[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

The old house of Xu Bei's mother's family is also a good place. The West Lake is in front of it, and there is only a tidal flat across it. There are a few lonely houses here.But this is not a place to live for a long time, it is too remote, and it is mostly a place for people to live and play temporarily. In the past few years, Xu Beiniang has bought all the surrounding houses one after another. Excellent safe and clean place.

A few days ago, someone came to Zhizao Mansion to arrange the house.Xu Beiniang moved out with Xu Sanlang a long time ago, Master Lan is now serving in the Hangzhou garrison, making firecrackers for the firecracker team here.Although he can't compare with his clan brother Lan Licheng, he can't be as successful as him, and he has made a great contribution to Hangzhou's army.Xu Sanlang worshiped him as his teacher and has been following him for the past few years. It is inconvenient to live here, so Xu Beiniang bought a house near Lan Licheng, and lived there all the time.

Uncle Wei's family is still living in the original house. There are only four people in their family and a few servants, so there is nothing to guard against.Several other courtyards have been opened up, so that it is convenient for the servants to live in.It is also convenient for any visitors to stay overnight.

Knowing Zhu Houzhao's habits, the house was not overhauled, but the windows were changed to be more transparent, and the low walls were raised a little higher.Since the house was found by Du Ruo's favor, Zhu Houzhao lived in it with peace of mind.The scenery here is also good, and the West Lake is just outside the door. Although it is still early spring and there are no lotus and water plants, the willows are fresh and green, which is not beautiful.

In order to change rice into mulberry this time, Yang Zhenggang persuaded many large-scale mulberry gardens to provide biennial strong mulberry branches for mulberry farmers who changed rice into mulberry.At that time, the money will be subsidized according to the number and quality of mulberry branches provided.Although the subsidy money is very little, no matter how small the ants are, they are still meat. The owners of the mulberry gardens are more dedicated to this.

When Zhu Houzhao arrived, many mulberry branches had already been buried. Drawing on the experience of the previous life, Zhu Houzhao invited those who had experience in planting mulberry to teach those who had never planted this. very high.

The money was spent like flowing water, and the mulberry branches were sprinkled all over the land of Zhejiang like rain.This is the first year of mulberry trees, which produce few mulberries. There is no problem with silkworm eggs. But when the mulberry production increases next year, the pressure on silkworm eggs will increase.So now Zhu Houzhao has also put the cultivation of silkworm eggs on the agenda.

Zhu Houzhao has no experience in rural work, but the Zhu family has an elder brother who is in politics. He was the mayor of a small town in one place at the beginning.Zhu Houzhao heard about these methods such as the advanced leading the backward, and the whole village holding a group.Back then, I only listened to this as a story, but never thought it would come in handy in this life.

In March, except for a few who repented and refused to listen to persuasion, the original plan was replaced by rice fields and mulberry fields.In order to store water and release floods, Zhu Houzhao also encouraged the digging of ponds in mulberry gardens to raise fish with silkworm dung. This will not only increase the output, but also resist drought and flood, which is really a good thing.

These Zhu Houzhao were made by hanging them with grain, the subsidy was grain, and the reward was also grain.If they send money directly, I don't know how much they will be greedy for.Moreover, a large amount of money suddenly poured into the people, and it is inevitable that the price of food will soar. In this way, Zhu Houzhao will buy food and distribute it, which can not only stabilize the price of food, but also prevent money from passing through the hands of officials, so as to avoid embezzlement and corruption.

Some of these grains were released from various granaries in Zhejiang. Zhu Houzhao went to Quanzhou to give Zhang Fuhua a month to solve the shortage of the granary. Now it seems that the effect is very good, at least there are no problems in the physical and book.The second is that it has been booked with grain merchants and will be imported from all over Southeast Asia.In this way, Zhu Youtang gave 50 taels of silver, and Zhejiang himself paid 50 taels, and pooled 100 million taels to buy grain.

This is Zhu Houzhao's strategy. If he used to be a thorough investigation, but now he doesn't care about it, as long as the granary is full, it doesn't matter how much you have embezzled, it will naturally be settled in the future.Why bother arguing with them at such a busy time now, the monks can't run away from the temple, as long as they are still alive in this world and want to be officials in the court, why worry about not being able to deal with this bunch of rats in the future.

Grain merchants are now going to sea, and will send back grain when the monsoon blows in May.Luo Zhijian should arrive in May, so that Zhu Houzhao can return to Beijing.After being out for a year, Zhu Houzhao really misses Zhu Youtang and the others. I wonder if Zhu Houwei has grown taller, and whether Ai Cao has changed her arrogant temper.

I asked the veterans of farming, and they all said that this year is going smoothly, so Zhu Houzhao let go of half of his heart.More than half of the work was over, and when the food was delivered, Zhu Houzhao and Du Ruo, led by Uncle Wei's son Wei Jia, visited Hangzhou, the West Lake, and saw the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River.

Old Uncle Wei has been in the world since he was a teenager. Although Wei Jia is also educated and educated, the heroic spirit of his parents has not been left behind.It would be good for Zhu Hou to look after him and ask what he was doing.The answer is that he is still studying, but it is not good, and he plans to go out to sea in the future.

