Leaving Yang Tong and two women to guard the pier, Wang Dou and a few people rode to the Dongfang River. This left the fields a little further from the river to waste, after all, the kind of deep masonry wells that could be used for irrigation were not dug by casual people.

If the government guards dredged and repaired these canals, it would be possible to turn this area into fertile land.

However, this can only be thought of, the serious disrepair of water conservancy in various places is the ordinary situation of the entire Ming Dynasty at present, the imperial court does not have the financial resources to take care of the maintenance of water conservancy, and some limited funds are embezzled by officials.

Riding horses and looking around, the terrain in front of you is open, what a good land this is, "thousands of miles of mulberry dry, only rich Zhuolu", Zhuolu County in later generations is a famous commercial grain base, and the land in front of you can only be helplessly barren. Looking up, to the northeast, to the south is Luanzhuang, which belongs to the five forts, and to the east is the five forts of the security guard, where the land is better than the Shunxiang fort, where rice can even be grown.

Wang Dou pondered, among several people, Qi Tianliang was the most good at farming, of course, his equestrian skills were also the worst, he tried to control the horses to Wang Dou's side, and shouted: "Wang Tou, this piece is all good land, if you dig some ponds and repair some canals, and then recruit some soldiers and civilians to reclaim, this piece can become fertile land in the future." ”

Wang Dou nodded, in fact, the Ming Dynasty has preferential treatment for the military and civilians in various places to reclaim wasteland, not to mention that the reclaimed land belongs to the military and the people, after three years of maturity, a small amount of cattle and silver will be levied on each hectare of land, and even the taxable grain in many places will be exempted for more than ten years.

It is a pity that there are policies and countermeasures, the treasury is empty, and a large amount of tax grain needs to be collected, and the officials and gentry are strong enough to transfer their taxable grain to the common people. If we continue to pursue money and grain, we will have to force the farmers to flee, and the fields will be barren, and this vicious circle will make the famine more and more serious in various places, and it will also cause the people to be unwilling to reclaim the wasteland.

In fact, there is always no shortage of land at the end of a dynasty, after the famine and war, the whole village and the whole city are deserted in some places, and even thousands of miles of uninhabited, there is actually a lot of barren land in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, but there is no stable environment for the people to live and cultivate in vain!

People in the world often say that they do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequality, but in fact, there is a more important sentence at the end, not suffering from poverty but suffering from anxiety.

As for recruiting displaced people, it depends on luck, and the flow of displaced people is uncertain, sometimes a large number of displaced people pour into a certain place, and sometimes there is not a single person for hundreds of miles. For the time being, I don't have the financial resources to go to various places for large-scale publicity.

However, after Jin entered the army last month, various places were affected, and there were a lot of displaced people in various parts of the security state, and they may be able to recruit from them. The locals can also think of a way, after all, each person is granted dozens of acres of land, even if some local military households and civilian households, there are many families, it is completely possible to divide some men to come to teach the land, the key is to make them believe in the future prospects of Tunpu.

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Wang Dou and others discussed their own ends, or Yang Tong guarded the pier, Wang Dou prepared a gift, and took a few people from the Han Dynasty to Dongjiazhuang first, asking to see Zhang Gui, the officer of the management team, hoping that he would support some people to cultivate cattle and farm tools.

Hearing that Wang Dou asked for the allocation of 30 households and 10 cows, as well as the need for bluestone wood and other materials, Zhang Gui's face was difficult, and now the shortage in the guard center is getting more and more serious, and the population of Tunbao in Dongjiazhuang is insufficient, and he is also in difficulty.

He patted Wang Dou's shoulder and sighed, and said, "Brother, my brother is also in trouble, and I have to think of more ways for my brother." ”

In the end, he called his henchmen, Hongqiu, the general banner in charge of the grain and grass in Dongjiazhuang Fort, and asked him to allocate ten military households to Wang Dou, five cows, one stone of rice, in addition to fifteen hoes, and the rest of the materials, so Wang Dou had to figure out his own way.

However, he can issue a notice to help Wang Dou publicize in Dongjiazhuang Fort to see who is willing to go to Jingbian Fort Tuntian, which does not yet exist.

Wang Dou saw that Zhang Gui had indeed done his best, so he said goodbye and went with Hongqiu to receive the population and materials.

But then Wang Dou was disappointed again, the ten families were all old and weak, and what he wanted was a young and strong population, and the five cows were also thin and weak, too far from his expectations. However, Wang Dou still accepted it, although the mosquito leg meat is small, it is also meat, and there is no reason to let it go when it enters his mouth.