Reborn Wu Dalang

Chapter 240 Second Farmer Status

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"You two ladies, the Khitan people came to Kaijing and sent a batch of gifts to the palace, do you want to go and have a look?" In a palace deep in the palace, several young ladies stood beside Li Shishi and Hu Sanniang. Beside him, a person said with a smile. txt**

"Sister, do you want to go and see those presents?" Hu Sanniang said.

"I'm like this now, it's inconvenient to move, so I don't want to go." Li Shishi shook his head and said.

Li Shishi has been pregnant for more than nine months at this moment, and it is the time when her body is the most bloated, so it is naturally inconvenient to move now.As for Hu Sanniang, she had just given birth to a child not long ago, in fact, she has been a little weak recently.

"Sister, how about asking them to bring those gifts to this palace." Hu Sanniang said.

"Okay, let's take a look." Li Shishi laughed and said.

Soon, Yelu Dashi's gifts were brought in, and one by one they were placed in front of Li Shishi and Hu Sanniang.

When they saw the golden attic, both of them showed astonishment in their eyes. This golden attic is so beautiful and lifelike, as if it was really built out of gold bricks one by one.There are also various characters in the Golden Attic, with different expressions, and each character is so vivid.

"Sister, it's so beautiful!" Hu Sanniang exclaimed.

"It's really beautiful. Look, there's a big string of beads here, so round, it fits right around your neck, sister." Li Shishi smiled when he saw the string of pearls next to him.

"Ah, there is a big piece of yubi here, so pure and white, it's so beautiful!" Hu Sanniang had already run down at this moment, and when she saw the piece of yubi, her face was full of amazement.

"There is such a tall coral tree, put it here, it will turn this place into a dragon palace." Li Shishi said.

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The two kept admiring those treasures, their eyes filled with amazement.The treasures in the Goryeo Palace are indeed inferior to those of the Khitan people. The difference is so great that they can hardly be compared.

"Sister, what are the Khitan people sending so many treasures for?" After a long time, Hu Sanniang asked.

"I don't know. Maybe they think we are allies, so they just give some gifts." Li Shishi said.

Li Shishi felt that there shouldn't be any conspiracy and tricks in it. These are just treasures, so what effect can they play?

"You two ladies, the Khitan people actually sent a batch of gifts, but I don't know if we should let them in or not?" The palace lady next to him hesitated.

"What gift?" Master Li asked curiously.

"It's some n-way.

"Ah?" Li Shishi and Hu Sanniang were surprised, and then laughed again.

"Sister, do you want to see these girls?" Hu Sanniang said.

"It's okay to take a look. When we were in the Central Plains, those wealthy families often gave away wives and concubines. I didn't expect the Khitan people to have such a habit. It's ridiculous." Li Shishi shook his head.

In the Song Dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor reached the highest level in the millennium, and the poor people could not survive, but the wealth of those rich and noble families far exceeded that of the rich in all dynasties, and their way of enjoying far exceeded that of the rich in all dynasties.In the families of these rich and noble people, beautiful women and concubines are generally cultivated from an early age, and they are given to others as gifts when they grow up.There were such things before the Song Dynasty, but it was far less common than in the Song Dynasty.The Khitan people have also learned many customs and habits of the Song people over the past 200 years, and this is one of them.

Therefore, Li Shishi didn't think there was anything abnormal about it, she just wanted to see the girls sent by the Khitan people.

Soon, more than a dozen girls came to the palace, and they knelt down on the ground without looking up.

"Get up, don't kneel down." Li Shishi said softly.

The ten or so girls stood up, but they still didn't dare to look up at Li Shishi, Hu Sanniang and others, some of them were afraid and even trembled.Among them, except for a few who know their mission, the rest are indeed real "gifts", and it is these people who are basically afraid at the moment.

"You all raise your heads." Li Shishi smiled.

More than a dozen girls raised their heads, but they still didn't dare to look directly at Li Shishi, Hu Sanniang and others, while Li Shishi and Hu Sanniang were sizing up these girls without any restraint.

