Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

"It's fine, I'm resting on the bed now, but..." Gerrit glanced at Laya, and Laya continued, "But his mental state is very bad. My lord, I hope you can persuade him. "

"He is recuperating well, why did he fall?"

"Probably he was trying to stand up by himself." Laya's tone was not without sadness, and this sentence fell into Hewen's ears, which was even more painful, "From my experience in taking care of these patients, this There may be more things like this in the future. We have to send someone to watch him at all times."

"He won't, is there no other way?"

Laya shook her head, and Gerrit said, "The forest witch can't do anything."

The smiling ranger will not be willing to be a useless person, Hai Wen thought to himself.But going on like this is not an option, Smiley Cat resists everything, he only believes in himself. "Forget it, I'll go and see him first."

Laya said, "I'll go with you." Gerrit nodded and said, "I'll go too." Then the other people in the house followed him.Hai Wen took everyone to the ward of Lord Cat upstairs, and saw the butler standing at the door.

"My lord, you are here." The butler saluted him.

Hai Wen asked, "How is Master Cat?"

"Don't let people in." The butler sighed helplessly, "As soon as he entered, he would swear and throw things. He was very tempered after drinking."

Haiwen narrowed his eyes and asked, "Why did you give him back the wine?"

The housekeeper said with an aggrieved face: "Oh, my lord! The conscience of heaven and earth! He took it himself! He took the wine by himself when we were not paying attention..."

"Stop!" Hai Wen said, "Are you saying that the smiling face cat can walk?"

The butler nodded and said, "I guess it's okay to walk a dozen steps. The wine was brought from the room next to him. No one was by his side during this time. He definitely got it by his own strength."

"That's a good thing, it seems he's recovering well." Haiwen smiled.But at this time Laya interrupted and said: "No, my lord, now is his critical recovery period, and everything must be done step by step. I dare say that he used too much force today, and it will take a long time for him to walk next time. I told him After that, such eagerness for success will cause negative effects, and even leave him with difficult to heal sequelae, but he won't listen to it."

Zhe Lite also nodded and said: "Smiley Cat has always believed that he can recover easily. He told me several times that his injury is nothing serious, saying that he had suffered more serious injuries before. But we all know his How serious the problem is, my lord, you have to persuade him."

Haiwen looked at the door in front of him, but didn't know whether he should go in or not—maybe it's better to let Master Cat stay by himself?In other words, what can I say when I go in?He can't listen to anything.

At this moment, he felt someone pulling the hem of his clothes.As soon as he lowered his head, he saw Mirsalu looking up at him with her neck up.

"What happened to the smiling face cat?" His daughter asked with a worried expression.

"He..." Haiwen pondered, not knowing what to say.At this time, Violet suddenly came up and said to Mirsalu: "Master Spike is losing his temper, he refuses to listen to the doctor, Mir, can you persuade him?"

"Yes!" Mirsalu smiled immediately, "Smiley Cat and I are the best! I even shaved his beard!" After saying this, she opened the door and ran away, "Smiley Cat, I'll come La!"

The moment Mirza opened the door, Haven noticed the expression of the smiling cat.The guy was startled and angry, and he picked up the wine bottle in his hand and was about to smash it, but when he saw it was Xiao Mier, he put down the bottle immediately, and then showed a kind and fatherly smile on his face.Haiwen was watching from the door, and Mirsalu walked over, pointing at the smiling cat like a stern teacher and saying, "Smiling cat! I've heard about it!"

Master Cat rolled his eyes and said, "What have you heard?"

"I heard that you don't listen to the doctor, you are playing your temper!" Xiao Mier reprimanded Smiley Cat like an adult, "How can you not listen to the doctor? My father said that you should listen to the doctor when you are sick. Otherwise, the illness will not be cured!"

Master Cat looked at the people outside, smacked his mouth, then tilted his head, glanced at the empty wine bottle and said, "I know my own body."

Mirsalu asked him, "Are you a doctor?"

"no."

"Then what do you know? You should listen to the doctor!"

Seeing this scene, some people outside laughed out loud, Master Mao also had a look of helplessness on his face, he frowned and said: "Little ancestor, don't worry about me, come back and ask your father to buy you some Candy!"

"I'm going to take care of it!" Mirsalu said in a child's loud voice.

"You can't control it!"

"I'm going to take care of it! I'm going to take care of it! I'm going to take care of it!"

So the Laughing Ranger and Mirsalu began to quarrel like children.If both of them were adults, Smiley Cat might be able to swear and slam the bottle, but how could he do it to such a little girl who was less than ten years old?After arguing like this for a while, the smiling cat suddenly sighed and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Mirsalu was also panting heavily from exhaustion. She put her hips on her hips and said loudly, "You have to listen to me from now on!"

