Caring About Fast Wear Life

    Guojiazhuang is about twenty-five miles away from Lixian County, which is closer than those who live in the mountains, but farther away than those villages outside the county.

    Chen's imperial court system follows the Tang system, a county is prepared, and officials with grades are mainly composed of county magistrates, county chiefs, chief registrars, and county magistrates, and each person is in charge of different functions.

    Li County is Chen Guoxia County, the entire county is very poor and weak, there is no oil and water to make, the entire county is very withered, and even the county gate has been broken for a long time without money to repair.

    Wen Bowen and the master beside him were talking about the broken county gate when they received a report from the subordinates who deal with the household registration.

    "What's the matter?" Wen Bowen put down the teacup in his hand and looked at Xu Shi, who hurried over in front of him.

    "The county lord, a few big men came from the household registration place, saying that they were from Guojiazhuang and wanted to change the name of Li Xuan's household registration. I am not sure if this Li Xuan is the legendary royal one, Let the county magistrate call the shots."

    "That waste prince came to our county?"

    "Not sure, but the other party said that it was the housekeeper of the former General Guo's mansion, who came to transfer the household registration for his master, and also changed the surname of Li to the surname of Guo."

    "That waste prince can really find trouble for people! It's not good to stay in Chang'an, come to our county. Does he think that the royal surname is not what he wants? Who dares to let him except his father? His surname is not Li, change his surname."

    "Did you do it?"

    "No, county magistrate, I came to tell you when I saw that name."

    That Xu Shi wiped the sweat from his forehead. He almost did it just now because of the five taels of silver that the housekeeper gave him. Fortunately, he remembered where he had heard the name Li Xuan, otherwise. It is estimated that if you report it and have it stamped on it for review, you will not be able to keep your job.

    Wen Bowen has a headache. It hasn't rained much in the county for two months this year. Due to the water competition, many villages in the county are fighting in groups, and several people have died, which is very headache.

    Wen Bowen has long since given up hope. Originally, the general magistrate was rotated every three years, but he was like being forgotten by the above. He took root in this position for five years without getting any promotion and transfer. Such news, and there is no response to any paperwork that asks for money in the report, and it is diligent to urge taxes.

    Now there is a waste prince to trouble him.

    "Go and have a look."

    Wen Bowen took the master beside him and followed that Xu Shi to the household registration office.

    In the past, he saw an elegant man in his early thirties sitting on a chair, with a few strong men standing behind him.

    The man saw him coming, immediately stood up, and saluted himself.

    "The magistrate of Wen, my servant Guojiazhuang Song Kangping."

      to buy him land.

      industry."

    "Our son has read the local chronicle of Li County before he came. Knowing that there are few flat land in the county, and the requirements are not high, we plan to buy some hillside land to go back."

    Wen Bowen was relieved when he saw the other party's interest and did not talk about changing his name. He knew who the other party was talking about, and when he heard that the other party wanted to buy mountains, Wen Bowen was overjoyed.

    The county's fiscal revenue basically has no other sources besides taxes. Most of the flat land in Lixian County has owners over the years and cannot be moved at all. level.

    If some of these lands can be sold, the county will also receive more revenue.

    "I don't know where your son plans to buy the land?" Wen Bowen said, and people brought the map of Li County.

    "My son doesn't want to leave Guojiazhuang too far, and plans to buy this piece, this piece, and this piece." Song Kangping pointed at several hilltops of Guojiazhuang.

    Wen Bowen looked at the mountains that were relatively close to Guojiazhuang, and one of them was actually a famous stone mountain in the county town. It won't last long, what can I do if I buy it.

    But he didn't say it. He could get rid of the mountain. people.

    "Yes, but we haven't sold so much land in Lixian for a long time, at this price."

    In the end, Wen Bowen sold the more than 1,000 acres at twice the market price, and he was in a good mood. He also asked the master around him to rush the other party's account transfer. Don't let people make a second trip.

    When I went back in the evening, Wen Bowen slept in bed and told his wife the joke about the waste prince buying stone land at a high price, and told his wife to teach his son well, but he couldn't raise such a prodigal son come out.

    As for Wen county magistrate, who knew the truth about the stone ground, he said that he was selling cheap, that's another story.

    Although there are three more wells in Guojiazhuang, the daily life is not a problem, but the lack of water for the plants in the ground still cannot be solved. I am concerned about taking people to see the upper stream of the stream called Wuxi that the Guo family said. , the water flow is so small that it cannot supply water for all the rice fields in the two villages.

    Rice is a crop that is very dependent on water. Under the condition of lack of water source, the harvest will drop sharply, and the rice in Guojiazhuang has passed the best time for water use. This year is destined to reduce production .

