Villager of Daming

Chapter 338 Traveling with nothing to worry about (the first recommended monthly ticket, thank you!)
On the Qinhuai River, countless boats are sailing in the middle, and there are also fast boats rushing ahead to call the passing boats to the shore.

Unlike the continuous rain in the northern grasslands, it has not rained for many days.

The sky is blue and blue.The cotton-like clouds seem to be fixed in the sky.

The clear water surface reflects tall ships in the ripples.

Occasionally, some waterfowl landed on the side of the ship, looking around while preening their feathers, as if looking at these very large ships.

When a shadow flashes past in the water, there will always be a clever waterfowl plunge into the water, and after a while, it will come up with a fish in its mouth and swallow it slowly.

The fleet sailed against the current, and when they reached the Yanzhi River, someone on a dragon boat said: "Look, gentlemen, this is a great river and mountain of the Ming Dynasty, and it deserves to be named after Yanzhi."

The officials on the boat looked helpless, but they had no choice but to praise, beautiful!The stones on both sides of the strait are indeed beautiful and colorful.

"Your Highness, there is a house over there, but it doesn't suit His Majesty and you princes, right?"

The chief was talking to the prince Zhu Biao in another cabin on the ship, while Hanhan stayed beside him.

Today the Holy One went on a tour to Xiaqiu Village to watch the harvesting of wheat, ramie, and rapeseed.

The ministers are all following, the prince and the princess are also there, the key point is that the princess will be nine months away in ten days, what are you doing here?

"It's just that your people are crowded. When the emperor was fighting, he didn't live in any good houses, so I don't care.

Just to have a look, always bored in the palace, this time I will be out for three to four days, other places are boring, Xiaqiu Village is better.

The delivery of the inscription books from various places to Nanjing and Xiaqiu Village only took half a day at most. "

Zhu Biao looked nonchalant, this is the father who wanted to come and see.

To put it bluntly, it is to bring the officials to witness the increase in grain production in Xiaqiu Village. People always say, what if it is fake?
Harvest on the spot, see how many acres there are, weigh them immediately, and after reading it, it will be determined that this is the place where good seeds are planted.

As much land as you want, just expand it directly.In this way, if others dare to say things they shouldn't say behind their backs, they can clean up.

Not just for fun, but for political purposes.

As for the crown princess, the date is not yet up!There is a special place on board.

When you arrive at Xiaqiu Village, there is a professional delivery room in Xiaqiu Village, and there are many medicinal materials in the pharmacy in the village.

The prince has to follow, throw the princess to the prince's mansion, give birth early, or have other accidents...

"Alright, it's hot, so be careful of heatstroke. In a while, we'll be entering Shijiu Lake. This artificial canal is fifteen miles away."

When the village chief saw what the prince said, he didn't care. Anyway, most of the people in the village came.

In Nanjing, there were only box restaurants and glass kiln guards, and then the village was taken over by the army, and no one else was allowed to enter.

The village elders were also very happy, and went home to watch the wheat harvest. Even if Chaoyang Gate was built like a Suzhou garden, it would not be as good as this home.

As soon as the fifteen-mile canal passed, everyone saw flocks of ducks and geese on the boat, and some followed the boat for a swim.

Some ducks turned their heads to look, and plunged their heads into the water. When the ducks showed their heads again, the small fish tails around their mouths were moving, and they were swallowed immediately.

Many boats had already parked on Shijiu Lake, they were stopped and told to wait for a fleet of boats to pass before they could leave.

Many boats went to the pier to dock temporarily, and people went to look at the department stores there.

"Mr. Ma, what kind of boats are these?" Mr. Huang liked to sit in front of the department store when he had nothing to do.

A shed was set up here, and the children read and practiced calligraphy under the shed.

Ma Hui and Qian Dushi could not provide the four treasures of the study, so the village bought them by themselves, rowed to the south, bought inkstone and ink in She County, and bought paper and pens in Xuancheng.

