After stomping the dirt road under his feet, Du Zhongxiao said to Su Song: "There are large stones under this roadbed, and it is filled with gravel on it, which is stronger than the post road. There are many river networks in this area, which are convenient for transportation, but a good road was built. From here to the city of Zhou, it will be all good roads."

Su Song once saw the process of road construction and said to Du Zhongxiao: "This area has put a lot of effort into reclaiming fields. If the people who come here to take care of them with all their hearts, it can be said to be a century-old foundation. Every village is one big platform, where else can there be such a scene."

In every village belonging to the government, each village has two or three large ditches, with a high platform in the middle. The villages and arable land are located on the platform. The large ditch is used for drainage during the rainy season, and at the same time reduces the groundwater in the platform. In addition, a small river that opens water from the Bian River can bring water to the village, so the arable land in the village can ensure the harvest of drought and flood.

Du Zhongxiao hired a large number of workers on the Bian River to repair infrastructure. There was not much arable land in the past few months, and most of his manpower and material resources were spent on digging ditches and roads. Only when the spring of the next year will the families who really stayed here to reclaim the land they had gathered will reclaim the enclosed arable land.

Looking at the neat pattern around him, Du Zhongxiao said: "As an official, he will benefit the people of the country, I have made thousands of hectares of land here, which is enough to make the people in this area have no worries about food and clothing. Leaving such a pattern will make it worthwhile for me to come here."

Su Song smiled and said, "You have put in so much effort to gather the people here, but it will take a few years to produce grain. The court cannot see the exam. In fact, what you really see in the eyes of the court is to deal with Ma Meng and his thieves."

Du Zhongxiao nodded and shook his head again: "Forget it, let's take care of Ma Meng's affairs. A little bully in a place has been useless for several months, and it's still unclear. I'm not in that mood anymore. Zirong, for the rest of the days, you should accompany me to the place where the fields are reclaimed. As for the procuratorial and judicial regulations, it's good to leave it to Gu County and others. We are officials, and it's not very meaningful to spend our thoughts on it. Chenzhou Han Tongzhang transported his newly built steam engine here. I have some days to pack it, and we have time to go and see the things. That thing is done. In the future, there will be a coal-burning boat running on the Bian River and no longer use hundreds of thousands of boatmen. What is that credit?"

Su Song nodded repeatedly. He is a person who can do everything well. He can manage the local area, handle cases, do the opening business of the economy, and study science and technology. However, he was a little annoyed when he tried a case for several months.

In one or two years, the few people involved were all geniuses in social science and technology, and they had already made the principle of the steam engine clear. What is difficult now is the first thing to do is real scientific research, and the second is the manufacturing problems in technology. For Su Song, instead of trying hard to weigh how many boards a stealing thief should beat, it is better to put his energy on it. County Magistrate Gu checked the law and signed it with him.

While the two were walking along the roadside, Jin Shu summoned to come over and rode a horse. Before he could get closer, he shouted: "Officials, the emperor's dear voice! The two routes in the west of Beijing and Huainan have been poisoned by the people in recent years. The thieves have been eliminated recently and are not allowed to be killed. Any crime that is not a sin that is unforgivable, and all kinds of crimes of death should be exempted from death! The two officials will return to the patrol village quickly!"

Du Zhongxiao and Su Song looked at each other and asked Jin Shuzhao together: "If that's the case, will Tao Shiqi not beheaded?"

"No more than to behead him! Because he is young, if he is exiled to the army and sent to the distant evil state army, it is unreasonable. The judge of the Tongzhe was waiting in the inspection camp, and the two officials went back to discuss what to do best."

Du Zhongxiao agreed to ask Jin Shu to call him back and report his orders, and ordered his followers to take the horse.

After years of war in the northwest, the mainland has also been affected. Several major rebellions have occurred in recent years. Zhanghai in the west started from Shaanxi, with hundreds of people traversing across Jingxi Road, passing through the prefectures and counties, as if entering a deserted land. Wang Lun in the east started from Yizhou, with hundreds of people, and went south all the way until Yangzhou was not destroyed recently. The number of people in these two rebellions was not large, but the scope of the spread was very large. He broke through the city of the city several times, causing panic.

Yang Wenguang, who had been suppressed by Zhang Hai, was finally out of the way for twenty years, finally made Du Zhongxiao, who received the mansion, sigh. The Yang family general who had left countless stories in his previous life did not expect that his career was so unsuccessful. In this battle, Yang Wenguang made the most efforts and promoted the palace to Zhizhi with his merits. When he returned to the capital to discuss his post, he met Fan Zhongyan and gained his appreciation, which led to the glory of the Yang family general.

Yang Wenguang, who was the most rewarding person, was promoted to Xiaoxiao Dianzhi, which shows that the scale of the battle to destroy Zhang Hai was not large.

Wang Lun was a soldier who captured the bandits in Yizhou. In fact, it was equivalent to a small soldier in the inspection camp where Du Zhongxiao was now. He had prestige and killed the inspector Zhu Jin to invade the matter. Then he attacked Qingzhou, but Mizhou failed and turned south, crossed several states and reached the Yangtze River before finally being destroyed.

Wang Lun's uprising made Du Zhongxiao feel very magical. He almost thought it was the prototype of Liangshanpo in history. Later, neither identity nor time matched, so he lost his mind. Wang Lun also had only a few hundred people, so he swept across more than a dozen states.

For these two rebellions, the ministers inside and outside the court wrote many memorials, which also affected Bozhou's handling of Chai Benshan. Because the place he contacted was the state army affected by the Wang Lun Rebellion, which made the big things go wrong to avoid accidents. But Du Zhongxiao was just confused.

According to the impression left in the history class in his previous life, these were peasant uprisings, which affected a lot, dozens of states, equivalent to one or two provinces in his previous life. As a result, there were only a few hundred people per share, except for running far, and no storm caused. Du Zhongxiao spent a lot of his brains before finally realizing that not every rebellion was a peasant uprising, and not every rebellion could ensnare refugees.

Because Shaanxi is located on the northwest front line, when Zhang Hai first started, the people were indeed unable to bear the oppression and started the uprising. But when they entered Jingxi Road, the main force was not peasants, but various soldiers in various army. Especially the uprising of hundreds of wing troops of the Guanghua Army greatly increased their momentum. Not to mention Wang Lun, the main force has always been various military personnel, and their main force has never been ordinary people.

Why is it so big? Du Zhongxiao knew from the palace newspaper that there were only twenty-four soldiers in Jinzhou City, and the Guanghua Army had no city walls. Hundreds of people could come and go freely across a thousand miles. Within a thousand miles, it was not easy to get a few hundred Sigongs of Song and Ma Meng? This is the real story of Water Margin, and the personnel composition was mainly thieves and rebel officers and soldiers.

What impressed Du Zhongxiao the most was that he did not hold refugees in his snowballs and became bigger and bigger. Why? This is what Du Zhongxiao didn't understand and had to find the answer in his own official career. The social structure at this time was different from the typical ancient society he learned in his previous life. Why is it different? What are the differences? He had to understand it bit by bit before he could truly be a politician.

The places where these two rebellions passed by were the hardest hit areas of warlords in the late Tang and Five Dynasties. The great families of aristocratic families had long disappeared, and the local gentry had not grown up. The defending place was not based on the training of the landlords, and the people were not involved or were restrained by the landlords.

At this time, Du Zhongxiao saw the measures of the Qingli New Deal and was very clear that the generation of officials in power now only had the awareness of reform, did not form a reform program, and did not know what to do. The social reality he faced now was different from what he learned in his previous life, and he himself did not know how to reform. He needed to practice little by little to find a way out.
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