Chapter 174: Rebuilding the Gongmu Village
Yunnan major events reached the top, Wei Wu also had containment, just waiting for the Qing Dynasty's Huchen to take office in Yunnan, Yang Meng also had a rare comfortable time, most of the month, the relationship between him and Wei Zhiqing is also improving rapidly.
Now Yang Meng and Tang Meiyi have become students of Lian'er and Wei Zhiqing, learning nothing else but reading and writing. Tang Meiyi is better, in addition to dancing with Lian'er for more than a year, she has followed the literacy and hyphenation, and the hand-held small letters, although the writing is not very regular, but at least there is a word.
And Yang Meng became the laughing stock of the back house, give him a charcoal pen, he can also write a lot of words, change a brush and let him write a small block, Yang Sanye is blind, not that he can't write, but the words he writes, Yang Meng can't see it.
On a good letterhead, Lian'er and Wei Zhiqing can write a few hundred words, Tang Meiyi is about the same, and Yang Meng can write twenty or thirty words, it is good, some time ago, Yang Meng learned a lot from Pan Gui, and the available kung fu is mostly reading, this writing is not something that can be learned in a day or two.
Wei Zhiqing is also taking the opportunity to take revenge, her good widow lives at home, she doesn't want to be calculated by Yang Meng, she lost her wealth for no reason, and she has been ravaged these days, although the joy of the boudoir is a beautiful thing, but you can't cheapen this thief for nothing.
Yang Meng's talent in reading and writing is really not high, in more than ten days, he finally wrote his name roughly, and in the past ten days, because he couldn't write well, Yang Meng was reprimanded by Wei Zhiqing.
Wei Zhiqing reprimanded her during the day, and Yang Meng tossed her desperately at night, but this one was also a person who refused to admit defeat, and the affection between the two became deeper and deeper.
These ten days. Yang Meng didn't waste all of it on reading and writing. Tang Meiyi summoned the mountain girl. He also practiced it himself.
With Lian'er's support, there are nearly two hundred mountain girls in the manor, and the back house is the target they want to protect.
These mountain girls selected by Tang Meiyi, in addition to being smart, are also very good at their kung fu, although they are not as good as the swordsmen of the Yang family, but the kung fu of these mountain girls is far stronger than that of the green battalion soldiers.
The Yang family manor in Yiliang. Originally from the Zhou Da livestock, this was originally built according to the military village, Yang Meng raised the most elite five hundred new troops in the manor all the year round, plus dozens of large and small artillery, not to mention the farms around the manor, a single Yang family manor, it is definitely an easy place to defend and difficult to attack.
The more than 200 female soldiers in the back house are a bit redundant, but these people Yang Meng does not intend to give up, these mountain girls selected by Tang Mei are not only good-looking and good at martial arts. and then there is loyalty to the Yang family.
Some of these mountain girls are from farms. Some are sisters of the swordsmen, and it is not bad to train the generals at all levels to control the new army.
Yang Meng handed over the method to Tang Meiyi, and Tang Meiyi also showed extraordinary talent for these things, and after several years of traveling in the rivers and lakes, she could quickly understand these things taught by Yang Meng, a secret organization, which was also quietly formed in the back house of the manor.
Lian'er, the daughter of a wealthy family, also played a very important role in it, more than a year because of the heirs, she was also under pressure from the two old men from Guangzhou and Kunming, Yang Shiqin in Kunming, at most to send some nourishing medicinal materials, but Pan Shicheng in Guangzhou is different.
More than a dozen mothers-in-law and maids were sent to Yiliang, and some of them were skilled men. Woman. It. The existence of these people has made Lian'er learn a lot of things, and to train these mountain girls, the servants around Lian'er are excellent candidates.
First, the staff was screened, and the mountain girls in the back house were Ding Taichen, Qin Ziqi, Yang Meng, and Tang Meiyi four times, more than 200 people, only more than 60 people were available, and then Yang Meng taught how to spy and pass on information, and the mother-in-law and class master taught them how to get it. Pleased. For men, reading and literacy are of course also essential.
Yang Meng secretly estimated that if these sixty people want to be used, it will take at least a year, and it just so happens that Lin Zexu is coming, in addition to the eight thousand new army directly under Wei Huozi, if the manpower in western Yunnan wants to be integrated, it will be at least a year later, and this time is also just right, and when the time comes, the new army in Yunnan will be easy to master.
