Rebirth of the little landlady

Chapter 379 Hold up a piece of sky for you (3)

Yuan Bao also laughed. In fact, Ni Yuze had told her about this when he came here.

Although "Yujiagang" has a large area and abundant production, the developed area is too small to be self-sufficient at all, so every year Ni Yuze's fleet has a fixed number of [-] largest ships. To deliver goods here, more than a dozen ships came with the fleet when it first set off, and then they didn't leave. The ships were loaded with enough food, cloth, medicine and daily necessities for Yujiagang for a year. , When the fleet returns to the voyage in more than ten months, it will stop again to bring the wood for shipbuilding and other imported goods needed, and then the original ships will also return to Ningnan Prefecture for rest and business .

Only this year is different. The dozen or so ships that were supposed to stay in Yujiagang did not stay long, and returned to Ningnan Prefecture to transport goods and people again. It has been transported five times, and after more than 20 days, the long-voyage fleet will also return. By then, both the goods stored in Yujiagang and the population will reach an unprecedented peak. The reason for this is, Even if Ni Yuze didn't say anything, Yuan Bao could guess that it had something to do with the situation in the court.

After arriving at Yujiagang, Yuan Bao carefully recalled some of Ni Yuze's behaviors since he met Ni Yuze, and many things he didn't understand about Ni Yuze in the past. After being so stimulated, he didn't feel sorry for Yinzi, nor did he feel that his dream would have no chance to come true. What he worried most was that Yujiagang's supplies would be cut off, so what would these people living in Yujiagang do? ?
Fortunately, Ni Yuze had been developing Yujiagang for two or three years at that time, and the climate here was very pleasant. After losing the supply of raw materials, the progress of building treasure ships once stopped. Craftsmen, so the big shopkeepers of Yujiagang at that time let these men go to open up wasteland and grow food, and then go fishing and hunting at sea, and finally survived the extremely difficult days. It is said that [-]% to [-]% of Yujiagang The stone houses and the entire city wall were built at that time, which can be said to be a different kind of harvest.

After Ni Yuze got involved in the business again, the first thing he did was to rent out his fleet, not entirely for making money, but for winning the right to go to sea with his fleet. As long as he can go to sea, he can give it to Yujiagang Shipping groceries.

Including giving the emperor a discount this time, distributing the right to go to sea, and levying sea tax according to the number and size of the ships. Under all the benefits, Ni Yuze's personal purpose is hidden-the fleet can communicate with Yu's family without restriction. Hong Kong is free to come and go, only in this way, Yujiagang can no longer worry about the future.

Also, why Ni Yuze had to ask the emperor for a place to build a dock and build a treasure ship was not because he was self-willed and tempered as a child, but because he needed food.

With the increase of living time in this era, Yuan Bao also realized a very important problem, which is the lack of food!
The land is sparsely populated, the production efficiency is low, and the national treasury is empty, so there is no spare money for water conservancy construction and disaster relief. However, if a natural disaster occurs, there will be no crops, and the people will not be able to live. This in turn will inhibit population growth and food production... This After taking over the throne today, after many years of reducing agricultural taxes and encouraging land reclamation and business, the effect achieved, by the way, and the support of the Ni and Yu family for many years, have reached the level seen by Yuanbao.

If he had traveled a few years earlier and was born in the first queen's period or in the first three years of his succession, Yuan Bao doubted whether he and the children of the Su family would starve to death under the same experience, but looking back Come to think of it, even Xiejiao Village when she first came was poor enough, but Xiejiao Village is still known as a relatively rich village.

In a word, the importance of food in this dynasty has definitely reached the level of controlling commodities and military supplies!On weekdays, if you buy and sell within the entire court, no one cares about you, but if you want to go overseas and sell it to other countries, it is definitely a serious crime of beheading, even the Yu family when the first emperor was alive!Not to mention the current Ni Yuze.

So Ni Yuze came up with the idea of ​​building a dock in a place. Although Yujiagang is isolated overseas, the people living on it are all from the dynasty. In addition, they have another identity, that is, the Yu family's slaves. Ni Yuze transported food. It is only natural to feed them. No matter who sees it, they will not be able to find out his faults. Besides, he still has an imperial decree, which is why no one has used this topic to attack him for so many years.

It took half an hour for the sedan chair to arrive at their destination. Yuan Bao looked up and saw three large characters "Island Lord's Mansion" written on the huge door. It was written by Ni Yuze himself.

"Why isn't it called Yu Mansion?" Yuan Bao was a little strange.

Ni Yuze laughed again, "Hahaha, the whole island belongs to the Yu family, who here is not from the Yu family, can it be that every house is called 'Yu Mansion'?"

