Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Whenever there is a major event, the villagers will gather big guys in a specific place to talk. Dafang Village is under the big camphor tree in the middle of the village.For example, when spring ploughing, reminding people to hurry up and not to miss the season, when autumn is dry, reminding people to pay attention to fire prevention in the mountains, and when the autumn harvest will announce when taxes will be paid, or the imperial court will enlist troops or conscripts.

However, there are very few things like conscription and corvee, usually spring plowing and autumn harvesting, etc., as a rule. At this time, when something is announced, it is still important, and it has to be a little suspenseful. No wonder Grandma Sangu sighed.

Lian Fangzhou simply said, "Follow him! Anyway, I'll know at that time! Our family are all half-year-old children, and it may not be worthwhile!"

Grandma Sangu thought about it, it was indeed the truth, so she stopped thinking about it.

In the evening, Lian Fangzhou, Lian Ze and Aunt Li Shuzhang came back first, and after a simple wash, they agreed to go down to the big camphor tree together.

When they arrived, there were already a lot of villagers standing sparsely under the big camphor tree, and everyone was talking in twos and threes about what would happen.

But obviously, Li Zheng's tone was very tight, and no one knew what would happen until the last minute.Such discussions and speculations are just passing the time!

The more people gathered, the crowd was already noisy.Lian Li and Qiao also came. The two saw Lian Fangzhou and Lian Ze standing with Uncle Li and Aunt Zhang. Lian Li didn’t say anything, but Qiao yelled a few words in a low voice. Turned his head and stopped looking at them.

After a while, Zhang Lizheng finally came, standing on the high stone platform under the big camphor tree, glanced around, and asked loudly, "Are there all the people here?"

Everyone babbled and replied: "It's all here! Say it!"

Zhang Lizheng coughed and said loudly: "Everyone is quiet, quiet, and listen to me!" After shouting several times like this, everyone below finally calmed down and stared at Zhang Lizheng intently.

Zhang Lizheng slowly said: "The news that the county government just came down, the government has sent out two new seeds, asking all of us to try planting next year——"

Without finishing a sentence, there was a "boom" underneath.

"Huh? New seeds? Is this reliable!"

"Try planting? Use our own fields?"

"Nonsense! Where do you grow without your own field!"

"That won't work! What about the crops? If you don't plant crops, I will starve to death next year!"

"I think so too. Now we are forcing us to plant something that we don't know. When the time comes, we won't have food to eat and care about?"

"You have a dream, whoever cares about the lives of our people!"

"Hey, don't make a noise, don't make a noise, I haven't heard what Zhang Lizheng said!"

"..."

Zhang Lizheng didn't worry when he heard the clamor from below, as if he had expected the big guy to react like this a long time ago. He stood there and looked at him calmly, quite calmly.

"Oh, how come such a thing! I don't know what kind of things are being grown, but what can be bigger than grain? Alas!" Aunt Zhang also sighed.

"Is there any way, the government has already spoken, can we not do it?" Uncle Li is an honest person, after thinking about it, and saying: "The big deal, let's burn a few more kiln charcoal, save more money, and then buy food to eat. Can't be hungry."

There was some truth to this, and Aunt Zhang nodded, not so nervous and entangled.

However, she was still a bit sad, because she originally thought that this year would be a fat year and could add many things, but now it seems that she has to re-plan.

Lian Fangzhou smiled and said, "Uncle Li and Aunt Zhang, let's listen first, maybe it's a good thing!"

Uncle Li and Aunt Zhang both smiled, both of them have the same mind: Can the government do something good?It's a good thing, someone rushed to do it, as for this!

Zhang Lizheng saw that the big guy was chattering almost, and then he shouted to calm everyone down, and then said: "These two things are called potatoes and the same cotton. Potatoes can be eaten as food, and cotton is used to make clothes. ..."

Speaking of this, below is the "boom" again.

Lian Fangzhou's mind also "boomed", suddenly raised his head to look at Zhang Lizheng, secretly suppressing excitement.

Potatoes and cotton are really good things!

However, no matter how good things are, they have to be discovered to be good things!For people who have never met, that is not necessarily true!

For example, all the folks who looked agitated at this moment were very angry.

"I have never heard of beans growing in the soil for a lifetime, so who is it? You can just call it peanuts!"

"Definitely it can't be compared with Peanuts, and I am not embarrassed to call it this name!"

"The cotton is even more outrageous. Flowers can also be used to make clothes, so let's wear tree leaves!"

There was a burst of laughter from the crowd.But after the laughter, it was even more excited and angry.

Everyone agreed that: the government is simply deceiving people too much!This is clearly to kill the farmers!

"Sister, I'm not afraid, let's burn more charcoal with Uncle Li, and next year, I can also go hunting in the mountains!" Lian Ze thought that Lian Fangzhou was scared by worry, and quickly whispered.

"Sister is fine! Don't worry!" Lian Fangzhou smiled at him slightly.

Everyone's resistance far exceeded Zhang Lizheng's expectations. Zhang Lizheng also lost patience, and said loudly: "Don't make noise! ​​Listen to me! Can you help you make noise? You don't need to get seeds if you complain?"

When the crowd saw that he was moving in real fire, and the words were helpless but true, they all stopped in frustration.

"Zhang Lizheng, you have to give everyone an idea! You can't do this! Next year, the whole family will drink northwest wind!" Someone pleaded bitterly and won unanimous support from the big guy.

"Can I know your difficulties!" Zhang Lizheng sighed and said, "But this is the decision of the court. We choose three counties in each of the three southwestern provinces for trial planting, and Yuhe County is one of them. , What is there to say? You want to think about me, who should I go to? I don’t want to be like you, and I have to plant it! Whoever has the ability to plant it, okay, I will be reported to the county government at that time , Don’t blame me for not reminding me ahead!"

After Zhang Lizheng spoke, everyone was silent, their heads lowered in frustration, and their brows frowned.

"Zhang Lizheng, don't all the fields of every household have to grow these two things, right?" someone asked.

Everyone lifted up their spirits and raised their heads to look at Zhang Lizheng: Since you can't escape, then plant it. Anyway, leave some room for the big guys to grow food!

Zhang Lizheng saw that everyone was being held, his expression relaxed, and he said: "The government is still very considerate of the big guys. How could it be possible to do this? Half of the field of each household grows potatoes and cotton, and the rest What kind of plant you like, come back to me and get the seeds! Potato seeds cost two cents a catty, and cotton seeds cost five cents a catty!"

"Ah, more money!" someone exclaimed.