Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2607 Jiujiang Great Ruins
Huang Xiyin didn't expect Zhang Xiao, an outsider, to be so clear about the situation of Jiujiang's local water conservancy facilities. The reason why he mentioned this matter was to praise the achievements of the Song people, so he flattered: "After the completion of this enclosure, Xiqiao Chaotian has nothing to do. In the evil year, Guangzhou has also become the largest rice market in China, with a large amount of surplus grain to support Fujian and Zhejiang, known as Guangmi. It is really an act of merit in the present and benefit in the future."

Zhang Xiao doesn't feel embarrassed by Huang Xiyin's flattery. Sangyuanwei is indeed the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient working people. It guards the South China Sea, Shunde Fourteenth Fort, thousands of hectares of fertile land, and a large population. It is the most important embankment under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou. One and an important source of taxation.

Zhang Xiao continued: "There is a section of embankment in Sangyuan Wai. Although it is only a few hundred meters long, it is very important to Sangyuan Wai."

"Chief, I don't know which section it is?" Zhang Jiayu was aroused and asked.

"The Hengji of Jizan Village should have been built in the Yuan Dynasty." Zhang Xiao said: "This foundation is located at the foot of Xiqiao Mountain, and the Daluxia Foundation was broken, and the river rushed into the plain on the back of the mountain from here. After the completion of the Jizan Hengji, the mulberry garden Within the enclosure, water trucks can be used to drain the accumulated water in the swamp to develop cultivated land and residential areas, and villages can be moved from the foothills to the lowland plains, and sluices can be set up in dikes to control the ingress and egress of tidal water. In the Ming Dynasty, the riverbed outside the outlet of the Daoliu Port was high-accumulated. Whenever the flood surged, not only the accumulated water in the surrounding area could not be discharged, but the flood from the Xijiang River would flow backwards and flow in, submerging the houses and rice fields, and the damage became more and more serious. In the 29th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Jiujiang Chen Bowen, Guan, Cen and other surnames built a fortress in the backwater port, and blocked the mouth of the backwater port with boats carrying stones to sink the river. Except here, there are dozens of peripheral areas under the jurisdiction of the Nanhai, Xinhui, Bashui, and Shunde counties. The dikes are connected to block the backflow of the tide."

Afterwards, Zhao Hening, who was looking around from the small hairboat, was also attracted by the discussion of Zhang Xiao and others, and asked: "Sir, since the mulberry circle has such a small effect and blocks the tide, why do I see ponds everywhere outside? What rice fields are there?"

Zhang Xiao said with a smile: "Girl, everything is a unity of opposites. If there is no benefit, there must be no harm. There is no harm, whichever is more important. Before the encirclement of the mulberry garden, although the tide was blocked, However, the inside of the mulberry garden is faced with the situation of waterlogging. In order to prevent waterlogging, villagers in Sijiang, Longshan, Longjiang and other places dug the fields with high terrain and difficult to be flooded into ponds. The ponds have no water storage and fish farming. Function. The pond is dug deep to store water, and the soil dug out is piled up around the pond for seven weeks. The field beside the pond is called the base, which is also the name of the 'base' of the embankment."

Zhao Hening looked at Zhang Xiao with reverence, and said, "I thought 'Jitang' came like this."

"Yes, Jitang first developed from Sijiang, Longjiang, Longshan and other places with the highest terrain. This is a small change in the farming system of mulberry gardens in the early Ming Dynasty."

Zhang Jiayu saw the scene along the way, and felt that everything should be done according to the "time, place, and people". There are naturally countless fish ponds of tens of thousands of acres. Why do they have to go to Xiangshan to dig again?It's strange that the bandits in the village were rampant afterwards, and they always found the opportunity to investigate at Qishang, and went directly to the Xiangshan non-woven handicraft industry.

What Zhang Xiao and his party saw along the way is that there are still many rice fields distributed in low-lying areas, but the grain produced in the Sangyuan area has been self-sufficient as early as the Wanli period.The closer to the high-lying areas of the Four Rivers and Two Dragons, the fewer Jitangs are distributed like a chessboard.Shrub-like plants are planted under the pond base, which have been cut off from the roots, and new branches and buds have just sprouted. There are quite a few fruit trees such as longan, lychee, and citrus planted under the pond base.

"Boss, it is said that Sijiang is the birthplace of mulberry fishponds. Why do you see mulberry trees?" Zhao Hening was born in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The mulberry trees he saw were mainly Jingsang and Lusang. She didn't see the mulberry tree she was unfamiliar with, so she couldn't help asking Zhang Jiayu.Jingsang and Lusang are the general names of a class of mulberry trees, which belong to deciduous trees. Jingsang has few berries, large leaves and no serrations on the edges, while Lusang has many mulberries, strong branches, and small and thick leaves.

Zhang Jiayu was also surprised that Zhao Hening lived an abnormal life before returning to Lindi from Hangzhou. The agricultural knowledge he learned from class No. He said, "Is that what it is? The mulberry species here are very different from those in the north. It is called Guangdong mulberry, and it is a shrub."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Zhao Hening scratched his head with some embarrassment, and a blush floated under his rough face.

Zhang Xiao couldn't help laughing, "Hey, how come He Ning's seven bodies are diligent, and seven valleys are divided?"

"Mr. Zhang, you're laughing at me too! I'm better at raising silkworms than you are! Hmph!" Zhao Hening said pretending to be angry, putting his hands together behind his chest.

