***

There is a Jiayu in the south, and it is covered with a cover. The gentleman has wine, and the guest swallow is happy.

There are Jiayu in the south, and Shanshan is blazing. The gentleman has wine, and the guest swallows the wine.

This is the Book of Songs. Lesser. Jiayu in the south", Jiayu County is also named because of this poem, Jiayu is connected to the Yangtze River in the northwest, and Honghu Lake in the south, which is a typical alluvial plain, and the surrounding lakes are vertical and horizontal, as can be seen from this poem, Jiayu is rich in products, the people are hospitable, and it is a rare land of fish and rice.

It is said that in the vicinity, there was also a battle of Chibi that had a profound impact on Chinese history. Thinking of Gongjin back then, Xiao Qiao got married for the first time, with a lupine scarf and a majestic hair

At this moment, Qin Mu couldn't compare with Zhou Lang, dressed in a robe, and rushed to Jiayu County with two hundred guards in the rain, looking quite embarrassed. The rain in the four fields is vast, the horses' hooves are stepping on the road, and the muddy water is splashing.

Yun Qiao'er curled up in his arms like a little quail, and Qin Mu said with some heartache: "Don't let you come with you, you won't listen, you will be offended." ”

Yun Qiao'er raised her little face and showed a sweet smile, Qin Mu has always been busy, always busy, in Qiao'er's words, he can't remember Qin Mu's appearance clearly, this time she came with her, even if she suffered some crimes, she was still very happy.

"Childe, what Sister Zhi'er said in the letter, people miss my sister."

"Say that she is in good health, let us rest assured, you can be a sister-in-law by August."

"It's Auntie."

"Uh, okay, it's Auntie."

"Childe, Sister Zhi'er said that he likes to eat sour or sweet?"

"Well, she said she likes to eat fragrant, what should I do?"

"Ah, people ask you seriously?"

After laughing with the little girl, Qin Mu was in a much better mood, the rice in the field was already golden, and it was time for the summer harvest. The rain has been raining non-stop for the past two days, which is really heartbreaking.

When he was about to arrive at Jiayu County, Qin Mu saw a large group of people, numbering nearly a thousand, who were busy raising the river embankment to prevent the river from backing into the farmland.

When I got closer, I saw a man in his forties in the crowd wearing a seven-grade official uniform, without an official hat on his head, and the official uniform on his body was also splashed with muddy water, and he almost couldn't see the original state. is loudly directing the crowd, rushing back and forth.

What surprised Qin Mu even more was that Gu Yanwu was also among them, and he was also covered in muddy water.

"Lord Governor, why are you here?"

"Ning Ren, why don't you just change your name to a clay man." Seeing that the local officials were so conscientious, Qin Mu was very relieved in his heart.

"Xiaguan Jiayu County ordered Xie Fan to meet the Governor." Xie Fan obviously didn't know Qin Mu, and after hearing Gu Yanwu's title, he hurriedly came up to give a salute.

"Lord Xie, please excuse me. How's the flood going? ”

"Back to the Governor, when the water conservancy was built last year, this section of the embankment was not yet able to be raised, and now it has been raining heavily for two days. The river was rising, and the lower officials were worried that the river would burst its banks, so they hurriedly organized manpower to strengthen it. At present, the flood situation in this county is not very serious, and only a few hundred acres of low-lying rice fields have been flooded. If you can keep your eyes on it within a day or two, the flooded rice will be harvested and barely edible. I'm afraid that the rain will continue to fall, and it will be difficult to say then. ”

It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, what can I do?

Qin Mu knows his own affairs, and others say that he can attract Thor, and that he can communicate with God, but these are just ghost tricks, can he really make the master not rain?

Since there is nothing to do, apart from trying to take precautions, Qin Mu has nothing to do.

"Lord Xie has worked hard, in terms of flood control, we must be sent to inspect the river embankment day and night, and at the same time organize the corresponding materials in advance, once we find out where there is a dangerous situation, we can respond quickly."

"Your Excellency the Governor, rest assured, the lower officials have already prepared."

"Well, that's good." Speaking of this, Qin Mu said to Li Shi, "Send the official's order back to the General Staff, once it rains, the garrisons of all prefectures and counties must temporarily stop training and make every effort to help the people harvest summer grain. ”

"Yes, sir."

Xie Fan was overjoyed when he heard this, now Huguang and Jiangxi are different from before, in the past, civilian officials were usually able to command the local garrison, but now it is not possible, Qin Mu divided the military and the government very clearly, and local officials have no right to mobilize the army.

