The layout of Jinan City is roughly the same as that of other inland cities, with the widest street leading to each city gate, which is the main road of the whole city. The residential area in the inner is commensurate with the square, and the square is called the shop.

The streets and alleys in the city are dense, and many streets are not straight, especially the sanitation situation in the city, which is also a lot of problems. The streets of the city are full of dust, garbage and feces, especially the ditches are tightly blocked, and many streets have collapsed and potholes, showing that they are in disrepair.

However, the city is a different scene at this time.

According to the rules of the Nanyue Army when they were administering the city of Jinan a few years ago, countless people wearing various symbols organized the disaster victims and beggars who flowed into Jinan from all over the country to clean up and clean up the garbage. In fact, these things, the original Ming Dynasty government has a precedent, how to carry out road repair, ditch dredging, garbage removal have specific regulations, there are special departments to manage. Zhu Yuanzhang, a famous model worker, even stipulated that the streets were scattered and littered, and the flail should be issued within a month.

However, since the Apocalypse of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty, with the gradual collapse of the state's finances, this qiē has changed, and the environment has deteriorated day by day, and every time it rains heavily, the whole city will be flooded. It's muddy and hard to walk. Whenever the weather is sunny and dry, the dust is flying and the flies are flying.

The original residents of the city were reorganized into a guarantee, five households and one family, five households were jointly guaranteed, one family was in trouble, and the other four families were guilty of the same crime, and five families were one guarantee. Those who do not report the same crime, and those who report are meritorious, so that many hidden piles such as the Wenxiang Sect, the Tianli Sect, and the Red Gun Society, as well as the incense hall and other institutions that were lurking in the city by taking advantage of the chaos, were reported by the neighbors who were eager to make meritorious contributions and clear their hands.

Displaced people and beggars from all over Shandong who came to Jinan sweated like rain on the streets of the city. Truckloads of garbage and muck accumulated over the past two or three years were removed. There were some discordant voices coming from the hot labor scene.

"Lose that horse! When Lao Tzu went north from Jinan to the capital last time, he handed over the cleaning here to the officials who took over the defense, and it was only a long time, and it became this virtue to the scourge! ”

"Forget it, Lao Hong, these officials are like this, they have a virtue everywhere, and Guangzhou is not the same. Wasn't it a mess before the lord managed it? Look now?! ”

"Hah! You two guys also say that you are so old in qualifications. Now he is still the sentry chief. Are you embarrassed to scold others? ”

"If my Lao Hong hadn't been good at reading, I would never have been able to know so many words, and I would have been a battalion officer a long time ago!"

The homeless people next to them had honest smiles on their faces, listening to the teasing of several leaders with each other. Although the words of these leaders are a little difficult to understand. But get along for a few days. But let these homeless people understand in their hearts that these people are disgusting and kind people, and they are regarded as human beings. When your own people look.

These people were displaced because of the war, and when they arrived in Jinan, because there was no one to shelter them, they could only sleep under the eaves on both sides, and in this winter, the fate that awaited them was nothing more than freezing and starving to death or becoming bandits. The Ming Dynasty once set up all kinds of almshouses, canteens, and porridge factories to distribute money and rice to the hungry, aid in medicine, bury the sick and abandon the corpses, etc., but it is obvious that the relief capacity is not enough, and the relief is only a drop in the bucket.

"Our ancestors are virtuous, and my uncle happened to arrive in Jinan at this time."

The victims had already received the news that they were either sent to various granges and became tenants of Ning Yuanbo. Or they were sent to Dengzhou Mansion and Laizhou Prefecture, from where they boarded huge sea ships and sent them to Nanzhong to open up wasteland. After a few years of hard work, we can also have dozens of acres of landlords with good water for watering. Some people secretly look forward to the bright prospect of going south to reclaim the wasteland.

If they knew, if they were sent to the Ten Prefectures or the land of the remnants of Yin Shang as the head of Ruoshui said, what would a mere dozens of acres of land count?

These days, almost every few days, a group of refugees have formed a team after being reviewed and screened, and happily left Jinan and went to Jiaodong and other places.