Li Yaoer has been with Zhang Xiao for quite some time, he got in touch with many "chiefs", and found that Australians do seem to have such a tolerant concept of hierarchy towards the master, but he was still surprised by Zhao Hening's behavior.Zhao Hening said that he was Chief Zhao's "benevolent man". From the perspective of Ming Dynasty people, the so-called righteous woman and righteous man were just a means to circumvent the imperial court's ban on keeping slaves for special people, but Zhao Hening was like a savage princess. Without the slightest sense of slavery.While Li Yaoer was thinking, she consciously kept staring at her.

Zhao Hening naturally knew it, but felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at her joke, turned his head and was about to teach her a lesson, but met Li Yaoer's eyes.Being stared at by such a handsome big brother, Zhao Hening's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and his face turned red.In order to cover up his embarrassment, he had no choice but to say coquettishly: "Hmph, you are bullying me! It's the reasoners!" After speaking, he ran to the stern of the boat to watch the water splashed by the propeller.

At the moment when they looked at each other, Li Yaoer was aroused by the cloudy eyes, and then realized her gaffe, and wanted to follow up to apologize, but also felt that a man and a woman are kisses, and their legs are like small trees He moved half a step as if he had taken root, and was stunned to retreat in a dilemma. He said straight in his heart: "Don't look at evil, don't look at evil, Li Yaoer, you are a beast!"

Zhang Xiao and Zhang Jiayu looked at each other and smiled, shaking their heads and shrugging their shoulders.

"Where is that place?" Zhang Xiao suddenly asked Huang Xiyin, pointing in the direction where there seemed to be a small piece of land with Guangdong mulberry planted nearby.

"Returning to the Chief, there is Xiaotong over there. There is no market called Xiaotong Market in the distance, and it is already within the territory of Sijiang Fort." Huang Xiyin replied.

Just like that, knowingly and consciously, the fleet approached Sijiang Xiaoxu in a hurry. Along the way, there was someone who was open-eyed and dared to hit the two steamboats emitting white smoke. The National Army under the boat pulled out. The bayonets of the knife team reminded the merchants and ship owners that they were a group of Australians.

"It's so quiet here!" It was the first time Zhang Xiao saw such a bustling rural scene.Compared with the low days at the beginning of D-Day, the scene of this rural area is nothing like clouds and mud.

According to historical records, from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there were no two markets and seventeen markets in the Sangyuanwei area, and almost every fort had no market, and the distribution was flat.The market is rich in commodities, mainly rice agricultural products. Sijiang Township has benefited from the monopoly trade of fish flowers and the development of the silk industry, forming a low-density market distribution that is different from other regions.

Due to the needs of agricultural production, several intermediate markets in the surrounding area are located at the intersection of the water network, which becomes the transfer station for the communication between the entire Sangyuanwei and the inner circle. Whether there is too weak complementarity between the intermediate markets, each Relatively independent, it mainly covers its surrounding grassroots markets, and only needs to meet the market demand of a small area.

After Jiajing, the common people were forbidden to set up family temples to worship ancestors, and only officials and eunuchs were allowed to set up family temples to worship ancestors.Before Jiajing, the emperor allowed the people to set up shrines to worship their ancestors. Before that, there were many family temples and ancestral halls in the Bajiao area of ​​the Pearl River Delta. As the center, the shops are arranged around the ancestral hall.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the borders of the market in Sangyuan Wai were closed, and gate posts were set up at the entrances and exits. Few entrances and exits led to neighboring villages or rivers.

In the first year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the people of Sijiang Township took advantage of water transportation to build Tianfei Temple Houxu and Kaibian Ruins along Shimayong and Waihai (Sijiangyong).At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Ruins of Waihai, Liangcun, and Yuewan were formed, and more than a hundred pavilions were built for commercial activities. The Taichang Temple had many ministers Huang Chong, Yushi Chen Wanyan, prefect Huang Yingxiu, Zhu Rang, Guan Jiyi, etc. The gentry of all dynasties participated in the construction of the market, and in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Markets were collectively called the Sijiang Xiaoxu.During the period of the Republic of China, it was established as a separate city with Foshan, Jiangmen and other four regions. It did not have the name of "Great Guangzhou", which shows its prosperity.

The development of Sijiang Xiaoxu is similar to that of Foshan. It was gradually prospered due to the development of local handicraft industry, not a town established by the government.Sijiang Xiaoxu Straight Street is built along both banks of Sijiang Chung, with shops facing the water on both sides of the Chung. There should be endless silk and satin cloth, because the streets are spacious, only less than two meters narrow, every eighth, eighth, and four market days, there are really huge crowds of people, and the water is flowing.From morning to night, market days are full of people, which is a scene of ecstasy.

Before Zhang Xiao took office, he had studied the policies of the Ming Dynasty and the Senate on rural trade. Since ancient times, the imperial power was to go to the countryside. The Ming Dynasty court basically stocked this kind of rural market. It not only encouraged trade, but also interfered with it. If the scale of trade It is small, basically there will be officials to collect taxes, and these large-scale rural trades will be directly affected by the imperial court's commercial and tax policies.It is above the county level, but it is completely controlled. Since the Yuan Dynasty, there has been no inspection department above the county-level yamen.Every town, city, and key point of the pass has an inspection department, which is under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate. The inspection officer is now a fourth-rank official. The inspection department is not a purely civilian job. Although the purpose of the establishment is mainly for public security, it is more important for military functions. , but after a long time, it gradually lost the distinction between civil and military inspections, and had no functions of county dispatched agencies.

(End of this chapter)