Under the clear sky, by the clear ditch, several children of the horn hold on to the railing, stepping on the feet of the keel waterwheel, and they sing the songs that have become popular among the locals in their innocent voices......

"I have children, and I will teach them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info I have a field, and I have a ......"

Zhao Wuxian listened attentively, slapped his knees and laughed after a while, and said to Ji Ran: "If you have a country and a family, you must know what the people are thinking, and the most suitable way to express the people's feelings is naturally a ballad. Therefore, during the Zhou Dynasty, there were also special officials who collected wind and traveled all over the world to collect songs, so there were fifteen "national winds", from which politicians can know the people's sufferings and reflect on the gains and losses. “

"I also set up a music house to collect and compile folk music from all over the world. The purpose of Mr. governance is not to let the people abandon their careers for a long time, and the three years can make Ye Minfu enough to choke, and there is no less singing and cursing Mr. on weekdays. But now they hear that they finally understand the painstaking work of Mr., and with such political achievements, even a hundred years later, Mr.'s name can be praised. ”

Ji Ran smiled bitterly: "I can hear this song, and the old decay has not been in vain in the past three years." However, after completing the twelve weir canals, I will also step down from my position and concentrate on the internal history of Su Zhisu, whether these ditches can be made to last for a long time, it still depends on what the successor does. Shangqing, as the poem says, 'The people also work, and the people can be well-off'. The so-called one piece is relaxed, and the way of civil and military affairs is also. In the next few years, there should be no additional major projects in Yecheng to make the people tired. ”

"Originally, I wanted to dredge the river from Zhangshui to the big river, so that the boats could be navigable unimpeded, but next year there may be a disaster, so I will give up......," Zhao Wuxian said with a smile: "Ren Zhang, who has always advocated resting with the people, will be very happy." ”

Ji Ran said: "There is no need to worry about the matter of the river, there are 12 canals in Yecheng, and tens of thousands of people in this capital can live and work in peace and contentment, and with the collection of taxes next year, Shangqing's treasury will gradually be full." ”

Looking at this golden and festive 10,000 acres of wheat fields, Ji Ran couldn't help but admire: "Thanks to Shangqing, he was able to find such a treasure land, and he was able to come up with a way to build a weir and open a canal to control floods and irrigate the fields." ”

Zhao Wuxian said: "I am also standing on the shoulders of my predecessors, a hundred years ago, Uncle Sun of Chu opened Shaobei, collected the benefits of Jiuze, and ran the country with Yin, the rich and the people were happy, so that the originally barren Huainan became rich, and his approach is worth learning from me." ”

Although it was said that it was Sun Shuao, but what flashed in Zhao Wuxian's mind was the deeds of Ximen Leopard's Zhiye, and he didn't know whether Ximen Leopard was born at this time or not, and he blamed the history books for being too slight, the year of this person's birth and death is unknown, Zhao Wuxian only knew that he was a person from the Wei Wenhou period, probably one or two generations later than himself.

What he never expected was that the person he was thinking about was right under his nose, passing by him and Ji Ran.

Simon Leopard, who had just come out of school, was standing happily on the keel waterwheel with his playmates, treading water with a roar. Because he was so focused, he didn't even realize that the head of the Zhao family, who was traveling in Weifu, was passing by less than twenty zhang away from him......

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Ximen Leopard was born in the year of the outbreak of the civil war in Liuqing, he is eight years old this year, and it has been three years since he moved from the old Jiang, and the child is easy to be obsessed with new things, indifferent to the old past, just when his parents are still sighing about the old Jiang, he has completely forgotten the hometown that is vague in his memory, and devoted himself to the new life.

In Yecheng, the law of separate households was implemented very well, and the helpless immigrants bowed their heads and obeyed, and were divided into various lilu, although there were still ties within the clan, but the relationship was no longer what it used to be.

The number of households is large, and at the same time, there is a problem that every household lacks labor. Young and strong men need to serve, that is, they are recruited by Zhao to dig twelve canals nearby, and they often do not return for several days. Therefore, when the farming is slack, there are only the old and weak women and children left to take care of the house.

