Chapter 63: Farming is a shame?
Since Hao Shisan's departure, Shi Nai'an founded Jixian Hall to help Hao Shisan collect talents. He wrote letters to some former scholar friends, but there was no reply, which really worried him.
Later, he gave full play to his advantages of good wine, mixed in wine shops, drank and wrote poems with some down-and-out literati, and Fu Youde paid him 300 yuan, which was spent cleanly.
But he also got acquainted with some literati who had fallen into the market, but he only knew some words, and he had no great talent.
There is only one Confucian scholar who traveled here in Suzhou, named Song Ke, whose articles and calligraphy really made Shi Nai'an admire, especially the chivalrous spirit, Wen Delai, Wu also came, and was surrounded by Shi Nai'an.
Song Kenai is a famous calligrapher later, now only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, good Ren Xia, when he was a teenager, he raised a samurai, feasted guests, and also wanted to try to rebel, but failed, so he traveled all over the world, dedicated to learning, at this time he had no intention of governing the world, postponed for a few days, and did not see the face of Hao Thirteen, so he wanted to leave.
Shi Nai'an didn't dare to slack off, spent all three hundred yuan, and always gave the manager a passable statement, without saying a word, he took a literati to Shouzhou.
It is an eternal truth that the people regard food as their heaven, and food is also needed to fight a war, and soldiers cannot fight a war hungry.
The place occupied by Hao 13 belongs to the inland, and has been subjected to war for many years, the people's livelihood has withered, and the ownerless wasteland is everywhere, and some people have fled to the rich Jiangnan to avoid the war, and the people who have kept the countryside are too lazy to farm, and they may not be able to harvest if they plant.
Today, the imperial court comes, the red turban army comes, and the armed forces of the lord of heaven and earth come, and whoever comes will have to collect taxes, especially the government, if there is no food, they will beat and kill people.
The people who have the courage gather in the mountains and forests, rob their homes and houses, and become bandits, and the people who have no guts, in order to escape the taxes of the government, simply give up the land and become homeless people with their families.
Hao 13 ordered that all the people under his rule be exempted from the taxes owed, encouraged the people to cultivate their land, and promised that they would definitely use force to protect the people's harvest.
If there are no production tools, they will be leased by the Red Turban Army, and the rent will be paid at the end of the year, and it will not matter if there are no seeds, and they will also be lent by the Shouzhou Governor's Office, and a slight interest will be paid at the end of the year.
In addition, it is stipulated that each household shall pay 10% of its own output every year, and there shall be no other taxes.
If you don't have any land, it doesn't matter, and you will be unified into the people's reclamation camp.
Under the Anfeng Red Turban Army Governor's Office, two cantonment institutions were set up, the military reclamation camp and the civilian reclamation camp.
For the homeless people who do not have land, ten heads of households shall be appointed for every ten households, and for every ten households, 100 heads of households shall be set up, and 1000 households shall be established, and an official of 1,000 households shall be set up for each of the households. Taxes are paid at the rate of 20/20 of the annual output.
Shouzhou Daru Huachi once encroached on a large area of farmland, as his own horse pasture, covering an area of 30,000 acres, Hao 13 on this basis, set up a military camp.
The soldiers and auxiliaries of the Red Turban Army were jointly cultivated, and the soldiers' salaries were kept as usual, and 70 percent of the annual output of the land was collected by the governor's office, and the remaining 30 percent was left to the reclamation soldiers themselves.
"If you want to live, go to Shouzhou, you want to eat food, and find thirteen" Xiucai Mu Youcai made up such a slogan and preached it in nearby states and counties, and even many people in Anqing Yuque ran to the boundary of Hao Shisan.
Spring ploughing is imminent, there is no time to improve the cultivation method of crops, so we can only plant rice in depressions, wheat millet in flat land, beans, cotton, and hemp on slopes, and mulberry trees and fruit trees in mountainous areas.
Yang Zhengtai of Anfeng in the west also drove a large number of military dependents into the countryside, following the example of Hao Shisan, and the hot court echoed Hao Shisan.
The two craftsman workshops in Shouzhou and Luzhou have been working overtime to create various styles of agricultural tools and import them to the general public, including military reclamation camps and civilian reclamation camps.
On the day of sowing and planting seedlings, Hao 13 will bow to the field in person, like military households and civilian households, roll up his trouser legs, face the loess and face the sky.
