Datang Nongwang

Chapter 814

Li Chongyuan was worried.

And his worry is really possible.

At least, the reason why Li Chongyuan was worried was because he was afraid that after he truthfully wrote the letter and presented it in front of Li Shimin, Li Shimin would really send troops to pacify the Feng family. At that time, Li Chongyuan's crime would be serious.

In fact, Li Chongyuan also knew the truth of what Xingba said.

At least, under the current circumstances, any honest official would choose to report such a thing to the court, and would never be like Li Chongyuan, who would think more about the life and death of the people.

Even Li Shimin probably wouldn't consider the life and death of the people.

Li Chongyuan was in a dilemma, very difficult.

Xingba thought that Li Chongyuan's embarrassment was just for himself, "Young Lord, you have done enough for the people of the world. If the Feng family is not punished, the people in Lingnan will continue to suffer. If The Feng family has always been like this, and these people in Lingnan will surely suffer from generation to generation. In my opinion, Mr. Xiaolang, you should speak directly to the Holy One and cut the mess quickly."

"Slashing the mess with a sharp knife will surely kill many people. I would rather put away such a sharp knife first." Li Chongyuan followed Xingba's thinking.

Whether it is the one sitting on the throne or the one in power, or even the court officials and military generals above the court, they have never taken the life and death of the peasants and the common people seriously.

Wherever there is rebellion or chaos, the imperial court will definitely send troops to quell it.

And in the process of pacification, if the coerced people die because of pacification, they will never feel sad because of their decision.

What they care about is success and fame, but once they succeed, their bones will perish.

How many soldiers died, and how many people died, in their eyes there are only a bunch of numbers.

The Tang Dynasty finally stopped the war for some years, and the common people had a rare time to recuperate, and it was even rarer for people to grow.

If there is another chaos, this good day will really be wiped out.

Li Chongyuan couldn't listen to what they said.

Li Chongyuan, who couldn't listen, continued to worry.

It is impossible for Li Chongyuan to let Feng Zhizai and Feng Er and the others go.

As for the movements of the Feng family, Liu Ping would send back some news every ten days.

This also made Li Chongyuan have to let go of the worries in his heart, and was forced to choose a path and choose how to deal with this matter of the Feng family.

finally.

Li Chongyuan returned to his room and picked up his pen after receiving news from Liu Ping about the recent news about the Feng family getting louder and louder.

'Your servant Li Chongyuan presents you.'

Li Chongyuan wrote vigorously and thoughtfully.

For a whole afternoon, Li Chongyuan was writing a memorandum about the affairs of the Feng family.

In the evening, the playing book was completed in a decent manner.

After writing the more than ten pages of memorandum, Li Chongyuan picked it up and read it again. After he thought it was correct, he put it in the cut envelope, sealed it with wax clay, and covered it with his own letter. Seal, this is the end.

The wax clay is made by Li Chongyuan.

Although it is not as good as wax, at least the recipient can know whether the letter has been opened after seeing the letter.

As for this memorial, Li Chongyuan sent it to Chang'an in the form of a secret letter.

The content of the letter is too important, and Li Chongyuan does not want anyone except Li Shimin to be allowed to see the content of the letter.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Chongyuan called a guard, handed the letter to him and said: "This letter is very important, you hurry back to Chang'an, and hand this letter to Wang Li. Don't let anyone see this letter. In addition, if Someone intercepted this letter halfway, and it must be burned before anyone else gets it."

"Don't worry, Mr. Xiaolang, trust in people, trust in death and perish." The guard solemnly assured.

Li Chongyuan shook his head, "Believe in people, and believe in destroying people."

"Yes, Mr. Xiao Lang." The guard replied solemnly.

Shortly after.

The guards took a C-type paddle steamer, turned to the direction of Wan'an Prefecture, and headed for the mainland.

A guard has a lot of responsibilities, and he knows how to act.

Although the letter was delivered, Li Chongyuan was still worried, hoping that the guards would arrive in Chang'an smoothly and hand over the letter to Wang Li.

As long as the letter was delivered to Wang Li, then this matter would no longer be Li Chongyuan's business.

Just as the guards were sending the letter back to Chang'an, the planting base ushered in a large number of helpers.

