Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 937, good morals
In Liu Jian's memory, rural areas are synonymous with poverty. The houses are brick and tile houses, which are newly built, but most of the time they are dilapidated. When it rains heavily outside, it rains lightly inside.

The countryside is muddy and dirty. When it rains, the roads are so muddy that you don’t know where to go. In the countryside in my memory, the people are very poor, with tattered clothes, no food, no clothes, and skinny bones , without energy.

This is the countryside in Liu Jian's memory, and it is also the countryside in the memory of many people present.

Liu Jin looked at Nanshan Village in front of him, and his thoughts immediately returned to the time when he had just traveled to this era. At that time, Xiahetun in his hometown, a small village by the sea, was extremely poor, and everything was black and white. A hint of color.

However, in the countryside in front of him, Liu Jin actually saw some rural villages in later generations.

The neatly planned houses are uniformly built with reinforced concrete, and the exterior walls are painted white, which is very beautiful. There is also a concrete road leading to the outside world.

You must know that even in later generations, it was only after the country implemented the policy of connecting every village in the 21st century that the cement roads were built in every village.

However, now is the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, and it was only a few years of capitalist development and the development of the colonial era. It is incredible that the Ming Dynasty has already achieved such achievements, and even the countryside is so beautiful.

The convoy drove slowly towards Nanzhuang Village, and soon arrived at Nanzhuang Village.

At this time, on the road in Nanzhuang Village, there were many old people sweeping the snow, and the carefree children were playing and playing. When they saw a carriage approaching, they were not afraid, but all of them surrounded them curiously.

Everyone got out of the carriage one after another, looked at the village in front of them carefully, and couldn't help but nodded.

"The old man, how did he meet all the nobles~"

Seeing someone coming to Nanzhuang Village, the old people who were sweeping the snow stopped one after another, and then walked towards Emperor Hongzhi and others, saying respectfully.

Although Emperor Hongzhi and the others were wearing casual clothes, the carriage, the guards they carried, and the demeanor of the crowd all showed that they were not ordinary people.

"My surname is Zhu. I went out to enjoy the snow with some friends. I just passed by Guizhuang. It's freezing cold. I came here to ask for a cup of hot water."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said to the old man.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, if the nobleman can come, he will think highly of our Nanzhuang Village."

When He Lin heard this, he immediately nodded happily, and then said while leading the way: "Your Honor, please come with me, my house is at the head of this village."

"Salvage the old man~"

Emperor Hongzhi also bowed his hands in thanks.

"Don't bother, don't bother~"

"If the nobleman can come, our Nanzhuang Village will be full of splendor."

He Lin smiled and shook his head and said.

Soon, under the leadership of He Lin, everyone also entered Nanzhuang Village. He Lin's home is at the head of the village. As soon as he arrived at the house, he immediately shouted: "Old woman, a nobleman is here, hurry up and boil water and make tea." .”

At the same time, he also opened all the doors of the house, moved stools and tables graciously, and directly set up tables and chairs in the hall.

When Emperor Hongzhi and his party entered He Lin's home, they couldn't help but look carefully.

Inside the house, the walls are pink and white, the floor is covered with tiles, there are glass lamps around the walls, and in the middle are small ancestral halls dedicated to ancestors in every household. At the same time, there is also a longevity tablet for Emperor Hongzhi on it. .

"Master, look."

The sharp-eyed Li Dongyang was the first to notice this, and he quickly said to Emperor Hongzhi, who also looked over when he heard it.

"My lord, warm up the fire first, the tea is burning~"

Here, He Lin was busy. He brought the charcoal brazier again, and filled a fruit plate full of things in a fruit plate. He was very enthusiastic.

Liu Jin carefully looked at the fruit plate he brought over, and the fruit inside was actually very rich.

There are raisins from Turpan in the Western Regions, dried red dates and walnuts from Shaanxi and Shanxi, candied fruit from Jiangnan, and sugarcane from Nanyang. The sugarcane has been peeled and cut into small pieces.

There are also pine nuts from Liaodong, chestnuts from the south, pastries made from millet from Shanxi, mahua from Shandong, and sweet cakes from Henan; in addition, peanuts, melon seeds, and beans are also available.

"This kind of life is okay. How many fruits are brought out casually. Compared with ordinary families in later generations, this kind of living standard is not bad at all."

Liu Jin looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but sigh immediately.

"Old man, life in your family is very good."

Liu Jin said with a smile, and also unceremoniously picked up a few fruits and ate them.

"Haha, thanks to the blessing of today's emperor, we ordinary people live a good life."

