Chapter 488: Tigers and Dragons
The female gang leader and her daughter sat on the roof gazing at the starry sky. A meteor streaked across the sky from north to south. The female gang leader exclaimed, "It's so beautiful!" and then closed her eyes sweetly.
It took a long time before he opened his eyes again.
Her mother asked: "What is Xiang'er doing? Making a wish."
The head girl smiled and said nothing, asking her mother how she was and whether she was tired.
The female leader laughed and said that nothing could stump her mother, it was all a piece of cake. However, her father became a garrison commander, but he was worried that he would not do a good job and would let the court down, so he stayed in the military camp all day and was not at home.
The head woman leaned on her mother and said: Our father is honest in what he does. Liangzhe used to be two routes, but now that they are combined together, it is naturally very busy.
The female gang leader was unhappy and asked her: Aren’t you a mother not honest?
Aren’t mothers also doing two things at the same time?
It's your father who is tired because he is stupid and can't do anything.
The headmistress did not argue with her and praised her mother for her extraordinary intelligence, saying that it was easy for her to get things done.
The female leader was delighted to receive her daughter's praise, but then she said with regret that Grandpa Qigong was injured, and asked the leader's daughter to go to Peach Blossom Island to see the two grandfathers.
The head woman nodded in agreement and told her mother that Brother Yulin had sent a letter, saying that he would transfer money, grain and taxes to Liangzhe to help the people here quickly get out of their difficulties, and that he had also allocated a special sum of money to repair Taohua Island.
The female gang leader was happy in her heart, but she said: I don't want him to worry about it.
During this period, the female gang leader and Wu Yuqi led the Shunfeng Division to fight corruption and eliminate bandits and tyrants. They confiscated a large amount of property and distributed it equally to the people. After temporarily overcoming the difficulties, the people did not have to worry about having no food to eat. Later, the grain tax allocated by Chengdu was used when it arrived. She did not worry about the financial operation of Liangzhe at all, and she was naturally relaxed when doing things.
However, when she heard the head lady say that Chengdu had allocated a special sum of money to build Peach Blossom Island, she was very happy from the bottom of her heart.
This shows that the Chengdu Central Court remembered the contributions of her father, Old East Evil, and the Beggar Gang's old beggar, and has not forgotten them.
The headmistress slowly said to her mother: It is better to move out of the government office, as this used to be the imperial palace.
The female leader had just walked around the place and was amazed at the grandeur and liked it, but she immediately became unhappy. I asked her: Who said that? Is it Yulin? Why can't I stay here for a few days?
The head woman recited a sentence, "The tiger crouching and the dragon coiling are better today than in the past." She told her mother that this was where the emperor lived in the past, and that the evil spirit was very strong, which even the late emperor and the thief Shi could not suppress. That Yang Daquan lost his head and body just after he dreamed of being an emperor for a few days. It would be better for her to move to another place.
The female gang leader sighed and said that she didn't want to be crowned emperor, so she decided to move. There were not many decent things left in the palace.
She thought the buildings here were tall and majestic, and very impressive, but her brother Jing hadn't slept well for a few days since he moved in. He tossed and turned in bed until dawn. Before he even closed his eyes, he was talking to her again.
The head woman took her mother's hand and pointed to a dark place not far away and said, "Our mother will move the government office to the prime minister's residence. The prime minister's residence is idle. The thief Shi built it luxuriously and has been living there all the time. It must be in good condition and big enough for the Hangzhou government to do its work."
The female leader leaned on her daughter and agreed to move out tomorrow as she had promised. Anyway, there are still many places in the palace that are rotten like ruins, so we don't care.
The headmistress told her mother: The Central Court of Chengdu transferred five million strings of taxes to our Liangzhe, and also allocated a special fund to repair grandpa's Peach Blossom Island. Yulin brother arranged a master to use the colored glaze from Jiajiang and the earth and cement specially supplied by the Shenwei Army to repair it.
The female leader was delighted, for Peach Blossom Island was her birthplace. But she said disdainfully, "Who cares? I have plenty of money to spend."
She shouted, "Go down!" and with a little force in her hands, the mother and daughter landed in front of the hall like fairies.
The headmaster's wife praised her mother's kung fu skills and said she had reached a new level.
Huaxi Village outside the west gate of Chengdu has become a hot spot. People who repair ditches and roads come and go like bees, working hard. Roads and ditches are constantly extending and growing rapidly at a visible speed.
Zhao Yulin and Hu Lan stood on the gatehouse of the courtyard wall at the main entrance and watched the construction work on the avenue. It was a scene of bustling activity and the faces of the common people were all beaming with joy.
Hu Lan told him: A Qian will pay the wages personally, once a day. After five days, when each household has some money in hand, the payment will be changed to once every five days. After one month, the payment will be changed to once a month.
Zhao Yulin praised their method.
The common people have just celebrated the New Year and must be short of money. So we have to pay some money first to fill their pockets.
He helped Hu Lan go down and found Zhang Xitian, a steward of the Agricultural Affairs Bureau, and told him that there was a new way to sow rice, called dry-raising and broadcasting technology. This way, there is no need to worry about lack of water when raising seedlings, and the seedlings do not need to be planted one by one so laboriously. They only need to be thrown evenly into the field, saving labor and time, and the yield is just as high.
Zhang Xitian was shocked and could hardly believe his ears.
