Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 392
These scholars who came to make trouble were just pawns thrown out by the big landlords and even the scholar-official class, so Yang Menglong couldn't do anything about them.After all, they were just abusing and making trouble, and did not threaten the safety of teachers and students and the safety of school property. They can't be beaten to death just because they swear a few ugly words, right?They were beaten and angry, so Yang Menglong could only let them go.In this round of confrontation, although he let out a bad breath, he didn't take advantage of it. Instead, he gave an excuse to abuse the literati, and the other party could use it to make a big fuss. Soon he tasted the consequences of doing things without thinking .But now, he was clapping his hands, inviting Xiao Yufang and the others into the car with a happy smile, saying that he would treat them to dinner.Xiao Yufang happily accepted the invitation, while Cheng Qi seemed not very happy, but Liu Ziyan pulled her into the car confidently.

The soldiers didn't follow up, they all knew that Yang Menglong didn't like being followed when he was with Xiao Yufang, so they should go back to Wuyang camp, they haven't been back for several months!
The carriage arrived at Wuyangwei soon.

The current Wuyang Guard is no longer the den of beggars.Those dilapidated houses have long been demolished, and the mud-brick houses are being quickly replaced by modern buildings. This is also a benefit that Wuyang Guards gave to the military households, demolition and house allocation.The house is not very big, about 150 square meters, with a total of two floors, which is enough for even a large family of four or five generations.Of course, if you think it is not enough, you can add a few more layers, but you have to pay for it yourself.To put it bluntly, Yang Menglong regards the entire Wuyangwei as a large state-owned enterprise in modern society, which pays wages, provides housing and education, provides medical security, provides pensions...well, pensions are not available yet, and we have to continue to work hard.There are more than 500 newly built houses, each of which is similar and has no special features, but they are all equipped with fireplaces that can be heated in winter.Needless to say, the fireplace was made by those foreigners, and a few businessmen were hired to set up a factory to mass-produce it. This thing can be used to burn wood, charcoal, coal, and even peat. Yang Menglong strongly encourages everyone to use charcoal, because charcoal is environmentally friendly , will not produce toxic smog, and secondly, it also provides a market for charcoal burners in impoverished counties such as Xixia and Zhechuan. The market is shouting loudly, and the price is rising steadily.

For counties like Xixia and Zhechuan with many mountains and few lands and few mineral resources to exploit, winter is the golden season. In winter, the charcoal they have worked so hard to burn will become very popular. The colder the weather, The better it can be sold, the better the price will be.Whether your life will be good or not in the coming year will all depend on how well your charcoal is sold in the winter.

The cement road has replaced the original dirt road with potholes and holes, passing through the streets and alleys, leading to the door of every house, and it is very wide.Some stores similar to supermarkets have also emerged as the times require, with food, vegetables, stationery, farm tools, dried fruits, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, needles, thread brains and other commodities. Correspondingly, land prices have also risen steadily. I want to buy here A piece of land is getting harder and harder.No way, one of the side effects of a developed economy is that prices and housing prices have been rising all the way, and no one can control it.Even Zhang Tong plans to move the county government here. As for the county seat... whoever wants to stay can stay there, anyway, he doesn't want to stay anymore. Wuyang's future lies in Beiwudu and Wuyangwei!
Yang Menglong scratched his head, looked at the guard, and said, "Hey, it's only been a few months, and it's changed again. I can't believe it was still a beggar's den three years ago!"

Xiao Yufang smiled and said, "Let's not talk about you, most of the residents of Wuyang will hardly recognize it."

Yang Menglong shook his head, and he found that he seemed to have done another great event: he built a city of considerable scale with steel bars and cement.These [-] houses are far from enough to meet the needs, and at least another [-] houses will be built next year, so we must work harder to make money!
The thousand-household house remains the same, with red bricks and green tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, and even the academy built in the backyard is still the same.However, this mansion, which was originally envied and hated by the military households, is now simply shabby and despised by the military households. As for the houses of those landlords and squires... they are not even qualified to be despised by them.It's worth mentioning that Yang Menglong was secretly happy that those old servants were still there, that's right, if he hired a bunch of handsome servants, he wouldn't be able to sleep.He enthusiastically greeted these old servants who had been serving him three years ago, which really flattered these old servants.Now Yang Menglong wears the seal of the commander-in-chief of the two towns, and Nanyang, Luoyang, and Denglai are all under his jurisdiction. The territory he rules is comparable to that of some rich and powerful empires in Europe. When such a big man greets them, they are of course under great pressure .

Xiao Yufang looked at the living room, and asked with a smile, "You didn't come home?"

Yang Menglong said: "No, I went to look for you as soon as I got back to Wuyang... Ah, I was so exhausted after being nestled in the carriage for so many days, I must take a hot bath!"

Xiao Yufang said: "Hurry up and wash, we will cook, and after you wash, you can eat."

Yang Menglong responded, yawned and walked to the bathhouse.At this time, he saw a plate of big, red tomatoes on the table. He took two of them at lightning speed and ran into the bathhouse.Cheng Qi looked contemptuous: "How can there be such a greedy general like him? He is just a foodie!"

Xiao Yufang said: "He has this kind of personality, and he can't change it... Okay, okay, stop talking, let's cook quickly, he will eat as soon as he is hungry, and he doesn't want to wait for a moment."

Liu Ziyan was helpless: "There's nothing we can do about him! Cheng Qi, help!"

Cheng Qi shouted dissatisfied: "Why do you want me to help cook for him? I won't do it!"