    Only relying on the food in the village will not be able to harvest the next season next year. I am concerned that the food bought along the way is not only consumed on the road, but not much brought back to Guojia Village. The primary problem at present It is to solve the problem of food shortage.

    It is too late to grow by yourself, so you can only buy from outside.

    So I was concerned that after getting the relevant documents from Song Kangping, I did not immediately deal with the thousand acres of mountains in my name, but planned to give most of the remaining money to Song Kangping and let him When I was empty, I took people to the city to buy soybeans and other edible food.

    It's not enough to sit and eat, and she is concerned about the small amount of money left in her hand. She plans to resume her old business and set up a wooden oil mill to produce and sell soap and vegetable oil in exchange for money to buy food.

    As for the competition with Zhujia Village next door, put aside.

    Guo Shouyi, Song Kangping, and Wang Qiang were called to the ancestral hall to talk about this, but in fact, it was mainly for Guo Shouyi.

    "But son, if we don't fight for water, the grain harvest in our fields will be even less."

    "Even if you fight for water, how much more grain will be produced in your fields, and will the extra grain make everyone full?"

    As he was concerned, he asked Guo Shun, who was by his side, to put the wooden box in his arms on the table, open it, and take out the soap inside for demonstration.

    Song Kangping and the three of them knew the function of soap for a long time, and now the young master knows what he is going to do when he takes it out.

    "Elder Guo, I followed Xiaoyu and called you the second grandfather. In the future, we will also plant in Guojiazhuang, but we can't die. Today, I took out the secret recipe of soap, just to make it. The purpose of exchanging money for food outside is to give everyone a better life.”

    Guo Shouyi is still holding a piece of soap in his hand to take a closer look. In fact, after making the name white, it is called the function of soap, Guo Shouyi has been talking about it for two months and his heart has been relieved a lot, and their village has been saved .

    "If you have any orders, you can say, I will make the villagers cooperate."

    Concerned and discussed with a few people about the later arrangements, and finally decided that Wang Wu would lead someone to repair the residence according to the drawings she gave, and Guo Shouyi would first help find a skilled carpenter to make wood pressing tools. Song Kang Ping took people outside to collect food.

    In a blink of an eye, a month has passed, and it will not be long before the rice in the field can be harvested. Since that day, people from Zhujia Village came to beat the people from Guojiazhuang, and the people from Guojiazhuang never went there again. Wuxi was digging the intercepted water source, which surprised the people of Zhujia Village for a long time.

    The people from Guojiazhuang came to help a lot that day, and the people from Zhujiacun waited for the other party to call the door, but nothing happened.

    Especially Zhu Daniu, he and Guo Daliang didn't see each other very much since they were young, and the fights they had fought couldn't count with both hands. He thought that with Guo Daliang's temper, he would definitely go Destroying the interception canal built by their Zhujiajian, he and the other guys in the village stayed up all night for a month, and they didn't know how many mosquitoes they fed, but they didn't wait for the other party to come alone.

    It's weird.

    Zhu Daniel couldn't figure it out, so he took the two of them to Guojiazhuang to see what happened.

    "Da Niu, you saw that most of the rice in the Guojiazhuang farm died from drought, and they didn't care about it?" Zhu Xiaofeng pointed to the surrounding dry fields.

    "It doesn't matter how big you are, do you want them to steal water from us again? That's fine."

    The three continued to move forward, and found that the situation of all the fields in Guojiazhuang was basically the same. The rice seedlings inside were dead, crooked, and broken.

    "Brother, what do the people in Guojiazhuang eat this year? They won't go to our village to **** it." Zhu Xiaoniu asked his brother's sleeve. road.

    "They dare, if Guo Daliang dares to come to our house to grab food, I will definitely break his legs."

     I wish the Daniel a hand on his hip.

    "Da Niu, don't brag, fight with Guo Daliang, you have won a few times, he is taller than us."

     "Brother, don't talk about it, do you see Guo Daliang in front of him? Who is the guy next to him in nice clothes?"

    Zhu Xiaoniu's words pulled the two people's eyes down the road in the distance, and the three of them hurriedly fell under the ridge, hiding their body and looking over there.

    Of the three people who came, Zhu Daniu knew Guo Daliang, and he had never seen the other two, they didn't look like people from Guojiazhuang, and the one who walked in the front was wearing It seems to be the clothes of the young ladies of those big families in the city, which are very beautiful.

    He looked down at the sackcloth and sackcloth on his body, which was still stained with mud and grass, and smelled of sweat.

    "Brother..."

    "Shh, don't talk."

    The wooden press in the village has already started to press oil, so I don’t care about it. When I was free, I planned to visit the stone mountain she bought.

