Back at the place where the supplies were placed, Du Zhongxiao stomped his feet vigorously, looked at the white reeds, and called to the golden book beside him: "There are too many reeds in this area, it's really annoying." Without these reeds, it would be much easier to cultivate. ”

Between the Bianhe and Bianhe rivers, especially due to the high riverbed, there are many puddles overgrown with reeds. In this era, there were no large machinery, there was not enough power, and it was extremely difficult to develop this terrain.

Jin Shu called: "If the officials want to dig a big ditch to drain the water, it is better to go west and choose a place close to the river." It is too far to dig from here, and it takes a lot of manpower. But now the number of recruits is not large, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to do it. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's still early, there are many boats on the Bianhe River, and the people of Nalaxian can't be idle." Wait another month, and when there is no boat on the Bianhe River to go to Jingshi, there will naturally be people. As long as we have good food and rice, we will not worry about the shortage of manpower, and the most important thing now is to be prepared. ”

After speaking, he instructed his entourage to put away the rope ruler and rest for a while. In this era, the measurement of land mostly relied on the number of steps, which was quite inaccurate. Of course, there are ways to measure accurately, and the Tang Dynasty has already measured the length of the meridian, but it is expensive. Du Zhongxiao ordered someone to find a long rope and make a rope ruler for engineering surveying in this area.

When he sat down at the blacksmith shop not far away, Du Zhongxiao called to Jin Shu: "Confucius, find a few more clever young people in the next two days and come here as apprentices." If you want to cultivate the land, you can't do without farm tools, and it's best to build it yourself. The one that I bought is not useful, and it is not convenient to repair it at ordinary times. ”

Jin Shuzhao agreed and wrote down everything Du Zhongxiao said.

After a few people drank tea for a while, Du Zhongxiao ordered to take out the layout plan drawn in advance, and pointed to discuss with Jin Shuzhao how to arrange personnel.

Chai Xin, who was on the side, looked at it and suddenly said: "Hey, the newly built Zhuangzi of the reclamation field just surround Ma Meng's Zhuangzi." In this way, it is convenient to transport things from his farm. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded silently and did not speak. This was originally an established strategy, and there was only one Zhuangzi in Mameng in this area, and the people in the village did not depend on farming for a living, so of course they had to take advantage of this convenience. And Ma Meng relied on the cover of that Zhuangzi for many illegal things. Letting Kentian's new Zhuangzi surround Ma Meng's Zhuangzi is equivalent to tying a chain to a dog, which is what Du Zhongxiao has long wanted to do.

The so-called terraces and strips are large ditches dug at intervals in places prone to waterlogging, and each ditch is connected to each other, and finally the water is discharged into the river. In this way, each well-prepared field is either like a high platform or in the form of a long strip. The ditches dug not only drain rainwater, but also lower the groundwater level of the land. If irrigation is added to wash alkali, the saline-alkali land can be slowly restored to fertile land.

In this area, the largest amount of work is to dig trenches, which is the most manpower-intensive work.

Seeing a middle-aged man trying a newly made shovel by the blacksmith's furnace, Du Zhongxiao said, "Have you ever done farm work before?" ”

Seeing that the official asked himself, Shi Qiang hurriedly entered the shovel and stepped forward to salute: "Back to the official, the little one has worked since he was a child, and he has done all kinds of work." Although he has never farmed the land, he has to do the work of digging sand in the Jun River in previous years. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Okay, as long as you do it well, tidy up the land here, and then settle down." Although farming is hard, it is like pulling fiber on the river, and even boatmen can't compare. It is not easy to live on the river, and it is not easy to come and go in the wind and rain. ”

Shi Qiang nodded again and again: "What the official said is right, our people on the river are the hardest. If there is no way, who will live in a boat? One is not good, the loss of goods, but also compensation, not to mention. ”

Because he knew a few words, Shi Qiang was appointed as a small leader, not only with food and shelter, but also with a few times a month, which was much better than the previous days on the ship, and these days were full of energy.

After chatting a few words, Du Zhongxiao sat on the chair to the side, looking at Bai Fan on the Bianhe River not far away and thinking about it.

In this area, the cultivation of fields, the construction of a new village is of course not a whim of Du Zhongxiao, but a purpose. In addition to dealing with the scourge of Mamun in order to stabilize the place, there was also the intention of conducting social experiments. I took the Jinshi exam and became an official, and inevitably stepped into the political whirlpool. With a thousand years of knowledge, of course, it can't be so vulgar just to be a big official and make a lot of money, but to build some meritorious deeds.

In this era, the first political and economic problem was agriculture and rural areas, and Du Zhongxiao had to start by establishing new villages and slowly explore ways of governance that adapted to the times. The Song Dynasty's original path of not suppressing annexation and basically leaving the grassroots level alone has come to an end, and almost all people of insight are considering the issue of rural reform. One faction, dominated by Li Jing and others, advocated the restoration of the well field system and the equalization of land. There is also a faction that advocates not moving key issues such as land, but instead establishing township covenants and other autonomous governance with clans as the core. The lessons of history tell Du Zhongxiao that these practices are unreliable, not to mention that the two sides are still fighting each other and are deeply involved in party disputes.

The Jingtian system is not a restoration of the slavery system of the pre-Qin period, but a semi-public mode of production, or it can be said to be a combination of collective economy and private economy. The core of the Ida system was land equalization and the reduction of tax costs, and the main purpose was to fantasize about eliminating the landlord class in this way. The course of history has proven that this illusion cannot be realized without a strong organization.

Du Zhongxiao also once thought about how to reform the rural economy if he made his own decisions, and there was no perfect way to think about it. I had to start everything from scratch, and try all kinds of methods that I had seen and learned in my previous life, and what I had in history, and what existed in this era, to see if I could run in a suitable system. There is no foundation in this era of violent land reform, and this is not an era of widespread bankruptcy in the countryside. Other collective economies, large estates, small yeoman farmers, etc., Du Zhongxiao wanted to give it a try. No system is the best, and in the course of history, in fact, almost every land system has gone bankrupt, and the way out for agriculture is to develop other industries and transfer people. In this process of development and transfer, it is only a matter of which systems are the most suitable and efficient.

In these newly built Zhuangzi, Du Zhongxiao also wanted to find out the appropriate organizational form of the countryside by mixing experiments such as baojia and militia. This is an era of urgent reform, and it is much more reliable to have experienced it and have facts to prove its proposition than to talk about theory alone in the future when there is an ideological confrontation. Otherwise, if there is really a day when he presides over the reform, he will never be able to tell the opposition that this is the summary of a thousand years of history. Not to mention, the historical summary is not necessarily correct, and even if it is correct, it does not necessarily correspond to the actual situation of the moment.

Du Zhongxiao remembered that in his previous life, like some basic national policies, they would develop over time, and he had to turn around in a few decades. Taking some political ideas as absolute truths may not do much good as a result of party strife. Politics is the politics of people, and it is not the same as reciting scriptures like religion, so how can we use slogan-style dogma as guidance, everything must be based on practice.

After being an official for a few months, Du Zhongxiao thought about the history of his previous life, and found that it was not very useful. In addition to the general trend of history, when it comes to the details, nothing is known, especially the social foundation of this era is almost blank. With the textbook in hand, I can't find a ready-made solution, so I still have to figure it out on my own.

(I have something to do today, forgive me.) ）