The more people will deviate from their life trajectory.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, news came that at the end of the twelfth lunar month last year, the thief Li Qingshan was defeated. He ran away from Sishui with hundreds of cavalry. Finally, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, he was captured alive by Qi Shin-sei Long, the defending chief of Yandong.

Those captured were followed by the pseudo-military Wang Linchen, the pseudo-marshal Zhu Lian, who was in charge of the thief, Li Mingfang, the pseudo-marshal of the Black Tiger Temple, the pseudo-marshal Yu Chengyin, the pseudo-marshal of the Linchao-jiu, the pseudo-marshal of the Daijiamiao, the pseudo-marshal of the Landian, and the pseudo-marshal of the Landian.

Li Qingshan's brother, Li Qingfang, was also captured, and there were also twenty-four people with counterattacks, including Yang, and others who had traces of rebels.

General Liu Zeqing and eunuch Liu Yuanbin won the victory.

When the news came out, all over the country celebrated, Yang He also breathed a sigh of relief. For at least two years, there would be no big thief in Nan.

On the 11th, Jiaoshan Villa.

The sky is still gloomy, as if it is about to snow.

Yang Chunliang, the head of Gongtun Station, took a piece of soil, stuffed it into his mouth, tasted it carefully, and had a professional look on his face.

He is a veteran in farming.

But when he turned to Yang He, the timid and fearful old farmer's expression appeared on his face again.

He closed his sleeves and stamped his feet and said, "My husband, this area is a bit heavy. I am afraid that I have to wash the floor first, water it more, and then raise the floor, stir it with lime to kill insects. But generally speaking, this area is old-fashioned and cooked. If it can be irrigated effectively, it can be transformed into a fertile land."

Yang He nodded, the soil is acidic and alkaline. Generally speaking, the south is mostly red soil, with most acidic land, while the north is high in salt content and alkaline soil.

Generally, when farming, the acid and alkali need to be balanced. If the acid and alkaline are heavy, lime must be added to neutralize it. If the alkaline is heavy, water and drain water must be washed away. Especially the drainage ditches must be repaired. However, lime must be added to stir the land to balance the acid and alkali, and kill insects.

Otherwise, the insect will eat the seeds and bite the rhizomes, and it will be in vain.

At this time, he rode his horse a few miles south of Jiaoshan Villa, not far from Baima Lake. After looking around, there were many traces of farming in this land, and some even planted rice. After all, before Jiaoshan bandits occupied Zhuangzi, the people of this big village must have been farming.

Then, winding walls are built on the east and north of Baima Lake, two or three miles away from the lake and quite far from the deserted beaches.

Outside the dike wall is a continuous field. Although weeds grew on it at this time, looking at the traces, the land that the farmer cultivated in the past was at least tens of thousands of acres.

I even saw ditches that ditched water and ponds that irrigated the fields.

Then there is a culvert that diversion water is each on the east and north of the dike wall.

However, the dike wall is to prevent floods. Baima Lake is not far from the Yellow River. During the Yellow River flood season, peach flood, flood flood, autumn flood, and ice flood, these four major floods, the north bank often opens the gates to drain water, and then the surging Yellow River water will surge towards Baima Lake and other places.

Without a wall, all the fields in this area are done.

Yang He was wearing warm ears, and his black marten fur cloak was covered with his body, and he was standing on the horse, just looking around.

He also had Minister Yang and Qi Youxin around him. The weather was severe and both of them were thrust away.

Qi Youxin was especially wrapped tightly, but his whole body was still shaking, as if he couldn't even grasp the reins.

Chen Qiuao was still standing by the horse. He was wearing a cloak and holding a shield. The cold wind swept over him, as if he couldn't feel the cold. His sharp eyes were just looking around with caution.

Yang He half-squinted his eyes and looked at everything around him. The boundary of the north bank he currently controls is about five or six hundred square kilometers. Then Xin'an Village goes north and Jiaoshan goes south is even more important.

