I heard Zheng Lang say several times that this will be a very important city.

I know that it is not as good as Zhengzhou, but I also think in my mind that it is not as good as Zhengzhou, at least half the size of Zhengzhou.

When Si'er looked at it, he was extremely disappointed, about less than 2,000 households. Very good, the entire Wuhu County will not exceed seven or eight thousand households now. There are good houses, but most of the families live in grass huts, which are dragged diagonally from Jimao Mountain to Qingyi Shuikou.

The weather is at the end of June, it is the hottest time of the year, the big sun and white flowers are dazzling to the eyes, there are many lakes and rivers around, with the scorching heat and steaming, the vast water vapor is steaming, hot and stuffy, as if someone is holding down the front and back chest.

These broken thatched huts were steaming in the sun, the thatched grass was wilting on the roof, the leaves were wilting and not moving, it was noon, there were few pedestrians on the street, except for some annoying quacks, it seemed lifeless.

Si'er said again: "It's not as good as Zhengjiazhuang!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, there's the city walls." Zheng Lang said.

Originally, Wuhu was built along the Hengshan area in the northeast of Dangtu, because of the lake, marsh and grass, doves gathered, and it was named Jiuzi City. There is a lake near it, the water is not deep and the turnip grows, isn't it very normal, there is still turnip in a small pond, but there is a nice name, Wuhu. When it came to the Three Kingdoms, Eastern Wu and Cao Wei confronted each other in the Mixu River, and in order to facilitate military supply, Sun Quan moved the city of Jiuzi to the foot of Jimao Mountain at the mouth of Qingyi Shuikou, and became an important town. Wang Dun of the Eastern Jin Dynasty built a city on Jimao Mountain, which was the prototype of Wuhu City.

But it is only a small city, and its geographical location is far less important than Dangtu City in Wutou Chuwei and Jindu in the north and south.

In fact, it is very important, as long as there is a green water, it has made it important. However, it is surrounded by lakes and rivers, has a small population base, and has lost the support of the local agricultural base, so that its development has been very slow, and even the war has rushed and it has become a ruin in an instant.

Si'er looked at a row of crooked wall piers, and said, "Da Lang, what kind of city wall is this?" It's not as good as the courtyard wall of our house. ”

"You see, there are a lot of shops in the city, but they are useless?"

Walking into the city, there are only some broken walls left in the city wall, I don't want to have a city gate, but there are a lot of shops, a long street, there are about two hundred shops all the way to the end, most of them are local specialties, there are many raw silk shops and fish behaviors, there are also rice shops, grocery stores, and a few restaurants, and two inns, and the same indispensable things, a few hooks.

Optimism is certainly not optimistic, and it is not so pessimistic.

Seeing this group of people coming, a silk guy shouted: "Sell champion silk, sell champion silk." ”

The two words champion cheered everyone up, and Xing'er said: "Zheng Lang, go in and have a look." ”

Zheng Lang is also curious, what kind of champion silk?

A large group of people went in, almost fainted, the so-called champion silk is dyed crimson raw silk, Si'er asked unhappily: "Why is it called champion silk?" ”

If Wang Zhizhou is here, he will definitely be suspicious, the guy is just an ordinary person, and the rumors have spread far away, and the rumors have deviated far from the truth. I heard that Si'er had a northern accent, but when I looked at Uncle Lu with a calm face, I thought he was a parent, and he took a group of children to Jiangnan on a business trip, or came for other things. The guy said with a grin: "Is it red if you win the champion?" ”

"It's red."

"Are we the champions of Xinzhizhou?"

"yes."

"Isn't it a five-rank official?"

"yes."

"Is the five-grade official wearing a scarlet?"

"yes."

"So is the champion wearing crimson clothes all day?"

"No," Si'er said angrily, it was an official uniform, which Da Lang rarely wears, and after arriving in the south, because of the hot weather, the white clothes were cool (reflective, I don't understand), so they wore white clothes together.

Zheng Lang dragged her, don't say more, besides, others are suspicious.

Walking out, Si'er said, "Why don't you care?" ”

"Why care, he just wants business to be better, business is good, isn't it a good thing?"

