Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 222 0217 [Prospering]

Zhang Guangdao was the first to greet him at the riverside. The weather was quite cold and he had nothing to do. He was drinking with some salt dealers in the lobby of the inn.

Hearing that Zhu Ming was back, Zhang Guangdao immediately dropped his wine bowl and came out, and several salt dealers followed him.

"Lang Jun has grown taller again." Zhang Guangdao said with a smile, still smelling of alcohol.

Zhu Ming patted him on the shoulder: "Brother Zhang is also stronger."

"Meet Mr. Zhu." The salt dealers clapped their hands together.

Yu Shanwei, who was in charge of managing the inn, also came to greet him with two staff, and greeted Zhu Ming with a smile.

Immediately afterwards, Meng Zhao, the principal of the village school, appeared, and after saluting, he introduced, "Mr. Lang, these two are Yu Kan, styled Dongzhu, Liu Shiren, styled Zongru. They are all scholars from the county. Assist in managing the affairs of the village."

Ju Ming cupped his hands and said, "From now on, I will rely on the two of you."

"Don't dare to do it." Yu Kan and Liu Shiren were flattered.

Yu Kan was recruited by Meng Zhao's application, and their experiences are very similar.

Yu Kan was born in a family of self-cultivating farmers, and was sponsored by the family. He studied in a village school. He was in his thirties when he was in his 30s.I usually make money by doing accounts, copying books, and writing letters, and I can barely get by.

Daming Village is getting more and more prosperous, so Yu Kan applies for the job.

As for Liu Shiren, he was the son of a wealthy family who was forced to go bankrupt and flee by the government.His family has been declining day by day, and has lost its backing. Most of the land is in the outskirts of the county. Xiang Bi had already been eyeing it when he was in charge of Xixiang County.

The new county magistrate also set his sights on Liu's family, apportioning money, buying money, and buying money, forcing the Liu family to go bankrupt, and taking advantage of the situation to occupy the land of the Liu family.

The head of the Liu family, including the old and the weak, women and children, altogether 14 people went to Daming Village, and eight of them could read and write.

There are actually three teachers in the village school. Zhu Ming couldn't help but ask, "How many students are there in the school?"

Meng Zhao replied: "There are 74 male and female students. The village school does not stop, and the villagers do not worry about food and clothing. More and more children are sent to study. Brother Dongzhu teaches characters, and I am in charge of teaching mathematics. Brother Liu is here. The school helps, he doesn't get paid, and while teaching the students, he is also learning mathematics from me."

"Very good, the village school is quite prosperous." Zhu Ming praised.

Meng Zhao said with a smile, "My Xianggong (Zhu Guoxiang) set the rules, and we all follow the rules."

While talking, Grandma Yan and Shen Yourong also came.

Grandma Yan is more energetic than before, and looks younger.After Shen Yourong gave birth to a daughter, she became much plumper and her face became rounder.

Zhu Ming stepped forward to pay respects, and then introduced: "This is my wife, Zheng Yuanyi."

Zheng Yuanyi saluted and said: "Mother-in-law (grandmother) is blessed, mother is blessed."

"Okay!" Grandma Yan looked at her carefully, seeing her beautiful and well-behaved, the more she looked at her, the more she liked her.

Shen Yourong took off the silver hairpin, took Zheng Yuanyi's hand and said, "I didn't prepare a meeting ceremony either, so let's accept this."

"Thank you mother."

Zheng Yuanyi also took out a gift, which she bought with her own money.

I gave Grandma Yan a pair of embroidered and pearl-studded forehead scarves. The outer layer is brocade and the inner lining is silk, which looks rich and noble when worn.

He also gave Shen Yourong a pair of earrings, made of gold emerald emerald, although the emerald emerald area is small, it is worth twenty or thirty guan.

In order to please the two elders, Zheng Yuanyi spent a lot of money.

Shen Yourong had never seen Diancui jewelry before, she just thought it was very beautiful, she stroked it back and forth: "What kind of material is this?"

Zheng Yuanyi replied: "Cui Yu."

Shen Yourong still didn't know what Cui Yu was, and she was too embarrassed to ask any more, so she dragged Zheng Yuanyi to the house.

Zhu Ming said to Zhang Guangdao: "There may be immigrants coming today, you should prepare in advance."

Zhang Guangdao asked, "How many people?"

