After Geng Qiu left, he simply ordered the third uncle and three aunts to move to Yujiazhuang. The houses and fields in the village were gone, so the house was given to Ah Xuan, and a few acres of land were handed over to the village chief for him to deal with.

Ah Xuan failed in the township test, and at least he had to wait for another three years before he could end up again, but because the test was far away, Liu Zhihua and a few other new people simply returned to Beixian County, and studied as a master in the county school. They are all good enough to be masters.

Ah Xuan's family background is not very good, and it is impossible to go to Fuxue to study for three years, so he went home to study hard by himself, and from time to time came to the county school to find Liu Zhihua and others to consult with Yu Mingyi, in order to take the township test in three years. Ah Hao and Geng Qiu's house for him to live in, it is just right, quiet enough, and they are crowded together as a family, as the children grow up, it is indeed a little inadequate.

Therefore, he not only moved over by himself, but also brought Aqing's eldest son, a guy with a nickname of Kuroko. Xiao Heizi followed his uncle to study and learn calligraphy, and he didn't expect him to take the imperial examination, but he had already reached the time when he should get started. Usually, the uncle and nephew read quietly and the meals were all delivered by someone. Now the young and middle-aged people in the village have learned some skills under the leadership of the third uncle, and it is no problem to hunt, so the living standards of the whole village have risen. Aqing's family is the same, so the son follows his younger brother to study, but it just costs some pen, ink and paper, and his family can afford it.

Because of the war, Geng Qiu was more concerned about crop work. Seeing that the price of food has begun to rise, the big families in the county have begun to hoard food. Fortunately, he and the Yu family still have 20,000 catties of grain in stock, so they don't have to worry about not having to eat. The main worry is that the war will last too long, and the imperial court will increase taxes next year. will even go to the folk to pull the strong ding.

After two or three years of consolidation, the fields and hills of the two families on the side of Yujiazhuang have all been completed, each family has more than 100 acres of fields, and the mountains are also very neatly cared for. Even some of the nearby wasteland was reclaimed by the tenant farmers. Yujiazhuang, which cherishes the desolation of the sun, is now the best village in the suburbs of Beixian County. The tenant farmers who had no food at the beginning now have a little surplus of food, and their lives are prosperous. Especially because everyone's children are practicing kung fu with the children of the Zeng family, and the kung fu of hunting has increased, and everyone can add some income to the family. Therefore, Yujiazhuang quickly became a well-known wealthy village in Beixian County.

I have to say that this is the credit of Yu Mingyi and Geng Qiu. People with a little face in the county have sent people to come here to investigate, and they want to come here to buy mountains and land, but the best place has been taken by Yu Mingyi and Geng Qiu, and the rest is much worse than this, but the price has risen instead, everyone thinks left and right, and thinks that it is not cost-effective, and it just so happens that the county master does not want them to come to Yujiazhuang, because he is afraid that it will bring trouble to Geng Qiu and Yu Mingyi, these people are uneven, and they are afraid that they are not very reliable.

In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, the county magistrate simply revealed it to the two of them in private, wanting them to buy all the nearby hills. The two discussed it and thought it would be okay, but if they took it all down, they couldn't eat it, so they brought two trainers from Beixian County, Liu Zhihua and a few other masters. They fell in love with a few small hills not too far from Yujiazhuang. None of them were very wealthy, and it was not easy to get more than three hundred taels of silver, but the two of them could still make a share.

So Yu Mingyi and Geng Qiu and their two families spent another six hundred taels each to buy the two adjacent hills, these mountains are worse than the previous two, and they are won at one time, the price is cheaper, each family took two, and each family has three. Because the current price is one percent higher than the three hundred taels they took before.

It's just that in this way, Yu Mingyi's family spent all the surplus money they had on hand, because they didn't sell all the harvest in the past three years, and they just raised the mountains and fields. Geng Qiu's five hundred taels were given by Zeng Dashan last time, and when Ah Hao left, he took away a thousand taels of silver, plus the flowers this time, there were only five hundred taels left.

Fortunately, Ah Hao has Yulu this time, and the family's income has increased. Geng Qiu didn't have to worry too much. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to spend the five hundred taels, you know, when Ah Hao left, he handed over the two children of Ah Niu and Ning Ge'er, as well as the children of the Zeng family and the third uncle and three aunts. The burden on his shoulders is not light. He didn't worry about just eating and drinking, but the two children had to spend a lot of money to study, and they had to marry a wife and start a family for them.

There is no need to go around looking for tenant farmers in this wasteland, because as soon as the tenant farmers on Zhuangzi heard the news, they brought their relatives and friends over, and the manpower was immediately sufficient, and everyone was very satisfied with the same method as before. There is no need for Geng Qiu and Yu Mingyi to worry about it at all, they can do it well. There are precedents to follow.

