Chapter 10 The Patriarch's Invitation
Twenty-nine refugees joined Liujia Village, and a month passed in a hurry.
The Wang family settled in Liujia Village, and as the system said, they were absolutely loyal to Liu Ming.
From the next day, Liu Ming gave them wages and asked them to help log wood. Seeing this, the other villagers immediately realized and thought that this was the method to solve the problem of no grain income for them!
But everyone is very surprised, what does the village chief want so much wood for?
No one knew that Liu Ming personally summoned Gao Shun and the Wang family to open up five acres of farmland on the mountain and handed it over to the Wang family to cultivate. Gao Shun had a little psychological endurance for the sudden appearance of mature fields on the flat ground, but it was strange why Liu Ming handed over these "kamiya" to these "outsiders" to cultivate.
Liu Ming did not hide it from him, saying that these were all enlightened by the gods, otherwise it would be impossible for someone to travel thousands of miles to stay here to take them in. Under the enlightenment of the gods, these people are absolutely 100% loyal to themselves, and can even be used as dead men directly.
Hearing this explanation, Gao Shun suddenly realized: It turns out that these are the real "people of our own"!
He also had a moment of doubt about the power of the gods, but then he recognized it with a wry smile. Miracles frequently appear, perhaps by coincidence, how could he use "coincidence" to perfunctory with more than two times? This poor kid's worldview has obviously been destroyed.
After one month of cultivation, five acres of land actually harvested fifteen stones of grain. This harvest made Gao Shun, who knew how to do farming, shocked him. As for the Wang family, he was surprised, but he quickly recovered his calmness, as if it should have been this yield.
At that time, the fields were only earned by one acre of land, and three stones were naturally considered high yield. Not to mention, corn matured in just one month after planting it. This is not a miracle or nothing is a miracle.
At this moment, the autumn harvest has been completed, and the township officials and clerks have begun to collect taxes. The twenty-nine people have a new population, but the township chief is kind and righteous. It is mainly due to Grandpa Liu Ming's sovereignty, and the twenty-nine people have exempted the tax this year.
The villagers left behind the seeds for sowing next year and the grain that was probably enough to support the harvest next year. The rest were piled up in a large truck and sent to the county town for sale by Gao Shun.
Originally, it was usually done by waiting for the grain merchant to sell it directly, but the price was higher when sold directly to the county town. In addition, the county town was not too far from Liujia Village, so in the past few years, the grain was basically sold in this way, and then the convoys then bought back the things that villagers needed in the county town.
Originally, Liu Ming was going there too, but Gao Shun asked him to train well in the village.
Liu Ming later found out that this kind of grain transport team would occasionally encounter robbers if they were not lucky, and people would inevitably be killed when fighting. Liu Ming was the village chief, so Gao Shun naturally could not let him take risks.
However, before knowing the truth of the matter, Liu Ming did blame Gao Shun for several days.
Life continued to pass, Liu Ming sold 15 stones of grain, and the rest was distributed to the Wang family who were farming the fields. The food left was not too much, and he could continue to harvest next month. In contrast, he needed to sell grain for coins, otherwise other buildings would not be able to develop.
According to previous understanding, this ten stone grain can be sold for about three guan. After knowing this number, Liu Ming couldn't help feeling a little sad. At this speed, he didn't know when it would be able to develop.
After about three days, Gao Shun and others returned to the village. As they came back together, there were seven big trucks and a lot of groceries. However, the most noticeable thing was more than ten boxes.
"These are additional investments from the Zhang family. Obviously, after this period of time, Zhang Fei carefully investigated the actions of the aristocratic families and the actions of the Taiping Cult, and found that what you said had a high possibility that it would happen.
Just for this, it is worth investing additionally. After all, knowing the news in advance, the Zhang family may also develop rapidly with the help of this incident. Their returns are much greater than the money of these ten boxes." Gao Shun said.
Information is money, and it seems that ancient people also understand this truth.
I carried the box back to the room, opened it, scanned it with the system, and found that I had an additional income of 500 stags under my account. Zhang's family property was indeed very generous!
I originally wanted to continue building farmland, but at this time, a guest came to visit.
Liu Ming naturally didn't know who he was, but Gao Shun knew and explained in a low voice: "This is your third uncle!"
"Uncle San, please sit down quickly!" Knowing that the other party was hiding with him again, Liu Ming immediately treated him warmly.
"Oh, it's only been half a year since I saw you, and the house has been rebuilt?" Liu Jing said with a civic expression.
"Haha..." Liu Ming was too lazy to explain to him. Anyway, as long as he checked, he could know how this new house appeared. It seemed that he was a bit showing off or showing off when he learned it directly from Liu Ming.
"Forget it, you're living a good life... The patriarch and I are relieved. This time I came here only one thing, that is, to invite you to the ancestral temple in Loosang Village to attend the clan meeting." Liu Jing saw that Liu Ming was silent, and was too lazy to talk nonsense to him, so he directly told him what he wanted.
