Infrastructure masters in the red building

In Jiafang’s ink painting of the main house in Daoxiang Village, a bell was hung on the side, and then a transmission device was made. One end of the device was placed outside the earthen wall of Daoxiang Village, and a pull rope was made. A small copper ring was hung on the rope. Both the rope and the copper ring are hidden in the grass on the top of the earthen wall, which is extremely difficult to be found.

Jia Fang called Shuangwen and asked her to pull the rope outside Daoxiang Village.While Shuangwen was pulling the rope, Jia Fang himself returned to the main room in Daoxiang Village, and heard the little bell ringing happily.

This is only the first step, to test whether the transmission works well.

The second test is that Shuangwen pulls the rope again after a stick of incense, and Jia places it at the Xianliang Temple to listen to the sound transmission effect of the "shrinking ground whip".

Jia Fang hurriedly passed the "shrinking the ground whip" and came to the Xianliang Temple. When he came out of the temple, he was surprised to find that Village Chief Tao and several other indigenous villagers were gathering outside the Xianliang Temple, all of them were full of reverence and fear.

"Third Lord... Just now, just now, the Xianliang Temple... rang, the bell rang." Village Chief Tao stammered. "Is it true that the gods... want us to sacrifice to the gods again?"

Jia Fang asked, "Where were you at that time? Can you hear the bell clearly?"

Several villagers looked at each other, and reported their coordinates one after another-it really is everywhere.It seems that the ringing of the bell from the Xianliang Temple can be clearly heard by people within a radius of half a mile.

Jia Fang did not expect this result: Does this mean that the space of the "shrinking ground whip" can amplify the sound waves?

Before he finished chatting with the village chief and the villagers, the bell rang again, crisp and cheerful, but it shocked the villagers of Taoyuan Village. People pointed to the Xianliang Temple and said to Jia Fang: " Third Master, listen, this is it!"

Jia Fang said that he understood: "Everyone, yesterday a god entrusted me with a dream, saying that he had installed a bell for me, and if he saw that the big guy needed something, he would ring the bell... They, cough, the gods will pass me on, entrusted to the dream Give me instructions on what to do."

"So as soon as you hear the ringtone, please find me no matter where I am. I have to go to the Xianliang Temple... to dream."

This lie was too embarrassing, but Jia Fang had no choice but to make it up.Fortunately, he has a good reputation among the villagers. Although the villagers were dubious, they all chose to respect Jia Fang's words and nodded in agreement.Village head Tao said: "Master Jia, since the gods summoned you, we have to invite you wherever you are."

Jia Fang: Very good, that's it.

At the same time, it was also agreed that Shuangwen, Jia Fang asked Shuangwen to take care of him in the Grand View Garden from now on.Once someone is found approaching Daoxiang Village, Shuangwen will try to stop it.But if someone wants to find Jia Fang for urgent matters, Shuangwen will ring the bell: the two long ones are for people inside the house, and the one long one short and one long are for people outside the house.When Jia Fang heard the bell, he tried to get back from Taoyuan Village as soon as possible.

But in fact, since Mrs. Lai left Rongfu, the Grand View Garden has become much cleaner, and no one came to look for Jia Fang when he was idle.

Both Shuangwen and Mrs. Sun were always worried that Mrs. Lai would come back from Zhuangzi. After all, Mrs. Lai was sent away that day with the excuse that Mrs. Lai had a sudden illness.The deception obviously cannot last long. Once Mrs. Shi finds out that her confidant has been transferred away in this way, there will probably be a big disturbance in the mansion.

Jia Fang euphemistically conveyed this concern to his father Jia Daishan.

Jia Daishan chose to immediately show his cards to Mrs. Shi, who had just taken a break.During the showdown, Mrs. Shi really got angry: "What? I only have such a reliable person by my side, and he was transferred to the dealer. Jia, don't bully people like this."

Jia Daishan has a good temper, and he didn't get angry when his wife pointed at his nose and scolded him. Instead, he took something out of his sleeve and handed it to Mrs. Shi.

Mrs. Shi took a look and saw that it was a 3000 tael bank note, and asked in surprise: "This money...has something to do with the Lai family?"

Jia Daishan nodded: "Yes, this reliable person beside you has accumulated such a wealth after following you for so many years."

