Li Xiangfu approached and suddenly shouted, "Guan Daguan Er, who asked you to dig the canal?"

When the two heard Li Xiangfu's scream, they raised their faces together, and then lowered their heads and stopped talking.

A channel of about thirty steps appeared in front of everyone. The east end of the canal connects the southern main channel on Lizhuang, and the other end is connected to the land of the butler brothers.

The other end was blocked during the harvest, but the small canal was still filled with water.

Li Xiangfu said angrily: "Didn't you tell you not to dig the canal without authorization? Why are the people in your management village so shameless?"

Guan Da raised his face, squinted his eyes and smiled, "It's all neighbors. If you have water, just see if we do it. Is this water as valuable as a rental? There is water in the river over there, just scoop it and I will pay it back."

"Damn it, you're not unreasonable."

Li Xiangfu was annoyed and pointed at Guan Dada and started cursing. There were many people from Guanzhuang working there, and they even helped Guan Dada curse Li Xiangfu for a while. Everyone was cursing each other. There were few people from Lizhuang who followed Li Xiangfu and could not scold him. A young man ran back to call for someone. Seeing this, some people from Guanzhuang ran towards the village.

Zhang Han was surprised first, but later he felt relieved.

The scene before us is actually a common thing in the rural areas of the Ming Dynasty. The court has very weak control over the local area. Local officials mainly rely on clans and local tyrants, which makes the local self-control very strong. Everyone lives according to clans. This is especially true in rural areas. It is normal for foreign households and miscellaneous surnames to be bullied. Each village mainly focuses on clans, and when things happen, they will work together.

Fighting for land, source, and messy reasons for fighting enemies and gangs was very common in the Ming Dynasty and even after the Qing Dynasty, until the Republic of China, and even the Republic of China.

The idea of ​​helping the manager or not helping the relatives sounds nice, but there are too few people who can do it.

Li Xiangfu came over with a angrily voice, pointed at a few fiercely scolded people and said to Zhang Han: "Boss, those damn people are still working on our farm, and they received their wages a few days ago."

Zhang Han said: "I turned around and asked Dongxue to start the revolution. I will not be allowed to use them again in the future. Including the people in front of me, I will record all the names of them. No matter what the project is, they will not use them."

At this time, the rain gradually became lighter and the sky gradually cleared. Zhang Han ignored the matter here and went to see the flood truck ahead with Sun Jingting. While sending someone back to call someone, the Jiang brothers pressed their hands on their waist knife, and their eyes were full of vigilance to protect Zhang Han.

The water truck in front of Zhang Han was a two-car, which had two sets of guide rails. The number of water trucks in the water trucks had doubled. Now the river water in the river was flowing downwards. The water on the water truck kept scooping up water, and then poured the water into the wooden channel through the flip board, and then finally entered the main channel.

Recently, it is the harvest period. You have to wait until you turn over the ridges and plant seeds before you need to irrigate. You need to irrigate many times before winter. Of course, if the rain continues, the amount of water required is not large. However, in recent years, there has been continuous drought and the amount of rainwater in nature is seriously insufficient. Even if you plant drought-tolerant crops such as millet, if you do not irrigate, the yield will be at least 30% to 50%, or even lower.

In some places in northern Shaanxi, people really rely on the weather to make a living. There is a lack of water source within a radius of several miles or even dozens of miles. The land is extremely barren. Except for the crops, there is no greenness in those places. In those places, there is no artificial irrigation.

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) The seeds are also sown at will, because except for a few places near water sources, most of the harvests in the place can only depend on the weather. God will have a few more rain when he eats, otherwise it will be drought. If the weather is dry, any careful cultivation will be futile.

The guide rails kept pouring water into the canal. The north-south jacking canal was nearly three meters deep, and the embankment was about one meter wide. It extended two or three miles southwards and then turned eastward, including the large amount of land purchased by Lizhuang and later.

Of course, the canal is still far from enough. From Li's mansion to Tianchengwei and Zhenluwei, Zhang Han purchased a total of 27,000 acres of land. With the original land in Lizhuang, he owned more than 30,000 acres of land. In northern Shanxi, he was considered the first-class landlord except for the relatives such as Dai Wang. It is good for ordinary families of officials and gentry to pass on their families. Zhang Han is a merchant background. Although he has the support of the governor and general, many families still do not buy his account. It is already very good to be able to buy so much land.

"My uncle said that the canal to the south will have to be built for more than three miles long, seven miles west, and then there will be a river. Five to six large water trucks and dozens of wells can be drilled so that all our land can be turned into high-yield paddy fields."

Zhang Han looked at the water wheel, and Li Dongxue said from the side: "My uncle said one last sentence: Is it worth it?"