Zhu Ming shook his head: "I don't know, they come one after another, at least two or three hundred, or maybe more."

Zhang Guangdao immediately came to his senses: "The rioters who fled into the mountains?"

"Yes." Zhu Ming said.

Zhang Guangdao complained: "It took half a year to build that section of plank road. If I were to come, it would be finished in two or three months. The Golden Gorge can't be passed, and the tea in the village is still being stored. Those bird officials delayed the village's business. "

Zhu Ming introduced Zhang Tong, Li Bao, Yang Pu and Liu Kui, and said, "They are all good men, you know each other well."

Zhang Guangdao immediately invited them into the inn for a drink. As for Zhang Tong and Li Bao's wife, they followed Zheng Yuanyi, and the female relatives had their own topics to talk about.

Liu Kui is Li Bao's brother-in-law. He is still young and doesn't understand anything, so he just sits there and listens to his brothers bragging.

The Zhu family's new house was built with its back against the foot of the mountain. If you count the firewood houses, there are twelve houses in total. It is an ordinary landlord's house.

Grandma Yan ordered the servants to carry the luggage and arrange the guest's room.

Before Ju Ming's butt was hot, Tian Er, Tian San and others also brought their wives to visit.

They are in charge of all kinds of affairs in the village. Zhu Ming asked casually, gave words of encouragement, and rewarded various small things—all brought from Tokyo, which cannot be bought here in Hanzhong.

The men were almost done talking, and Zheng Yuanyi brought the child over.

Zhu Guoxiang's daughter is over one year old and has just learned to walk, but she can't walk very smoothly and needs an adult to protect her.

The broken name bestowed by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was too uncommon and had never been used, so he took another nickname "An'an".This is a nickname commonly used by women in the Song Dynasty, which means growing up safely.After Jiji or marriage in the future, the character will be formally selected, and the character will be used as the name at that time.

Before that, it could be called Zhu An'an.

The more he learned about the society of the Song Dynasty, the more Zhu Ming suspected that Li Qingzhao might not be his boudoir name, but Li Ziqingzhao's surname after Jiji.

When a woman treats a character in her boudoir, she treats that character.

"Brother." Zheng Yuanyi held the little girl's armpits with both hands.

Zhu An'an stared at Zhu Ming with wide eyes, as if he was a little scared, but also curious.

Zhu Ming smiled and said, "Give me a hug."

Zheng Yuanyi picked up the child and handed it to Zhu Ming, and said with a smile, "An An is so beautiful, she looks like a little porcelain figure."

As soon as Zhu Ming took over, the little girl burst into tears and opened her arms towards Shen Yourong: "Mom, mom..."

The name "Papa Mama" is much earlier than "Papa Mama", which is in line with the baby's pronunciation habits.

People in Song Dynasty are more used to addressing father and mother instead of father and mother. (Zhao Yanwei of the Southern Song Dynasty "Yunlu Manchao": People today call their fathers father...does people in Tang call their mother Ah Ba? People today call them mother.)
Zheng Yuanyi hurriedly hugged An An, coaxed her a few times and finally stopped, and said with a smile: "Brother scared An An."

Tian Er's wife sat in a corner, curiously asking about the customs and things in Tokyo.

Zheng Yuanyi said: "People in Tokyo burn more charcoal and use less firewood and charcoal. Dalang also made a Tanhua furnace and sold Tanhua coal to them."

Zhang Guangdao's wife, Jiang Erniang, asked, "What does the charcoal look like?"

Zheng Yuanyi explained: "It is a black stone that can burn."

The female relatives in the village were all amazed, thinking that Tokyo is different, and they even use stones for cooking.

They talked about many other things, and when it was said that tens of thousands of people often played in Xiangguo Temple, Tian San's wife suddenly asked: "There are so many people going to the temple fair, what should I do if there are not enough huts?"

Zheng Yuanyi covered her mouth with a smile, and said: "There are many huts in Tokyo, and you can get in if you pay. Xiangguo Temple also has a big hut, covering an area of ​​one mu, divided into men's room and women's room. There is incense in it, and it is cleaned every day. It doesn't smell at all. There is also a charcoal stove to make a fire, and it is not cold in winter. There is a bamboo pole hanging above it, which is called a net pole. Clothes, pockets, and baskets can be hung on the net pole. There is also hot water for washing hands and soap locusts Waiting things. After entering, you have to take off your shoes first. The floor is covered with wooden boards, wiped every day, so it is not stained with dust."

