Chapter 40: Construction Begins
Li Dayou did things really quickly, Li Cheng had just arrived home with his front foot, and his buttocks had not yet been hot, and someone came to call Li Cheng on his back foot, asking him to hurry over to measure the land so that he could hand over the land deed, and the wind was pulling and shouting!
In fact, it is not all the credit of Li Dayou, the most important thing is that the twenty taels of silver that Li Cheng took out played a role.
The reason why Lingnan can be the exile of the Tang Dynasty is not only because the land here is poor, but even the people are poor, and how poor they are.
Twenty taels of silver may not be anything in Chang'an City, and it is not even a fraction of the time that some playboys have been amorous overnight.
But in Lingnan, this is a huge amount of money! It is not a problem to buy a green building, of course, the premise is that there is a green building in Lingnan, but such a large area, I think there should be one.
Money is a good thing, and it has been so since ancient times.
No matter what era people are, they will always have a common characteristic——— people will always sharpen their heads and want to climb high. In the hearts of Lingnan people, the rich Central Plains is a high place, and there is no one who will not yearn for it.
So how poor is Lingnan to make so many people daunting?
First of all, it is impossible to farm in Lingnan, and it is impossible for a lifetime. It's not that the peasants don't want to, but they can't.
It is full of shrub forests, and even the so-called villages are nothing more than a consolation statement, which have been cut out of the bushes by the hands of generations of ancestors, and the land that has been reclaimed will be overgrown with shrubs and grasses if it is not repaired once in ten days and half a month.
The people who live here are all dependent on the mountains, and there is no reliable land. Risking their lives for three days to hunt in the deep mountains and old forests, there is no shortage of large carnivores such as bears, tigers, and cheetahs in the mountains and forests of Lingnan.
What's even more terrifying is to encounter packs of wolves, so that it is almost the whole army annihilated, without any luck, a proper copy of primitive life!
Then some people asked: what is the use of coins in this area of Lingnan?
There are also many uses, and it is also feasible to have money to travel all over the world in this Lingnan. Except for the food that cannot be bought, everything else can be bought, maids, slaves, but generally there is no stock.
Because strictly speaking, Lingnan is a group of slaves who have been degraded from abroad, and everyone who lives here is a slave class! How can a slave buy and sell slaves by himself!
Money is not omnipotent, but no money is impossible, money can make ghosts grind, this sentence is even more respected in the hearts of Lingnan sentient beings.
Everyone in Lingnan knows one thing and advocates this thing: there has always been a secret rumor in the Sui Dynasty: but anyone who was degraded and exiled to Lingnan, if they were civilians, could not return to the Central Plains within two generations, and the third generation had the opportunity to return to the Central Plains, but they had to pay
50 taels of silver, otherwise unless there is an order from the emperor, it will not be allowed to return.
This thing is absolutely true!
This is why coins are so precious in Lingnan.
On the contrary.
The land here in Lingnan is worthless, crops cannot be grown and overgrown with weeds, who would be stupid to spend this unjust money to buy it?
So don't look at Li Cheng bought a mountain with only 20 taels of silver, and the size of this mountain is not small. But in fact, whether it is Litun or the county order, everyone knows that Li Cheng is a blood loss, and he is properly possessed by a stupid big man.
There are so many such big green mountains in Lingnan, and there may not be many people who want them for nothing!
How would they know that Li Cheng didn't want to fight in the future, so he simply bought it out, and no one owed anyone.
So you can imagine how happy Litun was when he saw so many silver taels, and his enthusiasm for this matter even exceeded that of the village chief Li Dayou, who almost treated Li Cheng as a grandfather, and served the good students who served tea and toasts, and did not slack off at all.
Li Cheng understood that this was this Litun who was afraid that he would suddenly regret and not invest, so that he would be empty of people and money, and he would be happy, so he relied on his official power to urgently complete the deal.
The title deed was written on the spot, and although the landscape of Lingnan nominally belonged to the Tang Dynasty, no one actually took it seriously, and the title deed would not exist.
Usually the mountain is there, which family likes to use which family, and no one has ever thought about the existence of such a thing as a title deed.
But in any case, the land belongs to the Tang Dynasty, and the handling of the title deed needs to be officially recognized.
The delivery process was smooth, and there were no cats and dogs barking. So, in less than a quarter of an hour after coming here, Li Chengcheng went back slowly with the title deed.
In the afternoon, the sun is blazing, and the weather in Lingnan is exceptionally hot.
The villagers who went out to farm returned in twos and threes, and then rushed to Li Cheng's house with their cubs.
By 2:00 o'clock, the courtyard of Li Cheng's house was already full of people, and there were still many people outside the courtyard in groups.
Li Cheng took a cursory look and saw that there were more than 200 households in the village, and almost 1,000 people of all sizes were here.
Seeing that everyone was almost there, Li Cheng did not procrastinate, and after a few polite words, he asked Wan Niang to take a few aunts to the backyard to get the cloth out and distribute it to everyone.
Even if the number of people is a little unexpectedly large, Li Cheng still does it as he said before: no matter how old or young, one head and one piece of cloth!
Li Cheng's wave of love offensive immediately made the people of Xiaohe Village
They fell, and they all praised Li Cheng one by one.
"The Li family is really a good person~ How much does it cost to give us so much cloth?"
"Yes, yes, I thought this baby was cute when he was a child, and I was very optimistic about him~"
"My mother-in-law is from the city, she has seen the world, and when she sees this child, she sees that he will definitely be able to become a great weapon in the future, and he is a person who does great things."
“……”
The crowd was in a commotion as soon as the cloth came out, and there was a lot of chatter and discussion below, and no one was talking about the excitement from time to time.
No one asks if you are poor in the downtown area, but you have distant relatives in the mountains!
It took half an hour to distribute the horses, and Li Cheng asked Tao Meng, who had a huge mental power, to count it carefully, and a total of 1,283 pieces of cloth were distributed.
In other words, there should be about 1,300 people in this village, which is not a small village in later generations.
With such a large population, Li Cheng is overjoyed, he has a system and lacks nothing, but he lacks labor.
Although the population of more than 1,300 is not very large, it is also a group of labor force that cannot be ignored, which will undoubtedly make Li Cheng's plan more quickly completed.
This evil landlord life!
Happy forest, this is the name that Li Cheng gave to that mountain forest.
The Happy Forest is about 500 meters away from the old house of Li Cheng's family, and the location for setting up the pot and cooking is finally selected on the halfway up the mountain of the Happy Forest, so that whether it is working on the mountain or working under the mountain, you can quickly come to eat.
After waiting for all the stoves to be built and the iron pots were set up, Li Cheng and the men ran out of breath to the river under the big trees to cool off.
The weather is ghostly, the temperature is as high as 29 degrees, and working under such a big sun is like roasting people on the fire.
Naturally, some aunts and girls took over the work of making a fire and cooking, and Wanniang and Li's mother also helped out.
And the little girl and Caiyi are famous for giving Li Cheng a hand, so they have been relying on Li Cheng's side, refusing to leave.
Li Cheng is undoubtedly the chief foreman of this project, and he is in charge of all the powers. At Li Cheng's suggestion, the village head Li Dayou was promoted to deputy foreman, mainly responsible for leading everyone when Li Cheng was away.
Lingnan is a poor place that relies on the mountains to eat the mountains, and in this place where birds poop everywhere, it is absolutely impossible to feed a family by farming alone.
Therefore, as long as it is a 14-year-old boy, if there are no special circumstances, he will learn to hunt.
As a result, almost all the mature men in the village still have the sub-profession of Orion, and there are many leaders in this industry.
(End of chapter)