The Zhuangzi next door to Huangzhuang is not big, covering an area of about 600 mu. It originally belonged to an idle clan, but somehow it was tricked by the king of Yangjun. Most fields have already been planted with crops such as soybeans and sorghum, and some fields are still vacant, waiting to be planted. It seems that this idle clan doesn't pay much attention to Zhuangzi, and Zhuangzi is very lazy from the head of the village to the tenants. If you don't cultivate, you will miss the farming season!
In fact, it is only mid-June now, and if we cooperate with Lingshi water, we should be able to produce a crop of watermelons in September. At that time, the melons on the market were just off the market and ready to be harvested.
Yang Junwang's Zhuangzi has changed managers and recruited a new batch of tenant farmers. The king of Yangjun has ordered that all the people in Zhuangzi should obey Lord Yu's orders. Therefore, Yu Xiaocao had no pressure to wake up people.
She first asked the sharecroppers to reclaim a piece of land to grow watermelon and gourd seedlings. The well on the ground has been impregnated with the aura of the small butian stone. Not only is it used for irrigation of melon seedlings, Xiaocao also allows the tenant farmers to water all the crops on the farm. Recently, the climate in Beijing is relatively dry, and it hasn't rained for several days. Her order was also understood by the tenant farmers.
In the following days, Yu Xiaocao ran more frequently in Huangzhuang. Mrs. Fang complained more than once that the emperor treated a twelve-year-old girl as an adult man. Only Yu Xiaocao knew that what she valued was not the corn in Huangzhuang, but the fruit trees on the mountain and the watermelons in Wangzhuangzi in Yangjun.
After a precious rain, Yu Xiaocao came to Huangzhuang again in the slightly humid morning breeze. As usual, Steward Wang took the staff on the farm and reported to her the growth of the corn in detail, and showed her the records of the household secretary.
After flipping through it briefly, she said disinterestedly: "These are not much different from the materials I have compiled before. No matter how detailed the data is, it is better to go to the field to get more intuitive."
After all, she led a group of reluctant managers and officials to the middle of the experimental field under the sun. With the cheating tool of Xiaotianshi, it is difficult for the corn to grow well!
"Miss Yu, all the fruit trees on the mountain have survived. Except for a few who are not very energetic, most of them can't be seen as newly transplanted." Although the fruit trees on the mountain are Yu Xiaocao's private property, Manager Wang still helps out by the way. Look after. This love, Yu Xiaocao took it. In the future, when the orchard grows stronger, canning workshops and candied fruit workshops will be established, and they just need to share some shares.
However, Wang Guanshi said that some fruit trees did not grow well? can't you? Yu Xiaocao walked towards Zhuangzi's back mountain with unhurried steps. When she came to the fruit tree that Wang Guanshi said was "not very energetic", she couldn't help frowning. This fruit sapling has been passive!
As the saying goes: move a tree to death, move a person to live. The most taboo thing about such precious tree species as fruit trees is frequent transplantation. If it wasn't for the spirit stone water in hand, Xiaocao couldn't guarantee that it would be able to move the fruit tree alive at this time of year. Someone actually moved her fruit tree when she was not around. It seems that those people finally couldn't hold back and made moves!
"Wang Guanshi, in our Huangzhuang, outsiders are generally not allowed to come in and out, right?" When Yu Xiaocao bent down to loosen the soil for those fruit trees that were not very energetic, she quietly asked the little butian stone to release the spiritual power on the roots of the fruit trees . Xiao Butianshi angrily pointed out in her mind that all the fruit trees had been touched, and if it wasn't for its spiritual support, these trees would have been dry long ago.
Steward Wang was startled. Could it be that the problems with these fruit trees were man-made? He hastened to solemnly promise: "Miss Yu, the Emperor attaches great importance to this Huangzhuang experimental field, and even the tenants are carefully selected. Since the introduction of high-yield corn, the Emperor has also sent additional Habayashi Guards to patrol Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to enter outsiders!"
"Then it means that they are the internal personnel of our Zhuangzi?" Yu Xiaocao looked at the personnel behind Wang Guanshi with lightning-like eyes, and said with a sneer.
Someone immediately said unconvinced: "This season is not the season for transplanting fruit trees. Most of them survived, and it is not unusual for one or two to die. Sir Yu, we are all sent by the emperor. You can't be suspected so plainly!"
The sneer at the corner of Yu Xiaocao's mouth deepened, and she said slowly, "Mr Leng, the internal personnel of Zhuangzi, don't just refer to you stewards, don't you have hundreds of tenants? If you jumped out so fiercely, you must have a guilty conscience!" "
"You... I, Leng Fang, have been in charge of Zhuangzi for the emperor since the reign of the Supreme Emperor. Now that I am old, I will be ridiculed by a little girl who has no hair! I can't bear this tone!" Fang looked to be in his forties or fifties, with gray hair and beard, and a plump face without many wrinkles. He didn't look like a man who had been stationed in Zhuangzi all year round, but rather a pampered old man.
