"Hey! A distinguished guest is coming, please come over here."
When the chief came here, he saw nine men and nine horses. The horses were used for riding, which were better than those for pulling carts.
He knew the key. He had to go to Xuancheng to open a road to lead the way, and he also sent the grain when paying the land tax.
"Our leader." The old man introduced, then turned around to find his own place.
"Yichang! Your village is..."
The county magistrate also knew that Zhu Yichang was good at cooking and the beef with soy sauce was delicious.
He thought he could avoid the other party, but the whole village ended up eating outside.
"Li Zhixian, Guanxian Cheng, Chief Secretary Zheng, and six brothers, please sit down quickly and I'll have someone get you water to wash your hands and wipe away your sweat."
The headman asked people to take the horses to the stables for feeding, and arranged for the three officials to sit at their own table, while six government servants sat at the table next to them.
"Wash yourselves." The magistrate said when he saw villagers lining up to wash their hands and faces and use soap.
He walked to a team, and the leader quickly asked the villagers to stand back.
The magistrate picked up the soap, smelled it, and nodded: "Does the honey locust contain spices?"
"It's steamed with perilla and coriander, then stir-fried and made into balls with water, leaving nothing else on the side." The director introduced.
He didn't know how to do this before, but Hanhan taught him, and he also said that when the rapeseed is harvested, he can use rapeseed oil to make other soaps and soaps.
The magistrate and others used soap to wash their hands and clean their faces. The soap was a round ball.
By the time they returned to the main table, Zhu Wentian had already sat down.
The three officials were stunned. Who is so ignorant of etiquette?
"The county magistrate, county magistrate, and chief registrar, his name is Hanhan, and he is the village guard of my Xiaqiu Village. When I invited him here thirteen years ago, he sent the village list to the county town."
The chief explained that the child's status was different and he was a fool.
"Oh! Hello, village guard!" The county magistrate nodded. Thirteen years ago, he was not the county magistrate in Xuancheng.
"Hehe! Eat, hehe hehe!" Zhu Wentian cooperated.
The three officials did not dare to complain. The village guard who had entered the village was very impressive.
A clay pot was brought, containing tofu cubes and tofu stewed with chicken cubes.
Li Chang cut an extra plate of bacon and salted duck eggs, and then fried a large plate of eggs and chopped green onions into a round pancake shape.
Seeing that the chief wanted to prepare other dishes, Li Zhixian stopped him: "Yichang, it's enough to eat, don't be busy."
"The main thing is that there aren't any dishes and it looks too shabby. We'll have to prepare dinner for tonight."
The chief brought the wine, then he sat down and sighed.
Three officials: "..."
They usually don't have such good food, and officials' salaries are low.
Xuancheng County is called Shang County, and the county magistrate is of the sixth grade, with a salary of ninety dan per year.
The county magistrate is in the seventh rank, worth eighty shi; the chief official is in the eighth rank, and is worth seventy shi.
Others belong to the official ninth rank, including one from Dianshi, who has a salary of sixty stones.
Give rice directly, with the shell on. If you want to eat something else, exchange it for rice, or sell the rice to buy something.
Li Zhixian took a sip of wine, ate another piece of chicken, and swallowed: "Yi Chang, I went to the fields to see when I came here. Hemp and rapeseed grow well. Does it cost a lot of land?"
"We don't consume much hemp and rapeseed. We only need to supplement the fertilizer with plant ash, hemp seed oil residue, phosphorite powder, and retting farmyard manure."
The director admits that continuous farming has an impact on soil fertility, but it doesn't matter. Just apply fertilizer normally.
"Why use those things?" Guan County Cheng knew about farmyard manure, but didn't understand the others.
"Whatever is lacking, make up for it. Whatever is missing, make up for it."
The director himself didn’t even understand it, but Hanhan said it anyway.
It is also said that it is best to put the soybean pods and bean cakes in the ground after retting them for a while.
Unfortunately, even if people don't eat bean cakes, they still have to be eaten by livestock. Bean stalks are also suitable for cattle and sheep.
"How do you know what is missing?" Chief Zheng asked the key question.
The director shook his head slightly: "I usually put some in, right?"
Zhu Wentian just kept eating and didn't care about my business.
Everyone chatted while eating. The county magistrate and the registrar mainly talked about the affairs in the county.
The magistrate asked around and learned that pottery basins, bowls, and plates were all purchased by the village specifically for eating in big pots.
