The only places that can be relocated near Longzhong are along the Yellow Line.
Speaking of which, the Yellow River has flowed for more than five hundred miles in Longzhong, but it has not brought much benefit to this land. The canyons here are deep and the water is fast. It is bare, with occasionally one or two short trees standing under the blue sky, making the place look even more desolate.
People can only cultivate a little water in the deep canyon, and this broken river floods every once in a while. Although the violent river water cannot rush out of the valley, it is enough to wash away people's hard work. A little bit of land cleared in the river valley.
The land here is broken, as if God has raked it hard with a rake.
In such an environment, even the songs sung by the shepherds are sadder and sadder than the songs in other places.
Such an environment is not suitable for human settlements. It is only because of the government, war and other factors that people choose to live in this place where even bandits cannot support themselves.
The first element of peace in the world is that people should not be afraid of officials.
People in many places are afraid of seeing officials. Meeting officials means they have to pay taxes.
Fortunately, the new official didn’t seem to demand payment of taxes, and even gave his own clothes to the local people. Although a big girl wearing a county magistrate’s blue robe looked outrageous, the wind blew After that, the thin green shirt will stick to the body, and people still find that the girl has grown up.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Chuyu was so sad that he couldn't help himself.
There has been a severe drought here for three years.
Many times, people stand on the mountain ridge guarding the withered seedlings, watching the heavy rain pouring in the distance. Unfortunately, when the clouds reach the terraces, the clouds stop and the rain soon stops, and a red sun appears. It hangs in the sky again, burning the earth hotly, and only the wind can bring a trace of moisture.
It's July, and the buds are only as high as a person's knee, but they are already blooming and growing ears. It's just that the place where the buds should grow is not even as high as a child's arm.
Buckwheat also has pale pink flowers, which are sparse and sparse. If they bloom all over the hillside, it will be a beautiful sight.
"Old man, I'm leaving..."
Zhang Chuyu put a handful of tea leaves he brought into the old man's pitch-black fist-sized black clay pot.
The old man poured some water into the tea pot, and then watched the flames lick the bottom of the pot. Soon, the tea boiled. Zhang Chuyu declined the old man’s advice to drink, and the old man was not polite, so he Pour the brown tea into an earthenware bowl and sip it little by little while it's still hot.
"The water here is not good."
The old man quickly finished the sip of tea and looked at Zhang Chuyu with a pair of cloudy eyes.
"The water from the Yellow River is delicious."
Zhang Chuyu squatted on the ground, holding his knees and rocking back and forth.
"What will happen to our ancestors when we leave?"
"Our ancestors do not drink water, but living people need to drink water."
"This Zhuangzi produced Jinshi. "
"Well, I have been, six of them, but after they became Jinshi, they left and never came back. ”
Zhang Chuyu stared at a bird squatting on his kettle with its long beak stretched out to drink water.
This bird is stupid and does not know how to pour water into the kettle. It's a good way to throw pebbles into the kettle to make the water overflow.
He took the kettle and poured a little water into his hand. The black bird actually came over and drank up the water in Zhang Chuyu's hand. Water, he kept calling to Zhang Chuyu...
"There is not enough water in the water cellar for people to drink... The old cow is so thirsty that he kneels on the ground begging for help... If you don't leave, there will be no way to survive. , you have been praying to God for thirty days, and God has given you a little drizzle... Come with me. "
The old man looked at Zhang Chuyu and smiled, waved his hands and said: "Can you live if you just go out? "
Zhang Chuyu lowered his head and looked at the ground and said: "I will take you to beg for food. "
The old man laughed even harder, looked at Zhang Chuyu and said: "The food collected there can feed more than 20,000 people? ”
Zhang Chuyu said: “The Baiyin Factory is very wealthy. They have a lot of land and they don’t grow food, but instead grow tobacco leaves. But the Baiyin Factory is very rich as soon as the name is heard. "
The old man laughed even harder when he heard this. He grabbed Zhang Chuyu's fair hand with his dry and rough hands and said: "Baby, eight years ago, the Silver Factory killed Monk Liang and a group of more than 700 people in one breath. people.
Monk Liang can kill a cow with one punch. You don’t have this ability, do you? "
Zhang Chuyu smiled and said: "I am an official. "
The old man shook his head and said: "The people who grow tobacco in Tiaocheng are some princes from the imperial court. You can't afford to offend them." "
Zhang Chuyu smiled and said: "What a coincidence, in my Lantian, the common people can't afford to offend him, so offending the prince is not a big problem. "
The old man gave Zhang Chuyu one last look and said, "I have no choice but to follow you in rebellion. ”
Zhang Chuyu laughed loudly and said: “You will find that following me down this dryland is the best thing you did.
The old man shook his head and said: "Monk Liang also said the same thing back then. If we had followed him down the mountain, we might have been able to defeat the officers and soldiers of the Silver Factory if we had more people." ”
Zhang Chuyu did not comment on this most prestigious squire’s evaluation of the guards of the Silver Factory. The Silver Factory is a place where copper, silver, and gold are produced. Among them, the output of copper and silver occupies Lantian. With 40% of the treasury entering the country, there was a camp of 800 people stationed there.
