When Sun Xiangfu arrived at the palace, it was almost dinner time, so he took the palace sign and went directly to the imperial dining room, asked Luo Tian to help deliver a message to Li Shimin and his wife, and ate and drank in the imperial dining room.

To his surprise, Li Shimin and his wife did not summon him, but asked him to hurry home while the palace door was not locked. So, Sun Xiangfu, who took a few catties of cane sugar sent from Lingnan in the imperial dining room, left the palace and returned home.

The next morning, Sun Xiangfu took Xi Junmai and other guards out of the door, more than ten days passed, the construction of the No. 1 reservoir has been completed, Ma Zhou sent a letter to let him go to acceptance, Sun Xiangfu went by the way to plan the farming matters around the reservoir next year, so he also brought Sun Erli together.

For the character of his talents, Sun Xiangfu has always observed, Shi Bao is the kind of person who is born to settle down and do things, so even if he is much younger than Sun Dali's two brothers, Sun Xiangfu is the first to push him out to take charge alone, Sun Dali is hard-working, loyal to himself and obedient, thinking less, is the best candidate to stay in the place of foundation.

Sun Erli is good at serving crops, when he was in Happy Village, Sun Dali often instructed him to help take care of the crops planted by Sun Xiangfu, and he took care of them well, so Sun Xiangfu wanted to pass on some of his farming skills to Sun Erli.

"Erli! Do you know the benefits of piercing the epidermis of seeds with a needle? ”

"Got it, the seeds that were pierced emerge several days faster than the seeds that weren't."

"But not only that, the fastest to let the seed embryo and the soil nutrients contact, can allow the seedlings to better absorb the nutrients in the soil, as long as the initial fertility to keep up, then the entire growth cycle of the seedlings will be shortened, the seedlings will be more robust than the ordinary method of planting, the fruit will be more, if in advance in the greenhouse breeding, even in Guanzhong, we may also achieve two seasons a year······

Explaining some agricultural knowledge along the way, it took half a day for the group to come to the Laolongshan Reservoir.

"Heh, this reservoir is more than ten times larger than our Happy Village." After Sun Erli and Sun Xiangfu and others boarded the reservoir dam together, they took a look at the bare valley road below.

"Yes! It's just that the dam was built too high at one time, but water storage is a problem, Mr. Ma Zhou! In the future, it should be noted that the dam should be built two or three meters high first, and then it can be gradually raised after the water is stored, and His Majesty has allocated 5,000 Turkic captives to the Fisheries Division, and when there is nothing to do in the future, they will slowly do these tasks. Sun Xiangfu visually measured the height of the dam more than ten meters, and said a little depressed.

The efficiency of erecting a water wheel more than 10 meters long to lift water to the reservoir is probably not high, and more than half of it will be leaked halfway through, and the area of the reservoir is super large, and it is difficult to fill the reservoir with dozens of water wheels for a month.

Ma Zhou hugged his fist in shame when he heard this, "It's a thoughtless thought, after the foundation of this dam is repaired, it should be filled with water and raised at the same time." ”

Sun Xiangfu waved his hand at him and said, "I don't blame you, you didn't know in advance that there were thousands of Turkic captives who would be brought over by me, and besides, now that the winter is dry, there is no way to get much water, so let's wait for the spring rain season to think about water injection!" ”

"Hehe, under the entrustment of adults, you should also use your brain to think more when doing things, and later, under the will let people build the foundation of the dam wider, so that it can be raised in the future." Ma Zhou smiled when he heard this.

Seeing Ma Zhou's smile, Sun Xiangfu raised his eyebrows and said, "How do I feel that you have ulterior motives for building such a high dam!" ”

"Hehe, the village chief doesn't know, Mr. Ma Zhou has mobilized the Turks to open nine big ditches in the nearby villages for dozens of miles, and also dug hundreds of deep wells, digging out too much soil, which is why this dam was built so high." Shi Bao said with a smile on the side.

"It turns out that Mr. Ma is using these Turkic laborers to do good deeds for the local people, so I will think of a way to lift water from a low place to a high place." Sun Xiangfu smiled and pointed at Ma Zhou, he had made the most of the labor force of more than 70,000 Turkic laborers.

A group of people walked to the bottom of the dam, and soon, the large team set off, moving to the next reservoir construction site, I believe that with the experience of building the first reservoir, the back of the reservoir will be much faster, and, after Ma Zhou's general regularity, the old Longshan this radius of dozens of miles, unless there is a once-in-a-century drought, generally will not be lost.

Sun Xiangfu, who understands the evolution of geological structure, knows that the prosperity of Guanzhong can last for more than 200 years at most, because the population is too dense, the logging is serious, and the soil erosion is intensified, which destroys the ecology here, resulting in this place from the granary of the world to a burden of the world, and finally cannot afford it, so it will die out, and there is no dynasty in the future to consider this as the center of the country.

However, what if Sun Xiangfu now helps Guanzhong, or even the upstream, to leave abundant water, forests, and vegetation? Perhaps everything will change dramatically in the future.

After inspecting the reservoir, Sun Xiangfu asked Sun Erli to stay as the steward of Huangzhuang, and he would develop some villages here to become the downline of the Laolongshan Reservoir fishing grounds, that is, farmers who provided fish grass and golden cauliflower for the fishing grounds, and then he would become a technician to guide the people in this area in farming.

