As long as you have seen the Liu family army, the first impression the Liu family army gave them is that they are neat. No matter from which angle, all soldiers or war horses will be in a straight line.

Of course, the same is true for the buildings in Liujia Villa. Although the housing of these people is not luxurious, it is even very simple.

However, they have the same height, the same width, and the same neatness.

Because this is a wetland, drainage is the top priority. However, in Liujia Villa, there are almost no drainage ditches, but there are manhole covers every twenty or thirty steps. Needless to say, the drainage ditch has become an underground pipeline, and the scene of sewage flowing across the river no longer exists. The entire Liujia Villa is very clean and clean, even cleaner than the capital.

In fact, the capital cities in the late Ming Dynasty had no way to compare with the small counties in later generations. Alleys of all sizes were filled with landmines, and when it rained, sewage would flow everywhere.

Neat, tidy, clean and hygienic, these are basically the biggest features of Liujia Villa and the Liu system. In fact, this is not to say that Liu Ming had a cleanliness obsession, but because the medical conditions in the late Ming Dynasty were too poor. If they were caused by environmental sanitation, they would easily have too many accidents.

Li Zicheng could easily enter Beijing City, not because the Ming army was too cowardly, nor because the Beijing camp had extremely poor combat effectiveness, but because of the plague.

According to the Daxing County Chronicle around Beijing, a large number of dead mice appeared in Beijing before Li Zicheng entered Beijing. Subsequently, the military and civilians became ill, had high fever, weak limbs, swollen neck, and seven or eight out of ten patients died.

What disease is this? According to the symptoms of modern medicine, it is the terrible plague. The plague appeared in the autumn of the 16th year of Chongzhen. In the spring of the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644 AD), the weather became warmer, fleas and mice began to become active, and a large-scale plague broke out naturally. The plague first "eliminated" Chongzhen's Imperial Army, allowing Li Zicheng to enter Beijing easily.

Then, the plague infected Li Zicheng's army that entered Beijing. The Dashun army naturally reduced its combat effectiveness, and of course it could not defeat the Qing army. The most terrifying thing is that the defeated army became the source of plague infection. According to literature records, "there are great epidemics everywhere."

Plague is a very terrible thing. In this case, Liu Mingyu could only pay attention to environmental sanitation and let the people develop such a clean and clean living habit.

What's more, the breeding industry should pay more attention to environmental issues. Once a plague occurs, it will soon spread around the entire capital, which is the area with the largest population density.

"Wow, so many awesome?"

Zhu Weiti looked at the cows, especially the newly born calves, and even walked, looking very cute.

Liu Mingyu looked at He Qiushan and said, "You have been with me for six years, have you?"

"Report to Mr. Duke, it's been six years and four months now!"

"You have managed this place well, better than I expected!" Liu Mingyu looked at He Qiushan and said, "I am not very good at employing people. I have something unreasonable about your arrangements. I feel wronged!"

He Qiushan's position in the Liujiazhuang system is a bit awkward. According to his internal level, he, Chen Ying and Liu Fugui are both first-class managers.

The annual salary is 240 taels of silver, and there is also a dividend. Although He Qiushan is wearing a short shirt and a coarse cloth, in fact, he is much richer than ordinary people.

After all, the landlord who earns an annual income of 1,200 taels of silver owns at least tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

However, Chen Ying and Liu Fugui are both in charge of the army as major managers. For example, Chen Ying is also in charge of the Liu family army's foreign business, while Liu Fugui is in charge of the Liu family army's General Logistics Department and the Ministry of Finance.

Although they are just a manager, they are actually like a small governor.

However, it is a pity that Liujia Villa is just a wetland and is too close to Beijing. Liujia Villa does not expand like the Liujia Army and cannot have an established army.

