The banquet was quite a success, although the dishes were not much, but the taste was quite good, and the portions were very large.

All kinds of seafood are cooked as plain as possible, and large pieces of mutton and pork are braised to make all the sailors on the sea feast.

The other dozen or so tables were filled with doctors and their apprentices, and Nan'an Hou Xu Zixian personally hosted a banquet to entertain them, which flattered these doctors.

At the table, a doctor got up and bowed his hand, and said: "The method of curing the plague, said to make up, said to flat, said to fall, first calm the disease, then lower the body temperature, and finally warm up the patient's vitality, the first thing is to replenish the medicinal materials, dispel the plague, the old monarch understands the dispersion, the miasma is scattered, the dispersion of the temperature and other medicines, all must be complete, the amount should be sufficient, and then the next is isolation, this prince has done a good job, my generation came, it is nothing more than to help. ”

When everyone heard this, they didn't like it very much.

These various powders for the treatment of the plague have proven to be not very useful, and it is better to say that they are medicines than placebos.

Huang Laigui was not very happy in his heart, but when he was a sailor, he often traveled back and forth between the Eastern Domain and Penghu, thinking that it was unlikely to be infected with the plague, and he did not pay much attention to this matter.

The sailors were quite happy to be able to sit at the same table with the doctors, but the doctors were a little helpless.

The status of doctors in Dawei is not as high as in later generations, but they are much stronger than sailors, but under the system of Nan'an Houfu, all people, including craftsmen, are of the same status, and they all serve the princes, and the difference in social classes is not as obvious as that of Fujian Road, and many smart people are keenly aware of this.

There was only a small amount of sprinkling at the banquet, which was still used by the doctors to catch the wind, and Huang Laigui and others only drank two lamps each, which was better than nothing.

At the banquet, Xu Zixian said some words of encouragement to the doctors and sailors, and everyone felt that Nan Anhou spoke calmly and easily understood, and everyone felt quite excited, and even more excited were the doctors...... Most of them are sitting in various places on Fujian Road, whether it is orthopedics or traumatology, internal medicine, or pediatrics, as long as they are determined to have real materials, they are not the kind of traveling doctors, and they are all hired by the Changwen Hou Mansion at some level.

In such matters, the Changwen Hou Mansion is more convenient and suitable than the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

The civil and official connections throughout Fujian Road, and the gentry everywhere are inextricably linked to the Changwen Marquis Mansion.

There are many doctors who have doubts or are unwilling to leave their hometowns, and then it is necessary for the local gentry to come forward and "persuade" in good faith.

When I arrived on the Eastern Domain, I saw that the development on the island was not bad, and Xu Zixian, the Marquis of Nan'an, personally met with him and set up a banquet to welcome the wind, which showed that the Nan'an Marquis Mansion did not treat the doctors as cheap jobs such as servants, which made the doctors' mood much better.

When Huang Laigui went out, he deliberately looked around.

Roads connecting embankments, ship yards, factory areas, and barracks, and dense settlements are all connected by roads.

In front of a large area of ruins in the distance, a large group of people were driving oxen, horses and mules, pulling stone mills more than a man high, constantly crushing the filled holes, renovating the ruins, and renovating the original path into a road flattened with gravel and rammed earth.

Huang Laigui knew that his parents lived in the 100th household, so he pulled a man in a black arrow robe, asked about the new location of the 1100th household, and then went to the shop area in the south to buy some meat and seafood, intending to bring it to visit his parents.

The more you walk to the outskirts of the settlement, wearing a black arrow robe and holding a long hand? Or the number of guards holding the knife is increasing.

These people are under the jurisdiction of the Garrison Division, and they are basically the original garrison army.

Due to the lack of population on the Eastern Domain, Xu Zixian did not dismiss the old Xiang army, as he did in Qizhou and Penghu, but left most of them behind.

It was certainly not possible for these van troops to expect them to go into battle, but after the elimination of some old fritters who had violated military orders, the remaining 2,000 people were all transferred to Jing'an garrison personnel.

