Chapter 204 First Meeting with the Shen Family

Li Shanchang has done a very successful job these days. Every time he arrives in a village, he will be supported by countless villagers. There will be respected elderly people coming out to cooperate with Li Zheng to measure the land and determine the household registration. How many households are there in each village and how many acres of land are there in each village, and how many acres of land are there. It will be completed soon.

Although these things can be left to the people below, Li Shanchang first went deep into the people to investigate the situation in the village, and after the work of dividing fields in several villages, he mastered the situation. Then he could formulate a charter, and how to divide the fields and how to divide them can be clearly seen at a glance.

The people are very supportive. Isn’t this the land that the people have done for thousands of years? Now that the real land has been obtained, they still have wooden stakes on the ground and carved their own names. Countless people are grateful and praise Zhang Shicheng’s virtues in Baiju Salt Field.

At the same time, a song gradually spread among the people.

"Eighteen shoulder poles. Let's go to Daijiayao, and along the way to Xinghua (Xinghua) Village, and along the way to Gaoyouzhou."

The eighteen shoulder poles refer to those who followed Zhangyang's uprising, first of which were the salt people, and the salt people all used shoulder poles to carry salt. Daijia Kiln was the North Pole Hall.

Everyone was talking about it. Now what Zhang Shicheng Bingfeng pointed out was definitely Xinghua and Gaoyou.

This news was a smoke bomb deliberately released by Shi Nai'an to confuse the defenders of Taizhou in order to achieve the effect of a surprise attack.

Now, except for the land around the Shen family that has not been divided, farmers have obtained their own land in other places, each with five acres of people. If a family has three, it will be fifteen acres. Each acre of land can produce about 300 kilograms of grain, and the harvest will be huge. Everyone is full of joy and vows to work hard on the ground next year and live up to the hope of life given by Zhang Shicheng.

The warning area of ​​Dingxi Salt Field has been built. Shide and Mr. Liu brought their men to transport all the equipment. After the salt field was built, all the inventory was piled up in the salt field warehouse. Their assembly line will not be considered before the end of the year.

The Yantian has also been reclaimed, and the tall water wheel stands next to the Yantian. Zhang Yang also held a unique ribbon-cutting ceremony. He cut a piece of red cloth that was tied into flowers into several sections with scissors. Although the people working were happy, they felt regretful: such a good piece of red cloth was cut into pieces. If it was tidy, they could go home to make clothes. Wear red clothes during the Chinese New Year for auspicious purposes. I haven't worn new clothes for many years. Only this year can I feel the joy of life. However, although the cloth head is small, it is still okay to make a red bellyband.

With Zhang Yang's order, the water wheel began to slowly lift the sea water into the salt field. The salt field was divided into two parts. One of them was called the evaporation pool, and the other part was the brine in the evaporation pool, called the crystallization pool. When the sea water evaporated almost, the brine was then lifted into the crystallization pool with the water wheel. After a while, shiny sea salt would form in the crystallization pool.

In order to prevent the brine from being diluted when it rains in summer, Zhao De actually had a whim. He dug two large pools next to the salt field, where the terrain was lower, and set up sheds on it. If it rains, open the salt field and flow the brine into the pool. When the sun is sunny, then use a water truck to pull the brine back to the salt field.

This proposal made Zhang Yang very happy and immediately agreed to his proposal. After waiting for the Yantian here to succeed in the experiment, he continued to send him to transform Dingxi Field.

These days, He Zhaoyi has been very curious. She looked at the Yantian, the trained soldiers, and the farmers working around the fields. Such pastoral scenery also has a unique flavor. In short, it is better than the days when she stayed in the He family in Yangzhou and could not even leave the gate.

"Brother, the land around is almost divided." Li Shanchang said, looking at Zhang Yang standing in the salt field looking at the salt field.

"I've finished the division?" Zhang Yang was happy: "How is it? Are the people satisfied?"

"The people are very willing, and the eldest brother has exempted them from their taxes for three years, and everyone is praising their virtues." Li Shanchang said: "In addition to the farmers, there are still about a thousand acres of land left, and there is no distribution. How to deal with these?" The land here is fertile, but the population is not large, so after the land is divided, there is still some land left that has not been distributed.

"These lands cannot be empty, but after hearing about the situation here, there will definitely be refugees in nearby provinces. At that time, they will be included in our household registration and also distributed land to them." Zhang Yang said: "If the land is not allocated after the beginning of next spring, we will build our own farms and use the land. In short, we cannot waste it."

Farm? The eldest brother is really ingenious. Li Shanchang is increasingly admiring Zhang Yang: "Brother, we have no land to share with the Shen family for the time being."

