MTL - Wei and Jin Cooks-Chapter 754 new fashion

  Chapter 754 New fashion

The so-called effectiveness from the top to the bottom means that when the people at the top lead the fashion of talking, the people at the bottom will follow suit; The sky is full of stars.

  Because the conversation is not good enough, it develops into the hands and goes to the prison. When the sober scribe was taken to the field to dig the canal, he saw many familiar people in the field at a glance.

  The scribes were very surprised, and they were not in a hurry to jump into the ditch. They just looked at the acquaintances wielding a **** in the field with their shovels, "Brother Jin, I didn't see you in prison, why are you being punished?"

Brother Jin raised his head and looked around in a daze. It took a while for his eyes to focus on the scribes. He frowned and said, "What's the fine? I rented this land with the yamen. Food is very important. It seems that my work is mediocre." , knowledge is also limited, it is impossible to help Shi Jun to calm the world, so I will work hard in the rear to study the method of farming."

He said: "Zhao Cishi said that the weather has been bad for the past two years, and Qin Tianjian said that there may be drought, and the weather will become colder and drier as we go down, so I want to try to see if I can grow a better one. Drought-resistant and cold-resistant seeds come."

He looked him up and down, and saw that he was holding a shovel, and standing beside him were a group of prisoners who had just come out of the prison, and not far away, there was a yamen guard staring at them with a whip, and his expression was a little playful, " Brother Zhou, are you... being punished?"

  On the other side, the scribe who also rented land with the yamen said loudly: "Brother Jin, don't you know that Brother Zhou was imprisoned for fighting, and he won't be released until seven days later."

  Brother Zhou was not ashamed, he tossed his hair and said, "If you don't understand the reason, I'm in prison for the reason of heaven, so I'm not ashamed."

"Hey, Brother Zhou, if it's just bickering, why would the yamen arrest you? Zhao Shijun doesn't stick to people's words. Even if someone goes to the yamen to scold her, she will do it on her own. You clearly can't speak well and beat people up , how can this hands-on argument be considered reasonable?"

   "Who did Brother Zhou hit?"

   "I beat up a scribe from Shu, named Li Fangzhi."

  Brother Zhou snorted and said, "The rebellious person should be beaten!"

  The yamen servant felt that they had chatted for a long time, so he came forward swayingly to urge, "Get to work, get to work, you have to dredge this section of ditches, and you can't go back to prison until you finish."

  Brother Zhou didn’t take it seriously, and even snorted, saying as if he really wanted to go back to prison, it’s good to be outside, the sky is on the ground, and you can watch the stars at night, how romantic it is.

  So Brother Zhou was not in a hurry at all. After jumping down the ditch, he slowly shoveled up the soil and weeds inside, and it took a long time to clear ten steps.

  The government servants cursed at them, but they had a special status, they were neither felons nor criminals of the common people, and their whips could only fall to the ground.

   Seeing them lingering like this, he wished he could jump down and do it for them.

   As night fell, all the gold brothers and silver brothers returned to the city carrying farm tools, only the prisoners in this section did not leave.

  The yamen servant looked at the channel they had cleared, and gritted his teeth: "I have no face to go back after digging out such a section in one day. No one is allowed to go back tonight. If you don't complete the task for a day, you won't be allowed to return to the city for a day!"

  Brother Zhou and a group of scribes didn’t take it to heart at all, and then they gnawed a piece of dry bean dregs in the cold wind, and finally a group of people gathered around a fire, feeling the cold wind blowing from all sides and shrinking their necks.

  The yamen servant walked over with his neck shrunk, and said to the group of romantic scribes: "The county government has posted a notice, and it will be cold in the past two days."

   All the scribes: …

After a whole night of freezing, because of sleeping in the open, lying on the ground can still hear the howling of wolves from a distance. Although it is true that the sky is on the ground, and it is true that you can see the stars and the moon when you look up, the scribes still feel that this kind of One experience is enough.

  So everyone worked hard the next day, and the speed was much faster. In the evening, they were finally able to call it a day and go back to prison.

  Brother Zhou was carrying a shovel while sniffing his nose and said, "The speed of dredging is still too slow. How can it be done by manpower alone?"

  The scribe on the side asked, "Don't you still want to use animal power? Now is the critical time for plowing. Animal power such as oxen and horses should be used for plowing first."

   "Without animal power, we should improve the tools. It takes too much effort to dig up the soil bit by bit with hoes and shovels."

  In fact, he was too tired, and he felt that he would not be able to lift his arms.

   "How to change?"

Brother Zhou said: "I don't have a clue about the part of the hoe, but I have an idea about the part of the shovel. I heard that the county government is now promoting a water mill. I went to the water mill in Chen County. They turned the lever with water power. , and then drive the water mill, there is also a pedal thing inside, which is to step on it when the water power is insufficient, lift the water up and enter the water, and then start it.”

   "I think the pedal thing is very labor-saving. We can use it on the shovel. The strength of the legs is always stronger than the strength of the hands?"

  Other scribes heard it and thought it was feasible, so they went to the yamen servants and asked them to provide things, and they will start working tomorrow.

  The yamen servants silently listened to their reports, looked at their expressions seriously, and found that they were serious.

   "My lords, you are now in prison, and you eat bean dregs and bean cakes for two meals a day. Do you think the government will pay for these things? There is even iron. Do you know how expensive iron is?"

  The scribes were silent for a while and then said: "We pay for it ourselves."

  This is no problem, the yamen servant immediately smiled and said, "Your gentlemen want to buy it, and the younger ones can purchase it for you."

Although there is iron in it, the yamen servants are not afraid of them escaping from prison. The most of these scribes was sentenced to ten days in prison. They have been in prison for two or three days before, and the longest one will be released in six days. , who would be so reluctant to escape from prison at this time?

  So as long as they can afford the money and want to buy anything, the government officials will buy it for them.

  Back in the prison, the yamen servant brought up a basin again, which contained bean dregs cakes, which were still warm.

  But the scribes disliked it very much. Yesterday it was because they had no conditions in the wild, and today they have returned to the city. They must not be so wronged themselves, so they all paid money to the yamen servants, "Go out and buy some buns and come back."

   "I want a bowl of noodles."

   "I want a bowl of rice, and two more dishes."

  The yamen servant happily took the money, and when he went out, he found the cook who cooked for the yamen, and within two quarters of an hour after ordering the food, he sent it to the prison for them.

   This is the extra money for them and the cook, how expensive it is to buy outside, and the fat and water don’t flow to outsiders’ fields.

  Since it was discovered that Zhao Hanzhang was very polite to literati and never restrained folk speeches, more and more people were willing to come to Chen County, especially aspiring literati and warriors.

  Affected by the talk, they will still express their views on various issues such as national politics in the streets and alleys, hoping to be appreciated by Bole.

   Among them, there are always people who can't talk about people. Among them, those who are more tempered and not very literary will do it directly.

  So there are more rich people who stay in prison for a short time, and the government servants can earn some extra money from it.

  The newly appointed magistrate of Chen County, Gao Sheng, was very excited about this part of the extra money, so he went to Zhao Ming and asked Zhao Ming to allow him to add a new rule.

  Zhao Ming raised his eyebrows, "Ranging people with money?"

  (end of this chapter)