webnovelvip Chapter 9 Problems That Must Be Solved
Chapter 9 Problems That Must Be Solved
At dawn, Qingyuan had arrived at a casting kiln in the east of Wu County.
In the past, it was used to cast and burn small pieces of metal to sell to the village, such as locks, cabinet hardware, scale iron, kitchen utensils, jewelry and other daily necessities.
Business was not as good as before, and the owner of the casting kiln decided to move his family south.At a very low price, he gave the cast kiln plate to a new widow Liu in the neighborhood.
Widow Liu is not actually a widow, but her husband thinks she is rough, so he found another in-law.
Although the two reconciled and separated, Widow Liu still bears her husband's surname, but calls herself a widow.
If she does not buy land or a house with the money she inherited from her natal family, she will face paying a large amount of food assistance tax because no one in the family can serve in the military or agricultural service, which is equivalent to donating money to the military to buy food.
Widow Liu has no children, so she bought the casting kiln, saying that she wanted to make arrowheads.
This is a bustling past year when there were so many merchants in the streets and alleys. Everyone would definitely talk about which horse market her arrowheads could be sold to, so as to help Wu County establish some good folk relations with Song Dynasty horse merchants.
But Wu County is empty now, so no one comes to join in the fun.
Standing outside the casting kiln, Qingyuan looked at the neatly planted laurel fence without a signboard, the ingeniously inlaid red brick road border beside the gravel road, and the laying hens outside the workshop with their heads bowed and pecking at the rice without fear of others. perturbed.
Qingyuan has never been a person who would be nervous.
The Seiko department recruited by Qingyuan are actually all from our own staff.Ah Qi, who grinds soybean juice, comes to the Seiko Department when he is not grinding beans; Brother Ping and Shan Ge also come to the Seiko Department when they don’t have to buy and move beans for the time being.Opposite the Lushu Garden is the Chen Family Tiezhuang. Chen Yuan led four long-term workers under him, plus Qing Yuan himself, there are only nine people in total.
Wuxian only found these nine people.
But Lu Jielin just said that at least ten people are needed. Could it be that he is seconded to Daming's county government?Impossible!
Lu Jielin clearly stated in the blueprint of the division of labor that one of the ten people must be able to use the mold opening technique to cast a thin and durable iron ring.
Chen Yuan's cast iron shop is good at buying cheap and selling expensive ores, blacksmithing, etching, recycling and remanufacturing, and I have never heard of him having mold making skills.
The tenth person, could it be that Lu Jielin had long been interested in this Widow Liu in front of him?
In the foundry shed was a thin figure from the back, wearing a leather one-piece apron, holding a long iron spoon steadily with a pair of particularly broad and powerful hands, smoothly pouring red-hot iron slurry into the bronze arrow cluster template.
She is experimenting, which one is more durable and more lethal, the arrow clusters made of iron or the arrow clusters made of template grouting.
Maybe Qingyuan didn't see the concentration in Widow Liu's eyes, maybe he didn't have the chance to touch the thick calluses on the knuckles of Widow Liu's hands.But Qingyuan saw Widow Liu's straight and stable shoulders, and saw her enduring arms.
He was thinking about how to persuade her to join the Seiko Department of Rushuyuan.
Qingyuan raised his breath, and took a step forward!
The three hens cooed, and in the foundry shed, Widow Liu half turned her head, put down the long spoon, sealed the mold, turned around and ran towards Qingyuan.A knife directly on his carotid artery!
Qingyuan buried two fingers under the knife in Widow Liu's hand, clamped it, turned it over, and led Widow Liu around twice on the stone floor, like a pas de deux.
Then, he blocked Widow Liu's kick, melted her palm, and avoided her kick.
Qingyuan stepped to his feet, rolled over Widow Liu's head, and untied the knot of the apron behind her with one hand.Before the apron fell, Qingyuan had already fallen behind Widow Liu, and at the same time tied the knot that was opened.
