Chapter 65: The Good Wind Sends Me to Penglai

Ah Mao struggled to say to the other party while struggling with his hand: "Boat, here!" ”

This native boy can now speak short Song sentences, coupled with gestures, there is no obstacle to communicating with the Song people. Fang Youcai used him very appropriately, every time he wanted to negotiate with the natives, he would take him, he had been with the Song people for a long time, and he also knew that Fang Youcai was the "patriarch" of the Song people on the island, and he followed him every day, and occasionally Fang Youcai kicked him twice, and he also smiled and did not dodge.

"It's a pity that it's not a Song person, if it's a Song person, I have to accept him as a righteous son." Fang Youcai thought as he packed his things.

This time, the time when the Sanyuan ship came was longer than the last time, and Fang Youcai knew that he had gone to the north to pick up people, so he shouted: "Duncan, Duncan, get out of here!" ”

Duncan, dressed in Song costume, stumbled out, his shirt unbuttoned and his beard uncombed.

If Ah Mao is Fang Youcai's left arm, Duncan is Fang Youcai's right arm. Tamsui is a newly built city, Fang Youcai's mind has always been the appearance of the Great Song Dynasty, Duncan has traveled all over Europe, both seen a commercial city like Venice, but also seen those towering knight's castles, for the construction of the new city, some of his suggestions often coincide with Zhao Youju's requirements.

As a result, Duncan's position in Tamsui has also become important, from the original coolie to the current housekeeper. As soon as this position was important, his mind began to turn, and now he hooked up a native girl, who was like glue all day long. Fang Youcai couldn't understand why the native girl fell in love with him, a fluffy fan, and he didn't understand why Duncan was obsessed with the thin and black native girl.

"Wang Ba looked at the mung beans and looked at them right." He thought so in his heart.

"The boat is coming, you kid will lead someone to pick it up, work harder, don't exhaust your strength on your black monkey-like woman!" Fang Youcai shouted.

"Rest assured, the housekeeper just rest assured!" Duncan was very arrogant, but he called Fang Youcai, who was only in charge, a butler, a butler, and revealed all the careful thoughts of his Venetian merchant, and after a while he walked outside, he flew back again: "Butler, there is a big tree flag on the ship!" ”

This is the flag code, if the flag of the big camphor tree is hung on the Sanyuan ship, it means that Zhao and Ju are coming with the ship. Fang Youcai was thrilled when he heard it, just after Yuan Xi, Da Lang went to Tamsui with the boat, if there was no important matter, he would never be like this.

"Dare to pack up the place tightly, prepare Da Lang to live here, Ah Mao, you idiot, I don't know to tell me that there is a camphor tree flag hanging on it, if something is wrong, see if I don't unscrew your dog's head!" Fang Youcai scolded, Ah Mao was not annoyed at all, although this steward always complained and scolded in his mouth, but except for occasionally kicking his buttocks and feet, he had never seen how fierce he was.

Tamsui became agitated in an instant, and the people who were originally in order were all driven around. Fang Youcai changed his clothes, ordered people to prepare carriages and horses, and trotted to the dock. When he arrived, the Sanyuan ship had already begun to dock, and after a while, Zhao and Ju and Zhao Zi appeared in front of him.

I haven't been here for a few months, and when Zhao Youju saw the fresh water now, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

Unlike when he first arrived, it was just a few tall wooden houses, but now Tamsui has built rows of brick houses, and as far as the eye can see, on the hill in the distance, the brick houses are neatly arranged, like a team of guards. On the outside of the brick house, there is a wall made of bricks, and when building this wall, two layers of bricks are used for the inside and outside, and the middle of the bricks is compacted with earth. Because of the lack of labor, this brick wall is not very long, and it has not completely replaced the original wooden fence, but there are more than 20 zhang near the gate. From the gate, the road paved with broken bricks, sand and clay is about one and a half zhang wide, and it has been extended for more than 200 zhang, leading straight to the wharf. The wharf has also been completely replaced with brickwork, and it looks very neat, and the foundation has been dug on the edge of the wharf, but no house has been built, which should be the warehouse in the future.

If a few months ago he saw only wasteland, now he saw the prototype of a small town, and it was not the dirty town of the Great Song Dynasty, but the kind of town with convenient transportation and clean and tidy that he remembered in later generations.

"That's it...... This is fresh water! ”

When she got off the boat, Yang Miaozhen's eyes widened, and she almost couldn't believe what she saw.

She originally thought that overseas places must be wild and miasma, if it is not a barren land, it is a thousand miles of wilderness. But now the fresh water in front of her was cleaner than any place she had ever seen.

In addition to the town in the distance, she was even more surprised by the vast fields between the foot of the mountain and the Tamsui River.

