My life skills in Daming Liver

In the temporary hut, Su Ze was giving a pulse to a farmer in the mountains.

Beside him, Shao Xianxue and Shao Xianjin from the Shao Family Medical Center were pestering medicine, and a group of young scholars were busy near this temporary camp.

On August 20th, Hai Rui officially received the appointment from the imperial court. He was going to Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province to serve as the magistrate. He was packing his things these days.

The Shao brothers were the students that Hai Rui had just accepted, and Su Ze naturally took over the responsibility of teaching them.

Su Ze simply dragged them to Wufeng Mountain to study while doing things.

For this group of young people, it is also a rare experience to be able to go out of the school and camp and study on Wufeng Mountain.

Su Ze gave lectures in the morning and took them to work near the camp in the afternoon.

In addition to these Hai Rui students, the county school is now on summer vacation.

Daming School has winter and summer vacations, and there are no classes during the hottest two months of summer and around the Chinese New Year in winter.

Among the county students, those who were familiar with Su Ze also followed Su Ze to Wufeng Mountain.

Li Qiyuan is leading the children in the Nursing Home to learn to measure the land, and the detailed map of Wufeng Mountain in Su Ze's house was taken by Li Qiyuan.

Li's family was born as a master, and Zhang Tian was also his family's ancestral craft. After receiving the enlightenment of calculus from Su Ze, he practiced and studied at the same time these days, and his arithmetic improved by leaps and bounds.

Chen Chaoyuan and Wang Xun took the clerks of the county government to register the households of Qimin on Wufeng Mountain.

Su Ze submitted the suggestion of registering Qi Min to the county government, and Baizhi County immediately sent officials to the mountain.

The reason is also very simple. Population growth is also an important part of official performance appraisal.

However, it is quite complicated to set up a household for Qimin, and thanks to Chen Chaoyuan and Wang Xun, who have lawyers in their families and are familiar with various yamen documents and legal provisions, they can handle things so properly.

[Diagnosing and treating patients, medical skill experience +5, Lv4, 395/400]

After prescribing a prescription for the patient in front of him, Su Ze's medical experience has increased again, and he can be upgraded by treating another patient.

Han Li walked into the thatched cottage in a hurry, he picked up the sour plum soup on the table and drank it all in one gulp, saying:

"Brother Rulin, I have seen those places, they are indeed treasured geomantic omens!"

"Sorry, I'm used to it. The soil in those places is soft and suitable for excavation."

Han Li's family was born with yin and yang, and he himself often followed his father to show Fengshui to people in Nanping County.

Su Ze asked him to explore the terrain and soil on Wufeng Mountain.

Hanli's yin and yang level is really good, and he quickly planned a labor-saving start-up route.

"Brother Ru Lin, are you really going to flood this place? These are all high-quality paddy fields." Han Li asked looking at the farmland outside.

Su Ze nodded and said, "These paddy fields reclaimed by Huang's family are all soil dug from the riverbed. The soil on the riverbed is rich in corrosive substances and is the best soil."

"The fields behind Wufeng Mountain were all reclaimed from the swamps on the edge of the river. These natural swamps were originally the reservoirs of the Minjiang River. It's too high."

"However, these big households have raised the river embankment, so that the upstream river water will lose its reservoir. Once there is a heavy rain, the lower reaches of the Minjiang River will flood."

"I read the county annals. In the Chenghua year, the Minjiang River flooded only once every ten years, but in this dynasty, it became once every five years, once every three years, and twice in the last three years."

Han Li's family has yin and yang students, and he has also learned some knowledge of geomancy, so he immediately understood what Su Ze meant.

"So that's the case. I didn't expect the flooding of the river to be related to the opening of the fields."

Su Ze nodded and said:

"Flood plains are the starting point of civilization. Panyin originated from the flooded Yinshui, and almost all ancient cities were built on the banks of great rivers."

Su Ze drew a simple map of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers on the ground with branches, and then pointed out several cities.

Everyone put down what they were doing and gathered around Su Ze to listen to his lecture.

These days, everyone is used to Su Ze giving lectures suddenly, and although these knowledge are not tested in the imperial examination, everyone doesn't want to miss it at all. In Chen Chaoyuan's words, these are the principles that are "close to the Tao", which is what Su Ze said. A great truth that can only be comprehended by scholars who have read poetry and books.

"In ancient times, people used flooded rivers to plant crops before settling down from fishing and hunting. Only with farming did they have language and writing, and only then did they have the fire of civilization."

"With a city, it is natural to prevent the river from flooding. The ancestors learned to block the river and build dams to keep the river water in the river channel. But why are the big rivers flooding more and more, and there are more and more records of floods?"