The old god Yu Xiaocao raised his eyebrows on the ground, and said without any politeness to him: "You also know how old you are? You have worked hard and made great achievements, and it is time to retire! The next time I enter the palace Sometimes, I would mention in the Emperor's ear that it is really not suitable to work in the fields after the age of fifty..."
"You..." Leng Fang was so angry that he blushed and his neck was thick, but he dared not say anything more. He is now a big celebrity in front of the emperor, and he has the opportunity to enter the palace every month to meet the saint. What is he, but a small assistant in Huangzhuang. If the little girl really said something in front of the emperor, I'm afraid he won't want to stay in Huangzhuang!
Steward Leng softened, but Yu Xiaocao didn't intend to let it go: "Whether it's everyone here or the tenants in the village, we will never tolerate doing bad things behind the scenes! This time, it's the fruit trees I planted, which are Isn't it going to take the experimental field on Huangzhuang next time?"
"Master Yu, it's unfair for you to say that. Let's not talk about whether these fruit trees are caused by human beings. Let's talk about the experimental field. Once something goes wrong, we people can't escape. Who would do such a thing that hurts others and ourselves? What?" The person who spoke was a manager named Zhou Yang, who was young and always had a smile on his face. He was very popular with Zhuangzi.
Yu Xiaocao gave him a half-smile, looked at him with some meaning, and said, "I know, I'm young, and I'm a girl, and I'm in charge of Huangzhuang's affairs, which makes some people not convinced. If something happens to Huangzhuang, The first person to be held accountable by the emperor is naturally me, the agricultural officer. As for you, you can use "everything is under orders" to get rid of most of the mistakes. , can I still stay in this seat? Maybe someone is already planning how to get rid of or get rid of me as a stumbling block!"
"It's nonsense, do you have evidence? It's just your conjecture!" Leng Fang said angrily.
"Whether it is my speculation or not, some people know it! It seems that this official is still too kind. He thinks that everyone is an old man who has lived in Zhuangzi, and he has some feelings for this place. So the emperor said that I can appoint and dismiss Zhuangzi at any time." When I got on the staff, I was not willing to touch you people. But it turns out that I was wrong!"
Yu Xiaocao sighed, and said to Wang Guanshi: "Wang Guanshi, I will leave this matter to you! Please find this black apple within three days. Otherwise... I have to plan ahead and report to the emperor. Replace all the staff on Zhuangzi!"
When she said that the emperor had given her the right to appoint and dismiss the officials in the village, everyone panicked except for Wang. You know, the emperor attaches great importance to the Huangzhuang Experimental Field. If you want the horse to run, you have to let the horse eat enough grass, so the treatment at the Huangzhuang is much higher than that of other royal family Zhuangzi. A small steward in Huangzhuang is treated no worse than the chief eunuch in the palace. Not to mention, sometimes you can get some benefits from it.
No one wants to be pushed out of the position of steward and give up the generous salary. When Steward Wang was about to start investigating, many people had already called to confess to Steward Wang what they knew.
In fact, the matter of pulling up the back mountain fruit saplings was nothing more than Zhou Yang teaching Yu Xiaocao a lesson in private. Although Zhou Yangnian is not very old this time, he has a relatively high spirit, and he is able to get along in Huangzhuang like a duck to water with a bit of effort on weekdays. But after Yu Xiaocao parachuted into Zhuangzi, he had to obey her in everything. When I first arrived, I ordered the stewards in the village to work, and I still did manual work with those tenants.
In private, the stewards complained a lot, and they often got together to scold this little girl who didn't know what to do. When Yu Xiaocao mobilized the tenants in the village to plant fruit trees in the back hill, they all found out that the fruit tree belonged to that little girl.
Brazenly using the resources on Huangzhuang to benefit himself. Isn't this little girl too bold? While Zhou Yang was stunned, seeing the fruit trees growing well in the back mountain, he felt very upset, so he thought about setting a stumbling block for this girl, so that she would suffer a secret loss. One night, with a few confidantes, he pulled up the fruit tree that had been planted, and planted it back again.
Originally, he thought about it. Anyway, the season is wrong, and no one can guarantee whether the fruit trees will survive or not. Even if he died, he would not suspect artificially. Besides, that girl used Huangzhuang's hills privately, even if she suffered a secret loss, she didn't dare to say anything. I don't know that people have already reported it before the emperor, and they want to sue before the emperor.
The steward who can gain a foothold in Huangzhuang is not like a human being. Of course, Zhou Yang's little tricks cannot be hidden from those who are interested. However, they also wanted to teach the little girl a lesson, so they kept silent. But I never expected that people would rather kill a hundred by mistake than let one go. For their own benefit, it is natural to sacrifice Zhou Yang, the instigator!
When Zhou Yang was caught out, he thought that he would not be able to stay in Huangzhuang anymore, and he didn't know what kind of punishment was waiting for him. Who knew that Yu Xiaocao didn't take the usual path, instead of driving him away, she even let him take charge of the fruit trees on the mountain, euphemistically saying: Make up for the mistakes!