In this way, in late March, there was a spring rain in the county, and the dense raindrops took off the hat and lay on his face, Yang Xuan was wearing a robe, ignoring the lightning and thunder, shouting loudly, urging the soldiers to help the displaced people practice paddy fields. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Seeing that Yang Xuan was fighting so hard, Uncle Wang blocked Yang Xuan and reproached: "Young master, you were weak when you were young, don't get sick from the cold, there are a lot of gravel in the field, and some of them are still stuck in the foot, so don't do this." ”

Yang Xuan was slightly stunned, and his heart seemed quite unhappy, when he was a child, when his father was practicing paddy fields, he was also shouting beside him, looking at the water, isn't this depriving himself of the pleasure of labor?

Looking at the crowd of laborers all over the mountains, Yang Xuan said dissatisfiedly: "Alas, Uncle Wang, hundreds of brothers under his command are helping to cultivate paddy fields, if I don't do anything, isn't it not good?" ”

Wang Gao's wife was a big-footed woman, and when she saw Yang Xuan's face covered with rain, she admonished: "My lord, if you say something that you don't like, do you think you have the appearance of being an official?"

The other officials are all sitting in the yamen to try cases, and you bring hundreds of people to practice paddy fields with our ordinary farmers.

You, if you don't hurry up and bring water into the sky, you can't practice this field well. ”

When Uncle Wang heard this, he looked up at the sky gloomily, and said with a lot of strength in his hand: "My daughter-in-law is right, my lord, although this rain is heavy, it can only be used for half a day. ”

Yang Xuan was slightly stunned, yes, practicing paddy fields is like fighting a war, racing against time, and the most important thing in training fields is water, Lian Tian himself may not be as good as everyone, how to dispatch water, control water Others are probably inferior to themselves.

Looking at the mountain next to him, Yang Xuan turned over and got on his horse, and according to the water potential of the ravine next to him, he sent people to various places to find low-lying areas, set up simple flood control dams to block the waterways, and slowly put down the water after the rain stopped.

The hard work paid off, and after walking more than a mile on the mountain, I saw a place in front of me where the vegetation was luxuriant, and the guards in front shouted loudly, and when I got closer, it turned out to be an abandoned pond of about one acre of land, probably because there was no one to manage it after the owner fled the famine, and there were weeds growing one person tall in the ground.

The pond is filled with half a pond of water, pick up the stones and throw them into the water, splashing the waves one person high, looking at the water flow of several ditches around is pouring into the pond, Yang Xuan is overjoyed in his heart, this pond is halfway up the mountain, if it is full of water, it is enough to practice more than 20 acres of paddy fields.

Thinking of this, I arranged for the guards around me to inspect the pond, which was surprising that there was a gap half a zhang wide, and the water was gushing out along the gap.

If you think about it, it is likely that this pond is in disrepair and no one is managing it, which is why this situation has occurred.

Yang Xuan immediately assigned personnel to transport earth and stone from the surrounding area to surround the gap, so as not to let this precious spring rain flow away in vain and mistake the people to practice the fields.

The area of the pond was not too large, and Yang Xuan recruited more than 30 soldiers, everyone transported earth and stones, and built cofferdams, so it took half an hour to finally build a half-person high cofferdam, plugging the gap, and watching the water level in the pond gradually rise, everyone looked quite proud in their hearts.

Thinking of the scene of his parents practicing paddy fields when he was a child in his previous life, Yang Xuan also seemed quite excited, while asking everyone to continue to detect, build a cofferdam, and store flash floods.

But he didn't wait for Yang Xuan to be happy for long, a rainbow appeared in the sky, the spring rain stopped abruptly, Yang Xuan rode a war horse and returned to the tuntian place excitedly, and saw Uncle Wang and others one by one like frosted eggplants there, and some even sighed, if there were two more buffaloes plowing the ground, if they worked harder just now, then this water and drought field could be practiced, and then everyone's food and clothing life would be a little better.

When they heard that Yang Xuan had found a pond with enough water to train 20 acres of paddy fields, everyone seemed quite happy, and some even knelt down to express their gratitude to Yang Xuan again and again.

After a day's work, the people cultivated nearly 40 acres of water and drought fields.

The harvest of dryland is small, and one acre of paddy field can produce at least three quintals of grain (this is how the land is measured).

This is even happier for a homeless person like Uncle Wang than picking up a gold ingot.

Seeing the people spontaneously thanking themselves, Yang Xuan looked very proud and decided to help everyone.

Two days later, when Yang Xuan came to the pond again with more than a dozen old farmers, the people under the ditch kept digging gaps in order to train the fields of water and drought in the past two days, and the water in the pond had already been released.

There was a thin old man in his 60s with white hair pointing to the pond and talking to everyone about the origin of the pond.