"Okay, okay, I will listen to you in the future!"

"You are a ranger, do you mean what you say?"

The smiling cat turned his face sideways and said, "Of course it means what it says!"

"Okay, what you say is true!" She pointed her pinky finger at the smiling cat, "Pull the hook!"

The expression on Master Mao’s face was as embarrassing as if he forgot to put on his pants when he went out. He first stretched out his hand, and then shouted at the blushing crowd outside: “Look at your mother—” His face froze, as if Feeling the innocent gaze of the little girl, he swallowed the swear words back.

"What's there to see! Go! Go!"

Haiwen closed the door with a smirk on his face, and then came the excited voice of Xiao Mier from the room: "Pull the hook, hang yourself, 100 years, no change!" Hearing this, the people outside finally couldn't help laughing.After a while, Mirsalu pushed the door out and gave Hai Wen a thumbs up, "We have an appointment!" She said proudly, "If he doesn't obey me, call me here, he has to listen to me!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Haiwen picked up his daughter and kissed her cheek lightly.

Chapter 110 Two: Tobacco and overturned cars

Chapter 110 Two: Tobacco and overturned cars

Seeing that Master Cat is fine here, everyone dispersed.Later Laya told him: "I really didn't expect it to be like this. It seems that there are some things that only children can do."

Hai Wen was very tired after a busy day outside, so he asked someone to boil the bath water to take a good rest.In winter, there is hot water in the house all the time, so it didn't take long for Haiwen to soak in the hot water basin.After washing, it was past nine o'clock, and he returned to the room.At this moment, Estherite was already waiting for him on the bed.

On the first morning, I went to work as usual and went to work.This morning King Kong also followed the training. He followed behind "Master Fassnut" and stretched his ligaments after training, hoping to be able to perform such difficult movements as the split horse.Haiwen thinks this is unlikely, at least not in a short time, King Kong is a tough guy as the name suggests—a particularly tough kind.Let him do the splits, even if it doesn't mean breaking his tendons.

But King Kong is clearly full of determination.

After the exercise, it was time to go to work. After a busy morning, he almost got things done, so Haiwen went to the tavern to have a small drink.While drinking, he organized his thoughts and remembered one thing.

In the afternoon, he planned to deal with the matter of the old cigarette bag.

A few days ago, he went to Songlin Town to the north to look for a carpenter, but he met such a merchant from the Western Regions.This man smokes pipes and eats bug feasts, he is considered a strange person.He felt that Mustang Town had a future, so he dragged his family to follow Haiwen, and Haiwen absolutely believed that this person would be useful to him.For example, tobacco.

So he went to visit the residence of the old pipe.After moving here, Lao Yandai has been living in the hotel behind him. He doesn’t know what he’s doing these days. Logically speaking, he dragged his family here to do business. He didn’t come here on vacation. He is a shrewd businessman. , should be restless.So when Haiwen went to look for him, this guy was busy asking his buddy to move the goods. When Haiwen went to ask, he learned that he was going to open a grocery store.

"The poor people in Yema Town have money, so of course they have to buy furniture, pots and pans and so on. This is a good deal." Old Yandai said.

At this moment, Old Yandai has replaced his previous "green hat and red coat", and he is dressed like an ordinary uncle from the Gulf.Haven asked him, "How can you be sure that people in Mustang Town must be rich?"

"I did some research, my lord, thanks to you, people in Mustang Town will become richer and richer in at least the next two years."

He said "two years".Haven thought to himself, did he know about my two-year appointment with the baron?

"It's hard to say, the weather is unpredictable, if it catches up with the disaster year, even I can't help it." Hai Wen was telling the truth, he was worried about this.He and the baron agreed to increase the tax revenue by [-]% next year, and the tax revenue will mainly depend on grain production, and all the harvest will be grain—but he has no idea after all.The crops in the wild horse field are not what he remembered in his previous life. The rice is "mud rice" and "black rice", and the wheat is also "broken wheat". These things are similar to the crops in his memory, but they are different after all.So he didn't know if his method would work. If it didn't work, not only would he not be able to protect himself, but he would also harm the entire Mustang Land.

The old cigarette waved his hand and said, "Hey! What are you doing without risk? Anyway, my pots and pans will not deteriorate, so let's sell them in another place!" After saying this, he lit a bag of cigarettes and said, "My lord, you didn't come to me to buy a pot, did you?" He said, knocking on a frying pan next to him, making a loud bang.

Haiwen then went straight to the point and said, "There is no tobacco in the Gulf, where do you get the cigarettes you smoke?"

"Brought from the Western Regions."

