When Zhu Yuanzhang transported the "Autumn Fu" back to the cottage, the autumn harvest was in the cottage!

On the periphery of the village, there are many small hills, and wherever there is soil on these hills, they are basically reclaimed by the villagers into fields, these fields are not large, and the shapes are different, some are oblique, some are square, some are rectangular, some are triangular, and some are not even able to tell what shape they are...... The best thing that hard-working Chinese farmers are at is to adapt measures to local conditions and turn waste into treasure.

Although the land in Huanglong Mountain is not very fertile, it can even be said to be a little barren, but no matter how barren the land is, it is stronger than the land that has been affected by drought.

In these small corner fields, some villagers are bending over, harvesting crops in the fields, their shadows dragged by the sun. These farmers who are harvesting crops are the first group of people to come to the cottage, because they came early, so they laid the foundation and occupied the land early, so that they can harvest the crops smoothly this year.

As for the later villagers, the fields they reclaimed were a little far away from the village, and some even had to climb over two hills to arrive, and their fields had not been reclaimed for a year, and they had not been able to catch up with the sowing period at all, so there was no harvest this year, which was also a helpless thing, who told them not to join Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates at the beginning?

The peasants who did not harvest had to watch others harvest their crops with a little envy, and their hearts were sour, if only they had ...... earlier It would have been good to listen to Bugling Zhu's words earlier.

Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to pass down the hillside, and the peasants in the fields greeted him together, while some looked for their sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands in the army...... From time to time, someone is pleasantly surprised by someone's name.

The first autumn harvest of the cottage! A great start! This means that the village can finally produce some basic food on its own, and it will not completely look at the faces outside the mountains to live.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at the farmers on the hillside, although he was once an emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite profession was still a farmer! He was born in a poor peasant family, and he had a natural affinity for the peasant profession, he hated corrupt officials very much, and once killed corrupt officials with blood, and he also did not like businessmen, and once suppressed them mercilessly.

The things of the previous life, now that I think about it, some are right, some are wrong, some need to be completely overturned, and some need to be slightly corrected, in short, this life will definitely be better than the previous life, but in any case, his preference for the peasants will not change.

"Brother Zhu! I've harvested a lot of grain this year...... Hahaha! A little old man laughed at Zhu Yuanzhang: "Since Chongzhen followed you to the cottage in the autumn of the first year, I have eaten your meal for more than a year, and this year ...... I finally had my own harvest. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and waved his hand: "How can you say that you eat for nothing?" Didn't your son work under me? I wouldn't have been able to get so much back without his help in the war, so you can enjoy it with confidence. ”

"Hey, my son who is not angry, I used to know that Jiao'er Lang was dangling around and mingling with those green-skinned scoundrels, and now I go out with you to do business, I am very honest in my heart, you have disciplined my son well...... Now that he's a soldier, he's much more respectful to me when he comes home. The old man smiled with a smile on his face: "By the way, we just said when we went up the mountain, I will hand over part of the harvest grain to you...... Treat it as my tax. ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't excuse himself, just nodded, this kind of thing of collecting taxes, can't be excused, if it is pushed once because of any favors, it will be inconvenient to collect it again in the future, if the villagers are disgusted by not paying taxes, then there will be a bad situation that cannot be cleaned up in the future, just like the current Ming Dynasty.

After passing by the little old man's field, along the way, there were people on the side of the hill constantly greeting, and the words were not much different from what the little old man said, these villagers did not join the army, did not personally participate in the work of "collecting taxes", and did not fight with the officers and soldiers who came into the mountains to encircle and suppress them, so they ate the food distributed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and they were always a little uneasy in their hearts, and they had been thinking about doing something for the cottage.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and waved to them, responding one by one.

When he entered the stockade, he gathered everyone together as usual and began to distribute the spoils. Food and daily necessities are still distributed as usual to ensure the basic livelihood of the villagers. Those villagers who already had fields and harvested their own crops, he did not give them what the army had looted because they already had their own income.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang understands people's hearts very well, people are such things, they do not suffer from poverty and unevenness! If the villagers who have a harvest do not give out things, but only give out to those who have not harvested, isn't that a disguised encouragement for everyone not to work? This is obviously not right! It is a matter of course that those who work more get more, those who work less get less, and those who have gained more things get more.

However, the way he sends things is still the same as last time, everyone distributes food to ensure everyone's basic life, but the regular supplies are distributed according to military merits, so that families with soldiers can get fine heads, needles, pots and other items that cannot be produced in the cottage. And families without soldiers want these things, so they need to use their own harvest of food to go to the soldiers in exchange...... In this way, the villagers of the entire cottage can find their place in the village.

