Chapter 95: The beauty of pastoral scenery

During the days when Huang Laifu returned to Wuzhai Fort, he defeated the 500 horse thieves with 200 people, and spread it quickly to the surrounding area. Many people were shocked after hearing this.

Some military fort generals who were close to Huang Laifu sent congratulatory envoys, such as Huang Laifu's elder brother-in-law Xu Xueshi, Huang Laifu's adoptive father Liu Jingchun, and Kelan Prefecture and others, all sent people to congratulate Huang Laifu. Some people who were jealous of Huang Laifu and had malicious intentions towards him were complicated when they heard about this.

Of course, after this great victory, the Wuzhai Fort also ushered in a craze for joining the army. Huang Laifu had already spoken, beheading one level and rewarded 40 taels of silver. Everyone who participated in the war this time was rewarded. This treatment was much better than farming work. Therefore, during these days, young and middle-aged people continued to come outside the Wuzhai Fort barracks and wanted to sign up for the Wuzhai Fort army.

However, Huang Laifu has regulations that the selection of sergeants should be given priority to select from the various farms and villages. Moreover, this selection is very strict, and not everyone can be selected by the way. He has truly achieved one in a hundred.

Many people nowadays sigh: "The military households elsewhere fled, and only the Wuzhai Fort army wanted to make progress but could not."

However, although the news of Wuzhai Fort defeating the Ma thief spread, Huang Laifu and Eunuch Ma also wrote a document to report the victory, but the confirmation and reward of the Ministry of War will not be available for a short time. Huang Laifu and others are waiting with peace of mind.

July 25, 1591.

Shanxi Zhenning Wu Pass, the general's mansion.

In the hall, General Liu Ming'an's favorite concubine Liu was crying again, begging the master to make decisions for her. She had already been confirmed that her second and third brothers were both killed in the battle with the officers and soldiers of Wuzhai Fort. Why didn't she cry?

Liu Mingan walked back and forth in the hall, but his heart felt different and he was thinking about something else.

"The combat power of these Wuzhai Fort army is so powerful?"

Regarding the horse thieves of Liu Shaoan, who was in the group of horses in Lilan Mountain, Liu Mingan certainly knew the origin of these people. This group of people was extremely vicious and had always been in Ningwu Pass and Jingle area, and was a group of murderers who could not blink.

The officers and soldiers in his hands had symbolically encircled and suppressed several times under the pressure of the local area, but each time they were beaten to pieces with their superior forces. Unexpectedly, these people were defeated by just two hundred households in Wuzhai Fort and wiped out the entire army at Shenchi Fort. When did this Wuzhai Fort become so strong?

General Liu thought in a daze.

August 2, 1591.

Huang Laifu and his group of people patrol all over Wuzhai Fort.

At present, Wuzhai Fort presents a charming pastoral scenery. Surrounding the Qinglian River and the central area of ​​Wuzhai Fort, there are patches of fields and farms planted with various crops. Next to the foot of Qinglian Mountain, there are patches of vegetable fields and orchards. In Qinglian Mountain, there are also panicles and livestock circles for raising livestock.

Looking from the sky, the farms were filled with crowds of people as busy as ants, and the fields were filled with endless waves of golden wheat ears, which made people pleasing to the eye and extremely beautiful. Compared to last year, these wheat ears were fuller and more beautiful in color. I believe this year is another bumper harvest year.

According to Huang Laifu and others, among the 10 old farms in Wuzhaibao, the grain yield per mu can reach as much as three stones per mu. Even the new 20 farms can also reach two stones per mu. In this way, after a bumper harvest in autumn, the grain yield of Wuzhaibao this year will be a sensation in the Ming Dynasty.

These crops grow so well that they are inseparable from the use of various fertilizers in various farms in Wuzhaibao. Among these fertilizers are traditional human and animal manure, stinky mud and deciduous forage, cake residue produced by various workshops in Wuzhaibao, and newly developed soil nitrogen fertilizer and phosphorus fertilizer.

With the use of a large amount of fertilizer, effective insecticide, and large-scale good irrigation and water conservancy, even if the year is not good, the crops in Wuzhaibao are still growing very well, which is in sharp contrast with the agricultural depression in the surrounding areas. This has also attracted countless people from other places to visit Wuzhaibao. In the farthest places, some officials from Henan even came to Wuzhaibao to learn from the scriptures.

At present, Wuzhaibao has opened several workshops, specializing in the production of various field fertilizers, as well as pesticides and pesticides made of lime and sulfur. In addition to meeting the needs of Wuzhaibao, it is also very popular in various places. Many landlords, farmers, and officials from other provinces and counties have come to buy them one after another.

Fertilizers and pesticides have become another powerful tool for exporting agricultural products in addition to water trucks in Wuzhaibao.

Of course, the changes brought by Wuzhai Fort to other places are not only the same. Last year, after the vigorous promotion of various water trucks in Wuzhai Fort, after the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Industry, there were also major landlords and some self-cultivated people in some northern prefectures. They gritted their teeth and used some water trucks in Wuzhai Fort, which somewhat increased grain production and reduced the scale of refugees going out from all over the country. This also made the reputation of Wuzhai Fort and Huang Laifu spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.

The fields surrounding the banks of the Qinglian River and the central area of ​​Wuzhaibao, the endless golden wheat ears are pleasing to the eye, but the emerald green area near the foot of Qinglian Mountain, Wuzhaibao's vegetable garden and the orchard also make people feel happy when they see it.

