It is said that if the skin does not exist, how will the hair be attached? These honors deserve to live and die with Dasheng.
People say that Li Aiqing has a million-dollar fortune, which is comparable to the reincarnation of the God of Wealth. But when it comes to wealth, Li Aiqing cannot be ranked in Dasheng. For example, for the Xin family, how much money is the 500,000 acres of cultivated land worth?
There are more than ten households in Dasheng whose land is similar to that of the Xin family.
So when it comes to real family background, Li Aiqing doesn't rank high.
Without the 300,000 acres of farmland he awarded Li Aiqing, Li Aiqing would have been left out of the top 100.
Now it's time for Dasheng to spend money. How can he miss the real fat sheep and only let Li Aiqing provide money.
Sheng Hong made up his mind and did not dwell on this topic. He asked Li Qiao to return to the screen and continue to deal with the memorial.
He took out a pen and paper and began to list specific welfare measures.
Sheng Hong's move was somewhat beyond Li Qiao's expectations, but thinking about the situation in his previous life, he felt it was reasonable.
Sheng Hong is usually very gentle, but if it comes to a critical moment of Dasheng's life and death, he will not be merciful to anyone.
After returning to the screen, he sat in front of his own small table and stared at the piles of memorials on the table. He couldn't help but exhale softly.
Before, he was still thinking about taking a look at the situation this year and seeing how harmful the locust plague that affected the three provinces would be with his efforts.
If he could reduce the damage of the locust plague by half by himself, then he wouldn't have to waste his time reminding Sheng Hong to gather the strength of a country to fight the cold.
Neither father nor son of the Sheng family are useless, and they are particularly prone to overthinking, but Gao Zhiyuan here is a waste.
He didn't want to arouse the suspicion of the father and son, so he didn't want to be too troublesome.
Although he wanted to save the people, the most important thing was to protect himself.
But now Sheng Hong takes the initiative to farm, which really saves him a lot of trouble. From now on, he can just follow Sheng Hong's policy.
The people are lucky to have such a wise king.
Sheng Hong was very quick, and five days later he formulated a farming plan that even Li Liang Wang Guihua was a little excited about.
The role of criminals in cultivating crops is not great. If we want to make this farming operation meaningful, the most important thing is to recruit farmers from the entire Dasheng.
The fields cultivated by the garrison belong to the imperial court, not private individuals. Therefore, if you want to attract farmers to these four provinces, the conditions for Shenghong's development are quite good.
In the first five years, the court provided seeds, farm tools, cattle, fertilizers and other materials needed for farming, and the court and farmers shared a 50-50 share of the grain grown.
Five years later, the court decided whether to provide seeds, farming tools, cattle and other materials based on the situation.
Moreover, after thirty years of hard work on the farmland, you can get the land allocated by the court.
Under this condition, Li Liang Wang Guihua was really moved.
The terms of 50-50 and the court providing all cost materials are actually quite generous, but this alone is not enough to make the tenant farmers abandon everything in their hometown and go to these four provinces.
The people of Dasheng don’t like to leave their hometown.
But the latter one, where you can get the land allocated by the court after thirty years of farming, is too attractive to the tenant farmers.
When Dasheng was first founded, most farmers were allocated fields. Regardless of whether they were women or young men, the court would allocate fields to anyone who came of age.
But there will always be surprises in life, and the people at the bottom with all kinds of misfortunes can only sell their fields in order to survive.
After farmers sell their fields, they can only cultivate other people's land to make a living.
Farming is hard work, and you have to pay rent to the landlord. Tenant farmers work hard for a year, but in the end they can only maintain food and clothing.
This is still under the condition that God will provide for the good weather. If we encounter a calamity and a black-hearted landlord, we will either starve to death or sell our sons and daughters.
In short, only the tenant farmers themselves know the suffering of the tenant farmers.
Although Li Liang Wang Guihua is not a sharecropper, his wife values the land no less than sharecroppers.
They kept saying for several days that the tenant farmers could only rely on themselves and work hard for sixty years without owning their own land. After all, it was not easy to maintain food and clothing. How could they have money to buy land?
How great that the imperial court now gives tenant farmers a chance to own their own land!
If you don’t seize this opportunity, you will definitely regret it later!
Chapter 223: Many people signed up to work in the fields. Trivial matters can be skipped. Digging wild vegetables, it snowed.
Li Liang Wang Guihua thinks that the conditions in Shenghongkai are good. Many tenant farmers and even some people who live in the city without farmland and can only make a living by doing odd jobs also think that the conditions are good.
I rent a small house in the city and have no odd jobs every day. Instead of continuing to be unstable, I might as well go south to farm.
If you work diligently for thirty years, you will have your own land.
But being away from home, family and friends for the rest of their lives is a reality that scares many people away.
For this time, Sheng Hong specially set up a new official position, called "Tuntian Langzhong", a fifth-grade official.
There are four Tuntian doctors in total, one for each province.
Because he had to travel to four provinces to stay away from the court, he did not appoint him personally, but asked officials from the court and central government to sign up. If anyone wanted to go, they could come to him privately.
But if you accept this errand, you have to plant the crops for him, otherwise, he will be held accountable.
As soon as Sheng Hong's regulations came out, the low-level officials who came from the imperial examinations were very excited.
These petty officials had been tortured by Sheng Hong's strange questions, and many of them had memorized the set of tools Li Qiao had written by heart, so these people knew how to grow crops.
Although their inability to grow crops is their strength, they are not just outsiders instructing insiders.
Moreover, the Tuntian doctor was a fifth-rank official and was not under the jurisdiction of the local government. He had a cooperative relationship with the local government and had a great degree of freedom. He was only managed by Sheng Hong.
