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Everyone stepped forward to write their names on the scrolls and press their fingerprints, indicating that they would advance and retreat with Da Zhou.
Whoever said that businessmen are after profit, they are also patriotic.
"Thank you all, I am here to thank you for your support on behalf of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Qu Jingning looked at everyone gratefully.
"Your highnesses said that as long as this matter is done, after your highness returns to Chang'an, you will report to the emperor and let the merchants in our chamber of commerce exempt 30% of the tax as a reward."
Qu Jingning relayed Zhou Heng's words to everyone.
Zhou Heng also knows that doing business is not easy, so Zhou Heng will not let everyone help for nothing. After the matter is over, Zhou Heng will still fight for everyone's benefits.
There is no such thing as selfless dedication and not expecting anything in return, it's just that everyone's plans are different.
However, there are different phenomena in Chang'an.
On the one hand, hundreds of officials congratulated and began to curry favor with the second prince, Zhou Heng. On the other side, an alliance of hundreds of merchants prepared to boycott Southern Chu and Southern Tang
the other side.
Zhou Heng continued on his way with Li Xingba and five others.
"In front of His Highness is Xianning City!"
"Xianning?" Zhou Heng looked into the distance. Before he left Chang'an, he had heard that Xianning was the most arid place in the southeast region. "Before I left Chang'an, I heard that the drought near Xianning was the worst." Zhou Heng Said slowly.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the poor are still the common people.
"There are many tributaries of rivers and lakes in Xianning. Logically, how could there be a drought due to abundant water sources?" Li Xingba didn't understand. Although he had never been to Xianning, Li Xingba had also heard that Xianning is a place with abundant water sources.
"Brother Xingba was joking!"
Pang Zhong said, what does this drought have to do with the tributaries of the river.
"How can you be joking? They can use water from rivers to irrigate fertile fields. There is so much water, there is no need to worry." Li Xingba said.
That's how Li Xingba felt, relying on the water of rivers, you can still dry out the land.
"You don't live here, you don't understand, but we have abundant water sources here, but the fields are all in high places. If you open up wasteland and farm in low places, as long as the river floods, the good fields will be flooded, so everyone chooses a higher place to open up wasteland. land, so the river cannot irrigate the fields."
Zhen Feng explained the situation to Li Xingba, not because they didn't want to use it, but because they didn't know how to use it.
Water flows to low places, who can make it go to high places?
"Use a bucket!" Li Xingba said a little unconvinced, they usually use buckets for farming.
"Buckets?"
Mu Guang and the others froze for a moment. How long would it be? If one side is well watered, the other side will probably be dry. Using a bucket is a drop in the bucket in the face of drought.
"With a bucket, it doesn't work at all."
Pang Zhong said that someone tried it, but it didn't help, and you can't carry a bucket every day.
"Waterwheel!"
Zhou Heng said a word suddenly.
"Your Highness, is there any difference between your idea and the bucket that Xingba said?" Tian Zhang asked in surprise, not because he disagreed with Zhou Heng's proposal, but because the waterwheel was just a little bigger than the bucket.
Moreover, those places are all highlands, and it may be difficult to go up after being filled with water. Even if they go up, how much drought can be solved by a water truck.
"The waterwheel I am talking about is not the waterwheel you are talking about."
Zhou Heng explained that Tian Zhang and others thought that the waterwheel they mentioned was a waterwheel that pulled water, while Zhou Heng was talking about a waterwheel used for farmland irrigation, which can bring water from rivers to farmland.
"What kind of waterwheel is that?"
Several people stared at Zhou Heng in surprise.
"Let's talk about it after we go to Xianning City!"
Zhou Heng thought for a while without further explanation, and brought five people to Xianning City.
Enter Xianning City.
Sure enough, due to the natural drought, Xianning City does not seem to be so prosperous, and many shops on the street have chosen to close their doors.
Doing business pays attention to making money. Since you are not making money, there is no need to continue to open it.
There are still many people who may have left Xianning City and started to make a living elsewhere.
"Who is it?" Zhou Heng came outside the yamen, and the officers and soldiers guarding the yamen immediately stopped Zhou Heng, "The yamen is an important place, if you have nothing to do, leave quickly."
The officers and soldiers reminded Zhou Heng.
Zhou HengTake out the token, "Let your lords come out to see me!" Zhou Heng ordered the officers and soldiers in front of him to let the magistrate of Xianning City come out to see him.
"Prince?"
Seeing the Prince's order, the officers and soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then knelt down on the ground, "I didn't know His Royal Highness was coming, please forgive me for any offense."
"Get up!"
Zhou Heng didn't mean to blame, he also followed orders.
"Your Highness, our adults are not in the yamen, so I will find you the younger one!" The officers and soldiers walked up to Zhou Heng and said with apologetic expressions.
"Where did you go?"
Zhou Hengxin said that if he was not in the yamen at this time, where else could he go? Could it be that there was something shameful about it.
"My lord has gone to the countryside!"
The officers and soldiers replied.
"Going to the countryside?" Zhou Heng was stunned, and Li Xingba and the others were also surprised. They didn't expect that the county magistrate was not in the yamen and went to the countryside. "What did you go to?" Zhou Heng continued to ask.
"Drought strikes Xianning City, my lord went to the countryside to observe the people's conditions."
The officers and soldiers replied.
"I didn't expect that the magistrate of Xianning City turned out to be a good official!" Pang Zhong said with some admiration after hearing this. Now there are not many officials who can go to the countryside to observe the people's conditions.
"Small one, send someone to notify."
"No need, let's go there, you can find someone who knows the way to take us there." Zhou Heng waved his hand, since he went to the countryside to understand the people's feelings and care for the people, he, the prince, can't be too ostentatious and call him back.
"Why is this so embarrassing?"
The officers and soldiers said with a little embarrassment, that would make His Royal Highness the Crown Prince look for it in person, and felt that it was better to send someone to call their lord back.
"It's nothing to be embarrassed about. Since your lord has gone to the countryside to observe the people's conditions, I will follow suit once, and I will go down too." Zhou Heng didn't continue arguing, and immediately ordered himself to be taken there.
"Your Highness is wise!"
The officers and soldiers in front of Zhou Heng said with a smile.
"What's your name?" Several people left the yamen, Zhou Heng asked smoothly, he couldn't call you all the time.
"The villain's surname is Zhao, and he is the fourth eldest at home, so everyone calls me Zhao Si!" Zhao Si didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately answered Zhou Heng's question.
"Zhao Si, Zhao Si? Then do you have a friend named Liu Neng?" Zhou Heng thought of Country Love, this name is really the name of a god.
"No." Zhao Si didn't understand what Zhou Heng meant.
"If you don't have it, you don't have it." Zhou Heng was just joking.
Zhao Si took Zhou Heng and others from Xianning City all the way to the north, walked for half a day, and arrived at the destination when the sky gradually darkened.
"In front of His Highness is the place where our adults are investigating!" Zhao Si pointed to a village in front of him and said. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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