Both of them stopped moving, and Widow Liu was a little angry. Obviously, the victory and defeat had been decided.
"When you come to my territory, you bully me alone, what's the point?"
It was only then that Qingyuan saw that Widow Liu was a very young and beautiful woman, and the rumors in the market were groundless!
Seeing Qingyuan staring at her like this, Widow Liu suddenly covered her face with her hands, ran into the wooden house next to the casting kiln, and closed the doors, windows, and chicken holes!
Yes, the chickens of Widow Liu's house can come in and out of the main house at will.
Qingyuan is stupid!I didn't know what to do, so I had no choice but to approach the door, report my name, apologize sincerely, and quietly exit the casting kiln.
The next day, Widow Liu got up early and entered the foundry shed, and found a cup of pea soup on the work table.
Widow Liu has never seen this kind of ingredients and soup.
Looking around, I can't feel anyone.She knew that Qingyuan must have released it.People from Lushu Garden can actually be trusted.She has also deliberately shown mercy.
Widow Liu took a sip of the soup, scooped up pea stones, chewed them a few times, and felt that the bean flavor in her mouth was smooth and thick, as if the essence concentrated from ten cups of soy milk burst on the tip of her tongue.
The next day, before dawn, Widow Liu was already waiting in the foundry shed.
Qingyuan, who was greedy from dawn to dusk, had nowhere to hide, so he had no choice but to walk up to Widow Liu with the same bean soup.
"This soup, for me?"
Qing Yuan nodded, but did not speak.
"This flower is also for me?"
Qing Yuan wished to knock himself out!He nodded again, closed his eyes, and did not speak.
Widow Liu saw Qingyuan's aggrieved expression, smiled and said, "I have a name, call me Rongtao."
Qing Yuan succinctly told Rong Tao about Lu Jielin's idea of making bean stones as a new food.
"Do you think this bean stone can be used as a food storage for wartime?" Rong Tao asked.
Qingyuan nodded.
"Do you think that the imperial court will not mobilize the rice grain from the southeast counties to fill it up, but waste the army's salary with this time-consuming and firewood-cooked beans and stones?"
When Qing Yuan heard this, he was shocked!The frail little widow in front of her was not an ordinary person.He blurted out: "Then we need my elder sister to join us in Lushu Garden! Dasha, no, the head of the Lu headquarters led our group of peasant servants to find a solution to the shortage of soybeans in the Northwest. The farmers urgently need our help." This is so busy! I believe that Boss Lu will be very happy to listen to the advice of the eldest sister. This is how he treats us, in the past, now, and has always been like this!"
This is probably the longest sentence Qingyuan has ever said in his life.
Finally, Rong Tao smiled and said, "Go back and report to me! Headquarters Lu will come to me in person. Tell him, I'll wait for him."
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In the Lushu Garden, Lu Jielin was so busy that he never had a moment to rest.During the day, I had endless meetings with Chen Yuan, Tiezhuang, and Qingyuan, my own family, endless drawings, endless projects.
There are also many discussions, tests, and redoes with Wanxin and Gu Po.
Sister Yuemei came back, and Lu Jielin exchanged a lot of opinions on accounting with her.
When asked about the boy in the official station, Yuemei said: "The boy turned [-] a few days ago, and his body has grown a bit!"
It turned out that his name was Xiaotong, and it didn't seem to be any secret.
Lu Jielin wanted to ask more questions, but Yuemei said bluntly: "My old man is still the same. He is in good health and eats a lot. Fortunately, he doesn't care about me. I am happy to have my own life. I know what I mean when I say these things. It's inappropriate, but I really don't want the court to interfere with the safflower! My old man's safflower is used to save people, how can a good thing involve so many things! Just use this thing in a good place Can't you?"
"Sister Yuemei said that the imperial court is just afraid that someone will misuse it, and everything is still inconclusive."
"I just hope that everything will develop in a good direction. Those who want to study herbal medicine study herbal medicine, those who want to manage the station can manage the station, and those who want to play with flowers and plants can do it. Those who want to be free, like me, can be free, how wonderful!"
