Seeing that the people hesitated and refused to leave, Zhang Fengwu said with a smile: "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, President Yang Qian is busy with affairs, and you have time to come here today, if you really love President Yang Qian, don't delay President Yang Qian's time." ”

Yang He smiled and continued: "When the spring ploughing is time, it is estimated that I will be idle at that time, and I will come to visit you again." ”

A group of people hurriedly said: "Since Mr. Yang Qian said so, then we will go back, Mr. Yang Qian must count when he speaks, and he must come when the time comes." ”

Yang He smiled: "Never break your word." ”

When the people heard this, they reluctantly departed.

Coming to Dong Laohan's residence, Yang He looked at Dong Laohan's newly built house.

There are three rooms in the house, the east is Dong Laohan's residence, the middle one is the kitchen, and the west is the residence of his daughter, daughter-in-law and children.

Seeing that Dong Laohan only built three rooms, Yang He couldn't help but be stunned, Dong Laohan's family has three generations, how can three rooms be enough to live?

If the daughter wants to get married in the future, she doesn't have to think about it, but Dong Laohan still has a grandson, and when the grandson grows up, will he still live with his mother?

Frowning, Yang He asked, "Uncle, why did you only build three rooms in your family for three generations?" What happens when the child grows up? ”

Dong Laohan smiled bitterly when he heard this: "It's good that we can have a house to live in now, where can we build another house?" ”

"It's not for you to build another house, I mean, why don't you build more?" Yang Heqi said.

Zhang Fengwu said with a smile: "They are just ordinary people, the imperial court has a system, and ordinary people's main houses are only allowed to build three rooms and five frames, and one more is against the system, if you feel that you can't live in it, you can only build another house." ”

(During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a strict residential hierarchy system, and the common people's residences should not exceed one room with three frames, and the main house should not exceed three rooms with five frames.) Later, Zhu Yuanzhang relaxed the restrictions and allowed more residences to be built, and it didn't matter if ten or twenty were built, but the number of intermittent and shelfs was not allowed.

Here is an explanation of what is three rooms and five frames, in the past, there was no reinforced concrete, and there were very few earth walls, brick walls, and stone walls were used to bear the load, and the four wooden pillars were enclosed to be one.

Then a beam is erected on the column, a purlin is erected on the beam, a rafter is supported on the purlin, a stack is nailed on the rafters, and tiles or grass are laid on the stack, so that the roof is formed. This frame refers to the purlins on the beam, and the three purlins are called three beams, and the five purlins are called five beams. Three rooms and five frames means to build three rooms, each with five purlins. ）

Yang He couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart: How can you build a house and still have institutional constraints?

However, Yang He immediately reacted, this is the Ming Dynasty, the era of feudal autocracy, it is not strange to have a hierarchy, it is strange to have no hierarchy, he is now in the Ming Dynasty, he must follow the system of the Ming Dynasty, and he does not understand the system of the Ming Dynasty, so he must not ask questions indiscriminately in the future.

After thinking about it, Yang He said: "What I'm talking about is not adding a room along the main house, but adding a wing room on both sides of the east or west side, isn't that okay?" ”

Dong Laohan smiled when he heard this: "Now the child is still young, and it is not too late to build it in a few years." ”

Yang He sighed secretly in his heart when he heard this.

In a situation like Dong Laohan's house, if there is no constraint from this system, then Dong Laohan can solve this problem by building four rooms, but with this system, Dong Laohan is bound to build another house.

Although it didn't cost much to build a house at this time, it was not easy for a family like Dong Laohan to build another house.

Shaking his head, Yang He is not entangled in the matter of the house, and now he has no ability to solve this problem, and he is just sad if he is too entangled.

Entering the room, Yang He looked around and saw that pots and pans were readily available.

Yang He nodded, Dong Laohan's group of refugees were very calm when they fled, so they brought everything they needed for daily life, unlike those people before, who almost didn't bring anything when they fled.

It is precisely because there is no shortage of Dong Laohan's group of people that Funing County can resettle them so quickly, otherwise, these thousands of households, I am afraid that Funing County will not be able to put together all the daily necessities.

looked at the grain hoard again, and saw that there were only dozens of catties of miscellaneous grains in it.

Yang He frowned and said, "Uncle, didn't Funing County allocate food and silver money to you?" ”

Dong Laohan said with a smile: "There are rumors in the yamen, saying that there are so many of us that we can't buy so much grain at once, so we have to go to Linxian to buy it, and when the grain is bought back, we will give it to us, and each family will have one stone of grain." ”

Yang He nodded, Meng Qiaofang paid a large amount of money, part of which was for these refugees, if the county officials dared to be greedy for this money, then these people should be cleaned up.

Now it seems that it is not bad, these people know what money can be moved and what money cannot be moved.

Entering the east house, Dong Laohan hurriedly invited Yang He and Zhang Fengwu to sit on the kang, Yang He touched the kang, only to feel that the kang noodles were very warm.

Yang He smiled and beckoned Dong Laohan and Zhang Fengwu to go to the kang.