    She originally only planned to bring Wang Wu, but Guo Shouyi said that Guo Daliang was familiar with the area of ​​Stone Mountain, and he could lead the way, so he took Guo Daliang with him.

    This Guo Daliang is very good, but he is too obsessed with drilling wells.

    "Little cousin, teach me your ability to see wells, I promise not to spread it."

     Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Wang Wu.

    "Who's there!" Wang Wu kept his young master behind him and drank towards the ridge where there was a shadow.

    "If you don't come out again, be careful, I'll be rude." As he spoke, Wang Wu pulled out the big sword on his body.

    They usually fight for water between two villages, basically using wooden sticks and hoes, who has seen such a big knife.

    "It's Zhu Daniel!" Guo Daliang recognized the back.

    "I wish Daniel what are you running, if you have the ability, stay and fight."

    Wang Wu put away his knife and looked at Guo Daliang, "You know him."

    "I know, those three are boys from the next village, and they used to fight with me."

    "The day you came back, people from their village came to fight, because we dug up the water blocking channel they built and let Wuxi flow towards us."

    "Our village has not been digging canals for a month. I don't know why the three of them came here."

    Zhu Daniel ran away, and when he went back, he told his father what he saw, saying that there was a big knife from Guojiazhuang.

    After this little episode, I was concerned that they walked for more than two hours before reaching the stone mountain.

    The area of ​​the entire Stone Mountain is not large. The top of the mountain is about 100 acres, and it is not too high.

    "Little cousin, why are you picking up black stones? You can't build a house. They're not hard at all, look."

    "I have other uses, not building houses."

    After I explained, I asked Guo Daliang to pick it up with her, big and small, each type of coal was picked up separately, I was concerned that I planned to take it back to test the burning resistance of these coals in different volumes .

    There are not many coal lumps exposed outside, there are many other stones, and there are not many trees on the whole mountain.

    It was already dark after picking up the coal and returning to Guojia Village, but now Guojia Village is not like lying in bed when it is dark before, because the oil has been squeezed out, but a lot of oil lamps are made to supply the village people use.

    The Chinese New Year is approaching in a blink of an eye, and until the New Year's Eve dinner, I am concerned about making plans for the next step in my room.

    Now they have a batch of soaps and soaps in stock, but they haven't sold much yet, because Lixian has a small population and limited consumption, and recently they have encountered difficulties in harvesting food.

    Because the harvest of many villages in Lixian County dropped sharply in the second half of this year, I could not eat enough for myself, how could I sell it in the county seat, and the local grain merchants in the city were also affected, and they had stock in their hands Not much, the price of food has been several times longer than when they came back, and there are still signs of soaring, but there is still no demand.

    Now it depends on whether the local grain merchants go to other places to transport grain and sell it. If the problem of grain is not solved, the county may be in chaos.

    Some time ago, Wang Wu brought the guards to strengthen the patrol of Guojia Village, especially the oil workshop and soap workshop, and the training of the guards should be strengthened at ordinary times.

    After the year, Song Kangping will send a batch of soap to Baocheng to sell, and buy some food and supplies back.

    In March of the second year, Liu Wenle brought people to Guojiacun, brought a lot of food, and took away all the stored soap.

    Five years have passed in a blink of an eye, Li Xuan (concerned) is now 19 years old. In recent years, Liu Rushi has mentioned many times that he wants to see a daughter-in-law for his nephew, but all of them are rejected. reject.

    The whole Guojiazhuang has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past five years. The road has become a cement road, and the village has built a wall and opened a school.

      The change.

    Three years ago, Wu State attacked Chen State again. General Fu, who was originally leading the battle, went directly to Wu State, causing Chen State to lose five cities overnight, and his vitality was greatly damaged. Taking the opportunity to harass the border of Chen Guo, Chen Guo panicked for a while.

    Liu Wenle often travels to Lixian because of the soap business cooperation with Guojiazhuang. Although Lixian is seen to be poor, the terrain is closed, and it takes half a month to enter from the nearest treasure city. In stressful situations, everything is a safe haven.

    The army of the State of Wu has captured the city next to Sioux City, and everyone in Sioux City is already preparing to move, so Liu Wenle moved his house to Lixian County to settle down.

    He took his son as a guest in Guojiazhuang at this time, and chatted with his friends about the current situation. After several years of contact, he already knew his friend's status as a waste prince.

     "Brother Xuan, you stay in this Guojiazhuang every day because you don't know the current situation outside. I received a letter from my uncle yesterday. He said that Chen Guo recently lost two cities."

    "One was given to the Xiongnu, and the other was given to Wu.

