Leper was one of the first Nanyang immigrants.

At that time, his family of eight came from Chenzhou, and his father and mother starved to death on the way.

He didn't even have time to weep, because the tears had long since dried up. hastily buried his parents, and took his younger brothers and sisters to Nanyang after several journeys.

When he arrived in Nanyang, he had his first full meal.

Like hungry wolves, the younger siblings swept away the meals that had been used to receive the homeless.

Looking at their expectant eyes, he made up his mind that as long as he lived, he couldn't let them starve, even if he let himself die!

The officials of the Nanyang government took them to the resettlement site, set aside a large piece of wasteland, and told them that this land belonged to his family.

At that time, the whole family of six looked at the wasteland overgrown with wild grass and miscellaneous trees, and they were a little dumbfounded.

Is this true?

Do you really have land in your own family?!

The leper remembered that when his father was alive, he once said that when he was a great-grandfather, the family had a field. But after several major disasters, the fields were barren, and they had to sell them in order to make a living. Then their family was landless for two lifetimes. Now in his generation, the government has given land, tax exemption for three years, and seeds and farm tools.

The leper family knelt in the wasteland and kowtowed to the officials who measured the land.

The official was no longer surprised, waved his hand, and said: "If you want to thank King Xie De, these lands are given to you by King De, and you should remember the good of his old man." ”

The leper raised his tear-stained face, listened to what the official said, and secretly wondered in his heart, his family wants to set up a shrine for the old man of King De, and there are countless people living in his old man's family!

Next to the Leper family is the Liu family who fled from Yuzhou.

The old couple with a son and a daughter were placed next to the leper house by the Nanyang Mansion.

"Brother Leper, Brother Leper, is this your family's land?"

"Hehe, Liu Xiaoniang, yes, this is ...... My home...... ......"

The leper was still elated just now, but he began to cry as he spoke.

The little lady of the Liu family also had red circles in her eyes, pointed to the wasteland next to her and said, "This, this is my family." ”

But when he saw the other end of the wasteland, Liu Laohan pulled the old woman and her son to kneel on the ground, and kowtowed to the measuring officials.

The official picked up Liu Laohan and raised his hand in the direction of Nanyang City, "The kindness of His Royal Highness King De, you must keep it in mind." ”

"King De is a great grace to his life, and the old man forgets his ancestors and does not dare to forget King De. King De was an old man with a long family of rich and many sons and grandchildren. ”

Old man Liu kowtowed and said that he would not forget his great kindness.

A few years have passed, and now the wasteland of the Leper family has been reclaimed, and the house is full of grain.

Every year, I sold surplus grain and a lot of copper money.

The younger siblings can also tear the linen cloth and make new clothes. Now he is beautiful in his heart, if the little lady Liu marries into the door, that little day, think about it.

The Liu family, like the leper family, has turned life upside down.

They all have the tablet of King De at home, and they mutter a few words in front of the tablet every day, talking about what they want to do today, and reporting on today's work.

This year has been another bumper year.

The old grain at home has not yet been eaten, and the new grain has already come down.

As soon as December began, the government issued a notice to requisition Ding to build rivers and canals to solve the transportation problem.

This transport, the leper is known.

Whenever he goes into the city to sell grain and comes back, it is difficult to buy something again, this is the trouble of happiness, right?!

If the canal is repaired, I may be able to do it myself.

Li Yu repaired at home for a while, and on December 15, he came to the Xiangcheng construction site.

From the muddy water on the edge of the city to the east to the plugging of the water, it is sixty miles.

Nanyang and Tangzhou levied 100,000 young and strong, and they were divided into these sixty miles of land.

On average, there are 10 people per zhang.

Of course, it is not possible to distribute it in this way in actual construction.

According to calculations, to carry a large boat, the river should be more than 100 meters wide and 10 meters deep.

Such a volume of earthwork is staggering.

100,000 people are distributed in 10 sections, and 10,000 young people in each section.

Some little girls and daughters-in-law were also requisitioned to help cook and make soup and send them to the construction site.

The construction site was crowded with people, and the black pressure could not be seen.

Some people use shovels to dig the soil, some people use the shovel to dig the soil, and some people use the soil to pick up the soil, the division of labor is clear, and the efficiency is extremely high.

The excavated soil is piled up on the edge of the river, forming a natural embankment.

