Chapter 148: Inspecting the Manor
On this day, Li Shi returned and returned to the housekeeper post again. Li Miao suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. Now Li Shiyi is dressed up as a showman, and he is already famous for his talent.
If it had been placed in the village before, it would have been repaid, and there would have been no children. In this way, the clan also opened an ancestral hall. Comfort the ancestors. After all, Xiucai is not a cabbage, and there are only two in the village. Xiucai is the one who has entered the Shi clan.
This time, Li Shixian took the test and the government test for two yuan, and the hospital won the third place. Two of the three exams were taken first, and one was third. It's just to see Li Miao's face? It's still really awesome. Or both.
Because this year is not the year of Dabi, Li Shi came to Qingzhou after returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and Li Shi, who is fifteen years old this year, knows that it is the best policy to follow Li Miao. Whether it's schoolwork, or transactional ability.
As long as you follow Li Miao and do things, it will be difficult not to progress. It is also more beneficial to his future imperial examination. So, after Li Shi won the fame of Xiucai, he quickly came to Qingzhou.
Now the Li Shi family has become independent from the Li Mansion. Li Fugui, who watched the gate of the Li Mansion, was Li Shi's grandfather, and he was really proud, after all, Li Shi, who had a talent and fame in the family, was also a great figure in the village.
There is already a Li Miao in the village, and he is also a Jinshi meritorious name. Li Shi is no longer visible. But Li Shi is already a talented and famous person, and it is no longer appropriate to stay in the Li Mansion.
As a result, after Li Shishi returned to the village, his family also became independent, and the number of months with Li Miao has not been low in recent years.
Li Shi gave the silver to his grandfather Li Fugui, and he rushed directly to Qingzhou, Li Fugui took the silver, he was both happy and a little reluctant to leave the Li Mansion.
I have lived well in Li Mansion in the past few years, and I have long been accustomed to life here. If you go out alone, it may not be as comfortable as living in the Li Mansion.
In May, Qingzhou entered the agricultural slack season, and Li Miao began to organize government forces and began to maintain all roads in Qingzhou, counties and townships.
In the past two years, Qingzhou governments at all levels have made small fortunes. The barren mountains and wastelands were sold for a lot of silver. And the price is getting higher and higher, and the barren mountains and wastelands that no one wanted before have now become sought-after. Is it strange that the price does not rise?
With the promotion of sweet potato planting, roads have become the most important factor restricting the development of Qingzhou. After all, the production of sweet potatoes is large, and it is not easy for ordinary people to get home from the field.
It will be even more difficult to transport sweet potatoes elsewhere, and if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. It just so happens that the government now has money, so it doesn't engage in labor anymore.
As soon as Li Miao took office, he let the common people do such a lot of labor. It always feels like it's not right. Therefore, the government provided money and hired local laborers to build the road.
The common people are also happy, not to do labor, but to build roads and get money. I still repair the roads near my home, and I usually have a lot of them, as if the government gave money to help my family build roads.
The people are also grateful, knowing that Lord Zhizhou loves the people. Energetic. In less than a month and a half, the road situation in Qingzhou has taken on a new look.
Such a big project, if in normal times, Qingzhou has no other way than to let the people serve labor, fortunately, the government has money in recent years, so there is no need to work the people and lose money.
The road was repaired, and the people also made a small fortune. The people had more money in their pockets. It also promotes the development of commerce and trade. The Qingzhou area began to exude vitality.
Sweet potatoes are promoted in inland areas, and transportation has become the biggest obstacle, so it is also the reason why the seeds are promoted faster in coastal areas. Li Miao can't manage other places, and he has one acre and three points of land in Qingzhou, so he will repair the road first.
In addition, Li Miao's farm tool factory launched a kind of wheelbarrow, which is all wooden structure and low price. Ordinary people can afford it. It's all wooden structures, and you can repair it at home if it's broken.
The wheelbarrow is easy to use, and the people will use it when they get it, and there is no technical content. Usually, it is difficult for ordinary people to pick two or three hundred catties.
With a wheelbarrow, it is very easy to push a thousand eight hundred pounds. And the road requirements are not high. The sheep intestine trail is pushed in the same way, and Li Miao remembers that the wheelbarrow of later generations is full of vitality in the northern land.
