Villager of Daming

Chapter 939: If the people are not enough, they need to eat from a big pot

While everyone was eating, a group of people came over in a small steam boat. They came from Xugou County. A group of officials from the county happened to be connected to the river, which was convenient.

"Zhixian Guo, go and tell them that the situation on both sides is similar, so do as they please."

Zhu Fan saw people walking this way from a distance, and didn't want to waste time eating, so he ordered Guo Lingzhong, the magistrate of Qingyuan County, to lead people to meet him.

"I understand." Magistrate Guo stood up, and the people behind him helped move the table. The small table they were eating at was moved over there.

"Instead of going to Xugou County tomorrow, we will go to Ningwuguan to have a look. Then we will go to Xugou County and Yuci when we come back."

Zhu Fan also told other officials in the government that the purpose of coming here was to take Qingyuan County as the center and spread to surrounding places, and to learn many things elsewhere.

Jinci Town belongs to the rice farmers, who will turn it into tribute rice in the future and sell it at a high price to wealthy family members who are willing to eat it.

The officials from Xugou County found that they could not meet His Highness the King of Jin, so they had to kneel down and kowtow three times. Guo Lingzhong took him aside to eat smoked fish cakes.

“In the final analysis, there is still a lack of animal power and machinery for plowing, and Taiyuan Prefecture has more people and less cultivated land.

We know that our father arranged the three of us brothers on this line to resist Bei Yuan. Who would have thought...

Now the main focus is on economic development, why not move the extra people to less crowded places to help farm? "

Zhu Fan was worried again. The war did not reach Taiyuan Prefecture. It is bounded by the Yellow River to the west, the Loess Plateau to the north, the Taihang Mountains to the east, and the Yellow River to the south.

To put it nicely, this place is called Mountains and Rivers inside and outside, which is exactly what it is. It lacks rivers, so many people hide here to avoid the war and dig food in the limited land that can be cultivated.

Zhu Fan felt that the population of his second brother's Xi'an Prefecture was small, and that of the Beiping Province after the war was also small, so it was better to give them an even distribution.

Magistrate Guo and other officials looked helpless. They wanted people, but were worried that some people would starve to death.

When the commander heard it, it was not bad, everything was well laid out, and if you act haphazardly, important things would be delayed.

"Your Highness, you must not send it to Xi'an and Peiping because the people of Taiyuan Prefecture are useful. Wait until they are mobilized and push it northward.

His Highness's fiefdom is in Taiyuan Mansion, and His Highness Datong Mansion does not care about it, so it is separated.

Move the population all the way north to the grassland, where there are few people. From the grassland, it will be the transition to Datong and then to Taiyuan.

While planting trees and pasture, they also breed more livestock to artificially strengthen the connection with the north.

Otherwise, what should He Lin do? There is still a large area of ​​land to the north of Helin with a small population. Where can there be any development?

There are mines there, many mines, and gold mines can be found by digging as deep as a hole in the ground.

How can we leave the space we occupied unused? The number of people in Taiyuan Prefecture is actually far from enough. At least two more generations will come. "

The chief pointed in the direction of the grassland and told Zhu Fan that that was the target. There was a shortage of people in Shaanxi and he was not afraid. He was in the Guanzhong Plain, so he went directly to the machine.

There are few people in Peiping, so we are not afraid either. They live in the North China Plain.

Shanxi is just a small Fenshui Plain, and the rest is the Loess Plateau, and there are also basins and hilly areas.

Why do you worry about other people's hearts? Hurry up and pick up the grassland. How many people are there with He Lin?

"Ah!" Zhu Fan responded casually and fell into deep thought.

The officials of Taiyuan Prefecture lowered their heads to eat the cakes, not daring to say anything. Just now they discovered that Zhu Lichang of Xiaqiu Village looked like he was admonishing, but in fact his tone was to settle the matter.

His Highness, Prince Jin, should act in accordance with other people's requirements when acting in his own fiefdom? Oh my gosh!

