Hou Ke is really anxious, 5,000 laborers, don't look at the spring when more than 20,000 people were gathered, which were collected from four or five nearby counties, that is, Jingyang County could not collect 5,000 people. If there was not even that talk of compensating cultivated land, Jingyang County alone would not be able to collect even two or three thousand people.

Pumping this labor out, the labor of the drain workers became even more strained.

Wang Ju tugged at Hou Ke's sleeve.

Lao Hou is a good comrade, but he still doesn't know the truth of officialdom, it is not right to say that it is not easy to do things, and it is not right to be unlucky to do things, to be precise, it is sad to do things, and it is even more tragic to do things, and it is important whether the big guy above you can cover you.

So Lao Hou's two nephews understand, what is the principle of heaven and what is the destruction of people's desires, to put it bluntly, let people be ascetics and saints.

Of course, they can't do it themselves, so it doesn't matter, anyway, everyone is lenient with themselves, and they can't do it themselves, but they can educate saints, so who can educate them, Song Zhezong, poor Shengsheng turned Song Zhezong into a sick ghost, a young man, and only lived to be in his twenties.

Wang Ju said: "Envoy Lu, can there be anyone in the court who opposes the construction of Zhengbai Canal? ”

"Not really," replied the little yellow door honestly.

Wang Ju thought about it, and immediately understood that Zheng Baiqu was initiated by Han Qi, and now that Han Qi had made the little emperor succumb, who would dare to provoke Han Qi at this moment?

"Then you come with me."

Wang Ju turned over and got on the horse, this section is dominated by mountainous terrain, and after this section, the terrain is gradually relatively flat.

Wang Ju came to a dry land, this arid plateau is very large, thousands of acres, on which some sorghum and beans are sporadically planted, Wang Ju pointed to them and said, "Is there such a crop?" ”

"Nope."

"Why rebuild the Zhengbai Canal, one is that it has been in disrepair since the late Tang Dynasty, and many projects have been abandoned, and the other is that the water and soil have deteriorated, and Longkou cannot get enough water sources. Therefore, I have repaired several times, including the one that Ye Qingchen repaired, but the irrigation area is limited, including this piece of land, because there is no water, it can only become a barren land. ”

"Why do people still grow crops?"

"If this crop is planted, can the seeds be recovered?"

The eunuch surnamed Lu laughed dumbly, but he soon couldn't laugh, Wang Ju rode a horse and continued to walk forward with him, with a big wooden sign in front of him: "Lujiayuan, the land of the Lu family, thirty-one hectares of land." ”

"See? It turned out that this was a barren land, and at most some people came to graze, but Zhengbai Canal was completed, and a branch canal happened to go down from here to Laonan Baiqu, so this land would become a first-class fertile land. So the Lu family sent someone to circle this place in early February, and then sprinkled some hundreds of catties of beans and sorghum into it, and then said that it was their Lu family's land. also took a nice name, Lu Jiayuan. ”

"How does this work?"

"Of course not, but I have a way to deal with it, but these people also guessed that I would use thunderbolts against them, so they spread rumors everywhere, and even sent people to attack me viciously. If it weren't for the Lu family, many heroes were involved, and once they twisted into a rope, whoever came would have a headache. And soon, as soon as autumn came, the first stage of the canal closed, and I had to deal with these encroachments. Otherwise, once they officially plough the land, it will be an established fact, and there will be no way to deal with it when they want to. But when I deal with these encroachments, disputes will arise. ”

"yes, it looks like a ** annoyance."

"Then I will talk about the canal work, it is divided into three stages, the first stage is the head of the canal to Xiao Zheng Quan, and this main canal will benefit part of the Zhongbai Canal and most of the Nanbai Canal. Therefore, Hou Zhi County said that the irrigated area can reach 20,000 hectares. But because I redesigned it, I split a branch canal from the sand storage tank, followed the valley to the back of Zhongshan Mountain, and intersected with the water control, where a large weir was built, and several steep gates were used to store water and drain water, and then three branch canals were divided to extend to various places. These are all projects that Zheng Baiqu did not have in the Tang Dynasty. As a result, the beneficiary area can be increased by three to four thousand hectares, including some areas in the southeast of Chunhua County. ”

"Will it exceed the irrigated area of the Tang Dynasty?"