In the later Liberation War, one of the three major battles, the logistics supply of the Huaihai Campaign was the credit of the wheelbarrow.
The wheelbarrow was first used in Li Miao's 70,000 acres of manor, the effect is surprisingly good, labor-saving, greatly reducing the labor intensity of the villagers, increasing labor efficiency, and easy to use, maintenance is also very convenient.
The wheelbarrow was quickly accepted by the surrounding farmers and began to be rapidly promoted in Qingzhou and even the surrounding areas. Because of the simplicity of making unicycles, it was not long before the surrounding farm tool factories began to make them.
In less than two months, the wheelbarrow was not only rapidly popularized in the Qingzhou area, but also spread rapidly to the surrounding areas.
The vitality of the wheelbarrow is so vigorous, it has been promoted in the land of Shandong in a short period of time, and has gradually spread rapidly in the northern land, for which Li Miao has also greatly harvested a wave of luck.
It's really unintentionally planted in the willows, and it seems that the one who adapts to this era is the best.
On this day, Li Miao came to his own manor of more than 70,000 acres in Huangdao County for the first time to inspect, saying that the manor was actually too big, equivalent to half of the county in the south.
There are more than 20 relatively large villages in the manor. Now there are more than 15,000 servants in the entire manor, plus more than 15,000 households, and Li Miao's servants are the managers in the manor.
Therefore, there are very few slaves, and most of them are farmers in the original manor, and the capable ones are accepted as slaves and participate in the management of the manor.
This estate produces a large number of high-quality seeds from the north every year, and then promotes them in the surrounding areas, and this year the sales of sweet potato seedlings alone earned more than 500,000 taels of silver.
Now the grain stored in the manor is enough for the farmers to enjoy for five years, and the family does not panic when they have food.
All school-age boys on the estate now attend school free of charge, and are paid monthly rates according to their academic performance. Three days to learn literature, one day to learn martial arts. It's the body that counts.
Most of these students will be guards in the future, and Jeet Kune Do is just right to practice at their age.
Adult male Ding farmers also participate in Zhuang Ding training in their spare time, and those who pass the martial arts can become Zhuang Ding.
Among them, the excellent ones can become guards, and the treatment has to be taken to the next level. If you can be a sailor and an escort on a ship, it will be a step to the sky. That month was abundant, enough for the family to live a prosperous life.
The current estate is home to a large number of chickens, ducks, pigs, cows, and sheep. The food of the farmers has been greatly improved, and there is no need to talk about the farmers and guards.
The physical fitness of the dealers has been greatly improved. Therefore, the force value of this large manor is already quite not weak.
Now most of the new sailors and guards on the large and small sea ships come from this manor, and the current grain reserves in the manor are no problem if there is a famine year, and there is no problem in taking in tens of thousands of people.
In the north and south of the manor's coast, two small harbors were spontaneously formed. It is also because of the ships along the coast that transport grain seeds that are slowly formed, because of congenital reasons, only small ships can be docked in the two ports.
Gradually, the two ports began to form bazaars, and now there are twenty or thirty farmers in each port to maintain order, and the management is also in good order.
At present, most of the grain seeds in the coastal areas flow out of these two ports.
It's a pity that the port is still too small, which is also a fly in the ointment. Large sea vessels could not dock, so they could only anchor and anchor at a distance, and then be transferred through small sea vessels.
In this era before machinery, all natural harbors were used. Therefore, in the coastal area of the manor, there can be two natural small harbors, which is already the favor of God.
More than a year ago, it was still 20,000 acres of barren land, plus 50,000 acres of barren mountains, and the farmers lived a half-starved life, but now it has become such a rich manor.
Not only does it have a large amount of output every year, but it also provides Li Miao with a large number of talents. As time goes by, the population of the manor will increase, and the help to Li Miao will become greater and greater.
Heroes emerge from troubled times. Li Miao had a new understanding of this sentence. When Wang Yonggui accepted the manor, there were only two or three thousand people, and now? More than fifteen thousand.
This is still the reason why Li Miao is low-key, otherwise Li Miao would be able to accommodate fifty or sixty thousand people very easily, and now there are too many hungry people in the north who can't survive. After inspecting the manor, Li Miao was also excited. The future is promising.