Chapter 35 Rebuilding the Homeland and Increasing the Population

The heavy rain stopped after three days, but the flood raged for another five days, Zhang Zhong was finally tired, but fortunately, there was no danger to his life, lying there and falling asleep, no one would disturb him.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also lost weight, the two of them had just woken up, eating and drinking there, putting the roasted meat in their mouths and chewing, and there was wine next to them, and they drank a small sip from time to time.

There are now more than 20,000 people living on the land of the entire wooden platoon, in addition to the people of the state, there are also people from other states rushing over, as well as the mountain people on the mountain, the mountain people are not so xenophobic at this time, they know who saved them, and they have also helped to do some work in the past few days.

The sun came out, the clouds finally cleared, and when the first rays of sunlight came down, there were bereaved whispers crying, some people were silent, and some people were sitting there looking at the surrounding scenery in a daze.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were full, standing on top of the wooden raft, looking up at the sun, Zhang Xiaobao shouted, "We survived, wait for the water to recede, start building our new home, the Zhang family pays the money, and those who are willing to stay can get a piece of land here." ”

When he shouted, the local people became happy, and those who were rescued from outside also temporarily let go of their grief, after all, they were still alive, they couldn't beg others to give happiness, and there was a new life in the past.

Most of the people are willing to stay, and some individuals want to go home and see if there is anyone, if there is any, find this place, if not, pack up the things worth remembering and come back.

The mountain people didn't know what to do at this time, they didn't understand the language here, and there were only a few people in each tribe who could speak this language.

Seeing that the people here are ready to rebuild, think about the days on the mountain, and some mountain people also want to stay, but they are afraid that the people here will not agree.

According to the tribe, these mountain people got together and began to discuss, in a few days, they already knew that the mountain people who came down the mountain would get a lot of things for the first time, after some discussion, someone who could talk found Zhang Zhong, Zhang Zhong was still asleep, and was shouted by the mountain people, ****** his eyes, and his face was full of puzzlement.

"My lord, we are going to stay, and there are people on the mountain who have not been washed down will also be asked to find them, will my lord regret giving those things? And we don't know how to farm, can adults send someone to teach us? ”

The mountain man asked Zhang Zhong, Zhang Zhong was sober now, and when he heard the mountain people say that they were willing to go down the mountain, he nodded, "This is natural, but I can't give you those now, I can wait for it to be transported from elsewhere, you can also see it, there is nothing here, everyone must hold on."

Don't worry about farming, there are many vacant lands in this state, not only will they send people to teach you how to farm, but they will also teach you to speak the words here, recognize the words here, and you don't have to pay any taxes this year, so live here. ”

"Thank you, my lord, I'll tell them to go, it's okay to give less things first, as long as we can eat, let's not have so much first, adults can really teach us mountain people to read? Everyone else looks down on us. ”

The mountain people looked very happy.

"It's not the mountain people, it's all the people under the rule of the official, go and say it, it'll be good then, this time next year, the official guarantees that you all have a new house to live in, every family can wear new clothes, and you can eat meat every day, for a year, as long as you give the official a year, the official can do it."

Zhang Zhong promised that he had this confidence, others could not do it, and his family would ask for money and goods by themselves, and it would be very easy to build a new place.

The mountain people happily left and returned to the clan to tell others, other mountain people also came over one after another, Zhang Zhong repeated what he had just said, and answered the mountain people one by one, and then ate the rice that was served, very simple, braised pork rice bowl, and a little pickles, Zhang Zhong ate very fragrantly, and solved a major matter.

Then look at the slightly higher ground next to it, the traces left after the water recedes, and said to the person next to him: "Now there is fertility, first plant the rice brought by my family, see how it grows here, and then plant the white stacks, as long as the white stacks grow, there is no need to worry about money here." ”

"What the master said is that there will be people who are willing to spend a lot of money to buy the things made by Bai Diezi, and the rare things are expensive, and the sea fish here are made into salted dried fish and transported by big ships, which can be sold at a good price, and there are fish to eat and be used as salt."

Zhang Zhong and the people on the other side echoed him, full of yearning for the future here.

They are stable here, just waiting for the water to recede, and then the construction will begin, but the surrounding states do not have such a good mood, one by one the history of the assassination of the state encountered disasters written out, even with a copy of the excerpt of the guilt sent up, the military post fast horse, it will not take too long to have the above documents come back, whether it is dead or alive depends on the emperor's meaning.

Zhang Zhong also wrote an excerpt here, but he didn't ask for guilt, he didn't think he was guilty, he had just arrived at the place, and before he could do anything, the big water came, if he was given half a year, he would definitely repair the water conservancy.

