It is now the spring of the nineteenth year of Hongji (1505), and three years have passed in the blink of an eye, and in the original history, Hongji died this year. In the past two years, there is nothing wrong with Hongzhi's body, but his temples are white, but there are no wrinkles on his face, he looks like a middle-aged handsome uncle, Queen Zhang has often followed her three children to Huangzhuang in the past 2 years, watching the children grow up healthily, and the mood has become very good, 36-year-old people still look less than 30, and there are no wrinkles on their faces, which makes the little girl envious.

In the past three years, many changes have also taken place, first of all, let's talk about Zhu Houwei's big farm plan, the 10 crown prince farms around the capital have all been renovated, and each village has canceled the village old system, replaced by the village chief invented by Zhu Houwei, the village party secretary system, all laws and regulations are handed over to the Guan Zhuang government for judgment, and the village is not allowed to use lynching. There is also the division of households, originally the Ming Dynasty popular is a large family to live together, it is best to live together, or four generations to live together, but due to the reconstruction of the village now, all become a unified style of yard, so now there is a man in the family, will apply for a set of yards, after all, it is a yard that costs 70 taels, now only 10 taels, such a big cheap do not occupy, it is too stupid.

The significant erosion of the rights of the village elders and the fact that the village chief and village party secretary were all 17 or 8 years old young people initially aroused distrust among the villagers. However, after 2 years of work experience, these first-term students are much more mature and stable, and it didn't take long for these first-term students to read and write to gain the recognition and trust of the villagers. A total of 3 large reservoirs have been built in 10 Zhuangzi, and after 2 years of accumulation, the chickenpox in them is at least 3.4 meters deep, and even in the event of a major drought, the water from the reservoirs can completely irrigate the farmland of the surrounding 10 Zhuangzi.

The 10 farms are about 1,200 hectares, and after Zhu Houwei bought land and organized the reclamation, there are already 2,000 hectares, that is, 200,000 acres of land. Due to the abundant water source, most of the rice grown in Huangzhuang is now, with early rice planted from February to March of the lunar calendar, harvested from May to June, late rice planted in June, and harvested from September to October. Only a small number of farmland with difficult access to water is grown with wheat. After strict seedling raising, disinfection, and fertilization under the existing conditions, the minimum yield per mu has reached 600 catties, and the highest yield per mu is 950 catties, and most of them are in the early 700 catties. In the past two years, Zhuangzili has accumulated a total of 100,000 tons, that is, 500,000 stone of grain, which is enough for 2 million people in the capital to eat for two months.

Of course, the output of Huangzhuang is not only these, due to Zhu Houwei's plan, the livestock in Zhuangzi except a few are used for food in the village, such as the New Year, each family sends a few catties of pork, and when the annual meeting is held, Guan Zhuang invited all the villagers to eat a meal, consumed a lot of chickens and ducks, cattle in addition to old death, others are not slaughtered, now 10 Zhuangzi have a total of nearly 100,000 chickens, 10 ducks raised in the reservoir, 20,000 pigs, more than 10,000 sheep, more than 5,000 cattle. It is impossible to calculate how many fish there are, and there are definitely not a few in the reservoir and fish pond combined.

One day after dinner, Zhu Houzhao excitedly took the account book and handed it to Hongzhi to look at, looking at his sassy appearance, Zhu Houwei and the little girl couldn't help but roll their eyes at him. Zhu Houzhao didn't care at all, he was still happy. Zhu Houzhao is 15 years old this year, his body has begun to develop, his voice has become as ugly as a male duck, and he is more than 1.6 meters tall, which has reached the standard of adults in this era, and growing up so fast is inseparable from his love of sports and practicing martial arts. Due to frequent outdoor activities, his complexion has changed to wheat, his eyes are slightly slender and bright, his eyebrows are a little light, but they are very long, Zhu Houzhao looks like Queen Zhang, his face is a goose egg face, and the whole face also reveals a little childishness.

Although Koji did not use this new method of bookkeeping in the court, he also knew that as long as there were no errors in the ledger, it was enough to look at the total. The first thing that introduced the eye was the Indian number, the front number was followed by many zeros, Hongji was not very sensitive to numbers, so he began to look at the capitalized Chinese in the next row, and he was shocked all of a sudden, his eyes were obviously widened, Zhu Houzhao's three brothers and sisters and Empress Zhang were all paying attention to Hongji's expression, and when they saw him, they were taken aback, and all four of them couldn't help laughing. To tell the truth, Empress Zhang was also taken aback when she saw it first, but she didn't expect that less than one-tenth of the fields in the entire Huangzhuang in Daming could produce so much food, and the three children slowly made such a big thing, and Empress Zhang, as a mother, was also proud and happy.

