Yecheng can be said to be a brand new land, before the arrival of a large number of immigrants from the old Jiang, it was almost a blank slate: elk run in the wild, leaving their hoof prints on the Hebei Plain, Zhangshui is full of fatty fish and shrimp, fishermen can not finish fishing day and night, the land on the shore is fertile, but not growing food, but overgrown with micrograsses and wild flowers. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There was no deep-rooted aristocracy here, and there was no complicated land, so the reform of the Zhao regime was carried out most thoroughly and most rapidly here.

First of all, the well field system was officially abolished, and the Zhao government "opened up the frontier" on the newly reclaimed fields, and the land was distributed to various families in units of 100 acres.

After Zhao Wuxian personally appointed Yecheng as the new capital, a large number of soldiers were stationed, and under the suppression of the ********, the drastic reform was carried out smoothly without encountering too many obstacles. But whether it is the original thousands of local families or the tens of thousands of new immigrants, there are no complaints.

As early as six years ago, when Zhao Wuxian passed through Handan, they had seen his vigorous and resolute behavior, and the begs for mercy and screams of those witches who were thrown into the vast water and drowned still remain in their memories. So when Ida was canceled, their hearts were bleeding, but they didn't dare to protest. When a large number of immigrants poured in, occupying the mountains, rivers and lakes that were originally zoned by them in their own territory and turning them into farmland, they openly agreed that "within a hundred miles of Yecheng, all land ownership belongs to the Zhao family", but their eyes were full of hostility, and they always felt that the immigrants were foreign thieves who stole their own property.

As for the immigrants, under the obedience of the sword, there are no complaints.

Although the Zhao clan forced them to relocate, they sent soldiers and wagons to assist, and also set up medical halls and porridge sheds along the way, trying to ensure that no one died, and also avoided many people from adapting to the soil and water.

But when they arrived in Yecheng, looking at a barren and strange land, and the slightly embarrassing life in the first year, everyone began to miss their hometown, and they looked at the high Taihang Mountain in the west and sang:

"Worry about the heart (yīn), read my earth.

I am not born, and I am angry every day.

From the west to the east, the place where the place is ......"

But it's all moved, what else? The people of the Chinese family could only look at the new fields with disgust, sighed, and saved the grain sent by the government, the men pulled the plough in front, and the women held the seeds behind, and hurriedly sowed seeds on the new land, waiting for the autumn harvest.

And then a bolt of light struck.

The influx of 50,000 immigrants from the old Jiang Dynasty made them the mainstream population here, and when they began to migrate, the various clans moved in groups, planning to gather and live together after arriving in the place. However, after coming to Yecheng, they were dumbfounded.

Because the law of the Zhao clan clearly stipulates: "It is forbidden for large and small sects to live in the same room as the Kun father and brothers"! The village officials went from house to house threatening that if two or more sons in a household reach the age of starting a household and do not live separately, the three-year tax exemption policy will be abolished and the household registration tax will be doubled in the coming year!

This practice of forcing small individual families was learned by Zhao Wuxian from Shang Ying, which could increase household taxes and expand the sources of state taxes and military conscription. It can also split the clans that are grouped into pieces, so that they lose the possibility of rebelling against the government, and can also prevent the rapid emergence of strong clans in this new land.

However, this kind of change of customs is somewhat unacceptable for immigrants who like the same family of three generations and like the interdependence of large and small sects.

In order to be exempt from taxation and not to be punished, the clans that had left their homeland began to split themselves and disperse to various parts of Yecheng, but they were very uncomfortable with this new life. Without the protection of clan brothers, there is a little less sense of security after all, and looking at the strange neighbors full of suspicion, they began to use poetry to express their grievances and grievances.

"Mianmian kudzu (lěi), in the river of the 漘 (chún).

Brother Zhongyuan, called other Kun.

Say that others Kun, and don't smell it! ”

And what makes locals and immigrants feel gnashed their teeth is the "notorious" "Twelve Canals" project in Yecheng.

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In the eyes of the Zhao government, the excavation of the twelve canals was actually a matter of last resort, which was determined by the geography of Yecheng and the barrier river.

The Zhangshui River zigzags through the lofty mountains of the Taihang Mountain, and is blocked by high mountains, and the water of the Zhangshui River has to meander forward. However, when it rushes out of the high mountains and enters the Yedi Plain, the water flow disperses, and the sediment accumulates over time to form a fan-shaped alluvial plain.

The sediment is very fertile, especially suitable for the growth of crops, and Yecheng should be densely populated. But here is often threatened by floods, whenever the flood bursts, thousands of gullies rush, the flood is like a wild horse rushing out of the mountains, rampage towards the plains, destroying houses, swallowing up the land, the people of Yedi in the past hundreds of years can only cry out, flee in all directions, the villages that have been built up with great difficulty, and the population that is not easy to reproduce, a big flood can make these all come to naught.

It is precisely because of the unforgettable fear of nature that witches will take advantage of the situation here and enliven people to sacrifice Hebo. Zhao Wuxian sank the witch, but in order to solve the problem at the root, it was necessary to completely solve the terrible "Hebo", put shackles on it, and make it no longer make waves.

