Chapter 23: Crazy land reclamation (3)

The Tin Pingchuan, which is located in the middle of Wuzhai Fort from south to north, covers an area of ​​about 200 square kilometers, which is about 250,000 acres of land.

This plain river is mostly wasteland except for the military camps of Wuzhai Fort and the fields of some civil forts. The terrain here is flat and the available land can reach 200,000 mu. Originally, most of these lands were fertile, but after the arrival of the small glacier, most of these places were regarded as useless land, but in Huang Laifu's eyes, as long as there is water to irrigate, these places can be turned into fertile fields.

There is only one thing: in addition to the Qinglian River near Wuzhai Fort, there is a Zhujiachuan River near Sancha Fort. In other places, there are mostly small streams and streams, most of which are dry and irrigated. If you want to irrigate the fields, you can only rely on digging wells to get groundwater.

Among the more than a thousand employees who conducted the investigation, Huang Laifu divided them into ten hundred-man teams, and each hundred-man team was divided into ten ten-man teams. Each hundred-man team was led by some old military households and old farmers with rich farming experience.

Under the supervision of some Huang family servants, after Huang Laifu's investigation order was issued, they quickly took action and conducted a detailed investigation of the central area of ​​Wuzhaibao, wherever the land was fertile and where there was water source.

In summary, this area is flat and has abundant conditions for use. It is close to Wuzhai Fort and has convenient transportation. During the investigation, the villagers from each team also found broken walls and ruins in some places, blocked abandoned channels and barren fields. According to local households, this was a site left by Shangmen in Shanxi.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty implemented the development of China and France. For the sake of salt benefits, merchants from all over the country rushed to the Jiubian to reclaim land, and Shangtun Daxing. At that time, many Shanxi merchants flocked to the Sanguan area of ​​Shanxi Town to reclaim. It was not until the middle of Hongzhi that Ye Qi, the Minister of Revenue, reformed the Shangtun, and Shangtun was corrupt. After the merchants evacuated, these original Shangtun locations were abandoned.

These channels and barren fields can be used as long as they are repaired and irrigated with water, which can greatly save the hired workers' time and energy.

Ten days later, the surveyed workers conducted a detailed soil survey and topographic survey of the Pingchuan in the central area of ​​Wuzhaibao, formulated some development opinions, and reported to Huang Laifu of Wuzhaibao.

When Huang Laifu, Qu Yuanrui and others were overjoyed when they heard that the land available in this area reached 200,000 mu, they were happy. In order to strive for land reclamation and production in that year, Huang Laifu made a decision. In addition to ordering the thousand people to immediately switch to operation, build channels and dig wells in various places, and dispatched a thousand more people to build the main channel and dig the wellheads with them to solve the water use problem of the 200,000 mu of land in the spring of the following year.

At the same time, we stepped up preparations for recruiting people, making tools, etc., and a passionate atmosphere before the agricultural war spread across Wuzhai Fort.

January 20, 1590.

This day is the cold season. According to the customs of the Ming Dynasty, everyone is busy preparing for the New Year and Spring Festival soon. However, at Wuzhai Fort, both the officers and ordinary military households were stirred by the atmosphere before the agricultural struggle and pioneering, and they had no worries about this matter.

In short, Huang Laifu's three sisters, Gu Qianhu and Gu Yunniang, have been away from home for a long time. However, as if affected by the war atmosphere of Wuzhai Fort, everyone agreed that they would stay in Wuzhai Fort for the New Year this year and not go back. Especially Gu Yunniang said that she would stay in Wuzhai Fort this year to accompany her aunt. While acting coquettishly in Yang's arms, she glanced at Huang Laifu next to her with her pretty eyes.

Yang naturally hugged her and was happy, wishing that his daughters and their wives who had not yet passed by were by their side and refused to leave.

Huang Laifu naturally welcomed them to stay in Wuzhai Fort.

January 28, 1590.

This day is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the Kitchen God Festival in the Ming Dynasty, also known as the Kitchen God Sacrifice, the Little New Year, and the Kitchen God Sacrifice, and is one of the five ancient sacrifices. Everyone is busy burning statues of the Kitchen God and singing songs to pray for a bumper grain and a prosperous population.

Qianhu's house was also busy. Everyone rummaged through boxes and cabinets and thoroughly cleaned the inside and outside the house so that they could welcome the coming New Year with a new look. Gu Yunniang and several sisters accompanied Yang to work in Qianhu's house. Huang Laifu was the shopkeeper of Quyuan Ruiqu, He Deputy Qianhu, Jiang Baihu and others, directed the farming and reclamation affairs in Huang's Datianzhuang. Huang Sihao was idle and had nothing to do, so he often came to give advice.

January 31, 1590.

From Kelan Prefecture, Liu Lijun, an ambassador of the town of Xiweicang in Wuzhai Fort, came to Wuzhai Fort and saved the food and salary of the flag troops of Wuzhai Fort in the past few months. This time, Wuzhai Fort has not distributed monthly food for five months. It is said that Liu Lijun should bring 1,120 flag troops of Wuzhai Fort this time, a total of 5,600 stones of grain from Wuzhai Fort in five months, and more than a thousand pieces of cotton winter clothes.

