Yang Dewen decisively hired Erya at that time, and arranged for her to register all the people in the village.

How many people were in that household and how much land they had rented, Yang Dewen felt that he had to grasp these situations.

I heard that the new landlord is coming, and the heads of each family are basically coming to the door one after another, and everyone has come to know the new landlord and confirm the fields that everyone rents after the beginning of spring.

Yang Dewen simply organized a meeting and explained some of his rules to the big guy.

The amount of land you rent is the same as before, and if someone doesn't want to plant again, you can tell us in advance.

Or if you want to reduce the amount of farming, you can also say it in advance.

The seeds will be distributed according to the number of fields rented, and everyone has no opinion, but a few of them hesitated, but there was really no way, so they asked Yang Dewen to borrow some food or money.

Even if the wind and rain are good and you want to wait until there is a harvest, it will be at least three or four months later, and in these three or four months, if you don't have food, you will still starve to death.

Although there are many soup kitchens run by well-wishers, they are only hanging on to their lives, not starving to death.

When it was really time to be busy planting in the spring, there was little time to guard the porridge shed, waiting in line to receive the gruel for that night, plus two nests.

It is a common practice for landlord families to lend some money and grain to their tenants every spring when there is no harvest.

Yang Dewen simply asked everyone to borrow how much food they wanted to borrow, sign up with Erya, and how much they wanted to borrow.

However, everyone is still very concerned about one thing, how to calculate the interest on these borrowed money and food?

Yang Dewen actually doesn't plan to charge any interest, such a small amount of money, Yang Dewen really doesn't pay attention to it.

But if we tell everyone directly now that you don't have to pay interest on how much money you borrow, it will be difficult for everyone to accept such a good thing, and second, I am afraid that it will cause unnecessary trouble.

He said an interest rate of five thousandths, a thousand yuan, and only five yuan of interest a month, which is already a very low interest.

The water level of the Ming River has risen a lot more than before, but the rain is still not as abundant as before, in good years.

If the water level of the Ming River is insufficient, even the fertile fields on both sides of the Ming River will still not be able to divert water for irrigation.

If you rely on manual water, the fields on the shore are easier to talk about, but those fields far from the shore are a big problem.

Yang Dewen felt the need to build several diversion canals and use water wheels to irrigate the water.

As an agricultural college student, he still knows the principle of the waterwheel used for irrigation in ancient times.

In fact, in the rural areas of the 20th century, in the rural areas where electricity was not yet widespread, waterwheels were still playing a huge role.

It was only with the spread of electricity that pumping machines became commonplace, and wooden waterwheels finally withdrew from their historical mission.

In the 21st century, there were two waterwheels in the village, and Yang Dewen returned to the village when he graduated from university.

Although the two waterwheels are no longer in use, they are still intact in the ancestral hall of the village.

When Yang Dewen was bored, he once seriously studied the structure of the two waterwheels.

Not only that, but there are some restaurants in many big cities. Or in the park, there will also be some scenic waterwheels.

Of course, Yang Dewen also has the biggest killer, but there is a mobile phone system in his mind, as long as he wants to, he can search for the production video of the water wheel.

It has always been a fine tradition for Yang Dewen to do what he thinks, and he has hired carpenters who are proficient in carpentry to build large waterwheels with the strong labor of the village.

The aqueducts between the fields do not need to be large and wide, nor do they need to be deep, in fact, in the fields, there were also aqueducts in the past, but they were a little small, and they were not evenly distributed.

When the rain is abundant and the wind and rain are favorable, there is no major problem.

But in the event of a widespread drought, the aqueducts are not enough.

Yang Dewen invited these villagers to dig the aqueduct, of course, not for free, but for them to eat and drink, and when they were done, they had to give them some food.

Therefore, no one will refuse to participate, and many people even want to join in because of this.

However, consider that this is all heavy physical work. Some old and infirm people are still not suitable for this kind of work.

When the giant three waterwheels finally stood in the Ming River, everyone ran out to see the excitement.

After Yang Dewen adjusted the waterwheel according to the video of the waterwheel played in the mobile phone system in his mind, the wooden waterwheel finally turned.

One by one, wooden buckets filled with river water were poured into the troughs, into the aqueducts, and down the aqueducts into the distances and into the fields.

The villagers standing on the shore and watching were excited one by one, and let out bursts of cheers, they had already seen the scene of a bumper harvest after a few months.

The tenants who rented the land in Yangdewen lived in this small village called Minghe Village, which means village on the edge of the Ming River.

Minghe Village is also under the rule of Kangde County, and Minghe Village built a giant waterwheel, and from then on, there was no need to worry about the news of the drought, and it soon reached the ears of Kangde County.

Kangde County Commander's name is Huang Mingyi, he was born as a Jinshi in the early years, and he has been in office for five years in Kangde County, and he is now in his sixth year.

In the three-year county order, Huang Mingyi has been re-elected for two consecutive terms, if this is the third term in a row, it will be really, a little old face can't hang up.

In the office of the prefectural commander, it is the fate of the majority to serve two consecutive terms. Only a very small number of people can be promoted by the court officials after serving a full term.

Of course, it is not excluded that there are still a very small number of officials who have been found out by the imperial court and severely punished for being traitors, poor and corrupt.

But if he has to serve for a third term after serving two consecutive terms as a county magistrate, then it may be difficult for this person's career to go far.

Unfortunately, in the five years that Huang Mingyi has served as the commander of Kangde County, the disaster has become more and more serious every year.

Although there is no way for the imperial court to blame him for these natural and man-made disasters, in this way, the possibility of wanting to be promoted will become a little out of reach.

Minghe Village built a large waterwheel at this time, which made Huang Mingyi feel that this was probably a very good opportunity.

If a large number of these giant waterwheels can be built, then this year's agriculture can be expected to have a bumper harvest.

If this method is popularized and blooms everywhere in the entire Great Qin Kingdom, then the imperial court and His Majesty will definitely look down on themselves, and they can also rely on this splashing merit to get promoted in the officialdom.

The role of the waterwheel is not only for irrigation, but also for rolling rice and grinding, saving a lot of manpower and material resources.

Huang Mingyi, the commander of Kangde County, with his staff and several officials, personally rushed to Minghe Village outside Mingzhou City, and before he entered the village, he saw a giant waterwheel towering in the Minghe River.

Huang Mingyi didn't care about it, and went to Minghe Village again, he ordered a servant to go to the village, call the village Lizheng, go to the bank of the Minghe River, and ask the village Lizheng in person if he had some words.

Huang Mingyi walked to the bank of the Ming River and saw the scene that shocked him.

A giant waterwheel, running on its own. The water that came up passed through the trough on the waterwheel, entered the aqueduct, and then passed through the aqueduct to irrigate the fields.

Many farmers have already started farming, and everyone has a smile on their faces.

The most amazing thing about Huang Mingyi Juede is that such a huge waterwheel does not need any manpower to operate.

On the other side of the waterwheel, on the riverbank, there are people grinding flour, and they don't need to be pushed and milled by people, but only need to fill the giant funnel on top with wheat to be processed, and the wheat will pass through the funnel and automatically inject into the stone mill.

Huang Mingyi grabbed a little flour with his hand, rubbed it with his fingers, and felt that the flour made of two large stones was snow-white and delicate, without a rough feeling.

"This is really incredible, who is so genius that he can invent and design, such an ingenious thing, it is really the person of Great Qin!" Huang Mingyi couldn't help but praise.

"Old man, do you know who invented and made these ingenious things?" Huang Mingyi asked the official to invite an old villager and asked.