I watched the river gradually take shape day by day.

Zhou Kuan, as the commander-in-chief of the Xiangfang Canal, was happy in his heart, but he had too many things to do, and he didn't have time to appreciate the results, but he frequently traveled between Nanyang and Xiangcheng every day.

Li Yu stood on the newly formed embankment, looking at the huge deep ditch in front of him, and the young and strong inside were like busy worker ants, going back and forth between the river and the embankment.

A sturdy man, dressed in a short linen coat, carried two large baskets of dirt and walked up the embankment.

Li Yu grabbed him.

asked with a smile: "Little brother, excuse me." ”

The man was busy carrying soil, and when he saw someone holding him, he put down his shoulder and wiped the beads of sweat from his head.

"What's the matter with Childe?"

Before he met, this person was richly dressed, but his face was kind, so he let go of his crampedness and called him a son.

"Where are you from?"

"Me? Nanyang comes. ”

The man said proudly.

"When did you settle down in Nanyang?"

"Two years ago, I was one of the first batch of displaced people to come to Nanyang."

As soon as he talked about this, the man seemed to open the conversation box and started talking.

"Oh? The first batch? How was this year's harvest? ”

"Okay."

The man grinned, a happy smile on his face.

"Would you like to come to the river?"

Li Yu was very worried that his large-scale requisition of young and strong people would cause resentment among the people, and it would be difficult to get it when the time came.

"Hehe, what's not to like?! It's King De and his old man who wants to build the river, so of course I'm willing to come. ”

"Uh, why?"

When the man saw that Li Yu had doubts about King De's old man's decision, he was unhappy, his face sank, and he said sullenly: "His old man saved our lives, my life is his, and I will do whatever he asks me to do!" Hum! ”

As he spoke, he snorted at Li Yu.

Li Yu muttered to himself, when did I become an old man?!

But he wouldn't explain, and the man poured the dirt out of the basket and walked away with a grunt.

Li Yu was a little baffled, did he say the wrong thing?

The effort was not big, the man came back with the burden again, Li Yu wanted to talk again, but the man saw that he hadn't left yet, so he didn't pay attention to it, and he was about to leave after pouring soil.

"Brother Leper, Brother Leper."

The man turned to look, and at the end of the embankment, a dozen women came over, carrying wooden barrels and carrying burdens.

The leader is a little lady of eighteen or nineteen.

I saw him beckoning to the man.

"Hehe, it's Liu Xiaoniang, is it time to eat?"

"It's coming soon, beckoning everyone to dinner."

"Okay."

The man turned around and ran into the river, shouting as he ran: "Eat, King De and his old man enjoy the meal~~~"

These young men put down their tools and walked up the embankment.

Kneel down in the direction of Nanyang.

"King Shede's feast."

The young men kowtowed their heads three times, then got up, wiped their hands, and lined up in front of the women, where they took the steamed cakes and a bowl of hot soup.

squatted down in front of Li Yu and ate with his head down.

Li Yu was at a loss to see this scene.

When did he become so important in the minds of the common people?

Why don't you know?!

This is the great grace of giving without knowing it!

Think about it, in such a troubled era as the late Tang Dynasty, Li Yu recruited displaced people and cultivated land, and it can be said that there were countless living people.

But he didn't think about it himself. He just thought that the homeless people were coming, they all planted food, and there were people in his own territory who had food, so who was he afraid of?

He just wanted to be able to survive and be able to fight against those powerful clans, especially the Zhu Wen rebels.

But his action made the nearby homeless people get a favor, and they worshiped him and thanked him from the bottom of their hearts.

These people who came back to life have tablets of King De in every house.

I can't hear anyone say a word about King De, and whoever dares to question King De's decision now is intolerable to them.

For example, eating.

No one told them to bow down to King Bad.

But they did it spontaneously.

One person inadvertently takes the lead, and others flock to follow suit.

No, it's not just the people in this section of the leper who do this, Li Yu heard someone shouting from afar, "King Xie De appreciates the meal." ”

Such calls have risen and fallen one after another in the land of river engineering.

"Let's go."

Li Yu couldn't stand it anymore, and beckoned the guards to leave quickly.

He wondered in his heart what he was like in the minds of these people. Could it be an old man with white hair and a white beard?

Ahem, actually, people are still very young, and I'm only eighteen.

Who passed it on, why am I an old man?!