Luan Qianhu was a little surprised when he saw this, because he thought that Lu Yuan had a relationship with the deputy commander-in-chief, and he was still very knowledgeable and did not take his boss seriously, so he reminded:

"Brother Lu really plans to take care of this Qingquan Village? There is very little fertile land in this Qingquan Village, it is not as good as this Shuiyang Village, if Brother Lu is willing, I can let the chief flag officer of Shuiyang Village give Shuiyang Village to you. ”

Lu Yuan wanted to quickly establish an industrial system, and the mountains and valleys of Qingquan Village were obviously convenient for providing him with water resources, and Lu Yuan remembered in his previous life that the mountains in this area contained rich iron ore resources, so he would rather choose Qingquan Village now, as for the fertile land, as long as the industrial base is established and an industrialized army is established, do you still have to worry about not having good land.

"Thank you Luan Qianhu for your kindness, Lu Yuan will choose Qingquan Village."

Lu Yuan said.

Luan Qianhu was a little surprised, and he couldn't help but feel that Lu Yuan was short-sighted, and he didn't know the benefits of having a field, you must know that the military households in the guard house were all laborers of arbitrary envoys, and as long as they had a field, they could sit and collect grain.

But Luan Qianhu didn't dare to laugh at Lu Yuan openly, and only said: "When the time comes, if Brother Lu is short of food, just look for me, but I am not allocating it to you, but selling it to you for my own private food." ”

Lu Yuan nodded, he knew that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many officers of the guard station occupied the tuntian service to make the military households self-fertilizer for their tenant farmers, and the Luan Qianhu in front of him was only afraid that he was also doing grain business by this.

Luan Qianhu was quite happy because of this, and said with a smile: "I see that Brother Lu is a big person, go, brother, I will personally send you a trip, so that those people in Shuiyang Village don't know what to do." ”

Lu Yuan did not refuse, and agreed to go to Qingshui Zhenbao early in the morning of the second day.

On the afternoon of the second day, Lu Yuan and the others went to Qingshui Town Fort under the leadership of Luan Qianhu and met a chief flag officer of Qingshui Town Fort.

"His name is Shang Yongxin, and he is now in charge of the forty-six military and civilian households in Shuiyang Village."

Luan Qianhu introduced this person to Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan arched his hand, and saw that the other party was emaciated, dark-skinned, wearing an official uniform, but also very shabby, and holding a hoe in his hand, not like an officer but like a farmer.

Shang Yongxin ignored Lu Yuan, and only walked to Luan Qianhu: "Shangguan, I pay a lot of grain every year, how can you find someone to replace me!" ”

Luan Qianhu saw that Shang Yongxin misunderstood that he was asking Lu Yuan to take charge of Shuiyang Village instead of him, so he was so angry that he scolded directly: "Shang Yongxin, you have no brains, when did the official say that someone replaced you, this is Lu Zongqi, who is in charge of Qingquan Village!" ”

Shang Yongxin was relieved at this time, and looked back at Lu Yuan: "That's good, that's good, but this brother, this Qingquan Village is not a good place, there are few fields and many land, and there are many military households who have escaped, why don't you know how to give more money to the top, but you were sent to such a place." ”

"Shang Yongxin, take care of your own business, ask so much about it, this Brother Lu is a relative of the deputy chief soldier, don't shout Brother Lu in the future!"

Luan Qianhu drank a few more words of Shang Yongxin at this time.

Shang Yongxin looked at Lu Yuan like a fool, since he was a relative of the deputy chief soldier, he shouldn't have chosen this place, but he didn't say anything, he just nodded and said: "The little one has eyes and no beads, there are eyes and no beads, if Brother Lu needs a small contribution in the future, just give orders." ”

Lu Yuan smiled slightly: "In the future, where there is a place to get the banner of the general business, Lu will bother, thank you here first!" ”

Lu Yuan said that he and Luan Qianhu waited into Qingshui Town Fort, and Luan Qianhu did not send Lu Yuan to Qingquan Village, only after sending Lu Yuan to Shuiyang Village, he rested at Shuiyang Village's Shang Yongxin's house, after all, it is really not easy to go to Qingquanzhai Road, and the pampered Luan Qianhu really can't walk, if Lu Yuan is Huang Jiayin, the deputy chief soldier of Linqing, he will grit his teeth and insist on following, but Lu Yuan is still just his subordinate, and he doesn't need to let himself be too tired.

