Chapter 335: The Great Ditch
When Li Kui changed the law, he advocated "teaching the best of the geographical advantages", carefully calculated every inch of land in the Wei State, and calculated that within a range of 100 miles, there were a total of 90,000 hectares of land, excluding the mountains, rivers and villages, which accounted for one-third of the land, there were 6 million mu of cultivated land.
To this end, Li Kui made three regulations, one is to allow farmers to grow a variety of grains at the same time, in case a certain crop is difficult to remedy when a disaster occurs; The second is to let the farmer work hard, be diligent in weeding, and step up the harvest when harvesting, just like preventing robbers from robbing to prevent damage to the farmer; Third, the people are encouraged to make use of the vacant land around their houses, plant more trees and mulberries, plant more vegetables in the vegetable garden, and make use of the stalks between the fields, and a variety of melons and fruits, that is, to make full use of the idle land and expand the production of agricultural and sideline industries.
The so-called nine-story platform starts from the soil. Different from the encouragement of other countries to open up wasteland, it is precisely because Wei has few lands and many people that Li Kui needs to make careful calculations according to the actual situation, increase grain production "more than baht", and rely on the accumulation of little by little, so that the Wei State, which was rising step by step in the early years of the Warring States Period and gradually showing its hegemonic style, had enough food to support Wei Wenhou's crusade to the east and west!
Therefore, on the way of the fleet, Qi Yu not only witnessed the frequent traffic of boats on the river, the large number of pedestrians on both sides of the riverbank, and the dense settlement of villages, but also was surprised to see the cultivated land interspersed between the settlements, which was as finely distributed as the villages in later generations, and densely planted with different crops.
There will be a difference between the rich and the poor anywhere, in a populous country like Wei in the Central Plains, a big commercial country, there are no hungry refugees who can not make a living in the territory will naturally not be rare, along the way, Qi Yu's reputation for being kind and charitable has spread more and more widely, after entering the Wei realm, there is also a steady stream of displaced people who can't survive to vote, and they are taken in by Qi Yu, which is not much less than the people who are taken in in Weiguo.
After a few days of statistics on the road, until they arrived at Huangchi, this trip in Wei and Wei took in a total of more than 4,600 poor people, of which there were as many as 1,000 young and middle-aged people, equivalent to a quarter of the total number of poor people, and nearly 2,000 strong women, and the remaining quarter were old people and children.
Qi Yu asked Meng Yu to incorporate all the young and middle-aged people into his own team, and also incorporated the strong women into the logistics force, and also participated in the training, so that in addition to the 500 soldiers brought by Cheng Song's entourage, Qi Yu actually had a combat force of more than 1,500 people and a logistics force of 2,000 people. Cheng Song did not say anything about this, and acquiesced depending on the situation.
But even though the number of fighters has been tripled, Qi Yu is still too little, but fortunately, there is still a lot of time before the outbreak of the battle against Qin, and his good name has begun to be praised in all directions.
Qi Yu believes that with the spread of his good name, his reputation in various countries will become more and more important, and in the future, there will only be more and more displaced people who will come to him, not less!
In fact, Qi Yu's actions have alarmed the people of Wei, when the fleet docked at Huangchi, there was a surge of people outside the port, and many local people rushed to see with their own eyes what this great good man from Qi and the big man looked like.
When Qi Yu and his entourage disembarked from the mission, the crowd erupted in shocking cheers, welcoming the arrival of Qi Yu and others.
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Inside the Great Liang City.
Yahu Xiaozhu.
Ouyang Xinyue picked a flower, put it in her nose and sniffed it lightly, her blurry gaze seemed to pass through the grand scene of the garden in front of her where a hundred flowers were blooming and bees and butterflies were dancing, through the sparkling waves outside the small island in the middle of the lake, through the garden in the distance, and cast into the blue sky in the east in the distance, which was the direction of the Qi country located on the coast of the East China Sea.
In her eyes, she seemed to see a young man in white with a warm smile and a handsome flying, walking towards her and stretching out her palm.
"Yulang, how are you doing now? When will Xinyue see you again......"
The breeze blew, the dark fragrance floated, Ouyang Xinyue's beautiful eyes shot out a heartbreaking longing, and the jade hand stretched out, as if to hold the warm big hand of the person in the dream.
There was a crisp sound of ringing from behind, Ouyang Xinyue's delicate body shook slightly, woke up from the dream-like thoughts, and returned to the existence of reality, her eyes were slightly dazed, until there was a pleasant and delicate call behind her, she calmed down a little, quite helpless, and turned around with some relief, looking at the garden path behind.
"Yanran, are you here?"
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Huangchi is located a hundred miles away from the northeast of Daliang City, and is a medium-sized city that is not big or small.
Qi Yu led the envoy group and a huge team of poor people, etc., and finally passed through the crowd of enthusiastic onlookers and came to the post station outside the south gate of Huangchi City.
Since Qi Yu's envoy was only passing through Wei, Wei had no obligation to provide food and lodging for carriages and horses, but could rent them at the post station.
Fortunately, Qi Yu has a lot of money, and he already has a lot of money to send to him, and the money opens the way, and he can cover almost all the dozens of cars and horses that can be mobilized in Huangchiyi in one go.
This move stunned the officials of the local post station in Huangchi, but Qi Yu was still too little, and rented more than a dozen carriages in the market in Huangchi City, which was barely enough.
After loading the food and supplies on the ship into the carriage, Qi Yu asked the old people and children to get on the carriage, while the other strong men and women walked forward.
Time was pressing, Qi Yu couldn't wait for such a slow journey, so he left five hundred soldiers along the way to lead the poor people forward, and left Qi Bin, a wise and insightful personal guard, to preside over the big move, let Zhai Ziqiang serve as Qi Bin's deputy, and he took the rest of the envoy to ride fast horses and rush to Daliang first.
Because he broke away from the large army of poor people and became an ordinary envoy group, no one could recognize Qi Yu along the way, which made the roads along the way much smoother, and Qi Yu was also greatly relieved.
After half a day's journey, everyone came to the bank of the Dagou River.
Dagou is the earliest artificial canal connecting the Yellow River and the Huai River in ancient China, which runs through the north and south, and can be described as a great and strategically important water conservancy project in ancient China.
Looking at the wide flowing river in front of him, Qi Yu's eyes were quite complicated, although he saw Dagou for the first time, but he knew its future better than anyone else - many years later, in the process of Qin's unification of the six countries, Qin's general Wang Ben led the Yellow River and Dagou water, poured into Daliang City, and destroyed the most famous capital of Wei, which made Wei perish.