Seeing the current scale of Jingbian Fort and the appearance of the fort, Du Gong and his brother-in-law were very surprised, and Du Gong even opened his mouth wide to look around, and his eyes kept purring.

Seeing Wang Dou, Du Gong smiled on his face, and he said: "Brother Wang, remember that this tunbao was built in September last year, and it has been like this in a short period of time, tsk......t"

He was amazed, and gave Wang Dou a thumbs up: "Talent! ”

Wang Dou clenched his fists and smiled: "Brother Du has a good reputation, and today he came to the contemptible place, this is ......"

Du Gong said: "Brother, my brother has nothing to do today. ”

He pointed to his brother-in-law next to him and introduced Wang Dou, and Xie Cihe heard that Wang Dou was just a general banner, and his face immediately showed arrogance, his voice was hoarse, and he arched his hand slightly: "I have heard the name of Wang Jiachang for a long time, and I have admired it for a long time." ”

Wang Dou glanced at him and said with a smile: "The two elder brothers came to the cold house, and they came into the cold house to talk. ”

He welcomed the two to the General Flag Office, sat down the guests, offered tea, and asked about Du Gong's intentions.

Du Gong said that it turned out that his brother-in-law Xie Cihe heard that Jingbian Fort was getting bigger and bigger, so he wanted to open a bull market in Jingbian Fort and book the location on West Street of Jingbian Fort.

Wang Dou listened quietly, and after listening to the intentions of the two, he said with a spring breeze on his face: "Brother Xie wants to open a market in Jingbianbao, this is no problem, that is, Brother Du's person, the city's registration review of this merchant is not needed, and the younger brother is also exempted from taxes." When will Brother Xie come, notify me that there are good places on both sides of the avenue outside the fort, and you can choose with your brother. ”

Xie Cihe was first overjoyed, and then he was stunned again, and said, "Outside the castle, isn't it inside the castle?" ”

Wang Dou smiled and said: "Jingbian Fort has rules, no merchants are allowed to open in the fort, in the past, when merchants came to me, I asked them to open a business outside the fort." ”

Xie Cihe and Du Gong glanced at each other, and both of them had ugly faces.

Du Gong said tentatively: "Brother, can't you be accommodating for your brother?" ”

Wang Dou said sincerely: "The order is changed every day, this is a big taboo, and I hope that the elder brother will understand the difficulties of the younger brother."

Looking at the figures of the two leaving, Wang Dou's eyes narrowed habitually, maybe he missed the last opportunity to make friends with Du Gong and others today, but how can the principle of a husband be changed for others casually? What kind of things are these Du Gong and Xie Cihe! Rats, why are you afraid?

Wang Dou sat still, Zhong Tiaoyang, who was standing beside him, was a little worried, and was about to say something, Wang Dou waved his hand and said, "Cousin, go and send off the guests." ”

……

At the beginning of August of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Qi Tianliang commanded the military households in the fort to reclaim the land.

Along the northeast and southeast directions of Jingbian Fort, in the past month or so, Qi Tianliang has led hundreds of men and women in the fort to reclaim more than 2,000 acres of land. At this time, there were already more than 3,000 acres of land registered in the Jingbianbao military tun book, and even the land population was already a behemoth.

At this time, the land of the entire Shunxiang Fort was only more than 70 tilts, that is, more than 7,000 acres, and more than 900 stones of tuntian grain were collected a year. Jingbian Fort is a tun fort, and it is almost equal to half of its tun fields.

In addition to reclaiming wasteland, the military households in Jingbianbao also dug some irrigation wells, but did not build new channels for water conservancy.

From Jingbian Fort to the north and south, there are many Shunxiang Fort and various Tun Forts, such as Zhouzhuang, Huzhuang, Chafang Fort of Tuntian. Even in the southeast, there are thousands of households guarding the Houhou, that is, the fields of Luanzhuang Fort under the jurisdiction of Wubao.

The land in these places is mixed with each other, and many of them are the private land of various military officers, so the construction of water conservancy in these places has unclear ownership of rights, and the property rights are vague, which is easy to cause disputes and greatly affects the waving of water conservancy channels.

In addition, the construction of the canal and water conservancy cost a huge amount of money, and the construction period was long, so how to distribute the ICBC rations and how to distribute the water after the completion of the construction will have countless disputes. Historically, the competition for water in the north was fierce, and those who were in the same canal fought with each other and the villages competed with each other, and those who had different canals fought with each other, and there were countless lawsuits and violent fights.

The irrigation wells are much more trouble-free, and the well irrigation is mostly opened by several farmers who are exclusively or voluntarily cooperative, with clear property rights, easy to use and manage, and not easy to cause disputes.

……

"The white dew is early, the cold dew is late, and the autumn equinox is just in time to plant wheat!"

This year's year was better, so Jingbianbao decided to carry out autumn sowing and cultivation after the autumn equinox in mid-August.

During this time, the fort was preparing seeds, cattle and farm tools.

The more than 50 military households that Chongzhen joined Jingbian Fort in the seventh year had already been allocated cattle and farm tools, but the more than 30 military households that Chongzhen joined at the beginning of the eighth year were newly allocated 20 acres of fields, but they did not have cattle and farm tools. The fort was to lease them the seeds of cattle and farming, to lend them rice and rations, and to use mules to pull the waterwheels in the wells, all of which had to be prepared in advance in the fort.

On the fifth day of the first month of August, Wang Dou discussed with Qi Tianliang and others in the General Banner Office about the cattle farming tools, and Wang Dou decided to go to the state city to buy a batch of cattle farming tools and come back. If necessary, it is better to buy more than 100 heads of cattle and mules at one time, but unfortunately Wang Dou's wealth and food have always been tight, so he can only buy them again and again in batches.

Wang Dou's current military defense arrangements for Jingbian Fort are seven teams of soldiers, one team takes turns to serve in the general flag office, one team patrols the fort wall, one team patrols around the fort, and the rest either train or rest in the fort. As for the night of the Han Dynasty leader, except for taking turns to leave a group of people inside and outside the fort, the rest have always been elusive, and they often do not see anyone for several days.

While deliberating, a soldier patrolling outside the fort rushed in to report that there was something going on outside the fort, and that several tun chiefs of the three tunbao under the jurisdiction of Shunxiang Fort, Zhouzhuang, Huzhuang, and Chafangbao, led a total of hundreds of people, armed with knives and sticks, gathered at Jingbian Fort, saying that they wanted to capture the military population who had fled from their tunbao to Jingbian Fort.

In addition, they also thought that Jingbianbao had dug up their tuntian land, and asked Wang Dou to give them an explanation.

The team of soldiers who were cruising outside the fort was now, and the management officer of Luanzhuang Fort under the jurisdiction of the five forts also brought a group of people to come, and the momentum was violent, and the reason was unknown.