?At the Santai River outside Xiyang City, a large group of bald men were waving their hoes in sweat. Although they were barefoot, they were not monks but captured Chen Jun soldiers now built river embankments under the supervision of the Zhou army.

Don’t drive Xu Shao to stand on a dirt slope and look at the lively scene. Fortunately, these "new forces" join him and his progress in the rectification of Santaihe has accelerated a lot.

Zhou State's strategy of Chen State won a complete victory in Yingzhou, and then more than 5,000 households in Bazhou were added, most of whom settled in Xiyang City. In addition, there were many more oxen, food, money, and silk in the Wuchang warehouses, but what excited Xu Shao even more was that there were thousands of lively prisoners.

With these young and strong people, he was much more affordable. The construction of Santaihe River embankment, which he originally planned to carry out next year, has now been carried out. The completion of the river embankment in several key places just blocked a heavy rain.

"Let's go, go to the next place to take a look." After Xu Shao said that, he led the officer down the dirt slope and rode his horse to the southeast. The group followed the dirt road to the large depression in the lower reaches of Santai River. The scene here was even more lively than before.

A large embankment has already stood on the south bank of Santai River. People are busy on the embankment. Some of them use hoes, shovels to dig soil, and some are carrying carriages on their shoulders to carry soil. During the management, Hao Wu Bo was leading a group of officials to command the site.

The people of Wuchang who settled in Xiyang were organized to build the dike. Anyone who was over 18 or under 50 years old was arranged to work on this large construction site. Together with the original people in Xiyang City and the state soldiers who maintained order, there were 10,000 people who built the dike at the same time.

During the treatment, Hao Wu Bo was responsible for destroying snails to prevent bulging and bloating. After throwing countless baskets of quicklime, the snails in this large riverside depression were scalded to death. The next step was to turn wasteland into fertile fields. Therefore, the first thing was to build the river embankment and drain the water to prevent these plots from flooding.

Canals must be built to irrigate and drainage, so Xu Shao and Hao Wubo need to work together to transform this area. According to the governor Yuwen Wen, this is the "Phase I Project" to first repair the river embankment on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Santai River and turn the depression into fertile fields. After the sowing next year, the people will be recruited to repair the North Embankment when the farm is slack. Then a "Phase II Project" will be used to reclaim the depression on the North Bank into farmland.

According to the plan, the first phase of the project will be completed before spring plowing. After the area of ​​farmland near Xiyang City will double, and after the second phase of the project is completed, it will double again on this basis. Although the newly reclaimed farmland harvest will only be cultivated for at least a few years before it will be like mature fields, it is much better than wasteland without grains.

"How, can we make it to the point?" Xu Shao asked. Hao Wu Bo nodded and said that with so much labor and sufficient iron tools, the progress of repairing the embankment was faster than expected. The river embankment here is already connected to the upper river embankment. If there is another heavy rain, at least the chance of flooding on the south bank will be much smaller.

"What's the situation of the windmill pumping?" Xu Shao asked again. He was busy with civil affairs and was still a little skeptical about the legendary "powerful" windmill pumping.

Reclamation and drainage of depressions is a problem, and Yuwen Wen ingeniously created a windmill to pump water to save manpower. In order to convince everyone to build a windmill in a private yard not far ahead as "technical verification", Xu Shao had no time to see it, but Uncle Hao Wu went there several times.

"The effect is OK. As long as there is wind, the windmill will keep moving day and night. I sent someone to do a day to count how much water it can be extracted. Later, after careful calculation, it can indeed save a lot of manpower." Hao Wu Bo replied, but then added: "It's just too much money."

According to Yuwen Wen, it will cost 1,000 yuan to build a windmill. Of course, this is just the price of the first two seats. If it is promoted, it will drop a lot, but this is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Their Shangguan Yuwen Wen can make money and spend money. Xu Shao and Hao Wubo, as "senior partners", know that Yuwen Wen can make money every day with a glass mirror, and spend money even more powerfully. If it weren't for most of the spending on people's livelihood, they would probably be described as wine pools and meat forests.

Renovate the drainage ditches in Xiyang City, build new houses to improve the living conditions of the people. Expand the granary and build iron tools. In order to guide the Chen State in Jiangnan, Yingzhou, to build weapons and warships, properly resettle the people of Wuchang, and to prevent the prisoners of war, and to enforce the prisoners of war, Xu Shao and Hao Wu Bo roughly calculated that the money spent by Yuwen Wen was no less than 100,000 guan.

One of the large expenditures is to resettle the people of Wuchang. The newly built houses are not dilapidated thatched houses, but like the people of Xiyang, they live in at least brick and wood houses. Each household distributes sufficient food rations instead of using brown rice mixed with sand. These seem dull but accumulate but are quite expenses.

The Bazhou Prefecture Yamen must do what he said, treating the people of Wuchang who have taken the river as their own people rather than enslaved coolies. Now, the construction of water conservancy outside Xiyang City is the shortage of wasteland in the future. The number of people who have finally increased is the number of people who can farm and raise silkworms. The number of households that have finally increased may be squandered at will.

