Fu Tian’s problem really stumped the four of them.

It’s not that the question is too difficult and they can’t answer it, but they don’t know whether to tell the truth.

The lack of irrigation in farmland is naturally because there is only one Sihu River, which is close to the water and makes it easier to divert water. The water source will naturally be more sufficient. If it is far away, the water cannot divert it, so it will be a little drought.

This is something that people who face loess all year round know, but the boss may not know, nor can they understand it. Some domineering bosses, if they say it truthfully, might even think that they are making excuses to be lazy and not irrigate the fields well.

The manager carefully looked at Fu Tian's face. After thinking for a while, he still didn't have the courage to fool him. Finally, he honestly said: "The insufficient irrigation is because the fields in the distance are not easy to draw water. If the water in the back is enough, the fields in the front will have to be flooded."

Fu Tian knew that the fields were connected. When diversion and irrigation, just open the gap on the ridge and start diversion from the high terrain. The water flow will flow along the gap to the adjacent fields. After a few days, most of the fields can be irrigated. At this time, the gap on the ridge can be blocked.

However, this method also has its disadvantages, that is, it cannot be irrigated from too far away. If the water is released for too long, the fields in the distance will be irrigated, but the fields near the water will be flooded. After all, one of them will always be harmed.

Fu Tian pondered for a while and said slowly: "What if the ditches are dug? The ditches are dug from the far away, and then dig water from the Sihu River."

"This..." The manager was surprised. Digging a ditches could naturally solve the problem, but it took a lot of manpower and material resources to diversion water from Sihu River for such a large piece of land. No one would be so stupid and effort. Moreover, this should be done by the government.

"This is a big project, and it costs a lot of money." He reminded carefully.

Fu Tian lowered his eyes, knocked his fingers on the mahogany handrail, and said in a deep voice: "You go to Fu Ji later, summon the experienced old farmers in the village, and discuss drawing the ditch map first. I will make a decision after seeing it."

The manager was shocked. He didn't expect that he really had this meaning. He responded in a hurry, his mood was a little complicated but mixed with joy.

The boss is willing to dig ditches, which is the best thing for the farm. If there is a lot of grain produced, the tenants can also share more grain.

"There is one more thing..." Fu Tian continued: "I read the book that someone once produced 500 or even 700 stones of grain per acre of land..."

"If someone has a way to increase the grain output, they can also report to me. If it is feasible, they can go to the account office to receive a reward of 100 taels of silver."

One hundred taels... The three old farmers behind the manager looked like a move, and finally looked up at Fu Tian with a keen light in their eyes.

This is a total of one hundred taels of silver!

After Fu Tian finished giving the instructions, the manager hurriedly left with the person with excitement. Without outsiders, Fu Tian's straight back bent down and he hurriedly fell back into the chair.

Chu Xiangtian poured him a cup of tea with his eyes admiring, "There is getting more and more momentum like the head of the family."

Fu Tian held the tea and took a sip of it to moisten his throat. He immediately shook his legs proudly when he heard this, "Of course."

Just like a little boy who was praised after being praised, Chu Xiangtian twisted his fingers, covered his palms on his head and rubbed them gently, "Take you back?"

"Okay, I'll go back and read a little book."

Fu Tian consciously opened his hand to him, Chu Xiangtian squatted in front of him with a smile, and Fu Tian rushed to his back, with his hands on his neck, and the two of them were close together.

"Get it done."

Holding his legs bent and grabbed them steadily, Chu Xiangtian walked steadily towards the inner courtyard with him on his back.

Chu Xiangtian's back was very wide. Fu Tian was lying on his back. He could feel the hard muscles under his body through his clothes. Although it was a bit uncomfortable, it was very reassuring. Putting his chin beside his neck, Fu Tian shook his legs and narrowed his eyes comfortably.

Back in the inner courtyard, Chu Xiangtian wanted to send him back to his room, but when he passed by the big tree in the yard, Fu Tian called out, "Just here, just put me here."

The tree in the yard has been around for a while, with a large canopy and spread out like an umbrella, sprinkling a piece of shade. There are stone tables and benches under the tree, which is indeed a good place to taste tea and read.

Chu Xiangtian put him on a stool, went into the house and looked around, brought him a wide rattan chair. There were soft cushions on the rattan chair. The outside of the cushion was made of silk material, which felt smooth and cool, which was very cool.

