The ancient farming life of liberal arts scum

Xun Feiguang was injured, Shen Ge didn't want him to take care of Qing Lingwei's chores, for fear of tiring him.

Shao Xin was too busy alone, so Shen Ge went to battle in person.

When Shen Ge was released as an official, Xun Feiguang made a point of encouraging him. He is now the magistrate of Changzhou County, which is only a mountain away from Feiyu County.

Qing Lingwei is stationed in the outskirts of Feiyu County, which is closer to the county seat of Changzhou County. Shen Ge rides back and forth on horseback every day, and it doesn't take half an hour, which is very convenient.

Both Changzhou County and Feiyu County are poor counties with a population of only 10,000+. From the beginning of Changzhou County to the end of the county, there are six towns in one county and [-] small villages. There is not even a decent inn. In addition to being poor or poor, Feiyu County is also the same.

The county magistrates who will be sent here are all unsuccessful people. Peng Ruijin, the county magistrate of Feiyu County, is now in his forties and is still a seventh-rank sesame official. This evaluation can only get a middle or low evaluation.

These years of hard work have made Peng Ruijin put down his ambitions, and now he only wants to be a Taiping county magistrate, and he will live in this position until the end of his life.

Xun Feiguang is the Duke of Zhen, he can't afford to offend him, and Chen Ge, as the wife of Duke of Zhen, is a young champion at nineteen years old, and he can't afford to offend him either.With Xun Feiguang and Shen Ge here, he was very polite, and after visiting once, he would not come here any longer, thinking this was Shen Ge's territory.

Shen Ge was not polite to him, let alone shy away from anything. Every morning after going to the county government office to deal with some official business, he rode back to the camp, feeling very comfortable.

The former General Annan left his mansion. The mansion is large and quiet. Although there are no carved beams and painted buildings, good pools and beautiful pavilions, it is very worth living in.

The general's mansion can accommodate people, but the barracks outside cannot.

There are six rows of operating rooms, with 22 rooms in a row, adding up to 130 rooms.The house is a mud-brick house, dark and damp, there is always a smell inside, and moss grows on the walls. Every time Shen Ge goes for a walk, he feels that this house is not very successful.

There are 86 people in Lingwei in Qing Dynasty. Centurions and above have to live separately, and Dong Xiaowu's personal guards also have to live on the side.Even so, with more than 3000 people and only a hundred or so houses, it is really difficult to accommodate them.Therefore, each room is a Datong bunk, and several mats are piled up. More than 20 soldiers live in one room. They can barely live in it, but the conditions are really poor.

They are all young men, so they can live in such a short period of time in a hurry, but in the long run, no matter how loyal Qing Lingwei is, he should have some opinions.

A good man eight feet tall, he left his hometown all the way to work with them, and Shen Ge didn't want to wrong all the soldiers under his command.It is still autumn now, and most of the time the autumn is high and crisp, neither rain nor wind, so it is okay to live in this way, but after a while when winter comes, these dark mud brick houses with air leakage everywhere are not so easy to live in.

Therefore, Shen Ge had to prepare winter supplies for Qing Lingwei, and had to buy bricks to rebuild the barracks.

The quilts and other things for the winter are easy to deal with. Bai Liyi and the others want to come. Shen Ge has already written to them to bring cotton cotton cloth. stone etc.

Nanguan is poor, and there are not even a brick kiln in the surrounding towns and villages. If big families want bricks, they have to hire porters from other places to pick them up.

Shen Ge needs to use a lot of bricks. Of course, it is impossible to let porters go to other places to pick bricks. Regardless of the time it takes, Shen Ge can't afford the porter's labor.Qing Lingwei had thousands of people here, so he had to plan carefully and spend the money in his hands carefully.

There is no brick kiln in the local area, so Shen Ge wanted to find a craftsman to burn bricks.

Burning bricks is not a technical job. In Shenjia Village, everyone can talk about it, and Shen Ge has also heard it.He is a scholar, he doesn't have much contact with these things, and he knows that there are more than 3000 people in Qinglingwei, all of whom are young and strong soldiers, so he should have heard of it.

Shen Ge made a special round of questioning, trying to find out people who can burn bricks, but the result surprised him, out of more than 3000 people, as many as 13 people could burn bricks.

"Second Master, it's not too difficult to burn bricks, as long as you can find bricks and soil." The soldier who was brought up was a little embarrassed, "I'm afraid there is no soil around."

"Most of the surrounding mountains are made of yellow mud. I checked and found that most of them can be regarded as clay. Go and try that." Chen Ge pondered, "Zhu Dafu, you have the most experience here, and you have burned bricks before. I leave this to you."

"Here, 200 taels are considered expenses. If you have less than 50 people, you can arrange people as you like. You can find an earthen kiln and bring people to burn the bricks as soon as possible, so that you can change your barracks before winter. Don't worry about firewood. I will send people to chop."

Zhu Dafu promised, "I will fulfill my mission."

Shen Ge turned his head and asked Shaoxin to find three other honest centurions, "Lin Mingzhi, Zhang Anbang, Huang Chengping, you two lead your men to the mountain to cut firewood, don't cut firewood on the nearby hills, and don't cut bald one by one. , chopping interspersedly, try to cut off the branches, don't cut the trunk, pay attention to collecting the beams when cutting the trees, after a while, we will use them to build the barracks."

"Follow your orders!" The three of them responded, and went up the mountain to cut trees with their men and machetes.

Shao Xin came over, "What about the rest of the soldiers?"

"The rest of the people are farming. It's almost October now, and rice will definitely not be able to be planted, but first we must open up the wasteland, plant a crop of radish and mustard greens, and grow the vegetables we will eat this year." Shen Ge took out the map and used a charcoal pencil Xu Quan, "I asked local old farmers, these are all good land, we will open it first, and make plans next spring."

