The Yellow River Fuqiu flood in the seventh year of Tianyou did not come violently, not only failed to cause any trouble to the impregnable Yuzhou River defense, but also brought hundreds of hectares of fertile silt fields to Yuzhou.

Oh no, it should be called a wasteland by now.

The Yuzhou Prefecture Government has put up a notice encouraging the landless poor peasants registered in the prefecture to actively reclaim the "wasteland" and all the acres of land reclaimed belong to the pioneers.

As soon as the news came out, the entire Yuzhou was a sensation.

But anyone who has planted the land, everyone knows the benefits of silt fields, planting on silt fields, planting one season can get three seasons of grain, if you have a few acres of silt fields in your hands, even a poor single can get a good daughter-in-law.

The people wondered, such a good land would be treated as wasteland, didn't this official take the wrong medicine?

Oh, what Wei Qingtian said!

That's fine......

The people are not stupid, and after a little pondering, they will understand that this is Lord Zhizhou making benefits to the people and trying to find a way to benefit us!

For a time, there were many people under the embankment by the Yellow River, all carrying hoes to open up the wasteland.

There are even many poor people in Xinzheng County who come with their families, anyway, at home, they are hired farmers for those big families, so it is better to settle on the side of the embankment and concentrate on "clearing the wasteland"!

Wei Chen didn't expect that the enthusiasm of the people was so high, there were thousands of people from various counties and townships in Yuzhou, and Gu Tingye and his servants couldn't control the situation.

Fortunately, the outer embankment formed a natural wall, blocking the people who wanted to pour into the embankment, otherwise Wei Chen could only let Zhao Zongquan transfer the Yuzhou regiment to suppress it.

Wei Chen personally stood on the top of the embankment and reiterated the stipulation that poor peasants who had no land could enter the land between the inner embankment and the outer embankment.

Wei Chen has already established his prestige in Yuzhou, and when he heard Wei Chen's words, many people who wanted to come to take advantage of it in vain retreated and went home dejectedly.

Of course, there must be those who don't want to fish in troubled waters, and if they find out later, Wei Chen will let him know that they are powerful.

Then, Wei Chen announced three more prohibitions to the people who remained.

First, it is forbidden to build houses on silt fields, and the people must live on embankments.

This is to prevent the flood from coming too hard, and the inner embankment cannot be supported, and the people living in the embankment will be submerged.

Second, from April to September every year, no farming is allowed in the embankment.

Because this period is the flood season of the Yellow River.

Third, it is not allowed to raise the inner embankment without permission.

Although the silt fields are fertile, they need to avoid the flood season of the Yellow River and can only be cultivated in spring and winter.

In order to prolong the cultivation time, some people will privately raise the inner embankment, so that it can be cultivated all year round.

However, in this way, the pressure on the inner embankment also increases, which can easily cause dangerous situations.

In case of a major flood and improper flooding, not only will the inner embankment built by tens of thousands of taels of silver be destroyed, but the outer embankment may also be endangered, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

This is clearly more than worth the cost.

Wei Chen didn't want his virtue of benefiting the people to end up harming them, so he took the trouble to explain the importance of these three prohibitions to the people.

The people below nodded their heads in agreement, of course, their focus was still on the silt fields that were about to arrive, and their faces were full of excitement.

"We're going to have our own land soon!"

"I just looked, this field is really fat, even if you can only plant half of the year, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can have a harvest of one or two stones!"

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"In the past, such good land has long been occupied by large families, where can we get it!"

"It's all up to Wei Qingtian!"

Wei Chen listened to the praise of the people, and he was quite helpless in his heart, and he didn't know if they had listened to the three prohibitions he had just said.

Of course, Wei Chen can also understand their feelings.

The Yellow River has been flooded for many years, and I don't know how many people have been displaced, and in order to make a living, they have to sell their land at a low price and become long-term laborers for large families.

Now that they can finally get their own land, they are naturally ecstatic.

Wei Chen didn't expect the people to consciously abide by the regulations, and the corresponding supervision and inspections would soon be carried out as the people entered the embankment to clear the wasteland.

Even the newly established River Works Department will also have to take responsibility in this regard.

Those old river workers themselves are old croppers, and they can put themselves in the shoes of the problem, and let them go deep into the people to carry out safety production propaganda, and the effect may be much better than Wei Chen's dry talk here.

After Wei Chen's preaching, he checked the identity of the household registration and let the people into the embankment.

Sure enough, several people who tried to fish in troubled waters were found, and they were pointed out by the angry people one by one without Wei Chen having to let people check them.

After a little interrogation, Gu Tingye figured out the intentions of these people, it turned out that they were all slaves of large families in the state, and they were sent to investigate the situation of the silt fields.

Wei Chen immediately asked Gu Tingye to whip these people twenty times, beat them until their skin was open, and then hang them up to show the public.

Seeing this scene, the onlookers all applauded.

It's just that they are bullied by these evil servants who fight on weekdays, and now life is finally about to see the light of day, and they still have to run over to make trouble, even the most honest people can't bear it.

Fortunately, Wei Chen finally took a bad breath for them.

Wei Chen watched the pained and wailing appearance of several people when they were tortured, and he couldn't help but snort coldly in his heart.

Thirty miles of embankment has created 300 hectares of silt fields, that is, a full 30,000 acres of high-quality fields.

According to the past practice, if there is such a good thing, it must be close to the big gentry in the state first, where to get those small people.

The money of the gentry is returned, and the people's money is divided into thirty or seventy, which is the normal operation.

But Wei Chen did the opposite, only taking care of the poor and excluding all the wealthy gentry, which naturally made them hate it.

Wei Chen also knows this, he dares to make this decision, and he has enough confidence to deal with the ensuing storms.

In the small land of Yuzhou, there are only a few rich people in the countryside, and Wei Chen asked himself if he could still hold the scene.

This time to deal with a few evil servants, it is just a small warning to those big households.

To be honest, Wei Chen still wished that someone would jump out as a target, just so that he could stand up and save others from treating him as a good gentleman.

In the following month, thousands of people came to settle on the embankment, and the quota of 10 acres for each family was quickly distributed.

During this period, it has been calm, which inevitably makes Wei Chen a little disappointed, this local gentleman in Yuzhou is a little cowardly......

But think about it, Wei Chen's prestige in Yuzhou is growing, he is loved by the people, the state government is ironclad, and the government officials and regimental training are firmly grasped in their hands, at least in Yuzhou, no one can shake Wei Chen's authority.

Even if someone is dissatisfied with Wei Chen in their hearts, they can't do anything about him, they can only make some small moves in secret, and they can't afford to make any waves.

Besides, Wei Chen has invigorated Yuzhou's commerce and trade, and these local big households have also eaten a lot of benefits, and it is really not cost-effective to turn against Wei Chen in order to silt the fields.

As a result, the local gentry could only endure this breath, and the matter of silting the fields was over, only the poor people got the benefits, and praised Wei Qingtian, who loved the people like a son.