Outside the city of Xiyang, by the Santai River, a large group of bald men are sweating profusely waving hoes, although they are bareheaded, but they are not monks, but captured Chen soldiers are now building a river embankment under the supervision of the Zhou army.

Don't drive Xu Shao stood on a dirt slope and looked at this hot scene with a lot of emotion, thanks to the addition of these 'new forces', his progress in the remediation of the Santai River has been accelerated a lot.

The Zhou State conquered Chen Guo, and the battle of Yingzhou won a complete victory, and then there were more than 5,000 more people in Bazhou, most of whom settled in Xiyang City, in addition to many ploughing cattle and grain, money and silk in the Wuchang treasury, but what made Xu Shao even more excited was that there were thousands more captives who were alive and kicking.

With these young people, he has a lot more money on hand, and the construction of the embankment of the Santai River, which was originally planned to be carried out next year, has now been carried out, and the completion of the embankment in several key places has just blocked a heavy rainstorm.

"Let's go, let's go to the next place." After Xu Shao finished speaking, he led the officials down the dirt slope and rode on their horses to the southeast, and the group came to the large depression in the lower reaches of the Santai River along the dirt road, and the scene here was even more lively than just now.

An embankment has been erected on the south bank of the Santai River, and people are busy on the embankment, some of them are digging with hoes and shovels, and some are carrying carts on their shoulders to carry the soil.

This is the people of Wuchang who settled in Xiyang were organized to repair the embankment, as long as they were over 18 years old and under 50 years old, they were arranged to work on this large construction site, together with the original people of Xiyang City plus the state soldiers who maintained order, there were 10,000 people who were repairing the embankment at the same time.

In the middle of the treatment, Hao Wubo is responsible for killing snails and preventing bulging disease, after throwing an unknown number of baskets of quicklime, the snails in this large riverside depression have been scalded to death, and the next thing is to turn wasteland into fertile land, so the first thing is to repair the embankment and then drain the water, so as not to waterlog.

It is also necessary to build a canal, one can irrigate, and the other can drain water, so Xu Shao and Hao Wubo need to work together to transform this area, according to Thorn Shi Yu Wenwen, this is still the 'first phase of the project', first repair the embankment on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Santai River, and turn the depression into fertile land. After the sowing next year, the people will be requisitioned to repair the north embankment when the farmers are slack, and then there will be a 'second phase project' to reclaim the depression on the north bank into farmland.

According to the plan, the first phase of the project will be completed before the spring ploughing, and the area of farmland near Xiyang City will be doubled by then. After the completion of the second phase of the project, it will be doubled on this basis. Although the harvest of newly cultivated farmland will not be as good as that of mature land until at least a few years after cultivation, it is much better than wasteland with no grain of harvest.

"How, is it in time?" Xu Shao asked, Hao Wubo nodded when he heard this, and said that with so many laborers and sufficient iron tools, the progress of repairing the embankment is faster than expected, and the embankment here is already connected to the upstream embankment, and if it rains again, at least the chance of flooding on the south bank will be much smaller.

"And how is the windmill pumping?" Xu Shao asked again, he has been busy with civil affairs, and he is still a little suspicious of the legendary 'powerful' windmill pumping.

Depression reclamation and drainage is a problem, and Yu Wenwen ingeniously made a windmill to pump water to save manpower, in order to persuade everyone to get a windmill in the private yard not far ahead, as a 'technical verification', Xu Shao didn't have time to see, but Hao Wubo went there a few times.

"The effect is okay, as long as there is wind, the windmill keeps turning day and night. I sent someone to keep a special watch for a day to count how much water can be pumped out, and then I calculated it carefully, and it really saved a lot of manpower. Hao Wubo replied, but then added: "It's just too expensive." ”

According to what Yu Wenwen said, it costs a thousand yuan to build a windmill, of course, this is only the price of the first two seats, if it is promoted, it should drop a lot, but this is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Their Shangguan Yuwen Wen will make money and spend more money, Xu Shao and Hao Wubo, as 'senior partners', know that Yu Wenwen can be said to be able to make money every day by relying on the glass mirror, and his ability to spend money is even more powerful, if it is not for most of the money spent on people's livelihood, I am afraid it can be described as Jiuchi Meat Forest.

Renovation of drainage ditches in Xiyang City, new houses to improve the living conditions of the people, expansion of granaries, construction of iron tools, in order to conquer Chen Guoyingzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, to build weapons, warships, properly resettle the people of Wuchang, need to build new prevention and prisoners of war need to expand the prison cells. Xu Shao and Hao Wubo roughly calculated that the money and money used by Yuwen Wen had already cost no less than 100,000 yuan.

One of the considerable expenditures is to resettle the people of Wuchang, and the newly built houses are not dilapidated thatched houses, but at least brick and wood houses like the people of Xiyang. Adequate food rations were given to each household, rather than being fooled with brown rice mixed with sand, which seemed unremarkable but could add up to a significant expense.

The Bazhou Prefecture Ya said that it was necessary to treat the people of Wuchang who crossed the river as their own people, not slaved coolies, and now the water conservancy outside Xiyang City is being built to reclaim wasteland, and what is lacking in the future is the people who farm and raise silkworms, and the number of households that are easy to increase may be squandered at will.

