mouth and did not speak angrily. If you want others to help you do this little thing, how will you manage the ten villages in this battalion in the future? He is the commander of the imperial court, and he is a clear official, so he can't control his subordinates.