Villager of Daming

Chapter 26 When Chaotianzi approves the manuscript (third change)
Ten people from the county government stood by the field and watched. The water in the paddy field was full and the rice seedlings were growing normally.

'Puff tom! 'A frog jumped out of the water and dived in.

Dragonflies flew around, and some even landed on people's shoulders.

Where is the appearance of disaster in front of you?

When it comes to the cotton fields, there are traces of water flowing in the furrows, and the cotton will not be bad.

Turn around and go to the new fields of Viola and soybeans, and there is no shortage of water.

"Yichang, don't you want to plant the remaining fields?" Li Zhixian felt uncomfortable, the land was empty...

"Nurture the land, plant it in autumn, and definitely plant it."

The village chief promised, but he didn't say he wanted to grow wheat.

If you plant wheat, you will have noodles, and if you have noodles, you will have limestone. Next year, you will specialize in planting artemisia and Polygonum, and this year you will harvest the seeds of both.

Hanhan once said that if you have stone alkali, you can make new soap and make a fortune.

Or give me the way to make soap, and sell stone soda, depending on the situation, I have to give it away.

In short, you have to make a lot of money first, so that the people in the village can live a good life.

The village has seen it, and the magistrate wants to leave, go back and report, and find a way.

Seeing that he couldn't keep it, the Li Chang had to bring the buns left over from the morning for everyone to eat when they were hungry on the way.

If you want to send other things, everyone don't want to say anything, and get on the horse and rush out of the village.

……

In the city of Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang was approving the memorial, and the inscription sent by the Ningguo Mansion could not be sent directly to the emperor, and had to go through a process.

First send it to the Secretary of General Administration, and then the Secretary of General Administration passed it to the emperor. When the emperor saw that he didn't understand something, he asked someone to ask, and then made a decision after asking.

One after another, the ministers were waiting by the side.

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a bad mood, so if he was busy, God would not give him face.

This year when Xu Da went to war, he dealt with the etiquette issues in the palace.

The official system of the palace was given out, and the sons became kings.

There is a plan for the imperial examination, and it is agreed that it will start in August.

Why did it get dry?Is there anyone who thinks that it is wrong for him to go out to conquer the people and waste money, and it is wrong to make his son a king, so there is a drought?
The more I thought about Zhu Yuanzhang, the more unhappy I became. I took a new one and looked at Ningguo Mansion.

"What else can Ningguo Mansion do? Guaranteed to be drought, drought... Eh? Make rock sugar? Brown sugar turns rock sugar, rock sugar is expensive! Foreigners are all bad."

Zhu Yuanzhang found out that it was not a drought, so he muttered and looked back. There was not much content in the memorial, and he was tired looking at it.

There are only three pictures in the entire playbook, one has no content, the second picture has exactly 120 characters, it talks about rock sugar, and the third picture has 120 characters, it talks about rape ramie.

When the matter was clarified, Zhu Yuanzhang wondered: "What about the candy that Ningguo Mansion sent along with the book?"

People from the General Administration Department stepped forward: "In the department."

"Get it, let me have a look." Zhu Yuanzhang was interested, and he passed the title book to the minister.

After a while, the sugar was brought up, more than 100 catties!

Putting it open, Zhu Yuanzhang bypassed the case and came to watch it.

Liu Ji, Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong and others were all there, curious together.

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the brown sugar: "This is from our Daming."

Pointing to two kinds of white sugar again: "The whiter one belongs to Daming, and the yellower one belongs to foreigners."

Finally, rock sugar: "Da Ming's rock sugar is bigger than foreigners', and foreigners' small beans, hahaha! That's it, dare to be nearly twenty times more expensive than brown sugar? Hmph!"

Liu Ji took a step forward and touched the candy: "Your Majesty, the foreigners deceived me too much. The rock candy is made from brown sugar, and it is nothing more than a loss of about [-]%. The bidding price is seventeen or eight times higher."