He Lin also nodded with a smile when he heard Liu Jin's words.

"Mr., I see that the houses in your village are well built. It seems that the people in your village are all rich."

Liu Jin nodded slightly, smiled and continued to ask.

"I can't talk about getting rich, I can only say that my life is so-so."

"Our Nanzhuang Village is close to the capital, so the young people in this village have all gone to work in the capital, and the ones left behind are old men like me, with their children at home."

"In the past, everyone planted land for the landlord at home, but let's not talk about the hard work throughout the year, and even the food is not enough."

"The nobles may not know that a few years ago, we couldn't even find a decent house in Nanzhuang Village, all of them were dilapidated brick houses."

"In the past few years, everyone has gone to the city to work, and some young people have even gone to sea. Not only have they made money, but their lives are getting better and better."

"In the final analysis, today's Emperor Shengming is a real good emperor, and that's why we ordinary people have a good life."

He Linren is also very talkative, and he introduced the changes in Nanzhuang Village to everyone with a smile.

"Old man, these young people have all gone to work in the city. Isn't there no one to grow this land? What does the big guy eat?"

Emperor Hongzhi was in a pretty good mood, he had heard too many flattery, and he was as happy as eating honey when he heard the compliments from ordinary people.

"It's because no one farms the land anymore. People in our village don't farm land for the landlords anymore."

"Farming the land is not worth it, let alone half-dead from exhaustion, in the end, I can't even eat enough."

"But don't worry about eating and drinking. Food is very cheap. Now you can buy a catty of high-quality Northeast white noodles or Jiangnan rice for a few pennies."

"Coupled with the sweet potatoes and corn grown in my own little land at home, it doesn't cost me much to eat and drink a year."

"Because no one has planted land for the former landlord, this landlord also bought some kind of steam cultivator and planted them all with cotton."

"It's better in this world now. If in the past, everyone was scrambling to plant these fertile fields outside, how could they be willing to use them to grow cotton? If this land is all planted with cotton, I don't know how many people will starve to death." people."

"It's different now, just like the fruit in this fruit bowl, look, the raisins are from Turpan in the Western Region, and the dried red dates are from Shaanxi and Gansu."

"The millet pastry is from Shanxi, the sugar cane is from Fujian and Ryukyu, and the candied fruit is from the Jiangnan area."

"The noodles I eat at home are from Liaodong, and the rice is from Nanyang. It can be said that all the good things from all over the world have gathered in our Beijing-Tianjin area. The price is cheap and delicious."

"Even if you don't farm, you don't have to worry about starvation. It's really not possible. I also grow some sweet potatoes and corn at home, and it's enough to grow whatever you want."

He Lin also nodded with a smile, and when he talked, he was also eloquent.

"My lord, please have some tea~"

At this time, He Lin's wife also made tea and brought it up.

"Okay, thank you!"

Everyone thanked them.

"Now, food is very cheap, and people don't eat as much as they used to, and life is better now, and everyone's pursuit has changed."

"In the past, it was a luxury to be able to eat a full meal a day, but now, three meals a day are eaten openly, but they just can't eat much."

"These grandsons and granddaughters in my family are even more greedy. This meal is not meaty, so they refuse to eat. There is no way, so I have to go to the town to cut some for them almost every now and then. Meat to eat."

"Pork used to be very cheap. Sometimes you can buy a pound of good fat for seven or eight yuan, but now, everyone's life is better, and more people eat meat, and everyone can afford it." gone."

"The price of pork has also been rising year after year. Now a catty of pork costs more than ten yuan per catty. Even chicken, duck and geese have increased in price."

"In the past, you could buy two eggs for one penny, but now you can buy one egg for two pennies. In the past, you could buy a chicken for [-] or [-] pennies. Now you can't buy it without thirty pennies."

"Even the price of fish in the sea has increased. The price of marine fish that used to cost three or four yuan a catty has now increased to seven or eight yuan a catty. Some expensive ones even cost tens of pennies a catty."

"This world is changing too fast. It used to be enough to eat, but now you still have to eat meat. Can the price of this meat not increase?"

"However, the price increase is the price increase, and we ordinary people can still afford it to some extent. In the past, even if it was cheap, we couldn't eat a few meaty meals throughout the year."

"In the final analysis, today's son is holy, loves the people like sons, thinks about us little people all the time, introduces high-yield sweet potatoes and corn from Huangjinzhou, and constantly expands the territory, let us There is more land to grow more food, and that's what makes it a better day."

Speaking of this, He Lin also prayed to Emperor Hongzhi's longevity tablet.

(End of this chapter)