Zhang Tie turned to look at Xiao Ciwei. This answer was a little beyond his expectation. Originally, besides Zhang Tie, most of the farmers cultivating official fields in Ninghe County should be locals in Ninghe County, Taixia. He didn't

Come to think of it, they are actually border residents.

But if you think about it carefully, this is very reasonable, because in Taixia, the so-called border residents are not officially Taixia people. These people have fled for various reasons or been trafficked to Taixia to prepare for Taixia.

As a measure of virtue, Taixia, which regarded itself as the leader of the human race, did not treat these people as slaves, but gave them a special status as border residents.

In order to survive and gain a foothold in Taixia, these border residents generally work hard and do not dare to commit crimes in Taixia, because once the border residents of Taixia commit a crime, the Taixia Tingwei Agency will punish them severely.

.Suppression, if the border residents do not die after accepting punishment, they will be deported and left to fend for themselves.

Hiring border residents to cultivate and manage the official fields in Ninghe County is indeed the cheapest way. From a certain perspective, it can also be considered as giving these border residents a way to survive in Taixia.

There are two types of border residents. One is trafficked. These so-called border residents have a lower status, and their personal rights are basically in the hands of the wealthy Taixia families who bought them. These border residents came to Taixia

, they signed a harsh "lifelong labor contract". The wealthy Taixia family who control their contract also control their life and death. Over the years, although there is no real heard of any family among the wealthy families in Taixia.

They openly massacre or torture these border residents, but in fact, if the people who hold their contracts really want to kill them, there are many ways, and that method can also circumvent the sanctions of Taixia law. For example, there are tens of thousands of border residents who sold themselves and are collectively dissatisfied.

Discipline, but did not violate the laws of Taixia, and engage in non-violence and non-cooperation. It is inappropriate to kill and execute such people at will in Taixia. The court will not sit idly by. Then, the wealthy family that controls their contract only needs to use a ship registered somewhere in the subcontinent.

The local ships took all the border residents outside Taixia, for example to the high seas. On the ships, they would execute everyone and then throw their bodies into the sea, and Taixia would not be able to care about them.

The latter kind of iron-fisted method often occurred in Taixia, and it was a method used by Taixia wealthy families to intimidate the border residents under their jurisdiction.

The second type of border residents evolved from refugees. These people came to Taixia but had no place to stay, so they could only become border residents. Taixia officials arranged and managed them, giving them something to do and giving them a mouthful.

Compared with the first type of border residents, the latter are much luckier in terms of food.

"How many years have you been here in Otaxia? Have you signed the deed of betrayal?"

"In the twenty-three years since we came to Taixia, we have never signed a selling contract!"

Zhang Tie nodded and roughly understood the origin of the border people who cultivated these official fields.

The group of people soon reached the edge of the Ning River.

Just now Zhang Tie saw the water conservancy project connected to the Ning River. Now when he walked to the edge of the Ning River, Zhang Tie discovered that Ninghe County had indeed put in a lot of effort to manage the Ning River.

The banks of the Ning River are all made of stone and reinforced concrete, which are more than 30 meters wide. The embankments along the entire Ning River are spacious, bright, and solid, forming a unique landscape along the Ning River.

A riverside avenue lined with willows.

The water of Ninghe River is very clear. The current water level of the river is still more than ten meters high from the embankment. Just by the river, there are several iron pillars arranged to mark the water level of Ninghe County. Zhang Tie saw

There is a striking red line marked on the iron pillar, but that red line is still two meters away from the embankment surface of the river.

"Is that red line the highest water level in the history of Ninghe River?" Zhang Tie asked Liu Yuntao.

"Yes, when this embankment was originally built, it was built to withstand the highest water level of the Ning River that occurs once in a thousand years!"

"What if there is a flood and the Ninghe River embankment collapses?"

Liu Yuntao said in a muffled voice, "If the water of the Ninghe River breaks the embankment without flooding the embankment, it will start with me. There will be more than forty officials in the Ninghe County Sheriff's Mansion who want to lose their heads. The person in charge of the construction company that built the embankment will be punished."

, the superintendents of the river section will be punished, the supervisors of the river section will be punished, and the local chief officials of the section that burst the embankment will be punished..."

The governor of Ninghe County said a series of "clan executions", which made Zhang Tie shake his head. Anyone in Taixia who dares to interfere with such a project would be really impatient.

