Villager of Daming

Chapter 20
"Yo! A distinguished guest is coming, please come this way."

When the Li Chang came here, he saw nine people and nine horses. The horses are better for riding than pulling carts.

The key point is that he knows that he has to go to Xuancheng to open the way, and when the land tax is handed over, he also sends the grain.

"Our chief." The old man introduced, and turned around to find his own place.

"Yichang! Your village is..."

The magistrate also knew that Zhu Yichang was the head of the village, and the sauced beef was delicious.

He thought he could avoid the other party, but the whole village ate outside.

"Li Zhixian, Guanxian Cheng, Zheng Zhubo, and the six brothers, sit down quickly, and I'll have someone fetch water for you to wash your hands and wipe off your sweat."

The head of the village called for people to lead the horses to the stables to feed them, and arranged the three officials at their own table, and the six yamen servants at the next table.

"Wash yourself." The county magistrate saw the villagers queuing up to wash their hands and faces, and they used soap.

He walked to the side of a line, and the head of the village hurriedly told the villagers to go back.

The magistrate picked up the soap and smelled it, nodded: "Acacia uses spices?"

"Steamed with basil and coriander, and after frying, take water and form into balls, without putting the other things." The head of the village introduced.

He didn't know this before, it was taught by Hanhan, and he also said that when the rapeseeds were harvested, he would use rapeseed oil to make other soaps and scented soaps.

Zhixian and others wash their hands and clean their faces with soap, which is a round ball.

When they returned to the main table, Zhu Wentian had already sat down.

The three officials were taken aback, who is so ignorant of etiquette?
"The county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the master. His name is Hanhan. I am a village guard in Xiaqiu Village. When I invited him here 13 years ago, I sent a village watch to the county."

The village chief explained that the child's status is different, and he is a fool.

"Oh! Hello village guard!" The county magistrate nodded. He was not a county magistrate in Xuancheng 13 years ago.

"Hey! Eat, hey, hey!" Zhu Wentian cooperated.

The three officials did not dare to complain, and the village guards who had been outside the village were amazing.

A pottery pot was brought over, with tofu cubes and tofu stewed chicken cubes in it.

Cut an extra plate of bacon and salted duck eggs, and fry a large plate with eggs and chopped green onions, in the shape of a round cake.

Seeing that the head of the village wanted to arrange other dishes, Li Zhixian stopped him: "Yichang, enough is enough, don't be busy."

"The main reason is that there are no dishes, and it looks too shabby. Wait for the evening, and prepare dinner well."

The head of the village brought wine, then sat down and sighed.

Three officials: "..."

They usually can't eat such good food, and the salaries of officials are low.

Xuancheng County is Shangxian County, the county magistrate is from the sixth grade, and the salary is ninety stones a year.

The county magistrate is seven grades, eighty stones; the master book is eighth grades, seventy stones.

The others belong to the ninth grade of official status, including one Dian Shi, and a salary of sixty stones.

Give rice directly, with shells, if you want to eat other things, you can exchange rice, or sell the rice to buy things.

Li Zhixian took a sip of wine, ate another piece of chicken, and swallowed: "Yichang, I went to the field to see when I came here, the hemp and rapeseed grow well, does the soil consume a lot?"

"The consumption of hemp and rapeseed is not much, and the fertilizer is enough. Use plant ash, hemp seed oil residue, phosphate rock powder, and retting farmyard manure."

The head of the village admits that continuous cultivation has an impact on soil fertility, but it doesn't matter, just fertilize normally.

"Why use those things?" Guan Xiancheng knew about farmyard manure, but didn't understand the others.

"Make up for what is lacking, and make up for what is lacking."

The village chief himself didn't figure it out, anyway, Hanhan said it.

It is also said that the bean seedlings of soybeans and the bean cakes that have been squeezed out of oil are retting once, and it is best to put them in the ground.

It's a pity that even if people don't eat bean cakes, they must be eaten by livestock, and bean vines, cattle and sheep are also suitable for eating.

"How do you know what's missing?" Master Zheng asked the key question.

The head of the village slightly shook his head: "Generally put some?"

Zhu Wentian eats stuffed up, and doesn't care about my business.

Everyone chatted while eating, the county magistrate and the head book mainly talked about things in the county.

The county magistrate asked east and west, and learned that the pottery pots, bowls, and plates were bought in a unified way in the village, and they were specially used for eating big pot meals.

