Yanlingyi Xiangjiang Binhai, to the east across more than ten miles of ocean, there are several sandbanks, among which the east Buzhou, Hudouzhou into the earliest land, the land is also the widest. Dongbuzhou, 60 miles from east to west, 40 miles from north to south, is located in the southeast of Qingpu and northwest of Yanling, and faces each other across the sea but six miles of water. Hudouzhou, 80 miles from east to west, 50 miles from north to south, is located in the south of the east side of Yanling, and faces each other 20 miles of water across the sea. When the Puji bandits were in trouble, the two sandbanks gradually disappeared and were deserted for decades. After the end of the battle of the East China Sea, the power of Puji gradually weakened, unable to invade here, and later Xu Ruyu implemented the county policy in Yongyang, and placed Hailing County in the coastal area between Qingpu and Yanling, and governed Dongbuzhou; He also placed Jinghai County on Hudouzhou, governed Hudouzhou, and moved people to two sandbanks to reclaim land and boil salt.

In the past few years, Sanshui County has been newly established in Dongbuzhou, in the sea area west of Hailing. Xu Ruyu two years ago at this time, there were still six or seven miles of sea surface between the sandbar and the land of Hailing, at this time the sea surface has become a clear stream of Li Xu Kuan, and the two sides of the clear stream are two or three miles wide tidal flats, during which the green reeds are luxuriant, and sometimes there are white cranes from the green reeds and fly to the sky.

The land of the sandbar and Hailing each crosses a huge tidal weir, the tidal weir does not close, the huge gap in it swallows the surging tide, because of the existence of the tidal weir, the sea water that pours into the sandbar and the land is much less, surging for a few miles, so that the tidal flats on both sides are restrained into a blue stream. There are still a few such tidal weirs to the south, only to stay until autumn, the sea water recedes to the lowest, the innermost two cofferdams are closed, and the sea water is driven out with a wind-powered water wheel, which is to fill in millions of fertile fields, and can also connect Dongbuzhou with the land in a real way.

Now, as long as the flood season is avoided and the cofferdams on both sides are used, the distance between Dongbuzhou and the land is only two miles, which is far less than the width of the river between Jinghai and Linjiang.

The base port of Jinghai camp is in Jinghai, but the seat of Jinghai Mansion is in Yanling City. However, most of the merchant ships entering and exiting the river will dock in Jinghai overnight before going to Yongyang, and Jinghai County has only been in place for two years, but it has surpassed Yanling County. The sea area between Zhihai and Yanling is more than 20 miles wide, and although it is said that most of the ground will be exposed during the dry tide period, the reclamation of the cofferdam is a huge project, and hundreds of thousands of manpower must be mobilized.

Zhong Ji wore a green gauze hat and a brown shirt, standing on the deserted seawall, looking at the white cranes rushing to the sky, a few wisps of white clouds in front of him, thinking about the Jinghai cofferdam. There are countless barren and fertile fields to be cultivated within the jurisdiction, and Jiangning is not very interested in reclamation, not to mention the use of so many people, the financial resources consumed are also staggering, and now is the time to dominate the world, and the excess financial resources are not invested in this.

Di Yida said beside him: "Lord Qingfeng came to Jinghai, and the officials of Yongyang, big and small, were eager to come over and tie up, but you avoided here." ”

Zhong Ji glanced at Di Yida and said, "The cofferdam is not closed, the tide is coming, how can I rest assured?" Besides, adults don't have to be stammered by me. ”

Di Yida smiled and did not answer, he was originally a small official in Jinghai Tuntian, and he was appreciated by Zhong Ji, and he was kept by his side, and he was appointed as the secretary of the branch.

The commander invited the secretary and secretary, thinking that he was a staff member, equivalent to a doorman, who could participate in political affairs, but was an informal official. Di Yida was the secretary of the branch of Zhong Ji Mu and assisted Zhong Ji in managing the money and grain of Jinghai Mansion, but Jinghai Mansion also had a branch rafter official who was actually granted.

Zhong Ji saw that his smiling eyes seemed to hide other meanings, and asked, "What is Yida thinking in his heart?" ”

Diyida said, "I'm thinking about what my son is thinking. ”

"Oh?"

"I wonder if Lord Qingfeng will suddenly be interested in coming over here to take a look."

Zhong Ji smiled, nodded and said: "Even if we don't build a cofferdam embankment, the sea area here will gradually become land after more than a hundred years, but we seem to be a little anxious, not to mention that adults may not care about such a small thing." ”

Di Yida said: "Yuejun and the East China Sea are called the granaries of the world, but in recent years, there have been wars, and there is no corn in the warehouse, and Lord Qingfeng is probably having a headache for such a thing. ”

When Zhong Ji saw him suddenly talk about this, his heart moved, but he said quietly on his face: "The land has been exempted from field tax for three years, and the grain and grass in these three years are in addition to the income from the military canton, which is to eat the millet in the warehouse. ”

Di Yida said: "Cutting Jiangning, grain and grass are naturally lacking, if you want to dominate the world, you have to take precautions, but it is not what little people like me care about." ”