Lu Yuan took his family and Caiyi and others and walked for about two quarters of an hour before arriving at Qingquan Village.

As soon as Lu Yuan arrived at Qingquan Village, he saw that it was surrounded by a hill, and only the valley was at the foot of the mountain where a small river gathered to have some fields, except for the role of the gateway for the entire Tunbao, there was indeed not much value in reclamation.

These fields are obviously not easy to cultivate, after all, the valleys are too fast to store water for farming, and the water from the rivers cannot be pumped to the fields on the shore for irrigation in this era when there are no pumps.

Now that the weather is cold and the rivers are dry, there is not much point in carrying water and farming by hand.

"Brother, this is really not a good place, no wonder there are few military households here, and it is estimated that they have all run out."

Uncle Fei looked at the huts that were mostly empty in the annex and said.

"It's okay, our Lu family didn't make a fortune by cultivating the land", Lu Yuan said and said to Uncle Fei: "Uncle Fei, you take the family members to call all the remaining military households here to that broken courtyard." ”

Lu Yuan said that he went to the broken courtyard first.

When Lu Yuan arrived at this ruined courtyard, he found that this ruined courtyard was actually the yamen of the chief flag officer.

However, he also knew that the Ming Dynasty officials did not cultivate the tradition, so he didn't think it was strange, so he just stood under the main hall where there were no more tiles, and looked at the Qingquanzhai in front of him and smiled bitterly: "Caiyi, fortunately, I didn't bring your young lady here." ”

"Uncle, are we really going to stay here forever?"

Caiyi also asked with a little embarrassment, she had been living in the Gaomen compound all the year round, and she was already tired and not used to being here at all.

"Unless your uncle, I've always been here as the chief flag officer."

Lu Yuan said a word, then walked into the inner courtyard behind the main hall, kicked open the dilapidated door panel, hurriedly protected the colorful clothes that followed, and only took out some books in the cabinet after the dust was cleared, but at first glance, it was the yellow book and fish scale book of Qingquan Village.

But Lu Yuan knew that what was recorded in these pamphlets was only afraid that it was not in line with reality, after all, who knows how many military households have run away over the years, and how many fields have been wasted.

It stands to reason that there are still two small flags under the chief flag officer, but Qingquan Village is so barren that even the imperial court has not sent a small flag officer to perform their duties here.

Therefore, now there is only one official in the entire Qingquan Village, Lu Yuan.

So, it really became his independent kingdom.

After a while, after Lu Yuan and Caiyi cleaned up the official office quite neatly, they saw Uncle Fei come to report: "Brother, the military households have arrived." ”

Lu Yuan walked out with colorful clothes.

Although Lu Yuan was mentally prepared and knew that the military households in Qingquan Village would definitely not be much better, he was still very surprised when he really saw these military households.

Because these soldiers are like beggars, emaciated, not to mention, obviously blind, with their trousers tied tightly to their stomachs, and some of them have not yet worn their shirts in this cold October.

Among them, more than a dozen of them who were slightly stronger were still crushed to the ground by their own family members.

And a woman ran out and knelt in front of Lu Yuan: "Official, please let my son go, leave him a way to live, if you want to make people old, woo!" ”

As soon as a young man who was pressed to the ground by a family member named Fan Siyuan on his side, he shouted: "Mother, what are you doing when you run out, didn't I let you hide and don't come out!" Mother! ”

"Uncle Fei, why are these military households being detained?" Lu Yuan asked.

"Brother, you don't know, they all wanted to run after they knew you were coming, for fear of being called by you, but fortunately they couldn't run fast with many things, so they were caught by us."

Uncle Fei replied.

Lu Yuan could see that these military households must have seen that they were coming, the chief flag officer, and they were afraid that they would treat them as serfs and squeeze them like the previous officials, so they were in a hurry to run, so they walked over and helped the old woman up: "Don't get me wrong, old man, this official has never said that he wants to arrest your son, and naturally he didn't say anything, and this official will not even be able to serve your son, let alone you." ”

As he spoke, Lu Yuan instructed Caiyi: "Caiyi, help this old man to sit down on the steps next to him." ”

The military families present were a little stunned, thinking that this official was a little different.