The women in the village were amazed, they took off their shoes before entering the hut, how clean it was inside.

In fact, it was the first time for Ju Ming to enter the high-end toilet of Xiangguo Temple, and he was also taken aback by the situation inside.

Except that there is no automatic flushing system and toilet paper, it is almost the same as a modern toilet, and even the partitions on both sides of the squatting seat are complete.

Hmm...the fees are quite expensive, and poor people can only go to ordinary toilets.

Second Sister Jiang said with a smile: "If Mr. Zhu takes my wife to Tokyo, Mrs. Shen can also enjoy such a big hut."

Shen Yourong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "There's something good to enjoy in the hut."

Tian Er's wife answered, "I'm afraid there isn't even Yangzhou a hut that doesn't get dirty when you take off your shoes. What's not to enjoy?"

Zhu Ming was a little speechless, why are these old women so strangely focused?
Needless to say, there was a banquet at the dinner, and when he got up the next day, Zhu Ming called the village cadres for a meeting.

The nominal village head is still Zhu Guoxiang, and Shen Yourong acts as the village head. When something really happens, Zhang Guangdao and Yu Shanwei actually help out with ideas.Some people are in charge of education, some are in charge of tea, some are in charge of foreign trade, and some are in charge of water conservancy...all arranged by Zhu Guoxiang.

Like the government, the village counts the number of households. There are more than 2000 households in total, and the number of children has exceeded [-].

Zhang Guangdao went to Shaanxi to smuggle tea, and every time he brought back ten or twenty tea, all of them were Shaanxi people who had fled to Zhongnan Mountain.

Although it is still called Daming Village, it has not been considered a natural village for a long time.According to the division of settlements, there should be three villages and one grass market.

The accounts of the village are not divided into public and private for the time being, because the main source of income is the tea mountains and tea workshops, which are all the private property of the Zhu family and his son.However, most of the money earned from the Zhu family's private property was used for public affairs, and continued to be invested in resettlement and water conservancy construction.

There is no way to distinguish at all, and it is really unclear. In the early stage, it can only develop in such a barbaric way.

Zhang Guangdao said, "The Liu family is available."

Zhu Ming understood the hidden meaning of this sentence. The Liu family was forced to go bankrupt by the government. It was an illegal escape, and he could accept rebellion ideologically.Moreover, there are as many as eight literate people in the Liu family.

Zhu Ming arranged: "Meng Zhao will no longer be in charge of the village school. From now on, he will concentrate on managing the household registration and field register. Choose a Liu family member with good knowledge to be a teacher in the village school. As for that Liu Shiren, follow me to Jinzhou to take up the post. The newcomer The rebellious people are resettled further downstream to open up wasteland, and a member of the Liu family is selected as the security chief."

Zhang Guangdao also said: "I went to Shaanxi to sell tea, and I met many good men along the way, all of whom fell into grass in Zhongnan Mountain."

Zhu Ming smiled, those are naturally green forest heroes who earn their living by robbing houses.You can recruit in the future, but you can't be too trusting, you have to be restrained, and those who don't obey the discipline will be punished as thieves.

He also asked about the specific situation in the village, and Ju Ming found that it was quite harmonious.

Land trading is temporarily prohibited in Daming Village. If you want land, you can reclaim wasteland by yourself.Villagers in difficulty can get low-interest loans to help them tide over difficulties.

There are also petty trivial matters, most of which are neighborhood disputes, and the most serious ones are nothing more than farming and crossing the border.

There have been several cases of theft, and depending on the amount of property they stole, they were asked to serve in the construction of water conservancy projects without paying wages, and they had to take care of their own food.Moreover, the family members of the thieves are not allowed to join the village security team.

Village cadres have not been corrupt for the time being, because they have to check the accounts every month, and those who fish and meat villagers must first try Zhang Guangdao's knife.

There must be some people who favor selfishness, taking advantage of their positions, first renting cattle to a certain family when farming is busy, letting a certain family dry grain first in the dam field, and so on.Or when digging canals and ponds, add half a bowl of rice to those who have a good relationship.Although the impact is not good, it is still within the acceptable range.

Zhu Ming asked about everything, and said to Zhang Guangdao: "Call the village braves tomorrow, and let me see if they haven't practiced."

(End of this chapter)