The samurai shop is a small grass market, that is, a fence around a two-story brick house, and many sheds are built around the brick house.

Probably because the New Year is approaching, all the small sheds have vendors selling New Year's goods and all kinds of snacks. There are also a lot of customers, all of whom are farmers around the samurai store, dragging their families and running to the samurai store to join in the fun.

Don't look at the fact that it is only a few dozen miles away from the county seat of Qishan and Tianya Town, but for most of the farmers who are bitter, they can't go to Qishan a few times a year, and it is good to be able to walk around this grass market.

From this point of view, the martial artists who moved from the countryside of Luoyang, Xijing, to the shore of the sea in those years, are definitely a group of people who dare to dare to do things and are relatively emancipated.

Wu Haogu had already turned over and dismounted, threw the reins to a knight who was in his retinue, and then walked to the two-story restaurant with his hands behind his back. At this time, a black-faced man in his thirties, dressed as an outsider, ran out of the restaurant with a smile, and there were two guys who looked a little simple and honest behind him.

This person is also a disciple of the Baibo Martial Family, and he also recognizes Wu Chenglan who is following Wu Haogu, so he greeted with a smile: "Isn't this the thirteenth brother?" Didn't you follow the patriarch? Why did you come to the samurai shop? ”

Wu Chenglan replied with a smile: "Fourteenth brother, didn't I just come with the patriarch?" He pointed at Wu Haogu, "Isn't this our patriarch?" ”

"Patriarch?" The "fourteenth brother" was stunned, in his imagination, Wu Dalang, a henchman of the heavenly family, and a wealthy and high-ranking official, should be extremely pampered. Walk to be helped, eat to be fed, there are always a bunch of waiting Meiji around.

But this person in front of him is clearly a vulgar martial artist, and he looks like he has just returned from the front line...... It can't be that the patriarch has been sent to lead troops to fight again, right?

"Don't hurry up when you see the patriarch!" Wu Chenglan was stunned when she saw her brother, and hurriedly reminded loudly.

The man reacted and hurriedly bowed: "Wu Chengsong greets the patriarch." ”

This person's name is Wu Chengsong, Wu Chenglan's cousin brother, and Wu Haogu's uncle. Although the seniority is high, in the feudal clan system, the patriarch is the head of the family. Once you become the patriarch, you can't be superior or inferior based on your original rank.

Moreover, what Wu Haogu is doing for the Wu family now is indeed worthy of the name of the patriarch......

"Uncle Fourteen," Wu Haogu smiled and nodded, "I'm going to bother today." ”

"Patriarch, it's windy outside, please come in quickly." Wu Chengsong sang and smiled, and welcomed Wu Haogu and the others into the restaurant he opened.

The restaurant is not big, and only seven or eight square tables for four people can be placed for dine-in on the first floor, and the cleaning is clean, but there are no guests, and it looks empty.

On the west side of the building is a large cabinet, in front of which are a group of farmers in short shirts, buying wine and meat to eat.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, and even poor peasants who can't see meat all year round must buy some wine and meat to offer to their ancestors, and improve it by the way.

Wu Haogu glanced at these peasants in short shirts, and found that they were all strong, their clothes were not torn, and they were obviously not too poor, so he withdrew his gaze and followed Wu Cheng to the second floor.

The second floor is mostly divided into private rooms, which are full of square tables, and there is also no guest. Wu Haogu picked up a private room at random and sat in, he was the leader, the others sat down, one private room could not sit down, Wu Chengsong led the rest of the people to the other two private rooms, settled down one by one, and then took a guy with a plate, chopsticks and wine glasses back to the private room where Wu Haogu was, and said with a smile: "Patriarch, the small shop makes Luoyang-style dishes, with fresh fish and white cuts, beef and mutton with fragrant sauce, and duck ...... Wujiazhuang's specialty."

"Ducks?" Wu Haogu smiled and asked, "Haizhou's specialty duck?" ”

"It's not a specialty of Haizhou, it's a species brought by Seventh Brother from Luoyang Baibo, which is particularly tender and fat."

"Is the seventh brother you are talking about Wu Chengchang?" Wu Haogu remembered the "old son" of Wu Zhongyi, the penultimate jinshi, "I remember that he contracted 3,000 acres of paddy fields, how is it now?" ”

"He's rich now," Wu Chengsong's tone was full of envy, "I have contracted 3,000 acres of paddy fields, hired dozens of long-term workers, planted one season of late rice this year, one season of cold vegetables, and raised thousands of Baibo ducks...... This winter, he also hired people to repair waterwheels, canals, and hydraulic oil mills, and planned to turn hundreds of acres of paddy fields that were somewhat short of water into mulberry fields. ”

Wu Haogu listened to him for a long time, but he still didn't quite understand. He didn't know how to farm, and he learned about the workings of some knights' manors when he was in the Boundary River. However, knights' estates are generally cropped in dry fields. The samurai could not play like this in the paddy fields of Haizhou, and the economic value of the paddy fields in this era was much higher than that of ordinary dry fields, and it was impossible to use them for growing grass.

