Chapter 0299: Li Mu's betrayal
"What are those people for?"
Feng Yong suddenly pointed to the distance and asked.
"Oh, that's the person from the sixth room of the Li family, and it should be clearing the wasteland. They've carved out a lot of wasteland this year. ”
Although Li Qiu is a leisurely county magistrate all day long, he still knows the situation in the county.
"This Li family's six-room has been opening up wasteland like this, and it hasn't stopped?"
Feng Yong was a little surprised.
In order to leave enough room for further transformation and expansion in the future, the textile workshop covers a large area, and even if there is no place for use at present, Feng Yong also encloses them in the scope of the textile workshop.
In addition, this is already the largest population concentration in Nanxiang County, and a semi-closed small society has been initially formed.
Therefore, he has never had much intuitive impression of the newly opened fields of the Li family next to the textile workshop.
Unexpectedly, in order to observe the road today, I suddenly found that the Li family seemed to have never stopped clearing the wasteland.
"No, I don't."
Li Qiu shook his head, and said with some doubts, "It stands to reason that the places that are now reclaimed in Hanzhong are all familiar land that was abandoned before, and as long as you cultivate it a little more, you can get a good piece of land." ”
"But this Li family, I don't know what to think, in the past few months, they have made great efforts to open up wasteland around here. Most of them are newly opened raw land, and I am afraid that I will not be able to harvest much grain a year. Without three or five years of farming, you can't get a cooked land. ”
In these years, there are fewer people and more land, as long as you are willing, you will not worry about having no place to open up wasteland.
But there is also a cost to open up wasteland.
With no oxen or labor tools in his hands, it is no less difficult to open a field in the wasteland that can grow grain.
Because the newly opened wasteland is called raw land, the grain grown in a year is only afraid that it can recover the grain seeds, and even if the grains are not harvested, there is nothing abnormal.
The raw land has to be planted continuously for several years, and it is hard to water with sweat until it becomes a cooked land, and finally the grain can be harvested.
In other words, the newly opened wasteland may not only not be harvested for several years, but will also have to be filled with a year's worth of labor.
If there is not enough labor at home, there is no surplus food, how can there be capital to open up wasteland?
Can't you get enough food back from Qianshou's farm, waiting for the whole family to starve to death?
If it were so easy to open up the wasteland, would they still have to rely on the big families?
Hanzhong is now a carnival place for the Han magnates, and almost all the cooked land that was abandoned in the past few years has been carved up.
As long as these old years of cooked land are opened, it stands to reason that the harvest may be less in the first year, but there will be eight oxen and plows!
The grain produced by deep ploughing is no different from the cooked land produced without the eight-ox plough in previous years, so it is almost a plain field, and who is in the mood to spend several years of effort to open up wasteland?
Besides, most of them are poor ghosts, even if they have a heart, they are powerless.
Qianshou wants to open up the wasteland, but they have nothing, where will they get the money and food?
The family that has the ability to open up the wasteland was pressed to death in Shu by the old demon Zhuge again, and there was no way to enter Hanzhong.
That's why Feng Yong was so sure that Li Mu was sent by Zhuge Old Demon?
Their marriage partner Liao Li was exiled, if the sixth room of the Li family did not have the permission of Zhuge Old Demon, dare to enter Hanzhong to reclaim land?
Thinking of this, Feng Yong suddenly understood what benefits the old demon Zhuge had promised to the Li family's six rooms, not only did they betray the Li family in Shuzhong, but also sent a concubine to be a chess piece.
"What's wrong with that?"
Feng Yong smiled, "The Li family's sixth room also has some background, what is it to survive these three or five years?" Now that there is Zhuyu, the governor of Nanzhong, if they can gain a firm foothold in Hanzhong, it is not impossible to have a Li family in Hanzhong. ”
"I see!"
As soon as Li Qiu heard Feng Yong's words, he immediately understood.
Ploughing and reading heirlooms, ploughing and reading, are all inheritances.
"The person in charge of the sixth room of the Li family has great courage!"
Feng Yong listened to Li Qiu's words, nodded, and agreed, "It is indeed courageous." ”
If the sixth room of the Li family is really as he thinks, it will be a big gamble.
Surrender to Zhuge Old Demon, willing to be a dog that is used by others, and then take advantage of the situation.
If you win, you will be the first family in Hanzhong, and if you lose, you will fall directly.
No wonder Li Mu had to find a way to get close to Feng Yong even if he surrendered his identity almost in humiliation.
Because they can't afford to lose.