The Shen family? Zhang Yang pondered for a while. It was time to meet the Shen family for a while.

"Tomorrow, we will go to the Shen family!" Zhang Yang said.

"Why go now." A gentle female voice came from beside her.

Needless to say, it was He Zhaoyi, this little girl must have been unable to stand the loneliness in the salt field these two days, and she couldn't wait to visit the Shen family?

However, Zhang Yang had already agreed to let He Zhaoyi go to the Shen family with him, so it was not convenient to object. Otherwise, who would know what would appear in this woman's mouth to make her look bad?

"Okay, then go now." Zhang Yang looked at the sky. It was just afternoon, and he could arrive at the Shen family in almost half an hour.

"Brother, are we going to bring a team of soldiers here?" Li Shanchang asked.

After looking at He Zhaoyi, Zhang Yang said, "No need, we take the soldiers over, it seems like we are trying to force others. It's better to just go there, it's not like bullying others by relying on our power."

"Coward!" He Zhaoyi looked at Li Shanchang and said, making Li Shanchang so angry that she blew her beard.

He Zhaoyi had no good feelings for Li Shanchang. He thought that he and his brother Shicheng rescued him at the beginning. Otherwise, he would have fallen off the cliff in a daze while drunk. Unexpectedly, he encouraged Brother Shicheng to rebel! All of this is all because of Li Shanchang. He Zhaoyi's attitude towards Li Shanchang has never been better.

"I am considering my elder brother's safety. Now, there are thousands of people in the army, and countless people support me. My elder brother's safety is related to the tomorrow of Xinghua. How can I, Li Shanchang, be a person who is afraid of death? Otherwise, I would not have embarked on the path of today."

"Hmph." He Zhaoyi didn't look at him, but just responded to him with the sound from the cracks of her teeth.

Li Shanchang didn't know where he offended her. Because she had a good relationship with her elder brother, he tolerated everything he could. Master said, it was hard to raise women and villains.

"Let's go!" Zhang Yang broke the silence and took the lead in walking back.

Li Shanchang and He Zhaoyi followed behind and walked towards the salt field.

The soldier took out the horse and handed the reins to Zhang Yang, but Zhang Yang suddenly remembered something: He Zhaoyi, the daughter of a daughter, can't ride a horse, right? How could he take her?

"Zhaoyi, can you ride a horse?" Zhang Yang asked.

"Of course not, don't you know this yet?" He Zhaoyi asked back.

"We all ride horses, what should you do?" Zhang Yang asked.

"I'll go." He Zhaoyi said.

How can this be done? Zhang Yang said: "Let's find a carriage, you can take the carriage. By the way, when you came, didn't you just take a carriage?"

Brother Shicheng even remembered the carriage when he came? He Zhaoyi had no choice but to say, "Yes, the carriage is in the village."

"Hurry, send someone to drive the carriage to the side of the road and let's set off." Zhang Yang and the guards beside him said.

"Yes." The guards took the order and rode their horses to the village to drive the carriage.

"I'll go back to the village." He Zhaoyi said. He had just become interested and walked to the salt field. In the salt field, she was the only person who could walk around. If she were an ordinary person, she would have been driven out long ago. The salt field is a military important place. It seems that the eldest brother is not guarding against Miss He at all.

"Forget it, I'll take you for a ride!" Zhang Yang said, helping He Zhaoyi on the horse, riding himself on the horse, protecting He Zhaoyi in front of him, and rode his horse forward slowly.

He Zhaoyi's face suddenly turned red. She had never had such close contact with a man. The breath exhaled by Brother Shicheng could clearly feel that she felt a heat on her face. She wanted to go down, but she was unwilling to go down. In this way, the two of them rode together and walked forward.

Zhang Yang didn't care at all. He seemed to have forgotten that this was a different ancient time. He just thought that if He Zhaoyi wasted time, it would probably be dark when he arrived at the Shen family. Could it be that it would be dark? Will he stay at the Shen family for one night? Last time, because his mother could not ride a horse, he almost fell into Desheng Lake. Fortunately, it was at that time. Now, if he got lost in Desheng Lake and walked a few feet away, the boat would have to touch the stakes. If he didn't touch the stakes, it would be even more unlucky. He might face various mechanisms flying over.

Li Shanchang took the whip and followed the above, calling a team of guards, and told them to slowly come back.

The eldest brother refused to let him take the people, but he was a little worried. Although the eldest brother had become the local emperor here, the Shen family was a big family after all. If something happened in his family, he would not refuse.

The current Shen family is still unknown to us.

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he asked He Zhaoyi to get on the car. On the outside of the car, the maid Xiao Ai and the soldiers who were driving the car, and a group of people rushed to the Shen family.

