Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 409 The Monstrous Wu Meiniang

The wish to spend the first New Year with the child fell through, and Sun Xiangfu led two hundred guards to go down to Luoyang on a fast horse. After resting in Xicun for a day, he rushed to Jingzhou in the snow.

By the time I got to know all aspects of the situation in Jingzhou City in detail and contacted some of the water bandit leaders who were willing to be recruited, it was already the end of the twelfth lunar month.

On the dock, the samurai Xun looked worriedly at the hands Sun Xiangfu was carrying and said, "Zhengming will bring 200 people to see them, I'm afraid it's not very appropriate."

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "It's okay, it's better to let them see the sincerity of the court. In addition, please collect the atlas of the land in the Shannan Road area as soon as possible, so that I can give you a comprehensive report before I return to Chang'an." planning."

In the land of Jingxiang in this period, it can be said that success and failure also depend on water, supported by a rich water system, the farmland here hardly has to worry about irrigation, and the land is never short of fertility.

But once there is more water from the upper reaches, or even more local rainfall, the floods here will destroy most of the farmland.

It was not until the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in later generations that the flood situation in this area was slightly better, but it still existed, because there were too many large and small water pools in the entire Yunmengze area and the Dongting Lake area. Just find a piece of land and dig three feet Deep water can come out.

Sun Xiangfu is generally aware of the agricultural history of this area. Since the rice gradually became popular, the people here began to explore a set of agricultural techniques for preventing floods, rationally using water resources, and planting rice. In later generations, it is called 'Build embankments into fields'.

Sun Xiangfu experienced a period when the Three Gorges Dam was not yet completed. At that time, people still relied on embankments to ensure local agricultural production. Everyone had a catchphrase, "Water enters and people retreat, and water retreats and people enter." The local climate is slightly warmer. As long as the floods do not submerge the farmland for a long time, the people can always grow some crops to survive.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the so-called "huguang is ripe, the world is full" was established after the "building embankment" project was completed. There are more than 67 embankments in 500 miles, and the smaller ones are [-] to [-] miles. There are more than [-] embankments. Almost all the lands by the lake are built as fields, spreading all over the surrounding [-] li.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, rice had not been popularized yet, let alone the so-called embankment building. The completion of the embankment project in the entire Jingxiang area was achieved through the efforts of people from the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties for nearly a thousand years. If it is done, Sun Xiangfu will not be self-righteous and start this huge project now. Although after it is completed, the grain production here will be enough for the people of the sparsely populated Tang Dynasty to feed for more than ten years, but that is unrealistic. .

He can only give some suggestions to the warriors as long as the existing labor force allows, and choose a small number of high-quality areas that can play a role in water control to build fields. Then decide whether to do it or not.

After sending Sun Xiangfu to the bow of the ship, the warrior Xun said, "This matter has been handed over by the old man early in the morning. In the past few days, all states and counties should be able to send maps one after another. In addition, the harm in Jingzhou lies in the powerful, and the powerful will not be destroyed. , there will still be problems sooner or later, if Zhengming has other plans, the old man should make preparations early."

Sun Xiangfu heard the words, thought for a while, and said, "In the entire Shannan Road, except for the prefectures and counties controlled by a few major clans, there are less than 30 ordinary people on the register. In fact, it is easy to deal with it. Yinggong can allow it." The people in the prefectures and counties controlled by those big clans, as well as the people in nearby prefectures and counties, sold their Yongye land to them, and then recruited and relocated these landless people to Honghu, Jianli, etc. in the form of hired labor. In areas where floods are frequent, according to the method I taught, build embankments, open new fields, and plant Champa rice."

Don't local tyrants want to play land annexation?I will sell you the land directly. Datang doesn’t have many other things now, but he has a lot of land. If I sell the land to you, I will move the population away and see if you can grow it.

Moreover, after the fertile soil on the edge of the lake area is successfully built, the food produced will be more than two or three times that of the original land, which will greatly depreciate the value of the food in the hands of those tyrants, and at that time they will He found that the land in his hands was just a piece of shit. It would be a pity to plant it and not gain much, but it would be a pity to discard it.

And these ordinary people who sold their land to them will first get a lot of money for the purchase of land, and because they work for the court, they will have a stable income. The transformation of workers and peasants, in the future, they can switch to industry and commerce at any time.

What Datang lacks now is manpower in industry and commerce. Weinan can actually digest the hundreds of thousands of workers directly. At that time, whether they continue to farm or go to Weinan to work, it is better than a clan that sticks to one place. The people at home are rich, and those who are less well off than the migrant workers who went south to work in the later generations are better than those who stay at home and farm. Those who are better off have a bright future.

"Okay, the old man will make preparations according to the method discussed with you these days. After you have settled with those water bandits, you will start to fully implement it."