And these helpers are what Li Chongyuan traveled to the other three prefectures some time ago, and negotiated with the local yamen to let the people of their prefectures come to open up wasteland in his planting base.

Among the four prefectures of Qiongdao, except Yazhou, which has a governor, the other three prefectures are all independent.

This time, it was Sanbiejia, the governor, who escorted the people to the planting base, and the chief officials and county magistrates of the various counties' yamen came with him.

More than [-] people were sent to Li Chongyuan's planting base by them.

When Li Chongyuan saw more than [-] people appearing at his planting base, he put aside the matter in his heart for the time being, "Welcome, really welcome. I didn't expect that Governor Chen, Wang Biejia, Zhong Don't drive, Li Biejia personally sent the people to my planting base, this is my honor, Li Chongyuan."

"Don't say that, Junwang Li. After discussing with others, Xiaguan and others decided to issue a notice to tell the people in the village to come to Li Junwang's planting base to open up wasteland and prepare for planting. However, although Xiaguan and others have issued a notice, but Those who are willing to come are only these [-] people, which is really different from the number of people required by King Li, and I hope King Li is not surprised." The governor Chen spoke first.

Li Chongyuan looked at the more than [-] people, and he didn't care about these things in his heart, "I am very grateful to all of you for having more than [-] people. How dare I ask for more. Everyone, please come inside and have a cup of tea in this humble house. Line eight, quickly arrange the people."

After Xingba got the words, he immediately asked someone to arrange for the group of people to go.

But Li Chongyuan invited all the officials to drink tea in a pavilion.

During the chat, all the officials were trying to curry favor with Li Chongyuan.

But Li Chongyuan has been chatting with these officials all the time, politely.

However, apart from being polite, Li Chongyuan also made a promise to the chief officials, that is, if he, Li Chongyuan, can help, he will never say anything else.

And this promise made the chief officials of the four states even more elated after hearing it.

They are willing to run so hard for Li Chongyuan, isn't it just to curry favor with Li Chongyuan, or even hug Li Chongyuan's thigh.

In terms of official position, no matter whether Li Chongyuan is the minister of the temple or the secretary of agriculture, they are all higher than they don't know how many ranks.

And Li Chongyuan is a son of the clan and a big celebrity in front of Li Shimin.

When they really need Li Chongyuan's help, they will ask for help, and with Li Chongyuan's promise, they will definitely be able to leave this ghost place if they get the chance.

Yes.

For these officials, Qiongdao is a ghostly place.

The current Qiongdao is not comparable to the modern Qiongdao.

Desolate and uninhabited is really an appropriate idiom to be used here.

Modern Qiongdao has a population of over [-] million, and it has been developed into a tourist destination, and after the completion of the Qiongdao Free Trade Port, whether it is transportation, infrastructure, or other things, it will be better than it is now. where it goes.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Qiongdao, with a population of 3, really can't find many good people except for exiled people and exiled officials.

These state officials were able to attract more than [-] people to Li Chongyuan to help him open up wasteland, which is already a rare number.

After talking with all the officials for a long time, after seeing off those happy officials, Li Chongyuan rushed to the people who were lining up.

When Li Chongyuan came in front of all the people, all the people talked to each other and said some inconspicuous words.

Even Xingba and the others are directing them to line up, they look messy, and they can't form a team at all.

Seeing this, Li Chongyuan smiled, stretched out his hand to press down, and motioned the people to silence.

Fortunately, these people heard that the gentleman in front of them was a county king, and when they saw such a county king running to press their hands, they also consciously silenced their voices.

It's not that they really don't know how to silence the voice, but that the people's fear of officials is at work.

As for Xingba, they are just guards, they really don't care about Xingba and others.

Seeing that the people were silent, Li Chongyuan took a look around and shouted loudly: "Everyone has worked hard. You have come to my planting base to open up wasteland from hundreds of miles away. You don't have to worry about me not paying my wages, no Food and dinner. You are new here, so you may not know me, Li Chongyuan. If you don’t know anything, you can ask them about how Li Chongyuan treats them afterward.”

When the people saw a county king talking to them, they looked very quiet and looked at each other in blank dismay.

From their eyes, Li Chongyuan could see some bewilderment, some bewilderment, and even more nervousness, and of course they also had expectations.

