Chen Baisong took Ni Wenjun away, pretending to go to Chen Youliang, killing him unexpectedly.
Li Congrong would lead people to follow him, and he would support him when things went bad.
Lin Yuan was in Hanyang, handling Hanyang's government affairs, and waiting for news from Anfeng.
Zhu Yuanzhang stayed in Hanyang City, and they had not taken Hanyang for a few months. If there was no strong army to guard it, no one could say whether anyone would be bold.
Lin Yuan asked people to divide all the markets in Hanyang, just like Gaoyou, to build various factories so that poor people can find jobs.
As for those high-ranking officials and households in Hanyang, Lin Yuan asked Yang Shaowei to deal with them.
He can now spare his hands and focus on people's livelihood.
Hanyang's economy is not bad. Although the Chaotang is smoky, the market is still there. The people are not doing well.
But in places other than Hanyang, the counties, districts, villages and towns are different. The emperor is far away from the sky, and the local officials are the emperors of the earth.
What Yu Ming was going to move was the surrounding villages and towns. If the villages and towns were changed, it would gradually affect the city.
Lijia Village is located at the foot of the mountain. People here rely on farming and hunting to make a living, but the land here is not fertile. In the past, when the imperial court was in charge, they cultivated the land and hunted by themselves, but they could not make a living at all. After giving birth to a child, there are only one or two left to raise.
And other children are sold, sold, and the family can have the money to eat a few meals, and the child will have a chance to live.
Li Er is an ordinary villager in Lijia Village. His family has no land. He was a hunter a few generations ago, and now he is still a hunter, but after each generation, the prey on the mountain has gradually decreased. go.
Now they have changed people again. I heard that it is Nan Wang. They have never been out of this small mountain village in their lives. Naturally, they do not know who Nan Wang is and what deeds have been done.
The days don't seem to have changed.
It doesn't matter if the person above the head is changed or not.
"Li Er, someone is coming from above." The villager ran to his door panting, "Let's all go over, not one of us is missing. Hurry up to your house, don't let people wait."
When Li Er rushed there, he brought his family with him, his parents, his daughter-in-law, and three children.
Everyone has no idea what happened or what they did in the past.
His daughter-in-law walked behind him and asked cautiously, "Head of the house, nothing will happen, right?"
Li Er didn't know either, but he still comforted and said, "It should be fine, don't be afraid, if there is anything, I will protect you to run."
The daughter-in-law stopped talking.
But they all knew in their hearts that if something really happened, they couldn't run away, but they didn't dare not to go, so they walked to the head of the village so frightened.
They saw a group of soldiers from a distance, about a dozen or so, each with a weapon, looking extremely vicious, like a bandit, and many of them had scars on their faces, which was extremely hideous.
The daughter-in-law held on to his clothes, trembling all over.
Li Er gritted his teeth and continued to walk with his family.
The common people are simple, they can only passively accept most of the time, but cannot choose independently.
There are not many prime-age men in Lijia Village anymore, most of them have been recruited from the army. There is only one prime-age man in the family. There are more women than men, and there are many old, weak, sick and disabled. , can only pass honestly.
Li Er walked into the crowd, and the family leaned closely together, as if trying to draw strength from each other.
"Everyone's here." Village Zheng said to the leading soldier, he bent down, lowered his head, and squeezed a pleasing smile on his face full of ravines.
The soldier said: "Since everyone is down, then I will say it."
"Now, you are all under the control of Nan Bodhisattva. In the future, you will also be the subjects of Nan Bodhisattva."
"We came here this time, not for conscription, but if you want to join the army, you can come to me directly."
When the soldier spoke, no one dared to interrupt, and the villagers looked up at him with blank faces.
The soldier continued: "Nan Bodhisattva said, which villages will do what in the future, there are requirements, you need to raise chickens in this village, we will build the sheds, you don't need to spend money on chickens, after raising them, we will Come here and take away the chickens at the price."
"Each village should have a chicken veteran." The soldier winked, and a middle-aged man who looked like a farmer waved to them quickly and smiled awkwardly.
"Okay, that's all, you can do your own thing." The soldier said, "Ask me if you don't understand anything."
When the crowd dissipated, Li Ercai took his family home again, and the whole family sat around the table.
The daughter-in-law couldn't help but ask, "Raise chickens? How many chickens?"
"Can I eat chicken?" The child was young, and when he heard chicken, he thought of meat. "Are there eggs?"
The daughter-in-law also asked, "Are we just raising chickens for the elders above?"
Li Er was sitting beside him, his hands didn't stop, and he was weaving rattan baskets. After hearing this, he raised his head, but also looked confused: "Just now, the soldier said that they built the shed, and they don't need money for chickens, and he said that when the time came Only take away the chickens that are paid off."