Zhao and Ju moved to Tamsui with a total of more than 30 households, 65 head of cattle—this was what he managed to get, and it was already the largest number he could get without alarming the government, and most of them were made by Shi Mo Guangyan from the chaotic Jin State. In addition, there are more than 80 horses, which is easier to get horses from the Jin Kingdom than cattle. These 30 or so households, together with 65 ploughing cattle, worked almost non-stop every day to carve out a large area of fertile land on the north bank of the Tamsui River, which was originally a wilderness. Ditches are also deliberately left at the edge of the fields to facilitate drought and flood drainage, and from the port, these ditches divide the fields into large chunks like a chessboard.

"This is fresh water!" Yang Miaozhen sighed again, if there is no miasma in such a place, what is the difference between it and the paradise of the world?

"On the north bank of the river, all belong to my master." Zhao Zi said without losing the opportunity: "As long as there are manpower, my family can carve out thousands of fertile fields here!" ”

"Not only 10,000, but 100,000 and 100,000!" Fang Youcai didn't know who this glamorous and vigorous girl was, but seeing that she could stand beside Zhao Heju, she thought that she was at least equivalent to the identity of a righteous teenager in the family, so he smiled.

"As far as the eye can see, all is ours." Zhao Heju pursed his lips and said something that everyone didn't understand at this time: "Out of sight, it's also ours." ”

"Da Lang, I have prepared the carriage and horses, please Da Lang get in the car!" Fang Youcai smiled again and said, "It's been a bumpy road, Da Lang will go and rest for a while?" ”

"Don't be in a hurry, Steward Fang, let me ask you, how are those houses built, and are they enough?" Zhao and Ju called Fang Youcai the housekeeper again, Fang Youcai's heart moved, this was by no means a slip of the tongue, Zhao and Ju almost never made a slip of the tongue, he called himself a housekeeper, that is to promote himself intentionally.

"Back to Dalang, a total of 340 rooms have been built, of which 120 rooms are already Shangliang Buwa, and now they can live in!"

"How many acres are you excavating?"

"The righteous boy is counting every day, we use a curved plow, and now we have more than 5,000 acres!" As soon as he talked about Tianlai, the smile on Fang Youcai's face could no longer be suppressed. (Note 1)

At this time, the grain output is very low, that is, Huzhou Mingzhou is like this field, the highest yield per mu is only five or six stones (Note 2), the average yield is only three to four stones, these more than 5,000 acres, the annual output is 20,000 stones, and the fresh water is twice a year, about 40,000 stones.

However, if you want to plant all these thousands of acres of land, you need a lot of labor, and it is a little difficult to rely on dozens of villagers. Zhao Youju looked behind him, although most of the craftsmen who came with the ship this time were craftsmen, some craftsmen could not find a place to use their skills for the time being, and they could also change to farming.

Li Rui waited on the boat for a long time, but before he received the notice to get off the ship, he was already a little restless in his heart. I heard the sailors say that they had arrived, so why didn't they let them out for a long time?

He was a little anxious to see where he was about to live, if it was like the hanging island, an island full of stones and trees, how could so many rebels live!

Finally, he heard the sound of the bamboo whistle, and those deacons who were called righteous boys all used this bamboo whistle to convey some simple news, such as opening meals and going to bed, and Li Rui could now distinguish a little clearly. He jumped up, grabbed his bag, and shouted, "Get off the boat!" ”

"Li Rui, aren't you the most reluctant to come, why are you so happy now?" One of the craftsmen laughed at him.

"Humph!" Li Rui glared at him.

He will change like this, but because of one thing, when he was on the hanging island, in order to familiarize the righteous boy with these righteous soldiers as soon as possible, Zhao and Ju organized a drill. The righteous boys first did a queue exercise, and then they all held bamboo guns wrapped in cloth and lime to tie their heads, and fought a melee with the rebels twice as large as them. Although the rebels had experience in fighting and were a little sloppy in the melee, in the end, the disciplined gun array "assassinated" all the rebels almost intact, which made Li Rui extremely shocked.

Although he admires his uncle, he is not a stupid person, which makes him realize how important the "rules" mentioned by Lu Youping are. He heard the old man in the righteous army praise that the Yue family army led by Grandpa Yue at the beginning relied on the rule of "freezing to death, not demolishing the house, starving to death, and not plundering", forcing the Jin people to lament that "it is easy to shake the mountain and shake the Yue family's army".

If you want to help your uncle when you grow up, you really have to learn this rule!

As for the three sea-going ships that were hired, they did not come because they could not keep up with the speed of the three-distance ships, and because they did not want to know the route to Tamsui. There were still seven or eight righteous boys on each ship, and the people who were responsible for restraining them, and after all these days, they had already become acquainted with the rebels. After getting off the boat, according to the prior agreement, everyone lined up, although it was still a little scattered, but finally did not stay at the dock, and walked towards Tamsui.

