Approaching July, the weather in Dongfan is getting hotter and hotter, and it is only in the morning, and it is as hot as a steamer inside and outside the city, and you can sweat under the sun.

Zhang Bin was concerned about the condition of the victims in the northwest, and on this day, when he heard that Li Jianmu had finished boiling the first batch of medicine and was about to go to the countryside for a follow-up, he took Li Dingguo and other relatives and a small team of guards to follow Li Jianmu and beat horses to settle down.

At this time, there were finally more people working in the fields, and as far as the eye could see, the fertile land was full of human figures, digging ditches, plowing fields, weeding, raising seedlings, and so on.

"Moo......." The buffalo who was pulling the plough was disturbed by the sound of horses' hooves, raised its head and let out a deep cry, and the farmer who was supporting the plough behind him hurriedly twitched lightly on its back and shouted, "Phew......." Urging the buffalo forward, the buffalo honestly lowered its head, pulled the plow and continued to move forward, not taking care of the galloping horse on the road.

Li Jianmu looked at the ploughing cattle scattered in the farmland, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Lord Governor, did you also match this ox to them?" ”

Cattle are not cheap at this time, looking around, there are not dozens of cattle ploughing in the surrounding farmland, and this alone requires a lot of silver, so Li Jianmu asked.

Because it was a follow-up visit, everyone was not in a hurry, and they didn't ride their horses wildly, but they just believed in the horses and let the horses jog on the avenue, Zhang Bin looked up and looked around, and said with emotion: "When I just recovered Dongfan, there were not so many people, and there were not so many cattle, at that time, there were less than 10,000 people in each guard of Dongfan Jiuwei, and most of them were soldiers, and less than half of the guards, I just gave each small flag a cow, and each guard was about 100 heads, after several years of addition and reproduction, There must be thousands of cows in every guardhouse. ”

When Li Jianmu heard this, he couldn't help but be speechless, thousands of cows, tens of thousands of taels of silver, and nine guards are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, this governor is really willing to invest!

The group of people slowly and leisurely, chatted for about half an hour and finally came to the original hundred households, at this time there were not many people in the entire hundred households, maybe everyone went to the fields to cultivate, and even the hundred households here did not see a shadow, fortunately, they were more familiar with this place, and they did not need someone to guide the way, and soon they came to the courtyard of Zhao Laohan's house.

It's strange that no one came out to greet them, is there no one inside? No, the door of the yard is open, and the door in front of the house is also open.

The group got off the horse and walked into the courtyard, Zhang Bin signaled, and Li Dingguo and the others opened their voices and shouted: "Aunt Zhao, Uncle Zhao, Aunt Zhao ......." ”

"Eh, eh." They only shouted a few times, and the daughter of the Zhao family ran out of the house in response, seeing her rolling up her sleeves, her hands were full of water, she should be washing vegetables and cooking or something.

She ran out to take a look, and immediately said happily: "Lord Governor, Old Divine Doctor, Dingguo, Wenxiu, you are all here!" ”

Zhang Bin nodded and smiled: "Yes, let's take a look at Uncle Zhao, is his illness better?" ”

The daughter of the Zhao family said gratefully: "Thank you, Lord Governor, thank you to the old doctor, my father and they are all fine, they can work in the field yesterday, and they are busy in the field at this time." ”

Zhang Bin was stunned when he heard this, and he went to the ground, so what else is there to follow-up.

He thought for a moment and said goodbye: "Why don't we go to another house to have a look, you can get busy first." ”

He was about to beckon Li Jianmu and them to turn around, but the daughter of the Zhao family beckoned: "Lord Governor, you don't have to go to another house to see, everyone is almost fine, all of them have gone to work in the field, I am also in a hurry to come back to cook, if you come early, I am still in the field!" Come on, everyone come in for a cup of tea and a break, just as I just boiled the kettle of boiling water. ”

As soon as he heard the word tea, Zhang Bin immediately stopped, not that he wanted to drink tea, he wanted to see if the people below had their hands on it, he set a pound of bud tea per family, if someone took leaf tea or even aged tea to shoddy, he could earn thousands of taels with a casual hand, this had to be guarded against.

Thinking of this, he nodded and smiled: "Okay, let's rest here." ”

After that, he waved his hand and beckoned everyone to follow the Zhao family's daughter into the house, of course, not everyone followed in, the house was not big after all, if more than 20 people were squeezed in at once, it was estimated that they would be crowded inside and couldn't walk, and the accompanying guards automatically stayed outside, only Zhang Bin, Li Jianmu and Li Dingguo and other eight relatives followed into the house.

After entering the house, Li Dingguo and others went into the kitchen to help with the Zhao family's daughters, only Zhang Bin and Li Jianmu sat in the hall and waited.