"Lord, these days, we have sent a total of nearly 100,000 people to Jiaoao and other ports, most of them are whole families, and a few are lonely widows, women and children."

In the makeshift transformation of the Dewang Palace, Shouhan was leaning on the Luohan bed in the flower hall, listening to a few of his subordinates report to him on the progress of these days.

The purpose of going to Shandong was to exterminate the bandits and the wandering Qing army and cut off the possible connection between them and the peasant army, and second, to destroy the population of Shandong and the cotton produced in various farms.

"In addition to the population, the bulk of the goods that are transported is cotton." The person who led the performance also happened to mention that this seems inconspicuous, but it can smash the jobs of many people in Nanzhong.

According to the regulations of the Nanyue Army, every refugee who goes to Jiaodong must carry at least 30 catties of cotton on his back, remember, this is the per capita standard, as long as he can eat, he is counted as one. (The greedy face of the pig's feet is finally exposed in broad daylight!) Since it is a relief, why do you still need to let the victims work? Why don't you let them go by car? A guy who claimed to be able to drive more than a dozen people to volunteer in more than 30 cars to the disaster area asked with wide eyes. ）

"At present, there are still hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton waiting to be transported in the granges in Rizhao, Jining and other places. There are still a lot of wheat, sorghum, beans and other things in the warehouse of the grange in the above-mentioned areas. ”

"We have gathered more than 14,000 men in these granges and organized them into forty supplementary battalions. Except for the firearms, armor and other things that cannot be fully established, the rest of the weapons are complete. Officers drawn from the 7th Brigade and the fleet were getting acquainted with the ranks. The eldest lady sent an urgent letter from Ningyuan, requesting that more than 10,000 people be transferred to the front line in Ningyuan for her command and use. ”

Leaning on the Luohan bed, Shouhan could listen to the military situation in front of him, and couldn't help but miss the days in Nanzhong and Guangzhou.

"The grain stored in the grange can only be used for refugees and military supplies, and those wheat and sorghum can only be transported in the direction of Jinan. Just ship it in. Denglai and other places were more than enough, so he transferred to Luxi. ”

Wheat and sorghum are the best rations for the people of Shandong. Sorghum, in particular, is not only a human ration, but also a good nourishment for mules and horses.

Some people may say why they don't vigorously promote the planting of high-yield crops such as corn in Shandong, and many gods do this. However, I have to tell you that the first reason why pig's feet are urgently needed is cash crops such as cotton, and secondly. Corn replaces sorghum. It took almost a hundred years. Can you imagine a pig's knuckle going through this process in a few years?

As for the 10,000 horses, they were given the temporary number of the supplementary brigade, called the supplementary first, second, and third brigades, and the brigade commander was selected from among Zhang Xiaohu's subordinates and the officers of the fourth town. Allocate two brigades to the Ningyuan front. ”

"Write another book in Benbo's name. Playing the Son of Heaven and Ariji. Inform them of Bemb's mobilization of more than 10,000 men into three supplementary brigades. Please ask the celebrant supervisor, the military department, and the official department for the record. ”

Although Shouhan did not expect the imperial court to give him any food and salary supplies, he hoped that the three brigades could be confirmed by the imperial court.

"My lord, when I came from the direction of Henan. met Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's troops. They asked the acquaintance to convey their guilt to the lord. ”

Chen Guoxi, who was in charge of the trading activities with Li Zicheng's subordinates, slowly used the Fujian official dialect to inform the attitude of the Han Dynasty to the second Liu.

"Do they still want to ask Lao Tzu for supplies and ordnance and silver?"

"No, I don't dare. Their intentions, on the one hand, were to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions under the command of the lord. The two wanted the lord to sell them some weapons, grain, grass and meat. They are willing to exchange money for goods and people. ”

"Send them a military order, tell them, as long as the head of Jiannu is killed, Benbo will not spare any reward! In addition, Da Xizi, you have to work hard again, go and meet these two Lius, and tell them that you can do business with my Nanyue Army. Two things are promised, you can do it, you can buy and sell anything! ”

Chen Guoxi couldn't help but twitch with a wide nose, this is obviously expanding his business scope!

