In the Southern Zhou Dynasty, smoke curled up from cooking pots.
After a tired day, the farmer returned home. After dinner, he sat in groups at the entrance of the alley and chatted. The weather in late May is already very hot. If it doesn't get cooler, it will be difficult for anyone to fall asleep.
The gong rang, and the head of the family began to greet them: "The head of each household will go to the rice field. The head of the village has something to say with the old man."
When Zhou Da heard this, he spat and couldn't help but curse: "I'm going to the rice field again, I'm afraid I'll talk about raising pigs. If you want to raise pigs, let the head of the village raise them. We won't get involved."
Zhou Da's wife, Huang Shi, glared at Zhou Da fiercely: "We have to go and see if they are involved or not. What if they agree to it for us and stuff piglets into the house?"
"Then eat it!"
Zhou Da was very dissatisfied.
The house is so busy, and everyone is as tired as a dog, almost closing their eyes, but they still ask us to raise pigs, it’s disgusting.
"Zhou Da, let's go."
Opposite him, Zhou Ke was holding a cattail leaf fan in one hand and a small stool in the other, as if he were watching a show.
Commander A urged me not to go.
Although many villagers were dissatisfied and aggrieved, they still went to the rice field.
The head of the village, Zhou Ke, took out the roster and started calling names one by one until he was sure that all the heads of households in Southern Zhou had arrived, then he sat down.
The old man Zhou Zhi signaled everyone to quiet down, and then cleared his throat: "The pilot breeding in Nanzhou is the kindness of the county magistrate. The county magistrate took out the paperwork and made it clear that if someone dies due to illness or accident while raising pigs, the county government will You don’t need to make any compensation. If the pigs are raised and the county government helps sell them, then the money spent on the piglets will be deducted, and the rest will fall into your hands. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?"
All the people listened and yawned again and again, but no one answered at all.
Zhou Zhi sighed, full of sorrow, and shouted: "What concerns do you have, please tell me clearly. Some people say that raising pigs takes effort and time, and there is no one to look after it. But you don't have the strength to clean up the land, so it doesn't take much trouble." Are you ready? Go to bed an hour late every day and let the pigs out for a while. How much will it delay you?"
The village chief Zhou was pleased to see that the people were still indifferent, so he stood up and shouted: "Why, everyone can't get along with money? You don't know the price of a pig, but you still know that a pound of pork costs ten cents, right? Let's sell a pig , maybe you can’t earn much, but after working hard for a year, you still have a lot of money, and a lot of money is not a small amount, right? You are so poor, how can you still look down on a lot of money?”
Farmer Zhou Hui stood up and shook his cattail leaf fan vigorously: "Chief, we don't look down on money. Anyone who has money doesn't want to make it, but this money may not be easy to make."
The old man Zhou Zhi looked at Zhou Hui and said quickly: "What's not easy to make? This is a sure-profit business. As long as you are willing to herd the pigs and be diligent, how can you be so poor all year round that you can't even buy a new piece of clothing?" "
Zhou Hui kicked down the stool, walked out of the crowd, went to the village chief and the old man, and then turned to look at the villagers in Nanzhou: "Why don't we want to raise pigs? If you don't make money, you are a fool. No one wants to be a fool." . But Chief A, Chief, Old Man, have you ever thought about it, once we raise pigs and something happens, the county government may not allow us to compensate as promised. When has the government ever suffered a loss?"
Zhou Zhi took out the document and said: "There is a document here. The county government can sign a breeding contract with each household. It is clearly written in it. Zhou Hui, can't you even trust the county magistrate?"
Zhou Hui looked at Zhou Zhi, his eyes fell on the document in Zhou Zhi's hand, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Gu Zhixian County is kind to us. If it weren't for him, each of our households would have to pay a lot more grain due to the dripping tip kicking trick. However, who can guarantee that Gu Zhixian can stay in Jurong forever? If Gu Zhixian leaves, the subsequent magistrate will not acknowledge the debt, will not help us sell pigs, and will not recognize the contract, and may even reach out to us. We need Piggy’s money, what should we do then?”
"this……"
Zhou Zhi was a little at a loss.
Zhou Xi and Zhou Ke did not expect that the people's biggest worry was not their own difficulties, not shortage of manpower, or fatigue, but their distrust of the county government.
Gu Zhengchen is a good county magistrate, but the magistrate before Gu Zhengchen was a bad magistrate to the core. Even the previous county magistrate, chief registrar, and dianshi were very evil, and bullying the people was their specialty.
Who can guarantee that after Gu Zhengchen leaves Jurong, a good official like Gu Zhengchen will come?
If Gu Zhengchen's successor does not admit the debt, does not recognize these contracts, and directly reaches out to the people to ask for the money for the piglets, then the people will probably not be able to get the money before selling the pigs, and the county government will probably directly The pigs were taken away as compensation.
In this way, everything is busy and nothing is left behind.
And those farmers whose piglets died are likely to have to pay compensation. If there is no compensation money, the county government will move things to make up for it, which will make things worse and make life even more difficult.
The unsustainable policies and personnel changes in the county government have become the biggest concerns of the people.
Zhou Hui looked at the chief and the old man, but found that the three of them turned sideways and looked at the woods to the west.
When a group of people saw this, they couldn't help but turn their heads and saw two people slowly walking out of the woods. The young man leading them was the county magistrate, wasn't he?
