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It's time to start again.

But the farmers who were notified to work had no complaints.

It was all the effect of the solid and magical canal.

In addition to being used to build canals, the thing called "cement" has gradually begun to be sold by merchants. The price is indeed not very cheap, but it can be pasted on the outside of the stone wall to reduce the air leakage. The houses that were originally crudely built and piled up with rocks no longer leaked.

Because there are many rocks here and the wind speed is high, the people mostly use rocks to build walls and houses, and then cover the roofs with thatch. However, houses built with rocks are prone to air leakage, and using mud to paste the walls can only solve the problem temporarily, as it is too easy to be washed away by rain. This cement can repair three houses with one load, and people with a little extra energy use millet beans to paste the walls.

And You Hongyin, who got the recipe from the immortal in a dream, also has a good reputation in the local area.

After the canal was built, it was completely frozen, and the ground was frozen hard by the frost.

You Hongyin ordered winter irrigation.

At that time, the planting industry was not yet developed, and there were large differences between the north and the south and even between counties. You Hongyin didn't know about other places, but there was no winter irrigation in Qingzhou.

Naturally, some people were confused about this practice, but doubts could not stop You Hongyin's decision. Some methods were indeed incomprehensible at the beginning of their implementation, but as long as they tasted the benefits, they would do things on their own in the next year without You Hongyin's urging.

When You Hongyin took office, he had selected more than a dozen clerks to teach the method of winter irrigation. These clerks could only be regarded as roughly literate and could not be used for a long time, but they were in contact with farming affairs all year round, and they were good helpers in teaching agricultural economics. After about three or four months of emergency training, these clerks knew how to irrigate in winter, how to burn soil fertilizer, what fertile fertilizer was, etc., and You Hongyin sent them to various county offices to help with winter irrigation.

Irrigating the fields in winter to store water in the soil and prevent spring drought is winter irrigation. However, the role of winter irrigation is not just to prevent early drought.

First, it loosens the soil. Winter irrigation can freeze the water in the soil and swell it. After the thaw, the surface becomes loose. At the same time, the temperature of the water in the soil after winter irrigation is suitable and the action of bacteria accelerates the decay of dead branches and leaves, which is conducive to improving soil fertility.

Second, winter irrigation can reduce the harm of pests and diseases. After winter irrigation, the eggs on the surface of the soil can be washed into ice water and frozen to death. In this era without pesticides, planting is most afraid of drought, floods and insect pests.

In order to be more secure, You Hongyin requires farmers to carry out deep plowing at the same time when winter irrigation takes place before the water freezes. For this purpose, the agricultural tools that will only be issued during the spring planting time are distributed to various places in advance.

The first is the new iron plow and curved plow. However, due to the production cost and the lack of iron materials, only the plowshare of the iron plow is made of iron, and the rest is made of wood.

However, as long as the plow is made of iron, it is enough. The efficiency of plowing the land with an iron plow is three times that of the past, and it is not very tiring whether it is people or livestock who are working. The time for plowing the land in a day is twice as much as before!

After the winter irrigation, everything seemed to be quiet, and You Hongyin finally had the mind to do other things.

Since entering Qingzhou, most of the money and grain he spent was from past business, and iron materials and so on were also purchased and transported from Guangling. In addition to farm tools such as iron plows, it is natural to equip weapons and arm private soldiers. With so many people, money seems to be spent like water, and it is beginning to be a bit out of pocket.

And cement was not positioned as a money-making thing from the beginning, and it did not bring You Hongyin a lot of money and grain.

Then, only large-scale trade can be carried out, but this place is inconvenient for transportation and there are many hills and rocks. If you want to do large-scale trade, you still need to build a port.

It's just that building a seaport can't be done in one go, it can only be done slowly. You Hongyin can't build everything right away, as that would exhaust the local people's strength.

However, although it's impossible to conduct large-scale trade, other workshops can be opened.

The first is the salt field.

There are many natural brines here, but they don't produce salt, because these brines are not those open-air brines, but are hidden underground, and not many people have discovered them.