"Please let the Lord know!"

"One, if you want to do business with us, you have to see if they have that qualification. You can see them cut off ten Jiannu heads within ten days. Not more, ten is enough! Second, these industries of Benbo and the Nanyue Army in Shandong, it is best for them not to have any crooked ideas in Shandong. Otherwise, it is they who lose. From the beginning of spring next year, do not disturb near Benbo's Grange. ”

When everyone heard this, they didn't say anything, and the people who reported the situation to the guards indoors were not like the staff of other departments, but just so-called strategists such as mountain men and sages who used to shake feather fans, and these people all had practical work experience.

Although cotton is a crop that can bring huge economic benefits, it also requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Sowing seeds after the beginning of spring is the beginning of a large amount of input.

First of all, cotton is planted in a nutrient bowl made of bamboo or straw. In the bowl, soybean cake, fermented manure, bone residue and other substances are mixed with fine sand soil to provide sufficient nutrients for cotton seeds. About 2,000 are needed for one acre of cotton fields. After half a month of cultivation, seedlings soon appeared in the bowl.

At this time, these nutrient bowls are transplanted into the field.

Sowing and laying the bottom in the spring and Qingming season, moving into the field after ten months, and then after a month of growth, waiting until the nutrient consumption in the nutrient bowl is about the same, then carry out top dressing, insect removal and other links. After that, it is necessary to prune and top, the so-called pruning, is to keep the largest male branch, and cut off the rest. Then knock off the apical bud. After the beginning of autumn, the basic tasks of the cotton growth stage are completed.

But don't rejoice too soon, more tiring and labor-intensive work is yet to come.

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, cotton peaches should be picked, and all the cotton peaches should be picked in just a few days when the autumn rain is coming, and then the cotton seeds should be removed to turn the raw cotton into lint.

(In this process, you can refer to the cotton farmers in Xinjiang now.) Every year, a large number of people from the mainland who go to Xinjiang to work as part-time workers are hired to pick cotton. Sichuanese, Hunan, and Shandong are the main forces in this labor force. It is said that the famous Xinjiang dish of chicken is said to have been invented by a group of Sichuan people who picked cotton in Xinjiang. ）

In this way, if it were not for the hundreds of thousands of acres of cotton planted in Shandong, the Nanyue Army would have invested a large amount of grain regardless of the cost. Use all kinds of materials to purchase corresponding items from nearby regions, but I am afraid that it will be dragged down by the huge investment a long time ago.

In this way, if the land used to grow grain is planned to be changed to cotton next year, in addition to a large amount of food ration input, it will be a human input. Roughly calculated, almost an acre of cotton field requires at least two or three laborers to take care of it.

Thinking of these, Shouhan felt a burst of slander in his heart, and he wanted to strangle the unscrupulous author to death: Nima's! Why can other traversers casually grow a large number of special cotton, and then supplemented by Jenny machines or even mule machines to make combed cotton and make a lot of money, when you come to Lao Tzu, you are so difficult for Lao Tzu?!

In fact. You can't blame those people for this kind of thing. At least their level is about the same as that of a real person who claims to come to him if he wants food. Don't forget that the British promoted cotton cultivation in India and imported a large number of woven fabrics, so that the Ganges Plain, a place where trees can not be starved to death in famine years, can be made full of bones!

This stupid real person thinks he's smart. Think of cotton farming as something that can be done at any time. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the chairman was able to build farmland and water conservancy throughout the country. The accusations of measures such as increasing grain production are also the same as Wang Sangongzi's belief that there is no grain. We can buy him tens of millions of tons all over the world.

In addition to food, there is more labor.

On the one hand, the Han Dynasty wanted to get Shandong's labor force to Nanzhong, Fujian, Liangguang, and other regions to change the ethnic composition there. On the one hand, it is necessary to vigorously promote cotton planting in Shandong, which is the most labor-consuming crop.

