The 300th household is developing very fast, and Min Yuanqi also needs more talent helpers.

Most of the officials in the city of Qianhu, including Zhuwen, have been recruited, but not all the officials are combined, and some of the slippery people want to get up and down as soon as they come, corruption and fraud, such people are found out, so as to avoid being put on a boat by Han Sen and tied to a stone and sunk to the bottom of the river, but the trouble of lack of people has never been solved.

Guan Lei in the hundred households also applied to be a clerk, but Ding Ruqi went to a relative's house in Guannan County to study.

Although the Jingshi fell, the county and government examinations were obviously suspended, and the township and general examinations did not know when they would be normal, everyone should have assumed that these exams would resume sooner or later......

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty relieving itself or the establishment of a new dynasty, the exam is the top priority, and it is true.

In addition to the conquest by force, the imperial examination began in the Sui season and was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people by the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Without examinations, it is impossible to gather the scholars and students, and these two classes are precisely the cornerstones of stabilizing the hearts and minds of the people in the world.

Therefore, regardless of the Ming Dynasty or the New Dynasty, the scientific expedition will definitely resume, and from this level, Ding Ruqi's decision cannot be said to be a complete mistake.

For Min Yuanqi, he will not go up to the pole to win over a stinky and hard reader...... I can't do anything if I bring it, I pride myself on being smart, and if I fake it, it's just a waste of salary for such a scholar to come.

"There are a lot of half-grown children in the village, so we still have to find a way to gather them in one place and teach them literacy and arithmetic." Min Yuanqi pondered for a moment and said: "Knowing a thousand words, you can calculate addition and subtraction within a hundred, and even if you can write and memorize, it will help you a lot." ”

Wang Mingyuan said: "If this is the case, it will be taught in half a year." ”

Min Yuanqi nodded, determined to set up the clerk school earlier.

In addition to literacy and arithmetic, you can also pick some half-grown children to teach some common sense of surveying and mapping and military science; even if they are junior military cadets, they will enter the army in the future and have greater potential and prospects for development.

It's just that Min Yuanqi is also a little confused, and he doesn't know if he still has enough time to slowly do these things that lay a solid foundation?

"How to solve the matter of saline-alkali land?" Li Guoding is quite confident in Min Yuanqi, and when he said this, if he said that Min Yuanqi had no success, he was afraid that it would be impossible.

"It's actually very simple." Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "Divert water to the acres of the field, dig the drainage canal in advance, soak the field for two to three days and then drain it, if the effect is not good, do it again, after two or three times, the salt in the land will be almost diluted." Then wait for the plot to be compacted with the method of deep ploughing, it is best to dig to a depth of two feet, and then the compacted plot is constantly broken, so that the cycle is repeated, although such land can not be said to be high-quality fertile land, it is no different from ordinary farmland. We don't lack fertilizer here, and there is no shortage of manpower and animal power, so it's not difficult to yield two or three stones per mu, right? ”

Li Guoding's eyes were straight, and he was even trembling with excitement......

"Lord Deputy Qianhu, what you said really works?"

"Uncle Li, can I still coax you?" Min Yuanqi smiled and said: "It definitely works, you just have to rest assured." ”

This method of improving saline-alkali land is a very mature experience in later generations, especially in the period when biotechnology has not yet been promoted, that is, Min Yuanqi saw more when he was a child.

Later, there is no need to soak the field and deep ploughing, use crop improvement, or directly use biological agents, which is more labor-saving and trouble-saving. Maybe it was because the labor cost was higher at that time, or it was more profitable to plant flowers and trees, sprinkle the preparation on the saline-alkali ground, plant flowers, and it didn't take long to directly improve it into high-grade soft and mature soil.

Min Yuanqi studied a similar major in college, but now he can't make up biological agents, but fortunately, the soaking field and deep cultivation method also work, but it requires a lot of manpower and animal power...... Fortunately, these things are the easiest to get hold of in this era, and they are also the least valuable things.

"If this is the case, I will dare to issue a military order now, and the harvest per mu will never be less than three stones!" The muscles on Li Guoding's face are shaking, he is not yet fifty, but his sideburns are gray, this hundred households have never fought in their lives, they just keep transporting grain to the Beijing Division, and the time they don't have in the Beijing Division is spent in the fields, studying how to take care of those crops, so that they and the banner army under their command can get more harvests.

A hundred households, no matter how poor they are, they will not go hungry, the richer hundred households can still support a few families, at least have more than 100 acres of land, there will be a certain number of banner soldiers to farm for the hundred households, if Li Guoding is for himself, he can live this life comfortably, but he has worked hard and pondered in every way, in fact, he also wants to make his flag army under 100 households live better.

It is not surprising that there will always be some people with lofty morals and lofty aspirations at any time in any era, who may have a stage to play and achieve a career, or they are likely to be unknown and live for the rest of their lives.

Even if Li Guoding has a stage now, he is already gearing up and eager to try.

"Everyone just do it with your heart, and our Cloud Ladder Pass will definitely get better and better." Min Yuanqi's heart was also happy, no matter what, the place in front of him had undergone earth-shaking changes because of his arrival, and he had a faint expectation in his heart, if he could play better and do the things at hand better, would he be able to make the history in front of him a bigger and better change?

This is the first time that Min Yuanqi has had such a change in his heart.

