Su Hao didn't completely understand Han Qian's thoughts, but he always felt that the distance between him and Han Qian was too far, not to mention that he had a lovely child bride, so he shouldn't see her.
There are thousands of grains in the bowl, so there are some things that he can only pretend to be stupid. He thought that Han Wen was not an old fool. He let his daughter out to wander around and have fun. When he returned, he should find a wealthy family and marry his daughter off. He
There is really no need for Su Hao to drown in such muddy water.
After sending Han Qian back to her residence, Su Hao started to get busy. Field surveying and mapping was not a simple matter. There were so many things that he had to worry about...
The village where the surveying and mapping team is stationed is called Fuyuan Village, but there is no sign of wealth in the whole village. The word "rich" in the name of the village actually refers to the rich water beside the village. The village itself is extremely poor.
Loud.
There are only about 30 households in Fuyuan Village, and the average land ownership per capita is less than one acre, and most of it is thin farmland on the gentle slopes of hills, with very little output. If it were not for hunting some wild animals in the mountains, plus cutting firewood,
, collecting medicine and other income, the people in this village simply cannot survive.
When he first arrived in the village, Su Hao once went into a farmhouse to take a look. According to his estimate, the family's entire family's property was not worth even one or two silver dollars. The food used for meals was chipped.
The pottery bowl, the bed were patched with thin quilts, and the house was left over from who knows which era.
It is so unbearable that even the pig houses in plain areas are inferior.
When Su Hao led his soldiers into the village, all the villagers came out to watch. According to the village chief Yi Shizhong, this was the busiest day in the history of the village, because there were actually more than a hundred people in the village.
The team arrived. Yi Shizhong also proudly recalled a story passed down by his grandfather's grandfather, saying that when Taizu and Chen Youliang fought at Poyang Lake, they were defeated and fled. Passing here, they also met with a
A woman from this village had an affair. However, Yi Shizhong also admitted that even at that time, the troops led by Grand Ancestor were only a few dozen soldiers, and they were not as majestic as Su Baihu's troops.
Su Hao didn't think he had the qualifications to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang in prestige, and he didn't plan to find someone in the local area to show off his love. When he entered the village, he had a cursory observation of the eldest girls and young wives on both sides, and found that they were the same.
All of them are malnourished, with sallow complexion and thin muscles, and they are not interested at all. This is still peace.
For a long time, if we had left it to the war-torn period at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the women in this village would probably be even more disgusting, right? Thinking about it this way, this Lao Zhu really has a strong taste.
In order to avoid disturbing the residents, the surveying and mapping team basically did not requisition private houses. Instead, they cleared a piece of flat land outside the village and set up a temporary camp composed entirely of tents. In fact, even if they wanted to disturb the residents, they had no one to disturb.
Shi Zhong's family only had two rickety tile-roofed houses, and the other houses were even more uninhabitable.
Su Hao's original idea was to let Master and Servant Han Qian and the five invited embroiderers live in the village. After seeing the situation in Fuyuan Village, he temporarily changed his mind and took out two tents from the survey camp and distributed them to
They asked them to set up next to Kanyu Camp as a place to stay. Considering that men and women were not allowed to be intimate, Su Hao specially arranged to build a barrier with branches to separate the men and women. The embroiderers who were invited were all
The married sister-in-law is not so pretentious, but it is hard for Han Qian and Honglian to be two masters and servants. Most of the time, they can only huddle in their own tents to avoid being attacked by hundreds of soldiers when they come out.
Members peeped.
Regarding the arrival of Kanyu Camp, the villagers were just watching the excitement at first, but soon they discovered that this team was actually here to benefit themselves. Because not long after Kanyu Camp set up camp, Su Hao
A notice was sent to the whole village through Yi Shizhong:
Recruiting guides for the survey camp will cost you 40 Wen per day of work and food money!
40 cents is not a small amount. According to the current silver price, one tael of silver is about 800 cents, which can buy 2 shi of white rice. 40 cents is equivalent to 1 bucket of rice. If you save a little, it can be enough for a family.
I'm seven or eight years old. Where can I find such a good job?
As for the word "guide", everyone didn't understand it at first and thought it was some kind of complicated job. After Yi Shizhong explained it to everyone, everyone suddenly realized, isn't it just a person who leads the way? Everyone is familiar with the mountains and rivers around here.
It is very difficult to lead the way for the military men. Even if you have to help them carry some things, it is also an easy task for Yamazato.
How come we in Fuyuan Village can make money just by walking like this? This must be because Mother Chen saw that our life was too hard, so she sent us Guijin.
How could such a good thing be missed in vain? Everyone in Fuyuan Village who had some mobility rushed to the barracks and asked to be a guide.
Looking at the dozens of villagers, old and young, gathered in front of his tent, Su Hao was confused. He asked Yi Shizhong, who was standing next to him: "Yi Lizhang, don't you want to say that these people want to be guides?"
Right?"
