Chapter 18 A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
For several days, Yile traveled through the entire village of Lousang and the surrounding villages, and finally stopped at a ravine called Dry Land. This is the place where the Liu family has been running for a hundred years, with a few sparse wooden bungalows, which are indescribably old.
The fields are all scattered in the ravines, but the scarce crops grow tenaciously in the high places, which does not explain the way of a century-old family.
Liu Bei, one of the three in the group, said with a little embarrassment: "The valley has been dry for many years, and occasionally there are flash floods, and in recent years, it is no longer possible to maintain the output of crops. ”
"The reservoir should have been built in the early days." Yile muttered and continued walking.
Liu Bei sighed helplessly and followed. Looking at Yile's clumsy figure at this moment, he actually gave birth to the illusion that Yile was the young monarch of the Liu family.
"Dryland is the closest to the village, and once the reservoir is built, it can store water in summer and autumn and release water in winter and spring, so that the worries of flash floods and drought can be solved, and Liu's family will have more paddy fields, and there will be no more famine."
"It's a lot of consumption, and I couldn't afford it before, let alone talk about it now." Geng Yong always finds the focus of the conversation and interjects accurately.
"It won't be long before you don't have to worry about consumption." Yile didn't say anything more and kept going.
At this time, it was raining lightly in the summer, and the rain was not heavy and annoying.
The three of them found a grass hut to hide from the rain, and looked at the light rain outside for a long time without speaking.
Liu's current situation is worse than Liu Bei said. Although the summer harvest has been harvested a little, less than 40 percent of the stored grain cannot support more than 400 people to eat until the beginning of spring next year. And the rest of the village has more than 1,000 people.
A long time ago, Yile fed the whole family by himself. And now it's a bit of a headache to expand to the level where everyone has something to eat.
No matter which dynasty, the big families occupy most of the resources, they can eat and drink spicy food, and the people who rely on them can still eat a mouthful of food at this time, so they can still get along peacefully.
Once a natural or man-made disaster occurs, the big families still eat and drink spicy food, and if the people can only eat it, the unlucky ones should be the big families.
Those tenant farmers in Lousang Village, and some free households can only rely on the Liu family.
Confused by the values of Yile's later generations, he even thought that the Liu family was the one who should be robbed the most.
In the past few days, I learned from Liu Bei that the reason why so many people in the Liu family in Lousang Village took refuge was that the Liu family only received 30% of the income. In Yile's opinion, this is already a black-hearted rent that can no longer be black-hearted, but this rent is placed in the entire Zhuozhou County, but it is a conscience that can no longer be conscientious.
The Liu family in Lousang Village is also a royal family and does not need to pay taxes, so the Liu family has not collected taxes from the villagers.
If the villagers had paid these various taxes themselves, Liu estimated how many times they would have been robbed.
Yile has always believed that everything in the world should be grown in the ground, so it is called Mother Earth.
There is only so much food that can be grown, but some people do not worry about eating, and most people do not have enough to eat, so it is natural to form a class.
If there is not enough food, they will desperately use the value created by labor or other forms in exchange for a small amount of food, and this part of the value will be turned into money by a group of people called merchants through some means.
There is an inevitability in the existence of merchants, although its status is not even as good as that of these hungry tenant farmers, but the great act of transporting things from the east to the west and transferring grain from the west to the east depends on these people.
Although the connotation of Shangjia has been raised to an unparalleled level, Geng Yong still refuses to be the shopkeeper of the restaurant, and the scholars of the Han Dynasty have an inexplicable high level, if they are unwilling to bow their heads, they can't help him with a knife on their necks.
Geng Yong is the most suitable person, whether he is calm or clever, he is a good hand in public relations. The biggest purpose of this patrol was to pull him into the water.
"Under this gentle drizzle, I don't know how many hungry souls are wailing."
Yile sighed to himself, listening to Geng Yong's ears, it was like a thunderclap.
He wasn't surprised that Yile, who was only ten years old, would say such a thing, he was just surprised why he hadn't thought of it, or hadn't thought about such a thing.
The purpose of opening a restaurant is not to make money, to collect intelligence from all sides, and to find heroes from all walks of life is the top priority, the better the work of the restaurant, the more beneficial it will be to deal with this military disaster. Yong, Saiye! There are mountains on all sides, and Yongsai is solid. Since Geng Yong is inconvenient to do, let Jian Yong go. If we think about the issue of righteousness, if we only consider individuals, we should not read the books of the sages. ”
"I ......" Geng Yong, even if he was ten thousand unwilling, he couldn't speak at this time.
"Hey, the rain has stopped, let's go pick mushrooms."
Yile's cheerful voice sounded suddenly, Geng Yong shook his head hard, he couldn't treat the happy Yile in front of him and the melancholy child just now as a person. How can someone change their mood like flipping a book?
