To Rule in a Turbulent World

For five or six days in a row, You Miao wore coarse clothes and mingled with the tenants. Every meal was eaten by the family. The farmers built straw huts by the side of the field. They say hello.

Harvesting rice once, the whole body is covered with scars. During the dog days, the whole body is sweaty, the arms are cut with red marks, and the neck is bitten by insects. Shed a layer of skin.

Finally all the land in the villa was harvested, and the farmers started threshing, dragging their cattle and mules to crush the husks on the threshing ground to get the husks out of the rice, and the rice was sent to be milled after it came out.

For the first harvest, the whole villa was like a grand festival. A hydraulic mill was built next to the canal, saving even the mules. The mill built by Miao.

From the moment the rice seedlings were planted, You Miao kept asking how many catties he could harvest. He asked for more than three months, and everyone wanted to die. You Miao breathed a sigh of relief when the rice bag was moved to the large scale in front of the villa.

"140 four catties per mu of land!

Well done! "

You Miao said loudly:

"Your family has harvested the most early rice this year!"

All the people around were in an uproar, staring enviously at the strong man, and the strong man sighed:

"It's not easy, young master, working from dawn to dusk.

There are old and young in the family. "

"The yield per mu is more than one hundred and two catties."

With a swipe of his pen, You Miao said to the tenants:

"I only charge you four cents."

The tenants cheered and cheered. You Miao never mentioned this before, but now that he said it, several families were happy and others were sad, so the poor got poorer and the rich got richer. You Miao closed the book and said with a smile :

"Don't be lazy, cheer up, there is still a crop of late rice, and the grain has been put into the warehouse. I am thinking about it myself, so I can go back and build a house."

Bags of rice went into the granary. That night, You Miao closed the door of the granary. In total, 220 acres of land, and a total of 4 catties of grain were harvested. The [-] catties were returned in advance by the tenants.

Still gratefully sent to You Miao's home, sold all the rice, and got nearly 400 taels of silver.

It's not easy.

But before it was time to sell the rice, You Miao stored the grain first.

"That puts me at ease."

You Miao laughed.

"You are poor and afraid."

Qiao Jue said:

"Actually, this person should also be poor. People who have never been poor live as if something is missing."

On a midsummer night, with the sound of insects chirping, You Miao and Qiao Jue were sitting in the yard under the big tree to enjoy the cool air. You Miao was really poor and afraid. Thinking of the year at the beginning of the year, one copper plate would be broken into two. Feeding thousands of people, no matter what, he doesn't want to do this kind of life again.

Fortunately, the most difficult beginning has already passed, and the peanuts will be harvested in a few days, and Shenyuan has suddenly become a big oil extraction field.

Hundreds of acres of peanut fields can be sold for 100 taels of silver no matter what.

You Miao's calculations were clattering, and finally he had some money. He wanted to save all the food he grew at home, and he couldn't sell it for a little money anyway, and the output of the rapeseed and peanut fields was enough to supply Shen Yuan. year's expenses.

Thinking of the time when I used to squander silver taels in the capital, the silver was always counted as ten taels or twenty.

The farmers in the entire villa worked so hard to plant the land for a year and sold all the grain, which was not enough for him to spend a month. You Miao couldn't help but feel emotional.

Li Zhifeng came in from the outside, holding a letter and standing under the lantern to read, the red lantern light illuminated his handsome profile.

"Who's letter let me see?"

You Miao said:

"Has anyone written to you yet?"

Li Zhifeng said:

"yours."

So she handed over the opened letter paper, and You Miao took it casually, thinking that what Li Zhifeng could notice was probably related to Quan Rong, and it should be Zhao Chao's letter.

In the whole world, only You Miao here has no rules. The housekeeper is allowed to open the letter at will. After looking at it, it is indeed written by Zhao Chao.

The third prince fought with the army, so he naturally had a few staff members by his side, and Nie Dan was the leader. You Miao could guess all of these. Of course, Zhao Chao would not wait for them to mention the battle situation that Li Zhifeng analyzed a few months ago. The letter from You Miao still helped him a lot.

The letter still talks about the war situation first. In the summer, Huyanmaer Mountain suffered heavy rains, and the army of the Tianqi Dynasty had fallen into the quagmire of the battle, unable to advance or retreat. Can't help expressing the depression of no one in the court.

Now the imperial court is mobilizing the annual salaries of the states in the south of the Yangtze River in advance to support the army in the northern part of the country, and it is not yet known when the salaries will arrive.

In the end, Zhao Chao talked about the imperial examination in a rather long paragraph—this year's rural examination is coming soon, so You Miao must devote himself to studying for the examination, so that he can find out the news when he enters the capital in the future.

The letter was supposed to be sent to Jiangnan in April, and it was delayed for a while on the way, and the imperial examination was brought forward this year. If these trifles were not counted, Zhao Chao's letter came just in time, but You Miao did not wait for his reminder, and had already gone to the provincial examination At the beginning, I still held the heart of being idle, but now I think about it seriously, a man is born in this world, he really has to do a good job, he can't just stay at home all the time.

A few days later, the Jiangcheng Mansion released the rankings. You Miao got up in the morning and yawned, sat in the hall wearily, and said to Li Zhifeng:

"Go and see the list today."

"Ah."

Li Zhifeng served the porridge, wiped his hands, and You Miao said:

"By the way, let's see if my cheap brother has won the exam."

Qiao Jue was still asleep in the backyard. The two of them were eating when someone came outside.

"Oh, congratulations, young master!"

A woman clutched her handkerchief, got out of the car at the gate of Shen Yuan and ran in, shouting:

"congratulations!

Congratulations, master nephew! "

Cheng Guangwu just woke up outside, and when he saw this man's unruly behavior, he got angry and shouted:

"How could there be so much yelling, you broke into Shen Yuanli too!

get out! "

The woman just urged repeatedly outside:

"Master nephew!

The second master asked me to come over to congratulate you!

You are the winner! "

You Miao glanced out, and Li Zhifeng looked at each other, both of them were a little dumbfounded, Li Zhifeng put down his chopsticks and wanted to go out, You Miao said again:

"This is just right, you don't need to go to Jiangcheng Mansion."

Li Zhifeng said:

"I'll go and get a red envelope to reward her."

You Miao groaned, feeling a little smug in her heart, she was indeed selected, let's see what the old man has to say.

Just as Li Zhifeng went to get the money, the woman shouted outside again:

"Young master nephew, I know Yuan!

This is our first time at Qiao's Youjia! "

When You Miao heard this, she immediately knocked over the bowl, and shouted like a dream:

"what?

What did you say! "