And the remaining more than 100 people, Yang Meng did not plan to stay in the manor, after these people learned to read and write, he screened out those who could be used, and asked them to go to Yiliang and western Yunnan to gather school-age women of all ethnic groups to read and write together, and then build a relatively loose spy organization.
Wei Zhiqing's idea made Yang Meng very satisfied, to build women's schools in various places, women's schools are also regarded as aristocratic things, women's schools around the country, most of them are built by wealthy eunuchs, and the school-age women of each family can also learn some etiquette and skills in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting through the women's school.
Wei Zhiqing and Lian'er have both gone to the women's school, but how to invite a knowledgeable female master has also become a difficult matter, fortunately, Yang Meng just built a literacy class, since he couldn't find a female master, he used an older male teacher, so that there were conditions for the preparation of the women's school.
As the head of this women's spy group, Tang Meiyi was also taught a lot of espionage knowledge by Yang Meng. body, but let them marry the Yang family's hands, from the knife hand to the steward, after these women are married, they are a killer weapon in Yang Meng's hands.
In addition to the knowledge of dealing with intelligence, Yang Meng has repeatedly emphasized that it is necessary to continue to instill the benefits of the Yang family in them, and after two or two countless times, these things instilled in the women's school will become indelible memories, once it is time to make a choice, I believe that the Yang family will have a great chance of winning.
After arranging the affairs of Yiying, Ding Taichen naturally complained again, it doesn't matter if he builds a women's school in the manor, but the cost of preparing to build a women's school in Yiliang and western Yunnan is not small.
First of all, the house used in the school, let alone a few hundred taels, and the larger ones with better locations will cost thousands or tens of thousands of taels. went to school to manage food and housing, and the family also gave subsidies, Ding Taichen had never heard of such a wrongdoer before.
The cost of building dozens of schools, although the initial investment is large. But the Yang family has a lot of real estate in western Yunnan. There are many that are idle. When you log in to the property, the initial cost is not too big.
The annual cost of the women's school, with the expansion of the scale, will continue to increase, the most important thing is this consumption, just like flowing water, no beginning and tail, Minghu Academy two or three hundred thousand a year, in the whole Yunnan to build a women's school. If you can't get it right, the cost of a year is hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands a year, and millions of dollars in ten years.
can complain and complain, Ding Taichen has never discounted the things arranged by the third master, site selection and selection, such an errand will not take a few months. When the time comes, more than a hundred mountain girls will be sent to various places in Yunnan.
As for the guards of the back house. Yang Meng only left twenty mountain girls with good skills and beautiful plates, and the number of these twenty people was enough to protect the back house.
The affairs of the back house were almost dealt with, but Tang Meiyi blocked Yang Meng with some twists.
"Third master, Mei Yi has something to say."
"Ask me for something, what is the matter of your Lisu Gongmu Village?"
Of the three women in the back house, the most intimate and loyal is Tang Meiyi, which is why Yang Meng handed over the women's spy team to Tang Meiyi.
Lian'er is holding Pan Shicheng in Guangzhou, and Wei Zhiqing is holding Wei Wu, although these two people can't see anything now, they may not participate in the struggle for power in the future, only this Tang Meiyi is absolutely sincere to herself.
"Hmm...... The clansmen want to return to the old village in western Yunnan, and they push me to be the owner of the village, I don't know what to do about it. ”
Some time ago, Tang Meiyi sent the ancestral war knives from Zhou Shiqing back to the new village, but she didn't expect it to cause trouble to herself.
The name of Yang Buddha in Kunming, in the Lisu Gongmu Village is quite good, if it was not for Yang Shiqin to help, it is difficult to say whether these people can move out of Western Yunnan alive, I heard that Tang Meiyi became the third lady of the Yang family, and the people of the Gongmu Village also had other ideas.
The place where the male and female village lives now is not a good place, not to mention the poor mountains and bad waters, and the output in the field is also declining year by year, coinciding with the famine in Yunnan, the newly built male and female village is a little unable to support, and the three war knives sent back by Tang Meiyi gave them hope.
Returning to the old village in western Yunnan has become the wish of most of the male and female villagers, but Tang Meiyi doesn't want to bother Yang Meng, and becomes Yang Meng's concubine, and goes out to show up as the owner of the village, but I am afraid that the old man in Kunming is unwilling, but Tang Meiyi also hopes that his people can return to the old village, after all, it is their real home.
