The construction of the northern section of the Longshou Canal had started before Li Tai returned to his hometown.

The county invested 2,000 people, and the county lieutenant Zheng Man was responsible for supervising the progress of the project. The large households in the township contributed capital, and the small households contributed people, and more than 500 Ding forces were also gathered. With a total of more than 2,500 Ding forces, it was more than enough to complete the first stage of fortification before the start of ploughing in the spring.

After Li Tai learned about the current preparations and progress of the fortifications, he put forward several requirements.

The first is the organization and division of labor of the Qushi Township League, and Li Tai, the owner of the canal, naturally has to take charge of everything. Under the canal master, six directors were elected, who were in charge of labor, carriages and horses, warehousing, support, food and pensions.

The labor force is led by the county lieutenant Zheng Man, and the deployment and use of oxen, horse, and cart drivers is in charge of a township tycoon in the former north, and the person in charge of the warehouse is Wu Jingyi, urging the villagers to enter the goods in place as soon as possible.

The degree branch was handed over to Liu Gong, who was in the township and was proficient in the market. Li Zhusheng was responsible for the supply of food, and Zhao of Shangyuan, the party chief, was responsible for compensating for the sick and disabled during the construction.

After such a personnel adjustment, the originally somewhat intricate canal project suddenly became clear, and each person in charge was responsible for one aspect of the division of labor. Everything is summarized, and Li Tai, the canal master, makes the final judgment and choice.

After the division of labor was agreed, Li Tai first determined the number of working hours per day.

Although the ditch work was carried out as quickly as possible, the servants who participated in the fortifications were also living people, and Li Tai was not accustomed to using these forces to fill the ditch and make him a lot of nostalgia.

Therefore, after combining the entire construction period, it is tentatively set to work six hours a day, and the labor force is divided into two shifts, and if the daily workload is completed on time, two meals and one bucket will be given every day, and if the workload cannot be completed, the dinner will be halved.

The second is to set up a warehouse in his family's original village to store the materials donated by the villagers. All shipments of five buckets and more than one horse of silk require Li Tai's judgment certification. Without this little gold seal on his waist, all kinds of articles and orders would be waste paper.

When Li Tai held up his golden seal to show it to everyone present, everyone's eyes looking at him couldn't help but change again, and the envy and admiration in their eyes couldn't be hidden at all.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was shocked by this golden seal, Li Tai said again: "Before discussing the canal matter, it was only voluntary with the righteousness of the township, and it was never forced. Now that we are fortunate to be united and have a promising career, we also need to be dignified and responsible, and we can no longer continue to be nostalgic and capricious! ”

All things in which the masses participate need rules and grace rewards and punishments, so as to ensure the normal progress of things. There was no word in the past, and the so-called rules were impossible to talk about. But now that things are in earnest, there are some rules and regulations that are needed.

When everyone heard this, they all nodded in approval.

"Open a canal to divert water, and all the people and land that flow through it will benefit. It is bounded by the canal line, and within 100 steps of the mu loses a bucket to help, and half of it is 100 steps away, and those who do not accept the valley will be replaced by a force, and a bucket and a half of work. If you have no objection, you will tell the people of the township along the canal to abide by this township law, and those who violate the law will spit on it! ”

Li Tai first said such a rule, and he tried his best to come up with such a thing, of course, he would not let those villagers who were not pulling out a dime benefit from it.

"Water is good for farming, where the flow can be guaranteed to increase the yield by more than half, and a bucket per mu can enjoy profits for many years, which is a matter of course!"

Wu Jingyi took the lead in raising his hand to express his position, and patted his chest and promised: "Fortunately, with Lang Jun's support, I can share this righteous deed, and I will do my best to persuade you to lose!" If there is really an evil household that is stingy and harmful, although it is not a criminal code, the nostalgia can be sanctioned! ”

Relying only on the spontaneous donations of the villagers, even the grain and ten thousand stones were not enough to maintain the entire construction period. After the completion of the Longshou Canal, there are 3,000 or 4,000 hectares of cultivated land that will be profitable, and if 10 stones are levied on one hectare, you can collect another 30,000 or 40,000 stones of grain.

If Li Tai had proposed such a township law before he had done anything, he would not have passed it at all. If you talk up and down, everyone will take out food subsidies, why is your face so big?

But now that the preparations are halfway through, as long as they are carried out step by step, they will definitely be done. Moreover, it has won the wide support of the big banks and the big families in the township, and if anyone jumps out and sings the opposite tune again, it will become a disgusting minority.

The collection of rent and taxation is the power of the imperial court. But now that Li Tai is based on the nostalgia and controls the public opinion of the township, he has obtained the power to collect taxes almost from the imperial court, which is the embodiment of the power of the local tyrants under the autonomy of the township.

The reason why the township heroes are stubborn and difficult to govern lies in the people's public opinion, ethics and justice, and economic resources.

Li Taifei is so vigorously engaged in water conservancy projects, is it really just for a good reputation? At least whoever corrupts ethics and morality in the township wants to dip in the pig cage, and Lao Tzu has to have the right to speak!

