This reclamation of terraces is definitely a very hard work, coupled with the shortage of labor, the progress is very slow.

Seeing that spring ploughing is about to be ushered in, if the terraces cannot be cultivated before spring ploughing, the will of the people will be greatly reduced.

Zhou Yuheng knows the truth of one go, then decline, and three exhaustions.

So, Zhou Yuheng came up with a second way, which was to set up a terraced reclamation team.

As long as someone signs up for each family, then priority will be given to helping the family reclaim a terraced field.

As soon as the news came out, the responders poured in.

Zhou Yuheng also set a rule, first come, first come.

In order to better promote the reclamation work, Zhou Yuheng also sent all the officials in the county government to reclaim.

For a while, Zhiyuan County was in full swing, and it was almost about to be bulldozed.

The dirt that had been brought down from the mountain soon became a hill in a clearing.

"Zhou County's order, there is so much dirt piled up here, but it can't be done, it will collapse on a rainy day," an official reminded.

Zhou Yuheng nodded, Zhou Yuheng knew this truth.

After seeing that the soil was two zhang high, Zhou Yuheng singled out some people to burn bricks.

This is the second step of Zhou Yuheng's reconstruction of Zhiyuan County, which is to let the people here live in solid houses and good houses that are not afraid of wind and rain.

It's just that burning bricks is a more strenuous job than cultivating terraces, and the hot heat wave often burns people's hands.

And the choking smell is also very uncomfortable.

It's just that all these difficulties, in Zhou Yuheng's eyes, can be overcome or endured, but the lives of the people must become better and better.

In order to keep the people's lives from being greatly affected, Zhou Yuheng set the location of burning bricks at the leeward outlet of the county seat.

And by the same means, if the people are willing to come out and burn bricks, they can first repair their houses.

The devastated people enthusiastically signed up one by one, and soon, the scale of burning bricks was also comparable to that of cultivating terraced fields.

In this way, the soil dug out of the hillside was turned into cyan stone bricks under the action of the brick-burning kiln, and then it became a part of the people's houses.

"Wow, that's a pretty color." Suddenly, there was a sound of admiration from the brick kiln.

Out of curiosity, Zhou Yuheng also walked over to see what was going on.

At this time, a blue-green stone brick appeared in front of Zhou Yuheng, and unlike the rest of the blue-gray stone bricks, this stone brick was particularly emerald green, and it looked very beautiful.

At that moment, the people who burned the stone bricks took the initiative to send the stone bricks to Zhou Yuheng's hands.

Zhou Yuheng didn't accept it, but asked the people to burn another piece of the same on the spot.

The people did not dare to slack off, and immediately stuffed another piece of dirt into it.

But when I took it out, it was half white and half green.

"Bold, dare to tease the county commander!" The official on the side scolded loudly.

"Don't dare, Xiaomin don't dare." The brick-burner trembled with fear.

"Wronged, wronged."

"Don't panic, the officer knows you didn't mean to." Zhou Yuheng said lightly, and after speaking, he stepped forward and prepared to burn a brick himself.

The officials tried to stop it, but they couldn't.

After a while, Zhou Yuheng took out a stone brick from the brick kiln, half blue and half gray. It's also a lot of fun.

The clay that originally looked the same was so different after it was fired.

Zhou Yuheng suddenly became interested, this is knowledge that he has not been exposed to in books before.

The same brick kiln, the same firing method and time, but different results, the reason must be in the soil.

Zhou Yuheng took some soil back to the mansion, grinded it finely, and found that the soil that could burn the color was much thicker and darker than the soil that could not be burned.

At this time, Zhou Yuheng had a new idea, to separate this special soil, not to burn bricks, but to fire some utensils.

In order to be able to fire durable utensils, Zhou Yuheng asked Zhou Jinxuan to send him a person who knew how to make a craft.

And after this master came, he began to teach how to fire vases, dishes and other things.

Soon, this skill spread among the people, and various styles of colorful utensils gradually appeared in every household.

It's just that this is not Zhou Yuheng's plan.

After in-depth study with this master who knows the craft, Zhou Yuheng gradually found some rules, dark red soil can burn grass green, and fine sandy soil can burn vermilion.

Soon, under the guidance of Zhou Yuheng, the people could burn solid-colored utensils, and the appearance was much more beautiful.

"Take a few and sell them and see how much they can sell." Zhou Yuheng picked out a few freshly fired utensils and handed them to a woman who went to the market to buy fabrics.

After the woman came back, she excitedly handed over a handful of broken silver to Zhou Yuheng.

"Lord Hui, this is the silver tael from selling utensils."

Zhou Yuheng smiled happily, and happily rewarded the broken silver in his hand to the woman in front of him.

When the news spread, the people began to stir,

More people went to dig up the hillside, and some of the soil that was dug up was used to make utensils.

Seeing that the pace of digging the mountain was about to get out of control, Zhou Yuheng immediately changed his strategy, on the one hand, he stopped digging the mountain, and on the other hand, he also forbade the people to burn it privately.

All the excavated soil is the responsibility of the county government.

In order to make things go more smoothly, Zhou Yuheng called the previous officials again, and asked one of them to continue to be responsible for the reclamation of the terraces, to continue to protect the previous reclamation, and to do a good job in the irrigation system to prepare for the spring ploughing in the coming year, while the other official is responsible for the firing of green bricks, and is also responsible for repairing the people's houses with green bricks.

The third official was assigned by Zhou Yuheng to be responsible for the firing of utensils that could be sold, together with the people sent from Zhou Jinxuan. Continue to make the utensils fine and beautiful.

Zhou Yuheng himself appeared in various places from time to time to supervise the progress of the work.

In addition, in order to sell the fired utensils at a good price, Zhou Yuheng also personally came up with a way, that is, to draw or engrave on the utensils, so that a utensil can be sold for more than twice the price.

Gradually, the money in the Yali of Zhiyuan County gradually increased, and the lives of the people were obviously better.

People outside have also come back one after another when they heard about the changes in their hometowns, and a small county town that was originally deserted has become a well-known rich township and county under the governance of Zhou Yuheng.