Of course, after looking at the reservoir, Sun Xiangfu did not go back directly, but went to inspect the pasture of the Animal Husbandry Division, the forest farm of the Forestry Division, the Supreme Leather Goods and the Imperial Furniture are already in preparation, Sun Xiangfu does have a lot of work to guide here, and he worked hard for three days before taking a dozen cows from the Animal Husbandry Division to Happy Village.

"How? Dali, I have a lot of interaction with my daughter-in-law during this time! Are you sure you're going to have a son next year? ”

As soon as they met at the entrance of the village, Sun Xiangfu teased Sun Dali, who was in the newlywed honeymoon period, who was full of food in winter and loved to grow fat, so this guy was getting fatter and fatter, and the whole person looked a little burly.

"It should be fine!" Sun Dali scratched his head embarrassedly. All aspects of the village have been straightened out, and he, the person in charge, doesn't have much work, so he has been planting seeds in his daughter-in-law's field these days.

A group of people arrived at the village house, and immediately many villagers surrounded them, first asked their children to be obedient in Sun Fu, and then told Sun Xiangfu about the things in the village, overall everything is stable, the chickens are put into the chickens, the pigs are fed to the pigs, the fish are raised, and the seeds to be sown after the spring are also selected according to Sun Xiangfu's requirements.

Next year, Xingfu Village will not actually plant much grain land, because Sun Xiangfu has stored hundreds of catties of cotton seeds, as well as a lot of seeds from the agricultural treasury such as courgettes, cold melons, grapes and other specialties of the Western Regions.

Then there is the fishing team to expand, the village workers also to join, before February next year the reservoir will be built, then there will be a large number of fish fry, happy village breeding is three kinds of fish that reproduce relatively fast, but next year at most to a few large reservoirs to provide fry, so, mainly have to rely on fishing.

Before the impeachment of the Fisheries Division of the fishing too much, hurt the fish, Sun Xiangfu did not think so, with this period of fishing technology, far from the extent of hurting the fish, on the contrary, reasonable fishing, can make the fishery more developed, a big fish fish, can make dozens of small fish more abundant food, grow faster.

Moreover, not to mention how many times the ecology of this period is better than that of later generations, even in the environment of serious pollution and rampant electric fish machines in later generations, the freshwater fish produced in this land of China can also be supplied to more than one billion people for consumption.

How many people are there in Datang now? One or two million is only, and a few hundred percent of the output corresponds to about one percent of the population, even if Sun Xiangfu does not engage in artificial breeding, as long as the fishing technology is enough, people in this era eat fish for three meals a day, and they may not be able to hurt the fish.

More reassuring is the chicken farm, since the beginning of the field chickens, the hen's egg production rate began to have a slight increase, the chicken farm has tens of thousands of high-yielding hen eggs, only wait for the weather to be slightly warmer, will begin to hatch, even if the survival rate is only more than half, the size of the chicken farm will more than double, and in the next few years, here is only afraid that it will become a professional chicken seedling cultivation base, all reservoirs to open chicken farms, will come here into the chicken seedlings, it is foreseeable that the number on the account book of the happy village, will grow exponentially.

took Xi Junmai, who had never been to Happy Village, to walk around the village, and at night, they returned to Sun Xiangfu's house in Happy Village to move in.

"How? How many people do you need to deploy a force that can defend the whole village? ”

Happy Village is the foundation of Sun Xiangfu, and after that, he will have a lot of confidential things to get out of here, so he must try his best to protect this place, at least to ensure that unless it is a regular army of the imperial court, ordinary bandits and rogues, or martial arts slaves hired by the family, they cannot cause devastating damage here.

Xi Junmai thought for a while before replying, "If it is a military man with the strength of the Ouchi guard, more than 100 people are enough, and if you recruit ordinary strong men for training, at least 300 people." ”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu nodded, he has seen the training of the inner guards, the intensity is relatively high, put it on the street, there is no problem for one person to deal with three or five strong men, after forming a team, a hundred people against a thousand people may not be able to lose, just like the generals of the Qin Mansion, three hundred people, can easily crush more than two thousand rebellious Turkic rebels, of course, there are benefits to horses, and there are reasons for fierce generals to lead the team, but Sun Xiangfu is definitely unable to recruit so many strong players at present, so he can only train by himself.

"Just three hundred! You are in charge of recruitment, you have to be secretive, so as not to be planted with nails, in addition, the treatment is favorable, after the start of training, the food is sufficient, the equipment is better, as soon as possible to make them stronger, do not have to worry about money. ”

On the general account of the Sun Mansion, not counting the materials, there are 20,000 yuan in cash alone, of which 10,000 yuan is Yu Xiuer's dowry, and the other 10,000 yuan, but Sun Xiangfu has been in Datang for half a year, and he has earned it by his ability, and the follow-up sources will become more and more extensive, and it is naturally not a problem to raise hundreds of full-time guards.

"You have to give money, it's not difficult to pick three hundred heroes, this time I fought with General Wei Chi for more than a month, and I met a lot of government soldiers in the army, most of them have a foundation, they can ride and fight, much better than ordinary people, but after the war is over, they will return to their hometowns, as long as you can help solve the problem of their military household status, then, pull them to your village, it shouldn't be a big problem." Xi Jun rolled his eyes and said.

"Okay, I'll find General Wei Chi to find a way when I go back." Sun Xiangfu felt very reliable when he heard this, so he nodded.