Zhuge Liang also wondered what kind of anger Zhang Xi had.
Well, that's the case in most cases. Even if it's exposed, it's hard to say that he doesn't recognize the person. Is it possible that Sun Quan can still deny Sun Shangxiang's sister? !
But since Zhang Xi firmly disagreed, although Zhuge Liang didn't understand, he didn't force it.
Now that you're here, don't leave yet, and let's discuss the swamp transformation later.
It is now the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and after the first lunar month it is February, and we have to prepare for spring plowing.
Before spring plowing this year, the Lord plans to find a place in the south of Changsha, near Qingcao Lake, and try to transform swamps into farmland.
Because we really don’t have enough money and food, we can’t roll it out on a large scale. We need to find a place to pilot it first and see how it works.
If the effect is good, then no matter how hard and tiring it is, we still need to roll it out on a large scale.
But if the effect is not good, then wait a little longer, wait until there is enough money and food, and then push forward.
It must be done, after all, farmland with low yield is more useful than swamp.
It’s just a matter of when to do it.
Zhuge is responsible for choosing the place, but how to implement it depends on Zhang Xi.
As for the plan, Zhang Xi had already written it. It took about three months to write a plan that was not particularly good.
However, Zhang Xi's literary skills are really limited, and he has become accustomed to the writing style of later generations. Everything he writes strives to be clear and perfect, so he writes a lot.
Fortunately, Zhang Xi also knew what he was capable of, so instead of carving on the bamboo slips with a carving knife, he wrote with pen and ink so that the bamboo slips could be washed and used.
It doesn't matter if the bamboo slips are a bit cumbersome, just treat them as scratch paper.
Even so, the plan written by Zhang Xi was still loaded on an ox cart. Zhuge Liang had a headache just looking at it. He had to pull Zhang Xi away. While streamlining the words, he checked the meaning with Zhang Xi to avoid unnecessary trouble. wrong.
This document must be shown to Liu Bei in the end. If the effect is good, it must be carved and archived. It must not be careless.
During the period after the Spring Festival, Zhuge Liang basically checked documents with Zhang Xi. After that, Zhang Xi had to go to the south of Changsha alone, choose a place, and personally guide the experimental field.
After all, at home, no matter how good the writing is, without practice as a basis, the plan is still worthless.
Therefore, Zhang Xi is going on a business trip.
Zhang Xi was reluctant to part with him at first. After all, he had a lovely wife at home and had only been married for three months.
But Sun Shangxiang has also been very busy recently, busy connecting people from Jiangdong and Liu Bei Group to resell land.
Sun Shangxiang would not make any profit from it. As the little princess of Jiangdong, she didn't care about this little money at all. She just wanted to do favors and expand her network of contacts.
As the mistress married to Jiang Dong, Sun Shangxiang is now very active in integrating into the small circle of ladies of the Liu Bei Group. She is unexpectedly active.
That posture made Zhang Xi doubtful. If Liu Bei had really entrusted his inner palace to Sun Shangxiang in history, wouldn't this girl have caused so many troubles later? Forget it, Xiangxiang is my wife now. .
It's just that my wife has been so busy recently that she can't leave, so when Zhang Xi goes to Changsha, she can only go to take office alone.
Zhuge Liang originally arranged for Zhang Xi to go to Changsha to take charge of the experimental field work, and he would definitely stay in Changsha until after this year's autumn harvest.
After all, it takes a complete cycle to understand all the situations and decide whether to promote it.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang petitioned Liu Bei this time, specifically allowing Zhang Xi to bring his family members with him, and also changed Zhang Xi's position from Jiangxia County Sheriff to Changsha Changshi.
But now it seems... Well, Sun Shangxiang will not leave Xiakou for the time being.
However, Zhang Xi did not go to the appointment alone, Xiaoba would also go with him.
Moreover, Xiao Ba also has Sun Shangxiang's special order, so he can get into Zhang Xi's bed openly and openly. Xiao Ba is in a good mood.
This is where Sun Shangxiang doesn't quite understand Zhang Xi. Your own maid, what are you pretending to be?
Sun Shangxiang didn't care at all about the special relationship between Xiaoba and Zhang Xi. In other words, in this day and age, it would be strange that Zhang Xi didn't have a special relationship with him.
A maid will always be a maid, and a mistress will always be a mistress.
In this era, no matter how many children Xiaoba had, it would not be able to threaten the status of Sun Shangxiang's mistress. This kind of thing, in which aristocratic families were extremely powerful, was difficult to exist in the late Han Dynasty.
Sun Shangxiang cannot accompany Zhang Xi to take office this time. Of course, she has to leave the care of Zhang Xi to Xiaoba. Whether it is day life or night life, it is better to leave it to Xiaoba than Zhang Xi to find a sister for her in Changsha. It's better to come back.
So, just after the first month of the year, Zhang Xi had already left Xiakou and took a boat to Changsha under Sun Shangxiang's farewell.
On the eighth day of February, Zhang Xi arrived at Changsha County, the seat of Changsha County, and met with Liao Li, the prefect of Changsha.
Liao Li's attitude toward Zhang Xi seemed rather lukewarm. Zhang Xi even vaguely felt that Liao Li looked down upon him.