Hanzhong is a little evil, just thinking of Li Mu, I saw a beautiful woman in front of me, although she was dressed plainly, she still couldn't hide her graceful style.
"What a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet Feng Langjun here."
Li Mu took the servant woman, and it seemed that he was going to the place where he was going to open up the wasteland in front of him, but as soon as he saw Feng Yong standing at the end of the road, he immediately turned around and walked over, first greeted Feng Yong, and then smiled at Li Qiu, "Little sister has seen brother." ”
The Li family in Nanzhong and the Li family in Shuzhong are originally of the same root, and Li Mu's brother is not wrong.
Li Qiu returned the salute.
"It's a coincidence."
Feng Yong looked at Li Mu and said, "Mrs. Li is going out, where are you going?" ”
Li Mu really pointed to the distance and said, "Little sister is about to go ahead to see how much wasteland there is still to be cultivated. ”
"Your Li family's sixth room is planning to take root in Hanzhong?" Feng Yongyi asked pointedly.
Li Mu glanced at Feng Yong with some surprise, how could she not hear what else was meant in these words?
I saw her shake her head and said, "It's too early to say that it is rooted in Hanzhong at this time. What Xiaomei thought was that if she cultivated some food around the textile workshop, it would not be a bad thing. ”
Growing food around the textile workshop?
Although what the woman said was a half-truth, Feng Yong glanced at Li Mu in surprise when he heard this, "This is what you came up with?" ”
"The sixth room of the Li family is in Hanzhong, and it is not only in this place, but here it is the younger sister who is dedicated to the eldest father, which has won the support of the clan."
Li Mu's face was slightly bright, "So the affairs of the Li family here are all in charge of the little sister." ”
In the period when modern transportation had not yet developed, there were food supply bases in the surrounding areas of population gatherings, cities, castles, and castles.
This is common knowledge in later generations.
But not necessarily in this day and age.
A person who can keenly spot this business opportunity and have the courage to put it into action must be a smart person.
If this person is a woman, then this woman is even more difficult.
Feng Yong looked at her with great interest, and suddenly asked, "Is Mrs. Li interested in cooperating with me?" ”
Li Qiu, who was next to him, was stunned on the spot when he heard this.
Li Mu's eyes lit up with brilliance, and he asked a little eagerly at the moment, "Feng Langjun, is this the idea proposed by the concubine a few days ago?" ”
Grain for wool cloth, this is what Feng Yong originally wanted to do.
The key is only how to divide the cake.
In addition to giving the Huang family a copy, how to arrange the rest, it depends on the market's reaction.
However, with the addition of the Li family's six rooms, that is also a matter of Feng Yong's words.
"I agree to you in principle. But you also know that the county lieutenant of Nanxiang County is now the son of the Huang family. The Huang family is also willing to subsidize my food. ”
"The Li family only wants to get a share, which is already a great joy, how dare they have greater extravagant hopes?"
Li Mu didn't expect to meet Feng Yong today and easily get such a great piece of good news, even if she was a little scheming, she couldn't hide the joy on her face.
"When I just talk about cooperation, I don't mean that."
"What else is going on with Feng Langjun?"
Li Mu asked with some surprise.
Feng Yong pointed to the place that was being cleared in the distance, "What I want to say is that those newly opened wastelands, if they want to produce food, it will take three years, too long." ”
"Let's grow some vegetables," Feng Yong smiled, "If your Li family has enough hands, take out some land to grow vegetables, and I'll take it." ”
"Growing vegetables?"
Li Mu was a little confused, "Feng Langjun is short of food?" ”
"It's lacking." Feng Yong nodded.
In the future, as more and more Hu people meet the naturalization standards, the demand for vegetables, meat and eggs will also increase.
In fact, it is best to let the Li family help them get a chicken farm, a pig farm.
It's a pity that raising chickens is related to military dry food, and Feng Yong is willing to announce it, and the other few families will strangle to death those who dare to take over.
As for pig raising, the Li family does not have Feng Yong's surplus water from the canteen for thousands of people, and the cost of large-scale breeding is not too low, and it is meaningless if the scale is small, so forget it.
And after a swine fever, the Li family said that they would not die, and they must not dare to raise it.
It's like Feng Yong, who usually asks people to cut some pigweed and mix it with water, which basically doesn't cost much, and if he gets swine fever, he will be treated as pouring water.
"Then I don't know how many green vegetables Feng Langjun wants?"
"If you don't say anything, you have to have two or three hundred acres."
In fact, if Feng Yong took out manpower to reclaim 500 acres of land to grow vegetables, it would not be a difficult matter.
But again, manpower is tight, how can labor be wasted in such a place?