You don't see, in many literary and artistic works of American imperialism, thousands of black slaves were raised on the plantations of southern slave owners to engage in this extremely demanding work. Even after Lincoln emancipated the slaves, the blacks still worked on the plantations because the amount of labor involved in growing cotton was too great

After the outbreak of World War II, the Yankees also sent many Hans prisoners of war to grow cotton, liberating many blacks to engage in low-end industrial production or fight on the front lines. (For those interested in the use of Axis POWs by US imperialism, check out the famous Godfather, which opens with the thorny question of whether Italian POWs can remain in the United States.) ）

As a result, Shandong's farms have fallen into an extremely weak stage.

Therefore, Shouhan had to deal with these military town leaders in the interior very unwillingly.

In order for those fruit dismounted looms to have enough forage, in addition to provoking wars between various princely lords and sultans in India, Shouhan also needed to open up another source of raw materials, and Shandong was the most suitable one.

If it weren't for the fact that the situation in Shandong was not very stable, Shouhan even planned to choose a suitable area to build a textile factory here, combining the origin of raw materials to the origin of products, and minimizing the transportation cost of intermediate links.

But now, this idea is extremely inadequate.

However, this matter is not mature, but there is another thing that someone else has come to the door.

A young man with a white face and no green clothes and a small hat, standing outside the door with a slight hunched waist, asked Shouhan for instructions in a somewhat peculiar voice.

"Lord, Miss Huang and Mrs. Qi Muge from the back house sent the little ones here, I would like to ask the lord, are the gentlemen's lunches used here, or are they going to the flower hall to use?"

Chen Guoxi listened to a very familiar voice, and couldn't help frowning slightly, this person is a eunuch?!

Yes, Wang An, who came to report the news, and Wang Xi, who was standing outside the door, were both eunuchs who were rewarded by Chongzhen to Ning Yuanbo. One of the twenty eunuchs carefully selected by Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua among the tens of thousands of eunuchs in the palace.

Originally, they each had their own names and surnames, but in order to temporarily eliminate their contact with the outside world, Shouhan changed their surnames to Wang, and at the same time renamed them according to auspicious words such as peace and joy. In this way, someone came to look for them, and for a while they could not match their original names with the current eunuchs.

In addition to this simple method, several intelligence and internal security agencies of the Nanyue Army also quietly laid eyeliners around these twenty eunuchs. Who knows what their mission is?

Hearing this, Shouhan paused slightly, and his face was slightly cinnabar.

The Huang girl and Mrs. Qi Muge that Wang An said in his mouth are the beauties presented by Huang Yunfa a few days ago.

If it is just to offer some labor and military supplies, mules, horses, pigs and sheep, it is inevitably a little too thin, and it is very incommensurate with the title and official position of the Han Dynasty. In addition to the above-mentioned materials, Huang Yunfa also offered his so-called niece in the clan for the lord's daily diet and daily service.

However, when the two small sedan chairs carried the women into the Dewang Mansion after nightfall, the leader of the pro-soldiers in charge of the reception was in a trance, and the two women seemed to be a pair of sisters, and they didn't know which one to keep? Think about the two Siamese ladies in the palace of Nanzhong, aren't they also a pair of sisters? So, the soldiers waved their hands and signaled the sedan chair drivers to carry the two sedan chairs into the residence of Shouhan. Then he sent the Huangfu family who accompanied the escort to receive the reward and get out. When the family headed by the leader was embarrassed, the leader of the pro-soldiers, Ah Xia, an upright and loyal man of the Tong family, pulled out his waist knife and threatened, "What do you want to do?" ”

When Shouhan was dressed in a tight and contented look at the red sun outside the window, he realized that he had sung a mandarin duck score that made a mistake and added a little chaos.

That's not a sister flower, that's Huang Yunfa's outer house and the daughter born to the outer house.

Originally, the mother Qimuge was a little uneasy, although it is commonplace for women to be sent to and from place in the Mongolian tribe, but after all, she has also lived in the Central Plains for a long time, and her daughter was sent to warm the bed of the famous uncle, and she was a little scared. So my mother escorted her to Xingyuan.

Who would have thought that this would be a sheep in the mouth of a tiger. (To be continued......)

PS: The Chinese New Year is also a tiring. This chapter was also barely made up in a few days. It may be a little scattered, but it is a transition for the development of chapters in the future, so let's read it first.