Li Xiangfu approached and suddenly shouted: "Guan Daguan Er, who told you to dig a ditch?" ”

When the two heard Li Xiangfu's shout, they raised their faces together, and then lowered their heads again and did not speak.

A canal of about thirty steps appeared in front of everyone's eyes, the east end of the canal connected to the south trunk canal on the side of Li Zhuang, and the other end was connected to the plot of the housekeeper brother.

At harvest time, the other end was blocked, but the small canal was still full of water.

Li Xiangfu said angrily: "Didn't I tell you, don't dig ditches without authorization, why are the people in charge of the village so shameless." ”

Guan Da raised his face, squinted his eyes and smiled: "They are all neighbors, you have water, just watch us do it, this water is also worth as much as rent?" There's water in the river over there, so you can just scoop it up and pay it back. ”

"Holy shit, you're being unreasonable, aren't you?"

Li Xiangfu was annoyed, pointed at the pipe and scolded, there were a lot of people who were working in the field, and they all helped the pipe to scold Li Xiangfu for a while, and everyone scolded each other, Li Xiangfu followed by Li Zhuang There are few people, and he can't scold, there is a descendant who runs back to shout people, and the people in charge of the village see this, and some people run to the village.

Zhang Han was surprised at first, and then he was relieved.

The scene in front of me, in fact, should be a common thing in the countryside of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's control over the local is very weak, and the local officials mainly rely on the clan and the local power, which makes the local self-control nature very strong, everyone lives according to the clan, especially in the countryside, it is normal for outsiders and miscellaneous surnames to be bullied.

Fighting for plots, water sources, and fighting for injustices and group fights for messy reasons are very common in the Ming Dynasty and even in the later Qing Dynasty until the Republic of China, and even during the Republic period.

The concept of helping people and not helping relatives sounds good, but there are too few people who can do it.

Li Xiangfu came over angrily, pointed to a few fierce people who were scolding and said to Zhang Han: "Owner, those dogs are still working in our village, and they have received wages a few days ago. ”

Zhang Han said: "Go back and ask Dongxue to fire them, record them, and they will not be allowed to use them again in the future." Including the people in front of you, write down their names, no matter what the project is, you don't need them. ”

At this time, the rain gradually became lighter, and the sky gradually cleared, Zhang Han first ignored the matter here, and went to see the big waterwheel in front with Sun Jingting.

The waterwheel in front of Zhang Han is a double car, that is, it has two sets of guide rails, and the number of dumps of the waterwheel has also doubled, and now the river water in the river is rushing down, and the tipping buckets on the waterwheel keep scooping up the water, and then pouring the water into the wooden channel through the flap, and then finally entering the main canal.

Recently, it is the harvest season, and it is necessary to irrigate the seeds after turning over the ridges and planting the seeds, and it needs to be irrigated several times before winter. Of course, if the rain is endless, in fact, the amount of water needed is not large, but in the past few years it has been a continuous drought, and the amount of rainfall in nature is seriously insufficient.

In some places in northern Shaanxi, people are really relying on the sky to eat, there is a lack of water sources within a radius of several miles or even dozens of miles, the land is extremely barren, except for the crops can not see the slightest green, those places can not talk about artificial irrigation at all, and even the seeds are sown at will, because except for a few places near the water source, the harvest in most places can only look at the sky, God will enjoy the meal and eat a few more rains, otherwise it is a drought, if the weather is dry, any careful cultivation is in vain.

The guide rail kept pouring water into the canal, and the north-south direction of the canal was nearly three meters deep, and the embankment was also about one meter wide, extending two or three miles to the south and then turning eastward, including Li Zhuang and a large amount of land bought later.

Of course, the canal is still far from enough, from Li Mansion to Tianchengwei and Zhenyuwei, Zhang Han bought a total of 27,000 acres of land, plus the original land of Li Zhuang, the number of acres of land he owns is more than 30,000 acres, in the north of Jin Province, in addition to the acting king and other relatives are already regarded as first-class landlords, the general official eunuch gentry family, it is very good to have a few thousand acres of land heirloom, Zhang Han is a businessman background, although he has the support of the governor and the general army, many people still do not buy his account, it is very good to be able to buy so much land.

"Uncle said that the canal to the south has to be repaired for more than three miles, seven miles to the west, and then there is a river, and we have to build five or six large waterwheels and build dozens of wells, so that all our land can be turned into high-yield paddy fields."

Zhang Han looked at the waterwheel, and Li Dongxue said on the side: "Uncle last said: Is it worth it?" ”

Chang Jinquan is not tired of making waterwheels, he is just interested, waterwheels from single cars to double cars, he has done all kinds of types, each new car is different from the front, in addition to the challenge of diameter, the need to do bigger and bigger. The money is used to the fullest, and hundreds of people at the bottom are divided and cooperated, Chang Jinquan just doesn't understand a little, these manpower, material and financial resources that Zhang Han took out to make a waterwheel, if they are used to buy grain, I am afraid it will be enough to eat for a hundred years, is it really "worth it?" "That's it.