They all pick the cheap ones to buy, but the cheap things in these two places are not cheap to sell outside.

The boats from the two key places are going to Yingtianfu, and they must pass by Shijiu Lake. If they are tired here, they will stop at the shore for a rest.

The two parties know each other and go to buy things in person instead of asking them to bring them over. The price must be kept low.

In this way, the children have the four treasures of the study. They first use a wooden stick to write on the ground, and then use a brush to write on paper.

Adults occasionally come to learn a few characters, not planning to write them, just knowing them.

Everyone respected Ma Hui and Qian Dushi very much, and they were not called shopkeepers or scholars, but sir.

When Ma Hui saw the fleet, he was in a daze until Huang Lichang yelled again, then he came back to his senses and said, "Your Majesty is going out, look at the flags, and many princes and princesses have also come."

"Ah? Your Majesty has come out? Where is he going?" Huang Lichang lowered his voice.

"Let's go to Xiaqiu Village! The flag of Xiaqiu Village is also flying. You don't need to do this, Mr. Huang. Your Majesty doesn't avoid people when he travels. He doesn't go on tour in modest clothes."

Qian Dushi next to him took the conversation and told Mr. Huang to speak normally, which was aboveboard and not sneaky.

Huang Lichang thought about it and said, "That's right! The wheat in Xiaqiu Village is about to be harvested, so we have to harvest it too. Xiaqiu Village also has soybeans that were planted in early spring, and we can harvest them now.

All the things grown in their village are to be used as seeds, which is different from ours. We...do you guys like pasta?When the wheat is harvested, there is flour. "

"I love to eat!" Ma Hui and Qian Dushi nodded together. If you don't make rice noodles with indica rice, it's not as delicious as noodles, and japonica rice is too expensive.

This side is not further south, and there are a lot of pasta, which has to be transported by canal from the north.

"Okay, we will plant soybeans after we harvest the wheat, and make tofu for you in late autumn."

Huang Lichang never forgot to entertain the two teachers. This status is more powerful than the shopkeeper of a department store.

"Why not grow rice?" Qian Dushi thought that the rotation should be rice, and there is a lake here.

"Did the rising water flush it? The rice had to be planted, and it was exhausting. It was all gone after one flush, so the soybeans didn't have to be so tiring." Huang Lichang had his own thoughts.

While they were talking, the front of the fleet passed, and the remaining tail also left the Rouge River.

After a while, enter the downstream section, Huangchi River.

Someone is building a road by the river, and it has been built to Danyang Lake, which can be seen. What is not seen is to build according to the terrain, and the front reaches the Yanzhi River.

Find someone to repair it slowly, without any effort, there is a road by the Yanzhi River, waiting for more people to come, follow this road, and you can go all the way to Nanjing.

Because the Qinhuai River has existed for many years, there is always a road along the river, the only difference is connection, widening and leveling.

"Zhu Lichang, I saw a lot of sand and gravel piled up on the side of the road. Isn't the road repaired?" Zhu Biao looked through the binoculars.

"There is no sand, they are all stones of different sizes, some of which are weathered stones, piled up on the side of the road, and a bamboo shovel will be inserted obliquely on it.

It will be like this along the way to the bank of the Qinhuai River in the future, and put a pile at a distance.

After it rains, or when the road is bad under other circumstances, passers-by will use bamboo shovels to help make up for it. "

The head of the village introduced the situation, sand and gravel were used to patch the road, and a bamboo shovel was placed.

After it rains, a certain position has subsided. As long as someone passes by, they can use a bamboo shovel to fill it in and step on it.

Bamboo shovels are worthless because no one takes them home, and everyone is very conscious of filling the pits. People may be illiterate, but they know that this road must be maintained by everyone.

Even if a child is thirsty on the road and sees cucumbers in other people's vegetable fields, he will step on the furrows instead of the terraces, pick the big cucumbers on the top, and cut off the back with his nails instead of pulling the seedlings.

(End of this chapter)