Liu Ziyan smirked: "Don't help? If I don't help, I'll tell Uncle Cheng that you often speak ill of that little treasure behind your back."

Cheng Qi yelled even louder: "How can I!"

Liu Ziyan said: "I said yes."

Cheng Qi snorted and entered the kitchen helplessly.She often said bad things about Yang Menglong, such as scolding him for being greedy for food, greedy for money, no matter how big or small, all of which she said to Liu Ziyan quietly, if Liu Ziyan really told Cheng Shi, she would definitely be scolded Yes, Cheng Shi values ​​Yang Menglong very much, and hopes that Yang Menglong can become his son-in-law!

The vegetables have been bought a long time ago. Chinese cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, green peppers, winter bamboo shoots... are all very fresh vegetables. The winter bamboo shoots are dug out from the moso bamboo forest and are still stained with soil. As for the fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, tomatoes and so on. , are grown in greenhouses in the Wuyang Wei army field. Things are rare and expensive. In this season when water is poured into ice, fresh vegetables are naturally very expensive. Most people cannot afford them at all, but every day military households pick the best. Good dishes are picked and sent to thousands of households for no money at all.Xiao Yufang concentrated on making her fish head with chopped and pickled peppers, while Liu Ziyan was enthusiastically making beer duck. This was taught to her by a Portuguese missionary. Adding a little beer when cooking the tender duck tastes very delicious.

As for Cheng Qi... She is making a fruit platter, cutting tomatoes, cucumbers, apples, pears, etc. into slices and arranging exquisite patterns, adding some flowers as decorations, which is both delicious and pleasing to the eye.But she put the fruit into her mouth while making the platter, so she ate more in her stomach than on the plate.She kept saying that Yang Menglong was childish, but in fact she herself was also a little childish.

It is worth mentioning that the kitchen dedicated to these three beauties uses biogas.This was also done by Yang Menglong and a group of craftsmen. They poured a lot of manure, dried rice straw and wheat straw into the biogas digester to ferment, and a large amount of biogas was produced in a few days, which was more than enough to boil water for cooking.Xiao Yufang likes biogas very much. There is no smoke at all. It is really comfortable to cook with biogas stove.

Yang Menglong's joyful singing came from the bathroom. This guy obviously has tone deafness, but he sang vigorously and confidently. He really convinced him.Now this bastard is lying in the big bathtub, rubbing the fragrant soap all over his body, making foam everywhere, and singing a song that only he knows what it means: "The chrysanthemum is broken, the ground is full of wounds, your The smile has turned yellow..."

Cheng Qi was baffled: "What kind of ghost song is he singing?"

Xiao Yufang said, "I'm afraid only he himself knows."

Cheng Qi carefully carved a piece of radish into a flower: "People who don't know what to do, just do things that don't make sense!"

Xiao Yufang smiled: "Just as long as he is happy."

Cheng Qi said, "But he doesn't look like a general at all!"

Xiao Yufang said: "As long as he is happy every day, I will be happy, so why insist on asking him how to do it."

Well, in her eyes, that guy who doesn't look like a general at all is not her husband, but rather her doting child, Cheng Qi has nothing to say.

At this time, the singing in the bathroom stopped, and Yang Menglong came in with his wet hair greedily inhaling the fragrance, and asked with a smile, "What good dishes have you prepared for the three beauties?" Cheeky ran to Xiao Yufang's side, looking at the browned fish head in the claypot, drooling.Xiao Yufang picked up some fish meat with chopsticks and handed it to his mouth: "Taste it!" He ate it in one bite, exaggerating: "Wow, it's so delicious! I want more!" He reached out to grab it!
"Snapped!"

Xiao Yufang knocked on the back of his hand with a chopstick: "Don't grab it with your hands, it's not ready yet!"

Yang Menglong grinned and rubbed the back of his hands, walked to Liu Ziyan's side with a greedy face, and stretched out his sinful hands towards the beer duck in the pot: "Miss Liu, let me see the duck you made..."

"Snapped!"

Liu Ziyan hit the back of his hand with a spoon, and opened his claws: "Go aside, don't think I don't know what your plan is!"

It seems that in front of these two, Yang Menglong is not a strong general with heavy soldiers in his hands, but a slug who always follows them and grinds them to buy snacks.

Yang Menglong didn't die, and ran to Cheng Qi's side again, looking at the exquisite platter and exclaiming: "Cheng Qi, what you spelled is the peacock's tail? It's so beautiful!"

Cheng Qi said, "Yes, it's the peacock spreading its tail."

Yang Menglong praised, "It's so lifelike and vivid, I can't bear to eat it! But there's something wrong with the placement of this tomato, let me help you..." As he spoke, he stretched out his sinful hand to the unfinished platter...

"Snapped!"

Cheng Qi and his team slapped the kid's paw away.This girl is a bit ruthless, Xiao Yufang and Liu Ziyan use chopsticks and spoons at most, she directly uses a spatula, the pain makes Yang Menglong grin his teeth!
It seems that these three cook their dishes as works of art, and they will not be polite to anyone who dares to disturb them, even if they are the heads of the family.Yang Menglong was dejected, he shook his head and was kicked out of the kitchen, but he immediately found someone to satisfy his craving. Didn't the old servant just put a plate of fresh oranges on the table?He immediately took one in each hand, and ate it like a hungry ghost reincarnated...

The three beauties looked at each other and laughed out loud.

(End of this chapter)