Seeing that Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo were cowering and didn't dare to enter the house, Yang He smiled and said, "Come in." ”

The two were overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Let's pour water for the master." ”

Yang He smiled, ignored the two of them, turned his head to look at Dong Laohan and said, "Uncle, have you ever thought about what crops we plant here?" ”

Dong Laohan smiled: "What else can be planted?" It is nothing more than crops such as millet, millet, wheat, soybean, and hemp. ”

(Note: Millet is yellow rice, millet is also called millet, millet is millet, wheat is wheat, and soybean is commonly known as bean.) With the addition of rice, it is often said that the five grains, but during the Ming Dynasty, rice was rarely planted in the north, and the five grains in the north did not have rice but hemp. ）

The only crops that Dong Laohan said Yang He could understand was wheat, but Yang He was inconvenient to ask, so he just turned his gaze to Zhang Fengwu.

Zhang Fengwu smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Yang He sighed, what does it mean that there is no distinction between grains and grains, and he and Zhang Fengwu are now estimated to be like this.

After a deep sigh, Yang He said, "Uncle, I don't know what the yield of these crops is?" ”

Dong Laohan said with a smile: "One acre of land can produce more than one stone, less than two stones." ”

(Note: Stone, bucket, liter, is a volume unit, not a weight unit, according to the different crops, the weight of a stone of grain is not the same, if you weigh according to the object, a stone in the Ming Dynasty is about one hundred and fifty catties.)

However, this data is not necessarily accurate, because the data given by the checked information is too different, ranging from 120 catties to 180 catties.

The data selected here is based on the comparison of the grain output of the later dynasties with the previous dynasties, there is information that the grain output of the dynasty is the highest in the previous dynasties, the yield per mu is more than 300 catties, the grain yield per mu in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China is not as high as the Ming Dynasty, until 55 years later, it gradually catches up with the output of the Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, one mu of grain was about two stones, so one stone of grain was about 150 catties given here. Please forgive me if there is any error. ）

"Uncle, I heard that there is a kind of sweet potato with a very high yield, and one acre of land can produce four or five stones." Zhang Fengwu said.

"Four or five stones? What crop? Dong Laohan was surprised.

"Sweet potato, I've seen it in the south." Zhang Fengwu said with a smile.

Dong Laohan shook his head again and again when he heard this: "The crops in the south are planted in the north, but they may not have the yield in the south. ”

Yang He nodded, muttered for a while, and said: "Uncle Dong, otherwise, let's try to plant it first, and see if the sweet potato is suitable in the north, if it can adapt and the yield is high, we will have more varieties in the coming year." ”

"Mr. Yang Qian, do you mean to let the old man try the seed?" Dong Laohan hesitated.

Yang He smiled: "Uncle, if my nephew can grow crops, I will get a field to plant myself, but my nephew can't plant crops at all, let others plant, my nephew is not at ease, only if I hand it over to you, my nephew can rest assured." ”

Dong Laohan patted his thigh when he heard this: "Okay, since Yang Qian always trusts the old man, then I will let the old man out, isn't it a year's harvest!" ”

Yang He smiled: "Uncle, you don't have to worry about no harvest, if there is really no harvest, my nephew can't let your family starve." As many acres of land you have, your nephew will give you as much food as you want. ”

Dong Laohan said with a smile: "With your words, I can rest assured that I will be bold." ”

Yang He smiled and nodded.

While Yang He was pausing to speak, Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo walked into the house with a bowl and a kettle: "Mr. Yang Qian, drink saliva." ”

Yang He took the bowl with a smile, then took the kettle and poured a bowl of water and handed it to Dong Laohan: "Uncle, you drink water." ”

"You come first." Dong Laohan said busily.

Yang He waved his hand, poured another bowl and handed it to Zhang Fengwu, and finally poured a bowl for himself.

Handing the kettle to Wei Shanjin, Yang He took a sip of the bowl slowly.

After thinking about it, Yang He turned his head to look at Wei Shanjin and Wang Weiguo and said, "Are you two okay at home?" ”

"Well, nothing more for now." Wei Shan said hurriedly.

Yang He nodded: "I promised you, when you are busy with your family work, I will let you follow me, now the yamen is recruiting soldiers, you go and sign up." ”

"Didn't you all agree to let the two of us follow you, why do you have to sign up?" Wei Shan scratched his head and said.

Yang He smiled: "I promised you to follow me, but I just agreed that you would be a soldier and want to do things by my side, I have to see your two studies and training results." ”

"What? Still want to learn? What to study? Wei Shanjin was surprised.

"Reading and literacy." Yang He said with a smile.

"Do you still need to read and write as a soldier?" Wei Shanjin wondered.

Yang He said with a smile: "If you want to be a soldier for the rest of your life, it's okay not to read and write, but if you want to be promising, you must read and write." ”

"Then after I read and write, can I be such a big official?" Wei Shan said hurriedly.

Yang He laughed when he heard this: "What kind of official am I, if you can study hard, you will be an official bigger than me in the future." ”

Wei Shanjin was overjoyed when he heard this: "Okay, then I must study hard and become a big official in the future." ”

Yang He smiled and nodded.

Picking up the water bowl and drinking it all, Yang He got up and said, "Uncle, I'll go back first, and I'll come back when I buy sweet potato seeds." ”

"Let's eat here before we go." Dong Laohan said busily.

Yang He smiled and shook his head: "There are still a lot of things going on in the Yamen." ”