In the distance, Zhang Tie also saw a large-scale river terminal. However, compared with the lively terminals in Zhang Tie's impression, the terminal that appeared in front of Zhang Tie looked deserted, like

It's like going out of business.

"What's going on at the dock?"

"That's a wharf for transporting grain. There's no good luck with grain this summer. The wharf naturally stopped!" Xiao Ciwei said from the side.

Zhang Tie glanced at the deserted dock and sighed secretly in his heart. At this time, as soon as the dock stopped, the livelihoods of the workers working on the dock and the boatmen on the boats running on the Ning River were naturally greatly affected.

On the one hand, there is no income and work, on the other hand, the price of food has become higher because of the lack of food. Sanyanhui's plan to eliminate households without food can affect not only the farmers who farm, but also involves all aspects.

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The Sheriff of Ninghe County had been quietly observing Zhang Tie's expression. When he found that Zhang Tie had a look of unbearable pain in his eyes as he looked at the empty dock in the distance. Liu Yuntao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

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After seeing the scenery of Ninghe River and checking the water conservancy facilities in Guantian, Zhang Tie went to Ninghe Fort to inspect.

Just as Xiao Ciwei said, the people living in the houses in Ninghe Fort looked like they were all from the same clan as Xiao Ciwei.

What surprised Zhang Tie was that Xiao Ciwei's status among the border residents was actually very high. Many elderly border residents, when they saw Xiao Ciwei, knelt down and bowed to Xiao Ciwei and said something about Zhang Tie.

Although they couldn't understand the dialect, some young border residents also respected Xiao Ciwei very much when they saw him.

From Zhang Tie's perspective, it was natural to see that this was not something that could be achieved simply by means of coercion, but that Xiao Ciwei really had huge prestige among all the border residents.

There are old people, women, and children in Ninghe Fort. The hired farmers in the official fields that Xiao Ciwei mentioned are naturally not these weak laborers, but the young and strong people in Ninghe Fort. Those women, children, and old people are all those

Young and strong family members.

Although everyone in Ninghe Fort is not completely naked, judging from their clothing and various expenses, they only have enough to live on.

Women and old people have raised some chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and other livestock and poultry outside Ninghe Fort, but the current condition of these poultry seems to be not ideal except for the ducks scavenging for food in the water. Ninghe

The feed supply in the fort has also become tight.

Xiao Ciwei said that the number of farmers employed by the official fields in Ninghe County is 1,765,521. In fact, many of these farmers have families. The population of border residents who directly depend on the official fields in Ninghe County is estimated to be more than five million.

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In these farms and castles, men are responsible for taking care of the government land, while women, children, and the elderly rely on the government land to do some side jobs to supplement their lives.

"I know a little bit of the dialect of the Yiyue Subcontinent. Those old people call Xiao Ciwei His Royal Highness..." Tang De, who was walking beside Zhang Tie, said quietly to Zhang Tie.

Your Highness? I didn’t expect that Xiao Ciwei was actually a troubled prince who led his people to a country in the Yinyue subcontinent of Taixia?

Thinking of Xiao Ciwei's groveling look, Zhang Tie seemed to understand something in his heart.

But in a place like Taixia, not to mention a troubled prince from the subcontinent, even if the emperors and kings from many countries in the subcontinent came, it would be nothing. Many kings and emperors from the subcontinent would receive officials who could be the governor of Taixia.

regarded as a kind of capital and honor.

While walking in Ninghe Fort for inspection, Zhang Tie suddenly glanced at the attic of a tall building in the fort, and then asked Xiao Ciwei, "Who lives there?"

After hearing Zhang Tie's question and seeing the direction Zhang Tie pointed, a nervous look flashed across the face of Xiao Ciwei, who had always been calm, "That's where the villains and their families live!"

Zhang Tie smiled and stopped talking.

After walking around Ninghe Fort, I saw that after Zhang Tie had looked at the farm machinery in the warehouse of Ninghe Fort, he did not stop in the hall where Ninghe Fort handles official business. He did not explain anything, but took it with him.

The man turned back to the grain field where the flying boat landed, and seemed ready to leave. Liu Yuntao, the governor of Ninghe County, became anxious. He suddenly stopped in front of Zhang Tie regardless of his identity, and bowed heavily to Zhang Tie.

