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On October 16, Wu Qingchao, Sangu and Li Jiacui also returned to Mizhi County.

Wu Fanhui's family affairs were finally settled, starting from Mizhi County on the first day of August, and it took more than two months to return to Mizhi County, Wang Hecui had been waiting for a little anxious, and the third aunt who returned to Mizhi County had not yet returned home, so she came directly to the house, and said a lot of good things about Miss Chen, and described in detail the situation of the Chen family's wealth, which made Wang Hecui basically feel at ease.

Wu Qingchao's impression of the Chen family is also very good, especially Wu Fanhui's future father-in-law, who is also an official of the imperial court, and is the magistrate of Beizhili, the patriarch of the Chen family, who has been an official in the capital for many years, and the Chen family style is very good.

Wu Fanhui didn't see Chen Yitong, so he didn't particularly care about Feng Xiangxing, he devoted all his energy to the adjustment of the Wu family's nursing home.

The total number of nursing homes reached 765, and the increase was 215 including Du Weinian from Qishan County.

When Wu Fanhui goes to the capital, he must bring people and horses to go, these people will not enter the capital for the time being, they will wait in the suburbs of Beijing, and when Wu Fanhui arranges everything, he will take these people to do errands.

Wu Fanhui will go to the capital with 315 guards, including Li Yong and more than 90 people under his command, more than 200 people from Qishan County, as well as Wang Baofu, Wang Decai, Ma Sanli and others, and the remaining 450 guards, staying in Ma'anshan Village, most of these people are locals, their families are in the local area, and if they are left in Ma'anshan Village, they will definitely be able to loyally protect the safety of the Wu family.

Among the four hundred and fifty people, the number of border troops is not much, no more than fifty people, in terms of combat effectiveness, the border army is still stronger than others, Wu Fanhui went to the capital, it is impossible to take away all the strong nursing homes, so there is a big problem with the security of Mizhi County, so these remaining border troops will become the absolute main force in the nursing homes.

Wu Fanhui planned to let Dai Nengxiang stay in Ma'anshan Village and be responsible for all matters in the village, the number of Wu family nurses was maintained at about 450 people, winter wheat had been planted, and the food in the village would no longer adopt a supply system.

The monthly salary of the nursing home is fixed at the level of two taels of silver, plus other expenses, it needs to consume about 1,000 taels of silver per month, and the existing silver in Ma'anshan Village is close to 80,000 taels, leaving 35,000 taels of silver, which can last for nearly three years.

Most of the war horses, Wu Fanhui will take away, the number of war horses left behind is not much, and the consumption is not very large, not to mention the Wu family's courtyard, there is no need for too many war horses.

Regarding the next development plan of Ma'anshan Village, Wu Fanhui made it clear that if you want the safety of Mizhi County, Shilipu and Ma'anshan Village, it is necessary to let the nearby villages also develop, so that the villagers can rely on the land to survive, at least not starvation, and the villagers will desperately protect their own food and property.

And this matter is what Dai Nengxiang needs to focus on in the next time.

When Wu Fanhui went to the capital, he would carry about 40,000 taels of silver, and the role of these silver was crucial.

Wu Fanhui himself still has close to three hundred taels of gold, after changing it to silver, all of them are left to the family, after all, the family's expenses have gradually increased, only relying on Wu Qingchao's five taels of silver per month, it is absolutely not enough, the more than three thousand taels of silver he left behind, plus the jewels he left before, are enough, and the family will not be short of silver for many years.

Wu Fanhui also told Dai Nengxiang and others that once he left Mizhi County and went to the capital, Ma'anshan Village encountered a major matter, and he could directly find Wu Mianqing, the patriarch of the Wu family, or find Wu Qingchao, and deal with it according to their requirements, but in general, Dai Nengxiang had to make a decision by himself.

The harsh training began on the day everyone returned to Ma'anshan Village, which was a tempering of the will and a test of discipline.

In the process, the cavalry team and the scout team were adjusted on a large scale, and more than 200 people in Qishan County were all incorporated into the cavalry team, and 30 people were selected from them to enter the scout team, and the number of scouts increased to 75.

The training of the scout team and the cavalry team is extremely hard, and the ability of the more than 200 people in Qishan County to endure hardships is also staggering to Wu Fanhui.

Wu Fanhui's family affairs were settled, and the third aunt came to the door again, this time talking about Wu Mingli's family affairs.

Wu Mingli is fourteen years old, the same age as Chen Yitong, according to the rules, this age can be married.

