Chapter 80: In Linying II

"Zhang Lang, you're back." Luo Yujiao said. "You see, this is the house we lived in. Everything is so familiar. ”

As far as Luo Yujiao is concerned, she also misses the time when she was in Linying. She is actually very reluctant to live a life of running around.

Zhang Xuan never hid it in front of Luo Yujiao, sighed, didn't say anything, just sat on the side.

Luo Yujiao tilted her head and sat beside Zhang Xuan and said, "What's wrong with Zhang Lang?" ”

Zhang Xuan sighed and told what had just happened. said: "Why is it so difficult to live? ”

Luo Yujiao said: "Zhang Lang still sees too few things, not to mention this small county in Linying, which is the streets of Beijing, and there are a few road downs every winter, even during the Wanli Taiping period. Why do you want to be so hard now? ”

"It's me who is too demanding." Zhang Xuan said: "I didn't expect that I just wanted to starve people to death in the world, and I was too demanding. ”

Luo Yujiao said: "Isn't it high? I've been reading history books recently, and your request is probably Wenjing, and Zhenguan may not be able to meet it. ”

Luo Yujiao is actually a very traditional woman in her bones, although she is literate, she is also taught by Luo Rucai and Ma, and she is only literate, as for what poetry books have never been read. But in order to please Zhang Xuan, because Zhang Xuan loves to read, she also cheered up to read.

She is a smart person, and she can work hard, so she naturally reads a lot.

Zhang Xuan was blocked by Luo Yujiao and couldn't speak for a while, he never thought about whether there were people starving to death every year in the ancient prosperous era? I had never thought about it from this perspective before, but in the years of the late Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xuan became distrustful of all history.

The history education he received since childhood is fundamentally two faces to real history.

Sure enough, all history is contemporary history.

"One day, I will let no one starve to death in this world. Do you believe it or not? Zhang Xuan said with a little annoyance.

"I believe it, I believe it." Luo Yujiao smiled, as if she was coaxing a child.

With this incident, Zhang Xuan's plan to take a good rest in Linying was completely ruined.

The army is still stranded in Luoyang and returned, Zhang Xuan counted a few days, he can probably stay in Linying for a few days, Zhang Xuan immediately invited the three brothers of the Zhang family, and said: "Our army is still in Linying for more than ten days, thousands of soldiers eat the food of the people of Linying, but have nothing to do, it is really not good, Brother Zhang, I know Linying best, and last year I remember that you made a water conservancy plan for the whole year." ”

Zhang Zhi heard the sound of the strings and knew what he meant, and said, "General, do you want to start work?" ”

"Yes." Zhang Xuan said: "Find a one with less labor, and dig it out during this period of time."

Come, it's also a military training. ”

Zhang Zhen glanced at Zhang Xuan deeply, bowed down and said, "Please rest assured, even if I stay up all night tonight, I will make the plan." ”

"Then thank you, big brother." Zhang Xuan said.

When Zhang Zhen returned home, he immediately summoned his brothers Zhang Pu and Zhang Su to tell them about this matter, and said: "From today on, my Zhang family will put all this on General Zhang." ”

"Big brother, isn't this too hasty?" Zhang Su said.

"No, I don't think it's hasty at all." Zhang Pu said.

Zhang Pu is the most silent one among the three brothers, the eldest brother Zhang Zhen is a jinshi, and the head of the family, he has always been at home and he has always spoken and counted, and Zhang Su has always been outstanding in resourcefulness, and he participates in all family affairs, but Zhang Pu is not high or low, only standing an honest duty, so he does not speak for a long time in family affairs.

"How did the world get to where it is now?" Zhang Pu gritted his teeth and said: "It's the princes in the court, who never treat the people as human beings. 'Don't be an an's starvation, but especially a praying mantis. Coming and going to Chu and Shu was rampant, and there was no way to make soldiers. Yuntun rain and sudden divisions, snakes and pigs rush to hide? Xu Er's soldiers and civilians were tied up and surrendered, and the knight was rewarded for his merits. Yang Wen, as an old man of Daming Pavilion, is deeply trusted by His Majesty, and it is already shameless to write such words, and it is even more speechless that some people are even more speechless. But I believe in the words of the sage, the one who will clean up the situation in the world in the future is a benevolent person after all, and the benevolent person should be invincible. ”

Zhang Pu's remarks should have been held back in his heart for a long time, so he said it in one breath and breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Su said: "The second brother is right, people like Ding Qirui can actually hold several provincial talismans, how can the Ming Dynasty be immortal." Although Zhang Xuan has a bit of a woman's kindness, he is very good to the underground people, and even if there is a change in the future, he will not be embarrassed for me. is a good lord. It's just that it is unknown whether he can become Uncle Liu Huang in the future, but our Zhang family has no choice for a long time. ”

For a moment, the three brothers were silent.

