After announcing to the masses the plan and specific process of the state government's bidding for the repair of the weir, Li Taicai asked the families to disperse. As for the goods, of course, they could not be kept in the open air, so they were kept in empty warehouses in the city and kept them strictly guarded.

In addition to the plan to build a canal and a weir, the basic personnel structure of the state capital also needs to be rebuilt.

Although Quan Zhongzun had previously assigned many state positions to the powerful and powerful, there were not many appointments to the positions of the state officials, one was that these positions always had the requirements of personal ability, and the other was that these positions sounded far less resounding than the names of the Taishou, the county commander, or the lord of the war, the lord of the city, etc., which did not conform to the aesthetics of the powerful and powerful.

Li Tai brought a lot of subordinates from Guanzhong, which can just fill these positions. And there is another unexpected joy, that is, among the nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians brought from Fancheng, there are also many people who can read and write hyphenated, and the number has reached as many as five or six hundred.

This also shows that the culture and education of the Southern Dynasty were far stronger than those of the Northern Dynasty, and many of the generals of the Northern Dynasty were still illiterate, but many civilian pawns of the Southern Dynasty could read and write. These people are already relatively high-end talents, and they only need to be trained in some format rules to enrich the Jingzhou administrative system.

Feeling this, Li Tai had the idea of establishing a state school. As a state assassin, Xuanfeng persuasion is one of his own jobs, and it is also one of the best ways to strengthen his influence.

There is another point, that is, the little garden in the backyard of the state capital is really not enough for him to plough and toss, and Li Tai can't drive him out to reclaim the wasteland, and find something meaningful to let his father get some sense of accomplishment, which is better than being idle at home and doing nothing.

As for sending his father to Huazhou, Li Tai didn't consider it for the time being. According to what he has seen since the reunion, although he has gone through hardships, the city has not grown much, not to mention naïve, but also a little innocent.

The situation in the country is also surging now, even Li Tai is avoiding it, if he goes, he will inevitably become a focus, and he may not be able to cope with it.

And when the state affairs are over, he will also strengthen the liaison and cooperation with Xiangyang, and with his Laozi's relationship and connections, the communication between them can be smoother.

The personnel reorganization of the state capital could have been handed over to Cui Qian, and Li Tai took out his own time to inspect the water situation in the territory under the guidance of Du Zhaohui and several other Jingzhou locals, and determined a basic rest and recuperation plan in an all-round way.

"Although there is no shortage of rivers and canals, they all flow with water and water. As long as this second-rate regulation can be smoothly regulated, the danger of drought and flood in the whole territory can be greatly alleviated......"

Du Zhaohui, as one of the earliest Jingzhou heroes who attached himself to Li Tai, was respectful and obedient to his orders.

By the way, this Du Zhaohui is also one of the clansmen of the Jingzhao Du clan, and the Du brothers in Xiangyang still belong to the same clan. However, the Jingzhao Du clan has a large number of clans, and they moved south from the period of Hu Death and Turmoil, and although they have the same surname, there are many cases where they are complete strangers to each other.

The two rivers run through the Nanyang Basin from north to south, and merge into the Han River in Xiangyang, so it is also called the Tangbai River. These two rivers and their respective tributaries basically form a water network covering the entire Nanyang Basin.

Since the Han Dynasty, various water conservancy fortifications have also been basically distributed around these two rivers. It's just that Li Tai wandered all the way, but there were not many water conservancy fortifications that were still in good working condition and played their regulating functions, most of them had been abandoned, leaving only some simple traces, and some even had no traces.

But this does not mean that there are no water conservancy facilities in the realm, in fact, there are not only but many more. After all, water is the foundation of farming, and if it does not allow water to flow into more areas and has the function of drought and flood control, there is not much land to be reclaimed on the narrow strip of land on both sides of the river.

Therefore, there are many pond weirs and ditches on both sides of the river and the water nowadays, and sometimes there are several weirs within a mile. It is obviously not normal to have such a dense distribution, and these weirs are often part of a grange, enclosed by a fence.

Without systematic regulation of fortifications, allowing the people to dig and drain the water privately, this situation will be created, and water resources will become a means of production that are arbitrarily controlled, propagated and monopolized by the powerful.

Regardless of whether the distribution of resources is fair and reasonable, the damage to water resources itself is enormous. When the water is dry, it is silted, and when the water rises, it is overflowing, and all kinds of traces of siltation and flooding abound among the rivers.

The powerful households are closed to the mountains and rivers, the industries are all over the countryside, and the small people in Qianshou are wandering in the suburbs and have no place to stand, which can basically cover the current situation of people's livelihood in Jingzhou. There are also registered villages, mainly distributed around the prefecture and county cities, more than ten miles away from the city, it is difficult to see the villages where ordinary villagers live in small households.