"Have you been smoking for so long? Have you ever tried to grow your own tobacco?"

The old cigarette laughed and said, "My lord, I know what your plan is! You want to sell cigarettes, right?"

"Exactly, we cooperate and share the money."

"My lord! My lord, your eyes are very poisonous. This tobacco is indeed profitable, and I know it too, but..." His face became serious.

Haven added, "But you'd rather sell pots and pans than tobacco—why?"

"Because I can't grow it!" Old Tobacco smiled wryly. "My original plan was to sell tobacco in the Gulf. I came with seeds and wanted to buy land to build a tobacco garden. At that time, I thought that this deal would definitely It can be done. But I didn’t expect that this kind of seed would not be able to grow in another piece of land.”

Haiwen felt a chill in his heart, "Can't it grow at all?"

"It's not at all." The old cigarette took another puff, "If it's true, where did the cigarettes I smoke come from? My lord, let me tell you, there is a piece of my garden in Pine Forest Town, then The tobacco grown inside." He made a sign of ten with his hand, "One-tenth of the survival rate, and the quality of the survivors is not good. How can this be sold? Don't sell it! Grow some to enjoy yourself!" He said. There was a wry smile.

Haiwen asked, "What is good and what is bad about tobacco in the Western Regions?"

"After flowering, the brighter the color, the better the quality, and the darker it is, the worse the quality is. The ones I planted are even blacker than charcoal! This shitty cigarette is a fart!" After saying this, he took another puff of the pipe angrily.

It seems that this guy is really addicted to smoking, Hai Wen thought as he looked at the lingering green smoke.

"Give me some seeds." Haiwen demanded, "I'll try it."

The boss knocked down the cigarette pouch, looked Haiwen up and down with his eyes, and said immediately: "That's not impossible, I will give you the seeds for free, but my lord, if it really happens, you can't forget me."

"You make an offer."

"My lord is indeed a happy person." The boss smiled and lit another bag of cigarettes, "I don't want more, let's pay [-]% first."

"[-]%..." Hai Wen pondered.

"Oh, I mean [-]% first, and I will share [-]% of the money you get in the tobacco business." He spread his hands towards Haiwen, with a bright smile that is typical of a businessman, "It's not too much, is it?"

Thirty percent doesn't sound too much, but it's quite a lot for big business.Haiwen thought for a while and said, "It's still too much, I think it's half done."

So the two began to bargain harmoniously, and after about half an hour, the price was finalized at 8% of the profit.Afterwards, the boss gave Haiwen the seeds and told him how to cultivate them.So Haven left with the seeds, and he planned to hand over the job to the forest witch. If Gellite could grow tobacco, he would definitely make a fortune.

After the talk, he walked home, and as soon as he got closer, he saw the little hammer hovering anxiously at his door.He stopped Little Hammer and asked him what he wanted.When Little Hammer saw him coming, his expression brightened immediately, and he said loudly, "My lord! The first overturned cart has been built, would you like to come and see it?"

This is a good thing in pairs!Hai Wen hurriedly shouted: "Okay! Take me there!"

Chapter 110 Three: On the right track

Chapter 110 Three: On the right track

Before it was dark, he and Little Hammer hurriedly set off. He asked someone to bring the horse over, and the two rode away.After a while, the two left the town and came to the nearest countryside.It turned out that Little Hammer had already installed the first overturner. Although the pipeline had not been planned yet, this thing was already operational.

That was the keel rollover in Haiwen's memory. It was about eight meters long, and a bucket was hung on the keel chain belt. As long as someone stepped on the pedal, water would be continuously transported from the river to the high mountain on the field.In this way, the water can be led to high places. As long as these things are done before planting, the irrigation problem in Mustang Town will be solved.

Little Hammer sat on the overturned cart, stepped on the pedal, and said, "Look, my lord!" He kicked it hard, and after such a push, he heard a harsh creaking sound from the wooden overturned cart, and then turned.Just watch buckets of water being brought up from the stream and poured on the nearest field.

Haven applauded loudly.

In addition to Hai Wen applauding, there were a few old farmers beside them. These people didn't understand the use of this thing at first, and whispered to each other, each with expressions of suspicion or disdain.Now seeing that this thing is really useful, they all cried out immediately. A young farmer ran over and said to Haiwen, "My lord, this thing is too powerful. My field is also very thirsty, and I want to use this too!"

Haiwen said to him: "There will be more in the future! I want to get the whole Mustang Town!" Hearing this, the people cheered again, and several people had already gone to the village to inform the folks.After a while, dozens of spectators came. Haiwen asked Little Hammer to perform for everyone. Everyone was amazed and applauded again and again.