Chang Jinquan is not tired or tired when he is working on a water truck. He is just interested. He has made all kinds of water trucks from bicycles to double trucks. Each new car is different from the one before. In addition, it is also challenging the diameter, so the required places are getting bigger and bigger. Use the money as much as possible, and hundreds of people below divided the work and cooperated. Chang Jinquan just didn't understand it at all. Zhang Han took out the manpower, material resources and financial resources to make a water truck. If he used it to buy food, it would probably be enough for a hundred years. Is it really "worth it?"

Zhang Han buys land and is something that everyone can understand. This is the ancestral property. It doesn’t care about the future. It is the most permanent property that can be passed on to future generations.

Having money to buy land is a unique land complex for the farming nation that every Chinese cannot get rid of.

In addition to Chang Jinquan, Zhang Han also invited Kong Minxing to introduce several people who have followed Xu Guangqi and are still studying miscellaneous studies in the Catholic South Hall. They are all hired with high salaries, and these people will soon join the group of people who make water trucks.

With so much investment, even Chang Jinquan, who loves miscellaneous studies, felt uneasy. Not only him, but Zhou Fengji and even Li Shenming, there was a question in his heart: "Is it worth it?"

Zhang Han did not explain these things. Sometimes it is difficult for people to explain some things clearly. What he is doing now is based on all the calculations in his mind. Some plans are completely unspeakable, and some things are because they have a superficial understanding of the direction of the general trend of history and know how to do it most appropriate.

For example, he knew that the famine would become more and more serious in a few years. The worst disasters were northern Shanxi and northern Shaanxi. Northern Shaanxi rebelled first, and then the bandits swept into Shanxi, and half of Shanxi was in chaos. Many bankrupt farmers and border troops joined the refugee team of Shaanxi people, and the team was getting bigger and bigger like snowballs.

One of Zhang Han's insights is that wealth is not only land and gold and silver, but also people are the most precious wealth. Shanxi is stable and people's hearts are not chaotic, so his financial resources will not be affected, and vice versa.

Everything now is nothing more than planning for the overall situation in the future. There is no way to tell others about all this.

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) Jingting suddenly pointed to the opposite side and said, "Everyone from Guanzhuang is here."

Zhang Han smiled and said, "What was expected..."

He turned his head and looked at it. Sure enough, the Guanzhuang opposite was like an ant colony shoveled by a shovel. He ran out of the various roads in the village. People were holding farm tools such as iron forks and iron rakes and shovels. Some people were holding long knives or guns. Zhang Han even saw several people holding bird guns in their hands... The northern border army cast many firearms, and inevitably they would fall to the people of similar places.

There were about three or four hundred people in the crowd, and most of them were agile, and most of them were jogging along the ridges and the jacks. Behind these men were women and children.

Most of these people are cursing and shouting constantly. The closer they are, the louder they are.

Zhang Han listened carefully and found that most of these people were calling him rich and insincere, so he had to shake his head and smile.

Sun Jingting was still a little scholarly and said angrily: "Is this a ghost realm? Isn't it been educated? There are no elders in the clan who are wise? There are no local geniuses living around? How can these people be allowed to make such a fool of themselves?"

Zhang Han said: "You said the local genius, I'm afraid there will be people after the crowd. Brother Xiaozheng, when the word "profit" is the first, the so-called "benevolence and virtue" is useless."

Sun Jingting said depressedly: "I thought about it too, so I was particularly unhappy."

Zhang Han glanced at his companion who was less than ten years older than him. It was funny to say that most of the people around him are middle-aged people now, and everyone is timid towards him. Only when Liang Xing and Chang Wei and his group are by his side can they feel some vitality. However, Liang Xing is a subordinate and cannot let go. Only when Sun Jingting and Li Shenming are there, someone can talk to him in an equal and normal tone.

Sun Jingting's face is very handsome, fair-skinned, thick eyebrows and big eyes, but he often purses his lips, his chin looks a little pointed, and he often has a depressed expression.

Zhang Han smiled and shook his head, dispelling the idea of ​​persuasion. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, scholars with some conscience in the north were probably confused and confused. They saw that the Ming Dynasty had many problems and the people were in great difficulty. The best of them would become Jinshi and become officials, and then wrote many memorials or experiences, leaving a lot of first-hand information for future generations.

The problem is that these people can’t find a solution to the problem, and the same is true for Sun Jingting.

More scholars are not as good as Sun Jingting. They only know how to enjoy themselves, constantly accumulate wealth and squander, enjoy food, wine and women, and can write some parallel accounts of life, write notes, and write books to the world, even if they are not in vain.

The crowd was getting closer and closer, and the curses became louder and louder. At this time, Jiang Kui and others quickly surrounded Zhang Han and surrounded him.

"Then they are their boss, talk to him."

There are many people in Guanzhuang who recognize Zhang Han. After all, some people were still working in Lizhuang a while ago. Someone shouted and hundreds of men with fork rakes ran over here.

Jiang Kui opened the lid of the fire can, lit the spark, and lit the fuse. He had just put the medicine on it, and immediately ignited the fire. With a "bang", the gun was upwards, and the projectile flew into the air-

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