He carried the man to the chair, and Chu Xiangtian took two more books of his beloved and put them on the stone table.

Fu Tian picked up a copy and flipped it over twice, held his face and looked at him with a smile, "You have finished Dai Fu's work."

"Hmm? Then, how about I'll serve you in close contact from now on?" Chu Xiangtian followed his words and deliberately bit the word "closely" very seriously.

He was rebelled against Yijun and had a teasing. Fu Tian was so angry that he kicked him in the calf, "No one wants you who are disobedient."

Chu Xiangtian raised his eyebrows, "I'm not obedient enough, I've asked you to ride it a few times."

Fu Tian was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he became angry and smashed him with a book, "Vague!"

Why is this person not even serious in a while? It’s so annoying!

After catching the book, Chu Xiangtian laughed in a deep voice, his eyes vaguely browsed around him, and then he left with satisfaction.

Fu Tian's eyes fell on the book, but his mind didn't know where to fly. He glanced secretly at the back of the book, but he didn't see the annoying person. Then he threw the book he pretended to be holding aside, took off his shoes and socks, curled up and fell asleep on the rattan chair.

Chu Xiangtian leaned behind the big tree and turned out, sorted out the book, put on a thin blanket for him before he really left.

*******

Fu Tian’s reward worked very well, with huge silver rewards placed in front of him, but someone asked to see him alone in two days.

Fu Tian directly received the people who were looking for their visit in the empty study.

Dai Fu led people in, and the old farmer who was following him was wearing a thick linen coat. His skin was exposed outside was rough and dark, and his shoulders were shrinking. Fu Tian looked at him, and the more he looked at him, the more familiar he felt.

It was not until the old farmer raised his head that Fu Tian laughed, "Did you come with Manager Zhang last time?"

The old farmer nodded, grinned, and exposed a small pot of things in his arms.

"This... I planted it, it is easier to feed than in the fields, and it produces more millet." The old farmer was trembling, and he hung his glasses all the way while talking and did not dare to look at Fu Tian.

When Dai Fu took the pottery basin, Fu Tian held it in his hand and looked at it. It was an ordinary seedling that could not be more ordinary. The only special thing was that it was very green and looked very likable.

"How is this different from other rice?" Fu Tian plucked the two slender leaves of the seedlings.

"What are you trying to pull me?" A displeased voice asked Fu Tian.

Fu Tian shook his hand and almost couldn't grab the flower pot. The seedlings in the flower pot were shaken by him, and he even more dissatisfied, "Stop shaking, be dizzy!"

“…”

He silently placed the flower pot on the table. No need for the old farmer to say more, he also knew that the seedlings were different from what he had seen before.

When I went to the fields before, the seedlings that Fu Tian had seen would not speak so clearly. At most, they were thirsty when they were short of water. However, the seedlings brought by the old farmer were very "spiritual".

"Have you planted it yourself?" Fu Tian asked.

The old farmer nodded hesitantly. His family was a tenant farmer in the farm. Most of the food produced in the fields had to be handed over to the farm, and what they kept was enough for the family to eat and spend. Therefore, he thought about it and took his son to reclaim a small piece of land on the farther wasteland, and then secretly took a little from the rice seeds on the farm and planted it in his own field.

The reclaimed wasteland is far less fertile than the farm's fields. Even if it is used to fertile fields with vegetation and ash, it is loaded with water to irrigate, but the seedlings are still sparsely dying, and the half of which survives are not very good. However, no matter how little it is, it is enough for the family to eat for half a year, so he continues to farm secretly.

Who knows if these rice were used to wasteland or what happened. In the following years, they grew stronger and stronger. Not only did the rhizomes thicker than ordinary rice, but they also resisted drought, and the harvest was much higher than the rice on the farm. They were worried that the manager knew that he had opened wasteland but did not hand over the food. He kept covering this matter carefully until he heard Fu Tian’s reward of 100 taels of silver that he became interested.

"I tried to plant it myself, and the harvest was better than other...." The old farmer said it was unclear, and Fu Tian didn't ask in detail. It was not easy for these tenant farmers. This time, Fu Tian had no intention of pursuing other trivial matters.

"Does my father-in-law still have rice seedlings or seedlings?"

The old farmer shook his head and the seedlings had already been planted. He hesitated and said: "Only the grain stored last year can be used as rice seeds."