"In that case." Zhang Zhen said: "Let's do things, starting with the first thing." ”

The three brothers gathered the Zhang family's manpower and asked one by one to see where there were water conservancy projects near Linying that could be built without much labor. It took a whole night to complete a plan. As soon as the day dawned, Zhang Zhen sent this plan to Zhang Xuan's eyes.

Zhang Xuan looked at it and said, "Extend the centipede canal? ”

"Yes." Zhang Zhen said: "The centipede canal is a tributary of Yingshui, and I don't just know when it was built, anyway, it has been some years, because this canal resembles a centipede, so it is named." While speaking, Zhang Zhen gestured with the drawings in his hand and said: "Every branch canal that extends from this centipede canal is used locally for irrigation, but many of them have been blocked for a long time and need to be dredged again." This is now the time for dredging when the autumn water is rising. A few more branch canals can be dug along the coast, so that the labor can be flexible

, If there is one, you can dig one more, time is tight, dig less, even if there is something to do temporarily, the rest of the project is okay for Lei County to recruit the people to finish. ”

"Okay." Zhang Xuan said: "That's what it means." ”

The water conservancy projects of this era had almost no technical content, but only dug ditches to divert water. These soldiers did it almost every day, and when they set up camp, they also needed to dig ditches.

Zhang Xuan first notified the Lei County Order, asked the Lei County Order to gather some people, and then returned to the camp and told the battalion sergeant.

A considerable number of the battalion sergeants died in Linying County. They are naturally willing to do something for their hometown.

And Lei County Ling was also very sensible, and immediately raised the food of the sergeant of Zhang Xuanying's battalion by a grade, and the wild vegetable porridge became a fish, meat and wild vegetable porridge, and there was a little rice in it.

As long as you are fed, people in this era never care about hard work.

Therefore, the Centipede Canal branch canal project is in full swing.

Zhang Xuan also went to inspect from time to time, and found that there were still a lot of fish in the soldier's bowl, and he muttered secretly in his heart, and said secretly in his heart: "Are there so many fish in this Yingshui?" I only caught them all last year, will I have them again this year? ”

Suddenly, one day, Zhang Xuan suddenly figured out that both Yingshui and Whirlpool water flowed into the Huai River, and the Yellow River water washed millions of people into the water. I am afraid that the fish in the entire Huai River system have passed a fat year.

As soon as Zhang Xuan thought about this, he no longer looked directly at this fish. But it can't be said either.

In this era of starvation, human flesh can be eaten, let alone this kind of fish and meat, what can he do if he says it. Can these soldiers stop eating fish?

It's time to eat and eat, so why bother to say that it's annoying to come to the disciples.

It's just that Zhang Xuan refuses to eat a bite of fish anymore, he would rather eat wild vegetables.

In the days of Linying, although it was a little harder, it was extremely calm, everything he did was conducive to the people's livelihood, and he had a sense of honor if he won a few battles.

Still, the lull is always short-lived.

In early October, the Cao Ying horse team marched south from Luoyang, and then sent a partial division south to Nanyang.

Li Guoke Nanyang, killing as fierce as a tiger, exchanged hands with Zuo Liangyu's department, and made it clear that the left department is now a rabble.

Immediately reciprocate. After Li Zicheng consulted with Luo Rucai, he immediately gathered all the horses, first pulled out Runing, cut off the troubles, and then the army went south to attack Zuo Liangyu.

Strive for this winter and celebrate the New Year in Xiangyang City.

In this way, a big war was set off again, and the rhythm of frequent battles made Zhang Xuan a little breathless.

But no matter what Zhang Xuan was, he could only obey his fate, and Zhang Xuan's troops went south to join the army. Attack Runing.

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