This mountain is mine

Chapter 153 The Gift of the Mountain Forest

Fangling saw a severe drought this summer, but it changed from the desolation and mourning of the previous disaster years, and it was more vibrant than previous years.

Many landless people are either employed by the government or the Li family. After all, they have something to do with miasma, so their wages are not low, and at least they have a stable livelihood.

The usable mountains and forests are different from the barren hills, and they cannot be sold at will. Previously, there was miasma in the mountains, and they were only regarded as useless barren mountains. Therefore, Zhao Man bought a lot of mountains and forests, and the price was very cheap. Even the one from Liushutun to Fangling The top of the mountain is also Zhao Man's private property now, so he can only pay for it himself if he asks someone to cut it down, and don't think about the government to deal with it.

Now that the miasma has begun to be eradicated, more than [-]% of the entire Fangling is covered with mountains and forests. How can Zhao Man buy them all?Let go of the ones that have been sold, and the remaining mountains and forests still account for the majority, and these can no longer be sold at will. Once the miasma disappears, these mountains will be brought under the management of the imperial court for the benefit of the people.

Afterwards, the annual harvesting will also be managed in accordance with the Mountain Forest Law. From July to February of the next year, the mountains and rivers will be used for recuperation and no felling will be allowed.

Of course, what Zhao Man had already bought was his private property, and the court's laws couldn't control it. It was his own business to do what he wanted.

As for the wood collected now, it will naturally be handled by the government. The good wood will not worry about being sold, such as house construction, furniture furnishings, carriages and sedan chairs, bridges and roads, and livelihood tools, such as looms, waterwheels, and overturned carts. etc., and even the bows, arrows, and continuous crossbows required for combat all require wood.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty attached great importance to overseas trade, and the shipbuilding industry was very developed. These timbers are excellent even if they are bought for shipbuilding.

The imperial court had a special organization for purchasing timber, and because of the timber, there were often disputes at the junction between the Song Dynasty and Tubo in Qinzhou, which shows the importance of timber.

Even if the wood is not good, it can also be used to burn charcoal for heating in winter.It can be said to serve multiple purposes, even if the income from these timbers is used to pay the wages of workers, it is more than enough.

These forest woods in Zhao Man's hands are also classified into different categories and have their own uses, and some of them are specially reserved for firing into activated carbon.

The whole Fangling seems to be in motion. No one knows Yu Miaomiao who first proposed this method. The only one who knows is Zhao Man and Bi Kuo from Fangling Academy. Zhao Man brought him the method written by Yu Miaomiao earlier. After discussing it, the original method was based on rainy and humid conditions, but now a natural disaster has made this move ahead of schedule.

The next few days are still sunny, and the weather is getting hotter.

Zhao Man hadn't gotten out of bed yet, Pioneer had already woken up, he really had the same illness as Li Sijin, his mind was degraded, and he couldn't help but want to get close to Yu Miaomiao, even Doctor Qiu looked at Yu Miaomiao a little differently .

One Li Sijin is abnormal, so what about this one?

Dr. Qiu didn't know anything about the medicine Gu, he had no clue at all, he couldn't figure out why, so he didn't think about it, he just muttered a few words, telling Yu Miaomiao to avoid suspicion!
Yu Miaomiao didn't bother to talk to him now, she just wanted to secretly take a few drops of blood for Pioneer to try, but she gave up the idea, let's cover up the matter of the poisonous poison for now.

Simply, as soon as Zhao Man was able to get out of bed, Dr. Qiu and Xianfeng were sent to the old Miao man to relieve the poison slowly. Dr. Qiu was there to study and take care of him. .

The matter of the gold mine has been arranged, and Zhao Man is not so busy anymore, and basically follows Yu Miaomiao all day long.

The weather was too hot, and Yu Miaomiao didn't want to go out, but stayed at home for a few days.The weather has been abnormal in the past few days, and many people in the village have already made preparations to drill a few more wells in their yards. The wells started to leak water when they were ten meters deep, which reassured many people. There is no shortage of water.

