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Since the envoy of the Lianghuai River and the Liang King Wang Shu came to Yangtze Town, it was like inserting a huge shit-stirring stick into a lifeless, undisturbed pool, and all the good and bad were stirred up.
Let's talk about the bad ones first, first of all, it's bad morals. According to the farmers who often go to the Yamen to deliver vegetables, meat, and fish, the women in the Liangwang Mansion walk around wearing only two pieces of cloth on weekdays, and their arms and thighs are all exposed, making it impossible to look directly.
Of course, the next time you go to deliver the goods, you must find a way to stay longer, and strive to be unable to look directly for a while, and there will be an eldest princess inside!
And then there's the taste, and you don't have to stay in town for long, just passing by in a hurry can make you sniff and look for the source of that smell. If you stay in the town for a long time, your clothes are full of squeamishness, and you can't disperse for a long time, and the whole town will be full of sassy people!
In addition, there are also broken rules, there is a lot of land near Yangzi Town, and naturally there are many large and small landlords. When the envoy came, he first halved the rent, and his tenants were happy, but the other landlords were worried.
As soon as the tenants of the family meet, they will ask: When does the owner plan to reduce the land rent, and King Liang has taken the lead in lowering it, are you embarrassed not to lower it?
If there is a disadvantage, there must be a benefit, since the family of the king of Daliang lived, the life of the nearby vegetable farmers, butchers, fishermen, and people with cows has been getting better and better. Because the Liangwang family is too able to eat, and the food is too particular, it has invisibly stimulated the domestic demand of Yangtze Town.
One acre of vegetables is not enough for his family to eat for a few days, don't want the leaves to be old, don't be bitten by insects, don't be too thick, don't want if they're too fine. As soon as you pick up the dishes and send them to the house, it's good to pick and choose half of them.
But the vegetable farmer is very willing to suffer this humiliation, because the fat cook lady in the Liangwang Mansion is very benevolent, and the people are picky and selective after weighing and paying, and the vegetable farmer is allowed to take the remaining vegetables for free.
The people of these vegetable king's mansions don't eat it, but the vegetable farmers take it back. It doesn't cost money to pick half a dish for nothing, and if it is sold cheaply, it is money. If you don't sell it and keep it for your family to eat, the common people are not so expensive, and it's good to have food to eat.
The same goes for the butcher, a slaughtered sheep is brought in, and the cook takes a boning knife and cuts a piece on the left to eat it, and the right part is fried and eaten, and the rest is left unwanted. In the end, there was only half of it left, and the butcher brought it out again. As long as the palace needs meat, the butcher's family will celebrate the New Year.
The fisherman is a little troublesome, and the palace will not buy a basket of fish first, pick out a few of the rest for free, but specify that only two or three kinds of fish will be given, and the rest will not be sent.
However, the price of these two or three kinds of fish is several times higher than the market, and the standard is also high. Don't hurt the scales, don't live the fish, and check the gills of the fish, saying that there is a parasite in it, and don't find it.
It is relatively easy to have a cow at home, and every day before dawn, go to the Liangwang Mansion to find the fat cook to take the glass jar home and milk it, and squeeze a jar and send it back quickly. At this time, the cook had already prepared a huge steamer, which was said to be sterilized with steam.
Is milk poisonous? The cook's answer is yes! It is said that this is what King Liang said, there is a small insect in the milk that cannot be seen by the eyes, and it must be killed at high temperature before it can be drunk, otherwise it will get sick.
Since it was King Liang, he must not be wrong, but this is none of the business of cattle farmers, he can't drink milk a few times in his life, let alone the children. It's good that the milk is full of worms, bite you rich bastards!
But the big glass jar is too sad, there are Liangzhou glazed wine sets sold in Yangzhou City, a few cups the size of a fist can be sold for a cow money, this big jar is half a person high, thigh thick, if it is broken, you can't afford to lose it.
When he heard that there were no farmers willing to deliver milk to the palace because he was afraid of dropping the can, he immediately called several nearby farmers with cows, threw a jar on the ground and broke it into pieces, and then told everyone that of course they had to pay for breaking things, but it was not so expensive, and two cans of milk were enough.
Why is it so cheap? It's not that King Liang is sympathetic to the people, but they said it again, this is all conjured by King Liang idlely grabbing a handful of sand and reciting spells, and it doesn't cost any money. The mana of the incantation was replenished by drinking half a jar of milk, and he fell hard, and every time he fell, the king of Liang earned an extra can and a half of milk.
