After talking about family life for a while, it was almost dusk, and the Huang Mansion was happily cooking, Huang's wife personally went to the stove to make some acacia cakes for Huang Yucheng, and after Huang Yucheng ate a full meal, he changed into a robe, took his son's hand, and walked to his own field. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There were a lot of idlers along the way, and many people came to greet Huang Yucheng, a talented showman.

Huang Yucheng found that most of the families were women and children, the old and weak, and there were very few adult men, even if they were teenagers and children, many of them lived in Li Zhuang or Tianchengwei's schools, and did not live at home.

Everyone walked to the courtyard outside the village, and when they saw that Huang Yucheng was a little confused, everyone in the village said: "Xianggong doesn't know, I'm going to the threshing floor to watch a shadow puppet show." ”

So that's the case, Huang Yucheng was relieved when he heard this, but the child in his hand was excited when he heard it, shouting to watch.

"Don't worry, I haven't played the gong yet." Huang Yucheng said a little dotingly: "Accompany me to the field first, and then take you to the play, if there are snacks and snacks for sale, as long as you are obedient, I will buy you some later." ”

Since the levy of Liao, the life of the small and medium-sized landlords and Xiucai students is also more difficult, the imperial court is anxious, and what is brought up after the levy of Liaoyu is the local layer of additional levy, because of the heavy enslavement, the economic exemption of the Xiucai students has also weakened a lot, the salary and the addition, as well as natural disasters, not only the people are inevitably struggling to survive, even the small and medium-sized landlords also have a lot of bankruptcy, especially in the northwest and more than ten years later in Henan, are the same.

Huang Yucheng's life was also more difficult before, the production was reduced every year, the yellow list and the white list were urged, he had to sell some antiques and furniture at home, barely supported, fortunately he didn't keep confused, not to mention the increase in the production of his own acres after following Kong Minxing, he could also get a salary from the agriculture and forestry department of the Military and Political Department, his monthly salary is not low, after all, he has been following Kong Minxing's side, learning quickly, and can already independently guide the work of reclamation, the monthly salary is similar to Huang Yu'an, and he can get more than 100 taels a year, It is equivalent to a grain income of a few hundred stones, which is already very good.

The growth of acres of land, coupled with the cash income, Huang Yucheng's confidence has greatly increased, and he is confident that after the completion of the Zhengfu and miscellaneous factions, there will still be a lot of surplus, otherwise, even if he loves his son, he will not be willing to spend money at will, after all, the burden before is too heavy.

"Well, that's pretty good." Huang Yucheng squatted in his own field, carefully inspected the field, and found that most of the wheat ears were very full, the wheat stalk was not very high, it was a good seed selected by Kong Minxing on the basis of one million acres, the wheat stalk was lower, more drought tolerant, and the yield was higher.

Of course, the real low-stem wheat seed is not so easy to find, it needs to be continuously hybridized and cultivated the day after tomorrow, only the later generations have this strength to cultivate the real good seed, the high yield can reach more than 1,000 catties per mu, that is, the yield per mu of more than ten stones, drought resistance, cold resistance, low stem, disease resistance, of course, the modern industrial production of pesticides and fertilizers, even so, the later generations of improved varieties will also face many problems such as degradation, the need for continuous replacement and improvement, Kong Minxing's selection, is nothing more than to select the best in a variety of samples, It is a relatively simple and primitive method, even so, it has brought earth-shaking changes to the yield per mu in many places, plus the people of this era serve the crops much more finely than the later generations, cultivate soil and accumulate fertilizer, carefully serve, Huang Yucheng feels that the yield per mu is four stones, that is, about 500 catties of harvest is still there, which makes him feel very satisfied.

The sky is a little dark, there is a faint ghost fire floating in the distant field, the weather is warm, the field can already hear the sound of insects, a small group of fireflies flying in the air, at this time there is a gong sound from the big drying field at the entrance of the village, Huang Yu'an saw that his son's face was full of anxiety, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go to the play." ”

At this time, his son suddenly tightened Huang Yucheng's hands, and said a little nervously: "Dad, there are many people at the entrance of the village. ”

Huang Yucheng held a lantern in his hand to spare, then he lit it unhurriedly, he wore a straight knife, this is an excellent weapon from Yusheng, the iron quality is good, the forging is excellent, the edge is incomparable, Huang Yucheng has undergone strict military training, with this straight knife in hand, the ordinary three or five strong men are afraid that they are not opponents, after being reminded by his son, he used a fire sickle to light the silk lantern, the left hand held the lamp, the right hand pressed on the straight knife, and told his son to stand away from it, if there is something wrong, he will detour back to the village to call people.

There are dozens of people in front of the shadow, generally speaking, at this time there are few people passing by at the entrance of the village, and occasionally there are people who go out to rush back, at most one or two to three or five people, and it is also a rare situation, like this kind of dozens of people come at once, it is very rare.

"Alas, it's the outcasts, and sure enough, they've arrived."

