Chapter 204 First meeting with the Shen family

Li Shanchang's work in the past few days has been very successful. Every time he goes to a village, he will be supported by countless villagers. There will be highly virtuous old people coming out to cooperate with Lizheng to measure the land and determine the household registration. How many households there are in each village and how many mu of land in each village can be completed soon.

Although these things can be handed over to the people below, Li Shanchang still went deep into the people to investigate in person and find out the situation in the village. After several villages to divide the fields, he has mastered the situation. When he comes down, he can make regulations. How to divide the fields and how to divide them, it is just one. It's clear.

The people are very supportive. For thousands of years, isn't what the people have done to these lands? Now, the real land has arrived, and they still put wooden stakes on the ground and engraved their names. Countless people are grateful and praise the virtues of Zhang Shicheng of Baiju Salt Farm.

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

"Eighteen poles. Go to Daijiyao, all the way to Xinghua (Xinghua) Village, along with Gaoyouzhou.

Eighteen poles refer to those who followed Zhang Yang's uprising. The first were the salt people, and the salt people used the poles to carry salt. Dai Jiayao is the Arctic Hall.

Everyone is talking about it. Now what Zhang Shicheng Bingfeng refers to is 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 have the effect of a surprise attack.

Now, except for the land around the Shen family, in other places, farmers have got their own land, five mu per person. If there are three people in a family, it is 15 mu. Each mu of land can produce about 300 catties of grain, and the harvest will be huge. Everyone is happy and swear that in the coming year. We should work hard on the ground and live up to the hope of life given by Zhang Shicheng.

The warning area of Dingxi Salt Farm has been built. Shide and Uncle Liu took people and carried all the full set of equipment. After the salt farm is taken down, all the inventory is piled up in the warehouse of the salt farm. Their assembly line will not need to consider the situation of no salt before the end of the year.

The salt field has also been reclaimed, and the tall waterwheel stands next to the salt field. Zhang Yang also held a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Cut a piece of red cloth into flowers with scissors into a few pieces. Although the working people are happy, their hearts are full of regret: such a good piece of red cloth has been cut to pieces. If it is done, you can go home to make clothes. Wear a red dress for the Spring Festival and have good luck. I haven't worn new clothes for many years, only now. Only then did I feel the joy of life. However, although the cloth is small, it is no problem to make a red belly pocket.

With Zhang Yang's order, the water truck began to slowly raise the seawater to the salt field. The salt field is divided into two parts, one is for the seawater, which is called the evaporation pool, and the other part is the brine in the evaporation pool, which is called the crystal pool. When the seawater is almost evaporated, the brine is put into the crystallization pool. After a while, the crystallization pool will produce shiny sea salt.

In order to prevent diluting the brine when it rains in summer, Zhao De was whimsical. Next to the salt field, where the terrain was low, he dug two large pools and built a shed on it. If it rains, he opened the salt field and watered the brine water into the pool. When it was sunny, he pumped the brine truck back to the salt field.

This proposal made Zhang Yang very happy and immediately agreed to his proposal. After the success of the salt field experiment here, he then sent him to transform Dingxi Farm.

In the past few days, He Zhaoyi has always been very curious. She looked at the salt field, the trained soldiers, and the farmers who were busy in the fields around her. Such a pastoral scenery has a special flavor. In short, it's better than staying at He's house in Yangzhou, and she can't even get out of the gate.

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

"Is it finished?" Zhang Yang was happy: "How's it going? Are the people satisfied?"

"The people are very willing, and the eldest brother has been exempted from taxes for three years, and everyone is praising the virtues of the eldest brother." Li Shanchang said, "In addition to the distribution to the farmers, there are still about 1,000 mu of land left, which has not been allocated. How to deal with these?" The land here is fertile, but the population is not very large. Therefore, after the land is divided, there is still some land left that has not been distributed.

"These lands can't be empty, but when we hear about the situation here, there will definitely be exiles in the nearby provinces. At that time, we will be included in our household registration and give them land." Zhang Yang said, "If the land has not been allocated after the beginning of spring next year, we will build our own farms and use the land. In short, we can't waste it."

Farm? The eldest brother is really a whimsy. Li Shanchang admires Zhang Yang more and more: "Brother, and the Shen family, we have not divided their fields for the time being."

The Shen family? Zhang Yang pondered for a moment, and it was time for the Shen family to meet for a while.

"Tomorrow, let's go to Shen's house!" Zhang Yang said.

"Why don't you go now?" A soft female voice came from the side.

Needless to say, it's He Zhaoyi again. This little girl must be lonely in the salt field these two days. Can't wait to visit Shen's house?

However, Zhang Yang has promised to let He Zhaoyi go to Shen's house together, so it is not convenient to object. Otherwise, who knows that something will pop up in this woman's mouth to make her face look bad.

" OK, let's go now." Zhang Yang looked at the sky. It happened to be in the afternoon. He could get to Shen's house in half an hour.