This kind of brine requires digging wells to extract brine, and a lot of firewood is also needed. It is slightly worse than the natural rich brine, but this place also has a natural advantage, that is, coal is produced in Gaomi.

This coal is not the charcoal commonly mentioned in the world, but the so-called coal or graphite. Their function is not to burn, but to make medicine, etc.

Why?

Because burning is poisonous.

There is a natural open-air coal mine near Fuyang County, Gaomi.

When choosing Gaomi County, many factors were naturally considered, among which the distribution of mineral resources in Qingzhou was also the focus of You Hongyin's consideration.

Therefore, You Hongyin planned to develop the salt and coal industries at the same time.

Of course, coal is not just picked up and sold, but it must be processed and promoted. For example, using copper and iron to make a coal briquette stove. This novel and compact stove is very suitable for making tea and cooking, but it has low technical content and is likely to be imitated soon. However, others can use copper and iron to imitate, but cannot use cement to pour, while he can use cement to make it, which is low-cost.

Then process a honeycomb coal specifically for use with the stove. It may not completely replace charcoal, but it is definitely better than charcoal. I believe that those nobles who are pretentious but afraid of cold will like it.

It’s just that the transportation cost of this thing is high, and it cannot be sold as a cheap item in a short period of time.

Chapter 185 The Romance of Celebrities (Twelve)

In late spring of the following year, Zhuangwu Township.

The village elder lit incense and led the people in Zhuangwu Township to worship their ancestors. After kowtowing and saluting, everyone picked up their sickles and began to rush to the harvest wheat fields.

"Our governor is really powerful."

Obviously thanks to the method of winter irrigation and fertilizing the fields, the grain harvest here is double that of the past. There are also canals for irrigation, which eliminates the pain of summer watering. Although the farmers are illiterate, they know who brought them Such a great harvest.

This year, this year we will no longer starve the elderly to death or sell their children.

"I heard that the prefect is recruiting soldiers. If you have military fields, or if you have achieved military merit, you can also get tax exemption." The farmers were racing against time to harvest the grain. Their hands were not idle, and their mouths were not idle, talking to each other. chat.

The peasant woman standing upright and shaking her waist said: "As long as you have a ration of food at home, you can't even think about becoming a soldier. The war is in chaos these days. Haven't you heard that Luoyang has been defeated?"

Then the peasant woman shouted to the three children who were shepherding wheat behind her: "Don't be lazy. You play around all day long. When you do some work, you just want to run around. Do you want to eat? If you don't work, the whole family will drink." Northwest wind."

But the farmer said: "If there is a conscription in the future, you still have to go. Then there will be no military field. Maybe you will have to prepare the weapons yourself."

The peasant woman remained silent, but she said in a nonchalant tone: "I think the prefect is a good official, and he will definitely not force others. Let's talk about it when the time comes."

"I don't know." The farmer said.

But he got a beating from the peasant woman.

At the end of the Weishui River, there is a small ferry. You Hongyin came on horseback and happened to pass by here in order to inspect various places.

From a distance, I heard someone singing, singing in a wild and uninhibited way. The song this person sang was an unknown tune, but the person singing it seemed careless, and the singing was intermittent. It couldn't be said to be pleasant, but the free and easy feeling in the song was more important than the singing skills.

The horse paced slowly, and You Hongyin could see clearly who was singing.

There was a boat parked at the ferry in between. The person rocking the boat was not on the boat. Instead, he was sitting on the ferry fishing. But instead of holding the fishing rod in his hand, he was holding a wine gourd, drinking sips at a time, and singing strangely. On and off.

Although this person is covered by a bamboo hat and raincoat, the satin clothes underneath are difficult to hide, and his temperament is definitely not that of a fisherman or a vulgar fisherman. ㊣This work is provided by ㊣思㊣Rabbit.com and can be read online.

If ordinary people see such a wild and wanton attitude, they will inevitably stop and ask, especially those who are eager for talents.

But You Hongyin rode past without looking sideways.