"I've met the county magistrate."
Everyone stood up to salute.
Gu Zhengchen pressed down with his gestures and said with a smile: "Everyone should just sit down and talk. There is no need to salute."
The chief and the old man did not dare to sit anymore and gave up their seats.
Gu Zhengchen did not sit down, but stood in front of the table, scanning everyone with gentle eyes: "I proposed the breeding industry. My original intention is to make everyone have enough to eat, and the family will have more money and food. Fortunately, You won’t be unable to survive in difficult times. Now that I think about it, your worries are not unreasonable.”
Zhou Hui lowered his head, not daring to look at Zhengchen.
Gu Zhengchen patted Zhou Hui on the shoulder and motioned for him to sit back: "During this period, the mayor and the old man have been talking about this matter a lot, and they have spent a lot of time. I have a rough idea of what you are thinking. Everyone is here today Here, let’s sort it out one by one. If there are still people who don’t want to participate, no one will force you. If you want to participate, I, Gu Zhengchen, welcome you.”
Don't force it, this is the tone.
As soon as these words came out, the villagers in Southern Zhou immediately felt at ease and felt much more relaxed.
Gu Zhengchen said calmly: "Many villagers say that raising pigs is laborious and labor-intensive, and it is not easy to raise. The county government has given a countermeasure, which is to build a breeding farm for Nanzhou Township residents. Each household will have a small farm. Every breeding area has a fence. You have to work hard every day to get some pig food and pig grass at most. The construction of the fence can be left to the craftsman's yard, which will be built for you free of charge."
There is a lot of wasteland and few households, which makes it convenient to build a small breeding area.
Two hundred households and two hundred breeding areas actually don't take up much space. Ten acres of wasteland is almost enough. After all, the breeding area doesn't need to be big, it just needs to be solid.
Zhou Da, Zhou Hui and other villagers were surprised.
The county government even considered building a fenced breeding area?
Gu Zhengchen raised his hand to stop the crowd's whispers: "With the breeding area, we can save you a lot of trouble. We are all from the same village, and anyone who comes here will know about it, and you don't have to worry about who stole your pigs. There are still people He said that the pigs may die of illness, so they are busy in vain. Haha, it depends on whether you are careful or not. However, as the first village in Jurong to pilot breeding, I still think of a way for you and hire a veterinarian for you. Enter the Southern Zhou Dynasty."
"veterinary?"
Zhou Xi, Zhou Zhi and others looked at Gu Zhengchen.
Gu Zhengchen was not joking, he was really serious in order to promote breeding.
"Zhou Li·Tian Guan·Veterinary Medicine": "Veterinarians use their palms to treat animal diseases and ulcers."
Veterinary medicine has appeared as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Han Dynasty's "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" can be said to be a general pharmaceutical treatise for humans and animals. It mentions the treatment of cattle and pigs.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong of Jurong wrote down the prescriptions for treating various diseases of livestock in his "Emergency Prescriptions".
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Jia Sixie devoted a special volume to introducing animal husbandry and veterinary medicine in "Essential Techniques for Qi Min", which introduced knot removal, hoof trimming (to treat leaky hoofs), castration of pigs and sheep, and the disease of livestock groups. measures such as prevention and control isolation.
Veterinarians are indispensable special talents for the court. Of course, the key to the importance of veterinarians in the court is for war horses. The key to the importance of veterinarians in the private sector is to raise cattle. However, there are still many veterinarians who treat pig diseases, including several in Jurong.
Gu Zhengchen took out the documents from the county government, looked at everyone, and said seriously: "You are worried about what to do if the county government refuses to acknowledge your account when I leave in the future. You have not told the mayor or the old man about this worry before. This is my first time hearing about it, but if I think about it carefully, this worry is not unreasonable."
"It's very common for people to die and the government to stop. If I say here that I can control the next official, haha, I'm afraid you won't believe it. However, I can say two things. The first thing, According to the imperial official assessment regulations, county magistrates are assessed every three years. I took office in the autumn of the sixth year, less than one year, and three years is still too early, and raising pigs, haha, one year is enough, right?"
"As for this second matter, many of you may be worried that your official will be suddenly transferred. After all, many officials in other places were transferred before their tenure was full. But who am I? I am not just the magistrate of Jurong County. , it is still the Jurong Guard who commands the Qianshi, and he is the male of Quanzhou County in the Ming Dynasty. If your Majesty picks my county magistrate, he may not pick my Jurong Guard to command the Qianshi. Even if he picks both of them, the title of Quanzhou County Male , it can’t be taken off easily, right?”
"Even if we go to Jinling, or all over the world, as a county man, we still can't persuade the future magistrate of Jurong to fulfill the contract? Haha, to tell you the truth, I have accepted two disciples in Jinling. They My father is Muying, the commander of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, who is the adopted son of the emperor. If the magistrate of Jurong does not act in accordance with the contract in the future, haha, tell me, can I sue His Majesty?"
Gu Zhengchen had to use Muying as his brand.
The people may not completely believe in themselves or Muying, but they believe in the emperor.
They were relieved when the emperor could hear Jurong's voice.
At this point, all the obstacles that hindered the farming of the villagers in Nanzhou, whether material or psychological, were kicked away by Gu Zhengchen!
