Next to the new house were two rows of almost 300 houses, and the courtyard wall in front of it was inlaid with various courtyard doors, and it can be roughly counted that there were about 100 or so households.

These situations will be reported in a report every quarter, but according to Xiaohu and Erya's estimate of the progress here, it should not just increase the number of households.

"How can there be thousands of bachelors, how can there be 100 people who live separately? None of you helped Zhang Luo Zhang Luo to find women elsewhere for them? ”

Peng Yunjiang laughed when he heard this, "The owner! That's not bad for us. Now they all have hundreds of taels of silver in their hands, and they all feel that they are rich people, and ordinary women can't look down on them! When my mother-in-law went back to the grave, she brought a few women from her hometown, and they didn't like to look good, what can I do? You can't worship according to them. ”

Xiaohu couldn't help but laugh, speaking of which is understandable. In the past, there were twenty or thirty taels of silver in the family, and they could pick and choose a very good woman, but now they have hundreds of taels of silver in their hands, and it is indeed difficult to accept that they marry a woman to come to the house.

Nodding and thinking for a while, he looked up and said to the two Peng Yunhai brothers: "You go back and inform them that if anyone is willing to go back to their hometown to find a woman, they can go back to their hometown for the New Year in the future." Let's just say that I will give them three months off here, and the salary will be calculated accordingly. ”

Peng Yunhai smiled innocently: "The owner! I also told them what you said, but they didn't dare to go back to their hometown. What I'm afraid of is that when I get to my hometown, it's hard to say whether a woman can marry back, and it's more likely that even the little silver in my hand will be picked up by those people in my hometown. ”

"How's that going? So many men without women. After a long time, there will definitely be chaos. Xiaohu realized the seriousness of this matter, and immediately used his brains to better solve the problem of these bachelors.

Ay! This is really a woman's patent! He thought it was all at his doorstep. I haven't come up with a practical solution.

There were a number of people standing at the door, welcoming the arrival of his host, and after a pleasant greeting, everyone dispersed and went to their own businesses.

The next day, when the Peng brothers were busy with dinner in the evening, Xiaohu rode a horse to inspect his pasture, shearing factory, wool textile factory, cultivated land, and silkworm breeding forest.

The place where the sheep are shepherded is nothing more than a low depression one after the other, because of the terrain. When it rains heavily, the water is so deep that there is no way to grow crops. However, it is a great place to graze your cattle. But there is also a hazard, that is, when a large number of sheep climb up and down, it is easy to trample on a high slope, and it is a large piece when you step on it. It used to be all wasteland, and it didn't matter. Now it has been cultivated into crop land. You can't let it collapse. Therefore, when grazing, each flock of sheep will follow the herdsman to watch over them, controlling the flock not to climb the slope and trample on the high ground.

The cattle are basically placed on a few single mountains, although there are wild wolves in such mountains, but there are not too many of them, and there are no large beasts, so there will not be much loss.

The horse farm was far away, on a flat land that had been going more than a dozen miles to the west. The horse farm has not yet formed a scale. There are only a few hundred horses at the moment, wagging their tails. One in the east and one in the west, sparsely bowing their heads and nibbling on the weeds on the ground. Several wranglers sat on their horses and stayed in their respective positions, watching the grazing horses. Only a few black shepherd dogs were running around on the grass, and they didn't stop at any time.

The so-called shearing factory is just four rooms, one is a room for collecting wool, one is for shearing sheep, one is for shearing sheep, one is for shearing sheep with medicinal baths, and one is a greenhouse for drying sheep with medicinal baths. Although it is simple, the requirements are very strict, and those who have not washed and changed their clothes are not allowed to enter. Xiaohu didn't plan to go in, just stood outside the window to see how clean it was inside, and the cement floor was spotless after being washed with water.

Wool spinning factory, because they are all female workers, Xiaohu just looked at some of the disposed raw materials and finished products after spinning, which is regarded as an inspection, and did not enter the workshop to watch the state of the workers spinning.

The silkworms in the squeezing forest are attached to the leaves, constantly eating the fat leaves, and moving their fat and short bodies. Those who want the leaves to be good may be annoyed by these nasty bugs, but for those who want to raise them, the fat and fat bugs and the good appetite for eating the leaves are what they like to see.

At the very edge of the forest, there is a small courtyard where a master who raises silkworms lives.

"Master! You are now a rich man, why don't you take your family over to live with you, why are you so lonely? Xiaohu asked the master who was holding a dry tobacco pole in front of him and weaving a dustpan used to collect silkworm cocoons.

The old master put down the work in his hand, took the dry tobacco stick in his mouth, put it on the bench in front of him and knocked it lightly twice, before he replied casually: "Their situation here cannot be known to them, otherwise, they will try their best to squeeze this forest and completely pass it." Then they raise silkworms independently and profit by themselves, and they will definitely not leave the slightest benefit to others. ”

The old master knew too well that those in his family were greedy, domineering, and unwieldy. Once you reveal your only possession to them, you will truly have nothing. As for Qu Jiaao, those people have no chance to get a penny and a half of profit in it. It is also impossible for the owner to buy silk exclusively, and they will only sell it to Dongying people to maximize their profits.

