"Xiao Qi, I remember that at the beginning, your village used crab baskets, there was such a good way, why didn't you use it at that time?"

Feng Gui followed the team, and twenty-two villages in Xuancheng County, including Xiaqiu Village, dispatched a total of 6,000 people.

There are only 20 people in Xiaqiu Village who are in charge of the lead, and a team of 300 people is scattered in parts of Danyang Lake and Shijiu Lake.

Six thousand people is still too few compared to the two lakes, which were inhabited in the past, but were always flooded.

The fields and houses that were finally built were washed away by the flood, and there was nothing left.

At present, there are only about 200 households living in this area, and the imperial court is not willing to take care of it, so they come to collect the field endowment personally, and the delayed work is more than the field endowment.

In recent days, they have seen people come to catch crabs, and they have joined in, and they have money to get.

"At that time, the river was not suitable for digging pits, and there were few people, so I was tired of working! If you don't eat well, you can't slow down. ”

When Xiao Qi mentioned what had happened, he couldn't help but sigh, and finally got through it.

"Yes! This year, I have 50 big animals in Xihe Village, which is enough, and the money I earn will be distributed to everyone. ”

Feng Gui followed with emotion, they all lived the same hard life, but fortunately, a fairy was tied up in Xiaqiu Village, and everyone rushed to a better life.

Your own village must keep up, and if you fall behind, you won't be able to catch up.

"Zhu Xiaoqi, you come." There was a man who was nearly fifty years old and greeted Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi glanced at Feng Gui and walked over: "Uncle Wu, I'll give you the money tomorrow morning!" ”

"I know, I know, I've been working for ten days, I come to work at night, and I get money in the morning, according to the number of crabs I caught.

I discussed something with you, and I heard from everyone that you Xiaqiu Village led a group of villages to make money.

In the past, I had contacts with your village, but then there was a war, and it was a mess, so I didn't want to go out.

Do you think my land can grow wheat? After the rice was harvested, nothing was planted! ”

The person surnamed Wu bent his waist slightly, with a sad face, obviously stimulated, and others began to eat a lot of food.

He did not pay the land endowment, nor did he do labor, but his life was hard.

Xiao Qi showed a sympathetic look: "Uncle Wu, you can plant, it's too late, let's be south of the Yangtze River, change to the north of the Yellow River, and it will be too late to plant wheat again, and there will be no seedlings." ”

"Then my family will give your village the money they have recently earned, and your village will rent our livestock, and then sell us some seeds, and you will go back and discuss with the chief?"

This Wu Boti asked, he carefully looked at Xiao Qi's eyes by the light, and there was a pleading look in his eyes.

"Uncle Wu, listen to me, don't worry about the money, you will pay back the wheat after harvesting it next year, you have to eat something good, after planting the wheat, you must top dress, and weeding if there are weeds.

Stay up, you usually ...... Alas! Tomorrow I will go with me to bring the livestock, turn the ground out, and apply the base fertilizer.

Ask other people, see if they are willing, just together, more than 200 households, but relatively scattered. ”

Xiao Qi nodded, agreed, and did not charge immediately, let people take money to buy things, especially seasonings, make fish to eat, fish ...... In the lake.

"You're going to discuss it now?" Uncle Wu looked at the stars and estimated the time.

"Discuss with the lieutenant? No, the lieutenant chief is busy in Nanjing City, so I will call the shots, and I will find the lieutenant chief for everything, which will exhaust the lieutenant to death. Hey, hey, hey, hey......"

Xiao Qi said and laughed, and the laughter was naturally unified throughout the village, hey.

"Xiao Qi, you don't care...... Tube ......"

"His words work, Xiaqiu Village's business is big, what is this?" Feng Gui affirmed on the side.

"Great, I'll ask them, if it happens next year, we will also pay the land endowment, but we can't ask the government to catch it, poor, they won't care, there is more food, they will come to the door as soon as possible."

Uncle Wu said that he would go to find other people who lived nearby, and no matter how far away he was, he would have to say tomorrow that he couldn't delay catching crabs.

He thought it through, and when there was nothing to do, the yamen really didn't care, and when he planted a large piece of wheat, he had to pay for the field.

In the middle of the night, a boat came over: "From each village, our chief wrote a letter back, asking everyone to pick chrysanthemums with their idle hands and use them as medicinal herbs, and the village will collect them." ”

"Where are the chrysanthemums? I haven't seen it next to my village, so I knew to find a random location to plant some. ”

"Yes, to the east, there are wild chrysanthemums in the tomb field, go and pick them."

"I have a lot of villages, I used to watch it all the time, and then I didn't care, since it was a medicinal herb, I picked it."

"Last year, I said it was a medicinal herb, but your village didn't hear it? There are also a lot of grass-looking ones, which I sold to Xiaqiu Village last year for 422 yuan. ”

"Your village is close to Xiaqiu Village, who in our village is in charge of delivering messages? Delay me to make money. ”

The boat left here and continued to tell the people here about collecting medicine while tying the crabs with straw and loading them into baskets.

When they are sick, those who are close to the county will go to the Huimin Pharmacy in the county seat, and they will take the medicine in the pharmacy home for use.

If the pharmacy didn't have one, they asked which medicine was good, so they went to the pharmacy in Xiaqiu Village to grab the medicine.

A lot of medicine in Xiaqiu Village is provided by Tai Hospital, which is equivalent to the Huimin Pharmacy in the village.

The only drawback is that there is no one to see a doctor, so you can only get prescriptions from outside.

"Collecting crabs, something for the rich to eat, such a big shell, a little bit of meat, not enough to stuff between the teeth."

"No matter how much, as long as you can make money, why don't you take back a few steamed and eat?"

"Is it good to go back and buy meat with the money you earn? Do I have the life to eat crabs? Get some bacon, chop it with vegetables, make dumplings and fry them in oil, this year my family has a lot of oil left in addition to selling rapeseed oil to buy livestock. ”

"It's the same in my house, ramie oil I think is more fragrant than rapeseed oil. Eating oil really saves food! After squeezing the oil, it is used to feed the livestock and chickens. ”

"I can't imagine how long the hard life will be without Xiaqiu Village."

……

"Awesome! The masters of Xiaqiu Village are really powerful! ”

On the tenth day of the ninth month, in the morning, the prefect of Song went to the government and saw the people from Xiaqiu Village and the things sent, the crabs and honey sent.

It was sent to the officials of the Quanning State Mansion, and as before, the officials of the Ning State Mansion and Xuancheng got a copy, and they were given cotton cloth and salted duck eggs.

The servants are not suitable for eating crabs and honey, it is too luxurious.

The prefect of Song paid more attention to replying to the letter, and in order to deliver the letter quickly, he sent out a small boat, all the way down the river to the Qinhuai River, and then rushed against the current for a while.

Then it was a long way back, and everything in Xiaqiu Village was delivered, and the boat was still on the way and did not come back.

Governor Song invited people from Xiaqiu Village in, and he sat at the table to read the letter and expressed his admiration.

The master is worthy of being a master, and for the same thing, the master will be damaged, no, he will be guided by the situation.

Obviously, he asked the people to help with dredging and dredging, and then manure and top dressing.

As a result, it has become a matter of the government suffering, the people taking advantage, and the number of places is limited.

Rest assured, the people will work hard. Then the matter of mining phosphate rock can also be done in this way, and the people themselves will take it home and grind the stone.

(End of chapter)