On the evening of April 6, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu, and his wife Luo Yuhong, who deliberately controlled the speed of progress, rushed back to Chengdu.

However, they did not enter the city, but quietly set up a temporary presence at the Chongyi military base next to the Invalides north of Chongyi Village.

The Chongyi base is still under construction.

A three-storey red brick building (Note 1) with a typical Luo style has just been completed, with the recklessness and roughness unique to the era of industrial civilization, breaking into this quiet place surrounded by green trees. Compared with the blue tiles and white walls of the Invalides Retreat outside the wall, it is simply an evolutionary history of the transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization.

In front of the small red brick building, there is a small playground that is smooth and clean. Before that, there were several annexes under construction and a large area of hardened flat land that was still under construction side by side.

Early the next morning after the prince and Miss Luo returned to the city, Liao Daheng, the chief military minister and governor of Sichuan, Fu Shuwenyi, the prince of the world, Hong Qihui, the vice premier of the administrative department, Qiu Yide, the chief treasurer of Huitong Qianzhuang, Qin Yi, the eunuch of the Shu Wangfu, Luo Dajue, the commander of the Sichuan Metropolitan Department and the Chengdu Military Region, Song Zhensi, the first deputy commander of the Chengdu Military Region, the head of the Chengdu Garrison Regiment and the Second Regiment of the National Protector Army, and others hurried from Chengdu Prefecture to the Chongyi Military Base to meet Zhu Pingjin and Luo Girl, the prince of Shu.

However, they were not summoned in the first place.

Liao Daheng had just received the express report of Qiongmei's movements, and when he was in a hurry, it was a torment to let him sit and wait in the living room.

Ma Gan, the minister of military aircraft who drove back to Rong, appeared in time to try to soothe Shangguan's anxiety: Shizi and Miss Luo summoned the second uncle and his wife from Chongyi Village, and after having breakfast together, they went for a walk by the river. The move of the prince must have deep meaning, you might as well ask Liao Gong to wait and see.

Profound? Seeing a mud leg has a deep meaning of bullshit! If the military affairs of the world have to be discussed with the mud legs, then where do we, the two rank jinshi, live?

Liao Daheng hummed in his mouth, but a thick sour water suddenly turned out of his stomach:

I knew that Yang Er was favored, but I didn't know that he was so favored! I think I Liao Tycoon, the governor of a province, in order to contribute to the province, and I didn't get the honor of taking a walk after dinner!

Liao Tycoon's sourness was so obvious that Ma Gan smiled slightly:

People say that Liao Fu is a dog before the son of the world, and I look like a resentful woman!

……

The river meanders, and the forest covers the sun.

Cowhide riding boots made a crisp crackling sound when they stepped on the bamboo shoot shells all over the ground. On the half-remnant of the tree, a proud rooster held its head high, vigilantly watching the two men and two women who came one after the other. It's no wonder that a large group of his wives and concubines and babies are eating insects in the forest pan, if they are caught and stewed, where does the head of his family still have dignity and face?

The initiator, Zhu Pingjin, didn't know that it had caused a heavy blow to Liao's feelings, nor did he know that it had formed a heavy burden on the psychology of the big rooster. As soon as Second Uncle Yang talked about the little things in the field, he changed the image of Mu Ne's stuttering and talked about it like a university professor. Zhu Pingjin didn't expect that there was so much knowledge in the mud, and he listened with great interest:

“…… Shiziye, there are many hills over there in Renshou, and it is convenient to drain the wheat field. But Chongyizhuang is a plain and an irrigation area!

Wheat and rice are double-cropped, which sounds very good, and the fields can not be barren in winter; Actually, it's thankless!

Wheat likes to be dry and afraid of waterlogging, and rice likes water and is afraid of drought, which is incompatible with water and fire! After the rice is harvested and the wheat is planted, the most feared thing is that it will rain all day, but Chengdu is rainy!

What are the benefits of this irrigation district? Irrigation in the field is convenient! When the wooden gate is opened during spring irrigation, the water in the ditch enters the field by itself, how much work is saved for watering? But drainage is not like irrigation, the water in the ditch is deeper than the field when it rains, and the floodgates are opened, is this drainage or irrigation?

So, last winter, Xiaomin didn't let the village grow wheat, but planted some broad beans, spinach, green onions and other vegetables that the city people need. For example, broad beans (Hu Beans) can be used as both cooking and rice, and can also be dried to make roasted goods. As soon as the millet is harvested in autumn, the village rushes to plant beans. Counting nine days of cold, afraid that the bean seedlings in the field would freeze, the farmers took the grain grass to cover the seedlings to keep warm and moisturize. Lord Shizi, this person has to wear clothes when it's cold, and this seedling is also afraid of the cold......"