Before he came back to his senses, he heard a scream again, Yile, who hadn't run a few steps, fell to the ground, sat on the ground angrily and didn't want to get up, and shouted to Liu Bei, who came over and wanted to pull him: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." ”
Yes, whether it is building a reservoir, building a college, running a restaurant, or building weapons and armor, you must start from the basics. If you want more than 1,000 people in Lousang Village to follow Liu Bei with all their hearts, this process is to let the people of the whole Han Dynasty follow Liu Bei.
There has never been any popular desire, whoever controls the interests of the people will win the hearts of the people, and at this time, the interests of the people of the Han Dynasty are just food and clothing.
Bringing Zhao Ziyan back to Liu Yuan was to be beaten.
After a few months of getting along, Mrs. Liu has treated Yile as a son, which makes Yile, who has never tried maternal love, think that this is his biggest gain from this crossing.
When she learned that Yile had brought a girl back to arrange to serve her, it was no wonder that Mrs. Liu didn't get angry.
Yile did not defend himself, he believed that a mother beating her son was actually a kind of maternal love. This kind of perverted thinking can only be had by a perverted person.
Zhao Ziyan's ultimate belongings are to take care of Mrs. Liu's daily life, which was originally Yile's purpose, being beaten is nothing, and he didn't even have the qualifications to be beaten in his previous life, which has almost become Yile's obsession.
"Ah Le, if you grow up, can you marry me?" Zhao Ziyan asked thoughtlessly.
"If I like you and you like me, I will."
"But why did Niu Guiren from the next village say that he wanted to marry my sister, and my sister could only marry? My sister said she didn't like Niu Guiren. Zhao Ziyan blinked her beautiful eyes and stared at Yile and continued to ask.
"That's because I'm not there, if I'm here, your sister can marry as she wants, and don't marry if she doesn't want to."
"Can I do the same?"
"Didn't I tell you earlier?"
"Then why do you have the surname One?"
“……”
The potato trees are starting to turn yellow, which is a precursor to being ready for harvest. Zhongbo thought that he couldn't take care of himself well, and he wanted to die, but fortunately, Yile explained it clearly in time to calm his urge to commit suicide.
"Uncle Zhong, potatoes can be harvested in four months in a certain hometown, and the calculation time is almost the same, why don't you dig a few out and take a look?"
Yile didn't know why he had to ask for the consent of others to collect what belonged to him.
Zhong Bo looked at Yile suspiciously, as if he could see the truth of the matter in this way, he had just experienced the torment of escaping from death, of course he would not compromise easily at this time, and he could not harvest it until he was mature.
Seeing that he couldn't complete the baked potato trial plan, Yile reluctantly left.
Young people always want to grow up quickly, because they always feel that the life of adults is exciting.
Especially the teenagers who listened to Yile tell a story about 108 heroes. I can't wait to grow up immediately, and then the dogs and horses will fight in all directions.
At this time, if you take out the way of training special forces in later generations, they will not have any problems at all.
It turns out that the teenagers who have only gone through two days of training have begun to give up on becoming heroes like the heroes of Liangshan.
There are only a few Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Liu Zisang, who still gritted their teeth and persisted.
Climbing on a cliff with only one rope, and quickly climbing down a row of obstacles full of spiked bamboo after reaching the top of the mountain, Yile felt a cold swish on his back when he looked at it. If you are not careful, the great Three Kingdoms will be missing the classic story of warm wine and slashing Huaxiong.
The behavior of young people also includes the characteristic of giving up, as well as not giving up. When the teenagers returned to the team, Yile could no longer stand aside and watch, and was pulled by everyone to join the training lineup.
So he deeply realized the true meaning of the self-brewed bitter fruit.
Watching a group of teenagers sweating and struggling to move forward in the mud pool, Yile felt that in time, with the equipment, they would be the strongest team in the history of the Han Dynasty.
The cornices walk on the wall like walking on the ground, the invincible attack for hundreds of miles, assassination, sneak attack, pursuit, and breakthrough are commonplace.
In fact, this is not the real purpose of Yile, to put it bluntly, he just thinks that these teenagers can have the capital to survive on the battlefield in the future.
Today's weather is very good, it's a good day to open meat. The teenagers finished their training early, because they heard that Yile was going to cook mutton and stew potatoes today, and they admired Yile very much, especially his cooking skills. How can there be so many ways to cook food in a small head?
With a simple noodle, he can make dozens of flavors, stir-fried with soup, so that they forget Yile's real age, because they think that even if Yile starts to learn from his mother's womb, he won't be able to learn so many tricks.
Liu's cook has the most say at this time. However, after a few months of running-in, especially Yile told her that as long as she learns this ability, future generations will no longer have to worry about it, and she will know that she will be brave, and now she can do the same thing as Yile.
Liu's mother got up very early, dressed up under Zhao Ziyan's service, and came to the pavilion. Liu Bei was dressed in orthodox clothes and waited with a group of teenagers on the edge of the pavilion early.
On the edge of the potato planting field, a pig's head and a sheep's head are placed on a six-foot-long incense table, and a huge bronze incense burner is placed in the center, and the side is full of fruits and snacks. (To be continued, please collect)