When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 115 Taking advantage of the drought to transform farmland
Shu Chui jumped up excitedly.

Shu Dagu was also stunned and looked at it carefully twice: "Why is it you? Where is your mother?"

"Mom, she works in the clan, and because of my excellent academic performance, I came here to be an accountant!"

Chu Chui ran to Chu Da Gu and acted coquettishly: "Dad, I am very powerful! The patriarch even praised me as a genius!"

Shu Dagu weighed his son in his arms and found that it was heavy. It seemed that the food in the clan was good. Looking at the busy people around him, a one-armed man came over and quickly shouted: "Chu Jia!"

"Oh? Dagu, you're back." The one-armed man raised his head, saw Dagu and said with a smile, "Meet the boy from your family so soon?"

"Yeah, but why did this kid come here?"

"Hey, everyone in the clan is busy. As long as the children can walk, they are all busy. Your boy has good academic performance and can do arithmetic, so he handles some simple accounts."

Chu Jia came over and rubbed Shu Cui in his big buttocks. The boy looked up with a smile, a little proud.

"How big of a shortage of people are there?" Chu Daqu's face was heavy, "It's not that I don't trust this kid. If the accounts are wrong, then..."

"Hey, they are just calculating small accounts. If they make a mistake, it's just a matter of re-calculation. But your boy's calculation is good. Ninety-nine percent of the time there will be no problems. The rest is more of other people's accounts at the beginning. I just remembered it wrong, he often found problems and sent them to me!"

Chu Jia spoke softly and was very optimistic about Chu Cui: "I said, your boy is about the same age as my daughter, how about we get engaged? This boy will definitely have a good future."

"Go, go, we are still cousins, we have the same surname for three generations, and we are not married." Chu Dagu said angrily.

"Tsk, it's a pity." Chu Jia shrugged, "Anyway, you can rest assured that if this kid stays here, he won't have to play in the mud."

"Okay, you kid, settle the accounts carefully and don't make any mistakes."

"Don't worry, Dad! My account will definitely be correct! I will check it several times after I finish the calculation."

Chu Chui opened his arms and hugged Chu Chu's neck, very intimately.

The father and son played for a while, and took advantage of lunch to watch the operations in the market.

Then he found the tufted armor: "Are you in charge now?"

"Yes." Chu Jia bit the fish meat on his chopsticks and nodded. "The market is almost completed. The clan has begun to hang out the fish meat. In two days, other members of the Changxin clan will come. The clan leader asked I negotiated with the nobles stationed here and asked them to arrange more manpower for us to hire.

Then give these manpower hired food and distribute it to them. As for how much, it is a matter for their nobles. "

"..."

Chu Dagu's cheeks twitched when he heard this: "This guy Xin Qu has a very dark heart. Don't you just give the work to the clan members?"

"Give it, it's called encouragement. We give it in private." Tu Jia lowered his voice and looked at the noble supervisors of the Changxin clan who were passing by. "After that, we will gradually start to inform these working Changxin clan people to let them know that Xinshi has The clan’s distribution system. When the time comes, I think the clan leader will definitely be of great use.”

Chu Dagu also nodded while eating: "But...when did fishing like this start?"

"Oh, just three days later, the clan leader suddenly ordered the whole clan to take action and mobilize the people according to the time when they were supervising the construction of the city before. They were divided into groups and worked. Dried fish were piled one after another, and the ovens were built one after another. All used were leaky junk left over from the previous pottery vats.

The chief asked someone to dig a hole in the side, wrap it with clay, pour charcoal in, open the bamboo tube, and then use leather and wooden wedges to build a blower, and a simple oven was created.Everything is recycled, so you can see that we go up and down, weighing several kilograms every day! "Chu Jia laughed.

When Shu Yan heard this again, he quickly said: "Aren't you afraid that there will be no fish to eat next year?"

"Next year? Let's farm next year." Chu Jia smiled, "If you want to know more about farming, just go to Changping. Ditches are already being dug over there."

"Okay. I'll go take a look then." Chu Dagu took a bite of the snail, waited for everyone to finish lunch, said goodbye to his son, and continued walking southeast.

About a kilometer away, I saw Xin Huo holding a huge wooden tablet and sitting in a grass hut on the hillside comparing the map with the land below.On the land, many oxen were pulling strange "rakes" to plow the land, and there were also rakes filled with stones on the crossbars, pulling hay.

The children knocked down the hay seeds and tied them into bundles and piled them on the dry river beach.

Then some male slaves are digging deep river channels and spreading mud on the beach or dry mud, while female slaves are busy picking up fish, loaches and the like.Sometimes when you encounter a snake, you will be killed immediately by a pestle and stick.

Then chop off the snake's head with a pestle, cover the snake's head with thick mud, and leave.

When it dries out a bit, new silt will be sprinkled on it.

"This..." The people around Chu Dagu were shocked. They had only been away for a few days, and Xinqu was busy with big projects. He actually carried out large-scale land leveling, ridging, and ditching artificially.

More than 4000 people worked hard, all of them were squeezed out. As long as the children could go to the fields, they were all busy!
Shu Dagu quickly came to the hay shed.

"Come back?" Xin Huo looked at Shu Dagu with a smile.

Shu Dagu nodded, then glanced at the big wooden slip and said, "Can you show it to me?"

"Okay." Xin Huo handed it to Shu Dagu.

Shu Yan came up and saw the flat ridges and ditches on the map, as well as some saline-alkali land, and suggested that the solution was to wash the salt.

After the sludge is dried, it needs to be crushed and mixed with the decomposed feces as waste.

The purpose of making ridges is to prevent the salt flow from being affected by the heavy water used to wash the salt in the ridges.

To this end, Xinqu decided to build a rolling dam. On their side, the river pool was artificially divided into two with a difference of about two meters.

In this way, the flow of Xinshui water is artificially slowed down and more water is accumulated.

In this way, the river surface with the rolling dam will become wider, so embankments and water diversions need to be built, and even dredging is required every year.

However, Shu Dagu looked at the map and saw that a ditch was dug to divert water to the fields.

When the spring floods come every year, ditches are dug to fill the river and the water is allowed to soak for a few days. Then a water reduction dam is built downstream, leaving only three rivers.

The main river channel remains open, and the two auxiliary river channels on the left and right can be expanded using the old river channels.

In this undeveloped era, under the Xinshui alluvial fan plain, the rivers are flooding after they come out of the mountains!
The dense river channels are like braids, nourishing the swamps in the middle and lower reaches.

Now, all these useless places have been filled in, leaving only three main and auxiliary roads, and then let the river water wash away the land in the fields along the ditches to prevent salinization.

The chaotic water system in the upper reaches of Xin River has been unified. It can be said that after such effort, the Xin family will obtain a small reservoir in the mountain front and a fertile alluvial fan farmland.

This happens to be in line with the trend of height differences in this area.

"Your Majesty, is it really possible for a human to come up with this?" Shu Yan murmured, his eyes full of disbelief.

He knew Xinqu was very capable, but he didn't expect Xinqu to be so crazy!
It is actually necessary to artificially transform such a large area of ​​farmland on this small slope with a slight height difference!

It’s all water!

If this is done for them before next year!At least 225 acres ([-] square meters/acre) of land can be allocated.

"No wonder 4000 people are not enough, and we have to recruit people from the Chang Xin clan. I'm afraid Xin Qu had already made this idea from the beginning." Shu Dagu looked at the map, then looked at the busy slaves and clansmen, his eyes sharp. A few minutes later, "Mr. Huo, do you think it can be completed?"

(End of this chapter)