Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

Or to put it bluntly, even if the other party can accept it, the other party may not be willing to accept it.

This is the absolute disparity in the right to speak brought about by the difference in status between the two.

But if now...

Looking up at Zhang Yan, the old man recalled some rumors about the chief of Lujiang, and felt a little more courageous.

After all, he is not the kind of self-cultivator who has always had a small family property. As a person who lives in Xiacai, which is a three-way area, the old man has been living in Xiapi County, Xuzhou not far from the north when he was young. It's just the past two years.

For an "ordinary person" like him who has no savings, if Zhang Yan is really willing to help him solve some problems, he will avoid a lot of troubles in his future life. These are all things that can really help him live .

As for the experience of being a tenant in the home of a powerful landlord in Xiapi before becoming a glorious owner farmer, the old man has a little more eloquence than ordinary people, and also a little more like Zhang Yan. The experience and courage of a "superior" communication.

"Sir, you just come with me."

Sighing slightly, the old man ignored Zhang Yan, turned around on his own, and walked towards the plowed farmland not far away.

Behind him, Zhang Yan was taken aback for a moment, then he and Ye'er looked at each other, and at the same time curled his lips, making a somewhat innocent expression.

"Well, it looks like we won't be able to get there before dark today."

Gently hugging the other person's shoulder, Zhang Yan could only blink at him, and then followed in the direction the old man left.

……

while walking.

One step, two steps.

……

Following behind the old man, Zhang Yan didn't realize what the other party meant for a while, but he was too embarrassed to ask, so his brows became more and more wrinkled.

Fortunately, after a while, the old man stopped first, turned around and looked in the direction of Zhang Yan in front of him.

"Sir, we are here."

"Here it is, take a look."

After gesturing towards a large piece of land around him, the old man sighed slightly, and then stopped talking, but stood not far from the roadside.

As for Zhang Yan, his brows were naturally furrowed, and he looked at the surrounding land in a strange way.

……

"It's here, what's going on here?"

"Isn't this all cultivated farmland?"

"Looking at this posture, as long as the weather gets warmer in two months, spring will not be needed, so we can plant the first stubble of wheat, right?"

……

For a while, Zhang Yan looked at the old man inexplicably, and a trace of irritability suddenly rose in Zhang Yan's heart.

What he usually hates most are all kinds of riddlers, so he will try to speak as straightforwardly as possible in his daily life. " look.

Now that the old man brought him here without saying a word, this kind of behavior made him feel a little unacceptable.

Wei Wei took a step forward, but this time, before he could open his mouth to reason with the old man, there was a feeling of vainness and powerlessness coming from under his feet, and the whole person staggered after taking a step, and almost fell on the ground. into this farmland.

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"Old man, you called me here but didn't speak, what's the meaning of that?"

"Why... oh-oh-oh!"

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An exclamation came from Zhang Yan's mouth. He just felt that something was wrong under his feet, so he quickly grabbed Ye'er beside him and helped him, which saved himself from making a fool of himself.

It's just that he didn't blame the old man. After he slipped and staggered, Zhang Yan was taken aback suddenly, as if realizing something, looking at the extremely deep footprints under his feet just now, subconsciously fell into deep thought.

"Ok?"

"What's wrong, did it rain just now?"

He lowered his head and looked at his extremely long footprints. Zhang Yan had just stabilized his body with Ye'er's support, so he pursed his lips thoughtfully, and then looked at the footprints, which looked extremely dry. , but in fact it is so wet that it seems that water can be squeezed out with a little force, obviously aware of the problem.

After looking up at the sky, Zhang Yan then turned to look at the old man, and softly asked his question.

"rain?"

"Hehe, that's true..."

"It's just the chief officer. Although there was heavy rain in this area just now, it was already three days ago."

This time, instead of remaining silent, the old man turned around to look at Zhang Yan, and explained to him with a wry smile.

"Look, sir, the soil on the south bank of the Huaihe River is fertile and the terrain is very flat. It has always been a good place to grow food."

"It's just that although growing food makes money, it has high requirements for water and soil."

"If it's the kind of field that has been developed a long time ago, it would be fine. It has been washed away over the years, and there are mature waterways near the field to drain water..."

"However, if the newly reclaimed farmland is like the one we are in now, as long as there is a heavy rain, the farmland will be soaked into a mud pond. Although it looks flat, the bottom has already been soaked by the rain. gone."

Shaking his head helplessly at Zhang Yan, the old man stretched out his finger to the huge footprint on the ground that Zhang Yan stepped on just now, and then pointed to the dirt on the side that looked dry on the surface but was actually wet underneath. His expression remained silent. And metaphor.

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"Well, everything in our Lujiang border is good, but the terrain is too flat. Except for the Taihang Mountains in the west, there are basically hills and plains that fluctuate from high to low. There is no such a big difference in terrain. Can't get out."

"Before we set fire to the fields, most of us here were meadows and the like. At that time, we could lock the water, so that the situation you just had did not happen."

"But once the field is burned, the soil has no grass roots, and it seems to be a puddle of mud. As long as it rains, it will take ten or eight days to drain the rain, otherwise it will be the same as you just now. It looks like one foot is deep and the other is shallow, and there is absolutely no way to do anything."