By the way, I learned that the village used the hemp-planted land last year to grow cotton, and the amount of land reclamation exceeded [-] mu, of which [-] mu was better.

The reason for eating chicken today is to start harvesting ramie and rapeseed in two days, so as to strengthen the body and eat it for five days in a row.

Zhu Wentian finished eating first, he didn't interrupt, he took his friends to digest food for a while, and then took a nap to grow his body.

Seeing Hanhan leave, Li Chang let out a long sigh, he was always worried about being exposed.

"Yichang, I passed by other villages when I came here. The villagers are full of food. Why do you open up a lot of wasteland in your village, but..."

Li Zhixian wondered, are the people in Xiaqiu Village different from those in other villages?
"There are big animals in the village." The head of the village filled the magistrate with wine and said with a smile.

"How many heads are there?" Thinking about the other party, the master said that he had opened up two thousand acres of wasteland.

The chief didn't hide anything: "Let's think about it, uh... there are ninety cows, 120 mules, six donkeys, and... ninety horses."

The three again: "..."

They deeply suspect that the chief is lying, what joke are you talking about?
Dare to say that there are more than 300 large animals, how many people are there in your village?Use people like livestock?

The head of the village smiled slightly: "After dinner, you go and have a look, and by the way, ask someone to kill the pig, and make braised pork for you to eat in the evening."

"Going back in the afternoon, the county is busy."

Li Zhixian waved his hand, the road from Xuancheng was too far.

"Oh!" The head of the village responded, and shouted again: "After dinner, go and help butcher the pig and make braised pork."

"Yichang, why is this so? Your village is not easy." Li Zhixian was in a dilemma.

"Nowadays, the government is very strict and officials' salaries are low, so I can't give you money. Why can't you eat food?"

The head of the village speaks for the officials, there are people on the top who are good at handling things, and the road leads for three months.

It's not that you can't give money, but you can't give it in public. If you give food, you can eat it in your stomach, and no one cares.

"It's a waste of money to call Yichang." Li Zhixian finally agreed.

Eating faster, they plan to walk around the village.

When everyone was full, the yamen servants showed happy and happy smiles. It was so delicious that even after eating it all, they even added more.

The head of the village took three officials to wander around, first to the place where the livestock were raised, there were pigs, sheep, and fat bamboo rats.

In the end, it was the big animals mentioned by the head of the village, and the three people in Lizhi County were dumbfounded.

No need to count, just look at the groups and you will know that the number will not be bad.

The master was stunned: "How...how...how did this happen? No, don't you want money?"

"How much did you pay for it?" The county magistrate had copper coins in his eyes.

Li Zhixian took a deep breath, and took another deep breath, suddenly felt that it was nothing to eat the pork in the village, Xiaqiu Village was too rich.

He patted Lichang on the shoulder: "Yichang, where did you get the money?"

"Uh..." Li Zhang was in a dilemma. If he didn't say anything, he really couldn't explain clearly. If he said it... would he still be able to make money selling rock candy in the future?

"Yi Chang, even if I don't ask about it today, if your village brings animals to the field, it will be passed on to other villages. Human nature! If I wait today, someone will..."

To tell the truth, Lizhi County, someone reported your village, obviously because of jealousy.

"Wait for me." The chief left the three of them and ran away.

He ran to find Hanhan, and listened to Hanhan whether he said it or not.

When he found Hanhan, Hanhan was sleeping on a straw mat with his friends.

"Hanhan! There is something, they..." the chief said.

"Huh! Someone played tricks? Sigh! Fish in the bottom of the water, geese in the sky, high can be shot and low can be caught. The abyss has a bottom, only the human heart can't be measured."

Zhu Wentian tapped his leg with his hands, frowning.

Li Chang's eyes widened, thinking that this made sense.

"Let's talk! Daming bought rock candy from outside, and the good things were bought. After talking, I guess Daming will sell the rock candy. I will write to you, the village chief."

Zhu Wentian went to find the Four Treasures of the Study and came back to write.

While writing, I read: "The Department of Shipbuilding in Daming City, the goods that the market sells to foreigners, the price of imported goods must be high, and everything that is sold must consume people's power.

Every time things change, money is like going against the law, people's fat and people's cream, more will be replaced, less will be replaced, things have a certain amount, people have no permanent power, brown sugar and rock sugar, count ten times.

Today's filtering method is beneficial to the land of all people. I hope people can make good use of it and express their hearts. "

(End of this chapter)