Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 127 Discipline
Bai Tu pretended to have no ambition in front of Cao Cao, just to make it as convenient as possible in the future, and there was no urgency. Even if he directly told Cao Cao, "The only heroes in the world are Sikong and Tu'er," he could not fly over and hack Bai Tu to death. , so he turned to confirm other things with Lu Su.

"What about the drawings of the keel waterwheel and the hydrological survey results of each county?" Bai Tu asked Lu Su about the tasks of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The digging of deep wells has come to an end, but the Ministry of Civil Affairs cannot be idle. Now it is the spring plowing stage. If there is no need to collect corvees, it will not be called.

When there is a drought, it is also the best time to clean up the rivers and prevent future floods. Bai Tu gave the Ministry of Civil Affairs the theoretical drawings of a waterwheel made in the Tang Dynasty, and ordered the Ministry of Civil Affairs' craftsmen to restore and trial-build it...

"Basic samples of keel waterwheels have been realized, but they are still being simplified as much as possible, and different styles of samples are developed for different water flow environments... The progress of hydrological survey cannot meet the demand, and there are too few grassroots officials in this area. ." Lu Su reported his estimate.

"Then you work hard first and try your best to explore areas with different feng shui." Bai Tu sighed secretly.

There is still too little time, and county schools have only just emerged, barely giving ordinary wealthy households the opportunity to teach Meng children how to read... As for the education of practical technologies such as hydrological detection, it is still far away.

Lu Su's "observation of earth energy" is not omnipotent, it is mainly about the judgment of "feng shui".

Some small-scale climate fluctuations will not cause changes in the earth's atmosphere.

When used to observe hydrology and geology, the efficiency is only equivalent to that of ordinary experts in water conservancy and geology - this is the effect that Lu Su can achieve because he has studied similar knowledge in a targeted manner.

The main advantage is that you can "observe the earth's atmosphere" on the map out of thin air, but this kind of long-distance observation will further reduce the accuracy.

Moreover, when performing "Observation of Earth's Qi", it requires the consumption of mental energy, and Lu Su cannot maintain it for too long every day.

Therefore, it is impossible for Lu Su alone to support the hydrological investigation of the entire Jiangdong.

In order to achieve all-round potential improvement, the number of capable officials at the grassroots level is very important. This is something that the current talent recruitment halls and talent selection tests cannot satisfy in a short period of time, and must be cultivated by schools at all levels.

Even as Bai Tu's reputation grew, the number of middle and low-level officials recruited by the Naxian Hall was already very enviable in the eyes of other princes, and there were even some top talents among them, but it still could not replace the role of laying a solid foundation.

Now we can only prioritize the investigation of the hydrological environment in areas where Lu Su feels the fluctuations of the earth's atmosphere, and then prioritize the design of river dredging and ditch excavation plans.

As for the placement and configuration of the keel waterwheel, priority was given to Poyang County and the northern part of Wu County, which correspond to the two most fertile and flattest plains in the east of the Yangtze River - the Poyang Plain and the Taihu Plain. The latter was called "Zhenze" in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Theoretically, in the Jiangdong region, just the two large plains in the east and west are enough to cultivate 150 million acres of arable land in the Han Dynasty, and as long as the water conservancy equipment can keep up, it can be turned into fertile farmland.

Moreover, the concentration of land is conducive to large-scale official and military villages. What Bai Tu wants to control most are these two large granaries. If he can control these two plains in the hands of the state pastoral government... even if it is only half, plus water With the improvement of truck irrigation and the improvement of the yield per mu, Bai Tu also dared to pat his chest and give up the land tax of other counties in Jiangdong!

Of course, in reality, there are many difficulties. It is easy to reclaim wasteland, but who is willing to give the cultivated land that has been settled to Baitu so easily?

Wujun was originally one of the two areas where the Jiangdong family had the strongest influence. Let alone the family, even ordinary farmers would not move away just because Bai Tu said they would. Shen Nong would not be able to do this again...

In comparison, the situation in Poyang County is better, because Shanyue is a disaster, and the family itself is weak, and the population density is also very low. There is a lot of wasteland waiting for Baitu to reclaim it. The owner already has cultivated land, so he can slowly Slow replacement.