"My Ming Dynasty was able to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty because of the severe floods in the Yuan Dynasty. Prime Minister Tuotuo of the Yuan Dynasty recruited people from all over the world to build the Yellow River."

Everyone nodded. Over the years, great rivers have often flooded, especially the Yellow River almost every two or three years, and news of floods can be heard every year.

Su Ze drew a few more circles on the ground and said:

"There are Yunmengze and Daze in the history books. The reason why these dazes disappeared is that the ancestors surrounded the river to open up fields. Originally, these dazes used to store river water and act as reservoirs during flooding."

"The current situation is that the frequency of river governance is increasing, but the number of floods is increasing. The root cause is that river embankments are built nowadays. This is drinking poison to quench thirst. The higher the river embankment, the flood will break the embankment. In the end, the greater the damage, the embankments of some cities near the big river surpassed the city walls, and the big river has become a hanging river. Once the embankment bursts, a city will be destroyed."

Everyone was shocked, but considering the floods in Fujian these years, it seems that what Su Ze said makes sense.

Han Li asked: "Brother Ru Lin, is there a way to cure the flood?"

Su Ze shook his head and said, "Perhaps there was a solution in the early years of the Kingdom, but it is too difficult to cure floods in this world."

Everyone quickly understood what Su Ze meant. The imperial court's corvee is already so heavy, let alone recruiting a large number of people to control the flood.

The Great Yuan died because of the exhaustion of people's power in governing the Yellow River. This lesson is vaguely understood by scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

Last year, in the snowstorm in the west of Beijing, the imperial court could not send any manpower to provide relief, so they could only keep the victims out of the capital, let alone control the river.

Han Li asked again: "But the ancestors opened up Daze to fill their stomachs."

Su Ze nodded and said, "That's natural. The ancient swamp is now full of fertile land, but the ancients had the swamp to open up wasteland. Now our mountainous areas in Fujian have almost been reclaimed. What will future generations want to reclaim?"

This sentence stopped everyone.

Su Ze continued: "At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, when the government soldiers granted land, one hectare per capita, 80 mu was the mouth share, and 20 mu was the permanent occupation. At that time, all adult males were granted the land."

Everyone took a deep breath, now in Nanping County, anyone with one hectare of land at home is considered a wealthy landlord, while ordinary self-cultivators often only have a few mu of land.

The fields in Fujian are tense, and they are diligently cultivated every year. After paying the land tax and land rent, they can’t have enough to eat.

The problem of population growth and acres of land was put before everyone. Li Qiyuan added:

"The land that can be reclaimed in Nanping is almost open. Otherwise, the big families like the Huang family would not come to Wufeng Mountain to open up wasteland. However, the population has continued to increase since the early years of the Kingdom. There are more people but the same fields. There are more people with less land. The reason for the constant famine."

Su Ze nodded approvingly. When all this was in front of everyone, a heavy feeling weighed on everyone's hearts.

Han Li asked: "Brother Ru Lin, is there a way to break the situation?"

Everyone looked at Su Ze, and Su Ze pointed to the sea and said, "Zhengtuo."

"Gento?"

Su Ze drew the map again on the ground and said:

"This is Penghu, and this is Fujian. Penghu is a quarter the size of Fujian. Although there are mountains in the middle of Penghu, the land along the coast can be cultivated."

When Su Ze drew the map, everyone realized that Penghu was so big.

Su Ze then went down and drew another big island: "This is Qiongzhou, the hometown of Hai Jiaoyu. Qiongzhou is bigger than Penghu, but its population is less than that of Yanping Prefecture."

Su Ze went on to draw: "Ryukyu, Luzon, Annan, Champa, Java, Siam, since the early years of the Kingdom, there have been many immigrants from Fujian and Guangxi, and the businessmen of Folangji said that there are many people who manage Fujian in Luzon. People with a local accent."

Everyone is from Fujian. It is no secret that Fujianese immigrated to Nanyang. The reason why these people left their hometowns is also very simple, that is, there is no land for farming in their hometowns.

But banning the sea is a national policy, and everyone fell silent.

Chen Chaoyuan sighed and said, "I'm not qualified enough to study. I just hope that Rulin can pass the imperial examination for high school. If he can become a cabinet minister in the future, it would be great if the imperial court can lift the sea ban."

Su Ze didn't take it seriously, the sea ban not only prohibited ocean trade, but also prohibited overseas exploration.

Even if the Longqing switch was made, it only allowed merchant ship trade, and the Ming Dynasty still did not colonize and explore abroad.

For a land power like Ming Dynasty, stability overwhelms everything, and overseas territories are an unstable factor that is out of the control of the empire.

