In the early morning, there was a loud rooster crow, "cluck-cluck" Li Yang opened his heavy eyes and got up from the bed, at this time he only felt abnormal pain in his neck, shoulders and back, probably because his sleeping position was wrong last night

Before he woke up from sleep, Song Shiting came over with a towel, "Husband, you're awake" As she spoke, she took the towel and wiped it back and forth on my face: How much wine did you drink yesterday, the second child sent you back, you fell asleep in bed, and I wanted to beckon you to get up for dinner at night, but no matter how I greeted you, I couldn't wake you up

Li Yang lazily took the towel: Why don't I have any impression when the second brother sent me back, madam, you go and I will bring the clothes to be my spirit, I didn't expect that the wine brewed in our own winery is quite strong

Song Shiting went to the closet and found a thick cotton gown and sent it to me, and after getting dressed, I looked around the room and said, "Alas, why did Hengyan go: Why didn't Mrs. see Hengyan."

Song Shiting: Sister, she should be cooking in the kitchen

It didn't take long for Hengyan to walk in with a pot of soup and cooked rice, and I smelled the fragrance of the soup from a distance, and she put the cooked meal on the table and filled the rice and shouted softly: When the meal is ready, you two come over quickly

After breakfast, I walked to the county office, and saw four burly officials guarding the outside of the county office, and I didn't think much about it and walked towards the county office

This sudden voice can startle Li Yang, thinking that even a small official of yours dares to stop me, but looking down, it is no wonder that any of them You let you wear a set of civilian clothes today, at first glance, it is no different from ordinary people, who knows who you are, so he arched his hands at the officer: Li Yang, who is guarding in the north of Xiataizhou, came to visit Han Zhixian, and bothered a few brothers to go in to help report

When the officials heard this, they immediately knelt on the ground with their heads bowed, clenched their fists and clenched their knives: The villain didn't know that the adults were here, and they asked the adults to forgive their sins

Li Yang waved his hand: Okay, let's get up, can I go in this time?

After getting up, the official respectfully made a gesture with his hand: Your Excellency, please

At the moment when they walked into the county office, the officials gathered together and muttered quietly, "I have heard of Master Li a long time ago, but I didn't expect him to be so young", "The livelihood of tens of thousands of people in Alan County can all be pointed to this one."

As soon as I entered the county office, I saw Han Ju was engrossed in tinkering with something on the square table, he didn't notice that I quietly walked over out of curiosity, looking at the situation, there should be a sand table on the table, it is west of the mountains, east of the mountain, south of the sea and north are plains, if I am not mistaken, this sand table should be a topographic map of Taizhou

After watching it for a long time, Han Juzheng realized that I was here: Brother Li, when did you come

Li Yang: When I first came, I saw that you were engrossed in the sand table, so I didn't bother you, is this sand table a topographic map of Taizhou?

Han Juzheng: It is this sand table that I made according to the topography of the northern part of Taizhou, and when I finish this sand table and sort out the things of each village, I will have a better idea

Li Yang: When you say that, I think of something, Ju Zheng is waiting for the New Year to explore with me to see if those places can be cultivated

Han Juzheng: That's fine

Li Yang: Just send someone to collect half of the poll tax in Juzheng Ten Village, this matter has been approved by Lord Sun, the old people in Alan County will collect half of the tax, and the tax of those who have just been resettled will be borne by our county, and I will send someone to the county government in the afternoon to send this money

Han Juzheng: That's really good, I've been worrying about the poll tax for the past two days

Li Yang: When the tax revenue is complete, let people send it directly to the yamen of the state capital

Han Juzheng: Brother Li, I plan to conduct a census of the population of Alan County, and number the number of people in a household, what their names and skills, and record all those who have a livelihood and those who do not, and then we can hire craftsmen who know how to do crafts as needed, and let those who do not have skills do some casual labor or some manual work, and if there are people with bad conduct, lazy and lazy, and those who are handy, they will all be expelled from Alan County

Li Yang: Ju Zheng, you have a very good idea, Alan County should indeed conduct a census, how many people do you know what kind of crafts are like craftsmen, how many people can work in these more than 30,000 people can be understood through this census, Ju Zheng I have a suggestion that this census should be numbered according to 1,000 households, the first thousand households will be numbered according to the number of 1-how many and the 2,000 households will be numbered according to two-how many, as long as you look at the number in front of you to know that he is the first few thousand households, and you can see the information of this household when you find out the corresponding number

