Chapter 260: Typhoon Disaster, Donate Food

There are five big rivers in Jibei Province, and Li Qiao placed the 100,000 mu of land that Sheng Hong gave him for the last time in Sifu, far away from these five big rivers.

Under the banner of facilitating the irrigation of his own fields, he diverted the water of the five major rivers to these four prefectures.

At that time, the four prefectures started to dig rivers at the same time, and Sheng Hong also sent officials from the Ministry of Industry to guide them, and scattered hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to dig a total of four large rivers leading to the four prefectures and hundreds of small ditches.

All the works have now been completed.

There has been no rain for almost three months in a row, and these water conservancy projects repaired by Li Qiao came in handy.

He hired people from the royal logistics to go to these four prefectures to check the situation, including the irrigation situation of the prefectures and counties along the four major rivers, and to report them to him.

Because they are all cement roads, the people of Royal Logistics go fast and come back quickly.

There is no need to worry about the irrigation of the Li family's fields, because Li Qiao dug ditches directly in his Li family's fields, so that the ditches occupy the area of the fields, so that the ditches extend in all directions.

Moreover, because the keel waterwheel could only irrigate the area, Li Qiao also specially purchased a batch of bamboo from the south to use it as a water pipe, and he asked people to use the bamboo water pipe to divert water, so that the river could flow to the fields farther away from the ditch.

Now the keel waterwheel and bamboo tube water pipe in the fields of the Li family in these four provinces can completely cover all the fields.

The tenants who rented the land of the Li family were happy, and every day they talked about the good hearts of the Li family, although they were high, but they could take care of the needs of the people at the bottom.

As for the places where the four big rivers of the Li family pass, there are also people who use keel waterwheels and buckets for irrigation.

However, keel waterwheels are a minority, because a keel waterwheel is too expensive for ordinary farmers to afford.

The vast majority of farmers still use the oldest method, using buckets to draw water from the river and then pulling it to their fields on board trucks to irrigate it.

This oldest method of irrigation is very inefficient, and a family can only water a few acres of land after a busy day.

However, at present, the water level in the four major rivers of the Li family has not dropped significantly.

As for the future, that's hard to say.

Sheng Hong was also tired of the extreme cold or the fact that it did not rain for several months, and in mid-April, he and Sheng Jun took a boat around Shengjing-Jibei Province.

Sheng Jun likes to go out to play, because Sheng Hong's health is not very good, he is not good enough to go out of Beijing.

In the past few years, Sheng Hong has recovered well through the combination of work and rest + exercise, and he has not enjoyed it, so at the end of April, he led people to go down to Jiangnan by boat.

After Sheng Jun left Beijing, Meng Yue also left Sheng Jing and started his patrol errand again.

After a few months of happy life with the Seventh Prince, he was very reluctant to leave Beijing this time.

The Seven Princes were also reluctant.

In the past few months, as if to make up for the lack of intimacy before, he and Meng Yue have not been ashamed, and have tried many postures like real husbands.

He felt the beauty of a heart-to-heart connection.

He also felt the beauty of being a little brother.

And, just like Meng Yue said, even if you don't do that kind of thing when you stay together, you just hug each other and read a book, you don't even read a book, you don't even speak, you just hug each other, then you feel very happy.

The happy want time to stop so that they don't separate.

Thirty years of loneliness, soaked in a honeypot for the first time, God knows how hard it took him to maintain his cold face when he was outside.

He really wanted to announce to Quan Dasheng that he and Meng Yue would become husbands even if they were not married!

The affection between them is no less than that of other husbands!

Now let him resume a long-distance relationship, which is like cutting his flesh with a knife, and in addition to insomnia, he has one more behavior:

Tears.

He didn't want to cry.

It's so torturous to miss this emotion.

He stayed in the mansion, no matter what he did, he could think of Meng Yue, but he couldn't see it, he couldn't touch it, he could only rely on memories to fight this kind of longing.

But often memories and longings will be entangled, turning into a knife that penetrates into his bone marrow strongly, making him feel painful.

This kind of torture is much more terrible than last year when he and Meng Yue were away.

Desperate to stop the pain, he moved the idea of transferring to the canal system.

Now that the Criminal Department has no big cases, the daily handling is trivial matters, it is the same with him or not, he should go to the canal instead of spending time in the Criminal Department.

It's just that several princes are staying in the Sixth Division, and if he is transferred to the canal, the Six Princes will definitely not agree.

It's so bitter, it's so bitter to be lovesick to the bones.

At this time, he really envied Tao Zhu, Tao Zhu and Li Qiao became married, and the real difference was that Li Qiao went to the border city.

has been inseparable for more than ten years, when can this kind of good thing fall on him......

The Seventh Prince was unhappy in his heart, but he had a cold face all the year round, so outsiders couldn't detect his true emotions.

But the eldest prince watched him grow up, and his emotional changes couldn't escape the eyes of the eldest prince.

The eldest prince knew about his entanglement with Meng Yue, but now the eldest prince could only harden his heart.

For the sake of a throne, he has been in it in this life, and his younger brother has also been in it for half his life, and he can't fall short at such a big price.

