In September of the tenth year of Chongzhen, a Tang newspaper was reported to Jinan Mansion by Da Songwei step by step. Yan Jizu, the current governor of Shandong, only said five words after reading the Tang newspaper: Heroes are teenagers.

At this time, there happened to be Shandong Xuezheng on the side, and he said: "About this Song Youliang, Xia Guan knows a little bit about it~"

"Oh~" Yan Jizu asked with interest: "Now that the country is employing people, since Xuezheng knows, you might as well explain it for this~"

Shandong Xuezheng replied: "This Song Youliang is the son of Song Qianjin of the Thousand Households of Haiyang Shouyu Thousand Households under Da Songwei, he is nineteen years old this year, and he just participated in the Shandong Township Examination in August~"

"Oh? I don't know how his article is~~" Yan Jizu asked hurriedly

Xuezheng shook his head and replied: "After all, he was born in a military household, and he is good at dancing knives and guns, and dancing and writing are unsatisfactory~ Although there are some gorgeous words in the article, it is more rigid ~~ out of order ~"

Yan Jizu said regretfully: "Hey, if ~~forget it~~"

The senator in charge of Tuntian on the side said: "Your Excellency, I heard that the Haiyang Institute accepted thousands of repatriated displaced people last year, and this year's large-scale land reclamation is all due to the intention of this Song Youliang's kid. ”

"I heard ~ I heard ~ ~ how come I heard ~ " Yan Jizu said dissatisfiedly: "Haven't any of you gone to the field to investigate?" ”

"Uh~This~~" The officials were silent, who has nothing to do when they are full, go to that kind of poor country?

"My lord, I am willing to go to Haiyang Station~~" A young official said loudly

"Who is it?" Yan Jizu followed the prestige, and saw a white-faced scholar standing in the corner, judging from the government, he was a petty official from Jiupin

The little official replied: "Liu Zhihe, the ambassador of the humble cang~"

Shandong Patrol pressed on the side and asked: "That Da Songwei's please gong performance table~~"

"I don't look at it~" Yan Jizu waved his hand, "Straight to the Left Army Governor's Mansion is~~"

"Obey~"

"I'll exchange three buckets of grain with you for this cloth, okay?"

"Can you change this bag of salt for four buckets?"

In the streets of Laiyang City, it is common to see people dressed as military men carrying food bags and shops, and hawkers exchanging salt, cloth and daily necessities.

The shopkeepers of the Fukang Buzhuang store didn't care at first, but later found that there were more and more such soldiers, and finally couldn't help asking: "Which fort are you from?" ”

"I am from Haiyang~~" The answer was Xu Erduo's mother Xu Cuishi, since Xu Erduo became the leader of Song Youliang's squadron, a stone of grain every month went straight home. Coupled with the dividends that Xu Erduo's father received from the Song family, the Xu family of five couldn't eat so much food, so Xu Cui's family, like other military households, took the extra rations to Laiyang City to exchange for some daily necessities, pulled a few pieces of cloth by the way, and went home to make new clothes for his daughter-in-law and grandson who had not worn new clothes for many years

The owner of the cloth village is surnamed Gu, named Yushan, a native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and has been in Laiyang to open the cloth village for a while, and the business has been tepid. He asked Xu Cuishi with a smile, "Auntie, your Haiyang Institute has a good harvest this year, right?" ”

"That's ~" Xu Cuishi smiled proudly: "Song Gongzi has great ability, and the wheat he planted is a few more stones than others~"

"How many stones? How many buckets are there? Gu Yushan said with a smile

"It's just a few stones~~" Xu Cuishi immediately corrected

"Okay~A few stones~~" Gu Yushan didn't bother to argue with her, "Are there many people like my aunt who have surplus grain in their hands and want to change cloth and salt?" ”

"Is it much?" Xu Cuishi laughed, "Every family has it, do you say much?" ”

Gu Yushan rolled his eyes and said: "Otherwise, auntie, you go back and carry a word, tomorrow I will bring a few pieces of cloth and send them to Haiyang, and the aunts of the province will run back and forth~~"

Xu Cuishi was overjoyed, "That's a good feeling, I'll go back to the castle and tell the old sisters~~"