After inspecting the water affairs in the territory, Li Taiyue felt that he had a long way to go.

If today's northern region is like the previous northern Shaanxi, it is just a matter of looking at a desert and falling, but all kinds of local forces are intertwined, and it is itself in the border area, if the bold action touches the interests of the powerful and powerful, it is undoubtedly blowing up the enemy, so it is necessary to provoke them to spontaneously compete and eliminate them internally.

That batch of goods was extremely tempting to people, and soon some people made bids and put them into the state capital. The format of the tender was drawn up by Li Tai, which is basically divided into the manpower that each company can mobilize, the construction period required for the project, and the budget that needs to be allocated by the state government.

The initial bids were basically intended to be small and broad, employing 100 people and a construction period of several months, but the lion opened his mouth to ask the state government to pay a huge amount of money.

Huang Fuhu and the other three heroes were ruined due to greed, they didn't learn a lesson at all, probably only felt that these three were purely unlucky, and they would definitely not be like this if they changed themselves.

For this kind of insincere bid, Li Tai naturally rejected all of them, and also announced it directly outside the state capital. Although this is not a punishment in itself, it also exposes their greedy faces, and then there are bidders who will learn from this and correct their attitudes.

The Liumenyan project is not small, and it can store enough river water to irrigate thousands of hectares of farmland in the three counties, so it can be seen that this pond weir must be very large. Nowadays, the pond weir barely has a silhouette, and it has to be re-dredged and excavated and rammed the weir embankment, even if the state government is quite difficult to build, and ordinary people are even more difficult to bear.

Before the deadline for bidding, the state government finally received more than 30 bids, and only six of them, excluding those who simply joined in the fun, barely met the requirements of the state government.

Each of these six companies can provide more than 1,000 servants, and the construction period required ranges from three to five months, and as for the funds needed, it is also necessary to ask for as many miles as possible.

Li Tai is not a stingy person, he doesn't care much about the amount of money needed, as long as it's not too outrageous, he won't directly deny it. He was of course more interested in the fact that each of these people was able to provide the labor force, whether it was an exaggeration of the facts, or whether it was still concealed.

In order to find out this, he summoned the representatives of each of the six companies, and gradually tested them to the maximum extent they could put in the work with the request of shortening the construction period, and the results were also quite surprising to him. The total strength that these six companies can provide is nearly 20,000 people!

In other words, just these six powerful families have shaded at least 20,000 people, and considering that most of the servants are strong men, the population associated with them is afraid to increase several times!

Li Tai originally thought that the military leaders of Beizhen and the heroes of Kansai were quite strong, but compared with the perennial turbulent land of the four wars in the north, it is inevitable that it will still be dwarfed! He used to think that it was quite difficult to expand the population, but now it seems that if he gets these six companies, he will basically be able to exceed the small goal set before.

However, it is very difficult to eat it in one bite, and even if only half of the nearly 20,000 troops can be organized into an armed force, it is still 10,000 soldiers. Even if he is full of brave and elite soldiers, he can be defeated and annihilated in the face of these 10,000 villagers, but it is difficult to completely absorb them.

In order to prevent these six families from exaggerating the facts and defrauding the government, Li Tai proposed to verify that they were detailed, and asked them to send blood relatives into the state capital to serve, of course, as hostages, and the project money was paid in batches.

This barbarian chieftain, named Huan Shuzu, now lives in Jingzhou's subordinate Hanguang County Taishou, can mobilize more than 6,000 servants to build the weir, and repeatedly promised to complete the fortifications before the spring flood next year.

However, when Li Tai inspected the place, he saw that the number of servants was only in their early 3,000s, and when he asked, he learned that this Huan Shuzu planned to recruit 3,000 mountain barbarians for his own use and labor in the next period of time.

When Li Tai heard this Huan Shuzu's plan, he couldn't help but complain secretly in his heart, it was the first time he saw a person with empty gloves and white wolves who were more slippery than his own play, bragging and not playing drafts, do you think those barbarians are all your relatives, and if you say that you will recruit three thousand, you will recruit three thousand?

But when he heard this Huan Shuzu describe his life experience, he had to admit that he was indeed short-sighted, and people were not bragging, but really so awesome.

Although this Huan Shuzu is a barbarian chieftain, he himself was born in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and is a descendant of Huan Wen, a powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. If the Huan Chu usurped by his ancestor Huan Xuan is also counted as a serious regime, then the family is also a descendant of the royal family!

(End of chapter)