Yu Miaomiao followed suit and dug a well, and ordered the well to be deepened to 15 meters, and the water volume became more abundant, so she gave up.

After staying for a few days, there were several families in the village coming and going all day, which made her see a problem.

"The people who moved to Liushutun these days are all men, young and old, but there are no women. It's too abnormal. Now everyone is busy fighting the drought and has not realized it. If it takes a long time, it will definitely fail."

Zhao Man nodded, it was his negligence, he took care of their food and drink, treatment of sickness, arrangement of life, he was really negligent on this issue.

Yu Miaomiao suggested to him, "Send someone to quietly pick up their family members. Many of these people must not be able to fight anymore. If you want them to live a normal life, they must start a family and marry a wife here." It's okay, how can they all be bachelors, I think some people are familiar with the people in Zaohua Village, maybe there are aunts and sisters-in-law who fancy them as son-in-laws, if you don't speak, who would dare to marry a wife?"

After finishing speaking, he stared at Zhao Man and smiled, "Maybe someone has already cursed you behind your back, so you are allowed to marry a woman, which makes people jealous."

Zhao Man also couldn't laugh or cry, his eyes were hot?Just dragged it to the bed to tidy up, which made people jealous.

But business has to be done. Zhao Man really listened to Yu Miaomiao's suggestion, and quickly gave orders. Although the situation in Fangling is still tense, it won't be too eye-catching to add a few more women and children slowly. .

No matter when, the investigation of women and children is always much more relaxed, and those he puts into the village are all people who have replaced other people's household registrations, and they can also stand the investigation.

"Recently, we need the help of a lot of people to sort out our mountain forest. When the time comes, we can report to the Yamen that we need to recruit workers, which can cover up one or two things."

This matter was settled in this way. At this time, the news came from the mountain. From the terraced fields to the deep mountain, there was a waterfall over a mountain ridge. The pool water under the waterfall did not know which river it flowed into. Someone cut off the water without authorization, fearing that it would affect the amount of water downstream, so they came to ask Yu Miaomiao's opinion.

Yu Miaomiao was overjoyed when she heard the waterfall, she knew that these mountains and forests would surprise her, and they came so soon.

She wants to see the water volume of the waterfall, and then make plans. In addition to water diversion, the waterfall has many uses, such as the most used water power for the waterfall, the water falling from a high place, what a good power this is , can do a lot of things, can save a lot of effort, these mountains are hers, and she can control them as she likes.

Moreover, it was cool in the mountain at this time, so it was regarded as a summer escape, so Yu Miaomiao pestered Zhao Man and went into the mountain.

Yu Miaomiao has never been to the mountains except that she went to the mountains with Zhao Man at night when she was picking up the golden hairpin. This trip was full of great interest, and she sent people to cut down the branches and cleaned up the road. , It was opened for another two days, and the road was relatively clean.

The light in the mountain forest is not very gloomy, and there are wild flowers that have never been seen in the mountain from time to time, and there are many wild mushrooms. There are many, and Yu Miaomiao's heart is full of joy after seeing it, wondering if there is a special staff to harvest the mushrooms?
From time to time, you can see pheasants and wild rabbits running past. This mountain forest that has never been used is really a huge treasure. Yu Miaomiao's mind is full of how to maximize the value of the mountain forest. The more I think about it, the more excited I become , There are countless copper coins flying by in front of her eyes, she is really going to be prosperous!
Along the way, Zhao Man saw her laughing out loud from time to time, he shook his head, he didn't bother her anymore, he went to work on his own.

When Yu Miaomiao came back to his senses, Zhao Man already had two hares and two pheasants in his hands.Just as he was about to stuff the wild rabbit into Yu Miaomiao's arms, he hit a rabbit and remembered that in the palace, he always saw some concubines hugging cats and rabbits. Women should like these little long-haired animals, right?
The rabbit was only hit on the leg by a stone, it was not stained with blood, and it was specially used to curry favor with Yu Miaomiao.