If so, it soon came to the second year, except for the beginning when Ah Hao wrote two letters home, the first letter was about some things that happened when he first arrived under King Ping, and the second letter was written near Xinzhou, telling some things about their march all the way, the letters were very simple, let him not worry, take care of his family. Geng Qiu didn't even write him a reply, because he didn't know where to send it, and he didn't know if he could receive it.

In fact, even these two letters were written by King Ping, just to report peace to the family. Because everyone knows that if you really enter the war zone, it is impossible to communicate with your family, and you can't say that you will die tomorrow.

Because there are too many things at home, and Geng Qiu still has to help Yu Mingyi take care of things, he is too busy to think about it, and now he and the Yu family each have two hundred acres of land and two mountains to deal with, and the number of tenant farmers has also increased a lot. Now Yujiazhuang is a large village with sixty or seventy tenants and nearly 1,000 people. There are a lot of big and small things, there are many people, and there will be some small dirty things from time to time.

Geng Qiu not only had to manage the tenant farmers' farming, but also mediated some conflicts that occurred between them from time to time. He wanted to break himself in half. I have to get up before dawn every day, and I have to be busy until midnight to sleep. Even Ah Niu was sent to the county school to study. Now that there are more teachers in the county school, they have conformed to the will of the people and opened a Mongolian school class for children aged six or seven. Although Ah Wan is not old enough, he is talented and intelligent, and he has always played with Ah Niu, so Yu Mingyi ruthlessly sent him to Mengxue and was in the same class as Ah Niu.

In this way, it was busy, and soon it was autumn, and before the autumn harvest began, the imperial court issued a decree to increase the autumn tax. The peasants complained bitterly, but they did not dare to disobey the order, because everyone knew that there was a war, and they could not let the soldiers who were charging with their lives have nothing to eat.

"If you don't get enough, what?" Geng Qiu asked Yu Mingyi, although Yujiazhuang didn't have to pay taxes, Geng Qiu was very worried, and it would be their turn sooner or later.

"What can I do? We're still a big deal, and we have to pay a little bit of money. Fortunately, we have been stockpiling food, and it will not affect our lives. What I'm afraid of is that there will be officials who will take the opportunity to scrape the people's fat and people's cream, and then it will be troublesome to make the heavens angry and the people resentful. Yu Mingyi said.

He is much more well-informed than Geng Qiu, and now that Lord Zhou has been promoted again, he naturally knows the affairs of the court very clearly. After the king of Chaozhong and Ping led the troops to battle, the other princes were not as shrunk as before, and everyone received errands, and all of them were extraordinary. On the contrary, the prince's family lost a lot of henchmen in the battle of Beiliang's loss, and then demolished his cousin and a cadre of his family, so that the prestige of the prince's family was more than a star and a half worse than in previous years. The most important thing is that the emperor doesn't like the prince as much as before, and even blamed the queen some time ago. The prince is now suffering from the enemy, the brothers are eyeing each other, everyone has their own faction, and the contradictions all point to him, which simply makes the prince live like a year, and now the prince's status is in danger, and he may be replaced one day.

If the DPRK and China are unstable and there is another war, it will certainly trigger more conflicts, and no one knows at the moment what kind of big chaos will come out. Fortunately, Beixian is a remote and impoverished place, so it is a safe place at this time. Lord Zhou, Yu Mingyi has long been asked to make more preparations, not only to store enough food, but also to collect some nursing homes with a little effort, for fear that someone will be in trouble.

"That's hard to say. I only hope that King Ping can win the battle soon and move back to the court. Geng Qiu sighed.

The princes of the court and the central government are in their own affairs, and everyone wants to remove the crown prince and take the throne himself. You have to find something to do when you have nothing to do, not to mention that it's still an eventful time.

"It's not that easy. The Northern Barbarians occupy the right time and place, and King Ping has a team of pampered and well-pampered people, even if everyone is a master, it is not a simple matter to recover these people and make them fight honestly. What's more, even if he wins, if he can't get benefits, do you think he will be an honest prince? I can't say it, but the bigger mess is yet to come. Yu Mingyi's clarity is also very reasonable. King Ping is fighting outside with his life, why should he cheapen others.

"Ouch, it's annoying. Let's get rid of the immediate problem first. Otherwise, let's take 5,000 catties of grain out and hand them over to the imperial court first. Geng Qiu asked.

"It's not proper, why don't we each pay a thousand catties of grain and go out as a tax first. A thousand catties is not less. The county magistrate knows it in his heart. In the future, if the DPRK comes to collect grain again, we will each pay another 5,000 catties. Don't pay too much at once. Yu Mingyi said.

"I see." Geng Qiu promised in his mouth. I secretly said in my heart, I really don't understand this, no matter how much food there is, it has to be used on the steel mouth. Otherwise, it's not a thankless effort. What's more, the two of them only have 20,000 catties of grain each. Even if you collect another 10,000 catties this season, it's not much. Everyone has a family to eat and drink.

For a while, both of them were silent, and they both knew in their hearts that the days ahead would be even more difficult.