Li Jianmu sat on the small chair and looked around, and couldn't help but ask again: "Lord Governor, did you build this house for them, I didn't pay attention to these in a hurry last time, this house is really good, only big families over there build this kind of brick house." ”

Zhang Bin smiled and shook his head and said: "This house can't be said to be built by us, it was built by the unified organization of the guards below, the guards here don't have to serve in the military anyway, and they are idle when they have nothing to do in the fields, so I asked them to organize people to build some houses for later generations, I haven't taken care of them, they all built them spontaneously, and I also paid some money for making bricks and tiles." ”

When Li Jianmu heard this, he couldn't help but reverent: "Your Excellency the Governor is really a capable minister who governs the world, I practice medicine in all directions, and I have never seen where the common people can live in this house, let alone someone who will ask them to send medicine after they are sick. ”

Zhang Bin shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't dare to be an old gentleman so praised, I am lucky, I was born in a rich family, my grandfather, my parents, and my two elder brothers all make a lot of money, and I have only money left, hahahaha." ”

When Li Jianmu heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Lord Governor, you are too humble, and you have to be willing to spend it for the common people if you have money." ”

At this time, the daughter of the Zhao family had already come out with two large bowls of tea, and the farmer didn't have any teacups, so she basically used bowls when drinking tea.

Looking at her cautious appearance for fear of getting burned, Zhang Bin and Li Jianmu hurriedly got up and took the tea bowl in her hand with both hands, and thanked her again and again.

The daughter of the Zhao family smiled back a few words and ran back to serve tea, it seems that she is going to bring a big bowl for everyone, but she doesn't know if her bowl is enough.

Zhang Bin sat down with the tea bowl, looked at the tea leaves in the bowl seriously, and tasted a few sips carefully, before relieving himself.

The tea leaves are slender, it is indeed bud tea, and the tea is slightly fragrant, which proves that it is new tea and not old tea, and it seems that his subordinates are not ghostly, which makes him feel very gratified.

He chatted with Li Jianmu for a while, feeling that the time was almost up, and the tea was almost finished, and he was about to get up to say goodbye, but the daughter of the Zhao family suddenly came over and asked carefully: "Lord Governor, I want to stay in Dingguo and they have a meal here, do you think it's okay?" ”

It was almost noon at this time, and he went back to catch lunch, but when he heard the daughter of the Zhao family say this, he was not in a hurry to leave.

How about the food of the victims, he joked: "You are a bit of a favoritism, if you stay in Dingguo and they eat, can't you keep us to eat, is there not enough rice at home?" ”

When the daughter of the Zhao family heard this, she said nervously: "No, Lord Governor, the rice is enough to eat, but there is no food, Dingguo They have been used to it since childhood, it is nothing, you golden branches and jade leaves, how can you eat this coarse tea and light rice with us!" ”

Zhang Bin couldn't help but think of the scene of eating at Chen Yingying's house, and he couldn't help but smile: "I used to eat in the countryside when I was a county magistrate, you are afraid that there will not be enough vegetables, I will let them buy some, is there a vegetable seller nearby?" ”

The daughter of the Zhao family thought about it and said embarrassedly: "You don't have to buy this vegetarian dish, I have the cheekiness to order it, and the neighbors will not refuse to give it, but this meat has to be bought by someone who kills pigs, and it seems that no one in the village has killed pigs today, so I am afraid that I can't buy it." Other chickens, ducks, fish or something, just give some money to catch them, you see, can it be done? ”

Zhang Bin nodded with a smile and said: "It's enough to have chickens, ducks and fish, you think I eat delicacies from the mountains and seas every day!" ”

When the daughter of the Zhao family heard this, she said excitedly: "Nacheng, I'll go find a neighbor on credit, you wait." ”

After speaking, she was about to call Li Dingguo and others, who were helping in the kitchen, to catch chickens and fish, but Zhang Bin raised his hand to stop her, and then said loudly: "Zhao Ru." ”

Zhao Ru entered in response and arched his hand: "My lord, what do you command?" ”

Zhang Bin asked casually: "Did Uncle Xiaoliu give you silver when he came out?" ”

Zhao Ru hurriedly took out a small silver ingot of five taels, handed it to Zhang Bin and said, "Fifty taels were given." ”

Zhang Bin roughly counted the number of people, then turned his head and asked, "Sister-in-law of the Zhao family, how much does it cost to buy five chickens, five ducks, and ten catties of fish?" ”

When the daughter of the Zhao family heard this, she struggled for a long time, and then she estimated: "A little more than two or two." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, took a silver ingot of five taels directly from Zhao Ru's hand and handed it to him, and explained: "You see that Dingguo and they want to eat something, let's buy it together, but buy it hard, don't leave the money." ”

The daughter of the Zhao family took the silver with trembling hands, and immediately beckoned Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi to buy vegetables together, as for Wang Shangli and Bai Wenxuan, they were left by her to chop wood and cook, these young men were originally responsible for cooking for Zhang Xianzhong, this little thing was nothing to them.

