As soon as the dragon raised its head, the south of the Yangtze River began spring ploughing in the dripping plum rain, and the newly reclaimed fertile fields were busy.

What makes Xiao Zheng feel relieved is that the Zhenguan plough invented by Xiao Zheng appeared in many places in Yangzhou and Chuzhou, and some looked at the imprints on it or made their own products, indicating that this thing has slowly been recognized by farmers all over the world, which is a good thing.

As soon as spring began, Xiao Zheng sent over the double-cropping rice seeds and sugarcane seeds that Xiao Zheng asked Feng Ang for.

What Xiao Zheng didn't expect was that the seed was sent by Feng An's son Feng Zhi Dai Xinzi, this guy is not much younger than Xiao, after seeing Xiao Zheng, it was an uncle's courtesy, and he said that this guy just didn't change it several times. When he left, Xiao Zheng asked Feng Zhidai to bring back a few jars of liquor for Feng Ang to show his gratitude.

Rice seeds were carefully cultivated by several agricultural doctors and turned into seedlings early, and when Xiao Zheng told several old farmers about the transplanting method of throwing seedlings, several old people unanimously objected.

This dense planting is beyond the cognition of a few old people, this is still you giving Lord Xiao a face, how can there be such a seemingly littered method of planting rice after working all your life, that is, Xiao Zheng patted his chest and said that no one paid attention to him if such a duel was feasible.

"My lord, you stay away, the people of Jiangnan obey you in terms of treating diseases and saving people, but you really can't do this kind of field, if you want to stay on the ground and sit for a while, if you can't see it, you will go back to the mansion, no one will say anything about you" Several old men were annoyed by his nagging, which made it clear that they wanted to drive people out.

"Damn, kindness is not rewarded! You have been planting rice in Jiangnan for so many years, why don't you know that Lin Yue has double cropping rice. It's not Lao Tzu who picked it from Feng An's hands, you don't plant it, I'll plant it myself," he turned his head and scolded the street and walked back.

Xu Jingzong said with a smile: "My lord, no one dared to speak to Shangguan in this tone before, this is not treating you as an outsider, I should be happy."

"Lao Xu, I'm not unhappy at all, I just said that they are too stubborn, these old people are also afraid that if there is a business trip, the 100,000 acres of crops in the pond will be ruined, and they also want to be safe, since they don't plant, I will plant on my ten acres of land and find a few people to come over."

As soon as I heard that Xiao Daren's land was going to grow rice, dozens of people came to help, but when Xiao Zheng said the method of planting seedlings, dozens of farmers were a little confused, and a few old men turned around and left, saying that they couldn't afford to lose that person, and the rest of the people didn't want to go against Xiao Zheng's intentions, so let's do it, and the seedlings will be planted on ten acres of land soon.

After the beginning of spring, not only outside Yangzhou, but also on the swamps of Chuzhou and Hangzhou, there was a wave of water conservancy and "stacking fields".

This time, Xiao Zheng said that as long as the Qinghe River is built and dammed according to the requirements of the government, those who have no land or less land will still follow the old rules. And those rich people can also join in, but if you want to land, you can pay every fifty yuan, and if you don't pay, don't open up wasteland.

Fifty runs! In the past, fifty guan could buy five hectares of land, but there was a model of last year's land, and there were rich households who asked to open up the wasteland, and some people who did not buy land also cleaned up their original land in this way, Xiao Zheng asked Pei Mingli to use the money collected directly for the cost of water conservancy.

Referring to the model of 100,000 acres of cultivated land outside Yangzhou, the trend of building embankments and building water conservancy on the land south of the Yangtze River has risen again, and there are scenes of work in full swing everywhere.

After March, the south of the Yangtze River is already a willow green warbler, and the roads of Chuzhou, Yangzhou and Hangzhou have finally been completed after more than half a year's efforts, and the blue-gray concrete pavement has planted a lot of willows and flowers in the south of the Yangtze River on both sides.