It is a good thing to know that you have earned the money of the people of the city.

Who said that peasants have a low IQ if they are not educated? Adapting measures to local conditions, farmers know it in their hearts!

The wheat and rice double cropping system was once popularized on a large scale in the western Sichuan Plain, and was later beaten back to its original form, just because it could not be adapted to local conditions!

Second Uncle Yang said that the price of broad beans was good, so Zhu Pingjin asked how many broad beans were planted in the village last winter, how much was the yield, and what was planted this year.

"There are fewer broad bean seeds! Only more than 2,000 acres were planted! Second Uncle Yang slapped his leg regretfully. But the figures he reported later still surprised Zhu Pingjin.

"Around the vernal equinox, the village harvested green beans, just in time for early rice planting. When the bean seedlings are old and the tendons are not delicious, they are all ploughed into the soil, which can also increase the fertility of the land. After the green beans were harvested, Xiaomin asked the talents to calculate that one acre of land can produce more than 120 catties of beans!

Winter and spring vegetables are expensive, according to one stone and two taels, just more than 2,000 acres of broad beans, almost sold for 5,000 taels of silver, and the input is only a lot more than planting wheat. The whole village is 7,560 acres, and not an inch of land is barren in winter, and it is full of all kinds of vegetables...... It's a pity that the fat is not enough......

Lord Shizi, this land is a cash cow! As long as you serve well, you will continue to grow a steady stream of silver money......

This spring's sowing is mainly early rice and rapeseed, and now they have emerged seedlings, and they are growing well......

When the early rice is harvested, another season of late rice will be planted in the village!

Time is crowded, and people are tired and panicked. Whether it's receiving or broadcasting, you have to compete with God for everything. If you can't do it during the day, then keep doing it at night......

But the children are still waiting for food ahead, and the little people should be a little tired......"

Listening to Second Uncle Yang's chatter, Zhu Pingjin asked about something he was more concerned about.

"After selling the vegetables, did the farmers divide the money they got from it? We can't let the people suffer and get tired and have no reward! ”

"Don't worry, the prince will go down early! Chief Manager Cao posted a notice of the palace on the village, saying that he wanted to 'make the affairs of the village public'. This blackboard is too expensive, so Zhuang bought lime and painted a few gables on the side of the drying field to write.

How many people each family has, how many acres of land they have, how much grain and vegetables they have produced, how much silver they have sold, how much rent they have paid, how many subsidies they have received, how many cattle they have rented for a few days, how much grain and silver money they have borrowed, how much money they have spent selling beans and vegetables in the village office, and how much grain and silver each household should have shared, are all written on the wall......

Rest assured, the small people don't take advantage of the big guys. As long as the farmer wants to know, Xiaomin will write ...... to him"

Zhu Pingjin listened, said yes repeatedly, and then asked about Linpan's economy and sideline business. Second Uncle Yang answered one by one.

The village mainly feeds chickens, ducks and rice fish, but the number of pigs in the herd has not increased, because the nearby land has changed fields and there is no place to hunt pigweed.

As for the side business in the village, the men went to Da'an Road outside the village to build roads and work part-time jobs in their spare time, while the women brought back cotton thread and raw silk to weave and spin silk at home.

There are two new highlights in this year's side business, one is that the village uses the heating and uniform incubation technology pointed out by Shizi, and the chicken and duck seedlings hatch a lot. Xinfan and Xindu counties are densely covered with rivers and forests, which is a good place for free-range chickens and ducks. Wangzhuang everywhere wants to raise chickens and ducks, and they all come to Chongyizhuang to purchase;

The second is that the rice cakes in the village have become famous, and a rice cake shop has been opened in Chengdu Prefecture, which is called "Chongyi Rice Cake Shop", which is in short supply every day. The great eunuch Cao Sanshun has decided to expand the scale of production and is negotiating a loan with Qian Zhuang. Now the Sauce and Vinegar Food Association organizes mutual insurance between the members of the association. As soon as the guarantee issue is resolved, the main threshold for the issuance of large loans will be passed.

The farmers divided the grain, and finally had spare money to talk about marriage and do happy events. Second Uncle Yang's second daughter already has a mother-in-law, and she will get married at the end of the year......

Once the productive forces are freed from the shackles of the old mechanism, the people's spontaneous enthusiasm and wisdom for getting rich will be quickly released, which will bring about a great enrichment of products and an all-round economic recovery, which is the so-called "reform dividend."

If all the agricultural organizations in Sichuan take Chongyizhuang as an example, by the end of next year at the latest, Sichuan's economy will be able to support a war of unprecedented scale!