Yu Miaomiao was really happy, she was thinking, there is no shortage of animals in the mountains, how many of them have bred over the years, she touched the trembling little rabbit: "That's right, this rabbit fur can be used as two sets of insoles after processing. The time is right."

Zhao Man froze, looked at Yu Miaomiao who was planning, suddenly the corners of his lips curled up, he couldn't help laughing out loud, he held the two pheasants with one hand, freed his other hand, and embraced the two pheasants. Yu Miaomiao's shoulder, Yu Miaomiao looked up to see him laughing uncontrollably, but it was inexplicable.

However, Zhao Man smiled, she only occasionally saw her curling her lips, when was she so happy?
This smile made her unable to move her eyes away.Zhao Man didn't know when was the last time he laughed out loud. In his memory, it seemed that he had never been so happy before.

Seeing Yu Miaomiao staring at him intently, he felt even more joyful, and put his hand on her shoulders hard, pressing her into his arms.

Listening to his chest rising and falling due to laughter, Yu Miaomiao felt inexplicably happy. If it keeps going like this, it will be a good day.

Zhao Man laughed for a while before he stopped. There was still a smile in his black eyes, and Yu Miaomiao raised his head, but he heard him say without beginning and end: "Very good."

"What's good?" What did she just say?
Zhao Man didn't say a word, this rabbit was used to please her, she wanted to play with it, or get the rabbit fur, whatever she wanted, but Yu Miaomiao thought of getting the fur, which made him inexplicably happy.

His hands had been stained with blood, and his woman was not without blood.Wasn't it because of this idea that he forced Yu Miaomiao to kill chickens and fish?

He thought, even if he went to hell, he would go with her.

"Next time I'll make some good skins for you." Zhao Man restrained his smile, but his eyebrows stretched, and said.

"Yeah." Yu Miaomiao thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and said, "Now the leather is all whole leather, either used to make clothes, or shoes and hats, it's too simple, and it looks like wool with poor quality. , Rabbit hair can’t be sold at a good price, and wool can’t be seen by rich people... It would be great if a woman with good spinning skills could spin these wool and rabbit hair into threads and then weave them into clothes.”

Wool sweaters and wool trousers were essential products in the north in her era, and they were very warm.Now Song Dynasty doesn’t even have cotton, so poor households like Yu’s family only have kapok for winter jackets, which are heavy and not warm. If there are woolen sweaters, they will definitely sell well.

The most important thing is that rich families think wool is cheap and unattractive, and basically no one cares about it, and only poor families wear a sheepskin jacket, so the price is also very low.

Although Yu Miaomiao doesn't know how to spin thread, she still knows several weaving methods.

Thinking about it, her eyes lit up, and she only hated herself for not thinking of this method earlier.

Zhao Man was speechless now, no matter what she said to her, she could find a way to make money, Zhao Man sighed, this woman is really... just like Fang Aonan.

However, he is still seeking truth from facts: "There are not so many sheep in the Central Plains, and the open land is used for farming, where will it be used for grazing?

On the other hand, there are many sheep in Xixia and Tubo. The only way to buy sheep is from the border. Fangling is separated from Tubo by many places such as Yizhou and Yuzhou. , let alone the Liao Kingdom. "

Moreover, these places are the key defensive places of the imperial court, and the supervision is stricter than other places, and they are not within his sphere of influence.

Yu Miaomiao had read the map in the book, and she also had some impressions. Fangling was indeed located too centrally, and it was also very close to Bianjing. It was really rare to be able to hide here.

When Zhao Man said this, Yu Miaomiao calmed down. Although she was a little regretful, she thought that there were other ways to do it in the mountains and forests, so she suppressed the regret. The sound of rushing water.

(End of this chapter)