Father can be an enemy to the country

When Zhu Zhen and his party entered the town, because it was dark and there was no ceremonial guard, the military households did not realize that it was their prince who had arrived. They just let him go to the side of the road and continued to do what they were supposed to do.

Of course, the main reason was that they thought that Lao Liu would go to Huoshaoba, south of Qianhu Suo, to inspect. During this period, they were all recruited to help clean up and repair the dam at Huoshaoba to welcome the inspection. This is why Li Jiuniang knew that Lao Liu had come to Songmeng, so she ran to the state capital to complain.

Zhang Qianhu led the prince and his party to the door of Yu Min's house in his memory, but he didn't dare to recognize him for a while.

He only came to drink wedding wine once when Yu Min got married. I remember that the boy lived in the first wooden house in the whole village at that time, so he was quite impressed. But the stilt house in my memory is gone, and it has been upgraded to a brick and tile house with a yard.

Fearing that he had brought the wrong door, he quickly called a military household who was watching the fun over and asked, "Is this Yu Min's house?"

"Yes. Yu Baihu has always lived here." The military household hurriedly answered.

"Isn't his house a wooden house?" Zhang Qianhu asked casually.

"It was a wooden house originally, but last year, a new tiled house was built. We helped to lay the tiles on the wall." The military household explained.

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After several years of careful care, the original wasteland has become cultivated land. The military households have also adopted the scientific farming method promoted by the province. To put it simply, they burn wood ash to make potash fertilizer; crush shell bone meal to make phosphate fertilizer; and plant soybeans, black beans and other legumes in winter to produce nitrogen fertilizer.

In addition, with timely irrigation and sufficient sunshine, the grain yield per mu has increased from dozens of kilograms at the beginning to hundreds of kilograms. The military households have not only solved the problem of food and clothing, but also have spare energy to arrange a better life.

With surplus grain, some people have the conditions to leave agricultural production. Many immigrants who were originally craftsmen returned to their old jobs and started burning lime, bricks and tiles, and building. They first rebuilt all the government offices and warehouses of the guards into brick houses.

With the advertising effect, those officers and military households with good living conditions began to think about upgrading their houses, tearing down the original wooden houses and stilt houses, and building brick houses like their hometowns.

In the eyes of the Han people, brick houses are the real good houses. Not only are they strong and soundproof, warm in winter and cool in summer, and moisture-proof, but they are also durable and can be passed down from generation to generation. They are not comparable to those bamboo and wood houses or adobe houses.

So the reason for not living in brick houses is actually one word - poor.

So as long as they have the conditions, they will tighten their belts, build a big tiled house, plant fruits and vegetables in front of and behind the house, build a grape trellis in the yard, and plant two pomegranate trees. They will immediately feel that their lives are complete, and the sense of happiness is absolutely incomparable...

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"It's this family, this kid is doing really well." Captain Zhang ran back and introduced to Zhu Zhen: "He was a soldier when he first came to Yunnan. It's only been five years, and he has married a wife and built a tiled house. People can't recognize him."

"Haha, this is a great thing." Zhu Zhen smiled and ordered: "Knock on the door."

"Hey." Captain Zhang hurriedly went forward to knock on the door. After a while, the door opened and it was Yu Min who came out.

He carried a lantern and looked at Captain Zhang first and said: "Ah, Captain, what wind blew you here?"

"I'm just a guide. Look who's here." Captain Zhang quickly stepped aside.

Yu Min looked carefully, and immediately knelt down after seeing Zhu Zhen's face clearly: "I pay my respects to the prince! May the prince live long!"

"Oh? Do you know me?" Zhu Zhen couldn't help laughing.

"Yes, I saw him several times during the southern expedition five years ago. Later, when I was accompanying the patient in the military hospital, the prince came to inspect and saw him up close once." Yu Min replied hurriedly.

"Haha, really? You really have some impression of me when you say that." Zhu Zhen couldn't be more fake and said: "Since we are old acquaintances, I will come to your house to see you and have a meal, okay?"

He pointed to the crowd of attendants behind him and said: "Of course, they can solve it themselves, you don't have to worry about it."

"That's great! Your Majesty, please come in." Yu Min hurriedly stepped aside and shouted to his wife: "Nuo, the prince is here, hurry up and kill the chickens and geese!"

"Don't bother," Zhu Zhen waved his hand and smiled: "Then when can we have dinner? Whatever you have for dinner, I will eat it. I don't have a big appetite..."

"Oh, yes." It was the first time that Yu Min served such a big person. He didn't dare to express himself freely, so he could only follow orders.

After inviting the prince to take his seat, Yu Min brought a bowl of pickled vegetables and tofu, and a bowl of two-grain rice mixed with miscellaneous grains. This was their family's dinner.

Or his mother was smart, thinking, how can this be possible? Then he quickly heated the pan with his daughter-in-law, fried bacon with soybeans, fried ham with cucumbers, fried eggs with shallots, and stewed a bowl of mushroom soup. Four dishes and one soup were served.

"Ah, Auntie, you are too expensive." Zhu Zhen said politely to Yu Min's mother who kept serving dishes: "I told you to eat whatever you have."

"What's the big deal? Can you only have one dish when the prince comes? Wouldn't that be embarrassing for your family?" Yu Min's mother wiped her hands on her apron and smiled: "The country people's cooking is not good, the prince just has to eat a few bites."

Zhu Zhen tasted a chopstick of each and praised it endlessly: "Delicious, all delicious, are these hams and bacon pickled by yourself?"

"No, only the pickles and eggs are from our own house, and everything else is bought at the market." Yu Min, a very talkative mother, introduced to Lao Liu: "There are all kinds of things on the market, such as oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, etc. There are pickles, vegetable oil, tofu, rice noodles, bait cubes, bacon, ham, pickled fish, dried chicken mushrooms, etc., as long as there is food, you can get it.”

"That's really good." Zhu Zhen asked the old lady to sit down and asked kindly: "When did you come to Yunnan?"

Yu Min quickly moved a chair for his mother and asked her to sit next to the prince. His mother then replied: "Go back to your lord, the old woman and her younger son came to join the eldest son two years ago."

"Are you still used to it?" Zhu Zhen asked again.

"Get used to it." Yu Min's mother nodded hurriedly and said, "I thought life here would be difficult, but I didn't expect it to be really good. I have a grandson in my arms, and a very filial daughter-in-law. What else are you not satisfied with?"

"Oh, that's it." Zhu Zhen deliberately asked Yu Min: "I think your wife is not Han? Did she marry a local?"

"Yes." Yu Min nodded and said, "In the first year of stationing in the camp, the superiors issued a death order, saying that unmarried people must get married before the autumn harvest. My boss told me about this marriage."

"I guess so." Zhu Zhen smiled and nodded: "How is your life with your Yimuhan husband?"

Yu Min scratched his head, thought for a moment and said, "There was a language barrier at first, and the couple had to make gestures and guesses, which was really inconvenient. But over time, they got used to it."

As he spoke, he looked at Nuo affectionately and said, "My wife is a good woman. In the past two years, I followed the Burmese Duke in the southern expedition to Ava, and later to Bago. She took care of everything in the house. She took care of the children. , serve my mother, farm so much land, and build a big tile-roofed house..."

Yu Min's eyes turned red when she said this, and she choked with sobs: "I'm so grateful to the boss for forcing me to do this. Otherwise, I would definitely not have found such a good woman."