Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 320

In the entire northern mountainous area of ​​Yizhou, more than 200 miles from north to south and more than 100 miles from east to west, there are seven towns, of which Baiyanji is the southernmost one.Watershed Ji is a town shop north of Baiyan Ji, and it is also a small town shop in the mountains. More than a dozen nearby villages come here for the market.

There was a big landlord in River Valley Village, surnamed Chen, called Chen Si, known as Chen Siye, and he was a fat man with a big belly.

Chen Si's family has 3000 mu of land, of which only [-] mu are good land, and they hired long-term workers to grow it themselves.The remaining [-] mu of sandy land was leased to tenants.This year's monthly harvest was low, and the rent was as high as [-]%. Apart from the imperial court's taxes, ordinary tenants had nothing to eat.

The year before last, there was a drought.

Chen Si did not reduce the rent at all, and even beat the tenants. Most of the tenants suffered minor injuries, so they endured it.

There was a tenant whose harvest was extremely bad, and someone in the family was sick, so he begged Chen Siye to delay paying the rent for a year.Chen Siye disagreed, and a quarrel broke out, and the tenant was beaten to death.

One is the tenant and the other is the owner.It turned out that the county magistrate took advantage of it and made a big reversal, saying that the tenant fell to his death by himself, but it was at Chen Siye's house, and Chen Siye paid three taels of silver for the coffin book, so the matter is over.

Fourth Master Chen had long forgotten about this matter, but the children of the tenant family always remembered it. As soon as the county magistrate changed, they immediately sued Fourth Master Chen.

At noon that day, Fourth Master Chen happened to go out with the birdcage in his hands, and a group of horses came, all of them unfamiliar faces.

One of the leaders asked, "Is your name Chen Si?"

"Yes, it's me."

"Well, come with us, the case of you beating someone to death has been announced." Fourth Master Chen was also taken away.

"I am friends with the magistrate, you have made a mistake." Chen Si shouted.

"Take it away." The police quickly took Chen Si away, and took away a dozen nursing homes who participated in the beating.

Linheji is a relatively affluent place in the mountainous area, because most people have dogs and sheep here.The so-called dogs and sheep refer to white goats that are as big as a native dog, weigh thirty to forty catties, and give birth to three or four in one litter.But there was a bully buying and selling dogs and sheep who bullied the market, and more than [-] people were all arrested.

County government office, study room.

Chai Lin, Zhu Wu, and Chen Zhuang are researching. The entire county is registered with seven large towns and 120 villages.The total population is 15. I don't know the exact number. There is no accurate statistics. Anyway, the area is large, sparsely populated, and there are many tigers and wolves. In autumn, winter and spring, wild wolves roam everywhere.

The new official took office three fires, the first fire is this law and order, within ten days arrested more than 600 people of all kinds, stealing chickens, petting dogs, stealing sheep, stealing cattle, robbery, bullying the market, picking flowers , Stealing willows, etc., are some issues that have a great impact on rural stability.

Chen frame said: "Vendor owner, military adviser, are there too many people caught this time, maybe there are more than a dozen who are beheaded."

Chai Lin shook his hand and said, "We are not arresting people blindly, but we started the investigation two months before you came to take office. If you want the government order to go smoothly, you must slap hard at the first time. Only sweet dates can be sweet. The local tyrants are very powerful, and they don’t like to obey, if we don’t clean up our government orders, there’s no way to get through them.”

Chen frame didn't understand this, but he still had the basic ability. He started to handle cases and went through hundreds of people one by one.A few of the heinous ones were sentenced to be cut in autumn, and the others were sent to the quarry in their own county to mine stones.

The entire mountainous area is divided into seven towns, with each town as the center, and several gentry are appointed.What I did was to build county roads. Since it happened to be the slack season in autumn, one out of every three people was drawn. Not only men, but also women could participate. Rural women did not have the habit of binding their feet, and their work was no worse than that of men.

There are only 15 people in the entire county, and 5 people have been requisitioned to build roads. This is also a huge cost. Originally, most of the narrow roads are roads for unicycles, but now two horse-drawn carriages are required to run side by side.

Chai Lin also made a big investment, and transferred 300 carbon steel shovels and [-] picks from Chaijiazhuang.Of course, this was not given for nothing. It was purchased with money from a special development fund of [-] million taels of silver, and it was transferred from left to right.

