Chapter 103: Yuan Shao's depression
Time slowly entered May, and slowly the people were about to reach the busy day of farming.
Most of the farmland in the county has grown tall wheat seedlings, and the full ears of wheat are heavy and full of joy for farmers who have been busy for half a year.
Although Jixian County has experienced war and man-made disasters this year, it was also blessed by the shrine of the 'Difu Temple', and there were many fewer natural disasters, so that the crops grew very gratifying.
For example, in previous years, when the wheat is almost ripe, this May will enter the time of mildew rain, and if you are not careful, the wheat will be flooded by the rain and blown by the wind, and if the wheat seedlings in someone's field are blown down by the wind again, then the yield will be reduced by more than half. Therefore, every time it rains, the people are busy with the harvest for half a year, and they may not even pay enough taxes.
The agricultural affairs in Jixian County are gratifying, and the people naturally begin to believe that the 'Jixian Hou' on the top of their heads is really a good official with heavenly virtue. Living under the gradually improving public order, the people also believe that they are blessed by the god Jixian Hou and Chenghuang, who can communicate yin and yang.
After entering May, Qiantai ordered that most of the excavated land be completed, and Qiantai also asked Liu Boxi to temporarily let the people who were working and serving as conscripts go home to prepare for farming.
At this time, in Jixian County, on the low hills, many originally arid and barren hillsides overgrown with barren grass were dug into layers of terraced fields by the conscripts. There are stone walls on the edge of each terraced field, and earth walls are piled on top of them to prevent the fields from collapsing in the rainy season.
Most of the hills and hills that are all over the mountains have been dug into layers of high and low fields, bare soil, patches of fields, and the entire Qiantai County of Jixian County has been counted, and nearly more than 3 million acres of fields have been added.
It is difficult for anyone to guess how these areas of arid and dewy fields will be turned into fertile fields in Jixian County? The dewed land is dry and lacking water, and it is difficult to grow live crops.
These ordinary people have no divine power, and how do they know that under these arid lands that have been selected as candidates in Jixian County, in fact, there will be some mountain springs and dark rivers without digging too deep, all of which are connected with the water system of the Heishui River. Not to mention the common people, even the monks outside the square can't explore the flow of the underground water system on a large scale like the city god Yan Du. To discover the flow direction of the underground water system of the entire Zhuo County, only Yan Du, who had already been a doppelganger of the land god, could sense the situation under the earth.
The bare land full of mountains and fields is mixed with the same number of wheat seedling fields, and the whole Jixian County is transformed by the people, which is a natural miracle created by the people.
Now most of the land reclamation works in Jixian County have been completed, and the affairs in the surrounding counties in Zhuo County are almost over under the leadership of Shi Lang and Lu Juan in Zhuo County.
In the whole field cultivation, only the last water system is excavated underground, so that all the arid land can be turned into living fields. But Qiantai let these things be pressed behind the farming.
May is approaching, and it is most important to be busy with the summer harvest first.
In Zhuo County, some big families also watched the various government affairs of the imperial court led by Ji County Hou, and some people began to pay attention to the new fields that are now blooming everywhere in Zhuo County, thinking about the impact and benefits that this will bring if these fields are really turned into living fields. These newly excavated lands still belong to the government, whether it is available or not, in the end it is a major policy to interfere in Zhuo County, if it is not completed, the government of various places will also be swept away, I am afraid that there will be a lot of trouble.
Recently, Qiantai sent someone to contact Shi Lang to take advantage of his authority to prevent changes in grain prices in the county and ensure the smooth flow of political affairs and summer harvest.
Qiantai clearly knew in his heart that although the people of Li in the world were happy when the summer harvest came every year, it was also the most difficult time, because at this time of year, some difficult families also reached the moment of autumn and yellow, and many families in the county would not have too much surplus grain at home.
On the second day of the fifth month, finally, many grain ships came down from Luxian County upstream, and the material support transferred by the Southern Chenghuang Temple Faith finally officially arrived.
This first batch of grain and grass brought 100,000 loads of grain to Qiantai, and he was escorted by 5,000 Chenghuang soldiers. The entire Youzhou was shaken, and the power of Jixian Hou was getting heavier and heavier in the north!