Xu Shao and Hao Wubo were civil affairs officials, so they were responsible for Chen Zhanzhan this time, managing the new civilians and prisoners, they did not participate in military affairs, but they also heard a lot about the money that Yuwen Wen spent on them.

In particular, the lard consumed by the sensational 'land boat' is no different from burning money, a pig that can be sold needs to be raised for about two years, and its price is about 1,000 Wen, that is, it is consistent, Hao Wubo wants to know how many pigs he has to kill to get together so much lard, so he asked his subordinates to calculate it in his spare time, and the result is a sensational figure, he himself can't believe it.

"The boundary of Huangzhou, even the pigs on the Anzhou side have almost been bought up by the envoy, and the pigs from Xiangzhou have also been transported." Xu Shao said with emotion, Tuo Yuwen Wen's blessing, in the past few months, he and the state officials and officials have eaten much more pork than in previous years, not to mention the soldiers of the Hulin Army.

There is more meat, enough oil and water, so the strength and energy have also come up, Xu Shao and Hao Wubo have been busy since the beginning of the year and have been almost continuous for half a year, but in the end they have survived, and they have slowly changed from novices to veterans.

Just like Yu Wenwen, he threw a few of them to 'finish it within a time limit, otherwise he would come to see him' and then busy with his own affairs, and now they are busy organizing people to repair water conservancy and reclaim wasteland, and Yu Wenwen will give full play to his expertise to Anlu to 'brush his face' to grab benefits, and it is said that he will bring back some prisoners and people to settle in Xiyang.

"In this way, there will be more than 20,000 households in Bavaria, and there will be more things to do." Hao Wubo said with emotion, if you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, I originally thought that the number of households in the state was nothing more than the rent and adjustment of the rent, but now I see that there are still many people and strength, and I can do a lot of things just by recruiting and mobilizing force, let alone military service.

"I can't see it," Xu Shao suddenly whispered, he looked left and right and saw that no one was close and added: "It seems that the envoy is still going to do something to Jiangnan." ”

"Come back!" When Hao Wubo heard this, his tone was a little higher, but he watched the whole process in Xiyang City, but he was also worried about an accident, and the whole army would be wiped out, and the situation would not be good.

The two of them knew that the strategy of the Zhou army's attack on Yingzhou was promoted by Yu Wenwen's efforts, and the effect was also very good: Chen Guo was provoked to mobilize a large army to fight the fire, but he was finally suppressed by the Zhou army. Hao Wubo felt that this kind of thing was enough once, but he didn't expect Yuwen to eat the marrow and know the taste and prepare to poke the hornet's nest.

"Offensive and defensive, that's a good word, and I think it should be." Xu Shao's eyes lit up when he said this, "Instead of confronting Chen Jun across the river all day long, it is better to take the initiative to attack and bleed them!" ”

"Think about it, Wuzhou has been held in his hands, and Jun has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to operate, and it is not a problem to have Wuzhou to guard the Yangtze River waterway, and Chen Guo's water army is now injured and will not recover for a while and a half, so it is a good time for our army to show its might."

"Are you going to kidnap people again?" Hao Wubo asked, he still can't accept Yuwenwen's robbery-style tactics for a while, capture the city but don't just take people and slip away, of course, this also saves the trouble of entanglement with Chen Jun.

"People, the people are people, and the soldiers are also people, so it is not certain which one the king wants to capture." Xu Shao's eyes narrowed into a line with a smile, and Hao Wubo felt that his expression looked similar to someone's.

The two were talking hotly, and suddenly a clerk came to report that someone asked to see him, that person was an official and soldier who moved from Wuchang this time, but not a common man, but a slave, according to his own account, not a native of Chen Guo, but a common man who was coerced by Chen Guo when he attacked Liang State and Jiangling last year.

"Why didn't he declare it when the government registered his identity before, but wanted to complain to the official at this time?" Xu Shao asked, after following Yu Wenwen for a long time, he also contracted the problem of being suspicious.

According to the internal report, he knew that Chang'an had sent people to Xiyang City to 'engage in the east and west', although the primary goal of this group of people was to assassinate Shi Yu and Wenwen, but who knows if there would be a 'killer and a monkey', so Xu Shao was always on guard against assassins.

The official said that the man claimed to have a special identity, and he was afraid that no one would take it seriously, but would be targeted by the lawbreakers, so he didn't dare to make a noise.

Xu Shao and Hao Wubo exchanged opinions, then nodded and asked the clerk to lead the person over, and when the person was brought to him, he pressed the saber in his hand and looked at it carefully: this person looks dignified, but his skin is dark, some vicissitudes, about thirty years old, dressed in cloth, and looks no different from ordinary people.

"What's the matter with you?"

"Envoy Jun, in the lower Liang country is not Chen Guoren, last year's Chen army attacked Liang Jiangling will be taken away in Xia so far." The man saluted and said, "Now that I am fortunate to be rescued by the national army, I hope to be released back to my hometown." ”

"Who are you? If what is said is true, the official will naturally do it. ”

"Under the surname Zhang Mingke, he is the younger brother of Empress Zhang of Liang State." (To be continued.) )