After thinking about the evaluation of Liao Li in history, Zhang Xi suddenly felt relieved.
This is a guy who has talent but also thinks very highly of himself.
Zhuge Liang compared Liao Li to Pang Tong, which shows that this guy is indeed talented, and he also knows that he is talented, so he was so open-minded after Liu Bei's death.
Probably from this guy's point of view, Ji Han's situation was already very critical at that time. Liu Bei's subordinates either died of illness or were killed in battle, and their talents were seriously withered, so Zhuge Liang would definitely reuse talented people like himself.
After all, Zhuge Liang also said that his talents are similar to Pang Tong.
But Liao Li waited, waited, and didn't realize that Zhuge Liang wanted to reuse him.
This guy immediately felt unbalanced, and then he learned the ways that are easier to attract attention in this era. He became a madman and slandered anyone he caught. From Li Yan to Liu Bei, except for Zhuge Liang, who was in power, there was no one he dared to slander. .
Then this guy was demoted to a commoner by Zhuge Liang.
Obviously, this person did not take into account how much he weighed. Ever since this guy fled without a fight when Sun Quan attacked Jingnan, he has been on Zhuge Liang's black book.
Liu Bei may be a man of merit and appoint Liao Li regardless of past suspicions, but does Zhuge Liang understand what it means to employ people with both ability and political integrity? !
Yang Yi and Wei Yan have bad personalities, but they do a good job at their jobs and have good personal ethics. So even if Zhuge Liang knows that they don't get along, he still has to use them when they need to be used, and if there is a conflict, he still has to help mediate it. .
But Liao Li, as the prefect of a county, has the responsibility of guarding the land. Even if you are defeated, no one will say anything to you. What is the point of running away without fighting? !
So this is a guy who is capable, thinks too highly of himself, and at the same time has a not-so-low emotional intelligence. If he has the skills to compete with him, Zhang Xi might as well go find Kou Erha and have a drink.
Anyway, Zhang Xi, a long-time official, was nominally Liao Li's deputy, but his actual job was to preside over the experimental field, and he did not interfere in Changsha's government affairs at all, and his interactions with Liao Li were also limited.
It's better to have your own brothers.
This time I came to host the experimental field. Because I had to catch up with the spring plowing at the end of February and early March, it was impossible to launch a large-scale corvee. I could only let the Changsha garrison led by Kou Feng help first.
So, Zhang Xi was polite to Liao Li, and then went directly to Kou Feng.
Kou Feng was also in Changsha County, but not inside the city. Instead, he was stationing troops for training outside the city.
Now Kou Feng is also a guard general, and he looks more and more dignified, but in front of Zhang Xi, he still regards himself as his younger brother.
After the announcement, Kou Feng directly welcomed Zhang Xi out of the camp gate and took Zhang Xi into his tent. The two brothers had a good time reminiscing.
Then, Kou Feng arranged for Zhang Xi to stay temporarily in his tent.
After all, he won’t be able to live long. Zhang Xi mainly came to Changsha to find a place to experiment with converting swamps into farmland.
After settling down in Changsha, Zhang Xi was not polite and immediately asked Kou Feng to borrow troops.
Not many, just a thousand people.
There are currently more than 10,000 Changsha defenders, 8,000 of whom are gathered outside Changsha County.
There is no other way. Jiangdong has stationed 40,000 to 50,000 troops in Baling County in the north. They have not withdrawn yet, so Changsha naturally does not dare to relax.
But they are still allies after all. Now the guard of Baling is Lu Su. The two families are still discussing the land exchange. The relationship is much easier than when Zhou Yu was here.
Therefore, Kou Feng did not feel any difficulty in lending a thousand people to Zhang Xi to help him.
Then Zhang Xi took the thousand people to a large tidal flat on the west side of the Xiangjiang River.
The reason why we chose the west side of the Xiangjiang River is because it is already at the southern end of Yunmengze and close to the periphery. There are relatively few diseases such as miasma, and it is close to the Xiangjiang River, so water conservancy is more convenient.
Another thing: Yunmengze in this era is not the same concept as Dongting Lake in later generations.
At this time, Dongting Lake was just a small and shallow lake, not as big as Baqiu Lake to the north and Qingcao Lake to the south. The current Dongting Lake is the result of a thousand years of transformation.
In the entire Yunmengze, there are many small and shallow lakes that are as small and shallow as the current Dongting Lake. They are scattered everywhere, so they are called Yunmengze.
Although after years of sedimentation in the Yangtze River and Han River, the land area of the Yunmengze area has slowly expanded and the number of lakes has slowly decreased. However, it is really not something that a thousand people can do such as reclaiming land from lakes. .
In this era, there were no machines, so it was all done manually by digging the soil and filling it with load-bearing loads. The filling would last as long as possible.
Therefore, Zhang Xi chose the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, which has fewer lakes, to conduct this experimental field experiment.
Even so, these 1,000 soldiers, under the command of Zhang Xi, divided the work and cooperated for more than 20 days, and almost missed the spring plowing.
After this attempt, Zhang Xi had to write on a bamboo slip that manpower was the most critical factor if large-scale land reclamation from lakes was to be carried out.
Well, this is the first lesson.
(End of chapter)