Mrs. Smith: ...What?

Mrs. Lai is a servant of the Rong Mansion, and her monthly bill is only about two taels of silver. Even with the red envelopes during the New Year's Eve and rewards for various red and white things, it is absolutely impossible for a housekeeper and servant to save 3000 taels of silver. .

It must be greedy.

"I found this from Lai's residence, and I have checked the ticket numbers. It has been confirmed that Lai's 100 taels and 200 taels have been saved in this way over the years." Jia Daishan told his wife the facts calmly.

"In addition to the 3000 taels of silver, the Lai family also bought a small courtyard in the south of the city and hung it under the name of one of her family nephews. The Yaren have already gone to identify it, and the Yaren has written down the cause and effect, and pressed Fingerprints."

"Madam, you may need to keep your eyes open and take a good look at the people around you who you think are reliable."

When Mrs. Shi heard this, she became angry.Lai's doing such a thing, she was already terribly depressed, but now when Jia Daishan said that she was ignorant of people, Mrs. Shi almost vomited out of anger, but could only hold back.

"But ma'am, why shouldn't I take this as a warning? I have brought Lai's son with me for three years, and I have never avoided anything. Who would have thought that he would be so courageous that he could tear down the house in the mansion?" Fire paint, peek at the letter from the mansion to my family."

Jia Daishan's emotion made Mrs. Shi feel better all of a sudden.It is true that she made a mistake, but her husband also made a mistake, let alone the second brother.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Shi's anger was miraculously calmed down, and she also spat bitterly to express her indignation: "Sure enough, whoever gives birth to what kind of son. Rats can make holes. The family name is Lai. , just staring at our house to make holes! Hmph... There are so many old people in the house, I should check them all, and then beat them—I don’t have to teach them to feel that they can rub me, the mistress. Flat and round, you can move the property of the mansion outside without telling me."

Jia Daishan looked at his wife with a smile, and thought: Jia Fang is right, as long as people feel that she is not the only one who is wrong, his wife will feel much better in her heart, and she will have a heart of "same hatred and hatred".

Sure enough, Mrs. Shi immediately verified Lai's crimes vigorously and resolutely, and beat up several wives and outside managers who had colluded with Lai's family, and kicked them out of the house.Lai Shi and Lai Da both served hard labor in Zhuangzi.His mother and son knew a lot of inside information about the Jia family, but they absolutely must not be let out.

The Lai family came from Mrs. Shi's natal family, and they still had some roots in the historian's family, so they urged the Shi family to come to Jia's mansion to intercede for the Lai family, but Mrs. Shi spit on their faces and went back in despair.From then on, Mrs. Shi said that she no longer asked for help from historians, and the communication between the two families has decreased a lot. This is a later story.

Without such a hidden danger as Lai's, and updating the remote communication equipment of "Daoxiang Village-Taoyuan Village", Jia Fang can be more and more busy with the construction of Taoyuan Village without any worries.

Since the new immigrants from Yujiang recovered one by one, the construction work of Taoyuan Village began to be carried out in full swing.

According to Jia Fang's vision, the new immigrants will all be dispersed and divided into four administrative villages.This work was completed quickly, and it wasn't a complete random mix. Instead, the administrative units they belonged to in Yujiang were divided into four equal parts, and then mixed, and the four villages were soon divided.

The candidate for the village head is temporarily selected by Qin Lizheng as a "temporary replacement" from the villagers who used to be the village head—but Jia Fang also said that the temporary replacement period is only three months. If the village head is not suitable, After three months, he will be directly removed from office, and the villagers will elect the village head by themselves.

Therefore, the newly appointed village chiefs dare not neglect the "villagers" they are not very familiar with under their rule, ask for their health, dare not offend others too much, and dare not rashly take the "benefits" that the village chief can arrange. Arrange for your own family or acquaintances.

After all, Jia Fang said that in Taoyuanzhai, the village head is regarded as a "public office" and will be paid in the future-who is willing to throw away such a fat job?

Next, Jia Fang asked the four new administrative villages to discuss their own "village name" and asked the villagers to agree to it.

