Spring and Autumn I Am King

Yecheng can be said to be a brand new land. Before the arrival of a large number of immigrants from Gujiang, it was almost a blank sheet of paper: elk ran in the wild, leaving their hoof prints on the Hebei plain, and the Zhangshui was full of plump fish. Shrimp, the fishermen can't catch all day and night, and the land on the shore is fertile, but there is no food, but tiny grass and wildflowers.

There are no deep-rooted aristocrats here, and there are no complicated fields, so the reform of the Zhao regime was carried out most thoroughly and quickly here.

First, the well-field system was officially abolished, and the Zhao family "opened up the borders" on the newly reclaimed fields, and the land was distributed to each family in units of 100 mu.

After Zhao Wuxi personally appointed Ye City as the new capital, a large number of soldiers were stationed. Under the suppression of the CCP, the drastic reform was carried out smoothly without encountering many obstacles. But whether it is the original thousands of locals or the tens of thousands of immigrants who have moved in, they are not without complaints.

The local lords and three elders had seen Zhao Wuxi's vigorous and resolute actions six years ago, when he passed through this place in the expedition to Handan. remain in their memory. So when Ida was cancelled, their hearts bleed, but they dared not protest. When a large number of immigrants poured in and occupied the mountains, rivers, lakes and ponds that were originally designated by them, and turned them into farmland, they clearly agreed that "within a hundred miles of Yecheng, all land ownership shall be distributed by the Zhao clan." , but his eyes are full of hostility, and he always feels that immigrants are foreign thieves who have stolen their own property.

As for immigration, under the obedience of the sword, it is not a complaint.

Although the Zhao family sent soldiers and chariots to assist them in the process of forcing them to migrate, they also set up medical halls and porridge sheds along the way to try their best to ensure that no one would die and that many people would not be acclimatized.

But when they arrived in Yecheng, they looked at a wild and unfamiliar land, and a slightly embarrassing life in the first year. Everyone began to miss their hometown. They all looked at the high Taihang Mountains in the west and sang:

"Worry about Yin Yin, miss me Tuyu.

I am not born, and I am angry every day.

From the west to the east, to the designated place..."

Can move all moved, what else? The people of Zhongren's House could only look at the new field with disgust, sighed, and saved the grain from the government. The man pulled the plow in the front, and the woman held the seeds in the back. harvest.

This is not over, and then, a thunderbolt came.

The influx of 50,000 Gujiang immigrants made them the mainstream population here. When they started to migrate, the clans moved in groups, and they planned to live together when they arrived at the place. However, when they came to Yecheng, they were dumbfounded.

Because Zhao's law expressly stipulates: "It is forbidden for large and small sects to live in the same room as Kun's father and brother"! Township officials threatened from house to house that if there are two or more sons in a household who are not separated by the age of household registration, the three-year tax exemption policy will be cancelled, and the household registration tax will be doubled in the coming year!

This practice of forcing individual small families was something Zhao Wuxi learned from Shang Yang. It could increase household taxes and expand the sources of state taxes and military and corvée service. It can also split the clans that hold the group into pieces, so that they lose the possibility of resisting the government, and it can also prevent the rapid emergence of powerful clans in this new land.

However, this kind of change of customs is somewhat unacceptable for the immigrants from Gujiang who like three generations to live together and like the mutual dependence of large and small clans.

In order to be exempted from taxation and not be punished, the clans who had left their hometowns began to split themselves and scattered all over Yecheng, but they were very uncomfortable with this new life. Without the protection of the clan brothers, they felt less secure. Seeing the strange neighbors full of doubts, they began to use poetry to express their grievances and dissatisfaction.

"Mianmian Ge Huang (lěi), in the river (chun).

Jiyuan brother, called others Kun.

If you call others Kun, don't let me hear it! "

What made both locals and migrants grit their teeth was the "notorious" "Twelve Canal" project in Yecheng.

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In the eyes of the Zhao family, the excavation of the Twelve Canals was actually a last resort, which was determined by the geography of Ye City and the Barrier River.

The Zhangshui River zigzags through the mountains of the Taihang Mountains and is blocked by high mountains, so the Zhangshui River has to meander forward. But when it broke out of the mountains and entered the Yedi plain, the water flow spread out, and the sedimentary sediment accumulated over time to form a fan-shaped alluvial plain.

These sediments are very fertile, especially suitable for the growth of crops. Yecheng should be densely populated. But here is often threatened by floods. Whenever floods erupt, thousands of ravines are galloping, and the floods rush out of the mountains like wild horses, ramming into the plains, destroying houses, and engulfing the land. In the past few hundred years, the people of Ye can only shout. Running around, fleeing the famine, villages that were finally established, and populations that are not easy to reproduce, a flood can make all these disappear.

It is precisely because of the unforgettable fear of nature that the witches here can take advantage of the opportunity to mobilize people to sacrifice to Hebo. Zhao Wuxi sank the witch, but in order to solve the problem from the root, he still needs to completely solve the terrible "He Bo" and put a shackle on it so that it can no longer make waves.

