In the end, the contract reached between Li Tai and the Wuxiang county government was that from now on, after the autumn harvest, the county government should ensure the supply of 20 cattle and horses, 15 carts, and more than 100 men and women in the prime of life, and all crop seeds sown with the season, and the replacement and filling of all kinds of farm tools.

Li Tai had to ensure that after the autumn, he would make up for the shortage of grain and grain in the Daxingtai Governor and the county government, at least 8,000 stones, and cap 12,000 stones.

At first glance, this contract seems a bit absurd, but the magistrate of the dignified county has to make such a deal with the people under his rule to ensure that the tax is paid in full.

But in fact, Li Tai still suffered. In the current world, the hegemonic regime of the Western Wei Dynasty is already weak and lacks prestige, and someone who has food is the uncle. In order to ensure the stability of the rule and the full collection of money and food, the county officials should be close to the big families in the townships, almost sycophant.

Zheng Man is now completely sitting in the same boat with Li Tai, and he also revealed to him many details of county governance.

Even if Li Tai doesn't use these carts and animals rented by the county government to Li Tai, they will actually be distributed to other large households in the county.

If there is a wedding or funeral in a large household, the county must use it free of charge, and the county official must also be present to express it. In addition, the matter of digging caves and building statues to worship the Buddha, although it is a call for large households, the county must also contribute money and efforts.

These courtesies said that they would not clearly mark the price, just in exchange for the friendship of the county's large households, and once they needed to collect and transport materials, the county officials would also visit and ask for advice in a low voice.

Now the county still has to clearly mark the price of Li Tai's contract, mainly because he lacks a local foundation, so he looks down on it.

Li Tai is not ashamed or angry about this, it is also a fact that he is weaker than others.

The reason why such a deal was reached with the county government was not only to get direct help to expand production, but also to gain a backer in the countryside.

After the cooperation is reached, if these big households in the county want to exclude and suppress him, they have to consider the attitude of the county government. And the county government also wants to give Li Tai special care because of the hope of this ten thousand stones of grain.

The county commander Du Yun is also an old slippery head, when they met before, they talked about friendship endlessly, and it seemed that every member of the Li clan in Longxi was a friend of eight worships, and he was ruthless when it came to business, and said through Zheng Manyin that Li Tai himself was not qualified to sign a contract with the county, and it was best to ask for a position to be a guarantee.

The implication is that it is best for Li Tai to ask Toga Basheng to come forward as a guarantee.

But not to mention whether Li Tai invited him to move He Batsheng, even if he could, he would not do so. was polite before, it was to lure people to the bait, and now that the county magistrate has felt that this is not a bad choice, of course Li Tai will not be so attentive anymore.

Even if the cooperation fails, he has nothing to lose, but the county order wants to go to the door of the big households to be a grandson again.

Although the contract was sent to the county, due to Li Tai's negative attitude, it was stalemate for a few days. In the end, it was the county commander Du Yun who failed to hold back, and then said that this manor belonged to Gao Zhongmi after all, and it was best for Gao Situ to come forward, in the final analysis, he still didn't trust Li Tai, a white-bodied boy.

"This county order is also a clumsy talent, not a big weapon! It's just a lot of grain, but there are still a lot of plans! ”

Let Gao Zhongmi come forward, Li Tai didn't have any psychological burden, but after coming to the manor, Gao Zhongmi complained, and Zheng Man next to him just smiled dryly.

"After all, I am clumsy, I can't stand on my own, and I am tired of my uncle."

Li Tai said with a smile, Gao Zhongmi sighed again after hearing this, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's so poor here, and everything is not prosperous. I'm not complaining about me, I'm just feeling sorry for you...... In the past, a family son who was loved by his parents now has to discuss the gains and losses with the county for his livelihood. If it is really unsustainable, Ah Pan will go back to the city with me, and this narrow manor is not a business foundation, so I simply rent it out! ”

"Kansai's materials are thin, and you can only feel at ease if you are self-employed. Uncle pities me, but I don't want to be a Huli rice worm, I still hope to work hard, to be worthy of myself and my uncle. ”

Gao Zhongmi said that the good thing is that he is not sophisticated, and the ugly thing is that he is ambitious and talented, but his care for himself is not fake, and it also makes Li Tai find a little sense of dependence.

At present, the construction of the manor is still sloppy, and after Gao Zhongmi came to meet with the county officials, he was persuaded by Li Tai to return to the city, but he left a hundred men and women, and the only remaining gold in the family was handed over to Li Tai, which made Li Tai have the determination to fight against the water.

In the past few days, Li Tai and the subordinates have not been idle, plus Zhou Changming led the township soldiers to help, although the county figures have not yet received the funding, but more than a dozen hectares of open fields have been ploughed for nearly half, and the five hectares of corn have begun to be sown.

Li Tai selected a dozen strong men who were proficient in carpentry from among the troops and village soldiers, and selected good timber in the mountains and forests to continue to make quyuan plows and other tools.

The day after Gao Zhongmi appeared, the county's trucks and animals were delivered, with 30 or 18 cattle and horses, and more than 130 men and women, all of which were higher than the bottom line in the agreement, probably to show the county's sincerity.

led the team, in addition to Zheng Man, who was basically stationed in Shangyuan, there was also a county lieutenant named Shi Gong.

