Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

Because he is not an agricultural expert, Lin Yuan only knows that sweet potatoes are annual crops, that is, they only mature once a year. They are usually sown in the three months of March, April and May, and harvested in October. Sweet potatoes are the 21st year of Wanli. The work that I entered, introduced from Fujian, not only tastes good, but also adapts to barren land. It can be eaten raw or cooked, and the output is very large. In ancient times, there were "one acre and dozens of stones, and Shengzhonggu 20 Times".

As for potatoes, they are already growing seedlings, just in time for the end of November, and they can be harvested from January to March of the following year.

However, potatoes are planted in different regions. The planting time and harvest time are different in different places. In some places, they are planted in April and May and harvested in autumn.

Lin Yuan can only plant a small portion at the end of November. If it doesn't work, plant it in April or May.

As for the remaining potatoes and sweet potatoes, they are kept in the cellar, and people are sent to see them every day, and they must be kept dry to avoid mold.

However, those old crops are more aware of these things than Lin Yuan, so Lin Yuan is basically a hand-off shopkeeper except for occasional visits.

The farmers are old farmers who were found by Lin Yuan. Most of them are over forty years old. They have served the crops almost from the time they can go to the ground. With experience, they have their own ways of removing insects or fertilizing. However, since they were called to the "Agricultural Bureau" by Lin Yuan, their exclusive methods have been made public.

They were asked to sort out all their experiences and talks, it didn't matter if they couldn't read words, someone remembered it.

Then they sent people to the village to do propaganda and teaching activities.

In the past, people did not have the conditions to promote some planting experience and technology, because the transportation was not developed and the villages were relatively closed. Now Lin Yuan is forcibly breaking the barriers between the villages, and each village has to send people to the demonstration village to learn the experience.

Lin Yuan will give rewards for learning well.

Lin Yuan also encourages the breeding industry. Most people choose to raise ducks. Few chickens and geese are raised.

There is no feed at this time. Ducks can be released for the shortest time, 14 months for chickens, seven or eight months for geese, and shortest for ducks, which can be released for over three months and four months.

Farmers have the wisdom of farmers, and they all raise livestock. Of course, it will be effective in a short period of time.

No way, Lin Yuan could only gather people to build duck houses and chicken houses.

Geese are relatively free and free range.

Since arriving in Taizhou and Gaoyou, Lin Yuan has no longer adopted the system of big pot rice. After all, the current situation is not very bad. When food reserves are sufficient, people owning private property will increase productivity.

Big pot of rice is more suitable for times of famine.

The big pot rice system was implemented in Zhuangzi before.

The way to promote people's productivity is to reward.

Just like choosing labor models in the famine years in my country, we set up labor models and encourage people to work hard.

Lin Yuan went to get the smallest sweet potatoes and potatoes, and after they were steamed, he asked a few henchmen to come over and eat them.

Except for Lin Yuan, no one has seen these two crops. Their enthusiasm for potatoes is not as high as for sweet potatoes. After all, sweet potatoes have a sweet taste. Now that there is basically no sweet food, they are even more attractive.

Lin Yuan asked them: "Do you know what the yield per mu is for these two items?"

Several people guessed a few numbers respectively, Lin Yuan smiled and shook his head: "There are dozens of stones per mu."

Both Yang Zi'an and Zhu Yuanzhang were born in chuang households. Although Zhu Yuanzhang is a cattle herder, his family also farms. Naturally, he knows how terrifying this number is.

Lin Yuan also said: "They have very low environmental requirements, and they can be grown on barren land."

Song Shizhao said excitedly: "My boss, it can be seen that this is a foretaste of God!"

Lin Yuan was inexplicable: "What does it indicate?"

Song Shizhao: "These two, there are countless living people, it is the owner's credit. There are times two things, so why worry about the world's hearts and minds! The owner! This is the east wind!"

Dongfeng?

I still have a whiteboard.

Lin Yuan knew that Song Shizhao was thinking of letting him be a god stick again.

"Director Song, it will be postponed for now." Lin Yuan felt that he had enough eye-catching now. Two more crops with high yields per acre are easy to grow, but they attract more attention. He doesn't want to pay back When you don't grow up, you get a lot of ideas.

"When the first batch is harvested next year, it will be given to the people as seeds." Lin Yuan said.

Song Shizhao: "Exactly."

Yang Zian asked, "If it spreads out..."

Lin Yuan said calmly, "Then spread it out."

Everyone looked surprised.

But after eating, it will be normal, yes, how can they forget that the person in front of them is still that bodhisattva-hearted.

Maybe others will be selfish in this world, but he will not.

Lin Yuan knew what they were thinking by looking at their expressions, but Lin Yuan would not expose it.

