Shaking his head, Xue Yiming said again: "In the past six months, the peasants have had an income of more than fifteen taels, and they are all rich, which is very different. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" paused, Xue Yiming said again: "However, there are no overseas traders here in Deyuan City, and there is a shortage of all kinds of materials, and the farmers have nowhere to exchange rice for things." I couldn't finish eating, and the rice was hidden in the newly built empty dormitory. ”

Li Tu nodded and said to Xue Yiming: "Now that there is a surplus of grain, farmers can be encouraged to develop breeding and winemaking." There was no room on the hill, so they went down the hill to the edge of the field to build a house. Now that there is food, farmers can do more things and no longer need to be crammed into collective dormitories. ”

Xue Yiming spread his hands and said: "There are no bricks and lime to build the house, just wait for the owner of the ship to come back and sell some from Zhangzhou." Even the white salt that was shipped last year is almost finished. ”

Li Tu smiled and said, "It's really a waste to be revived!" ”

Xue Yiming twisted his beard and said with a smile: "What the owner said is extremely true! ”

Farewell to Xue Yiming, Li Tu found Xu San again. The Selector Battalion is training in a queue on a school field at the foot of the mountain. Xu San saw Li Tu riding over on horseback, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"The owner is back!"

Riding on his horse, Li Tu pointed to the soldiers who were training and said, "Let them walk through the queue and show me." ”

Xu San said "Okay", walked up to those soldiers, and said loudly: "Advance the queue, walk in unison!" ”

When the soldiers who were standing in a row heard this, they immediately changed their formation into a rectangular formation of five columns and twenty horizontals, carrying Minnie rifles, and marched on the school grounds. The procession was very neat, and all the soldiers raised their hands and feet at the same time, and it was very pleasing to the eye to look at from a distance.

Li Tu asked again: "How is the shooting?" ”

Xu San replied proudly: "Three hundred steps, ten percent of the target." Ninety out of five are above the eight rings! ”

Li Tu smiled: "With such a team, you are not afraid of life!" ”

Xu San waved his hand and said, "Even if it is a thousand lifetimes, I can beat them to the ground." ”

"How's the morale?"

When Xu San heard this, he smiled awkwardly and said, "The morale is not very good!" Nowadays, the peasants' harvest is too high, and the salary of 15 taels of silver in the Fengying camp is really low, and only half of the peasants' income. There were many people in the team who talked about it, but after all, the peasants had only rice and had not received the money, and the soldiers were all quietly talking, and no one had said it. ”

Li Tu nodded and stopped talking. In the middle of the ring, the queue of the Xuanfeng battalion ended its march and stayed in front of Li Tu. Li Tu waved his horsewhip and said loudly: "Soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion, hello! ”

The hundred soldiers lined up in front of Li Tuma and replied in a loud voice: "Governor! ”

Li Tu shouted again: "The training of the Xuanfeng Battalion this year is good, and it is very imposing. I declare that the salary of the Election Camp has been increased from 15 taels a year to 30 taels. ”

Hearing this, the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion were overjoyed, but after a year of training, these soldiers were very disciplined, and they did not have any celebratory movements, and they all maintained a standing posture one by one, shouting happily:

"Thank you, Governor!"

"Thank you, Grand Duke!"

Seeing this, Li Tu praised: "Yes, disciplined!" ”

Seeing that Xuan Feng Camp was competing, Xu San laughed proudly.

After inspecting the situation in Deyuan City in all aspects, Li Tu started a fleet of ships, transported the collected land rent back to Zhangzhou for sale, and at the same time purchased surplus grain from the peasants at the price of nine coins and one stone. These grains were transported to Zhangzhou and sold to grain merchants, and they could be sold for a price of one tael of silver and one stone, and Li Tu made a small profit from the price difference in the middle. Last year, the difference between the land rent and the half-year harvest sales price made Li Tu a profit of 17,000 taels.

