Chapter 165: Poor Scholar 2
"Oh? Really? If that's the case, it's amazing! They're just a bunch of pirates, how can they do that? This Lin Yiyang was even more surprised after hearing this.
"Little brother, you don't know what to do! This sea wolf's Yu Da is not an ordinary person, although he is a pirate, but he is a chivalrous person! Since he became the ruler of this Nanri Island, the people of Nanri Island have really enjoyed happiness!
This is the big boss never allowed his subordinates to harm the poor people, the people on the island are in trouble, and he also reaches out to help, in addition, our Fuzhou area has become much more peaceful since he is in charge!
They only attacked some unruly merchant ships, rarely harmed the people along the coast, and rarely raided the villages, but cut off many small groups of pirates in this area, and returned peace to the coast in this area!
I heard that there were a few fishing tyrants along the coast before, and then they were also killed by the people sent by the Yu family, and now there are many more fishermen in our area than before, and life is much better!
Although these brothers of the sea wolves are nominally thieves, they are a hundred times better than the officers and soldiers and those yamen officers!
If it weren't for the old and the young in the family, I would like to come and do it for this Yu Dang! You don't know what to do! The brethren of the sea wolf are much older! Although the head of the family is strict with his subordinates, he is very generous in his salary, and the brothers usually have money to take, and if they work, they can also share the profits from what they get.
Just the little money you just stuffed into them, it's not that they don't want it, they really can't see it! What a pity! I don't have this blessing for the head of the house, otherwise, our family would have a much better life than it is now! ”
The boatman shook his head with a look of regret.
After listening to the words of this boatman, this Lin Yiyang couldn't help but be a little stunned, although he had heard that this sea wolf gang was different and was quite popular with the people in the coastal area, but he didn't think that even the boatman on the boat he was on respected this big boss surnamed Yu so much.
So he couldn't help but feel even more curious about this sea wolf and this Yu master, so as he walked, he chatted with the boatman, and kept inquiring about the sea wolf gang.
When he entered the interior of the inn area, he was startled by the scene in front of him, because before he came here, he thought that although there were some shops here, but after all, this was a thief's nest, and it would definitely be a mess here, and it would not be lively anywhere.
The shopping district doesn't look like a thief's den at all, it's huge, and the whole shopping area is divided by four streets in a tic-tac-toe shape.
And the streets here are very neat and clean, not at all like the streets of the market town, with garbage everywhere, sewage flowing sideways, flies flying around, and the streets here are very wide, more than twice the average market street, and can accommodate four horse-drawn carriages in parallel, and it is not crowded.
And every other distance on the street, a bamboo basket will be placed on the side of the road, and there are people with brooms on the street who go back and forth to clean the street, and collect the garbage into these bamboo baskets, and when he entered the shopping area, he also saw an ox cart, which happened to clean up the garbage in these bamboo baskets along the street, emptied the garbage in the bamboo basket, poured it into the ox cart, and then pulled out of the shopping area, I don't know where it was sent.
And what surprised him even more was that not far from entering the business inn area, the boatman went to a place, Lin Yiyang hurriedly asked him what he was doing, and the boatman turned his head and said, "The little one is going to Gong!" ”
In fact, the city management of the Ming Dynasty is very backward, even compared to the previous Tang and Song dynasties, it is far worse, there are few public toilets on the streets of the city market towns, many people have run to some places where no one is directly on the spot, most of the dead corners of the city streets are noisy and smelly, and the garbage is not responsible for it, and it seems that there is garbage everywhere and it is messy.
Anyone who comes to Nanri Island for the first time on land will be amazed at the cleanliness of the place, and there are special public latrines at both ends of the street for pedestrians to use as a makeshift visitor.
The boatman had obviously been here many times before, and after getting off the boat, he felt a little anxious, and as soon as he entered the business district, he went straight to a thatched toilet on the street, and on the wall of the thatched toilet was also painted with white plaster, and on both sides of the street, there was one each, which was marked with the words men and women, and the literate people could see at once which toilet they should enter and go out.
Lin Yiyang was even more surprised that there was a public toilet here, and he didn't have the idea of complimenting, but when he saw the boatman going with the latrine, he couldn't help but raise his legs and follow in.
After the boatman finished his errand, he turned his head and said to Lin Yiyang, who came in, "How is the little brother?" Isn't it better than a market town on land? The people of the sea wolf here are really thoughtful, there are such latrines on every street corner, and some people in the province pee on the street!