Let yourself maintain a shining image in their minds.

The first reason why I am willing to spread it out is that I can live more people, even if it is the enemy’s people, the people are innocent, the heroes in troubled times gather together, in addition to their own ambitions, they should have planned for the people, otherwise they should be leaders. Why is it better to be a bandit?

The second is to gather people's hearts.

Just like what Song Shizhao said, the people have always had milk and are their mothers, and the world is far away from them. Most of them are ignorant and all they want is to live well.

They now know very little about Taizhou and Gaoyou, the most, that is, they know that these two places are occupied by the South Bodhisattva, and they heard that the people inside can eat.

Once the potatoes and sweet potatoes spread, not only the living people, but also to gather people's hearts. When they become stronger, the benefits of these two things will not only increase the population.

Lin Yuan sometimes thinks that he hadn't been a good person in his previous life, and he still has a chance to be a good person in this life.

Although this good person is also full of selfishness, as long as the result is good, who can say that he is not a good person?

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"It's about to start a fire, it's cold to death." Lin Basan rubbed his hands, breathed out a mouthful of white mist, wrapped the straw woolen clothes tightly, and sat down on a low stool, asking his colleagues to raise the fire. There is not much charcoal distributed, so it is important to use it.

My colleague was Dong Liuwu. He was also a carpenter. He was lame on one leg, so he didn't move easily. He worked in the wood factory all day long. He barely walked outside except commuting.

Lin Basan was on fire while waiting for his colleagues to come to work.

Because of his quick work, he was promoted to director, and he also supervised the carpenter Bailai, who came every day earlier than others.

Dong Wuliu slowly took out the charcoal, waited for the charcoal to burn, and asked, "How did your team perform this month?"

When Lin Basan heard Dong Wuliu mentioning this, his face couldn't help but smile: "The target is completed."

Their work is very complicated, they have to make pallets, furniture, and some gadgets, and sometimes they have to go to build a house.

Lin Yuan asked them to build a house without nails, but it was not a real house, but a scaled down similar figure.

They had to make three in a month, and they couldn’t look the same. At first, they really didn’t know what to do. After all, they weren’t descendants of Luban. Although Luban is the ancestor, ordinary carpenters can make a bed. , A screen and furniture are good, most of them have just heard of the tenon and tenon structure.

Lin Yuan was not able to search for high-level talents who really understood the tenon and tenon structure and had considerable research skills.

Only train them.

After all, the population is increasing, and the city must be expanded. The cost of brick and tile houses is too high, but the combined and spliced ​​tenon-and-mortise structure house can reduce the cost and construction time-just can’t ignite an open flame. Layers of soil and cement, there are patrols every night to ensure safety.

Lin Basan took a sip of hot water and said emotionally: "At this time last year, I was still digging grass roots to eat."

Dong Wuliu said: "Who is not? I was the leg that broke at that time."

The two looked at each other and both smiled.

Lin Basan also said with a look of longing: "I'm still going to have a baby with my mother-in-law, maybe I can take it next year.

"Then I have to come and drink the full moon wine at that time." Dong Wuliu, "Look at me, the shadow of the mother-in-law can't be seen, it's better for you."

Lin Basan laughed: "My parents ordered it for me."

There are three brothers in the family. He is the youngest, but they all died. He is the only one who survived.

When he was twelve years old, his parents used all the savings in the family to find him a daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law's family was poor, and he wanted to keep the daughter-in-law in her natal house until she was fourteen.

After all, a girl from a peasant family must learn to work when she can walk, she must be able to do farm work, and she must also be able to do housework and take her younger siblings. Her family keeps her so that she can work for the family for a few more years.

Lin Basan was the first in his village to marry a daughter-in-law. Their village is not rich. There are so many old bachelors in their 20s and 30s. He still remembers that on the day he married his wife, he rarely put on new clothes and waited for the matchmaker to bring new ones. Wife comes here.

The daughter-in-law was holding a package with some old clothes inside. In order to make her more decent, she wore new clothes when she went out.

She is not pretty, but she is a very good wife.

Married him for more than ten years and gave him three sons and a daughter.

Lin Basan thought of this, his eyes were a little moist, and the four children and two sons died.

The eldest son and the youngest daughter survived, but they did not survive the trek.

His parents starved to death in order to save some food for their grandson.

But even so, the children failed to keep it.

He remembered that he buried his son and daughter, but when he saw it the next day, the soil where the child was buried was dug up and there was nothing below.

Lin Basan rushed to Dong Wuliu and said: "The better the days go by. When you save some money, you will find a matchmaker."

Dong Wuliu smiled: "I'm a lame, it's not easy to drag people down."

