"What are you afraid of?" You Miao said lazily, "Come on, butler, let's have some fun."
You Miao is almost no longer worried that no one will rent his land. Once the watermill is built, there is no need to carry water to irrigate the land. Some people come to the door to hug his thighs and beg him. If I had nothing to do with Li Zhifeng's "rolling" at home all day long, I could wait to collect the money, so I rubbed and rubbed it in Li Zhifeng's arms, wishing it would sink into his heart. Li Zhifeng put his arms around him, You Miao muttered when his ears and temples rubbed together, Li Zhifeng said, "Go in?"
You Miao stretched and was about to move when Mu Yan came to report, "Young master, someone has come to pay homage to Zhuang."
It was a good spring, You Miao thought that it was not a coincidence, so he put on his belt and got up and went to the main room. The first person to come was the person from Biyu Villa, who said, "The eldest young master sent me to deliver it to the young master. thing."
It has been several days since the last quarrel with his father. You Miao originally wanted to let him take it back, but he thought that he might be rich, so he would accept it.
There were still people waiting outside. You Miao glanced at it and saw that there was a tea set inside, which You Hange gave him, and Zhang Jian'er, whose writing was crooked. , then accepted it without saying a word, and asked, "Who else? Let's pass it on."
"Report to the young master." Cheng Guangwu said outside the main room: "There are too many people coming, and I can't stand inside. I let them in one by one?"
You Miao: "???"
Li Zhifeng said, "I'll go take a look."
You Miao: "Let's go together."
You Miao got up and took Li Zhifeng out. He was taken aback by the scene outside the door. He saw hundreds of people from outside the villa, all standing on the road at the entrance, dragging their children and daughters, pulling scooters, and some of them rushing. On the mule and horse, when they saw Li Zhifeng and You Miao coming out, people immediately surrounded them, talking non-stop.
"Quiet them all!" You Miao said.
"What's going on?" You Miao said, "I'm asking you."
He pulled a person and said, "You can say it, and the people next to you are not allowed to say anything."
"Young master, we are fleeing from refugees -" the strong man said: "Yangzhou said that you have land here, take pity on us, and eat your food."
You Miao was finally dumbfounded.
One person from the family was all talking. The outside of Shenyuan became like a market. It took You Miao a lot of effort to sort out what they were talking about. They scattered into the Central Plains, and a group of people got guidance and came to the south of the Yangtze River.
"Young Master You! Young Master You!" A captain rode his horse to drive away the crowd of people, holding up a document and saying, "My lord has a letter, please open it in person!"
Li Zhifeng stepped forward to take the document, You Miao opened it and read it. Inside was a handwritten letter approved by Zhao Chao, and finally understood the cause and effect. It turned out that 100,000 people fled into the Central Plains, and the capital was crowded with refugees who could not survive. When I saw this situation, I remembered that You Miao once mentioned in the letter that his villa could not recruit tenants, so he wrote the document with a big pen and handed it over to one of them, and let him lead this group of people. Go down to Jiangnan.
Yangzhou has been a land of fish and rice since ancient times. It is not difficult for these people to find a plot of land to make a living. There is also a letter attached by the prefect of Yangzhou. As soon as the prefect of Yangzhou saw Zhao Chao's hand letter, he knew that this matter was no trivial matter, and sent a military general to take people to Jiangbo Villa. In the letter, You Miao personally selected them. Those who can use them will use them, and those who don't want to use them will still be sent back to Yangzhou. as labor.
You Miao looked at the people outside the door in a trance, and didn't know what to say for a while. They all dragged their children and daughters, the old mother at home was sitting on the scooter, and there was a swaddling baby.
This is only the vanguard of twelve households, with a total of more than 700 people and 115 households. In the next few days, there will be an endless stream of people coming to the villa.
"Let's all stay." You Miao said, "Cheng Guangwu, Mu Yan and Mufeng, you two will make arrangements. If you have anything to do, just ask Li Zhifeng. Hurry up and plant the land in the beginning of the spring, so that you can support yourself, so you don't need to go back to Yangzhou."
There was cheers from the refugee crowd.
The refugees were happy, but You Miao was in bad luck. So many people flocked to the villa at once to eat and live, but it was a huge expense. Zhao Chao is also very imaginative. He sent so many people to him without saying hello. What's more, he found out that everyone was at the door!
There are many old, weak, sick and disabled, but there are also a small number of young and middle-aged people, as well as family members who died on the road, wrapped in a straw mat and dragged by a trolley.
The whole Shenyuan was so busy that day, You Miao immediately sent Qiao Jue's servant to deliver a letter to Anlu, and then asked Cheng Guangwu to discuss with the village chief of Guozhuang to see if he could temporarily live in the north and south villages, after all There are simply not so many houses in Jiangbo Villa! Several women came to Shenyuan and cooked ten buckets of rice in the backyard, which was like helping refugees for a while.
Li Zhifeng even went out to buy with money. Everyone, including You Miao himself, was busy from the morning to the evening, and finally arranged a place for these refugees to live.
The old, the young, the sick and the disabled live in the Shenyuan, and let the families take care of them on their behalf. The young and middle-aged live in the grass huts in Guozhuang and Anlu, and come to work every day with farm implements. The Spring Outing Miao packs all the board and lodging, and after the first harvest, everyone will have to build their own houses.
"In the first year, I took seven cents in rent. After this year, I will give you six cents." You Miao sat in the center of the hall and said to the twelve householders, "This young master needs to support you all, and everyone has to do it. Interesting. What to plant, I have the final say, the rice in the south of the Yangtze River is not as good as yours in the north, first plant two seasons in the first year to see, slow down your food, and then consider the next three seasons, how about it?"
When You Miao said this, she felt a little uneasy. After all, growing grain is no better than growing tea. Five points is too heavy to draw, and seven points are too heavy. If the seed selection is not good, and droughts and floods are encountered, ordinary people will not be able to survive. But in the past three months, he has to pay for the food of thousands of people. He built the waterwheel and the fields. If these refugees don't want to plant, they can only pack their beds and get out of the way.
I thought that these people would say something, but unexpectedly, everyone nodded in unison. You Miao said again: "I'll get the farm tools here, and I'll go to the enclosure tomorrow, don't be too greedy, don't fight if there is a quarrel, and talk about it on your own."
The strong laborers kowtowed to You Miao one after another. You Miao followed the instructions of the landlords in the south of the Yangtze River, and shared tea with them. After eating, these people went out to find work, ploughing the soil, and after a while, they would go out. Can be sown.
You Miao left home immediately and went to Yangzhou to buy rice seeds. It was the beginning of spring, and the purchasing department was crowded with peasants, so You Miao, a landlord, came to buy rice seeds in person.