After confessing to Samurai Xun, Sun Xiangfu bid farewell to him. After Samurai Xun disembarked, the boatmen lifted the anchor, and the big boat began to follow the river to the Dongting Lake area.

In the boat cabin, the snacks that the guards had placed on the case early in the morning were missing a few pieces. Sun Xiangfu didn't care. Draw the used forklifts, cranes, etc., turn around, and ask the samurai to find a craftsman to build it.

"Uncle Sun, what are you drawing! Why can't Mei Niang understand?"

Sun Xiangfu was startled by a timid voice, turned his head to look, a little girl stood beside his desk at some point, who was it not Wu Meiniang, the second daughter of Samurai Yi.

"Little Mei Niang, why are you on the boat?"

In the past few days in Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, Sun Xiangfu has also met her a few times. I didn't expect that the little girl still remembered the meeting gift he gave her two years ago. She begged for a lot of snacks and accessories. However, the warrior Xun knew what Sun Xiangfu was going to do, and he would never let his five or six-year-old daughter go with him. situation.

"Brother and the others bullied Meiniang, they didn't play with Meiniang, and even took away the checkers you gave Meiniang..."

Even though this girl may be very strong when she grows up, at this time, she is still a little girl about six years old. After being wronged, Sun Xiangfu is embarrassed by the pouting, tearful expression of begging for a hug Continue to interrogate her.

The checkers Sun Xiangfu gave her were made of glazed beads of different colors. Although the cost was not worth a few pennies, it was a treasure worth a thousand dollars when it was put on the market. Wu Yuanqing, Wu Yuanshuang, see When seeing such a treasure, one would naturally become greedy, but Sun Xiangfu didn't think carefully when he gave it away.

"Okay, okay, Mei Niang, stop crying, and tell Uncle Sun, how did you avoid the guards on the boat and come to this cabin?"

Being hugged by Sun Xiangfu and stroking her head, Wu Meiniang stopped crying immediately, and said with a smile, "Those guard uncles are so stupid, their eyes only know how to look far away, Meier followed the last guard closely, he I looked back three times and didn't see me."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was dumbfounded. This little girl was only five or six years old, and she knew how to take advantage of the blind spot of the guards' eyesight. With her height, she was less than the guards' thigh height, and she was tricked into boarding the boat all the way.

"Then how did you get from the city to the docks?"

"I told Dad's guard that I want to see you off at the pier with Dad. The guard uncle was afraid of freezing me, so he wrapped me in his cloak and carried me all the way."

Sun Xiangfu didn't even need to think about it. It was Wu Meiniang's idea to let the guard wrap himself in a cloak. It can only be described as horror at such a young age.

"Then if I want the boatman to turn around and send you back to the pier, what will you do?"

Wu Meiniang knew that her small thoughts had been exposed, but she was not worried at all, "In winter, when the north wind blows, the boat going down the river will go very fast. Uncle Sun has only gone for about an hour now. If the boat goes against the wind and the current to go back to Jingzhou, I'm afraid it will take more than a day, which will delay your work. In addition, even if you send me back, you will definitely explain the reason to my father. Then, big brother should Give me back my glazed checkers."

"You, you are so smart, how could you be bullied by a fool like your elder brother and second brother?" Sun Xiangfu was simply convinced, the kind of obedience, this is not like a six-year-old child, I am afraid that a 60-year-old person, Few are better than her.

"Hey, smart people are not afraid of smart people, they are afraid of fools. They never compete with me for wisdom."

Seeing a girl who looked like a little adult sighed and boasted in front of him, and looked helpless, Sun Xiangfu couldn't laugh or cry.

However, since this little girl is so smart, letting her follow her won't be a burden to me. She smiled and said, "Do you know that Uncle Sun went to Dongting Lake this time to recruit water bandits?"

"I know, father and mother said that Uncle Sun's talent is rare in the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court sent you out this time, Jing Xiang's worries can be relieved."

All right!Originally, Sun Xiangfu wanted to ask this little girl if she had any good plans, but he was blocked by a single sentence. You are a rare talent in the Tang Dynasty. Do you have the nerve to ask a little girl how to recruit water bandits?
"That Mei Niang! How did your father educate you? Uncle Sun also has two children now, and he wants to teach them to be as smart as you."

Hearing this, Wu Meiniang said proudly, "Daddy didn't teach me! Meiniang learned to read from her master herself. Brother and the others can't even recite the Analects of Confucius. Every time Meiniang recites in front of Daddy, Daddy will Punish them angrily..."

what is this?Do you study for revenge?
This set of stimulating learning methods is really impossible for others to imitate!

Before that, he didn't really believe that there were geniuses in the world, but now, he completely believed it. It was not accidental that this girl was able to be an empress in history. People can hold her down.

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