Chapter 85: Heading North
Low houses, tattered clothes, dirty environment all over the ground, in the Shui Shi Wei Station not far from Fuzhou City, today's festival is like a festival, the smoke of cooking rises, and the smell of meat wafts in some homes!
"It's so fragrant! Who is so rich? This is not right, why is there more than one family like this?" Aunt Fang, a middle-aged woman, asked the old man next to her. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The old man smacked his lips, and his saliva flowed out: "I can't live anymore, who else can it be, except for Lao Lin's boat man who just came back, it won't be anyone else, even if we have a wedding and funeral, there is no such heavy meat fragrance! I heard that Lao Lin was assigned to an official surnamed Ding, and he made a fortune on a trip, and the more than 100 people cut meat, and they ate better than the New Year's Day!"
"Are they all back? I need to ask what's going on. "Aunt Fang's family is like most people in the guard, full of hunger, black and thin shriveled body may not have collapsed that day, often looking for food outside with green eyes! There is a person in her neighbor who is Lao Lin's boat, named Lao Liu, who has always been honest and honest, such a person can make a fortune, it is unimaginable, I can't say that I can't rub some oil stars and get some meat! By the way, ask the way, how did this wealth come about, I have to find out. Aunt Fang hurriedly walked to the house, to see what the neighbors were eating.
The poor family didn't pay much attention to it, so Aunt Fang directly pushed open the hidden courtyard door and walked in, shouting: "Is Lao Liu back? What delicious food is your family making, it's so fragrant, it's not New Year's Day yet!"
The three large porcelain bowls in the inner room were full of food, one of which was full of large pieces of beef stewed with spiced peppercorns, steaming hot and fragrant, and the old daughter-in-law Liu heard the sound of the courtyard door, jumped up suddenly, picked up the big bowl of meat and put it on the windowsill, bent down and picked up a stone slab from the ground, and was about to block the front of the bowl. Lao Liu's daughter-in-law has a good relationship with Aunt Fang, but her family is so poor that she rarely eats meat once a year, so she must hide it!
Aunt Fang's voice sounded in the courtyard, Lao Liu smiled and gently pushed his daughter-in-law, held down the slate with one hand, and brought the bowl of meat back to the dining table with the other, and greeted the door with the daughter-in-law's disgusted look: "Aunt Fang, welcome, long time no see, fast forward, daughter-in-law go and serve half a bowl of meat to Aunt Fang, and bring it back to Xiao Fang in a while!"
Aunt Fang entered the room with a smile on her face, looked at the dining table and said, "Lao Liu has made a fortune, and he has eaten a lot of meat during the New Year?"
Lao Liu said with a smile: "Sit down, Aunt Fang, there is a good general on the stall, thousands of adults will be rewarded for their merits, I will behead two levels, reward sixty eagles, about more than thirty taels of silver, eat some meat!" Lao Liu turned his head sideways and said to his daughter-in-law who put down half a bowl of meat: "Serve a bowl of rice to Aunt Fang! Aunt Fang will go back after eating here, I am not here for a while, my daughter-in-law please take care of it more!"
Aunt Fang saw the white rice served, her saliva was about to flow out, she took the wooden chopsticks, and said with a smile: "They are all neighbors, what are you doing politely, it turns out that you will transfer your boat to the new general, and also said that the foreign generals are afraid that they will not remember the benefits of their hometown, and they hate it even more when they pack up people, and they are not happy to go!
Lao Liu said: "What kind of happiness is this, we are about to move, Ding Qianhu Ding promised us to go to a new place, to divide the land for everyone, according to the population, a mouth of fifty acres, your family will share as much as you want, that is called Xiangfu! Everyone fell into the golden nest." And the Lord promised us that in five years, he would transfer us to the people's household!"
Aunt Fang, who had just made two mouthfuls of rice, was shocked: "How is this possible, how can it be transferred to the households, and how much rent will be collected by the lord for so much?"
Lao Liu said: "What kind of rent do you collect, the general said that only thirty percent of the money will be collected as military rations, and the rest will belong to us, and the matter of transferring it to the people's households, anyway, the general said it, I believe him!"
"Sancheng, you didn't lie to me?
Lao Liu said with a smile: "The general is not short of money, he only needs military merits, he wants to kill the enemy, he is not afraid of death, he will treat the master to me, there are fifty eagles for the disabled and the war dead, about thirty taels of silver, there is land and money, this life is worth selling to him!"
While eating and chatting, Aunt Fang finally asked if her family could move to Yizhou, whether she could divide the land, and whether she could let her old Fang be transferred to Ding Qianhu.
Yizhou is seriously short of people, Ding Yi gave Lao Lin an order, let him in addition to moving his boat of people to Yizhou, try to do a good job of publicity, if possible to move as many other military households as they can, Yizhou is vast and sparsely populated, extremely in need of foreign population, and the military households who want to live in every situation are the most suitable candidates to fill Yizhou.
Aunt Fang got Lao Liu's clear reply, Lao Lin's boat will pack up in his hometown for a day, and tomorrow he will take all his family members and set off.
Aunt Fang came out with half a bowl of meat, tangled, her own man went to Nanjing with the commander of the envoy, no one discussed, discussed with the other sisters in the afternoon, and decided to go to Yizhou with Lao Liu and them, and the crowd left behind in trouble told their own man, get the land first!