It was these 800 people who once wiped out the heavily armed troops in the snow area in 20 days. The rebellion against the more than 20,000 women and children in Huining County...
If Zhang Chuyu himself went to persuade the people to move and let him go, this would be an almost impossible thing, but to let the local poor The squires said that this matter would be easy to accomplish.
During the three years of drought, even this squire could only cook his favorite pot with a little tea and elm leaves. Drinking tea from a can shows how bad the situation here has become.
I can’t wait for the permission document issued by the imperial court. If we wait any longer, people will start to die here, not from starvation, but from thirst. There will never be a day when we can only get a little water by walking thirty miles on the mountain road. Passed the law.
Everyone is waiting for the rainy season in July to replenish the water cellar. Unfortunately, ten days have passed in July this year. It rained twice, but neither rain could completely restore the soil. Soaked.
People should live close to water and grass. Not only herdsmen have to do this, but farmers are also the same.
When I was studying at Yushan Academy, the gentlemen in the academy had already begun to systematically teach the significance of the two great rivers, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, to the Han people.
So, Zhang Chuyu felt that there was nothing wrong in moving closer to the water.
As for begging for food, it was just an excuse. He didn't believe that the silver factory and the tobacco-growing manor near Tiaocheng would see these people starve to death?
If those fat and oily Yun clan members who grew tobacco seeds dared to ignore the victims, Zhang Chuyu would dare to lead the Huining County government officials to attack their manor and open the grain depot to find food to eat.
Isn’t the worst result is to be captured and beheaded?
This is no big deal.
Yun Changfeng, the chief manager of the silver factory, rubbed his brows and couldn't help but lament.
Zhang Chuyu has come to borrow food twice, and he has lent it in full. Now, this guy is so hateful, he actually wants to bring more than 20,000 people to eat near the Silver Factory.
This is a threat, this is a fucking rebellion.
Liu Da, the captain of Tiaocheng School, was sitting next to him and drinking tea quietly. He also heard the news, but he was not anxious at all. He sat steadily. It seemed that he already had his own opinion. .
"Liu Lieutenant, tell me what you think."
Liu Da blew the foam on the tea cup and said, "I have never heard that I, the official Lantian, brought a full team with him. All the people rebelled unarmed. There has been a drought in Huining for three years. In order to ensure that the people there have drinking water, the packhorse team I sent has not returned yet.
If you are talking about rebellion, my subordinates have not returned. And are all the people in the Supervision Department dead?
They just can’t survive.
We should quickly find a way to resettle these victims. Your Majesty will not allow anyone to starve to death in Ming Dynasty. When something happened, I squeezed out some military rations, and Tiaocheng also provided some of the food. The bulk of the food will still fall on you.
This year, you don’t have to worry about the cost. I believe that neither will your Majesty. I will consider this issue, save people first, and then consider whether your silver factory will make money or not.
I will leave after drinking tea. It is a full four hundred miles from Huining to the silver factory. , Old and weak women and children cannot walk this far, I came to you to borrow a carriage."
As the highest official of Tiaocheng, after thinking for a long time, Yun Changfeng finally turned to Tianshui. Lantian sent an eight-hundred-mile rush and filed it with the prefect of Tianshui Prefecture and the Prime Minister's Office, just like Liu DaAs he said, he started to prepare food and clothes.
With this unexpected incident, it is impossible for the silver factory to show its face in the imperial court this year.
However, it would not be a bad thing if there were more than 20,000 people at the Silver Factory. After all, there are always not enough miners to mine in the six mines... plus four thousand Many miners are strong men, and if they are not given wives, there will be big trouble.
Previously, groups of miners went to the brothels in Huizhou to find women, and they even got their lives killed. As a result, these strong guys went to the brothels, and the old madams were not allowed to do so. They go in.
"Master, you can build a textile workshop here. As long as you collect all the wool here, you can arrange for a lot of girls to come in and work, and I can take care of it."< /p>
Yun Changfeng glanced at his wife and said: "Don't go wandering around the factory area if you have nothing to do on weekdays. I don't want to see those bastards looking at you like wolves."
Yun Liu smiled and said: "Wool Textile is a secret that is not taught in Yushan Academy. Usually our family wants to touch this thing, but it is too far away. This time, I think I can ask Queen Duoduo to open the back door. "
Yun. Changfeng coughed and said, "Don't bother me with family matters."
Ms. Yun Liu smiled slightly, pinched Yun Changfeng's sore shoulders and said, "I know you are an upright and honest man. I also know that your Yun family has many rules, but since it is a good thing, we might as well open a crack in the door and save a little money and food to save the poor people."
Yun Changfeng looked back. The wife said: "When you return to Zhuangzi, you must remember to go to the big house to kowtow to your ancestors first, and clearly explain the things here to your ancestors at home. Never, never dare to hide anything." .
If our ancestors allow our family to open this textile workshop, we will open it. If we are not allowed to open it, you will shut up immediately and go home to see your parents and children for two months before returning in autumn. ”