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

Looking at He Zhaoyi, Zhang Yang said, "No, we take the soldiers there. It seems that there is a sense of forcing people. It's better for a few of us to go there, and it's not bullying."

"Cid!" He Zhaoyi looked at Li Shanchang and said, blowing Li Shanchang with his beard angrily.

He Zhaoyi didn't have a good impression on Li Shanchang. At the beginning, he and his brother Shicheng saved him. Otherwise, he would have fallen down the cliff in drunkenness. Unexpectedly, he encouraged Brother Shicheng to rebel! All this is blamed on Li Shanchang. He Zhaoyi's attitude towards Li Shanchang has never been better.

"I'm thinking about the safety of the eldest brother. Nowadays, there are thousands of people in the army, and countless people support the eldest brother. The safety of the eldest brother is related to the future of prosperity. How can Li Shanchang be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death? Otherwise, he would not have embarked on the road of today."

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

Li Shanchang didn't know where he had offended her. For the sake of her good relationship with her eldest brother, he put up with everything that could be tolerated. Zi said that only women and villains were difficult to raise.

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

Li Shanchang and He Zhaoyi followed and also walked to the salt farm.

The soldier pulled out the horse and handed the reins to Zhang Yang, but Zhang Yang suddenly remembered one thing: He Zhaoyi, a young lady, can't ride a horse? How can I take her by myself?

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

"Of course not. Don't you know this yet?" He Zhaoyi asked.

"We all ride horses. What about you?" Zhang Yang asked.

"I'll walk." He Zhaoyi said.

How can this work? Zhang Yang said, "Find a carriage. You get in the carriage. By the way, didn't you just take a carriage when you came here?

Brother Shicheng even remembers the carriage when he came? He Zhaoyi had to say, "Yes, the carriage is in the village."

"Quick, send someone to drive the carriage to the side of the road. Let's go." Zhang Yang said to the guard next to him.

"Yes." The guards were ordered to ride a horse to the village to catch a carriage.

"I'll walk back to the village." He Zhaoyi said that she was interested just now and went to the salt field. In the salt field, she was the only person who could move around. If she were an ordinary person, she would have been driven out long ago. The salt field was a military place. It seemed that the eldest brother did not guard against Miss He at all.

"Forget it, I'll take you on a ride!" Zhang Yang said, holding He Zhaoyi on the horse's back, and he also rode on the horse, protecting He Zhaoyi in front of him, and riding the horse forward slowly.

He Zhaoyi's face suddenly turned a little red. She had not been in such close contact with a man. The breath exhaled by Brother Shicheng could be felt so clearly that she felt a burst of heat on her face. She wanted to go down, but she didn't want 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 there were different ancient times for men and women here. He just thought that if He Zhaoyi delayed the time and waited for the Shen family, it would be dark. Would he have to stay in the Shen family for one night? Last time, because my mother couldn't ride a horse, I was delayed and almost trapped in the Victory Lake. Fortunately, it was at that time. Now, if I get lost in the Victory Lake and walk less than a few feet, the ship will have to touch the dark pile. If I don't touch the dark pile, it will be even more unlucky. I'm afraid I will face all kinds of organs flying over.

Li Shanchang took the whip and followed it. He called a team of guards and ordered them to stay behind slowly.

The eldest brother is not allowed to take people, but he is a little worried. Although the eldest brother has become the local emperor here, the Shen family is a big family after all. If there is an accident in his family, he will die.

At present, the Shen family is still not clear.

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he let He Zhaoyi get on the car. On the wheel outside the car, he had already sat on the maid Xiaoai and the soldiers who drove the car. Several people rushed to the Shen family.

The wall with a glazed tile roof can see the two-story building inside from the outside. In the surrounding courtyard, it looks unique. The cold wind blows, and a bunch of grass under the wall has withered.

When they came to the main gate to the south, the soldiers who drove the car had got out of the car and walked to the gate.

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

"Don, thon, thon." The soldiers began to knock on the door. Is anyone there?"

"Squeak," with a heavy sound of opening the door, a servant poked his head out. He looked left and right and saw only five people, so he walked out of the door boldly.

"What's the matter?" He asked.

"My adult came to visit." The soldier said impatiently.

Li Shanchang smiled in the back and said, "It's troublesome for this little brother to go in and report that Zhang Shicheng, the leader of the Rebel Army, came to visit the meeting."

Zhang Shicheng? As soon as he heard the name, the servant's face immediately changed. If the master hadn't refused to abandon the property here, the family would have planned to run away. Who doesn't know that since Zhang Shicheng occupied this place, the rich big families around him have run away and borrowed food? Then borrow it, clean up the house, and flee to the big city.

However, I don't know what's going on. This is just an ordinary house for him. There are houses like this all over the south of the Yangtze River. Why can I be reluctant to leave such a small place? The old man was at home in Zhouzhuang, but he suffered from these people. Every day, I tremble and wait for people to borrow food. Now, it's finally here. It's a blessing, not a curse, and it's a disaster that can't be avoided.

