After hearing this, Zhang Pu had to come to the county office.

Now the magistrate of Zhang Pu's county is already the former Yicheng Liu Shanghui.

Zhang Pu was also promoted to the county minister, responsible for the agriculture and taxation of the county.

As soon as Liu Shanghui saw Zhang Pu, he asked him to divide the fields and land for the monks and beggars assigned to the county, and taught them to plant potatoes, in addition to potatoes and rye, which are all newly cultivated cold-tolerant crops by the Daming Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Zhang Pu did not disobey his orders, he was already a small local landlord and a small bureaucrat, and for his own future, he began to take responsibility for this matter.

Therefore, Jiao An and other monks and beggars who were arranged to Kaizhou in eastern Liaodong were given fields by Zhang Pu's organization, and they were also given hoes, plowshares and other farming tools.

But after Jiao An got the hoe and looked at the land allocated to him, he didn't have the heart to dig it.

Syllable!

Zhang Pu has the responsibility of supervising the development of local agriculture, not to mention that he now has the idea of getting the opportunity to return to the customs with his family servants to become officials by being diligent in the king's affairs, so he is very active in urging these monks and beggars in front of him to participate in farming.

Seeing that Jiao An, a fake monk with short hair on his head, was holding a hoe and not moving in front of him, Zhang Pu asked the messenger who followed him to give Jiao An a whip.

"Ouch!"

Jiao An screamed and was directly rolled to the ground.

Zhang Pu took the opportunity to reprimand at this time: "Hurry up and dig the ground according to the local old farmer's teaching!" Don't be lazy! After planting it, it's all your own, so that you can eat enough, and if you want to rely on the little relief food sent by the county government, you can only guarantee that you won't starve to death, understand?! ”

"I was like you at the beginning, I didn't want to farm, I felt that farming was difficult, it was insulting, and the so-called retreat to the countryside was not pleasant, but there was no way, and in the end, because I didn't want to go hungry, I had to work hard."

"Dig it!"

After Zhang Pu said that, he saw that Jiao An still didn't move, so he only stood up and looked at the sunset in the sky in a daze, so he simply kicked out, roared, and said: "Before it's dark, hurry up!" ”

Jiao An planted himself on the ground again, then got up sadly, picked up the hoe, and dug into the ground, sobbing at the same time, he did not expect that he would eventually have to do the work that the farmers do.

Zhang Pu saw that Jiao An's hoe was weak and weak, and he didn't dig deep into the ground, so he angrily snatched his hoe, pierced his left foot like a lunge, and then waved the hoe and said to Jiao An: "Look how I dug it!" ”

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After speaking, Zhang Pu's two already tanned tendons and flesh collapsed, and the hoe in his hand kept digging up the ground, and as soon as he dug it, he dug up a large piece of black soil a lot, and then spit and spat in the palm of his hand, wiped it, and continued to dig, and after a while, he dug a third for Jiao An, and then handed the hoe to Jiao An and asked, "Have you learned?" ”

Jiao An was stunned and asked, "The second master can dig the ground?" ”

Zhang Pu said: "I didn't know it, but you were forced to do it later!" ”

Jiao An was surprised, so he had to continue digging.

Zhang Pu frowned after seeing it, and walked over to Mao Bijiang, who came with him, and said, "I'm as stupid as I was at the beginning!" ”

After Zhang Pu said this, he went to inspect his own fields, and his own fields were no longer cultivated by himself, but by his slaves.

His housekeeper slave Zhou Rui, formerly known as 9527, was also holding a whip with his hands on his waist and digging the ground with a hoe in his Baiyi slave supervising Zhang Pu.

And after Zhang Pu came, Zhou Rui, a slave of Baiyi, ran over, and said with a smile: "Master, you are here." ”

Zhang Pu nodded and asked, "How is the spring plowing completed this year?" ”

"I've already made them more than halfway there."

This week, Rui replied.

Zhang Pu didn't speak after hearing this, but walked over from his slaves with a satisfied look, and then called Zhou Rui over and said, "After dark, take them to my courtyard and get their new clothes." You can't always wear such a torn padded jacket, in case you get sick, you can't do it. ”

Zhou Rui agreed: "Thank you for your grace!" ”

The Bai Yi slaves who are digging the ground now also understand some Chinese, so after hearing Zhang Pu say this, they are also very happy, and even dig the ground harder, and feel that their master is still very benevolent, that is, Zhou Rui, who cares about his own people, is hateful, everyone is obviously a Yi person who came here as slaves, why is he so wanton beating and scolding us?

"This year, the potato harvest in Liaodong outside the Guanxi has exceeded 2 million stones, which shows that the potato planting is very successful, so that many wastelands in Liaodong have been utilized, which has greatly solved the problem of grain shortage outside the Guanxi."

"Of course, being able to produce so many potatoes is related to the exile of a large number of Han people out of the customs and even the arrest of a lot of Yi slaves, especially the tens of thousands of Yi slaves caught in Lingnan last year.

Because it is now the spring of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and the potatoes have entered the harvest period, Bi Ziyan, the secretary of the household department, also talked about the output of potatoes outside the customs in the planning department on this day.

Yuan Keli, the secretary of the ministry, said with a smile: "Letting a large number of people enslave not only increases grain production, but also allows a limited number of Han people outside the customs to engage in other affairs. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Gui asked with a smile: "In this way, razing people as slaves is really a policy for the benefit of the country and the people, and it is even better to have more razor people as slaves?" ”

"The way to govern the country must keep pace with the times and seek truth from facts, the imperial court opened up the territory and built a large number of projects, absorbing many Han people out of your family, out of the fields and no longer as slaves and farmers, then the world naturally really needs slaves to do slaves to do slave work. Therefore, Uncle Guo is not wrong in what he said, it is better to have more people as slaves. ”

Chen Zizhuang followed.

After hearing this, Zhang Gui said: "Now in the vicinity of this dynasty, except for the two places of Korea and the Japanese slaves, which are temporarily inappropriate to directly seize their population because of the need for their markets, the places where the Yi people gather the most are only the two places of Dongfan (Taiwan) Island and Manila. ”

"Why is the reason why it is to save the people of the Han family, in order to make the Han people in the world not slaves, the imperial court should raise troops to crusade against the enslaved Han people?"

Chen Zizhuang asked at this time.

"Very good!"

Wei Zhongxian replied and said, "Our family can't see my Han people being enslaved by barbarians!" ”

Zhang Gui couldn't help but smile: "In this case, why don't you let Dongchang take care of this matter, and Dongchang will ask Your Majesty to allow Dongchang to set up a patrol fleet around the world to inspect the enslavement of Han people?" ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "Uncle Guo rest assured, it is incumbent on Dongchang to save the enslaved Han people in the world!" ”