The name of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River has been in ancient times, and the jade belt flows eastward, and the two sides of the river are fragrant with rice. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The natural geography of Wukang can be said to be the most typical and specific embodiment of the name of the water town, and the front stream, Panxi, Longxi, Tiaoxi, etc., are known as the intersection of five streams, criss-crossed, or divided or combined, intertwined into a magnificent network of water veins in this vast plain. However, the magic lies in the fact that although there are many small rivers and streams, they are not noisy, and they go their own way, and there is no flood flooding into the country.

Here, the bamboo row Wupeng is lighter than the horse, the long penny is a little treading the waves, boating on the blue waves, you can sit on the basket with your arms down, you can stand in the wind, you can lie lazily, you can also hang on the side of the boat, and step on the waves with bare feet. Looking at Daishan Mountain far away with the wind, watching the rice waves rolling in closely, singing in the hearty place, can be described as happy, leisurely outside.

Ji Youju has been mourning for more than a year, and his heart is often unhappy, and now sitting on the brisk boat, all he sees is a fresh and lovely and vibrant picture of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the smile gradually spreads on his face, and the whole person becomes cheerful: "No wonder Wei Zhou wants to be in Sangzi, not in Gyeonggi, this water town is eternal and peaceful, which makes people fascinated!" ”

"That's why I invited you to come here, many sorrows can be left behind, and you will live here for a long time."

Shen Zhezi patted Ji You, who was sitting on the side of the boat, and then turned his head to look at Ge Hong, who was enjoying the scenery on both sides of the strait: "What does Mr. Ge think is the difference between the scenery of Wukang and Danyang?" ”

Ge Hong was infected by this beautiful scenery, but he was no longer cold and alienated from Shen Zhezi, but just frowned and muttered: "In the past, when I came to Wukang, it was indeed a little different from now, and the sewer is much more convenient now. ”

Hearing Ge Hong talk about this, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but smile proudly. Water towns are not necessarily convenient for boats, which is a social reason. The enclosure along the river is still secondary, and the biggest disaster is to build a dam to build a water mill. Although the water mill saves manpower, once it floods, the river will be intercepted separately, and the Russian flood will become a disaster, which will benefit and suffer.

In the early years, the princes and princes of the Western Jin Dynasty competed to build dams and barrages to repair the water, resulting in frequent floods and even water irrigation in Gyeonggi, which was not inferior to the military disasters.

Located in Wuzhong Water Township, the situation in Wukang is not much better, and even a little worse. If Ge Hong and the others had come here last year, what they would have seen would not have been the prosperous picture of smooth canals, boats shuttling back and forth, and unimpeded traffic.

At that time, families barricaded rivers to store water, and some rivers flooded into swamps, while others had sparse water, making irrigation extremely inconvenient.

The big households benefit from it, and the small people suffer from it. Speaking of this kind of inequality, Shen Zhezi is not actually qualified to morally condemn others. But as long as this kind of evil behavior of tyrannizing the township and oppressing the small people, the Shen family has never been left behind, and it can be called a leader in martial arts.

However, after Shen Zhezi changed the leaf water mill to a roller, the requirements for the impact of the water flow are no longer so great, so there is no need to block the river and block the water. The Shen family alone has nearly 800 water mills in Wukang alone, covering almost half of the water network. After the renovation, the previous horizontal dam was dismantled, and the water power was not damaged much, and it was convenient to transport water.

In the past six months, the drum water mill has been popular in Wukang, and families have followed suit, after all, the cost of barrage and dam construction is not small, and it must be maintained every year, and their own acres of land also have to bear the hidden danger of flooding.

With this improvement, the next thing is logical, and even without the call of the county government, each family has dredged the waterways within their own areas, after all, the silt in the riverbed is also the best fertilizer for farming. In less than a year, the whole of Wukang was restored to the situation of unimpeded boats, but all the people in the territory relied on its benefits.

When Shen Zhezi and his boat came up, they saw that there were many villagers loading and transferring materials and goods in bamboo rows, and they were busy.

Even Ge Hong had to admit: "The people of Wukang are simple and peaceful, and the scenery is indeed very different from Danyang." ”

Although Shen Zhezi is not good at boasting and showing off, he is also secretly happy when he hears Ge Hong's affirmation.

Danyang is where Gyeonggi is located, and its geographical environment, natural resources, and even prosperity are actually better than Wuxing. However, the battle to destroy Wu in the early years caused great damage to the vitality. Before much has been recovered, many overseas Chinese have come south one after another, some disturbing policies have been issued frequently, and the Wang family has been in turmoil for many years, which has made the villagers panic like frightened birds.

There is also Ge Gaomen, the king of Langya, who occupies a high political position, regardless of the boiling of public grievances, in Jiankang Zuo near overseas Chinese in Langya County, etc., cutting off the countryside, competing for resources, and increasing the conflict and confrontation between the northern and southern villagers.

This year alone, Shen Zhezi heard of seven or eight large-scale armed fights among villagers, the most serious of which was that thousands of people were involved in it, and the erosion affected several counties and counties. It even shook Gyeonggi, and the imperial court ordered Liyang Su Jun to send troops to defend Stone City, lest the rebellious people rush into Jiankang.

Ge Hong sighed so emotionally, probably because he was also hurt by Sang Zi's restlessness and the difficulty of being at home. In history, this old man did not return to his hometown, but went south to Lingnan to live for half his life, and there was no such emotional loss factor.

Shen Zhezi's current energy is already a fluke to benefit Wukang County, as for Danyang, even if he has the heart, he is powerless to interfere.