Zhang Han's purchase of land is something that everyone can understand, this is the ancestral industry, it does not care how much the income is, it is a permanent property, and it can be passed on to future generations.

Having money to buy land is a land complex unique to an agrarian nation that every Chinese cannot get rid of.

In addition to Chang Jinquan, Zhang Han also asked Kong Minxing to introduce a few people who had followed Xu Guangqi and were now studying miscellaneous studies in the South Catholic Church, all of whom were hired with high salaries, and these people would soon join the crowd of people who made waterwheels.

With so much investment, even Chang Jinquan, who loves miscellaneous studies, feels uneasy, not only him, but I am afraid that Zhou Fengji and even Li Shenming and others have a question in their hearts: "Is it worth it?" ”

Zhang Han did not explain this, sometimes it is difficult for people to explain some things clearly, what he is doing now is based on all the calculations in his heart, some plans are completely ulterior, and some things are because of a superficial understanding of the general trend of history, and know how to do the most appropriate.

For example, he knew that the famine would become more and more serious in a few years, and the most serious disasters were in northern Shanxi and northern Shaanxi.

One of Zhang Han's opinions is that wealth is not only land, gold and silver, but also the most valuable wealth, Shanxi is stable here, people's hearts are not chaotic, his financial resources will not be affected, and vice versa.

Everything now is nothing more than planning for the overall situation in the future, and there is really no way to tell others about all this.

Sun Jingting suddenly pointed to the opposite side and said, "The people from Guanzhuang are here." ”

Zhang Han smiled: "What is expected ......"

He turned his head to look, and sure enough, the opposite Guanzhuang was like an ant colony that had been shoveled out of the nest, and the nests ran out of all the roads in the village, and people were holding iron forks and iron rakes and shovels in their hands, and some people were holding long knives or iron guns in their hands, and Zhang Han even saw a few people holding bird guns in their hands...... The northern border army forged a lot of various firearms, and it was inevitable that some of them would also go to similar people.

There were about three or four hundred people in the crowd, and most of them were men, most of whom were athletic, trotting along the ridges and canals, and behind these men were women and children.

Most of these people are scolding and scolding, and they keep shouting, and the closer they get, the louder the scolding becomes.

Zhang Han listened attentively, most of these people were scolding him for being rich and unkind, so he had to shake his head and smile.

Sun Jingting was still a little bookish, and said angrily at the moment: "Is this a ghost domain, uneducated?" There are no sensible elders in the clan? Don't live around with a village sage? How can these people be allowed to mess around like this. ”

Zhang Han said: "You say Xiangxian, I'm afraid there will be after the crowd." Brother Xiaozheng, when the word is at the head, the so-called benevolence and virtue are useless. ”

Sun Jingting said gloomily: "I also thought about it, so I was extremely unhappy." ”

Zhang Han glanced at this companion who was less than ten years older than himself, it was funny, most of the people around him now were middle-aged, and everyone was usually submissive to him, only when Liang Xing and Chang Wei and a group of people were by his side, they felt some vitality. However, Liang Xing is a subordinate in the end, and he can't let go, only when Sun Jingting and Li Shenming are there, someone can talk to him in an equal and normal tone.

Sun Jingting's face is very handsome, with fair skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes, but he often purses his mouth, his chin is a little sharp, and he often has a depressed expression.

Zhang Han shook his head with a smile, dispelling the idea of persuasion, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the readers with a little conscience in the north were probably confused and confused, they saw that the Ming Dynasty was full of problems, and the people were very poor.

The problem is that these people can't find a solution to the problem, and Sun Jingting is the same.

More scholars are not as good as Sun Jingting's generation, they only know pleasure, keep accumulating wealth and squandering, enjoy food, wine and women's sex, can write some life narratives, write notes, and write books for the world, even if their lives are not in vain.

The crowd was getting closer and closer, and the scolding was getting louder and louder, and at this time, Jiang Kui and the others hurriedly gathered around Zhang Han and surrounded him.

"That's their proprietor over there, talk to him."

There are many people who recognize Zhang Han on the Guanzhuang side, after all, some people were still working on Li Zhuang's side a while ago, and someone shouted, and hundreds of men with fork rakes ran over here.

Jiang Kui opened the lid of the tinder jar, blew up the sparks, and lit the fire rope, he had just applied the sub-medicine, and then immediately ignited the fire, the fire rope burned, and with a "bang", the gun mouth went up, and the projectile flew into the air-

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