Anyway, the Li family has opened so much land, why did I ask you to take some land out and grow some vegetables?
And I'm also for your good, cash crops, which are not more profitable than food crops?
When Li Mu heard this, his eyes widened.
This Feng Langjun has such a big appetite!
It took me half a year, or with the support of the clan, how many acres of land did I open?
But when she thought that not only herself, but even the clan still had something to ask for in front of her, she had to bite the bullet and say, "Since Feng Langjun said so, then the concubine will do it." ”
"Mrs. Li doesn't want such a look, don't worry. The matter of Nanxiang County, I can still say two points, and no one will trouble your family when it comes to taking land and growing vegetables. Moreover, the harvest of growing vegetables is much better than growing grain. ”
Anyway, this Nanxiang is what Zhuge Old Demon tossed for himself, what are you afraid of?
If you have the ability to see which one is not long-sighted, try to fine Lao Tzu again?
Last year, the government fined Feng Tujiao for wanting to get some land to plant skewer seedlings, which made Feng Tujiao very depressed for a while.
Now that Lao Tzu has turned over and become a pawn farmer, I have the final say on farming!
The official county magistrate of Nanxiang County on the side heard Feng Yong's words, but he could only act as if he hadn't heard anything.
Anyway, the position of the county magistrate of Nanxiang County was originally made by the elder brother, and the affairs of the county, as long as the elder brother is still in Nanxiang for a day, the elder brother has the final say.
"And that tea seedling," Feng Yong said the last thing, "I still say the same thing, counting from the year you can pick tea, within three years, you can only sell it to me." ”
Li Mu glanced at Li Qiu, and stopped talking.
"Brother, the younger brother remembered that there were still some mundane things to deal with in the county, so he went back first."
When Li Qiu saw Li Mu's expression, he didn't understand that she had something to say to Feng Yong alone, so he immediately said goodbye with interest.
"Don't come with you."
Watching Li Qiu go away, Li Mu let the servants under him scatter far away.
Although the two of them stood alone, this was an open place, and although the servant woman could not hear what the two of them said, she could see the two movements, and she was not afraid of any accidents.
Li Mu glanced at Feng Yong, bit his lower lip, and asked, "Feng Langjun, if I agree to this, then I also ask Feng Langjun to answer me, how about it?" ”
"What's the matter?"
"This matter of exchanging grain for woolen cloth, the Li family's share can only be taken care of by the concubine."
"What do you mean?"
Feng Yong vaguely thought of something, but he wasn't quite sure.
"That is to say, the Li family uses grain to exchange wool cloth, Feng Langjun can only recognize concubines, if it is replaced by someone else from the Li family, Feng Langjun is not allowed to exchange it with him."
Li Mu lifted up, although she knew that the servant women in the distance couldn't hear what she was saying, but she still glanced at them standing in the distance in a little panic.
Feng Yong listened, looked at the woman in front of him with interest, and asked, "Why?" Can you tell me why? ”
Li Mu shook his head, there seemed to be some unspeakable look on his face, and said, "Feng Langjun just said, can you agree to the concubine?" ”
"But even if I don't promise you, then this thing may not be impossible."
Since the prince of the sixth room of the Li family has the courage to come to Hanzhong to form his own family, he must not be short-sighted, so he may not be unacceptable to the tea sales right for three years.
"But Feng Langjun, I can keep the price of grain down, and even these newly opened fields," Li Mu gritted his teeth, "You can also give it to Feng Langjun." ”
"Didn't Feng Langjun say that there is a shortage of land to grow vegetables? These fields just happened to be used to grow vegetables, which saved Feng Langjun from the burden of clearing the wasteland. ”
No way!
Is this woman crazy?
In order to get the agency of woolen cloth, even his own interests can be betrayed?
What did the sixth room of the Li family do to her?
Feng Tu Turtle looked at the somewhat ruthless appearance of the woman in front of him, and was very surprised.
"I don't dare to take this land, otherwise I will become a forcible robber?"
"It's okay Feng Langjun."
Li Mu said, "The wasteland here is dominated by concubines. As long as Feng Langjun is willing, the concubine will come to the door to admit her mistake, saying that she had chosen the wrong place before and opened up the wasteland in the textile workshop, so the wasteland opened up is not counted. will all also be with the textile workshop. ”
"And Feng Langjun doesn't know, the sixth room of the Li family was tossed by Liao Li and the Li family's big house a few days ago, fortunately with the help of the prime minister, now is the time for everyone to be careful, and they will never dare to trouble Feng Langjun."
Well, you're so good, you even thought of a way for me.