Ji Qingling said: "I remember the last time the fifth brother told me that after the survey was completed this time, the charter was raised, as long as the Chinese book can't find any problems, he can act immediately, I don't know if it's still like this now?" ”

Gu Yanzhang nodded and said: "Today in the palace is very smooth, Fan Dashen will urge, there is the queen mother staring, and the book has been restored in the afternoon." ”

He said: "Thanks to Qingling, your 'Bianqu' is the same method of drawing." ”

Ji Qingling shook his head and said with a smile: "I just came up with an idea, all the details in it are made by the water workers and officials in the water prison, at most you can please me in private, help you save the effort of thinking of ideas, and the rest of the things have nothing to do with me." ”

Gu Yanzhang looked at her with a smile, only said "um", and said, "What Madam said is that she thinks shallowly for her husband." ”

He replied like this, which made Ji Qingling, who originally just wanted to make a joke, embarrassed, his face was slightly red, and he quickly diverted the topic, brought the matter over, and said: "According to the original method of dredging and draining the canal of Fan Dashen, when dredging, water can generally be diverted to irrigate the fields, and the soil can be dug and silted. ”

Gu Yanzhang nodded, did not interject, and waited patiently for her to continue.

Ji Qingling took a few pages from the small table on the side, handed them to Gu Yanzhang, and said: "I made a rough calculation according to the numbers given by the capital water superintendent, along the old canal and embankment, to say the least, six or seven thousand hectares of land can be silted - the specific number, I am afraid that after the real dredging and silting of the fields, I will know it again." ”

Gu Yanzhang took the page full of arithmetic, looked down, and the originally relaxed look on his face slowly became serious.

Ji Qingling is rough and cautious, and what he sees is just a sample of the Bianqu construction, so he naturally counts less. As he looked, his mind reconnected to the numbers.

"Just filled in the soil, but there may not be high-quality fields, even medium-sized fields are rare, and I think most of them are low-grade fields." Ji Qingling has already deduced, "Such a field, half of Thailand is an ownerless wasteland, take it out and sell it, and you can't exchange it for a few dollars, and give it to the imperial court to manage, and I don't know when it will be cleared out. ”

Gu Yanzhang finished reading the page in his hand at this time, raised his head and said, "That's the truth." ”

Ji Qingling said again: "But the field is a field after all, and there is no price at the moment, if you take care of it for a few years, it may not be a good land, even if it is not a good land, it is also a field?" ”

"Compared with the imperial court, it is naturally the peasants who feel the most sorry for the fields." She said here, and then pointed to a few places next to the old canal, "For example, this Xiangfu County, Baima County, and Suozao County are close to the left, and after the silting fields, it is almost impossible to find new fields, but if you take them apart, the new silt fields scattered are not far from the villages near the left." ”

Hearing this, Gu Yanzhang already understood, and said, "You mean ......?"

Ji Qingling responded: "Now is the agricultural time, the most troublesome thing to do is to transport materials, that is, the lack of people and less force, if you want to call the Ministry of Industry to help coordinate the counties and townships to forcibly transfer servants, not to mention the loss of labor and money, many people have been spring husbands in the past, and they will definitely refuse to come again, and they will do it in a hurry, because they are slow and unable to recruit people, they will definitely come to the back, and they will be forced by the local yamen, which will definitely attract complaints." ”

"Your Majesty has just succeeded to the throne, and the Queen Mother is also just hanging the curtain, so it will be done properly in the end, but if you hear a lot of complaints outside, I am afraid that you will have a reason to attack those individuals in the court."

Fan Yaochen is now the thorn in the side of the Sun and Huang parties, and he has to knock out a crack to bite the fly to bite this egg, not to mention that as long as he is conscripted, it is impossible to avoid hurting the peasants and moving the people.

"That being the case, is it possible to propose to Fan Dashen once and ask the palace for a special order to distribute the new silt fields that have been reclaimed and cleared this time to the servants who come to serve?"

Speaking of this, Ji Qingling was also a little apprehensive, and said: "Although this move is a little uncommon, but when I remember Taizu, it seems that there was a story, and it shouldn't be outrageous to follow the story?" ”

Gu Yanzhang didn't speak, just thought about it in his head.

Is it outrageous?

Naturally, it's not outrageous.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, or the new territory later, there was a clear decree that as long as it was an ownerless wasteland, whoever reclaimed it, as long as it continued to cultivate for two years, it would be counted as anyone's, as long as it went to the yamen to get a deed.

The land of Gyeonggi is naturally no different from those remote places, but whatever can be reclaimed by people has already been reclaimed, so no one thinks about it.

However, the wasteland next to the old canal is different.

Because the Yellow River floods every year, it is necessary to flood the fields and low slopes next to the embankment several times, and when the Yellow River recedes, the top has already become salt and astringent, which cannot be planted, and even the weeds are sparsely grown. Such a barren land cannot be planted at all, so no matter how much everyone ignores it, they do not plant.

The construction of water conservancy and the recruitment of conscripts are the most important, and only when there are enough manpower can they be completed on time. But because Zhang Hu's Junchuan has dragged on for a long time, and has also recruited a lot of servants, the time is no longer enough, and it is spring, where to find people?

If you re-recruit the people, it is equivalent to tossing the people repeatedly, catching the same sheep and gathering wool repeatedly, and one day the skin will be rubbed and the blood will be mattressed. If you are not careful, in this Gyeonggi land, if someone learns to rise up, it will not be so easy to get along with.

However, if according to the method that Ji Qingling said, with this Xintian as a guide, it is really possible to distribute more than 10,000 hectares of Xintian to the servicemen, without the need for the court to pay a cent, or only use a very small amount of money, as long as the corresponding materials are prepared and distributed reasonably, it is not impossible to complete the matter of Daoluo Tongbian as scheduled.

He thought about it in his heart, but he only felt that this method was very feasible, and carefully re-set the figures surveyed in the water superintendent, and said, "This matter is feasible." ”

He also said: "Six or seven thousand hectares is already less than the expected gain, if it should go well, I am afraid that I can get eight or nine thousand hectares, and the Gyeonggi territory alone can get 3,000 hectares of Xintian." ”

Ji Qingling suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, a heart was put back in her stomach, and a real smile appeared on her face, and said, "It's okay, I'm afraid that this idea will go wrong." ”

Gu Yanzhang was busy from morning to night today, running around, always thinking about two major events that had never been settled, and he was thinking about coming back and taking the time to think about it, who knew that this at home was like the timely rain, which made him really surprised and happy, and couldn't help but sigh and ask: "Qingling, how did your brain grow?" How can you be so smart? ”

Ji Qingling pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Praise me slowly, let's talk to you about another thing first, it's not too late to praise me again." ”

She glanced at the roster of the Dushui Supervisor not far away, and asked, "Fifth brother, is there a great shortage of arithmetic talents in the Dushui Prison right now?" ”