Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Jia Lian didn't believe that all these vigorous and energetic men could not make many people when they were nourished by good food and drink? "Jia Lian plans to let the retired soldiers of the guard station settle down in the next few years and take root in the sea.

From now on, when the descendants of these sturdy military households in Haijiang grow up, it can be said that the whole people are soldiers, farming in leisure time, joining the army in wartime, and ready to fight at any time.

When the Japanese pirates come again, they have to weigh it.

Jia Lian dealt with these corrupt officials, as well as the local tyrants and evil gentry, and took back 60 mu of land into the provincial public land.

These public lands are leased out, and the rent is [-] to [-]%, which is a net income.

Jia Lian looked at the income from this quelling of the civil uprising, and smiled. These are not good or bad things. Sitting on tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, you can't be satisfied, and you have to be greedy. Now it's comfortable to go to drink the northwest wind.

Jia Lian also had a personal windfall. Three of the fifty local tyrants and evil gentry owned maritime trading houses. After being nationalized, they were auctioned off by Lend Lease Trading House. The business of Lend Lease Trading House more than tripled.

The trading house expanded, and Jia Lian's annual payment increased from 15 silver to [-] snowflake silver.

Jia Lian finally understood the talk of Fujian-Zhejiang Sea Trade.It is no wonder that so many people risked their lives to take chestnuts from the fire.

In the twelfth lunar month of this year, Jia Lian gave Emperor Jiakang a tribute to Emperor Jiakang, and asked people to send charcoal gifts to the emperor and his brothers in the six ministries to Kyoto, but he himself began to visit those Shuji who frightened the states and counties one by one.

Jia Lian took the little leopard Lu Yingjun with him, saying he was his son, and Zhao'er Xing'er as a follower, a group of people rode on horseback and visited one by one.By the way, record the local customs.Jia Lian had another purpose in visiting prefectures and counties this time.

However, the food and clothing of the people in Fujian and Zhejiang have been solved. According to the information provided by Xiong Changhao, the Frangji people, the English people, and the Fusang people and Korean people, whether they are Orientals or Westerners, are all interested in Chinese silk tea.

Tea silk is just a product of the south.Jia Lian is going to visit people's conditions to see which places are suitable for vigorously mulberry and sericulture.Which places are suitable for planting tea gardens in large areas.

Of course, these must be done without affecting the base area.The fundamental policy of the Great Moon Dynasty based on agriculture cannot be changed.When the people have enough to eat is an important event.

Not to mention, the thirteen concubines are really not bragging.Everywhere Jia Lian went, he made new discoveries, and these discoveries coincided with those of the Shujishi.

In the end, Jia Lian selected three kinds of tea for key cultivation based on the suggestions of these auspicious scholars and his own verification of rubbing recipes.

The most famous tea in Zhejiang is Longjing tea, but unfortunately, Longjing tea has very strict requirements on the origin.

There is also a Dafo Longjing tea produced in Xinchang County. This kind of tea is highly fragrant and mellow, durable to brew, and has a typical high mountain tea.

There is also Kaihua County, the source of the Qiantang River, Kaihua Longding tea. The shape of this tea is straight and straight, silver and green, fresh and sweet, the soup is clear and green, and the fragrance is long-lasting.

Later, Jia Lian visited mulberry farmers in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and finally decided to focus on Huzhou for mulberry planting.Jia Lian looked at the [-]-year-old but high-spirited Shuji in front of him, feeling a little jealous.Jealous of him catching up with the good times, catching up with himself, a superior who is willing to support his juniors.

On this day, Jia Lian again supervised the yamen and received three accomplished concubines.

Jia Lian said: "Your name is Wang Yiming. You have a good idea, but Huzhou is suitable for the development of silkworms. If I appoint you as the prefect of Huzhou in the future, do you have the confidence to double or triple the silk production in Huzhou?" three times?"

Wang Yiming's cheeks were flushed with excitement, and he bowed and said, "Thank you teacher for your cultivation, the students will definitely not let the teacher down."

Jia Lian looked at the other two concubines who tried their best to persuade Jia Lian to develop a tea garden: "Your name is Xu Chen? Xu Chen, you are the head of the Qiantang County Government. Next year, I will appoint you as the magistrate of Qiantang County. It is said that there is only one authentic Longjing tea plant. As long as the mountains under your control become Longjing tea gardens, and then you buy them in France and England, I guarantee that the prefect will be yours in three years.

"Your name is Cui Fengju? Director of Xinchang County, you are the same. I appoint you as the county magistrate. Can you promote the Great Buddha Longjing tea as a famous tribute tea for the entire dynasty on the basis of ensuring that the people have enough food and clothing? If so, three Years later, the prefect of Shaoxing will be yours." Xu Chen and Cui Fengju also bowed together and gave a big gift; "Thank you for your cultivation, teacher, we will work hard!"

Jia Lian waved his hand: "I can recommend you, but you have to make political achievements that I can share with the court, you know?"

The three of them bowed together and answered: "Understood!"

