Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 33 Crazy land reclamation ([-])
After the banquet, Huang Sihao invited Qu Yuanrui to the guest room to rest. It can be seen that the Huang family's attitude towards Qu Yuanrui is indeed different.

Huang Laifu was also tired, so he went back to his original room in Qianhu House to rest.

After Huang Laifu and Qu Yuanrui went to rest, Huang Sihao, Yang Shi, and Gu Qianhu were still in the main room. They were not sleepy, and they were all talking about Huang Laifu and Qu Yuanrui's cooperation in reclaiming the fields next year.Gu Yunniang pretended to be indifferent on the surface, but in fact she was still by Yang's side, pricking up her ears to listen carefully to the conversation of the adults.

The girl's heart is actually quite complicated. In the past, Gu Yunniang always held a disdainful attitude towards Huang Laifu, complaining that Huang Laifu was not making progress, but now Huang Laifu has made progress, and it is still a reborn progress, especially today Huang Laifu said that this kind of investment is tens of thousands Gu Yunniang was shocked by the big event of two silver coins, but she became a little worried in her heart.

If things continue like this, Huang Laifu's achievements may be limitless in the future, but she feels a little inferior. Will she be able to match him in the future?Will there be other women to seduce him then?This kind of small thought is in Gu Yunniang's heart, but she can't tell others, which makes her feel a little depressed.

No one knew what was on her mind, and the adults in the main room were discussing it in full swing.Everyone expressed their views on the matter, and everyone became an expert.

After Huang Sihao said a few words, he couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart, stood up, and walked slowly in the room.

Yang said: "Ah, old man, don't walk around, it will make you dizzy."

She sighed: "Here I am, after going out for a while, I have improved a lot. But suddenly I have improved too much. A major event of tens of thousands of taels of silver is done as soon as it is said to be done, which makes the old man feel a little uneasy."

Huang Sihao turned to Gu Qianhu and said, "Brother Shi, do you think Laifu is sure about this matter?"

Gu Qianhu caressed his beard and murmured: "We have all seen the waterwheels and other things made by Nephew Laifu. According to the irrigation capacity of those waterwheels, even if hundreds of thousands of acres of land will be reclaimed next year, there will be water for irrigation everywhere, and the production will be improved." It is also normal to have hundreds of thousands of stones in grain, and at the worst, it will not lose money."

Yang sighed and said, "That's good. In fact, it doesn't matter if you lose money. Anyway, the money you lose is due to the manager of the canal. Old man, I remember that Laifu didn't invest money in it?"

Huang Sihao said: "I only gave Laifu 200 taels of silver, where did he get the money to invest?"

Then he said again: "Women are just timid and afraid of getting into trouble. Before doing something, they think about losing money. It's really a woman's hair that is long and short-sighted."

Yang scolded him and said, "How knowledgeable are you? Seeing how trembling you are, how much better than me?"

After talking for a while, everyone went to sleep contentedly. As for whether they would suffer from insomnia at night, that was another question.

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Early the next morning, Huang Laifu hadn't woken up yet.Deputy He Qianhu, Jiang Baihu, and Yang Baihu came to the door.

It turned out that after everyone went back, when they talked about this with their family members, they were all so excited and excited that they couldn't sleep well all night.The next morning, Deputy He got up from Qianhu, intending to visit Huang Sihao at Qianhuzhai. When he walked to the street, he found that Jiang Baihu and Yang Baihu had also come to Qianhuzhai. It turned out that everyone was the same. thought, they came together together.

Seeing Huang Sihao, talking about this matter, Fu Qianhu said: "Master Huang, after discussing this matter with Young Master Huang yesterday, when I got home, my heart was always beating, up and down, you are five The backbone of the fortress, tell me, can we do this?" Jiang Baihu and Yang Baihu all echoed, their expressions could not hide their excitement and apprehension.

Huang Sihao showed disapproval on the surface, and said: "Masters, don't worry, my son has already told me about this matter, and the matter of tens of thousands of taels of silver is not a big deal, everyone can just wait at ease. By the end of next year, everyone will have a good harvest."

Then everyone left with peace of mind, He Fuqianhu and Jiang Baihu admired the calmness of Mr. Qianhu, no wonder he was Qianhu, and he was only deputy Qianhu and Baihu.

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Qu Yuanrui is also a vigorous and resolute person. On the second day, he negotiated the details of the matter with Huang Laifu and signed the contract. On the third day, he took a carriage to Kelanzhou Bank to collect money. Half of his money was deposited in Kelan In the bank of Lanzhou.