"If we take Datong, how will the fiefdom be calculated? Will my father agree? Are you not afraid of my ambition?"

Zhu Fan thought of a question and asked it directly regardless of whether there were outsiders present.

There was sweat on the officials' foreheads. The soup was too hot and the weather was hot.

"Your Highness, let's eat first. Other things can be taken care of easily." The commander didn't want to talk anymore. After finally meeting an obedient officer, where could he find a replacement if he was killed?

The officials were relieved and nervous.

The people had to eat quickly and look for work. Those who picked wild vegetables could not stop. There were medicinal materials on the mountains and they were collected together.

The guards carried guns and went to clean up poisonous snakes and wild beasts. They skinned those that needed to be skinned and soaked those that needed to be soaked in well water. Then they smoked the meat of the wild animals and took them away without leaving them to the people here.

After a busy afternoon, dinner was the same as lunch. The people after work relaxed and ate slowly.

For them, only after they have done enough work can they be qualified to eat meat and feel at ease.

When the people were eating, the craftsmen brought in the stove. The stove was quite large with four stoves. Naturally, the front had the greatest firepower.

The craftsman lit the stove and put the four pots on it.

There are also stoves used by craftsmen to burn briquettes. No matter which type, iron is needed for grates and stove plates.

A steward from Prince Jin's Mansion ran over to publicize it to the people, explaining the structure of the stove and how much it cost to make one.

At the same time, I would like to mention that refractory mud is used inside, which is not easy to be burned. You can add three pieces of honeycomb briquettes at a time, and add them from the top when adding.

The people nearby didn't understand what it meant, so the sergeant in the village told him about the briquette stove and made several samples.

Now we need a lot of coal slime. The refractory mud sergeant didn't mention it. Normal yellow mud is enough, but the key is iron.

“I show you this stove to tell you that we will build a canteen in the future so that we can have a big pot of rice for several years and save the time of cooking in the village.

When work is needed in Xiaqiu Village, people are specially arranged to cook, so each household does not have to cook on its own.

You can't learn from Xiaqiu Village. The village guards of Xiaqiu Village are invited here, and they are invited like gods.

No one in the whole village cares about who eats more and who eats less. The main thing is to eat enough, and the money is given to the head of the village. what about you……"

The manager of Prince Jin's Mansion had mentioned in advance the issue of a large pot of rice. Each household normally spends about 100 cash per person on meals per month, which can be converted into food.

Then a big pot of rice is still a hundred cents. Some people say that sixty cents is enough. Then there is a compromise. Everyone agrees that sixty cents will not allow you to eat meat.

When eating, use bamboo bowls of similar sizes to serve food. The price of a full bowl of vegetables will be deducted for each meal. If it is not enough, you will have to make up for it.

If you eat less, you will naturally have savings. If you add more next month, it means you will take back more and make up less.

The nursing baby does not need to eat, and the nursing woman must prepare something extra, and the price cannot be high, and she must ensure that there is enough milk.

When the child can eat complementary food, make small bowls and calculate the money. It is recommended that you stop accepting the child before he is a few years old, unless someone does not want the child.

In this way, the daughter-in-law does not have to worry about her parents-in-law not being able to eat outside and rushing back from work outside, and the old man does not have to cook by himself and cause problems with the fire, and there is no need to cook in the morning and save the food for cooling at noon.

Except for the problem of distribution, everything else about the big pot meal is good, unless someone is specifically looking for trouble, saying that the food is not cooked to their taste.

"When it comes to poverty, there was a place that was poorer than you at the beginning. There was no Rouge River at that time. The Rouge River was... the people in Shijiu Lake had one meal before another.

Later, Xiaqiu Village stepped in and the locals paid part of the money every month. As a result, there was still a lot left at the end of the month.

This is how they eat... Therefore, we put aside the small profits and work more to make more money. Looking back at the meal money, we find that it really doesn't matter. "

The steward of the palace introduced the people of Shijiu Lake to the local people. The people there provided their own ingredients, and they only paid for salt and oil. Later, they did not buy any oil.

(End of this chapter)