Fu Tian pondered for a while: "I have bought all the rice seeds. The account will settle the money with you. The reward will be given to you fifty taels first. If the harvest is indeed much higher than ordinary rice as you said, then give you the remaining fifty taels."

The old farmer was overjoyed, his lips trembled, and he thanked his boss in a stack of voices.

Asked Dai Fu to take the man to the account room to collect the money, Fu Tian carefully looked at the pot of seedlings and thought about how to deal with the rice seedlings bought from the old farmer.

If rice seeds are really more drought-resistant and yields are greater as he said, it will be good news not only for the Fu family, but also for the entire Sifang Town.

But the question to consider now is where to plant it.

The seedlings on the farm should be planted at this time, so I have to find someone to find land to plant them...

His eyes suddenly lit up, and Fu Tian remembered that there was a farmhouse, and there were indeed many empty fields. As for people...

Fu Tian stood up and limped to find Chu Xiangtian.

Near the west side of Xishantou, there is indeed a village. Because of the Xishan Village, few tenants are willing to go there. The village is almost in mid-air. At that time, the village was given to Xiao Qiao by Fu Tian. Xiao Qiao always wanted the people in the village to move down, but later she stayed in Shangming Town to manage the rice shop and had not yet taken time to come.

However, this matter can now be handled by a certain bandit leader.

"Let the people from Xishan Village move to the village?" Chu Xiangtian pondered. He proposed that he had such ideas at that time, but it did not implement it later. Now that Fu Tian's proposal is proposed, Chu Xiangtian also thinks it is good.

"Okay, I'll go back and let me mention it to everyone."

Although everyone lives in Xishan Village, the environment is not as good as the foot of the mountain. It is also a bad reputation as a bandit, which can easily cause trouble. It is better to move down as soon as possible.

Chu Xiangtian pulled Zhou Chuanqing back to Xishan Village that day. Xishan Village was not far from the village where Fu Tian was. The two of them arrived on the mountain in almost half an hour.

When the people in the village saw that the boss and the military advisor were back, they surrounded him in surprise.

After the boss left, military advisor Xiao Qiao and Chang Xi went down the mountain one after another, and no one was around. The people in the village were farming honestly. Only when they saw the people were met, they surrounded them excitedly.

"Boss Military Advisor, what have you been going down the mountain?"

"Yes, yes, why haven't Xiao Qiao and Chang Xi come back yet?"

“…”

Everyone had questions one by one, and Chu Xiangtian raised his hand and pressed down, signaling them to be quiet, and then he said his plans.

"The young master of the Fu family gave Xiao Qiao a farm. Xiao Qiao meant that he wanted everyone to move down the mountain to live."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and some people asked foolishly, "Then will we not be bandits in the future?"

Chu Xiangtian kicked the man and said unhappily: "Is the bandit still addicted to being annoyed? Do you know that the new county magistrate has come? If you become a bandit, you will be taken down sooner or later."

What he said was exactly what everyone was worried about. If he could be a good citizen, who would be a bandit?

"Then we go down the mountain, can we still go up the mountain to farm?"

Someone asked in a low voice that there was a large piece of land on the mountain. Although it was not considered fertile land, the grain produced was enough to support the people from all over the country.

Chu Xiangtian said: "There are more than 100 acres of fertile land on the farm. You can divide it into one by yourself. As for the amount of land you can cultivate around you. How much land you can cultivate is yours."

After he said this, the concern on everyone's faces turned completely into joy.

Being a good citizen and planting the earth is simply a pie that falls from the sky!

However, some people hesitated, "Will the boss military advisor be with us in the future?"

Chu Xiangtian shook his head, "Since I'm not a bandit anymore, I don't need to call me the boss anymore. Zhou Chuanqing and I... probably go to the Fu family to work."

Everyone looked at him enviously. That was the Fu family! The wages must be very high!

Moreover, the young master of the Fu family is really a good person. They tied people up the mountain. Not only did Mr. Fu not hold grudges, he was also willing to send them to the village to live there.

What a great charity!

After Chu Xiangtian finished explaining, everyone dispersed to pack their luggage and prepared to move to a new home with the boss.

It took a day to pack up, and the next morning, the group drove their ox carts with their luggage and went down the mountain in a mighty manner.

Although I was still reluctant to leave my home on the mountain, my life would undoubtedly be better in the future. Everyone was sad for a while and then happily went down the mountain.
Chapter completed!