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Chapter 1251: New Life

Compared with the troubles of the big shots, the happiness of ordinary soldiers and the people is real. This is the case with Huangnishan Village. This first village to resettle refugees has now become a well-known model village nearby.

With the end of the war, the repair work in the army was getting fewer and fewer, but other work was developing vigorously. The original wounded soldier, Murata, had returned to the Ming Dynasty and returned to his own home, and Wang Zunzhi took his place.

Wang Zunzhi was originally a Qin army officer. He was the one who managed the village, which was easier for the villagers to accept, and he also fully utilized his management skills.

There are more and more men in the village. Wang Zunzhi built brick factories and tiles in Huangnishan Mountain and fired bricks and tiles. Heinishan Village, not far from Huangnishan Village, has ready-made charcoal. If you only rely on chopping wood, then there is not enough manpower.

With bricks and tiles, Wang Zunzhi first began to renovate the houses in the village. The originally simple thatched houses have now been replaced with blue bricks and green tiles. Because they are public industries in the village, it is free to renovate the houses for the villagers. Everyone worked together to have enough food and clothing. In half a year, the whole village had a new look.

After the village was renovated, the bricks and tiles were sold to the outside world. The fleeing people had already begun to return to their homes. The originally deserted villages were regaining their vitality one after another, and their bricks and tiles were not worried about sales.

Heinishan Village, not far from them, has rich carbohydrate resources and life is very comfortable. A businessman from Xintong set up a beacon stove workshop in Heinishan Village, selling stoves on one end and selling beacon coal on the other end. The businessman was very smart. The initial batch of furnaces were given away, delivering stoves and buying beacon coal. This small method made his business soon become popular in this area.

There is one obvious advantage of this kind of stove, which is its convenience. When you don’t need it, close the damper and a coal ball can be piped for most of the day, and it will allow you to have hot water available during this period. Furthermore, this stove is much cleaner than burning firewood. The coal ash turned into after the coal balls are still in the shape of honeycombs. When they are packed together, they can be used to spread on the roads in the village. The drainage performance is excellent. Even if it rains, you don’t need to use one foot of water to get mud.

Many men work in this workshop. The blacksmiths who make stoves naturally have a lot of money. Even those who work hard, their daily income is quite high. Being a cellular media can earn a penny. A strong man is more diligent and does not have any problems a day. This is only one thousand yuan, and it is one or two taels of silver. After a month, thirty taels of silver are obtained.

Of course, this is just a theoretical income. Not every day can you start working. If you do this, you have to eat and eat. If it rains, there will be no venue to do it. But on average, it is more than ten taels of silver per month.

For the Qin people, this was a huge income. Many of them, after working hard for a year in the past, may not have enough money to get more than a dozen taels of silver when looking at their wallets at the end of the year, but now it is just a month's income.

And now it seems that this kind of furnace is as powerful as the Yongdu capital. Merchants have begun to promote it in the city. Once the furnace and coal balls are also started to be used in the city, their income will increase further.

After all, using this kind of coal ball and stove is not only more convenient, but also more affordable than buying firewood.

When the people in Heinishan Village have money, they naturally have to think about improving their living environment. Then the bricks and tiles burned in Huangnishan Village have a place to go. These days, Wang Zunzhi is bringing a group of people to build houses for the people in Heinishan Village.

The former military officer has now been transformed into a successful village chief, a successful businessman. He has over 1,000 people in the entire village, several brick workshops and several engineering teams for building houses.

Wang Zunzhi felt that he was much more fulfilling and happier now than before. Every day, he was extremely happy when he looked at the happy smiles of the villagers, their gradually rosy faces, and their slowly growing bodies. He was extremely happy. He only occasionally thought of his comrades who died on the battlefield, as well as those orphans and widows, and a faint sadness surged in his heart. A beautiful day has come, but the price for this day is really not small!

I hope this kind of life can continue.

The news that the Yongdu City was broken soon reached Huangnishan Village. The war had completely ended and everyone's heart was put back in their stomachs. Under the rule of the Ming people, they had been living for more than half a year. The improvement and changes in their lives were obvious. Although they were still missing those relatives and comrades who died under the Ming people, the living people always had to continue to live.