Lu Jielin couldn't help admiring the smiling eyebrows and bright disposition. It turned out that there lived a family of people who loved freedom and respected each other's lives in the deep valley of the North Mountain Pass.Thinking of this, he thought of a person.
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Going back to Xiaozhuxuan every night, Liu Cuishan would always talk to Lu Jielin about how to infiltrate into Song State, then into Xiao State, and then, how to travel freely in Xiao State!Are the craters there alive or dead?Is it dangerous?Then how to find a way to go home and so on.
He would talk until late at night, and even if Lu Jielin fell asleep, he would be shaken up to listen to him continue.
"You didn't go out again today?" Lu Jielin sat on the bed and asked Liu Cuishan who was wringing out the water with cotton cloth.
"What am I going out for? Sister Ren Wanxin brought me three meals!" She said while wiping Lu Jielin's forehead, face and hands.
"Why do you treat me like a child?"
"Practice first!"
"What?"
"It's nothing, it's just your hard work! Can't I please you? If I don't take good care of you, who will take me home!"
"..."
"By the way, did you go to see Daming today?"
"How do you know? I didn't tell anyone."
"Look at the soles of your shoes."
Lu Jielin looked up, but didn't understand.
"There's so much dust, what kind of street is that? There are so few people! If there are fewer people, there will be more dust. You must have gone out. Smell your mouth again."
Lu Jielin covered his mouth with his cuff and blew, now he understood.
"Did you eat tofu brains? Then you must go to Daming! He is willing to share with you, you must have said something to make him happy!"
"Then you, do you want to guess again, what exactly did I say to win this bite... It's actually half a bite of tofu brain?"
Lu Jielin sat upright with his sleeves straight, with one foot across the other.
That looks really romantic and suave, if you say that this person is a figure like a crown prince, Liu Cuishan really thinks that she can fall to the ground and become a minister immediately!
"Hey, I think... of course it's because of you, who brought up the problem of effectively solving the problem of poor harvests for farmers."
"Farmers who fail to harvest are the ones who are punished. Tax increases or heavy labor are all chosen by the top. How can it be our county government's turn to be strong?"
"This..." You bastard, Liu Cuishan thought to himself, if you want to test me, just say it, what kind of tricks are you playing!
"That, of course, is the farmers, and it becomes a problem that has to be solved."
"Then why did the problem of farmers have to be solved?" Lu Jielin folded his hands on his chest, looking like he needed to be beaten.
"..."
Liu Cuishan finally stopped folding clothes and beds, scrubbing and scrubbing, thought for a while, and said, "No way! They decided to rebel?"
"The officer is thinking too far, that's the next step."
"..."
"I don't know who said it. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, teach bean making and hand out safflower seeds to alleviate the poverty of the earth?"
"Listen, how beautiful this is, isn't it!"
Liu Cuishan thought about it secretly, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, and thought, it's terrible!It was never a good thing to speak out in a hurry that night.
What Lu Jielin said to the farmers earlier was that they could ask the imperial court to reserve the black-hearted safflower as a farming aid. In this way, the people still have the opportunity to plant it; sleepy scheme.
No wonder in the past, in the anti-drug team, every statement had to be written and documented, and it took a long time to put it into words;It seems that the ability to write essays since childhood is used to develop these bureaucrats, which is really unreasonable!
It is only now that I know how important it is to be cautious in speaking and rigorous in official documents.
Ruined!
Liu Cuishan swallowed deeply, and sat down next to Lu Jielin with a rare look of listlessness, her eyes lowered, and she was about to show embarrassment.
Lu Jielin immediately bullied him, and said softly, "Well, that's really good!"
Liu Cuishan looked up at Lu Jielin anxiously, and suddenly wanted to put her head on his shoulder.
Lu Jielin continued: "From the perspective of farmers, they must know how many safflower seeds can be distributed and how to distribute them. Is one acre of field for one long flower? Or one acre of field for one acre of flowers? These will affect The confidence of farmers in farming and the estimation of harvest. They need more detailed plans.”
