The wish to accompany the child to spend the first New Year was disappointed, Sun Xiangfu led two hundred guards to Luoyang quickly, and after resting in Xicun for a day, he rushed to Jingzhou in the snow.

By the time I learned more about the situation in Jingzhou City and contacted some of the water bandit leaders who were willing to accept Zhao'an, it was already the second month of the lunar month.

On the dock, Wu Shi Tong looked at the people brought by Sun Xiangfu with some concern, "Zhengming will bring two hundred people to meet them, but I'm afraid it's not very appropriate." ”

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "It's okay, you have to let them see the sincerity of the imperial court." In addition, please also summarize the map of the acres of land in Shannan Province as soon as possible, and I can give you a comprehensive plan before I return to Chang'an. ”

In this period, the land of Jingxiang, it can be said that success is also in water, defeat is also in water, there is a rich water system support, the farmland here is almost not irrigated, and the land is never short of fertility.

But once there is more water upstream, or even more rain in the local area, the flooding here will destroy most of the farmland.

It wasn't until the Three Gorges Dam was built in later generations that the flood situation in this area was slightly better, but it still existed, because there were too many large and small water pools in the entire Yunmengze area and Dongting Lake area.

Sun Xiangfu is roughly aware of the agricultural history of this area, from the gradual popularization of rice, the people here began to explore a set of flood prevention, rational use of water resources, planting rice agricultural technology, in later generations, called 'building a field'.

Sun Xiangfu experienced a period of time when the Three Gorges Dam had not been repaired, at that time people still relied on building embankments to ensure local agricultural production, and there was a saying that "water enters and people retreat, and water retreats and people advance" with the local slightly warmer climatic conditions, as long as the flood does not inundate the farmland for a long time, the people can always grow some crops to survive.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the so-called 'lake is wide and ripe, the world is full' is built in the 'building wall' after the completion of the project, at that time, the whole Jingxiang area, the embankment is more than fifty or sixty, the less is thirty or forty, each big one is sixty-seven miles, the small one is twenty or thirty miles, there are more than 500 walls, almost all the lakeside places, all are built into fields, all over the surrounding eight hundred miles of land.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, rice has not yet been popularized, not to mention the so-called construction of the embankment, the entire Jingxiang area of the construction of the project was completed, that is a collection of Song, Ming, Qing Dynasty people, nearly a thousand years of hard work to do, Sun Xiangfu will not be self-righteous now to start this huge project, although after getting it done, the annual grain production here is enough for the people of the Tang Dynasty to eat for more than ten years, but that is not realistic.

He can only give some suggestions to the samurai tong if the existing labor force allows, and choose a small number of high-quality areas that can play a role in water control to build a field, and build a large-scale wall, that is also after the local heroes are scattered, and then decide whether to do it according to the situation.

Wu Shi Tong sent Sun Xiangfu to the bow of the ship before saying, "This matter, the old man has been handed over early in the morning, and the states and counties should be able to send the map one after another in the next few days, in addition, the harm of Jingzhou is in Haoqiang, Haoqiang is not destroyed, and sooner or later there will be problems in the place, if Zhengming has other plans, the old man should prepare early." ”

When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he thought for a while before saying, "In the entire Shannan Province, except for the states and counties controlled by several major clans, there are less than 300,000 ordinary people on the register, and it is actually simple to deal with. Ying Gong could allow the people of the prefectures and counties controlled by the major clans, as well as the neighboring prefectures and counties, to sell their Yongye fields to a few of them, and then recruit all these people who did not have land in the form of hired laborers, and move to Honghu, Jianli and other flood-prone areas, and build walls, open new fields, and plant Champa rice in accordance with the law I taught. ”

Isn't the local tycoon trying to play land annexation? I will sell you the land directly, Datang does not have much else now, that is, he has a lot of land, sell the land to you, I will move the population away, and see if you can plant it.

Moreover, after the successful construction of these fertile soils on the edge of the lake area, the grain produced is more than two or three times that of the original land, which will greatly depreciate the grain in the hands of those powerful people, and at that time they will find that the land in their hands is a chicken rib, planting it, the harvest is not big, and it is a pity to abandon it.

And these ordinary people who sold their land to them will first get a lot of money for the purchase of land, and they will have a stable income because they work for the imperial court, not to mention directly going to the well-off, at least they have completed the transformation from self-cultivated farmers to workers and peasants, and in the future, they can change careers to do industry and commerce at any time.

What Datang lacks now is the manpower in industry and commerce, hundreds of thousands of workers, Weinan can actually be directly digested, and when the time comes, whether they continue to farm or go to Weinan to work, they are all richer than the people of the clans who hold on to the same place, and the migrant workers who go south to work in later generations are worse mixed, and it is better than farming at home, and the mixed ones are better, then the future is immeasurable.

"Okay, the old man will make preparations according to the methods that I have discussed with you these days, and after you have negotiated with those water bandits, we will start to implement them in full."

