Chapter 155: A New Life for the Pauper
On 20 November, two months had passed since the construction of the irrigation canals, and in some places the irrigation canals had already been built, and some of the dragon tail cars had already been put in place. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Looking at the water conservancy facilities that were gradually being repaired, the people who had divided the fields were rejoicing and more energetic.
Dai Quan's family was a refugee who was rescued by Fanjiazhuang's official army, and it has been three months since they escaped the clutches of the Tartars. In the past three months, the situation of the Dai family has gotten better and better -- better than ever.
Dai Quan is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, and has a 28-year-old daughter-in-law at home, a 50-year-old father, and two teenage children. In the past, his family rented 30 acres of dry land from Mr. Wang's house in Bao0di County, and his family had three earthen houses. There was no water source next to the field, so I had to go to a small river a mile away to fetch water for the field. Because of insufficient irrigation, he can only grow 25 or 6 stone of rice and flour a year, but he has to sell five of them to Master Wang for rent, and he can only keep 12 or 3 stones in his own home. Every year, when the harvest is not good, the family has to go hungry.
What's worse is that when the Tartars came, Dai Quan took the whole family to hide in the county seat, but the county town was also breached by the Tartars, and the family became slaves of the Tartars. The Tartars shaved their hair and kept small braids, refused to accept the Chinese clothes, and took everyone to the bitter cold land of Liaodong as slaves, doing hard labor every day, and serving with whips. At that time, in the Tartar camp, at night, there was a cry of stealing all around.
The ten days that were plundered by the Tartars were not long, but those ten days were incomparably long in Dai Quan's memory. In those ten days, Dai Quan once thought that his life was over, and then he was whipped to death after more than ten years of hard labor.
Who knew that when they arrived at Fanjiazhuang, the vicious Tartars were defeated by the officers and soldiers of Fanjiazhuang, and all the people who were plundered by the Tartars were rescued.
The governor of Fanjiazhuang is called Li Zhi, a great benevolent man, he asked the people to settle down in the north of the city, and also gave everyone thick porridge to eat. Because of the merits of defeating the Tartars, he was promoted to a guerrilla general by the imperial court, and everyone called him the general.
Later, the Tartars were released, and the surrounding people returned to their hometowns one after another. But Dai Quan's family couldn't go back, and they had no food to eat when they went back. The landlord Wang's family was also hit by the war, and he was caught in the Tartar slave camp like himself, and the grain hidden by the Wang family was probably robbed by the Tartars. When I go back to Wang's house to collect it, what will I eat this year?
When Dai Quan was hesitant and desperate, the sky was endless, and the news came that the general was going to lead everyone to reclaim Xintian. When he heard the news, Dai Quan's tears flowed.
The good news came one after another, it is said that the general will give each adult and a strong woman 20 acres of dry land, and only 30% of the land rent will be collected a year. Moreover, the dry fields distributed to the poor by the Shogun were all good fields irrigated by canals.
Hearing the news, Dai's whole family cheered. Forty acres of good land, thirty percent of the land rent, although Dai Quan is not good at arithmetic, but he also knows how to inquire with literate people, knowing that these fields are well planted, in addition to the land rent, there can be 27 or 8 stone of grain left a year, so that his family can live a good life.
The general sent Zheng Baihu to organize the construction of irrigation canals, the installation of dragon tail carts, and the summoning of a large number of masons from all over Gyeonggi to repair houses for the poor. By November, half of the irrigation canals had been repaired, and the dragon tail car was said to be half installed. Zheng Baihu sent someone to divide a piece of land by the canal to Dai's family, which really has forty acres, and will wait for the spring of next year to start broadcasting.
Dai Quan tried the dragon tail car. He asked his daughter-in-law to dig the canal next to his field, and he rocked the dragon's tail cart by the river, and saw that the trickling river water was pumped into the canal by the waterwheel, and all of it flowed into his dry field. At this rate, during the irrigation season, you can irrigate 40 acres of paddy fields by shaking your own waterwheel for one day. No more coolies have to go to the river to fetch water.
What made Dai Quan even happier was that the house assigned to him was also repaired.
It is a two-room brick house, spacious, built in a planned small village. The house is made of fine red bricks, covered with black tiles, and it is said that it also uses cement invented by the Shogun, and in short, the house is very sturdy, and it does not leak a little water even when it rains heavily. Dai's family used to live in a thatched-roof mud house that leaked rain and wind, where had they ever lived in such a good brick house? It's the house where Master Wang lives, but that's it!
On the day they were assigned to the house, the whole family sang and danced all day.