The Wu family is already a family of scholars, and Wu Mingli's family affairs have also been valued by the family.

Wu Fanhui is even more concerned about his sister's family affairs, he has no intention of confronting the rules of this era, if Wu Mingli has not married after the age of eighteen, it will suffer too many doubts, his parents can't raise his head, and the Wu family will also lose face, and at the age of fourteen, it is appropriate to wait for a few years to marry.

The family mentioned by the third aunt is the little son of the Sun family in Yan'an Fucheng, seventeen years old, and also the identity of a student, his father is a two-list jinshi in the Apocalypse, and now he is a magistrate in a county in Shanxi.

The family is suitable, and for this kind of boy who was born in the scholar family, Wu Fanhui is basically at ease, although there are also children of the scholar family, but the vast majority of the scholar family, the requirements for the children are very strict, especially those who have achieved the fame of scholars, the family hopes that these children can obtain greater fame through reading, can enter the court as officials, and continue the prosperity of the family.

As for why the Sun family of Yan'an Fucheng, which is more than 400 miles away, will come to Mizhi County to propose relatives, which has a great relationship with Wu Fanhui, the entire Yan'an Mansion, who does not know the Wu family in Mizhi County, the Wu family is the first champion of Yan'an, the champion fang has been built, and the surrounding Jiazhou, Shenmu, Fugu, Suide and Yan'an Fucheng have come to Mizhi County one after another, on the one hand, they came to visit Wu Fanhui who was on vacation at home, and on the other hand, they also came to worship the champion Fang, hoping to get joy, Achieve good results in the future imperial examinations.

In mid-November, the first snow fell in Mizhi County.

It has not snowed for a long time, Ruixue Zhaofeng year, from this point of view, Chongzhen's five-year year should not be too bad, at least it will not encounter too many extreme famines, this snow has relieved many villagers, winter wheat has been planted, a large number of farmers have begun to buy maize seeds for the coming year, and shrewd merchants have also purchased a large number of maize seeds from Xi'an Fucheng.

That is to say, such a situation occurs in Mizhi County, and the rest of the surrounding places are still desolate, and a large number of people have been lost, so that abandoned cultivated land abounds.

Dai Nengxiang has taken a part of the nursing home, began to visit the villages around Ma'anshan Village and Shilipu, there are a lot of households in Ma'anshan Village, even if the Wu family bought more than 500 acres of land nearby, but there are still many Zhuang households, you must know that each Zhuang family needs to cultivate at least five or even ten acres of arable land, in order to really maintain the family's expenses, and the harvested grain may have a partial surplus, even if it encounters a large-scale famine in a certain year, it can be maintained.

Many people in the nursing home have moved their families to Ma'anshan Village, Wu Fanhui did not object to this matter, and Dai Nengxiang did not stop it, but the land is obviously not enough.

The surrounding villages, there is also a large amount of abandoned cultivated land, the loss of population in Mizhi County is also huge, if it is not for Ma'anshan Village to stabilize the situation, it is estimated that the rest are some people in the county, so looking for cultivated land is not a complicated matter, the key is that these cultivated land are owned, this is also easy to do, Wu Mianqing, the patriarch of the Wu family, came forward and directly found the county government, and Zhu Tianlin, the county magistrate of the county government, came forward to coordinate.

A large part of the land in the nearby villages is owned by several major families in the county, among which the He family occupies a lot, which makes the coordination easier, and He Xianxuan, the patriarch of the He family, will not object.

On behalf of the Wu family, Wu Qingchao signed land lease agreements with many families, and 20% of the annual harvest of the land belongs to the landholder, and the remaining part is decided by the Wu family, and the landowner is not allowed to interfere.

In this way, nearly 5,000 acres of land in nearby villages, including the land around Shilipu, are all under the management of the Wu family, that is, Ma'anshan Village, and Dai Nengxiang and others have been busy for nearly a month, distributing all these lands to each villager, asking them to quickly produce winter wheat.

Because of the increase in land, the population that Ma'anshan Village can absorb has increased, and by leap November, the overall population of Ma'anshan Village has exceeded 2,000 people, and the land under its control is close to 8,000 mu.

According to this development trend, at most, it will take two to three years, and the area around the county can be completely stabilized, and the stability of the surrounding area means the stability of Mizhi County, and the stability of Mizhi County means the safety of the Wu family.

At this time, Wu Fanhui was finally relieved.