Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Xiao Zirong suddenly became a little nervous: "What happened?"

This was the first time he saw Liu Cainiang with such a serious expression after arriving here, and seeing the other party's expression, he felt that something must be serious.

Liu Cainiang said angrily and urgently: "It was two groups of people fighting in the field."

Xiao Zirong was stunned after hearing this, but he didn't react for a long while.

You must know that this group of people has come through adversity together, and their relationship is not ordinary. There must be friction between people, but at most there are some small quarrels that do not even rise to the point of quarrels.

So the atmosphere in their residence has always been very good. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are from the same family. Why did they suddenly start fighting?

Could it be the accumulation of conflicts in the past?

Xiao Zirong thought about many possibilities in his mind, and then he heard Liu Cainiang sigh and say, "It's not all caused by water."

Xiao Zirong froze for a moment: "Huh?"

water?What does it have to do with water?

Liu Cainiang explained: "Isn't this the case that everyone has started to grow food and vegetables recently? Naturally, watering is needed, but the two wells dug before are not enough, so they start to grab water every day, because grabbing water is becoming more and more difficult." Two groups, the relationship between these two groups is getting worse and worse, and today they... started fighting."

Liu Cainiang was also a little guilty when she said that, she actually knew about it before, but because grabbing water is so common no matter where it is put, she didn't take it to heart, so she didn't tell Xiao Zirong, and now the fight Naturally, we can no longer hide it.

After Xiao Zirong heard this, he felt a little bad. Logically speaking, there is no shortage of water in their place. It happens to be not far from the south of the Yangtze River, and there are many tributaries. In addition, the rainy season has just passed. Lack of water?

So even though he knew that farming needed water, he didn't take this matter to heart, but who would have thought that the fight would really happen because of the water?

Xiao Zirong said with a headache, "Let Lu Liu lead people to arrest everyone first."

There is no need to ask who is right and who is wrong in this matter, because everyone has their reasons. If it is really necessary to discuss, Xiao Zirong thinks that he may be the one who is wrong.

As a leader, he should have thought of this.

Lu Liu took orders to arrest all of them. Actually, there were not many of them. After all, their population base is here, so they only arrested about a dozen people in total.

A dozen or so people were brought in front of Xiao Zirong in disgrace. He took a look and found that although they were all in a mess, they didn't seem to have any external injuries. It should be that the beatings were not particularly severe.

Only then did Xiao Zirong feel relieved. He had heard of people fighting for water, and it was said that even in later generations, people would be killed every year, and generally there was no way to deal with such things.

After Xiao Zirong was relieved, he looked at them expressionlessly and said, "Are you guys too full recently? You already have the strength to fight!"

The little ladies lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at Xiao Zirong. They didn't feel ashamed, but felt ashamed to be thrown in front of the city lord.

Whenever these little ladies meet Xiao Zirong, they will try their best to show their best side. Regardless of their age, who doesn't like a handsome little man?

Seeing that they didn't speak, Xiao Zirong thought that they knew they were wrong, and then said: "We didn't have any laws and regulations here before, so you have nothing to obey. It's your first offense and you will be fined for fifteen days of hard labor. Dissatisfied?"

On the contrary, some young ladies are a little anxious. Fifteen days, the farming season is over.

One of them was bolder and asked, "City Master, should we punish him now?"

Xiao Zirong glanced at her and said, "Write it down first, oh, by the way, each person will deduct three points."

He was also worried that after the fifteen days of punishment, the farming season would be missed, and the harvest would not be good, and these little ladies might drink the northwest wind.

But if they just kept the accounts without punishment, they were worried that they would not have a long memory, so they simply fined them after hard labor.

Xiao Zirong has always paid attention to the conversion ratio of points. According to his estimation, each point is basically worth a copper coin.

Three copper coins may not sound like much, but there are too many things that ordinary people can do.

Sure enough, after hearing that Xiao Zirong was about to be penalized for points, all the ladies were a little anxious, deeply regretting being too impulsive just now.

Seeing this, Xiao Zirong said, "I will write a book of laws in the future. If you commit the crime again, you will be punished harder. Do you understand?"

The little ladies nodded vigorously one by one, and they probably all remembered deeply.

Xiao Zirong asked Lu Liu to let them all go with a wave of his hand.

Liu Cainiang had been watching from the side before, and now she said worriedly: "It's not okay to punish people."

Everyone is afraid of delaying the farming season and wants to rush to fetch water to irrigate the fields, but there are only two wells, and it is too late even if they line up.

Sometimes it's not that everyone wants to fight. They are different from the outsiders. They really share the pain and sorrow. If there is a big problem, they will definitely protect each other, but it is such a small thing that hurts people.

Xiao Zirong stood up and said, "Come with me to see the mountain spring and the nearby river."

The advantage for them now is that they are in the mountains, with mountain springs and tributaries of the Yangtze River, but both of them are far away from the cultivated land.

This is also impossible. It is impossible to let the river be next to the cultivated land. It is rainy in the south. If it catches up with the year with abundant rain, the cultivated land will be flooded if you are not careful.

But this also leads to the fact that there is water, but when watering the ground, it is still necessary to fetch water from the well.

In this case, water conservancy facilities must be built.

After hearing this, Liu Cainiang happily asked: "City Lord, do you have a solution?"

Xiao Zirong shook his head: "It's hard to say, let's take a look first."

He did have ideas in his mind, but many of them were big projects, and they were not easy to realize in their current situation. What Xiao Zirong needed was to find a suitable solution from his mind according to their situation.

Hey, it's this little trouble that I don't know how to do.

If you have studied water conservancy engineering, you may be able to think of many solutions just by looking at the map, but Xiao Zirong can only take a walk around and write down the key points, and then search in his mind, and then proceed one by one after the search. In contrast, if you encounter something you don't understand, you have to consult other literature to understand it.

