I am a ruler in troubled times

Song Peiyu was drowsy from the aristocratic relationship that Lao Meng said, and it took him a long time to remember who Liu Tian was.He casually ordered Jinbao and Liu Tian to go find the marble mine together, and if he found it, he would give Liu Tian five taels of silver, and he didn't have to give half a copper plate if he didn't find it.He didn't intend to meet Liu Tian in person at all, and Song Jingjue, who was eager to escape from Lao Meng, was very disappointed.

Jin Bao went out with Liu Tian three times in succession, and finally found the marble mine that Song Peiyu had guessed. Except that the location was a bit hidden, the quality was unexpectedly good.

It's a pity that the marble mines brought back by Song Peiyu and Jin Bao continued until autumn. Even the set of seals carved out still failed to get what they really wanted.

Fruit trees are the first to be harvested in the Song family's field.

The process of getting together the [-] mu of fruit tree seedlings was extremely tortuous. In order to allow the fruit trees to grow well, more than half of the fruit trees in the field were killed by Song Peiyu when the flower buds had just grown.

Therefore, in autumn, there are only a hundred acres of land that can really harvest fruit.

However, the fruits harvested from only one hundred acres of fruit trees are enough to surprise the whole village.

These fruit trees were sparsely planted, and they were beaten hard when they bloomed. However, due to the lack of manpower, except for the fertilizer that Song Peiyu managed to get out once, they were kept in a state of stocking the whole time.

On the contrary, they bear more fruit than the fruit trees planted and cared for by other people in the village, and all of them are round and big, and the yield is unexpectedly gratifying.

Fifty mu of forest ① and 560 mu of mountain ②, the average yield per mu was as high as seven stones, and a total of [-] stones were harvested.

Twenty acres of mountain jujube, with an average yield of eight stones per mu, and a total of 160 stones harvested.

The harvest of these fruit trees alone is nearly [-] catties.

The Song family needed to eat, but they only had twelve mouths in total.

The two fish ponds serve no purpose other than to store water, and the lotus flowers that were specially found are all dead.

The Song family still has 330 mu of grain and vegetables, and the harvest per mu is at least twice that of the villagers in Lihua Village.

It's really just like Song Peiyu was worried about before, now she has to worry about what to do with the harvest.

The candles in the study were lit all night again, Song Peiyu finally made up his mind.

These fruits and grains must not appear in Fengzhen in large quantities, otherwise Lihua Village will definitely be noticed by Yan Jun who frequently appears in Fengzhen.

It's even more unrealistic to send them to Yang County, not to mention that the journey is too far away, and people outside will notice the He Song family in Lihua Village.

The best way is to follow his original plan, make fruit wine, preserved fruit, and dried fruit from the excess fruit, make wine from the excess grain, dry the vegetables, and store them in the cellar.

Making good use of the unexpectedly gratifying production, Song Peiyu can not only make the life of the Song family in Lihua Village self-sufficient, but also keep other villagers in Lihua Village from leaving the village.

Within two days, the villagers of Lihua Village, who were still obsessed with the Song family's harvest, learned that the Song family was going to build a house and hire long-term and short-term laborers.

Regardless of long-term workers or short-term workers, wages are calculated in copper coins.

As long as those who have worked in the Song family can exchange copper coins for the goods in the store opened after the new house of the Song family is built, including cloth, chickens, eggs, preserved fruits, fruit wine, spirits, seasonings and so on.

Jin Bao sat in front of the door, sending away batch after batch of people dry-mouthed.

He didn't understand what Qiye was thinking, not only sent Yinbao and Lao Mengdu to Yang County to buy, but also came up with two sets of standards for recruiting workers in Lihua Village.

Obviously long-term workers and short-term workers do the same things, but long-term workers can get more copper coins than short-term workers.

The conditions for distinguishing long-term workers from short-term workers are even more inexplicable. Unmarried boys and girls can work as long-term workers in the Song family, but those who have been married can only work as part-time workers. Even if they are married and divorced or widowed, they are still considered married.

Fortunately, Song Peiyu was unreasonable when formulating the rules, and he didn't let Jinbao find a way to make up for it. Jinbao only needs to make sure that Song Peiyu's thoughts are clearly explained to every villager.

More than 20 families in the village almost fought for the places of Song's parent workers and temporary workers.

Jinbao was exhausted every day to adjust the conflicts of the villagers, and lost a lot of weight in just a few days.

No matter whether you open your eyes or close your eyes, you will always see a terrifying scene of being surrounded by villagers and spitting all over the sky.

Even if he got the stewed chicken that Song Peiyu rewarded him alone, he still couldn't touch the hurt in his heart.

After quarreling for half a month, the Song family finally recruited enough long-term and short-term workers.

In Lihua Village, everyone over the age of 12, regardless of gender, has become a long-term worker of the Song family. They go to work at the Song family every day, and the Song family provides lunch, and they go home after work, and their wages are settled every ten days.

She works every spring, summer and autumn. Once she gets married, she can no longer be a long-term employee of the Song family.

The amount of work done by long-term workers will be counted every day, and the wages of each ten-day period are divided into three grades. The one-third of the workers who work the most will get more copper coins.The one-third of the people who work the least get the least copper.The third of the people who work in the middle will take the middle copper plate.

The copper coins of short-term workers are divided into three grades like that of long-term workers, but each grade gets less copper coins than long-term workers of the same grade.

In short

The copper plate of a long-term worker in the Song family is far greater than that of a short-term worker.

