Chapter 912 Seeds of Hope(1/2)
Summer in Gyeonggi comes later.
There are crops in the fields.
The once barren land was reclaimed and seeds were sprinkled.
On the hillside, weeds are among the farmers who bent down to work. They are sweating heavily and reclaiming wasteland.
The government yamen runners, together with the nearby villages, checked along the ditches to ensure that no one stole water and ensure that every piece of land in every village can be nourished by water.
When planting in spring and summer every year, large-scale armed fighting will break out due to water grabbing.
Basically, they are based on villages.
If clans gather, they are based on surnames.
Once an armed fight breaks out, there are at least dozens of people and at most thousands of people.
Everyone holds a hoe, sickle, and shoulder pole...
Various weapons fight together.
Every time the fight is fought, people will die, and people will be bleeding.
This is how the feud between villages and the hatred between surnames are usually caused by generations.
Everyone knows in their hearts that the key to planting in spring and summer is to grasp the season, just a few days.
If you don’t rob the water, you won’t be able to plant crops, you will lose harvest, reduce grain yields, and the whole family will go hungry.
This is a vicious cycle.
Water must be snatched to allow the crops to be fully irrigated.
Fights like this will break out every year.
But this year is different.
Obviously peace, harmony and harmony!
Just because the government runners went deep into the village, they held a meeting to discuss the time when the water was released from the spring plowing and summer planting reservoirs.
When will the water be released in Sanjia Village and how many hours will it take?
Wujia Village has set to release water at which time and how many hours it will take.
Take turns to release water, no one should take advantage of anyone else, everyone will take turns to come.
This year, Sanjia Village will release water first.
Next year, it will be Wujia Village’s turn to release water first.
During the water release and watering period, we will strictly investigate the stealing and robbing water, and resolutely eliminate the behavior of cutting off the river water source.
therefore……
It is necessary to organize villagers to patrol along rivers and ditches.
Stealing water usually happens at night.
While the moon was dark and the wind was high and everyone was asleep, they took a hoe and ran out secretly, digged the hole, and stole the water perfectly.
Everyone did this and became familiar with the routine.
so……
Preventing water stealing at night is the key.
The number of patrol personnel is at least twice as high as that during the day.
Every household has to contribute to the labor force that stays up late and prevents water stealing.
The government runners are supervising to ensure that the [ www.biqugexx.info] water source distribution system can be implemented smoothly in the first year.
As long as this system is promoted to every village and every household, a conventional rule will be formed, the armed battle between villages and surnames will definitely be much less.
At least it shouldn't be due to the robbery of water.
Most villagers accept the distribution of water sources in this way.
Not everyone is willing to fight, that's going to be dead.
Many times, villagers are trapped in armed battles.
Every household in the village participates in the armed battle, but if your family doesn’t participate, it’s just that they are not in the same way.
In this case, you will inevitably be excluded. I am afraid that I can't survive in the village and have to move out.
How difficult it is to move these days.
Unless it is natural disasters and man-made disasters, you are willing to leave home.
Therefore, you must be in a group and participate in group activities in the village. Even if you are fighting and killing people, you must participate.
"The government has done this before, and water sources are allocated according to time. Why can't it work like this before? Now it seems to be working again."
"The government used to say this, whether to do it or not depends on the clan leader Li Zheng. Now it is the government supervising the big guy, and this matter seems to be related to the benefits of the clan leader Li Zheng."
"What benefits, why haven't I heard of?"
"I also heard this with pleasure. It seemed that the court wanted to build roads and might widen the village roads outside the village."
"There is no emperor, so where can the imperial court come from? But it is a good thing to really build roads. I heard that the capital is repairing every day, and the wages are a lot of money per day."
"Do you work hard every day, can you endure that kind of hardship? Now that taxes are reduced, rents are reduced, you can farm well, are you still worried about not having enough food?"
"I can't say that. I plan to go to the city to take a look during the slack season. Maybe I can earn some money back."
"Will you be back from the city if you go back? It's better to go to open up the land, and you still have the wages to get the cheap land."
"It's too tiring to open the land. I keep working from morning to night. I went to see the wasteland, and it was all the refugees who were opening the land."
"Hmph! I don't know what the government is thinking, but I actually let the refugees settle in Jingji. Isn't this robbing our job?"
"The court does not have it, so of course the government will do whatever it wants."
"Who said there is no court? Who, Mrs. Yan, has heard of that person, the place she is in is the court."
"I heard someone say this when I went to the county last time. It was said that Mrs. Yan had a base camp, and the base camp was the court."
"I don't know where you heard the lies. She took half of that country, Mrs. Yan, why didn't she be an emperor? Isn't it good to be an emperor?"
“The capital has not been built yet.”
"What are you nagging? Why are you lazy here? Tonight, everyone will be more eye-catching, don't let someone steal the water."
"Don't worry, Brother Sanwang, I can't steal it. I guarantee that I'll open my eyes all night."
"This is what you said. If someone stole this part, you will be waiting for family law to serve you!"
"Brother Sanwang, you have seen a lot and have been to Xijing Prefecture. Why didn't Mrs. Yan proclaim her emperor? Do you know about Brother Sanwang?"
"You care whether someone is called an emperor or not. If someone is not called an emperor, there is still a way to let us live a good life. This is the ability. If she is not capable, even if she is called an emperor, she will not be a good emperor. Is that true?"
"Brother Sanwang is indeed very knowledgeable and all of them are great truths."
"Brother Sanwang is amazing!"
"Brother Sanwang, after finishing this period of time, I will go to Xijing Prefecture with you to find work. Is it OK?"
"Okay! Why can't it be? There are a lot of work in the city, and merchants recruit people outside the city gate every day."
"Really? How could we recruit people every day? Then the merchants would cheat us of doing work and not paying money."
"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand the situation. Xijing Prefecture is being built every day and is being built every day. Everyone knows it. There are so many projects and so many merchants, isn't he short of people to work every day? You will know when you go to Xijing Prefecture."
"Thank you, Brother Sanwang, then I will follow you in the future."
...
Xijing Prefecture is prosperous every day and lively every night.
The market outside the city has expanded seven or eight times in size, as if merchants in a radius of hundreds of miles have flocked to Xijing Prefecture.
The night market in the city is even more prosperous.
The fire last year did not destroy the night market, but instead made the night market more prosperous.
There are even signs of an overnight market.
The night market here has just closed, and the morning market there has been opened.
Even teahouses and restaurants are open twelve hours a day, and the recruitment of personnel is expanded, so the turnover naturally increases.
The rich and noble children inside and outside the city are so happy!
Finally, I can do my best. I don’t have to worry about curfews or patrols and arrest people.
Anyway, you have money and leisure, so you can make it hard.
In this era, the first batch of night owls with rich nightlife were born.
They are really different from the group of vendors who make life and work in night markets until dawn.
These rich young men are drunk and dreaming and making trouble.
To be continued...