Chapter 146: The Beginning of the Drought
Take advantage of the chaos to attack Huainan? Bai Tu is not a person who falls into a well.
Especially now, the wells of Huainan ...... Some of the water levels have dropped!
It's June, Jiangdong and Huainan are not ordinary hot this year, and it should be the time of the rainy season, but this year's rain is significantly less.
In the northeast of the Yangtze River, it was only affected, and Huainan was ...... It is almost certain that this year's harvest will definitely be greatly affected!
And in the expectation of countless people, the worst situation still began to happen - after mid-June, God seems to be particularly stingy, Huainan has not rained for more than a month......
In the northeastern part of the Yangtze River, it is also as if the handkerchief that has wiped the tears of the Huainan people, and only occasionally ticks some.
Even Xuzhou and southern Yuzhou have been affected, apparently this year's harvest ...... It is no longer a problem of reducing production, and if it continues like this, Huainan is afraid that there will be no harvest, and the southern part of the Central Plains will also be affected, and it will be good to have a harvest of two percent in a bumper year.
However, at this moment, a radiant word, accompanied by drought, came to life in the hearts of the people of Jiangdong - deep well disease!
In Wu County and Danyang County, a deep well that was previously considered "useless" and "pleasing to the state pastor" has become full of hope after some small canals have begun to dry up.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also been paying attention to the drought situation, and when the rainfall and the dryness of the land have dropped to a critical value, the Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately ordered to start using deep wells!
At the same time, the troops stationed in various places have also received a new task -- fighting drought and providing disaster relief, and walking with the people.
There is a deep well, at least don't worry, the people will die of thirst, people and animals are sufficient, and every time the water is fetched, everyone will be grateful to think of the state pastor, thinking of the "deep well disease" behind the back, everyone feels ashamed.
There are even folk righteous people who are ashamed to swallow carbon because of this incident, and they were also reported to Bai Tu by local officials as a positive example of "the people's hearts are available", which made Bai Tu deeply feel that the people at this time are still very simple, although they are easy to be dominated by feelings, but they are also different from some keyboard warriors who only care about talking and are not responsible in later generations.
Of course, for this kind of self-harm, Bai Tu severely criticized, and said that there will be a large number of recruitments in the future, please use your strength in the right place!
Now the problem is agricultural ......
Obviously, these deep wells alone could not meet the amount of irrigation in the past, so the Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately dispatched a large number of grassroots officials to preach the importance of "reasonable irrigation" to the people.
It is impossible to keep the entire harvest, so instead of watering all the farmland, it is better to decisively give up part of it and keep at least half of the harvest.
This scale is the judgment of the "doctors" hired by Lu Su according to the meaning of Bai Tu, that is, those old farmers who are experienced and can even put forward some effective suggestions......
Of course, the water system situation in different places is different, the number of deep wells is different, and the specific problems need to be analyzed in detail...... It is these grassroots officials hastily cultivated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Originally, there was some opposition to the Ministry of Civil Affairs recruiting officials from peasant households, but now it is time for them to prove themselves with practical actions.
Since the first battle of Anhui City, except for Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, who were "trapped in the city", Jiangdong has stopped all the use of troops, but ...... However, there are still countless "warriors" like civil officials, who are still "fighting" on the front line.
The disaster situation in various places was quickly transmitted to Jinling through the signal tower, so that the disaster relief force could be distributed as quickly as possible.
And the one who won the "champion" of the disaster situation this time is undoubtedly Fuchun County, Wu County......
It is said that Fuchun is a good place, usually the water system is abundant, and the traffic is developed, no matter how it is, Fuchun will not be the most seriously affected!
But it can't stand it, there is a Xu family in Fuchun, which directly destroyed many "deep wells" - according to Xu's propaganda among the people, this is a protest against the "hard drive deep well disease"!
Even the local officials in Fuchun County were not keen on digging deep wells, and after the officials who were supervised and assisted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs went away, the local officials instead encouraged the people to cause trouble.
When the officials wanted to dismiss these local officials, they also staged a farce of the blood of the people - after Bai Tu knew about it, he simply let them go.
Some of the deep wells that were dug with great difficulty were all dug by the Ministry of Civil Affairs when the farming was slack, and even ...... A little more paid than anywhere else!
Bai Tu admitted that it was not Xu who destroyed the deep well at the beginning, but ...... A boring person who did not want to be named casually let Xu take the blame, so that he could settle accounts with him in the future.
Anyway, Bai Tu is right, with Xu Gong's character, as long as the rumors are together, he will not deny it, but will regard it as a very "long-faced" thing.
However, what Bai Tu never expected was that Xu Gong not only did not deny it, but even got inspired, as if he really only needed to block Bai Tu in this matter, he would be able to show his ability, and then he really intensified his obstruction and destruction of the deep well excavation.
"Unnamed boring people", when destroying the deep well, they only destroyed some superfluous, and calculated the rest of the deep well, at most, it made everyone harder, but Xu Gong did it...... It's true that every spectrum!
There are many villages in Fuchun County, which have become the only places in Jiangdong that cannot even guarantee water sources for civil and livestock purposes independently, and now they can only concentrate their people in the county seat and other large towns, waiting for the surrounding water to be transported to make a living......
Grievances!
Fuchun County has gathered irrepressible public resentment, and the target is not Bai Tu, but the Xu family, the officials who did not act before!
Xu Gong used to be in the local area, using this as a means of "hype" set up by his own people who are not afraid of power, so no one knows whose pot is now...... The reputation of being wronged and having a debtor, and not being able to shake off the reputation has become stinky.
Even after the drought began, the Hsu seized the few remaining deep wells – as large buffalo households, they needed a lot of water for their livestock.
I don't know when, there was a rumor among the affected people that "the Xu family forcibly seized the well to feed the cattle, causing the villagers to die of thirst......
Before, it was only because Xu Gong offended other families that he was a little "outstanding" in the right of the family, but now, ...... The Xu family should be the only wealthy family in his hometown who has been spurned by other villagers.
As the representative of Wei Guangzheng, Bai Tu personally gave instructions to rescue the people of Fuchun, and took the soldiers who brought the water sources from around to work overtime to dig deep wells for Fuchun to grind guns.
It is the same as transporting grain, and even greater than the loss of transporting grain, which is equivalent to spending countless water resources to dig the deep wells needed for Fuchun's life, but the damned cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, and the dead farmland are basically no longer saved......
At this moment, Wang Lang and Yu Fu personally led the officials of the Criminal Department and the Household Department to Fuchun, and they will thoroughly investigate the hidden households, hidden fields, and other possible illegal acts of the Xu family!
In fact, today's major families, even if they cooperate with Bai Tu, they will definitely not be able to withstand such an investigation, and the Lu family and the Yu family also have the problem of hidden households and hidden fields, and even private salt is still sold in a car.
It's just that if you want to check other wealthy families, it will definitely cause local resentment, or even civil riots, as a local nobleman, which can easily stir up local people's feelings.
But at this time, the officials of the Fuchun Household Department and the Criminal Department were warmly welcomed by the people.
In addition, the Xu clan usually misbehaves in words and deeds, and the amount of evidence against the crime is as much as there is, and the army that assisted in digging the well has not yet withdrawn at this time, and is directly stationed near the Xu clan's land......