Li Shanchang was filled with righteous indignation: "Long live, from now on, we will sell Ming rock candy to foreigners. Ours is better than theirs, and they will not."

"Long Live Lord." Hu Weiyong followed closely: "Long Live Lord, anyone who knows the method of making sugar should be called to the capital to guard it strictly so as not to leak the secret."

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Hu Weiyong indifferently: "Catch it and go to the method you made for me? What about the test book for writing the method? Bring it."

The General Secretary took it out of his pocket and handed it over.

Zhu Yuanzhang flipped through it, and after a while: "Mother! It's so simple, oh my god!"

The ministers were quite surprised. Long live has not talked like this for a while, today...

"Grow sugar cane, harvest sugar cane, make sugar, sell it to foreigners, and sell it to them for two hundred cash. What is the price of sugar?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was excited, and after finishing the two hundred essays, he was afraid of being sold cheap.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, who usually asks the price of brown sugar and rock sugar?
It was still the person from the Department of General Affairs who said: "Long live, I got the question book, I went to the market to see, brown sugar is 27 renminbi a catty, white sugar is 95 renminbi a catty, and rock sugar is 410 renminbi."

"Your Majesty, ask foreigners how much they are willing to buy for rock candy, and then make a plan." Liu Ji suggested.

"Ask." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Xiaqiu Village, Xuancheng County, Ningguo Prefecture has harvested rice, rapeseed, and ramie. The yield per mu is not low. Are the nearby villages feasible?"

"Long live, this method requires a large number of livestock to plow the ground, which is not available in ordinary people's homes."

Li Shanchang frowned, thinking no.

"Long live lord." Hu Weiyong said: "Long live lord, if the people can plant half an acre, they will get half an acre of profit. It's not necessary to plant all the paddy fields."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Exactly, ten mu cannot be cultivated, and half an mu is not much. It is appropriate for the prefecture to tell the people."

He lowered his head to look at the candy again: "Commend Ningguo Mansion, they make too much candy, let's put it on the market and have a look! The candy in the palace... Each of you will share half a catty, and I will arrange the rest."

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood, knowing that the officials of the Ningguo Mansion wanted to sell the sugar to make money, so he was allowed to make money once.

He divides the candy in front of him, he wants to say that he will share it with his courtiers.

After thinking about it, this candy was made by Daming people themselves, it has a symbolic meaning, and I kept some of it for myself.

Turning around, he went back and continued to read the playbook, humming the ditty of his hometown.

……

"Yi Chang, this time we rent animals, and we will pay them back when the grain is harvested."

Feng Gui from Xihe Village came to Xiaqiu Village to borrow livestock and transport water.

The drought continued, and people could no longer carry water.

The rent cannot be paid now, and the grain is usually used. The grain is paid, and there is no grain to eat before the rice harvest.

"The matter of money and food is not urgent, the livestock must be taken care of, and you can't be tired to death."

The head of the village agreed, and said in advance that if you carry too much water at one time, if you carry it continuously, the animals will die of exhaustion, and the other party will not be able to pay for it.

"As the caretaker of my own family, I will keep an eye on it myself." Feng Gui promised.

Zhu Wentian listened beside him, turned around and left, found the little girl, whispered something in her ear, and the little girl ran to Li Chang's side.

"Uncle Feng is here?" the little girl greeted.

"Little Linger!" Feng Gui responded with a smile.

The little girl nodded and said to the head of the village: "My mother said that my grandfather wants to borrow animals, so I can borrow a few more.

If you are willing to borrow it, let our village follow one or two people in the past, and say that the animals go outside to recognize their newborns and lose their temper.

In fact, I was afraid that my grandpa and the others would use the livestock to death, because of the drought!People are desperate for water, let alone animals. "

After speaking, the little girl turned and ran away.

The head of the village looked at Feng Gui: "Feng Laosi! The animals in the village are afraid of being recognized and lose their temper when they go outside. Why don't I send two people from my village to help take care of them?"

Feng Gui: "..."

　Still today!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)