"Just now I saw that when the real person saw the empty pier, there was a look of intolerance on his face, and when he saw the old and young border residents in Ninghe Fort, his eyes also showed compassion. Maybe the real person doesn't know that at this time in previous years, there were so many people coming and going on the pier.

The ships carry grain, and this wharf is also one of the largest and most prosperous river shipping wharfs on the Ninghe River. This year, Ninghe County’s summer grain harvest has failed, and this wharf suddenly became deserted. The same wharf is also on the Ninghe River.

More than 60. Ninghe County is an agricultural county. In the entire Ninghe County, more than 90% of the people eat around the fields. In addition to the border residents who farm and the dock transportation industry, other rice and noodle factories,

Mills, food processing plants, livestock breeding and other industries are all closely related to agricultural production, so they have also suffered a huge impact. Food prices are high this year in Taixia. If the unemployed find it difficult to make money to support their families, things will change in the long run.

Master Ji showed great mercy and saved hundreds of millions of people in Ninghe County from drowning in water and fire..."

Liu Yuntao, the governor of Ninghe County, seized the opportunity. After saying something, he bowed to Zhang Tie and bowed to the ground. All the officials of Ninghe County also bowed to Zhang Tie, completely treating Zhang Tie as a life-saving straw.

"The problems Ninghe County is facing now. I have seen it today. To sum up, it is nothing more than two points. One is farming and the other is land. Everyone is afraid that the food planted in Ninghe County will encounter demonized grain particles later.

No harvest, right? Even if there is no problem with the seeds planted, because the land in Ninghe County has been contaminated by demonized food, there is still a possibility of a poor harvest?" Zhang Tie smiled and looked at Liu Yuntao, the governor of Ninghe County.

"The real person has a keen eye. This is exactly what we are worried about. The real person can rent 100 million acres of official land in Ninghe County this year at a price of 50%. I must have a solution in mind!"

"The solution is simple, it's just a tit-for-tat approach. As long as the land in Ninghe County is restored to life, wouldn't it be over if we can plant grains without problems?"

"Exactly!"

"When you go to the grain field now, you should be able to see the things I brought. During this period, the people on the flying boat should have unloaded all the things on the flying boat. Those things should be able to solve Ning's problem.

River County’s problem!”

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When everyone returned to the threshing floor, the open space on the threshing floor was filled with bags of things and strange boxes one after another, forming piles of hills on the ground.

At this time, the governor of Ninghe County, Liu Yuntao, didn't care about etiquette anymore. He actually left Zhang Tie behind, lifted up his official robe, and ran towards those things.

The bags were filled with soybean seeds that were about to be planted, and when the boxes were opened, what Liu Yuntao, the governor of Ninghe County, saw were piles of earthworms...

Earthworms, actually earthworms?

Liu Yuntao, the governor of Ninghe County, looked at the box full of earthworms, suddenly thought of something, and then slapped his head hard.

When Liu Yuntao, the governor of Ninghe County, returned to Zhang Tie, he saw Zhang Tie handing two drawings and a gorgeous-looking box that he took out from his personal space equipment to Xiao Ciwei's hand.

, "Please arrange it. From today on, all the 3147 farms and villages belonging to Guantian, Ninghe County will repair these two facilities in the shortest time according to the requirements of the drawings. One of these two facilities is the breeding of earthworms."

One is a fermentation tank. As long as these two things are built, the future output of the official fields in Ninghe County will be absolutely guaranteed. This time I sent soybeans and some vegetable seeds. I will send them again after the soybeans are harvested.

The people I sent will teach you how to use the things in this box. Also, your treatment will remain the same, even in a disaster year!"

The issue of Ninghe County, which made countless people turn gray with anxiety, and the issue of the treatment of border residents, which had made Xiao Ciwei worried for many days, were solved by Zhang Tie in just a few words. After saying this, Zhang Tie asked Tang De and

Tang De brought a team of management personnel and two of his dead men who knew agriculture and management to stay here, and he went back by flying boat without even staying for a meal.

Watching Zhang Tie's Iron Dragon fly away, Ninghe County Governor Liu Yuntao and the surrounding Ninghe County officials all looked directly at the drawings and the gorgeous box in Xiao Ciwei's hand.
To be continued...