This is strange, the Chinese pay the most attention to stability, and some people want to go to sea.Zhu Houzhao asked why again, but he heard him say: "The man's ambition is everywhere. Now Haiyan and Heqing are a good time to go to the sea. If you don't make a career at this time, when will you wait?"

After hearing these words, Zhu Houzhao had a better impression of him. Hearing that he was studying in an academy, he asked him if he could let go of his character as a scholar and go into business?He said, "What is character, it's just a false name. I obey my parents, my brothers and sisters, and make good friends. Even if I don't have such a hard work, who can say that I can't do a word."

"You've scolded everyone in the world." Du Ruo looked at him with a smile, he liked this child very much.

"Everyone in the world scolded me? I can't bear such a big name. I just complained. The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world's hustle and bustle is for profit. How many people think that the so-called reading is sensible It's just a shortcut to become an official and make a fortune, and they love to study the world and often go farther than those who are really talented. And King Huai of Chu. I really don’t have that much ambition anymore, as long as I get what I want, as for those high righteous things, I’d better leave them to other people.”

These words should be disrespectful to other people, but they are just right in the core of Zhu Houzhao and the others.When he returned home, Zhu Houzhao wanted to ask him to develop in the army. The Beijing camp had been in a mess, to see if he could train Wei Jia, but Du Ruo didn't want to.

"He has such a temper, and he has no foundation, and he doesn't know if he can survive among those wolves and tigers. It is definitely not enough for him to go out and break through these family fortunes. Does he still need Xu Beiniang's help? Why don't I invest some money? , I will let him go out for a while, maybe he can have a good luck."

When Du Ruo said this, Zhu Houzhao felt aggrieved by Wei Jia when he thought of the chaotic Beijing army, and thought that this was also a solution.Only one person was let go and given to Du Ruo. After all, Zhu Houzhao was not angry, and after several days of awkwardness, Du Ruo finally coaxed him.

The weather is getting hotter, and the little lotus leaves in the West Lake in front of the door are gradually protruding their heads, and the spring flowers around are gradually blooming, creating a beautiful scenery.In such a scene, Luo Zhijian met the first oriental nobles in his life, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Duke Du Ruo of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Luo Zhijian did not only set foot on the territory of the Ming Dynasty once, his scope of activities was limited to Guangzhou Port and Citong Port in Quanzhou.What I saw was just the prosperity and prosperity of the southern port city, and this was the first time that I had the opportunity to observe the inland up close.Luo Zhijian was very happy to hear that a kind person sponsored him to go to Hangzhou, a big city in Ming Dynasty.He happily hired a translator, and Luo Zhijian followed his old friend to Hangzhou.

They took the waterway, and it was the time when the mountains and flowers were blooming along the way, which was completely different from the endless grasslands of his homeland and the tropics he had seen.Sailing for half a month, Luo Zhijian did not hesitate to use the most beautiful language to praise this beautiful country.All this is recorded in his travel notes, and in the next few hundred years, countless Europeans will come to this land to pan for gold.

The owner of the porcelain shop was going to Nanjing, he only stayed in Hangzhou for one night, handed Luo Zhijian to Xing Wu and left.Xing Wu knew that a barbarian was coming, but he had never seen such a barbarian.It turned out to be yellow-haired and blue-eyed. The barbarians he had seen were all Arabs, Champa, and Annan. He had never seen a European like Luo Zhijian.

Luo Zhijian and Xing Wu came all the way to Zhu Houzhao's place, attracting crowds to watch wherever they went, and Luo Zhijian was very embarrassed to watch.But at the same time, the richness and affluence of Hangzhou are beyond his imagination.Their houses are neatly repaired, the streets are clean, and in Xingwu's factory, their silk is piled up as high as a mountain.

On the way, Xing Wu explained Zhu Houzhao's identity to Luo Zhijian's interpreter. The interpreter was stunned. At first he thought that Xing Wu had lied to him, but when he saw that there were so many sedan chairs parked at the door, and so many policemen standing there , was no longer in doubt.Luo Zhijian was also very pleasantly surprised. He thought that the one who funded him was just an ordinary businessman, but he never expected that it was actually His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Duke.

Inside, Zhu Houzhao was receiving officials at all levels of Zhejiang Haiphong. Gao Feng didn't expect that some kind of missionary would arrive now and blocked them from the door.The two of them hadn't bathed for half a month on the boat, and they were wearing the same clothes as pickles. Gao Feng smelled it really indecent, so she asked the little girls to take the two of them to take a bath.

The translator explained to Luo Zhijian, and Luo Zhijian obediently took a bath and changed into Ming Dynasty clothes.To Luo Zhijian's surprise, even the bathing place in this house is so luxuriously repaired, and even the clothes he wears are all oriental fine silk that is hard to buy.Looking at the place where I was temporarily sitting, even the curtains were made of gauze, which was many times more exquisite and gorgeous than the house I had seen Lord Baron.

Zhu Hou took care of Liu Jin and sent several officials out of the mansion, and suddenly saw Gao Feng coming to report to him that the barbarian Luo Zhijian had come.

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