There was no army here, only a guardhouse, and there were nobles and gentry around them. Those people were very domineering. If Liu Family Villa wanted to expand, there would be no place at all. Of course, if Liu Mingyu had not risen rapidly in Liaodong, this Liu Family Villa would have attracted the attention of nobles like Quanjiazhuang Town at the time.

The only way is to use manpower to fill lakes and build fields. In the era of no mechanization, it is too difficult to do so. If Liujia Villa was not close to the capital, but was in other places, it would probably expand very quickly.

Of course, there will be gains and losses. If it weren't for the close proximity to the capital, there would be no place to sell the large amount of meat in Liujia Villa. After all, the purchasing power of the capital is the strongest in the world.

"You are kind to you!"

"It's a pity for you to be the manager of a small villa!"

"Master, do you want to leave Qiushan quickly?"

"No, you're thinking too much!"

Liu Mingyu looked at He Qiushan and continued, "I want to do a big thing and need your help!"

"He Qiushan is willing to go through fire and water for his uncle!"

"The Prince of Tang gave me 40,000 acres of land, located in Nanyang Prefecture!"

Liu Mingyu continued: "Do you know the place in Nanyang Mansion?"

"The poor and remote areas!"

"No, it is a strategic location in the Central Plains, connecting the east and west, connecting the north and south!"

Liu Mingyu took out a silver token from his arms: "I need you to bring a group of craftsmen to Nanyang!"

He Qiushan's eyes fell on the token in Liu Mingyu's hand. The token was facing an eagle, the same as the ordinary Liu's silver cake with one or two Da Ningsha white coins, but the subtle differences were also very obvious.

"I want you to take your people to manage Nanyang based on the 40,000 acres of land donated by the Prince of Tang!"

He Qiushan's eyes lit up: "Just like Mr. Chen and the others?"

"Same, it can be said to be different!"

Liu Mingyu pondered: "Nanyang is different from Hetao. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, but Nanyang is different. It is a place with a strong control in the imperial court. Once it is well managed and wealthy, many people will be jealous. They will use any means to take Nanyang away from us, and with our strength, we will not be able to compete with them at all! If we lose Nanyang, the refugees who have worked hard to settle their homes in Nanyang will have no way to survive!"

He Qiushan was a little confused: "Mr. Master means..."

"Two steps!"

Liu Mingyu continued: "I will transfer the Fourth Regiment of the Neighbors Brigade to the place, and take the Fourth Regiment of the Neighbors Brigade as the foundation. They will take root in the Funiu Mountain area. You must be responsible for providing them with supplies. At the same time, you must avoid being discovered by anyone, including our partner, Prince Tang's Mansion!"

After Liu Mingyu and He Qiushan discussed for a full two hours.

He Qiushan began to formally hand over everything in Liujia Villa with Zhu Weiti, including thirteen mills, factories, slaughterhouses, food factories, wineries, grain warehouses, and affairs of all sizes.

At the same time, after completing the handover, He Qiushan took away more than 160 managers, more than 1,000 craftsmen of various skills, and more than 1,000 guards from Liujia Villa.

Together, a total of more than 2,000 people headed south in a mighty manner.

Although in Liujia Villa, the air is filled with the smell of chicken manure, cow manure and horse manure, of course, this is inevitable.

However, Zhu Weiti didn't care at all.

Especially the chickens raised in Liujia Villa, each of which weighs seven or eight kilograms. This kind of fat chicken is very rare without hormones and various feeds.

Zhu Weiti noticed that the chickens were very fat, with bright and greasy feathers, and were particularly energetic.

There is no way to avoid fat. These chickens eat maggots every day, and they eat high protein. How can they not be fat?

There are a million chickens and ducks raised in Liujia Villa, divided into more than 20 breeding areas, but they are not very laborious. Of course, if there are no these things, it will be deadly. There are millions of mouths. I don’t know how much food I have to eat every day. Nowadays, people are not full, so where can I get surplus grain to feed chickens and ducks?