More importantly, ordinary people, who make up the vast majority of Sichuan's population, will be the beneficiaries of the reform. Their unreserved political support will become the unshakable cornerstone of their own rule over the whole of Sichuan!

Zhu Pingjin listened, and a sense of pride that came from his heart spontaneously arose. All of this was designed and driven by him!

However, in addition to being happy, Zhu Pingjin did not forget the true purpose of summoning Second Uncle Yang today.

"As soon as I came back, I heard that Chengdu has been a little unpeaceful recently. Some restless people are making trouble......"

Zhu Pingjin pulled the topic a little, and Second Uncle Yang immediately followed up.

Second Uncle Yang is not the kind of person who is good at figuring out the master's mind. What he said was all what he saw, thought, and thought:

"Lord Shizi, those scholars hate you!

A few days ago, Xiaomin transported rice cakes to Chengdu Mansion, and when he came back, he went to the East Gate Outer Machinery Bureau to see his eldest sister. As soon as I crossed the East Gate Bridge, I saw a large number of people gathered together. A scholar with teeth and claws standing on the table, squirting feces all over his mouth.

He said that the goods in the pigsty were lying down and sleeping, with eight milk on the white belly...... He's choreographing you and Miss Luo......

Xiaomin looked at it again, wasn't it the scholar who was fighting with me on the river embankment? At that time, he was so angry, Xiaomin couldn't wait to kill him with a flat shoulder! ”

"How did it turn out?" Zhu Pingjin asked with interest.

"And guess what? As soon as Xiaomin approached, he saw a black-clothed policeman crowded in front of the crowd, holding a baton, squinting his eyes, nodding and smirking as he listened!

…… Lord Shizi, didn't the police take your salary? Which side are you on? Why didn't the police arrest those bastards? Xiaomin hesitated at the time......"

"It's normal for individual police officers to have low ideological awareness, can't distinguish right from wrong, and can't keep up with the situation!"

Zhu Pingjin comforted the angry Second Uncle Yang, but the smile on his face was already cold.

He pointed heavily on his forehead: "So, let's ring the alarm bell for them here, keep them awake at all times!" There are thugs in the mountains, and there are thugs in the cities! ”

"Yes, yes! There are thugs in the city, too! Lord Shizi, you are fighting with the local tyrants in front with the little people's children, and those bastards are making trouble for you in the back, you really have no conscience, and you are not as good as the local tyrants! Xiaomin didn't believe that God had no reason, so when he returned to the village that day, he went to the county to see Mr. Cao and ask what was going on. Mr. Cao said to Xiaomin that good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil; It's not that you don't report it, the time has not come. He asked Xiaomin to remember the appearance of those people first, and wait for you to come back and deal with it! ”

"Are the restless people in your village still making a fuss? Are there any troublemakers in Xinfan County? ”

Second Uncle Yang heard the question of the prince, so he poured out the goods in his stomach in 1510:

"It turned out that those people in the village were making a fuss, not because they were hungry and couldn't stand it! Now that the rent has been reduced, and there is no head of the village to exploit, and the rest is their own, why don't they work hard to store more grain for their barn? Besides, Zhuang Shang has levied Ding, there are few people to live, and everyone has no idle time, so what are you messing around?

But there are still scholars who make trouble in the county! At the beginning of last year, they ran away from the five beetles, and then came back one after another. They make a fuss, don't they just hate you for taking their land! They don't want to think about how their fields came from. And how did you get there? I heard that there are also bad people in Pixian and Xindu, and there are also some clans in Guankou......

Last month, the crops were harvested in the village, and a few Qin displaced people who went south were invited to work in the village for a short time. The small people heard from them that there were more big families in Hanzhou and Mianzhou......

Lord Shizi, you can't let those bastards talk nonsense and ruin your reputation! In the past few days, Mr. Cao has said hello, and the village protection teams in the county have gathered, and the big guy is waiting for you to give an order......"

Zhu Pingjin listened silently, and every word was put into his head.

A glimpse of the leopard, Second Uncle Yang is the representative of millions of farmers in Sichuan. With the absolute support of the vast number of peasants, the foundation of his rule is as solid as a rock, and he can let go of some big things that he has wanted to do for a long time!

At this moment, a woman's laughter came from behind, interrupting his surging thoughts.

What joke did my wife listen to so happy? Zhu Pingjin thought.

Two women with different identities, educational backgrounds, knowledge, and even the times, can talk about a topic so intimately, is it a gossip that women are keen on?

Gossip who? Is it contemptible?

It must be contemptible!

It must be those things like falling in love, getting married, and having dolls!

Note 1: The firing of red bricks is much simpler than that of green bricks, so the cost is much lower.