Chapter 14 News

"Pillar, are you happy?" Wan Qiyang watched the smile keep crawling on his face, and at the same time, he was also infected by the natural and simple smile of the pillar. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just a few hours after coming to the Ming Dynasty, Wan Qiyang finally had a place he was more familiar with, which was Majiabao. The pillar took him to visit the entire range of Majiabao, and many of them greeted the pillar, and everyone still had a very harmonious and cordial atmosphere, but in addition to the smile, almost all of them had malnourished earthy yellow faces, so the Chinese have always been called yellow-skinned! Hahaha, Wan Qiyang is joking himself.

The whole Majiapu has a population of about 200, but it still covers an area of nearly 300 acres of farmland, so in addition to a few village houses, it is almost surrounded by fields, and the three villages have two roads in front of the village and one behind to enter the village, and the road in front of the village entrance should be a little wider, that is, you can directly go to the road of Uncle Ma's house.

Wan Qiyang looked at the yellowed ears of wheat around him, it was harvest time in a few days, and the solar term of 'mango seeding' was almost coming, and a new round of sowing was about to begin, so basically this time was a busy time for farming.

"Big brother, thank you so much, since you came to the house, I have seen my mother and grandmother have smiles on their faces. And...."When the pillar said this, he thought of his life's event, and couldn't help but giggle again.

"Zhuzi, since you are about to get married, it also means that now you will also become an adult, and you should also have to carry down many things at home, and if you can't do some things, you can ask your father and your mother, and I can ask me at home. You know? Where is the family field? Take me to see it. Wan Qiyang asked the pillar to take him to take a look at the family's crops and see how this year's harvest was!

The two began to walk back, and after a while, they came to the ridge of a field, and the pillar pointed to a piece of land in front of them, "Big brother, you see that this piece and a small piece on the left are all fields in our family." "Wan Qiyang looks a little more than five acres, but it looks like the ears of wheat are not very full, and they are obviously a little sparse, and it seems that this year's harvest is not ideal.

"Pillar, you're usually doing farm work, aren't you?"

"Yes, at home, my mother and I can grow some food in the field. But the family still has to rely on the money that his father brought back from the city to fill his stomach, and it is certainly not enough to rely on the harvest in this field. ”

"Then why can't the crops grow well this year?!"

"Alas, there hasn't been a rain for more than a month, so it's like this now, my mother is worried that there will be a drought next year, and I heard the old man say that the drought will be for several years."

The pillar also sensed that the harvest must not be good, and was also in a state of worry.

Wan Qiyang knows that now the peasants' crops are all dependent on God, and they can only starve their stomachs in case of disasters, of course, powerful people can't starve. Unlike modern society, when there is a drought, artificial rainfall can be made, and then there will be chemical fertilizer to increase production, in the Ming Dynasty, it can only be resigned to fate, everything is so dependent on nature! Of course, two years in history are really droughts, and they have been like this for several years in a row, so the biggest reason for the change of dynasties in history is nothing more than natural disasters and man-made disasters.

"Can you grow some vegetables and fruit trees?" Wan Qiyang asked suddenly.

"Huh? Big brother, why do you still grow those things if you don't grow enough food? "Zhuzi felt too strange about Wan Qiyang's question, didn't he even know such an obvious answer?

"That's right, the people in society are basically self-sufficient, and growing their own vegetables is also a small piece of land, and they can eat enough for themselves, who will buy the vegetables you sell." Wan Qiyang thought about such a question in his heart, "At this stage, the agricultural role that has been transmitted to China from overseas has already included sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers, but they have not yet been popularized, and no one has eaten tomatoes and peppers at all. These must be collected first, and they may be used later. ”

"Alright pillar, let's go back." Wan Qiyang felt that it was almost past three o'clock in the afternoon, and Uncle Ma should also return home.

When the two returned home, they found that Uncle Ma was already sitting at the square table and thinking about something, and he was distracted for a while, and when he saw the two of them entering the house, he raised his head suddenly, "You guys are back!" Yangzai, you're familiar with the village everywhere, right!? ”

Wan Qiyang also had some questions to ask Uncle Ma at this time, so he sat down on the bench at the square table, "Uncle Ma, how is the situation outside?" Is there any good news? ”

"Zhuzi, go and help your mother, I have something to talk about with your eldest brother." Uncle Ma still branched out the pillar, turned around and said to Wan Qiyang: "I inquired around, there is a family in the next village who returned home after noon, I heard that it is also not too far from the center of the explosion, at that time because he was working in a cellar, escaped a catastrophe, and it took some effort and time to come out of the cellar, so he went home late, but the situation he said was still relatively bad, there were many dead and injured people, the northwest direction of the city was seriously damaged, and several other city gates were still not affected, Because there was already a garrison near Wang Gong's factory, the explosion had to be inspected and maintained by troops from other places. Therefore, the city is still relatively chaotic, and I am afraid that there is no good news, but there are some royal relatives and nobles living in the city who are scared half to death. Uncle Ma didn't get any clear news, Wan Qiyang felt that it was better to go to the capital in person to see the specific situation, he knew that in two days, the current emperor Zhu Youxiao couldn't stand the passion of the ministers, and asked Emperor Xizong Kuang to correct the disadvantages of the times and revitalize the dynasty. The emperor saw that the crowd was angry, and the matter was both mysterious and terrifying, so he had to issue an "edict of guilt", saying that he would "wake up painfully", and warned his ministers and workers to "do everything they can, and reflect on it", hoping that this can make the Ming Dynasty stable for a long time, "everything will be eliminated", and he also ordered to allocate 10,000 taels of gold from the treasury to relieve the victims. As for whether the gold has been issued, or whether it has been appropriated and embezzled by some officials, it is impossible to do so.

"Uncle Ma, since this is the case, I think it is still necessary to go to the capital, it is better to know what is going on as soon as possible, my opinion is that I will go first by myself, you will wait for my news at home, rest assured that I am so old, I am measured, in addition, Mr. Fu will definitely get the news early tomorrow." I heard the pillar say, since their family moved from other places so there is no land, you think it is better for me to go and get this done, and then book the family affairs first, anyway, this time is the season of busy farming, the two families help each other, and then I may have some things that will trouble everyone. Wan Qiyang mainly thought that now he must build a solid foundation of his own. What is that, of course, requires a certain amount of capital - money! Take advantage of the current chaos, it's better to go out and make some money, otherwise the time in the future will not be enough at all, and now I really realize that time is money.

"What? Yangzai, are you going to go into the city? It's too dangerous! Can we go together in a few days? Uncle Ma is still very worried, Wan Qiyang will go to the capital alone.

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