Chapter 527: Into the Village
Sun Xiangfu went to Shannan Road, in addition to farming, but also responsible for the construction of Shannan Road's road network, the eldest grandson Wuji and Luoyang Governor, he is not only responsible for promoting the construction of new rural areas in Henan, but also the entire Henan land of the road network to build, and Guanzhong and Shannan Road into a piece.
Relatively speaking, the work of the eldest grandson Wuji is much easier, because, Henan is more plain, Shannan Road, is more mountainous, more rivers, so, after Sun Xiangfu's convoy entered the jurisdiction of Shannan Road, it went very slowly, he wanted to take the way to inspect the situation of the official road, until the first month was almost over, and it was too late for rice to be cultivated, and the group arrived in Jingzhou.
Of course, Jingzhou City is not his goal, but the Dayuan Rice Experimental Field located on the edge of Dongting Lake is.
In the agriculture-based society, as a landlord, the main focus is on spring plowing and autumn harvest, so after the Shangyuan Festival, the samurai Tong is not in the governor's office, but comes to the Dongting Lake area early, which is now a new agricultural area developed by ordinary people as the main force.
"Zhengming is here, and the old man's burden is finally going to be put down."
On the riverside wharf, after Wu Shitong greeted Sun Xiangfu and all the princes, he said with a relieved expression on his face.
On the contrary, the position of general manager of the Overseas Exploration and Investment Company may be more challenging and stressful for him, because he has been a businessman in the first half of his life, and he knows that it is more difficult to run such a big situation than to be the governor of a state highway in the heartland.
And he has this kind of expression, it is completely caused by his daughter Wu Meiniang, after learning the knowledge in the booklet left by Sun Xiangfu, Wu Meiniang has to follow him to supervise the spring ploughing of farmers, and the spring ploughing arrangement he originally planned is useless.
Although Wu Shi Tong dotes on his daughter, he will not take the words of an eight-year-old girl seriously, but Wu Meiniang often regards herself as a child of the peasant family, and her opinion cannot be considered by Wu Shi Tong carefully.
The court this year the new agricultural technical commissioner is Du Ruhui's eldest son Du Gou, he is since the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture, the first batch of officials to join the Ministry of Agriculture, in the Chang'an experimental field, he has experienced two years, a total of four seasons of crop cultivation training, this because of their own outstanding level, won the title of this technical commissioner, after the beginning of this year, every state road, the Ministry of Agriculture only sent one such technical commissioner to guide, it can be seen that its planting technology level, in the Tang Dynasty official, is already very high-end.
As the highest local governor, Wu Shi Tong knew early on that most of the officials under his Ministry of Agriculture were actually from families and were forcibly sent to the Ministry of Agriculture, and their actual work in the local area was to be able to shout and shout and convey the orders of the Ministry of Agriculture. was stunned by his eight-year-old daughter.
Now, the entire piece of Shanghao Farmland, under the command of Wu Meiniang, has been made like muddy soup, and he is really worried that something will go wrong, resulting in no food for these farmers who repair the fields this year. After all, the output of the fields planted last year was much higher than that of ordinary fields in the Jinghu area in the past, and if this year was the same as last year, two seasons of grain would be enough to feed all the rations of the farmers he had recruited.
"Why, look at your appearance, are you experiencing any difficulties?" Sun Xiangfu said with Wu Shitong's expression in his eyes.
It is said that through what Li Shimin has done in the past few years, he should not have to worry about Li Shimin wielding a butcher's knife at Li Yuan's old party like him, and this time he returned to Chang'an, he should be regarded as being entrusted with a heavy responsibility, after all, it is a super-large industry with tens of millions of assets, and this relieved expression made Sun Xiangfu a little incomprehensible.
"Hey, I don't know if it's for benefit or evil, it's all the old man's soft ears, I listened to some of the little girl's words, what is it, wait for you to settle down in the village, and go to the fields to see by yourself!"
Wu Shi Tong said, and let go of the body, and at this time, Wu Meiniang, who was obviously taller, appeared in front of his eyes, after all, the girl developed early, eight or nine years old, began to grow taller, look at Wu Meiniang's body, in the future, I am afraid that it can at least reach more than one meter six, in this era is considered tall, but the strip did not affect her appearance, after the face was slightly thinned, it looked even more big and godlike.
"Mei Niang has seen Uncle Sun, no, she has seen the master."
"Hehe, if you call me the master, that is, you are confident that you have eaten all the booklets I left for you, I want to see what you have tossed the fields in this pile into."
On the way to come, Sun Xiangfu has actually seen some fields from afar, and he has already counted them in his heart, and said with a smile, which made the warrior Tong who was a little apprehensive in his heart breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the methods that Wu Meiniang said were taught by Sun Xiangfu.