In short, if you either work or join the army, if you don't do anything, you only have a mouthful of food to eat, and you have no other daily necessities, then you will be very sad.

When he was busy dividing this and that, the desperate Saburo who was in charge of the defense of the cottage suddenly came over and said with a strange expression: "Brother Zhu, a group of people suddenly came to the foot of the mountain, saying that they were coming to visit you...... It's quirky...... Check it out! ”

"Visit me?" Zhu Yuanzhang Daqi, what is this place? This is a place where bandits live, and someone wants to visit?

Zhu Yuanzhang walked to the door of the cottage and looked down, only to see that at the foot of the mountain in the distance, there were more than 20 men, all wearing green clothes and hats.

The so-called sliding rod is two smooth bamboo poles, with a soft net hanging in the middle, like a pocket, this thing is actually used to carry people. In the rugged mountainous terrain, things like sedan chairs are very inconvenient, and they can't be lifted at all, but the slide bar can run like flying on the mountain road, so people with a bit of status and status go into the mountain, and they like to find two strong people to lift the slide bar.

Zhu Yuanzhang fixed his eyes and saw that the person carrying on the slide bar should be the person who was going to "visit" him, this person he was very familiar with, it was Xu Renjie Xu Da Master, who was two years old Chinese New Year's Eve today, a rice merchant.

"Yo, isn't that Xu Renjie?" Zhu Ba, Ma Xiaotian, and even poodles who were following Zhu Yuanzhang all recognized him and wondered together: "Why did this Xu Renjie come to us?" And when we come back from Whitewater with our front foot, he will follow with his back foot, and he will inevitably plot against him. ”

"He's not trying to do something wrong." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "He came to me to learn things." ”

"Learn?" Everyone was amazed.

If he is given some time to train well, Xu Renjie may become a wise general. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say this, he just waved his hand and said, "Go to a few people and welcome him up the mountain." ”

For Zhu Yuanzhang, rushing generals and fierce generals, these two things are easy to get, the reason is very simple, he is a thief, and few of those who run out to be thieves are not bold, so it is not difficult to get a rushing general and a fierce general in the thief army. Like Wang Er, Desperate Saburo, and Poodle, these people are all good materials for rushing generals and fierce generals. Even in Wang Zuohang's unsuccessful army, there are several strongmen such as Miao Mei, Feishan Tiger, and Big Red Wolf.

The most difficult thing for the thief army to get is the wise general! To put it mildly, the thief army lacks brains!

Of the 10,000 thieves, there may be only one scholar, but not a single one. This reason is very simple, after ten years of hard study, I want to be an official after reading, who will be a thief after reading the book? Isn't this a neuropathy?

Not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but all the leaders of the rebel army in the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty were faced with a lack of wisdom generals. Let's take Zhang Xianzhong as an example, how powerful this guy is, with a tough style and tenacious combat power, but he caught a showman Pan Duao, so he hurriedly invited this showman to be a military advisor.

Let's talk about Li Zicheng, this one is fierce enough, that is the level of the demon king. Folklore, Li Yan and Li Gongzi are his right-hand men, what is the identity of this Li Yan and Li Gongzi? Lift people! It's just a lifter! It's not a Jinshi, it's not a poet, it's not a Hongru or the four great talents of Jiangnan, it's just a person.

A talent like Xu Renjie who has read books, can do arithmetic, can understand the southeast and northwest, and understands the general trend of the world, there is only one in the cottage at present, that is Zhu Yuanzhang himself, and everyone else is blind. If Xu Renjie can be abducted, this will be a very good thing.

How could Zhu Yuanzhang not welcome him!

After a while, Xu Renjie, under the leadership of Ma Xiaotian and others, came up the mountain. He is a very interesting person, he ran from Baishui to the cottage from afar, he has been sitting on the slide bar, but when he came to the mountain road to the gate of the cottage, he got off the slide bar and climbed up with his own feet.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded secretly in his heart: People who have read books are just this good, knowing the number of etiquette, Xu Renjie's small action of sliding the rod shows his respect for me, and he doesn't dare to sit on the slider and walk in front of him.

He stood at the door of the cottage and waited quietly, only to see Xu Renjie come closer, saw Zhu Yuanzhang, bowed respectfully to him, and then said loudly: "Eighth Brother Zhu, I came to visit you this time, and I just thought of one thing...... Can you teach me how to fight? ”