"Things such as leveling the land and picking gravel are hard work, but we are not the kind of lazy people. As long as we work hard for a while, we will be able to achieve some results."

"It's just a pity that the waterways in this farmland are indeed running from east to west, twisted and crooked, which makes people upset all day long..."

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Squatting down in front of Zhang Yan and grabbing a handful of soil, the old man sighed and stuck the hoe in his hand on the ground, looking at Zhang Yan with a little hope in his old eyes .

The things he just mentioned are things that the farmers working on the front line will feel firsthand.

Although he was not sure whether Zhang Yan could solve this matter, after thinking for a while, he still told Zhang Yan what he thought, and then stood there somewhat cautiously, waiting for Zhang Yan's decision .

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"You see, just before you came here, we were busy building artificial waterways, hoping to build a waterway near the reclaimed fields to drain the excess water from the fields into the Huai River."

"But you also know that this waterway can be built so easily? To put it bluntly, it's okay if it's done well, but if it's not done well, it may even dig the embankment of the Huai River. If it is broken, instead of pouring the Huai River into the farmland, the food will be destroyed!"

"In addition, the fields in our Lujiang River are all east and west, and they are not affiliated with each other... Just a few days ago, some farmers in the same town did it by mistake. What happened in other people's dry fields, the two families almost killed people..."

"Look at the matter of the waterway, you may come forward..."

"Uh, I mean, you might ask our prefect Zhangfu to come forward to coordinate and plan one or two? Otherwise, not only is the efficiency of our ordinary people reclaiming wasteland now very low, but even if one is not careful, the farmland that has been reclaimed before may be destroyed. It's going to be wasted here."

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Hearing the old man's words, Zhang Yan obviously fell into deep thought.

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"Oh, indeed..."

"One heavy rain makes the field dry for three days. If it is true that wheat and other grains are planted, I am afraid that it will not take two rains, and they will all drown in the field. It is too much. ..."

Zhang Yan is not a farmer, so if the old man didn't say anything, he wouldn't have thought of this yet.

As a war criminal reserve who was born in later generations, he only knows that if he wants to reclaim grassland or forest land into farmland on a large scale, the simplest method is slash-and-burn farming—that is, directly setting fire to the mountains and burning the land, and then plowing the soil and fertilizing the fields in due course. But I forgot that if this is the case, the Hetao area near the Yellow River is fine. If it is changed to the Jiangnan area, a few continuous dragon boat rains may destroy the fields.

Such a field without proper drainage facilities may not be useful even if it is reclaimed, and no one may dare to use it. No matter how much he reclaims, there is a risk of being idle.

And this is the limitation that knowledge comes from books, which made him almost do nothing this time.

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That night, Zhang Yan still failed to arrive at his destination state on time, so he and Ye'er stayed at the home of a rural farmer on the south bank of the Huaihe River.

This place is no different from those cities, so there must be no such things as post stations, and there will be no one like Zhang Yan who runs from Wancheng to this kind of no shit area to do business, so the people here The infrastructure is really bad, and this kind of farmhouse is already the best accommodation Zhang Yan can find.

Fortunately, it was Ye'er who came out with him this time instead of a woman from an aristocratic family. This girl was originally from a rich peasant and was familiar with the people in the fields, so she was not dissatisfied with the environment where she stayed at night.

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"Hey, Ye'er, let's deal with it here tonight."

"I really didn't expect that with such a distance of dozens of miles, we could still go astray..."

"Fortunately, it's not far from Zhoulai here. If we leave early tomorrow, we probably won't be able to get there until noon."

……

That's right, just like what Zhang Yan said, this place is not near Zhoulai, but another small town that belongs to the south bank of the Huaihe River with Zhoulai. The name is also very interesting. It is called Zhongli. When discussing to stay for one night, I learned this somewhat speechless fact from the other party.

This place is under the jurisdiction of Gu Zhongli State, and later in the Han Dynasty, it was incorporated by the emperor into the prefecture of Lujiang County. It is about a dozen miles eastward compared to the state, and there is no state. There are so many coal mines, but there is a small natural port, which is not of any use to Zhang Yan.

Fortunately, it was not far from Zhoulai, so Zhang Yan didn't have any sad thoughts.

Talking softly to the girl next to him, Zhang Yan glanced at the messy environment around him, sighed softly, then took off his coat under the service of the other party, and sat down a bit tiredly. On the side of the low bed.

The place where he is now is the richest farmer's house in Zhongli, but even so, the surrounding environment can't be said to be clean and tidy, but it can also be regarded as full of five poisons and four evils.

Things like mosquitoes and cockroaches were hidden deep in the darkness, as if they might rush out to bite him at any time.

Although Zhang Yan had experienced such a bad environment when he was young, it was a long time ago.

Especially now in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Yan lived in Luoyang and Wancheng for more than a year, and lived for so long in the specially built Wanguohou Mansion, which looked like a royal garden. The ecological environment is not suitable.

Fortunately, fortunately, Ye'er didn't feel too much resistance to this place. Instead, after looking around for a while, she stood up with nostalgia on her face, and cleaned up some dead corners in the room, as if to This environment is very familiar.

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"Do you want to deal with it?"

"Well... it's okay, although it's a bit dark here, it's still spacious, Master, you should have a rest, it shouldn't be a problem."

"Or, are you worried that I won't get used to it?"

"How is it possible~"