Chapter 51: The Messenger Is Coming!
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Also by the Yinma River, a group of officials in official uniforms surrounded a few leaders riding mules and horses, and walked proudly on the dirt road by the river. These people talk and laugh and are unscrupulous. People on the road turn around and run back, or they fork in the road. No one wants to take a picture with a group of officials who are going to the countryside!
No one knows where they got so much prestige, so much courage and arrogance. It seems that it is a breeze to go to Tumenji on this trip, and it seems that as long as they show up, the signboards of the official government can be easily captured by Chen Ming, Chen Cong and other prominent figures of the Chen family.
Zhou Tianyi listened to the endless stream of sycophants in his ears, and he had already thrown away the last unbearable and ashamed in his heart. Chen Hui has a good friendship with him, but can friendship replace the silver field? White flowers of silver, good farmland. With a clear conscience, he followed the county magistrate to run the Chen family, and the Zhou family's family background can be half thick!
The county magistrate has already rewarded himself with one hundred taels of silver, and the Chen family has been running around for the past few days, and many owners who have got the money have to share his share of the first share, and the Chen family has also given him a generous gift. Before the main dish was served, Zhou Tianyi had already bought another one hundred and fifty taels of silver. No matter how embarrassing and ashamed he is, in Zhou Tianyi's eyes, he can't compare to silver.
This time I went to Tumenji, and it was another fat trip. Although it was not a direct raid on the house, when Chen Ming, Chen Cong and others were arrested, they took some floating wealth by the hand, did the Chen family still dare to fart? Not to mention, you can get one or two hundred taels of silver today. It's just that there are too many people sent by the county master, and the entire Zhuang class is stuffed in, which makes Zhou Tianyi very painful.
What does the strong class do? According to the rules of the imperial court, the Zhuang class is the commander of the state and county guards, and the clothes are marked with the words "Minzhuang". In order to protect the warehouse, assist in the arrest of thieves, and be responsible for the security and social security precautions in the state and county officials and the yamen.
In fact, the latter is their positive difference.
Look at the city gate, look at the county government gate, look at the warehouse, patrol the streets, and so on. These people have enough oil and water, and they still have to compete with them for food and food?
Of course, Zhou Tianyi also knew that the county magistrate was afraid that there would be a bad thing in this trip. He was afraid that the Chen family would fight against the government!
Zhou Tianyi felt that it was unfounded. If Chen Hui hadn't been caught, then the Chen family would still be a hungry wolf. Now Chen Hui, the backbone of the Chen family has been thrown into prison, and no matter how much worry there is, there is only one loss, a small loss.
To be honest, compared to the Chen family's confrontation with the government, Chen Ming, who was more worried about him, ran away with his family property.
Zhou Tianyi, who was full of confidence in his official skin, would never have thought that Chen Ming would 'fall into the grass'. This is the blind spot of the entire yamen in Lushan County. Even Chang Rui, who insisted on stuffing the thirty Zhuang class, thought at most that the Chen family would resist the government, and that was not the same thing as being a bandit in the grass.
Dozens of miles away from the county seat to Tumenji, Zhou Tianyi was riding on a mule, and he was so tired that his back hurt. The white servants and officials who walked on two legs were even more tired and their legs trembled, but they finally arrived at Tumenji before the sun went down.
Looking at the Tumenji illuminated by the last rays of the sun not far away, these people seemed to have a lot of strength in an instant.
The Tumen set in front of me is no longer the Tumen set, but a pile of glittering silver.
And at this moment, the Tumen Collection, the people and horses that Chen Ming pulled from the mountains, plus Ding Zhuang who stayed behind in the Tumen Collection, and the children and soldiers organized by the children of the Chen family, not counting the engineering students led by Liu Wen, there are already 200 people.
Moreover, whether it is the mine guard team that came out of the mountain, or the Ding Zhuang team that stayed behind in Tumenji, all of them are wearing cuirasses, or light rattan skin armor, that is, the children of the Chen family who are concentrated, and they are holding either bird guns or spears in their hands, which is comparable to a group of errands with waist knives and wooden sticks? Not to mention that the Chen family still has more than a dozen horses!
"Young Master, Zhou Tianyi's old dog has arrived!"
"Let them in, a spoonful of stew, don't let one go!" Chen Ming was counting the grain with his second uncle. Yes, grain.
The Chen family has thousands of miners and their families in the mountains, and there are about 300 women in the iron village, plus the people and horses in Qingfeng Village, Hutou Village and Niutou Village, this is 2,000 people.
How many people from Tumenji can follow the Chen family up the mountain? There is also a stall in Xiaonangou. Coupled with the three granges outside, as well as the group in the city, a small family member of the Chen family who was arrested and put in prison, and so on, all counted together, 3,500 people is not much. With a loose hand, you can push the scale to 4,000 people!
With so many people, as well as livestock in the mountains, how much food do you have to eat in a day? Although Chen Ming has made green fodder, it is difficult to say whether he can succeed in silage in one fell swoop. After all, Chen Ming had only seen this technology on the Internet and in books, and he had never practiced it at all.
He knew that the "Wang Zhen Nongshu" of the Yuan Dynasty and the "Youfeng Guangyi" of the Qing Dynasty were written by Yang Tui, a native of Shaanxi, and this agricultural expert was still alive at this time. The fermentation methods of silage such as Shoukai and Horsetooth Jue are all recorded above, but these have not attracted the attention of the world at all.
In Europe, silage has been recorded in ancient Egypt and Rome, but the actual use of silage is not many years, and at this time it is still limited to Sweden, Germany and the Baltic countries.
Silage became known as a method of storing grasses, and it was only in the mid-19th century that silage was truly experimented.
If this technology is successful, the burden on livestock during the winter months will be greatly reduced.
Chen Ming had certain expectations for this, so on the whole, he set the daily food consumption in the mountains at 100 stones. Chen Cong, Chen Quan, Qigong and others all agree with this number. Then the next problem comes, there is not so much food in the mountains. ‘
The Chen family's current grain storage in the mountains is only 8,000 stones, and 100 stones of grain a day is not enough to eat for three months. And from now on, in the spring of next year, the Chen family doesn't want to run out of food to eat, so they need to prepare more according to the amount of reserves for half a year. That's a whole 10,000 stone in between!
Both Tumenji and Xiaonangou have a certain amount of grain, but all the grain in these two places, including coarse grains, has been collected, and they can only fill half of the gap of 10,000 stone of grain. There are still 5,000 stones left, and this gap must be solved before the Chen family can completely shrink back into the mountain.
Chen Ming's idea hit the county seat of Lushan. After breaking the county government to rescue Chen Hui and the others, he was not ready to retreat immediately, his eyes were still on Lushan's official treasury. In addition, in the past few days when the Chen family was in trouble, Chen Ming was also ready to visit the families of those who fell into the well. Of course, what is more important is the big families in the county and the grain stores they operate!