In fact, patrolling the periphery and internal security is equivalent to strengthening the three classes of servants, and the officers and men of the retrenched army have no resistance to this new organization and task, and they are even quite willing.

Originally, the Xiang Army was not only a garrison, but also an engineer, and at the same time had the task of catching thieves.

Now that they are relieved of their military responsibilities, they do not need to go into battle and work hard, but only impeachment places, arrest thieves and thieves, and calm places, this task is relatively much easier.

But during the training period, these front-of-the-line troops still suffered a lot.

The security task is not as simple as imagined, and the extender has taught these soldiers a hard lesson.

Next is the instructor of the former Nan'an martial arts, who makes up for these guys with physical fitness and fighting lessons.

On the way to 1100 households, Huang Laigui passed by several small school yards and saw a large group of black-robed personnel being organized for training, shouting and reprimanding.

Huang Laigui grinned, these guys, the previous military salary was insufficient, and they often didn't have enough to eat, and they stayed outside for a long time, and they had no morale.

Now that they are retained, they are well fed, and their morale is raised, they will be trained strictly.

All black sheep who disobey the training, complain bitterly, and affect the morale of the group are also ruthlessly fired.

They are no longer asked to do miscellaneous labor, hard labor, and they don't need to go into battle to fight hard, if this physical fitness and combat training can't last, this kind of waste is still good to drive away.

In addition, there are additional benefits for these front-wing troops, and their families can take over the Eastern Domain, become the official household of the Marquis of Nan'an, distribute acres of land, mansions, and slowly repay the income from cotton fields.

It's a great temptation, and as long as it's not a complete waste, you know what to do.

After walking more than ten miles to the east, Huang Laigui arrived at the settlement of 1100 households.

The hundreds of houses are divided into rows, connected to each other, but not too close, with paths in between.

The shape is almost the same, with three main halls made of white walls and black tiles, green bricks and stones, two side compartments, and two gatehouses used to store grain and put tools.

The yard is not too small, you can grow some vegetables, and you can also plant fruit trees.

Many families have planted fruit trees in their yards and opened up vegetable fields.

In front of the door is a pigsty, chicken coop and thatched house, and there are also roads connected by partitions, and you can also open up vegetable fields to grow vegetables outside, but there are not many people who grow vegetables outside.

People still maintain the habit of being on the mainland, and they are a little wary and careful of each other.

After all, every hundred households are mixed, not according to the clan, generally speaking, this situation should beware of scoundrels, gangsters, thieves, when Huang Laigui found that many people pulled the clothesline outside the courtyard, he knew that the security situation here should be quite good.

On the east and west sides of the eleven hundred households, there was a sentry tower more than three zhang high, and when Huang Laigui entered the village, the guards on the sentry tower discovered him, and only let him in after interrogating him and checking his identity.

As you can imagine, there is no place for thieves, thieves or scoundrels here.

In every 100 households, there are 100 household officials who take care of civil affairs, Huang Laigui was not troubled when he entered the public hall, and there were no helpers such as yacha here, and there were no halls, gongs, drums, guards, sticks, standing cages and other things that made people look scared.

Sitting in the hall, the official surnamed He is strictly a servant, who is quite enthusiastic about people, and after listening to Huang Laigui's intention, he said: "Lingzun Lingtang is in the seventh small banner, which is to walk along the main road in the village to the seventh alley, which is where the seventh small flag is located." ”

Huang Laigui understood, quickly got up, and arched his hand: "Thank you Baihu official." ”

"Civil affairs are my own business, how can I thank you?"

Huang Laigui smiled and took out a string of money, handed it to He Baihu, and said: "My parents live here, my brother is perennial, originally said to live in a nursing home, my parents said that they were martyrs, the elderly who were left to take care of them, disabled, and seriously injured soldiers, so they lived in a nursing home, and children without parents lived in the Salesian Bureau. Please don't be embarrassed......"

There was a lot of wasteland on the island, but it was the official land that was opened up by the power of the Hou government, and the people had to pay it back with long-term cotton income, including farm tools, the use of livestock, transportation costs, and resettlement costs, including the allocated mansions.