Anyone above the age of 55 who comes to the construction site to participate in labor can get one. Of course, this is borrowed. If you have worked for more than ten days, the shovel and pickaxe are yours.These two farm tools cost at least two hundred copper coins, which mobilized all the enthusiasm at once, which is a real benefit.

The road to be built is [-] miles long, and the compensation for land acquisition is not high, because the custom at that time was to fill the land with land, because there was a lot of wasteland, which took up your land, and the government turned around and reclaimed a piece of wasteland in the village for compensation. You, in this way you have a lot of land, and you also took a sum of money to open up wasteland.

At the Baiyan construction site, Wu Song led the police to patrol back and forth every day. Thousands of people were building roads. Safety was a big problem. In a few days, dozens of wild wolves were hunted and killed.

Just in time for lunch, Chailin brought people over to check.

This construction site is three miles long, with three hundred strong men, both men and women, and there are five or six big pots for cooking.

Just happened to meet Yan Laoqi, and Chai Lin asked: "Old man, how is the food on this construction site? Can you get enough?"

"Being able to eat, being able to eat is much better than I imagined. The staple food is the steamed buns delivered by the steamed bun workshop. The dishes are made by the construction site."

Chai Lin saw that it was really good. The big pot of pickles was brought from the Chaijiazhuang Pickle Factory.The cabbage tofu stewed in a big pot has enough oil and salt.

Every day is the most common and common things such as steamed buns, pickles, green vegetables and radishes, sorghum porridge, and ginger soup. It is no problem to eat enough. For the people in poor mountainous areas, this is already an excellent life.

Chai Lin said: "Let me ask everyone, who is it convenient for when the road is repaired?"

"What's convenient for all of us, for our common people, the propaganda team will talk about it every day." Someone replied.

"That's right, if you want to get rich, build the road first. When the road is built, the official may come to see it, but he has a lot of work in the yamen, so it is impossible to walk this road every day, but you are different, go to the market to sell things and buy things. Everything has to go this way. Carrying things on the shoulders is tiring, not to mention not much. In the future, many people will have large mule carts, and they will go to the market to pull goods and crops. It will be convenient for you. .

Yan Laoqi said: "That's the truth, but I don't agree with what you said that many people have big mule carts. How can it be possible? We are in a mountainous area, and we are very poor. Planting wheat on one mu of land means harvesting two hundred catties , the farmers with big mules have all gone outside the mountain.”

"That's because they are short-sighted. I also want to tell you a very good news. The grain yield of thousands of catties per mu is coming. The county magistrate Mr. Chen will soon start to promote it. Many farmers will plant new grain in the spring. Planted on hillsides, the yield per mu can reach several thousand catties," said Chai Lin.

"We've all heard that it's called sweet potatoes, which can be eaten as rice and raised for pigs. It's three or four thousand catties per mu. Even seedlings are good things. There's also a potato, which can be used as rice, vegetables, and processed. The yield of vermicelli is three to four thousand catties per mu. These two things can be eaten by a family on one mu of sandy land on the mountain. But we don’t believe it, so it’s impossible. But our new Mr. Chen is a good man, Catch all the thieves and thieves who harmed the people. Let us work and give us a set of picks and shovels. After 20 days of work, these two tools will be mine." A strong man said happily.He is very satisfied with the tools in his hand.

"Facts will always prove, and we will see the outcome next autumn. In addition, the county government has started recruiting young men for land reclamation in the past few days. Those who have surplus labor at home can go. The monthly salary of several hundred cash will gradually increase. The commercial bank will also give We sell small pigs on credit, teach you breeding skills, and help you sell big pigs," said Chai Lin.

After all, this place is not near Chaijiazhuang, and Chai Lin's reputation is not that great, so it is half-believed, and most of the strong men are too drunk to be Chai Lin.

A strong man said: "How can there be such a good thing? Don't all pig sellers pay in cash?"

Yan Laoqi said: "This is true, don't you believe it. More than 300 mu of land at the foot of a barren mountain north of Baiyan has now been built into a black pig breeding farm. In the spring, I bought two sows from my house, and then I went to work on a pig farm for two months and earned 300 yuan. The pig farm has grown to a large size, with thousands of pigs, and there are more than [-] sows alone. If you think about it, one sow gives birth every year. How many piglets."

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