As a result, local officials can only organize ordinary people to come in terms of disaster relief and rescue, but without the army as the main force, they are inevitably a little powerless.

Qin Mu then asked, "How are the newly resettled refugees?" ”

The area around Jiayu and Honghu is an important area for the resettlement of refugees, which is probably why Gu Yanwu will appear here.

Gu Yanwu replied: "The general situation is not bad, the lower official has already reported to Wuchang, but there are also many problems, my lord, do you want to report to the adult in detail after entering the city." ”

It was raining, and the embankment was muddy, and it was really not the place to talk.

Qin Mu smiled faintly and said, "No need, the official just reminded Ning Ren not to forget his own work." ”

"Don't dare." Gu Yanwu was neither humble nor arrogant, nor did he take the initiative to explain that he would come to the embankment, with a calm face.

Before leaving, he told Gu Yanwu to seriously investigate an official like Xie Fan, first of all, to find out whether Xie Fan was putting on a show;

If not, then it depends on his ability, as an official, it is not enough to be loyal to his duties, but also to have the corresponding ability.

Qin Mu now desperately needs talents to enrich his group, and it is not enough to just take care of the present, but also to make some talent reserves in advance, so that when the territory expands in the future, he can immediately send capable personnel to govern it.

This is very important, because the newly laid areas are often in ruins, and the incompetent personnel are not enough to control the chaos.

***

Yueyang.

On the edge of the endless Dongting Lake, six large docks are full of people, and the timbers used for shipbuilding are piled up, and two gantry cranes are moving slowly, hoisting a giant wooden dock to use as a keel.

When Qin Mu first conquered Changsha last year, he asked Liu Boquan to prepare for shipbuilding, and prepared a lot of materials such as wood, tung oil, sail rope, etc., but unfortunately there were no craftsmen who could build warships at that time, and the matter was delayed for nearly a year.

Now that it is good, Liu Boquan sent people to the coast to look for a lot of craftsmen, and at the same time, when Qin Mu and Lu Jiude talked about the conditions for supporting King Fu, they recruited a large number of craftsmen from the imperial court.

What surprised Qin Mu even more was that John Tang also had a deep knowledge of shipbuilding, so he had the conditions to integrate the strengths of Eastern and Western shipbuilding.

Wu Jinxi, director of the General Armament Department, took Qin Mu to inspect the shipyard and introduced: "My lord, the drawings I got from Nanjing this time, the largest is a 2,000-material lucky ship, but at present, our dock here is probably not suitable for building such a large ship, and the craftsmen have never built such a large ship, so we still need to build some smaller ships first, and accumulate experience before we can further build larger ships." ”

"Well, it's the right thing to do, it's not a problem to build a thousand warships, right?"

"This drawing is ready-made, and it shouldn't be a problem if you explore it carefully."

Qin Mu listened, and was very emotional in his heart, the shipbuilding of the Ming Dynasty was once the first in Shijie, and in the Yongle period, it was not worth mentioning to build a large ship with thousands of materials, but since Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, the construction of large ocean-going ships was forced to stop;

The original large sea ships were either dismantled or mothballed, and small and medium-sized ships became the mainstream of ship construction. Decades later, the jishu and craftsmen who built large sea vessels ceased to exist.

In the Jiajing period, because the harm of the Japanese invaders intensified, the Ming Dynasty in order to exterminate the Japanese invaders, there was a small upsurge in ship construction, but at this time the largest can be built is only a thousand lucky ships, which is far from the Yongle period.

Moreover, with the elimination of the plagues, the tasks of the naval division in the far sea operations were reduced, and the construction of large sea ships was stopped again, and some small ships with only 400 materials were replaced, mainly responsible for coastal patrols.

After Wanli, the Ming Dynasty was exhausted by the Jurchens in Liaodong, and the treasury could not make ends meet, and even the small fortune boats of 400 materials had no money to build, so the sailors mainly used those small sand boats, bluff boats, and sentinel boats.

It was precisely because of the entire decline of the shipbuilding industry that Qin Mu could not find a craftsman who could build warships in Huguang Jiangxi before, so that shipbuilding Jihua was delayed for a whole year.

In a year, this is terrible.

Now, everything is finally ready, there is Jiayu in the south, hehe, we will soon have a boat to catch some "Jiayu" steaming.

(To be continued......)