Liu Cainiang followed Xiao Zirong for a walk. The nearest mountain spring to the farmland was about five miles away, and the tributary of the Yangtze River was about thirteen miles away.

It doesn't sound too far away, and you can walk back and forth a few times a day, but that's the case with empty hands. If you have to carry water, most people can't carry it so far.

Xiao Zirong took a look at the mountain spring water, and decided that he must lead the mountain spring water down, not for irrigation, but mainly for food.

As for irrigation, it is best to divert water from a tributary of the Yangtze River.

It's only thirteen miles away. If you want to bring water over, you have to dig ditches. But once you dig ditches, they don't have the ability to build dams. If there is water, it is extremely easy to backfill.

But they still want to build a dam now, after all, there are too few people, and there is not enough time.

He stood on the shore and thought for a while, then turned to Zhai Xi and asked, "Can you make a waterwheel?"

After hearing this, Zhai Xi's eyes straightened: "What... what?"

Xiao Zirong was stunned for a moment: "Waterwheel, have you heard of it?"

Zhai Xi tilted his head and said, "I've heard of it but haven't seen it, so I don't know how to do it."

Xiao Zirong felt a little strange. Waterwheels existed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but now it has been hundreds of years and they are not so popular?

But that’s not the point, the point is that Xiao Zirong took the paper and drew the blueprint of the waterwheel. In order to facilitate the production, he directly drew the simplest kind, and asked Zhai Xi after the drawing: “Can you do it?” ?”

Zhai Xi looked at it carefully for a while, because Xiao Zirong drew an overall picture, she estimated in her heart and asked, "How big is it?"

Xiao Zirong thought for a while: "It should be five or six meters tall."

In fact, the recorded waterwheels are generally ten meters high, but Xiao Zirong thought about the fighting power of the little ladies. Even if there are very few little ladies who are very strong, they are still weak overall. The most important thing is They don't have many tools at hand, even if they are all men, they may not be able to stand a ten-meter waterwheel on the shore.

Anyway, they have relatively few fields to cultivate now, and Xiao Zirong doesn't plan to do it all at once, and plans to replace it when conditions permit in the future.

The same is true for the water canals, everything is at the minimum standard - as long as it can be used for construction.

Zhai Xi was a little uncertain and said: "I... can try it, try to do it as much as possible, but it requires too much wood, and the existing ones are not enough."

Xiao Zirong said directly: "If you see anything that can be changed to bamboo, just change it."

Which one is better to use, bamboo or wood, and which one will last longer? Xiao Zirong is not too sure, but as long as it can solve the current problem, other... Let's talk about it in the future.

Xiao Zirong felt very worried that since he came here, to be precise, since he led these little ladies to make a living, his obsessive-compulsive disorder and perfectionism will be cured.

Zhai Xi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that bamboo could be used. Just as he was about to nod, he heard Xiao Zirong say, "Well, if it really doesn't work, you can make a model first."

Zhai Xi looked at him blankly: "Mo... what is a model?"

Xiao Zirong said: "Oh, it's just a scaled-down real thing. If there is something wrong in the middle, it would be too troublesome to modify it if you make it directly into the finished product. You might as well make a small one first. Anyway, the steps are the same, and then you can make it bigger. I also have experience."

Zhai Xi immediately understood Xiao Zirong's meaning, and his eyes lit up: "This method is good, I will immediately ask my sister to do it together."

Xiao Zirong said: "If you feel that the three of you can't handle it, you can find someone to help you. You must do it as soon as possible. This is a big matter related to irrigation."

Xiao Zirong was worried that Zhai Xi would not ask others to do it together because she was afraid that others would take the credit, so she specially emphasized the importance and told her not to delay the progress for selfish reasons.

After hearing what he said, Zhai Xi understood the meaning of his words, so he promised repeatedly that there would be no delay.

After Zhai Xi left, Xiao Zirong turned his head to look at Liu Cainiang and said, "Post up the notice, it's time to conquer corvee again, but this time we will count points for everyone."

Originally, corvee was mandatory to participate in, and no points were awarded, and the imperial court did not give money for enlisting corvee.

However, Xiao Zirong had previously set the time for the collection of corvee every year, usually twice a year in spring and winter, when the two seasons were relatively free, and it could be flexibly adjusted according to the amount of work that needs to be done.

It's not in that time period now, so Xiao Zirong simply gave out points, which is equivalent to hiring everyone to do something.

Liu Cainiang frowned and said, "Don't spoil them too much, the city lord. Everyone will benefit from this thing. Why should you give them money?"

Xiao Zirong shook his head and said: "Everyone understands this truth, but it is definitely not willing to let everyone put down what they are doing to do these things."

Since the establishment of household registration, the resident has gradually changed from a large family with a large number of people to a collective composed of small families.

When it was originally a big family, everyone contributed to the collective and could enjoy all the results. Naturally, there was no problem, but now that it has become a small family, there must be some selfishness.

It sounds like the original way is better, but Xiao Zirong knows that that way cannot last long. World harmony is the social appearance that many people yearn for, but it is also more precious because it is basically impossible to achieve.

Now the folk customs here are not bad, at least they can do it without picking up lost things on the road and not closing the door at night, and Xiao Zirong doesn't force it, he will choose the most suitable way for everyone to survive.

Liu Cainiang was helpless, but Xiao Zirong made a decision, and she only had to carry it out.

But just as Xiao Zirong thought before, when everyone has their own affairs in their hands, even if they are given points, they may not be willing to come to serve in corvee, and no one wants to delay farm work.

Liu Cainiang notified for a long time and finally got more than 20 people. She looked at the canal planned by Xiao Zirong and couldn't help worrying: "There are only [-] people. When will this be dug?"