I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 35 Your Wife is My Wife
Tianyu threw the booklet to Zhu Chongliu with a look of disdain.

"From now on, you will teach those tenants how to read and write! You are so old, yet you still use pinyin."

Zhu Yuanzhang and the other man were in tears. We have only studied for more than half a year. Although we can recognize many characters, we can't write them.

Tianyu waved his hand.
"Okay, I don't mean to blame you, but if you want to make progress, knowledge is essential."

"Originally, I was sending sheep to you, but now it seems that I can't be too nice to these tenants all at once."

"Starting tomorrow, you will classify these tenants. Those who should farm will farm, and those who should mine will mine. Give them two mushrooms a day, and take one with you when you leave at night as wages."

In theory, one roasted mushroom is enough to keep an adult from getting hungry for a whole day.

But this is without consuming physical energy.
Tianyu needs them to be Palu, so naturally he needs them to have sufficient physical strength.

Initially, Tianyu was planning to prepare employee meals for them according to modern standards, with three meals a day of meat and vegetables.

As a result, seeing today's riots,
Tianyu soon realized that he must not treat them too well all of a sudden.

As the saying goes, when you are full and warm, you will think of lust.

When a person's survival needs are met, he begins to think about the quality of life.

To put it simply, just think about it a few times, and you might get yourself into some trouble, like playing Landlord against the rich.

Tianyu has already understood that one should never ignore the evil side of human nature, and reality is often more abstract than imagination.

Therefore, he asked Zhu Yuanzhang to provide only enough energy for the tenants to survive and work every day.

As for the tenant’s family, as long as they are not starving to death, it’s fine. If they want to eat well, they can work overtime and earn work points.

"Zhongba, select some reliable people as guards, equip them with weapons, and be responsible for maintaining daily order and patrolling."

"Physical fitness is not important. What is important is courage and decent character. I think you should have someone to choose from yourself, right?"

The body can be trained. These days, no one can even afford to eat. No matter how strong you are, how strong can you be? Even if you are thin, you can make up for it by eating for ten days or half a month.

Zhu Chongba was delighted when he heard this: "Yes, of course there are. I grew up in the countryside and there are many young boys hanging out with me."

Tianyu then took out a crossbow and some arrows and gave them to Zhu Chongba.

"Carry this thing with you on weekdays. If anyone causes trouble, just shoot them. Don't hesitate. If you cause a riot, you'll be in even bigger trouble."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up and he took the crossbow excitedly, stroking it twice like a treasure. To him, this thing was as exciting as a modern person seeing a Desert Eagle.

Zhu Chongba patted his chest and said loudly:

"Don't worry, Lord Land, we will definitely not let you down!"

Tianyu nodded.
"Let's do this for now. When we select the first group of able-bodied men to go to Panshantou tomorrow, I will ask my third sister to pick you up."

Tianyu flew away from Zhu's house immediately after he finished speaking.
He ran at the speed of Steve Template and disappeared in a flash like flying over the grass.

Zhu Chongba looked at Tianyu's departing back with envy:
"I don't know if I can get the favor of the gods and grant me an elixir of immortality."

Zhu Chongliu on the side looked at Zhu Chongba speechlessly and said:
"Zhongba, didn't the Earth God say that we should believe in science and there are no gods? The Earth God said this is quantum mechanics, and as long as we study science well, we will definitely be able to master this ability."

Zhu Chongba nodded repeatedly upon hearing this: "Yes, quantum mechanics. This is the immortal cultivation method of the Earth God. We must find a way to comprehend it and strive to ascend to heaven as soon as possible."

Zhu Chongliu: “???”

No, wasn’t your goal to become a Celestial Dragon? How did it become ascension?
……

Waited until the next day,

Before daybreak, more than 200 people had gathered in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's door. These people were selected to be hired workers.

Tianyu asked all the old and weak to stay at home, and ordered the children under the age of 14 to go to the foot of the mountain with him to learn pinyin and recognize words. If they learned well, they would be rewarded with food.