"If it is completed, it will be exceeded, but the Tang Dynasty is not a water conservancy project in the Guanzhong area, there are many more, and the total irrigation area must be far less than that of the Tang Dynasty."

"That's pretty remarkable, too."

"It's not a big deal, the official family is frugal in the palace, and the ministers should do good things for the official family. I will talk about the second part of the project, that is, there is the part from Xiaozheng Spring to the third limit, after this part is opened, almost all the Zhongbai Canal and Nanbai Canal can be irrigated, so it can irrigate about 10,000 hectares. Then to the third part, Yang Gou and Hou Zhixian originally planned to go from the south of Sanyuan County to Chishui Town in Huazhou, and this part had to irrigate about 5,000 hectares of cultivated land. However, after seeing the power of gunpowder, we re-explored and decided to open a new canal from 30 miles north of Sanyuan County, open a few flint roads, and then use the water weir to raise the water jointly, so that the irrigation area can be expanded to seven or eight thousand hectares. Of course, there will be a slight error in this estimate, but the error will not be too large, so it will irrigate eight counties of Chunhua, Jingyang, Liquan, Gaoling, Liyang, Yunyang, Sanyuan, and Fuping, with nearly 40,000 hectares of cultivated land. ”

"Forty thousand?"

"However, this figure has to be discounted, and nearly 20,000 hectares of it is original cultivated land, and nearly 10,000 hectares are fertile land. It can only be said that the actual increase in fertile land is about 25,000 hectares. ”

"That's not bad."

"Whether it is good, we will not think about it now, but this year's first section of the canal construction of the dragon, does not mean that more than 20,000 hectares of cultivated land can benefit all, some projects are connected, the downstream projects have not been repaired, and the water release gate does not dare to open. But the more labor, the more area will benefit this year. After the autumn, the area handed over by the ministers is 10,000 hectares, and it is difficult to say if there are disputes. After all, thousands of hectares have already been irrigated. But what about the number of ministers who handed over 20,000 hectares? With the results, even if there is a dispute below, everyone's opposition will not be strong. ”

"Why opposition?"

"I want to deal with these invasions of the fields, it has been rotten to such an extent, I don't believe that the Chinese envoy can take a look around, so I have to use thunderbolt means to spread to the court, and the court has no objection? Once the opposition is louder, can the officials settle down? ”

The eunuch surnamed Lu was speechless, this is not a good joke.

"If you want to be more effective, you must have labor, but there is so much labor from Chen?"

"But this prisoner of war ......"

"In this way, you go back to report to the official's house, and the ministers will release the prisoners of war, but who will be responsible for their safety, what about eating and drinking along the way? If the imperial court wants peace to be precious, the safety of these prisoners of war must be considered, right? ”

"Yes," the eunuch surnamed Lu smiled.

Isn't it just ripping, pulling and pulling, and time drags on.

He looked at Wang Ju's official uniform again: "It seems that Wang Pingshi has also suffered a lot." ”

"Lieutenant Lu is also helpless, especially some time ago, the people served without compensation, the ministers did not take the lead, and the people were resentful, which is also because the ministers want to see the results as soon as possible and save some people in the court from being verbose."

"Wang Pingshi, there is one thing I don't hide, this year's drought in Hebei, I seem to have heard very strictly, and there are homeless people who come to the capital to eat."

This is not good news.

The eunuch surnamed Lu wandered around again, he came to pass the decree, and the second was to take a look around, so that he could go back and report.

The result is still very satisfying, especially the monster-like canal head pond, which makes him dumbfounded, as for how to build it so strong? But that's fine, at least it won't be washed away by the flood.

After seeing it, he went back.

Wang Ju found Hou Ke and said in a low voice: "There is a great drought in Hebei, and some displaced people have come to the capital to eat. ”

Hou Ke's face also changed.

The two are worried about the cost of food.

