After finishing the land survey, Li Zhi began to promote the construction of the irrigation system.
On the one hand, Li Zhi began to expand the scale of the Dragon Tail Cart Workshop. Five gunsmiths alone were not enough to cast the Dragon Tail Cart quickly, so Li Zhi found thirty copper blacksmiths and gunsmiths from nearby prefectures and counties who could cast bronze bells.
Together they make dragon-tail cars. Thirty-five people can produce seven dragon-tail cars a day.
The three small rivers that the irrigation system relies on have different depths: in some places, the rivers are not deep, and a single auxiliary truck can be used to lift the river water into the irrigation canal; in other places, the river channels are relatively deep, and two auxiliary trucks are required to pump the water.
to water. Calculating, 90,000 acres of dry land requires more than 800 auxiliary trucks. Li Zhi needs to prepare 800 auxiliary trucks before sowing spring wheat in February, and the daily output of seven is barely enough.
Of course, Li Zhi's water tanker was not built in vain. Li Zhi planned to charge 30% of the land rent for the tenanted land. The money for building the water tanker could be recovered within half a year.
On the other hand, Li Zhi began to organize refugees to build irrigation canals.
The irrigation canal designed by Li Zhi is 1.5 meters wide at the top and half a meter wide at the bottom. The cross-section is an equilateral trapezoid. The bottom of the irrigation canal is higher than the ground, so farmers only need to open the canal to divert water from the canal for irrigation. The canal is close to
The part of the river is higher than the ground, and the side away from the river is relatively low, so the water will flow farther away.
Each canal irrigates 200 acres of dry farmland, and there are a total of 450 canals, each about 900 meters long.
The canal is made of rammed earth, and there are no other materials. It only requires the refugees to work hard to build it.
Li Zhi needed to eat enough to do physical work, so Li Zhi stopped the porridge shed and began to provide adequate white rice to these refugees - these poor people were cultivating new fields for Li Zhi, and they could not starve.
When the poor people saw that the general was willing to take them in and provide them with enough rice, they were all very grateful to Li Zhi. After that, the poor people heard one after another that after the general opened up new fields, he would give them to every adult and strong man.
The woman has twenty acres of dry land and is even more excited.
If there is water for irrigation these days, winter wheat can be harvested by one kilogram a year on dry land. A family of two adults can harvest forty koku a year by planting forty acres of dry land. I heard that the general will only receive 30% of the land rent in the future.
, and the land rent includes the rice grains turned in for farming, so the amount of rice and noodles that can be taken into my home in one year is twenty-eight shi.
If there are five people in the family, they can eat up to thirteen or four stones of rice and noodles in a year, and there will be fourteen stones of food left over that can be exchanged for silver. Fourteen stones of rice and noodles can be exchanged for twenty-eight taels of silver.
In addition to having enough food for a year, there are still more than 20 taels of silver to spend. What a good life it is? Every household has more than 20 taels of pocket money every month? Is this a good life for the people of the Ming Dynasty? This is what it means in these war-torn years.
day?
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, cultivated land was more scarce than at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty: on the one hand, the population increased, on the other hand, water conservancy facilities declined, farmland decreased, and the per capita planting area of the people was very limited. These poor people used to grow their own crops or rent less.
Poor fields, living a life of hunger and hunger every year when there is a shortage of crops. When did you ever think that you could live a life with more than two taels of pocket money every month?
I wouldn't even dream of it.
Of course, the financial situation of the tenant-planted General’s land will be tight in the first year. Now that the first year has passed the winter wheat sowing time, only spring wheat can be planted, and the yield is estimated to be only seven bushels per mu. But the General said, the first year has passed.
If only 15% of the land rent is collected in a year, a family can earn more than 20 shi of food by cultivating 40 acres of dry land. In addition to having enough food, they can also earn 10 shi of more food, which can be converted into 20 taels of silver.
Twenty taels of silver is enough for the poor to have decent food, clothing, housing and transportation. The family can make new clothes every quarter, buy some oil for cooking, and even eat meat every now and then. Everyone knows
My life is good, I was saved from the Tatars by the guerrillas from Fanjiazhuang, and now I see that good times are coming.
