Chapter 239: Ask yourself

Although Jia Zixing, the commander of Tiancheng Army, had left, Tang Cheng was not in a hurry and actually set himself aside outside Liuguan Village. In the next ten days, he had all gotten away with these old farmers and carpenters for the rest of the time.

Putting aside the "model fields" on that slope for the time being, Tang Cheng found another hillside not far from those terraces. During the day, he took these old farmers to repair terraces. Many things in the world are easy to know and difficult to do. Even the simplest things contain many tricks, and repairing terraces on the hillside is no exception.

How high is the dam of a terraced field? How deep is the most suitable to lay the soil? Shallow soil is not conducive to the growth of grains, too deep and waste manpower; how much labor is best to renovate a terraced field? Few people affect the progress, and there are many people and it is inevitable to work in a waste of work... All these are problems. If you put them in a family or two, it is not a big deal, but Tang Cheng was determined to promote the terraced fields in non-grassland areas of Longmen County. If the family of Tiancheng Army is added, it will involve 8,900 households with 40,000 to 50,000 people. How big should a family gather together?

From this, Tang Cheng thought of this current method. He wanted to set a standard, or the basic process of renovating terraced fields. How high is the dam of one terraced field? How deep is the soil? How large is the best for repairing the reservoir... There must be a regulation. After all, terraced fields are a new thing, and no local people have done it. With such guiding opinions, the people can save a lot of effort to explore when they do it. One family saves a little, and nearly ten thousand households accumulate it as an astronomical figure. With the saved effort, how many new terraced fields can be renovated. Every extra acre and one cent of terraced fields is a real wealth.

The Tang people naturally did not have many standardization concepts, but Tang Cheng, as a time traveler, was different after all. After spending more than 20 years in later generations, he always knew that the more important the standardization of things should be implemented on a large scale, and the higher the degree of standardization, the higher the efficiency. For example, assembly line operations in factories in later generations are the best evidence. Of course, agricultural matters such as renovating terraces are naturally not comparable to assembly line production in factories. The data allows for a relatively large fluctuation, but having standards is better than not having standards. Instead of letting nearly ten thousand village households explore themselves, it is better for the county government to do it first. This is not only the responsibility of the county government, but also because things like this are the most suitable for the county government to take the lead.

To set good standards as soon as possible, experiments are required, and practices are true knowledge. Tang Cheng is convinced by this. The old farmers he found are undoubtedly the best people to do the experiment. These people come from various places in Longmen County and may not understand anything else, but they are really familiar with the land conditions of the county. In addition, they are experts who have worked hard to make crops all their lives. As long as they are asked to repair a few terraces, they will be much faster in exploring the tricks inside than others.

Then, the things they found were refined and summarized together - the first purposeful agricultural guidance charter in Longmen County and even the entire Tang Dynasty's history will be released.

In the final analysis, when Tang Cheng promoted this matter, he followed a concept known to everyone in the future - leaving professional matters to professionals.

There is no need to say much about the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of farmers like Li Nong. Not to mention the importance of the county magistrates on them. The awe and obsession of the land itself alone are enough to ensure that they are devoted to this matter with unprecedented enthusiasm. Looking at these farmers who are unwilling to say a few words in front of others, Tang Cheng, who is summoning carpenters to speak on the terraced fields, couldn't help but smile.

After laughing, Tang Cheng turned his head and continued the topic just now, "Everyone came together. Now we are working hard, so we can't make any progress here. If you ask about it after you go back, everyone will be blind. On the other hand, if you can come up with a good way, it will be the heroes of the tens of thousands of people in Longmen. The county should be rewarded. In addition, after the matter is completed, the yamen will also erect a monument to engrave you and remember the meritorious service." Tang Cheng lived in the countryside for more than a year after traveling through time, and naturally knew what these people think. From a certain level, the people in the countryside even value face more than the people in the city, so he started to encourage these people.

Needless to say, the reward is not a matter of just looking at the county magistrate’s purchase of food these days, you will know that he is not a waste of time. How great is it to be a erotic monument? That can be passed down to later generations. When will it be their turn to craftsmen who travel around the house? The few words that prescribe the right medicine aroused the carpenters’ emotions. Tang Cheng smiled and continued, "You are all experts in the carpenters' business in this county. I won’t interrupt the specific matters. What the county wants is just one. You have to figure out how to use the least material and manual to create the most elevated bins at the fastest speed. As long as you can find this method, it is a great achievement. If you have any requirements, the county will agree."

Tang Cheng has also seen the elevated barrel truck used in Longmen County now. Although it can be used, it is not conducive to large-scale promotion because of its bulky and labor-intensive approach. What Tang Cheng has to do is to force these carpenters to work together to propose improvement methods, even if they cannot make fundamental changes to the existing high-rotor trucks, it is good even if they move forward a little.

He was busy with these things during the day, and Tang Cheng was not idle at night. After finishing work and having supper, he brought the civil servants and farmers and carpenters to the largest tent, roasting charcoal and chatting with wine.

