On the third day of October, the autumn planting has been completed for most of the month. With the support of Li Zhi's disaster relief grain www.biquge.info the autumn planting farming work in Shandong Province has almost been completed. After eating enough, the peasants did their work smoothly.

Li Zhi rode a horse and walked on the field path and saw green wheat seedlings growing in the wheat fields on both sides.

After walking for an hour, Jing Yishan pointed forward and said with a smile: "Grandpa Guo, our Guogongpi is in front of this crucian carp ditch." There's still a mile to go. ”

Li Zhi nodded and continued to ride forward. When more than a dozen guards heard that their destination was approaching, they galloped forward to see if there was any danger in the crucian carp ditch.

Li Zhi asked casually: "Jing Yishan, after the Gongpi of this country is repaired, how much dry land can be irrigated?" ”

Jing Yishan said with a smile: "Grandpa Guo, don't worry, when you get to the crucian carp ditch, I will explain it to Guogong in detail." ”

Li Zhi inexplicably ate a nail here at Jing Yishan, and was a little speechless. In the past few years, Li Zhi has asked others to speak, which one is not respectful and respectful, shaking out everything he knows? This Jing Yishan is good, but he doesn't bother to say it in front of the real thing until he is on the scene. Li Zhi looked at Zheng Hui and secretly said that this Jing Yishan is too arrogant.

Zheng Hui saw Li Zhi looking at him, a little anxious. He hurriedly looked at Jing Yishan, his eyes widened as if urging Jing Yishan to speak quickly, but Jing Yishan rode leisurely and didn't look at Zheng Hui. A few drops of cold sweat broke out on Zheng Hui's head, but he couldn't do anything about Jing Yishan, and said: "Grandpa Guo, when you get to the crucian carp ditch, Jing Yishan will naturally explain it in detail." ”

Li Zhi frowned, and secretly said that this Jing Yi is good at letting go, but he can't be reused. In order to get a satisfactory water conservancy project, Zheng Hui was able to endure such recklessness from his subordinates, and he really threw himself wholeheartedly into the construction of Hsinchu. Li Zhi pondered for a while, and his evaluation of Zheng Hui was one point higher.

When he arrived at the crucian carp ditch, Li Zhi walked to a small mound and saw tens of thousands of people digging and carrying burdens there, filling in the course of a small river. The busy peasants had enough to eat, worked very hard, and the scene was in full swing.

Jing Yishan jumped off the horse, took out a few drawings from under the saddle, opened one of them in front of Li Zhi, and said: "Grandpa Guo, look, we are building a cement embankment of one hundred and thirteen zhang on the course of this small river crucian fish ditch and the low-lying places nearby, and the highest part of this dam is two feet and three feet, blocking the small river to store water, and turning this low-lying land behind the crucian fish ditch into a large reservoir higher than the surrounding dry land. ”

"The bank walls on both sides of the embankment are interspersed with long stones, layered and stacked, the embankment is rammed with clay, a layer of cement is filled on it, and the top surface is paved with stone slabs to become 'Picheng'. There is an embankment pier every two zhang, the pier is three feet long and two feet wide, and the long stone is inserted into the ground for two feet. The built in this way is durable, not afraid of fire and water, and is the most strong. ”

"There are 10 sluices on the embankment. In case of drought, the sluice gates are closed to store water, and in case of floods, the sluice gates are opened to release water to keep the water level in the reservoir high. ”

Li Zhi asked, "How long will this levee last?" ”

Jing Yishan said proudly: "There is a sand sluice gate on the embankment. Even if the sediment accumulates, the sand gate can be opened to wash the sediment away. The sluice gates are redone every five years. If the entire levee is properly maintained, it will not have a problem for 50 years. Tinkering, I'm afraid it will be used in 150 years. ”

Li Zhi nodded and did not speak.

Jing Yishan patted the drawings and said, "Grandpa Guo, answer your question." After the repair of this national gongpi, the water level of the reservoir was raised. Seventeen irrigation outlets on the east and west sides of the adjacent wasteland can be used to irrigate 270,000 acres of land. ”

Being able to open 270,000 acres of new land is indeed a big project worth boasting about. Li Zhi seemed to understand why Jing Yishan was so arrogant, smiled, and said: "Jing Yishan, you do it well, if the project is completed well, I will reward you with two hundred taels of silver!" ”

Jing Yishan said with a smile: "Grandpa Guo is more generous than General Zheng Shen, I commanded a large dam of 500,000 mu of irrigated fields in Hsinchu, and General Zheng only rewarded me with 100 taels of silver." ”

After thinking about it, Jing Yishan said: "My mother-in-law likes to make silk clothes, buy rouge, and ask me for silver at two ends in three days." If Grandpa Guo's two hundred taels of silver are really rewarded to me, I will not lack money to spend! It's really emergency silver. ”

When Li Zhi heard Jing Yishan's words, he laughed dryly, and secretly said that Jing Yishan really didn't have a trace of humility as a subordinate when he spoke. Li Zhi said: "Jing Yishan, you do a good job, and you will be rewarded with so much silver that you can marry a little wife in the future!" ”

When Zheng Hui heard this, he laughed. Li Zhi looked at Zheng Hui, no longer said much to Jing Yishan, and only rode to the people working under the hillock.

The people were stunned when they saw Li Zhi's Guogong honor guard moved to the construction site. They looked at those golden gourds and golden scepters, and they all felt that this must be a big official. The people stopped what they were doing and knelt on the construction site, not daring to look up at Li Zhi.

Li Zhi waved his hand and motioned for the people to get up. Li Zhi's guards shouted loudly in the crowd, calling out the people who were kneeling on the ground.

Li Zhi walked up to a woman in her thirties and asked, "This woman, are you working here, are you hard?" ”

The woman looked up and said, "Official, it's a year of hunger, and we are already grateful to the Duke of Jin Guogong for giving us sweet potatoes to eat and save us." Now that the Duke of Jin Guogong is giving us rice and noodles to eat, so that we can eat two meals a day, how can we not work hard? If there is no Jin Guogong, Shandong will no longer know what the chaos will be, and maybe the thief Li Zicheng has already been killed. My two daughters and one son are still young, and they will definitely not survive. Jin Guogong gave my three children sweet potatoes to eat, not to mention letting us build water conservancy, but let us open up mountains and reclaim the sea, and we will do it. ”

When the woman had finished speaking, she looked at her husband beside her, as if to ask him if he was right. Her husband was a little nervous in front of Li Zhi and nodded stiffly. The woman smiled with a spring breeze on her husband's face, as she received her husband's approval. But in front of Li Zhi, a big official, she didn't dare to be presumptuous, and hurriedly covered her smiling face with her hands.

Li Zhi looked at the woman's husband.

When the man saw Li Zhi looking at him, he said solemnly: "Official, this crucian carp ditch has a big flood every three or five times, which is a harm to us here." Jin Guogong is now building a dam to control the water, and in the future, the crucian carp ditch will not be flooded, and the people of our township will benefit. Everyone is doing a great job! ”

Li Zhi nodded, looked at a thin young man next to him, and asked, "What about you, do you feel tired from doing this job?" ”

When the young man heard Li Zhi's inquiry, he knelt on the ground with a thud and said loudly, "Official, I don't feel tired at all!" The official sent by the Duke of Jin Guo said that the poorest tenant farmer like me can rent the fields irrigated by the Duke of the Kingdom in the future, and my daughter-in-law and I can rent 40 acres. The Duke of Jin only collects 30% of the land rent. ”

"With these forty acres of good land, my daughter-in-law and I will have a good life. Don't say that we are not tired after working for a few months, even if we work for a year, we can only be happy. ”