Chapter 335： 335 Harvest, poverty is glorious

Chapter 335 335 Harvest, poverty is also glorious

Zhaocai came out from behind Zhang's house and returned to the Gongyuan. Liu Changmin looked at him and asked eagerly, "Why did you go for so long? Can you see who it is?"

"Master Gu, guess who the lame man is?" Zhao Cai looked at Liu Changmin with a gloating expression on his face.

Liu Changmin looked at him with a curious smile and said, "Who is it? Don't give a **** about you kid."

Lucky smiled proudly: "It's Zhang Guisheng Zhang Xiucai, I followed him..."

"Oh! I heard people say that I saw Zhang Defa a few years ago. I didn't expect that Zhang Guisheng's leg was crippled. It's my fault that Zhang Defa's family was too ruthless. It's over." Liu Changmin said with a general sense of what Li Shan had done to the Li Yu sister and brother, thinking about Li Shan's sacrifice to save his life and caring for an orphan on his deathbed.

Zhaocai said with deep emotion after hearing it: "Then his family is really a reward in the world."

Liu Changmin nodded, "Yes, you and Alei are going to have something to eat, I'll be watching here."

Fortune wisely responded, "Sure, it will take a few days for the young master to finish his exams! I'm afraid my wife is also worried in Yunzhou!"

Li Yu was thinking about Li Qing's exam all day. Zhou Jia had just returned from the yamen after finishing his work in Gongyuan, and Li Yu was worried and talked to Zhou Jia about Li Qing's exam.

Zhou Jia smiled and comforted her, "I've already inquired about it. It shouldn't be a problem for the examiner who went to Tongzhou to invigilate the exam this year. If he has a good mentality, he may be in the top few."

Li Yu saw Zhou Jia's appearance of being sure of everything, so he put his heart down and was busy harvesting the crops.

The weather in Yunzhou has always been fine. Everyone has been busy for half a month, leaving early and returning late. Finally, in mid-August, all the rice was returned to the house to dry. The Yang family and the Shi family continued to help until the completion of the project.

Li Yu asked Ruyi to buy some meat, sugar, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and cloth, and sent them to the two homes. The Shi family came a lot. Dad Shi looked at the things piled on the car and pushed his face with a blushing face. He refused, "Mr. Zhou, there are too many things, we can't ask for them, we just did some hard work. How can we make you spend so much money."

"Father Shi, you can't say that. Madam said that the autumn harvest is the most tiring work. This is just a little thought of our master and Madam." Ruyi smiled and Awei moved things into the house.

Father Shi had no choice but to take it with both hands, blushing and said, "Steward Zhou, go back and tell the master and madam that you can't eat so much food for nothing. When the corn on Zhuangzi is ripe, I will take the children to help, but I'll just go back. I can't give us anything, you can see that the days on Zhuangzi were good, none of them have lost weight, and they have grown meat."

"You're very kind, you can come and help is something we can't ask for." Ruyi cupped his hands and smiled.

Father Shi smiled honestly, "As much as helping us, we can learn farming skills from you!"

Ruyi also responded with a smile, "Just ask Zhuangzi about what you want to learn."

"Hey!" Father Shi responded and sent Ruyi and Awei away. When he got home, he remembered the scene when he was harvesting rice in Zhuangzi, and sighed to his sons: "Boss, second, third, think about it. , We have cultivated the land for most of our life, and this is the first time we have seen such a good harvest, so we must learn from others in the future."

The three sons of the Shi family responded respectfully, "Father, we know."

The rice was returned to the house, and Zhuangzishang was busy plowing and raking the fields again to prepare for the next winter wheat planting. The corn in the cornfield could be harvested in another month.

After meeting and discussing with Chu Feng, Zhou Jia bought the shack area in Xicheng and recorded it under the name of Sihai Qianzhuang.

After the deed was completed, Zhou Jia bought the land in the shack area of ​​Xicheng from the Sihai Bank, and told Wu Tingxian about the plans to renovate the Xicheng. Wu Tingxian also knew in his heart who owned the Bank of the Sea and the relationship between Zhou Jia and the Bank of the Four Seas. I felt a little surprised to be so close, and I was secretly glad that I didn't oppose Zhou Jia at the beginning, and bowed to Zhou Jia, "Master Zhou, it is good for people's livelihood to be able to renovate that messy place. What about the people there?"

Zhou Jia told Wu Tingxian about the implementation measures he had discussed with Li Yu, and Wu Tingxian applauded: "Okay, okay, this is a good thing that benefits the people and the people."

The two agreed after negotiation. After the shack area is rebuilt, the rent will be set at eight cents per month.

Wu Tingxian also enthusiastically picked up a pen and wrote a notice, and handed it to Liu Yi to take the clerk and the yamen to the shack area to register and publicize.

Liu Yi took the yamen and scribes to the shack area in Xicheng, and posted the notices at several entrances. The yamen stood in front of the notice and read it aloud. Residents in the shacks can also come to the construction site to work in exchange for the number of years they will rent.

When the residents in the shack saw the people coming from the Yamen reading aloud there, they all gathered around and talked a lot, and they had the courage to ask at the top of their voices: "Master poor, will you really rent it to us again? Will it be us? If you leave, you can't come back?"

Liu Yi pointed to the notice and the clerk and said to them: "Don't worry, everyone, Lord Zhou has written to the emperor about your situation. After the emperor heard about it, he ordered to build this place and rent it to you, every month... "

The residents of the squatter area shouted excitedly after hearing this: "Have you heard it? Even the emperor knows that our life is difficult."

"I heard, the emperor has ordered us to repair the house."

"It's not building a house for us, it's building a house and renting it to us."

"Then the emperor will be our landlord?"

"You're joking, do you go somewhere else and see where you can rent a house for a few pennies a month?"

A group of people cried and knelt down and kowtowed and shouted long live: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live..."

Some people even kowtowed and thought: Even the emperor knows that we are poor, and the poor have face!

After Liu Yi and the two scribes got up, they shouted to everyone, "Come here, register the number of households here, and register those who work here. The adults said that those who come to work will be hired first, everyone remember not to. Over-reporting, don’t make up impostors, Lao Liu, I am very clear about you! Those who over-report, misreport, and impostors will be sent to prison!”

Everyone happily queued up to register, and some people who wanted to impersonate some selfish interests quietly withdrew after listening.

Two days later, Zhou Jia, Wu Tingxian and Chu Feng went to the shack area. The working craftsmen and odd workers took hoes and shovels. Under Zhou Jia's order, the craftsmen and odd workers raised their hoes and shovels and started to dismantle the shack. In the future, the messy shacks were pushed to the ground. A few days later, a wide piece of land was revealed to everyone. After being measured and drawn by craftsmen, the construction began. The timber, bricks and tiles were transported to the shack area by truck.

The residents of the squatter area cheered in unison when they saw the bricks and woods: "Look, everyone, we also have tile houses to live in."