The placement of these trees is also Xiao Zheng let the two Yan brothers specially designed, the selection is the local easy to grow green plants, but the placement is ingenuity, the carriage walks on the top to see the eyes or flowers or green willows in the shade of the eyes to make people look pleasing to the eye, often see a few scholars like people walking on the road with a book while chanting poetry and walking slowly, walking has become a kind of enjoyment.

On a small island next to Laojun Mountain in Dongting Lake, Zheng Xuanli received an order from Xiao Zheng, took his original subordinates, and built a lot of tall houses on this island.

Tell your subordinates about this, a group of islanders are very happy, they have received a lot of favors from the court before, this time they have the opportunity to repay the favor, from the building materials pulled up to the island began to work day and night, after the tall courtyard wall was encircled, dozens of factories soon stood on the island.

After waiting for people to go down to the island, Xiao Zheng transferred more than a dozen Xuanjia soldiers and other soldiers to start patrolling around the island day and night. Five or six miles away, the residents of Laojun Mountain from time to time see that there are ships transporting things to the island, and there is often smoke rising on the island.

Everyone will ignore the heavy security on the island, as long as they don't go.

"My lord, after the beginning of spring this time, the number of fields in the three cities of Yangzhou, Chuzhou and Hangzhou has reached one million mu, which is the largest land reclamation since the former Sui Dynasty! What's more, most of the fields are on both sides of the newly built official road, and this is not a boast of the lower officials, and we can be rewarded by the saints," Xu Jingzong said very happily.

"Lao Xu, calm down, I told you a long time ago, this is just a beginning, we are still far from our goal, a good start is half of the success of the career, but it also depends on the timing."

"My lord's words are very true, I and other officials are about to become the head of the bricklayer under you, this wasteland, road construction, road construction, house building, when you have time, you can go to our silk weaving factory to see, the villain has been busy with these months, and now it is finally completed, now just wait for the materials to enter the field for processing" Pei Mingli also said with a happy smile.

"Since you have so much fertile land, and you have three large-scale silk weaving factories, this is a good thing! I'm definitely going to go."

Riding on the five flowers for a day, until the next day to Pei Mingli has built a silk weaving factory, and so on to the end of Xiao Zheng is really admired this guy's vision of site selection, from the map this place is just in the center of the triangle composed of Yangzhou, Chuzhou and Hangzhou, and this place is also the main production area of silk, this place is next to the newly built official road in front, and the back can not go far is the canal."

"Lao Pei, you have a good place, I can't compare to your vision."

"Thank you, sir, for your compliment, this is also your reminder to the lower officials, and I am also here according to your appearance in the Yushan County Textile Factory."

"How many people can this factory support?"

"The villain first came on the scale of a thousand people, and if it is done well in the future, it will be no problem to add a few thousand more people, and the land is that I have bought all the wasteland in this area."

"Good courage, your eyes are no worse than mine."

After entering the factory and listening to the introduction of the silk weaving workers, Xiao Zheng knew that at this time, the silk reeling, weaving, dyeing and finishing and printing techniques were quite familiar, but the tools used in weaving were different.

Standing in front of the hand-cranked reeling car, Xiao Zheng thought for a while and asked, "Can this thing be changed to a pedal reeling car, bring paper and pen."

After writing and painting, several old craftsmen who reeled silk looked at Xiao Zheng's picture and discussed it for a while, and one of them said: "My lord, if your foot reeling car is made, this daily work will definitely be higher than that of the hand reeling car, but after the foot plate and connecting rod are installed, these rotating connectors are fragile, but your idea is definitely okay."

"Don't be afraid, because I have one thing, bearings, as for how to improve other things, you look for that handsome guy" Xiao Zheng pointed to the public and said with a smile.

Du Ruhui, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was confused when he looked at Xiao Zheng's letter, and couldn't understand what Xiao Zheng wanted so many bearings for, and only experienced old workers in the prison were currently able to do it.

"If you can't figure it out, you don't want to, this guy is crazy about things, and besides, he gives him a lot of money, so give it to him" Du Ruhui said to the master craftsman Hu Zhongchun.