This Shi Gong is the head of a big family surnamed Shi in the township who instigated the villagers to disturb him before, he is in his forties, and he is a bearded man with a big waist and a round waist. The Hu people with the surname Shi are basically the nine surnames of Zhaowu in the Western Regions, and it is not uncommon for Guanzhong to be disturbed for hundreds of years, and many miscellaneous Hu people have smuggled into settlement.

When this county lieutenant Shi arrived, he did not show any malice, and his attitude was kind and polite, such as welcoming Li Tai to settle in Shangyuan, and the county government valued this cooperation.

Of course, Li Tai would not childishly question the matter of the previous township fight, and after sending this Shi County Lieutenant away with a smirk, he pulled Zheng Man aside and said: "This Hexi thief hides a knife in his laughter, he is not a good person, Zheng Zhi is willing to give in?" ”

Zheng Man smiled bitterly after hearing this: "Shi County Wei Township is a big family, and this family is Jingzhao Haozong, so he has to occupy this position, and he is also allowed to do so." I am just a subordinate, just look at the land and accept orders, how dare I have ......"

"Yes! I don't hate the poverty of the villagers and hate me, but I hate these thieves and traitors who are bullied by the public. Zheng is engaged in your dedication to the countryside and being diligent, I see it in my eyes, but under this treacherous beard, it is unfair for the court to reward the soldiers. The reason why I was able to conspire with the county government this time was also because of Zheng Zheng's running for you. After the autumn harvest, I will not only return to the grain delivery, but also present the details of this diligence to the stage! ”

After getting along for a few days, Li Tai also heard a lot of details about the personnel in the county from Zheng Man's mouth, so as soon as the personnel and materials in the county were in place, he began to take eye medicine.

When Zheng Man heard this, his expression became a little entangled, both happy and worried, and only after a while did he sigh and said: "Grace is used from the top, and the subordinates are diligent and duty-oriented. I thank Li Lang for his meritorious work, but Shi County Weixiang has been looking forward to many years, and it is not a ...... that can win glory in a short period of time."

"It's man-made, the imperial industry still needs to hunt in the west, and a thief in a township is not as stable as a rock. This Huju County, let me be uneasy, either I am or the other, I will go alone, not this year, then next year! ”

Li Tai said with a smile again, seeing Zheng Man's eyes flickering, he knew that he was moved. Then if he has any local disputes with the county lieutenant and his family, Zheng Man will also have a high chance of standing on his side. At least if County Lieutenant Shi wanted to make things difficult for him through the county government, Li Tai would not be completely blind.

Zhou Changming, the lord of the war, brought more than 30 village soldiers to help with farming, Li Tai also had 200 men and women in the tribe, plus 130 troops sent by the county. Nearly 400 people gathered in the entire manor, and it suddenly became lively.

With so much manpower, it is naturally impossible to fully cultivate the land, and many of the things in Li Tai's plan can be carried out together.

The first thing to do is to build a house, and although it is okay to stay in the early summer, Li Tai is not used to living in a tent for a long time, and he feels at ease when he has tiles to cover his head.

Now that he has sufficient manpower, he arranged for a group of people to clean up the ruins of the original dock wall here, and first build a fence around the bottom wall of the rammed earth.

This kind of manual work is not difficult, bamboo and wood materials are everywhere all over the mountain, it only took half a day's work, a fence of hundreds of steps in length and breadth was erected under the hillside, although it still looks a little messy, but it finally has a preliminary internal and external pattern.

Inside the fence, Li Tai originally planned to build a blue brick house in one step, and even had two brick kilns built on the southern slope.

But there are not many people who know how to make billets and burn bricks in the trilogy, only a few such as Yang Heili, and only two or three hundred qualified bricks are made in a busy day, plus firing, if you want to meet the huge demand for building a manor, I am afraid that you will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

"There are more than 10,000 square meters of bricks in Shangyangshu, all of which are used by township soldiers and farmers for idle burning. If Lang Jun is in urgent need, he can embezzle it first, but he must make up for it before the autumn. ”

When the warlord Zhou Changming saw this, he enthusiastically proposed.

Peasant houses rarely use bricks and tiles extravagantly, but it is inevitable to use them to repair fort cities.

Although the actual distance between Huazhou, the ruling core of the Western Wei Dynasty, and Jinyang, the base camp of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, is quite long, but there is only a natural danger of the Yellow River between each other, and it is also the basic task of the Western Wei Dynasty to build forts and cities after the autumn, and even after the winter, they have to send people to dig ice on the edge of the Yellow River, for fear of being stolen by the Eastern Wei Dynasty unconsciously.

Li Tai did not dare to borrow Shang Yangshu's military reserve materials, but when he learned that there was no shortage of village soldiers who were proficient in cultivation, he hoped that Zhou Changming could lend a few people for him to familiarize himself with and bring new ones.

Zhou Changming naturally did not object to this, Li Tai did not hide his private knowledge of the Quyuan plough making technology to teach the villagers, in his heart the good impression has been brushed up, seconding a few township soldiers and craftsmen is a trivial matter.

Due to the limited production of bricks and tiles, the pace of construction could only be delayed, so some shacks were built inside the fence as a transition.

In the evening, the camp was filled with the sound of sheep again. Although Zhou Changming asked the township soldiers to prepare their own meals, and the county envoys also took care of their own meals, Li Tai also saw the busy manual labor from morning to night.

Although his family is not rich now, after negotiating cooperation with the county, most of the cost is temporary loans, and he can afford two fat sheep a day. Buy directly from the countryside and the price is also affordable. After a tiring day, a bowl of fragrant mutton soup can also comfort the hard work.