Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 270
Huang Laifu was welcomed by the elders of Hulin Village, accompanied by Chen Feng and Wu Zhifei, the eunuch of Guanzhuang, and came to the Shenming Pavilion. Azhi, Gu Dadao and other family members guarded behind him.

In the pavilion, Huang Laifu glanced at the crowd below. Hulin Village was all tenant farmers in the Huangzhuang Village.Because they didn't know their future fate, everyone looked a little uneasy, and looked at the tough servants behind Huang Laifu from time to time.At the same time, he looked curiously at the boxes and cloth bags beside some servants, not knowing what was inside.

Huang Laifu looked at these people. The poverty of the villagers in Hulin can be seen at a glance. Many people are dressed in shabby clothes, with disheveled faces, and the surrounding houses are also low.Compared with the people in the villages and county towns along the way, life is obviously much more difficult.

In fact, the tax amount set by Huangzhuang was originally not high, comparable to that of other people's fields, and there was no need to pay government taxes, so life could be better.It's just because most of the Guanzhuang eunuchs are greedy, not to mention gathering followers, living luxuriously and filling their own pockets.In order to maintain this kind of life, after various apportionments were increased, the land tax and rent of Huangzhuang became higher and higher. Coupled with various disasters, the poor life of the tenant farmers can be predicted.

Huang Laifu looked at the crowd slowly, and Wu Zhifei, the eunuch of Guanzhuang, said loudly to the crowd: "I think everyone knows that this is Huang Laifu Huang Dajunmen who came down from Beijing. Everyone knows Huangjunmen. His old man lives in Wei Town, Shanxi Town. Outside the Great Wall, several times the leader of the army beat those Tartars and Japanese and fled. What's more, his old man's ability to manage farmland and workshops is known as the God of Grain and the God of Wealth. Everyone has heard that Mr. Shu said about these things in books and sang newspapers. , I won’t say much. Now Huang Junmen is entrusted by the emperor to come to our Hulin Village to take over the local Huangzhuang. My Eunuch Wu is also helping me. Everyone knows Huang Junmen’s skills. From now on, I will obediently listen to his old man’s words, and everyone will do what he says, and wait for a good life. If anyone is disobedient, he will just make trouble with the surname Wu, and I, Eunuch Wu, will not let him go.”

What he said made everyone happy and scared, and everyone nodded in obedience.

After Wu Zhifei finished speaking, he smiled at Huang Laifu and said, "Huang Junmen, what would you like to say to everyone?"

Huang Laifu nodded, and said to Ah Zhi who was beside him: "Ah Zhi, tell everyone to distribute the property to the elders in the hometown."

A Zhi responded, and ordered the servants to open the boxes and cloth bags beside them. There were mostly rice, noodles, cooking oil, cloth and fine wine in them.A Zhilang said: "My lord said that when we first arrived in Guizhou, there is nothing for the villagers. We have prepared some rice noodles and cloth. I hope everyone will not be disgusted."

There was a commotion among the crowd below, they didn't expect Huang Laifu to have such benefits when he came, everyone was overjoyed.Chen Feng and Wu Zhifei looked at each other, thinking that Huang Laifu, who is called the God of Wealth, is really generous, and he prepared generous gifts for the villagers as soon as he came, so he was rich and powerful.After receiving these gifts, these villagers must be happy for at least a few months.

Chen Fengdao: "Huang Junmen has rewarded him generously, and everyone hasn't thanked him, old man?"

Everyone below kowtowed one after another, adults, children and women all said one after another: "Thank you Huang Junmen, thank you Huang Junmen, Huang Junmen is a high-ranking, long-lived one hundred years..."

Old man Xu Chengde cupped his hands to Huang Laifu and said, "Huang Junmen has given you a generous gift. On behalf of all the villagers in Hulin Village, I thank you sir."

Huang Laifu nodded with a smile. Afterwards, Ah Zhi and Gu Dadao led the servants to distribute rice noodles and cloth to the villagers one by one. Everyone came up in turn, and everyone had a share.During this process, Chen Feng was fine, while Wu Zhifei and his fellow Zhuang bosses watched enviously and whispered, although Huang Laifu had promised them future benefits, but seeing Huang Laifu making money in front of them, they still looked at it. I feel itchy.

After distributing the presents, Huang Laifu coughed, and the pavilion became quiet. Huang Laifu said, "Laifu was entrusted by the emperor, and came to Hulin Village to manage the local Huangzhuang affairs. Yu Wanji met in person and inquired about Laifu Zhuangtian. Laifu deeply felt the great kindness of the emperor. There are many rivers in the territory of Gyeonggi, but over the years, it is very easy to be short of years, drought when there is little, waterlogging when there is little rain, frequent hail disasters and early frost and early killing of crops, and water conservancy is difficult to repair, and the fields are very easy to fail. Therefore, for the Huangzhuang Village of Hulin Village Land, Laifu has his own calculations, and the villagers are called here today for this purpose."

Of course, the Hulin villagers know about these things, and they are concerned about other issues. The old man Xu Chengde said: "I heard that the military gate is going to imitate the land of Hulin Village to Wuzhaibao, and implement the farm settlement system. The old man is not talented, I also read the "Wuzhaibao News" and got a little experience. What the villagers want to know is, if we follow the example of Wuzhaibao, will the military sect hire us for a long time in the future, and what will happen to those surplus people? Huang Jun Open the door, the villagers of Hulin Village have lived here for a hundred years, they are all old and young, and if there is no field work, everyone will not be able to survive."