As soon as he finished speaking, another restaurant shouted: "Selling champion buns, selling champion buns." ”

This time, even Uncle Lu laughed, and Sima Guang said: "Let's go, let's go in and taste the champion buns." ”

The group walked in and ordered dozens of champion buns.

Lu Gong took a bite of the stuffing and almost choked, the champion bun is also the shrimp paste bun, which contains some red shrimp meat, sauce noodles, soybeans, dried tofu, and some condiments.

Si'er asked again: "The shopkeeper, why do you call it the champion bun?" ”

"Little Master......" didn't dare to shout out, and Sima Guang said shyly: "There is shrimp meat in it, it's red, so it's called Zhuangyuan buns." ”

"This little brother is also wrong."

"Mistaken?"

"Exactly, this spring, the champion of the new branch even in the three yuan, is to eat the first bun shop in the capital Yang family's champion buns, to be able to connect the three yuan, my family sent someone to the capital, spent a lot of money to buy the recipe from the Yang family back, so it is called the champion bun."

Yang Jiujin and Yang Bawang almost lay on the table in anger.

As for the small steamed bun stall in my house, can it still be called the first steamed bun shop in Beijing?

It is the first steamed bun shop, my family only sells fine sand buns, crystal buns, big meat buns, goose and duck buns, or mutton trowels, Taixue steamed buns, sugar meat steamed buns, four-corner steamed buns, when have you ever sold shrimp paste buns?

I couldn't explain it, so I had to take the shrimp sauce bun out of anger sadly, I eat, I eat.

The others laughed, and the shopkeeper laughed inexplicably.

After he left, Ding Sheng said: "The southerners are really cunning. ”

Zheng Lang shook his head: "It's not necessarily a bad thing. ”

"Dr. Zheng, what's the explanation?"

"Another word for cunning is shrewdness." A simple truth, just like taking students, the smarter the students, the better it is to teach, Yan Rong's qualifications are not bad, it really takes him half a day to know a word, Zheng Lang will teach him? Or take him out? The shopkeeper Yan is embarrassed to beg?

Strong southerners are not as good as northerners, but business-minded southerners are stronger than northerners. What is Zheng Lang here for? It's to build, not to fight, what to do with being tough? On the contrary, the more savvy the people, the better they will develop.

Ding Sheng thought for a while before saying, "Doctor Zheng is right. ”

After eating, I continued to walk on the street, and saw a shop with three big characters written on it: Zhuangyuan Building.

What is it, the group looked up, and just saw a few girls walking out of the railing on the second floor in disheveled clothes, and understood, hook the railing!

Almost knocked down again. What is the relationship between the tick bar and the champion?

After walking for more than a dozen steps, Sima Guang couldn't help it, turned around and asked a turtle slave inside, "Why is your house called Zhuangyuan Building?" ”

"Our house is the best hook fence in the city, why not call it Zhuangyuan Building?"

Sima Guang muttered, "This ...... That's fine. ”

Today, I finally saw that the business can do the same.

On the chicken feather mountain, the mountain is not high, that is, a few small dirt hills, the height is similar to the two earth hills of the Zheng family, but there are many trees. Climbing to the top of the mountain, it was windier and cooler, and Li'er said, "It's so hot." ”

The capital is also hot, but certainly not as hot as Wuhu.

Not only is it hot, the terrain is low-lying, not all of it is developed, there are many lakes, the humidity is heavy, hot and humid, this is the real reason why northerners are not used to coming to the south.

The girls were all sweating profusely, and their thin skirts were wet and soft on their bodies.

A cool breeze blew on the top of the mountain, blowing Jiang Xing'er sitting softly on a rock, not wanting to get up.

Zheng Lang said: "Rest here for a while, and then we will find a teahouse, and then find an inn to live in, and then go around tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and go to the state office, the weather is very hot, and I can't turn it around for a long time." "It's not about drinking tea when you look for a teahouse, and there is usually a bathhouse behind the teahouse. The boat is big, and you can take a bath on the boat, but it is not very convenient, and there are some daughters' private clothes that are not very cool. So find a bathhouse first and take a good bath.

Zheng Lang stood on the top of the mountain and looked into the distance.