The copper plate for working as a part-time worker in the Song family is far greater than opening up wasteland and farming.

When the Song family's new house was built and winter was approaching, Yin Bao and Lao Meng, who had been away for more than a month, drove back to Lihua Village in two bruised carriages.

Jin Bao's eyelids twitched as he looked at Yin Bao, who was able to drive the carriage fast and well one second, but was pale in the next second and could only lie in his arms with a rage, suddenly forgot what he should say.

But I didn't expect Lao Meng to go too far, not only wrapped his arms and chest with bloody white cloth, but also fell directly from the carriage, which caused panic on the faces of the long-term and short-term laborers who were doing the final finishing work for the Song family's new house color.

From the perspective of the villagers in Lihua Village, Lao Meng was a ruthless person who entered the depths of the green hills and came out unscathed. There was no one in Lihua Village who was more capable of fighting than Lao Meng.

As for Song Jingjue and Jin Bao, they didn't look like Lao Meng Zhuang, and they definitely couldn't beat Lao Meng.

Song Jingjue and Song Peiyu, who were watching from behind the crowd, appeared in a low-key manner. Song Jingjue carried Lao Meng, who was twice his weight, with one hand and retreated quickly.

After blocking everyone's sight from the gate, Song Jingjue carefully lifted the bloody white cloth on Lao Meng's body. After realizing that it was just a disguise, he was slowly relieved, sneered and patted Lao Meng's belly, "I didn't expect you to act well."

"Huhu~" The snoring sound like thunder suddenly sounded.

"???" Song Jingjue was so frightened that he took two big steps back, covered Lao Meng with a quilt, and turned around speechlessly. He wanted to rush to lead the carriage into the yard before the villagers noticed what was in the carriage.

Song Peiyu walked towards Yinbao who was still panting violently, her voice was full of anxiety that a 12-year-old should have, and she could even hear crying, "Yinbao, what's wrong with you?"

Yin Bao raised his hand and rubbed his eyes fiercely. He looked at Song Peiyu with red eyes, and told a story with twists and turns while choking.

He and Lao Meng were ordered to take part of the autumn harvest fruits and grain to the town to find buyers, but they ran into bandits on the road, not to mention all the grain and money on their bodies, and the bandits snatched away everyone.

Fortunately, he and Lao Meng were clever and had a bit of kung fu, and while the bandits were celebrating, they stole the bandits' carriage and escaped.

Yin Bao 'struggled' to get up from Jin Bao's arms, and gently grabbed Song Peiyu's wrist, with tears running down his face. "Qiye! I almost never come back again, thanks to Uncle Meng who blocked me from the knife. If something happens to Uncle Meng, I... ouch!"

Jin Bao saw the disgust in Song Peiyu's eyes sharply, and unceremoniously twisted Yin Bao's waist, reminding him that the drama was too much.

Song Peiyu pulled out her hand, cleared her throat, and guided Yin Bao to add some details.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone's attention was on Yin Bao, Song Jingjue pulled the two carriages into the yard, cut the rope tightly binding the carriage door with a dagger, and was almost unable to dodge, being hit on the face by the falling cloth.

Except for a few bolts of high-quality silk that are going to be made into inner clothing for the Song family, most of the others are fine cloth and linen.

Most of the fine cloth is kept at home to make coats, and the remaining small part and linen are prepared to be placed in the store that will open soon, and those who have worked as long-term and short-term workers in the Song family are allowed to exchange for copper coins.

In addition, Song Jingjue found almost a hundred catties of coarse salt and various seeds that he didn't even know in the carriage.

Yinbao's miserable voice outside the door never stopped, "They are still drinking human blood! The people who were arrested in the same batch as me and Uncle Meng were cut off on the spot by them!"

Song Jingjue opened the door of the second carriage.

Iron pots, clay pots, scissors, sickles... and many other things that Song Jingjue didn't know but had seen in the hands of villagers in Lihua Village.

Song Jingjue rubbed his chin, feeling that Yin Bao and Lao Meng's trip to Yang County was smoother than he had imagined.

Yinbao and Lao Meng used their tragic experience to prove how arrogant the bandits outside are and how close they are to Lihua Village.

There are shops in the village where you can buy everything, and the Song family that allows the villagers of Lihua Village to get copper coins and food as long as they work as before.

Thinking about it, at least for a few years, the villagers of Lihua Village will not be too curious about the outside world.

Things did indeed develop as Song Jingjue expected. The Song family's store was snapped up by the villagers as soon as it opened, and within a few days, the money accumulated by the villagers over the years was emptied.

In the No. 12 years of traveling, Song Peiyu still feels very lucky. This year, until the weather turned cold and the first snow fell, Fengzhen seemed to have completely forgotten Lihua Village, and even the tax collectors did not come. Pass.

Before Yinbao and Laomeng, who pretended to be recovering from a serious illness, went to Yang County for the last time, they went door to door to inform the villagers that they could bring them back from the town.

The copper plate is not paid in advance, and the villagers need to hand over the money to Yinbao in advance.

Every time the villagers buy more than ten catties, they will charge one copper coin.

After the villagers discussed it, most of them came together to offer a copper coin, begging Yinbao and Lao Meng to help them bring some things that the Song family store didn't have.

From the beginning of the autumn harvest, until the heavy snow completely covered the land and blocked the road leaving the village.

Except for Yinbao and Lao Meng, no one in the whole village has ever left Lihua Village.