Han Juzheng: Brother Li, I coincide with your thoughts

Li Yang: There are two other things in Juzheng, and the county has to sit down early to prepare

Han Juzheng: Brother Li doesn't know about those two things

Li Yang: We have to raise cotton clothes for the winter of these 10,000 people as soon as possible and some traditional Chinese medicine to cure common diseases

Han Juzheng: I can raise Chinese medicine, but it is a bit difficult to raise 10,000 cotton clothes in a short period of time

Li Yang: That's it, Juzheng, you can give me a number of how much you think you can raise, and I'll figure out how to solve the rest

Han Juzheng hesitated for a while: I can raise 4,000 cotton clothes

Li Yang: Okay, then I'll hand over the remaining 6,000 pieces of cotton clothes

As soon as he returned home, Li Yang locked himself in the room, he read some books on cultivating land and farming, and learned a lot about the methods of cultivating land in combination with what he knew and recorded a classic, and saw that the book recorded that the ox pulled the rake and plough can only dig a ditch at a time, which is too inefficient, so he designed a five-row plough according to the principle of the tractor. In this way, the efficiency of ploughing can be increased by more than two times, of course, all this is only theory, as for whether it works, it has to be proved by practice, and a series of drawings have been drawn according to the current shovel-hoe-harrow-sickle

Seeing that he had achieved so many results, he fluttered his hands triumphantly, he didn't expect that Young Master Ben and I had such a talent for design, he pushed open the door and saw that it was already dark, "Hey", no one called me out to eat for a day, no wonder I felt so hungry

Originally, I was thinking of going to the kitchen to find something to eat, but I didn't walk a few steps before I met Song Shiting, and she walked over quickly: Husband, why did you come back, my sister and I are waiting for you to come back and eat together

As soon as Li Yang heard the feelings, you didn't know about the day I came back, but when I thought about it, it was no wonder that whoever told you to lock yourself in the room as soon as you came back, that person didn't see anyone and thought that you hadn't come back yet: Madam, I've been back for a day

Song Shiting was surprised when she heard this: Then why didn't my sister and I see you

Li Yang: I sorted out some things in the room I used to live in

Song Shiting took my arm: Then go back to dinner, Sister Hengyan is still waiting for the two of us there

After dinner, I came to the second child's house, raised my hand and gently buckled the door, "Oh-oh", and a crisp voice came from inside: Who?

Li Yang: The second is me, and I kind of want to discuss it with you

Li Song opened the door: The boss is going into the house and saying something

Li Yang walked into the room and sat down at the table: The second child is in urgent need of 6,000 cotton clothes in the county right now, for my brother, I want to ask you if you know where to get cloth and cotton

Li Song: I can go to Yixuan Cloth to buy the cloth that I need in the county, and as for the cotton, I have to ask the shopkeeper Wen to help them find a way

Li Yang: Second brother, you calculate how much silver you will need to see how much silver you need, and see if there is enough silver left in our silver vault

Li Song smiled and shook his hand: Boss, I don't need silver to do business with them

As soon as Li Yang heard it, he was confused: what is the use of silver for business

Li Song: I exchanged salt with them, and this was the first business I did with them

Li Yang: You have to be careful when dealing with those people, those businessmen have too many flowers

Li Song: Boss, don't worry, everyone is taking what they need, if they play crookedly, then I won't play with them

Li Yang nodded, "Hmm", second brother, then you rest early, I'll go back first."

Early the next morning, Li Song took a carriage to Taizhou City, and when he arrived in the city, the carriage went around a few streets and did not find the Yixuan cloth number, so Li Song inquired with the pedestrians on the street and learned the approximate location of the Yixuan cloth number, and finally found the Yixuan cloth number in an alley according to the route said by the pedestrians, which was actually a magnificent courtyard

Li Song walked into the cloth number slowly, and saw that there were really a lot of men and women who came to buy cloth, and there were all kinds of cloth and various colors hanging in the cloth shop, he reached out and picked up a piece of sample cloth and rubbed it, and it felt good, and the cloth surface was also very thick, it was indeed a good cloth

Just as he was wandering around in the cloth shop, a man greeted him with a smile on his face: "This guest officer is small, I know at a glance that you are a nobleman, and if the cloth here can't get in, there will be better behind your eyes."