All the people below said: "Yes, yes, please forgive me."

Huang Laifu smiled and said: "Fellow folks, don't worry. Since you know the "Wuzhaibao News", you also know that in my Wuzhaibao, as long as they are hardworking and willing to work, there is no one who can't survive. In fact, they are Life is getting better and better, so there must be no lazy people in Hulin Village? And why should I imitate Wuzhaibao Farm in Hulin Village? As you all know, natural disasters are constantly happening now, and everyone is single-family, and it is really incapable of coping Disasters. Only by implementing large farms, concentrating everyone's manpower and material resources, diligently repairing water conservancy, installing water trucks, and using good seeds and fertilizers, can the next year's harvest be guaranteed."

"Of course, like Wuzhaibao, with large farms and advanced farm tools, there will naturally be some surplus. But don't worry, people don't have to live in this world. Farming is not the only way. Huangzhuang in Yongan Township, and even Wanping County, will build a large number of workshops and factories. We can also set up vegetable gardens, pig farms, chicken farms, plant fruit trees, etc., which will require a lot of manpower. Not only local No one will be unemployed, and a large number of people need to be recruited from outside. And everyone's life will get better and better in the future."

What he said made the villagers' blood boil, they talked a lot, and all their worries were gone.With the example of Wuzhaibao, Huang Laifu's words are naturally very persuasive.Even Eunuch Wu and others were very excited. The boldness and grandeur in Huang Laifu's words made them very excited. They deeply felt their previous views of being a frog in a well, and also felt the bright prospect of cooperation between themselves and Huang Laifu.As for Ah Zhi and Gu Dadao, they also looked at Huang Laifu with admiration, thinking that their adults were amazing.

This is what happened in Hulin Village. After dealing with the matter in Hulin Village, within a few days, Huang Laifu inspected the land of other villages in Sangonghuangzhuang in Yong'an Township, Wanping County. intention.

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"Huang Junmen, our Fanyang Bureau, has 350 households and 520 livestock households, allocating 34 hectares of 470 acres of grass land for livestock, and has 620 geese and 540 ducks. , 12 chickens. However, every year, Guanglu Temple needs to use 240 geese, 260 ducks, 75 chickens, 950 long-line chickens, and [-] eggs bred by this department. Taichang Temple needs to bring in [-] new geese, [-] pheasants, [-] tender chickens, [-] duck eggs, and [-] eggs every year. In addition, there are also [-] goose yellows and duck yellows in the palace every year. [-] chickens, [-] yellow chickens, [-] hens, [-] goose eggs, and [-] duck eggs."

"Huang Junmen, our Jia Vegetable Department, has 110 growers, allocating 99 hectares, 22 mu, 96 cents, 29 cents and 13 cents of land for planting vegetables. Later, due to the construction of the department's Tucheng goose house, it covers an area of ​​580 hectares and 24 Ten mu, [-] hectares, [-] mu, [-] cents and [-] cents. Every year, our department will supply [-] three catties of palace vegetables, and [-] vegetables for Guanglu Temple One hundred catties, seven stones and eight buckets of mustard seeds."

"Huang Junmen, our Good Animal Husbandry Department, has 470 six grazing households, allocating 390 hectares, 560 mu, 920% of pastures and other land for grazing livestock. Currently, there are grazing cattle, sheep and pigs. 560, including 68 cattle, 240, 81 sheep, and 460 pigs. Every year, Guanglu Temple needs to use [-] cattle, [-] sheep, and [-] lambs bred by this department. There are [-] Changxing salted pigs, and [-] pork pigs for the Zhengdan Winter Solstice Festival. [-] six catties and four liang of wool will also be sent to the T-shaped warehouse of the Neifu. Taichang Temple uses [-] live rabbits from Xiangtai Temple every year. In addition, this department collects [-] five taels of silver every year, two cents, six cents, five ten cents, eight cents, and eight cents, so that it can be sent to the household department and transferred to the comprador of Guanglu Temple for the supply of pigs, sheep and cattle."

"Huang Junmen, our Forestry and Balance Administration, has 980 households for planting, and 130 hectares, [-] mu, [-] cents and [-] centimeter of land for planting fruit trees and flowers..."

At this time, Huang Laifu and others were in the Xishan area near Beijing. After returning from Wanping County, Huang Laifu came to the place under the supervision of the Shanglinyuan Supervision Office without stopping.This Shanglin Yuanjian is the vegetable basket of the imperial palace. It was built in the fifth year of Yongle. Bingjian and Diancha, the left and right front and back ten departments.

In the tenth year of Xuande, it was designated as Liangmu, Fanyu, Lin Heng, and Jiashu.Among the various departments, the Good Animal Husbandry Department mainly herds cattle, sheep and pigs, the Breeding Department raises geese, ducks and chickens, the Forestry and Balance Department grows fruit trees and flowers, and the Jia Vegetable Department grows melons and vegetables.Most of the orchards of the various departments are located near Beijing, such as Baihe, Xishan, Wuqing, Juyongguan, Hunhe and other places. There are also several orchards in Wanping County.

Right now, by Huang Laifu's side is the right supervisor of Shanglin Yuanjian, and the eunuchs in charge of several departments.Emperor Wanli was a curious person. Wuzhaibao ran a large livestock farm, with tens of thousands of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, as well as numerous vegetable gardens and orchards. He was always very profitable. He was naturally envious and wanted Huang Laifu to see it. Why does my own Shanglin Yuanjian produce so little.

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