Tang Meiyi has also learned a lot in the Yang family in the past two years, she knows that the rebuilding of the Gongmu Village not only has to buy back the original mountains and forests, but also the village of tens of thousands of people is not so easy to build, so she is afraid of spending too much money and making the third master embarrassed.
"Do what you have to do, as long as you want to do it, I will support you."
This is a good opportunity for Yang Meng, Tang Meiyi is not like Wei Zhiqing, there is no marriage contract between the two, the reason is that Tang Meiyi doesn't want to be circled, with Lian'er as a companion, this matter will be put down, and now is an opportunity.
Tang Meiyi is obedient to Lian'er, as long as Tang Meiyi is still in the manor, she can't get rid of Lian'er's influence on her, Tang Meiyi's temperament has also been worn out by herself in the past two years, mastering a secret intelligence organization, loyalty alone is obviously not enough, the reconstruction of the male and female village gave Yang Meng a chance.
Let Tang Meiyi return to the Lisu tribe and be a decisive female village owner, a very good choice, the reconstruction of this male and female village can not only control the Lisu people in the original male and female village, but also recruit more Lisu mountain people, and build a small city on the basis of the original male and female village, which is also a good way.
"But in that case, I'm going to leave the manor and leave the third master, Mei Yi is reluctant."
After two years of getting along, Tang Meiyi has regarded Yiliang's manor as her own home, with her own men and sisters, and she can't accept it when she suddenly wants to leave.
"Go ahead! That's your roots, remember that you will always be my Lady May!
But there is one thing, this male and female village must be your final say, otherwise I will not let them move back to western Yunnan. ”
Yang Meng also thought about it carefully, this women's spy group can also use one or two generations, this is a secret hand to control Yunnan, and it is difficult to say whether it will be used or not! I am not afraid of being used by the Lisu people.
Tang Meiyi, the owner of the village, does not know how much there is, if it is an empty shell, then it will be meaningless to rebuild the male and female village.
"Our family has been the owner of the village for generations, after my father's death, the owner of the village is my mother's, after my mother's death, the elders in the village, have been asking me to take over the mother's village, I only think about revenge, until now there is still no owner of the village.
Moreover, the elders in the village are also a member of my Tang family, and if I don't designate the person who is the owner of the village, then when I am gone, the village can only be torn apart. ”
The inheritance of this male and female village is a little special, but there are all kinds of rules in the mountain people, and Yang Meng does not want to delve into this, as long as Tang Meiyi has the final say in the male and female village, then rebuild the male and female village.
"Then rebuild the male and female village, you also know Uncle Ding in western Yunnan, I will ask someone to send him a message later, and you will let your people prepare to relocate!"
I also have one request, you have to expand as much as possible, the village of the Lisu people in western Yunnan, I will ask Uncle Ding to stop supplying food, what should you do? ”
Stop the food of the Lisu people, I am not afraid that the scale of the male and female village is not large enough, but I am afraid that the scale is too large, and Tang Meiyi will not be able to take it.
"This is great, I will re-establish the Gongmu Village in the name of Mrs. Meiyi, and in the future, the owner of the Gongmu Village must be a woman, and she must marry the Yang family."
This is the only thing Tang Meiyi can repay Yang Meng, this answer is also something Yang Meng didn't expect, I didn't expect Tang Meiyi, who was silent, to have a good scheming, and he was very satisfied with this answer.
Ding Taichen, who had just complained about the matter of the women's school, was found again, this time it is better, build a mountain city of the Lisu people, a mountain city! This is not a copycat, and the cost is a bottomless pit.
But if Mrs. Mei really built the Lisu mountain city, it would also play a great role in the Yang family, the Lisu people are not a small ethnic group, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Burma, India and Thailand all have the distribution of Lisu people.
Another is the Lisu people, who are half farmers and half hunters, and they are a very strong fighting group, if it were not for the small number of people, their influence in Yunnan would never be lower than that of a mountain tribe like Yi Zhuang.
The construction of a Lisu mountain city in western Yunnan can not only curb the mountain people who have been recruited down the mountain before, but also build this mountain city into a place for the surrounding Lisu communities to gather and communicate.
After carefully calculating the pros and cons of building a mountain city in his heart, Ding Taichen turned a blind eye to the huge expenses. (To be continued......)