At this time, Hongzhi coughed slightly, hiding the embarrassment just now, and then asked Zhu Houzhao with interest, "Is it that those 10 Zhuangzi produce so many things?" Zhu Houzhao smiled and said proudly, "Daddy, some of the 10 Zhuangzi have just been rebuilt, and they are not all planted using the current method, otherwise there will be more grain." When Hongji heard this, he immediately asked excitedly, "Then all the fields in the world are planted like this?" The little girl wrinkled her nose and said in a coquettish voice, "Daddy is so greedy, the eldest brother and the second brother have spent a lot of money for these Zhuangzi?" When Hongzhi heard this, he turned his head to look at Zhu Houzhao and asked, "How much did you use?" Zhu Houzhao replied with some embarrassment: "About 1.5 million taels." "Hiss" Hongzhi gasped, he really didn't expect that these few Zhuangzi would cost so much. Zhu Houwei comforted at this time, "In fact, how much is the plum blossom used for planting, mainly to rebuild the Zhuangzi, build houses for the villagers, build reservoirs, and buy livestock." Hongzhi nodded, and then asked, "Where did you get so much money, I remember that the Zhu Mansion only has 1 million taels, right?" Empress Zhang said with a smile at this time, "Their crystal Zhai is really amazing, and the extra money comes from there." The little girl pouted and said, "What my mother said is not right, it should be our crystal Zhai." Empress Zhang looked at the little girl funny, "Yes, yes, ours." Hongzhi was a little confused, and looked at Empress Zhang suspiciously, Empress Zhang pretended to be angry and said, "It's not the three of them making a fuss, they have to get any shares, this crystal palace accounts for 5 shares, the Houzhao brothers account for 4 shares, and 1 share is pocket money for the son." Hongji asked calmly, "How many have been sent to the palace?" Zhu Houwei took the account book at this time and began to say, "Crystal Zhai only sells 100 items a day, excluding all expenses, the daily profit is about 2,000 taels, and it has been open for more than two years now, with a total profit of 1.8 million taels, and 900,000 sent to the palace." "Hongji has the foreshadowing in front of him, and he has slowly become accustomed to such a large number.

The national income of the Ming Dynasty is basically 10 million taels a year, and the crystal Zhai sent to the palace alone is one-tenth of the annual income, which is still because only 100 pieces are sold every day. Hongji looked at the two brothers, with pride and relief in his eyes, these two people have only worked hard for a few years, and they already have such a big industry, which he did not expect.

Hongzhi was still thinking about things, but the little girl was holding Hongzhi's hand, shaking it and coquettishly, "Daddy, my son's money has been taken away by my mother, so it's better to return it to my son." Before Hongzhi could speak, Queen Zhang deliberately put her face on the face, "You are such a big child, what do you want so much money for?" My mother will keep it for you, and I will give it to you together when I get married. His face was very serious, but he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes. Hongzhi listened, and said to his daughter in a gentle voice, "Good son, let your mother keep your pocket money for you first, and your father and mother will not ask for your money, and they will definitely give it to you in the future." Then he looked at the two brothers and continued, "In the future, if you want to buy anything, let your eldest brother and second brother buy it, they are not short of money." ”

Although Hongji tried his best to control the emotions in his voice, the few people present could still hear the faint sourness in it. After all, if you don't count the income of Crystal Zhai, Zhu Houzhao's brother's net worth will surpass him in a few years, after all, the inner treasury in the palace is not very sufficient. Queen Zhang and the little girl were snickering, and the Zhu Houzhao brothers glanced at each other, and could only grin embarrassedly.

After a while, Hongji looked at the two brothers and said, "There are still some Huangzhuang in the Guannai, so it's better to leave it to you two to take care of." Zhu Houwei said happily at this time, "The child has this intention, if the Huangzhuang is handed over to us, within 3 years, we can ensure the grain output of the Huangzhuang and meet the needs of Gyeonggi, and there will be no need to send grain from Jiangnan so vigorously in the future." Hongji nodded, and then said, "Then I'll leave it to you, by the way, the money to be invested in front, you two will put it first, and then talk about it later, the palace is not rich." Suddenly, Zhu Houzhao's smiling face froze, and then nodded. Empress Zhang smiled helplessly beside her.