Even Min Yuanqi himself didn't notice that with the increase in strength and prestige, the trust of the people around him is increasing day by day, and now he is no longer thinking about fleeing south wholeheartedly, and the most unfortunate thing is that he wants to bring all the people who follow him, and even in the depths of his heart, there have been some subtle changes: can he do better and change the fate of Huaxia's imminent sinking?

Min Yuanqi shook his head and didn't continue to think about it......

Even if a battalion of strong soldiers is trained, the strength in Min Yuanqi's hands is still too weak compared to the 100,000 Qing troops and hundreds of thousands of servant Ming troops who entered the south......

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency?"

Not far away, an attendant officer of the Central Military Division shouted: "There is a guest asking to see!" ”

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With the rise of Min Yuanqi's fame, there are many people who come to see him every day.

Salt merchants are the most, although the relationship between Min Yuanqi and the Zhu family is very deep, but there are also a lot of salt merchants who come to meet with various purposes.

Min Yuanqi has no interest in seeing this kind of person, if Min Qiande is there, he will send Min Qiande, Min Qiande is out, Li Kecheng, a genuine thousand households, is still there, Min Yuanqi simply summoned Li Kecheng over, and this thousand households will be used as a façade, which can be regarded as a hand for Min Qiande in the Department of Foreign Affairs.

In the past, the owner of the city of thousands of households now sees those inexplicable people in the 300th household every day, but Li Kecheng has no resistance at all, and he is happy to do it every day.

In addition to salt merchants, all kinds of grain, grocery merchants, cloth merchants, iron merchants are also very many, the three hundred households here every few days out of salt, the silver comes very quickly, and because of the many workshops, and recruited a large number of new army soldiers, the demand for materials is huge, now the three hundred households of the wharf has been quite lively, every day there are a large number of ships moored on the shore, most of these ships are not big, and even many are not a small boat, but a large number of materials are sent along the river through these boats, sometimes Min Yuanqi will also stand on the shore, Watching the ship go down the river from the upstream at dawn, there was no lack of emotion in my heart.

If it weren't for the deployment of the Yunti Pass along the river, even if you had the money, the speed of purchasing materials would have dropped significantly, and the cost would have increased significantly.

The military attaches of the rest of the institutes would also come to pay their respects, and some local leaders, gentry or students, would sometimes come to pay their respects, of course, hoping that Min Yuanqi would protect them from bandits or bandits.

These people's eyes are above the top, obviously they are here to beg for help, but they still have a high shelf, and they are not even interested in meeting such a person Min Yuanqi.

If it was a few decades ago, not to mention Min Yuanqi, even Liu Zeqing would have to be polite to these officials and gentry, so as not to be affected by their bad reputation.

At this time, even the magistrates and even state officials of various counties have gone from being polite to flattering Liu Zeqing, and even becoming a slave-like role, and ordinary officials and gentry and students have long been ignored.

Of course, among these people, there is also the self-proclaimed Wang Zuozhicai who has the skill of dragon slaying, and he usually smokes his mouth at once, and the disease is almost cured.

Min Yuanqi himself understands that the strength of the 300th household is already quite outstanding, but Nanjing's and Huai'an's forbearance or support for him is based on the fact that the Min family is the general of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise, the foundation of the hundreds of banner troops is not enough to make such a big move.

All kinds of people, all kinds of people come and go, a hundred households can not let these people in, Min Yuanqi asked people to build a few rows of houses outside the village entrance, as a temporary reception center and warehousing transit area, today's guests are relatively special, the identity is extraordinary, as a Chinese military officer Min Yuanzhong is not good at words, not the kind of traditional clever ghost officer, but at least he is also from a family, and the identification of the person who comes is still quite in place.

When Min Yuanqi rushed over, a team of mules and horses happened to come from the dock, and they lined up all the way to the hundred households, and a foul smell suddenly spread all around.

Min Yuanzhong greeted him, and after saluting, he and Min Yuanqi watched with a smile as the mules and horses went east along the widened road.

There is a large area of wasteland on the west side of the barracks area, the workshop area is in the southwest, and a large area of cattle sheds and horse sheds are built in the northwest.

On the north bank of the Huai River, two hundred households have also built a large pastoral area, which is guarded by the Security Department, and the Department of Agriculture will send people to take care of it.

"The Zhu family has been quite effective recently." Min Yuanqi counted, there were about a hundred horses and mules, and smiled at Min Yuanzhong at the moment: "It adds up to a lot, right?" ”

"Now there are three places where these big animals are raised," Min Yuanzhong said, "In the past ten days, more than 1,000 donkeys, more than 300 cattle, more than 500 mules, and more than 200 horses have been sent over." The people of the Zhu family went from Xuzhou to Yangzhou, and bought them for us everywhere, but fortunately, there were waterways everywhere, and they bought them and transported them by big [[o m hair fastest]] ships, and Zhu Wanchun's brothers were sent out, and they did their best. ”

Min Yuanqi nodded and said: "Find more veterinarians to come over, take good care of these livestock, don't spend money to buy them, when the time comes, the people who take care of the livestock in the Department of Agriculture should be pressed on the head of each person in charge, and all the livestock must be thoroughly investigated, and if there are more than three heads, they will be dismissed, and if there is negligence and slackness, they will be held accountable." ”

"Yes, these are all within the charter," Min Yuanzhong said: "Now everyone is used to doing things under the charter, and they will not dare to be negligent and slack." ”

Min Yuanzhong nodded and smiled and said, "Where are the guests?" ”

"Just wait in front of the barn."