This brick-paved road makes everyone feel extraordinarily extravagant.

At this moment, Zhao Youju, Yang Miaozhen and Fang Youcai took the carriage and took the first step to this new town.

After the gate of the town, Yang Miaozhen was even more amazed, if it was placed in the era when Zhao and Ju crossed, such a house belonged to the staff dormitory built by the old enterprise, but it could be placed in this era, but it was both neat and beautiful, and time-saving. Zhao Youju specially asked about the sewer, the temperature of fresh water is high all year round, if the hygiene is not done well, I am afraid that there will be various epidemics.

"It's bricked underground, and that guy Duncan has a lot of ideas." Fang Youcai told the truth.

Zhao and Ju said "oh", and after Duncan threw him to Liuqiu, he almost forgot about this Venetian merchant, and now it seemed that it was appropriate to throw him here. The Romans had a tradition of building all kinds of waterways, and building sewers was indeed an expert.

"How was the yellow artemisia transplanted, but it was once planted?"

"What Da Lang has repeatedly explained, how dare the villain slack off?" Fang Youcai said: "I have planted a large number of lives, and I go to see Qiu Shuang every day, but the taste is not good." ”

When it comes to Artemisia annua, Fang Youcai feels sick to his stomach, all the artisan households in Tamsui have to drink a small half bowl of Artemisia annua sweat every two days, and Qiu Shuang wants to lead people to inspect and register one by one. Everyone now knew that the flow of prayer was an overseas wilderness, and that there might be plague and miasma, and this water could solve this, so they did not dare to deal with it perfunctorily. Because this grass needs fresh grass juice, in October last year, Zhao Ziyue sent a large area of soil, which was planted on a barren slope near fresh water, and was taken care of every day.

"If you don't want to die, you have to drink all this yellow artemisia water, and I am no exception." Zhao Heju glanced at Yang Miaozhen: "Fourth lady, I'm afraid that the righteous army may not be willing to drink, and I will have to bother you then." ”

Yang Miaozhen glared at him, but did not speak.

Zhao and Ju didn't care about her, and walked into a house by themselves to check whether the house was secure. The binder of this house is not cement, of course, but a mixture of sand, clay and lime, which is not as strong as cement, but more than enough to build a bungalow. The house has not been painted, so it looks a little rudimentary, about forty square meters in size, except for the front door, which is separated by planks or bricks, and the back room can be used as a bedroom, and the front is the hall. The room had two windows open, facing each other in front of the back, so I didn't feel bored.

Zhao Youju waited, and when he got out of the room, he said, "Go to Yixue and have a look." ”

Yixue is the key, Zhao and Ju have repeatedly explained that they should give priority to building Yixue, and the site of Yixue was painted by him, so Fang has a wealth of money: "Da Lang, Yixue is in the middle of this town, surrounded by a brick wall." ”

"Humph!" Yang Miaozhen pursed her lips, feeling extremely boring. On the hanging island that day, Zhao and Ju neither punished Zhao Ziyue, nor did he comment on his unauthorized conditions for Yang Miaozhen. Therefore, these days, she tries not to talk to Zhao and Ju as much as possible, and when they meet on the boat, they just show their eyes.

The Yixue capital has been tiled with beams, and there are ten large spacious rooms, even the windows, which are much larger than those where they live, and make the inside bright. Zhao Youju nodded first, and then shook his head: "Less, this time alone, there are six hundred and five people who must be enrolled." ”

"Admission, enrollment doing?" Yang Miaozhen finally couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that you still want them to read and write to get famous?" ”

"Xisheng and Ayu, including Ziyue, are all from my family's righteousness." Zhao Youju glanced at her: "You know all of them, what do you think?" ”

"All the righteous boys have learned from the family?" Yang Miaozhen's eyes widened and said.

"Enlarge the wall, enclose the four rows of houses around here, and all the children of the volunteer school live here, and set up another courtyard to open a girls' school, Awan came with me this time, and she and Aru take care of the girls." Zhao and Ju continued to command.

Note 1: Cattle can plough more than two acres of land a day, and when Yan'an was in production, Yin Guangpu, a soldier nicknamed the Great Yanma, cultivated four acres and two acres a day - this is not the highest record, and the hard-working people of the country can be seen from this. Sixty cows are calculated according to the average daily average of one mu, and it takes more than 80 days to open 5,000 acres of land, nearly three months.

Note 2: Song people Gao Side's "Manuscript of the Shameful Hall" contains: Zhejiang people govern the field,...... Its ripeness is also, and Ueda collects five or six stones.