Li Shi returned that day and returned to his position as housekeeper again. Li Miao suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. Now Li Shiyi is dressed as a scholar, and he already has the reputation of being a scholar.
If it had been placed in the previous village, it would have been quite remarkable, as there would not even be a single child. In this way, the clan also opened its ancestral hall. Comfort the ancestors. After all, scholars are not big cabbage, there are only two in the village. Scholars are the ones who enter the official clan.
This time Li Shi won two yuan in the county test and the government test, and came third in the hospital test. I got two first-class exams and one third-place finish in three exams. Is it just because of Li Miao's face? Still really awesome. It could be both.
Because this was not the year of the competition, Li Shi came to Qingzhou after returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors. Li Shi, who is fifteen years old this year, knew that the best thing to do was to follow Li Miao. Whether it is homework or business ability.
As long as you work with Li Miao, it will be difficult not to make progress. It will also be more beneficial to your future imperial examination path. Therefore, after Li Shi won the title of scholar, he quickly came to Qingzhou.
Now the Li Shi family has become independent from the Li Mansion. Li Fugui, who was guarding the gate of the Li Mansion, was Li Shi's grandfather, and he was really proud of it. After all, Li Shi was a scholar in the family, and he was also a great figure in the village.
There is already a Li Miao in the village, and he is a Jinshi. Li Shi also disappeared. But Li Shi was already a scholar and had a reputation, so it was no longer appropriate to stay in the Li Mansion.
Therefore, after Li Shi returned to the village, his family also became independent. In the past few years, Li Miao's monthly income has not been low.
Li Shi gave the silver to his grandfather Li Fugui and rushed directly to Qingzhou. Li Fugui took the silver and was both happy and a little reluctant to leave the Li Mansion.
I have lived well in the Li Mansion these past few years, and I have long been accustomed to life here. If you go out alone, you might as well live comfortably in the Li Mansion.
In May, Qingzhou entered the slack farming season, and Li Miao began to organize government forces to maintain all roads in Qingzhou, counties and townships.
In the past two years, officials at all levels in Qingzhou have made a small fortune. The barren mountains and wastelands were sold for a lot of money. Moreover, the price is getting higher and higher, and the barren mountains and wastelands that no one wanted before are now hot commodities. Is it strange that the price doesn’t go up?
Originally, Qingzhou was backward and the road condition was quite poor. With the promotion of sweet potato cultivation, roads have become the most important factor restricting the development of Qingzhou. After all, sweet potatoes are produced in large quantities and it is not easy for ordinary people to get them home from the fields.
It will be even more difficult to transport sweet potatoes to other places. 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 do hard labor anymore.
Li Miao had just taken office and asked the people to do such heavy labor. It just doesn't feel right. Therefore, the government provided money to hire local laborers to build roads.
The common people are also happy. Instead of doing hard labor, they can still get money for building roads. I still build roads near my home, and I usually do a lot of it, just like the government provides money to help build roads for my home.
The people are also grateful, knowing that Master Zhizhou cares for the people. High energy. In less than a month and a half, the road conditions in Qingzhou area have taken on a completely new look.
For such a big project, in normal times, Qingzhou would have no other choice but to make the people work hard. Fortunately, the government has money in recent years, so it no longer has to work hard for the people and money.
The road was built and the people made a small fortune. People have more money in their pockets. It also promoted the development of commerce and trade. The Qingzhou area began to exude vitality.
When sweet potatoes are promoted in inland areas, transportation becomes the biggest obstacle, which is why seeds are promoted faster in coastal areas. Li Miao can't control other places. In Qingzhou, where he owns one-third of an acre, he needs to repair the roads first.
In addition, Li Miao's agricultural tool factory has launched a wheelbarrow, which is made of wood and is cheap. Common people can afford it. It's all made of wood, so if anything is broken, you can repair it at home.
Unicycles are easy to use and can be used by ordinary people as soon as they get them. They have no technical content. Ordinary people usually have a hard time picking up two to three hundred kilograms.
With a wheelbarrow, it is easy to push a weight of 1,800 kilograms. And the requirements for roads are not high. The narrow paths are still pushed forward, and Li Miao remembers the wheelbarrows of later generations, which were full of vitality in the northern land.
