Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 550 High-end Players

However, Minister Zhang was not as petty as Hua Lei was when she was reclaiming the barren hills. He was afraid of affecting the nearby hills and forests, so he did not dare to burn the hills.

Minister Zhang asked all the pioneers to carry a bucket of water in their left hand and a tree branch in their right hand as a fire-fighting tool, and to surround a piece of land.

He stood in a corner and lit the kindling himself. A single spark can start a prairie fire. Hualei watched the fire grow bigger and bigger, and the smoke on the wasteland began to grow bigger and bigger, rising into the sky.

There is no such thing as prohibiting burning and polluting the air as in the past. When many people saw the fire, they were still secretly hoping that they would have enough food in the future.

After the fire was extinguished, the fields were roughly divided up, and then a reclamation team was assigned to take charge of a piece of land and began the next work.

First, a few people checked the fire again, and then used sickles to cut the weeds that had not been completely burned. The people behind them lined up and started to turn the soil.

While turning the soil, they began to dig ditches. They asked the staff from the Water Bureau to help check the general terrain, and the staff from the Agriculture Bureau to help confirm the distance and depth of the ditches. The land reclamation work began in full swing.

After the fields have been plowed and ditches have been dug, they are dried in good weather and the second round of deep plowing begins. Oxen are used for deep plowing and a team can only get three to four oxen.

If there were not enough oxen, people would go down and pull the plow themselves. After all, there were too few oxen, and these oxen were borrowed from the nearby provincial capital.

By the time the soaked wheat seeds sprouted, a large area of ​​the field had been leveled. So the wheat seeds were planted, watered, and a series of things were carried out in an assembly line.

However, the waterwheel of the Ministry of Works' Construction Department has not been produced yet. The Ministry of Revenue has urged it several times, but it is still not ready. It is said that Lord Li, who was so angry, moved it to the back to make it.

Minister Zhang stood by the wheat field, watching the pioneers carrying buckets of water from the distant river to irrigate the wheat field. When he saw that they were unable to keep up with the speed, he frowned and turned back to the carriage.

Hua Lei followed behind Minister Zhang and looked at his frown, thinking that he was going to find Lord Li to argue.

I was still thinking, how can I persuade the two people? Unexpectedly, Minister Zhang did not go to see Lord Li at all, but went directly back to the temporary office of the county government.

It was just that during dinner, he exchanged a few words with Zhao, the head of the warehouse department of the Ministry of Revenue. Three days later, Yang, the head of the warehouse department of the Ministry of Industry, came to the warehouse department of the Ministry of Revenue to collect the next ten days of rice.

However, Chief Zhao from the Ministry of Revenue's Warehouse Department told him that there was temporarily no rice in the warehouse and it might take a few days before it was available again.

As for a few days later, Section Chief Zhao hesitated and said with embarrassment that the wheat was growing very slowly now because it was not watered in time. If it was watered in time, it might grow faster and rice would be available earlier.

After returning home, Section Chief Yang, who was puzzled, truthfully relayed what Section Chief Zhao of the Ministry of Revenue had said to Lord Li. Now it was Lord Li's turn to frown.

Three days later, the waterwheel from the Construction Department of the Ministry of Works was delivered to the wheat field and installed quickly. The wheat in the wheat field was also fully watered. Later, the rice in the Warehouse Department of the Ministry of Revenue also had rice.

Hua Lei was overjoyed and felt that her leader was truly formidable. It seemed that Lord Li could not gain any advantage in front of Minister Zhang.

However, things once again went beyond Hua Lei's expectations. Within two days, Lord Li turned the tables. It turned out that more than 2,000 prisoners from the nearby state capital had arrived outside the south gate of the Mobei town.

Because the prisoners left their original state capitals at different times, it was normal for them to arrive so late. Moreover, when they left the state capitals, their names, hometowns, number of people, etc. were checked.

So there was no need to register again in the county town, just one note, "On a certain day of a certain month, more than 2,000 prisoners arrived." So when the prisoners were still a mile away from the city gate, they were intercepted by Lord Li's staff.

After each person was given a wooden sign that indicated the Ministry of Works, they were all sent directly to the site where the provincial capital was being built to dig the foundation.

By the time Minister Zhang heard the news, it was already lunch time the next day. This time, Minister Zhang was the one who had a headache again.

After Lord Li had almost completely avenged his previous grudges, it was said that in the following few days, his health had already improved a lot and he would hum a song while walking every day.

Hualei followed Minister Zhang every day and really learned a lot. Alas, there is really no one who saves money in the officialdom.

They are all very smart. When I heard my father-in-law say that Minister Zhang was a top scholar, I admired him sincerely.

However, when he talked about this with Rong Jin last night, Rong Jin also told him that this Lord Li was also a top scholar, and was the top scholar in the imperial examinations two years before Minister Zhang.

Well, now I am just a kindergarten player. Anyone else is a high-end player that I need to look up to. In the following days, Hualei worked even harder.

Of course, in order to benefit herself, she would carefully record these bloodless examples in the officialdom every night after returning home, and read them over and over again to learn from them.

Pei Rongyu and his wife and Qian's brother and sister-in-law finally arrived at the small town of Mobei in the afternoon of the last day stipulated by the court. At this time, almost all the officials and staff of Shangjing City had already arrived in the small town of Mobei.

Most of the places to live have been picked out. Not to mention the one- or two-story houses on East Street and West Street, even the slums on South Street have no room for people.

The only ones left seemed to be on North Street, where there were a few dilapidated single rooms. The kitchen was shared, and the toilet was a few hundred meters away.

When they saw the room that might be leaking, Qian and her sister-in-law felt dizzy. Not only was this place not as good as the yard at home, even their own maids would not live in such a room.

Looking at the unkempt crowd around me, the noisy noises, and the shabby accommodation, I wonder if they are really uninhabitable for a single day?

So, they thought of Rong Jin and Hua Lei, and asked the yamen runner who led the way. Coincidentally, this yamen runner was the one who showed Rong Jin and Hua Lei the residence.

After all, in the small town of Mobei, the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion is still very influential. In addition, Hua Lei came at the right time and got several official residences in good locations.

She was so happy that she rewarded the yamen runner with a silver ingot of two taels, so the yamen runner was also impressed. After all, she had been in office for so long, and Hualei was the only official's wife who rewarded her so much.

So, Rong Jin and Hua Lei, who had just returned from their shift, saw Pei Rongyu and his wife and the second young master Qian and his wife standing in their own yard.