Liu Cuishan listened quietly.
"But once farmers have flower seeds, they have the opportunity to harvest more flower seeds for use in the next year. If this cycle continues, the imperial court must acquiesce that farmers have the privilege of planting and harvesting black-hearted safflower."
"Then...then why did someone say that night that an old doctor Liu gave them black-hearted safflower seeds before, and they tried it too, knowing that it could help the land not fall fallow. How come they didn't keep any of the safflower seeds for continued use? ?” Liu Cuishan was puzzled.
"I asked Daming. That year, black-hearted safflowers were planted on the Longshang of the soybean fields in the northwest. The safflowers withered, and the soil on the side of the Longs was mixed into the soybean fields. After the winter, the soil quality changed. Not only did the bean sprouts grow easily, but also There are two harvests a year, and there are few pests."
"So good! Why not keep using it?"
"First, it's not easy to grow safflower in the Northwest, and the climate is unsuitable. Daming said that that year, thanks to the Northwest Town Defense Army dispatching a large number of manpower to irrigate in the morning and evening. Even so, the safflower did not grow tall. Second, because of you, you proposed The imperial court regulates black-hearted safflower."
"Me? Liu Cuishan?" You bastard!
"Since thinking in the direction of regulation, the imperial court does not want the private sector to have a large number of special cases for the production of black-hearted safflower, which will cause difficulties in future regulation. So after the harvest that year, the black-hearted safflower had not yet borne fruit, and the Northwest Army sent militiamen to the fields. , Pull out all the black-hearted red flowers, and mix the plants into the field to help the harvest in the coming year."
"It sounds like this has only happened in recent years?"
"Liu Cuishan proposed regulation that year, four years ago."
"You were only fifteen that year! What a cute boy!" Liu Cuishan said while gently pinching Lu Jielin's chin.
Lu Jielin stared at him: "Now, we already know that the safflower seeds were sent by Liu Tianren's father, Liu Qingchuan. The safflower seeds that Grandpa Liu donated to farmers in sixty grain bags should be the result of years of collection. With such a large number, we might as well conclude that your grandfather's knowledge of black-hearted safflower is actually far more than other medicines and fertilizers.
This place is actually not like the world you came from, opium poppy is used by drug lords, precision distillation, chemical extraction, to achieve a highly purified drug that can interfere with nerve tissue.The poppy poisoning of people here is not a real addiction, but a one-time overdose.I don't know exactly why it was poisoned.But they most likely have no concept of drugs, and they have never even heard of tobacco addiction. "
what world i come from!Is it not yours?Liu Cuishan felt that Lu Jielin seemed to deliberately use serious topics to avoid embarrassment, and he was very professional when he talked about modern drug production!At this time, Lu Jielin's face was red, was it because he talked too much?
Liu Cuishan suddenly had an urge to hug him, and slid his fingers across his cheeks, nose tip, eye sockets, earlobes, Adam's apple...
"Hey, are you listening to me?"
"...Yes! Yes, yes, these policies are too important!"
"..."
"Well...I mean, well, the farmer now...what did you say at the beginning?"
"In the name of Wu County's county government wanting to distribute black-hearted safflower seeds, soybean farmers in the Northwest have gathered together to petition our Wu County!"
"Isn't it agreed that on October [-]th, I will go to them to hold a lecture on agricultural production or something?"
"That's my wishful thinking."
"Very, very good, the harvest is over, nothing to do, come out for a walk!"
"That's good, but the Northwest Defense Force has already heard the news, and they are rushing to report to Fan Du."
"Military, military! Why?"
"Cultivation on the border is a kind of territorial policy, and farmers on the border are also under the control of military households, but the farmers don't know it."
"Ah! What the hell is this?"
"Song and horses moved eastward and occupied Zhou's bean fields. What should the farmers do? Horse merchants stationed in the western suburbs of the agricultural market, and the border garrison doesn't care? Once national defense is involved, it is a diplomatic issue, not a simple civil dispute."