The excavation of the 12 canals can perfectly solve the problem of Zhangshui.

There are many craftsmen in the Zhao family, and there is no shortage of designers of such large-scale water conservancy projects, and one of the responsibilities of the original "craftsman" is to "build the country", that is, to choose a location for the capital; the second is "camping", that is, planning the capital, designing palaces and roads; The third is to "plan the fields and design water conservancy projects" for the ditch. What's more, there are Lu Ban and many digital science officials, in the year when Zhao Wuxian broke Handan, the plan for the Yecheng ditch was released.

The project plans to build 12 low weirs at the upper end of the alluvial fan at the mouth of the Zhanghe River, to intercept the flowing water in cascades, and then build a canal on the south bank of the upstream of each low weir.

In that year, the first Ye Lingcheng requisitioned the local people and began to dig ditches with thousands of prisoners, spending three years and a year to build a weir and a ditch. Three years later, the civil war ended, so the immigrants came, and the young and strong people in them gained a foothold in their new home, sowed the seeds of spring, and were recruited again by the second Ye Ling Ji Ran, and in three years, the remaining nine ditches were repaired one by one.

There are also small streams and small rivers next to Zhangshui, but the ditches are dug from scratch, and the project is not small, and the people are not bitter.

Although the Zhao family also did propaganda, but after all, it could not reach everyone's ears, this kind of so-called fatigue will make people sulk, so the locals and immigrants rarely share the same hatred, and some people sang: "Decline, decline!" Hu no return? Weijun's bow, Hu is in the mud? ”

They didn't dare to scold Zhao Wuxian, so they scolded the new Ye Ling, and the people of the Song Kingdom came with a plan, and even said viciously: "Take my clan and leave it, take my field and join it." Whoever kills, I will do it! ”

This move also sparked protests from Ren Zhang and others who advocated resting with the people and ruling by inaction, believing that the Twelve Canals had become a bad government and should be stopped.

"It's because people don't know enough about the benefits of canals."

Zhao Wuxian stood up for the project, and declared: "The people can be happy, but they can't start with worry." Now the fathers and elders of Yedi still can't see the benefits, and they are suffering from labor, but after three years, I will make the fathers and grandchildren of Yedi rich and healthy! ”

As a result, the work was continued and successfully completed before the harvest last autumn, and at the same time, the effectiveness of the 12 canals began to be gradually manifested.

Last year, the rain continued continuously, and when the autumn water came, the natives of Yecheng were pale, and they only thought that "Hebo" was going to be angry again and flooded Yedi. But the flood water that is surging from the upper reaches of the upper reaches of Yecheng is the 20-mile-long upper reaches of Yecheng, where 12 low-overflow weirs piled up in stone baskets stand out of the water, and each weir has a diversion port upstream and is controlled by a gate.

In this way, the water flow rolls through the low weir during the flood, and after the twelve low weirs are intercepted layer by layer, the water flow naturally slows down, and the water potential of the flood is divided, and when it flows through Yedi, it calms down a lot, and it is harmless to the plains and fields.

Yecheng Haochang and the people, who were originally packing up and planning to escape, watched this kind of "miracle" happen in front of them, and when they looked at the twelve river weirs that made them suffer and tired, their attitudes were different.

"Could it be that these weirs are the ones that curb the wrath of the river boss?" After they looked at each other, they finally came to this conclusion.

The more obvious benefits were proved in this year's autumn harvest, this year was different from last year, there was less rain, the flow of water was not abundant, and the farmers who migrated from Gujiang thought that they were unlucky, thinking that they would get a famine year, but it was the twelve ditches they hated that saved the harvest......

Originally, when the water was dry, the 12 low weirs could also hold back the flow of water and supply enough water to the channels, and these ditches would flow into the fields of the 12 townships around Yecheng, so that the 100,000 acres of farmland in Yedi could be irrigated.

Moreover, in addition to solving the irrigation water, Zhangshui has a lot of sediment, and the sediment is rich in organic matter, which can silt the sand and fertilize the field, and discharge salt brine, so under the moisture of the canal, the vast saline-alkali land on both sides of the Yedi has been improved, so that the former saline-alkali barren beach has become a land of ointment, and the grain yield per mu has increased by more than twice compared with before the canal was repaired! From the original yield of one stone per mu, one and a half stones, one leap to two stones, three stones!

Therefore, with the joy of the people of this year's autumn harvest, coupled with the strategies of tax exemption for three years, encouraging childbirth, teaching less, and giving small favors during the New Year's holidays, the attitude of the locals and immigrants towards the Zhao regime and the Yecheng Order has also changed.

On this day, after inspecting the autumn harvest and setting two grain storage strategies with Ji Ran, one inside and one outside, "the loss is more than enough to make up for the shortage" and "the loss is not enough to serve the surplus", Zhao Wuxian and Ji Ran left by car. When passing by one of the ditches, I happened to hear several children happily stepping on the keel waterwheel by the ditch, singing local nursery rhymes in a crisp voice:

"I have children, and I will teach them. I have a field, and I plan to grow it......"

PS: There is one more chapter in the evening

(To be continued.) )