The rest of the women are fine, although they can be called beautiful, but their temperament is very ordinary, far from the romantic posture of Li Shishi and Hu Sanniang.Needless to say, Li Shishi, the former No.1 prostitute in Bianliang City, has the most beautiful face in Bianliang City, and is proficient in poetry, poetry, piano, chess and paintings.As for Hu Sanniang, she is proficient in martial arts, and has commanded armies in battle several times, and she also has a heroic posture that other women don't have.

But when he saw the girl surnamed Xiao, Li Shishi couldn't help showing surprise in his eyes, and Hu Sanniang who was next to him stared blankly at the girl surnamed Xiao, amazed in her heart.

"What's your name?" Master Li asked hastily.

"Minister Xiao Feifei." said the young girl surnamed Xiao.

"Feifei? Such a good name, I really feel pity for it!" Hu Sanniang who was beside her suddenly laughed and said.

This young girl is very beautiful in appearance, faintly surpassing Li Shishi and Hu Sanniang, and her temperament is even more pitiful. Even if Li Shishi and Hu Sanniang are women, at this moment, there is a thought of calling her by her side to comfort her softly.She feels so delicate, so gentle, and so cute that people can't bear to hurt her.

"Feifei, come here, I'll take a closer look at you." Master Li said curiously.She had seen a lot of women in the Cuifeng Building back then, and she could see all kinds of women with charming bones and natural ability to attract men, but Li Shishi knew that no woman could beat the woman named Xiao Feifei in front of her. .The women in front of me, even these peerless beauties are shocked by the situation.

From Incheon City to Kaijing City, Yelu Jinning saw farmland and farming scenes all the way for 200 miles. In fact, it was more than 200 miles. The entire Koryo was 2000 miles from north to south and 700 miles from east to west. The vast land is full of patches of farmland, all of which are cultivated by farmers.

In the entire Koryo, no piece of land was wasted or restricted, and all of it was cultivated.

"Governor, this is the home of Jin Tianxiang, a large grain grower last year. He heard that you were coming to visit him, and he couldn't sleep for several days because of his excitement." As the sky gradually darkened, the two came to a nearby village , Li Gang pointed to a family at the head of the village and said with a smile.

Beside the two were more than a dozen local officials and dozens of soldiers.

"Come on, let's go and have a look." Wu Dong said.

When the two arrived at the door, someone immediately knocked on the door, and soon the courtyard door was opened, and an old farmer in his 50s appeared in front of everyone.When the old farmer saw Wu Dong, he froze there for a while, then knelt down there suddenly, his face was full of tears, and he said excitedly: "Great Governor, it's really the Great Governor! The Great Governor is here !The governor has actually come to my Jin Tianxiang's house!"

In the countryside of Koryo, there are portraits of Wu Dong everywhere, it is normal for Jin Tianxiang to recognize Wu Dong.It's just that he only saw it in the paintings before, but now he really saw it, and felt that Wu Dong was more heroic and extraordinary than the people in the paintings.

"Please get up, old man." Wu Dong hurried forward and helped him up.

Jin Tianxiang stood up, he wanted to say something, but his whole body trembled violently, and he couldn't speak at all.

"Don't be nervous, let's go in and have a look." Wu Dong said with a smile.

He was originally a guest and Jin Tianxiang was the host, but at this moment he seemed to be the host and invited Jin Tianxiang into the house.

Jin Tianxiang's son, daughter-in-law, and grandson had already received the news. At this moment, everyone was kneeling in the yard, and everyone was very excited. Jin Tianxiang's son even burst into tears and kept kowtow.

"Get up, don't be too polite." Wu Dong said hastily.

After a full quarter of an hour, the Jin family returned to normal. Jin Tianxiang invited Wu Dong into his house, and his son hurriedly served hot tea to Wu Dong, Li Gang and the others, and then excitedly Stand aside and watch them talk.

"Uncle Jin, I heard that your grain output is much higher than others, but is that so?" Wu Dong said.

"Great Governor Mingjian, last year and the year before last, my grain output surpassed that of others. When I was a tenant for a landlord, my fields were much better than others." Jin Tianxiang said hastily.