Xu Shao and Hao Wubo were civil affairs officials, so they were responsible for the management of Chen's war this time. They did not participate in military affairs, but they also heard about the money Yuwen Wen spent in it.

Especially the sensational lard consumed by the 'land sailing' is no different from burning money. A pig that can be sold needs to be raised for about two years. The price is about 1,000 minus, which is about 1,000 minus. Uncle Hao Wu wanted to know how many pigs he had to kill enough lard, so he asked his subordinates to calculate the results in his spare time to figure out a sensational number. He couldn't believe it.

"Even the pigs in the territory of Huangzhou and even the envoys were almost all bought out by the envoys, and there were also pigs transported to Xiangzhou." Xu Shao sighed. He and the state yamen officials in the past few months, and the yamen runners ate much more pork than in previous years, let alone the soldiers of the Hulin Army.

With more meat, the oil and water are enough, so the energy is also increased. Xu Shao and Hao Wu Bo have been busy at the beginning of the year to now for half a year. But in the end they have survived, they have gradually changed from novice to veteran. Simply put, they are good at using people instead of doing everything themselves.

Just like Yuwen Wen, he threw the state affairs to them a few, "completed within a deadline, otherwise he would come to see him." Then he was busy with his own affairs. Now they were busy organizing manpower to repair water conservancy and reclaim wasteland. Yuwen Wen used his specialty to go to Anlu to "scan the face" to grab the benefits. It is said that he would bring back some prisoners and people to settle in Xiyang.

"In this way, the number of households in Bazhou must be more than 20,000. There are more things that can be done." Hao Wu Bo sighed. He didn't know that the food, rice, oil and salt are expensive. He originally thought that the number of households in the state was just the rent and adjustments collected, but now it turns out that there are still many people and power. Just recruiting and servicing can do a lot of things, let alone military service.

"I don't think so..." Xu Shao suddenly whispered. He looked around and saw no one nearby and added: "The envoy seems to be going to attack Jiangnan."

"Come back!" Hao Wu Bo's tone was a little higher when he heard this. He watched the whole process at the head of Xiyang City. He was so excited, but he was worried that something would happen. The situation would be bad.

They knew that the Zhou army's strategy to attack Yingzhou was made by Yuwen Wen and the effect was very good: Chen State was so mobilized that he mobilized a large army to put out the fire, but he was suppressed by Zhou army. Hao Wu Bo felt that this kind of thing would be enough for one time, but he didn't expect that Yuwen Wen was going to eat the martyr and was about to poke a hornet's nest again.

"Occasional defense, the word is well described, and I think it should be like this." Xu Shao said this, his eyes shining, "Instead of being worried about confronting Chen Jun across the river all day long, it is better to take the initiative to attack and bleed them!"

"Think about it, the Five Continents are already in their hands and the envoy has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to manage it. It is no problem to have Five Continents guarding the Yangtze River waterway. The Chen State naval army is now injured and will not be able to recover for a while, so it is a great opportunity for our army to show its power."

"Are you going to kidnap people again?" Hao Wu asked. He was not able to accept Yu Wen Wen's robbery tactics for a while. After capturing the city, he didn't just take the people with him. Of course, this also saved the trouble of entanglement with Chen Jun.

"Are people? People are humans, soldiers are humans. It's not certain which one the envoy wants to capture." Xu Shao smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a line. Hao Wu Bo felt that his expression looked similar to someone.

The two were having a hot conversation and suddenly, an official came to report that someone asked for a meeting. The man was moved from Wuchang this time, but not the common people but the slaves. According to his own statement, he was not a Chen country but a common people who were slaughtered when Chen State attacked Jiangling, Liang State last year.

"Why didn't he declare when the government registered his identity before, but instead asked me to complain to me at this time?" Xu Shao asked. After following Yuwen Wen for a long time, he also became suspicious.

According to the internal notice, he knew that Chang'an sent someone to Xiyang City to "do things around". Although the primary target of this group of people was the governor Yuwen Wen, who knew if there would be a "kill chicken and scare monkey" so Xu Shao was always wary of the assassin.

The official said that the man claimed that he had a special identity and was afraid that no one would take it seriously, but instead he was targeted by the illegal people, so he did not dare to make a statement. When he was working on the dike, he saw Shangguan Xun checking this and wanted to appeal in person.

Xu Shao and Hao Wu Bo exchanged opinions and then nodded and asked the officials to lead people over. When the man was brought to him, he looked at him carefully by pressing his sword with his hands. This man looked pretty, but his skin was dark and a little vicissitudes about thirty years old, and his clothes looked no different from ordinary people.

"What's wrong with you?"

"The envoy is from Liang, not from Chen. Last year, the Chen army attacked Jiangling, Liang, and will be kidnapped until now." The man bowed and said, "Now I am lucky to be rescued by the government army in the country. I hope I can be released from my hometown."

"Who are you? If the statement is true, I will do it."
Chapter completed!