In the afternoon, Lao Lin's boat people scurried around with their relatives and friends, mobilizing relatives and friends to move.
When setting off the next afternoon, Aunt Fang met the old stronghead, and he also decided to move the whole family to Yizhou to divide the land, the old stronghead said that it was better to stay in the guard and follow the original greedy general, it is better to try your luck, and then say that the days of eating meat and land, one day is better than living for a year, anyway, the boy who has gone to Nanjing is told that he has gone to Nanjing, let him find it himself!
There are more than 600 families who have decided to move, and the six boats are full and sail towards Yizhou, where hope is located!
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On the warship full of sails, Ding Yi stood at the bow of the boat, looking into the distance, and a thin man in his thirties stood beside him, also looking into the distance.
That scribe is the last time Ding Yi came to Fuzhou to get acquainted with the Juwen Tingxuan, Ding Yi was very impressed by this person, this person is a backbone and capable Confucian, gentle as jade, when he met a strong man into the house without the slightest panic, treat people with reason and moderation, and talk about the world It can be seen that this person is far-reaching and organized. Ding Yi's subordinates are all illiterate soldiers, and many things are not even discussed by anyone, so he decided to ask Wen Tingxuan to go out of the mountain to help, Wen Tingxuan was surprised by Ding Yi's identity, believing in reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, so he came as soon as he was invited, but he was only about three chapters of the law, hidden behind the scenes, never in front of the stage, with a pseudonym, never with a real name, he was worried that the Ming Dynasty was not dual, and he didn't want to be said to be a lackey under the eunuch.
Ding Yi asked the scribe: "Tingxuan, do you really want to see Yundu?" Although Yundu is far away from Beijing, he is really the emperor's confidant, he will definitely return to Beijing in two or three years, and he will be of great use.
The man is the man who knows Wen Tingxuan in Fuzhou, Wen Tingxuan said: "My name is Wen Xue'an now, I can't be wrong, Yundu is an eunuch, and people who read can avoid it, but don't let him know me, I am hidden behind the scenes of the proprietor, just come up with an idea, you can promise me to go to Yizhou later, you must not stay in Nanjing for long, you can't let people know that I am your guest, let people know that I can't gain a foothold in officialdom!"
Ding Yi smiled and said: "You literati are really naming, Wen Tingxuan, Wen Xue'an, it sounds good! That's like me, Ding Yi Ding Hao, it's too brief, and it sounds very perfunctory!"
Wen Tingxuan said: "One is the beginning, this name is very good, but the beginning of the beginning, the Tao stands in one, divides the heaven and the earth, and turns into all things!
Ding Yi smiled and said: "You literati, you can say flowers with any word." These two **** discussed how to increase the income of the South China Sea sailor and increase the Yizhou household registration, how do you think now, do you have any new ideas?"
Wen Tingxuan said: "The method of increasing income, I want to think about it in my later life, and I have to implement it on the sea road SH There are countless merchants and pirates, and you can copy the military, but these businessmen, there are many big people standing behind, and the proprietor has to decide for himself whether to start! The bureaucrats and gentry occupy a very wide area, for example, I am exempted from tax exemption of 1,200 mu of land if I am promoted in the examination, and my family does not have so much land, so there are small people who don't have it, and after a long time, there is a natural disaster that has changed greatly, and the field is mine, and I can't do it if I don't want it, and it is not easy for the small people to gain a foothold! There are many hidden households in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many peasants who have lost their land, and there will always be a way to think of ideas from these people. ”
Wen Tingxuan is a scholar who grew up in Fuzhou, since he was a child, he has been exposed to Wei Wei since he was a child, and there are many differences between the mainland and the northern scholars, and many of the world's economic uses are thought through, he suggested that the merchants on the sea route should be included in the management, the pirates should be eliminated, the trade routes should be opened, and the Yizhou should be developed. He estimated that Yizhou would be completely renovated in less than five years, and it would never be worse than a prefecture in the south of the Ming Dynasty.
Ding Yi and Wen Tingxuan had a heated conversation at the bow of the ship, and many problems in the development of Yizhou were mentioned, and a general idea was gradually formed in his heart, and he was determined to see Yun Dugong implement some ideas as soon as possible!
On the side of the boat, Zhao Lirong and Dong Dayong vomited a mess, although the two came out of Beijing and also took a boat, but the boat on the canal is very different from the boat on the sea, at this time the sea is a little breezy, although the boat is big, it is also a little swaying, and it has to adapt slowly.
Adek Uka jumped around on the mast, this guy has not learned light skills, no internal strength, on the mast is like a born seaman, more active and excited than other sailors, and from time to time climb to the lookout to see from all sides, excited and loud howling, is a good seedling to be a seaman, but unfortunately now he doesn't know Chinese, he has to compare everything for a long time, Ding Yi wants to teach him light skills can't do it.
Although Zhang Shouyi was a counselor, he regarded himself as a first mate, did not treat himself as an outsider, and shouted loudly to correct the various actions of the crew.
The run-in of the fleet is very fast, and it won't be long before the soldiers on these ships are all old sailors, and they should be able to go to sea to strangle Xiyi and pirates, Ding Yi is still quite satisfied with the current state of the fleet!