Someone saw Li Tu coming, and quickly stood up and pulled the corner of Lu Dingzhou's clothes and asked him not to say anything more. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lu Dingzhou saw that everyone nearby stood up, and then realized that Li Tu was coming, so he quickly jumped up, turned around and raised his wine glass, and said to Li Tu: "Big boss, drink!" ”

Xu San, who followed behind Li Tu, scolded loudly: "Wu Na man, what are you talking about here? Are you the owner of the ship's account? ”

That Lu Dingzhou was not afraid of Xu San, and said to Xu San's gaze: "The account of the Son of Heaven can be counted by the corporal of the world, let alone a foreign master?" ”

Xu San was hit by this young man, and his face was flushed with anger. But what Lu Dingzhou said was a big truth, where could Xu San, a rough person who practiced martial arts, talk about him? For a moment he was speechless.

Li Tu looked at the peasants sitting in a circle and asked loudly: "After the new fields are reclaimed, each person will have a harvest of at least 30 stones for 15 mu, and I will take 15 stone land rent, and each person can also leave more than 15 stone of income." How are these days compared to your previous lives? ”

The peasants nodded their heads and said, "It's much better than our old days!" ”

"I used to share three acres of land, and I had to pay four stones of land rent a year, and I had three stones left, and I couldn't eat enough!"

"My family of three occupies six acres of land, half of the grain has to be rented, and I am hungry for several months every year!"

Li Tu said lightly: "I took you across the sea, gave you silver as wages and commanded you to reclaim, who will the final paddy fields belong to?" ”

The peasants were a little nervous when asked by Li Tu, and they all said, "To the big leader!" ”

"We just did what the big boss commanded, and the fields that came out should be the big boss's!"

Li Tu said to the peasants: "Follow me honestly and cultivate, and you will have a good life." After a pause, Li Tu said fiercely: "If there is a disturbance with different intentions, I, Li Tu, will not be polite!" ”

Those peasants knew how ruthless the strongmen who walked the sea were, and when they heard Li Tu's last words, they all knelt down in fright.

Li Tu looked at Lu Dingzhou, stopped talking, and left with Xu San.

Lu Dingzhou looked at the peasants kneeling on the ground, secretly bored, and walked to another circle of peasants with a wine glass and sat down.

Once the organizational structure is smoothed, it is time to start construction. In order to improve the sanitary conditions and prevent diseases, the first thing Li Tu wanted to build was a toilet. It took him two days to build 20 large latrines, each with a large septic tank dug behind each toilet, carved out of a large clearing in the forest below the hill, far from the residential area. Septic tanks can convert perishable feces into stable cooked mud and prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases.

Li Tu also stipulated that everyone should go to the river to bathe every day. Even if you don't have soapy body wash, wipe your body with a towel to wash away mud and sweat.

After all, the tent could not be used for a long time, and after the toilet was built, Li Tu began to organize the construction of collective dormitories.

The relationship between himself and these peasants as defined by Li Tu is that of feudal lords and tenant farmers. Li Tu did not provide housing for these farmers, but only provided transitional collective dormitories for the first year. By the second and third years, the peasants should go out and build their own houses in the fields. Therefore, Li Tu's collective dormitory is not ready to be repaired in a luxurious and proper manner. Li Tu's plan is to have a room for eight people. Each room has four bunk beds and can accommodate up to eight people. 2,000 people, a total of 250 dormitories were built.

Although the conditions of a room for eight people are not good, it is better than the thatched huts of the tenant farmers.

Of the 2,000 people, there were more than 100 carpenters, and Li Tu assigned these people to various groups as assistants to the team leader, directing the peasants to build dormitories.

During the period of land reclamation and house building, Li Tu gave these peasants a month's remuneration of five dollars of silver each. For these poor tenant farmers, this was already a high remuneration. He built his own house and cultivated his own land, and Li Tu also provided white rice to eat, and the peasants worked very hard.

Some people are lazy and slippery, and the team leader calls them out directly, whipping them out.

Under the command of the carpenter, the laborers went into the woods in search of good timber such as cypress, cut down and dragged it. Then a site was selected on the hill to build the house, the land was tamped, and the cypress wood was placed in the compacted foundation soil as a pile foundation. On the basis of these piles, the carpenters were able to build wooden walls and tile roofs. Ordinary timber was everywhere in the nearby woods, and laborers cut it down one by one and piled it up like a hill next to the construction site.

In ten days, the laborers had cut enough timber for the construction of the house, and then the carpenters turned it into beams and planks, which were loaded on piles to build the house.

At the same time as clearing the wasteland, Li Tu also built a blacksmith shop on a hill in Deyuan City.

As early as mid-March, Li Tu contacted Zhou Pingde, a thousand households in Liuao, and spent fifty taels of silver to introduce him to thirty craftsmen who could make birds.

In the Ming Dynasty, the craftsman household was hereditary, belonging to the Ministry of Industry, divided into two categories: shift craftsmen and resident craftsmen. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that shift craftsmen should take turns to serve in official workshops every one year or five years, with an average of three months per shift. Resident craftsmen serve in official workshops for ten days a month. However, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the artisan household system had collapsed, and the artisan household only needed to pay silver money to be exempt from service. Each shift craftsman pays four and five cents of "squad craftsman silver" every year, and the resident craftsman must pay one silver per month and hire another person by the government. As long as the money is paid, the craftsman is free.

Li Tuxu hired these thirty craftsmen at a price of twenty taels a year and brought them to Deyuan City. Together with the arquebus craftsman recruited from Japan, Li Tu had thirty-one craftsmen. All the tools and movable equipment of these thirty-one craftsmen were moved by Li Tu to Deyuan City, and a blacksmith shop for making rifles was established on the hill of Deyuan City.

During the Warring States period of Japan, wars were frequent, and the princes attached great importance to the manufacture of weapons, and the level of arquebus craftsmen was higher than that of the Ming craftsmen. Li Tu asked Genjiro Matsuda, a craftsman hired by Japan, to be the head craftsman and was responsible for instructing the other thirty craftsmen.

By mid-April, the furnace equipment for the blacksmith had been built, and Li Tu had the craftsmen start making arquebuses. Li Tu and Matsuda Genjiro originally agreed that the honorarium would be fifty taels a year, and that the other craftsmen would be twenty taels and one year, but now Li Tu had reduced their fixed honorarium to forty taels and ten taels respectively. For each qualified arquebus, the maker received a floating honorarfee of one tael of silver, and the head craftsman Genjiro Matsuda received a floating honorarity of three pieces of silver.

Instructing his apprentices to make guns is also good for Genjiro Matsuda, if he carefully guides each craftsman to make a qualified rifle every month, he will have a bonus of one hundred and eighty taels a year, which is very considerable. On the other hand, Li Tu said that if Genjiro Matsuda did not teach others well, and if the arquebuses made by the craftsmen did not pass for several months, Li Tu dismissed Genjiro Matsuda and hired someone else.

Under coercion and temptation, Genjiro Matsuda did not dare to hide his secrets