In this way, if you really become a farm doctor, you will really have your name in front of Sheng Hong. If you successfully or even exceed the tasks set by Sheng Hong, it will be a meritorious service.
They are not unparalleled talents like Li Qiao, who rose from a sixth-rank official to a third-rank official within a few years. If they missed this opportunity, it would be too difficult to be promoted step by step in this life.
At one time, there were many applicants.
This was expected by Sheng Hong.
Sheng Hong was very lucky. Fortunately, he had forced students all over the world to get involved in farming over the years. Otherwise, there were so many civil and military officials in the dynasty that he would not be at ease with whoever he sent.
Because these capital officials are too far away from growing crops and have been in high positions for a long time, they are not as knowledgeable about farming as the local magistrates.
On this day of rest, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu took Li Xiaorui, Li Changfeng and Li Yunfan to Zhuangzi, where the branches of Shantang Academy and Medical Museum are located, for an outing and digging wild vegetables.
These two schools were built on Li Qiao's family's village, but they are relatively simple and compact. Apart from the necessary classrooms, offices, dormitories and canteens, there are no other places nearby, such as the playground, library, etc. Not at all.
In addition, Li Qiao coordinated with the owner of the field next to him and bought another fifty acres of the field next to him to build a large warehouse dedicated to purchasing cotton. Therefore, the village still has twenty acres of land left.
These twenty acres of land are now planted with wheat.
Some wild vegetables will grow in the wheat field. Digging wild vegetables today can also be regarded as weeding the wheat seedlings.
The three little guys, Li Xiaorui, Li Changfeng, and Li Yunfan, were very active. Each of them carried a small backpack on his back and held a small hoe in his hand. They had a great time looking for wild vegetables in the wheat field.
This is a game to them, not farm work.
Tao Zhu originally wanted to dig with a shovel, but Li Qiao pulled him and insisted on letting him rest, so he and Li Qiao sat beside the wheat field.
It is the end of the second lunar month, although the weather is still a little cold, but everything is recovering, the branches are green, and the sun is hanging in the sky today, which is a rare good weather.
Old man Li Qiao was leaning on a large chair, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand. He squinted at the three little guys jumping around in the wheat field, smiled, and turned to look at Tao Zhu. : "With just the three of them, we will definitely be able to eat wild vegetable dumplings at noon today. You really don't have to dig for them."
"This is nothing to do." Tao Zhu's chair was next to Li Qiao's. He was also leaning on the back of the chair, holding a few chestnuts in his hand and peeling them slowly.
When you go out with your children, you will naturally bring some snacks.
And he happened to open a snack shop, and all the snacks were all natural without any additives, so Li Qiao didn't care much about these three little guys. Except for the sweet ones and fried foods, he could eat the rest of the snacks as he wanted.
"How could it be okay? Rest is also a very important thing. You are so busy on weekdays, so you should rest more."
Li Qiao strongly disagreed with this.
Tao Zhu chuckled when he heard this: "I have Yuanyuan and Brother Hua to help me, but I'm actually not too busy."
As he spoke, he raised a chestnut kernel to Li Qiao's mouth.
Li Qiao opened her mouth and sucked his fingers together, which made the smile on his face thicken: "Really, Yuanyuan is okay, and Ershan and I are still in the honeymoon period, and the work that can be done to help me is limited. But. Brother Hua now even paints clothes in the charity hall. He leaves early and comes home late every day, helping me share a lot of things."
"Ah? Brother Hua, are you so hardworking?"
Li Qiao's eyes widened slightly. He let go of Tao Zhu's fingers and asked vaguely while chewing the chestnut kernels in his mouth.
"Yes, before I have time to tell you, Xu Ying also wants to sign up as a Tuntian doctor."
"Um???"
Li Qiao was really surprised now and asked quickly: "I don't know about this yet. Xu Ying didn't tell me. Why did he sign up?"
"It's not because of his parents. After all, his parents are Brother Hua's serious parents-in-law. Although Brother Hua is busy, there is still a chance for his parents to catch Brother Hua and lecture him. Brother Hua is in a bad mood, and Xu Ying thinks Solve the problem once and for all.”
"Going south to farm is a good opportunity. He discussed with Brother Hua about signing up, but Brother Hua was unwilling."
"Brother Hua is not interested in farming. He likes the charity hall and the school and is unwilling to leave."
Tao Zhu explained carefully.
At this time, he had finished peeling several chestnuts in his hand. He pinched one and brought it to Li Qiao's mouth: "As you think, Brother Hua saw with his own eyes the hardships of the poor people in Shantang and Xueguan, and his horizons It’s broadened and my state of mind has changed a lot.”
"Xu Ying's parents' nagging about him can only have a small impact on him, and will not make him cry like before."
"However, he really didn't like hearing those words, so he wished he could live in the shantang. He stayed in the shantang for a long time and took away all my work. Naturally, I didn't have much work left."
"That's it..."
Li Qiao blinked his eyes, swallowed the chestnut kernels in his mouth, and felt a little choked. He put the tea bowl to his mouth and took a few sips, and then said: "Thank you for your hard work, Brother Hua."
"But, doesn't he miss Brother Xin?"
"I think, but Aunt Shen and Uncle Shen will take Brother Xin to the shantang to look for him. Xu Ying will also look for him after she is off duty."
"...let's do it."
Li Qiao breathed out lightly.
It is not easy for Shen to paint Xu Ying, a young couple.
But now is not the time to ask Sheng Hong about his position.
At this moment, Sheng Hong was still at ease, with a large number of low-level officials and common people from the Hanlin Academy in his hands.
Moreover, the results of this year's general examination have come out, and Shenghong admitted 130 Jinshi.
