The first to go to the river to greet Zhang Guangdao, the weather is quite cold, there is nothing to do, he is in the inn lobby, drinking with a few salt sellers.

Hearing that Zhu Ming was back, Zhang Guangdao immediately threw down the wine bowl and came out, and several salt sellers also followed him.

"Lang Jun has grown taller again." Zhang Guangdao said with a smile, with the smell of wine in his mouth.

Zhu Ming patted him on the shoulder: "Third Brother Zhang is also stronger." ”

"Meet Zhu Xianggong." The salt dealers brushed their hands together.

Yu Shanwei, who was in charge of managing the inn, also brought two guys to greet him, and gave Zhu Ming a blessing salute with a smile.

Immediately afterwards, Meng Zhao, the head of the village school, appeared, and after saluting, he introduced: "Lang Jun, these two are Yu Kan, Zidong Candle, Liu Shiren, and Zi Zongru. They were all scholars of the county, and in addition to being teachers, they also assisted in the management of village affairs. ”

Zhu Ming arched his hand and said: "In the future, we will rely on the two of you." ”

"Don't dare to be." Yu Kan and Liu Shiren were flattered.

Yu Kan was recruited by Meng Zhao's application, and the experiences of the two were very similar.

Yu Kan was born in a family of self-cultivated farmers, was sponsored by his family, studied in the village school, and was admitted to his thirties. Usually make money by settling accounts, copying books, and writing letters, and I can barely get by.

Daming Village is thriving day by day, and Yu Kan applied for the job.

As for Liu Shiren, he is the son of a wealthy family who was forced to go bankrupt and flee by the government. His family has long been declining, and he has lost his backer, and most of the land is on the outskirts of the county, and Xiang Bi has been eyeing it when he was in charge of Xixiang County.

The newly arrived county magistrate also targeted the Liu family, apportioning, buying, and buying money, forcing the Liu family to bankruptcy, and occupying the Liu family's land.

The head of the Liu family, the old and weak, women and children combined, a total of 14 people defected to Daming Village, and there were eight people who were literate and hyphenated.

There were actually three teachers in the village school, and Zhu Ming couldn't help asking: "How many students are there in the school?" ”

Meng Zhao replied: "There are seventy-four male and female students. Village schools are not restricted, villagers are not worried about food and clothing, and more and more children are sent to study. Brother Dong Zhu teaches writing, and I am responsible for teaching mathematics. Brother Liu came to the school to help, he didn't get paid, and while teaching students, he was also learning mathematics with me. ”

"Very good, the village school is quite prosperous." Zhu Ming said approvingly.

Meng Zhao said with a smile: "Xianggong (Zhu Guoxiang) has set up rules, and we all do things according to the rules. ”

While he was talking, Mrs. Yan and Shen Yourong also came.

Mrs. Yan is more energetic than before, and she seems to be younger. After Shen Yourong gave birth to a daughter, she was much plump and richer, and her face became more rounded.

Zhu Ming stepped forward to salute and introduced: "This is Zheng Yuanyi, an insider." ”

Zheng Yuanyi saluted and said: "Mother-in-law (grandmother) is blessed, mother is blessed." ”

"Good!" Mrs. Yan looked carefully and saw that she was beautiful and well-behaved, and the more she looked at her, the more she liked her.

Shen Yourong took off the silver hairpin, took Zheng Yuanyi's hand and said, "I didn't prepare a meeting gift, so I accepted this." ”

"Thank you, Mother."

Zheng Yuanyi also took out a gift, which she bought with private money.

I gave Mrs. Yan a pair of embroidered pearl-inlaid forehead scarves, the outer layer is brocade, and the inner lining is Luo, which is quite rich to wear.

He also gave Shen Yourong a pair of earrings, the gold dot emerald process, although the dot emerald area is very small, but it is also worth twenty or thirty times.

Zheng Yuanyi made a bloody effort to please the two elders.

Shen Yourong had never seen some emerald ornaments, she only thought it was beautiful, she stroked it back and forth: "What is this?" ”

Zheng Yuanyi replied: "Cui Yu." ”

Shen Yourong still didn't know what Cui Yu was, and he was embarrassed to ask more, so he pulled Zheng Yuanyi and walked home.