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

"Housekeeper Shen, Housekeeper Shen, they are coming!" The servant shouted as he ran.

Coming? Who is here? The family members around him looked at the servants who ran past quickly and didn't recover.

Isn't it the person who borrowed food?

In the hall, Housekeeper 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. However, the reply given to him by the master was very intriguing.

Since you are here to borrow grain, there is no problem. There is a lot of grain at home. If he wants to borrow 500 stones, we will give them a thousand stones and a thousand stones, and we will give them 2,000 stones. In short, we can't offend them and want real estate? Give it to them, but be sure to get in touch with them. Even if the insent army needs silver, they can secretly fund them, but they must keep it a secret.

With this reply, the housekeeper Shen has been thinking about what the master means.

In the year of the famine, you should pay less land rent from tenant farmers and give some porridge. For the old man, this is a dime. But give twice as much food? Free real estate with both hands? Secretly funding the Rebels? Why does the old man need to do this? The master's business is all over the world, and this kind of farmland is nothing, but the master's attitude is very good for the rebels here, isn't it?

Housekeeper Shen's surname is not Shen. His original surname is Zhao. He was originally a small street vendor on Pingjiang Road. By chance, he met the old man. After following the old man, he was smart and calm. His position gradually rose. He followed the master's surname and was sent here to manage the property. It has been two years.

If the old man's business can be so big, he naturally has a high vision. Is it a strange commodity?

Lv Buwei took a look at the strange product of the alien. In the end, the official became the prime minister. Did the master take a look of Zhang Shicheng as a noble person?

Housekeeper Shen didn't know that his grandfather, Shen Wansan, not only had close ties with the court, but also with Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Shouhui. Therefore, his business, even in places occupied by the iniper, could still be done.

The regime can be changed again and again, and the people in power can be replaced again and again. However, big businessmen like him, whether in prosperous times or troubled times, are silently accumulating wealth.

"Housekeeper Shen, they are here." The servant finally ran into the hall and said breathlessly.

Coming? OK, it's finally here. Housekeeper Shen asked, "How many people have come here?"

"Report to the housekeeper, only five people came."? Five people? The housekeeper was stunned. When the other party borrowed food, wasn't it all a team of soldiers and followed the tenant farmers of the brigade? Why are there only five people?

"What kind of people are they?"

"There is a soldier, two middle-aged men who look very classy, and a young lady, followed a maid."

The housekeeper was a little puzzled. These people didn't look like borrowing food, but like visiting.

"Please invite them to the living room." The housekeeper said, but he was still confused.

"Yes, housekeeper."

The courtyard of this large family is elegant, and the elegance is revealed in the style, and the elegance reveals exquisiteness. It is completely different from the upstart who wears a thick gold necklace, and it has a little aristocratic temperament.

Shen Wansan, it's really not simple. Only such a yard reveals his taste.

Zhang Yang nodded and walked inside with Li Shanchang and He Zhaoyi under the direction of the servant. Walking leisurely, as if I was strolling around my back garden.

Xiao Ai and the soldier stayed outside to wait. She was surprised to find that several teams of soldiers had quietly touched up and surrounded the whole house.

The leader is Centurion Mo Tianyou.

"Once there is a situation inside, rush in immediately, and the eldest brother is inside." Mo Tianyou said. After receiving Li Shanchang's order, Shi Yi immediately ordered Mo Tianyou to rush over with five ten-person teams.

In fact, this is just an ordinary house, but now the identity of the eldest brother is no longer the ordinary Gangsi. He is the leader of the whole rebel army. Who knows if the Shen family will jump over the wall and bite the eldest brother?

The tense atmosphere outside did not affect the enthusiasm inside. Before he walked to the living room, the housekeeper hurriedly greeted him.

"It's Mr. Zhang who is here. There is a loss to welcome, and there is a loss to welcome. The little one is the housekeeper here. Please come in. Housekeeper Shen said with a smile on his face.

Li Shanchang has a trace of anger. His eldest brother is now in Xinghua, but he can shock the sky by stamping his feet. He came to his Shen family in person to give him face to the Shen family. Unexpectedly, he not only did not go out to greet him, but also sent a housekeeper.

"Where's your master Shen Wansan?" Li Shan asked proudly. This is a gesture. In terms of momentum, it is natural to overwhelm the other party.

"The two adults don't know that our master has houses everywhere. This is just one of them, so at ordinary times, it's not at all."

"So when will he be there?"

"This... I can't see the master come here once in a year. Every time I have something to do, the villain goes to Zhouzhuang to find him." Housekeeper Shen said.

"Then who is in charge here?"

"With the love of the master, most of the things can be made by the small one. If something big happens, the small one can ask the master for advice." Housekeeper Shen said, "Please, there is already a good tea in it. Please come into the room and talk about it in detail." He looked back, but his eyes were dotized.

"Miss He, why are you here..."

(to be continued)