Chapter 363 – Going to the Provincial City with Second Brother

The former is Wei Ruo’s earliest suggestion to Mrs. Yuan, so that the whole Taizhou Prefecture can preserve this year’s existing agricultural production by switching to late rice seeds and sweet potatoes; the latter is Wei Ruo’s personal leadership of the land reclamation activities in order to resettle the victims of the disaster and expand the farmland.

Now both are making good progress, giving hope to the whole of Taizhou Province.

Saying this, Mrs. Yuan couldn’t help but lament, “Ruo’er, all of this is due to you, if there is a good grain harvest in Taizhou Prefecture this year, you will be the life-saver of countless farmers and disaster victims in Taizhou Prefecture!”

Wei Ruo said, “Thank you, ma’am, for praising me, but it’s just that we’d better talk about this later, when the grain is in the barn, we’ll celebrate happily.”

The situation is not yet determined, Wei Ruo is afraid to be happy too early.

“Well well well, let’s not talk about this first.” Mrs. Yuan busily said, she also couldn’t help but talk to Wei Ruo about it because she was happy, but she was also really afraid that something would go wrong at the last minute.

Immediately afterward, Mrs. Yuan asked Wei Ruo, “Right Ruo’er, I heard Sister Qin say that you want to dam the river? You even drew the relevant drawings?”

“Well, I do have this idea. The annual precipitation of Taizhou Prefecture is not quite a lot, but it’s not even, the rainfall is abundant during the plum rainy season, but there will be a period of dry weather after summer, which is very unfavorable for the growth of rice. This summer is fine, if it catches up with the situation like the previous two years, even if more wasteland is reclaimed, the grain won’t grow well without water to irrigate it.” Wei Ruo explained.

“Yeah, that’s how it works. It’s just that this building a reservoir isn’t like anything else.” Mrs. Yuan felt that Wei Ruo had a very reasonable point.

Wei Ruo knew what Mrs. Yuan meant by that, “Building a reservoir not only requires a lot of manpower and material resources, but also takes an exceptionally long time, even if a small reservoir is dug out, it will take at least three to five years. If a large reservoir is built, it will take ten or twenty years before it can be completed.”

“That’s right, that’s the biggest problem of building a reservoir, although the merit is in the present time and the benefit is in the thousand years, but in those years of construction, it’s undoubtedly a labor of love and injury to the people.” Mrs. Yuan said.

Wei Ruo analyzed, “If it’s a situation like this year, it’s really not suitable, we don’t have more food to feed people to build reservoirs; but if there are enough granaries and the victims keep pouring in, I think that arranging for a project like building a reservoir isn’t a bad way to settle the victims and smooth out the people’s minds.”

“Ruo’er has a point.” Mrs. Yuan recognized this statement.

Wei Ruo continued to analyze: “Open land is indeed a more direct solution to the food problem, but there are some risks, relying on increasing the area of cultivation, increasing soil fertility, as well as crop varieties of their own excellence, the ability to withstand natural disasters is still too weak, and more dimensions to increase the rate of tolerance in order to better ensure the production of food.”

“In that case, in Ruo’er’s opinion, or do you intend to put the construction of the reservoir on the agenda?” Mrs. Yuan asked.

“If this year’s grain harvest is plentiful and the granaries are full, while the victims from other regions continue to increase and keep pouring into the Taizhou Prefecture, then arranging for the extra victims to carry out the construction of reservoirs is not a bad idea.” Wei Ruo explained.

Mrs. Yuan thought seriously before saying, “I see, and we will discuss this matter again at the end of this year, depending on the situation in all aspects.”

Then Mrs. Yuan shook Wei Ruo’s hand and said, “You’re a blessed child, your father is expected to be promoted to another level this time, and your Wei family’s fortune will get better and better.”

Wei Ruo smiled, this is not good to take, her father was promoted to a good or bad thing in terms of her is really hard to say.

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He stayed in the Yuan Mansion until the evening, solving all the problems that had accumulated during this period of time, and at the same time arranging for the people to open up the land for the next period of time.

After finishing, Wei Ruo returned to the school captain’s residence to prepare for tomorrow’s departure to the provincial capital.

Wei Ruo intends to make a trip to the provincial capital on the pretext of delivering supplies to Wei Yichen, but in reality, she is going there to look for a new store.

Tomorrow’s companions will also include Wei Jin Yi and Xiao Bei, and when Wei Jin Yi said he wanted to go with him, Wei Ruo readily agreed.

This way Wei Ruo out of the house a little more justified, and security is more secure.

Yun didn’t ask much about Wei Ruo wanting to go to the provincial city with Wei Jin also.

She’d been mentally exhausted lately, the succession of events had left her worn out and her whole body sickly.

How is the eldest daughter, how is the commoner son, she really doesn’t want to care more and ask more questions nowadays, and she can’t manage it anyway.

But the next morning before Wei Ruo left the door, he still went to say goodbye to Yun as a rule.

Yun just got up and leaned on the couch and said, “If your big brother has any shortages, you can make it up to him first, and I’ll make up the silver to you later when the house is generous.”

Although Yun didn’t know when the mansion would be generous.

“Got it.” Wei Ruo didn’t say anything, after all, a promise is a promise, whether or not to do it is another matter.

And then Wei Ruo set off with Wei Jin Yi and the others.

Wei Ruo and Xiu Mei rode in a carriage, Xiao Bei drove the carriage in front, and Wei Jin also rode a horse.

After leaving the city gates, Wei Jin also changed his appearance, becoming “Wang Sumire”.

Wei Ruo’s disguise was because she was a woman and didn’t want her family to know what she was doing outside, while Wei Jin was also a man and supposedly didn’t have as much constraints as Wei Ruo, but he seemed to be just as reluctant as Wei Ruo was to have people recognize him.

Although Wei Ruo had doubts about this, he didn’t pursue it.

It was enough for her to know that her second brother was trustworthy.

The road from the capital city to the provincial capital are official road, relatively good, expedited rush to a day, the general travelers take the carriage two days will also arrive.

But Wei Ruo this trip is not in a hurry, the four of them walked along the way, encountered good mountains and good water and good scenery, then stopped to view some.

Sometimes they also pick mushrooms, wild vegetables, fishing and catching shrimps and crabs, and resting their feet at night is also random, will not specially rush to the inn to stay.

The first night the four stayed in a wild field not far from the official road.

Nowadays, in this weather, sleeping in the open doesn’t need to worry about catching a cold, not to mention that Wei Ruo also pulled out a camping tent from the carriage.

The more troublesome thing in this season is mosquitoes and insects, and this problem is no longer a problem when it comes to Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo had prepared ointments and incense that could repel mosquitoes and insects, ensuring that snakes, rats, insects and ants wouldn’t even get close to a few of them.

Wei Ruo set up a pot and cooked mushroom broth, and the few of them had a nice full meal under the starry sky.

And then Wei Ruo and Wei Jin also sat on the grass and chatted for half the night before returning to rest inside the carriage and the tent respectively.

The next few days followed at a similar pace, as if the four were on an outing rather than a rush.

So by the time Wei Ruo and the others arrived at Lin’an Province, it was already dusk on the fourth day.

Since she had already been here once with Yun last time, Wei Ruo made light work of finding an inn to stay at.