Zhong Ji Zhengse said: "The rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible, although Yida is from the fields, but there are hills and ravines in the chest. I'm here to watch the tide, but how can I avoid seeing adults? The Fanyang family returned to Jiangning in the south, and since the adults welcomed them to Jinghai, they naturally didn't care about walking two hundred miles more to meet them. At that time, I will introduce him to the adults, but Yida will have to consider the matter of the corn in the warehouse. ”

Di Yida turned his head away, and when the shame on his face was hidden, Fang turned his head and said, "What I think in my heart is not careful, I can't hide it, how dare I take it out and offer it ugly?" ”

Zhong Ji didn't care, and said, "Master Mei came with the adults, and I will introduce you to him then." ”

Di Yida said: "Yida thinks that in addition to Jiangning, he can choose two or three rich and accessible places to build a warehouse, which is different from the official warehouse of the government, and should be directly under the jurisdiction of the Changshi Mansion. ”

The official warehouse of the government office is under the jurisdiction of the government hall branch Cao, and only the granary set up in the city where the garrison is located is under the jurisdiction of the Changshi Mansion, and if the warehouse built directly belongs to the Changshi Mansion, it will be purely used for military purposes.

Di Yida continued: "There is a waterway to pass the world, thousands of miles away without feeling difficult, choose a rich place, the warehouse is easy to real, based on the military tun, do not harm the people's livelihood, before Wuling Mountain, for the depth of Jiangning, you can build a warehouse in Dongyang, you can go by sea in an emergency, millions of stones of grain and grass, you can go to Jiangning in ten months; There are not many rich fields in Qingjiang, but Tunding is the most widely distributed, you can build a warehouse in Lishui, you can go from the Qingjiang waterway in a hurry, and you can go to Jiangning within five days; Jinghai land is fertile, Tunding is also many, can build a warehouse in the north of Hailing, said that after the need, Hailing warehouse can enter the river water, can also enter the Huai water, can also be transferred to various places from the sea. These three warehouses, not only accumulate rice and millet, but also accumulate blades, the warehouse city can set up another craftsman camp, the craftsman camp out, also into the warehouse, in case of his needs. ”

Zhong Ji pondered for a while, and said: "Your Excellency should not only be Jiangning, Dongyang Cang is in case of emergency, Lishui Cang is in preparation for Nanping, Hailing Cang is in preparation for the Northern Expedition, if you don't come to Hailing, I will be on the table, and you will go to Jiangning to Qingfeng Mansion." ”

Di Yida thought that his ambition would eventually have a chance to be displayed, so he couldn't hide his excitement, pushed the mountain down, and said, "Yida thanks the prince for his cultivation." ”

Zhong Ji said: "Jiang Ning has always attached importance to the talents of the people, and it is the responsibility of officials from all over the country to select capable officials for adults. ”

While he was talking, a small official climbed up the waste embankment with great difficulty, and shouted from a distance: "General Qingfeng and his entourage will go north by sea boat in front of them, and they will meet the people of Fanyang in Sanshui, and ask the prince to go to Sanshui to meet." "Walked closer and handed the letter sent by Yanling City to Zhong Ji.

Zhong Ji took it apart and looked at it, and said to Di Yida: "My lord has set aside a day, and I will meet the talents of Jinghai in Sanshui, so you can cross the sea with me." ”

Di Yida looked at the clear stream in front of him and said secretly: Can this still be called the sea? Thinking of meeting the overlord of the southeast, he was both excited and worried, and he became uneasy for a while.

At the time of the Battle of the East China Sea, Zhong Ji participated in the defense of Yongyang City as the leader of the Yanling Gang, Xu Ruyu served as the commander of Yongyang, and Zhong Ji served as the commander of Yanling and was subordinate to him. At that time, I only thought that he was talented, and the world could not match; Compassion for the heavens and people, inheriting the legacy of Confucianism and Xu Xing. Two years ago, Xu Ruyu went straight down to Yongyang from Qingjiang, retook charge of Yongyang's military and political affairs, implemented county policies, resigned from the military power of Zhong, and changed to Jinghai Mansion. Goodbye at this time, Xu Ruyu is already a veritable overlord of the southeast, and his aggressive edge has been gone, looking at it like a majestic mountain and a ravine, quiet and majestic.

Zhong Ji led Jinghai to choose dozens of candidates from the people, and said: "The adults are eager to seek talents, but Jinghai is a new people, but I am afraid that the adults will be disappointed." ”

Mei Tierui looked at the crowded people standing next to each other, and was startled, Yongyang is a big mansion, Xu Tingyi has only twenty talents from the people, but Zhong Ji is in the remote place of Jinghai, and he can pick out fifty or sixty people in two years to crowd the small official office of Sanshui County.

Xu Ruyu raised his eyebrows and stood up, and said: "The official office is narrow, it is better to remove the seats, the subordinate, and bother you to introduce it from generation to generation." ”

When everyone saw that Xu Ruyu wanted to stand in the hall with everyone, they all said that they didn't dare, and at the end, Mei Tierui, Xu Boying and others removed their seats and stood in the hall with everyone in Jinghai, so that the place seemed more spacious.