"Tell me, why is your family's grain output higher than other people's?" Wu Dong said.

"Yes, there are many reasons for this. The first is that the timing of fertilization is different. My family fertilizes just after the crops are harvested every year, while others only fertilize when the crops are about to be planted...my family fertilizes The method is also different from other people's... Also, when planting crops, you can't plant them too densely or too sparsely, there are all particulars in it..."

Jin Tianxiang began to tell Wu Dong, and he talked for more than an hour.He was a little nervous at the beginning, but then he became more and more relaxed and excited.After he finished speaking, he was still a little unsatisfied, thinking about what he hadn't said.

This man could speak Chinese very fluently. After Wu Dong asked carefully, he found out that Jin Tianxiang was a scholar in Korea a long time ago. Later, his family's land was taken away by the landlord, and he became a poor tenant farmer.

"Are you willing to tell other people about your planting experience so that it can spread widely?" Wu Dong asked suddenly.

"Of course!" Jin Tianxiang said hastily.After finishing speaking, Jin Tianxiang explained: "Governor, I was just a tenant farmer. No matter how well I did, I would hand over half of the annual harvest to the government and the landlord. Every year, my family couldn't get enough to eat. I had three children. Now there is only one left, and the other two are all starved to death. If it hadn’t been for the governor who led his troops to overthrow the evil Goryeo government and the evil landlords and evil gentry, I’m afraid my family would not be able to eat enough now. The governor is very kind to me It’s as heavy as a mountain, as long as the governor asks me to share all these experiences, I’m willing to talk about it.”

"Very good. However, you have to remember that what you do is not just for me, Wudong, but for the people of the entire Goryeo. If every citizen is like you, everyone's life will be prosperous and better. .” Wu Dong said with a smile.

"Yes, what the governor said is true." Jin Tianxiang became more and more agitated, and his face turned red.

"You have made contributions to the country, and the country will never forget you. Starting this year, the country will select model workers from among farmers, businessmen, and craftsmen. At that time, the names and deeds of these model workers will be written in the book. Goryeo conducts propaganda. The country will honor those who have made contributions. Jin Tianxiang, today I would like to thank you for passing on these grain growing experience to the country, and I am going to nominate you as a model worker, but everything will have to wait until June Only then will there be a result, you wait at home slowly." Wu Dong said.

"The governor... is this true?" Jin Tianxiang trembled in disbelief.

Throughout the dynasties, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, I have never heard of the fact that a good grower of grain will be honored, and I have never heard of the matter of who is a good grower of grain and is written in it. Now Jin Tianxiang is extremely excited. Everything feels like a dream, not real at all.

"Of course it's true." Wu Dong said with a smile.

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"Grand Governor, what you have done has never been done before. In the past, even if the grain harvest in a certain place was good, the court would only reward the local officials, and would never reward the local farmers. Farmers, even if they farm No matter how well the crops are grown, they are extremely cheap and will not be able to stand on the table. If the governor does this, the farmers in the entire Koryo will be excited, and they will definitely pay more attention to growing grain." Li Gang said.

"Well, this kind of reward system must be implemented in all walks of life. In the previous dynasties, except for the reading people and the big landlords, everyone else had a low status. Now I want to make these lowly people noble. There is no lowly occupation in this world, it is not just the education that is noble." Wu Dong said.

"This..." Li Gang couldn't help being taken aback, and at the same time secretly frowned.Li Gang was born as a Jinshi. Although he is now with Wu Dong, he still agrees with the concept of "everything is low-grade, only high-level students".In his heart, reading people knows reason is definitely not something these farmers can match.You can give farmers status so that they are no longer humble, but the only effect is to improve their enthusiasm for growing grain. If they are compared with readers, Li Gang cannot accept it.

"Reading people is still a profession now. In the future, everyone can read and everyone wants to read. Naturally, there is nothing noble about reading people." Wu Dong said again.

"Great governor, but the number of students is still too small, and the management of the country still depends on reading people. These days, many Confucian scholars from the south of the Yangtze River have come to me. They want me to ask you to see when it will start. The imperial examination selects officials from among the readers?" Li Gang said.