The excavation of the twelve canals can perfectly solve the problem of Zhangshui.

There are many craftsmen in the Zhao family, and there is no shortage of designers of such large-scale water conservancy projects. Originally, the responsibilities of "craftsmen" were first to "build a country", that is, to choose a location for the capital; ; The third is "for the ditch", that is, planning fields and designing water conservancy projects. What's more, there were Lu Ban and many mathematicians. In the year that Zhao Wuxi broke into Handan, the plan for the ditches in Yecheng was released.

The project is planned to build twelve low weirs at the upper end of the alluvial fan at the mouth of the Zhanghe River, to intercept the flowing water in steps, and then build a canal on the south bank upstream of each low weir.

In the same year, the first Ye Lingcheng sent the local people and began to dig ditches together with thousands of prisoners. It took three years and a year to build a weir and a ditch. Three years later, when the civil war ended, the Jiang immigrant came, and the young men among them were able to gain a firm foothold in their new home, sow the seeds of spring, and were recruited again by the second Ye Ling Jiran. The nine ditches were repaired one by one, which is also the reason why Zhao Wuxie was useless in the three battles of attacking generation, attacking Qi, and attacking Qin.

There are also small streams and small lakes next to Zhangshui, but the ditches were dug from scratch.

Although the Zhao family also did propaganda, it could not reach everyone's ears. This kind of so-called fatigue can make people feel sullen, so the locals and immigrants rarely share the same hatred, and someone sang: "Wait down, fade away! Hu will not return? Wei Jun's bow, Hu Wei is in the mud?"

They didn't dare to scold Zhao Wuxi, so they scold the new Ye Ling, and the people of Song country planned to come, and even said viciously: "Take my clan and leave it, and take my field and join him. Whoever kills the plan, my other with it!"

This move also sparked protests from Ren Zhang and other people who advocated rest with the people and ruled by inaction, believing that the Twelve Canal has become a bad government and should be stopped.

"This is because the public does not know enough about the benefits of building the canal."

However, Zhao Wuxi stood up to support the project, and declared: "The people can be successful, but they must not worry about the beginning. Now the fathers and elders in Ye have not seen the benefits, and they are suffering from hard labor. However, after three years, I will make the fathers and their children in Ye. Prosperity and health!"

As a result, the project was able to continue and was successfully completed before the autumn harvest last year. At the same time, the effect of the twelve canals began to be gradually reflected.

Last year, the rain was continuous, and the autumn waters came. The natives of Ye City were all pale. They only thought that "He Bo" was going to be angry again and flooded the land of Ye. However, the turbulent flood from the upstream must first pass through the 20-mile-long upper reaches of Yecheng, where 12 low overflow weirs stacked with stone baskets stand out, and the upstream of each weir is open. A water inlet with gate control.

In this way, the water flow rolls over the low weir during the flood, and is intercepted by the twelve low weirs layer by layer, the water flow naturally slows down, and the water potential of the flood is divided. The field is harmless.

The lords of Yecheng and the people, who had packed up and planned to run away, watched this "miracle" happen in front of them. In addition to being inconceivable, their attitudes changed when they looked at the 12 rivers and weirs that made them miserable and tired.

"Could it be that these river weirs contain He Bo's wrath?" After they looked at each other, they finally came to this conclusion.

The more obvious benefits have been verified in this year's autumn harvest. This year is different from last year, with less rain and insufficient water flow in Zhangshui. The farmers who migrated from Gujiang all considered themselves unlucky, thinking that they would have a famine year, but they were The twelve ditches they hated saved the harvest...

It turns out that the twelve low weirs can also hold back the water flow when the water is dry and supply enough water to the channels. These ditches then flow into the fields of the twelve townships around Yecheng~www.readwn.com~, making the 100,000 mu of farmland in Yedi are irrigated.

Moreover, in addition to solving irrigation water, Zhangshui is rich in silt, and the silt is rich in organic matter, which can silt fertile fields and discharge salt and brine, so under the moisturization of canals, the vast saline-alkali land on both sides of Ye land has been improved, making the former The saline-alkali barren land has become a fertile land, and the grain yield per mu has more than doubled compared with that before the canal was built! From the original yield of one stone per mu, one stone and a half, jumped to two or three stones!

That's why people cheered for the autumn harvest this year. Coupled with the strategies of tax exemption for three years, encouragement of childbirth, little education, and small favors during New Years and festivals, the attitudes of locals and immigrants towards Zhao's regime and Yechengling also changed.

On this day, after inspecting the autumn harvest, Zhao Wuxi and Ji Ran left by car after deciding with Ji Ran the two grain storage strategies of "inadequate damage and making up for the lack" and "insufficient damage and making up for the surplus". When passing through one of the ditches, I happened to hear a few children trampling on the keel waterwheel beside the ditches, singing the local nursery rhyme in crisp voices:

"I have children, and Shangqing will teach them. I have Tianchou, and plan to cultivate them..."

ps: there is another chapter in the evening

(To be continued.)