By the way, I learned that the village used the land where hemp was grown last year to grow cotton. The land reclaimed exceeds 2,000 acres, of which 400 acres are better.
The reason for eating chicken today is to start harvesting ramie and rapeseed in two days to strengthen the body and eat it for five days in a row.
Zhu Wentian finished eating first. He didn't interrupt. He took his friends to eat for a while, then took a nap to keep healthy.
Seeing Hanhan leave, he let out a long sigh. He was always worried about being exposed.
"Yichang, I passed by other villages when I came here. The villagers are very promising. How come your village has a lot of land reclamation, but..."
Li Zhixian wondered, are the people in Xiaqiu Village different from the people in other villages?
"There are big livestock to take care of in the village." The head of the village filled the magistrate with wine and said with a smile.
"How many are there?" The chief clerk thought about what the other party said about opening up 2,000 acres of wasteland.
The headman did not hide anything: "Let me think about it, uh... there are ninety oxen, one hundred and twenty mules, six donkeys, and ninety horses."
The three of them said again: "..."
They deeply suspected that the lieutenant was lying. Are you kidding me?
You dare to say that there are more than 300 large animals. How many people are there in your village? Using people as livestock?
The headmaster smiled slightly: "After dinner, you all go and have a look. By the way, I will ask someone to kill a pig and make braised pork for you to eat in the evening."
"I have to go back in the afternoon, the county is busy with affairs."
Li Zhixian put down his hand. The road from Xuancheng was too far.
"Oh!" the manager responded, and then shouted: "After dinner, go help kill the pig and make braised pork."
"Yichang, why do you have to do this? It's not easy in your village." Li Zhixian was embarrassed.
"The government is tight today and officials' salaries are low. I can't give you money. Why can't you just eat food?"
The headman spoke for the officials. There were people above him who were easy to handle, and the roads were open for three months.
It's not that you can't give away money, but you can't give it away in public. If you give food away, no one will care about it until it goes into your stomach.
"It's a waste of money to ask Yichang." Li Zhixian finally agreed.
Eating faster, they planned to walk around the village.
Everyone was full, and the government servants showed happy and contented smiles. It was so delicious that even after they finished eating, they even gave them more.
The chief took three officials for a walk, first to the place where livestock was raised. There were pigs, sheep, and fat bamboo rats.
Finally, it was the big animal that the village chief mentioned, and the three people in Li Zhixian County were confused.
There is no need to count, just look at the groups and you will know that the number is not bad.
The chief bookkeeper was stunned: "How...how...is this possible? No, you don't need money?"
"How much did it cost?" The county magistrate's eyes were full of copper coins.
Li Zhixian took a deep breath, and then another deep breath, and suddenly felt that it was nothing to eat the pork from Kou Village. Xiaqiu Village was too rich.
He patted Li Chang's shoulder: "Yichang, where did you... get the money?"
"Uh..." The manager was in a dilemma. If he didn't say it, he really couldn't explain it clearly. But if he said it... would he still be able to make money selling rock candy in the future?
"Yichang, even if I don't ask you today, if your village brings livestock to the fields, the news will be passed on to the neighboring villages. Human nature! If we come today, there will be people..."
Li Zhixian: Tell the truth, someone reported your village, they are obviously jealous.
"Wait for me." The chief abandoned the three people and ran away.
He ran to find Hanhan and listened to Hanhan whether he wanted to talk or not.
When he found Hanhan, Hanhan was sleeping with his friends on the straw mat.
"Hanhan! There is something, they..." the chief said.
"Hmm! Someone made a mistake? Alas! Fish under the water, geese in the sky, can be shot from high and fished from low. The abyss will eventually have a bottom, but the human heart cannot be measured."
Zhu Wentian tapped his leg with his hand and frowned.
The director's eyes widened and he felt that these words made sense.
"Tell me! Daming bought rock candy from outside, and the good stuff was bought. After talking, I estimate that Daming will sell rock candy and go out. I will write to you, the chief."
Zhu Wentian went to find the Four Treasures of the Study and came back to write.
While writing, he recited: "The Ming Dynasty Shipping Department sells foreign goods to the market. All imported goods must be expensive, and whatever is exported will consume people's energy."
Every time things change, money flows in reverse order, people are fat and rich, more is produced and less is replaced, things have a certain amount, people have no permanent strength, brown sugar and rock sugar are counted ten times.
Today's filtering method can benefit all people. I hope people can use it well and express their feelings. "
