The morning sun is rising, and the warm sunshine pierces the morning fog, spreading warmth to the world.
The door was pushed open, and a yawning Li Yunze walked out of the room.
There is no one else in Zhuangzi except himself, at least on the surface.
After extracting well water and briefly washing himself, Li Yunze, who felt refreshed, walked out of the courtyard and outside.
He first glanced at the house not far away. "You can stay out in the cold weather in early spring without worrying about getting rheumatism. It's just work, why are you working so hard?"
Then he turned around and returned to the house, opened the space-time door and returned to the modern world to buy breakfast.
He set up a table outside the courtyard gate and placed the purchased Cantonese breakfast on it one by one.
Seaweed rolls, glutinous rice chicken, water chestnut cakes, quicksand buns, corn tortillas, fried rice noodles, seafood porridge, and rice rolls filled the table.
After sitting on a bench, Li Yunze finished the delicious breakfast leisurely and contentedly.
In a simple house not far away, several men wearing black linen clothes and coarse cloth belts around their waists looked eagerly at where Li Yunze was eating breakfast.
The fragrance that floats in the wind makes the stomachs of men who have stayed up all night growl.
"Could this man be a cook?" The man leading the team frowned, "I haven't seen him lighting a fire."
"If you ask me, you can just arrest him and interrogate him." Someone shouted, "Under Miki, I can remember anyone I peeked into taking a bath when I was a kid. Why do you want to do this?"
The man with thick eyebrows and big eyes turned around and glared, "If you continue to talk nonsense like this, go and lead the army stick yourself."
The men did not dare to speak, and the room gradually became quiet.
After breakfast, Li Yunze packed up his things and got ready to work.
It doesn't matter to everyone, he can handle everything by himself.
However, in the direction of the village entrance, a group of people walked through the early morning mist and staggered over.
"This is your husband." The leading old man saluted Li Yunze, "I am waiting for a disaster in my hometown and have fled here. I hope that your husband will take pity on me and give me some food to eat."
Li Yunze's eyes moved slightly, and he glanced at several figures in the crowd. "Where are you from?"
"We escaped from famine in Huayin County and came here, and I beg you to give me some food."
"Huayin?" Li Yunze smiled. "It's not far from Tongguan there. Why don't you go to Guandong? You can also go to the river. There doesn't seem to be any drought there."
"My ancestors are all from Guanzhong." The old man shook his head repeatedly. "We have never left our homeland. Even if we beg for food, we only beg in Guanzhong."
"OK."
Li Yunze nodded, turned around and walked into the yard, "Wait here."
This group of people did have a serious drought in their hometown and had no choice but to go out to escape.
It's just that they were begging for work outside a village more than ten miles away. Unexpectedly, the owner of the village drove them away at night, and said that there was an owner of the village here who was kind-hearted and a living Bodhisattva. You can go for help.
They also arranged for a few men who were said to be unable to support their families as guides to rush here before dawn.
The master of the village was indeed right. The master of the village entertained them warmly and brought out baskets of cakes for them to eat.
Everyone burst into tears of gratitude, thanked him profusely, and then started eating.
When the entire two baskets of Hu cakes were eaten by the group, a smiling Li Yunze asked, "Will you work for me?"
There were no tenants in the Tang Dynasty, at least on the surface.
They also have household registration. People can only stay where they are. If they want to run around to work, that is not allowed.
Of course, regulations are regulations, and actual practice will naturally vary.
The local area suffered from famine, and the people could not go out to beg. Naturally, the local government offices turned a blind eye.
If the government can't afford relief, we can't just watch the people starve to death.
If that were the case, someone would probably rise up.
There are things like taking people in for work in wealthy families, but they also pretend not to know.
You can survive by working, and it has become a common practice to wait until the disaster is over before returning to your hometown.
Naturally, the refugees would not refuse. After all, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong at this time, and there was almost no other help except going to the nobles' villages to beg.
Being able to trade work for food is a rare opportunity.
Li Yunze looked at the hundreds of people in front of him. Most of them were from the same village and came from Huayin County together.
After all, in the years of famine, only the noble family could still have enough food, and could still be willing to give alms for the sake of reputation, and the vicinity of Chang'an City was where the highest concentration of nobles in the entire Tang Dynasty was.
There were also a few men who were said to have been sent by a farmer's family more than ten miles to the east. Li Yunze did not expose them much and took them all in.
After getting manpower, the first thing to do is not to work in the fields, but to take a shower and change clothes.
Li Yunze prepared a brand new set of clothes for everyone, and then asked them to take off all their old clothes, pile them together and burn them on the fire.
Everyone begged and begged, saying that the clothes were precious and should not be burned.
For those who were fleeing the country, this tattered clothes was almost their last possession.
Although Li Yunze gave him new clothes, he was reluctant to burn the old ones.
Li Yunze shook his head and refused to listen. If he simply expressed his unwillingness, he could leave now.