Soon, he arranged for his subordinate guards, and picked some of the salutes brought by Sun Xiangfu and the kings to the car on the wharf, and in the field area on the other side of the embankment, there were many brick and tile houses built by farmers, which were written by Sun Xiangfu to the Wushi Tong in advance after he decided to come to Shannan Road to plant rice last year, after all, as soon as he took office, he would immediately devote himself to the research work of rice planting.
For the scene of this green grass, embankment, and field, Li Tai and many other princes who saw this landform for the first time were still a little curious, especially when Wu Meiniang appeared in the crowd, for a little girl like her, who claimed to be a child of the peasant sect and seemed to be very close to Sun Xiangfu, many of the little princes who were dissatisfied with the living conditions along the way and confronted Sun Xiangfu naturally hated it, although her appearance was cute.
The carriage traveled a short distance on the embankment, walked a large slope downhill, and then drove forward on a straight cement road, all the way forward, about two or three miles, and then arrived at a place with higher terrain and a piece of houses, here, it is the village where the warrior Tong prepared a fine house for Sun Xiangfu, there are more than 300 farmers in the village, each family has at least two young and strong, plus some half-sized children who can help the family farm, and can be used for farming affairs, about eight or nine hundred people, but basically meet Sun Xiangfu's needs.
The people of the whole village were gathered at the entrance of the village early in the morning by the warriors, if it was only Sun Xiangfu himself who came with the guards, then there was no need to talk about any pomp, but this time he brought his family, and there were fourteen princes with him, so he had to gather everyone and talk about the rules.
Of course, Wu Shi Tong meant that the people in the village would recognize people, so as not to collide with the nobles, but Sun Xiangfu didn't think so, they got off at the entrance of the village, and after showing their faces in front of everyone, Sun Xiangfu immediately said to everyone, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am Sun Zhengming, the newly appointed head of Shannan Province, and also the secretary of our agricultural department of Datang, the reason for coming here, you should know, is to study rice planting, improve rice production, so that more people in the world can eat like you······"
In fact, the people living in the Yuantian District have all heard of Sun Xiangfu's name, and even most of them have seen him in person, because this No. 1 Dayuan Field was planned by Sun Xiangfu himself and opened up with everyone, excluding water conservancy facilities, roads, cottages, and fish ponds, and the land occupied by aquaculture, there are a total of 35,000 acres of rice fields and about 2,000 acres of vegetable fields. The warriors settled 1,500 households in Dayuan and the like, which were divided into six larger villages, including Shanghe, Zhonghe, Xiahe, Shangwan, Zhongwan, and Xiawan, with each village ranging from more than 200 to more than 300 households.
Sun Xiangfu's current location is Shanghe Village, as the name suggests, it is the closest village to the sluice gate that can control the water storage of the entire river, the sluice gate will be opened because of the irrigation demand, and the water that is led to the sluice in the Yangtze River will be injected into a large river that runs through the entire wall, we only need to guard the water channels between the fields, as well as the openings of the ridges, you can control the water level in the fields very accurately, like this can completely control the water level of the fields according to the needs of the good fields. It is the best experimental field for Sun Xiangfu to try to plant rice.
After Sun Xiangfu explained his intentions in the future, everyone was naturally cheering and joyful, who here didn't know that he was the best farmer in Datang! When he came here, the people here were blessed, or at least, the harvest in the fields would be much more abundant.
However, after explaining the intention, Sun Xiangfu's words suddenly changed, and said, "Your Majesty sent me to Shannan Dao, in addition to farming, there is also a more important task, which is to teach you young princes to become talents, that's right, standing in front of you, all of them are the princes of my Tang Dynasty, come and come, you take a step forward, let the people here recognize you, this is Li Tai, the king of Pu, this is Li Ke, the king of Shu, ······"
Sun Xiangfu introduced the identities of the fourteen underage princes in turn, which attracted 100% of them to salute, and then, he waved his hand and said, "You have seen them today, and you have also met them, then, the etiquette matters, this is the end, in the future, when you see them again, it will not be better than another big salute, and you will have to follow the customs when you enter the township!"
They are here to learn farming techniques and experience farming life, and His Majesty has high expectations for them, hoping that they will really be able to master some real skills through this study, so in order to complete the tasks assigned by His Majesty, I have to announce some rules to you first.
First of all, no one is allowed to give food, to them, or to give them food without my permission.
Secondly, no one is allowed to help them with the farm work I have assigned them without my permission.
Finally, I ask you to help me to supervise their conduct and demeanor here, and if you do anything that is detrimental to the royal prestige and virtue, you must report it to me. ”
After saying three o'clock, all the princes, including Li Tai and Li Ke, were dumbfounded, what the hell is the identity introduction, it is clear that Sun Xiangfu wants to unite all the people in front of them and rectify his own people!