Li Dingguo and the others went out, and the whole village was called a chicken and a dog jumping, and they were busy for about two quarters of an hour, and they finally came back.

The daughter of the Zhao family has a basket of vegetables in her left hand and a basket of eggs in her right hand;

Liu Wenxiu has five chickens in his left hand and five ducks in his right hand;

Ai Nengqi was covered in water, and there were grass carp and river mussels in his hands, and he didn't know how much he carried;

Li Dingguo is even more bizarre, he actually brought a little goat!

Now they have to be busy, a group of people are killing chickens and ducks, and killing sheep and fish, and it took nearly half an hour to slowly hear a burst of aroma in the kitchen.

At this time, Zhao Laohan also came back with his son and son-in-law, and when they saw that the room was full of people and the fragrance of the room, they were all startled, but fortunately, Zhao Laohan had seen Zhang Bin a few times, and he was not very afraid of life.

Li Jianmu took the opportunity to pull Zhao Laohan and his son-in-law to check carefully for a while, and found that they were really good, so he was relieved.

Immediately afterwards, when the hundred households here heard that the governor was coming, they wanted to stay here for dinner, and they sent a jar of rice wine and a string of bacon, and the meal was even more sumptuous.

The daughter of the Zhao family took Li Dingguo and the eight of them to work for nearly an hour before the meal was ready, that guy, the chicken, duck and fish meat were directly packed in a basin, and one pot after another, and they couldn't even put the table, so Zhao Laohan had to go to the neighbor's house to borrow a table and barely put it down.

These two big tables full of dishes, Zhang Bin and Li Jianmu didn't feel anything special, Zhao Ru and Li Dingguo were almost used to eating, Zhao Laohan's family had never eaten such a sumptuous meal, it tasted so fragrant, I almost swallowed my tongue!

After eating and drinking for nearly an hour, Zhang Bin went back with a slight drunkenness and satisfaction.

Now, the victims' illnesses have been cured, and they have begun to cultivate land to grow food, and the resettlement of the victims has finally become regular.

In the next nearly a month, with the help of Li Jianmu, the victims who came later finally did not break out large-scale water and soil adaptation, and more than 100,000 victims almost migrated to Dongfan, and the number of Dongfan soldiers also increased dramatically.

Among the 150,000 victims, there were more than 30,000 soldiers selected, plus the original more than 30,000 soldiers, the number of Dongfan soldiers almost exceeded the number of sailors, and the Qi family army also began to select elites from the original soldiers to supplement personnel.

Zhang Bin was busy equipping the soldiers with weapons and arranging selection exercises, and news came from Fujian that Li Shuchu had finally arrived in Jianning to take office, and news also came from Huguang that the Li family in Qizhou was ready to migrate.

Zhang Bin hurriedly arranged for Zhang Cha to rush to Huangzhou with more than 100 of his guards to meet and escort the Li family in Qizhou, and took Li Jianmu straight to Jianning Mansion to welcome the newly appointed Li Shuchu, and also checked the construction progress of the Li family's new house and Jianning Pharmaceutical Factory.

Jianning Mansion is about more than 1,000 miles away from Dongfan, and it can be reached by waterway by wheel for almost a day and a night, Zhang Bin and Li Jianmu and others set off at midnight the morning of the first day, and arrived at the Jianning Mansion Wharf before dawn the next morning.

At this time, the wharf was already full of people, and when he heard that the governor was coming, Li Shuchu hurriedly summoned the officials of the prefect's yamen to come to the wharf to wait, so that Zhao Yuncheng, the commander of the capital of Fujian, had to pull all the officials of the capital and yamen on the wharf, in fact, he knew that Zhang Bin did not value the superficial work of ushering in, as long as he did his own things well, but the prefect of the house moved, and he had no choice but to keep up.

Zhang Bin was taken aback by this welcoming scene, good guy, the civil and military officials in Jianning City are basically here, why are you doing such a grand ceremony?

He originally wanted to reprimand these people for a few words, but after going ashore, as soon as Zhao Yuncheng hinted, he understood, it turned out that Li Shuchu didn't know his rules, and recklessly summoned all the people over.

The so-called ignorant is not guilty, people don't understand the rules, it's not good to teach him a lesson, besides, he still wants to win over the Li family in Qizhou, and he is naturally not too strict with the only seedling of the officialdom of the Li family in Qizhou, he just greeted a group of officials for a while, and then took Li Jianmu and Li Shuchu father and son to visit the house and pharmaceutical factory he prepared for the Li family in Qizhou.

At this time, the mansion prepared for the Li family in Qizhou has almost been built, and the pharmaceutical factory has also been repaired in a rough appearance, just waiting for the Li family in Qizhou to move over, and they can start developing pills and powders.

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