After that, Haiwen gave the little hammer a death order: "In one winter, you can do as much as you can. At least fifty overturned trucks are needed in the north of Mustang Land. You must not be able to do it yourself, but the carpenters in Mustang Town will listen to you." You order it, and when I come back, I will go to other towns to hire more people to help you, in short, this thing must be produced. With it, we can guarantee the harvest in drought and flood!"

Little Hammer nodded quickly, assuring Haiwen that he would fulfill his mission.

It is now the end of December, and it will be New Year's Day soon.Although it's not New Year's Day here, there will also be New Year's sacrifices.Farmers gather in the temple to worship the gods and pray for a good harvest next year.After this festival comes severe winter, and the winter in the Bayland is the coldest from December to January.Generally speaking, this period of time is the days of slack farming. The wives and children are hot on the kang. Those who have a little money drink and play cards to eat food reserves. Those who have little money have to borrow money to borrow food. die or starve.In Haiwen's memory, many poor people always died during this time.

He has to race against time to fulfill the agreement with the baron to "double the tax".

What about little Charles?Haiwen suddenly thought, although this guy ran away, he wouldn't let it go, would he?It is difficult to double production, but very easy to disrupt production.Haven realized that he had to be on guard against Charles Jr.'s people making trouble at all times.

Haven made a list after going back.This list, which records various matters related to the production of Mustang Town, is his memo:

① The rollover must be installed in place to solve the water supply problem in the north (in progress)

② Rice pests are serious in the south, and solutions are sought (not carried out)

③Purchase and manufacture farm tools and increase cattle (in progress, Charles has already gone to the business)

④ Regularly inspect the peasant association, appoint new cadres, let the peasant association operate, and carry out agricultural work such as plowing, composting, and firewood (in progress)

⑤ Beware of enemy infiltration (not carried out)

⑥ Popularize education and disseminate knowledge (in progress)

⑦Health and safety prevention and control, establishment of public hospitals (in progress)

Seven of them, none of which were completed.He sighed, it seemed that there was still a lot to do.If this continues, I don't know if the food problem next year will be solved.

The next day, he visited the peasant association and gave a pep talk.

The farmer's association is divided into three parts, one is the central manor based on Master Wayne's old house; the other is in the north, which is the manor of his brother Gelumon, and the last one is in the south, the manor of Gustin.Now the three manors are controlled by the clerks of the Yizheng Hall. Two or three people control a farm. These clerks only convey Haiwen's orders and have no real power.Due to the lack of leadership, the efficiency of peasant associations is very low.One of the things Haiwen will do today is to choose a person in charge for each of the three major manors.He intends to use the committee system without electing a chairman, so that the three major estates can coordinate and balance each other.

But Haiwen has no one available.This time he had to pick some newcomers for the job.

First of all, the manor in the north, which he planned to hand over to Gelumeng, but after the incident that leaked the secret before, he had some doubts about his younger brother.Even though he and Dreyer had analyzed the matter and felt that the leaker was not his brother, Haven was still worried—even if it wasn't Ge Lumeng who leaked the secret, it might be someone close to Ge Lumeng.

Finally, after performance screening and the recommendation of Little Ramon, he locked on a person.

The man's name was Steve, and Haiwen knew him.This person is about thirty years old, with a sick daughter, he was in the old Ramon's school before, and his grades were very good; Haven once lent him money to see a doctor for his daughter, and once assessed his grades. Generally speaking, this person is not very smart, but he is quite honest.

In the end, he asked Steve to serve as a member of the farmer's association of the northern manor, but the northern farmer's association was the smallest and had the least power, and was subject to the constraints of the central manor.

He knew the chairman of the central part, and he planned to let the old Garcia and the young Ramon be the same.Old Garcia is a shrewd accountant, and he is old enough to convince the public; while little Ramon is good at managing people and is also clever in doing things. Although he is young, his ability is not weak.

The best thing to do in the south is to let Master Gustin do it.Although Gustin is also a landowner, he used to be generous to others, so the farmers loved him very much.And Gustin knows about farming, so he should be able to do it well.

It took Haiwen three days to travel all over the three manors and arrange all kinds of things.After returning, he rested for a day, and then went to the mountains in the east.Police Captain Jon and his men were still there, supervising the laborers chopping wood.It was hard work, and Jon had been out for over a week, and it was time for him to rest.Haiwen asked the cook to prepare food and drinks, put them in the carriage, and then went to the east mountain to comfort these soldiers.

At noon that day, he had a good drink with the police team, and then Haiwen went to count the firewood cut by the laborers these days - it was as high as two hills, which should be enough for winter.

Standing on the mountain, he looked at the busy Mustang Town below, and couldn't help but nodded.

Well, everything is on track.