Only the disaster situation here is written, and at the same time, the preparations for this time are written into the excerpts, the entire state, after a big flood for the registered people, statistics, only one hundred and twenty-one people died, and the missing ones are considered dead, and the *** range search under his command has not been seen, and there is basically no possibility of survival.

Washed into the sea, even if he didn't drown, he would die of dehydration, and even be eaten by some fish, this loss made him very sad, but there was no way, he did what he should do.

There was no less loss at home, 18 big ships were broken 12, fortunately they did not sink, they were all stranded, some of them went into a lot of water, which hit the reef, and some were stranded on the beach, this is easy to do, let people get into the water.

The money lent out and the materials paid in installments in the early stage could not be recovered, and a lot of things on the ship were consumed.

If you are an ordinary person, the rich family will have gone crazy a long time ago, but the people of Zhang Wang's family are indifferent, and the loss is not good, but it has not touched the foundation of the family, and the money-making business is on the side of the capital.

The reaction of the two families made Liu Shaoqing and the four of them very frustrated, they hoped to die more people, but they only died more than a hundred, they hoped that the Zhang and Wang families would be sad for the loss of money, but the two families did not react, as if the loss was not tens of thousands of yuan, just a few pennies.

What makes them even more uncomfortable is that all the money in the family is gone, and they still owe a lot of debts, at least 3,000 yuan, and more than 4,000 yuan, how can this be repaid? It seems that it can only be repaid slowly from Yongye Field, and there is still the money that should be given, Zhang Zhong said, leaving only the money that will be able to feed and dress their families, and the rest will be collected from the debt.

As for the subordinates in the family, they can be dismissed, go outside to do some work, support themselves, and see if they can show off their power as they did at the beginning.

The four of them didn't dare to say anything, now is not the time when they threatened to assassinate Shi with their lives, they are in danger of their lives now, no matter what Zhang Zhong said, they all nodded and agreed.

After another two days, the water receded, and all the wooden rafts fell to the ground, Zhang Zhong began to get busy, and let the wooden rafts be dismantled, and some big trees washed down, and began to build houses, and the ground only needed to be plowed a little, and the rice seedlings and cotton seedlings sent out by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were planted.

Li Xun was also busy, first wrote a letter to his father to report safety, and then assigned 150 guards to help, leaving only 50 people responsible for the safety of himself and Zhang Wang's family.

Just after a few days of busyness, the second batch of ten ships sent out from the capital also arrived at the place, and when they came, they didn't know what was going on here, they didn't contain any grain, but some handmade products and cloth from there, and some frozen mutton.

There is still some grain in the local area, and the big ships that can move have gone along the sea to the places of Zhejiang and Hangzhou, ready to go there to buy grain, and the mutton of the new ships has become a good thing here, and the handmade products can also be used, and the cloth is used to make tents.

A big flood, so that other states suffered heavy losses, so that the population of Luzhou increased to more than 20,000 people, a part of the sea to dry salt, this speed is fast, those who are responsible for drying salt for the first time have seen such a method, as long as digging some pools, what is dry, there are crystallization, you can produce a large amount of salt.

One by one, knowing that they can quickly make a large amount of salt, they are more confident in the future, and if they have salt, they will have money.

This matter could not be kept secret, and the nearby Lianzhou and Sumao Prefectures and Xin'an Prefecture further west also discovered this matter, and sent people over to inquire one by one in surprise.

Zhang Zhong received people from several states and told the people of several states in detail the method of drying salt, and he himself had already written this method into an excerpt and sent it to him.

"Xiaobao, it seems that many plans are going to be postponed, and there is a big flood at this time, wait for us for a few months, and it will be stable at that time, really." Wang Juan put the plan she and Zhang Xiaobao had prepared on the table and said sullenly.

A big flood disrupted the rhythm of the two people, and there were dead people, which is difficult to accept in this kind of thing.

Zhang Xiaobao was also depressed, don't look at the delay of only a few months, but on the whole it will be delayed more, especially the construction of the wharf, which needs to be started from scratch, and the dock is naturally the same, everyone is repairing houses and farming, how can there be time to build a dock.

"I've also been recognized for a little delay, but several states have been affected at the same time, and our goods are not easy to sell, so how can we have spare money to buy goods from the capital? After a while, people will form a large number of caravans, and if they can't be sold, we will buy them hard, and the consumption will always be good, right?

After buying the things here, they will be transported to the capital to sell, and some can also be sold in Kaifeng, and the surrounding states will be able to develop fast if they have money? ”

Zhang Xiaobao made up his mind, and this time he had to lay out a lot of money, which was too different from the original planned rate of return.