The benefits of large-scale farming are obvious. Cao Wei's future official villages in Huainan are the best example.

However, the reason why Cao Wei was able to establish official settlements in Huainan was because Huainan first experienced a severe drought in the second and third years of Jian'an, resulting in ten houses and nine empty houses. Later, in order to guard against Sun Quan, Cao Cao forcibly relocated the people of Huainan, resulting in a large number of Huainan people. Crossing the Yangtze River to the east filled the population of the east of the Yangtze River...

When Deng Ai was farming in Huainan, the area was deserted, so there were no disputes between the government and the people caused by land property.

Bai Tu couldn't smash Jiangdong to pieces just to have a place to farm, right?
Regarding the replacement of Wujun's land, Bai Tu, Yu Fan, and Lu Kang also hinted at it, but even with their closeness to Bai Tu, they all expressed their stance by not responding and pretending not to understand.

But Bai Tu also has his own way. He can do things that others can't...

For example, I heard that the Zhang family in Wu County and the Yu family in Kuaiji were both large merchants of private salt, and "cooking the sea into salt" accounted for a large proportion of their wealth.

In this day and age, you can't fall out with these big families just because of selling private salt. After all, Bai Tu doesn't want to make things too bloody, but... Bai Tu just happened to come up with a "salt drying method on the ditch beach" recently, which doesn't count. It is so excellent that it is more than 1000 years more advanced than the current method of boiling salt. It is of higher quality and dozens of times more efficient. And because it does not require fuel, it has lower environmental requirements. It can easily crush the existing sea salt market in Jiangdong. Just crushed into slag...

As for the several companies that occupy the mines and rely on "casting mountains into copper" as their economic pillar, Bai Tu does not need to specifically pursue their private occupation of minerals. He does not want to show off the blast furnace iron making and steel filling methods.

Bai Tu felt that as long as he was given time, these aristocratic families, as long as they were not stubborn, would be very talkative and have a win-win spirit.

"What happened to the 'deep well disease'?" Bai Tu asked instead.

Lu Su rolled his eyes at Bai Tu's enthusiasm - this was probably the willfulness of high fame. Bai Tu didn't care at all about this level of ridicule now, and had no fear that this kind of ridicule would turn into public resentment.

Instead, he looked forward to who would cry after Shen Jing came in handy.

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Before the first lunar month, some disharmonious things were happening in a village under Yangxian County, three hundred miles southeast of Jinling.

Introduced from the Naxian Hall, Pan Zhang, who was promoted by Zhou Tai and Chen Gong successively because of his courage and outstanding performance in suppressing bandits in Wu County, is now the Sima of another department. At this time, he is packing up everything. He ordered his sergeants to bring out some dried meat and meat from the village.

"Hahaha, you are just too polite! Okay, I know that you are grateful to me, the general, for eliminating the bandit troubles for you, so there is no need to send them away!" Pan Zhang laughed.

Several elders in the village who were glanced at by his eyes also squeezed out smiles, and some of the young men in the village who really couldn't stand it were also pulled back either explicitly or covertly.

This is not the first time Pan Zhang has done this kind of thing, and he is not the only officer to do this. Even if it were changed to other places, the proportion would only be larger...

However, there was something different today. Just as Pan Zhang was preparing to leave with his trophies, a young man from the village head Li's family, who was eleven or twelve years old and usually full of blood, unexpectedly rushed out and wanted to take care of him. He tried to stop him, but was kicked far away by one of Pan Zhang's men.

The Li family couple hurriedly came forward to plead for mercy. When the sister who had not left the palace came out to help her younger brother, she was suddenly ignored by Pan Zhang and discovered that... this girl was actually quite pretty for a village girl!

At the side, another Dubo Ma Zhong who had never moved, found that Pan Zhang's eyes were wrong and he wanted to step forward, so he quickly persuaded him, "General, it's fine, in case someone finds out..."

"Discover? So what if you discover? Who doesn't want to find a wife and shadow? With the credit of someone, she is just a village girl... Even if they are exposed, General Zhou and Governor Chen can really compete with someone?" Pan Zhang Impatiently, he pushed Ma Zhong away.

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