Zhu Ming said to Zhang Guangdao: "There may be immigrants coming today, you should prepare in advance." ”

Zhang Guangdao asked, "How many people?" ”

Zhu Ming shook his head: "I don't know, one after another, it will be two or three hundred, or it may be more." ”

Zhang Guangdao immediately woke up: "The chaotic people who fled into the mountains? ”

"Yes." Zhu Ming said.

Zhang Guangdao complained: "Just that section of the plank road, it took half a year to repair it before and after, if you let me come, it will be completed in two or three months." The Golden Gorge couldn't be crossed, and the tea leaves in the village were still stocked, and those bird officials delayed the village's trading. ”

Zhu Ming introduced Zhang Bo, Li Bao, Yang Pu and Liu Kui, and said: "They are all heroes, you know each other. ”

Zhang Guangdao immediately invited them into the inn to drink, and as for Zhang Bo and Li Bao's wives, they followed Zheng Yuanyi, and the ladies had their own topics to talk about.

Liu Kui is Li Bao's brother-in-law, he is still young and doesn't understand anything, so he just sits there and listens to his brothers bragging.

The new house of the Zhu family, built at the foot of the mountain, if you count the firewood house, there are a total of twelve rooms, an ordinary landlord's house.

Mrs. Yan instructed the maid to carry the luggage and arrange the guest's room.

Zhu Ming's buttocks were not yet hot, and Tian Er, Tian San and others also brought their wives to visit.

They were in charge of all kinds of affairs in the village, and Zhu Ming asked casually, and gave words of encouragement, rewarding all kinds of small things—all brought from Tokyo, and Hanzhong could not buy them.

The men were almost talking, and Zheng Yuanyi came over with the child.

Zhu Guoxiang's daughter is more than a year old and has just learned to walk, but she can't walk very neatly and needs to be protected by an adult.

The broken name given by Song Huizong was too obscure and never used, so he took a nickname called "An'an". This is a nickname used by women in the Song Dynasty, which means to grow up safely. Wait for the future and marry or marry, and then officially take the word, and then take the word as the name.

Before that, it can be called Zhu An'an.

The more he learned about the society of the Song Dynasty, Zhu Ming seriously suspected that Li Qingzhao might not be his maiden name, but his surname was Li Qingzhao.

The woman treats the word boudoir, and it is that word that she treats.

"It's called Big Brother." Zheng Yuanyi held the little girl's armpits with both hands.

Zhu An'an looked at Zhu Ming with wide eyes, as if he was a little scared and a little curious.

Zhu Ming smiled: "Give me a hug." ”

Zheng Yuanyi picked up the child and handed it to Zhu Ming, and said with a smile: "An An is so beautiful, born like a little porcelain man." ”

As soon as Zhu Ming took it, the little girl started crying and opened her arms towards Shen Yourong: "Mom, Mom, Mom......"

The name of parents is much earlier than that of parents, which is in line with the pronunciation habits of babies.

The Song people were more accustomed to calling their parents rather than their parents. (Southern Song Dynasty Zhao Yanwei's "Yunlu Money": Today's people call their fathers and fathers...... How can the Tang people also call their mother Ah Ba? Today, I call it Mom. ）

Zheng Yuanyi hurriedly picked up An An, coaxed a few times and finally stopped, and said with a smile: "Big brother scared An An." ”

Tian Er's wife sat in the corner and asked curiously about the customs of Tokyo.

Zheng Yuanyi said: "The people of Tokyo burn more charcoal and use less firewood and charcoal, and Dalang also made a flower exploration furnace and tanhua coal to sell to them. ”

Zhang Guangdao's wife, Jiang Erniang, asked: "What does the charcoal look like?" ”

Zheng Yuanyi explained: "It's a black stone that burns. ”

The ladies of the village were amazed and felt that Tokyo was different, and even used stones for cooking.

Talking about a lot of things, when it came to Xiangguo Temple, where tens of thousands of people often played, Tian San's wife suddenly asked: "Many people visit the temple fair, what should I do if the thatched house is not enough?" ”

Zheng Yuanyi covered her mouth and smiled, and said: "There are many thatched houses in Tokyo City, and you can enter it if you give money." Xiangguo Temple also has a large thatched house, covering an area of one acre, divided into men's and women's rooms. There is incense inside, and it is cleaned every day, and it doesn't smell at all. There is also a charcoal stove to make a fire, and it is not cold in winter. There is a bamboo pole hanging above, called a net pole, and clothes, pockets, and baskets can be hung on the net pole. There is also hot water to clean hands, soap and other things. Once inside, take off your shoes. The floor is covered with wooden planks and wiped daily to keep it from dust. ”

The women of the village were amazed, and took off their shoes before entering the thatched house, how clean the inside was.