For thousands of years, rice seedlings have been grown by pounding the soil into fine powder and irrigating it to make a mud field. The fields are then opened up to make rows and rice seeds are sown to conserve water for growing rice seedlings.
What the third young master said was that we should not make that kind of rice seedling field. We should grind the soil of the dry land into fine powder, open the box and spread a torn sack on it, then sprinkle a layer of fine mud mixed with leaf mold, and then sprinkle the rice seeds.
Zhao Yulin is a time traveler and knows that he should use a seedling tray to grow seedlings, but he can't make it at the moment. He thinks using a torn sack will do. Even if the roots of the seedlings extend into the sack, he only needs to sprinkle some water on the surface to moisten it. It is always more comfortable to pull seedlings in dry land than to squat and work in the seedling field.
He took Zhang Xitian to the study and took out the manuscript on dry seedling cultivation and broadcasting to discuss it together.
Xi Tian was stunned and extremely surprised.
My god, the third young master really has this new method.
Zhao Yulin saw him smiling while reading the manuscript intently, and thought that this man was so obsessed with his "Sunflower Manual of Farming" that he must be the second Chen Fu, a typical expert talent.
He said: The purpose of putting torn sacks on the surface of the ridge is to make it easier to pull out the seedlings. Other better things can also be chosen as substitutes. He asked Xi Tian to take them back and study them carefully, find dry land for sowing, and ask others to try planting.
Xi Tian was overjoyed. He thanked him repeatedly and ran away.
He was just about to sit down when Hu Lan and A Qian came in and asked him to go out to bask in the sun. It was so sunny and comfortable outside.
When Zhao Yulin went out, he found that the yard had been cleaned and restored to its original state. The ground was paved with the same sintered floor tiles as in Jinguan City. The warm spring sun shone through the leaves, leaving mottled shadows, which felt very comfortable.
The maid had already set up the table and chairs, and they came under the osmanthus tree to have tea.
He explained to Hulan and Aqian why the whole village's land should be taken back by the village collective as an example, taking the rice that was about to be planted as an example. He asked: Is it better for each family to do it on their own, or is it better for the village to have someone who knows farming take care of a few plots of land and plant the rice seeds for the whole village?
Hu Lan came from the prairie and was unfamiliar with farming in the Central Plains. He looked at him and then at A Qian with a confused look on his face.
Ah Qian came from a rural area in Jiangdong, so she certainly knew the pros and cons of each working independently. She thought it would be better for the whole village to unite as this would save labor, and it would not be a bad thing for experts who specialize in farming to take care of breeding.
He nodded and said that was the truth.
Seed selection, seed preservation and seed breeding for each household are very troublesome, time-consuming and thankless. When labor wages increase in the future, people will feel that growing crops is not as good as going out to work and earn money. If everyone runs away, who will grow crops?
Our Cuiping Mountain is producing new agricultural tools. In the future, experienced farmers will be able to plant more land. If every household guards their own few acres of land, won’t there not be enough land for everyone to plant?
What are you all doing staying at home?
We should encourage some common people to stop farming, learn skills, and switch to other profitable livelihoods.
The two ladies' eyes suddenly lit up and they immediately understood why he wanted to take back the land.
Zhao Yulin asked them with a smile, the two general managers specifically called them to have tea and chat, so maybe they have some good ideas?
Ah Qian told him: Captain Ke Wei yelled a few days ago, which frightened those civilians. They didn't dare to come to our place to make trouble, but ran to block Zhang Dubao at home and scolded him, asking him to find a way to repair their house. Otherwise, they would move into Zhang Dubao's house when his new house was completed.
Wow, there are some experts among these villagers, and they are all very smart.
Hu Lan told him that the common people around him were not stupid. They saw that the masters who were repairing the house added earth cement to the sand and gravel, and the foundation of the house made the day before was so solid that people could walk on it and lay bricks on it the next day. They were very happy.
I was very envious when I saw the craftsmen using iron bars to make a cage, closing the wooden boards and pouring concrete on all four corners. I heard the master tell them what the concrete structural column is called, and it is used to resist earthquakes. If you live in such a house, you don’t have to worry about moving to a new house when an earthquake occurs.
Xianren Banban, it is not impossible to build new houses for all the villagers in this village. He has the money.
However, Zhao Yulin was exploring the reform of the new village . He wanted to find a way to increase income in rural areas across the country. Where would he get so much money?
We must do this in light of the actual situation of Huaxi Village, just like we are doing now. Many rural areas cannot do this yet.
He said: There will be no problem if we build houses for the people who moved out of this yard.
Let the stewards of the Ministry of Works, Ministry of Households and Ministry of Water go together with the village council to discuss the village rules and regulations. We will repair the ditches and waterways that require relocation, we will repair those that will be occupied when farmland is adjusted in the future, we will repair those without houses in the village, and we will repair the dilapidated houses of military personnel's families.
The other families were out of the question. After the rules were set, they were posted at their residences. If anyone disagreed, the council would decide to move out.
Zhao Yulin felt that the people should not be indulged blindly. That would be disorganized and undisciplined. If they were allowed to do whatever they wanted without any control, good people and obedient citizens would turn into hooligans and scoundrels.
Hu Lan told him that the common people would have a meeting at the land temple tonight, and she and A Qian would go over to take a look.
Zhao Yulin just nodded, then immediately said no, it was not safe outside at night.
A Qian blushed and said: It's okay, there are constables patrolling around here, who would dare to act rashly?
