Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Jia Yun returned to Haijiang and reported to Jia Lian the whole story of Yixin in Kyoto. Jia Lian was very happy. This time, it can be said that most of the dignitaries and nobles were tied to his chariot.No matter how someone wants to make trouble, he will also weigh it.

Jia Yun also told about Qi Fu, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "My nephew is worried that this dog thief will not take advantage of it and make trouble."

Jia Lian said with a smile: "Don't worry, isn't the queen also has [-] silver? If Qi Fu wants to make trouble, first ask the queen if she agrees."

Jia Yun's expression turned pale.

Jia Lian raised her eyebrows: "What's the matter? I'm wrong, the money doesn't belong to the queen?"

Jia Yun nodded: "Of course the silver belongs to the queen, but the empress said it was a gift for Brother Bu."

Jia Lian immediately laughed when she heard the words: "Everyone has sent this queen here. I'm afraid we'll go back on our word and make a decision. Oh, poor parents all over the world!~"

Originally, Qi Fu wanted to find something for Jia Lian, so he asked a few censors to participate in Jia Lian's performance, saying that Jia Lian's public equipment was used for private use. The evidence is that there are more than [-] clan members and more than [-] foster sons in Jia's family who once participated in the Imperial Forest Army. , All followed Jia Lian to Haijiang and became Jia Lian's personal guards.

As a result, the censor he bribed laid maggots in front of the emperor, and was reported that his grandfather passed away, and he concealed it and did not report it.

Emperor Jiakang was furious, deposed him from his official position, deprived him of his Jinshi background, and sent him to northern Xinjiang for a year of hard labor.And scolded him in public for being inferior to pigs and dogs, and ordered the official department to record that he would never be hired!

Later, the imperial censor participated in the Qifu in the same year, and his family embezzled money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The copy of the participation was handed over to the cabinet, and after a collegial meeting, the cabinet decided to file a case for review.

The person who ransacked the house not only copied the ingots belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also copied several boxes of IOUs.

But it turned out that Qi Fu was actually related to Dai Quan's usury case. Later, when Dai Quan collapsed, he lay dormant for a period of time. Seeing that the government did not pursue him, he found out the hidden bills and pursued the debts from the creditors. Made a lot of black money.

Unexpectedly, he was not greedy enough, and wanted to get involved in the Fangsi of Haijiang City, but in the end, the queen turned his back on him, implicating the entire Qi family and being assigned.

Concubine De, one of the four concubines newly enshrined by Emperor Jiakang, came from the Qi family.

The concubine's natal family actually exploited them with high profits, intending to harm the officials of the frontier. Emperor Jiakang demoted Concubine Qi De to a criminal slave, and her newborn son was also taken to the empress's side to be raised.

Speaking of this concubine Qi, the queen personally chose to serve the emperor. It is only because she had a crooked mind after giving birth to the prince. The whole family secretly planned for a bright future, and regarded the queen and the queen's party Jia Lian as a serious problem.

Why do you have to wait until your son is older before making troubles? This kind of impatientness really makes people speechless, too self-sufficient.

Looking back, Jia Lian said that after the autumn harvest, all the hillsides and hills in Longquan, Hangzhou Prefecture, and Xinchang County, West Lake, were expropriated, or good fields were exchanged for slopes, and then these lands were recorded separately, and the official red deeds were registered in those who paid the money. under the name.

Jia Lian raised 20 silver and opened up [-] mu of tea gardens.

Of course, this is just an experiment, just the beginning. As long as the cultivation of tea gardens is successful, Jia Lian will expand the planting.

After the planning of the tea garden, Jia Lian began to hire old farmers who planted tea gardens in Fujian and Zhejiang to start raising seedlings.At the same time, dig pits and fill fertilizers in the tea gardens to be transplanted.

In the end, Jia Lian followed Xiong Shitou's suggestion and contracted the seedling cultivation and cultivation of the [-] mu tea garden to [-] experienced tea farmers. Jia Lian only needs to come to inspect the tea garden at the end of March.

However, these tea farmers also bargained with Jia Lian to attach a condition, they have the priority to enter the tea garden to work.

Jia Yun reported the ideas of these tea farmers to Jia Lian.

After careful consideration, Jia Lian agreed, but Jia Lian also had a condition, that is, these tea farmers must sign a ten-year death contract with the government.

