Hou Ke was really anxious. Five thousand laborers. Although he had summoned more than 20,000 civil servants in the spring, he was collected from four or five nearby counties, which means that even Jingyang County could not collect 5,000 civil servants.--If there was no such statement to compensate for arable land, Jingyang County could not even collect 2,000 civil servants.

After pulling this labor force, the canal labor force became even more nervous.

Wang Ju pulled Hou Ke's sleeve.

Lao Hou is a good comrade, but he doesn't know the ignorance of the officialdom. It is easy to say that it is easy to do things, and it is wrong to be in trouble when doing things. To be precise, it is even more tragic to do things. It is important to see whether the boss above you can cover you.

So the two nephews of Lao Hou understood, what is the principle of preserving the heavens and destroying human desires? To put it bluntly, they call people to be ascetics and saints.

Of course, they can't do it themselves, so it doesn't matter. Anyway, everyone is lenient and disciplined others, and they can't do it themselves, but they can educate themselves to produce saints, so who can they educate? Song Zhezong, who made Song Zhezong a pitiful turn Song Zhezong into a tuberculosis, a young man, and only lived to be in his twenties.

Wang Ju said: "Is there anyone in the court who opposes the construction of Zhengbaiqu?"

"No," Xiaohuangmen replied honestly.

Wang Ju thought about it and immediately realized that Zheng Baiqu was the first to be Han Qi. Now Han Qi has surrendered the little emperor. Who dares to anger Han Qi in this moment?

"Then come with me."

Wang Ju turned on his horse. This section was mainly based on the mountainous terrain. After this section, the terrain gradually became flatter.

Wang Ju came to a dry land, which was very large, with a total of thousands of acres. Some sorghum and beans were planted scattered on it. Wang Ju pointed at them and said, "Is there such crop?"

"No."

"Why should we rebuilt Zhengbai Canal? First, it was disrepaired since the late Tang Dynasty, and many projects were abandoned. Second, the water and soil deteriorated, and Longkou could not obtain enough water. Therefore, our court repaired several times, including the one that Ye Qingchen repaired, but the irrigation area was limited, including this soil plateau, because it could not be obtained, it could only become a wasteland."

"Why are there still people growing crops?"

"Can the seeds be recovered after planting this crop?"

The eunuch surnamed Lu laughed in silence, but he couldn't laugh any longer. Wang Ju rode his horse and continued walking forward. There was a large wooden sign in front of him: "Lujiayuan, the land of the Lujiayuan, thirty-one hectares of earth plateau."

"Did you see it? It turned out that this was a wasteland, and at most some people came to grazing. However, Zhengbaiqu was a branch canal from here to get down to Laonanbaiqu, so this earthen plateau would become the first-class fertile land. So the Lu family sent people to circle the place in early February. Then they sprinkled some hundreds of kilograms of beans and sorghum, and then they said it was their Lu family's land. They also gave a nice name, Lujiayuan."

"How can this work?"

"Of course not, but I have a way to deal with it. However, these people also guessed that I would use thunderbolt to deal with them, so they spread rumors everywhere and even sent people to attack me viciously. It was not the Lu family, many powerful people participated. Once they were united, they would have a headache. And soon, when autumn comes, the first stage of rivers and canals merged into each other, and I have to deal with these invasions. Otherwise, once they are officially plowed out, it will cause a certain fact, and they can't deal with it if they want to deal with it. But if I deal with these invasions, disputes will arise."

"Yes, it seems like a big trouble."

"Then let me talk about canal work. It is divided into three stages. The first stage is the canal head to Xiaozhengquan. This main channel allows some Zhongbai Canal and most of the Nanbai Canals to benefit. Therefore, Hou Magistrate said that the irrigation area can reach 20,000 hectares. But because I redesigned, I divided a branch canal from the sand storage pond, and went down the valley to the back of Zhongshan, which intersected with water control. There was a large water weir where it was built, and several steep gates to save water and drainage water, and then divided three branch canals to extend to various places. These are projects that were not available in Zhengbai Canal of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the benefit area can be increased by three or four thousand hectares, including some areas in the southeast of Chunhua County. "

"Will it exceed the irrigation area of ​​the Tang Dynasty?"

"If the construction is completed successfully, it will exceed it. However, the Tang Dynasty was not a water conservancy project in Zhengbaiqu in Guanzhong area. There are still many, and the total irrigation area will definitely be far less than that of the Tang Dynasty."

“That’s amazing, too.”

"It's nothing great. The government is saving food in the palace, and the ministers should do good things for the government. Let me talk about the second part of the project, which is the part from Xiao Zhengquan to Sanjiankou. After this part is opened, almost all Zhongbai Canals and Nanbai Canals can be irrigated, so they can irrigate about 10,000 hectares. Then to the third part, Yang Gou and Hou County Magistrate planned to go from the south of Sanyuan County to dredge all the way to Chishui Town in Huazhou. This part would have to irrigate about 5,000 hectares of arable 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 flints, and use the water weir to raise the water step by step. Then the irrigation area can be expanded to seven or eight thousand hectares. Of course, this would have a slight error, but the error would not be too large, so we would irrigate the eight counties of Chunhua, Jingyang, Liquan, Gaoling, Liyang, Yunyang, Sanyuan, Fuping, and nearly 40,000 hectares of arable land."

"Where is the forty thousand hectares?"

"But this number has to be discounted. There are nearly 20,000 hectares of original arable land and nearly 10,000 hectares of fertile land. It can only be said that the actual increase in fertile land is about 25,000 hectares."

"That's not bad."