Thinking of those brothers and sisters who were killed by the Tatars, I really feel that they are not worth it.
These irrigation canals were built for the poor people's farmland. The poor people thought of this and worked harder when building the canals, for fear that any layer of soil was not compacted well and water would leak. Everyone worked together to advance the entire canal project.
It's fast and good.
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On the third day of November, the capital was revolted. Song Zhipu, the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and others impeached Hou Xun, the Minister of Household Affairs, for violating the country's salary system. The emperor sent people to investigate and confirmed that the impeachment was true. Hou Xun, the Minister of Household Affairs, was demoted from his post and thrown into prison.
After the minister was imprisoned, the emperor appointed Huang Shijun, the minister of gifts, as the minister of the Ministry of Hubu. The post of minister of the Ministry of Rites became vacant.
On the fifth day of the eleventh month, the emperor promoted the newly accomplished minister of the Ministry of War to the right deputy censor of the capital. He Shishou, the governor of Tianjin, was promoted to the minister of rites.
When the news came, the officialdom of Tianjin was shocked. Officials were either happy or worried.
He Shishou was overjoyed that he could take charge of the Ministry of Etiquette. He immediately packed his belongings in the Yamen and went to the capital to take up his post.
On November 11, He Shishou left Tianjin and entered Beijing. All civil and military officials from Tianjin gathered at the governor's Yamen to see He Shishou on his way to Beijing.
Li Zhi stood in the crowd of military attaches seeing him off, watching the happy He Shishou saying goodbye to officials of all sizes one by one. He Shishou achieved a great victory in Fanjiazhuang during his tenure. He took the initiative and distributed the heads to the generals, leaving Tianjin's civil and military officials
They were all promoted, and the officials in Tianjin were very satisfied with He Shishou. At this time, when the officials came to say goodbye, their feelings of condolences came from the bottom of their hearts, which made He Shishou very happy.
Walking up to Li Zhi, He Shishou patted Li Zhi on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Now that I'm not the governor, you have to be more careful. You've been promoted too fast in the past few years, I'm afraid some people will be jealous."
Li Zhi cupped his hands and said, "Congratulations, sir, on being promoted to Minister of Rites. Thank you very much for your advice!"
He Shishou smiled and stood in front of Li Zhi and thought for a while. He suddenly walked forward, walked to the front and pulled Luo Zhending over, saying: "Luo Zhending, now I am no longer the governor, you are the head of Tianjin military attache.
How are you going to treat Li Zhi?"
Luo Zhending glanced at Li Zhi, smiled and said to He Shishou: "Master Shangshu has an order, we will naturally be sincere and friendly, and we will not let Shangshu worry about Tianjin affairs in the capital."
Seeing that Luo Zhending spoke so nicely, He Shishou smiled and said, "You must keep your word!"
Luo Zhending raised his hands and said, "How dare I deceive the Lord Shangshu?"
He Shishou turned to Li Zhi and said, "Li Zhi, the commander-in-chief said this, what do you think?"
Li Zhi saw that Luo Zhending spoke so nicely in front of He Shishou, and secretly scolded Luo Zhending for being shameless. Li Zhi estimated that Luo Zhending would fall out once He Shishou left. How could he care about a minister of rites who was far away from the emperor? Li Zhi was a little sad.
, secretly wondering what He Shishou was doing with this useless effort, does this count as giving him an explanation?
Li Zhi cupped his hands and said, "If the commander-in-chief can keep his word, the subordinates will have no worries."
He Shishou laughed loudly and said, "Then this is all I can do. The next thing will be discussed by the two of you!"
After He Shishou said this, he left. Xu Mince came up, raised his hands and said to Li Zhi: "Brother Xian, Brother Yu will also follow your uncle to Beijing."
Li Zhi cupped his hands and said, "Brother, be careful all the way."
Xu Mince said: "You should be careful in everything."
After greeting the officials, He Shishou mounted his tall horse and left the governor's office in high spirits. Xu Mince followed He Shishou on horseback and led a long team of carriages and horses out of the Tianjin Acropolis from the west gate.
Seeing He Shishou's retreating figure, Li Zhi took a breath and secretly thought that from now on, he would have to rely on himself in officialdom affairs.
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