Qingshantun, which was originally just a wasteland, is now like the earth blown by the spring breeze, ushering in his new life. After the hard work of last winter, after the arrival of spring, I finally began to have a full sense of harvest.

The huge ponds are sparkling and scaly, and the snow that has been piled up in the pits in winter and the snowflakes collected around them have now turned into clear water, and the streams in the mountains have been diverted into these ponds. Without the water flowing from the mountains, it would be difficult to fill these large ponds with water from the snow alone. Even later, these streams can be relied on to keep these ponds filled with living water to ensure that the land does not dry up.

Li Ze stopped by these ponds and saw that above the water, there were flocks of half-sized ducks and geese playing in the water. From time to time, you can still see fish jumping out of the water, turning over in the air, and falling into the water with a snap, startling these ducks to scatter and swim away, but after a while, they gather again, and one by one, one after another, they are neatly arranged and sway in front of Li Ze.

He set his eyes on the tun chief of Qingshantun.

Although the four brothers of the Chen family are now also settled in Qingshantun, in fact, these four brothers are now completely out of the jurisdiction of Qingshantun, which is also Li Ze's intention, they are now directly incorporated into Li Ze's guard, Chen Changfu and Chen Changgui followed Chen Bing and Chu Sheng to Wuyi to reorganize the soldiers of other places, Chen Changan followed Tu Lichun, Chen Changping followed Li Ze, and the four were completely separated. Li Ze came out today, but he didn't even take Chen Changping with him.

Li Ze is consciously gradually diluting the influence of the four Chen brothers in Qingshantun, as long as the life of the people here is getting better and better, the centripetal force of Li Ze will naturally increase, on the contrary, for the four Chen brothers, they will naturally become more and more alienated.

The current tun chief of Qingshantun is a steward on Li Ze Zhuangzi, named Li Gen.

"Childe, according to Childe's meaning a few years ago, Qingshantun joined the Yixing Society, but Qingshantun is not the same as other places, the people here are basically without money, and most of the old and weak women and children are the majority, so I divided them into groups one by one, no longer eat big stoves, but take the group as a unit. Each group was given the same amount of food at the beginning, but in the early autumn, how well they could live depends on the ability of these groups to operate. Li Gen explained.

Li Ze bypassed one by one, pointed to the pond in front of him and said, "So these ponds, in fact, you have already contracted them, haven't you?" ”

Li Gen nodded embarrassedly: "Yes, there are five large ponds, which have been contracted by two groups, and they promised that by the end of the year, they will hand over a certain amount of property to the tunli." ”

Li Ze turned over and dismounted, walked to the edge of the pond, and said with a smile: "Li Gen, you have a lot of ideas, this thing is done well." ”

Li Gen, who was praised, blushed: "These two groups took all the things that could be turned into money on their bodies, exchanged some money, and then bought back duck fry, fish fry, goose fry, and childe, in fact, under this pond, they have also planted lotus root seeds, if everything goes well, in the summer, these ponds will be full of lotus flowers, but it can become a scene." ”

Li Ze said with a smile: "They are only afraid that they don't care if this is a scenery or not, they are nervous about whether the lotus seeds can be sold for money in the autumn, and whether there are lotus roots that can be harvested in the winter, telling them that as long as the things come out, they will sell them to Zhuangzi." ”

"Thank you for taking care of me." Li Gendao.

"When you were in groups, you didn't have any arguments, did you?"

"No, I only have two words, fair." Li Gen said: "The number of strong laborers, the number of women, children and children, are all counted, first with the family as a unit, and then supplemented, can be freely combined, but must obey the deployment." In fact, from last winter to this spring, many widows have reunited with the young and strong people who have no daughter-in-law or whose wives have died. ”

Li Ze nodded, this is a helpless thing, this kind of reunited family is more to survive, or to live a little better, feelings or something, for them, I am afraid that it is a luxury. In fact, in this era, they are basically blind marriages and blind marriages, and in a situation like them, at least they still know each other!

"Now everyone is still on the same starting line, but at the end of the year, I am afraid that there will be a gap between the rich and the poor."

