Hao Jian returned to Chang'an City and found Zheng Xiang.

Now Zheng Xiang is not what it used to be, in just one month, he has become a man of the year in the vegetable market, although ordinary people still do not buy his pork, but four pigs a day is not enough to sell, his life has been greatly improved, the old Wang next door is very envious.

"Engong wants to buy so many piglets, do you want to set up a pig farm?"

Hao Jian rode a horse from Xingping to Chang'an, didn't bother to rest all the way, poured a few wells of water, and breathed evenly, then said: "Don't ask why, just do it, the sooner the better, otherwise you have to be beaten half to death by the second young master!" ”

"Five hundred little piglets, I'm afraid I won't be able to get them together in a short time......"

"You have to get it together, the second young master is waiting over there! The second young master also gave you an important task! ”

Zheng Xiang suddenly came to his senses, Engong still has a place to use me, that is my blessing!

"What do you have to say?"

Hao Jian smiled mysteriously, and said with some schadenfreude: "Second Young Master asked you to find a way to castrate all these five hundred little piglets!" ”

"Have you ever heard that an ox should be castrated, a horse should be castrated, and a pig should be castrated?"

"The second young master said that when the pig is castrated, it will grow fat and the meat will be more tender." Hao Jian swallowed his saliva and handed Zheng Xiang a booklet, "The second young master asked me to give this to you, with the method of castrating piglets written on it, saying that according to this method, the mortality rate can be greatly reduced." ”

The booklet records in detail the methods and precautions for castrating piglets, but Cheng Chuliang forgot one thing, Hao Jian and Zheng Xiang have never gone to school and are illiterate.

Fortunately, there was a small stall not far away that helped people write, Hao Jian gave the man ten money, and under his several recitations, Zheng Xiang wrote down all the contents inside.

Zheng Xiang sighed with emotion: "Engong is really a heavenly man!" ”

Hao Jian despised Zheng Xiang, writing a gelding manual is a celestial? You Zheng Xiang turned out to be better than me, and you are really hidden.

"Brother Hao Jian, don't you know, if a gelding craftsman castrates a mule, two or three horses will die out of ten, and if it is according to the method of Engongjiao, castration will no longer lead to the death of livestock."

He now understood why Eun Gong had given him the task of castration, and he had wanted to find a few geldings to help, but now he quickly dispelled this idea.

Engong handed over the eunuch's unique secret to himself, which was a great trust in himself, and he must not leak it, otherwise he would not be able to atone for his sins even if he died.

……

It was a new day, and Zhao Si was once again brought in front of Cheng Shiliang.

"From today onwards, Young Master Ben will go door-to-door to visit and condole, and you will lead it."

Zhao Si didn't understand Cheng Chuliang's behavior very much, the nobles were all high, how could anyone really go to the banker's house to condole, how much did the price drop?

"Second Young Master, this kind of trivial matter can be handed over to the villain, you don't have to go in person."

Zhao Si secretly prayed in his heart, you'd better not go, so as not to toss everyone, everyone is poor, and they really can't stand the toss.

Cheng Chuliang thought that Zhao Si was worried that he was tired of himself, so he puffed up his chest and said righteously: "If Young Master Ben doesn't personally go deep into the masses to investigate and study, how can he accurately alleviate poverty?" ”

Targeted poverty alleviation?

Zhao Si was stunned again, this second young master's mouth was a new word, and he couldn't understand it.

At Cheng Chuliang's repeated insistence, Zhao Si had to wear a bitter gourd face and lead him to visit door to door to condole.

Cheng Chuliang also brought Ma Zhou with him, but he couldn't let him eat and drink for nothing, he had to do some work!

The visit and condolences began with Liu Sanjia in the east of Zhuangzi.

The low thatched hut was very dim, and there was a foul smell, and when Ma entered the house on Monday, he suddenly felt his stomach churning, and he was nauseous.

He really wanted to run out to get some fresh air, but seeing Cheng Chuliang's calm expression, he was a little ashamed.

A noble son can endure it, but I, a scholar who claims to want to ask for the people's life, what can't I endure.

In addition to two beds, a large iron pot, a rice jar, and a few pairs of chopsticks, Liu San's family really has nothing, which is the real family with four walls.

Looking at Liu San again, he was only in his thirties, but he had dark skin, and the wrinkles on his face made him look fifty years old.

Dealers are bitter!

Cheng Chuliang's sudden visit made Liu San's family feel cramped and uneasy, he and his daughter-in-law stood aside, buried their heads and did not dare to speak, and the two sons hid behind their parents, very afraid.

Zhao Si played a round on the side and said: "Second young master, the Zhuang people have never seen anything in the world, don't care." ”

Cheng Chuliang was very bitter.

Liu San and they are definitely the most industrious and honest people in the world, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, shaving in the ground under the red sun, the food that can be grown, first let the nobles eat well, and the most unpalatable thing left is their own, barely starving to death.

It is not that the nobles rewarded the people with food, clothing, shelter and transportation, but that the people fattened the nobles.

asked the guards to hand over a bag of rice to Liu San, and Cheng Chuliang said: "This time is very strong, I will let you live a good life!" ”

Cheng Chuliang thought for a long time about the meeting gift to the farmers, and finally decided to give each family ten catties of rice, which was the most affordable and the most urgent.

Liu San was flattered and didn't know what to say, but just took the whole family to kneel on the ground and kowtow.

"Ma Zhou, recorded that Liu San, thirty-two years old, his wife is twenty-nine years old, his eldest son is seven years old, and his youngest son is five years old, all of whom are in good health."

Before, Ma Zhou thought he was very poor, but when he arrived at Liu San's house, he realized that there is no poorest, only poorer.

He also found that after coming out of Liu San's house, Cheng Chuliang kept his back to everyone, and his hands wiped his eyes from time to time.

Will the nobles shed tears for the hardships of the people? He must have sand in his eyes, right?

The head of the second household is called Du Song, the family has a seventy-year-old mother, his wife gave birth to two sons and a daughter, thin as a monkey, his wife does not even have a decent clothes, it is inconvenient to come out to meet Cheng Chuliang, and he has an unmarried brother Du Bai.

Like Liu San's family, he is poor, so poor that he doesn't even have money to find a daughter-in-law for Du Bai.

Juniper's father was a soldier and died on the battlefield, but no one gave them a pension.

"The whole family is counting on thirty acres of land to live, there is no rain this spring, the land is so dry that it is not good, there is not enough food to eat, I think about it, and after the autumn harvest, I will lead my younger brother and the children out to ask for food......"

Ma Zhou couldn't control himself anymore, ran out and squatted in the yard and cried.

The people are miserable, these three words are just a concept in books for him, how bitter it is, he doesn't know, he can only imagine that they may be as poor as himself, but at least they can eat.

But what he saw today made him completely understand the meaning of suffering.

Heaven and earth are not benevolent to all things as dogs, and it turns out that many people live as well as a dog in the noble family.

Cheng Chuliang patted Ma Zhou's shoulder, "It's useless to cry, what you have to do is to help me change their fate and let them live a good life." ”

Ma Zhou wiped his tears and asked sadly, "Can you change it?" Has it changed? ”

Cheng Chuliang looked at the mountains in the distance and said, "I can!" ”