"Hey, hey, hey," the fisherman couldn't help but stomped his feet when he saw that the man had gone far away: "I heard the farmer brag before about how the governor Guo, from a wealthy family, behaves so differently from others. How can I talk to him now?"

The man dressed as a fisherman has a surname of Cao and a given name of Lin, with the courtesy name Shushi, which is taken from "In the first lunar month of the Spring King, when the heavy rain rains, it is called Shushi, and when it rains for three days, it is called Lin." Of course, his family is the same as the Cao family of Wei State. , except for the same surname, there is no relationship. The family has been farming for generations and has a small output for him to study.

However, a few years ago, when Xianbei raided the south and the whole Cao family died, Cao Lin had to return to his family's former home, Donglai, Qingzhou, to seek refuge with his brother Cao Yi. Although his family was not rich, they readily accepted him. The two brothers Living on more than ten acres of thin farmland.

Half a month ago, after I heard that my brother and friend Liu Bogen, the magistrate of Donglaiyin County, talked about the Gaomi Prefecture's recruitment and said that Guo Xi was from the Guo family in Luoyang, I might as well go there and give it a try.

Although Cao Lin was not arrogant, he had seen clearly that the world was about to be in chaos early, so he was naturally unwilling to vote for any lord. Therefore, he arrived at Gaomi County ten days ago to see if the governor was a real talent or a fool.

He doesn't necessarily want to find a lord who can stabilize the world, but he can't help but stick to the wall, so if you look at how this person is under his rule, you can almost see clearly what kind of person he is.

It would be a lie to say that Gaomi is more prosperous than other places. The cities we passed by were all low and low. However, there was an endless stream of caravans here, which made it quite impressive.

In addition, the golden wheat ears in the fields make people's eyes sore, and farmers are harvesting grain everywhere. In addition, the hard gray-white ditches are eye-catching.

Cao Lin finally found out under the vigilant eyes of others that the white ditch was the water ditch, which was built by the Gaomi Prefecture during the autumn and winter of last year.

"Oh, don't you think this approach is too laborious and wastes money?" Cao Lin couldn't help but ask.

Nowadays, civilian labor and military service are heavy, especially building roads and canals, which are considered hard labor. Why don't these people complain?

Although this dynasty strictly controls speech and ordinary people do not dare to speak randomly, sincere joy and enduring resentment are different states of mind, and Cao Lin can naturally distinguish between them.

"Hey, you are talking nonsense." The farmer who was asked said angrily: "The prefect is a very good official. Before he entered the service, he saw those corrupt officials depriving us of the food of the workers. He was very angry and cut him down. There are more than a dozen of them. We only need to do five hours of service every day. The workload of each team is determined. The famous cook cakes are also available." The farmer smacked his lips, as if missing the taste of the cook cakes: "It's made from white flour, it's delicious." Then he continued: "What's more, the workmanship is not like before. No matter what palace or palace, after the white canal is repaired, you see, we all have a bumper harvest in Gaomi. We don’t have any complaints about this hard work, we are only grateful.”

Although the farmer didn't know how the government office worked, everything the governor did benefited the public, and even an ordinary farmer in the field could tell about it.

After Cao Lin walked around for a long time, he had an idea in his mind. This governor Guo was a man who cared about the people, had superb political skills, and had a vision that far exceeded Tao Zhugong's. It should be good to work under him.

He also found out that this governor Guo was a descendant of the Guo family in Luoyang, and studied under Chen Kangong. He was from a famous family, so according to common sense, Cao Lin carefully designed a way for himself to appear.

In ancient times, Jiang Taigong fished and those who were willing to take the bait took the bait. Now there is Cao Shushi singing to attract virtuous people.

Unfortunately, that person did things unreasonably. He worked so hard, but he ignored it!

Feeling aggrieved and challenged, Cao Lin was very excited and decided to go to the governor's mansion to wait for the rabbit.

Hu Gui rode his horse to the left of his master, and was surprised to see that his master ignored the man. His master was recently worried about not having enough staff. Although the people in Gaomi government office had been sorted out, the only one who was talented enough to catch his eye was Mr. Fan. That's why he specially posted this