Li Gen smiled: "Childe, this is a natural thing, and those who have the ability will always be sharp." Just like those tenants in our Zhuangzi, the son is exactly the same to them, but now, some families are prosperous, and some are just barely able to get by. ”

"That's right." Li Zedao: "Qingshantun has opened up raw fields this year, and the harvest will definitely not be good, do you think that in the autumn, how much subsidy do they need from Zhuangzishang?" ”

Li Gen shook his head and said: "Childe, my plan is that after the autumn, Qingshantun will no longer ask for subsidies from Zhuangzi, and will be self-sufficient, and even be able to give back." ”

Li Ze looked at Li Gen with some surprise, and said after a while: "If you can really do this, I will reward you greatly." But is there any basis for what you say? You can't coax me to be happy. ”

"We old people in Zhuangzi know that Gongzi is a more real person, where do you dare to talk nonsense, I have carefully calculated it." Li Gendao.

"Tell me about it!" Li Ze was interested, Li Gen was only a steward of the outer courtyard in the past, but he was very clever and dared to take the lead in case of trouble, so he left Li Ze with an image, this time Qingshantun was established, Li Ze remembered him, and it seemed that he had chosen the right person.

"Childe, although this is a raw land, there are many ways to improve the harvest, why don't you go with me to take a look?" Li Gendao.

"Okay, let's go." Li Gen threw the horsewhip to Tu Lichun and walked with Li Gen.

On the edge of the pond, there are many simple grass huts, which are the chickens, ducks and goose houses and some pigsties, and the little piglets see someone approaching, and one by one they come up to the railing and chirp.

"These guys' manure is the heaviest fertilizer." Li Gen said with a smile: "I organized the dolls to dig back a large number of fallen leaves from the mountains and throw them in the pigsty, and it won't take long to turn them into fertilizer, which is the second weight." The third ......" Li Gen glanced at Xia He beside Li Ze, and said with some embarrassment: "I have built a few big latrines in the tunzi, where everyone must go, dare to defecate anywhere, grab a poop and hit the board, thousands of people, so there are still many of them in this rice field." ”

Xia He's face was red, but Li Ze and Tu Lichun laughed.

"This method is good, not only does it get enough fertilizer, but it is also very good for the hygiene of the whole tunzi." Li Ze said with a smile.

"There are old rotten leaves in the deep mountains and old forests, and when everyone is fine, they will carry a few leaves down and fall in the field." Li Gen said: "The second is to cut down some trees, and then burn some with the soil, which is the fourth fertilizer. ”

Li Gen pointed to the round mounds in the middle of the field, from which green smoke was still billowing out.

"The harvest of the land is just one of them." Li Gen continued: "Qingshantun relies on Daqingshan, so naturally it is necessary to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, organize everyone to go into the mountains to hunt, collect wild treasures, and sell them to the city, all for money. One of the advantages of Qingshantun is that everyone here can be better organized, probably because they have fled long distances. I still want to get a few kilns to burn charcoal, childe, there are good oak wood in Daqingshan, this is the best material for burning charcoal, there is a master in Zhuangzi, but in the past it was only burned for Zhuangzi for his own use, I want to ask this master to guide, a large number of firing and then sell out. ”

"As long as you are willing to pay people to start work, it's up to you." Li Ze glanced at Li Gen appreciatively, this is a person with a lot of ideas.

"Then I'll thank you first." Li Gen was overjoyed. "There is a shortage of manpower here in Qingshantun, and the young and strong are basically going to be taken away, so we can only think of other ways to make money, if these can be completed, by the end of this year, at least we can Qingshantun will be able to mix food and clothing."

Li Ze patted him on the shoulder and said, "At the end of the year, if these things become a reality, I will arrange for you to go to the county to be a county magistrate and assist Yang Kai to make the entire Wuyi County rich." ”

Li Gen was dumbfounded: "Childe, where am I the material to be an official?" I don't even know a word! ”

"Being an official doesn't necessarily have to be a university question!" Li Ze said lightly: "If you can let the people under your rule have food to eat, and if you live a good life, you are a good official, isn't what you are doing now that an official should help do?" It's just that Qingshantun is smaller, and Wuyi County is bigger. Chen Bingyusheng and they are just making a transition now, helping Yang Kai stabilize the situation, those two guys are leading troops to fight and bring people to make a fortune, haha, probably all they can think of is to grab a way, so ah, people like you are exactly what we lack, let's do the things in front of us first, of course, it is best to know more words. ”

Li Gen clenched his hands into fists and slammed them to the ground.

Li Ze's arrangement did not open another door for him, and a shining avenue had been paved in front of him, waiting for him to take a step.