In the Wuzhaibao vegetable garden, the vegetable fields surrounded by fences are full of all kinds of vegetables. Gardeners with sleeves and trousers are carrying water and watering vegetables, busy. Under their pressing, the Huang Laifu hand press well flowed out "huh" and watered the vegetable fields.

There are some thatched cottages built around the large vegetable garden along the mountain pond. In addition to some of these thatched cottages are resting places for gardeners in the vegetable garden, some of them are also built by some literati with elegance.

Wuzhaibao has developed to the present, and it is not necessarily the surrounding households and merchants, but also some literary people have also been attracted here. Now the various farms and workshops of Wuzhaibao are developing very fast, and they need a large number of people like accounting rooms. These positions require literate people, and the treatment is good, which naturally has a great attraction to some of the surrounding ruined literary people.

The turning point was at the beginning of the fifth year of this year. With the increasing popularity of Wuzhaibao, some literati come to Wuzhaibao from time to time every month. Especially in mid-August this year, Wuzhaibao University Hall was to be opened on a small hill not far from the big vegetable garden, which attracted many literati to come and apply for jobs.

After these literati had enough, their sourness also came up and they wanted to pursue some spiritual enjoyment. The pastoral scenery, singing the wind and the moon, are naturally their favorite mood.

In the Wuzhaibao vegetable garden area, it is an ideal place for many literati to admire. There are many ponds here. There are some elm, mulberry trees, and willow trees planted beside the ponds. There are also vegetable fields surrounded by fences and ivy. There are various vegetables planted in the vegetable fields. In addition, some busy vegetables with trousers rolled up with trousers, the pastoral scenery often makes these literati poets poetic, often calling friends to come here to recite poems and write poems.

Finally, some literary people built some thatched cottages in this area and came here to party every few days.

"This is a humble room, but my virtue is full of virtue. The moss marks are green on the steps, the grass color enters the curtains. There are great scholars talking and laughing, and there are no white men when they come and go. You can adjust the zither and read the golden scriptures. There is no chaos in silk and bamboo, and no labor in the form of desks..."

"Okay, Liu Binke's article should be revealed."

There is a thatched cottage, in front of the house is a big locust tree, under the tree, there is a small table, and a few people are drinking at the table, and there is a noisy. The location of this thatched cottage is very good. There is a large pond in front of the house, with green trees beside the pond. Looking forward, there are vegetable fields not far away, and vegetable fields are busy carrying water and vegetable farmers in groups of three or three. Looking to the left, there is an orchard not far away. You can buy fresh fruits when you need to eat.

Looking to the right, there is a large farm field not far away, with golden wheat waves on the fields. Looking further back, there is the clear shadow of Qinglian Mountain, red, green and extremely beautiful.

"The land of Taoyuan is nothing more than this. It's so beautiful. I wish the elders here!" A middle-aged man wearing a square scarf, a cloth shirt, wrinkled face, and about forty years old, drank a glass of wine, looked at the scenery in front, shook his head and sighed with satisfaction.

Another literati who was about thirty years old said with a smile: "It is true that the agricultural affairs in various parts of the Ming Dynasty are depressed. I didn't expect that the land of the bitter Han army fort in northern Jin was such a rich and elegant place. I kept my accounting in my spare time, recited poetry in my spare time, and lived a worry-free life, and my wife was at peace. I thought about it a few months ago when I came here, but now I really laughed."

The literati in her forties was named Zhang Chengde, and the literati in her thirties was named Yang Dongping. The two were good friends.

Yang Dongping was originally from Kelanzhou. After becoming a scholar at the age of 22, he realized that there was no hope of the imperial examination, so he started to make a living. However, those who were not diligent in all four bodies and did not distinguish between grains, so what good positions did they get? In the end, it was still at the age of 25 that a friend asked him to tutor the schoolchildren, three dou of rice a month, and three cents of vegetables and silver, and the wages were small.

There are several people in his family, and they usually rely on his wife and mother to make some female fans. After Yang Dongping got his job, he remembered that his family often had no food, so he tried to save as much as possible. He ate seven to five spoons of rice every day, one penny of firewood every day, and one penny of vegetables every three days. In addition to teaching, he also copied it day and night for others. This way he made money and shared it with his mother's female fans, so that he could barely live at home.

But even so, not long after, even the position of tutoring a schoolchild was lost. Seeing that the child was so hungry that he cried, Yang Dongping was in a daze, and the matter about Wuzhai Fort also came to his ears. He asked his friend Zhang Chengde, who was also miserable, to go to Wuzhai Fort to make a living together.

Wuzhai Fort was in its prosperous time and needed a lot of talents. Both of them easily obtained the position of tent at Wuzhai Fort and were highly valued. His current life was very satisfied with him. Seeing that Wuzhai Fort was becoming more and more prosperous, Yang Dongping had a plan in his mind and wanted to bring his parents and wife to Wuzhai Fort together.

After hearing the two of them, the other literati nodded. They were all literati from the surrounding areas of Kelan Prefecture, Baodezhou, and Ningwuguan. They all belonged to family backgrounds with a poor and bankruptcy. Many of these people had no hope of imperial examinations and had no means to make a living in the local area. I heard that Wuzhaibao needed many scholars, so I came here with a try.

When they came to Wuzhaibao, they generally felt exiled, but now, everyone is feeling glad. Wuzhaibao is a place that makes them deeply fall in love with. The same interest also makes these people gather together and invest in the construction of this cottage. When they are free, they call friends to come here to chat.

But another person said: "It's just that we are always a scholar, and we always keep the saints' teachings all the time. I heard that in a few days, the Wuzhaibao University will be established. Teaching and educating people and educating the people is our main job..."
Chapter completed!