The logistics supply of the Huaihai Battle, one of the three major battles of the Liberation War in later generations, was attributed to the wheelbarrow.
The wheelbarrow was first used in Li Miao's 70,000-acre estate. The effect was surprisingly good and labor-saving, which greatly reduced the labor intensity of farmers and increased labor efficiency. It was also easy to use and maintain.
The wheelbarrow was quickly accepted by surrounding farmers and began to spread rapidly in Qingzhou and even surrounding areas. Because wheelbarrows were easy to make, surrounding agricultural tool factories soon began making them too.
Some farmers even started making them themselves. Although the quality was poor, they were easy to use. In less than two months, wheelbarrows not only became popular in Qingzhou, but also spread rapidly to surrounding areas.
The vitality of the wheelbarrow is so strong that it was popularized in Shandong in a short period of time, and gradually spread rapidly in the north. For this reason, Li Miao also received a great wave of luck.
It’s really unintentional. It seems that those who adapt to this era are the best.
On this day, Li Miao came to inspect his large estate of more than 70,000 acres in Huangdao County for the first time. Although it was said to be a large estate, the estate was actually too big, equivalent to half a county in the south.
There are more than twenty relatively large villages in the large manor. Now there are more than 15,000 slaves in the entire large manor, plus the farmers. Li Miao's slaves serve as managers in the large manor.
Therefore, there were very few slaves, and most of them were farmers in the original manor. Those with strong abilities were accepted as slaves and participated in the management of the manor.
This manor produces a large amount of high-quality northern seeds every year, and then promotes them in surrounding areas. This year, the sales of sweet potato seedlings alone earned more than 500,000 taels of silver.
Now the stored grain in the manor is enough for the farmers to enjoy for five years, so they don't feel worried when they have food at home.
Now all school-age boys in the manor go to school for free, and receive a monthly salary based on their academic performance. Three days to study literature and one day to study martial arts. The body is the most important thing.
Most of these students will be guards in the future, and Jeet Kune Do is just perfect for their age.
Adult men also participate in Zhuangding training during their leisure time. Those who pass the martial arts can become Zhuangding. Zhuangding usually has a monthly salary and the food is absolutely generous.
The best among them can become guards, and the treatment will be at a higher level. If you can work as a sailor or guard on a ship, you will reach the sky in one step. That monthly income is generous, enough for the family to live a prosperous life.
There are now a large number of chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep raised in the manor. The food for the villagers has been greatly improved, not to mention the villagers and guards.
The physical fitness of bankers has greatly improved. Therefore, the force value of this large manor is already quite strong.
Most of the new sailors and guards on large and small ships now come from this manor. The current food reserves in the manor can accommodate tens of thousands more people if there is a famine.
Two large ports were spontaneously formed on the north and south sides of the coast of the manor. It was also slowly formed because of the ships along the coast transporting grain seeds. Due to congenital reasons, only small ships can dock at the two ports.
Gradually, markets began to form in the two ports. Now there are twenty or thirty villagers in each port to maintain order, and the management is also in order.
Nowadays, most of the large amounts of grain seeds in coastal areas flow out from these two ports.
Unfortunately, the port is still too small, which is also a drawback. Large sea-going ships cannot dock, so they can only anchor far away and be mobilized by small sea-going ships.
In this era before machinery, all natural harbors were used. Therefore, it is a blessing from God to have two natural harbors in the coastal area of the manor.
More than a year ago, there were 20,000 acres of barren land and 50,000 acres of barren hills. The villagers lived half-starved and half-fed, but now it has become such a wealthy large estate.
Not only does it produce a large amount of output every year, 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.
In troubled times heroes emerge. Li Miao had a new understanding of this sentence. When Wang Yonggui took over the manor, there were only two to three thousand people, but what about now? More than fifteen thousand people.
This is the reason why Li Miao keeps a low profile. Otherwise, Li Miao could easily accommodate 50,000 to 60,000 people. Now there are too many hungry people in the north who cannot survive. After inspecting the manor, Li Miao was also very excited. The future is promising.