Although it is said that the farm is idle, in fact, it cannot be idle, the field needs to be weed, it needs to be watered, and manpower is used. In addition, the farmland of Simon Leopard's family is far away from the village, so he also has to share some things for the family at a young age.

After the beginning of spring this year, it was sunny for a few days, and his mother went to the field to take a look around, and saw that the water in the field was dry, and the millet and wheat seedlings needed to drink water.

Dump car, also known as "keel waterwheel", is a kind of machinery used for drainage and irrigation, its structure is based on the wood reverse as a groove, the tail is immersed in the water flow, there is a small wheel axle. At the other end there is a small axle, which is fixed to the wooden frame of the embankment. When you step on the crutch, the big axle rotates, and the leaves in the trough are driven to scrape the water and pour it into the higher ground.

This kind of machinery has a strong Zhao color, and it has been spread from the lower palace for more than ten years, and the Jin people are not surprised. However, it is rare to find places like Yecheng where there are more than ten planes in each.

Like the distribution of the twelve canals, the suburbs of Yecheng are also divided into twelve townships, one township has four or five thousand people, one thousand households, and below the township is the inside, one mile and one hundred households and five families, and then there are Shi and Wu below, which is the grassroots organization of the Zhao family. Because the extinction of tens of thousands of cattle and horses and the price of livestock plummeted, the government promised the immigrants that each army would be allocated a ploughing ox and a keel waterwheel for every tithe.

Simon Leopard's father has a little prestige among the immigrants, he is Shi Chang, because the keel waterwheel is soaked in water all the year round for fear of spoiling, and he is also afraid that the lifeblood of this kind of peasant will be destroyed by the boring evil boy, so when he runs out, he will move to Shi Chang's house for storage, and then lend it out when needed. After all, it is a small rollover car mass-produced after Luban's transformation, and three or four people can carry it away.

The day was too hot, and the treading of water was usually in the evening, and because the keel waterwheel was very heavy, most of the neighbors invited by his mother to help were women and children, and they had to carry the body and frame to the field separately to assemble, so half an hour passed, and the sun was setting, and the stomach began to growl.

Every township has a Mengxue, Ximen Leopard was selected to study in Mengxue because of his talent, and he can play around with his companions after school, but whenever he needs to tread water, he has to carry a basket and go to the field to deliver food.

After the mother and the neighbors had eaten enough, they began to tread water, and Simon Leopard watched from the side. Treading water is not too tiring, there is a horizontal bar on the frame of the overturned car, the hand is gently supported, the feet move up and down, and the foot is stepped on a little harder, almost the same as walking. Skillfully able to hold the bar without hands, legs like flying.

In this way, the living water in the ditch is continuously carried to the field, which is several times more efficient than people picking and lifting it themselves!

For these peasant women who have traveled hundreds of miles here, it is already a very fortunate thing that there is still water to irrigate in such a rainy climate this year, and they are not so resentful of building ditches.

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After living together for a few years, the relationship between the neighbors of Tongshi and Wu is much kinder than at the beginning, and there is already a feeling of "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors". While stamping, the women up and down the crossbar were also chatting, which was mostly a trivial matter in the family, because Simon Leopard's father was a long-term friend, and his mother could also know something that others did not know, and this time was often the center of the topic.

"Listen to my husband, in the spring and summer of this year, there is another war in Shanxi!" Because they were deeply impressed by the Taihang Mountain Road and the passes they crossed when they immigrated, they habitually called Yedi Shandong, and Jiangdi became Shanxi......

When they heard that it was the matter of their hometown, the women pricked up their ears.

Ximen Leopard saw that under the night, his mother's mouth kept moving up and down: "Not only is there a war, but also in Xinjiang, men over the age of fifteen have to go out, and it will be two or three months to leave, delaying the agricultural time, and many people have died!" ”

A sigh suddenly sounded, although the village women didn't know that the war was the dispute between Qin and Wei Hexi that Zhao Wuxian single-handedly promoted, but this did not prevent them from feeling it.