"Master Baihu, they all came to sign up to be guides." Yi Shizhong replied respectfully. He knew that although the young man in front of him was young, he had the title of Baihu. In a small banner city
It's enough to make people awe, a hundred households, it's like a government sent by the emperor himself.
yāng A senior official is an ordinary person.
Su Hao pointed to an old man and said, "Is this old man about seventy years old?"
"Master Baihu, the common man's name is Yi Xisun. He is seventy-five years old this year." Although the old man is old, his ears are very good. When Su Hao heard about him, he announced his family name without waiting for Yi Shizhong's reply.
Already.
Su Hao bowed to Yi Xisun and said, "Oh, Mr. Yi, at your age, I'm afraid it's better to stay at home and take care of yourself. It's very hard work as a guide, having to cross mountains and ridges.
"
Yi Xisun said: "Master Baihu, the grass-roots people are not afraid of hard work. When the grass-roots people collect herbs, they have to climb seven or eight mountains in one day. They walk very fast."
"Are you talking about now?" Su Hao asked uncertainly.
Yi Xisun turned around and pointed at the mountain behind him, and said: "Yes, yesterday the grassroots climbed to the top of Laoxian Peak and picked two Coptis chinensis trees."
"Uh... Okay." Su Hao looked at Yi Xisun carefully and saw that he was only wearing a single piece of clothing. His body looked stronger than his own, and his words were full of energy. He seemed to be able to climb mountains and ridges.
. He left Yi Xisun, pointed to a little boy who looked to be only about ten years old, and said to Yi Shizhong: "Isn't this little brother a little younger, so it might be a little difficult to be a guide?"
The child also imitated Yi Xisun's behavior, stretched his neck, and replied: "Master Baihu, I can walk. As long as I'm fed, it doesn't matter how far I walk."
"How much food can you eat to be full?" Su Hao asked.
The child turned his head and saw a rice bowl in the hand of a soldier from the survey camp, and said, "I usually only eat a bowl of rice like this at home."
"It's not too much." Su Hao felt relieved.
"But...if there is enough food, I can eat five bowls, no problem." The child then added.
"Five bowls..." Su Hao was speechless. With such a big bowl, he could only eat two bowls of rice. For such a small child, he actually said that he could eat five bowls. What the hell is that?
"It makes a hundred households laugh." Yi Shizhong said with a smile on his face, "Our small village has little land around it, and the food harvested all year round is not enough to eat. We can only rely on hunting, collecting herbs, etc., and then replace it with food."
Bring back some food. A half-year-old child like this will always be hungry after a full meal, so..."
"There is so much poverty in the mountains." Su Hao said with emotion, "Okay, we have hired all these villagers. In addition, we also need to ask the village chief to arrange some more diligent sisters-in-law to help us.
How about if you spend a small amount of money for cooking and washing clothes, the money for food and work... just cut it in half, that’s 20 cents a day?”
"Of course this is good!" Yi Shizhong was overjoyed and happily ran back to the village to make an announcement.
Hao Tong walked to Su Hao and asked: "Su Baihu, is it possible that these villagers are too poor, which makes you feel pity? When did we hire handymen in our camp? We don't have to do things like cooking and washing.
Did the soldiers do it themselves?"
Su Hao looked back at Hao Tong and nodded: "That's right. I think these people are really pitiful, so I want to find something for them to do and earn some pocket money. I am also from a farm family, but after we won the title
I have never seen a village that is so poor."
Hao Tong said: "What does this mean? If you go further into the mountains, there will be even poorer villages than this one. If you go to the border of Yunnan, the suffering of the border people there will be even worse than here. If you are sent to be the guard general of Yunnan, you
No amount of money is enough to stick it in."
"Is Yunnan even poorer than this?" Su Hao asked. He knew that people in mountainous areas were poor, but after seeing the poor people at the foot of Luoshan Mountain, he really couldn't imagine what a poorer place would be like.
Hao Tong said: "I have inquired about it. The people in Fuyuan Village only have little land, but they can usually go to the mountains to cut firewood. There is a market 20 miles away. A load of firewood can be sold for more than 20 cents, and they can get six or seven.
Sheng rice. If you are lucky, you can hunt a wild boar in the mountains and sell it for more than 1 tael of silver at the market, and the whole family can celebrate the New Year. But on the Yunnan border, there are hundreds of miles of wild land.
The border residents had nothing to trade with,
Isn’t it more miserable for the wife?”
"That's true." Su Hao said, "Then you have suffered a lot while stationed there, right?"
Hao Tong smiled and said: "It's okay. Although General Deng has a bad temper, he loves his soldiers like his own children. He has never owed the soldiers anything for food and drink. The soldiers we recruited locally gave them food because they were grateful to General Deng."
They were well fed, so they were extremely brave when they went into battle, and they outshone me and other Jiangxi soldiers."
"It is an interesting thing to send strong troops to poor areas." Su Hao said.