This kind of good thing of learning for free and getting food is something I dare not even dream of.
Now it is happening right before their eyes, how can they not be excited.

Therefore, they arrived outside Zhu Yuanzhang's mansion early before dawn and waited quietly.

With the crowing of a cock,
Zhu Chongba yawned as he walked out of the courtyard gate.
The dense dark shadows outside the courtyard almost scared Zhu Yuanzhang to death.

"Shit! It's haunted!" He looked carefully and found that it was the tenant who registered yesterday.

Zhu Chongba cursed angrily:
"You guys have a brain disease, right? Didn't I tell you to wait until morning to gather here?"

The leading man named Tang rubbed his dry hands and said embarrassedly:

"Chongba, we don't mean to disturb you, we are just excited and happy and can't sleep. You don't have to worry about us, we will just wait here."

On the one hand, they were excited, but on the other hand, they were also worried that what happened yesterday was just a dream. That's why they came to wait outside Zhu Yuanzhang's house early in the morning, fearing that Zhu Yuanzhang would go back on his word.

Zhu Chongba was somewhat speechless.
I had no choice but to move the box Tianyu gave me, put it at the door and start calling the roll.

He took out the population register which only he could understand, opened it and began to read out the names.

"Wu Liuyi?"

“Here! Here!”

"Three people, right?"

"Yes, my wife and son are here, and that Chongba, the old man also wants to..."

Zhu Chongba glared at Wu Liuyi with wide eyes and cursed:
"You are so old, old man! We are working for the gods, and gods need to accumulate merits. If your old man dies outside, it will shorten his life! We won't be like that and disregard people's lives."

"The gods all said that the way of the great Dao is to make the world a common good!"

"Do you know what I mean? My father is your father, your son is my son, and your wife is my wife! Do you understand the great harmony society?"

Wu Liuyi: “???”

At this time, the only literate teacher at the south end of the village could not help but scold:

"That's called respecting the old as your own and the young as your own! Chongba, you should just call out the names first and stop talking about these useless things."

Zhu Chongba blushed, looked at his master, with whom he had studied for a few days, and sneered twice, feeling extremely ashamed.

Damn it, we brought shame to the God of Land.

Zhu Chongba, who wanted to imitate Tianyu's brainwashing but failed miserably, began to call out names.
Every time a household signed in, Zhu Chongba would distribute mushrooms according to the number of employees. This stuff ripens once a day, and once ripened, there were a bunch of mushrooms. It was the least valuable in Tianyu's place, so it was most suitable to use it as wages.

As for why food is not distributed based on the population reported by each household?

That's because it's unfair to some families with many employees and the elderly, the weak and the young.

I have heard that those who have a country and a family do not worry about scarcity but inequality; they do not worry about poverty but instability.

It’s okay if you get less, but if there’s not even this little bit of fairness, something bad will happen soon.

Relying on the 'immortal treasure' box with built-in space, Zhu Chongba quickly distributed the grilled mushrooms for everyone that day.

Because everyone had already taken away three days' worth of food from their families yesterday, they did not need to send more food to their families.

Now that so many people were waiting for him, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even bother to wash up. He just put on some clothes and walked towards the mountain.

The long line of tenants attracted the attention of the rich and the landlords.

The landlord Liu Xiaode looked at Zhu Chongba, who was in the lead, with a look of contempt on his face:

"You can brag all you want, but I wonder how long you can brag. Your little money won't even last until the late rice is harvested, and you've wasted it all."

At this moment, an excited expression appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he looked into the distance and muttered to himself:

"We don't know where our treasure has gone. If the emperor is delighted to see the treasure, I can at least get some benefit from it."

"At worst, these treasures in my hands will become tribute. Then I will sell them for 50 taels... No, 100 taels a bunch!"

Liu Xiaode closed the gate with a bang.

In his opinion, it would be better to take a nap than to look at these poor bastards who don’t know how many days they can live.

(End of this chapter)