At this time, although there were many money houses in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, the cashing of money by the money houses in various places was limited to the local area. The banknotes for exchanging money in other places did not appear until the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. Shipped by Escort.

Qu Yuanrui went to the bank in Kelanzhou to exchange the silver. After Huang Sihao knew about it, he specially sent thirty servants to protect his safety, mainly to protect the safety of the silver.

Ten days later, Qu Yuanrui came back from Kelan Prefecture with twenty thousand taels of silver.These 200 taels of silver are equivalent to [-] million yuan in later generations, which can be regarded as a huge sum of money.

Huang Laifu, Huang Sihao and all the military officers of Wuzhai Fort went to the gate of the fort to welcome Qu Yuanrui and his party.They also specially found a place in Wuzhai Fort near Qianhu House, and gave it to Qu Yuanrui as a hall.

With money, it will be easier to do things, Huang Laifu is full of pride and ready to do a big job.

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. First, Huang Laifu must prepare the tools for reclaiming the fields.For these, the military craftsmen of Wuzhaibao will be used.

January [-], [-] AD.Today is Xiaohan.

Accompanied by He Fuqianhu, Qu Yuanrui and Yang Steward, Huang Laifu summoned Liu Zongqi and other military craftsmen.

These days, the news that Huang Laifu will reclaim hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Wuzhai Fort was reported by He Fuqianhu and others.

All the military households in Wuzhaibao were dumbfounded when they heard this. Hundreds of thousands of acres of land was an astronomical figure for them.But then they were all looking forward to it, thinking that if they wanted to reclaim so much land, then Young Master Huang would need even more people.

Some time ago, Huang Laifu hired military craftsmen from Wuzhaibao and the new methods he adopted for Huang’s farm gave them a lot of hope. Seeing others fed and clothed, these unemployed military households were all envious Gotta drool.

The same is true for Liu Zongqi and other military craftsmen. They have worked for Huang Laifu for more than a month, making waterwheels and other things. Everyone is full, and they also eat real big fat every few days. Afterwards, they went home with five buckets of moon food, and the wives and children at home also drank hot porridge. This kind of good life made them feel like a dream.Walking on the street is always proud, straight back.

Seeing Huang Laifu summoning them again at this time, Liu Zongqi and the others felt apprehensive and expectant.A few days ago, Huang Laifu was going to reclaim the land of Wuzhai Fort, of course they also heard about it, but when the matter came to an end, Young Master Huang called them here today, which still made them feel a little uneasy.

Deputy He Qianhu said: "Everyone be quiet, please speak to Young Master Huang." He smiled and said to Huang Laifu: "Young Master, everyone is here, please."

Huang Laifu nodded, and raised his voice to Liu Zongqi and other military craftsmen: "A while ago, I hired everyone to make waterwheels and other things. I have seen everyone's performance. Everyone has done a good job. Next After I come down, I will continue to hire everyone. Presumably everyone has heard these days that I and the shopkeeper Qu jointly developed the wasteland of Wuzhai Fort. Here, I want to tell everyone that the time I will hire you will be longer. For two years, the treatment is the same as before, basically five buckets of monthly rations, but in order to better encourage everyone to do things, I will imitate what I did in Datianzhuang some time ago and set up some rewards and punishments."

When all the military craftsmen heard this, they were all agitated for a while, everyone was happy and worried at the same time.Happily, they were hired again by First Young Master Huang for two years, which showed that in the next two years, they would all have enough to eat.What is disturbing is that I don't know what Huang Laifu's reward and punishment measures will be like next.

Huang Laifu said: "It's the same as the reward and punishment measures I set up in the farm. I will punish the lazy and reward the hardworking. I will divide the military craftsmen according to their skills. The monthly payment of each military craftsman is different. The tools produced and processed by Liangjia every month shall prevail, and more work will pay more. In addition, the tools produced by each person shall be recorded with a record number. If there is any quality problem with any tool, this person must be the only one to ask.”

The craftsmen and military craftsmen of Ming Dynasty have always had little enthusiasm for work due to their low salary. Of course, the quality of the things they make is not high-quality. I am afraid that they will be a little lax and underestimate the quality issue, so it is necessary to come up with some regulations in advance.

All the military craftsmen agreed awe-inspiringly and did not dare to neglect.In the end, Huang Laifu asked them to sign a contract with Steward Yang. They could ask Steward Yang for more specific treatment, and all the military craftsmen surrounded Steward Yang with excitement.

After recruiting the military craftsmen, Huang Laifu met with the tenants under his Huang family name. In addition to the 50 people in the Huang family's big farm, there were hundreds of other tenants in the Huang family.

(End of this chapter)