Zhong Ji pointed to Di Yida and said: "Di Yida, whose ancestral home is Guangling, is currently the record of the Jinghai branch, good at money and grain support, Sanshui cofferdam reclamation, no need to produce millet in Jinghai Mansion, his calculation work, there is still a long closing table to enter, but the poetry book is not as old as the countryside." ”

Xu Ruyu saw that Di Yida was nearly thirty years old, with a slight red beard and a few mud marks splashed on his brown robe, and asked: "I have heard a little about the reclamation, but I don't know the details. ”

When Di Yida first entered the hall, the heart lake was like being attacked by the wind, and the waves were turbulent, and then he met Xu Ruyu's clear eyes, but he didn't feel how panicked, lined up everyone, stood in front of the princes, and said: "Before Sanshui and Jinghai became land, Yanling and Qingpu were low, and the sea tide was surging, often soaking and irrigating a hundred miles, building a tidal weir, and the land of a hundred miles was free from the invasion of the sea tide, and ten thousand poured fertile land. Sanshui, the sea gradually becomes land, the tide is blocked by the sandbar, Qingpu, Yanling at the tidal embankment gradually abandoned, the people because of the tidal embankment to get the field think, the clock on the watch, between the three water and Hailing cofferdam, the weir in the sea water drain out, so that the three water and Hailing land, and can get ten thousand hectares of fertile land, to make the land to pay for work, so there is no need to produce millet from the warehouse. At this time, the four cofferdams have not yet closed the dragon, but the tide here is not the most turbulent in spring, I accompanied Zhong Ji from the cofferdam, and stayed until the autumn after the dragon, it should be no problem. And 100,000 acres of land under the original tidal embankment can be cultivated. ”

Xu Ruyu nodded and said: "In the old dynasty, Li Jundu went out of Wuzhou, built a cofferdam to fill Aurora Lake, got ten thousand hectares of fertile land, and was rumored to be a good government for a while. Although there are 80,000 hectares of Aurora Lake, but Aurora Lake connects with the large and small water systems of Yue County, and connects with the river, Gu Changhuai once said to me, filling the lake is too much, then worrying about the flood, filling the lake to get the land, although it can increase the land, but a flood will be washed away, and it cannot be done. Reclamation without this concern is a good method. ”

Zhong Ji said: "The cofferdam is built in Sanshui, and the flow of the river in the north between Jinghai and Yanling is gradually slowing down, which is conducive to sinking sand and can promote its land into land. ”

Xu Ruyu knew a lot about the landform of the territory, and knew that the cofferdam between Sanshui and Hailing only needed to be built for six miles, while between Jinghai and Yanling was a sea area of twenty miles. Yin asked: "If you build a cofferdam between Jinghai and Sanshui, how much will it cost?" ”

Zhong Ji glanced at Di Yida and motioned for him to present it.

Di Yida was grateful, bowed slightly, and said: "The Sanshui cofferdam will be effective next year, and half of the income from land creation will be allocated to the Jinghai cofferdam, and there is no need to go out separately, and it will be self-sufficient in five years. ”

Xu Ruyu glanced at Mei Tierui and said, "What does Tierui think?" ”

Mei Tierui said: "If the Sanshui cofferdam can compete for merit, Jinghai can also be a cofferdam, but it still needs to transport 100,000 displaced people. ”

The war in the north is chaotic, and it is a foregone conclusion that the displaced people will flood south, and there will naturally be no shortage of 100,000 displaced laborers. Xu Ruyu nodded and said: "Tie Rui has always acted prudently, so it depends on the effect of the Sanshui cofferdam next year, what is the matter of long-term liquidation?" ”

Di Yida took out a letter from his sleeve, raised it to his eyebrows, and Zheng Cangzi took it and handed it to Xu Ruyu. Xu Ruyu opened it and took a cursory look, glanced at Di Yida, quietly put the book strategy on the case, and only said "I know", and asked Zhong Ji to introduce other talents in Jinghai.

Di Yida stepped aside with a disappointed expression.

Zhong Ji led Jinghai Mansion, subordinate to the political hall, has no military power in his hands, has no scruples in his heart, meets a good talent, he will be extended to the staff, teach practical things, if there is a real performance, then recommend the real job, in the past two years, although Jinghai Mansion is a new place, the recommended talents are not less than other prefectures and counties. This time, there are all professionals. It was not until the end of the night feast that the crowd dispersed.

Xu Ruyu and others stopped at the Sanshui County Ya, and in addition to the 500 cavalry battalion Jingwei, there were also 3,000 water battalion soldiers led by Li Yin. Zhong Ji and Mei Tierui were talking in the front office, and they were about to leave in the middle of the night, when a guard came out of the inner house and invited Mei Tierui and Zhong Ji in. In the hall of the inner house, Xu Ruyu was holding a scroll in his hand and was studying by candlelight, Xu Boying, Tu Wenyong, and Li Yin were waiting to stand on one side, Zhong Ji walked into the room, but saw that Xu Ruyu was holding the "Long Liquidation Table" presented by Di Yida.

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