Seeing that Wu Haogu was interested, Wu Chengsong introduced it like a few family treasures: "There are usually two seasons of rice planted in paddy fields that can be sown in a year, some people plant two seasons of rice, and some people plant one season of late rice and one season of cold vegetables. Cold vegetables are cold-loving vegetables, some are edible, and some can be used to extract oil from rapeseed.

Ducks love water and will catch insects in paddy fields to eat, which is most suitable for stocking in paddy fields and streams. Moreover, Haizhou is a big city, the merchants are rich, they don't get tired of eating, and the price of ducks is high and easy to sell.

Waterwheels and canals are used to remediate paddy fields for irrigation, although they will throw a lot of money into it, but they will improve the ability to resist floods and droughts.

As for the mulberry tree, it is a treasure, and the mulberry leaves can raise silkworms, feed sheep, and even live in famine years. It is impossible to see that there will be no famine years in Haizhou, so the seventh brother plans to use mulberry leaves to raise silkworms and sheep. If the patriarch had been two years late, he would have been able to eat the sheep raised by the seventh brother. ”

Wu Haogu laughed: "Uncle Seven turned out to be really a good farmer!" Okay, good! Uncle Fourteen, do you have the ducks raised by Uncle Seven here? ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Wu Chengsong said with a smile, "There are salted ducks, there are roasted ducks in sauce, and duck soup......

"Okay, you can watch it." Wu Haogu smiled, "Don't be all ducks, have more good wine and good food."

By the way, is Uncle Seven at home? ”

"In, in," Wu Cheng said, "it's on Zhuangzi, these days are the New Year's Pass, and he has to settle the accounts for the long-term workers." ”

"Okay," Wu Hao Guyi waved his hand, "Hurry up and serve the food, and after eating, go and see Uncle Seven." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll arrange it."

……

"It's been a great job, it's been a great job...... This is your salary for a year, it should be six and three hundred and thirty wen, and I will give six or four and three hundred and sixty wen. ”

At this time, Wu Chengchang was paying his long-term workers in a very imposing mansion.

This mansion is not his, it was bought by Wu Haogu from Wu Yanen as his residence in Wujiazhuang. However, he basically didn't know how to live, so he gave it to Wu Chengchang's family, on the condition that Wu Chengchang maintained one of the largest courtyards for Wu Haogu.

And there are few people in Wu Chengchang's family, just a wife, two sons, two unmarried daughters, and no servants. So he gave some of the houses in this mansion "free" to his long-term workers to live in.

As a rich peasant (he is not a landlord, Wu Haogu is a landlord, so his composition should be a rich peasant), Wu Chengchang is still relatively righteous, and he does not deduct the wages and food of long-term workers, nor does he put the debts of the king of Hades - he has no capital to put it.

Of course, he doesn't learn to crow in the middle of the night, he doesn't have such imagination, and he doesn't know how to do ventriloquism...... This is the "learning" in "Talking, Learning, Singing", where will the old peasant who has read a book?

But he also has a way to get the long-term workers to do their work. There are two ways for him, one is to give more wages - wages cannot be saved, you get what you pay for, and you can't recruit a good way if you pay less; The second is to carefully select people, not everyone he wants, he himself is an old peasant, what kind of people are down-to-earth and willing to work, what kind of people are cheating and cheating, what kind of people are reckless and difficult to cure, he can see at a glance.

Without this ability, how could he care about such a big mess of people and things as the Baibo Martial Arts back then?

In addition, Wu Chengchang only recruits long-term workers, and he doesn't want bachelors. Because the long-term workers who drag the family and the mouth are easier to manage, they dare not dare to contradict the proprietor. Moreover, the family of long-term workers is the cheapest labor. Female dependents can send them to do odd jobs, and they can also ask them to help them when they are busy with the farm. Children can help herd the cattle and ducks. These women and children, as long as they take care of the food and give a few more casually, they can let them work.

"Master Xie Wu."

A stout man with a face tanned by the sun looked at the basket of copper coins that were carried to his eyes, his face was filled with a happy smile, and he made a gesture at Wu Chengchang and thanked him.

"Good, good," Wu Chengchang smiled, took a large amount of pork tied with straw rope, and handed it to the black-faced man, "This is a New Year's gift, it should have been sent on Chinese New Year's Eve, but I have to go to Haizhou to meet the patriarch's wife, so I gave it first." ”

"Thank you, Master."

The man looked at the pork, what a big piece! And it's all fat, and the lean meat has only a thin layer...... Master Wu is really a good master! It's much better than the original Wu family masters. Although after Master Wu came, he did not let his own family be a customer, but changed to a long-term worker. But now I can earn more money as a customer than I did at that time, and I eat well, which is really a blessing.

Just when this long-term worker left, Wu Haogu, who had eaten a duck feast, had already appeared outside the gate of this courtyard, he didn't let people inform Wu Chengchang, but just smiled and watched the long-term workers in the long queue pick up copper coins one by one, take pork, and leave with a smile......

It is a harmonious picture of the new capitalist countryside of the Great Song Dynasty!