After explaining to the warriors, Sun Xiangfu said goodbye to him, and when the warriors disembarked, the boatmen lifted anchor, and the big ship began to flow down the river to the Dongting Lake area.

In the cabin, the guards put the dim sum on the desk in the morning I don't know when, a few pieces are missing, Sun Xiangfu didn't care, seeing that there are pen, ink, paper and inkstones, so he picked up the pen and drew down some of the shovel trucks and cranes that he could think of when building the moats, turned around, and asked the warrior to find a craftsman to build.

"Uncle Sun, what are you drawing! Mei Niang couldn't understand it. ”

A timid voice startled Sun Xiangfu, and when he turned his head, a little girl was standing next to his desk at some point, who was Wu Meiniang, the second daughter of Wu Shitong.

"Little Meiniang, why did you get to the boat?"

In the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion these days, Sun Xiangfu has also seen her a few times, but I didn't expect the little girl to remember that she gave her a gift two years ago, these days it is a good life to play with her and get close, of course, the snacks and ornaments on her body have been asked for a lot by her, however, Wu Shitong knows what Sun Xiangfu is going to do, and it is impossible for his daughter who is only five or six years old to go to danger with him, and it is still without his knowledge.

"Brother, they bullied Mei Niang, didn't play with Mei Niang, and snatched the checkers you gave to Mei Niang······"

Even if this girl may be very strong when she grows up, but at this time, she is still a little girl about six years old, and after being wronged, the expression of pouting and tearful begging for a hug made Sun Xiangfu embarrassed to continue interrogating her.

Sun Xiangfu gave her checkers, but made of glass beads of different colors, although the cost is not worth a few pennies, but put on the market, it is a treasure worth thousands of dollars, Wu Yuanqing, Wu Yuanshuang's generation, since seeing such a treasure, it is natural to be greedy, but when Sun Xiangfu sent something, it was not thoughtful.

"Okay, okay, Mei Niang, don't cry, tell Uncle Sun, how did you avoid the guards on the ship and come to this cabin?"

was held in Sun Xiangfu's arms and touched her head, Wu Meiniang immediately stopped crying, and said with a smile, "Those guards are so stupid, their eyes only know how to look into the distance, Mei'er followed the last person guard, he turned back three times, but he didn't see me." ”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was dumbfounded, this little girl was only five or six years old, and she knew that she was using the guards' sight to blind spots, with her height, which was less than the height of the guards' thighs, she was actually mixed all the way onto the boat.

"And how did you get from the city to the docks?"

"I told my father's guard that I would go to the dock with my father to see you off, and the guard uncle was afraid that he would freeze me, so he wrapped me in his cloak and carried me all the way."

Sun Xiangfu didn't need to think about it to know that letting the guard wrap himself in a cloak was also Wu Meiniang's idea for the guard, and he used his brain like a brain at a young age, which can only be described as terrifying.

"What would you do if I were to turn around and send you back to the docks now?"

Wu Meiniang knew that her careful thinking had been exposed, but she was not worried at all, "The north wind blows in winter, and the boat going down the river will go very fast, Uncle Sun, don't look at it now, it has only been about an hour, if you want to hold the boat back to Jingzhou against the wind and water, I am afraid that it will take more than a day, which will delay your errands, in addition, even if you send me back, you will definitely explain the reason to my father, then, the eldest brother should return my glass checkers to me." ”

"You, you are so smart, how can you be bullied by a fool like your eldest brother and second brother?" Sun Xiangfu is simply served, the kind of clothes that are thrown to the ground, where is this like a six-year-old child, I am afraid of sixty-year-old people, and there are few people who are better than her.

"Hey, smart people are not afraid of smart people, they are afraid of fools, they never fight with me for wisdom."

Seeing the girl who looked like a little adult sighing and boasting in front of her, and looking helpless, Sun Xiangfu couldn't cry or laugh.

However, since this little girl is so smart, let her follow, it will not become a burden to herself, she smiled and said, "Do you know that Uncle Sun went to Dongting Lake this time to recruit water bandits?" ”

"I know, my father and my mother said that Uncle Sun's talent is rare in the Tang Dynasty, and the court sent you out this time, and Jingxiang's worries can be solved."

All right! Originally, Sun Xiangfu wanted to ask this little girl, but what was the best plan, but he was blocked back by a sentence, you are a rare talent in the Tang Dynasty, and you are embarrassed to ask a little girl, how to recruit water bandits?

"That Mei Niang! How did your father educate you, but Uncle Sun now has two children and wants to teach them to be as smart as you. ”

Hearing this, Wu Meiniang said a little proudly, "Daddy didn't teach!" Literacy is all Mei Niang herself learned from her master, brother they still can't even memorize the Analects, every time Mei Niang recites in front of her father, her father will angrily punish them······"

What is this? Do you study for revenge?

This set of methods to stimulate learning is really impossible for others to imitate!

Before that, he didn't believe that there were geniuses in the world, but now, he completely believes that it is not accidental that this girl can be the empress in history, and when she is more mature, there is really no one in the world who can suppress her.