Happy peasant girl

Chapter 152: Three Trips into the Deep Mountains (1)
He has an inseparable relationship with the Du family and the third prince, so he will inevitably part ways with his master Huai Shaozhi and other senior brothers in the battle for the position.

"You all have no choice but to be a teacher is willing! From the very beginning, I couldn't stay out of the matter of the royal family, but you are not! The wind and rain shouldn't have come so early, it's my fault, it's my fault!" So many years His prestige and power made him overestimate his own strength, and Huai Shaozhi suddenly felt powerless.

The vast state of Chu is located in the southeast of the Zhengji Continent. Since the beginning of historical records, this vast and abundant territory has been plagued by wars, and the change of dynasties is like a revolving lantern, until an ancient emperor appeared to end the war and let the people live in peace. .This wise and wise emperor through the ages is the founding emperor of Chu, and Emperor Kangze Chu Huai is his eighth great-great-great-grandson.

The kings of Chu State have always respected martial arts, but with the decline of agricultural productivity of the domestic people and the prosperity of neighboring countries, the officials of Chu State began to realize that force can not solve everything, but will bring disaster to Chu State .

Therefore, starting from Emperor Kangze’s grandfather Wenxian, the state of Chu began to change from advocating martial arts to advocating literature and emphasizing agriculture, and Kangze Emperor Chu Huai highly respected literature and valued farming as much as Emperor Wenxian. The key to why Huai Shaozhi, the literary commander in chief, became the prime minister of Chu State.

However, the three generations of emperors worked hard to encourage the people to farm and produce, and finally the treasury had enough food, but the three-year drought suddenly emptied the Chu State.

Huai Shaozhi understands that the land of Chu State does not produce food, but lacks talents to improve food production, so the appearance of Linqingxi, a small peasant girl, attracted his attention so much.

It's a pity that he was a little too hasty, and forgot that the appearance of Linqingxi was a great thing, but with the prince's fight for the crown, it was accompanied by unpredictable turbulent waves, and the danger was imminent!

Lin Qingxi, who is thousands of miles away, has not foreseen any danger that will be related to her. Now she is full of thoughts about what to plant and what to raise next year. She decides to calculate how much money she has before the year. family property.

"Jasmine, Hibiscus, have you counted all the things I asked you to count?" There are still five or six days before the Chinese New Year, and the family's New Year's goods are almost all bought, Linyuan Mountain and Ye's told Linqingxi not to worry about it. As for the family affairs, she only needs to take care of her own brook garden.

"Girl, the statistics are all done, let Sister Jasmine talk about it!" Mu Jin took out a small bound book, in which the property was clearly filled in according to the form that Lin Qingxi taught her two days ago.

"Girl, the land under your name now totals 330 acres, including 330 acres of purple soil, [-] acres of uncultivated wasteland, and [-] acres of fertile land, of which [-] acres are owned by the girl and grandpa. It’s for the girl, and it hasn’t been filed with the county government yet.” Jasmine also had a pamphlet in her hand, and although her form was different from Mu Jin’s, it used Arabic numerals, and there were only four maids and Linqing in Xiyuan. Xi can understand.

"How much silver do you have left?" Lin Qingxi had already handed over her own silver to Jasmine. After Mu knew about it, she wanted to give her the money she earned from selling embroidery, but she didn't want it.

"It's 860 taels in total, of which 800 taels are the silver of the girl's senior brother, and the remaining 68 taels are the girl's own silver." Linqingxi's silver is not difficult to calculate, most of them are It was 100 taels of silver bill, so Jasmine settled it soon.

"Don't touch the 1 taels for now. When spring plowing next year, the 3000 taels will be used first for the money from Brother Hua in the five farms, and the fields on the side of Xiyuan will first use the 36 taels. In addition, you and Hibiscus will seal [-] red envelopes. Some, others one tael of silver each, this is the first year you officially follow me, you must have this red envelope." The boss should not be too stingy, but he should not be too generous, and rewarding his subordinates should also be based on their own Linqingxi is also short of silver for her actual ability, so she thinks that one tael of silver for the New Year's red envelope is not a lot.

Neither Jasmine nor Mujin wanted this red envelope in their hearts, but they had to listen to Linqingxi's words. Anyway, when Linqingxi was short of money, they would definitely take it out.

"By the way, where are the roses and lily-of-the-valley?" After Lin Qingxi came to Xiyuan, he didn't find roses and lily-of-the-valley.

"Qiangwei took Narcissus and the others to the vegetable shed to cut some white sycamores and planned to eat them during the Chinese New Year. She was worried that it would snow again." The weather here in Yunzhou this winter was abnormal. When I was there, I heard that many people in Yunzhou further south had froze to death.

"Linglan went to the mountains to look for green grass. She is afraid that the two cows in the Xiyuan will be starved." In the winter, the entire Damei Mountain is bare. As if she had endless energy, others were too cold to go out, but she carried a basket on her back to find grass for the cows. Mu Jin was very worried about her.

"Hurry up and get her back, there is nothing in Damei Mountain now, and it's so cold, is she going to die!" Lin Qingxi was touched by Ling Lan's behavior, but she was even more angry.

"Yes, girl, Mu Jin will let someone find her back!" Mu Jin said.

"Go quickly, call Bai Hua and Bai Yang in by the way, Jasmine, go get busy first!" Lin Qingxi said to Jasmine.

"Yes, girl!" Jasmine and Mu Jin went out together, and called Bai Hua and Bai Yang into the room where Lin Qingxi was.

Lin Qingxi doesn't know many things about Chu State very well. Even though Linyuan Mountain and Linzhong State have traveled far, they haven't visited Chu State. She plans to ask Bai Hua and Bai Yang again.

"Baihua, Baiyang, you have all stayed in the capital, and you should know more than others. I would like to ask you, which part of Chu country has more livestock and poultry?" Linqingxi once asked Mu Jin and Lin Daan to go to the town There was also Fucheng who asked if there was anyone selling livestock and poultry, but he couldn't buy it, so he bought two cows, and it cost a lot of money.

"Returning to the girl, livestock and poultry in Chu State have always been rare. Usually, the chickens, ducks and fish sold in restaurants are basically wild. There are more pigs in the north of Chu State, but after three years of severe drought, the pigs raised There are also fewer pigs, because although pork is expensive, it is difficult to raise pigs. The common people will starve to death, let alone raise these things, and rich people raise livestock and poultry for their own food. I won’t sell it anymore.” Bai Yang grew up in the capital, and he has visited a lot of the streets and alleys of the capital, so he knows something about these things.

"Is there no one who turns wild ones into domesticated ones?" Lin Qingxi asked suspiciously.

"Girl, these wild animals are wild and very difficult to domesticate, and there are few people in Chu who know how to domesticate these wild animals, that is, the chickens, cows, pigs, sheep and other poultry and livestock that were domesticated in the past. A hundred years ago, some merchants in Chu State bought it from other places for money. However, some folks in Chu State raised fish, but the fish they raised were not as big as the wild fish in the river, and the taste was not as good as wild fish. "Bai Hua has eaten wild fish and human-raised fish, and knows the difference between the two.

(End of this chapter)