During this period, the contract cannot be broken at will. Moreover, if you don't want to renew the contract after ten years, you have to wait for the government to find a replacement before you can leave.Otherwise, the government has the right to impose sanctions on those who break the contract.

It is impossible for him or Jia Yun or any official to plant tea, pick tea and make tea. These things always depend on these tea farmers.

These tea farmers feel that ten years is too long.

Jia Yun didn't ask Jia Lian for instructions this time, and categorically refused: "If you can't agree, you can't continue to cultivate the tea garden. If you climb another branch, I will invite others."

These people are still hesitating.

Jia Yun said: "I want you to sign a ten-year contract, just to ensure the normal operation of the tea garden. Otherwise, if you change jobs today and break the contract tomorrow, I, the magistrate, will stop doing other things and just guard you." These people Although he has been growing tea for decades, his heart is no match for Jia Yun, a scholar, so he agreed after summing up.

In fact, if these people persist, Jia Yun will agree to it for five years.Although tea farmers are easy to find, there are not many tea farmers who can grow tea and fry tea.

The tea garden reconstruction project started, and Jia Lian went to Huzhou non-stop. Heze is everywhere in Huzhou, and mulberry trees are drought-resistant. According to the mulberry farmers, Huzhou is not suitable for planting mulberry trees. However, the people in Huzhou insisted on creating the conditions for planting mulberry trees by themselves, forming ponds around Heze. , Planting mulberry in the pond embankment, raising fish in the pond, or planting mulberry on the edge of the paddy field, forming a planting mode of fish, rice and mulberry.

We cannot but admire the wisdom of the people.

Wang Yiming, who is the master bookkeeper in Ji'an County, has already done a lot of work.

He went deep into a household, encouraged those who were still hesitant to adopt this kind of combined planting, and signed a unified purchase and unified collection contract with the mulberry farmers on behalf of the county government, and agreed that even in a famine year, the purchase price must be added to the cost. [-]%.

This greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of Sannong for planting.

When Jia Lian and his party arrived in Huzhou, the magistrate heard the news. In Ji'an County where Wang Yiming is located, almost everyone started to widen the fields after the autumn harvest to plant mulberry trees, or to renovate Heze to prepare fish and mulberry.

However, when Jia Lian and his party arrived at the Anji county government office, they did not see Wang Yiming.

But it turned out that Wang Yiming was expelled by the idiot Wu Zhengyuan, the county magistrate, because he signed a disaster year protection contract with the people without authorization.

Jia Lian asked, "When did you leave?"

Wu Zhengyuan bowed: "It's still been two days. Now that the governor is here, the subordinates have something to say. This Wang Yiming is really lawless. He dared to sign a contract with those people without permission. What does he think of me as a superior?"

Jia Lian's face turned cold immediately: "According to you, he would be a good official if he had a vegetarian meal like you?"

Wu Zhengyuan didn't expect the kind governor to suddenly turn his face, and knelt down in fright: "This subordinate dare not!"

Jia Lian immediately dismissed Wu Zhengyuan from office: "I don't need you in Fujian and Zhejiang, you are a Taiping official who is just waiting to die. You should resign immediately and return to Beijing, and let the Ministry of Officials re-arrange your errands for you."

Wu Zhengyuan didn't dare to say the words of intercession, and walked away in desperation.

Jia Lian, the county magistrate, understood that although he was a little incompetent, he was not corrupt. This is why Jia Lian didn't drive him back to his hometown.

Jia Lian ordered his men to go after Wang Yiming. Jia Lian guessed that he would go to the beach to look for him, but Wang Yiming came back by himself before the people who were looking for him left. It turned out that he had gone to Sang Nong's house to help.

Jia Lian immediately appointed Wang Yiming as the county magistrate of Anji.Afterwards, what Jia Lian had to do was to expand Anji's model without limit to cover the entire Huzhou capital.The specific method is to order all the county magistrates under the jurisdiction of Huzhou to bring the local elders to Anji to learn scriptures.

Subsequently, a vigorous transformation project was launched in Huzhou.

The next step is a two-pronged approach. While sowing, mulberry branch cuttings are used to grow seedlings, and transplanting work must also be done, deep digging, and extensive fertilizer accumulation.

Jia Lian didn't understand these things at first, but after wandering around with Sang Nong for a few days, he also got a general idea.