The two-story building inside can be seen from the outside, and it looks unique in the surrounding courtyards. When the cold wind blows, a bunch of grass under the wall has become withered.

When we arrived at the main gate to the south, the soldiers who were driving the bus had already got off the bus and walked towards the gate.

With the help of Xiao Ai, He Zhaoyi got off the carriage. Zhang Yang and Li Shanchang also got off the horse.

"Dong, dun, dun." The soldier began to knock on the door. "Is anyone there?"

"Crack," with a heavy sound of opening the door, a servant poked his head out. He looked around and saw only five people, and then he walked out of the door with confidence and boldness.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"My adults are here to visit." The soldier said impatiently.

Li Shanchang smiled from behind and said, "I'll bother this little brother to come in and report, and he said that the leader of the rebel army, Zhang Shicheng, came to visit."

Zhang Shicheng? As soon as he heard this name, the servants' faces changed immediately. If the master had not refused to abandon the property here, the servants would have planned to leave. Who would have known that since Zhang Shicheng occupied the place, the rich households around had already run away and borrowed food? Then borrow it, clean up the house and flee to the big city.

However, the master didn't know what happened. This is just an ordinary house of his. There are houses like this in Jiangnan. Why is the master reluctant to leave such a small place? The master is in Zhouzhuang, but he is free and easy, but he has made these people suffer. He is trembling every day waiting for others to come to borrow food. Now, he finally comes. Is it a blessing, not a disaster, and it is a disaster that cannot be avoided.

"Wait a minute, I'll go in and report immediately." The servant did not dare to make his own decisions and ran into it. The door did not close again, for fear of angering the people in front of him.

"Butler Shen, Butler Shen, they are here!" The servant shouted loudly while running.

Here comes? Who is here? The servants around looked at the servants running over quickly and did not recover.

Could it be that the borrower of food is here?

In the hall, Butler Shen was walking around. As soon as something happened here, he immediately sent someone to report to the master, hoping to avoid it for the time being, but the master's reply to him was very intriguing.

Since we are here to borrow food, then there is no problem. The family has food. If he wants to borrow five hundred stones, we will give them one thousand stones. If one thousand stones, we will give them two thousand stones. In short, we can't offend them, but we will give them real estate? We will give them too. However, we must contact them. Even if the rebel army needs silver, they can also secretly fund them, but they must keep the secret.

After receiving this reply, Butler Shen has been thinking about the master's meaning.

In normal times when encountering famine, you need less land rent for tenants and give alms and porridge. This is a drop in the bucket for the master. However, giving more grain? Give real estate with both hands? Secretly funding the rebel army? Why do you need to do this? The master's business is all over the world, and this amount of land is nothing, but the master's attitude is too good to the rebel army here?

Butler Shen is not surnamed Shen, originally surnamed Zhao, and was a small vendor who traveled from street to street in Pingjiang. By chance, he met the master and followed the master. After he was smart, he was calm and steady, and his position gradually increased. After following the master's surname, he was sent here to manage the land. It has been two years since he was.

The master can do such a big business, so he naturally has a high vision. Could it be that strange goods are affordable?

Lu Buwei took a fancy to the strange goods of Yiren and eventually became prime minister. Could it be that the master took a fancy to Zhang Shicheng and was also a noble person?

Butler Shen didn't know that his master, Shen Wansan, not only had close ties with the court, but also had connections with Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Shouhui. Therefore, his business could still be carried out even in places occupied by the rebel army.

The regime can change repeatedly, and the people in power can change repeatedly, and the king's flag changes on the top of the city wall. However, big businessmen like him, whether in prosperous or chaotic times, are silently accumulating wealth.

"Butler Chen, they are here." The servant finally ran into the hall and said angrily.

Come? Okay, finally come. Butler Chen asked, "How many people have they come?"

"Report to the butler, five people came."

?Five people? The housekeeper was stunned. When the other party borrowed grain, weren’t they all soldiers and followed the brigade of tenants? Why were there only five people?

"What kind of people are they?"

"There was a soldier, two middle-aged men with a big look, and a young lady, who followed a maid."

The butler was a little puzzled. These people didn't look like they were borrowing food, but instead seemed to be visiting each other.

"Please invite them to the living room." The butler said, still confused.

"Yes, housekeeper."

The courtyard of this wealthy family is so grand, and it reveals elegance and exquisiteness in elegance. It is completely different from the nouveau riche wearing thick gold necklaces, and has a vaguely aristocratic temperament.

Chen Wansan is indeed not simple. Just one yard reveals his taste.

While nodding, Zhang Yang walked inside with Li Shanchang and He Zhaoyi under the guidance of his servants. He walked in and walked in the garden as if he was walking around his back garden.
To be continued...