Noticing that the atmosphere in the boat was a little dull, Ji You opened his mouth to divert the topic and asked: "Wei Zhou, I often hear people say that your family is the head of Jiangdong, but you don't know the geometry of the acres of land in the Zunfu?" ”

Alas, I'm going to be forced to show off my wealth again.

"Literature, since you set foot in the territory of Wukang, you have already entered my house. This front stream goes forward, turns to Longxi through Panxi, and looks at Tiaoxi in the east, and as far as the eye can see, it is my family's industry. ”

"So much!"

When Ji You heard Shen Zhezi's words, he couldn't help but gasp, he couldn't believe it: "In this way, there are as many acres of land as there are in the Zun Mansion alone?" ”

His family is also a big family in Danyang, and there are many industries in the township, but it is really hard to imagine what it is like to have thousands of hectares of fertile land at the door!

Shen Zhezi smiled and said, "Although it is not hit, it is not far away." ”

His family's acres of land are indeed more than 10,000 hectares, especially in the middle of the year, and the agricultural cooperatives of the late rice season have coerced some poor villagers, and the flat land alone has reached this number. If you add in the forest farms, mulberry forests, orchards, and ridges, the numbers will be even more staggering.

Now in the entire Wukang and even Wuxing, if there is a family with more acres than the Shen family, it can only be the official household field directly controlled by the county government. These fields are directly under the control of the county government, and the officials and military households are responsible for farming, which is equivalent to a disguised tuntian, and is also the main source of taxes for the imperial court's fields.

Ge Hong snorted coldly on the other side: "The local tyrant portal, the loss of the people and the fat family, hum!" ”

Originally, his attitude towards Shen Zhezi had eased somewhat, but after hearing this, his dislike for the young man and even the Shen family in his heart reached a new high. A small family has enough land to make ends meet. In Wuzhong, where there are many people and the land is narrow, it is rare for small people to have 30 or 50 acres of land. The Shen family has gathered such a family business, and I don't know how much blood and tears of the Han family will flow behind it!

Regarding Ge Hong's strong feelings of class struggle, Shen Zhezi just smiled and did not respond.

At this time, the boat traveled through a shallow pond, where several children were picking up rice, and saw the Shen family's highly recognizable Wupeng boat passing by, so that the shore laughed and sang nursery rhymes: "Shen Lang Shen Lang!" I have a lady in my family, white and red makeup! The brocade is skillful, the shoulders are wide and the hips are good......"

The child's voice is innocent.,Scattered to the four fields.,Although it's just a vulgar slang song.,But it reveals a wave of admiration for the hero.,Willing to be a female wife.。 When Ji You heard these children's songs, he couldn't help but laugh. And Ge Hong's expression was slightly embarrassed, as soon as he commented that the Shen family had harmed the people and fattened his own family, a nursery rhyme laughed and slapped him.

When Shen Zhezi heard this ballad, although he was slightly embarrassed, he was also happy. In the past six months, because of the changes made by the Shen family, the people of Wukang have benefited a lot, so the hometown has also improved a lot.

Those cheap brothers-in-law on the shore can also be said to be the sailors hired by the Shen family, after all, they have received real benefits. But this ballad is not his handwriting, but the spontaneous creation of the villagers. No matter how he has no bottom line, he is embarrassed to shamelessly praise himself as a national son-in-law who everyone wants to marry.

The waterway is far better than the land route, which originally took more than half a day's journey, but now it only took more than half an hour for the boat to sail into Longxi, and the Shen family manor was vaguely in sight.

Ji Youshang was in mourning, and Ge Hong was impatient to socialize, and after asking the opinions of the two people, Shen Zhezi asked Xiaozhou to go directly to Longxi Manor.

Longxi is the main dredging river channel of the Shen family, which is widened several zhang and the river channel is deep. Nowadays, it is also the main gathering point of handicraft workshops such as Shenjia Tofu Workshop, and a large number of sampans gather nearby every day to transport the goods produced in the workshop to Wukang and even Wuxing.

The boat turned into a special waterway and soon entered Longxi Village.

Ge Hong was very interested in the tofu process, and even despite the fatigue of the journey, he went to the Shen family's tofu workshop after going ashore. He is obsessed with alchemy, and the principle of alchemy is to supplement the form, the so-called gold and jade are eternal, timeless, take its essence and eat it, and the human body can also last forever.

Tofu was ingenious by Shen Zhezi jade plate, and it is suitable for those who are loose to eat, probably in Ge Hong's concept, you can observe and learn from the tofu making process, so as to make your alchemy skills reach new heights.

Ge Hong had this idea, and Shen Zhezi was not surprised. Even later generations attributed the invention of tofu to Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, who was the legendary ancestor of the immortal cultivation world where a chicken dog ascended to heaven, but in fact, this predecessor failed to rebel and was reincarnated by Bingjie.

However, since Ge Hong is interested, Shen Zhezi can also let him go. This little immortal master has a family tradition of cultivating immortals, how can he be able to talk about it in a few words. If you stop refining pills and turn to tofu, it will not be a good thing.

Shen Zhezi originally planned to accompany Ge Hong to visit the tofu workshop in person, but as soon as he entered the village, a servant told him that there were already visitors waiting in the village for a long time.

So he sent someone to lead Ge Hong to visit the workshop on his behalf, and now the workshop has become a scale, and the processes have been separated, and the technical barriers that really cannot be shown to people have been strictly protected, but they are not worried that they will spread out.