On this day, it was also the 'Dividing Dragon Festival' of the year, and Qiantai ordered a part of the 100,000 quintals of grain to be taken out and distributed to the people in the county as grain, ensuring that these laborers had enough food to survive during the summer harvest.
The land excavation in Jixian County also officially began to strike temporarily on this day.
The 'Dividing Dragon Festival' on the second day of the fifth month is a traditional festival for the people in the north. The purpose is to pray for a good harvest. Because the northern hills are prone to drought and waterlogging, and the harvest of grains is often not guaranteed, people believe that the first day before the summer harvest every year is the day when the water vapor separates from the sky, and it is rare for the water dragon to be separated.
The people in the county are naturally very lively before the summer harvest of this kind of festival, and the 'Difu Temple' in the city naturally also takes the opportunity to open the temple fair again, and even several big families in the county in order to flatter the Hou Ye and the god of the city god, and also jointly invite the opera troupe to sing in front of the temple, and the whole Zhuo County was extremely lively at that time.
At the temple fair on the second day of the fifth lunar month, many counties in Zhuo County had already established 'Difu Temples' and held 'temple fairs'.
In Jixian Houfu, Qiantai was dealing with various government affairs every day, and he sent 5,000 soldiers of faith to the capital city of Zhuo County, and combined with the 1,000 soldiers around Lu Ju before, a total of 6,000 people were stationed in the capital city of Zhuo County.
At the same time, he also absorbed the power of faith gathered from all over the world, and sent the power of faith to the doppelganger Yan Du. These beliefs from all over the world converged on the two days, and they were all things that changed hands and then returned to each other, and did not delay the collection of divine power from the clones. What Qiantai wants is only the luck of the people gathered to fund the cultivation of the body's qi.
On the day of the family, Qiantai's mother Yanyue Jieyu also personally made a bowl of dumplings for Qiantai and Qianming that day, and asked Qianming in the military camp to come over, and later there were no flaws and the old demon of Montenegro all had a meal together.
Yuyao, whose mother Yanyue Jieyu had not yet gone to the capital, embroidered a dress and asked Qiantai to ask someone to help her send her to the capital. Although I don't know when this gift was delivered, Yanyue Jieyu really missed Yuyao.
Qiantai also took the opportunity to write a letter of condolences to Yu Yao and sent some gifts to Yu Yao. There is also the fact that Qiantai also deliberately sent someone to bring a batch of special famous wine from Liaoxi County, Youzhou, and dragged Yuyao to help him present it to the emperor. Liaoxi County is Yuan Shao's chassis, and Qiantai's move is not to forget to block Yuan Shao's bad intentions. Politics is like this, not only must we be virtuous and clear, but we must also not lack wisdom and scheming.
The Qiantai of Jixian County handled all kinds of government affairs smoothly, the people in the county were convinced, the law and order were calm, and there was Shi Lang's surrender and the support of the city god, which can be said to be smooth.
At this time, Yuan Shao, who was far away in Liaodong County, could be said to have a great hatred in his heart whenever he heard about something about Qiantai. Yuan Shao was annoyed that the demon of Daijun suddenly went to Bingzhou and was invited away by Dong Biwu, which made Qiantai less disturbing and tribulating.
It turned out that some of the demons in Daijun wanted to go south to occupy the vacated outside power base in the south, and as far as Yuan Shao knew, it seemed that the 'Taiyi Sect' had also corresponded with these demons in Daijun, asking people to take revenge on Qiantai for harassing and destroying Jixian County. For example, the monster that the doppelganger Yan Du encountered when he found Bixia before was instructed by Taiyizong to destroy the law and order under the rule of Qiantai. Originally, the demons who went south were afraid of the majesty of the old demon of the Black Mountain in Jixian County and the fierce reputation of Jixian Hou, but it was just a bad thing around Jixian County, which made Yuan Shao very angry about these demons. But now Qiantai doesn't know what kind of good luck he has recruited, it turns out that Dong Biwu of Bingzhou has recently been born, and many demons in Daijun have been recruited by Dong Biwu, so that Qiantai will have less trouble in the future, and thinking about it will make Yuan Shao hate in his heart!
(To be continued, continued at 22:00)