There are only two topics to chat. The first is the summary and exchange of these farmers' experiences in farming over the past few decades. They are all about engaging in the fields, sowing seedlings, and harvesting. Anyone who has any experience and tricks can tell you at will.

The second topic is the farmers' "evaluation" of existing agricultural tools. What are the inconveniences of existing farmers and what results they hope to achieve will be expressed one by one. Then everyone will discuss them. Then the carpenters will discuss them in a concentrated manner and then give feedback based on the opinions of these experienced old farmers. How to change this agricultural tools? Is it appropriate? The farm tools cannot be changed? Although the idea you mentioned is good, we can't do it at all. This is all in a different way.

Tang Cheng was just a topic posed and guided by a topic every night. He didn't say much. The more he did, the better the effect. In addition to the restrained atmosphere of the discussion on the first night, the farmers and carpenters were gradually relaxed. The atmosphere was quite similar to the "Gods and Immortals" that were often said in later generations. People present spoke freely without distinction. In this atmosphere, the emotions of farmers and carpenters were mobilized, and they said everything they wanted to say but didn't want to say, and even the thoughts that they would make people laugh after they said it. Anyway, everyone else did this when they were excited.

The countryside is closed, do these farming experts and carpenters have such an opportunity to communicate with the best among their peers? This time, thanks to the magistrate of Tang County, we gathered everyone together, and the experience and ideas that had accumulated over the years burst out. Inspiration hits inspiration, sparks stimulates sparks. Every little experience and experience they accumulated over the past few decades, and every idea that came from decades of practice was discovered bit by bit together.

As the host, Tang Cheng, apart from his few opening remarks and summaries, often listened with a smile and gave each speaker a glimpse of praise. Occasionally, he would say a few words to mobilize the atmosphere or correct the topic during the intervals between people's speeches, so as to ensure that the gods and immortals are in the right direction while making the atmosphere in the tent more lively.

In short, whether it is for farmers or carpenters, this is an unprecedented experience in their lives. They live in the same tent with the county magistrates who were unattainable in the past, and talk with the best people in the walk and talk to the topics they are best at and favorite. This feeling, hey, is really nothing to say.

The only thing that such gods will suffer is the civil servants brought by Tang Cheng. They have never seen such a scene, and they have never heard of it. The dignified county master actually lives with these mud legs and the craftsmen who are in a lowly business and treat them as guests of honor. What's more serious is the decree of the county master. They must ensure that these mud legs and the words of the craftsmen are recorded.

The civil servants looked down on these people in their hearts, but they dared not violate Tang Cheng's orders. In the current situation in the Longmen County Government, as long as the county magistrate spoke, he would not even dare to quit. When this adult was not in business, he could not get along with him. However, once it was involved in business, he would immediately be like a different person.

In short, it is just a sentence. As long as you can't follow him, as long as you can't obey orders, this adult is not ruthless when he gets rid of the people. Don't even think about it. Now, whenever you meet a county magistrate who asks for an errand, who doesn't listen to it with two ears, for fear of missing a sentence to damage his job.

Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, the rice bowls in Longmen County are not as good as before. The dressed up here is a heavy double monthly salary, which is enviable if you say it. Not to mention this benefit, it is also glorious just in terms of face. After those two Qing people, I heard in the city that people are eating with Tang County Zun in the yamen. Most of the people should look up to you and praise "inspiring"

Who wants to lose such a job that is affordable and affordable? If you really lose it, not to mention how the neighbors and neighbors can stab the backbone. Even the wife must be cursed as a coward. In the past, she could say that the yamen was too dark after losing her job. She was bullied like her and pushed the responsibility of Shangguan. Now this trick is not very feasible, and fewer and fewer people are trusting.

This makes these civil servants suffer. The farmers and carpenters talk endlessly, causing the pen in their hands to shake like a strong wind blowing a weak willow. At this time, they still have any fonts. As long as they can understand the meaning, it is the greatest king. The gods will open up in one night, and even if they put the pen, they can't stop shaking, and they are exhausted and thrust.

A few civil servants who followed him naturally complained in private, saying that this day was really a life-threatening. Now, I recalled the life of the county government when I served the previous county magistrates. In terms of ease, it was simply a matter of heaven and earth, but that kind of life would be gone forever.

After saying that, complaining and complaining, the several civil servants did not say anything, but they had the same thoughts in their hearts. Even if they were tired now, no one would want to live the same life they had before. The pleasure of people when relaxing was proportional to their previous busyness. In short, it was just a sentence - the busier the previous one, the more they were, the more fulfilled they were, the more they were, the more they were, the more they felt, and the more they felt. Played every day, and played every day, and finally they were no longer energetic, and they couldn't be happy even if they were idle.

Alas, people are really mean! After sighing in their hearts, the civil servants who complained and complained were asleep. The next morning, they followed the county master to work around and were already full of energy.

There is still no drop of rain or snow falling these days. And according to the conclusions drawn by farmers watching the clouds, it is not very likely that it will fall in the short term.

More and more acres of winter wheat were dying around, and when Liuguan Village in Shanyin could not stand the whole acres of crops, the farmers and carpenters who had basically completed the designated work of Tang Cheng were in a mess.