Nearby is a small polder, about a few hundred acres of area, there are several kinds of rice in it, some rice ears are yellow, about the early maturity variety, and the rice is hanging down, shining with green luster, this is a medium-ripening variety.

Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the cultivation technology of the Song Dynasty was more developed, from seed selection to soaking, fertilization, the emphasis on fertilizer, ripening, and even to grafting, transplanting, improvement of seeds, improvement of production tools, etc., which are very close to the standards of later generations.

However, there are two things that are missing, hybrid technology, compared with chemical fertilizers, and the yield is much higher than that of the Tang Dynasty, but the overall is not very high.

The highest area is the polder area, where the yield per mu can reach six or seven stones, and the less can reach three or four stones, with an average of more than five stones.

At the end of June, the summer water begins to grow, you can see the white water, but you can also see the green reeds and white, strong growth in the boundless flood.

The sun was setting in the west, and Zheng Lang took everyone down the mountain and bathed for a while.

I found an inn to stay in.

Then return to the teahouse again, behind the teahouse is the bathhouse, in front of the tea is still a place to drink tea, drinking tea, as the name suggests, three or five friends, while drinking tea while pulling homely children. Through their chats, you can hear some of the local situation.

But most of the topics revolve around him, first of all, his appearance, like Pan An Song Yu, Zheng Lang asked Wang Anshi in a low voice unconfidently: "Is it like it?" ”

Wang Anshi replied honestly: "Not at all." ”

Several girls lowered their heads and snickered together.

Then there is Cai Gao Badou, unparalleled in the world. Zheng Lang asked again: "Is it like it?" ”

"A little bit."

Zheng Lang said: "It's not like that." ”

The eight little maids lowered their heads again and snickered.

Having said it again, his head was long and his feet were stepping on auspicious clouds, Zheng Lang asked, "Have you seen it?" ”

Wang Anshi replied honestly again: "I didn't see it at all." ”

This time, even Lu Gongzhu lowered his head and laughed.

I heard one thing, these people are going to go to Dangtu County to see Zheng Lang when Zheng Lang takes over.

"Why look at him?" Zheng Lang asked, holding his cheeks.

"That's the champion, little one, you know what, why don't you watch it!" A middle-aged man rebuked politely.

Several teenagers and maids lay down again and laughed.

Zheng Lang was depressed, and the next day the boat sailed upward along the Qingyi River, and then turned to the Qingyi River to Juxishui, also known as the Shuiyang River, and arrived at Danyang Lake, and the trip was over. But Zheng Lang had been standing at the bow of the boat, and Jiang Xing'er said worriedly: "Zheng Lang, the sun is big, let's go into the cabin." ”

"Get a tan, tan a little bit, and you'll look older."

Sima Guang joined together and read: "Amitabha, Master Zheng, you are in love." ”

Let's have fun.

But in this line, you can see more of the true face of Taiping Zhou. There are some mountainous areas, not many, the mountains are not tall, there are many trees, bamboos, and many small polders, most of them are built along these mountainous areas to build embankments, the big ones are hundreds of acres, the small ones are dozens of acres, and occasionally you can see thousands of acres of large polders, which is very prominent. Most of the grain in Taiping Prefecture comes from these large and small polder areas.

In addition to these fragmented polders, there are many kinds of mulberry hemp in the high places, which are also the main source of raw silk in Taiping Prefecture.

The wider place is the lake, which is mostly flooded, and the water surface exposes large clumps of reeds, callus white, lotus roots, and lettuce, and even the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people can be seen -- the fields. On the root of the reed mushroom twisted together, spread a bamboo frame on it, carry floating mud, a few acres of the big one, a few points of the small one, and then plant rice on it, and plant some melon beans. However, it must be tied with a rope, otherwise the next morning the water will flow, and it may drift dozens of miles away, and you will not be able to find it.

Jiang Xing'er looked at this kind of field and was amazed. Looking at the rows of well-growing cocoons, he broke one down, and suddenly a fisherman not far away shouted: "Little lady, you can't move, these are all Zhang Dahu's family, his family is stingy, I must be verbose with you when I see it." ”

With just one sentence, the smile on Zheng Lang's face converged, and a few words appeared in his mind.