Li Chongyuan continued to shout, "Everyone come to my plantation base to open up wasteland and work. You will be paid a lot for food and drink. The wages are as agreed with the state officials of your states at the beginning, fifty cents a day. The wages It will be issued on the fifth day of the first month, once a half month in the second month, and once in January in the third month, and you have come from hundreds of miles away to help me with Li Chongyuan's work, and the wages will start to be calculated from tomorrow. As for For food, five flatbreads a day, mung bean syrup, and one meal of meat per person for three days. For accommodation, you need to build your own huts for the time being.”

'wow~~'

When Li Chongyuan talked about wages and eating and drinking, there was an uproar.

They knew that there was no work to do on Qiongdao.

Even if they could find a job, it would only cost eight cents for a day's work.

Even if the work is done, whether the money can be counted in his own hands is still a matter of opinion.

As for eating and drinking, it was even worse.

However, what Li Chongyuan said, they were just in an uproar.

Some people believe it, some people don't believe it, and many people doubt it.

Li Chongyuan listened to the discussion among the people in front of him, knew what they were thinking, and could also understand the meaning of their words.

The condition is such a condition. Li Chongyuan also knows that he wants to invite people to work here. It is really difficult to hire people. He has to deal with the government offices of various states and counties, and let the government offices of various states and counties issue notices for him to invite these people to work.

A large island only invited more than [-] people, which already accounted for nearly [-]% of the island's population.

His own wasteland was important, so he had to reclaim it quickly so that Li Chongyuan could plant various trees in autumn and sow high-yielding crops next year.

Li Chongyuan, who put down his words, stopped talking with these people who were still discussing. Anyway, they have talked about work, food, housing and wages, and let them decide the rest, or go to inquire.

On that day, according to the request of the guards, the people cut down trees and built huts and other places to live.

To open up wasteland in the planting base, the food was provided by Li Chongyuan, but for the living, they had to build it themselves.

When eating in the evening, all the people saw that there were really big pancakes, and after listening to the Ningyuan people who came before talk about their work here, the more than seven thousand people believed more and more what Li Chongyuan said was true.

Fortunately, it wasn't cold in Zhenzhou, otherwise these people might not be able to resist this night.

From the time when the people came to the planting base, they spent five consecutive days building shacks.

The shack, of course, is built with wood, plus some weeds and thorns, and then paste some mud, which can basically keep out the wind and rain.

It must be said that these people are only here to open up wasteland, not to live in the plantation base.

And during these five days, as Li Chongyuan said before, five big pancakes a day, plus a bit of sweet mung bean soup, and even a big meal of meat.

This made these people believe in Li Chongyuan as the county king even more.

And on the fifth day, Xingba notified all the newcomers to go and collect their wages. After these common people received the highest wages they had ever received without doing any work, those who had doubts about Li Chongyuan completely abandoned him. After thinking about it before, I made up my mind to stay and work hard, so that I can be worthy of the salary and the food.

From the sixth day onwards, the shack was no longer built, but the wasteland reclamation schedule of the first day was carried out.

With these more than 8000 people, plus the hundreds of people who came before, there are almost [-] people.

With such a huge crowd opening up wasteland, the scene is huge if it is said to be huge.

Those who cut trees cut trees, those who cut thorns cut thorns, those who cleared up weeds cleared weeds, and those who picked up stones picked up stones. Don’t look at each of them doing their own things in a mess, but Li Chongyuan knew that they were absolutely orderly. Methodical.

A wasteland reclamation team of nearly 8000 people cleared nearly [-] mu of wasteland in just one day.

However, clearing is one thing, and land reclamation is another.

Clean up first, and then open up wasteland, this is the most basic.

Cleaning up is simple, but this land reclamation is a super tiring job.

After more than ten days, once the clean-up was over and land reclamation officially started, the process slowed down.

Nearly [-] people roughed up wasteland, and in one day, they couldn't even open up [-] mu of wasteland.

Reclaiming uncultivated land that has never been cultivated is no easy task without the help of large farm machinery.

The three processes of rough digging, fine digging, and deep reclamation, with nearly 8000 people, may not be able to dig a thousand acres a day.

(End of this chapter)