Li Song shook his hand: I'm just taking a casual look, by the way, your shopkeeper is here

Man: My shopkeeper is inspecting the cloth in the cloth interview

Li Song: Then tell me that I have a business to find your shopkeeper

Man: Dare to ask this guest officer who you are

Li Song: Tell your shopkeeper that the second son of the Li family in Alan County wants to see him

The guy looked respectful: It turned out to be the second young master of the Li family, I will go and report to you if you wait here for a while

It didn't take long for Wen Xin to come to the cloth shop in a hurry, and as soon as he saw Li Song, he greeted him warmly: Second son, why don't you let people know in advance, if these guys have a place to snub you, please bear with me

Li Song: Shopkeeper Wen, you are serious

Wen Xin turned to look at the guy: Remember that this is the second son of the Li family, and you will lead him directly to the study when he comes in the future

Man: The little one was noted

Wen Xin stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please: Brother Li, let's talk in the house

When he arrived at the study, Wen Xin motioned for Li Song to sit down and gave him a cup of good tea: I don't know what you are doing when you come to find Wen, brother

Li Song: Mr. Wen, I came today to discuss business with you

Wen Xin was interested when she heard it: I don't know what kind of business it is

Li Song picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat: Shopkeeper Wen, I want to buy 3,000 pieces of cotton cloth from you, if the price is right, we will settle this business today

After hearing this, Wen Xin thought that this is a big business, and he can't wait to supply Li Song, the nature of a businessman is vividly reflected in him: Brother actually felt that the two of us were particularly in love with each other since I saw you at first sight, but I didn't mean to flatter you, now a cotton cloth on the market can be sold for 1 tael of silver according to 7% as I said before, and I will sell you 700 pieces of money for each cotton cloth, what do you think

Li Song: Shopkeeper Wen, what you sell here is a bit expensive, the cotton cloth I bought with a southern merchant a few days ago is only 500 yuan a piece, and the texture of the cloth is better than your cotton cloth

Wen Xin's face pulled down a little when he heard this: My Yixuan cloth number is a signboard for decades, and our Wen family has been running a cloth business since my grandfather's generation, from carrying a flat shoulder to selling in the streets and alleys to setting up stalls on the roadside, after three generations of hard work, Yixuan cloth has today's scale, and the cloth made by Yixuan cloth can be relied on today to be of good quality and low price, if you want to say that the texture of the cloth is better than my here, it is not ready, but you dare to use it with you for three years and five years compared to the durability of the degree of durability, there is absolutely no problem. Then I will ask you how many feet long is the cotton cloth you bought from the merchants of the southern country

Li Song: 6 zhang long and half zhang wide

Wen Xin put on a confident look after hearing this: No wonder the length of my cloth here is 8 zhang longer than the cloth in the south country, which is two zhang more

Li Song calculated: The cloth of the southern country is only 83 lines per zhang, and the cloth of the cloth number of Yixuan is nearly 88 lines per zhang, and this zhang is 5 lines of money, and 8 zhang is 40 lines of money

Wen Xin's hand lightly tapped on the table and calculated the account in his heart, 650 lines of money for a horse and 3,000 horses that is 1950 taels of silver, I didn't expect this future life to be so good at bargaining, you say that there is no profit, and you can indeed make some money, but if you want to say that there is a profit, it is just a little bit, it sounds like a big business, but it doesn't actually make much money: this time we should only make a friend of you for the first time in business, if it is 660 lines of money a horse, then our business will be closed

Li Song summed up 1980 taels of silver: Shopkeeper Wen, your friend Li has made a deal, and you really can't make much money in this business, so 3,000 pieces of cotton cloth will give you 2,000 taels of silver to make up a whole

Wen Xin was happy when she heard it: My brother is really happy to do business with you

Li Song: Don't worry, shopkeeper, I still have a business

Wen Xin: There's still business, you can talk about it quickly

Li Song: Shopkeeper Wen, there should be cotton in your cloth workshop

Wen Xin: Yes

Li Song: Shopkeeper Wen, can you sell me tens of thousands of catties of cotton?