Xiaohu has also seen some people in the world, and after listening to the master's words, he naturally knew what he meant subconsciously, so he nodded and stopped asking. Fortunately, although the master lived alone, there were people from Qujiaao who helped him cook three meals a day, wash clothes, wash quilts, and do hygiene.

Xiaohu chatted with the master about the expansion and breeding of silkworms in the past two years, and learned that the master had led people to cultivate a lot of small squeezed saplings, and the Wang family could plant a large area of squeezed trees next year. It is in line with my daughter-in-law's plan for the sericulture plan here.

"Then the master thinks that our pressed forest is best planted in that place?"

The old master had already thought of the location of the new pressing forest, and when he heard that the owner was interested in asking for advice, he replied without the slightest hesitation: "I think the halfway up the mountain around the reservoir is the best, where the water vapor is large, which is conducive to the growth of the pressing trees." And I found that in places with strong water vapor, the toughness of the pressed silk raised is good, and the color is white to translucent, so the pressed silk can be on the same level as the general mulberry silk. ”

Since Xiaohu asked the master, of course, he would listen carefully to the master's opinion, and immediately decided to place their family's pressed forest on the mountainside around the reservoir.

I chatted with the old master about some unhurried gossip, and told him that there was a dinner party in the evening, and invited him to come over for a drink before saying goodbye and leaving.

At the dinner party in the evening, everyone used the way of eating barbecue around the bonfire, and those veterans who came out of the army were praised by the owner himself, and they were obviously very happy in their hearts, but they had to pretend to be calm. It's just that everyone seems very excited when they drink, and soon several people get drunk.

Xiaohu, who had been partying with everyone all night, rushed to the inn early the next morning, took the caravan to the state capital, and then went from the state capital to the border city.

When they arrived in the border city, Xiaolong was busy with the big and small things of the mutual market opening with Xiao Zongbing.

Xiaohu arrived in the border city and found that the security of the border city was extremely strict, he thought it was the reason why the mutual market was about to open, until he met his younger brother Xiaolong, he knew that there was a major event that had a close relationship with him to happen.

"The people from Xijiang over there didn't come to ask for someone in the early years, why do they suddenly remember to ask for someone now?" Xiaohu was puzzled when he heard that the emperor had sent the crown prince to negotiate with the people of Western Xinjiang in exchange for those who had been captured by Xiaohu five years ago.

Xiaolong also didn't understand the inside story, shook his head and replied: "The reason for them is that they thought they had all been killed at first. Later, when I came to learn about our establishment of the mutual market, I heard that there were still many Western Xinjiang captives here, so I proposed to exchange their Western Xinjiang people for horses. I conveyed their intentions to the emperor, who said that they could talk, and appointed the crown prince and the military attendant to come and talk about it. ”

The crown prince is the concubine born to the queen, and he is now in his twenties, and he has been involved in political affairs for three or four years. It stands to reason that he should be able to handle this matter independently, but in order to protect his son, the emperor arranged for another military attendant to follow. If the talk is good, the merit belongs to his son, and if the talk is not good, the fault lies with the squire of the military department. That's politics! Although the squire of the military department knew the true meaning of following him, he still had to serve the little master loyally.

Originally, it was planned to open on the eighth day of August, but now it can only wait for the arrival of the prince and his party.

Xiao Long and Xiao Zongbing were busy with various things in the opening of the market, while waiting for the arrival of the prince. Who knows, someone intercepted the prince in the middle of the road and sued him and Xiao Zongbing.

As mentioned earlier, Zhizhou here has always wanted to make trouble for Xiaolong, but because Xiaolong was scheming ahead, he couldn't succeed here with He Tongzhi. After learning that He Tongzhi and Wang Zhifu were married, he knew that he had been fooled, and he was very annoyed. He went to the border city again to point fingers, wanting to control the sovereignty of the mutual market, but was beaten up by General Xiao Bing, who was higher than him. Although between the civil and military attache ranks, the rank of the military attache is half a level lower than that of the civilian official, but the official rank of Xiao Zongbing is several levels higher than that of this Zhizhou, and he still belongs to Xiao Zongbing. It was also in vain to be beaten by officials higher than him, and he could only admit that he was unlucky, but he held a grudge in his heart.

The prefect here is the chief executive of several state capitals combined into one continent, not the kind of prefect above the prefect below the prefect of some dynasties. Therefore, the official level of this prefect is actually greater than that of Xiaolong, the prefect, but unfortunately there is no real power to govern one side. But the biggest advantage of an official in this position is that as long as there is a way, it is very likely that he will be promoted to the capital as an official in the next step, so what this governor is most afraid of is losing this official position.

In the past, he suppressed Xiaolong because he was afraid that Xiaolong would resist him, but now he can tear his face and run to the prince to sue Xiaolong and Xiao Zongbing, that is, because he held a grudge after being violently beaten by Xiao. (To be continued.) )

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