While transporting grain, Li Tu began to recruit a new batch of farmers who had cleared the wasteland. With the accumulation of the previous group of peasants, Li Tu did not need to send the crew to talk about it. He brought 100 peasants from Deyuan City and asked them to describe their good life to the peasants in various villages and towns in Zhangpu County.

After these peasants sold their surplus grain to Li Tu, they all had a deposit of more than a dozen taels of silver. Li Tu took them to the county seat of Zhangpu County, and asked them to make a few new clothes one by one, and then they returned to their hometown. Dressed in new clothes and with a sturdy figure, the landsettlers returned to their hometowns and immediately caused a sensation.

In this era, the low-level tenant farmers in Zhangzhou, because of the few tenant fields, the harvest was thin, and there were few people to eat, and they were all very thin and had vegetables. Compared with these low-level tenant farmers, Li Tu's farmers who have eaten enough for a year are much stronger.

In front of the elders in their hometowns, the farmers who had lived a good life told them about the situation in Deyuan City. There is no need to brag and exaggerate, the real situation in Deyuan City is enough to make the faces of the farmers who have opened up the wasteland bright.

Li Tu was in command in Qianting Town, and he also took the time to go to the nearby Hualin Village to see the appearance of a farmer who cleared the wasteland.

When Li Tu walked to the courtyard of the patriarch of Hualin Village, several nearby villages rushed over to see that the lively poor people had already surrounded the courtyard three floors inside and three layers outside. Li Tu finally squeezed in, and saw the farmer in new clothes standing triumphantly in the middle of the courtyard, and said to the poor people around him: "Fifteen acres of fields per person are the fattest fields near the river. Coupled with the ashes of the plants and trees burned by burning the woods, three stones of grain can be harvested in a year, one stone of land rent is paid, and there are more than two stones left. Eat white rice every day and eat as much as you want! Sell the extra grain to the acting mayor, and there will be 30 taels of silver for 15 acres of land. ”

Hearing this, the onlookers gasped, and being able to eat enough was enough to make people's hearts move. The annual income of thirty taels of silver is even more shocking, some people have never seen so much money in their lives, and the farmers who go to open up the wasteland earn it in a year.

"Really, no?"

"It's like pie in the sky!"

"Zhang Qun, don't lie to us, how can there be such a good thing?"

The farmer called Zhang Qun heard the peasants' discussion and said loudly: "What am I lying to you about? You see how skinny I was last year, skinny. Over the past year, I have grown more than ten catties of meat, can this be a lie to you? ”

Those people looked at Zhang Qun carefully, and they all felt that he had indeed grown stronger. The people pondered in their hearts and said no more.

Touching it in his arms, the chapter group took out five taels of silver and showed it off like a show.

These tenant farmers in Zhangpu County are good to have enough to eat at the end of the year, where can they have silver deposits? Seeing the five taels of silver, some women and girls showed envious expressions. Seeing the girls' expressions, Na Zhangqun was even more proud, and said with a smile: "It's not that I lied to you, you must know that Xiaoliuqiu Island is full of wasteland, and you can find a fertile place to grow good fields." This is a person with limited labor can only plant 15 acres of paddy fields, if it can be varied, 30 acres are available. ”

A voice came out of the crowd of onlookers: "I heard that there are wild people in Xiaoliuqiu, they are very vicious, and they are not easy to deal with!" ”

That chapter group laughed a few times, and then said: "The Dadu Governor who took us to open up the wasteland has a divine army, which is like killing wild people and pigs. Last time the savages came to harass, the Divine Soldiers killed hundreds of savages at a time, where are you afraid of them? ”

"Is the Metropolitan Governor vicious?"

"As long as you pay the rent on time and don't make trouble, most of the governors will not commit any crimes."

Hearing this, the onlookers relaxed and signed up to participate in the reclamation.

With these peasants showing up to say, there is no need for Li Tu to publicize it, and the number of people who signed up for the second batch of land reclamation has reached more than 20,000.