newbobooks Chapter 769 The fight started again
Chapter 769 The fight started again
Zhou Guo said with a smile: "Anyway, these territories belong to the North. I have to quickly send people to build farms there. I can't have all the people in those prefectures come to Yunzhou to buy fertilizer. It's too far for me to deliver fertilizer and collect grain. It's not cost-effective. At least one farm should be built in each prefecture."
Li shook her head. "It's the coldest time of winter now. Everything is frozen. How can we build a manor?"
Zhou Guo said: "You don't have to build the manor yet. You have to find a good location first. Once you find a good location, it will be much easier to build the manor."
About 200 brothers in the village have all gone down the mountain. They are gathering in groups in various places and are about to get moldy. It is a good time to do this.
She and Wu Jiang took a group of people to look for a place. The four prefectures were really wide, and half of the northern part belonged to Xu's army.
Li looked at the icy and snowy world and sighed again and again, whispering, "It's not a good thing to manage such a big family business. It's harder than working in the fields. People who work in the fields can stay at home in this weather, but such a child has to go out to work."
Zhou Gu and Wu Ya were so upset that they couldn't eat anymore, and felt like they were the ones who were eating for free.
The old man was eating by himself and motioned Zhou Gu and Wu Ya to eat as well. This is how mothers are. They are worried that their children may choke even when drinking water, let alone going on a long journey.
He didn't know at first and kept comforting her, but later he got used to it after seeing it so many times.
Zhou Gu and Wu Ya started eating, glanced at Li's expression, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Li sighed for a while, and seeing that everyone was eating with relish, she started eating too. She still had to eat.
Zhou Guo was wearing a wolfskin cloak and deerskin boots while riding on a horse. The wind blew directly into his face, like a knife cutting. It was really a torture to go out in such cold weather.
The city is so big that it is easy to find a place like this to build a farm.
She had no other requirements. She just wanted a location in the center of the city, close to other places, with enough open space. It didn't matter if it was arable land or not, as long as it was land, it would be fine. Of course, arable land was best.
It’s easy to find a location like this.
She was particularly successful in finding a location, and even more successful in buying the land. In less than half a month, all these places were settled.
She felt that everything was going so smoothly that it was unreal.
Wu Jiang said with emotion: "Every time I go out with the master to do things, it goes smoothly. I can get things done in a short time without having to put in any extra effort."
It really feels like something is protecting me.
Zhou Guo said: "Next time if you have something you can't do, come to me and I will go with you."
Wu Jiang said quickly: "I dare not. How dare I trouble you for everything?"
There are four manors in four prefectures. Every time Zhou Guo finishes one, he picks out a few people from the group and says, "You guys, come here after the New Year and build this manor. This manor is responsible for the entire prefecture, so the manor must be built bigger."
A group of people responded excitedly.
They have been coming to Zhuangzi for several years. Are they finally being reused now?
The master actually gave them such an important task?
Zhou Guo continued, "After you build the manor, you will have to form a caravan to collect night incense and ashes from various places, and collect grain during the autumn harvest. You can start looking for the caravan after the new year."
This was a simple task and everyone was confident that they could do it well, so they happily agreed.
After returning home, Zhou Guo began to bury herself in writing and drawing. If the fertilizers in these cities could be sold next year, the amount of grain that could be harvested would be unimaginable. It seemed that she would have to find a few more caves.
The matter of buying a shop can be put on the agenda. As the amount of food increases, it will not be a big deal to squeeze into the same shop with the mountain goods shop all day long.
Those who come to buy mountain products are all wealthy people, and wealthy families are not short of food. Once the shops are occupied by people buying food, there is not much space left.
Still have to separate.
Fortunately, it is easy to buy a shop now. There are people in every prefecture and county. If you say you want to buy a shop, you can buy it within a day.
She has so much grain, and she doesn't sell a single grain. Over the years, it grows and grows, piling up into a mountain. When it goes bad, won't she deserve to be struck by lightning?
There are so many people outside and they don’t even have a grain of food to eat. I don’t know how many people starve to death every day.
It’s just that she had just bought the shop and the grain hadn’t been delivered yet.
I heard that fighting broke out at the border, and the Hu people were attacking the border on a large scale, as if they were risking their lives.
The common people living at the border were really scared. Some of them moved back with their families. They said that they had never seen such a brutal fighting in the past ten years. Even the one a few years ago was not so fierce. They didn't know whether the other side was crazy or had taken the wrong medicine.
Zhou Guo was worried. Zhou Dacang had just led 100,000 new troops south. With so many fewer people at the border, he didn't know if he could defend it.
How could I have the mood to open a grain shop? I was idle at home all day with nothing to do, so I couldn't help but think about all kinds of things.
At this time, there was no one living in the village, for fear that the same incident would happen again.
For the safety of his family, Zhou Guo built simple lookout towers at several entrances to the village and sent people to guard them six times a day.
Now the villagers feel much more at ease.
Looking at these men staying up there in the cold wind in the cold weather, the mother would still make a bowl of delicious food for them, such as glutinous rice balls, fermented rice, and hot chicken soup noodles, without any hesitation.
Over the years, the Zhou family has been continuously sending people into the village, and everyone has some opinions about this.
But because the Zhou family was large and rich, everyone asked them for help and they dared not say a word.
However, apart from the Zhou family members, the people in the village usually don’t even glance at the Zhou family when they meet them, and they are not even acquaintances.
When danger came, I felt that it was not bad to have so many strong men living in the village.
At least they were in real danger, so they protected the villagers and didn't harass them. They were very well-behaved.
In the end, there was no more grudge.
Li said, "It seems that everyone knows what is good for them and knows that they cannot stop the Hu people on their own."
Zhou Guo said calmly, "I just don't know how long this can last. I guess after this is over, or if no one comes after guarding for too long, these people will forget about it."
Wu Ya nodded, as if that was the case.
Li: "...Anyway, it's good that they are not dragging us down now. They also know that if they can't contribute, at least they can contribute some money or something. This is better than the average person."
This trend did not subside until the end of the year.
There are much fewer people going to the market during the New Year than in previous years. Everyone looks hurried and goes home in a hurry after buying things. They will not stay outside for a moment longer.
She took some time to go to Yunzhou. Although Yunzhou was still as prosperous as before, everyone's faces looked the same. They no longer had the leisure and composure they had before. Many small stalls and vendors didn't come out to set up their stalls, and there were not as many people as before.
Zhou Guo sighed. Although the North was prosperous, it was not that stable. After all, it was a border. Once the border was breached, the barbarian people's iron hooves would immediately turn this place into ashes.
She couldn't stay in Yunzhou, so she simply rode north on horseback. She originally wanted to go to the pass to take a look, but before she arrived, she was stopped by the checkpoint.