After the meeting, it was almost noon.

"I've asked people to prepare lunch, and it'll be fine in a while, just a little coarse tea and light rice, and everyone will eat before leaving." Li Xiao greeted everyone.

The township covenant hall has also been erected, the township chairman, directors, and councillors have also been elected, the township covenant has also been drafted and pressed by everyone's fingerprints, and even the township covenant group has been drawn by lot and divided into five shifts.

Next, the 30,000 acres of land by the stream were divided, 25 acres per household, and the situation of the original landlord of the land was registered in the township covenant hall for sub-lease after the summer harvest.

"Do you still need to repair the dam?" A couple of lieutenants asked.

"The dam still has to be repaired, and if the dam is not repaired, it cannot store water, and it will not meet the needs of drought fighting."

The 30,000 acres of land along the stream require a large amount of water every day. But now that everyone is united, it is easier to repair the dam, and there is no need to worry that someone will directly block the dam, but the patrol still has to be patrolled, and the dam has to continue to be repaired, but as discussed before, it cannot be repaired too high, and it is necessary to ensure that there is water flowing down.

Cut off the water step by step, and the more upstream the more you have to cut it off, so as to ensure that there is water available in the upstream and downstream.

"There is also a key point, Xiahe is the most downstream section of our township, and the dam where the river cannot be blocked, otherwise there will be no water flowing down, and then the people of Yuhe Township downstream will also come to us for trouble."

Next to Lanxi Township is Yuhe Township, which is also Lantian County.

"And leave them with water?"

"Don't stay? Wouldn't it be the same as before, and still have to fight for water? We can't fight with our neighbors just because our hometown is united, and we must be considerate of each other because we all have the same disaster situation. As long as we distribute the water reasonably and leave room for the downstream, they will not be able to ask too much. ”

Li Xiao then said to several lieutenant chiefs and several patriarchs of the big clan, "You are all directors elected by the villagers, this is also everyone's trust in you and me, since everyone trusts us, we must be right about this trust, and we must do things well." I hope that you can work harder during this time and run more to the villages below to ensure the smooth progress of drought relief and ensure that there will be no more such things as fighting for water. ”

"I don't need to say much about this, we will definitely run."

Speaking of which, these were originally their duties, but this time, they did not do these things under the leadership of the county government, but by a landlord. But after the conference just now, everyone still admires Li Xiao very much.

Sometimes, what is missing is a person who can stand up like this.

People are selfish, but sometimes if one person stands up and behaves selflessly, then there is the power of example, and others will follow suit.

"In fact, fighting drought is good for everyone, fighting good disasters, there will be no famine this summer, there will be no hungry people, there will be no displaced people and bandits, there will be no chaos in Lanxi, everyone can be peaceful, right?"

"That's what Saburo said."

An old patriarch also said, "This year's drought is so serious, according to the old practice, you who are doing the right thing must also explain the truth to the county government and ask the court to reduce or reduce taxes." ”

"Don't worry, this is what we should do."

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Lantian County Ya.

The night is as cool as water, and it has reached the third watch.

But Liu County Ling is still busy at the desk, and there is no intention of resting. Mrs. has sent Yahuan over several times to invite him back to his room to rest, but Liu Xianling is not in the mood to go back.

From the year to now, there have only been a few rains, and the drought has been severe day by day, and now the season of spring plowing is about to pass, but there are still many places in the county that can't even sow seeds.

He prayed for rain in person, several times, and every time his lips were cracked on the stage, there was no half of the dark cloud.

Experienced officials in the county government told him that this was a once-in-a-decade drought in Lantian County, and that this year the county might only have less than 20 percent of the harvest, and that there would definitely be a famine in the summer, and that there would be many hungry people and many people would starve to death.

As the county commander of Gyeonggi, Lantian is only 80 miles away from Chang'an, and his county order is of a higher grade than the general county order, but his responsibilities are also higher.

In addition to traditional requirements such as persuading farmers to teach mulberry, maintaining local stability is also his top priority.

Once the famine starts, the hungry people will inevitably pour into Chang'an, and then the court will be held accountable, and his official hat will not be guaranteed.

If it doesn't rain, it will be even more difficult to fight drought and provide disaster relief.

The big rivers ran out of water, the small rivers cut off, and the wells dried up.

In many years, many villagers grabbed water and fought viciously, which has injured many lives.

The momentum is still growing.

It's a mess.

But among all the bad news, there is also one case of good news.

The only case of good news.

When water fights broke out in various townships, Lanxi Township was silent. In the past, there were often water fights in Lanxi Township, and even the Lanxi villagers fought more fiercely, and more people died each time.

But this year, there has been no movement at all.

Liu Xianling, who was worried, specially sent officials to investigate, and the news reported back was very surprising.

The dam is being repaired along the river in Lanxi Township, but surprisingly there are no water fights. The dams were repaired in the villages of Gain, but instead of completely blocking the water as in the past, only a low dam was built, which only intercepted a small part of the water, and actively released most of the water downstream.

It is almost unimaginable to see a person who is dying of hunger and sees a large piece of food on the ground, but only takes a small piece to eat, and before he is full, he does not eat it anymore.

He didn't believe it, and sent a few more cronies to investigate, but the news that was reported back again was still the same.

Only this time, the message is a little more detailed.

Lanxi Township set up a township covenant hall, elected Li Xiao as the chairman, and then elected 13 directors, 49 councillors as the representatives of the villagers, they also signed a township covenant, established a township covenant militia group, determined to work together to fight drought and disaster relief.

They built dams, divided fields, dug wells, set up water wheels, and the whole township men, women, and children worked together to carry water to water the land, and even took the initiative to give up more than half of the land, and only did their best to keep the remaining half of the fields.

Even they concentrated on cultivating the fields by the stream, but these lands, which originally belonged to a small number of landlords, were now all taken out and distributed to the people of the whole township for cultivation, and each household was subcontracted with 25 acres of land.

It's unbelievable that something like this is happening.

"Why don't the villagers of Lanxi believe in the Li Zheng appointed by the imperial court, but they want to elect the landlord Li Xiao as the chairman? Why don't you believe in the county government, but build your own township covenant hall? ”

"How did they take the initiative to give up half of the fields, and still be able to stop only a small part of the water without fighting for water as in previous years?"

"Why are the landlords in Lanxi Township willing to take out the good land near the river and give it to the villagers to share crops?"

There are so many whys, too many don't understand.

However, all kinds of information reported have proved that Lanxi Township is not as good as in previous years this year, a township appointment hall, but Lanxi Township has not had half of the water fight, and no one has been killed, although they have directly planted half of the land, but the other half of the land has not died due to lack of water.

Everything is because of this township covenant hall.

And this township covenant hall was obviously established by Li Xiao.

Last time, Li Xiao established a cooperative, and not long after, Li Xiao established a township covenant hall, and it is incredible that Lanxi Township can be so harmonious under such a current situation.

"It seems that I have to go to Lanxi Township in person!"

Liu County Ling feels that this kind of Lanxi Township is worth learning from, if all the townships in the county are like Lanxi Township, then he can sit back and relax this year!