Although they had long received the promise of the county master - as a reward, no matter what the drought was like, they could receive enough food for the family to survive the famine from the county government, and even a gift of salt salt. But facing the great famine that had never been seen in their lifetime, these people still couldn't feel relieved.

They are all from rural households, and no one knows better what such natural disasters mean than them.

"Isn't this Kong Gui? He is here to see Wuque?" It was almost dusk. Yang Jiao, who came to see Tang Cheng from the temporary camp area, looked at the back in the distance and sighed: "He has never left the village entrance for a while."

After the conversation that day, although Yang Jiao did not have the title of the chief clerk of Longmen County, he could not have been formally appointed as a criminal minister in the long run, and he himself looked down on this position. However, he actually assumed the position of the chief clerk without being named.

When Tang Cheng was busy dealing with farmers and carpenters these days, Yang Jiao was staying in the temporary tent to draft official documents for relief based on the data sent by county jails, fields, and warehouses. Originally, there were countless precedents to follow for Yang Jiao, but Tang Cheng's request was different. The documents he asked for were not just a few words, but a solid official document containing all kinds of real data.

In Tang Cheng's own words, this document must be so solid that the above yamen cannot find any faults, and they cannot find a place to deal with it even if they want to suppress it. There must be specific data on how many people, how many acres, and how many large livestock are affected by disasters. Then, based on this, the total amount of disaster relief money and grain needed by the Longmen is calculated, and these data must stand the inspection and review.

Although he was once a guest of the prince, Yang Jiao had never done such a document. He had seen many similar documents. Although there were data, how could he have been so careful? In this way, there would be trouble. Yang Jiao was completely focused on these numbers these days. After finally finishing it, he came to look for Tang Cheng immediately and happened to see Kong Gui's back slowly walking away.

"He just came to see it and didn't say anything to anyone," Tang Cheng also looked at Kong Gui's back and turned his head, "How is it, the official document is done?"

"It's done," Yang Jiao patted the official document that had been thicker than ten pages in his hand with emotion and handed it to Tang Cheng, "As you said, every data on this is well documented. Each disaster relief money and grain corresponds to a head and a large animal. It's so solid that it's hard to deal with it if you want to suppress it. It's not just a boast, but this official document is not to mention the Guizhou Prefecture Office, or even the many elderly officials sent by the Ministry of Revenue to find out any problem."

After reading the official document, Tang Cheng smiled and said, "It's good that this matter is not too late. I'll condemn people to present them to the prefecture yamen early tomorrow morning."

"Yeah," Yang Jiao nodded and pointed at the farmers who were much silent than the previous few days and said, "We must hurry up the disaster relief matters. When will you go back to the yamen?"

"The things I did on this trip are almost done. The following things should be done in the county government. Besides, they can't stay there anymore and will go back tomorrow."

"This drought is also a big disaster. How to deal with it during disaster relief, they have to plan a suitable charter in advance." When talking about this topic, Yang Jiao's face was already a little worried. "If it is still the same as before, it will inevitably damage the authority that the county government and the county magistrate have just established. If it is too harsh, there will be a foundation for the quelling of chaos in the city last time. It is difficult to ensure that the Xi people who are dissatisfied will not cause major trouble..."

Upon hearing this, Tang Cheng didn't say much, and lowered his head and weighed the official documents in his hand.

The atmosphere of the last fairy that night was quite dull. The acre of winter wheat that farmers accidentally saw this morning was too shocked to them, and they were not upset. It would be fine if they didn't see it a few days ago. Since they have seen it now, their emotions will inevitably be pulled back to the cruel reality.

Although it was drought before, many crops were still in breath, and as long as they had this breath, there was hope. Now that the Yinpo crops also began to die of large-scale drought, it meant complete despair.

Who can do this in such a mood like the previous few nights? In such an atmosphere, Tang Chengxu inevitably said more. The most he said were two things, both of which were related to water, one was the pond, and the other was the elevated water truck.

Not to mention him, this is not something that can be done by one household at a time. Even though the elevated water truck has been improved by carpenters, the accounting cost is still not something that most households can afford independently. From this, the result of Tang Cheng's decision-making of the accounts for the farmers was to make them clearly print the next thing-though the terraces are good, they are different from the farming areas of their own households in the past, and they must rely on external forces.

After calculating the accounts with his fingers, Tang Cheng officially announced that the meeting to invite everyone was over. Everyone would go back to settle their homes tomorrow. The rewards and grain and salt that the county government should give will arrive later. At that time, new tasks will be dispatched to everyone.

After the work in Liuguan Village was completed, the farmers and carpenters returned to their hometowns. After Tang Cheng submitted the official document handled by Yang Kuo to the state yamen, he also set off and returned to the yamen.

When he was about to move on, Tang Cheng, who turned around and looked at Liuguan Village again, breathed a long sigh. The preparations he should have been done have been laid. This time, the yamen began to push his ideas into the practical stage and would inevitably be thorns step by step. Then, I would think about these few days of leisure time, but I would never think about it.
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