Villager of Daming

Chapter 629: Who knows best when we are together in this life?

"Second brother, we know. Some people told us that Taiyuan Mansion is not good and that it is not as good as the fiefdoms of second brother and fourth brother. I have written down the list. Here..."

"Don't give it to me, give it to Father. In fact, you don't need to give it to Father. Father should have a list."

Zhu Fang interrupted his third brother and said that he was determined not to ask for the list. It was not under his control. He was only responsible for teaching his younger brother as much as possible.

"Okay! We're looking for someone to arrange to go there and build greenhouses and silage ponds. The palace doesn't need to be too fancy. We already have a general palace. We can go there and build it slowly.

It just so happens that the craftsmen are allotted to do things that benefit the people. Only when the people are rich can we be rich!

Let’s use the money to build the palace on the people first. When we build it again, there will be no shortage of money. "

Zhu Fan also decided to adopt the mode of delaying the construction of the palace and deploying craftsmen to carry out projects that benefit the people.

Only when people have money can they consume, and consumption has commercial taxes. Land taxes are fixed and difficult to change, but commercial taxes are not.

If you collect too much land tax, my father will promise to reprimand you, even if the people's food production increases.

The commercial tax is thirty to one. Find ways to make money from this, and then sell things outside and sell them in the name of the palace, just like selling things in the palace.

As for how to sell it, I believe Xiaqiu Village will give the perfect answer.

……

When the wheat arrives, the awns are planted, and in autumn, the soybeans are harvested with white dew.

On the white dew day, Zhu Yuanzhang took a large group of people from the palace on a tour to Xiaqiu Village. In fact, they had to stop at Shijiu Lake and Danyang Lake.

If you look at the farmer's proverb, you will know that soybeans and sorghum are harvested together, which is why soybeans and sorghum are interplanted after the wheat is harvested.

Soybeans help sorghum fix nitrogen, and sorghum shades soybeans.

The people of Shijiu Lake do not grow sorghum. Instead, they plant a large area of ​​wheat followed by soybeans.

When there is no food stored, they don't dare to plant casually. If something goes wrong with the seeds and labor, the more they do, the less food they will have.

After they had surplus food, they dared to gamble. If they lost, they could start over from the beginning, so that they would not starve to death. If they won, they would make a lot of money.

Xiaqiu Village supports them, and with the passing economy, their income will increase, so they can plant it!

Zhu Yuanzhang chose Shijiu Lake as his first stop. He left some people in Xiaqiu Village to look after the house, the same twenty people who went to Beidi last time.

They can ask for help from the Prince's Mansion. There is only one seller left in the market, the one who collects stall fees, and the stall in Xiaqiu Village has only one cook left for the apprentices to practice their skills.

The former village elder looked like he was going to die, but now his face is glowing and he is more energetic.

Older people are not like little babies, they have a fast metabolism, and they react immediately when given something good.

Older people can become what they are now by taking a long time to replenish their health.

Everyone gets on the boat. The ship that collected two thousand stones before is the flagship. It has come around in a circle.

It is blocked by the bridge and cannot be demolished. Its height is too high, and even piles of stones cannot make it shorter.

It goes along the Yangtze River to Huangchi River, enters Danyang Lake, enters Shijiu Lake, Shunzhen Rouge River and Qinhuai River to reach the other side of the bridge.

The straight-line distance between the two places was less than two miles, so it ended up having to travel hundreds of miles.

"If we had these steamships back then, why would we have to fight so hard? It's really hard. With the strength we have now, Chen Youliang can be bullied to death."

Zhu Yuanzhang got on the ship and stomped the deck vigorously, feeling infinite emotions.

He himself admitted that if he had another water fight with Chen Youliang, he would have no confidence.

In that Poyang Lake water battle, God was on his side, and of course it was also because of Chen Youliang's command error.

"Chongba is right! If Chen Youliang has the support of such people, it would be terrible for him to retreat to Dongting Lake and other places to concentrate on development." Empress Ma felt her man's fear and said she was afraid.

As a result, after she finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang puffed up his chest: "God is on our side, and Xiaqiu Village is also on our side."

Seeing him like this, Queen Ma remained silent and looked at the surrounding scenery with a smile on her face.

Concubine Sun was watching and listening with a smile on her face. She never dared to replace Queen Ma's position because of this.

She knew that she conquered His Majesty with her beauty and thoughtfulness.

The queen's sister chased and beat His Majesty in Kunning Palace, beating and scolding him at the same time. His Majesty could only run away with his head in his arms.

The Queen's sister sometimes talks to His Majesty in a tactful manner. For example, if His Majesty wants to deal with a palace maid, and the Queen's sister wants to protect her, she just says directly, "This is right, you are Your Majesty, and the laws in the court must be like this."

The key is that the mistakes made by the harem ladies are not covered by the law, so His Majesty can only let the maid go.

In fact, it is not a matter of the law, but of attitude and obedience.

After the preliminary 'warm-up', the fleet set off and headed against the current towards Shijiu Lake, accompanied by horse teams and carriages on the shore.

"Where is Yichang?" After sailing on the Qinhuai River for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang found that there were missing people.

"I'm taking the children from Xiaqiu Village in the power cabin to check on the situation! His wife is here too." Queen Ma knew the situation.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and saw that the deck was full of people from Xiaqiu Village and his children. The female family members were Queen Ma and Concubine Sun, and he said, "Please come up and have a chat."

He understood what the girl meant. Zhu Yichang brought his mother-in-law here just to facilitate contact with her.

There must be equality. Otherwise, how can we get along with the queen and concubine when there is a man growing up there?

The chief, Hanhan and others came up, and the chief's wife naturally got together to talk with Queen Ma and Sun Guifei.

Then Er Dezi's daughter-in-law came over to face the Crown Princess, and Zhu Biao, his second brother, and his third brother stayed beside his father and the team of children from Xiaqiu Village.

This is the simplest etiquette. Don't bother with it, otherwise both parties will not be able to play happily.

The children from Xiaqiu Village nodded when they met Zhu Biao. They were too familiar and could not be polite. Being polite meant distance.

"Yichang, sit here, Hanhan, stand next to us and protect us. Let's eat your meat skewers while we watch them being grilled next to you!"

Zhu Yuanzhang greeted the village chief, not to mention neglecting the village guards of Xiaqiu Village.

"Grill, I can go, fly, um! Hey hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian said as he went to the grill next to him and grabbed the main grill position.

He didn't want to just stand around!The boat is high, who can find the angle of attack?

Don't look at the fact that this time the entire team was dispatched to 5000 people, [-] for the craftsmen, [-] for the other people in the harem plus the ministers, etc. That's no problem.

These [-] sergeants were all equipped with breech-loaded guns with paper shell bullets, and each had a revolving flintlock musket.

The breech-loading barrel has rifling inside and a front sight and rear sight on it.

When this unit encounters a sudden appearance of [-] enemies, it will not panic at all and will deal with them directly. It is normal to fight ten of them one by one.

In this case, Zhu Wentian chose to run over and grill the skewers so that he could eat more and eat while grilling. He had a big appetite.

"Yichang, how sure are you?" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about Hanhan. He was more concerned about the success rate of this trip.

"Your Majesty, you have brought a lot of replacement parts. If they don't work, just replace them. It's not a war. It's life and death. New things need to be tried. There is a margin for error and innovation is encouraged to a certain extent."

The director doesn't say whether it will succeed or not, and he doesn't care. If it doesn't work, just change it!This thing doesn't kill people, so what if His Majesty is here?

(End of this chapter)