"Persuasion is the proper meaning, but it is also necessary to carefully examine the real situation of the people in the villagers along the canal, whether they are strong or not. If it is true that the family is sick and difficult, you also need to be considerate of the suffering. Since we want to build the righteous canal of Huixiang, we must not do anything contrary to righteousness! ”

Li Tai is also well aware of the strong and domineering in the township, although he wants to develop on this path, it does not mean that he has to learn everything for good and bad. It was not his wish to force the really destitute families in the township to ruin their homes in order to build canals.

Therefore, after establishing this village law, he said: "When the governor of Wu is acting in the township, he must keep this verse in mind. Since I am the master of the canal, I will not allow anything that happens in my affairs that is righteous and evil!

All the families who are desperately poor and cannot afford to help can enter our village to borrow grain and borrow strength, and they can pay back the surplus after the year. In addition to the canal warehouse, I set up another righteous warehouse on the village to help the poor and relieve the suffering, and there is a response to the needs within this canal! ”

On the Liyang Grand Reading, Li Tai had seen Yuwentai's practice of using other people's money to buy people's hearts, and he quickly understood this spirit of "people are also me, and ghosts are also me".

If it is indeed a destitute family, I can pay in advance, but I can't treat me as a big wrongdoer because I provoke trouble.

At the end of the day, it's everyone's business. The canal was repaired, everyone had a bumper harvest, and I burned the IOU, which was my high wind and bright festival!

"Lang Jun is really righteous and compassionate!"

When everyone present heard Li Tai say this, they all praised each other.

"Since you live in this township, you should benefit this party, so that you can be worthy of admiration, live up to your grace, and live up to your fellow villagers."

Li Tai waved his hand politely, and then hugged his fists to everyone in the banquet and said: "You have lived in the township for many years, and if it is not for the good people to help each other sincerely, I am also powerless about this, even if I have good thoughts, I can't do it." So recently, I've often been thinking about how to show and praise the righteous deeds of the Gongxiang Canal, and I will discuss it with you. ”

While speaking, he asked Li Yantou to take a huge wooden board from outside the hall, and took out a map and nailed it to the wooden board to announce it to everyone.

"This is the full map of the canal line of the Longshou Canal that we conspired to rebuild, and the repainted parts are all places where people and goods flow densely such as Dangjin and bridges."

Li Tai first knocked on the wooden board to explain the content of the map to everyone a little, and then said: "I think so, now it is no longer the Han Dynasty, the morality and righteousness in the township are renewed, and the canal is newly created.

Therefore, the canals, bridges, and weirs are divided into sections, and they are named after the township counselors who are virtuous and profound. It's not to praise the township, but to let the future generations know who they enjoy. Don't forget to dig wells and publicize good deeds, in order to make the nostalgia more beautiful! ”

When the people heard this, they could not help but be excited.

Fame and fortune are everyone's lifelong pursuit, and putting their names on the long-standing markers in some townships and letting the villagers pass on them by word of mouth is undoubtedly a great hit in the excitement of these villagers.

Such a situation has been in previous years, but there are not many local heroes who can get this treatment. It is precisely because of this that when Li Tai proposed this formula, everyone present nodded in agreement, and their faces were radiant, and they couldn't help but begin to fantasize about the scene of their name on the surface of the township.

"Lang Jun is very good, and he is worthy of being a famous talent! We villagers are short-sighted, and we can only see the cultivation of canals, but we can't expect that there will be such a good plan to highlight the nostalgia and education! ”

Hearing such praise from the party leader of Shangyuan Zhao, Li Tai felt a little awkward, is this saying that it has to be you, and it has to be you, the world's anointed beams, who can play fame and reputation?

Another person raised his hand and asked: "May I ask Li Lang, after all, there are few canals, bridges, weirs and wells, but there are many counselors in the township. ”

At present, there are more than 40 villagers involved in the canal incident, including these people present, but there are only a dozen locations marked by Li Taizhong, and most of the people involved in the matter will definitely not be able to receive this treatment.

Li Tai waited for this sentence, and after hearing this, he said with a smile: "There is no high or low righteousness, and there is a depth of merit." After the completion of this year's canal incident, I will sort out the township volunteer book, and then ask the villagers to nominate a few township sages and elders, and recommend them in detail, so as to achieve the expectations of the public! ”

Pressing this matter to be carried out after the canal is completed, one encourages everyone to roll up, and only by making more contributions can we have a better chance of winning.

Second, Li Tai also needs a handle to control people's hearts, before the matter is over, no one wants to sing the opposite tune to me!

Regarding the township rules and regulations and personnel framework of the canal affairs, Li Tai only thought of so much for the time being. Next, the details will be enriched and supplemented, and we will not discuss them first, but just encounter problems and solve them.

After this discussion, everyone also gained a lot, and knew that Li Tai was tired from the journey, so they got up and said goodbye.

After sending off these villagers, Li Tai had time to rest, and while eating dinner, he heard the joy of the villagers outside the village.

After a little silence, Li Tai instructed the villagers to prepare some hot soup cakes, and while the villagers were gathered, he recruited some villagers to do short-term work for a month or two, and then expanded the manor.