Yao Shuqi's eyes widened: "Huh? ”

Others were surprised.

Although the garden is very beautiful, his young master has always had insufficient time, so he used to be busy when he was taking the imperial examination; After becoming an official, he stayed in the yamen all day long, and finally took a day off, and would stay in the house to read, write, paint, and paint, and have no time to enjoy the scenery of his own yard.

Therefore, the gardens built by the Du family have always been for others to appreciate. Du Jinning is just making money from this.

If you say that in the capital, there are many literati and writers, and there are many rich people, it is not bad for the young master to want to build a garden, at least he can make friends and entertain friends when he is free, or it is not bad for publicity.

But Runzhou City is not big, there don't seem to be many rich people, and there are even fewer literati and writers compared to the capital. It is estimated that building a garden in Runzhou City can only be used to drop birds, not to mention the countryside where this bird does not.

Yao Shuqi and others have always admired Du Jinning's cleverness, and they all felt that her head was caught by the door panel.

"Young master, you said to build a garden?" Yao Shuqi wanted to make sure he had heard it wrong.

"Yes." Du Jinning nodded.

"But why?"

Du Jinning glanced at him and said, "If you are told to do it, you will do it, and ask so much for what you are doing." ”

At this glance, this sentence made Yao Shuqi's back break out in a cold sweat.

In the past, when the young master gave orders, he always carried them out without saying a word, and never asked the reason. It was actually him who trespassed just now.

"Yes, young master." He hurriedly said respectfully.

Du Jinning nodded: "You can call the people in Zhuangzi to cut down trees in a while, and calculate the wages according to the market price." I wrote to Liang Xiankuan about building the garden, and asked him to send someone to build it, and when the field was not busy, I could also send some people from the Zhuangzi to do rough work. ”

In order to rob the farmers, Yao Shuqi went to Runzhou to buy a house and asked people to raise seedlings in the rice fields in the house. Those old farmers used to farm in the Du family's house, which Du Jinning specially selected from the Zhuangzi in the capital, and brought them to Runzhou this time.

Therefore, before the seedlings are raised, these tenant farmers on the Zhuangzi basically have nothing to do except plough the fields well and apply basal fertilizer again. And if there are more people, the trees in the grove can be cut down in one day, and it will not delay them much.

"Okay, young master."

"Before the garden is built, you send someone to clean up the house on Zhuangzi. I'll be staying here most of the time in the future. ”

Yao Shuqi should play, and seeing that Du Jinning had no other instructions, he immediately set off to find someone to do something.

Du Jinning turned his head and instructed Aoki: "You find Song Zhuangtou to go to the house over there, and I'll talk to him." ”

Aoki also left.

Du Jinning returned to Zhuangzi's house, sat down, and waited for Song Zhuangtou to come over.

Yao Shuqi also cleaned up this house before. It's just that I thought that this was just Du Jinning's rest when he came to Zhuangzi, so he didn't clean it up carefully. Now that Du Jinning wants to live here, it is another matter, at least a bedroom and a study should be arranged; In addition, it is necessary to prevent the Chen family from coming to live here.

After a while, Song Zhuangtou came.

Du Jinning asked him to sit down, and began to ask him how many cows there were in the village, how many strong laborers there were, how many old people, women and children were, and how they usually cultivated the fields.

Old man Zhuang was uneasy, but he still answered Du Jinning's questions one by one.

There weren't many cattle in Zhuangzi, but Yao Shuqi knew that Du Jinning had ordered the emperor to cultivate the fields, and he couldn't save money by cultivating the fields, so he bought seven or eight cows one after another in the past few days, which was enough.

It's good that there is plenty of time now, but if there is no cattle to plough the land during the summer double robbery, it is easy to miss the agricultural time.

Du Jinning understood the situation on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also revealed some knowledge of farming in his words. As the saying goes, as soon as a connoisseur stretches out his hand, he knows if there is one. After listening to Du Jinning's words, Song Zhuangtou found that the young man in front of him seemed to be quite proficient in farming, and he had said everything to the point.

He couldn't help but look at Du Jinning with admiration.

I also have some confidence in double cropping rice.

"From tomorrow onwards, you will turn over the oxen, plough the fields and fertilize them. When the time comes, I will send someone to guide you. Du Jinning said.

"Okay, Du Dongjia." Old man Song was respectful from the bottom of his heart this time.

Seeing off the old man Song, Du Jinning went home and returned to Runzhou City.

Entering the door, she asked Old Man Zhu, "Has anyone been here in the yamen?" ”

"Nope." Old man Zhu said, and after speaking, he glanced at Du Jinning with anxiety.

Du Jinning came to Runzhou, and everyone in the house knew about the cold reception in the yamen. This is also Yao Shuqi's deliberate knocking down on people, telling them to act carefully, so as not to be grabbed by someone to drag Du Jinning back, and deliberately reveal it.

Du Jinning didn't react, went directly into his yard and began to write planting records.

This is the task she has given herself.

In Runzhou, how many acres of land are used for farming, how many farms are used for farming, how many cattle are used, what fertilizer is used, how to breed, and what the weather is like at this time, she has to record them one by one, and every once in a while she sends someone to send them to Qi Bokun, and then entrusts him to transfer them to Zhao Yu.

There are people in the DPRK who have such benefits. Otherwise, she wants to report to the big boss regularly and get political achievements, but there is no way to ask for help.

The day passed in peace.

On the second day, Du Jinning went to the yamen again to order something.

The official of the yamen also told her once again that Lord Zhizhou and the two fellow intellectuals had gone out of the city.

Du Jinning still didn't have much emotion. This time, she did not go to the yamen everywhere, but went to the workshop in charge of agriculture and water conservancy, and asked about the basic situation there.

"I'm sorry, my lord, these subordinates don't know." The warden surnamed Yu said with an expressionless face.

Others secretly looked at Du Jinning's face.

Du Jinning was expressionless and couldn't see his joy or anger.

"As a workshop warden, you don't know how much cultivated land and how many cattle are cultivated in Runzhou?" She asked.

"These data are in the hands of Master Tongzhi Wang. Lord Wang didn't tell Xiaguan, and Xiaguan naturally didn't know. Yu Dian's expression was a little unnatural, but he still gritted his teeth and withstood the pressure, and still used this reason to prevaricate Du Jinning.

"What about water in the state? What was the harvest like in previous years? Du Jinning asked again.

Yu Dian's forehead was slightly sweaty, but he still said: "The lower official doesn't know." ”

Du Jinning asked a few more questions, and the officials answered like this.

Du Jinning nodded and stood up: "Okay, I know." With that, he turned and went out the door.

Yu Dian's eyes looked at the other officials in the workshop: "He knows what's wrong?" ”

"He knows your attitude, haha." Colleague laughed.

"Yu Huaigu, you are looking for death." An old official glanced at Yu Warden and shook his head with pity.

"You old man is cowardly, with the protection of Lord Zhizhou, the strong dragon can't suppress the head snake, how can Lord Du take the Yu Warden? Lord Zhizhou just wants to give the new Tongzhi a dismount, as long as this Lord Du is smarter, take some gifts to Lord Zhizhou's mansion to serve softly, bow his head, and this matter will be over. The usual dumping in officialdom is that the emperor can't control it if he knows about it, what are you afraid of? ”