The two did not speak. At this age, the lame is unlikely to marry a daughter-in-law unless he is particularly rich.

The two chatted for a while, when someone came to work one after another, Lin Basan stood up and started to work with the people in his team.

In addition to their busyness, other people who are not in the wood factory are also very busy. Although winter is here, there is still a lot of work to be done. In order to have a better life next year, Lin Yuan asked people to expand the city, that is, to build the outer city. The first plan was the road. This didn't require Lin Yuan to be busy. Someone would take care of these tasks. The merchants were especially enthusiastic. They always wanted to shine wherever Lin Yuan could see.

Taizhou and Gaoyou were originally rich places. They not only brought back the craftsmen, but also the things outside.

No matter how chaotic the world is, it will not affect the merchants’ earning money. So Lin Yuan established a chamber of commerce for the merchants. Every member of the chamber of commerce can get a certificate of identity. They must guarantee the market price, that is, the price is determined by their purchasing power. Come order.

Lin Yuan did not squeeze their profit margins, but they must ensure that the set prices are within the acceptable range of the people, and there can be no people in the city who disturb prices.

Therefore, when foreign merchants come to do business, they must first go to the chamber of commerce to obtain a sales permit, and then they can do business after the prices are unified.

The benefit of unifying prices is that Lin Yuan, please know the population of Taizhou and Gaoyou. There are counts of the rice sold every month, which can be calculated more clearly based on the price, which can ensure that the population is calculated and compared. Close to the real data range.

Every month's change can let Lin Yuan know clearly how many imaginary people have been added.

The businessmen didn't expect that they would have a chamber of commerce, and even the prices would be balanced by them. After they booked them, they reported to Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan nodded his head to implement it.

For the businessmen, this is a strange feeling, as if they have unknowingly shouldered some kind of responsibility, and they dare not kill chickens and get eggs.

"I used to go out to do business and wanted to sell a piece of grass for a gold price, but now I am afraid that the price is too high." The merchants were sitting in a warm room with melon seeds and peanuts on hand, and a cup of tea for one person. to chat with.

Some people laughed: "Since we want to take root here, we have to balance it naturally, otherwise it will hollow out the people, what should we do in the future?"

The prices they set now are all cheap things, such as food, oil and other necessities. As for the luxury goods that the rich can buy, Lin Yuan doesn't care about them, as long as he pays taxes at that time.

"Unexpectedly, we have the present." The businessmen sighed, "When we went to do business before, the court could not wait to strip us off. It's better not to keep us even a pair of pants."

"The South Bodhisattva likes businessmen like us. I can see that the South Bodhisattva values ​​us."

Some businessmen are also worried: "That is useful for us. What if we are useless in the future?"

"What are you afraid of? You ran in from the outside. When that happens, you can't get out?"

"Furthermore, don't you dare to confront Nan Bodhisattva now? If you want to try Nan Bodhisattva's blade, you can try it, anyway, I won't go."

They have all set up houses in Gaoyou, took over their relatives and friends, settled in Gaoyou, and some even married.

For their own sake, they must all support Lin Yuan.

After possessing a position that they had never dared to think of before, these businessmen were reluctant to move away.

Besides, the people like them very much. They brought a lot of new things, which are all consumed by ordinary people.

Small profits but quick turnover, income is not necessarily lower than before, and it is also worry-free. They plan to go out once a year instead of twice a year as in previous years.

Zhou Fu and Xie Zichang are now Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce.

Zhou Fu became the chairman because of the two baskets of potatoes and sweet potatoes. Xie Zichang couldn't compare to this and became the vice chairman.

The two disliked each other. After the subordinate relationship was set, the harmony between the two was broken, and there must be one pinch each day.

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After the fourth person took the family to Gaoyou, they were arranged to the staff apartment. Because there were four people, they were divided into two rooms and one living room. He thought that Lin Yuan would definitely let him do things, but waited here for more than two months. , Let alone Lin Yuan's shadow, even the shadow of a little leader hadn't seen it-he found himself being left behind.

The old man, who had made up his mind to be full, was anxious.

He has nothing to do now, and does chores every day. Even his wife has started to do the chores. With the softness that he brings to sustain his life, he can't live this way forever?

The fourth old man feels that he is a capable person. He can't be reused by Fang Guozhen, so he should always be reused by Lin Yuan?But Lin Yuan's attitude made him flustered again.

So he can only take out the gold and silver, find a way to board Song Shizhao's house, let Song Shizhao match him.

It's a pity that Song Shizhao received the money and wanted the gifts, but he didn't say anything. He just said: "The boss thinks you are of great use, and Mr. An is in no hurry. There is always a time when you are called."