Jia Lian raised his hand: "Sit down and talk, magistrate for three years and magistrate for three years, I hope you will go all the way, I hope you will go from the seventh rank to the first rank, one step at a time, don't be too ambitious. Thousands of mansions, sleep seven feet at night, Delicacy, nothing more than three meals, no matter how much money you bring, you don’t take it with you. When I say this, you should understand what I mean, right?”

The three of them bowed again and saluted: "Understood, my lord is telling us to learn from the eight prefects who resisted taxes in Haijiang!"

Jia Lian believed in moderation in his work. After he encouraged the three people he was optimistic about, the remaining ten people were not neglected, and they all gave high praise and encouragement.After all, these people will be released to serve as officials in other provinces in the future. Maybe they are not acclimatized to the waters and soils in the sea, and they will suddenly become clever when they go to other places.

After Wang Yiming, Xu Chen and Cui Fengju went back, they naturally went to the counties, villages and towns to investigate the details and prepare for the large-scale cultivation in March next year.

In order to support them, Jia Lian equipped each of them with a guard team of 20 people, first to ensure their safety, and second, to help them settle the ties between the local yamen and the local government.Lest they come to an end and no one can use them.

After inciting these auspicious people to scream and struggle, Jia Lian quietly returned to Jinling to worship his ancestors on the evening of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.After a meal, Jia Lian returned to Haijiang governor's yamen at night.

On New Year's Eve, not only the magistrate of the government office will come to pay Jia Lian a New Year's greeting, but the local people will also come to dance lions and dragons to thank Jia Lian, the biggest parent official, for his gift to them.

During the meeting on this day, Jia Lian not only received charcoal respect from the prefecture and county, but also received all kinds of strange gifts from the nearby people.

There are chickens and ducks with wings, pigs and sheep tied to their limbs, pumpkins beaten in basins, wax gourds the size of babies, and various dried fruits for eating.Jia Lian even received boiled eggs and duck eggs.There are also various vegetables.

Among the gifts Jia Lian received was a small bundle, inside of which was a kind of dark but sweet steamed bread.Get along very vigorously.

Jia Lian distributed it to all the officials who came to pay New Year's greetings. In the end, no one ate what it was.Jia Lian had no choice but to use his keen sense of smell to analyze carefully, and finally, he discovered the ingredients of this kind of nest: "This is sweet potato noodle nest!"

When Jia Lian shouted this sentence, he suddenly realized that he had found a way to store sweet potatoes.

At the same time, Jia Lian also had a new vision for the use of the remaining sweet potatoes in the province. Sweet potato nests are so sweet, can we use sweet potatoes to boil sugar?

Jia Lian quickly ordered his servants to go out to look for the people who just gave gifts. Jia Lian believed that these people must not have gone far.

Soon, the old man who gave the gift found a group of grandparents on Jinshi Yunwu Mountain.

Because the young and middle-aged people in their family died in the war, their grandparents and grandchildren were unwilling to go to the nursing home to sit and wait for death. They rented [-] acres of slope land from the government to plant sweet potatoes.

The old woman thought, wheat and millet will not rot if they are dried in the sun, so is sweet potato also ok?

So, he cut the sweet potato into slices, and it really can be preserved for a long time.

Dried sweet potatoes are too good to eat when they are cooked, and the taste of sweet potatoes is good, and his grandson is not willing to eat them.

The grandma thought of pounding sweet potato chips like glutinous rice into powder, and then making them into nests. This time, her grandson was happy to eat them.

Years ago, Jia Lian visited widowed and orphaned households and gave them rice, flour, cloth, five catties of pork and one catty of sugar.The old grandma didn't have anything to show her gratitude at home. Thinking that this kind of nest was created by her, the Governor probably hadn't tried it before, so he steamed ten nests and gave them to Jia Lian with eggs and duck eggs as a token of gratitude.

When Jia Lian heard what the old man said, he immediately clapped his hands and rejoiced: "Old lady, you have made meritorious service. Your method has helped the governor a lot. The governor wants to reward you. Tell me, what reward do you hope to get?"

The old lady was stunned, but drying the sweet potatoes actually made meritorious service. Don't be polite, and hurriedly waved her hands: "No, no, as long as the adults think it's useful."

Jia Lian said with a smile: "It's not going to work. If you have meritorious service, you should be rewarded. If you have done something wrong, you must be held accountable. This is the law of this government."

Xing'er knew that the old lady was afraid that she would not understand, so she explained softly: "Think about it, how many people grow sweet potatoes in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, and it's not just your family that has rotten sweet potatoes. You want to spread this method to benefit everyone. How many families, how many people will not be hungry anymore? So, you can rest assured and speak out your wishes boldly."

The old lady finally believed that Jia Lian really wanted to reward her, not a joke.

So he kowtowed to Jia Lian on the ground: "The old woman has a wish, that is, my grandson. I have no father or mother since I was a child. I can't earn a lot of money. I don't have money to send him to study. If you can let my grandson Free reading and literacy, my wife wakes up with a smile when she sleeps, and closes her eyes when she dies!"

Jia Lian said: "Okay, don't worry, the governor guarantees that your grandson will become a literate scholar in the future, please don't say die, wait and enjoy the blessings of your grandchildren!"