For Jia Lian, he does not need to know how to plant mulberry trees, nor does he need to know how to raise silkworms and reel silk. He only needs to be responsible for formulating good farming and mulberry policies.

After the prefect of Huzhou fully understood Jia Lian's measures to vigorously develop mulberry tea, the prefect of Huzhou woke up.He ordered the master planners to draw all the barren mountains belonging to Huzhou. He decided to learn from Jia Yun and tricked some people to buy mountains and open up wasteland to plant mulberry trees.

As a result, his deputy, Master Tongzhi, broke the gong: "My lord, there are very few mountains in our Huzhou Prefecture, and this salt tea is in the hands of the imperial court, so we can't decide on our own. My lord, please listen to the next sentence, and you support that one." Wang Yiming, let him flop, isn't Anji County's political achievements the adults' political achievements?"

The prefect of Huzhou waved his hand to Tingzhu: "You don't know, this Wang Yiming is not simple. He is a distant relative of that Wang Ziteng of the Wang family, and he is also a scholar from the Imperial Academy. He has a bright future!"

Tongzhi guessed, "Your Excellency, Wang Yiming will threaten you?"

Xiang Tingzhu nodded: "Where did the prefect of Hangzhou go? What happened to the county magistrate of Anji?"

Tongzhi thought about it for a moment, and was terrified: "You mean, the governor is nepotism, and he will get rid of you and let Wang Yiming be promoted?"

Xiang Tingzhu shook his head: "It's hard to be cronyistic. Both Jia Yun and Wang Yiming are capable people. You don't know that Jia Yun got the emperor's approval and claimed that he is the future Prince Teng. Tell me, I haven't used my brain yet. Isn't there only one way to be kicked out?"

It is said that Xiang Tingzhu is very smart. He not only strongly supports Wang Yiming, but also actively urges other states and counties to go around like a spinning top.In the coming year, the mulberry trees in Huzhou Prefecture will be ten times higher than in previous years.Silkworm cocoons have also increased seven or eight times compared to previous years, and the amount of silk reeling has naturally increased.

This year, Husi in Huzhou Prefecture has become the first in the total output of Fujian and Zhejiang regions.This is a model magistrate, it doesn't make sense to replace him!

Jia Lian really can't touch him anymore.

Jia Lian thought, since Xiang Tingzhu is willing to follow him, then keep him.With a swipe of the pen, Xiang Tingzhu was given an honor, and then Wang Yiming was given an honor.The magistrate of Jiaxing was withdrawn for a very good reason. Jiaxing is next door to Huzhou, and the geographical environment is similar. Jiaxing’s tax is seven or eight times lower than other people’s.

A word of incompetence knocked him out.

Jia Lian used the same method to make Xu Chen the prefect of Shaoxing, but Cui Fengju had some difficulties. Qiantang belonged to Hangzhou, and Jia Yun was the prefect of Hangzhou.

Cui Fengju had some new ideas about tea planting. Jia Lian couldn't bear to give up on him, so he secretly recruited Xiong Shitou: "Well, you are a local, and the governor doesn't trust what other people say. Tell me, which mansion in Zhejiang Province is still the same?" Can a brand of famous tea be developed?"

Xiong Shishitou looked at Jia Lian suspiciously: "Didn't your lord have already developed the Longjing series of products, and the tea garden has tens of thousands of acres. Is this not enough for trade?"

Jia Lian smiled: "Don't worry about it, just tell me, as far as you know, what kind of tea from Fujian and Zhejiang can be made bigger?" Xiong Shitou frowned for a while and said, "Anji white tea!"

Jia Lian waved his hand: "Anji can't do it, this place is too small, it's better to be a mansion!"

Xiong Shitou scratched his head and said for a long time, "There is a kind of tea in Wuyi County, which is no less than Longjing tea."

Wuyi County belongs to Jinshui Prefecture.

This place has beautiful mountains and clear waters, and it is not surprising that good tea can be produced from good mountains and rivers.

Jia Lian has visited many places, including Wuyi County.

As for the tea, Jia Lian didn't pay much attention to it.

"How does this tea taste?"

Xiong Shitou said: "Wuyi tea is shaped like drizzle, with a light green color and a sweet taste. When the tea mist evaporates, it has the fragrance of orchids."