      Afraid that the new emperor will hold grudges and want to cut the grass and root, I will not let you go, after all, you are still the blood of Chen Huang."

     "Don't worry, Brother Liu, I know that that day will never happen."

    "By the way, Brother Liu, has the batch of things I asked you to buy arrived?"

    "Not yet, now the situation in Chen country is turbulent and business is not good, Uncle Bai plans to finish this order in your hand and take your family to find a place to live in seclusion, waiting for the situation to stabilize, talking ."

    "What did you buy so much sulfur and saltpeter for? The output of this stuff is small. I entrusted a lot of friends to get you a few big boats."

    Care only smiled but didn't answer, the topic turned to other aspects.

    At this time, a boy ran in crying, followed by a girl playing with a whip. The age difference between the two seemed to be similar, but the girl was taller.

    The boy's facial features look like Liu Wenle, very upright and handsome, but now he looks like a little crying bag, very pitiful, the girl is tall and straight, bright and white teeth, very beautiful, the skin is healthy wheat color , It can be seen that he practiced martial arts outdoors all year round.

    "Little Rain, what's wrong?"

     "Brother, I was whipping there. Liu Hongyan came to play with me, and accidentally threw his arm."

    "You are talking nonsense, you are watching me throw a whip at me on purpose." Liu Hongyan wiped his tears and said.

    "Then you clearly saw that I was busy practicing martial arts, why are you running over, won't you wait for me to finish?"

    "Don't come to play with me next time, cry every now and then, I don't want to play with you."

    "I want to come, I will come." Hearing that he couldn't come to Guojiazhuang, Liu Hongyan immediately stopped his tears. It's not as lifeless as Lixian County.

    "I only play with boys who can beat me, do you know martial arts?"

    "I can learn." After Liu Hongyan said this, he pulled Liu Wenle's sleeve.

    "Dad, you also find me a martial arts master, and I also want to learn martial arts."

    Liu Wenle couldn't help laughing and crying looking at his precious son. When he was a child, he hired a martial arts master for his son, but this kid was tired, and when he met a beautiful young lady, he wanted to practice martial arts.

    But if I go back to the county to find a master to teach him, I think I will give up after a long time. I think of a new school in Guojia Village, in addition to cultural classes and martial arts classes.

     "Brother Xuan, why don't you take my son to your school."

     Before she could talk to her, she was interrupted by Xiao Yu. She looked at Liu Hongyan with disgust.

    "Liu Hongyan came to study in our Guojia Village? We have to take weekly exams and monthly exams. There are so many courses, and we can't bring a servant to serve. Can he live?"

    "I can, Miss Xiaoyu."

    "Call me aunt, I'm the same generation as your father."

    Liu Hongyan can't say it out loud, Guo Muyu is only one month older than him, how can he be his aunt because of his seniority.

    In this way, Liu Hongyan started his hard school life.

    I am concerned that in the past few years, Song Kangping has secretly let Song Kangping go out to buy supplies and bought a lot of people who are homeless and sold as slaves. In the mountains, secret training was arranged by Wang Wu.

    In terms of weapons, iron weapons are not easy to handle, so she can only use hot weapons, hoarding a large number of raw materials for making medicine, and of course also storing a batch of finished products, put a small amount In Guojiazhuang, most of them were hidden in the forests that she bought. If the situation later deteriorated to an uncontrollable situation, she would find a way to seize Lixian in advance and hold it in her own hands.

    At this time, the main hall of Chen Guo was having a lot of contention.

    It was not until the afternoon that the decision was made to move the capital to Licheng. As for the selection of the front-line generals, the selection of the front-line generals has not yet been decided, because at present, there is no competent general in Chen who has the prestige to go to the front-line to clean up the mess. Fu Rufeng, as a result, Fu Rufeng went to the front line without fighting, and went directly to Wu with a group of generals.

    Unless His Majesty's personal expedition may be able to restore some momentum, an official immediately brought it up, but seeing the upper emperor glaring fiercely at him, the official changed his mouth and said, "It is not necessary to expedition in person. His Majesty went in person, mainly to enhance the momentum of the army, to represent the royal family, it could be the crown prince, or it could be other princes."

    The prince panicked when he heard that he wanted to go to the front line by himself, especially the prince Li Tai, who hurriedly winked at his grandfather.

    The Minister of War, Wan Yangwen, received the prince's eyes and hurriedly stood up.

    "Report to Your Majesty, this ordinary prince may not be able to deter the soldiers on the front line when he goes to the front line. I think His Majesty can use Li Xuan. The prince is more intimidating in the army."

    I don't know, but in the distant palace, someone is beating her attention.

    The author has something to say:  Thanks to the readers [Nanci] for the nutrient solution