In fact, when dispatching from the capital, the cost is not very high, the normal price of rice in the capital is 70 Wen, the price of wheat is 30 Wen, and the price of millet is not in the capital, why, no one eats it. However, the prefectures and counties are still eating, and it can rise to 20 wen during the disaster, which is normally less than 10 wen in Hebei. Now the basic transportation to the canal workers is five millet, three wheat and two rice, that is, one bucket is barely thirty wen. But why did it become one hundred and fifty wen, the loss along the way, including the car and boat overturned, or greedy for ink, or was eaten by the people, so it became one hundred and fifty wen.

This is still Xue Xiang's proper scheduling, otherwise the cost will be higher.

Therefore, this Zheng Baiqu is very important, if there is enough food here, then the price of the Biqu Pavilion www.biquge.info is not one hundred and fifty Wen, but Wheat is thirty Wen, and Su is ten Wen. How much money will that save?

However, if the upstream cost is high, then the downstream cost will increase several times, so it is planned that the price of wheat will rise to 50 Wen, and the price of millet will rise to 15 Wen, and the price of reaching Guanzhong will rise to nearly 200 Wen.

Hou Ke asked: "How severe is the disaster in Hebei?" ”

"It's not easy to think about, otherwise there will be no influx of displaced people into the capital."

"What an eventful time for the country."

"No, let's use a little workaround."

"Workarounds?"

"Xiang Hao is strong and collects grain."

"No."

"Don't worry, I have a way for them to hand over the food obediently."

"What's the solution?"

Wang Ju said in Hou Ke's ear.

Hou Ke smiled bitterly: "It's also an idea." ”

Anyway, the autumn queen is ready to open the butcher's knife, and she doesn't care about this bad idea.

"Zi'an, why are people's hearts inadequate?" Lao Hou can't figure it out, for example, this Zheng Baiqu, there will be many civilians who will benefit, but it is not the civilians who benefit the most, but these gentry, who have the most land.

Of course, there were some good squires, but under the leadership of most of the squires, they did not dare to speak out, for fear of being ostracized by other squires.

Really stopped the canal workers, the country was damaged, and their interests were not damaged?

"People's hearts are originally an unsatisfied Dongdong, such as the land of Han Gong's family, Hou Zhi County, you go to check, I am sure to scare you."

"Han Gong?"

"It will be measured in thousands of hectares, and the number in the field book is probably less than one-tenth of the actual field."

"Will it?"

"Yes, but don't talk nonsense, so why is it not good for the imperial court to repeatedly check Yintian."

Hou Ke's face was disappointed.

These top doctors took the lead, and they also checked the ghost.

They all took the lead in playing, not to mention the other squires.

"Second eldest son, come here."

"Whoa."

"Tell my brothers, you can arrest those rumor-mongers, and bring more people to arrest them."

"Okay."

The second eldest son went down.

Wang Ju looked at Jingshui and the green mountains and green mountains on both sides of the river, thinking of one thing in his heart, Wang Anshi didn't toss the Song Dynasty well, he tossed it blindly like this, can he really toss it?

If you don't do something, if you do something, there are ills everywhere, which is unimaginable.

Wang Ju thought for a while and said, "Hou Zhixian, I want to write a concerto, do you think it's okay?" ”

"Zi'an wants to write a chapter?" Hou Ke said in surprise.

Other officials only write but don't do it, even if an official like Hou Ke is not qualified to write a chapter for the emperor, but he also has to write a few official documents to report to the Chinese letter. But Wang Ju only did not write, and after coming to Jingyang County, he never saw him write a piece of music.

"Hou Zhixian, this piece is extremely important, I heard that many people in the capital are saying that they want to reward and punish heavily, but no one has figured out how to reward and punish heavily, now I will provide them with a way, how to reward and punish heavily!"

"Got a clever idea?" Hou Ke said in surprise.

"Let's go, let's go back to the county office."

"Okay."

"But Hou Zhixian, you are a more generous person, after I write it, so you have to pick out a more mean scribe from your county and let him find a way to find a pick."

"Why be picky?"

"We are not picky, when we arrive in the capital, we will be picky!" R1152