Just when the fourth child was desperate, Song Shizhao suddenly asked him to go to the Yamen with him.

The four of them didn't even eat any food. He waited at Song Shizhao's door early. When he saw Song Shizhao, his eyes were bright, and he hurriedly greeted him: "Director Song is still the same as before, and he is full of energy."

Song Shizhao smiled at him with a very good attitude: "The son of An is utterly praised, follow Song Moulu."

The fourth Anniversary didn't know what Lin Yuan wanted him to do, but he felt that he couldn't be bothered by anything.

Lin Yuan was sitting on a stone bench in the garden when he saw the fourth child. There was a pot of tea and a few cups on the stone table. However, because in winter, the garden appeared bald, revealing the muddy ground underneath. Disgusted, sitting indoors is a bit boring. Wearing a thick cotton coat, he waved to the fourth An, "Master An is here, sit down."

An Old Four and Song Shizhao both sat there.

"How is Young Master An?" Lin Yuan greeted.

The fourth Anniversary wanted to say, "I have been idle lately", but he opened his mouth and said, "Gaoyou is well organized under your jurisdiction. Everyone lives and works in peace and contentment. I don't know what Nan Bodhisattva can tell you? "

The smile on Lin Yuan's face was just right. It would neither make people feel alienated nor too close. No one would be willing to offend him unless he didn't want his head.

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "There is exactly one thing that needs to be done by Mr. An. This matter is of great importance. Apart from Mr. An, there is no better candidate."

This was very pleasant to say, and the fourth Annivers felt very comfortable listening to it. He quickly promised: "If you still ask the Nan Bodhisattva to come, you will not refuse."

Lin Yuan: "I heard that Young Master An is good at ventriloquism."

The fourth old man was a little complacent: "I can learn it, regardless of men, women, young or old, even the bird calls, and I also keep it safe. Even the birds cannot tell the truth."

Lin Yuan smiled: "I believe this, so this matter can only be handed over to Young Master An."

"You also ask Mr. An to go to Changshu to find out the places where Changshu's armaments and defenses are weak for me. If Mr. An is willing, please lead the local people." Lin Yuan, "I will also send someone to protect the safety of Mr. An."

Old Four did not dare to refuse. He knew that if he refused, the best end would be to live the same life as before, and the worst would be to beheaded by Lin Yuan.

For life and future, the fourth child must take a gamble.

If he wins, he has a place.

He lost his life alone, but he could save his parents and his wife.

"I am willing to send for the South Bodhisattva, and never hesitate to die." The fourth Annivers knelt on the ground and gave a big gift to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan waited for him to finish his ceremony before going up to help, and said warmly: "Young Master An is a rare talent, so please take care of yourself so that you and I can see you soon."

Although the fourth old man knew this was a scene, his heart was not untouched.

When he was in Huizhou, Fang Guozhen sent him to Gaoyou just to call the guards around him. He never said this to his face.

Fang Guozhen failed to completely subdue him, otherwise he would not be able to leave Huizhou as soon as his wife said.

Lin Yuan asked the people to send Ann fourth out, and gave him two squads of troops by the way. They also picked up weak-looking soldiers, told him to pretend to be a caravan, and gave him a lot of operational funds. Food, and a few carts of gold and silver.

At that time, the fourth old man can use these things to open the door of Changshu officials with money.

Officials are greedy and used to it, how could they let go of a fat sheep? In the face of profit, they can even put their heads on the waistband.

Besides, these local officials have been in Changshu almost all their lives, equivalent to the emperor of Changshu.

As long as they smashed their door open, the next thing would be much easier.

As for An Old Four's ventriloquism...well, Lin Yuan just casually found an excuse to praise him.

The fourth old man went home, his whole person was so excited.

The South Bodhisattva actually gave him so many things and there are so many people. Although he knows that those people are also to monitor him, it is also real to protect him, and the chances of him coming back safely will be even greater.

Before Fang Guozhen left, he was only given some money, and that money was not even enough for him to spend too long.

This gave An old four a feeling of being valued.

This feeling of being valued also made him happy and inspired, as if he was a capable, dignified and worthy talent in front of Lin Yuan.

An's wife saw that he hadn't been sleeping, and asked, "What's the matter? I don't see you in such good spirits."

The fourth Anniversary whispered to his wife: "Miao Niang, I'm going to develop."

An wife sighed helplessly: "Go to sleep."

The fourth child wanted to say something and share his excitement with his wife, but when he turned his head, he found that his wife was asleep.

No one shared his excitement, no one understood his mood, and he didn't dare to tell others, so he could only sigh and turn over to sleep.

The fourth Ancestor clenched his fists.

He is going to do something big.

What he seeks will be the entire Changshu.