In fact, the first time Zhu Ming entered the high-end toilet of Xiangguo Temple, he was also taken aback by the situation inside.

Except that there is no automatic flushing system and toilet paper, it is almost the same as a modern toilet, and even the partitions on both sides of the squatting position are complete.

Well...... The charges are quite expensive, and the poor can only go to ordinary toilets.

Second Sister Jiang said with a smile: "If Zhu Xianggong takes the lady to Tokyo, Shen Niangzi can also enjoy such a big thatched house." ”

Shen Yourong couldn't cry or laugh: "The thatched house has something to enjoy." ”

Tian Er's wife continued: "Take off your shoes and go into a thatched house that is not dirty, I'm afraid that you don't even have Yangzhou, isn't it enjoyment?" ”

Zhu Ming was a little speechless, these old ladies, why are the concerns so peculiar?

Needless to say, the dinner party was drunk, and when he got up the next day, Zhu Ming called a meeting of the village cadres.

The nominal village chief is still Zhu Guoxiang, and Shen Yourong acts as the village head. Some people are in charge of education, some people are in charge of tea, some people are in charge of foreign trade, and some people are in charge of water conservancy...... It was all arranged by Zhu Guoxiang.

Like the government, the number of households in the village is counted, with a total of more than 500 households, and the number of children has exceeded 2,000.

Zhang Guangdao went to Shaanxi to smuggle tea, and he could bring back one or twenty of them every time, all of which were Shaanxi people who fled to Zhongnan Mountain.

Although it is still called Daming Village, it has long been unable to be regarded as a natural village. According to the division of settlements, there should be three villages and one grass market.

For the time being, the accounts of the village are not divided between public and private, because the main source of income is the tea mountain and the tea workshop, which are all the private property of the Zhu family father and son. However, the money earned by the Zhu family's private property is mostly used for public affairs, and it is continuously invested in resettlement and water conservancy construction.

There is no way to distinguish at all, and it is really unclear, and it can only be developed in this way in the early days.

Zhang Guangdao said: "The Liu family is available. ”

Zhu Ming understood the hidden meaning of this sentence, the Liu family was forced bankrupt by the government, it was an illegal escape, and it was ideologically acceptable to rebel. Moreover, there are eight more literate people in the Liu family.

Zhu Ming arranged: "Meng Zhao no longer has to take care of the village school, and will concentrate on taking charge of the household registration field register in the future." Choose a Liu family with good knowledge and go to the village school to be a teacher. As for that Liu Shiren, follow me to Jinzhou to take up his post. The newly arrived rebels were resettled further downstream to open up wasteland, and a Liu family member was selected to be the chief of security. ”

Zhang Guangdao also said: "I went to Shaanxi to sell tea, and I met many heroes along the way, all of whom fell into the grass in Zhongnan Mountain. ”

Zhu Ming smiled, those are naturally green forest heroes, who make a living by robbing homes and houses. In the future, you can recruit, but you can't trust too much, you have to restrain yourself, and those who don't obey the discipline will be punished by thieves.

When asked about the specific situation in the village, Zhu Ming found that it was quite harmonious.

Daming Village temporarily prohibits land sales, and if you want land, you can reclaim it yourself. Villagers in difficulty can take out low-interest loans to help them tide over the difficulties.

There are also trivial matters of bullshit, most of which are neighborhood disputes, and the most serious is nothing more than farming across the line.

There have been several incidents of theft, and depending on the amount of goods they have stolen, they are allowed to serve in the construction of water conservancy, without being paid wages, and they have to settle their own food. Moreover, the family members of the thieves are not allowed to participate in the village security team.

For the time being, the village cadres have not been corrupted, because they have to check the accounts every month, and those who fish and meat the villagers have to try Zhang Guangdao's knife first.

There must be favoritism, taking advantage of their positions, renting cattle to a certain family when the farm is busy, and letting a certain family dry grain first. Or when digging ditches and ponds, add half a bowl of rice to a good relationship. Although the impact is not good, it is still within the acceptable range.

No matter how big or small, Zhu Ming asked all the questions and said to Zhang Guangdao: "Gather the village Yong tomorrow, and I'll see if they are negligent in practice." ”

(End of chapter)