"It sounds like... that farmer's petition..." Liu Cuishan thought, it's over, it's trouble!The town defense army has released water again and again.Song Ma occupied the bean field without saying a word, and the horse merchants stationed in the western suburbs did not move; this time, the farmers left in large numbers, and the military did not show their power. Even Song Guo will think they are cats!Knowing that the imperial court knew, wouldn't it be angry at the county government of Wu county? Wouldn't it be better to arrest the head of other road chiefs to pay for the crime?
Lu Jielin stared at Liu Cuishan and smiled, "This is really not bad news."
Liu Cuishan covered her mouth with fists, thinking, a large number of people leave their posts without authorization, just like a rebellion. In this age of underdeveloped information, the higher-ups always plan for the worst. Isn't that what TV dramas do?Wouldn't he act like this because he was so reasonable, sensational, and drastic to show the vision and methods of the superiors!
Lu Jielin reached between Liu Cuishan's hands covering his mouth, shook his chin, and said, "It's better to let them come."
"W-why?"
Lu Jielin slowly approached Liu Cuishan's eyes and said, "In this way, I will solve the problems of poor harvests in the Northwest, farmers abandoning their fields, and shortage of taxpayers in Wu County at once."
"What do you want to do?"
"Wait and see."
I don't know why, but listening to Lu Jielin's analysis of the situation here in a clear and logical manner, and his confidence in handling the crisis, Tan Zhong in Liu Cuishan's heart began to feel unhappy to the point of depression.
Zhang Xi clearly wants to stay here!Face and solve problems with the people here.He looks like he's having a good time!Does he not want to go home?He doesn't want to be Zhang Xi again?Doesn't he want to go back to the familiar world to struggle and manage his life?Why, it feels like Zhang Xi wants to stay here much more than he wants to go home!
Tan Zhong felt depressed, the image of Tan Zhong wearing the uniform of the anti-drug police in Qinghe City gradually withered in the darkness.
But now Liu Cuishan is a little bit happy.There is only a trace.At least he was right in choosing to join Lu Jielin in the end.
Lu Jielin is indeed a person who has ideas and is willing to take risks.
But why deliberately maintain antagonism before?Lu Jielin and Liu Cuishan are cousins, what is the relationship between them?
The delivery at the time of life and death can't be said to be bad, why did Lu Jielin say that he was not familiar with Liu Cuishan?Gu Po said that the two of them grew up together?
However, at this moment, is this person more than Lu Jielin?Or more Zhang Xi?
Tan Zhong suddenly understood a very simple thing, the one who was not familiar with Liu Cuishan was Zhang Xi.Zhang Xi understands this place through the role of Lu Jielin. Just because Lu Jielin knows someone well doesn't mean that Zhang Xi also feels familiar.
Thinking of Zhang Xi, Tan Zhong felt warm.No matter what the person in front of him wanted to do, as long as he was Zhang Xi, Tan Zhong felt that he could accept it.
This feeling is actually very strange. Although it is calm, it is not easy; although I want to laugh, I can't laugh.
It was late at night, and the two of them folded their clothes and spread them out on the bed.
Liu Cuishan slept on the inside, turning over to face the wall, not wanting to talk to Lu Jielin again.
He was actually awake all the time, thinking, why Zhang Xi is so sure that people here don't have the concept of drugs?Because he has mastered the memory of the character Lu Jielin?Even if it was, would the young Lu Jielin know so much?Know so much about folk customs?Or is he just guessing?Then when can I master Liu Cuishan?Where will Tan Zhong go by then?Then, did Tan Zhong gradually turn into a Liu Cui shirt?Or is Liu Cuishan gradually tanned?No matter what, starting tomorrow, we must keep an eye on Zhang Xi!Damn boy, why doesn't he want to go home...
Until Liu Cuishan fell asleep, he didn't know that Lu Jielin was still awake.