"Chief, there are a few Confucian scholars from Luzhou, I want to see you." Wu Liuqi stayed in Shouzhou, and was in a hurry urged by Shi Nai'an, so he took a literati and went directly to the field.
Hao Shisan walked out of the muddy rice field, a foot of sludge, he rubbed the sludge on his hands, looked back at the row of rice seedlings behind him, and felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart, so he picked up the crockpot in the field, poured a bowl of water, and drank it cleanly.
"Jixian Yuan Shi Nai'an see the general manager!" Shi Nai'an hurriedly saluted Hao Shisan.
"Sir, don't be polite!" Hao Shisan wanted to pull up Shi Nai'an, but found that the sludge in his hand was afraid of staining Shi Nai'an's clothes.
Ordinary Su Hao 13 and Jiao Yu mixed in the craftsman's workshop, carrying out the improvement of gun/powder and the casting and research of artillery, today is the first day of planting rice in the military reclamation camp, so he went to the farmland to do a demonstration, but he didn't want to be bumped into by a group of Confucian scholars, and he couldn't help but complain in his heart.
This caftan brown farmer's dress is not despised by the literati.
When Hao Shisan saw Shi Nai'an and seven or eight well-dressed Confucian scholars, he looked at his embarrassed appearance again, and laughed at himself embarrassedly: "It's not a formality!" Unorthodox! Snubbed off all the talents, and went back to the governor's mansion to say. ”
In the Shouzhou Governor's Mansion, Hao 13 changed into a decent robe, met with the literati one by one, and held a banquet to entertain everyone.
Since ancient times, the literati were more clear and high, looking down on the people in the brown cloth clothes, Kong Yiji was in distress, and he refused to take off his long shirt, Mu Youcai became a bandit, and he couldn't bear to abandon the feather fan in his hand, and Hao Shisan cultivated the farmland, which did not leave a good impression on the literati.
A person's first impression is important, and it's hard to change it later.
In the eyes of the literati, Hao Shisan is just a well-established slave, and he can't forget the things in the field, so he can plough the farmland, and the consciousness of small farmers is difficult to achieve great things.
"Although the manager is from the people, he is different from the ordinary heroes of the rivers and lakes, and he is quite literary, you might as well ask the manager to write a poem during the banquet, please don't push it back!" Shi Nai'an saw that the literati had a disdainful color for Hao Shisan, and raised wine during the banquet.
Hao Shisan is naturally not a fool, and he can also see that these literati are not very talented, but they are all pretentious, for this kind of people, if they don't take some extraordinary means, not only can they not use them for themselves, but they will also make up jokes and make fun of themselves.
"Thirteen are fortunate to meet with all literary friends, and improvise a song during the thirteen banquets, all of which are made to throw bricks and lead jade" Hao Thirteen made a mystery, and Lang Lang recited:
Heroes are born in heaven and earth,
Do not envy the court, do not envy the officials.
Even though he was born with a skinny body,
Killing thieves does not kill people.
This is the fishing song of the old version of the TV series "Water Margin", in which the three heroes of the Ruan family rowed in Shijie Village, just because Shi Nai'an was in front, in a hurry, he only remembered such a song.
Shi Nai'an heard the heroism in the poem, which secretly coincided with his Liangshan plot, and stood up from the banquet, clapping his hands and shouting and cheering.
The literati didn't think so, Shi Nai'an was just applauding his master, in their eyes, what kind of "splashing skin", too vulgar, how could he bend and stretch his body to serve a splashing skin? What "unenvy officials"? Why don't you study as an official?
Seeing that everyone did not react, Hao Shisan secretly shouted that he had made a mistake, waved his hand to stop the excited Shi Nai'an, looked at a wooden literati, and looked at himself with a disdainful look of disdain, Hao Shisan's anger came up!
Thinking of my little seventh brother, such a heroic singing voice was actually seen clearly by these literati.
Hands can't be lifted, shoulders can resist, useless scholars, what are the pretentious and high-minded, I go down to the field to demonstrate in person, why do you despise you like this?
Without the peasants' farming, these high-ranking literati must not starve to death? I, a bachelor of agriculture, want to farm, maybe one day I can grow high-yield hybrid rice, at least I can mix with the official work of a big farmer, right? What can you literati do?
Hao Shisan's eyes were full of murderous intent and fierce light was exposed.