To Rule in a Turbulent World

"What are you afraid of?" You Miao said lazily, "Come on, butler, let's have a good time."

Now You Miao is almost not worried that no one will rent his land. Once the water truck is built, there is no need to carry water to irrigate the land. Some people come to hug his thigh and beg him.It's okay to "roll" with Li Zhifeng at home all day long and wait for the money to be collected, so I rubbed and rubbed in Li Zhifeng's arms, wishing I could get into his heart.Li Zhifeng put his arms around him, You Miao groaned as they rubbed their ears together, Li Zhifeng said, "Go inside?"

You Miao stretched and was about to move, but Mu Yan came to report outside, saying, "Master, someone has come to visit the village."

It was a beautiful spring, and You Miao thought that it was not a coincidence, so he put on his belt and got up and went to the main room. The first person to come was the person from Biyu Villa, and said, "The young master sent me to give the young master a gift. thing."

It has been several days since I quarreled with my father last time. You Miao wanted to let him take it back, but thinking that maybe he might have money, so he accepted it. Li Zhifeng went to get a red envelope to reward him without waiting for orders.

There were still people waiting outside, You Miao took a look, and saw that there was a tea set inside, which was given to him by You Hange, and Zhang Jianer, with crooked handwriting, was nothing more than persuading him to calm down, not to be angry with his father, etc. , so he accepted it without saying a word, and asked: "Who else? Let's pass it in."

"Report to young master." Cheng Guangwu said outside the main room: "There are too many people here, we can't stand inside. Shall I let them in one by one?"

You Miao: "???"

Li Zhifeng said: "I'll go and have a look."

You Miao: "Let's go together."

You Miao got up, took Li Zhifeng out, was startled by the scene outside the door, and saw hundreds of people from the villa, all standing in the dark on the road at the door, dragging their children and daughters, pulling carts, some even drove Watching the mules and horses, as soon as Li Zhifeng and You Miao came out, people immediately surrounded them, talking non-stop.

"Silence for me!" You Miao said.

"What's going on here?" You Miao said, "I'll ask you."

He pulled someone along and said, "Just say what you say, and the others are not allowed to say anything."

"Young Master, we are fleeing—" the strong man said, "Everyone in Yangzhou says you have land here, take pity on us, give us some food."

You Miao was finally dumbfounded.

There was only one person in the family, and they were all talking, and the outside of Shen Garden became like a market. It took You Miao a lot of effort to sort out what they said. It turned out that these people were refugees who were withdrawn from the border. The mouths of land scattered into the Central Plains, and a group of people got advice and came to the south of the Yangtze River.

"Young Master You! You Young Master!" A captain rode forward, drove away the crowded people, held up a document and said, "My lord has a letter, please sign it yourself!"

Li Zhifeng stepped forward to receive the document, and You Miao opened it to read it. Inside was the handwritten letter approved by Zhao Chao himself, and finally understood the cause and effect. It turned out that 10 people fled to the Central Plains, and the outside of the capital was crowded with refugees who could not survive. When he saw this situation, he remembered that You Miao had mentioned in his letter that he could not find tenants for his villa, so he wrote the document with a stroke of a pen, and handed it over to one of them, and asked him to lead the group of people in a mighty way. Go down to Jiangnan.

Yangzhou has been a land of fish and rice since ancient times. It is not difficult for these people to find a piece of land to make a living. There is also a letter from the prefect of Yangzhou in it.As soon as the magistrate of Yangzhou saw Zhao Chao’s handwritten letter, he knew that the matter was serious, so he sent a general to take them to Jiangbo Mountain Villa, and asked You Miao to choose them by himself in the letter. Those who could be used would be used, and those who didn’t want to be used would still be sent back to Yangzhou. When labor.

You Miao looked at the dark people outside the door in a daze, and didn't know what to say for a while, they all dragged their children and children, the old mother was sitting on the cart, and there was a baby in swaddling.

This is just the vanguard of 700 households, there are more than 110 people in total, [-] five households. In the next few days, there will be an endless stream of people coming to the villa.

"Let's stay here." You Miao said, "Cheng Guangwu, Mu Yan and Mu Feng, you two can make arrangements, and if you have anything, ask Li Zhifeng. Hurry up and plant the land in the spring, and you can support them, so you don't have to go back to Yangzhou."

There was a burst of cheers from the refugee crowd.

The refugees were happy, but You Miao was out of luck. So many people flocked into the villa at once, and it cost a lot of food and shelter.Zhao Chao was really unconstrained, he sent so many people to him without even saying hello, and what was even more troublesome was that he didn't realize until they were all at the door!

There are many old, weak, sick and disabled inside, but there are also some young and middle-aged people, and some family members died on the road, wrapped in straw mats and dragged by carts.

The entire Shen Garden was extremely busy that day, so You Miao immediately sent Qiao Jue's servant to deliver a letter to Anlu, and asked Cheng Guangwu to discuss with the village head of Guozhuang to see if it was possible for people to live in the north and south villages temporarily. There are not so many houses in Jiangbo Villa!Several women came to the Shen Garden and cooked ten buckets of rice in the backyard, making it like helping refugees for a while.

Li Zhifeng even went out to buy with money. Everyone, including You Miao himself, was busy from the morning until the evening, and finally arranged a place for these refugees to live.

The old, the young, the sick, and the disabled live in the Shen Garden, and let those families take care of them, while the young and middle-aged live in the straw huts in Guozhuang and Anlu, and come here every day to get farm tools to work.During the spring outing, Miao will provide food and lodging for everyone. After the first harvest, everyone will have to build their own houses.

"In the first year, I took seven cents of the rent. After this year, it will be reduced to six cents for you." Sitting in the middle of the hall, You Miao said to the twelve household heads: "My young master supports you people, and everyone has to do the same." Be smart. I have the final say on what to plant in the field. The rice in the south of the Yangtze River is no better than that in the north, so let’s plant two crops in the first year to see how you can eat, and then think about the three crops in the next year, how about it?”

When You Miao said this, she was a little nervous. After all, growing food is not as good as growing tea. Five points is already a heavy draw, and seven points.But in the past three months, he has to bear the food problems of thousands of people. He built the water tanker, and he also owns the fields.

I thought that these people would say a few words, but unexpectedly, everyone nodded in unison.You Miao said again: "I will sell the farm tools here, and tomorrow we will go to enclose the land separately. Don't be too greedy. If there is a quarrel, don't fight. Find your own way."

The strong laborers kowtowed to You Miao one after another. You Miao shared tea with them as the landlords in the south of the Yangtze River did. After eating, these people went out to find work and plow the land. Sowable.

You Miao immediately left home again and went to Yangzhou to buy rice seeds. It was the beginning of spring, and the procurement department was crowded with farmers. Only You Miao, a landlord, came to buy rice seeds in person.