Wen Xin: Then how much do you want to buy?

Li Song: 6 Baidenier

Wen Xin looked embarrassed: My brother won't tell you that these cotton are used to spin cloth, and the price of finished cloth is definitely much more expensive than cotton

Li Song: In terms of the price of the shopkeeper, you can just say it

Wen Xin: Once the cotton is worth two taels of silver

Li Song: That's it, 6 denier cotton, I'll give you 1,000 taels of silver

Wen Xin shook her head: This price is too little, I can't meet it

Li Song: Let me tell you the truth, I bought these cloths and cotton to make 10,000 cotton clothes, and if I can't buy cotton, then it doesn't make sense for me to ask for those cloths

As he spoke, he sighed lightly: My brother has placed 10,000 more disaster victims, and these cotton clothes are for them to spend the winter

Seeing a trace of sorrow on Li Song's face, Wen Xin thought to herself that the meat that came to her mouth couldn't let it run away, and I still had a batch of old cloth in my warehouse that I couldn't sell it, so I just took this opportunity to sell that batch of old cloth: Okay, I'll sell you cotton, and it can be regarded as Yixuan Cloth for those disaster victims

Li Song: Then according to the 3,000 taels of silver that I said before, I will use refined salt to pay, and I will give you 1,071 denier for 2,800 taels of refined salt every day

Wen Xin thought about it, although this cloth business didn't make much money, but he could earn back the poor money by selling refined salt, a pound of salt 28 lines, I sold 40 lines according to their salt price, and I could earn 12 lines per catty, which is much more than the money earned by selling cotton cloth normally: then let's decide

Li Song: It's not convenient for me to transport this batch of salt to you, so I have to ask you to go to Alan County to get it

Wen Xin: I've heard all about the conflicts between you and the Zhang family, and I'll let people do it

The ten-day deadline is coming in a blink of an eye, and the wooden houses are all built on schedule with the joint efforts of thousands of craftsmen, and the chimneys of these wooden houses emit white smoke early in the morning, and the residents burn the houses so hot that they are waiting for the newcomers to move in, Han Juzheng took the collected poll tax and the village chiefs to the city to pick up the victims, Juzheng was appreciated by the prefect Sun Yuanwu and appointed him as the county magistrate of Alan County, and the official position was 45 taels per year

Han Juzheng bowed: Cultivated by student Xie Daren

Sun Yuanwu: You are diligent in serving the people, and this is what you deserve

Han Juzheng: The adults, the students and the village chiefs took the 12,160 people back

Sun Yuanwu "Hmm"

Just after noon, Han Juzheng returned to Alan County with the 10,000 men, and the soldiers gathered these people in an open space outside the county, where there were more than 20 makeshift tents in front of them, and nearly 100 carriages were neatly parked outside the tents, surrounded by heavily armed officers and soldiers and officials

Li Yang rode a horse wearing a black cloak and looked at these people in front of him and shouted: From today on, Alan County is your home, if you need anything, you can go to Han County to order him to find a way to solve it for you, here you must abide by the rules of our Alan County, do not steal - do not take people and property - do not oppress the neighbors, if anyone breaks the rules, I will let others fall to the ground

When you see these tents in front of you, you will go there in a moment and get a new cotton coat for each of you, and then you will go to the tent over there, and the men and women will change what you are wearing and throw them into the wagon, and you will be given a house where the officials and the officers and soldiers will arrange for you to live, and the rice, oil, salt, and boiling water will be prepared for you, and you will put the salt in the boiling water, take a good bath, and then wipe your body with wine, and if any of you have wind, cold, dysentery, or other diseases, tell the officials, At that time, someone will send you the decoction, and during this period, you don't have to worry about food and clothing, and the county will regularly distribute food to you

After saying that, he waved his hand in on horseback, and Gao Yuan stood in front of the tent in armor and shouted to the crowd: "You guys come to me one by one to get cotton clothes, and after you finish receiving them, go to the tent to change men to the left and women to the right."

When the victims heard about it, they didn't even pay attention to it, and they rushed up to snatch the cotton clothes, and the scene was all chaotic in an instant