"We won't think about it now. However, the first part of the canal workers' joint efforts this year does not mean that it can benefit more than 20,000 hectares of arable land. Some projects are connected together. The downstream projects are not repaired, and the steep water gate is not dared to open. But the more labor, the more area you will benefit this year. After autumn, the area handed over by me is 10,000 hectares, and it is hard to say whether there are disputes. After all, thousands of hectares have been irrigated. But what about the number of hectares? With the results, even if there are disputes below, everyone will not have strong opposition."

"Why would you object?"

"I want to deal with these invasions, which is so rotten that I don't believe in the middle of the country that I can look around, so I have to use thunderbolt methods to spread to the court. There is no opposition voice in the court? Once the opposition voice is loud, can the government settle the situation?"

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

"If you want to achieve more, you must have labor. So many labors have come?"

"But this prisoner of war..."

"In this way, you go back and report to the officials. The ministers will release prisoners of war, but who will be responsible for their safety? What should I do if I eat and drink along the way? If the court wants to make peace the most important, the safety of these prisoners of war must be considered. Yes."

"Yes," the eunuch surnamed Lu smiled.

Isn’t it just a quarrel, and time will be delayed.

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

"The envoys of the Central Lu period were helpless, especially when the people served free of charge some time ago, and the people were not in charge, and the people were very resentful. This is why the people wanted to see the results as soon as possible so that some people in the court would be verbose."

"Wang Pingshi. I won't hide anything. This year, the drought in Hebei is in trouble. I seem to hear it very serious. All refugees came to the capital and ate."

This is not good news.

The eunuch surnamed Lu wandered around again. He came to pass the imperial edict and the other was to look around and go back to report.

The results were quite satisfactory, especially the monster-like canal, which made him stunned. As for the repair to be so strong? But this is also good, at least it won’t be washed away by the flood water.

After seeing it, he went back.

Wang Ju found Hou Ke and whispered: "Hebei has a severe drought, and some refugees have come to the capital to eat."

Hou Ke's face also changed.

What the two were worried about was the cost of food.

In fact, when dispatching from the capital, the cost was not very high. The normal price of rice in Beijing was 70 cents, and the price of wheat was 30 cents. The price of millet was not in the capital. Why? No one ate it? However, the states and counties are still eating it. During the disaster, it could rise to 20 cents, but it was less than 10 cents in Hebei. Now the transported to the canal workers is basically five millet, three millet and two millet, which is only one millet for 30 cents. But why did it become one hundred and fifty cents? The losses along the way, including the overturned carriages, greed, or eaten by the civilians, so it became one hundred and fifty cents.

This is due to the schedule of Xue Xiang, otherwise the cost will be higher.

Therefore, Zheng Baiqu is very important. If there is enough food here, then the starting price is not 150 cents, while wheat is 30 cents and millet is 10 cents. How much will it save?

But if the upstream cost is high, the downstream cost will double. I plan to increase the wheat to 50 cents and the millet to 15 cents, and then the price to reach Guanzhong will increase to nearly 200 cents.

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

"I think it's not easy, otherwise there wouldn't be refugees coming into the capital."

"Where is the troublesome country?"

"It's really not possible, use some workaround."

"Work-around?"

"Get food from the powerful."

"No."

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

"What plan?"

Wang Ju said in Hou Ke’s ear.

Hou Ke smiled bitterly and said, "It's just an idea."

Anyway, Qiu Hou is about to start a butcher knife, so he doesn't care about this bad idea.

"Zi'an, why are people indifferent?" Lao Hou couldn't figure it out. For example, Zheng Baiqu would benefit many civilians, but the ones who benefited the most were not civilians, but these gentry, whose homes had the most land.

Of course, there are also some good squires, but under the leadership of most squires, they dare not make a statement, for fear of being excluded by other squires.

The canal workers are really stopped, and the country is damaged, so their interests are not damaged?

"People's hearts are originally something that is not satisfied, such as the land of Han Gong's family, Hou Magistrate. If you check it, you will surely scare you."

"Han Gong?"

"It will be in units of thousands of hectares, and the number on the field book is probably less than one tenth of that of Mitota."

"Can you?"

"Yes, but Duke Hou should not talk nonsense, so why can't the imperial court check the hidden fields repeatedly?"

Hou Ke's face was disappointed.

These top scholars and officials took the lead and even checked a ghost.

They all took the lead in playing, so let alone other squires.

"Come here, first son of Quan Er."

"Here."

"I'll tell my brothers to arrest those rumor-mongers and bring more people to arrest."

"Good come."

Quan Er's eldest son goes down.

Wang Ju looked at the Jing River and the green mountains and green hills on both sides, thinking about something in his mind. Wang Anshi did not make trouble for the Song Dynasty. If he was tossing like this, could he really make trouble for it?

Just stop doing nothing. Once you do something, you will be full of ills everywhere, which is simply unimaginable.

Wang Ju thought for a while and said, "Minister Hou, I want to write a memorial. Do you think it's OK?"

"Where is Zi'an going to write a memorial?" Hou Ke said in surprise.

Other officials only write but not write. Even if officials like Hou Ke are not qualified to write memorials for the emperor, they still have to write a few official documents to report to the Secretariat. However, Wang Ju only writes but not writes. After coming to Jingyang County, he never saw him write a memorial.

"Minister Hou, this memorial is extremely important. I heard that many people in the capital are saying that they should pay more rewards and punishments, but no one figured out how to pay more rewards and punishments. Now I will provide them with a solution to how to pay more rewards and punishments!"

"Is there such a wonderful plan?" Hou Ke said in surprise.

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

"good."

"But County Magistrate Hou, you are a generous person. After I write it out, you have to pick out a more mean clerk from your county and let him find a way to pick on it."

"Why should I be picky?"

"We are not picky, but when we arrive in the capital, we will be picky!" (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster! u
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