Su Ze didn't continue to discuss this topic. All he needed was to sow a seed in everyone's hearts, and the seed would naturally take root in the future.

[Public lectures, lecture skill experience +20, Lv3, 267/300]

Just after Su Ze finished his lecture, Eunuch Tao walked in with a smile on his face.

"Su Xianggong! Sue it!"

Eunuch Tao said excitedly:

"The news in Nanping City is that the Huang family has really started a lawsuit with several other big families. Zhang Sijing, the governor of the government government, is partial to the Huang family and has awarded some land to the Huang family. The other families have brought the lawsuit to the court. Commissioner, according to the Procuratorate Commissioner, the case has been sent to Tingzhou Prefecture for retrial!"

Su Ze showed a smile on his face. When Eunuch Tao offered three times the price to buy the land, many big households with land on the mountain were already preparing to withdraw.

But they didn't expect that the Huang family ran faster.

Zhang Sijing quickly made judgments on several disputed cases, awarded those disputed lands to the Huang family, and wanted to quit the vortex quickly.

But the other big households quit after seeing it. Now the Huang family has no loss, but their loss is huge!

The original land registration was insufficient, and the land was awarded to the Huang family. Everyone felt that the Huang family had been cheated.

Naturally, everyone couldn't swallow this breath, so they simply sued the Fuzhou government with another lawsuit.

Su Ze asked suspiciously: "Why does the Procuratorate not try it himself, but send it to Tingzhou Prefecture for retrial?"

Wang Xun's family is a litigator, and he said: "According to the inspector's division directly overturning Zhang Tui's judgment, it would be tantamount to tearing apart the face, and if the appeal cases in various places were tried in person by the inspectors, they would be too busy all year round. Send it to Linfu for retrial, because Linfu and the local government have little involvement, as long as there is no problem in the trial, the Procuratorate will take the result of the retrial as the standard."

Su Ze said with a smile: "So that means the lawsuit really started?"

Eunuch Tao smiled and said, "It's really fighting!"

Sure enough, it was originally a lawsuit in the county, but now it has gone to the province, and the cost is even higher.

The materials had to be sent to Tingzhou Mansion, and Tingzhou Mansion pushed the clerks and servants of the government office to come to Nanping to do business, and drinking and socializing were indispensable, which was another huge expense.

However, being involved in this case, several families have made real fire, and it is naturally impossible to stop. If they quit now, all the previous efforts will be in vain.

And Su Ze was not idle either. Under the leadership of Monk Liao Hui of Xichan Temple, Su Ze also established a hydraulic hammer workshop in Wufeng Mountain, and began to forge shovels and other equipment by himself.

By the end of August, finally some big households could no longer hold on.

Huang Shixing knelt in the family ancestral hall, looking at the family elders in the ancestral hall, Huang Shixing clenched his fists.

Although the head of the Huang family is Huang Shixing's biological father, but the elders in other houses of the Huang family exerted pressure, so it was inevitable to visit this ancestral hall.

An old man with white hair and beard is the oldest old man in the Huang family and Huang Shixing's uncle.

The old man patted the armrest of the chair and said, "What!? Official Zhang Tui wants to get back five hundred taels of silver? How can our Huang family get five hundred taels now!"

"Yes, yes, all the silver at home has been exchanged for old money, and I can't use it now!"

"He didn't join the gang voluntarily back then, why should he take out the money now? The money from our house is still in it!"

"If you want to take this money, it will be paid by the big house!"

The old man did not stop everyone from talking, but looked at Huang Shixing's father who was the patriarch.

Huang's father didn't speak, but Huang Shixing said: "Uncles and elders, when the family made money together, you all rushed to give money to my father. Why do you want to take the money and leave when you lose money?"

Everyone glared again: "Bold! Talking to uncles and elders like that?"

"If you hadn't insisted on following the private casting, the family wouldn't be in this state. Now that the lawsuit is in this state, I don't know how much money I have to invest to get out!"

"enough!"

Father Huang, who had been silent for a long time, slapped the table.

"The property in Nanping City will be handed over to the second room for management, Shi Xing, you can concentrate on the lawsuit."

Huang's father relieved Huang Shixing of managing Nanping's property with one sentence, and the people in the second room immediately shut up.

"Litigation still depends on Zhang Tuiguan's activities. If he wants to get money, he will give him. The big house will collect the money himself."

This time the other group of people also shut up.

"If there is a way to sell the old money at home, even if it is melted into copper ingots, it must be sold."

While the Huang family was having a meeting, a big family had already come up to the mountain to contact Eunuch Tao.

Su Ze cured a Shemin with beriberi, and finally raised his medical skills to Lv5.