Wangfu small peasant girl

Chapter 1454

Mr. Han is a Beijing official from the capital, and he is very capable. Maybe under his leadership, the dam can really be built this time?
The common people had expectations in their hearts, and some even set up altars at home, killed chickens and ducks to sacrifice to the sky, and prayed for God's blessing, this time the dam must be repaired.

It should have been built many years ago. In a flood, the previous dam was washed away. At that time, it happened to catch up with the war, and the imperial court was competing with the small border countries for the right to govern the place of Xinchuan.

What both parties care about is the land. No one cares about the life and death of the people. The most important thing is to get the land back. At that time, how could they care about building a dam?
Decades have passed like this, and there are not many traces of the dams that were washed away by the flood, so there have been continuous floods in the past few decades.

For so many years, no one has even mentioned the matter of building dams. It is too costly and labor-intensive. Now I suddenly heard the news. Although it is not yet planned, since someone mentioned it, it means that there is hope. Not happy?

Han Yuan has been here for several years, and the common people have already trusted him. Now that such a decree has been promulgated, the common people trust him even more.

Immediately afterwards, there were many voices of praise from below, but how could those who spread the rumors let it go so easily and continued to spread it.

"Master Han is an official from the capital. He has not been able to build the dam for several years. How can he build it now? I think he just wants to plant the rice this year, so he said that. "

"Maybe he reached a shady agreement with wealthy businessmen in other places, forcing the common people to plant rice, and when the time comes, he will make money from the harvested rice and sell it to others, without considering the safety of the common people."

"If Xinchuan is submerged by the flood, he must be the first to run away. Anyway, he can't be submerged, don't you think?"

"Yeah, isn't this treating the common people as fools? Letting the common people work hard for them is of no benefit at all, and it might cost the lives of the whole family. You still have to think about it carefully. Just do it."

While Han Yuan was being praised, such remarks became popular in Xinchuan. Suddenly, the common people's opinions were divided into two factions, one was to say that Han Yuan was good, and the other was to say that he was not good.

Han Yuan wrote the memorial quietly and applied to the court for the construction of the dam.

After the memorial was in the hands of the emperor, he could almost guess what kind of reply he would get, but such a process could not be skipped.

At the same time, he quickly set an example. No matter how much he said, the common people might not buy it. The most important thing is to do it.

The money needed to build the embankment is not a small amount, which cannot be paid by the government. The most important way is to apply to the imperial court.

Otherwise, they would rely on the local landlords and gentry to take out some money, but Xinchuan was not rich in the first place, and even if it was a landlord and squire's family, there was not much that could be given out.

The money in the yamen is not much, but there are large tracts of land that no one cultivates. These lands have been abandoned, but they can be sold to others. land.

Xu Ruyue had bought thousands of acres of land at a low price before. At that time, many people focused on this matter, wondering how to use these lands to make money.

And now these lands have been put into use for less than a year, and even if they want to see the results, they have to wait until the second half of the year.

It is still a bit difficult for Han Yuan to use this matter to seduce others.

Fortunately, he didn't intend to raise money as the main source of money. As I said before, the people here are poor, and even the rich are not rich, so they can't spend much money.

But just to put on a show, to show that he is thinking of various ways to raise funds, and to let the person in the capital see that he is indeed in a state of desperation, otherwise he would not have thought of reaching out to the court.

How sensible am I, can I still ask the court for money if I can earn money by myself?Your Majesty, you can take a look, there is really no other way.

At the same time, there are also a group of people spreading the reputation of Lord Zhizhou. In order to build the embankment, Lord Zhizhou has not slept well for a long time. He runs around every day, hoping to raise money to build the embankment and bring new benefits to the people of Xinchuan. peaceful.

The emperor could find someone to ruin Han Yuan's reputation, so couldn't they find someone?
Xu Ruyue also helped a lot in this matter, but it's still not the right time. If the first batch of perfume has been made, the profit alone will be enough to make the wealthy businessmen here excited. The land under the name of the Yamen, It must be easy to sell.

At that time, some people will definitely follow suit, but the workshops have not been built yet, and the industries she has already started to build in Xinchuan will not be able to help.

This time, Han Yuan also went all out. He was not in the Yamen every day, went out to raise funds, and even went to the countryside to appease the people himself.

Regardless of what the common people think about the Yamen in their hearts, it is a lie to say that they are not moved when they see such a big official willing to condescend to come to the countryside to stay with the common people.

In this way, Han Yuan made the people trust him more step by step, and it was during this period that when the memorial arrived in the capital, the emperor's reaction was just as he thought, and he directly rejected it on the grounds that the treasury was empty.

In the past few years, there have been successive famines, and the common people need relief. The relief of the common people has already emptied the treasury. At this time, there is no extra money to build dams.

The emperor's reply arrived in Han Yuan's hands quickly. To be honest, the emperor's reaction could be of great help.

It's already April now, and the young seedlings have already gone to the field. Even the common people have always been skeptical, but when the young seedlings are grown, they can't just waste the good seedlings like that, right?So I still followed what was supposed to be done and did it step by step.

After Han Yuan received the approval, he was not in a hurry. Instead, he continued to go to the countryside to mingle with the common people as before. If someone had a small family, he would not be too busy. He even went to the fields to help them plant rice seedlings.

At first, the local people were very embarrassed. After all, this is an official, and he is not a small official. This is the first time I heard that the master of Zhizhou went to the countryside to help transplant rice seedlings.

However, seeing Han Yuan's insistence later, he didn't mean to blame them. Apart from being moved, everyone was only moved, and felt that getting along with Mr. Han was very pleasant.

(End of this chapter)