Everyone who had eaten the Hu Pancakes was reluctant to leave, so they had to go to the vacant houses to change their clothes, piled the old clothes together, and watched as Li Yunze set them on fire.
The fire was full of crackling sounds, which was the response of the fleas being burned.
"The number is wrong." Li Yunze looked at the leading old man, "Someone hid the clothes. Since you don't want to listen to me, let's leave now. I'll treat the new clothes as a gift to you."
Naturally, there was a lot of excitement next. The few guys who were reluctant to part with their old clothes and hid them secretly were taught a lesson, and then they were dragged in front of Li Yunze to sincerely admit their mistakes.
"I'm a very talkative person." Li Yunze watched them throw the old clothes into the fire, and nodded slowly, "If you do anything disobedient in the future, I won't give you any chance again, just wait for the mouse tail juice."
After burning all the tattered clothes full of fleas, Li Yunze immediately ordered everyone to boil water and start taking a bath.
He brought a brush, poured insect repellent solution into the bucket, and asked them to scrub each other clean.
Especially for hair, you have to wash it several times with strong shampoo, and the black water flows like a stream.
It's not that Li Yunze is being pretentious, but he clearly knows how bad the medical and health conditions are in this era.
If you don't do a good job in hygiene, it's useless to say anything else.
After struggling for three days, I finally got it right.
Everyone was trembling, thinking that Li Yunze would come up with other tricks to torment people, but they heard Li Yunze call out, "It's time to eat."
The old man asked doubtfully, "Mr. Sir, are you having dinner so early?"
"What's dinner? This is lunch."
In an era of low productivity, only the powerful could enjoy three meals a day.
Not to mention these refugees, even ordinary people's homes only get two meals a day.
Only when the farming season is busy, they will have three meals or even dry rice to replenish their energy for work.
Everyone waited happily and saw Li Yunze carrying out two large baskets of Hu cakes from the yard.
And it's different from what I had in the morning. This time, the pancakes are even more oily and have more salty taste.
The nutritional status of these refugees is very poor. They eat haphazardly and stuff like that when they first come out, which can only be counterproductive.
Eating food to supplement nutrition needs to be done step by step.
Li Yunze sat on the horse, methodically tearing apart the biscuits in his hands and stuffing them into his mouth.
The few people hiding in the distance and watching looked at each other in confusion, "Are you from the military?"
Li Yunze's posture and eating method are exactly the same as those in the army.
While several people were confused, a thin man over there took a detour and came here. "Captain, we have searched the whole yard, even the cellar. Not to mention the cooking place, just There wasn’t even a trace of a fire.”
"Impossible." The captain frowned, "If you didn't light a fire to cook, where did you get the biscuits?"
"How dare you lie to the captain? I really haven't found him."
The captain believed that his subordinates would not deceive him, but if there was no fire for cooking, where did so many biscuits come from?
Thinking of Hu Biscuits, the captain's stomach growled.
As if following a rhythm, several subordinates also followed the call.
In desperation, the captain had no choice but to take out the cold dry food and said, "Let's eat too."
After eating and drinking enough, the refugees' mental state became obviously fuller.
Everyone came to Li Yunze one after another, patting their chests and expressing their willingness to work for Lang Jun.
"Okay." Putting the last bit of biscuits into his mouth, Li Yunze clapped his hands and stood up, "Then go dig the ground."
"My boss," the old man said politely, "At this time, the spring plowing time has been delayed, but don't worry, my boss, we will work hard and plant his grain seeds as soon as possible."
"What kind of grain?"
Li Yunze frowned slightly, "Who said we have to grow food? I don't grow food here, I'm going to grow grass."
Everyone'(⊙﹏⊙)'
What does this say? If you can't grow food in such a good field, why should you grow grass?
Does grass still need to be planted? It’s not everywhere.
"Could it be that Mr. Lang wants to grow herbs? I'm not familiar with such delicate work."
"Stop talking nonsense." Li Yunze took a bunch of iron farm tools from the yard and "go to work and plow the ground."
Everyone worked hard all afternoon, while the women cleaned up the village.
Everyone is very simple and honest. After eating Li Yunze's cakes, they will work hard. No one will cheat and fool around and be a salary thief.
It's just that their hard work was not effective in Li Yunze's opinion.
After finishing work in the evening, they eat Hu cakes again. After eating, each family is divided into their own houses to rest.
Li Yunze also returned to the yard, preparing for tomorrow's work.
If the efficiency is too slow, then the efficiency must be improved.
He plans to bring over a group of cattle and use the land plowing tool to greatly increase work efficiency.
Tomorrow’s food can also gradually increase nutritional intake and supplementation, starting with eggs.
It's true that Li Yunze said he wanted to plant grass, but he wanted to plant high-yielding pasture, which he planned to use to raise cattle.
How can eating carbohydrates compare to fat.
At the same time, Li Shimin, who was busy working in the palace, also received a report from Baiqisi.
"Growing grass? Are they Turks?"