When he was young, the old man's great-grandfather said that this pond was built during the Southern Song Dynasty and rebuilt during the Hongwu period, but after that, because no one came forward, it slowly fell into disrepair and gradually fell into disrepair.

Unexpectedly, Yang Xuan found the pond by chance this time, and led more than 30 soldiers to rebuild the weir, although the water storage is not much, but also under the ditch to cultivate more than 30 acres of paddy fields.

After hearing this, everyone sighed with emotion, everyone thanked Yang Xuan and thanked God, and some were so excited that they knelt down, making Yang Xuan scramble.

Taking a closer look at the surrounding terrain, Yang Xuan said with a smile: "Fellow villagers, you have also seen that this pond is located between two mountains, and the surrounding mountain torrents flow into this pond. ”

Everyone didn't believe it, this pond was obviously only more than one acre in size, how could Yang Xuan keep saying that he would ensure that the thousands of acres of fields below would be harvested from drought and flood?

Uncle Wang was afraid that Yang Xuan would be ridiculous, so he secretly poked Yang Xuan with his hand.

Yang Xuan said confidently: "Of course, if you just renovate this pond and install the gate, you can only guarantee more than 100 acres of land at most."

Look, this ravine is very deep, if we build this weir pond two people high, then as long as one more person is deep, the water storage is more than seven or eight times, so that the downstream irrigation can be guaranteed. ”

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized, and some nodded in agreement, why didn't they think of this layer?

The surrounding area is deserted, and the area is quite wide, and the amount of water stored increases exponentially every time it is heightened.

The most important thing to build a reservoir is to need money and grain, no matter how it needs more than 1,000 loads of grain, now natural disasters continue, grain harvest has failed year after year, coupled with the abduction of local rioters, how can these displaced people get 1,000 loads of grain?

There is also manpower, some people think that at least four or five hundred people downstream need to be mobilized to work for one or two winters, although there is no shortage of labor, but everyone can do heavy physical work and eat too badly.

In ancient times, in addition to the normal field endowment and ding endowment, the largest thing for the people was labor labor, and some were even requisitioned and transferred to other provinces, causing the family to be ruined.

Conscription for hard labor? Yang Xuan thought about it and categorically vetoed it.

It's not a lack of labor, it's just a lack of subsidies.

Now it is only for the reservoir to be repaired, and the amount of work is very low, and more than 100 people can work for a month, and there is no need to think about it at all.

The construction of the reservoir will also have to wait until winter, when the grain in the fields has already been harvested, and the displaced people will have no food rations.

If the reservoir is built, the downstream fields will be harvested in drought and flood, and they will not be as worried about any famine as they are now. In line with the principle of who benefits and who pays, it is entirely possible to use the method of apportionment and apportionment to the downstream field owners.

According to the principle of ten laborers per acre, if there are strong laborers in the family, they can completely serve on the spot.

If there is no one, or if there is little labor, other poor and displaced people will be hired to help build it.

In addition, after the completion of the pond, the area of the pond has also increased to six or seven acres, which can be contracted to the surrounding wealthy households to plant lotus roots in the pond, or raise fish or something, so that the annual harvest is not less than these six or seven acres of fields.

Of course, the government is not without any indication that the government will provide certain subsidies to those families who do not have strong labor at home and cannot afford to hire outsiders.

Since ancient times, the government has operated in this way, and now when I hear Yang Xuan mention it, thinking of the abundant food and clothing in the future, everyone nodded one by one, and some even kowtowed to thank them.

Building roads, bridges, and reservoirs has been benevolent in all dynasties.

Listening to everyone discussing how to build a weir and how to build a reservoir in the future, looking at everyone's enthusiastic faces, Yang Xuan thought about returning to his previous life again.

In the previous life, Lao Mao's evaluation was divided into two poles, laughing about the small leap forward************ the people's commune **** often became the target of everyone's attack, many Wumao people's level is really limited, I don't know how to defend Lao Mao, and I don't know much about Lao Mao's achievements.

In fact, Lao Mao has a merit that can shine in the annals of history, that is, the overhaul of the reservoir, in the process of ****** and small leap forward, in addition to the large-scale steel smelting and other policies that have brought disaster to the country and the people, there is a good governance that is enough to change the appearance of China's land, that is, the overhaul of the reservoir.

After the overhaul of the reservoir, large and small reservoirs were established in various places, and through the regulation of the reservoir, many places became drought and flood to ensure income, take the small mountain village where the author is located, which belongs to the hilly terrain of northern Sichuan, and there is a small reservoir at the top of each ditch, so that even if drought and flood disasters occur, the most basic survival of the people can be guaranteed through the reservoir adjustment.

As a traversal, Yang Xuan is very happy to let this good governance be implemented in advance to benefit the people, so that the people will not be displaced during the drought and floods and have nothing to rely on.