The person who divided the house to Dai Quan said that the cost of these two houses was ten taels of silver, which was lent to Dai Quan's family by the general, and it would be repaid in five years, and Dai Quan would have to pay an extra stone of rice noodles when he paid the rent in the next five years.
One stone of rice noodles is not much, and the general only collects thirty percent of the land rent, and Dai Quan knows that he now has a balance of twenty-seven or eight stones a year, and he can afford to pay one stone of rice noodles.
Dai Quan felt that a better life was just around the corner, and he took his daughter-in-law to work the construction site of the canal every day, and he was very active. His efforts were seen by the officials of Fanjiazhuang and marked as an activist. Usually light work such as cooking on the fire, the clerks give priority to Dai Quan's daughter-in-law to do, and the officials also let Dai Quan do such decent errands as distributing meals to the poor.
Appreciated by the officials, Dai Quan worked harder.
On this day, Dai Quan was ramming earth on the construction site, but he heard the poor master call his name, saying that he had divided the cattle.
The general also gave us a share of cattle?
Dai Quan handed his rope to a peasant next to him, patted the soil on his hands, and followed the messenger to the place where the cattle were divided. When he arrived at the place where the cattle were divided, Dai Quan saw hundreds of cattle gathered under a dirt slope, and more than a dozen "activists" stood there waiting for the cattle to be divided. Zheng Baihu, who was in charge, personally appeared on the scene and checked the account books.
The messenger who brought Dai Quan said to Dai Quan: "The general's kindness, every five people will lend a ploughing ox and hand it over to honest people to take care of." You and your daughter-in-law, and the three members of your village share a cow. The price of the ox is thirty taels, which is considered to be lent to you by the general, and it will be returned to the general in five years, with an average of six buckets of grain per person per year. ā
I used to rent cattle with Mr. Wang, but now I have a cow!
Farmers have a natural love for ploughing cattle, and Dai Quan's eyes lit up as he looked at those sturdy cattle. The general was so kind to us that Dai Quan was busy agreeing to the master's words.
Seeing that Dai Quan didn't ask clearly, the poor master said: "Do you know how much grain you can have left in a year after paying the cattle money?" ā
Dai Quan was stunned and said, "Back to the mission, Xiaomin can't figure it out." ā
The poor master smiled and said, "Your family of two people rents forty acres of dry land, and with the harvest of one stone, they will receive forty stones of grain a year. Twelve stones were handed over to the general as rent, and the remaining twenty-eight stones were returned, and one stone of grain was paid for the house, and the remaining twenty-seven stones were returned, and the two of them paid one stone and two bullfighting money, and the remaining twenty-five stones and eight buckets were returned. A year five people eat fourteen stone of grain, and there is a balance of eleven stone and eight buckets, which is twenty-three taels of silver. ā
I can save more than 20 taels of silver a year, which is enough to make cotton jackets for the children, make quilts, and buy meat to eat. Hearing that he had so much surplus, Dai Quan was so happy that his face flushed, and he said: "The kindness of the general, Xiaomin will always remember!" ā
The poor man smiled and said, "The harvest of spring wheat in the first year is lower and a little harder, but in the first year, the adults only collect one and a half percent of the rent, and your family can also have a balance of fifteen taels of silver!" ā
In the first year, he was able to balance so much silver immediately, and Dai Quan had nothing to say, so he just nodded desperately.
Seeing that Dai Quan was happy, the poor master taught him a lesson: "The cattle of these five people will be handed over to you to take care of, and you will have to manage them well." The cowshed should be set up firmly, and the cow dung in the cowshed should be cleaned up in time. During the service, the bean cake should be fed, the cattle should be grazed to eat green fodder in the summer, and the cattle should be combed and cleaned up in the winter to prevent diseases. DID YOU KNOW? After a pause, the poor master said: "Of course, these things are not done by you alone, and the five people assigned to use the cow take turns to be responsible, but you have to manage it, and you can't let the cow get sick and die." ā
Dai Quan only nodded busily.
The poor master taught Dai Quanyi a lesson, and took him up to get the cattle. When it was Dai Quan's turn to queue, Zheng Baihu took a turn in the herd and gave Dai Quan a majestic bull. Dai Quan saw that the scalper had strong limbs and shiny hair, and looked strong with his head held high, and he smiled happily.
Zheng Baihu saw Dai Quan's happy appearance, and said with a smile: "The good cow has been distributed to you, you can take care of it!" ā
āāāāāā
Thank you for the tip of 1v1v10800, and the second tip of more than 100 yuan, thank you very much!! It's not that I don't explode, it's really that I can't write it, forgive me, forgive me.