Although there is no hormone feed, Liujia Villa uses a jar to ferment chicken and duck feces, and then leads flies to the jar to lay eggs, and then you can get a large number of maggots to feed chickens and ducks.

Of course, fermented manure is also a good fertilizer, and it can be killed by one stone. Liujia Villa has achieved great success by adopting a circular economy breeding method.

Danidianguang Primary School has established three students, with nearly 6,000 students. It is precisely because of the breeding income of Liujia Villa that children can eat two eggs every day, and they can pick up an egg, boil egg soup and add vegetables every now and then, so that everyone can improve their lives.

Of course, this method of raising chickens and ducks cannot be told to Zhu Weiti. If she knew about it, she might not have the appetite to eat chicken.

In the evening, Liu Mingyu brought Zhu Weiti to the fish pond. In fact, the lakeside of each island is the fish pond of Liujia Villa. Liu Mingyu caught fish, which scared Zhu Weiti.

He took a spear, sprinkled a handful of bait, and then, he brushed it into the water and caught a big carp weighing about ten pounds. Liu Mingyu grabbed the fish, inserted his fingers into the fish's cheeks, and then twisted it, and the fish's head fell. Zhu Weitu and her four kings were so scared that their faces turned pale and they didn't dare to look at it.

Of course, Liu Mingyu didn't worry about cooking dinner. He threw the fish to Zhu Weiti, and then asked someone to catch a big fat chicken weighing seven or eight pounds.

There are chickens, fish, old turtles, shrimps, and salted duck eggs marinated with salt.

Originally, the manager of Liujia Villa wanted to behead Liu Mingyu, but was stopped by Zhu Weiti. Liu Mingyu wanted to kill the sheep, but Zhu Weiti also thought that they could not eat it.

Zhu Weiti was very happy to cook for Liu Mingyu, but let alone, Zhu Weiti's cooking skills are quite good.

Soon, the courtyard where Liu Mingyu stayed was filled with an attractive fragrance, which was mouth-watering. It is said that if you want to grab a man's heart, you must first grasp his stomach. If this sentence is really effective, Zhu Weiti will definitely grasp Liu Mingyu's heart, liver, gallbladder, spleen and stomach tightly.

The dishes made by Zhu Weiti are all good in color, fragrance and taste, which makes Liu Mingyu's appetite wide.

The most natural ingredients, using the purest cooking method, made Liu Mingyu accidentally cook three large bowls of rice. Of course, these rice are also produced by Liujia Villa.

Even though the lake wind is cold, Liu Mingyu feels that life is so wonderful.

What's even better is that the beauty is in her arms, and her tenderness is like water.

Zhu Weiti sighed a little: "This is the life I yearn for the most!"

"What?"

Zhu Weiti smiled slightly: "The cows are full of cattle and sheep, mules and horses are strong, chickens and ducks are full of pigs and gooses are fat!"

For thousands of years, the people have been working at sunrise and resting at sunset, men farming and women weaving. The small peasant economy has long been passed down from generation to generation.

Although Zhu Weiti was a princess, she was also an ordinary woman. As a princess of the Ming Dynasty, after she was born, she did not have to bear the heavy responsibility of a marriage minister or a foreign country, but she had to live like an ordinary woman.

Of course, the cause of this situation was Comrade Lao Zhu's care for his daughter and the luck of Princess Daming.

After coming to Liujia Villa, Zhu Weiti's face never broke. Here, it was like a mythical world. Although some of the tenants were wearing patched clothes, this was just a superficial phenomenon. Looking at their faces, you know that they were eating well and their lives were good.

In fact, this is true. The Ming Dynasty was a paradise for capitalists, and the labor cost was extremely low, just like the duck farm that Zhu Weiti looked at now.

It is roughly estimated that there are 50,000 or 60,000 ducks. In fact, only seven households are responsible for managing these ducks. This duck farm can bring Liu Mingyu a full tens of thousands of taels of silver every year.
Chapter completed!