Early the next morning, Gu Yushan brought three mules, one rode by himself, the two were clothed, and two men were brought together, and they came to Haiyang when they left Laiyang

When they arrived at the outskirts of Haiyang, the three masters and servants of Guyu Mountain saw a tall circular fortress, and there were two strong men guarding the gate around the fortress. Outside the fort there was a large field of freshly harvested wheat, and the peasants were putting bales of wheat into a kind of machine, and the wheat was pouring out at one end. This is a newly designed thresher designed by Haiyang, which combines the traditional Chinese belt fan and Western thresher, and is built by Song Youliang, Sun Hedou, Shen Buqi and other craftsmen. It is fitted with a wooden frame that turns on a drum. Narrow belts are mounted on the wooden frames, and when it turns, it creates a stream of air that blows away the husks from the wheat, mainly powered by cattle and the wind

Gu Yushan thought that this was Haiyang, so he asked the guy to send a post.

Ding Zhuang, who was guarding the door, smiled, "This is the Jiutun of Haiyang, and Haiyang's is still ahead~"

When the guy came back, Gu Yushan was taken aback, a Tuntian wall dock has such a scale, then Haiyang~~ took another stick of incense, and Gu Yushan finally came to Haiyang.

The man stepped forward to explain his intentions, and handed over the post, the soldier guarding the door trotted all the way into the fort with the post, and ran back after a while, saying that Gu Yushan was allowed to enter the fort to trade, Song Gongzi is busy now, and will come back later to meet the Gu shopkeeper in person

"Song Gongzi again?" Gu Yushan muttered, according to his inquiry, the hundred households in Haiyang are an old man who is nearly sixty years old, why are the people in Haiyang open and close their mouths all "Song Gongzi"? Who is this Song Gongzi?

After entering Haiyang, Gu Yushan's eyes lit up. He had also been to some military forts before, and the roads in those forts were muddy, overflowing with sewage, open defecation, and full of garbage. In Hai Duong, all roads are clean, there are no puddles, no garbage, and no yellow and white things that are drowning.

Of course, this is a bit of a renovation. The original low-lying areas in the fort were all piled up with muck and then tamped. The original muddy road was all rebuilt with rammed earth, and then paved with bluestone slabs, and the people of the castle called him Slate Street. Latrines were built in inconspicuous places on both sides of the streets, and anyone who dared to defecate in the open was caught by the patrolling soldiers and punished for a month of sweeping the streets. Sweeping the streets is nothing, but because of sweeping the streets like this, I can't hang my face. So after catching a few of them, no one dares to try to make it convenient for a while

Gu Yushan found a vacant lot on the side of the stone street and instructed the guys to set up the stalls. At this time, Xu Cuishi, who was carrying a vegetable basket, was the first to see Gu Yushan, and she shouted loudly: "Shopkeeper of Buzhuang, you are really here~"

Gu Yushan smiled, "Let's do business, reputation is the most important, if you say you want to come, then you must come~" While speaking, Gu Yushan also glanced at Xu Cui's vegetable basket, which contained vegetables, melons and fruits, and a piece of meat of at least three or four catties

"Auntie~ A guest at home today?" Gu Yushan asked with a smile

Xu Cuishi was surprised: "Guests? She subconsciously looked at the meat in the vegetable basket and smiled, "No, no, I just want to eat meat~~ I'm going to notify the seven aunts and eight aunts~~ Let them all come to buy cloth~~"

"Eat what you want? It's all on this? Gu Yushan looked around incredulously, and sure enough, there were really a lot of people who came and went in the fort carrying meat in their hands

"How to sell this cloth" When Gu Yushan was looking east, an old man stopped in front of his stall, this old man was not dressed like a soldier, but he was a Confucian student

"Ah~yes, six cents a foot~" Gu Yushan hurriedly replied, picking up a batch of navy blue cloth, "Uncle, this cloth is thick and dyed well, it's very good for you to pull a piece to make a piece of protection~"

The old man smiled, squinted slightly, stretched out his thumb and index finger and twisted it on the cloth, and said with a smile: "You businessman is honest~"

"Six cents a foot, how much do you want~" Gu Yushan asked with a smile