In February, the plough has been laid down, heralding the beginning of the new year's ploughing work.

At the same time, water conservancy works have been completed in various places, and when the spring flood arrives, water can be stored and diverted, and fields can be irrigated.

This period was also very crucial for the powerful men who participated in the various works, because only when the works were accepted could they receive the full final payment from the state capital, which usually accounted for one-third or more of the entire project payment, and was all the profits they earned by working through the whole winter.

The acceptance procedure arranged by the state government is from mid to late February to early March, and if the acceptance is qualified, each family will be able to collect the profits of the project while not missing this year's spring ploughing.

But if it is not qualified, it will become troublesome, rework is necessary, the balance will not be issued immediately, and the rivers rise in spring and summer, and the construction of various fortifications will be more labor-intensive and time-consuming.

When the time comes, you will either give up halfway and give up the entire project, or you will rework and give up a year's farming at home, no matter how you choose, it will be a headache and distress.

Therefore, while the acceptance process has not yet begun, all the employers are also seizing the time and racing against time to carry out the final finishing and repair, and try their best to enhance the quality of the project, in order to finally pass the acceptance.

Of course, in order to obtain acceptance, in addition to the quality of the project itself, the environment in which it is applied is also very important. In order to ensure that they can get their own profits in full, those construction parties who are interested in this will not ignore this.

As a result, in the entire territory of Jingzhou, a wave of destruction and destruction of private weirs and ditches was suddenly set off. Those who can win the bid to win the bid for the state capital fortifications are originally relatively powerful and powerful, and their style of action is naturally on the strong side, and in order to ensure their own interests, it is inevitable that they will be rough and arrogant.

Therefore, from the first month to the beginning of February, there were more than 20 fights in the township caused by this in Jingzhou. These are just because the scale is not small, and the government comes forward to quell it, and there are even more others who have not reported to the government.

It can be said that the order of the entire Jingzhou township has been disturbed because of this, and there is almost no fighting every day, and the vast majority of the villagers are also implicated in it, and there is no peace. The situation is even worse than last year's when Nanliang came to Kou.

However, these situations are also expected by Li Tai, some things do need to be broken and then established, and blindly compromising and repairing will only turn into a pulp lake that cannot be carried and chopped in the end.

Therefore, for the state government and the counties, the instructions he gave were that as long as no one was killed in all the fights, or the interests of the Juntian households were harmed, the government would ignore them.

This is originally a struggle between the local heroes and powers outside the law, and if you want to win, you should pray that you are the biggest and worst one, and there is no reason why you are usually not managed by the government, and if you lose the township fight, you will ask the government to come forward to protect you.

Of course, if you want the government to come forward to protect it, it is not impossible, after all, it is not a prince or a minister on the shore of the land, but one thing needs to be understood, that is, it is not easy to take down this cage.

Therefore, when this kind of rural fighting has developed to an extreme point and is about to get out of control, more and more people seek refuge in the government. The folk order and ethical patriarchy they had previously believed in were no longer enough to protect them, and only the laws of the government could save them from the effects of chaos.

Therefore, the number of people who have reported to the state capital for naturalization has increased, and in some places, hundreds of families of a whole clan have been naturalized together, and the first thing after naturalization is to compete for lawsuits, hoping to severely punish those bullies in the township.

This increase in lawsuits has also put tremendous pressure on the state and county governments, and if it were not for a round of official selection and replacement at the end of last year, the records of these lawsuits alone would have overwhelmed the entire state and county administrative system.

Even so, some county and county governments only serve as a record point, and the real handling of administrative affairs and the resolution of litigation disputes are still not enough, and the state government must send a team of officials to deal with it on a tour.

Li Tai attaches great importance to this issue, and it must be known that all politics in the north of the country for many years have been superficial, and even disputes have been resolved by local customs and patriarchal laws, and few lawsuits have been filed against the government, so that the people almost do not know that there is a law to follow. Such an atmosphere is beautified as the people do not like to fight, and the government and the people have no lawsuits, typical as long

If I can't see it, then the world will be safe.

Now, due to the profound contradictions in the township and the frequent township fighting, the people finally remembered the judicial power that the government should have, and Li Tai naturally would not miss this opportunity, even if he organized more than a dozen circuit courts, he went downstream under the escort of state soldiers to deal with lawsuits between counties and counties.

Even he himself put aside other affairs for the time being, leading a law enforcement team to go deep into the township and try cases. Taking advantage of the boiling of public discontent, this form of justice and law enforcement is deeply imprinted in the hearts of the people of Jingzhou.

Although their law enforcement team is busy, they don't know what laws to enforce.

Since the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty, there has been little creation of criminal laws, saying that some provisions of the "Northern Wei Laws" are still followed, but many of these laws and regulations are lost or out of date, including Li Tai himself actually does not know much.