Xinjiang and Gujiang are not far away, many people have distant relatives there, and before the great migration three years ago, there were also Gujiang people who ran to Xinjiang before the arrival of Zhao Jun, and successfully stayed there, becoming the people of the Wei family, without having to endure the pain of leaving their hometown. For the previous three years, those people were the object of envy.

Now it is different, and the women are lamenting that those people are clever and end up harming themselves, which is really unlucky. It's right to move by yourself, staying in Jiangdi, not only can't you get so many fields, but also don't have a keel waterwheel, compared to those who were forcibly conscripted to the front, your husband and son just go to do labor, what is it?

It's better to dig a ditch than to fill it!

Simon Leopard sat with his head tilted on the edge of the field and counted the stars, he couldn't understand much about the conversation of the adults, but he also vaguely felt that something terrible was happening in the distance.

Because the young master who taught them the "Cangjie" chapter in the township is said to have been a diner in the lower palace of the Zhao family, and he was a die-hard party of the Zhao family. Two years ago, Ximen Leopard just entered the school, just in time for the Zhao dynasty to be destroyed, the master came to class with tears in his eyes, last year Zhao Jun captured the river, the master danced. This year, when the news of Zhao's conquest of Shaoliang came, he also sighed in class, saying that it was really troublesome to teach them these naughty boys, and he couldn't wait to throw away the ring ruler and go to participate in the recruitment of military pawns and be a pawn......

It was a month of green and yellow, and there were not only Ximen Leopard's family in the traffic in the field, but also many people from far and near, and some were also lighting firewood, like stars in the sky. There are also fireflies that come to join in the fun, flying around them. The sound of traffic and water is connected, one after another, coupled with the joy of the frogs, like the sound of the bells, coupled with the melodious flute played by the shepherd boy, a pastoral scene, the children are a little intoxicated.

But there is also a very annoying thing, that is, buzzing mosquitoes, they can't wave away, they especially like pink children, accidentally be stared at a few bites, the next day there are many small red dots, and the forest owl in the woods on the edge of the field, the scream is terrible - the Zhao government does not allow immigrants to use axes to cut down trees, what the master said is "If the mountains and forests are exhausted, the forest foothills are scattered, and the Xue Ze is wanton, then the people will be exhausted, the fields will be barren, and the resources will be scarce...... to the effect that the logging is too serious will make the fields barren, However, what has a greater effect on Ye Min is the "Tian Law" that is clearly stipulated.

Zhao's "Dali" Deng Xi is improving the law every year, this "Tian Law" is the product of recent years, its stipulation: not in summer, it is not allowed to go into the mountains to burn wild grasses for fertilizer, it is not allowed to collect newly sprouted plants or capture young animals, bird eggs and young birds (digging bird eggs), it is not allowed to poison and kill fish and turtles in the river, and it is not allowed to set up nets with too small mesh. The ban will not be lifted until July.

Although the ban is strict, but there are also those who are not afraid, last year, one of them crossed the thunder pond, and set fire to the mountain forest without permission during the ban, almost burned a mountain of forests, so he was taken by the pavilion chief with the pavilion pawn to the door, and finally sentenced to ten years of hard labor by the Yecheng magistrate! Suddenly people dare not make a mistake.

What Ximen Leopard didn't know was that there was also a lot of controversy within the Zhao family about this law. Zhao's legislature is the "Dali Temple", although the legislation is led by Dali, there will also be people from other institutions to observe, such as the "Imperial History" Xiang Lu, who is responsible for supervising hundreds of officials.

When discussing whether to establish this law, some people sharply criticized Deng Xi, saying that this is not a copy of Zhou Liwang's "Shanze patent"?

Someone even stood up and pointed at his nose and scolded: "Deng Xi, do you want to be the father of Yu Shi!?" ”

But in the end, Xiang Lu stood up and helped Deng Yi transfer the pressure with a word.

Xiang Lu was dressed in court clothes, and glanced at more than ten people in the entire Dali Temple, most of the opponents were opposed, thinking of Shangqing's instructions to himself, he could only react immediately, and coughed lightly: "Have you ever heard of the story of 'Lige Breaking Gu'?" ”

PS: 罟 (gu) is a fishing net

(To be continued.) )