"Oh, I don't know what this meeting is?" Liu Ming asked curiously.
"It's nothing. At most, let the descendants of Liu family from all over the country reminisce about the past, so as to save them from being distant for many days. But for you, there may be contents of the quilt, you will know then." After Liu Jing finished speaking, he stood up and planned to leave.
"Uncle San, don't you stay for one night?" Liu Ming asked kindly.
"No, I have to contact other members of the Liu clan..." Liu Jing shook her head and left straight.
"What's going on with this third uncle? It's so exciting." Liu Ming couldn't help but feel funny when he saw him leaving quickly.
"Maybe I felt embarrassed, so I left first." Gao Shun looked sad.
"Master, what's wrong with you?" Liu Ming felt that the situation was wrong.
"By the way, you have abstinence and don't remember... I'll tell you!" Gao Shun sighed and told Liu Ming all the things that happened two years ago.
At that time, the village encountered Hu people fighting grass valleys, and everyone escaped into the mountains and forests and survived by 52 people. The rest were either killed or fled far away.
It was also the autumn harvest at that time, but after the horses of the Huns raged, there were naturally no harvest in the fields.
But the county magistrate happened to take office, and the official position he bought for money needed to be repaid quickly, so he did not exempt Liujia Village from taxes at all. He also threatened that if Liujia Village did not pay taxes, all the villagers would be sold to wealthy families as slaves.
It was against this background that the old village chief knelt at the Liu clan temple for a day and a night in exchange for the sympathy of the old patriarch of the Liu family, supported a large amount of food, and finally got it over.
I heard that the old clan leader learned that the old village chief passed away not long ago, and he passed away not long ago. The new village chief ascended the throne, and it turned out that he was the emperor and the minister. I thought he had the idea of getting the loan back.
It is natural to repay the debt. Liu Ming could only smile bitterly, why he was so miserable. He had just opened his golden finger for more than a month before a creditor came to his door.
Suddenly, Liu Ming realized something and immediately asked: "Master, how much is this grain worth?"
Gao Shun was surprised why Liu Ming asked this, and then thought about it and replied: "It was worth 500 jin..."
Speaking of this, he completely understood the key to the matter. But he really wanted to know how the patriarch of the Liu family knew that there was just five hundred jin of silver in these ten boxes?
Then, a figure appeared in his mind...
"Liu Goudan, that damn person is actually stingy!" Gao Shun said angrily.
"It's him?" Liu Ming was shocked when he heard this.
Liu Goudan was quickly detained and Gao Shun personally interrogated it, but it turned out that this guy was indeed a secret.
The reason is very simple, the farmland built in the system was discovered. In fact, there are no protective measures around, and the Wang family has been farming so mysteriously that it will naturally arouse others' curiosity.
In fact, the reason why Liu Goudan followed him was mainly to prevent these guys from doing anything bad to Liu Ming, but the starting point was to consider Liu Ming.
Who knew that he had discovered such a magical farmland, but Liu Ming, who did not hand it over to him, a "confidant" to manage it, but he was handed over to the "outsider" who had just arrived, so he was so angry.
It is said that "sing Mien fights with Mie". He didn't understand how kind to him before, so he knew that Liu Ming had betrayed him.
According to his confession, the new patriarch had found him long ago, hoping that Liu Goudan could become his look in Liujia Village and monitor Liu Ming closely. At first he refused, but later he agreed because he had money to rely on the team leader Liu An!
The incident happened so surprising and so funny.
"You go..." Liu Ming didn't explain anything, but just said to him silently.
"Hmph, if you don't stay here, you will have your own place to stay! Today, you will let me down. If you are poor and starved, don't come to find me!" Liu Goudan cursed and went home to pack up his bags and left Liujia Village.
Soon, other villagers came to ask why Liu Goudan left. Of course, someone quickly mentioned the farmland matter. Obviously, more than one or two people knew about this matter.
Liu Ming secretly scolded the ancient secrets for being too poor, and then announced to everyone with a smile: "Kanda has just appeared in the world. I don't know what's going on, let alone you. In this case, will I have to delay everyone's trial planting? If there is no harvest, wouldn't it delay everyone's autumn harvest?
The Kanda field is only five acres, and the number is not large, but the yield is high and the harvest is fast. Now I announce that every resident of Liujia Village can take turns to occupy one acre of Kanda field for one month, and after one month, the grain was harvested, and the occupants were divided into half of the villagers and me!"
Everyone is not a fool, and they also know that this may be Liu Ming's method to soothe people's hearts.
However, if you get three stones a month, even if you can only take up one stone of food in the end, considering that you can basically come back again in three or four months, you will get an additional harvest of three or four stones a year, which is more affordable!
Just so happened that Liu Goudan's departure saved a chance, so everyone had no objection.
Chapter completed!