"It turns out there really was a fight over water."
Zhu Xuan was surprised and said: "Yan Guan, go to the camp and bring the soldiers from our Shenji Battalion to have a look together."
Within the scope of his governance, he did not allow those large-scale fighting incidents to occur.
After speaking, Zhu Xuan followed Xu Qi and left.
Yan Guan hurried to the camp and took away the soldiers from Shenji Camp.
As for Guo Ze, he will continue to deal with goods, arrange technical personnel, etc., and do whatever needs to be done.
They quickly arrived at the east side of the city.
Fenji Village, Dashui Zhen and Xian Village, these three villages are all outside the city.
Pitou refers to a dam built on a river to block the stream and store water.
Among them, Dashuizhen is in Shangbeitou, Xiancun is in Zhongbeitou, and Fenji Village is in Xiabeitou.
Now the three villages are all concentrated on the edge of Dashui Town in Shangpitou. All the villagers in their villages who can fight have been mobilized.
Villagers from three villages, each carrying hoes, sickles, and other tools used for daily farm work, faced off at the dam in Shangpitou. They were probably Xian Village and Fanji Village, confronting Dashuizhen.
The scale of the confrontation was quite large. Zhu Xuan saw the formation in their village. There were four to five thousand people, both men and women. Anyone who had the strength to pick up a hoe and fight, all gathered together.
How many people could gather in their three villages?
This was far beyond Zhu Xuan's expectations. No wonder Xu Qi was so nervous. When he heard that they were about to fight, he ran over immediately. Such a large-scale fight could almost be a small war.
You must know that the Shenji Camp that Zhu Xuan brings with him all year round only has a thousand people.
However, they haven't started fighting yet, because the head catcher in the prefecture led all the policemen in the prefecture to stop between them and tried their best to persuade them to stop them, so they didn't start fighting directly. However, the situation at the scene was very tense and could get out of control at any time, and then Get started.
Their fighting, even if they kill someone, is normal.
"Quiet, everyone quiet!"
As soon as Xu Qi arrived at the scene, he hurried over and asked loudly: "What are you doing this time?"
After hearing Xu Qi's words, Zhu Xuan could tell that this was not the first time that these three villages had fought with each other.
"In Dashuizhen in Shangpitou, the river is blocked in Shangpi and water trucks are used to collect water. As a result, the people below us have no water. Mr. Xu, you just said that the people in Dashuizhen are in need of water, aren't they?" Xian Cun the village chief shouted angrily.
As soon as he said this, a large group of villagers from Xian Village responded directly behind him, shouting for beating and killing.
The village chief of Fanji Village echoed: "They are Dashui Zhen, they just need to be beaten. Our three villages have long discussed how to use water and how to use it. They even set up monuments as evidence. Every time, it is the people of Dashui Zhen." It was them again who caused trouble by blocking the river last time."
"That's right!"
"It's time to hit!"
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A group of villagers from Dusti Village also echoed their village chief loudly, and the crowd was furious.
Agriculture is the basis for their survival. Farming was extremely important in ancient society.
In the Lingnan area, there has been no rain for almost two months, resulting in a shortage of river flow and insufficient irrigation water. Dashuizhen in Shangbei even blocked the river channel, and conflicts broke out.
"Our Dashui Zhen Village has a relatively high terrain and a relatively low water level in the Shahe River. If we don't block the river and don't use water trucks to collect water, there will be no water at all." The village chief of Dashui Zhen also began to refute fiercely.
The river shared by their three villages is called Shahe.
"It's unfair to us, Dashuizhen, to take turns using water."
"We want to oppose the unfairness of the government, and we want to go to Beijing to file a petition!"
"Complaint!"
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The villagers of Dashui Zhen were not to be outdone. Their shouts quickly overshadowed the other two villages, and they were extremely confident.
If it weren't for Xu Qi and the policemen standing in the middle, they would have fought.
"Everyone, please be quiet!"
Xu Qi had to shout, and then said: "If there is anything, we can sit down and talk. If we can't talk once, then we can talk a few more times."
The village head of Fenji Village said angrily: "Our crops are almost dying of drought. If we continue talking, there will be no water for irrigation. We will starve in the second half of the year. We will have no food to pay taxes. Will Mr. Xu take your own food?" Take it out and give it to us?”
The village chief of Xian Village said: "Yes, there must be a result today!"
Once again there was a surge of public sentiment.
Their appeal is very simple. They just want water for irrigation. But the Shahe River is here and is only so big. In addition, there has been insufficient rainfall recently. How to irrigate?
Zhu Xuan listened to the content of their argument and shook his head helplessly. At the same time, he felt that the water conservancy project must be implemented as soon as possible and the water control actions must be completed quickly.
But, there is no money now.
If I had known earlier, I would have invested the first money in water control instead of using it for overseas trade.
"What was the reason for the last time they fought?"
Zhu Xuan asked.
Standing next to him, there was a tall and thin man. He was the master next to Xu Qi. Hearing this, he said: "Back to Your Highness, Dashui Town is also blocking the river. The villagers in Xian Village and Fenji Village have no water, so they go Dig the blocked river channel. However, Dashui Zhen took the initiative and beat the people in Xian Village and Dust Kei Village, so the three villages started fighting. That time, eight people were killed and hundreds of people were injured. In the end, all The commander asked Mr. Hua to lead troops to suppress the incident and calmed down the incident."
Fighting over water is indeed serious.
Zhu Xuan thought for a while and asked: "How do they allocate water."
"It's all over here."
The master led the way, and they walked forward for a while, and saw a monument standing beside Shangpitou.
"The three villages use water separately. Dashuizhen has priority for two days, followed by Xian Village for two days, and finally Dusti Village, and the cycle repeats."
"But the three villages often mess around. Now Dashuizhen blocks the river, but in the past, Xian Village did similar things and started fighting with Dustpan Village."
"In short, the water problem is quite difficult here."
The master explained again.
Zhu Xuan was silent.
In the Pearl River Delta region, which has no shortage of water resources, fighting over water issues sounds ridiculous, but it actually happened.
Zhu Xuan was thinking that to manage this place well, it was not just about overseas trade. The fundamental problems needed to be solved first.
It is very important to make people rich, but before they can become rich, they have to have enough to eat before they can have the strength to achieve prosperity. Now even the fundamental problem of eating has not been solved.
Zhu Xuan thinks that he is going in the wrong direction.
It was the first time to govern a place. He lacked experience and his ideas were too idealistic, even fantasy. Xu Qi's worries were reasonable, but Zhu Xuan's steps were too big.
Before coming, Zhu Xuan was full of confidence, but now he is hit hard.
"I should build water conservancy first!"
Zhu Xuan regretted.
Xu Miaojin could understand Zhu Xuan's thoughts and comforted softly: "My brother has done a great job!"
"We need water for irrigation!"
At this time, a villager in Dustpan Village was extremely excited, maybe because his crops were about to die. Seeing Xu Qi and Xini, he had no time to sit down and talk slowly, so he finally couldn't help but burst out, picked up a stone and went to The village chief of Dashui Zhen smashed him over.
The powder keg was instantly ignited.