Well, she is the Emperor of the Earth, and the Yu family's territory is everywhere here, and she is petty.

After the sedan chair entered the gate, it did not stop, but continued to walk inside. The house occupies a large area, but there are few houses. There is only a two-story stone and wood building, which is the same size as the Zeyuan main building that Ni Yuze built for Yuanbao. Similarly, there are not so many huts and wing rooms. It is estimated that there are only a dozen or so rooms, and the other is a bamboo building. Even if you add the area paved with stones in front of the two small buildings, there is no such thing as Ni Yuze. The one in the Duke's mansion looked lonely once he entered the courtyard.

Yuan Bao had discovered long ago that bamboo buildings accounted for half of the buildings in Yujiagang. On the one hand, this was related to the climate here, and on the other hand, due to the short growth cycle of bamboo, bamboo buildings were built quickly.

Through understanding, Yuan Bao discovered that this place should be the temperate monsoon humid climate that he learned in the textbooks in his previous life. The annual precipitation is abundant, the summer is hot, the winter is not cold, and there is no snow or ice at all. As long as the quilt and clothes are thick enough, There is no need for heating facilities. Many people are willing to live in ventilated and cool bamboo buildings for ten months. Only in the coldest season like now, or to store certain goods, do they build those time-consuming and laborious stone houses.

There was no such plant as bamboo in Yujiagang, it was planted by the people of Yujia after they brought it from their own homes, and when they first arrived in Yujiagang, it was wilderness everywhere, there were few animals, and the stone houses were solid and sturdy, no matter whether they lived or stored. Things are more at ease. Otherwise, there will be more bamboo buildings. I believe that in the future houses, the proportion of bamboo buildings will increase.

On both sides of the stone road, and behind the two buildings, there are patches of land on which neither food nor flowers are grown, but all vegetables, green and secluded, which is very eye-catching.

Yuan Bao knew that in Yujiagang, food was supplied by Ni Yuze, the salt was dried by others, meat could be fished and hunted, and the most lacking thing was vegetables. Although there were kelp and sea vegetables in the sea, they could not meet the demand at all.

"Even so, we should grow some food," Yuan Bao said, "What if what happened last time happens again? I feel secure in being self-sufficient."

Ni Yuze sighed, "No one will grow it, it will be fine when the treasure ship is built!"

If there is anything that Yujiagang lacks the most, it is actually people.

The men here have "regular jobs", either craftsmen or guards, not to mention craftsmen, the task of building treasure ships is heavy enough, and guards have too many uses: logging, quarrying, building houses, paving roads , repairing city walls, fishing, hunting... They have to be on duty on weekdays. They don't even have the time to build their own houses. The women are responsible for ensuring the food and clothing of these men. This is actually a kind of "regular job" that requires rotation Yes, I can only take care of the family and do some private work in my spare time, and I am very busy.

This dynasty has always been short of population. If Ningnan Mansion was not the most populous mansion in the whole dynasty, it would be impossible for Ni Yuze to get so many people here. People brought them here, and the housing on the island was very tight. If too many people came here at once, there would be no place to live, and there would not be so much food.

"When will the treasure ship be built?" Yuan Bao asked expectantly. Ni Yuze brought her here at this time, wouldn't it be to let her witness this great moment with his own eyes? !

Ni Yuze thought for a while, "Hurry up, if there are no accidents, it should be within half a year."

"Oh," Yuan Bao nodded, a little disappointed. She didn't want to wait here for so long, but she soon became happy again. It was an eye-opener for her to come here and see this. Besides, after the treasure ship was built, She would see it anyway, but only a little later.

Both of them live on the second floor of the stone house, which is the two rooms next door. The room is very small, only one-third the size of the inner room of Yuanbao County Lord's Mansion, and it is even more incomparable with Ni Yuze's giant inner room. Well, it is equivalent to about [-] square meters in modern times, but it is about the same size as the main house in the small courtyard of the Su family in Xiejiao Village.

The furnishings inside are simpler, with almost no decorative items and furnishings. The beds, chairs, tables, and cabinets are all available, and the tents and bedding are also good. They are definitely not worse than those at home, and they are all brand new.

Ni Yuze held Yuan Bao's hand, and said apologetically, "You have suffered because of your injustice!"

Yuan Bao finally found a chance to laugh at Ni Yuze, "What kind of suffering is this?" Before she met Ni Yuze, whether in modern times or here, her living conditions were never higher than this, "It's because you lived too extravagantly in the past, there is no need for it, okay? Good?! I prefer this kind of living conditions! Simple, comfortable, don’t have to think about those useless things! Don’t force your thoughts on me here!”

As a result, Ni Yuze burst into laughter again.

(End of this chapter)