In the days that followed, the people in Zhuangzi were even busier than ever, ploughing, dividing ridges, sprinkling seeds, fertilizing, and even carrying buckets for watering......

The Zhuang family had no leisure for a moment, and they were busy for almost ten days, and finally planted thousands of catties of Chinese cabbage seeds in the ground.

Around August 15, a few small rains also saved a lot of effort, and soon the cabbage sprouts in the field turned into fist-sized vegetable balls, and the passers-by looked at the cabbage planted on the ground, and inquired curiously, and finally in the mouth of the farmer, it became "the new farmer does not know how to plant vegetables when farming" and other words.

Anyway, in a word, almost no one is optimistic about the cabbage in this field, but for the tenants and slaves in the village, they feel that they have had a good year, after all, every household has exchanged for as little as three or four taels and as much as five or six taels of silver. This unexpected "windfall" made their families relaxed, and the silver soon turned into cloth, and for a time women could be seen everywhere in the corners of the village sewing new clothes for men and children with needles and threads

"Yo, this is not a sister of the Wang family, come, come and sit down, your craftsmanship is skillful, come and show me how good this dress is......"

As soon as the woman with the sewing clothes saw Wang coming, she immediately greeted her warmly, but the smile on her face was different from usual.

"Sister-in-law Li, I want to take a look at your craftsmanship, you are busy first, and I will go home first."

"Yo, the sister of the Wang family came to sit down, anyway, if she is idle, she will be idle......"

"Sister-in-law Sun, look at what you said, what is idle is idle, others can exchange silver when they are idle, and some people are idle but put it aside......"

When the women said this, Wang's face became extremely ugly, and he smiled a few words, and then hurried home, and when he returned home, he looked at the man who was repairing farm tools in the courtyard, and tears suddenly flowed.

"Xiaoxi, what's wrong with you?"

"His father, tell me, the owner of the village is coaxing, why don't you follow the blind coaxing? People have a big business, that is, what is the loss of the last season, you are good, you have to follow the coax to plant what cabbage, this kind of vegetable is it, one is dozens of acres, do you really think that vegetable can be put for so long? Cabbage, cabbage, you can live with cabbage in your arms......"

When Wang Degong, who was doing his work, heard this, he grinned and dared to smile.

"Listening to those's nonsense again?"

"What is nonsense, you look at people, do the same work, who didn't get a few taels of silver for nothing, now every household is making new clothes there, what about you, you are good, get a few catties of seeds, and plant them yourself, this look, this year's New Year, you and the tiger head, the tiger pillar they will wear cabbage to help them. You're a. ”

The daughter-in-law's scolding did not annoy Wang Degong, he just smiled honestly,

"Tell you, I'm a rough person and don't understand any big truths, but I know that Shi Tongzhi is a person who has seen the world, and he must know more than me. It's not because of the same field, Master Sun's family always fights more than others. My father worked for five years before he knew why. ”

"Isn't it just learning to choose a seed, and look at the one who gives you a good place. After five years of hard work, I learned this ......"

"That's it, what's the matter? Our family didn't beat a few more stones of millet sorghum than others that year, how many stones a year, how much more than 20 years? On what basis? Isn't it just this, Xiaoxi, let me tell you, my father said, farming with the big households in the village must be right, people not only know how to look at farming, but also know how to plant, Shi Tongzhi is the head of the village, you said that if people are not sure, they will take thousands of acres of land and a few hundred taels of silver there nonsense? ”

Looking at Wang Degong, who looked quite honest, he grinned and smiled.

"Look at the people in the Zhuangzi, they all put aside the joke owner, I dare to say, when the winter comes, there will be a harvest, when the time comes, no one will be able to laugh, you don't listen to those mothers-in-law's nonsense, just look down......"

Shi Yiwen doesn't care much about the parents in the Zhuangzi, as the new owner of the village, how to remediate these thousands of acres of land is the most important. When others were busy planting cabbage, he was not idle, riding around the ground on horseback, while measuring the terrain with tools, and soon a map was drawn, and even made a sand table, and then studied something on the sand table all day long.

"Childe, you've been busy with this for a while?"

Looking at the sand table on the table, Wu Cai asked in surprise.

"This is Shitaizhuang?"

Then he took a closer look at the sand table, which was not a good look, and immediately realized its ingenuity.

"Childe, do you want to bring water to water the ground?"

"Yes, you see, the terrain here is the highest, and it happens to be by the river, how to use water trucks to transport water, and then use these canals to build again, so that all the land in the Zhuangzi will become watered land, I have inquired, the harvest of watered land can be doubled."

Pointing to the sand table, Shi Yiwen introduced.

"This is a vertical windmill, our river is shallow, the water flow is slow, and it is not suitable for using a large waterwheel, but we are a plain, and there is wind all year round, but the wind is strong and the wind is small, so I changed it to a windmill to carry water, and this side is connected to the keel waterwheel. The keel waterwheel is suitable for close distance, and the lifting height is about five or six feet, which is more suitable for us to use......"

Listening to Childe's narration, Wu Cai's eyes kept looking at the sand table.

"But, Childe, I'm afraid this is not a small amount of work!"

Looking at the dense canals on the sand table, Wu Cai secretly made a measurement in his heart.

"It's much smaller than you think, it's different from the usual canals, it's U...... Pottery canals, with a foot wide terracotta tiles for the canal, although the cost is higher, but along the way will not leak, as long as a three-foot-wide and two-foot-high ditch earthen platform is repaired, it will become a ......"

At this time, Wu Cai was dumbfounded, and he even looked at Gongzi dumbfounded.

"What, make a ditch out of terracotta!"

"Yes, that's right, there is not much water in the north, and ordinary canals have to leak half along the way, so use terracotta to save water ......"

For Shi Yiwen, who wants to become a good owner of the Ming Dynasty, he directly took the "U" shaped canal of later generations, which may have long been backward, but for this era, it is undoubtedly epoch-making, which can not only save water, but also improve the efficiency of irrigation compared with the earthen canal.

"The silver that repaired the canal ......"

In fact, Wu Cai himself knew that it was a vain question to ask, and there was no doubt that the money for repairing the canal must have been from Gongzi.

Winter leisure is not idle, for the Zhuang family, it is normal to repair the canal while the winter is leisure, but even so, when I saw the water canal that Gongzi asked me to repair, I was still dumbfounded, especially when a car of "deep terracotta tiles" with a width of one foot were transported to Zhuangzi, who would have thought that the canal could be paved with terracotta tiles?

But the land belongs to the owner, and the things are also the owner's, since the owner lets it be cleaned up, it is always right. The men in Shitaizhuang, who had just planted Chinese cabbage here, were busy again......