However, when he was told that Huang Sihao, Qianhu, Wuzhaibao, when Huang Laifu stood aside and looked, he realized that the 5,600 stones of grain he should have had turned into 3,000 stones and 500 cotton cloth. Liu official also raised his face and said that the amount of monthly grain he had sent was due to the fact that Gu Qianhu and the commander-in-chief, and Gu Qianhu was Huang Qianhu's in-laws, and that a series of complex interpersonal faces were given.

Huang Sihao seemed to be accustomed to this and enthusiastically sent Liu Lizheng away. Liu Lizheng did not stop. He was still anxious to rush back to Kelanzhou to celebrate the New Year. Before leaving, Liu Lizheng also found that the atmosphere of Wuzhai Fort was a bit strange, as if...

He shook his head and remembered what he heard about Huang Laifu, a Wuzhaibao clan, who had heard in Xiwei, Kelanzhou Town. He smiled and thought to himself: "A young man who doesn't know the importance of the matter, a despicable son who is too old and confused..." This kind of age, I'll open the fields? I'll be waiting to die next year. I don't know where they found a businessman, and they had so much money to waste, but it's a pity for the money.

After feeling heartbroken for the possibility of falling into the water in the future, Liu Lijun left with a gust of wind.

The next day, when Huang Sihao distributed monthly food cloth, he habitually wanted to deduct part of it.

Huang Laifu said: "Dad, we are not short of this food and salary. We will pay all of it so that the soldiers can have a good New Year."

Huang Sihao followed Huang Laifu's opinion. Each soldier in Wuzhai Fort distributed 2 stones of monthly grain and a piece of cotton cloth.

Huang Laifu's actions undoubtedly made him a storied figure in Wuzhai Fort. Everyone knew that the amount of monthly food was put down this time was due to the kindness of Mr. Huang. For a moment, the military households were grateful to each other in the fort for a long time. At this time, Huang Laifu's nickname had long disappeared, and the reputation of Huang Laifu was replaced by Huang Laifu's kindness.

Many people who know Huang Laifu's past actions are incredible. When they think of Huang Laifu's actions over the years, everyone is amazed. People say that the country is easy to change, but their nature is difficult to change, so this is not true.

February 1, 1590 AD.

Huang Laifu gave all the leave to recruit military and civilian workers to let them go back for a good New Year. Before they had their holiday, Huang Laifu also made up for the monthly grain they worked for these days, calculated on a day basis. They could get the corresponding monthly grain for every day they worked. In addition, Huang Laifu provided them with generous food every day. For a moment, the voice of the employees' gratitude resounded through the fort.

The workers from other places left happily. Although the labor during this period was a bit hard, this hard work was worth it. They had planned that after the Chinese New Year, they must arrive in Wuzhaibao in time as the fourth day of the New Year mentioned by Mr. Huang, and continue to work on the work.

It is best to sign a contract with Mr. Huang to become the principals of the Huang family's major farms next year. They have asked about the treatment measures Huang Laifu has given them very much. Now God is not good at it. Most of the land in the family has been unavailable in recent years. If you can find stable meals from Mr. Huang, it is better than anything else.

The military workers in the fort were also happy. Some of them were flag soldiers, some of them were military servants, and their children were the flag soldiers in the fort. They had just obtained two stones of monthly grain and a piece of cotton cloth from Huang Sihao, Qianhou. After hearing that it was Huang Dashao's persuasion, Qian Dashao distributed their monthly grains. In addition, they had earned their income from working for Huang Dashao during these times. Now everyone has at least nearly three stones of grain stored in their homes.

Seeing that everyone in the family had white rice and hot soup noodles, many people wanted to slap themselves hard to see if they were dreaming. This year's year can be said to be the best year since they were alive. All of this was brought by Young Master Huang Laifu.

I don’t know who led it. From the first day to the New Year’s Eve on the fourth day, many people shed tears and came to the door of Qianhu House to thank Huang Laifu. For several days, Huang Laifu met and comforted the people who thanked him at Qianhu House for several days.

Huang Sihao, Yang, several sisters, Gu Qianhu, Gu Yunniang and others also accompanied Huang Laifu to meet these thank-you people. Seeing that Huang Laifu was so popular, everyone in Qianhu looked quite proud in their expressions. Huang Sihao privately discussed with Yang, saying that the ancestors of the Huang family had spirits, so that his son became so progressive.

Seeing that her son-in-law was like this, Gu Qianhu naturally felt very happy, and Gu Yunniang looked at Huang Laifu with some feelings. Through these contacts, Gu Yunniang found that if she couldn't see Huang Laifu every day, she felt that she was missing something. This time she insisted on staying in Wuzhai Fort, and she might not have such thoughts.

In the joy of everyone.

The time has arrived on February 4, 1590 AD.

This is New Year's Eve.
Chapter completed!