Farming is just a few days. After the sowing was over, Qinwangzhuang returned to normal order. Qin soldiers still went to training, the workers continued to do their jobs, and the students went to school step by step; Even the thousands of new workers who were working in the fields no longer have to work all in the fields.

Because after sowing, it is nothing more than watering, fertilizing, hoeing, and removing insects. Cotton is a crop that likes drought rather than waterlogging, and usually does not need to be watered. In terms of fertilization, the dead locust carcasses are buried in the ground, which is an excellent fertilizer in itself.

And Zhu Youzhen also accumulated a large amount of farm fertilizer, that is, manure buried deep in the septic tank. Due to the dehydration treatment, the feces at this time are no longer bacteria-free, but the fertility is not reduced. Workers only need to follow the plan and apply fertilizer in turns in each field, saving them the trouble of collecting farm manure everywhere.

The rest of the hoeing and insect control has also become easier due to the advantages of collective labor. A field of dozens of acres only requires a few hundred workers to divide into two rows, from the beginning of the field to the end of the field like a sieve twice, and it is finished in less than a moment, and it is particularly clean.

Farmers who do not have a contract are much harder, and they are often in charge of a field by themselves. Although the average workload is about the same, people feel much worse psychologically with and without partners, with and without partners. These people saw that hundreds of people from the Jingyang Business Gang worked together to finish a field in a while, of course, they were very envious, but they were getting more and more tired, and the more they worked, the slower they became.

Of course, with the saved manpower, Zhu Youzhen will definitely not let them be idle. Some time ago, due to busy farming, the progress of the construction of the castle was affected to a certain extent, but now it has returned to its previous speed.

Every day, thousands of people travel back and forth between Xi'an and Qinwangzhuang, and transportation, food and accommodation are big problems. Previously, Zhu Youzhen was short of manpower, so he could only let the "temporary workers" suffer some grievances. Now that there are enough manpower, Zhu Youzhen immediately followed up with the logistics work.

For example, in the past, there were only a dozen horse-drawn carriages to pick up workers, and those who couldn't wait had to walk from Xi'an to Qinwangzhuang. Although the two places are not far away, there are more than ten miles of road, and physical strength is wasted on the road.

First of all, Zhu Youzhen increased the number of carriages, from a dozen to dozens. Of course, the so-called "carriage" is actually not a horse but a mule, after all, mules are much cheaper than horses, and they are more hard-working. And the coachmen of the carriages were played by these "farm workers".

In addition, Zhu Youzhen also made use of the water canals on both sides of the Xiqin Highway, put bamboo rafts on them, and specially supported the bamboo rafts to transport workers. In the past, there was only one road, but now it is equivalent to three roads, and the speed of traffic is greatly accelerated. As for services such as food and water delivery, this is not a problem.

The people who came to build the city were the people at the bottom of the society, and they only served others, so how could they have been served by others? Therefore, I am more grateful and work harder.

But only a few hundred people were used for these service work, and Zhu Youzhen arranged a more important job for the remaining more than 1,000 workers: reclamation!

Originally, Jingyang County was located on the edge of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, with a lack of water resources, and there were many places where the surface was large and bare, and there was an extreme shortage of water.

In addition, in recent years, there have been disasters year after year, and more and more farmers have abandoned their land and fled to famine. Farmland is left untended, and naturally it quickly becomes barren, and the area of wasteland in the county is increasing, and now it even exceeds the area of existing farmland. The common people are helpless about this, and they have become accustomed to it after a long time.

But Zhu Youzhen has traveled from the modern era with a global population of 7 billion, and naturally has a deep understanding of the scarcity of land resources. Idle land is the biggest waste! Therefore, Zhu Youzhen immediately decided to reclaim the wasteland, and he must not let the precious resources lie down and sleep.

As for the ownership of wasteland, since Sun Chuanting was the county order, it was naturally not a problem. First of all, there is indeed a lot of wasteland that is ownerless, and the ownerless land is naturally owned by the government.

Zhu Youzhen and Sun Chuanting directly came to a dark box and let the Jingyang Merchant Gang rent the land at a very low price. Anyway, these lands are idle, they can't generate any income, and it's better to collect some rent than nothing, so Zhu Youzhen is not a pit for the imperial court.

For those wastelands caused by the people fleeing the famine, Sun Chuanting temporarily used this land as an official on behalf of the government, and then subleased it to the Jingyang merchant gang. However, the lease period is only one year, and once the original owner returns, the compensation will be negotiated separately. In short, it's not okay to be idle!

After obtaining the right to use the land, the more important question is how to use it. Because if these wastelands were easy to cultivate, they would have been reclaimed a long time ago, and they would not have been idle until now.

As for the key water source issue, according to the ideas of Sun Chuanting and others, it is still necessary to build a canal to divert water from the Jing River.

But Zhu Youzhen rejected the suggestion. Because there are many canals in Jingyang County now, the water of the Jing River is limited after all, and it leads too much, what should I do downstream?

As soon as he said this idea, Sun Chuanting immediately lowered his head in shame, and only after a while did he say sincerely: "Your Highness is really high-minded, compared to you, Chuanting is only staring at Jingyang County, it is too stingy!" In fact, it is not only the court that takes it for granted, but all over the world has always competed for water, both ancient and modern. Didn't the "Warring States Policy" say that 'the Eastern Zhou Dynasty wants to be rice, and the Western Zhou Dynasty does not go into the water'! ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head with a smile and said: "Water resources are the common wealth of the people, and the upstream and downstream should be arranged as a whole." Now that the imperial court has not done this work, we can be more conscious. ”

"But if the river does not divert water, where will the water needed for reclamation come from?" Sun Chuanting is not worried.

"It's simple, dig a well!" Zhu Youzhen replied crisply.

"Sinking a well? I'm afraid not! Sun Chuanting said suspiciously, "There have been frequent droughts in recent years, and many wells have dried up, I'm afraid there is no water underground!" ”

"That's because the well wasn't dug deep enough!" Zhu Youzhen is full of confidence. He thought to himself that even in the extremely arid Taklamakan Desert, there is still groundwater. Where there is surface runoff like the Jinghe Plain, groundwater is even more abundant. In the past few years, there has been drought and little rain, and the water level of groundwater will definitely drop, but as long as the wells are drilled deeper, there will definitely still be them.

In the 21st century, water resources are extremely scarce, and wells drilled to a depth of several hundred meters in plains abound. The existing wells in Jingyang County are generally two or three zhang deep. Further down, due to the increased difficulty of construction, ordinary farmers are powerless, so they do not use much well water.

And Zhu Youzhen now has workers, of course, he must give full play to the strength of the collective and dig more deep wells. As for the underground funnel caused by the overexploitation of groundwater, he can't control it so much, so let's look at the front of the fire eyebrows!