The daughter-in-law asked cautiously: "Is that...the chickens are raised, how many can we divide?"
Li Er was not sure: "... Probably?"
Soon, the soldiers began to build sheds. They were strong and quick. The wood they used to build the sheds was all cut from the mountains by themselves, which was faster than the carpenters. The soldier's temper was not too big, so he gathered up his courage and asked, "Master Bing, what are you doing?"
The soldier replied to him: "Finish all the wood according to the drawings, and then the assembly will be completed, which is much more convenient."
The village is also doing carpentry work, watching and watching, and doing it together himself. Although he can't read the words, he can still understand the pictures. The more he looks, the more he is reluctant to put the paper down.
But I didn't dare to ask if I could take the blueprint back.
At first, the villagers did not dare to approach, but only dared to watch from a distance. Later, they found that the soldiers were very busy every day and had no time to take care of them. The shed was built quickly and large, and they were busy with their own work. They will go over and watch the chicken shed from scratch, and they also seem to have a strange sense of participation.
The shed is simple after all, unlike a modern chicken farm.
The chicken breeder who was brought to the village said to the villagers, "You still have to be careful about raising chickens. How good chickens are, there are eggs and meat. I have been raising chickens for more than ten years, and these chickens are just like people. If you are good to it, it will be good to you."
When the greenhouse was built and the chickens were delivered, the villagers suddenly realized that the soldier was leaving.
But the soldiers still warned them before leaving: "We will come every month, if you don't raise well, we will take the chickens back."
"Also, if something happens to Master Zhao, I will ask you to settle the account."
Master Zhao is a professional who was sent to raise chickens in the villagers' greenhouses. He raised chickens very well in Gaoyou before.
He was sent to provide technical assistance this time. If he returns to Gaoyou later, his professional title will be improved, he will be assigned to a bigger house, and his monthly salary will be adjusted upwards. Otherwise, he will not be recruited from Gaoyou. to this poor and backward place.
Li Er is a person with a lively mind. Seeing that he can't find any prey in the hunt, he always starts to gather next to Master Zhao.
He doesn't think that raising chickens and ducks is a woman's job, and the most important thing is to find a new job as soon as possible.
And Master Zhao relies on this to eat, so he naturally has to ask more.
"A few years ago, when Nan Bodhisattva was not in trouble, Gaoyou was not like today." Master Zhao was eating jerky and gave Li Er a piece. Now Li Er talks to him every day, he has to be nice to others. , "At that time, I lived on two acres of land and had to pay taxes, but I was not the worst, the worst was the salt man, who could only transport salt. If the people above didn't give money, they would have no food. Eat, do more work and not necessarily take more.”
"I raised chickens at that time, and I grew up with delicious meat. If I can lay an egg a day, it will be a good day." Master Zhao laughed, "It's not easy to raise chickens, so I bought the big ones at the beginning. , the big ones are easy to raise, and later on, I started raising chickens."
When Master Zhao talked about the past, his eyes wandered a little: "Afterwards, the little official in charge of our area, seeing that my chickens are well raised, let me raise them well, but they will give him one chicken and seven eggs every seven days."
Master Zhao: "I didn't want to raise chickens anymore, but he still came to me to get them..."
Li Er did not speak.
Master Zhao: "I can only spend money to buy it. I didn't have a lot of money at first. The days were getting more and more difficult, and my mother-in-law ran away."
"I don't know where she ran to now, if she is still alive."
Master Zhao wiped his face: "Fortunately, I still have a daughter. With her here, I can survive."
"After Nan Bodhisattva came, he started to build a factory to raise chickens, ducks and pigs." Master Zhao's face showed a smile, "So many chickens! All of them are supported! I can't count the eggs every day. !"
Master Zhao asked Li Er, "When was the last time you had chicken?"
Li Er was stunned for a while. The last time he hit a pheasant on the mountain, it was all last year: "Last year."
Master Zhao whispered: "When I was in Gaoyou, I could eat two eggs every day, and I had meat every day, because I did a good job. In addition to the monthly money, I could bring back a chicken every month, and the rooster was still an old hen. It's up to me to choose, I like to choose small roosters, and my daughter likes to eat them."
Li Er listened, and there was a mouthful of saliva in his mouth, and he wanted to eat meat.
After the prey on the mountain was reduced, he hadn't eaten meat for a long time.
He would rather give it to the villagers to get more food than dare to eat it.
Master Zhao patted Li Er on the shoulder: "You are lucky! Nan Bodhisattva is here, you can live a good life."
Li Er stared blankly at Master Zhao. He didn't know if Nan Bodhisattva was a Bodhisattva, but as long as they were not hungry, he was a true Bodhisattva.