"Alas, it's really pitiful, in order to earn some water to water the ground, this man's brain is out of a dog's brain." Looking at the villagers whose heads were broken and bleeding from the two gangs, Liu Hong couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Forget it, these people are all farmers in my fiefdom, and they are also my people, so I will be kind and help them solve this matter."

Liu Hong is a typical knife-mouthed tofu heart. Although he didn't think he was a good person, when he saw the miserable appearance of the villagers, he was moved by compassion.

Originally, Liu Hong planned to build hydraulic facilities, after all, he needed hydraulic blows for steelmaking on his farm, and the stamping machines and lathes for making guns also needed hydraulic power, and even building several mills in the fiefdom also needed hydraulic power. However, because there are too many projects recently, the construction has not started for a while, and now I have caught up with this matter, and I just took it out as a personal favor, that is, it didn't cost much more, and at the same time I could get a good reputation.

Don't look at the later generations, the word good person has almost become a curse. But in the Han Dynasty, the usefulness of a good reputation was still quite great. If it weren't for his good reputation, Liu Bei would not have been able to get so many people to follow him with the name of the Han clan who didn't know the truth or falsehood. Even those who have been chased by others and lost their dogs, and those who follow them will not abandon them, which shows the importance of a good reputation.

Hearing that Liu Hong was going to help them build water conservancy facilities, those villagers were all excited, where could they still care about fighting, and they all knelt on the ground to thank the little marquis for his kindness.

The river, named after the eight rivers surrounding the city, will certainly not be short of water, and the common people have no water to irrigate the land, mainly because there is no ditch to divert water.

Originally, Liu Hong had already done a good job of designing, building two small reservoirs on the two hills of the farm, building a water building on the fiefdom, digging a ditch, and using a water truck to divert water to the reservoir and the water building, so that all the power problems were solved at once. Now we have to add irrigation and flood discharge capacity, although the drawings have to be changed, but the changes are not significant, and it will not take much more work.

In ancient times, the folk customs were simple, and the common people were very real. When they heard that the little marquis was going to help build the irrigation system, the people of Sili and Eight Villages, while grateful, all spontaneously came to help, and there were thousands of them.

There is strength in numbers!

With so many people, plus the homeless people recruited by Liu Hong, the number is almost tens of thousands. Even though Liu Hong did not have enough shovels and pickaxes, so many people worked day and night, and the ditch for water diversion was dug in a few days.

To say that the ditch was dug so quickly, in addition to the large number of people, Liu Hong's invention also contributed to it. Liu Hong had built such a large farm, and he could make steel himself, how could he not improve his tools. Therefore, as soon as the steel was refined, Liu Hong asked the craftsmen to make a lot of tools, such as shovels, iron pickaxes, curved pears, cocoons, hand-cranked windmills, etc., as long as he knew the agricultural tools and tools, all of them were made. With the addition of cement and gunpowder quarrying, this progress is not fast.

After digging the ditch and setting up the water wheel, Liu Hong immediately sent the villagers back who had helped. The rest of the project is definitely not something that can be completed in a short time, even if there is gunpowder to open the mountain and quarry, and there is cement to speed up the progress. Although with the help of the villagers, the progress can be accelerated to some extent, but for Liu Hong's dedication, this progress is not proportional at all.

Although there is a lot of power, there are many people who eat a lot!

The people help, although they don't need to be paid, but you can't ignore the food, Liu Hong can't do it for nothing. But now it is a time when the grain price is high and the food price is high, and the food money of a few thousand villagers is definitely not a small amount.

Don't look at the economic situation of the Hou Mansion that has improved now, but it can't stand the Hou Mansion's recent continuous big moves. Moreover, it recruited thousands of displaced people, so that the Hou Mansion did not have much surplus food, if it was for thousands of villagers to eat, it would take a long time, and the Hou Mansion would definitely not be able to stand it.

The villagers all went back, and Liu Hong stood on the edge of the canal, looking at the wide ditch. The canal is two or three meters wide, and the bottom and sides are made of stone and cement, which is not only very beautiful, but mainly strong enough.

Because Liu Hong knew that in the next few decades, floods, droughts, and locust plagues occurred frequently throughout Dahan. Therefore, Liu Hong directly built a high-specification ditch, in order to fundamentally solve the problem. It's good now, the problem seems to be solved, but this cost, Liu Hong thinks about it for a while.

"Damn, don't be a good person anymore! No matter what time it is, being a good person will always hurt! ”

This also made Liu Hong sigh, although he looked at the life of the Hou Mansion was still the same as before, how should he live, how should he live. However, more than half of the family wealth accumulated by the Hou Mansion during this period of time disappeared at once. This means that the Hou Mansion is no longer what it used to be, so it didn't hurt the Hou Mansion, if it was put in the past, such a big expense would definitely make Liu Hong vomit blood.

The money has been spent, and Liu Hong doesn't care about it, seeing that all the projects are being carried out in an orderly manner, Liu Hong is still very happy.

With such a big project, Liu Hong can't always stare at it, after all, his purpose is to have fun, not to find his own guilt on the construction site. After some consideration, I left all these things to the butler.

Originally, Liu Hong saw that the housekeeper was so busy, so he wanted Liu Fu to be responsible, so that the housekeeper could worry less, and cultivate Liu Fu by the way, so that he could take over the family's class in the future.

But Liu Fu has no interest in this at all, and he is with the army all day long, saying that he will be a general who will expand his territory in the future. When Liu Hong and the housekeeper's persuasion failed, he could only be left to him, and Liu Hong directly handed over the escort team to him.

After finishing the trivial work, Liu Hong thought that he could be idle, but he suddenly thought that he didn't have an intelligence network yet. For such an important thing, let others get it, Liu Hong absolutely can't rest assured, so he can only do it himself.

As a traverser, Liu Hong is well aware of the role of intelligence. And now is a good time, he can take advantage of the current expansion of the hotels and brothels in the Hou Mansion, so that the framework of the intelligence system can be established, and the detailed things will be slowly built in the future.

The stir-fried vegetables and pastries invented by Liu Hong have now swept the entire Han Dynasty. At the beginning, the housekeeper only opened one in Luoyang, the eastern capital, to see how the effect was. Unexpectedly, as soon as the restaurant opened, it immediately became popular, and there were people waiting in line to eat all day long, and even the housekeeper opened several restaurants in Luoyang in a row, but it didn't solve the problem of overcrowding.

The hotel is so popular, the housekeeper plans to promote it to the whole country. The housekeeper trained enough chefs a few years ago, and he wanted to blossom everywhere in Dahan after the Chinese New Year.

The reason why the restaurant is attractive is that Liu Hong gets the condiments is the key, as long as this thing can't leak out, even if someone poachs the chef, he can't make a delicious meal. So even if you open a store on a large scale, you are not afraid that others will learn it.

Besides, this brothel, according to Liu Hong's assumption, the housekeeper chose a few good ones among his singers, and opened a branch of Lichunyuan in the capital that sells his art but not his body. I didn't expect the effect to be quite good, although it didn't attract any big shots, but the students of Tai Academy have become frequent visitors to Lichun Academy. And through the publicity of the students, the reputation of Lichun Academy has gradually grown.

The brothels have opened, and Liu Hong doesn't care about building casinos. Anyway, he knew that there were so many gambling equipment in the later generations, and he would never lose money by opening a casino.

With restaurants, brothels and casinos, the main framework of the intelligence network has been set up, and the dilemma now is how to gather information from various places as quickly as possible.

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