Strange to say, since then not a single jar has ever been dropped, as long as the farmer thinks that the rich King Liang still earns an extra can and a half of his own milk, he hugs the jar tighter, more than holding a baby. It's really unkind to be rich, we won't let you succeed!
If these benefits only enrich a few people, the remaining few are at least to the extent of benefiting neighbors. Reducing land rent is counted as one, and the fertilizer for riots must also be counted as one.
A few months ago, no one believed that getting some urine and boiling it could make the crops harvested, if it was an old crop, it would be reliable, King Liang...... Has he seen what the crops look like?
But after August 15, all the farmers who had used the riotous fertilizer according to the instructions of King Liang immediately killed chickens and slaughtered geese and went to the side door of King Liang's Mansion to line up. It doesn't matter if you don't eat it, even if you throw it away, we have this intention.
Indeed, there is a bumper harvest, and the same acres of land, those who have used chemical fertilizers and those who have not used them are often next to each other. The former can hit more than two stones, and the latter is less than two stones. Don't underestimate these buckets of rice, each family must not plant thirty or forty acres, and the difference is more than a dozen stones.
With these grains, not only can life be better than in previous years, but you can also pull a few feet of cloth for your mother-in-law and children to make a new dress, and you can also go out for a walk with a lamp in a bright light during the Shangyuan Festival.
People who don't use chemical fertilizer are not desperate, and farming is not a stubble, and we will make up for it next year if we make up for it. No, why wait for next year, start first, and quickly look for someone to pee. I also have to tell my wife and children that you are not allowed to pee outside in the future, and you must go home to urinate in the bucket and save it, which is called the fertilizer water does not flow into the fields of outsiders!
But there is one thing, the more people do it, the more angry the town becomes! The big winter doesn't make people breathe any more. In the past, the people in the town were afraid of the winter wind, which made people's hands and feet cold. Now I'm not afraid, I'm still looking forward to it all day long, hoping that there will be a gust of wind coming and going.
In addition to being affordable, Ryooh also brings hope and security. There is a school in Donggang Village, which was originally a small landlord whose family was bankrupt, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, half of the courtyard was rented by King Liang to open a school, and three wages were also given, so that the mother-in-law of the family could cook, wash, and make a fire for heating the students.
There is no accommodation for the time being, because most of the children who come to school are from nearby villages, and they can walk as far as two quarters of an hour to go home. But if this trend continues, not only will there be more and more children in Yangzi Town, but children from nearby villages and towns may all come to school in this riotous town.
Because the school does not charge and takes care of the meal, there are many children in the family, especially the young ones, who can't do any work, so it is better to send them to the school to eat and drink.
Knowledge...... Love to learn but not to learn. Most parents don't expect their children to be able to catch the exam, and their families can't afford it when they finish school. If you can still understand the notice posted outside the city gate, you will immediately slaughter the hen that lays eggs at home and send it to King Liang! Thanks to the blessing of the prince, there is also green smoke on the ancestral grave of our family!
Speaking of the school, it's just a small advantage of King Liang, and the most popular thing for the people in the town to wake up with a smile is a medical hall called Qianyu Zhai.
It runs on the north side of the only stone road in Yangtze Town, next to the only inn and the only liquor store. The façade is very magnificent, with five main rooms lined up, and a two-story building behind it.
In the past, this was a grain store, the main house was the façade, and the small building behind lived a man and a warehouse. Now it was bought by Mrs. Liangwang, that is, the eldest princess of the Great Song Dynasty, and turned into a medical hall.
Not only does this clinic have a strange name, but it also has a strange way of doing business. It only sees a doctor and does not sell medicine, if you are sick, come here to let the female doctor diagnose and treat, once you can't cure it, make an appointment to come again, the illness is too serious and you live in the ward on the second floor behind the medical hall, and you can eat and drink and be cured.
The eldest princess wrote a plaque at the door, called the integrity post. What does it mean, that is, you can throw as much money as you think you should give into the merit box, and a penny is not too little, and 10,000 yuan is not too much.
The eldest princess and the king of Liang don't want this medical fee, when they have saved enough, they will build a bridge on the Yangtze River to connect Guazhou on the north bank of the river with Dantu County on the south bank of the river, so that residents and merchants on both sides of the strait no longer have to take the trouble to travel by boat, and drive cars and horses all the way.