In addition, you don't look at Nanri Island here, it's not good to say that this is a den of thieves, but there are a lot of rules, if someone casually pulls a sa on the street, someone will go over to ask, and the worst will be fined five big dollars, so no one here dares to pee on the street anymore! ”
Lin Yiyang looked at the same clean latrine, with a row of commodes in it, so he nodded and said, "It's really unexpected!" It's a surprise here! By the way, there are also people who are responsible for cleaning these potty buckets? ”
The boatman was obviously familiar with the place, so he nodded while tying up his pants and said, "Of course! You don't know how to clean the latrines here, not everyone can do it, this manure is a good fertilizer! Nowadays, there are many people who farm on Nanri Island, and they are counting on more grain in the fields, and these manure and urine are good fertilizers.
So if anyone wants to collect these feces and urine, it's not who wants to come, it's to pay money to the Seawolf Gang to come, and there are rules, you have to clean it regularly, there are several toilets here, not one is in charge, and it is distributed to several families, if anyone can't manage it well, it will be replaced immediately, so you also see, it's clean and tight here! ”
When Lin Yiyang heard this, he was no longer surprised to describe his mood, he didn't expect that a place managed by pirates could be managed like this, even if it was a land government, it might not be able to manage a place to such a point, since he went to the island, this place has brought him surprise one by one, and he doesn't know what to say at this time.
After getting out of the latrine, Lin Yiyang asked the boatman, "Just now you said that there is still a lot of farmland here?" I've heard before, isn't Nanri Island a desert island? Except for a few fishermen who make a living from fishing, there are no farms! ”
The boatman shook his head and smiled: "You really don't know what to do!" That's the old yellow calendar! In the past, when Nanri Island was a shark gang, it was a desert island, and the fishermen were a little, but there were two fishing villages on the island, and I heard the fishermen here say that their lives were hard! Those bastards of the Shark Gang spoil the women in their village at every turn, and there are many women who are forced to jump into the sea to die!
Later, after Yu Da Dang's house came, the restraint on the subordinates was very strict, once I heard that two guys drank too much, and pulled a woman to a place where no one was, and then someone sued Yu Da Dang's house, Yu Da Dang's family even if these two men were arrested and handed over to the torture hall for disposal, the torture hall beat these two people with fifty military sticks without saying a word, and tied them on the dock for three days.
I happened to see those two people too, and the beating was so bad! No one will dare to harm the people on the island again!
In the past two years, Yu Dangjia has recruited a lot of immigrants from the land to come to the island, open up wasteland and farm, and the island has now opened up thousands of acres of land and planted a lot of food, and Yu Dangjia has treated these immigrants very well, and their lives are much better than when they were on land before!
I thought about it, wait a while, if I can't get by, I'll either come to work for Yu as an errand boy, or move my family over!
By the way, now Nanri Island does not want to immigrate, I heard that Yu Dangjia has occupied a piece of land on Taiyuan Island, and now if anyone wants to come, they will send it to Taiyuan Island, and the three households will give a cow, and help build houses, and those who want to raise pigs and sheep will be returned to the pigs and lambs, and they can be sold to the sea wolves after they are raised!
Each family also sends farm tools, and the Seawolf people are also responsible for providing protection! If you do a good job of clearing the wasteland, you will also send chickens, ducks, and goose seedlings, and there are two families in our village where they went, and I heard that life is quite comfortable! ”
"Oh? Really? In this way, this Yu Dangjia should be a person with great ambitions! After hearing this, Lin Yiyang nodded again and again, and his eyes couldn't help but light up.
"I don't know if Yu Dangjia is ambitious, and I don't dare to say it, but Yu Dangjia doesn't say it! As long as you are with him, Yu Dangjia will not treat you badly!
Look at it, how long has it been! What has become of this Nanri Island, except for the pirates here, there are almost no people to see here, but now you have seen it, dozens of ships come and go every day on the dock, and you have to wait in a queue if you want to unload the goods, and you have also seen the merchant area here, which is more lively than the market town on land!
This is not down this street to that side, it is a place where small traders and hawkers gather, and the people on the island can come here directly to buy what they need, and the brothers of the sea wolves on the island often come here to go around, but they have never heard of forced buying and selling, everyone is a fair trade, and the price is whatever you want, which is cheaper than the things in the land market town!
You look at my knife, I bought it here, and it only cost a few big bucks, if this is on land, I guess I can't buy it for a dozen big bucks! ”
This boatman is also a warm-hearted chatter, as soon as he opened the chatterbox, he couldn't hold it, and as he spoke, he took out a knife with a leather sheath from his arms and handed it to Lin Yiyang, Lin Yiyang took it and took out the knife, and after looking at it, although he didn't dare to say that the workmanship was very fine, but it was not bad, the blade was very sharp, and a few big money must not be able to buy it on land, so it can be seen that the price here is indeed not high.
So the two of them walked while talking, and after a while, they entered a shop with the Lin family's business name.