"The gentry from all over the country occupy the mountains, and in the year of drought, a spoonful of water is not with others." Occupy the water.

"There are ancient streams and ditches connecting the mountains and rivers among the people, and most of them are gradually constructed and filled by the rich and wealthy, and the fields are cultivated, and the powerless people connect the acres of fields, or curb the water and drought, and do not irrigate the fields with water, so as to harm the crops." It refers to the strong and the inferior who forcibly occupy the mountains.

"The various places in Pize were originally stopped to store water, and the powerful people ploughed the civil engineering in the high Fu, encroached on the land of Pize, and in the meantime, the lawsuit did not prosecute, or the taxes were asked to shoot widely to occupy the cultivation, so that when the heavy rain was going every year, the Pize was filled with congestion, and there was no room for storage, so it flooded, and it was quite a disaster for the people." The powerful annexed water conservancy, regardless of the lives of the poor people, and destroyed the water conservancy.

"In the key places of rivers and ports, the establishment of private polders, the flow of water is suppressed, and it cannot be unblocked, so that the neighboring polders are also infringed." For their own benefit, indiscriminate reclamation leads to flooding.

"Even if the strong and powerful family loses early, they occupy the solid and rely on their profits, and tame the poor people to take lotus, lotus lotus, lotus root, water chestnut, turtle fish, shrimp, clams, snails, mussels, etc., and cannot make a living. If it is not for the generous benefit of the wealthy households, there is no reason to be willing to release fishing. "The occupation of the country, that is, the current situation, cut off the livelihood of the poor people.

"Haoqiang annexation home near the lake and around the field, isolated from the water out of the place, in June and July, the sky does not rain, looking at the ocean sighing, autumn is coming, seeing the drift of thousands of homes. The neighbors are not profitable, and the flood and drought do not affect the worries of all households. "It is even more harmful to others, seeking one's own self.

Stealing lakes for fields. In collusion with the government, the theft of lakes was legalized, and many lakes used for flood storage were annihilated.

Greedy. During the construction, he colluded with Haoqiang and greedy for construction funds, resulting in the field of holding the letter, ten years old and nine years old, and became depressed.

Hinder. Haoqiang deliberately instructed the foolish people to correct the rate when repairing water conservancy, or to count the young and young, and to give out their food strength, but when they used water, they fought hard.

Dare to create a flood. There are wealthy people who are greedy for profits, luring and annihilating the people to dive into the cave embankment, but the age is still overflowing, the people are broken, and several people die.

The Song Dynasty overhauled water conservancy, fought with the sky, fought with the sea, fought with the river, fought with the mountain, and fought with the lake, in this tragic and passionate history of struggle, the ten glorious roles played by the big families!

I didn't expect to run into it in advance.

Jiang Xing'er said unconvinced: "Why, this is the lake of the imperial court!" ”

As he spoke, he angrily took out a kitchen knife and slashed all the way down the side of the ship. The nerd has a sense of righteousness and is not convinced.

The fisherman was even more anxious when he heard the foreign accent, and said, "You can't cut it, that Zhang Dahu family has six sons, and it is a six-headed tiger within a radius of dozens of miles." I can't afford to mess with it, little lady from a foreign country. ”

Zheng Lang suddenly said: "Wang Sanlang, Sima Sanlang, Lu Sanlang, cut together, or break, be careful not to fall into the water." ”

Anyone likes to do sabotage.

Third Uncle Lu didn't stop him, he knew what Zheng Lang meant, he wanted to meet the six tigers of the Zhang family for a while, and turned his head and whispered a few words to Ding Sheng.

Tossed a large patch of white, several teenagers lost their strength, and sat in the cabin panting excitedly.

Not far away is the mouth of Danyang Lake, Zheng Lang carefully recalled, saw a lot, heard a lot, saw a lot of good places, some bad places, and some vague places, such as how many bullies like Zhang Dahu in Taiping Prefecture will be.

Hearing the most is his own business, and he also hears some other situations, and there are a few situations that make him pay attention to it, and he deliberately whispers to Uncle Lu to ask. If you are not good at asking, there will always be smart people, and if you take the lead in everything, it will make people suspicious.