As for those who filed a lawsuit, they were even more unaware of the terms of the laws and regulations that they needed to abide by and had already violated, and they were just unhappy and sought justice and venting from the government.

However, fortunately, the types and contents of these disputes are relatively uniform, and they are basically disputes arising around water conservancy, and it is not difficult to deal with them. Li Tai had dealt with similar things when he was the envoy of the capital water in the past year to govern Luoshui, and now some rules are still implemented as township covenants in the Qu League, and those rules are extracted and then slightly changed according to local conditions, and a set of "Water Separation Orders" has been drawn up.

There are more than 30 articles in the "Water Distribution Order", which basically cover various scenarios and problems of agricultural and domestic water, limited to the distance from the river canal, the time and amount of water stored and released by the canal weir are clearly stipulated, and the sequence and amount of water used for diversion also have standards. Anyone who illegally takes water must be punished!

These law enforcement teams arranged by Li Tai traveled from county to county, and in addition to handling specific lawsuits, they were also responsible for popularizing the law. If you want to revive agriculture in the Nanyang Basin, water conservancy is the top priority, and you must uphold the principle of transparency and openness in the use of water.

As for other serious problems arising from these township fights, they will be judged and dealt with by the state government, and punishment will be imposed when punished.

A series of township fights and disputes have increased, increasing the number of registered households in the prefecture and county by more than 2,000.

Although a considerable part of them are to use the power of the government to gain a certain advantage in the township fight, it is difficult to get out of the country as long as they are naturalized, and if they want the entire clan to disappear in the register, I am afraid that they will be entered into the slave register. Moreover, even if the registered people disappear, the registered land and property will not disappear, and the rent and taxes will not be levied, and the pastoral land will naturally be regarded as ownerless barren land without officials.

Under the situation of oppression and attack by the powerful in the township, and the government withdrawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, some small and medium-sized heroes can be said to have suffered heavy losses.

The construction party who provoked the incident did not see much happiness, first of all, the resentment and hatred were firmly attracted to themselves, and it did not end because of their temporary victory.

After all, those villagers are only naturalized, not dead or disappeared. And because they have become registered citizens, it is not easy for them to do any operations to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, otherwise they may be uprooted.

Secondly, because some villagers saw the opportunity to complete their naturalization early, it also made these powerful people entangled. As the state government proceeded to adjudicate the lawsuits, they were troubled every day.

Although the villagers who were killed or injured in the township fighting were guilty of their protégés, they were overwhelmed by repeated court interrogations, and they also needed to pay for some assets that actually damaged the villagers. The state government did not open up to them in this regard because they contracted the project, which also made them a little miserable.

However, the good news is that the state government is still willing to keep its promise, and as long as their project is accepted, the final payment will still be paid in full.

After such a toss, the flood season finally arrived, and on this day, the military and political officials of the state government and the masses who rushed to hear the news all gathered near Liumenyan in the west of the city.

With the Jingzhou Thorn Shi Li Tai standing on the high platform under the order, the surrounding suddenly sounded the passionate drums, the pond weir that has been half full of water opened the gate to release water, the original six weir gates are now increased to ten, full ten rushing water like a swimming dragon out of the gate, along the ditch to the four fields and eight directions!

The crowd around you

We finally saw the grand occasion of the opening of the gate and the release of water from the old Liumenyan again, and couldn't help but cheer again and again, and the sound shook the field.

Li Tai, who was standing on the high platform, listened to the cheers of the people, and also turned to look at the Hao Chief Huan Shuzu, who was in charge of this project, and saluted him with his fists: "Huan Jun is virtuous and righteous, not afraid of hard work, and led the clan relatives and family slaves to create this good feat for the people of our state, and hundreds of miles of wilderness have become fertile soil.

"Make the king's words heavy, and the words heavy......

After hearing this, Huan Shuzu hurriedly bowed in return, and at the same time couldn't help but feel a sour nose, he had paid too much for today's situation.

The most conspicuous thing at the scene is a tall silk mountain made of more than 20,000 silk horses, and this is the final payment received by Huan Shuzu after completing this project.

Hearing the envy of the people around him, Huan Shuzu wanted to cry without tears, not because the benefits were not considerable, but because he seemed to have paid more no matter how he counted.

In order to maintain the progress of the project, he endured the seizure of his official position, and the extension of the construction period, and made great efforts to ensure the quality of the project, and he is still riddled with lawsuits. Even before attending the ceremony today, he was interrogated in the state capital.

After the ceremony, Li Tai raised his hand and signaled Huan Shuzu to walk with him, Huan Shuzu followed with a bitter face, and after walking a few steps one after another, Li Taicai smiled at him again: "The state capital is going to build a city in the near future, is Huan Jun interested?"

Huan Shuzu subconsciously shook his head after hearing this, but after a while, he couldn't help but ask, "May I ask the envoy, how much does it cost to use labor this time?"