Chapter 29 You are not allowed to spend your own money(1/2)
May 13th.
All the wheat on Li Yizhuang's farm was returned to the warehouse, and Song De had already paid all the rent and commissions due for one year without waiting for the government to collect it.
Others only pay for the summer harvest, and autumn has not yet arrived.
Zhuangzi gave out all the autumn harvest together, not caring about the time.
People from Zhangjia Village ran to the Ba River to guard and change shifts.
Keep hydraulic thresher.
Li Yizhuangzi said no, Zhangjia Village waited until the wheat was harvested to thresh it, fearing that some bad guys would damage it.
While waiting for the harvest, people in Zhangjia Village were digging wild vegetables, fishing, and covering sparrows.
These things can be exchanged for silk when brought to Lijiazhuangzi.
Silk doesn't matter whether it's good or bad. Villagers use it to pay servants and make arrangements.
In the past, when the court arranged to do work, you had to do it, but you were reluctant to hand over something in exchange.
This year is different, wild vegetables can be exchanged for silk.
Some villagers had nothing to do for a while, and when they waited for the wheat harvest for a few days, they went to Lijiazhuangzi to ask for work.
It doesn't cost any money. Come and have a meal in the morning, eat again at noon, and eat again in the evening before going home.
Eating three meaty meals and working for one day is enough money.
If you eat any fat meat for a day, you can save half a month of oil and water. This is how Zhangjia villagers calculated it.
Li Yizhuangzi's people are already emotional.
What are you doing? In one meal, you eat more meat than your wages.
This is the benefit of our Zhuangzi. The proprietor gives it to us. You can stay at home and sleep without consuming food.
Unfortunately, there is too much work, and no matter how dissatisfied the banker is, he has to let the proprietor find someone else.
Make bricks, make pottery, burn kilns, simmer coke, dig out a gas-free biogas digester and add materials.
There are also top-dressing fertilizers for grapes, raising cotton, and plowing the land to irrigate and fertilize in preparation for planting rice.
Vegetables are even more important. The cucumber racks are stacked properly, just waiting for the cucumbers to come out and put up the racks.
There were few ice cellars dug last winter, so there may not be enough ice in summer and autumn.
This year we have to dig, and we have to build a fixed cellar to store sativas, radishes, and green onions as the proprietor said.
"Brother Li Yixian, thank you very much." A scholar expressed his gratitude to Li Yi who was wandering around and came here.
"It turns out to be Brother Dongqi. Is this screen window useful?" Li Yi returned the gift and asked the other party for the specific thing he was grateful for.
Screen window.
If it feels cold at night, put two wooden boards together. If it gets hot during the day, take them all off so that the screen can let in light and air.
There are no mosquitoes yet, but there are flies buzzing, not many in number.
"It's very useful. Thank you Brother Yi for your help. After harvesting the wheat, my family should have money. Why don't we just raise our own food?"
The other party said very embarrassedly.
During the lean years, Zhuangzi provided free meals, and there was never any shortage of meat.
Li Yi shook his head: "No, scholars have the ability to make money."
He refused, no, take your family's money back, no, you continue to live and eat at my place for free, and I will buy you books to copy.
Because when he was free, the forty-two students would provide Li Yi with twenty to thirty hours of life every day.
Li Yike couldn't bear to part with it. Is eating a big deal?
This is easy to understand.
A boss opens a company with hundreds of people and provides free food and accommodation to 42 people, which adds about two days to his life every day.
There is no loss in this business. You can earn a lot of life while being a good person.
After building the building this year, we will find hundreds of scholars and students to come here.
I just want to support education. If anyone stops me, I will become a mortal enemy and chase them to the ends of the earth.
"Brother Li Yixian, is this true?" the other party asked uncertainly.
"I must, if you take the family's money, I will break off all relations with you."
Li Yi uses his trump card, and the boat of friendship is about to capsize.
The other party's eyes were red, and he bowed to the ground: "Li Yixian's brother Renyi, we will never forget each other."
"You're welcome, don't be polite. You have done your best in teaching the children on the village. I... will hold a poetry meeting in two days."
"I asked Zhuangzi to dig a ditch, and then we can drink water in a meandering stream. What does Brother Dongqi think?"
Li Yi was afraid that everyone would go out while the weather was warm and not come back, so he quickly thought of a way to hold a poetry meeting.
It's just about having sex, it's lively and lively.
Moreover, he still has good things that he wants literati to help promote and continue to make money from rich people.
The other party is energetic, his eyes are bright, and he wants to hold a poetry party again?
It’s been a long time since I’ve done it. I’ve been to other people’s poetry gatherings a few times and I wasn’t happy.
It's all the rich people who are bragging, and they and others are helping to brag.
"Ten days, ten days later." Li Yi gave the time.
He is indeed building canals and rockeries.
He wanted to divide Zhuangzi into regions.
Planting area, breeding area, residential area, entertainment area.
Residential areas and entertainment areas should have meandering streams, winding corridors, pavilions and balustrades, and bamboo bridges.
At that time, many large joint communities were playing like this, and they ran out of water while playing.
The developers will make money and then leave, and the property management companies will not care about them at all.
Then the owners' committee was established and the property was evicted. After the eviction, the people in the committee got the money and moved.
But Zhuangzi belongs to him, so there is no need to trick him like that.
Thinking like this, Li Yi's mood became better and better.
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In an equally good mood were the farmers in the 22nd County of Jingzhao Prefecture.
The imperial court went crazy and kept putting things out.
Sinong Temple, Shaofu Supervisor, Ministry of Industry, officials are friendly to the people.
In the twenty-two counties, outside every large village and county government office, there were people demonstrating on threshing machines.
Anyone who works in the fields knows how rare it is to see the wheat grains knocked off the wheat stalks.
One can be used by several households.
Wherever there is a river, the Ministry of Engineering builds a waterwheel as quickly as possible and moves a bunch of parts there to assemble it.
When driven by water, the thresher shows its peerless elegance, and nothing can be more charming than it.
Counties one after another began to receive public praises.
Of course, the main thing is to praise Li Longji. As for who invented it, that is not important.
"The world is vast, but the emperor is unified. Thousands of years of farming and mulberry farming, long live the good work. The spring plowing and autumn harvest are intact, the Arctic court outlines. The water flows beside the branches, and the green mountains are towering. The rice and wheat were tired, but now they are no longer busy. The emperor Chang'an
Alleys are hidden in the hearts of the people..."
Li Longji was so excited as he listened to Wan Minbiao surrounded by ministers.
Yes, that’s how it feels, so cool!
Now who still says that it was wrong for me to kill Princess Taiping? Who still says that I imprisoned the Supreme Emperor?
I am a wise king, and I must work diligently.
I won't leave the palace anymore. I stay in the main hall every day.
So that night, Li Longji took the queen and ran away again, and Li Yizhuangzi came.
Li Yi had just bowed to an anatomy teacher. He had finished cutting and sewing, and was about to send it away. He secretly buried it back and bowed.
After finishing the treatment, he was about to take a bath, and then he saw Li Longji and Queen Wang.
"Third brother and sister-in-law are free today? Let me go take a shower." Li Yi had to take a shower and say hello.
"Uncle, we're going to have kebabs tonight." Queen Wang took the initiative to request.
"Sister-in-law, don't worry." Li Yi responded and ran away.
To be continued...