There are also favorable and harmful situations in these situations, and there are several things that are ambiguous, such as that Linjiang Temple!

Ask for a fart!

It's not exactly virgin land, but most of it is virgin land, with only a few traces and can't be sketched freely, but there is a large space for sketching.

While he was thinking about it, more than a dozen boats rushed past him, and many fishermen stood on them, shouting one by one, "Beat him up." ”

Some were armed with wooden sticks, others with earthen bows and arrows for shooting wild ducks, and some even held machetes.

"Keep up." Zheng Lang said in a low voice.

After a while, when we arrived at Danyang Lake, there were many fishing boats confronting each other in the center of the lake, and some government soldiers were standing on small boats to mediate, and there were many people standing on the shore. Zheng Lang said: "Moor the boat over." ”

Uncle Sun parked the boat on the shore and went ashore, where some officials stood with worried faces and many onlookers. Suddenly, Wang Anshi hid behind Zheng Lang, and it was too late to hide, Wang Yi came over and said, "You little rabbit cub!" ”

After Jiang Ning heard the news, Wang Yihuo went crazy, too far, and there was no way to find a lesson in the past, and now he sent it to the door, when will he not teach a lesson. Sima Guang was happy, and he finally leveled it.

Li Ruogu asked: "Wang Tongju, who are you beating?" ”

"The third son who is not filial!" Li Ruogu's ears were a little back, and Wang Yi replied loudly.

Brush! The eyes gathered together, Wang Zhizhou rushed over enthusiastically, swept it, and frowned a little, it was too small. But he has no choice, he is also a governor, but he is a bad official, and he has no rank, even if he is the prime minister. The official is the real position, just like Bao Zheng later sentenced to Kaifeng Mansion Yin, the official seems to be very big, but in fact it is not big, the official is only Langzhong of the Criminal Department, Shangshu Right Shilangzhong, may be half a level smaller than Zheng Lang, but the grade of the pavilion is higher than Zheng Lang at this time, and the Longtu Pavilion is a straight bachelor. So after some powerful people let him toss the immortal to death, they said angrily: "You little Bao Zheng!" ”

It doesn't mean his age, nor does it mean that his errand official is small, who dares to say that Kaifeng Mansion Yin is a petty official, it means that he is a very small official.

The same errand official, the official Wang Zhizhou is young, even if Zheng Lang is very young, Wang Zhizhou has to come to see him first, and similarly, Zheng Lang has to see the bachelor of Jixian Academy and Li Ruogu, the prefect of Jiangning.

The champion came, everyone on the shore paid attention, Zheng Lang intended to go to the sun, where was the time, everyone looked at it, and they didn't know how to say it.

Zheng Lang doesn't care, it's still important to get down to business, there are about two hundred ships facing each other, at least five or six hundred people, once the fight really starts, it will be a knife, a stick, and a bow, no one will die, one life may be one or two, asked: "Wang Zhizhou, what happened?" ”

Wang Zhizhou briefly explained the experience.

Zheng Lang said: "Give me the boat." ”

Uncle Sun's boat was too big to fit. Wang Zhizhou asked worriedly: "Champion, what are you going to do?" ”

"Problem solving! Who's going to ride the boat? ”

Wang Yi dropped Wang Anshi and said, "I'll come." ”

His son has received the favor of others, and there is no way to repay it, how to report it, ask for money, people have money, want celebrities to be famous, and want status, what status can he give him? So he volunteered to steer the boat for Zheng Lang, and this was originally the duty of the two states.

"Okay."

The Yang brothers want to jump on the boat to protect.

"Don't use it." Zheng Lang said, at this time, the fewer people, the smaller the misunderstanding, holding a weapon and carrying an entourage, once a misunderstanding occurs, it is very dangerous, and said: "Wang Tongju, control the boat." ”

That's when everyone took it seriously.

Such a decisive and clean work is not what can be seen on the outside.

Wang Yi drove the boat, the boat gradually approached the confrontation area, Zheng Lang stood on the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back, let the lake wind blow, motionless, his long hair curled up, and his white clothes were better than snow.