Traveling through books: Traveling through time with a golden finger to become a soft rice man

When Li Zheng saw Yang Yuanzu coming back, he put down the tea cup and quickly introduced: "This is Yang Yuanzu of our village."

At this time, Aunt Kang heard the noise and came out of the room. She put her hands on her apron to wipe the water stains and said, "Master, these officials said they have something to do with you, so they came early this morning."

"I know, Aunt Kang, you go and cook first." Aunt Kang returned to the house after hearing this.

Knowing that several people had come early in the morning, Yang Yuanzu stepped forward and apologized. The two officials politely stopped them. Yang Yuanzu knew it was a good thing when he saw their attitudes and the smile on Li Zheng's face.

It turns out that the grain tax and commercial tax reported by the entire Shunxing County this year has doubled compared to last year. After asking, the Holy Master learned about the fertilizer method and prepared to promote it nationwide. The two of them came today to bring the reward issued by the superior to Yang Yuanzu. Came here.

Of course, the county magistrate also had a share in the reward, but the two officials did not tell Yang Yuanzu about it.

Yang Yuanzu's reward was one thousand taels of silver and one thousand taels of gold, which could provide a farmer's family with a lifetime of food and drink.

After getting a huge fortune, Yang Yuanzu did not lose his etiquette. He invited the two officials to stay for lunch with a normal heart. The two officials politely declined, but they could not resist Yang Yuanzu's warm invitation.

During the meal, Yang Yuanzu and Li Zheng had a tacit exchange of words and learned that because Shunxing County was well managed, the county magistrate was expected to be promoted next year.

When the official left, Yang Yuanzu followed the rules and gave the two red envelopes to announce the good news. The two happily returned home with the red envelopes.

"Brother, this is a great job to announce the good news to the Yang family. Not only do you get a red envelope, but you also get a meal. The meat and vegetables are plentiful and delicious, even better than those in restaurants!"

The eldest brother looked at the six taels of silver in his hand and smiled from ear to ear. He usually only had two or four taels to announce good news to others, but he didn't expect to get six taels today.

He put the money away and replied: "It's a pity that this good job won't be our turn next time, but what we got today is considered a profit."

The two left Fengping Village laughing.

Li Zheng helped lead the way to announce the good news today, and Yang Yuanzu also wrapped a red envelope for him. Li Zheng blushed and was determined not to accept it. If it were in the hard days of the past, he might have accepted the red envelope shamelessly, but now. After living well, he will definitely not ask for this money.

Since Li Zheng took charge of transportation in the textile factory, life at home has improved at a speed visible to the naked eye. Last year Li Zheng was still wearing patched clothes, but this year he can wear new clothes.

Yang Yuanzu saw that Li Zheng was not short of the money, so he took the money and exchanged it for some candied fruits for Li Zheng to take back to Li Xiaoxiao.

Anyway, the most popular thing in his house is candied fruits, some bought at Tianjia shop in the county town, and some made by Yang Huahua at home.

Li Xiaoxiao is Li Zheng's little grandson. Just when he likes to eat these sweet treats, Li Zheng accepts these candied fruits without any courtesy.

After being polite for a while, the two started talking about business.

Li Zheng was well-connected and knew that this year Shunxing County had not only doubled its food tax, but also quadrupled its commercial tax. Such great achievements were enough for the county magistrate to be promoted.

The wall in the village has been built, and Li Zheng wanted to let everyone continue to build the reservoir, but many people were unwilling, so he specifically proposed it to discuss with Yang Yuanzu today.

Li Zheng had a sad look on his face: "Building a reservoir is much more difficult than building a wall. In addition, there is a small river in the village, so everyone does not agree to build a reservoir. However, once a drought comes, the small river may dry up."

The villagers are usually busy farming to make money. It is already good to be able to build the wall. If they want to build another reservoir, this may be a bit difficult.

Li Zheng continued: "The main reason is that everyone has doubts about the drought and thinks that building a reservoir is a big deal."

After hearing this, Yang Yuanzu replied: "It is a good thing to build a reservoir. It can not only prevent droughts, but also prevent waterlogging during floods."

Li Zheng sighed and said, "It would be great if everyone thought like you."

Yang Yuanzu had always been curious about why Li Zheng was so sure that the drought would come, so he asked: "Although this summer is hot, it has rained a few times. How does Uncle Li judge that the drought will come."

What method can be used to judge this? Most of it comes from life experience. He has to manage the harvest of the entire village, so he pays a lot of attention to everything, especially the weather.

However, Li Zheng still spoke out about the problems he had discovered before: "This year there has been a lot of dry weather with thunder and no rain, and I have recorded the position of the river in the village every year. It has been stable in the past, but the position has changed in the past two years. decline."

Yang Yuanzu guessed in his heart that what he was measuring should be the water level of the river.

"Also, I take a few buckets of the river water every year to see if it is turbid and weigh it. I found that there are some differences between the past two years and the past two years. In addition, the weather has been too hot in the past two years, so I guessed in my mind that this thing."

People usually don't pay attention to these small things, but they pay attention to them on rare occasions.

Just listen to Li Zheng continue: "The drought is just a guess of mine. In fact, I am not sure in my heart, so I asked the old people in the village, but they also felt something was wrong from the weather, so I summoned Help everyone build walls and reservoirs."

Li Zheng is a fair man, and everyone is willing to believe that he helped build the wall, but if he continues to build the reservoir, it will be a bit difficult. After all, everyone is not idle, and they have to run for a living.

People in Fengping Village are either farming or working in textile factories, or burning charcoal in caves, or setting up stalls in the county town, or running errands and delivering goods. Even children are now sent to In the village school.

In short, there are no idle people in the village now. The absence of idle people means that there is not much labor force.

Besides, building the reservoir was a matter for the imperial court, and they had to do corvee service every year. After finally taking a breather, they were dragged to build the reservoir, which no one else would be willing to do.

Although Li Zheng repeatedly emphasized that this is a major event that benefits oneself, the people, and future generations.

Yang Yuanzu is the one who believes that drought will come, but others are dubious. He definitely supports the construction of the reservoir.

The construction of the reservoir is all about funding. The villagers have to be busy making money and have no time to help with the work. But if the construction of the reservoir is profitable, I believe everyone will be very active.

Yang Yuanzu thought for a while and then asked: "How much silver is needed to build a reservoir?"

Li Zheng heard this and said: "I don't know about this. I have never repaired it. But if we assume that the construction time of this reservoir is half a year, a worker's salary is four taels. Our own village is building the reservoir. It is cheaper to hire our own workers. Five taels." Ten workers working together to repair it will probably take..."

Before Li Zheng could calculate it, Yang Yuanzu blurted out: "One thousand, two hundred taels."