His character is also not to interfere with the promotion of officials, his younger brother has just stuffed Meng Yue into the canal system, even if he wants to give advice to his father, it will have to be delayed for two years......

After Meng Yue left Beijing, Li Qian and Taozhu went to the Seven Princes' Mansion more diligently, and the husband pulled the Seven Princes to talk about the free private school, and talked about the matter of Hu'an Province, so as to divert the attention of the Seven Princes as much as possible.

This year is still hot, in early May, Li Qiao held a children's riding competition outside Shengjing City, and the participants brought their own horses.

Bringing your own horse, this item rejected the children of ordinary people, and, compared with calligraphy and bicycles, riding skills are a little unpopular.

As a result, there are far fewer participants than in the calligraphy competition.

In addition, Li Qiao limited the age and only allowed those under the age of 14 to participate, so Sheng Shiyu won the first place again.

Yan Anbang's youngest grandson was also very heroic and won second place.

Li Xiaorui, Li Changfeng, Li Yunfan, the three little guys are also outstanding, after all, horseback riding is also very popular, they practice very diligently on weekdays, although they are riding ponies, but Da Da Da Da ran very fast, and won the top few in the children's group.

After the riding competition, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it's time to harvest the wheat.

During this period, two light rains fell in Shengjing, and the crops were barely irrigated thoroughly, allowing the farmers to save their efforts.

It also rained in some provinces of Jibei Province, but more provinces still relied on manual irrigation of crops.

The water level of the Yongding River outside Shengjing City has dropped a little, and the water level of the five major rivers in Jibei Province, including the four major rivers dug by Li Qiao, has dropped more obviously.

Li Qiao's mood was a little heavy, and he cultivated his ability even harder, and under his diligence, after the wheat harvest was completed, his ability successfully broke through to level eight.

It took him twelve years to regain the strength of his previous life.

But a few days after he was happy, news came from Zhehai Province that a typhoon was raging and half of the province was affected.

Zhehai Province is the richest province in Dasheng, but natural disasters such as typhoons have caused great losses to the people, and violent storms and rains can cause mudslides and landslides.

In this way, ordinary people not only risk losing their lives, but also burying their life savings.

Sheng Hong attached great importance to this disaster.

Li Qiao also attaches great importance to Peng County, Peng County has his 50,000 acres of land, and part of the grain obtained from these 50,000 acres of land is used to supply shops, and part of it is left in the warehouse as reserve grain by him - if there is a natural disaster in many places, the price of grain will inevitably rise, and if he buys grain and donates it at that time, he will definitely spend more silver.

Therefore, he did not use all the grain from the 50,000 acres of fields in the shop, but kept half of it in the warehouse.

They were all high-quality fields, and he employed a large number of people, and under intensive cultivation, the grain yield per acre of land reached the highest value.

For example, rice, one acre of land can get more than 400 catties.

And in addition to rice, he also planted potatoes and corn, which can have a higher yield than rice.

Therefore, the grain he was able to donate this time, rice, corn, and potatoes together, was 5 million catties.

He is willing to donate the grain to the people of Zhehai Province.

Sheng Hong readily agreed.

cough, he rewarded Li Qiao with so many fields in order to have other places affected by disasters, so Li Qiao could donate food generously and selflessly.

Now that Li Qiao has really done this, how can he refuse, Li Qiao donated five million catties of grain, then the treasury can reduce five million catties of grain, and the five million catties of grain saved can do a lot of things!

In the past, a few people had complained about him rewarding Li Qiao, but after this time, he saw who dared to force him.

As far as Li Qiao's generosity is concerned, let alone the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, even the entire Dasheng can't find a second one.

That's five million pounds of grain!

It's not the most productive, uncomfortable sweet potatoes that you eat too much, it's polished rice, potatoes, and corn!

If 50 catties are given to each of the victims, it can feed 400,000 victims!

What a contribution?

Who can do it except Li Qiao?

You can do it with Li Qiao!

In the court, Sheng Hong praised Li Qiao fiercely, and after praising it, he felt that it was not enjoyable, and he also asked people to post a notice at the gate of the city, and publicized Li Qiao's generous donation of food.

The generosity of the people in Shengjing to Li Qiao is really convinced.

The five million catties of grain, Li Qiao hired people to grow it himself, and the cost of investing it in is definitely not low.

Now Li Qiao donated directly without blinking his eyes, who doesn't shout a word of convincing for this courage?

Even if Li Qiao's move is to sell his reputation, he did donate five million catties of food, and he has paid so much, what is the matter with a good reputation?

A good reputation is what Li Qiao deserves!

Man Shengjing was praising himself from top to bottom, but Li Qiao's mind had shifted from this typhoon, and he wanted to sigh, the drought died, the waterlogging died, and the rain from Zhehai Province could be evenly distributed to Jibei Province, how good it would be.

It doesn't rain in Jibei Province, and the people of Royal Logistics reported to him that the water level of the four large rivers he dug has dropped significantly.

If this continues, I am afraid that the great drought in Gao Zhiyuan's mouth will really come.

Chapter 261: Li Qiao takes a month's leave

In the seventh lunar month, the weather is hot.