Feiyu County and Changzhou County have few people, so there is a lot of vacant land. The mountains are barren and not suitable for opening up wasteland. The large basin between the two mountains is rare fertile soil.No one lives nearby, and the farmers farther away think that it will be hard to open up wasteland here, so they don't want to come here, just to clear Lingwei cheaply.

When it comes to farming, Shao Xin is far inferior to Shen Ge, he replied, "Okay, I will arrange people to go."

"I borrowed a farm ox from someone, and someone will bring it over in the afternoon, maybe with a plow and other farm tools. People who are willing to leave someone to plow the fields, you can accept it. Be careful with the cattle, and don't hurt the people's farm cattle. .”

Shao Xin didn't expect Shen Ge to think about it, so he nodded happily, "Sure, I'll see for myself, there won't be anything wrong."

These days, it is difficult to open up wasteland, and there are cattle, which can save a lot of energy.

Chen Ge specially borrowed the cattle from Yazi in Changzhou County. He specifically said that the common people can bring the cattle over to the barracks by themselves, and they will give them fifteen copper coins a day.If you have a plow, you can exchange twenty copper plates a day.The people who brought the oxen were willing to help plow the land, ten copper coins per mu, and those who were fast could plow two to three mu a day.

Yazi introduced that one ox can get five copper coins, and one person can get seven coins per ox. It is also a very cost-effective deal.

The late rice will not be ripe until October. At this time, many strong farmers are able to leave their bodies and are willing to come to work with their oxen and plows. They can earn forty or fifty cash a day, and maybe even a tael of silver a month. , this is a rare opportunity.

Shen Ge told me that as long as you don't steal or play tricks, you will basically not refuse anyone who comes.

Few farmers were willing to come here at first. After a while, the reputation of this side spread, and many people knew that the food in the barracks was good and they earned a lot.

There are hundreds of acres of land waiting to be reclaimed on the Qinglingwei side. Since autumn and winter, the nearby farmers have earned a lot of money from Qinglingwei.

But now everything has just started, and Shen Ge didn't expect the grand occasion in the future.

Shen Ge was still reconciling accounts, Dong Xiaowu came in to report, "Master Baili is here."

Shen Ge was startled, he didn't expect Baili Yi to come sooner than he expected, "Please!"

Outside, Bailiyi came to clean up the dust, "Second Lord."

"Brother Baili, hurry up and drink some water." Shen Ge hurriedly stood up, asked him to sit down, brought him a cup of warm tea, and first spoke to comfort him, "Brother Xun is doing well now, don't worry too much."

Hearing what he said, Bai Liyi let go of the heart he had been holding on for a while, picked up the tea and drank most of it in one gulp, "Where is the master? Let me take a look."

Shen Ge walked out of the house to look at the sun hanging high, "It's probably in the martial arts arena at this time, I'll take you there."

Bai Liyi followed quickly, Xun Feiguang was the backbone of them, before he confirmed with his own eyes that Xun Feiguang was fine, his heart would never be at ease.

Shen Ge took Bai Liyi through the corridor to the Martial Arts Arena, before arriving at the place, a loud applause came to the ears of the two of them.

Shen Ge smiled helplessly at Bai Liyi, "I guess we are competing again."

For the past few days, Shen Ge didn't let Xun Feiguang go out to hunt. Xun Feiguang was so nervous that he tossed and tossed in the martial arts arena every day, setting up various competitions, and called it to see the current level of Qing Lingwei.

There are silver rewards for winning these competitions, and the soldiers under his command liked it very much. In just a few days, his energy was not normal, but the one who won the most was Xun Feiguang himself.

When Shen Ge and the others passed by, Xun Feiguang was shooting arrows with three or five soldiers.

Others shoot arrows at the target, at most they shoot on horseback, but they are better off. The live birds bought in the market said that at the beginning, the soldiers who put the birds around opened the cages, and as soon as the birds were scattered, a large flock flew out from the four corners of the hula. Birds, chirping birds chirping resounded through the school grounds.

Arrows were fired in unison, and the birds that just flew were like rain, half of them fell in an instant, and the rest desperately spread their wings and flew high.

The bird flew fast, and everyone chased after it on horseback while shooting arrows. Thanks to the good eyesight of the archers, they didn't lose it.

Shen Ge and Bai Liyi stopped to watch, and within a moment, there were no flying birds in the sky.

"A total of 320 birds were released, the master shot the most, with 47; Wang Qian, the second, with 42; Zhou Kangling, with 36..." A soldier counted loudly, "The last shot was a total of 360 birds."

Everyone laughed loudly, "There are more than 40 more of them!"

"Send the shot bird to the stove immediately, and fry it for dinner!"

Xun Feiguang's eyes were sharp, and he had already seen Shen Ge and Bai Liyi standing aside, and he rode over with a reserved and proud face, "I'll give you an extra meal tonight."

Shen Ge smiled and said, "Thank you Brother Xun."

"You're welcome." Xun Feiguang winked at Shen Ge and smiled, then turned his head to look at Bai Liyi carefully, "Well, Bai Liyi, I haven't seen you for so many years, but you haven't changed much."

Bai Liyi looked at Xun Feiguang who was riding a horse, with some worry in his eyes, "Master, why are you still riding and shooting at this time?"

"Why can't I be able to ride and shoot? I got a little bit of injury, and I'm not stupid. Besides, the injury has healed up to seven or eighty-eight, and the doctor said it's all right, so don't worry about it." Xun Feiguang didn't care, his peripheral vision I aimed at Shen Ge, afraid that Shen Ge would not let him ride and shoot after listening to Bai Liyi.

If he speaks publicly, although he doesn't think it's a problem, he still has to give him some face and stop riding horses.