At least, they live much better now than they used to be. Wang Zunzhi is very smart. He knows the reason for all this in the village, so he has been taking various methods in the village to downplay the villagers' hatred for the Ming people.

Hatred is real. After all, almost everyone in this village has relatives and friends who die under the swords and guns of Ming people.

After all, Wang Zunzhi was once a professional soldier and was more open about such things. The two countries fought in wars and fought on the battlefield. Either you kill me or I killed you. Hate, what a luxury thing for them now!

Or the death of these people can bring their families a happy and healthy life, and they will rest in peace in the nine springs! Wang Zunzhi hopes that this peaceful life will continue, so he will never allow any remarks hating Mingren in the village. Once he discovers, he will expel such people from the village without mercy.

Time will fade everything. When the younger generation gradually grows up, they will forget that they were once a Qin person, and they will get used to being a wise person.

After arranging the things in the village these days, Wang Zunzhi was preparing to go back to the city. His family was still in Yongdu City! He left the city by himself, and then he never returned, or his family thought he was dead, so he thought bitterly. After he went back, he took his family to Huangnishan Village, reunite the family, and live happily together in the future. That was the happiest day.

After getting on the carriage from the village, Wang Zunzhi took two villagers and prepared to move to the city. He was originally a tooth general, and he was a little bit above the middle-level officer, so he naturally had some family belongings in the city.

As soon as the group walked out of the village, they saw several war horses galloping and stopped suddenly in front of them. Wang Zunzhi looked up and saw that the person who was leading the person was an acquaintance. Cheng Xiaoyu, the Ming cavalry officer who had sent prisoners of war to Huangnishan Village last time with him, was about to say hello, but suddenly saw Cheng Xiaoyu's legs and his face changed.

Cheng Xiaoyu only has one leg.

"Wang Cunzheng, don't recognize me?" Cheng Xiaoyu smiled heartily, pointed at Wang Zunzhi with a whip, and shouted: "You have a bad memory, right?"

Wang Zunzhi sighed in his heart, what a sunny boy this is. The elderly, weak, women and children in Huangnishan Village can survive, which has a lot to do with the person in front of him. If it weren't for this young man, those people would have probably died of starvation in the ice, and now they have turned into a pile of dead bones.

Such a good person also lost a leg in the war.

"Your legs?" Wang Zunzhi asked. Everyone was born as a soldier, so there was not much taboo.

"It's okay, I've done a war and lost one leg. It's good. I'm lucky. There's a whole 100-man team. In the end, there are only a dozen people who survived." Cheng Xiaoyu's smile was slightly lowered, but then it appeared: "It's a normal thing. It's a good thing to survive. Don't look at me with only one leg left, I can still compete with you for who can run faster on a horse. Of course, the war is probably not possible. General Ma said that he had hired a master to make a prosthetic leg for me so that I can still gallop across the battlefield. I feel a little hungry."

Wang Zunzhi forced a smile. "Brother Cheng, are you here to Huangnishan today to come to find me? Am I going to go to the city to pick up my family?"

"Of course I'm looking for you. I'm in Yongdu City, and I can't find it once I go in the south, south, west and north." Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Wangcun, don't laugh at me. I'm just a country bumpkin. The biggest city I have entered in my life is Hulao Pass. This Yongdu City is incomparable to Hulao Pass. So I can only come to you as a guide."

"Brother Cheng is going to the city too?" Wang Zunzhi said in surprise.

"Of course, you forgot, I must do what I promised Liu Kui." Cheng Xiaoyu said solemnly: "His wife and children live in Sanyuanli, and he told me in person, but I don't know where Sanyuanli is, and I don't know how to get there. After thinking about it, Wang Cunzheng and Liu Kui know each other, and they are from Old Yongdu. They think they are very clear, so they just come to you directly. Just so, since you are going to the city, I will go with you, which saves a lot of trouble."

He turned around and looked at the cavalry behind him and said, "Brothers, it's okay now, you can go back! I told you that there is no problem, but you are worried about following you. Finally one day, I will follow me and run around. Let's go back. When I have settled the person, I will come back to find you to have a drink."
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