This is actually the first assessment to test the administrative capabilities of the "village chiefs".As a result, three of the four village chiefs failed to complete this task. The villagers discussed for a long time, but failed to negotiate a village name that everyone was satisfied with. At the same time, they did not have the courage to suppress their satisfactory reputation. ’ All the staff agreed.

Only the village where Wang Erlang lived was negotiated to be called "Xinyu Village" - a new immigrant from Yujiang.The whole village thought it was good, and so did Jia Fang.

So Jia Fang made a decision: "That's it, you are called Xinyu Village—the other three are called Xinyu First Village, Xinyu Second Village, and Xinyu Third Village."

——Number numbering is all it takes.

Apart from Xinyu Village, the villagers in the other three administrative villages are not very satisfied. After all, the words "First Village", "Second Village" and "Third Village" sound weird, but the key is that they still follow the names thought up by others.

But soon Jia Fang's words spread throughout the three administrative villages: people are united, Mount Tai is moving, and public affairs in the village must learn to reach consensus by themselves.If there is an internal dispute about anything, endlessly, and no conclusion can be drawn, then it will inevitably teach others to read a joke.

Sure enough, the next thing that is more controversial: the division of land.

The land of Taoyuan Village is divided into two parts: homestead and field.

Each village will be divided into a piece of homestead, and the homestead has basic construction regulations-the private residential land is distributed around the village, and the public space is in the middle.The allocation of private residential land is decided by each village itself, and the main purpose is to allocate according to household registration, population, and comprehensive living needs.

Jia Fang asked each village to submit the final draft of homestead division within three days—this time there were no disputes among the villages, and the internal disputes were resolved early, and all the determined allocation plans were brought out.

The allocation of land is more controversial.

According to Jia Fang's distribution principle, Taoyuan Village gave up one-third of the fertile land, but it is absolutely impossible for every household of the new immigrants to plant this part of the fertile land.

Moreover, Jia Fang did not plan to cut these fields into small pieces. One family planted one acre, and that family planted three points.This approach is not suitable for intensive planting and may result in a waste of productivity.

Therefore, Jia Fang proposed these fertile fields (about 140 hectares) and invited [-] new immigrants for public bidding, recruiting growers in units of [-] mu.

The common people didn't understand what "grower" meant, but when they heard Jia Fang's explanation, they immediately understood—oh, it turned out to be a tenant farmer.

Jia Fang shook his head: "Not a tenant farmer, of course not a tenant farmer!"

The conditions he put forward were: growers with an output of more than [-] catties per mu of land should only pay one-fifth of the production as land rent, and four-fifths of the production should be owned by the growers themselves, which can be used as rations or as land rent. It can be sold to other people in the village.

If the yield per mu reaches more than 150 catties, one-third of the output will be paid as land rent.

If the yield per mu is more than [-] catties, half of the yield must be paid as land rent.

If the yield per mu does not reach [-] jin, the planting qualification will be disqualified immediately, and the land will be handed over to other farmers who are willing to cultivate paddy fields.

The villagers listened to Jia Fang's message conveyed by the village chiefs, and gathered together to discuss:

"Jia Sanye is right, this is indeed not a tenant farmer. How can there be a tenant who grows more and pays less?" After understanding Jia Fang's meaning, those old farming methods immediately became energetic. "It's obvious that whoever tends the crops well will be able to plant these fields!"

"Bullshit—look at the conditions. Is there anyone who farms land with an yield of two hundred catties per mu? One hundred catties is enough. In my opinion, the guy is talking beautifully, but he is actually coaxing us? "

"You don't know how to grow land yourself, so don't make such sarcastic remarks!" Someone immediately retorted, "We asked about it when we first came here, and the paddy fields here are planted with two crops of rice, do you understand the two crops of rice? "

"That's right, the yield per mu of rice in one season is 150 catties, so isn't it [-] catties in two seasons? Even if occasionally the field is not fertile, you have to take a rest and take turns in different places. The [-] catties per mu yield is stable .”

"You plant 150 catties per mu and only pay one-third of the land rent. Where can you rent such cheap land?"

"That's right, and I heard from the people in Taoyuan Village that they really have a master here who is thinking about planting three crops of rice. Think about it, there are three crops of rice, and your yield per mu can't reach two hundred catties?"

Those who held "skepticism" had nothing to say.