All of this costs money, and according to the income of each mu is calculated as two yuan, each household can repay all debts in a year with 50 mu of cotton fields.

However, the daily life of the people still needs to be maintained, and they also need the help of the Hou government, in addition to the original official household contribution and other expenses, so the optimistic algorithm will take about two to three years to pay off this fee.

If you reclaim the acres of land by yourself and only rent the livestock and farm tools in the public school, this cost can be saved a lot.

Of course, it was not cultivated at random, and each hundred households were placed in different areas, in addition to the official fields that were opened, along the rivers, wells, waterwheels, and burned wasteland, separated from hills and mountains, and guarded against the natives, etc.

After becoming an official household, each family was allowed to open up more land on their own, and the Nan'an Hou Mansion clearly encouraged this practice.

Crazy land reclamation, having more mature fields according to the number of households, and encouraging more land developers to come to the Eastern Domain, this is Xu Zixian's ultimate goal.

This plain area has seven or eight main streams, and if it is a large river, there are dozens of tributaries, and the water flow is not weak.

The warm land, abundant sunshine, and fairly gentle plains are the treasures of the Eastern Domain, and they are also the foundation that makes it live up to the reputation of the treasure island.

If all of them are developed, tens of millions of acres of fertile land can be cultivated here, including a certain hilly area, of course.

At present, less than one-tenth of the land has been developed.

When Huang Laigui entered Baihu Village, he found that there were already obvious hills and mountainous landforms ahead, and he was worried that it would be too dangerous if his parents were too tired or if he encountered natives who had come down to hunt heads.

The quality of these guards transferred from the Xiang army has improved a lot, but Huang Laigui does not think that they can withstand the impact of the alpine natives.

"Don't dare to take it, don't dare to accept it." He Baihu waved his hand and said, "After I receive it, I will be in big trouble." Ling Zun and Ling Tang are only in their early fifties, and their health is good, so we can take it here and give them official land to cultivate. The two of them received 30 acres of land, not 50 acres of strong men, we have cattle for ploughing here, and the farm tools are also good, in fact, it is not very tiring to do. The two of them are also smiling all day long, not saying that they are tired, if they really can't stand it, the official land will be divided into other families for farming, and others will pay for the arrears. ”

Huang Laigui has existed with his parents for dozens of times, and his brother Xu Zixian's military salary is also stored in his parents, but his parents are unwilling to take out all the money, and now the entire hundred households owe money to Nan'anhou Mansion, and the two elders of the Huang family do not want to be special. In addition, this money is owed to the Hou Mansion and does not need interest, in terms of the people's minds, this money is not owed in vain? Why bother to return early?

"Even if this is the case, it will be troublesome for hundreds of households." Huang Laigui pushed the money over again and said: "This money is nothing, as the saying goes, the county officials are not as good as the current management, and the hundred households should not be polite to me." ”

"It's not that I don't want to accept it, but I really don't dare to accept it." He Baihu smiled bitterly and said: "My salary is not low, eight yuan a month, I was just a small official who fought for food, but now this is not low." The department has an audit department, which has to check and audit the family wealth of the officials of each official village every few months, and all the officials' family wealth must be reported, including acres of land, furniture, houses, savings, and those who are too rich or too poor are not qualified as officials. And if the money is suddenly beyond the scope of the official salary, the origin of the money must be traced, if the source is unknown, for example, your consistent money, if it is found, I will remove the official from my post and recover the stolen goods...... It's not worth it. ”

Huang Laigui was surprised: "Can this be found out?" ”

"Absolutely." He Baihu said: "The money bank, ticket number, and pawnshop on the island are all controlled by the Hou Mansion, and we must verify our identity when we go to save money, and we can't hide our names." If it is kept at home or placed with relatives and friends, once it is found, they will be punished. Who would dare to hide money for you? Where can you put it at home, dig the cellar? It's not worth it, it's not worth it. ”

Only then did Huang Laigui know that the Hou Mansion had such a strict system to prevent corruption among officials!

It's amazing!

It's been a few days, it's been a few days, I'm sorry everyone, it's back to normal from today.