Huang Yucheng sighed with emotion, under the candlelight of the lantern was indeed a group of people with withered faces and extremely miserable expressions, most of them were small units with families, and then formed a team of dozens or even hundreds of people with villages or clans, and then came out to beg for food along the way, with a humble and lowly attitude, begging for a chance for the whole family to live, under normal circumstances, the government and the gentry from all over the country will try to help them, because the careless handling of a large number of displaced people, provoking a civil uprising may be a catastrophe for the erosion of the prefecture and county.

The ulcer of the Ming Dynasty was that the Henan refugees gathered in the Xunyang Mountain, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and they could only be bandits and thieves, when it was still the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court had no effective way to set up Xunyang thieves, whether it was to set up Xunyang Governor and Xunyang Town, it was useless to strengthen military strength, and finally fell on the road of appeasement.

Therefore, as soon as the displaced people arrived, the local government was like a great enemy, while mobilizing large households to give porridge and medicine to help as much as possible, and on the other hand, they also negotiated with the displaced people to make them leave as soon as possible, as long as they left the country, no matter what, it had nothing to do with themselves.

Of course, the head of the government on Li Zhuang's side is Zhang Han, who has the post of commander of the palm seal of the two guards and the guard of the Acropolis, no matter what, Huang Yucheng feels that these homeless people have really settled here, and they are much stronger than going to other places.

"Don't make trouble, and don't be in a hurry." Huang Yucheng approached a little closer, and said to a few men among the displaced people with vigilant eyes in their eyes: "It's too late tonight, you will stay overnight, tomorrow morning I will discuss with a few big families in the village, and together we will make some rice to make porridge, and when it comes to noon, the military secretary will come, and we will not care about your affairs." ”

"Ask this lord, is the military secretary He Yusheng?" An old homeless man with a thick northern Shaanxi accent, Huang Yucheng could hardly hear what he said, but he finally understood what the old man meant.

"That's right." Huang Yucheng nodded affirmatively and said, "It's He Yusheng." ”

"That's it."

"It seems that I missed the Tiancheng Acropolis, but I still got to the land of He Yusheng."

"People who have come all the way have said that He Yusheng will not care, and the old man in front of him also said the same, it seems that the Lord Zhang of He Yusheng is really benevolent and virtuous."

"Alas, I'm tired, if only I could be taken in, I really don't want to go anymore."

There are constantly voices of happiness among the displaced people, there are the coughing and laughter of the elderly, the sighs of adults, the low sobs of women, the cries and cries of children, after these displaced people are relieved, they also take out the last of some reserves, and feed the hungry children to feed the hungry children, Huang Yucheng looked at them for a while, and saw that they were sitting in place at the entrance of the village, the weather was warm, these people may be in the wild, they have traveled thousands of miles, these things have long been used to it, and those who are not used to it and can't bear the hardships either did not come out, or they have died in the middle of the road.

Huang Yucheng led his son all the way to the threshing floor, the people over there heard the movement, and someone was planning to come over to check, Huang Yucheng said the reason, and said to everyone: "Tomorrow morning, each family will prepare a pot stove and cook some porridge for others." ”

"It's nature." Most of the people in the village are from the Huang clan, and there are also a few foreign surnames, and everyone is saying: "When anyone is not in trouble, we will all get up and help tomorrow morning." ”

Huang Yucheng nodded lightly, he is not the patriarch in the clan, but his status is higher than that of the patriarch, after all, he is a showman, and he also shelters many families and acres of land in the clan, his status was higher in the past, and he has dropped a lot after he Yusheng, which is also the reason why he was full of opinions about He Yusheng before.

"Okay, let's listen to the drama first." Huang Yucheng bought some jelly beans for his son, which was considered to have fulfilled his promise to his son, watching the boy eat with relish, and went to the courtyard to play with some other children, Huang Yucheng smiled slightly, someone in the front row had already given him a seat, Huang Yucheng thanked the man, but the clansman was shocked.

After Huang Yucheng sat down, the clansman who gave up his seat whispered: "Xianggong followed He Yusheng for half a year this time, and people seem to have changed a lot." ”

"Indeed." Another said: "In the past, he was not bad at treating people, after all, he was taught by the saints, but when he looked at people, his chin was raised high, and he hummed out of his nose when he talked to people. ”

"Hey, my surname Huang is a small surname in Tianchengwei, and it is only great that he is a father-in-law, and now it seems that the future may not be worse than that of the Ma family."

"Exactly, my Huang family will definitely be able to prosper."

Huang Yucheng ignored the whispers behind him, he went out for half a year, and it was really hard, this time he went home for a five-day vacation, and then he had to go south for business, what he wanted to do at this time was to relax, and he didn't want to pay attention to other things.

After a while, the gongs and drums gradually became dense, the shadow puppet show began, this thing is the joy of the countryside, not like the city can have a serious troupe, the so-called Beijing opera in the Ming Dynasty has not yet taken shape, the most popular is of course Kunqu Opera, which is also related to the prosperity of the literary style in the south of the Yangtze River, the drama is to be scripted, because the status of the literati in the north and south is low, a large number of literati and ink writers can only use the spirit in the creation of scripts. The shadow puppet show in front of me is a slang story and tune of the northern folk, although it is regarded as a crude thing that is not elegant in the Shilin, but for the rural people and even a talent like Huang Yucheng, it is pleasant and pleasant, and it is a good thing to relieve boredom.