However, the "standard" of two hundred catties is indeed a red line, and it has screened out many peasant households-either these households are really not very good at farming, or the strong laborers have fallen ill due to the previous epidemic and need to live better. recuperate.

There is another situation that is indeed a crop farmer, but the population of the farmer's farm is too small, single-family, or the family is old or small, and there is only one pillar. I am worried that I will not be able to manage [-] acres of land at a time.

In the end, Jia Fang still left a hole, allowing the two families to be the same "planter" and jointly apply to cultivate a piece of land.

Of the 160 households, about [-] successfully applied for the land, successfully obtained the "planting certificate", and completed the registration in the fish scale book.

All the people who got the "planting certificate" solemnly introduced the cropping methods of Lao Shao and other Taoyuan villages.From then on, everyone can share their experience in farming together, and Taoyuan Village will also provide rice seeds to farmers.

The growers were already confident that they would definitely be able to grow a yield of [-] jin per mu, and seeing that Taoyuan Village provided a lot of assistance, they were even less worried.

The new immigrants who failed to become "planters" had no time to be sad.Because Taoyuan Village immediately entered the construction boom of "doing hard work and making progress quickly".

At this time, it was the slack season, and the work in the fields was not heavy.Even if the growers get the land, it is just flattened, topdressed and topdressed, waiting for the coming year.The most important thing is to build a house on the planned homestead in each village, and move out of the simple mobile home before the winter rainy season to avoid moisture erosion.

Jia Fang kept his promise and gave each new immigrant family a "relocation allowance" so that they could buy food from the villagers of Taoyuan Village.

Many villagers couldn't wait for Jia Fang to continue to issue the interest-free loan/housing loan as promised. After getting the permission to build a house, they rolled up their sleeves and started laying the foundation. Do it first.

However, Jia Fang's first interest-free loan was issued to a family surnamed Wang in Xinyu Village, and the first "production and operation license" in Taoyuan Village was issued, allowing this family surnamed Wang to choose a family in the lower reaches of the Qingfang River. On the site, a brick kiln was built to specialize in firing bricks and tiles for building houses.

When this "production and operation license" was issued, many aboriginals and new immigrants woke up like a dream: it turns out that the business opportunities are here.

But the ancestors of this Wang family have been kiln burners and bricklayers for generations, and they have skills in their hands that others can't learn even if they are jealous.Immediately, someone ran to Wang's place to be an apprentice or a laborer.The head of the Wang family knew that the demand for bricks and tiles would skyrocket in a short period of time, so he would not refuse anyone who came, and promised each small worker a wage of [-] yuan a day.

With the wages of [-] Wen, the small workers don't have much time to buy vegetables and rice for cooking.Some of them are with their families, and the family can cook a meal for them.But there are also some people who are alone, and most of them have figured out their own way to join forces elsewhere.

This time, a group of women from the three villages made their own calculations and asked their village chiefs to come forward and ask Jia Fang for a second "production and operation license". The dishes are all big pot dishes, which are large in quantity and cheap. You can eat three Wen and five Wen well.

The dishes they make are all Yujiang style, the natives eat fresh, and the new immigrants eat homesickness.Gradually, some people who can cook at home gradually feel that Sancun's food is delicious, and they come here to buy some from time to time.

As a result, the big pot of vegetables in the "Three Villages" became more and more prosperous, and the manpower also increased rapidly. From a few women at the beginning, it suddenly grew to a dozen people, and even the special positions for purchasing, washing and selecting vegetables were assigned. Out.

It has to be said that these women do have some business sense. They invited Jia Fang and asked the third master Jia to inscribe their "big pot dishes", which is a sign.

"Third Master, the little ladies just want to enjoy your blessings. If we can really build a store in the future..." The ladies said embarrassedly——I think they never thought about it when they were in Yujiang. In the past, he wanted to do this business in public, and after a lot of tempering, he no longer had these scruples when he arrived in Taoyuan Village.

"Yes, of course no problem!" Jia Fang never refuses such requests.

Thanks to the gift from the original owner, his calligraphy is not bad, as soon as he writes the pen, it becomes an upright and solemn Wei stele, with four characters inscribed neatly.

The women couldn't read much, and one who could read a little bit read: "Sancun... Sancun..."

"Sancun canteen!" Jia Fang said proudly.