Starting from Yun County, we visited Fang County, Zhushan and Zhuxi counties in sequence.
By the time we returned to Yun County, ten days had passed.
Ten days is usually enough to cover all the counties in Pingyuan, but in Yunyang we only visited the three southern counties once.
The rugged terrain of Yunyang is vividly reflected.
Especially when returning to Yun County from Zhuxi County, we took the most convenient land route and walked for 3 days.
This is a situation where everyone is riding a horse and not carrying too much luggage. If it is cargo transportation, the time will not be doubled.
On the way, Wang Hongyu made a preliminary summary of the three counties he visited this time.
The three counties have several things in common: rugged roads, mountains everywhere, few fertile fields, luxuriant vegetation, numerous rivers, limited population, many refugees, and independent villages.
Each seems to have fatal flaws, but this kind of place is particularly easy to make a fortune in silence.
The road is rugged and the mountains are high and the officials are far away.
There are mountains everywhere and a lot of minerals.
There is very little fertile land with lush vegetation, perfect for growing sweet potatoes and potatoes, as well as raising sheep and donkeys.
There are many rivers and a limited population, so there are conditions for breeding, canals, farming and industry.
There are many refugees, and the village is independent... Is this still a thing? My eldest brother's family and friends have already established good connections in this area, and they will soon be able to help~
The commonalities of the three counties can be turned into advantages.
Then the three counties also have their own characteristics.
Differences in transportation and industry can have different priorities in subsequent planning.
The differences in the main contradictions in different places are worthy of attention.
The main contradiction in the three places is not the contradiction between man and land, but the contradiction between farmers and landlords, because in the three counties together there are more than a dozen relatively wealthy households, and there are no big landlords. Each county can grant land, but there are not many in the three counties.
Lots of flat land.
The librarian has taught us to seek truth from facts and avoid applying mechanical instructions and dogma.
Therefore, as the librarian of the Capital Mobile School, Wang Hongyu will not use rigid orders and dogmatic methods to divide the land among local tyrants.
How many households are at most local tyrants and more than a dozen households of rich peasants in these three counties? Are they going to be beaten?
The contradiction between farmers does not lie in this. Applying things mechanically will kill people...
If anyone says that librarians rose to prominence by dividing land from local tycoons, he will be the first to disagree.
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This time when I returned to Yunyang Prefecture to govern Yunxian County, everything seemed like a lifetime ago.
Under his own instruction, the library conducted publicity activities and had several exchanges with Yunshan Academy.
Of course, foreign missionaries are wary of some traditional Confucian literati.
But Wang Zheng in the library has been running around in the past few days. With his abilities in literature, science, engineering, speech, and translation, he has left the corrupt scholars speechless and won the welcome of a group of local enlightened scholars.
With the help of the prefect and fellow magistrates, a place was selected to build a bookstore in Yunyang.
The location of the bookstore was chosen between the government office and the academy, and it was also within the county, making it convenient for these two groups to buy books on a daily basis.
In addition to selling books, the bookstore also has the functions of renting books, reading books and teahouses.
As for the expanded catering, chess and card, drama, painting, and music industries, several nearby locations in the county were selected, waiting for Wang Hongyu to make the investment decision.
These matters were negotiated collaboratively during the 10-day inspection period under the instruction of Wang Hongyu, with Wang Zheng taking the lead, and Zhou Zhaoan and other people familiar with the local area contributing.
After Zhang Mingshi and other military generals, the civil and political talents around him finally had Wang Zheng, Zhou Zhaoan and other people they could trust.
The cultural negotiations went smoothly, and the Hunhe Army did not have to worry.
After arriving in the past few days, they stationed themselves outside the city. According to the order, they sent a hundred people to bring Zhou Dunji's coffin into the city to publicize the bloody battle of Hunhe River in Yunyang.
Yunyang does not have so many distinctions between locals and foreigners. Zhou Dunji came here from Sichuan, that is, he is a local, and the people are proud of him.
When Wang Hongyu visited Fang County, Zhushan County, and Zhuxi County, he considered that it would be an opportunity to train Li Tiezhu and Qiao Jibai's two and a half-year-old children to stay in Yun County to carry out expansion work.
The advantage of having children is that these two combinations, one big and one small, have already cooperated quite harmoniously. It is said that the person who is close to red is red and the one who is close to ink is black. The two children will influence each other unconsciously, especially when they compete with each other and learn from each other. , under mutual supervision, the two of them have changed a lot.
Before leaving, Wang Hongyu explained to them that when the Hunhe Army first arrived in Yunyang, they first needed to develop relationships with the people of Yunyang. This was very important for the progress of the development of Yunyang, and was also related to whether the Hunhe Army could quickly develop in Yunyang. grow.
Previously, Wang Hongyu asked Li Tiezhu to learn architecture and mechanics from Wang Zheng. He also recommended a book called "Building Methods" written in the Song Dynasty and expanded and adapted in the Yuan and Ming dynasties for Li Tiezhu to study.
Especially the manufacturing of bamboo and wooden waterwheels, bent pears, flat-bottomed sand boats, fishing boats, small and medium-sized shed boats, two-wheeled carriages, and wheelbarrows. These agricultural and commercial products are what Yunyang urgently needs.
On the way to Yunyang, I saw along the way that the Han River meanders out of mountain valleys, with a lot of siltation on both sides of the river. Since the river channel is often more than a mile away from the two banks, or even higher, the construction of canals from the upstream is often blocked by mountains.
There are many places where ordinary waterwheels can be used, but local carpenters cannot build waterwheels. Fetching water for irrigating the ground is very primitive: water is drawn with a windlass or wooden buckets, which wastes a lot of manpower and has little effect.
In other words, a waterwheel is required to automatically lift water, and the height of the waterwheel must be high. Local carpenters are not capable of manufacturing such a large waterwheel, and even if they could be built, there would be no way to stand it up and fix it in place.
More than ten years ago, a landowner here saw a water wheel in the Nanyang River. He thought that buying one for one time would save the labor of watering in less than two years. As a result, it was washed away by heavy floods in summer.
The Han River is a big river. Even if it floods during the rainy season, even if the water tanker cannot wash it away, it will be damaged by the rocks brought by the rapids. Moreover, ships traveling up and down will also hit the water tanker, which will be a big accident.
In Li Tiezhu's opinion, any waterwheel can be erected, because to erect a waterwheel close to a large river, a short semicircular water diversion channel must be dug. The river water flows through the waterwheel and back to the river. The water diverted does not need to be too large, and it can Just hit the waterwheel to rotate.
The water tanker is installed on the canal when there is no water in the canal, and the canal mouth is closed when no water is used. Of course, the entrance of the inlet and outlet should be built with stones to prevent collapse.
In less than ten days, Li Tiezhu led his craftsmen and the village carpenters to build the waterwheel, and it was built directly on the canal. As for digging the canal and building the mouth of the canal, the village itself could do it.
When Wang Hongyu came back from the inspection, except for the unfinished masonry, everything else was finished, including the bamboo troughs and branch canals for water diversion. More than 40 households in the village contributed money and effort, and the Hunhe Army also helped?
This river bend has a total of more than 600 acres of land. In the future, if a few water trucks are built on the canal, it will completely become irrigated land. If a family grows rice on more than ten acres of irrigated land, the food ration will be more than enough, not to mention every family. There are also many slopes.
The Hunhe Army received high praise, and Li Tiezhu became a favorite.
This village will be rich in the future and have a lot of labor force, and some people can join Wang Hongyu's industry.