From the east of Baima Lake to Chamengji, there are dozens of square kilometers of plains between them. Except for some surrounding villages and villages, they can theoretically be reclaimed.

However, it is not easy to reclaim wasteland in this era. First, burn the wasteland, then level the land, and make the ground to be cultivated flat, remove all the gravel, tree roots and grass roots in the inner part, and then observe whether the soil is acidic or alkaline.

Acid, transport lime to stir, alkaline, wash the floor and soak it in water, the soil quality is too poor, and even old soil needs to be mixed, and then use lime to kill insects and raise a lot of agricultural fertilizer.

Otherwise, wait for the particles to be harvested.

Moreover, this is still considered a raw land. It usually takes several years to cultivate it before it becomes mature land and can be cultivated carefully.

Colonial management, land reclamation and development are often calculated in a hundred years.

Looking around Yanghe, the land is basically excellent and the water source is convenient. If you make potassium and phosphorus fertilizer yourself, at least these tens of thousands of acres of land you have cultivated can grow rice.

However, water conservancy needs to keep up, dig many ditches, build many ponds, and use stone to pave it.

Then build a few more culverts for diversion of water, build a few culverts on the Yellow River, and the industrial and food silver is 180 taels per one. The price of such water diversion of diverted walls is even cheaper.

At the same time, this dike must be built to a height so as not to be unable to install Baima Lake when the gate is opened and the accumulated water will destroy the dike.

However, for this kind of water conservancy construction, the silver invested in may exceed 10,000 taels.

However, everything is worth it. As long as tens of thousands of acres of fertile land are cultivated, all the capital will be back.

This territory will also become the foundation of his people's livelihood.

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On the 12th, the Statistics Institute roughly counted the population of each village and specially inspected the scholars in the village, with about twenty-six literate people.

Of course, there are eight people who only know how to write their own names.

These people are also considered "talents". There is no way. The blindness of this era is too high, and it is considered a scholar who can write his own names.

Yang He felt that the lack of talents was not the solution as the territory expanded, recruitment from the outside was not a solution, but he had to cultivate it himself.

According to the standards of getting rid of blindness in later generations, farmers knew 1,500 Chinese characters, employees of enterprises and institutions, and urban residents knew 2,000 Chinese characters, and were able to understand simple and popular newspapers and chapters, remember simple accounts, and write simple applications. This is not a blind eye.

According to this standard, half of these twenty-six "scholars" are still considered blind.

However, it is good to have people who know how to read. There is no need to be picky. Yang He recruited them all into Xin'anzhuang, and some of them were used as part-time teachers at the same time.

There are nearly a hundred children of all sizes in Xin'an Village, and hundreds of soldiers need to read. However, there are only four people in the village, Yang He, Minister Yang, Yan Dezheng and Zhang Songtao, who are literate. Each of them has a lot of affairs, which leads to the intermittent teaching of soldiers of each child to read.

So far, everyone hasn't known many words.

Yang He felt that in addition to the few people, it was also related to textbooks. Later literacy classes were usually just two classes in one night, three days a week, eighty classes for three months. After graduation, the students could basically read 1,500 words, and they could know some simple calculations and common sense in life.

Most of these people are middle-aged and elderly people, and their memory has decreased, so they can achieve this.

Yang He plans to slowly compile a set of easy-to-understand textbooks in the future as an enlightenment education for each team.

As for children, if you have more time, just follow the elementary school at this time and you can gradually write and calculate.

Fifteen craftsmen from each village were also recruited. If they were still waiting and watching last year, they are now very willing to enter Xin'an Village. Yang He took them all and asked the Works Hall to evaluate their level.

Just after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Chuxun, the head of the Military Control Institute, reported that the Firearms Square had built dozens of Xin'an guns.

Yang He was very happy that all his 200 gunmen could be equipped with standard breech Xin'an guns.
Chapter completed!